I shall be the voice of the virgins 🫡 note: at 15:49 i left in a line that should have been taken out. originally there was a section based on the direction hoplite should go. then, i decided its not fair to base a critique video on what hoplite could be instead of what it currently is. cheers!
@@Laqqyi think that if there were events like hoplite battle royale but it is 4 days or like 5% to be random drops on game so thr sweats couldnt just speedrun dragon catana or just anything that would change the game for a bit
Hoplite would actually be way more fun if each game had only a random bunch of legendaries that were available to craft in that specific game, like when you start the game you open recipes and look at that games available crafts instead of always rushing the same thing or having to decide between 3 things to use TNT for. :)
i can see how that would be fun, but at the same time the sweats would just queue dodge if a craft they want isn’t in the pool. like, all nether rushers will just disconnect if there is no dragon katana
I like this and the items in the recipe page has all the items on the map like the ice staff if there's no snow/ice biome there's no point in there being a craft for it just so it shows whats possible could also add "randomizer" in games like nether disable or 5 extra hearts or 5 less hearts but it doesn't have to be every game I feel it would a nice touch and I seen people saying that if u do only specific crafts every game some people would dodge if there rush isn't there but they could a timer and a stat to show how many ppl dodge and after a certain amt they start punishing like a 1 day ban from queing or something less severe
They could also add events for hoplite streamer/content creators like a civilization event that speed silver use to post like united uhc an old uhc series with a ton of yt that would go on for like 10ep till there's a winning team (idk why I'm adding on to ur comment even though this is completely different topic)
4:50 you mentioned changing the legendary crafts. I do agree with this ALOT. Thought I do believe that just changing the allowed crafts each season still allows for certain meta’s to pick up even if it’s for a shorter time span. To fix this I would suggest something to this point BUT instead of every SEASON changing the crafts change it RANDOMLY PER GAME. I think this would nerf rushing in general and make it so u would have to know MULTIPLE rushes instead of just knowing one.
But overall GREAT video. Not cause u actually look at the issues but u ACTUALLY SUGGESTED WAYS TO IMPROVE. Which is something the whole Minecraft community needs to do more of.
Very well made video. btw I didn''t mean that hoplite has a lack of updates, I just meant to say a lack of updates that I PERSONALLY enjoyed. But besides that really good video! I wish I put more time into mine😂
just wanted to say that your video is extremely well-made, and you did a great job at explaining everything that's been going wrong or that can be fixed/implemented in better ways! (: I actually enjoyed watching the video to listen to your point of view about gameplay as I really haven't been enjoying playing as much as well. The repetitiveness and the lack of ideas really do make a lot of sense now that I took your perspective into account. you made sure to make the video mature and address the situation the right way, which made me happy to watch since the last video about the server to which Speedsilver sent a response was not really friendly, you were very careful in words and made as much constructive criticism as possible since I joined I fell in love with the server and wanted to be a part of the team as I found a lot of potential in it. I'm a casual player btw, and it really is very sweaty sometimes. Not just because I'm bad at PVP but because the meta is not new player-friendly since not everyone knows how to nether rush as properly as the top players do (based on the current meta) and the result of the game can sometimes be settled just by who rushed nether and got loot and who didn't. some updates felt unreal and extremely unbalanced and I vouch for the idea of rotational legendary items as this would change the meta constantly and make players more interested in coming back after a potential break. the server is fairly new, and almost every single one of your ideas & comments about the server made a lot of sense. the video was amazing and the feedback was even better it was actually one of the few hoplite videos I enjoyed watching entirely since I've watched A LOT of UHC in the past and could not bear trying to play it. But turned out that Hoplite is a bit more friendly on the UHC side as it explains everything perfectly and is simpler to follow up during stages, but it's still very unbalanced. I've worked with game-deving a few times in the past as a graphics designer and I really agree with you. they made updates mostly based on holidays for the server which can turn it into an even more repetitive state I don't think the updates they made are bad for seasonal updates, it's just that it doesn't feel very *"new"* if that's all they'll add, looks just like a quick addon for the moment, and then it goes away after it's done, but that's just my opinion. as you said the server is new, so yeah let's give the developers a moment to cook new updates! >:D it's not easy to be a game developer so they can run out of ideas very quickly, I hope your video gets the attention it deserves because it was extremely helpful in pointing all of the issues out
I think the points brought up in this video based on stale content is entirely correct, thats why (i have not announced this yet) but i started thinking of a tok more socially interactive video ideas that are just downright hilarious. Laqqy thank you for being an inspiration to me and for being so supportive of my channel, it truly means a lot.
