Just a quick one today everyone, but some cools details I though worth showing off! How are you guys feeling about the Yasuo skin and battle pass as a whole?
I like it, but definitely was surprised they made this one for Yas. Feels very different for him! I'm also a bit surprised they didn't add like 1 skin per Alpha Lab champ but maybe they really wanna test the waters and how people react to this stuff first
I'm actually so happy they are willing to make new skin lines separate from league, new yasuo kinda looks like something from castlevania xD. I hope they don't feel limited creatively due to clarity reasons and go for some outlandish cool skins like the soul fighters line
For sure, especially this early on it's nice they have already shown off not only 2XKO exclusive - but something pretty different for the character. If Soul fighter skins don't make it in I would be shocked, they are too perfect man!
One thing that does worry me is how important dailies are for progression. I’m fine with dailies, but if they are so important that not playing everyday feels like a punishment then that’s a huge turnoff.
Yea that is a fair counterpoint and I do agree. FOMO sucks, and I absolutely don't want that to be the ONLY reason people are logging in so it's definitely a balancing act. If it's akin to Mortal Kombat 1 and SF6 battle passes I feel like those have been somewhat reasonable with how long it takes to get everything but I guess this currency and dailies are somewhat separate than just the battle pass progression too., I guess we will see very soon now at least!
dude, it's a "free" game, ofc you have to play 24/7 to open everything. it believe it will be the same system as it is in LOL. Same will be with characters, I think the will give you IPs for games (like it was in previous seasons), and you need to play about 200 genes to open new character =) so ofc the squeeze all your money
2XKO content machine💪 appreciate the coverage. Quick question who do you think is most likely to be the next character shown? cause I have a few guesses myself
Outside arcane champs that might be obvious like Jinx full reveal or Vi I have a feeling we will get Akali! She would be such a good fit and I feel like she will make it in the game sooner rather than later
@@BruiserMinion Agreed, I was thinking her or Azir as Shuriman rep since it's one of the areas missing a representative also Pyke and Miss fortune to complete the ruination gang but again appreciate the vids you put out hope see more videos of you putting champions into 2XKO for Riot lol
@@kingsley_in4o124 Well thanks man. Funny enough Azir was one I thought of making a video of many times, that might happen one of these days! But I would also be beyond hyped if Pyke makes it in. He is probably one of my personal top picks!
Still can't find any confirmation on cross platform play. I'd love to have solid confirmation on whether or not I'll be able to play on PC with my console friends.
Yea I was just thinking about this the other day too, I don't know that crossplay has been talked about at all. Fingers crossed we do get it, would be very nice to have.
They didnt say for sure but he said something along the lines of "Battle pass progression wont carry over" So I'm personally going to assume it wont, but could be wrong!
Some invites seem to have started going out already, but ive also heard it is going in waves. Like you may not get invited until the think is already live even
I can’t wait to see if they’ll have and what they plan to do for single player content. I’m sure they’ll do the basic things like an arcade mode. But there’s so much potential: a story mode, rotating towers, maybe a rogue-like mode.
Yea single-player is a big deal, I really hope they have something big too. Street fighter put a lot into world tour, and even the cinematic stories in like Mortal Kombat and Tekken can get pretty hype. Honestly, even if they did something like path of champions from Legends of Runterra that would be pretty cool!
I PRAYYYYY they include skins outside of the battle pass somehow OW2 taught me that if the cheapest and main way of getting skins is in a battle pass everyone uses the same skins they got from the battle pass and rarely anything else so it feels like no one can show their own style or taste in skin, but the second part is what I've been hoping GGST to add since its already such a fun game that it doesn't need a progression system to be enjoyed and that with one it'd be one of my fav games ever
Very true, and it's going to be wild to see every match having these 2 skins about 2 days into this alpha. lol But it does give me hope they are feeling this out and testing a free version here. They have really made it clear they are wanting our feedback for all of this stuff so if we dont like how any of this feels I think they will genuinely be receptive to potential changes.
