How Good Is the Sap Carving Build? - Backpack Hero
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- เผยแพร่เมื่อ 10 ก.พ. 2025
- Backpack Hero Part 31 - Tote has a lot of interesting mechanics, and one of them is the sap carving. Match three in a row, and deal a burst of damage for free. What could go wrong? Also featuring the Purse mage build.
Edited by: Noarsy and Ben Ranger
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I think you can research the carvings tote bribgs back too with the librarian!
you can
Do the mayor quest please I am trying to get you to read this message
he literally does that in the video
@@xd_Corruption He misses some carvings that are of another colour
I think the Crisis Ring worked exactly as it said by wording: it "used" and disabled the Lunar Blade, but the Lunar Blade couldn't do anything because it didn't have enough mana.
Like you said, that may not be the intent behind it, seeing as it's the Crisis Ring, i.e. use everything in a crisis. My guess is it would have worked on weapons that use energy.
people forget that just because tote’s weaker, doesn’t mean tote can’t be fun to play as. Sure it’s frustrating, but it might actually challenge Tyler 😳
god forbid not everything in a game is perfectly balanced! oh no!
there's hypothetically an argument to be made that "if there are distinctly weaker/stronger characters then you're incentivized to focus on the good characters" but not only is that initially wrong, because it actually allows the player to choose if they just want an easier playstyle or if they'd like to challenge themselves to a more difficult character if they want to - but if every character in a game were perfectly balanced to each other then it'd effectively reduce the range of gameplay possible in a game that's supposed to be highly replayable
are all the survivors in risk of rain 2 equally good? no, there are VERY much big outliers! is every weapon in hades equally powerful? honestly I'm not good enough to know yet but they're sure as hell different from each other! is every starter deck in inscryption as good as each other? no, waterborne sucks and black goat setups are insanely cracked! but most people get bored if they only ever choose the good one. it's more important to have variety than it is to have some hypothetically perfect balance
especially in singleplayer games. like dude you're fighting AI enemies, it does not matter if tote's weaker because another player using purse isn't in the same game as you
@@hauntedsunsets it's the "ooo big number satisfies me" that most people's argument falls on
@@hauntedsunsets Yep. Vampire Survivors is another perfect example, many of the characters are purposefully busted, some are deliberately underpowered. In a game where you do a lot of runs, it creates variety! You don't see people only playing Red Death.
his biggest challenge already exists... reading
@@hauntedsunsets this is why i like bad subclasses in tf2. When the game is filled with unbalanced and frankly extremely easy classes, using loadouts like bfb cleaver and boston basher on scout and also just ignoring the bfb aside from the boost, the gameplay becomes very challenging, a single mistake can send you to the respawn screen, but if you do everything perfectly, you become the fastest thing alive and a mad damage dealer, the risk is insane but the reward is greater knowing you conquered that risk, against the odds you still came out on top. Meanwhile sniper or soldier is literally just move your mouse and click on people simulator with barely any risk with high artificial and empty rewards, just number go up.
The equalizer is objectively a bad weapon, it requires you to get to extremely low health to use, meaning you are almost always a single stray bullet away from death, but the satisfaction of deleting any light classes you catch off gaurd, it makes all of the suffering worth it.
I dont understand people who play the meta strategy in any game. What satisfaction is there to be gained from playing the game in the way you know always works, as well as being the way everyone else plays? Do people really play games just to see the number go up? High score means nothing when you didnt have fun getting there, no work or problem solving is required to take the easiest path, it confuses me so much. Maybe im just the weird one, cause clearly meta strategies are popular for a reason, i just dont seem to be able to comprehend this reason 🤷♀️
25:55 I love the Tetris edit
19:57 This game has the moonlight greatsword, Souls game confirmed
tooltip makes it bloodborne
@@TSquitz it to ludvig the holy blade its also a trick weapon
There's no dodge roll though
@@ChargeQMAt least we have a dodge
@@baimhakaniand a reroll from the die
the electric wand that does 5 damage for 1 mana is actually pretty good, and scales really well with buffs, ive had some crazy runs with it
20:05 the Lunar blade is literally just the Moonlight Greatsword and I love it
Backpack Hero is a souls-like confirmed.
