Best part is, every unit is OP if given a chance. Except wasps, wasps are always useless beyond the first surprise attack with them. Mustangs become useless with a single armor upgraded Arc.
When I worked there (like six months ago), we only had to flip one blizzard out of every order, so we rarely had to flip the banana split. The old Turtles blizzard was almost as bad, with the hot caramel and cone dip, that shit was pure liquid long before the customer gets their hands on it. Good times!!!
I flunked out of an ice cream place due to my actual incompetence. That's the only job I ever flunked out of. Ice cream and its cold cousins are mighty and terrifying. Kudos to anyone who works in an ice cream or related place and has NOT accidentally blown anything up.
Hey Brick! Currently watching this video on my break while at Dairy Queen funnily enough. To answer your question it's all about adding a small amount of each ingredient and straining the liquid out of the pineapple and strawberry. Glad to hear the Brick himself is a former DQ warrior.
I remember specifically eating handfuls of the marshmallow filled chocolate frozen in the back that was made for the smores blizzard. That is the only acceptable 4 ingredient blizzard IMO
Dude, Mechabellum is so damn good. It feels like such a refined expression of the genre. Hyped as hell to see you cover it, too. You're a legend, Bricky.
Ever since I saw the first Armored Core 6 trailer, I've been obsessed with games where big Mechs are the core. I think this video might make it into an addiction.
Boy do i have a universe for you to explore , i would recommend Battletech HBS and even after you finish vanilla there SEVERAL massive mod that completely change it. Do be warn that you might find yourself fall into the rabbit hole of battletech universe lore ( the universe have a total of 30+ years worth of lore consider it started like warhammer as table top )
I feel like mech skins could be for like, achieving certain statistics with certain mechs. Rhinos soaking X damage giving you an "Ironclad" skin, something like that. So when you see your opponent deploy some tricked-out looking mech, you immediately get that sinking feeling of "Oh god, they've McFucking Had It"
One of my favorite combos I’ve made in my short time with the game is slapping parasitic ammo onto stormcallers. It just basically converts whatever horde they have into a horde of crawlers for me, and if they were slow, now it’s a horde of crawlers in the enemy backline
When making a banana split blizzard, the goal is to use less ice cream and be very particular with the amount of topping you do, especially the strawberry since that's the reason it gets so liquidy, you also have to blend it for far less time than a normal blizzard, usually no more than 2 or 3 seconds to maintain the consistency of a normal blizzard
As someone thats been pioneering and experimenting the Fang Anvil technique in this game, I appreciate the love for the little guy. Constantly people are trying to tell me to step away from them cause they are too weak, yet I am doing decent in tournaments. Like how you said in the video, each loss I know how I messed up and make tweaks to fix it for later. I will say though that the game gets a lot harder 2v2 and its unfortunate to get a teammate that can not hold their weight, its still fun coordinating with another to set up future moves.
If i recall Paradox ARC is the Publishing Side of Paradox Interactive (The People who made Hearts of Iron IV, Stellaris, Victoria 3, Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings)
I wanna give a shout out to skater for doing the effect of funny deep fried ear rape sounds with the boat segment without actually blowing my ears out. Thank you very much the best duo around keep up the great content!
As someone who plays a TON of Direct Strike, even to this day, at first you had my curiosity. Now you have my attention. I might just buy it now, something that is extremely rare for me in this day and age of gaming
I've been watching Bricky for almost two years, and youtube thought they didnt need to recommend me this video. But this game and videos were literally made for me.
Honestly, I hate most auto battlers because there's 8+ players with loads of different solved strategies and tons of RNG involved in how the match will play out. Single patches in this genre can completely redefine what's good/bad. It's exhausting. But Mechabellum, being only a 1v1, and always having information on what my opponent is capable of doing. Makes this particular title seem a lot more digestible and fun. So soon after buying Moonbreaker I was going to consider waiting to pick this up too. Expecting another $30-40 price tag. But for only $15 there's no way I can say no. Damn you Bricky for showing 2 great single player time wasters back to back.