Great video and I think it explained the communities overall opinions perfectly. Adding onto the feinburg situation, the ONLY thing he did every game was nether rush and that was pretty much the only thing he could do so when that got nerfed that also added another reason for him quitting
A lot of W takes, I totally get the feeling of repetitive gameplay, PRIVATE GAMES AND CUSTOM RULES WOULD BE SO SICK DUDE, I was thinkin about that the other day. I saw the Bowuh video when it released and thought similarly to you that some things they said were true, but also Silver had some good points as well. Overall I'm optimistic about Hoplite as a server and its staff, as well as Hoplite content on youtube, and your stuff is fantastic as well. Keep up the great content dude
2:00 i remember when the server was fresh, and my whole team had dragon katakanas, but that was when we had very experienced players, at the start very few teams had legendary weapons, but now everyone does
the thing vpn is that players from Asia or Australia use VPN to reduce their pings which usually works. Not allowing players with VPN would prevent cheater from logging on but also it prevents a fractions of players who uses VPN for ping purposes
ive only been playing hoplite a few weeks but my biggest problem is getting absolutely destroyed by people who are like 50 stars higher than me. i really wish there was some sort of ranked mode so that i could be against less sweaty players, or i wish that there was a quicker version of hoplite. like give me 5 minutes to prepare and boost drop rates, because its the most demotivating thing to gather resources for 15 minutes then die instantly. thats why i like the duels so much. i also find the prepping phase to be very repetitive which is why id love it if it was shorter. i think it could be much more fun with more structure and strategy variety. like if there were water caves with higher diamond rates like there are in vanilla it could be really fun. or if there were more structures to explore. like some minecraft structures dont spawn and it would be much more fun if they did imo. id love to loot a monument or shipwrecks more often. or have some worlds spawn as amplified or floating island generation. hoplite rarely has oceans, and i honestly think it could be pretty interesting having a world that has loads of ocean and rivers. i dont really mind getting killed by legendary weapons and i dont get bored with the selection of them, but i think the process of getting them is too similar each game. i find the fighting to be fun, but the gathering resources part to be very repetitive. i think it could also be really cool if random events happened throughout the games like in the hunger games catching fire. if there were like 50 random events and a few happened per game, it would encourage more players to play more games. it would also be awesome to have to adapt mid game, so even if theres a stacked player chasing a full iron, if the stacked player doesnt know how to deal with the random event, you could gain an advantage over them. like imagine a heat wave event, where all water disappears. now you have to start clutching with powder snow, or haybales. or imagine it started thundering so on the off chance someone has a trident with channeling they could use it. also make more mobs spawn. the 15 min prep time is especially boring when no monsters spawn imo
the random event idea sounds 🔥🔥🔥 there needs to be more rng-esque content to throw a wrench in things and make it so one person can’t just snowball their entire way through entire games. some people literally treat it like a full time job which, yeah, ruins the fun
@@Laqqy i agree. Hoplite could be really fun with random stuff happening like the random changes people make for manhunt videos. They could also potentially add like side quests that could reward you with items. Anything that adds more ways to play the game
I 100% agree with everything you said in this video, Hoplite is getting a bit repetitive and them adding unique events would make it sooooooo much better.
I completely understand where u r coming from, and I agree to most of your points.But over time if they don’t change anything then I think the player count will decrease but I don’t think it will very rlly “die” as such. And on the subject of ur channel I love all ur vids and to be honest I don’t rlly care what u play/do/talk about I always just love ur content so keep it up u r doing do well!!❤❤❤ Ps:I’m autistic too!!!!❤❤❤❤
Very great points and informative video. Before continuing with my points, I think season 3 is gonna be something crazy and grow the player count, so I think we gotta wait for that and see what happens! Now, as a content creator who plays a lot of Hoplite: I recommend touching grass as Laqqy stated in the video. Everyone got excited when UHC got revived through Hoplite and got too into it. It's good to play it moderately, thus keeping the interest alive. Also, I really loved the idea you gave us: creating private lobbies with your own viewers or custom mods, that is something I would ABSOLUTELY love to see, but I don't see that coming anytime soon, but I definitely understand why: Season 3 is around the corner, constant balance updates which are ALL important in order to have a balanced and fun game. About the cheaters, I've not encountered a single blatant cheater nor a closet cheater with combat advantages (ka, reach etc.) or it just has been hard for me to identify one, but I doubt that. Cheaters with tracers are something I've encountered as a trapper, and it is not the most pleasant thing that can happen after wasting 15 minutes on building a trap. I'm fully aware I'm not an anti-cheat expert or anything, but it is probably very hard to stop people from using tracers so I do understand that it's not possible to stop every cheater. I gotta give credit on the cheater part from my own behalf based on my experience on the server. Now, what I found contradictory in your video; you recommend to make some legendaries seasonal, but state that the Hoplite videos are getting stale. If we do get less legendaries per game, the content is gonna be even staler. As a trapper it's easier to make not-so-stale content due to the variety of traps and so on. But then again, you mentioned the cool mods where people could create their own private games, but making that would take a minute or two, so I would prefer for Hoplite to become a stable server with nearly perfectly balanced items. After achieving this state, they can work on custom mods / private games. Not much else to say, once again great video and let's see what season 3 brings us, I really think it's gonna be a banger especially with the EDIT: 4 new legendaries! Cheers everyone!
i get how that can come off a bit contradictory, but while it would give creators less options for weapons (let’s be honest, that’s where the clickbait is) it would give the playerbase unique gameplay each season. as an example, a season without weapons like the dragon katana or midas sword would remove the gameplay style of “oh, i got netherite scrap/god apple, now i can craft this weapon” which would make the landscape a lot sweatier. + they always add more weapons, so if they remove 4 and add 4, theres not really LESS to craft, just not more. thanks for keeping the comment respectful 🫡
I agree with every point here except the seasonal legendaries. I saw someone mention in a different comment that the legendaries available to craft should be different for each game, and you replied saying that players would dodge queues until they got what they want- which I completely agree with. But I think changing the different legendaries for each season is too long. If they removed the availability of the katana for a month, then people who speedrun the nether specifically for the katana would just quit the game. I believe that it should be a middle ground between seasonal availability and changing it up every game. Personally, changing the available weapons every day or so, would allow all players to go for each weapon they take interest in, but also force them to create more diverse playstyles for when their favourite rush isn't available for the day.
Toxicity is a very big thing within hoplite, for a number of reasons, I wish I could make something informational revolving around this for unsuspecting players and for members of the younger community, I love hoplite's community, I'm starting to come back after a couple month hiatus but I can't wait too see what's in store and hopefully meet some wonderful people. Not my Style of Content, but maybe on another channel.
Not to mention the amount of bugs on hoplites. It seems to me that they're focusing more on making new updates with new content rather than fix the bugs that frustrate people and kill the server.
I think most of the people who are “quitting” hoplite are the ones who play every game to just nether rush. I don’t get how doing the same strat every time can be fun whatsoever 🤷♂️ I play a variety of metas and limit my weekly playtime and that keeps it fun and relaxing. It’s just a game, people - you don’t have to play every game as if your life depends on it!
agree! the other side of that is, that play style also ruin the fun for everyone else. you’d be damned if a new player ever gets their hand on a mjolnir or dragon katana these days.
