Leading a Massive Ant Colony through a Battlefield of Different Insects - Empire of the Ants

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  • @itsCatMeme37
    @itsCatMeme37 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +128

    Why does the ant RTS have the best graphics I have seen in a while.

    • @evilswissy
      @evilswissy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      it might be because you just copied what drae said so you can desperately get attention

    • @ThatZenoGuy
      @ThatZenoGuy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Because you might have a crippling eye-related issue, the graphics aren't that great?

    • @itsCatMeme37
      @itsCatMeme37 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

      @@evilswissy I'm sorry if your home life isn't that good, and maybe you aren't getting enough attention, but you don't need to project just to feel better about yourself. There are resources to get help :(

    • @itsCatMeme37
      @itsCatMeme37 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      @@ThatZenoGuy I thought they were excellent.

    • @evilswissy
      @evilswissy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@itsCatMeme37 so typically said...I think there are resources to find your own personality

  • @realdragon
    @realdragon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +89

    "Hopefully we won't fight anything bigger"
    Meanwhile irl ants: Brothers and sisters join us as we need to take down the crab!

    • @Texasmule
      @Texasmule 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +6

      In my area, it's scorpions and army ants

    • @mylliel8264
      @mylliel8264 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Psst. It's just sisters. ;)

    • @realdragon
      @realdragon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      @@mylliel8264 According to wikipedia generally workers are males and soldiers are females, of course it depends on species. But I also might have been reading about army ants more specifically

    • @micahberes1109
      @micahberes1109 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@realdragonreally the only male ants in a colony are elates that leave the nest once a year to mate with female elates of another colony. all worker ants are sterile females with the exeption of a few species like the indian jumping ant where any female can become a queen.

    • @Green24152
      @Green24152 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@realdragon This game *does* have Workers as the 3rd vertex of the Unit Effectiveness Triangle, though.

  • @mostafamoamen2328
    @mostafamoamen2328 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +179

    Drae on Monday? Am I dreaming?

    • @yashvardhan1744
      @yashvardhan1744 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

      With enough money many dreams can come true lol. Thank the sponser

    • @justingilchrist3000
      @justingilchrist3000 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      Right I was like am I seeing this correctly?

    • @lostnetwork5717
      @lostnetwork5717 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Yeah he probably started the upload friday and youtube is just slow lol

    • @Topzdrop
      @Topzdrop 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      We must be shared dreaming!

    • @ConnerRicketts-ye1ud
      @ConnerRicketts-ye1ud 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I was thinking the same thing

  • @agnieszkawildhirt1353
    @agnieszkawildhirt1353 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +53

    If I had a cent for every ant game drae played I would have a couple of cents.

  • @AntExe-ey5my
    @AntExe-ey5my 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +50

    This game and Empires of the Undergrowth got me so interested in Ants I actually started keeping them. I currently have two small colonies, Messor Barbarus and Camponotus Singularis. Love my babies!

    • @abcdefgcdefg5178
      @abcdefgcdefg5178 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +5

      That's so cool, my son wants an ant colony but I have no idea where to begin or what type of ants would be best, he is 11, any recommendations?

    • @CLOUDCHASER510
      @CLOUDCHASER510 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​@@abcdefgcdefg5178yeah Google it.
      Location and species should be a good start.
      I'm sure your 11yo can help you

    • @krmvustooth5700
      @krmvustooth5700 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      ​​@@abcdefgcdefg5178 There is a channel called Ants Canada, he keeps all sorts of exotic ants, he also sells a line of supposedly beginner friendly ant habitats/tanks. I also remember him announcing/advertising some service where you can buy ants from your local area (foreign ants are bad since if they get loose they can wreck the ecosystem)

    • @ledumpsterfire6474
      @ledumpsterfire6474 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I always loved ants. Had a colony when I was a kid. Then last year I had a colony living in the ceiling above my bed. Now they're KOS, right up there with ticks, mosquitoes, and fleas.