Funny thing is, even the 2v2 is basically 1v1, with the winner going to help their teammate. But yeah, it is the lack of RNG that makes this for me. The brilliant idea of "Okay, but what if you had to live with your positioning decisions for the rest of the match?" turned an overly reactive game style into a brilliantly strategic one. Edit: The fact that a valid strategy is 'Ignore what your enemy does, just build a winning army comp/formation' is amazing.
13:46 From what I've learned by watching Beaglerush play this game, Mustangs are really not that OP once you know how to play around them. Meaning, you need to take them seriously and move to counter them/pull them into attacking an inefficient target before they get out of hand. An Arclight with armor will especially mess them up early. There's also the fact that a lot of people are so convinced they're OP that they will knee-jerk buy them, and you can mindgame around that.
so, for the banana split yer ganna want to put only half a ladle and or pump of each into a large and 1/4 or less in any smaller blizzard. you can also try to drain the juices from stuff like the strawberry or pineapple but that's not as reliable during a rush, bonus tip dont blend for to long idk how your ice-cream was but it can make ours more soupy.
My DQ only required favor of the month. And the banana split was never one, but I did it anyways. The trick is first to overfill or underfill it then scoop the fruit juice off and get it to the customer in under 5 seconds. It also helps to not put too much fruit juice first.
Glad you made another banger with this video! Speaking of Mecha, I hope you are ready for August... Because the true king of Mecha games is finally deploying!
As someone who stopped working at Dairy Queen more recently than you did: the key to flipping a Banana Split blizzard without it falling out is twofold: First, shortchange the customer on their ingredients a bit. Not a lot, just use a little less that full spoons full and "short inches" of banana. You know how it is. Second, do that flip and flip back fast enough that it almost flies out sideways from the speed you flip it. You don't hold that crap upside down. Flip down and up, one smooth motion. If they try to insist you flip it again, you refuse. You flip it once, you make sure they saw you flip it, and if they try to claim they didn't you don't take their shit. If they want to go all Karen on you, if your manager wants to make you redo it, doesn't matter. You don't flip that thing a second time. I guess there's a third, too: don't let the blizzard sit and melt. If you can't give them the Split blizzard almost straight from the mixer, it goes in the freezer in the meantime.
One huge downside of the hacker 21:01 : Anything you take over on the enemy team will get the experience for itself. that one chunky single unit you took that killed everything around it? you just gave it a level Edit: unless they patched it.
I think that's a fair trade for the fact that if it survives the round you deal damage with it. I've ended up killing someone I didn't even mean to because I hackered a rhino and vulcan.
the Sledgehammer is indeed good. And like my IRL one-hand sledgehammer it's been used for tasks not really suited or intended for it but it sledgehammered its way through it with gratifying results.
Bricky, there is another way to play Mechabellum which sounds outlandish but hear me out. You can enjoy Mechabellum without playing at all by just spectating a match. There is a "Prediction" system where you basically place a bet on who is gonna win and both players in the match know who got the most bet on them. You do gain "insight" level which does nothing currently aside from showing it off that you were right about your prediction a lot and you do lose it on a wrong bet. It is quite a good way to learn the game by watching the match if you are too intimidated to PvP or you are on low-energy mode and just want to see mechs go boom but still taking some part in it. The spectator gets 90s delay so you can't really narc on or spy info on another player because you will always be watching the previous round battle. The cosmetic skin will come out in the future which you can buy with the in-game credit earned after you researched all the mech tech upgrade. Remember, the match ain't over until your HP hit 0. If your opponent has to win he will have to work to get that last drop of blood out of you.
Please do streams for this as well. I’m fascinated by the concept but I’d like to see a certain very attractive man in stained jorts play it before I buy.
I used to work at DQ and you're right that banana split blizzard is impossible. It's four soft/liquid ingredients. It's closer to a milkshake than a blizzard.