My opinions on the points made, this is just my opinion and i dont mean any disrepect or argument causing but whay i want from this and my feedback is VPN: whilst lots of havkers or banned people use vpns from experience i understand the want to use one, from fear of ddox attacks on you or better connection Sweating: just make ranked Cheating: you cant do much about people cheating but stronger more prevaillant bans can help Toxicity: stronger punishments for exxesive toxicity Repetition: obviously limit yourself on how much you play, cycle legendaries and maybe create overall buffs when playing, you said a bow kegendary only mode, i dont think this would be the best but maybe an overall buff of something like 10% bonus damage when using bows Updates: less holiday updates, more smaller bug fix one less gameplay ones but larger I also think adding on to the cheating informing someone of the result of the report when using /report can be useful to create more faith of the staff by the community and to also let you report in duels as currently if you want to report at the end of a duel it is near impossible Sorry for bad spelling
At 4:37 you say that legendaries could be vaulted for some time and I think that’s a good idea but maybe they could add the pedestals that have only 4 certain legendaries a game like in the videos. I think it would make getting legendaries more difficult and you won’t find the same things all the time. I also think it will make getting legendaries more exciting as in silvers videos I personally like how intense it is when it is risky trying to get the legendary weapons rather than just a craft message popping up. I can see how this can be a bad suggestion though. Let me know what you think :)
imo ur making issues that have to do with minecraft multiplayer in general specifically hoplite related. u cant remove free will from players: sweating and toxicity is not a server side issue. yes the server is responsible in punishing toxic behaviour, but to say that staff members arent doing enough about it is wrong. hoplite has a great response time to reports based on both cheating and toxicity in my experience, especially when compared with other servers. That seems to be the general opinion too (based on my friends who ive spoken to though, may be biased).
i mention that these issues aren’t unique to hoplite when bringing them up, i’m very aware. but just because it’s a broad issue doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be included? maybe the wording was a bit unclear; the staff are not to blame as they punish and work quite efficiently most of the time. the point i was trying to push was that the bar for punishing toxicity should be much less lenient than it is currently.
@@Laqqy fair enough. idk its hard to say whether it is being punished enough or not tho because theres not rly a way to measure it, like its all based on the opinion of the people u ask. either way good vid man
hoplite private lobbys would be really cool and in that way youtubers and streamers could play custom games to play with viewers and also be able to change settings
I aggree with Speedsilver, you may like playing a gamemode, but overtime it gets boring. But that doesn't mean that players leave completely. I began playing Minecraft 1.5 years ago and I really liked bedwars. Still I got bored and stopped playing for half a year. But after that I missed the gameplay and hoped back on. I think getting breaks from sweating constantly once in a while would help community to enjoy Minecraft again.
yes we need this if u want hoplite to live i am a hypixel player but u hoplite lot are fine so hope u get the things listed added also if the rotating weapons are added and the elemental event thingy then i might go play hoplite again despite being terible
Good video Btw im Tacolord_ At the time you fought me I was new to java and not very used to attack cooldowns and I saw how you destroyed the speed silver battle royal turdements and when we fought I kinda paniced but I would love it if we could remach when im more used to java
I just wanna say that the entire point of the server being very repetitive I disagree with just on the lone fact of you dont always gotta be a sweaty player and try the same meta over and over again. I used to always nether rush but now I just try to mix it up a lot like: fishing meta, riptide trident rush, try to mine full dia, snowball, nether rushing. I am just trying to say it does not have to be repetitive if you don't completely let it be. (Good video overall tho
everything comes down to perspective! some games i just play nicked and skybase for the fun of it. just sitting around and playing with friends does wonders when you’re burnt out of trying to win
3:55 in places like china most western servers and games are blocked and the only way to access them are with vpns. Blocking VPNS will mean blocking over a billion of potenial players from playing
At first i enjoyed watching hoplite videos but after about a month they all felt repetitive and didn't bring me much joy to watch them. I think if hoplite added more to the server than battle royal me and many others would stick around.
A fix to the cheaters problem could be only allowing the hop lite client, and also making it a little bit more customisable, like making a option for optifine. This client would still not include the ability to add your own mods, but the client could include more mods so this wouldn’t be a problem.
Maybe this is a small issue, but I kinda am starting to really dislike it. I play civ fairly often and every so often I find a trapper teamate. I myself know how to trap and tell them that. They are like "Sure, I'll show you how it works" or smth and then just traps me. Most times I survive, but honestly it seems like this has gotten more common. I trapped a while back with my friend, and we found some other people trapping on our team, and they just told us to leave. I know how annoying it can be if your teamate is just standing there and not even shifting, but they can just ask, instead of killing us. Another thing I feel is that sweats are somewhat of a consistent problem. I don't care too much, but I find a lot of new players(I am not new but I'm still not that good) trying to learn. Half the time either we die, or just can't learn things if we get killed early or try to fight really good players. Otherwise, I find the game still somewhat enjoyable but am honestly not enjoying it as much as before, but honestly that's just expected. After playing a super hype game for a while it just gets boring. So honestly, I don't really know. The game is still fun, but I and other players(I believe) cannot learn with such good players in the game. I've been playing since around mid November, and honestly of course it gets boring.
not hating to any trapping yters i can understand why they would not want their teamates to help if they aren't too good, but it's just getting really annoying
i 100% agree! it’s a huge issue that takes away so much enjoyment from people just trying to get into the game. a lot of people fail to respect other people’s time and that’s what’s going to kill the playerbase.
Most of us have a bit too much ptsd: I’m not someone who traps teammates on a consistent basis but you have no idea how many games have been lost to non teammates either stealing all our gear and dying or just killing is by accident
That being said if you ask politely to just sit at the bottom of the trap and shift and loot rather than help most trappers will let you, esp if you have mic
I'm surprised people complained about the loyalty trident. I thought i was a good idea since like, you need 2 diamonds to craft it how'd you feel if you threw it and could never find it. 2 diamonds wasted
@@Laqqy yeah if they just left the damage the same and gave it a lower loyalty maybe it would've had a different response. Can't really say but alas here we are
I love this servers concept, my only problem, is how quickly the player base got 1. toxic, and 2. Sweaty, I and most people don't have 13 hours to sit and play hoplite ( cough* hoplite streamers ) making it really hard to just join the server and play it for fun, but instead, you get no life try hards that have full diamond 17 gaps 5 legendary weapons that beat you then start calling you the N-word after how do you fix this easy but not simple, skill based match making or ranked
1:45 Here's a hot take: Minecraft PvP as a whole is mostly stagnant and repetitive because the game's combat system is threadbare at best. There aren't that many options for weapons, and melee weapons have three attacks (sprint hit, non-sprint hit, crit) at most; I'm not sure about others in this community, but I find comboing mostly the same move into itself and crit spamming to not be that interesting to watch. I really want to see PvP servers experiment with datapacks and plugins that give more general options for offense and defense. As for the "legendary rush" metagame, I'm not sure what the best solution is besides preserving their uniqueness while nerfing other attributes to make them balanced and give alternative methods to obtain them so that the same route isn't always the most effective.