    • @AntExe-ey5my
      @AntExe-ey5my 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@abcdefgcdefg5178 There's some really good info on TH-cam. I've found that anywhere that sells queens also sells all the associated gear and can offer plenty of advice. A google search will give you all you need. Best of luck with it!

  • @Tturtle26
    @Tturtle26 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +21

    I think “heads” is a unit of distance. 1 head is probably the distance of one ant. More heads means that the ant you’re searching for is further away.

  • @Khoular
    @Khoular 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +7

    this game is pretty well made def want more of this

  • @ayri3879
    @ayri3879 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +17

    the ants go marching one by one

  • @dukeofthedance8062
    @dukeofthedance8062 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    Hi Drae, you gave me great advice a few years ago about BMG I'll never forget: "Why don't you just buy the game and if it doesn't run on your pc, just get a refund." I'm surprised you didn't add "duMbA$s!!" but you're more refined than that. It was something so simple I hadn't even considered because in the real world I don't buy things and return them unless broken. You know how there's a culture of people who "rent" things, returning them after done using them one time like a furniture cleaner or even clothes?
    That's a part of why things are so messed up. But with Steam it's not that way at all and with you pointing out the obvious, I was able to play BMG after all. Also the other ant game too but that one I did refund.. I liked it but am too old to memorize the controls and key functions to really have much fun, and it was stressful as well in it's own way. Like all my other games, even GTA franchise, I enjoy sustained peace for longer periods of time than 5mins, not always under attack with timed "waves" (San Andreas is only exception, that was fun) or like it's Space Invaders, just waiting for the inevitable (death or game over) vs creating a huge empire to truly go out and conquer vast areas of land maybe including a whole continent or else a good sized island.
    Have said this before and will say it again in this painfully long post: Drae - I don't know how you pick all these games up so fast, but I sure think it's an incredible trait or skill to possess. Two thumbs up. I'll go ahead and buy this at Christmas, and if too complex, I'll just return for refund within an hr of gameplay. Easy peasy. Drae you tha man. I'll never regret subscribing to your channel. The squirrel suit you wore for the ads to shave your balls (and who even does that? Only the ads by the company were pushing that idea or agenda over and over on yt, hahaha and everyone was scammed into thinking that's what girls like today when in fact they're horrified by it LOL) almost did you in for me.. but I am also a forgiving person too. Mans gotta eat and food isn't free.

    • @siccoblue2112
      @siccoblue2112 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

      We ain't reading that

  • @Squatch-13
    @Squatch-13 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I saw an ad for this game recently and the graphics/gameplay look stellar! Love your videos man, stoked to see you play through this game 😎

  • @nobob8564
    @nobob8564 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    A game about ants?!
    OF COURSE I want to see more!

  • @damustermann
    @damustermann 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +8

    Enter scientist meme:
    Finally.... Mondraey

  • @_Kitetsu
    @_Kitetsu 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    At long last! Finally someone I watch picked this game up, I've been oh so curious about it. Thank you sir!

  • @Elusivecamel31
    @Elusivecamel31 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Thisnis such a beautiful game!!!! Thisnis one series i can't wait to see more of!!! Looks amazing!!! #Drae

  • @MrBJPhotography
    @MrBJPhotography 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome content as always thanks for introducing us to different types of games.

  • @killodo12
    @killodo12 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +12

    This is taking care of us Americans who really need a positive distraction today. Mad love!

    • @evilswissy
      @evilswissy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      just don't be dull headed enough to go out and vote

    • @maxcarter3453
      @maxcarter3453 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@evilswissy ??

    • @Erucus
      @Erucus 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Get over it he won majority vote. It’s clearly what Americans want

  • @isabelmiranda2372
    @isabelmiranda2372 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    0:35
    Drae: "EVEN BIGGER BEETLES"
    Me: "Mushiking" [add enthusiastic voice]

  • @gretchen8100
    @gretchen8100 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Drae, please please PLEASE do a series on this! My pc can't handle the graphics so I have to enjoy this vicariously 😂

  • @Pterified
    @Pterified 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I absolutely love how the ants don't have names, it's numbers.