It's Valorant, this is the exact progression system in Valorant, is it bad? Not really but i've experienced it first hsnd that this kind of progression system could be really tideous, i hope they made it relatively easy to unlock champs because speding 10-15 hours of playtime for one champ is not fun
Is that what it is in Valorant, about 10-15? that isnt horrible but maybe too much for casuals if they are trying to get more newbies to stick on this game for the long haul. Honestly like 5 hours I think is reasonable for a character, have a few that are free immediately and leave the monetization side to just making money on skins! My hope and what I really am praying is the idea of playing to unlock the little stuff, something like chromas and things like that I don't think need to be open to every single person getting it quickly - they can have something like the Akuma chroma for Yasuo take some time to get but more special if you actually put the work in to do so! Id personally like that
@@BruiserMinion yeah but in Valorant matches can get up to half an hour, most F2P game either uses exp to unlock a characters or earnable ingame currency for you to grind and buy characters or certain item, but my personal gripes with these is that most of these are unreasonably grindy, at some point some games are just not fun because how grindy it is (ehm Brawlhalla), i hope they used the early Valorant's progression system because back then if you want to unlock a character you just need to fill up the exp requirements instead of grinding ingame currency like they did now. If they really want to rewards the F2P players for their time it think it's best to not introduce in-game currency at al, just plain and simple exp to unlock something, then they can charge money for skins.
@@terrybohart Gotcha, and yea that makes sense for sure. Give me a nice drop of cool stuff frequently and I'll happily get addicted to the game! But if they just hang carrots in front of people that take way too long to actually get I don't think it will solve the casual retention problem at all. People would definitely jump ship quick if it takes dozens of hours just to play the champs they wanna test out
Man, I'm gonna be such a skin simp in this game, I can already tell. I don't even plan on playing Yasuo but I'm loving his new skin. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. My bank account weeps.
Same brother. And after having a youtube channel for this game about 3 years before launch, I don't think I'm ever beating Riot shill allegations so I may as well just embrace it. hahaha
You won't be able to play this on Steam Deck. 2XKO will have Vanguard and after a recent-ish update it requires a secure boot to Win 10/11, which you can't do while dual booting Linux and Windows like you could on Steam Deck. You can't get rid of the Linux on Steam Deck, which means that 2XKO is not gonna be playable on it. Same thing happened with Valorant after that update to Vanguard.
my only problem is yasou long hair gone in the bladeSong skin. it is shame what is happening to him first his VA then now taking away his long hair he is my main in league and these two things makes him special to me
Them changing up his hair is actually really cool. They never could in league because his ponytail is a part of his silhouette. So this shows that they are willing to really get adventurous and mix it up with the 2XKO-original skins which I think is a great thing!
This video is slightly misinformative. If you reference the video 2XKO dropped on Twitter, it plainly states no unlockables will transfer over, meaning there are no permanent unlocks from this alpha lab test. My guess is that then urging players to spend this currency is mainly about testing backend server transactions with a massive amount of people, seeing how much load the servers can take, as well as getting comprehensive metrics on what players spend on in a controlled environment. I hope they backtrack and allow unlockables to transfer over, however, as of right now no unlockables transfer over to the main game.
He did say all battle pass progress and credits will reset, I took that as you won't be able to earn the stuff in that pass anymore after Alpha lab - so get it all now and spend the credits before it's gone type deal. But listening back now you might be right. If I am incorrect, it's my bad for sure!
Hopefully the next character isn’t another big body character 🙄 We need a character with some speed and mix different mix up potential. Since Katarina is out of the question. 😒 Hopefully they have someone like Zed, Irelia, Viego or Fiora.
I think we have enough big body champs for the starting roster at this point. lol But yea I think we are due more rush down, and a zoner! My hopes are Akali, Pyke, and then Jinx, or Lux!
