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- Answering the question 'what makes Nextbots so unnerving', then making a nextbot with those principles in mind.
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I think one aspect that makes nextbots unnerving is they always "look" at you. No matter the angle you look at them, they will always have the same look to them, no 3D perspectove like looking around a 3D model.
That is the most crucial aspect I think
Kinda like the sprites in the classic DOOM. Sorta. But yeah. Nextbots give me nightmares sometimes.
That’s what I was gonna add. It’s very unsettled
@@ShadowNinja452 Yeah, but at least most of the monsters have 8 directional orientation sprites. Must be talking about the decorations.
it's because they use 2d images for like a model
the scariest part about nextbots to me is their map knowledge. If you suddenly cant hear them, its because they have a quicker way to you.
I've never even thought of it like that, that's terrifying 💀
bruh i didn't even think of it like that 😦
when something that's chasing you knows about shortcuts, it's scary asf
@@har.jasmine5494 it implies they have previous knowledge of the environment while you, the one running away, are still lost
@@casualcrisis6349Which, as your comment states, implies that the nextbot has also taken multiple victims in this unfamiliar area. You are trapped. Isolated. Like a live feeding. You are doomed to fall, just like the others.
Nextbots combine two very primal human fears. The fear of being pursued by a relentless enemy, and the fear of things that act somewhat human but aren't.
There's emotion for that. It's called "uncanny". It's existence really makes me think sometimes.
Uncanny valley and Prey reflex
It kind of reminds me of the movie "it follows"
@@SpartanOne22 It exists because there existed non human intelligent primates with humans until some 15000 years ago.
@@popdoom4979 this is the shit they don't teach me in school. You got any source I could read more on this from?
I think the scariest nextbot would be a version of the “snail”. A nextbot so slow but so intelligent that it’s speed does not hamper the ability for it to find you in cunning ways, truly terrifying. Things like heatmapping, prediction ai, logic etc
Good idea! I also think the one in this video could be improved by making the stalking phase silent and randomizing it's speed every few seconds. Also the footsteps of the chase phase kind of ruin the whole png sliding across the ground thing
What if you put two types of nextbot together? One that's very slow but can pass through anything & knows how to avoid your line of sight to sneak up on you. Not too hard to avoid by itself but the other one is the one in this video. Fast but has to take normal paths like you.
@@D_YellowMadness hmmm, idk I feel like if the fast bot gave you massive nerfs like blindness or slowness but didn’t kill you it’d be more dynamic, it’d allow the slow bot to be a real threat at that point
i would want like a snail that could shift the map around the player
@@RandomFullbringer imagine a 4 dimensional next bot being that pulls you into an incomprehensible plane with weird controls and doesn’t kill you it just tortures you 😂
Imagine how much more evil this could be if it could suddenly cut the audio while it's out of sight to fake you out and make you check to see if it's gone only for it to be waiting just around the corner. Even after it gets you with this and you figure out that it can do that, you would never be certain again as to whether it had actually stopped chasing you or not.
Jump scares and baits *check*
@@Ssonelol jumpscares no, it distracts the player from the already built up subtlety terrifying Nextbot and Environment
Maybe make it have like a 10% chance of happening so when it happnens, it will be very scary
Thats just some cheap jumpscares
@@Ricardo5911jakakak Yeah the first time it happens it would be pretty cheap but the more important part is that once you know it can do that you will never be certain if you have an actual moment of respite or not.
Normally in horror games you can hide from the monster giving you at least a few moments to catch your breath and know your are safe from whatever is chasing you. With Nextbots, that’s not the case at all…
Along with having the characteristics of normal monsters chasing you, Nextbots additionally remove the sense of security from hiding because no matter where you hide, and no matter how fast you run, they will always find you…
well spoken and so true!
They take "you can run but you can't hide" seriously.
plus they teleport if they cant get to you sometimes
@@Gargin I already know this is gonna get 1m views in like a month. This production quality is amazing.
Alien Isolation does quite a good job at this aswell, the alien will always find you eventually, sometimes it even fools you into thinking that it's left and then it jumps you
The fact that you don't have any goals or puzzles to complete makes it feel straight out of an actual nightmare. It's like in your dreams when you're endlessly running from something so terrifying and yet incomprehensible. There's this lurking knowledge that there is no key to find, no buttons to press to open an exit, because there is no exit. It never ends on your terms.
That's a dream I've had multiple times.
and there is no point to your dream you just dream it because you are scared something like it will C O M E
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@@devonterminator2697 And the only thing you must do to get out of that dream is to get killed by the nextbot.
It really just feels like an actual nightmare. In nightmares, your subconscious is continually overwhelmed with feelings of terror, and that experience is well replicated here.