@@Laqqy yeah I know. But I'm so tired of queing into games with only 5 teammates. With half of them trapping. Wish I could just play with my friends. But I can see how it would lead to just massive parties of super sweaty people trying to go for a techno blade lvl win streak.
I would be down for that, if larger parties are only able to join private lobbies. Massive parties would dominate the server if they were allowed in public lobbies
In my opinion battle royale Minecraft gamemodes are fun but with custom weapons and items it takes that fun for the battle royale away and that’s why I never really played hoplite because it didn’t have that OG Minecraft stuff in it (not to say mods are bad I use mods and I like them but I use client side mods to not take too much away from the main game) but like I said this is my opinion and others may and will disagree
you can still win hoplite without weapons, and snowball for the weapons. the reason hoplite there are so many legendary weapons being crafted is because 1. they’re good 2. players like to rush them 3. because they are good, cheaters use their power to always get them
10:33 there dosent have to be people asking for updates they have the full right to drop some random item and make it strong to develop a NEW meta which can change the stale state of the game
4:20 I feel like blocking VPNs aren't a good solution, as many people use VPNs just to get away from irl hackers, like ip grabbers. There's a reason why not a lot of servers have VPN checkers. You just might be falsely banned.
Truthfully, it’s not hoplites issue to keep you safe online. Using a VPN in your day to day life is fine, but you can disable it while playing hoplite.
They could add another mode thats not pvp based so u can choose between duels, royale, and something like ppl spawning in a world with no pvp and they need to get items that are p rare, first person to get the item gets the w, second gets 2d place sofurther sofurther or idk
a part of the video i ended up deleting was talking about how they could invest in a gamemode like factions, but with civilizations instead of factions. that would be fun!
Moral of the story you can’t make everyone happy, u can’t really fix the alting, toxicity,and cheating really that’s going to be everywhere and the stagnant gameplay thing everyone thinks different people probably gonna complain about the rotation of legendaries etc
They should add eu and as proxy's that would help hoplite people don't like laggers and as a australia player I get 200ms and I dont like because I lag alot and my kb sucks. Also laqqy teach me how to consistently crit pls
I shall be the voice of the virgins 🫡
note: at 15:49 i left in a line that should have been taken out. originally there was a section based on the direction hoplite should go. then, i decided its not fair to base a critique video on what hoplite could be instead of what it currently is. cheers!
Awesome video love your content
Dont quit laqqy, every time you upload it makes my day.
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Dude consistent uploads that are high quality is so fun to watch
@@Laqqyi think that if there were events like hoplite battle royale but it is 4 days or like 5% to be random drops on game so thr sweats couldnt just speedrun dragon catana or just anything that would change the game for a bit
Hoplite would actually be way more fun if each game had only a random bunch of legendaries that were available to craft in that specific game, like when you start the game you open recipes and look at that games available crafts instead of always rushing the same thing or having to decide between 3 things to use TNT for. :)
i can see how that would be fun, but at the same time the sweats would just queue dodge if a craft they want isn’t in the pool.
like, all nether rushers will just disconnect if there is no dragon katana
I like this and the items in the recipe page has all the items on the map like the ice staff if there's no snow/ice biome there's no point in there being a craft for it just so it shows whats possible could also add "randomizer" in games like nether disable or 5 extra hearts or 5 less hearts but it doesn't have to be every game I feel it would a nice touch and I seen people saying that if u do only specific crafts every game some people would dodge if there rush isn't there but they could a timer and a stat to show how many ppl dodge and after a certain amt they start punishing like a 1 day ban from queing or something less severe
They could also add events for hoplite streamer/content creators like a civilization event that speed silver use to post like united uhc an old uhc series with a ton of yt that would go on for like 10ep till there's a winning team (idk why I'm adding on to ur comment even though this is completely different topic)
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4:50 you mentioned changing the legendary crafts. I do agree with this ALOT. Thought I do believe that just changing the allowed crafts each season still allows for certain meta’s to pick up even if it’s for a shorter time span.
To fix this I would suggest something to this point BUT instead of every SEASON changing the crafts change it RANDOMLY PER GAME. I think this would nerf rushing in general and make it so u would have to know MULTIPLE rushes instead of just knowing one.
But overall GREAT video. Not cause u actually look at the issues but u ACTUALLY SUGGESTED WAYS TO IMPROVE. Which is something the whole Minecraft community needs to do more of.
they did just that
Very well made video. btw I didn''t mean that hoplite has a lack of updates, I just meant to say a lack of updates that I PERSONALLY enjoyed. But besides that really good video! I wish I put more time into mine😂
just wanted to say that your video is extremely well-made, and you did a great job at explaining everything that's been going wrong or that can be fixed/implemented in better ways! (:
I actually enjoyed watching the video to listen to your point of view about gameplay as I really haven't been enjoying playing as much as well. The repetitiveness and the lack of ideas really do make a lot of sense now that I took your perspective into account. you made sure to make the video mature and address the situation the right way, which made me happy to watch since the last video about the server to which Speedsilver sent a response was not really friendly, you were very careful in words and made as much constructive criticism as possible
since I joined I fell in love with the server and wanted to be a part of the team as I found a lot of potential in it. I'm a casual player btw, and it really is very sweaty sometimes. Not just because I'm bad at PVP but because the meta is not new player-friendly since not everyone knows how to nether rush as properly as the top players do (based on the current meta) and the result of the game can sometimes be settled just by who rushed nether and got loot and who didn't. some updates felt unreal and extremely unbalanced and I vouch for the idea of rotational legendary items as this would change the meta constantly and make players more interested in coming back after a potential break.
the server is fairly new, and almost every single one of your ideas & comments about the server made a lot of sense. the video was amazing and the feedback was even better
it was actually one of the few hoplite videos I enjoyed watching entirely since I've watched A LOT of UHC in the past and could not bear trying to play it. But turned out that Hoplite is a bit more friendly on the UHC side as it explains everything perfectly and is simpler to follow up during stages, but it's still very unbalanced.