The thing that draws me so strongly to bricky is that this is a main channel video with about 2/3 deep dive explanation that appeases my autism and 1/3 straight shit post that appeases my autism
bricky its called not blending the bottom as much you leave a pocket of ice cream on the bottom BRICKY YOU ALWAYS FLIP YOUR BLIZZARD YA SLACKER! its part of the fan fare for DQ also dont leave it for longer than 2 sec
Awesome video Bricky. For your next game to review, I highly recommend CrossCode. I think you'd love it and I want to see it gain the recognition and praise it deserves...also want to see the developers begin work on the sequel which they aren't so I want them to see how much people love CrossCode.
direct strike and nexus wars are actually a different subgenre of rts called tug of war. Autobattlers are about winning individual fights with roguelike randomized units while tug of war is about gaining ground slowly with preset rosters. i've spent too much time theorycrafting a 40k tug of war game called tides of war that will never become of anything :'(
Dude this game looks incredible. Simple on the outside, but complex and full of tons of variation on the inside. Can’t wait for payday, you’ve convinced me. I guess I should get my bags packed and call a lawyer before I start though 😂😂😂
Paradox Arc are the publishers for Paradox Games, like HOI4 and CK3 and Stellaris and Vic2, as well as surviving mars and surviving the aftermath, games i think you'd really enjoy because they have a similar feel to Frostpunk with a little more lightheartedness
I just blend the blizzard a bit with the machine and hand mix it the rest of the way. Also, I go a bit easy on the ingredients. I have yet to lose a blizzard.
Late to the party, worked at DQ in the early 10s. You have to drain as much strawberry and pineapple syrup as you posibly can. You could put in chocolate syrup or you can half and half that with some cone dip. Otherside that crap is going to be a soupy mess. Corporate did not give us this tip, I had to tell grown men and women, of which I was not to minimize liquids and add the cone dip.
I wanna recommend Dominions and Illwinter's other stuff for people that like autobattlers but I suppose it's a little different. You still organize armies and essentially 'program' armies that are completely hands off when they fight, but it's not a level playing field like this - it's closer to a 4x, so there's maneuvering and all that, as well as the insane cliff of just mastering the magic list. It seems to do not-really-balanced nations well, though, and it's pretty flavorful, so there is that.
the game is quite popular in germany, because the german gaming community has a lot of old strategy game addicts (due to the "Die Siedler" ["the settlers"] series), so there is already a really solid player base (also because ubisofts new settler iteration was hot garbage and the fans long for a new strategy game to put their time into)
Not surprised you don't know Paradox Arc, they are new sub branch/division of Paradox, created/announced about a year ago maybe. The point of the company divide is so that Paradox can continue to focus on establish brands like Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron, City Skyline, etc... And Arc can take chances and develop new game studios & franchises, like Across the Obelisk and Mechabellum. It's a pretty neat partnership, the devs for Across the Obelisk knew they had a great game, but were not 'seasoned' when it came to actually releasing, publishing and handling player feedback for a game.... Paradox knew they had a bit of an issue, where their dev teams get 'stuck in a rut' of doing the same game types/titles over and over... By working together, the 'Indi devs' and the 'seasoned devs' bring out the best in both as well as covering their weaknesses. It worked so well with Across the Obelisk that it was decided that Paradox Arc had to be a thing they kept doing going forward.
The key difference between this game and something like TFT is TFT is so needlessly complicated to cleanly create a balanced experience. Mechabellum is baby simple when compared to something like TFT (which is good, cause the reason so many quit TFT is cause you master the current season and the next one comes around and it takes forever to re-learn everything, it is tiring). It also doesn't rely on heavy RNG, in Mechabeelum you can force a build if you really wanted to with how free the "deck building" is. The real upside of this is that you and your opponent are on mostly on even ground since you know the reinforcements both of you can get and the roster of mechs are few enough that you can reasonably figure out what your opponent might do to try to counter you. I like to imagine Mechabellum is basically the chess of auto-chess. It is the one with the most efficient depth-per-complexity, which is good because to express good strategy you NEED to understand all the variables in order to compute them. If there are too many variables then the computation is messy and you might fail to account for all of it. If there are too few variables (like 1-D chess) the depth of the game is shallow and could likely be solved (and solved games are boring cause you just do the same thing over and over and outcomes are predicted before the game even starts). Mechabellum hits the sweet spot of as much depth as possible for as low complexity cost as possible.