You’ve been at my side all along… my guiding moonlight…
(It’s more specifically a Bloodborne reference)
technically it's the Holy Moonlight Sword, which is Bloodborne's Moonlight Greatsword
It’s the dark souls of inventory management games
25:57 sick Tetris edit, loved it
Thanks Tyler, your videos are always nice to watch. I lost my dog today, and this helped me feel better.
And no, not lost like ran away. I just can't make myself say/type the other word.
The rainbow bridge? Yeah.
For what it's worth, your dog would want you to still be happy, even afterwards. It's okay to think about other things, to move on, to love again.
*Hugs* I'm so sorry to hear. An image/comic that might give you a bit of solace:
i.ibb.co/0V9mXGn/CWAOJ5n-UYAANPx-G.jpg
(It's not intended to be a religious sentiment, just something sweet to soothe the pain).
Killed?
@@THE_GREMLINZ_OFFICIAL No, not that far. I went to get him food and water, and he wasn't moving. I'm doing a lot better now though.
I greatly appreciate that you already have videos on the games I’m just getting into!
you know Tyler likes a game when it is every other video.
20:00 you have been by my side all along my guiding moonlight
The button on the bottom left in town highlights characters that want to talk to you and let’s you walk to them
Tote definitely has the best costumes on average but C'Thulu Purse is definitely the best in the game (from what I've seen anyway)
Satchel with the Falco skin that does shine when he blocks is definitely my favorite skin in this game
Oh please, don´t stop playing this game. Is my favourite series in your channel!! SO much fun
29:48 I believe for all researching 1 item can research two categories it fits in. (ie 1 rare arrow can research a rare arrow and a regular arrow) as long as they are on the same building. I do not know if this is intended. I have tried doing items with multiple categories but it only works for filling 2 research blocks
Matthew: "Would you like to try a sap carving?"
Tote: "What's sap?"
Matthew: "Nothing much, you?"
That Ghostbusters edit was so slick that I had to play it twice.
Can we appreciate the edit at the beginning? It's hilarious
Thanks for the double feature, Tyler and Tyler’s editor
Tyler: I will never do a sap run.
The next day...
Could you put the descriptions for items on screen for a moment when adding them to your backpack for the first time in a video?
They do, at least for the items I just saw him add. They may have missed some though.
Yeah, especially with tote is so hard to follow
I resontly learned that you took part in a btd battle tornament
If you get a run that does a thousand damage I hope you make a "tote"al annihilation pun.
Did this. Grandmaster boss at second stage. Get warriors spellbook. Kill his mooks. Buff to 1k damage as he doesn't attack till 50%hp.
Smash and win
24:00 yeah it does seem like the game still has a few bugs from how various things happen to interact with each other, which is unfortunate but is to be expected with the amount of things going on. I hope they fix it soon
Good stuff, always enjoy some sack hero.
Toad seems weaker than purse In my opinion
random nature of Tote definitely makes it harder to guarantee a good turn
Mario took that personally
I think it's more of an issue of how synergistic the game is by design and she can't really do that. Having to pay energy for the discard is even more insane since a bad hand usually ends up in clutter and you losing/taking damage because of it
@@doresofrimentothere is a relic to make discarding free, but my best run actually has been where I fought the friend or foe which gave me a permanent weapon and then I built up from that
I think that’s kind of the purpose a weaker character naturally but a stronger character when it comes to overall deck/bag building
The artwork is very good I think
Is it bad that I enjoy watching you play backpack hero as compared to some other youtubers because you read the items, spend half the time itemizing, and actually read all the items stats when you take them so you dont get blindsided by a stat you already saw but didnt acknowledge?