I've worked with game-deving a few times in the past as a graphics designer and I really agree with you. they made updates mostly based on holidays for the server which can turn it into an even more repetitive state
I don't think the updates they made are bad for seasonal updates, it's just that it doesn't feel very *"new"* if that's all they'll add, looks just like a quick addon for the moment, and then it goes away after it's done, but that's just my opinion. as you said the server is new, so yeah let's give the developers a moment to cook new updates! >:D
it's not easy to be a game developer so they can run out of ideas very quickly, I hope your video gets the attention it deserves because it was extremely helpful in pointing all of the issues out
this is such a kind comment, thank you so much for typing this all out it made my night :)
did u asked chatgpt for it?
@@soulpanther1 what are you talking about?
@@Laqqy bro wrote a whole para
@@soulpanther1 idk man some people just aren’t lazy
I think the points brought up in this video based on stale content is entirely correct, thats why (i have not announced this yet) but i started thinking of a tok more socially interactive video ideas that are just downright hilarious. Laqqy thank you for being an inspiration to me and for being so supportive of my channel, it truly means a lot.
Great video and I think it explained the communities overall opinions perfectly.
Adding onto the feinburg situation, the ONLY thing he did every game was nether rush and that was pretty much the only thing he could do so when that got nerfed that also added another reason for him quitting
A lot of W takes, I totally get the feeling of repetitive gameplay, PRIVATE GAMES AND CUSTOM RULES WOULD BE SO SICK DUDE, I was thinkin about that the other day. I saw the Bowuh video when it released and thought similarly to you that some things they said were true, but also Silver had some good points as well. Overall I'm optimistic about Hoplite as a server and its staff, as well as Hoplite content on youtube, and your stuff is fantastic as well. Keep up the great content dude
big optimistic about the server! got a bit upset at how many “hoplite = bad” videos and comments have been made lately
@@Laqqy yeah fr there’s a lot of people just saying Hoplite sucks but it’s just more complex than that
2:00 i remember when the server was fresh, and my whole team had dragon katakanas, but that was when we had very experienced players, at the start very few teams had legendary weapons, but now everyone does
they were the best of times
Well made Video, Was Wondering what this Server was all over my FYP
the thing vpn is that players from Asia or Australia use VPN to reduce their pings which usually works. Not allowing players with VPN would prevent cheater from logging on but also it prevents a fractions of players who uses VPN for ping purposes
the testing server for updates makes so much sense
ive only been playing hoplite a few weeks but my biggest problem is getting absolutely destroyed by people who are like 50 stars higher than me. i really wish there was some sort of ranked mode so that i could be against less sweaty players, or i wish that there was a quicker version of hoplite. like give me 5 minutes to prepare and boost drop rates, because its the most demotivating thing to gather resources for 15 minutes then die instantly. thats why i like the duels so much. i also find the prepping phase to be very repetitive which is why id love it if it was shorter. i think it could be much more fun with more structure and strategy variety. like if there were water caves with higher diamond rates like there are in vanilla it could be really fun. or if there were more structures to explore. like some minecraft structures dont spawn and it would be much more fun if they did imo. id love to loot a monument or shipwrecks more often. or have some worlds spawn as amplified or floating island generation. hoplite rarely has oceans, and i honestly think it could be pretty interesting having a world that has loads of ocean and rivers. i dont really mind getting killed by legendary weapons and i dont get bored with the selection of them, but i think the process of getting them is too similar each game. i find the fighting to be fun, but the gathering resources part to be very repetitive. i think it could also be really cool if random events happened throughout the games like in the hunger games catching fire. if there were like 50 random events and a few happened per game, it would encourage more players to play more games. it would also be awesome to have to adapt mid game, so even if theres a stacked player chasing a full iron, if the stacked player doesnt know how to deal with the random event, you could gain an advantage over them. like imagine a heat wave event, where all water disappears. now you have to start clutching with powder snow, or haybales. or imagine it started thundering so on the off chance someone has a trident with channeling they could use it. also make more mobs spawn. the 15 min prep time is especially boring when no monsters spawn imo
the random event idea sounds 🔥🔥🔥 there needs to be more rng-esque content to throw a wrench in things and make it so one person can’t just snowball their entire way through entire games. some people literally treat it like a full time job which, yeah, ruins the fun
@@Laqqy i agree. Hoplite could be really fun with random stuff happening like the random changes people make for manhunt videos. They could also potentially add like side quests that could reward you with items. Anything that adds more ways to play the game
I 100% agree with everything you said in this video, Hoplite is getting a bit repetitive and them adding unique events would make it sooooooo much better.
Only ranged weapons for an ENTIRE SEASON would suck tbh
Another good Laqqy vid, I also just wanna say I love how much you interact with your community its really cool to see!
I completely understand where u r coming from, and I agree to most of your points.But over time if they don’t change anything then I think the player count will decrease but I don’t think it will very rlly “die” as such.
And on the subject of ur channel I love all ur vids and to be honest I don’t rlly care what u play/do/talk about I always just love ur content so keep it up u r doing do well!!❤❤❤
Ps:I’m autistic too!!!!❤❤❤❤
THERES NO WAY HOPLITE ACTUALLY LISTENED TO YOU! THEY ROTATED OUT 4 LEDGENDARIES AND BROUGHT 4 NEW ONES!
Very great points and informative video. Before continuing with my points, I think season 3 is gonna be something crazy and grow the player count, so I think we gotta wait for that and see what happens!