Dairy Queen employee here, I just bled that blizzard for about 2.5 seconds while putting in half the amount of ingredients I should. I made that blizzard properly once. Never again.
As a newly homeless man, I yell "Mustangs are OP" at the general public
I hope you can find a home Bricky 😢
Thankfully they are everywhere! Just take your pick, doesn’t matter if someone else lives there.
B. O. A. T.
Hey Bricky you played Furi a while ago, can you revisit it sometime.
Best part is, every unit is OP if given a chance. Except wasps, wasps are always useless beyond the first surprise attack with them. Mustangs become useless with a single armor upgraded Arc.
Bricky plz play Fear and Hunger 1 and 2 you'll most likely love it and I know I need your video on it!
As a dq worker myself, all I do for the banana split blizzard is just give it off for someone else to do it 😭
I used to work at a Dairy Queen in high school lol. From age 16 to 18. Thankfully they didn't have us turn the blizzards upside-down.
Fuck that Blizzard. Was the god damn worse.
When I worked there (like six months ago), we only had to flip one blizzard out of every order, so we rarely had to flip the banana split. The old Turtles blizzard was almost as bad, with the hot caramel and cone dip, that shit was pure liquid long before the customer gets their hands on it. Good times!!!
Blend it really fast
I flunked out of an ice cream place due to my actual incompetence. That's the only job I ever flunked out of. Ice cream and its cold cousins are mighty and terrifying. Kudos to anyone who works in an ice cream or related place and has NOT accidentally blown anything up.
Hey Brick! Currently watching this video on my break while at Dairy Queen funnily enough. To answer your question it's all about adding a small amount of each ingredient and straining the liquid out of the pineapple and strawberry. Glad to hear the Brick himself is a former DQ warrior.
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I remember specifically eating handfuls of the marshmallow filled chocolate frozen in the back that was made for the smores blizzard. That is the only acceptable 4 ingredient blizzard IMO
It worked 😂
Mechabellum looks like what every app add wants you to think their game looks like
I absolutely despise strategy games because I'm stupid and impatient, but boy do I love hearing Bricky talk.
Same xD
Me too
I envy you. They take over my life bro I get hooked and I’ll straight call off work to play stellaris or total war or some shit for like 13 hours
Dude, Mechabellum is so damn good. It feels like such a refined expression of the genre.
Hyped as hell to see you cover it, too. You're a legend, Bricky.
I hear of this game due to a sponsor section of a TH-cam called “let game it out” in one of his videos, now I’m thinking about getting game later on
This looks so much better than tft.
Mechabellum is the best hidden gem game I’ve found in a century.
oh man, I matched vs you and you beated me hardcore !!!
Bless you Bricky for spreading the good word of direct strike
12:00 I really appreciate the Sam O'Nella academy little meme. I know Sam would like the joke too. Wherever he is
Ever since I saw the first Armored Core 6 trailer, I've been obsessed with games where big Mechs are the core. I think this video might make it into an addiction.
future Tau player sighted
PLAY BRIGADOR!!!!!!
Boy do i have a universe for you to explore , i would recommend Battletech HBS and even after you finish vanilla there SEVERAL massive mod that completely change it. Do be warn that you might find yourself fall into the rabbit hole of battletech universe lore ( the universe have a total of 30+ years worth of lore consider it started like warhammer as table top )
FINALLY SOMEONE GETS ME
Give Mechwarrior 5 a shot! Awful story and dialogue IMO but the gameplay is great for mech combat
As someone who has always struggled with the micro side of RTS's but loves macro, this sounds perfect for me
it's !