25:54 Editors are 🎉
i'Ve got an idea for a legendary manastone: the dimensional mana stone. starts with 0/0 mana, but let's you combine other manastones into it. might be OP in endless runs, but for normal runs you have to find enough manastones first to make it worth and then you still need to build a network to connect multiple items :P
Its called void stone and was the third mana stone added to the game
It already exists, its called the black manastone. Starts with 1/1 and you can spend 1 energy plus 1 mana to "devour" all adjacent and diagonal manastones. It will get +1 storage and +1 mana use cost for every stone devoured
@@Thepsicho22 ha that's awesome. it didn't exist in the demo so i wouldn't know since i'm not that far yet.
For all my music nerds, at 4:46 they played the lick
get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head
Bloodborne quote on the Lunar Blade lol
Pretty sure the Lunar Blade's flavor text is a reference to Moonlight Greatsword from the Soulsborne series
So, Sap runs are just playing Bejeweled on your Backpack. Cool.
Bloody loved the tetris moment
13:40 ...until he runs out of Dodge. 🤠🐴
Tote is a whole new game, kinda
108 and i am lovin the backpack hero series
Some card cutting strategies for Tote. As it stands her starter deck is hot trash. Replacing it with higher damage and/or zero costs is a priority.
Good candidates are rusty blade, mother's blade and acorn cap.
Early game must pick? Mossy brick. Zero cost discard. Let it fall on the carvings to clear the field as a heavy item.
Most cost efficient card remover? Trade same item with rich rat. Only increments of 1 gold per carving to trade and not accept. 35 gold total to change/remove 7 cards vs plus 5 increments at merchant.
Most broken card. Book of nightmares. Get that an figure out an every turn activation for automatic win.
I hope TTP2 final episodes come soon. I can't watch other games until the series is finished.
13:02 bustin’ makes me feel good
Tote is toteally amazing
You are my favorite youtuber, your content is fire 🔥 🔥
29:07 You should have brought this manastone to Haversack Hill.
Yayyy!!, I love backpack hero:D
I really want to see him research shurikens.
I love this so much
Let's find out
The mayor just gets in the way, so much better to just ignore him
Bustin bustin bustin bustin bustin
tetris background killed me
Bloodbourne reference sword ftw.
Toad seems so powerful but is probably much more difficult to optimize.. I've played the game a few times before official release, it's way more difficult than it looks.
She's not very powerful. She gets slightly better versions of certain things, but heavily reduced synergies and almost no ability to be consistent to pay off those stronger things
Tote has an invincibility combo that's exceedingly broken. Anything that cycles and triggers her book of nightmare every turn will trivializes a run. The only way to kill her is to apply more DOT than she can reliably sustain/clear in a single turn.
What i do sense is that she's not a character that provides immediate gratification. She takes a few turns to set up, is unwieldy to deck manage and dies early game when overwhelmed in ambush.
In short, this is an admittedly hard and unbalance character. As polarizing as it is, she's forcing the player to always make interesting and invested decisions.
The moment the other characters have a viable build going it remains virtually unchanged. Tote has to hands on wheels the entire time.
im so bad at tote great job
TYLER PLEASE DO MAYOR QUEST ITS SO IMPORTANT (side note it unlocks king cleaver, queen cleaver, ace cleaver, and Jack cleaver and so many more items)
This is the earliest I’ve been
missing the talos principle....
Me when rock is alien:
super video
31:14 isn't that item, at 2x2 from the top left, a readable item?
“I feel like what a lot of people misunderstand about my how I play, is I will be very one-track minded to maximize my learning potential. I want to learn about the character. So if I see sap, I’m gonna ignore it, no matter how good it is. I don’t give a shit.”
-Alien ”Tyler” Srock, literally 2 days ago
Because sap was a whole thing when learing Tote in general was the goal. Now sap was the thing and energy builds were disregard.