Now, as a content creator who plays a lot of Hoplite: I recommend touching grass as Laqqy stated in the video. Everyone got excited when UHC got revived through Hoplite and got too into it. It's good to play it moderately, thus keeping the interest alive. Also, I really loved the idea you gave us: creating private lobbies with your own viewers or custom mods, that is something I would ABSOLUTELY love to see, but I don't see that coming anytime soon, but I definitely understand why: Season 3 is around the corner, constant balance updates which are ALL important in order to have a balanced and fun game.
About the cheaters, I've not encountered a single blatant cheater nor a closet cheater with combat advantages (ka, reach etc.) or it just has been hard for me to identify one, but I doubt that. Cheaters with tracers are something I've encountered as a trapper, and it is not the most pleasant thing that can happen after wasting 15 minutes on building a trap. I'm fully aware I'm not an anti-cheat expert or anything, but it is probably very hard to stop people from using tracers so I do understand that it's not possible to stop every cheater. I gotta give credit on the cheater part from my own behalf based on my experience on the server.
Now, what I found contradictory in your video; you recommend to make some legendaries seasonal, but state that the Hoplite videos are getting stale. If we do get less legendaries per game, the content is gonna be even staler. As a trapper it's easier to make not-so-stale content due to the variety of traps and so on. But then again, you mentioned the cool mods where people could create their own private games, but making that would take a minute or two, so I would prefer for Hoplite to become a stable server with nearly perfectly balanced items. After achieving this state, they can work on custom mods / private games.
Not much else to say, once again great video and let's see what season 3 brings us, I really think it's gonna be a banger especially with the EDIT: 4 new legendaries! Cheers everyone!
i get how that can come off a bit contradictory, but while it would give creators less options for weapons (let’s be honest, that’s where the clickbait is) it would give the playerbase unique gameplay each season. as an example, a season without weapons like the dragon katana or midas sword would remove the gameplay style of “oh, i got netherite scrap/god apple, now i can craft this weapon” which would make the landscape a lot sweatier. + they always add more weapons, so if they remove 4 and add 4, theres not really LESS to craft, just not more. thanks for keeping the comment respectful 🫡
I agree with every point here except the seasonal legendaries. I saw someone mention in a different comment that the legendaries available to craft should be different for each game, and you replied saying that players would dodge queues until they got what they want- which I completely agree with. But I think changing the different legendaries for each season is too long. If they removed the availability of the katana for a month, then people who speedrun the nether specifically for the katana would just quit the game. I believe that it should be a middle ground between seasonal availability and changing it up every game. Personally, changing the available weapons every day or so, would allow all players to go for each weapon they take interest in, but also force them to create more diverse playstyles for when their favourite rush isn't available for the day.
All of the points you made in this video made complete sense. This is probably the best video talking about this topic.
Toxicity is a very big thing within hoplite, for a number of reasons, I wish I could make something informational revolving around this for unsuspecting players and for members of the younger community, I love hoplite's community, I'm starting to come back after a couple month hiatus but I can't wait too see what's in store and hopefully meet some wonderful people.
Not my Style of Content, but maybe on another channel.
Hoplite Fr needs a rank system tho so people aren’t complaining about sweats and stuff
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@@GOATGOD-tz5nw 5 months later, hoplite has a rank system and people are still complaining hahaha
@@Laqqy it’s not like it’s actually separated by rank tho and high didn’t expect u to reply
I really like ur vids
Not to mention the amount of bugs on hoplites. It seems to me that they're focusing more on making new updates with new content rather than fix the bugs that frustrate people and kill the server.
I agree with all the points stated in the video. Also mad respect for constantly stating "healthy and respectful conversation"
i honestly think they should add some form of alpha server similar to hypixel skyblock and also have the staff actaully playtest the items
they have a testing team, but tests don’t happen frequent and most changes don’t get enough testing time to weed out issues
@@Laqqy ye i meant more of like public testing
@@Laqqy could be a server for like vip ranks to test out stuff before it comes out and give feedback
This was a good video, and I like that you were in general fairly unbiased about the whole situation.
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I think most of the people who are “quitting” hoplite are the ones who play every game to just nether rush. I don’t get how doing the same strat every time can be fun whatsoever 🤷♂️ I play a variety of metas and limit my weekly playtime and that keeps it fun and relaxing. It’s just a game, people - you don’t have to play every game as if your life depends on it!
agree! the other side of that is, that play style also ruin the fun for everyone else. you’d be damned if a new player ever gets their hand on a mjolnir or dragon katana these days.
My opinions on the points made, this is just my opinion and i dont mean any disrepect or argument causing but whay i want from this and my feedback is
VPN: whilst lots of havkers or banned people use vpns from experience i understand the want to use one, from fear of ddox attacks on you or better connection
Sweating: just make ranked
Cheating: you cant do much about people cheating but stronger more prevaillant bans can help
Toxicity: stronger punishments for exxesive toxicity
Repetition: obviously limit yourself on how much you play, cycle legendaries and maybe create overall buffs when playing, you said a bow kegendary only mode, i dont think this would be the best but maybe an overall buff of something like 10% bonus damage when using bows
Updates: less holiday updates, more smaller bug fix one less gameplay ones but larger
I also think adding on to the cheating informing someone of the result of the report when using /report can be useful to create more faith of the staff by the community and to also let you report in duels as currently if you want to report at the end of a duel it is near impossible
Sorry for bad spelling
At 4:37 you say that legendaries could be vaulted for some time and I think that’s a good idea but maybe they could add the pedestals that have only 4 certain legendaries a game like in the videos. I think it would make getting legendaries more difficult and you won’t find the same things all the time. I also think it will make getting legendaries more exciting as in silvers videos I personally like how intense it is when it is risky trying to get the legendary weapons rather than just a craft message popping up. I can see how this can be a bad suggestion though. Let me know what you think :)
imo ur making issues that have to do with minecraft multiplayer in general specifically hoplite related. u cant remove free will from players: sweating and toxicity is not a server side issue. yes the server is responsible in punishing toxic behaviour, but to say that staff members arent doing enough about it is wrong. hoplite has a great response time to reports based on both cheating and toxicity in my experience, especially when compared with other servers. That seems to be the general opinion too (based on my friends who ive spoken to though, may be biased).
i mention that these issues aren’t unique to hoplite when bringing them up, i’m very aware. but just because it’s a broad issue doesn’t mean it shouldn’t be included? maybe the wording was a bit unclear; the staff are not to blame as they punish and work quite efficiently most of the time. the point i was trying to push was that the bar for punishing toxicity should be much less lenient than it is currently.