@@BruiserMinion mostly people uninformed about anti-cheat believing the astroturfing and overblown complaining about Vanguard. Check out Ryan Rigney's article on Push to Talk about anti-cheat (which talks about Vanguard) if you're interested in learning more on the subject.
i mean, skins in fighting game always ruined character silhouette anyway (custom skins goes 🔥), as long as the character posing didn't change, i think its ok, but im very concerned about monetisation, since its still riot we talking about
Agreed! Just don't change animations or go crazy with particle effects and we should be good for the most part. But yea, that really is the big question - how much $. I don't think folks from the FGC are going to let it fly if they try to charge like 20 bucks for a costume, thats way too much. I think like 5 - 10 is all some of this needs to be, or maybe a tad more if we are getting like costume packs and a bunch of colors with it.
Im not a fan of battle passes, and I really hope skins aren't tied with battle passes. It just creates a lot of content that is permanently locked later, which is the absolute worst
I like the idea of it in theory if done right! Some sort of progression system where you can earn stuff over time sounds fun, but yea two things I dont want. 1 for it to take way too long to actually get the stuff you want. and 2 agreed, I dont like the idea of things being gone forever and FOMO being the thing that gets people to log in. Maybe they need to make it where you can always buy/ earn through old passes, fingers crossed.
I ain't talking about for me boss - I love ranked, and it's not going anywhere. I'm Master with the 2 characters I play ranked on in SF6, and will almost definitely be putting about 95 percent of my time in Ranked and the Lab. Not that its some sort of flex or anything im a pretty average player that part is true. But I am talking about for the genre as a whole I think we would benefit from actually retaining more casual players and things like unlockables and good singleplayer content, and I feel like hooking ppl that way instead of continuing to lower the ceiling and make things easier and easier in new fighing games is the better route to target new players without it being detrimental to the hardcore. I've got plenty of casual friends in League who won't touch ranked, so having something for everyone is really what I'm getting at. Or another example is the game is really pushing 2v2, which is a lot of fun. BUT im not trying to play Master queue ranked with my Silver homies. lol
Just a quick one today everyone, but some cools details I though worth showing off! How are you guys feeling about the Yasuo skin and battle pass as a whole?
Honestly from the tumbnail I was thinking it was some sort of guest character lol. but yeah, his skin looks pretty cool
Anything regarding the Vanguard freakouts?
I don't like the Yasuo skin too much, but I suppose there will be plenty of other options !
Yasuo does look like a totally different character. To be honest he kinda looks like Varus from League! lol
I like it, but definitely was surprised they made this one for Yas. Feels very different for him! I'm also a bit surprised they didn't add like 1 skin per Alpha Lab champ but maybe they really wanna test the waters and how people react to this stuff first
I'm actually so happy they are willing to make new skin lines separate from league, new yasuo kinda looks like something from castlevania xD. I hope they don't feel limited creatively due to clarity reasons and go for some outlandish cool skins like the soul fighters line
For sure, especially this early on it's nice they have already shown off not only 2XKO exclusive - but something pretty different for the character. If Soul fighter skins don't make it in I would be shocked, they are too perfect man!
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Timestamps
00:00 - Intro
00:14 - Battlepass info
01:10 - Challenges sneak peek
01:45 - About Battlepass progress
The homie. thank ya 👍
One thing that does worry me is how important dailies are for progression. I’m fine with dailies, but if they are so important that not playing everyday feels like a punishment then that’s a huge turnoff.
Yea that is a fair counterpoint and I do agree. FOMO sucks, and I absolutely don't want that to be the ONLY reason people are logging in so it's definitely a balancing act. If it's akin to Mortal Kombat 1 and SF6 battle passes I feel like those have been somewhat reasonable with how long it takes to get everything but I guess this currency and dailies are somewhat separate than just the battle pass progression too., I guess we will see very soon now at least!
You can bet it's gonna be strict. Classic Rito.