You're not alone, Bricky. Merchabellum caused my wife to leave with the kids, glad you are keeping me sane
You are already insane.
I feel like mech skins could be for like, achieving certain statistics with certain mechs. Rhinos soaking X damage giving you an "Ironclad" skin, something like that. So when you see your opponent deploy some tricked-out looking mech, you immediately get that sinking feeling of "Oh god, they've McFucking Had It"
One of my favorite combos I’ve made in my short time with the game is slapping parasitic ammo onto stormcallers. It just basically converts whatever horde they have into a horde of crawlers for me, and if they were slow, now it’s a horde of crawlers in the enemy backline
When making a banana split blizzard, the goal is to use less ice cream and be very particular with the amount of topping you do, especially the strawberry since that's the reason it gets so liquidy, you also have to blend it for far less time than a normal blizzard, usually no more than 2 or 3 seconds to maintain the consistency of a normal blizzard
Times and amounts vary with the size of the blizzard, larges being the easiest and minis being Halo 2 LASO with shell shock hard
@@ItisIWOOSHyes but what about the mustangs
I swear bricky is curing my depression with these videos lately
Yeah, the energy he brings with his cadence really makes me happier than I would otherwise not be 😢
Those unit transition screens are gold, please have them in every video where possible
As someone thats been pioneering and experimenting the Fang Anvil technique in this game, I appreciate the love for the little guy. Constantly people are trying to tell me to step away from them cause they are too weak, yet I am doing decent in tournaments. Like how you said in the video, each loss I know how I messed up and make tweaks to fix it for later. I will say though that the game gets a lot harder 2v2 and its unfortunate to get a teammate that can not hold their weight, its still fun coordinating with another to set up future moves.
The one man I blindly trust with game recommendations returns with another banger
Bricky went 24 minutes without saying who his new beloved is, and i was getting nervous
If i recall Paradox ARC is the Publishing Side of Paradox Interactive (The People who made Hearts of Iron IV, Stellaris, Victoria 3, Europa Universalis and Crusader Kings)
I wanna give a shout out to skater for doing the effect of funny deep fried ear rape sounds with the boat segment without actually blowing my ears out. Thank you very much the best duo around keep up the great content!
As someone who plays a TON of Direct Strike, even to this day, at first you had my curiosity. Now you have my attention. I might just buy it now, something that is extremely rare for me in this day and age of gaming
I put 350 hours in the first 2 months, it’s worth it.
I need bricky B O A T moments. Just a super cut whenever he says boat
Bricky, no lie, you are my favourite content creator on all platforms at this point. Keep it up!
YES, SO HAPPY TO SEE THIS VIDEO!!
Can't wait to see more players in game!!
I've been watching Bricky for almost two years, and youtube thought they didnt need to recommend me this video.
But this game and videos were literally made for me.
Oh, I remember when this was a Starcraft 2 custom game. Fantastic game, looking forward to trying this out.
27:04 it's a tank... in the air... called boat...
*stomp stomp* VULCAN LIVES!
Honestly, I hate most auto battlers because there's 8+ players with loads of different solved strategies and tons of RNG involved in how the match will play out. Single patches in this genre can completely redefine what's good/bad. It's exhausting.
But Mechabellum, being only a 1v1, and always having information on what my opponent is capable of doing. Makes this particular title seem a lot more digestible and fun.
So soon after buying Moonbreaker I was going to consider waiting to pick this up too. Expecting another $30-40 price tag.
But for only $15 there's no way I can say no. Damn you Bricky for showing 2 great single player time wasters back to back.
Funny thing is, even the 2v2 is basically 1v1, with the winner going to help their teammate. But yeah, it is the lack of RNG that makes this for me. The brilliant idea of "Okay, but what if you had to live with your positioning decisions for the rest of the match?" turned an overly reactive game style into a brilliantly strategic one. Edit: The fact that a valid strategy is 'Ignore what your enemy does, just build a winning army comp/formation' is amazing.