  • @maxcarter3453
    @maxcarter3453 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This game is beautiful! Would love to see more!

  • @metern
    @metern 2 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    That heads count is the measure of distance 😉

  • @vegardbjerke8639
    @vegardbjerke8639 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    HI DREA love your videos so much think you are one of the first youtubers ive been subscribed to since i was a kid love from Norway

  • @Jerms995
    @Jerms995 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ants. Of all the insets to choose from, an interesting choice

  • @LadyLexyStarwatcher
    @LadyLexyStarwatcher 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brings back memories of Sim Ant

    • @djPHUZ
      @djPHUZ 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      That’s what I was expecting where u forage for food and resource and can go inside the nest and fix things etc etc..but nah its more focused on battles so far as my take on it the couple hours im into it. But no doubt its an absolutely good game to have!

  • @ghostspeectrum
    @ghostspeectrum 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    love the reference to 103683, the main ant protagonist from Bernard werber's ant trilogy

  • @Daniel_H01
    @Daniel_H01 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this game reminds me of away the survival series where u play as a sugar glider. that game looked very pretty and cool. fun to play too.

  • @midnitecro3915
    @midnitecro3915 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Your gameplay is determining if I buy this game. Looks good so far. I'll wait for 1 more episode to be sure. 😊

  • @Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters
    @Mr.MasterOfTheMonsters 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Empires of the Undergrowth + Empire of the Ants = Empire of the Underpants

  • @Crunkle-he8rv
    @Crunkle-he8rv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Drae should play gold mining simulator 2 when it comes out

  • @Wasteborn
    @Wasteborn 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    If you like this, you should give Smalland a try

  • @Xenten123
    @Xenten123 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I literally said to myself after work "Damn it's Monday, Drae won't have a video." Opened TH-cam and saw this. 😂

  • @rezarst7743
    @rezarst7743 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Nice im so glad you played this game hope you finish the game

  • @Skurai_X
    @Skurai_X 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    i have been waiting for this game, i love ant games

  • @hansuedorikkuabira6380
    @hansuedorikkuabira6380 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ofc alot more!❤

  • @bokunochannel84207
    @bokunochannel84207 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I always hyped about this kind of game.

  • @SirFace4
    @SirFace4 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This is cute. Thank to you, VERY funny. Thank you Drae!

  • @keanudupont
    @keanudupont 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Everything the light touches

  • @abcdefgcdefg5178
    @abcdefgcdefg5178 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would love to see more of this!

  • @RLG1998
    @RLG1998 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    🚨🚨🚨 DRAE DRAE DRAE 🚨🚨🚨
    -Love the longer videos man!!! And Monday upload??? Whaaaatttt?!?!?
    That is all 🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁🇨🇦🍁

  • @coleyabbott
    @coleyabbott 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome looking game!

  • @Eatbutternow
    @Eatbutternow 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Ants are so cool

  • @snerdterguson
    @snerdterguson 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This game should have a survival mode. Where you can just explore without commanding the battles. Find food and hunt weaker creatures, use stealth to sneak around stronger ones.
    The game is cool as is, but to me, the best part looks to be when you get to just wander around.

  • @Willie_dubz
    @Willie_dubz 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    They literally tell you how to Glide at the very beginning of the game and this guy came and figure out that

  • @LadyLexyStarwatcher
    @LadyLexyStarwatcher 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    I love how they got the sex correct. All ants are female unless they are one of the drones meant for breading.

    • @Fangybite
      @Fangybite 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Same! Queens only hatch males if they are not fertilized during the nuptial flight. And since males don't serve any purpose except to mate, their queen mother starves to death.

  • @DETHdressedInRED
    @DETHdressedInRED 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Probably would never happen but Drae mentioned something I've wondered about for years. Could a tornado pick up like a tree stump that has an anthill underneath it and take it you know... Miles away... And drop it on the ground undamaged in a new area?
    Imagine how weird that would be for the ants if they had consciousness. The big wind storm comes and suddenly your house is shaking but you're hiding protecting the eggs then it stops and you go outside and your essentially on a different continent basically lol.