@@BruiserMinion nice when it's an incentive, painful when it's a requirement
@@ArmageddonD11 Well said and couldn't agree more.
dude, it's a "free" game, ofc you have to play 24/7 to open everything.
it believe it will be the same system as it is in LOL. Same will be with characters, I think the will give you IPs for games (like it was in previous seasons), and you need to play about 200 genes to open new character =) so ofc the squeeze all your money
for a second i tought they were adding varus lol
No no no, this is Yarus. totally different. haha
Stay strong fellow Veigar believers. Soon they will announce him.
2XKO content machine💪 appreciate the coverage. Quick question who do you think is most likely to be the next character shown? cause I have a few guesses myself
Outside arcane champs that might be obvious like Jinx full reveal or Vi I have a feeling we will get Akali! She would be such a good fit and I feel like she will make it in the game sooner rather than later
@@BruiserMinion Agreed, I was thinking her or Azir as Shuriman rep since it's one of the areas missing a representative also Pyke and Miss fortune to complete the ruination gang but again appreciate the vids you put out hope see more videos of you putting champions into 2XKO for Riot lol
@@kingsley_in4o124 Well thanks man. Funny enough Azir was one I thought of making a video of many times, that might happen one of these days! But I would also be beyond hyped if Pyke makes it in. He is probably one of my personal top picks!
@@BruiserMinion Same here Pyke is literally my favourite Champion!🔥, anyway lemme not bother you anymore enjoy the rest of your week
Still can't find any confirmation on cross platform play. I'd love to have solid confirmation on whether or not I'll be able to play on PC with my console friends.
Yea I was just thinking about this the other day too, I don't know that crossplay has been talked about at all. Fingers crossed we do get it, would be very nice to have.
This is really nice info, thanks!! Although are these exclusive for the alpha lab?
They didnt say for sure but he said something along the lines of "Battle pass progression wont carry over" So I'm personally going to assume it wont, but could be wrong!
Did they say something about when we know that we are a chosen ones? I mean, when we get (or not) an i email with alpha?
Some invites seem to have started going out already, but ive also heard it is going in waves. Like you may not get invited until the think is already live even
Bladesong yasuo looks clean asf
Wonder what skins Braum, Darius, Ekko, and Illaoi will get? I predict: Crime City Braum, Dunkmaster Darius, Sandstorm Ekko, and Resistance Illaoi.
I can’t wait to see if they’ll have and what they plan to do for single player content. I’m sure they’ll do the basic things like an arcade mode. But there’s so much potential: a story mode, rotating towers, maybe a rogue-like mode.
Yea single-player is a big deal, I really hope they have something big too. Street fighter put a lot into world tour, and even the cinematic stories in like Mortal Kombat and Tekken can get pretty hype. Honestly, even if they did something like path of champions from Legends of Runterra that would be pretty cool!
i don't expect them to invest too much into single player content, riot tends to focus almost exclusively on pvp in every game
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Beat me to it! Great video big dog 💪
I feel that man, Rooflemonger usually beats me by like an hour or two... lol And appreciate you boss! 👍
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I PRAYYYYY they include skins outside of the battle pass somehow OW2 taught me that if the cheapest and main way of getting skins is in a battle pass everyone uses the same skins they got from the battle pass and rarely anything else so it feels like no one can show their own style or taste in skin, but the second part is what I've been hoping GGST to add since its already such a fun game that it doesn't need a progression system to be enjoyed and that with one it'd be one of my fav games ever
The whole battlepass scenario in OW2 doesn't make much sense. Everyone is getting the same thing at the same rate, except it's FOMO.
Very true, and it's going to be wild to see every match having these 2 skins about 2 days into this alpha. lol But it does give me hope they are feeling this out and testing a free version here. They have really made it clear they are wanting our feedback for all of this stuff so if we dont like how any of this feels I think they will genuinely be receptive to potential changes.