Martincitopants *B O A T* meme is coming back!
I'm also disappointed Bricky didn't make a Steel Ball reference for the Steel Balls
It feels weird to see Mechabellum in a state before Scorpion,
This but also with War Factory. It's practicality is questionable but damn if it isn't fun to use.
I've seen so much gameplay and been on the edge to play this game and bricky just shoved me 20 feet off the cliff thanks brick
13:46 From what I've learned by watching Beaglerush play this game, Mustangs are really not that OP once you know how to play around them. Meaning, you need to take them seriously and move to counter them/pull them into attacking an inefficient target before they get out of hand. An Arclight with armor will especially mess them up early.
There's also the fact that a lot of people are so convinced they're OP that they will knee-jerk buy them, and you can mindgame around that.
so, for the banana split yer ganna want to put only half a ladle and or pump of each into a large and 1/4 or less in any smaller blizzard. you can also try to drain the juices from stuff like the strawberry or pineapple but that's not as reliable during a rush, bonus tip dont blend for to long idk how your ice-cream was but it can make ours more soupy.
My DQ only required favor of the month. And the banana split was never one, but I did it anyways. The trick is first to overfill or underfill it then scoop the fruit juice off and get it to the customer in under 5 seconds. It also helps to not put too much fruit juice first.
1:40 skip to main video
Paradox arc is an indie publishing wing of Paradox interactive which makes games like Hearts of iron, Europa universalis and Stellaris.
Glad you made another banger with this video!
Speaking of Mecha, I hope you are ready for August...
Because the true king of Mecha games is finally deploying!
As someone who stopped working at Dairy Queen more recently than you did: the key to flipping a Banana Split blizzard without it falling out is twofold:
First, shortchange the customer on their ingredients a bit. Not a lot, just use a little less that full spoons full and "short inches" of banana. You know how it is.
Second, do that flip and flip back fast enough that it almost flies out sideways from the speed you flip it. You don't hold that crap upside down. Flip down and up, one smooth motion. If they try to insist you flip it again, you refuse. You flip it once, you make sure they saw you flip it, and if they try to claim they didn't you don't take their shit. If they want to go all Karen on you, if your manager wants to make you redo it, doesn't matter. You don't flip that thing a second time.
I guess there's a third, too: don't let the blizzard sit and melt. If you can't give them the Split blizzard almost straight from the mixer, it goes in the freezer in the meantime.
One huge downside of the hacker 21:01 : Anything you take over on the enemy team will get the experience for itself.
that one chunky single unit you took that killed everything around it? you just gave it a level
Edit: unless they patched it.
I think that's a fair trade for the fact that if it survives the round you deal damage with it. I've ended up killing someone I didn't even mean to because I hackered a rhino and vulcan.
SC2 direct strike, also known as desert strike. Damm I spent my teenage years with playing that with my friends. Absolute gem.
Dude I've been playing this game for weeks it's so good! Glad you are again brining the spotlight onto great indie games!
the Sledgehammer is indeed good. And like my IRL one-hand sledgehammer it's been used for tasks not really suited or intended for it but it sledgehammered its way through it with gratifying results.
A year later, and they actually did the things Bricky asked for lol
Lol, was thinking about mechabellum after trying it, direct strike came to mind. And its the first thinv bricky mentions
Mechanical Rage, Range, Healing and Armour Techs make levelled up Sledges possibly the best multi purpose ground only unit.
11:10 thats such a good edit i fucking died LOL
2 bricky videos in the same month, marvelous.
Bricky, there is another way to play Mechabellum which sounds outlandish but hear me out. You can enjoy Mechabellum without playing at all by just spectating a match. There is a "Prediction" system where you basically place a bet on who is gonna win and both players in the match know who got the most bet on them.