It's a one track per run mind, each run the track changes, focusing on diving deep into one thing at a time.
@@TlalocTemporalI know but it’s ironic that he contradicted himself 2 days later
Keep up the daily video. I like this game
What happened to the magicube series?
26:40 what’s that weird manastone? It looks different
the one on the top left? that is a mana shard. When you use a mana item you can see the path the mana takes, if that path goes over the mana shard, it is emptied. So you want to put it the farthest away from your items, so it gets used first
Yay
How powerful is Tote? She's the only character with a 5 card hand i can win with. 3 cards if 2 mana stone have replenish. Otherwise it's frog idol, wizard boots, book of survival (status clear), an in hand weapon and the book of nightmares. Needs 4 mana to trigger
Enemies do zero damage every turn. Kill at leisure. This is a combo so absurd her play becomes exceedingly boring.
So i do other fun things with her. Like selling half her hp to the vampire for potions to clear a floor. It's good value. A regen potion is 21 hp over 6 turns. Her other damage potions will do between 21 to 30.
When is peglin coming back???
Seeing him not use the toss button once as tote was slightly infuriating
He won without it, so maybe bad game design? Bet he'll need/use it when things get harder.
I still can’t find CR8s body parts I’m so sad
I don't think you can progress the story line without the mayor
You haven't done a bow and arrow run in a while.
Who needs sleep when you’ve got thler
Pog
20:00 Bloodborne reference detected
OK I’m actually now wondering where is the Talos principal two gone?
@barrcode348lord I hope not.
Probably taking a break since he finished the last major world 🤷
Should be out tomorrow following the new pattern. I'm sure he reduced the upload frequency due to lower views.
@@crazybeatrice4555ayyyyyy nice heart
“Decided to get the helmet with the free dodge”
“Proceeds to not have it on the top row to get its effect” lol
The *mask* adds dodge when taking damage, it can be placed anywhere.
@@TlalocTemporal it wasn’t adding the dodge at the beginning of the battle due to it being a helmet
@@Run2127-- Not all helmets work the same way. Some activate when in the top row, some get better with rows beneath them, this one activates when taking damage.
This is the Mettaloc Mask:
"On take damage,
Add 1 dodge to self"
You're thinking of the Rogue's Mask:
"Can be used 1 time each combat
If this is not in the top row,
Item is disabled
On use,
Adds 1 Dodge to self"
YOU GOTTA STOP WITH THE TETRIS REFERENCES I CANT TAKE IT
"are used" only reduces energy cost to zero and use, and still cost mana or gold if it asks for
good thing is all values cannot go negetive
Hi Tyler❤
im in
Has anyone noticed that Tote is actually quite thicc?
that ring bug was really annoying
Can you try playing potionnomics again. (day 1)
Pretty sure the reason he stopped that one was view count rather than personal disinterest. Someone who knows better can correct me if I'm wrong.
Theres no bug there lmfao. Manastones can be disabled. You need mana to use mana cost items, even indirectly.
13:00 :D
it's good you're putting off interacting with the mayor. He has the absolute worst quest ever and it is awful.
please upload talos princible 2 im so happy for golden puzzles and the ending im too lazy to play the game
Carving gameplay is kinda harder to follow when watching
Need taloooooos
Tetris 😂
why talk to mayor there are only 4 research buidings and 2 characters locked behind him
I suck with Tote
It's been months since the last poly bridge vid...
This is a variety channel, not poly bridge channel. Unless new content for it comes out hes not likely to go back to it
Fair enough. Still, weekly challenges and loads of low stress leaderboards to crack should make for some fun pb content
nice🍉
First
To me, tote is just less interesting to see then purse
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Tater
Day 1158 of telling Tyler that he never finished his minecraft series and that he should finish it.
Well well well, why dont we just find out then
Did you really comment this request every single day for three years in a row?
@@paulelderson934 yes, yes they have been commenting this for 3 years.
Day 1118 of agreeing