It's Valorant, this is the exact progression system in Valorant, is it bad? Not really but i've experienced it first hsnd that this kind of progression system could be really tideous, i hope they made it relatively easy to unlock champs because speding 10-15 hours of playtime for one champ is not fun
Is that what it is in Valorant, about 10-15? that isnt horrible but maybe too much for casuals if they are trying to get more newbies to stick on this game for the long haul. Honestly like 5 hours I think is reasonable for a character, have a few that are free immediately and leave the monetization side to just making money on skins! My hope and what I really am praying is the idea of playing to unlock the little stuff, something like chromas and things like that I don't think need to be open to every single person getting it quickly - they can have something like the Akuma chroma for Yasuo take some time to get but more special if you actually put the work in to do so! Id personally like that
@@BruiserMinion yeah but in Valorant matches can get up to half an hour, most F2P game either uses exp to unlock a characters or earnable ingame currency for you to grind and buy characters or certain item, but my personal gripes with these is that most of these are unreasonably grindy, at some point some games are just not fun because how grindy it is (ehm Brawlhalla), i hope they used the early Valorant's progression system because back then if you want to unlock a character you just need to fill up the exp requirements instead of grinding ingame currency like they did now. If they really want to rewards the F2P players for their time it think it's best to not introduce in-game currency at al, just plain and simple exp to unlock something, then they can charge money for skins.
@@terrybohart Gotcha, and yea that makes sense for sure. Give me a nice drop of cool stuff frequently and I'll happily get addicted to the game! But if they just hang carrots in front of people that take way too long to actually get I don't think it will solve the casual retention problem at all. People would definitely jump ship quick if it takes dozens of hours just to play the champs they wanna test out
I thought it's Varus
He do look A LOT like Varus. lol
Man, I'm gonna be such a skin simp in this game, I can already tell. I don't even plan on playing Yasuo but I'm loving his new skin. And this is just the tip of the iceberg. My bank account weeps.
Same brother. And after having a youtube channel for this game about 3 years before launch, I don't think I'm ever beating Riot shill allegations so I may as well just embrace it. hahaha
will this game use kernel anti cheat? I want to play it on deck?
It's looking like yes it will, the game will be using vanguard like Valorant
You won't be able to play this on Steam Deck. 2XKO will have Vanguard and after a recent-ish update it requires a secure boot to Win 10/11, which you can't do while dual booting Linux and Windows like you could on Steam Deck. You can't get rid of the Linux on Steam Deck, which means that 2XKO is not gonna be playable on it. Same thing happened with Valorant after that update to Vanguard.
I thought that was Varus not Yasuo at first
Only a few days away, we've almost made it 🙏
I genuinely can't believe it's in less than a week. Is wild. lol
Remember, it's not a guarantee that everyone will get the alpha.
@@knox7945 I think ive gotten like 15+ people to sign up so far, and if all else fails then £££
@@knox7945how do we sign up?
Wish I had no idea!!!! Where’s the codes?
Im withering away not getting in the alpha lab 😢
I feel for you boss, hoping for another round of playtests soon after with different regions! ☹
If I get the alpha, I'll give you one
@@knox7945 🙏
@@BruiserMinion im in the netherlands its so dumb only france was chosen imo
You still want the alpha code?
my only problem is yasou long hair gone in the bladeSong skin. it is shame what is happening to him first his VA then now taking away his long hair he is my main in league and these two things makes him special to me
Them changing up his hair is actually really cool. They never could in league because his ponytail is a part of his silhouette. So this shows that they are willing to really get adventurous and mix it up with the 2XKO-original skins which I think is a great thing!
@@GaiusQuintus yeah but I think the opposite I love his long hair more
This video is slightly misinformative. If you reference the video 2XKO dropped on Twitter, it plainly states no unlockables will transfer over, meaning there are no permanent unlocks from this alpha lab test. My guess is that then urging players to spend this currency is mainly about testing backend server transactions with a massive amount of people, seeing how much load the servers can take, as well as getting comprehensive metrics on what players spend on in a controlled environment. I hope they backtrack and allow unlockables to transfer over, however, as of right now no unlockables transfer over to the main game.