You do gain "insight" level which does nothing currently aside from showing it off that you were right about your prediction a lot and you do lose it on a wrong bet. It is quite a good way to learn the game by watching the match if you are too intimidated to PvP or you are on low-energy mode and just want to see mechs go boom but still taking some part in it. The spectator gets 90s delay so you can't really narc on or spy info on another player because you will always be watching the previous round battle.
The cosmetic skin will come out in the future which you can buy with the in-game credit earned after you researched all the mech tech upgrade.
Remember, the match ain't over until your HP hit 0. If your opponent has to win he will have to work to get that last drop of blood out of you.
Just want to say thanks to Bricky for another great recommendation. Loved playing Moonbreakers and now I'm really enjoying Mechabellum
Please do streams for this as well. I’m fascinated by the concept but I’d like to see a certain very attractive man in stained jorts play it before I buy.
I used to work at DQ and you're right that banana split blizzard is impossible. It's four soft/liquid ingredients. It's closer to a milkshake than a blizzard.
Last night I did in fact look at the clock and say "holy fuck it's 4 am" so gj Bricky you were right about that
16.50 you should have edited a Tau helmet on your face there :D
17:58 This man really used megumins explooosion 😂
The thing that draws me so strongly to bricky is that this is a main channel video with about 2/3 deep dive explanation that appeases my autism and 1/3 straight shit post that appeases my autism
I’ve been waiting for this one since I saw the twitter post. Looking forwards to it!
bricky its called not blending the bottom as much you leave a pocket of ice cream on the bottom BRICKY YOU ALWAYS FLIP YOUR BLIZZARD YA SLACKER! its part of the fan fare for DQ also dont leave it for longer than 2 sec
Awesome video Bricky. For your next game to review, I highly recommend CrossCode. I think you'd love it and I want to see it gain the recognition and praise it deserves...also want to see the developers begin work on the sequel which they aren't so I want them to see how much people love CrossCode.
20:02 is that a solid jj reference
direct strike and nexus wars are actually a different subgenre of rts called tug of war. Autobattlers are about winning individual fights with roguelike randomized units while tug of war is about gaining ground slowly with preset rosters.
i've spent too much time theorycrafting a 40k tug of war game called tides of war that will never become of anything :'(
Dude this game looks incredible. Simple on the outside, but complex and full of tons of variation on the inside. Can’t wait for payday, you’ve convinced me. I guess I should get my bags packed and call a lawyer before I start though 😂😂😂
Paradox Arc are the publishers for Paradox Games, like HOI4 and CK3 and Stellaris and Vic2, as well as surviving mars and surviving the aftermath, games i think you'd really enjoy because they have a similar feel to Frostpunk with a little more lightheartedness
This game reminds me of "Gratuitous Space Battle" but on land
I see Skater discovered the zoom background feature in the editing software they use
Watching that many mechs remind me sooo much Iron Harvest
I just blend the blizzard a bit with the machine and hand mix it the rest of the way. Also, I go a bit easy on the ingredients. I have yet to lose a blizzard.
I LOVE the lock in feature on such a detailed game
Late to the party, worked at DQ in the early 10s. You have to drain as much strawberry and pineapple syrup as you posibly can. You could put in chocolate syrup or you can half and half that with some cone dip. Otherside that crap is going to be a soupy mess. Corporate did not give us this tip, I had to tell grown men and women, of which I was not to minimize liquids and add the cone dip.
Didn't expect a solidJJ audio clip.
I never tried the fang spam till after this video, and my god is it amazing
I wanna recommend Dominions and Illwinter's other stuff for people that like autobattlers but I suppose it's a little different. You still organize armies and essentially 'program' armies that are completely hands off when they fight, but it's not a level playing field like this - it's closer to a 4x, so there's maneuvering and all that, as well as the insane cliff of just mastering the magic list.
It seems to do not-really-balanced nations well, though, and it's pretty flavorful, so there is that.