@@Laqqy fair enough. idk its hard to say whether it is being punished enough or not tho because theres not rly a way to measure it, like its all based on the opinion of the people u ask. either way good vid man
hoplite private lobbys would be really cool and in that way youtubers and streamers could play custom games to play with viewers and also be able to change settings
14:44 my boy catching strays 😭
The meta used to be dragon and em sword but I think the new meta is going to be Midas and end bow
I aggree with Speedsilver, you may like playing a gamemode, but overtime it gets boring. But that doesn't mean that players leave completely. I began playing Minecraft 1.5 years ago and I really liked bedwars. Still I got bored and stopped playing for half a year. But after that I missed the gameplay and hoped back on. I think getting breaks from sweating constantly once in a while would help community to enjoy Minecraft again.
i kinda like how Speedsilver felt like he was the king and said the "hype" would last a really long time. But now he is cast down from the throne
on the part of the legendary weapons only some would be crafted, i would say every round 10 random legendary weapons would only be able to be crafted
banger (i have nothing to add to this, dont play hoplite anymore because it just feels draining and unmotivating)
thank you (hopefully the server opens avenues to prevent that feeling of being draining and unmotivating)
13:33 is crazyy LMAOOO💀
yes we need this if u want hoplite to live
i am a hypixel player but u hoplite lot are fine so hope u get the things listed added also if the rotating weapons are added and the elemental event thingy then i might go play hoplite again despite being terible
“u hoplite lot are fine” is oddly kind lol
Good video Btw im Tacolord_ At the time you fought me I was new to java and not very used to attack cooldowns and I saw how you destroyed the speed silver battle royal turdements and when we fought I kinda paniced but I would love it if we could remach when im more used to java
You better be sorry you trapped me with no water 😢
I love the cosmetic idea
I just wanna say that the entire point of the server being very repetitive I disagree with just on the lone fact of you dont always gotta be a sweaty player and try the same meta over and over again. I used to always nether rush but now I just try to mix it up a lot like: fishing meta, riptide trident rush, try to mine full dia, snowball, nether rushing. I am just trying to say it does not have to be repetitive if you don't completely let it be. (Good video overall tho
everything comes down to perspective! some games i just play nicked and skybase for the fun of it. just sitting around and playing with friends does wonders when you’re burnt out of trying to win
3:55 in places like china most western servers and games are blocked and the only way to access them are with vpns. Blocking VPNS will mean blocking over a billion of potenial players from playing
At first i enjoyed watching hoplite videos but after about a month they all felt repetitive and didn't bring me much joy to watch them. I think if hoplite added more to the server than battle royal me and many others would stick around.
A fix to the cheaters problem could be only allowing the hop lite client, and also making it a little bit more customisable, like making a option for optifine. This client would still not include the ability to add your own mods, but the client could include more mods so this wouldn’t be a problem.
Maybe this is a small issue, but I kinda am starting to really dislike it. I play civ fairly often and every so often I find a trapper teamate. I myself know how to trap and tell them that. They are like "Sure, I'll show you how it works" or smth and then just traps me. Most times I survive, but honestly it seems like this has gotten more common. I trapped a while back with my friend, and we found some other people trapping on our team, and they just told us to leave. I know how annoying it can be if your teamate is just standing there and not even shifting, but they can just ask, instead of killing us. Another thing I feel is that sweats are somewhat of a consistent problem. I don't care too much, but I find a lot of new players(I am not new but I'm still not that good) trying to learn. Half the time either we die, or just can't learn things if we get killed early or try to fight really good players. Otherwise, I find the game still somewhat enjoyable but am honestly not enjoying it as much as before, but honestly that's just expected. After playing a super hype game for a while it just gets boring. So honestly, I don't really know. The game is still fun, but I and other players(I believe) cannot learn with such good players in the game. I've been playing since around mid November, and honestly of course it gets boring.
not hating to any trapping yters i can understand why they would not want their teamates to help if they aren't too good, but it's just getting really annoying
i 100% agree! it’s a huge issue that takes away so much enjoyment from people just trying to get into the game. a lot of people fail to respect other people’s time and that’s what’s going to kill the playerbase.
Most of us have a bit too much ptsd: I’m not someone who traps teammates on a consistent basis but you have no idea how many games have been lost to non teammates either stealing all our gear and dying or just killing is by accident
For reference I once had a non teammate block off a trap as we were baiting it killing all 3 of us instantly
That being said if you ask politely to just sit at the bottom of the trap and shift and loot rather than help most trappers will let you, esp if you have mic
They need to do an 200 player event on the server or something so it’s not repetitive like every week like speedsilvers old events
Great video laqqy!
I'm surprised people complained about the loyalty trident. I thought i was a good idea since like, you need 2 diamonds to craft it how'd you feel if you threw it and could never find it. 2 diamonds wasted
i think it was just the damage. the idea was great, it's a bit of a worse bow with a cooldown. maybe if it were loyalty 1 instead?
@@Laqqy yeah if they just left the damage the same and gave it a lower loyalty maybe it would've had a different response. Can't really say but alas here we are
at 4:07 this would only disadvantage players who use a vpn for security reasons as decentralized vpns can bypass vpn checks
0:34 ah yes, gotta like that random IP there lol.
I love this servers concept, my only problem, is how quickly the player base got 1. toxic, and 2. Sweaty, I and most people don't have 13 hours to sit and play hoplite ( cough* hoplite streamers ) making it really hard to just join the server and play it for fun, but instead, you get no life try hards that have full diamond 17 gaps 5 legendary weapons that beat you then start calling you the N-word after
how do you fix this easy but not simple, skill based match making or ranked
Great video!