  • @RN-sx5mv
    @RN-sx5mv 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Amazing game for sure ❤

  • @davidcookson4043
    @davidcookson4043 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    12:15 What is this? A giant fortress for ants?! 😗

  • @PFCIceman
    @PFCIceman 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Awesome a MonDrae video! 😊😮😊

  • @jondoty-cd3kr
    @jondoty-cd3kr 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I liked sim ant and sim farm back in the day😊😊😊😊.

  • @ConquestTTV
    @ConquestTTV 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Hey Drae, idk if you're gonna see this but I just came across two great games that I think you'd like to try. One's called "Tin Can" and the other is called "Exhausted Man". Just a heads up, if you think star trucker is hard you're going to love Tin Can and Exhausted Man is self explanatory.

  • @miles3101
    @miles3101 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This game is beautiful

  • @chasehalley5777
    @chasehalley5777 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Butterflys bees and all in between wasps get energy from sugars which is highly valuable to ants.

  • @crazykids2004
    @crazykids2004 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    What a cool game I love it family relationships are weird but that is how it works Mom is head of the home colony and her queen daughters have their own bases it's funny

  • @Mysteriousquestionmark
    @Mysteriousquestionmark 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    this was great but Drae on a Monday threw me off but glad I could watch it though

  • @dewaldklopper9160
    @dewaldklopper9160 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good day Drae I have been watching some fooster an fisk videos and i think it would be a very good Idea if you and skilly make some videos with fooster and fisk

  • @VincentSilverthorne
    @VincentSilverthorne 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    A snail in the hand is worth 2 butterflies in the bush 😂

  • @Basketbboy004
    @Basketbboy004 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The "heads" thing is to indicate how far away they are.... its distance lol

  • @anthonyzeedyk406
    @anthonyzeedyk406 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Cartographer: noun. a person who makes maps.

  • @rockinggamerdude
    @rockinggamerdude 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    7:42 I thought they were called majors. I do watch Ant Canada.

  • @alexuschan1
    @alexuschan1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I think that the heads thing was a distance thing, like heads instead of feet, as ants have points on the end of their legs while having large heads. Just a guess thou.

    • @Altair1243WAR
      @Altair1243WAR 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      No, it... it totally is. Drae even showed that, elbeit briefly, because he checked, walked forward a bit, checked again and the didplay was lower. He just never thinks about stuff like that and then just says whatever random thought he has at the time instead of verifying it (which is a really simple test)

  • @Trippyrick45
    @Trippyrick45 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Bro says RTS and the first thing that pops in my head is return to station lmao welcome to amazon life 😂

  • @Extrinityishere
    @Extrinityishere 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Am I reading this right!??!? Monday..... and drae....... a rare combo

  • @ramtigerfalcon8387
    @ramtigerfalcon8387 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Damnit Drae
    It's not often you play a game that I've friggn Pre ordered!
    I'm gonna have to postpone the videos you put out for this until I've played a bit.😢
    In the meantime I'll just satiate my Drae desires with older videos.
    No lack of them right

  • @scottvisakowitz6326
    @scottvisakowitz6326 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I would think the heads meant how many ants have used that trail

  • @RamseyRanchandhay
    @RamseyRanchandhay 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Love your video drae

  • @saigem2611
    @saigem2611 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I really like this game

  • @ramooninthemoon
    @ramooninthemoon 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Heads are some kind of metric system like meters or yards

  • @clutch44444
    @clutch44444 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    Is it just me or is this basically Empire of the Undergrowth?
    Edit: Nevermind I see it is different

    • @light6666
      @light6666 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I do wonder if these 2 would co-operate in like a extra optional mission for your collony to learn about a unusual collony of multiple diffrent ant species

  • @Sir-Raids
    @Sir-Raids 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Dang the graphics is so good