3:20 yeah also these 2 you mentioned are VERY rng heavy
Geez Bricky you’re the sole cause of my steam library expanding. $15? That’s a steal
This is an excellent game. Truly excellent.
I reccomend battletech (2018), might make a good vid
the game is quite popular in germany, because the german gaming community has a lot of old strategy game addicts (due to the "Die Siedler" ["the settlers"] series), so there is already a really solid player base (also because ubisofts new settler iteration was hot garbage and the fans long for a new strategy game to put their time into)
true, I played vs some great german player
Also China for some reason.
@@henriquefinger935 it's made by a Studio in China, I believe.
@@Kelmort then it's the best chinese game ever
The “Fuck you, Baltimore” really got me. I love your humor, Brick Man.
3:35 also knowledge of chances and managing your money.
Bricky you should do an update video! new bots and mechanics have been added since this video came out and shit is great
I heard someone describe this game as "StarCraft for Dads" and it's perfect.
That Eldar?! Warmed my soul as a necron player
The Vashtorr T-shirt feels very appropriate here.
Not surprised you don't know Paradox Arc, they are new sub branch/division of Paradox, created/announced about a year ago maybe.
The point of the company divide is so that Paradox can continue to focus on establish brands like Crusader Kings, Hearts of Iron, City Skyline, etc...
And Arc can take chances and develop new game studios & franchises, like Across the Obelisk and Mechabellum.
It's a pretty neat partnership, the devs for Across the Obelisk knew they had a great game, but were not 'seasoned' when it came to actually releasing, publishing and handling player feedback for a game....
Paradox knew they had a bit of an issue, where their dev teams get 'stuck in a rut' of doing the same game types/titles over and over...
By working together, the 'Indi devs' and the 'seasoned devs' bring out the best in both as well as covering their weaknesses.
It worked so well with Across the Obelisk that it was decided that Paradox Arc had to be a thing they kept doing going forward.
Frozen Synapse should be something to look into
The key difference between this game and something like TFT is TFT is so needlessly complicated to cleanly create a balanced experience. Mechabellum is baby simple when compared to something like TFT (which is good, cause the reason so many quit TFT is cause you master the current season and the next one comes around and it takes forever to re-learn everything, it is tiring). It also doesn't rely on heavy RNG, in Mechabeelum you can force a build if you really wanted to with how free the "deck building" is. The real upside of this is that you and your opponent are on mostly on even ground since you know the reinforcements both of you can get and the roster of mechs are few enough that you can reasonably figure out what your opponent might do to try to counter you.
I like to imagine Mechabellum is basically the chess of auto-chess. It is the one with the most efficient depth-per-complexity, which is good because to express good strategy you NEED to understand all the variables in order to compute them. If there are too many variables then the computation is messy and you might fail to account for all of it. If there are too few variables (like 1-D chess) the depth of the game is shallow and could likely be solved (and solved games are boring cause you just do the same thing over and over and outcomes are predicted before the game even starts). Mechabellum hits the sweet spot of as much depth as possible for as low complexity cost as possible.
"holy fuck its 4 am" he says as i look up and at the clock and realize it is in fact, 4 am
Omfg the desert strike to Mechabellum pipeline is real! Don't let them take your soul!
Bricky my man, you boutta hit 1 mil and I'm so fuckin' proud
Even after the Warhammer addiction?
Impressive
The problem with buffing health is the game really struggles past round 9 and 10
And starts to stutter like crazy
13:56 is that a VSauce reference?
I'm still waiting on the castle fight game to never ever come
the way you say battler makes me flinch every time.
Martin must love hearing someone else take the title of boat guy
First Moon Breaker, now Mechabellum, Bricky I'm still trying to build my Warhammer army MY WALLET CAN'T KEEP UP
Dairy Queen employee here, I just bled that blizzard for about 2.5 seconds while putting in half the amount of ingredients I should. I made that blizzard properly once. Never again.
Boat slayed me, I replayed that part 10 times