He did say all battle pass progress and credits will reset, I took that as you won't be able to earn the stuff in that pass anymore after Alpha lab - so get it all now and spend the credits before it's gone type deal. But listening back now you might be right. If I am incorrect, it's my bad for sure!
hope we get a code invite 🤞🤞🤞🤞🤞
Indeed! and Good luck boss. 🤞
Hopefully the next character isn’t another big body character 🙄 We need a character with some speed and mix different mix up potential. Since Katarina is out of the question. 😒 Hopefully they have someone like Zed, Irelia, Viego or Fiora.
I think we have enough big body champs for the starting roster at this point. lol But yea I think we are due more rush down, and a zoner! My hopes are Akali, Pyke, and then Jinx, or Lux!
@@BruiserMinion Yea I agree
starting out with skins on beta and for the two characters I hate the most.
At least cool the battlepass is free.
lol! Yea I kind of expected 1 skin per character but of well. Like you said, at least it's free.
Hi bruiser minion just wanna say hi I’ll post timestamps later 👋🏾
Hello Hello! 👋 Appreciate you as always but no worries, you certainly don't have to!!
Seeing Yasuo without his insanely huge ponytail is kinda cursed somehow, gret skin tho.
haha yeah your not wrong! it's kind of a big character trait, equivalent to Ahri not having a tail. lol Agreed tho is great!
The skin has a mix of Vlad and Varus
"Unique costumes" makes varus from yasuo kek
I mean... you're not wrong. lol But hey, I'm down - Varus is dope.
Would not be surprised if your pc bricks with vanguard
Why do you say that, is this something that happens with vanguard now with LoL and Valorant?
@@BruiserMinion mostly people uninformed about anti-cheat believing the astroturfing and overblown complaining about Vanguard. Check out Ryan Rigney's article on Push to Talk about anti-cheat (which talks about Vanguard) if you're interested in learning more on the subject.
Vanguard? This'll be a hard skip then. Screw Vanguard.
i mean, skins in fighting game always ruined character silhouette anyway (custom skins goes 🔥), as long as the character posing didn't change, i think its ok, but im very concerned about monetisation, since its still riot we talking about
Agreed! Just don't change animations or go crazy with particle effects and we should be good for the most part. But yea, that really is the big question - how much $. I don't think folks from the FGC are going to let it fly if they try to charge like 20 bucks for a costume, thats way too much. I think like 5 - 10 is all some of this needs to be, or maybe a tad more if we are getting like costume packs and a bunch of colors with it.
Im not a fan of battle passes, and I really hope skins aren't tied with battle passes. It just creates a lot of content that is permanently locked later, which is the absolute worst
I like the idea of it in theory if done right! Some sort of progression system where you can earn stuff over time sounds fun, but yea two things I dont want. 1 for it to take way too long to actually get the stuff you want. and 2 agreed, I dont like the idea of things being gone forever and FOMO being the thing that gets people to log in. Maybe they need to make it where you can always buy/ earn through old passes, fingers crossed.
Gwent and Helldivers 2 battlepasses ftw.
Play 50 matches a week weekly?
That's way too many.
Sounds like garbage progression.
this guy rags on ranked ladders in all his 2xko videos, clearly stuck in silver
I ain't talking about for me boss - I love ranked, and it's not going anywhere. I'm Master with the 2 characters I play ranked on in SF6, and will almost definitely be putting about 95 percent of my time in Ranked and the Lab. Not that its some sort of flex or anything im a pretty average player that part is true. But I am talking about for the genre as a whole I think we would benefit from actually retaining more casual players and things like unlockables and good singleplayer content, and I feel like hooking ppl that way instead of continuing to lower the ceiling and make things easier and easier in new fighing games is the better route to target new players without it being detrimental to the hardcore. I've got plenty of casual friends in League who won't touch ranked, so having something for everyone is really what I'm getting at. Or another example is the game is really pushing 2v2, which is a lot of fun. BUT im not trying to play Master queue ranked with my Silver homies. lol
Lol, they hit the soft spot.