  • @zanewilson4674
    @zanewilson4674 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I literally just watched the trailer to this😂

  • @tomas5059-u6b
    @tomas5059-u6b 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Secand time when episode come out at monday,and i did think drae play this one

  • @TTactical101
    @TTactical101 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I looked up if ants can jump
    Ants don’t fly except for 1 species that uses it to evade and hunt
    I didn’t look up if that particular ant is the same as the one in the video, but now it CAN be realistic

  • @Z2______D3
    @Z2______D3 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Head are probably distance unit for ants

  • @TheRealPhantomWolf
    @TheRealPhantomWolf 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Heads is a measure of distance for Ant! ie it would take 1000 ant heads to go to that tree.

  • @PaulCoombes-c2q
    @PaulCoombes-c2q 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ant games reminds me of lemmings

  • @tiffany6341
    @tiffany6341 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    ❤❤❤❤

  • @GreaserGames
    @GreaserGames 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Been awhile since the last Monday upload

  • @DaysofElijah317
    @DaysofElijah317 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Brothers of the mine rejoice sing sing with me… I am an ant and I’m digging a hole

  • @ThyOctavian
    @ThyOctavian 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I hate ants with a passion, during OSUT, I laid down in a fire ant nest, and they went full berzerk on me. But, this is without a doubt a blast to watch.

  • @xc5tnc148
    @xc5tnc148 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The big head ants are called Majors

  • @Extrinityishere
    @Extrinityishere 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I think heads may be a unit of measurement, like feet or meters

  • @isaacgonzo
    @isaacgonzo 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    so i just saw this was coming to xbox soon, and was wondering how it played. id like to see more, as right now, im still thinking of getting it or not

  • @ziga04
    @ziga04 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Monday uploud no way🥰

  • @whiteandnerdytuba
    @whiteandnerdytuba 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don’t feel small enough as an ant

  • @SkipLoCasalier
    @SkipLoCasalier 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The number 103 683rd is the "name" of an ant in a french book "Les Fourmis" by Bernard Werber. She's one of the most important character in the story!!
    EDIT: I wrote that before seeing the title that tell just that! Sorry!!!!

  • @thelonelywhale219
    @thelonelywhale219 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting. Actually looks legit and thats really nice given the flood of COMPLETE GARBAGE mobile ads featuring ants

  • @DaNDuBy
    @DaNDuBy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    @AntsCanada….adds game to giant rainforest vivarium

  • @toz.trendy
    @toz.trendy 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Ant mmo would go hard

    • @light6666
      @light6666 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Tbh yeah being a single small worker of a entire player controlled hive and listening to your queen sounds very interesting

  • @Sleeper____1472
    @Sleeper____1472 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    This has to be the most political ant game I've seen. Literally performing antarian aid missions. "I will be the claw that strikes if I must," is such a good line, and from an ant game??

  • @SnowFlakeKiller666
    @SnowFlakeKiller666 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    "heads" are the ants measure of distance, i.e. 700 yards.

  • @hemulwelly4375
    @hemulwelly4375 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    DRAE YOU SHOULD PLAY TINY GLADE

  • @TheCursedOne02
    @TheCursedOne02 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Can we have a series on this?

  • @ADHDanny1
    @ADHDanny1 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    clearly you have not played smalland if you like this you will love that one

  • @theinternet6313
    @theinternet6313 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I just wish this game wasnt so linear, I like my grand strategy rts games most

  • @tankb8028
    @tankb8028 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

  • @kendensauers2856
    @kendensauers2856 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    a monday upload?? W

  • @CarlWheezed-q5n
    @CarlWheezed-q5n 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Sound cuts out for about 15 seconds.

  • @finalhalo3
    @finalhalo3 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the heads thing is distance

  • @mrnice3451
    @mrnice3451 3 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    Please tell me we’re still getting a video tomorrow.

  • @fire_hawk8320
    @fire_hawk8320 3 หลายเดือนก่อน

    We got an ant simulator before GTA 6