That's happened to me. What's weird is that sometimes I realized I was dreaming, so I was just constantly trying to wake up each time.
Nextbots are really horrifying. Sure it’s silly to watch a png of Dream chase Neco Arc around a liminal space but when you put it in concept, the fear of being hunted down relentlessly until you’re dead by some sort of lovecraftian entity is something no one should ever have to endure.
If nextbots were in real life then they would kill a lot of people because in real life you can’t respawn and you can only run for a short time
Manhunt go brrrr
Buranyuu~
It's a png dude theres nothing ""Lovecraftian" about it.
@@emerald7914 did you even watch the video
Another thing that freaks me out is when your running away from them and you have to open a door that slows you down. The thought of them rushing towards your location while your speed is held back because of opening a door freaks me out so hard
So it's not just me!
I freak out when I WATCH these vids 😂 when they slow down I freak out
Behold kick open door mod.
same tho I saw that slow ass door and shit myself a bit
One slow door, I’m cool with. 3-4 in a row…I’m clenching.
I think a nice subtle touch you could include with this Nextbot is having an additional percent chance for it to stop and look at you upon entering line of sight for a variable amount of time before doing the coin flip of chase or hide.
Great vid and great job with the AI!
Oh god. That staredown would be pucker inducing
And if it comes into a sight line at a large distance, it checks if your looking at it, and if yes, then it stops and stares at you for 5 to 17 seconds
Wow its almost as if this bs was never scary to begin with now that youre very cleverly suggesting levels of depth which are an inch closer to almost any existing horror game
@@stormer7502 dawg what
@@stormer7502 you’re making no sense to me maybe I’m dumb though who knows
whats creepier to me is nextbots that arent always aware of your location, or don’t immediately attack, almost stalking you. kinda like a cougar, once you see it, its already too late
Or like a Polar Bear. If it’s hunting you, you won’t know until you see it, and by then you can’t escape
I think one thing you missed with that bot that really brings out the chills in other bots is that it doesn't stare at you. Just having something consistently, unflinchingly stare you in the eye, never blinking, never twitching, never showing any sign of anything, you will feel distressed. Gargabot, while great in inducing horror by just existing on a map, will never make me shutter like obunga or munchi staring me dead in the eye as they dash at me with high speed.
Yea no shit they don't have emotion they are just PNGS sliding along the ground.
@@emerald7914 And you act like an edgy 14 year old that thinks they're, as one would say a few years ago, "swag".
@@familyneves9777 Nothing edgy about making fun of sliding pngs, just the facts
@@familyneves9777 how the fuck is that edgy? Bro do you know what that means?
@@emerald7914unprompted unconstructive chiding is always edgy
I think the scariest thing about nextbots is fact they constantly chase you, it's a primal fear of humans and has kept us alive for centuries.
So imagine a picture the size of a room constantly chasing you everywhere, not letting up, always screaming, and always staring at you. Nextbots are scary because they're relentless
I HAD TOLOOK AWAY FROM MY COMPUTER SCREEN AND LOOK AT THE DISTANCE FROM MY FLOOR TO MY CEILING. r/TIHI
Yeah its pretty fucking simple why they are scary, didn't need a 10 min video.
@@slinkerdeer I disagree
Yes, but why is it scarier when a PNG is chasing you compared to an A-posing model zooming towards you?
@@JGT-yd2wx Yeah, sorry. One mans simple is another mans head fuck
I think opening doors are the scariest part. It slows you down and knowing that the NextBot will get closer to you makes you so nervous I'm always on the edge of my seat when I'm tryna open a door
Unless your using a kick addon which I use that kick opens the doors instantly
thats why you install a kicking addon
Finally a relatable comment, my anxiety skyrockets whenever that happens
@@elitemaxtheman2217 And then you miss the kick
@@elitemaxtheman2217 i use bsmod to kick open the doors instantly :)
i never really miss any doors :D
but when i play without it
thats when i start panicking
This fear of liminal spaces is compounded by the fact that I have had nightmares of liminal spaces my entire life, far before they were ever a meme. Rooms where the ceiling is uncomfortably high, sidewalks with harsh shadows, my elementary school but the layout is wrong, I hate it. The more I try to understand whats wrong in those dreams the worse my dreams get until it turns into a straight up nightmare.