HOPLITE admins when toxicity 🤷♂️
HOPLITE admins when soundboard ✋✋✋✋😡😡😡🤬🤬🤬
you didn’t include the part where you say you like hoplite because of me!
1:45 Here's a hot take: Minecraft PvP as a whole is mostly stagnant and repetitive because the game's combat system is threadbare at best. There aren't that many options for weapons, and melee weapons have three attacks (sprint hit, non-sprint hit, crit) at most; I'm not sure about others in this community, but I find comboing mostly the same move into itself and crit spamming to not be that interesting to watch. I really want to see PvP servers experiment with datapacks and plugins that give more general options for offense and defense. As for the "legendary rush" metagame, I'm not sure what the best solution is besides preserving their uniqueness while nerfing other attributes to make them balanced and give alternative methods to obtain them so that the same route isn't always the most effective.
i agree with speedsilver bc when i get bored of hoplite for the day i just play hypixel and then when i join back on hoplite it feels new again
I honestly just want bigger parties tbh. Make a mode to continue for the 3 man max game. And for others have it where you can que with 4+
that will kill the game and turn it into sweat central
@@Laqqy yeah I know. But I'm so tired of queing into games with only 5 teammates. With half of them trapping. Wish I could just play with my friends. But I can see how it would lead to just massive parties of super sweaty people trying to go for a techno blade lvl win streak.
I would be down for that, if larger parties are only able to join private lobbies. Massive parties would dominate the server if they were allowed in public lobbies
I think it would be cool if kits force you to only cracted legendarys that resolve the kit you use. it would be cool
In my opinion battle royale Minecraft gamemodes are fun but with custom weapons and items it takes that fun for the battle royale away and that’s why I never really played hoplite because it didn’t have that OG Minecraft stuff in it (not to say mods are bad I use mods and I like them but I use client side mods to not take too much away from the main game) but like I said this is my opinion and others may and will disagree
you can still win hoplite without weapons, and snowball for the weapons. the reason hoplite there are so many legendary weapons being crafted is because
1. they’re good
2. players like to rush them
3. because they are good, cheaters use their power to always get them
Laqqy, it isn't hoplite question but, in ehich timeline and country you live?
WTF THATS PRIVATE INFORMATION
BRO I JUST WANT TO KNOW I AM NOT LIKE OTHER PEOPLE OKAY?
...timeline?
10:33 there dosent have to be people asking for updates they have the full right to drop some random item and make it strong to develop a NEW meta which can change the stale state of the game
Fantastic video Laqqy! #cheatersneverwin
ITS SO DIFFICULT I HAVE 3DAYS PLAYTIME AND STIL DONT HAVE A WIN );
All good idea's by laqqy🎉
Didn't know the day that hoplite was made is the exact day as my birthday 💀🤨🗿
WHERE IS MYTHBUSTERS PART 2
there will be 1 mythbusting video per season
@@Laqqy alright thanks :)
6:40
YOOOO IS THAT ME??
it is your doppleganger 😅 (i just found the message in the discord general)
lmao i encountered that yea1x guy in a game and he wasnt banned for a while. unbelievable
0:35 just has some random mans address, just go to his house and put a picture of laqqy on his door :P
4:20 I feel like blocking VPNs aren't a good solution, as many people use VPNs just to get away from irl hackers, like ip grabbers. There's a reason why not a lot of servers have VPN checkers. You just might be falsely banned.
Truthfully, it’s not hoplites issue to keep you safe online. Using a VPN in your day to day life is fine, but you can disable it while playing hoplite.
OK. I don't really know how a VPN works, so I'm trusting your knowledge.@@Laqqy
Uhhh you can use ur own proxy servers that wont get blocked like vpns..
Very well put together video!!
In the discord the hoplite staff keep saying that the server is done like 3-5 times a day 😂
#PayHopliteMods
@@Laqqy #PayHopliteMods
Bro my comment at 34 seconds in lol
this video inspired me to finally buy vip on hoplite lol
they should introduce more gammemodes
Skill base matchmaking
Hoplite should add revive section
The toxicity is wild
imagine a hoplite rpg game simmilar to hypixel skyblock where grinding is meta and not stratogy to broaden the player base
1:24 the queue XD
PLEASE DONT FAIL HOPLITE PLSS
1:14 "gay little baby" girl
my main problem with hoplite is the half hour que I have to sit through just to join the server :((
i’m so sorry 😞
They could add another mode thats not pvp based so u can choose between duels, royale, and something like ppl spawning in a world with no pvp and they need to get items that are p rare, first person to get the item gets the w, second gets 2d place sofurther sofurther or idk
a part of the video i ended up deleting was talking about how they could invest in a gamemode like factions, but with civilizations instead of factions. that would be fun!
yea tru@@Laqqy
diffrent proxies would be epic
This video was very good. I hope to see hoplite succeed :)
Moral of the story you can’t make everyone happy, u can’t really fix the alting, toxicity,and cheating really that’s going to be everywhere and the stagnant gameplay thing everyone thinks different people probably gonna complain about the rotation of legendaries etc
roll tide
Can you ask silver to let bedroke addition and Java edition play
4:20 there's some players who play on vpns for better ping, but not many
vpns cannot give you better ping, that’s just not how that works
@@Laqqy yeah idk how it works I just saw a lot of posts in the questions channel from people asking if they can use vpns for better ping
amazing and mature vid
Nice video! I really enjoyed this one and agree with you on most things! There are however a few things I disagree with, but not a lot :D
please, feel free to let me know what you do/dont agree with. we have our own opinions, i’d love to have a discussion about it
4:05 I use a vpn because my discord is buggy with my internet, so it would hurt me occasionally.
Its not failing, its just as hype anymore as everyone is a uhc sweat
Bro Laqqy your idea camerto lIfe the are rotating the weapons yay!
They should add eu and as proxy's that would help hoplite people don't like laggers and as a australia player I get 200ms and I dont like because I lag alot and my kb sucks. Also laqqy teach me how to consistently crit pls
i feel a no legendries mode would be a great idea