FINALLY someone else that's creeped out by high ceilings. it always gets me in warehouse-type stores like Home Depot or Costco
@@DoktorBeta i'm creeped out by unusually low or high ceilings. I'd like to stay in the housing-regulated 10 feet
When your dreaming, what ever you happen to think about will happen, to have a constant dream just go with the flow, don't try to dig into it or everything will start getting warped like visually incomprehensible because it's your subconscious and now your conscious overlapping causing some freaky deakys 😂
Oh god, I can relate to that. Ever since I was a kid, I always had a fear of liminal space and still do, along with the fear of not being alone in them as well. I sometimes can’t even look at photos with empty rooms, hallways, etc without getting nightmares from it. The same with ceilings being uncomfortably high, it’s difficult to walk inside a Home Depot or Costco without feeling a slight of dread from looking up. So when the back rooms became a thing, it only fueled my fear even more.
sidewalks with harsh shadows? The ways i’m trying to imagine that are very thought provoking, but what specifically do you mean? As if the darkness between the slabs ramps up unnaturally quickly? Or maybe the surface shadows cast by the grain are more visible?
To make it less scary for you:
Nextbots are just floating PNG's with kill boxes glued to them.
they also blast random noises at you...that also run at you...
@@stuffsandstuff9564 and also find you..
@@chii9028and never stop
@@B.L.A.D.Eand sometimes teleport behind you
@@tegcat and can’t be stopped.
If you've ever heard of the game "Saiko no Sutoka," it's a one person indie project which aims to create an ai that has a 'personality' as it stalks you, and does pretty well. When you look at the girl following you, sometimes she'll hide around a corner and just watch you, or she'll run at you, or sometimes take a longer path around the map to cut you off and stuff. Fun game to play just for the ai
The fact that she does that is why that game is so terrifying to me
Thanks for mentioning that, I was looking for something similar to this
It's always a anime game 💀
@@Daydre4mer it's not a japanese game the creator is just a weeb
@@Lunarrbase a talented one at that
For me it's the fact that it's always facing you no matter how many corners you turn or what angle you look at them from. You can't hope to lose them around a corner when you're briefly out of sight.
*They already know where you are.*
They take the term 'You can run, but you can't hide' quite literally
Honestly we can’t run either because they’re faster too when you think about it
We can’t run or hide
When there is a nextbot
Death is inevitable
Just like Baldi in Baldi's Basics XD
Bottom line is so fucking scary.
@@YesNO-bn3pq exactly
i think the reason gargitron is so terrifying is because of how unpredictable it is
it could stalk you for a moment and then go out into a all-out sprint suddenly, but it could also go into hiding
whenever it goes into hiding you never know when or where it will strike, and the longer you wait the more tension builds up
you wait for a sweet release but it never comes until suddenly your character goes flying as gargitron hits you from behind
Pause..
It looks like scp 079
as a person with a phobia of eyes, they are absolutely terrifying. i imagine i have the same reaction to seeing them as a person with arachnophobia reacts to spiders.
what if u make eye contact with someone
@@nitrix5067 it makes me a bit uncomfy but im really just scared of pictures where the rest of the face is obscured or its just eyes. The more realistic they look, the worse.
I don't have an outright phobia but, for me, eyes are easily one of the scariest elements in horror, and of the human elements, the scariest. There's this test where you have to guess the emotion based on the eyes shown in the picture, and the rectangle colorless cutouts are enough to trigger this fear, the "Mind in the eyes test".
@@sonyvegas9838 id say the same about teeth, search up "gelada ape teeth"
its definetly hardwired, like arachnophobia
@@inbredduck1487 stay away from the Mandela catalogue lol
This man has just innovated and set new standards for nextbots to be more than just super fast spooky thing run at you
True, but I hope that some nextbots will remain the way the are. Even without that whole stalking nad hiding parts... fun with nextbots is still great.
I dont think evade is the right meaning for this video or comment
@@Endev_Prime In the best of both worlds, some with settings with prefab behaviors where you can turn some on and off. I understand the appeal for both. A relentless killer always going for you in a beeline and one thats always making you think twice.
@@mic7reaper Yeah, that would be perfect for everyone. Just addon containing two kinds of the same nextbot. Chasing one and stalking-chasing one.
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another thing that i find terrifying about nextbots is that normally, when you are running from them, you can't see them. And knowing that gargitron is faster than you, you feel this tension on your back, this weird feeling of dread
Yeah in a straight line it will always catch up. You NEED to keep darting around in and out of other places to slow it down, and that means you lose track of it and could actually end up easily getting cut off by it behind what you thought was an exit, or getting turned around and running straight into it
I tried gargitron and the time I heard the silent hill sound I got shivers and I felt a weird feeling in my back like if the nextbot was behind me in real life. Yeah no this next bot is no joke
What I think is the creepist thing with nextbots is the fact that they are always turned towards you, if you slowly walk around one, it's always turned towards you.
A super terrifying thing about nextbots is that sometimes they get stuck and then unstuck the moment you let your guard down, Imagine looking down at one just for it to instantly leap and kill you.
I think part of the scariness is people tend to keep looking back at the png to see how close it is. From a viewing experience, you already know the danger so you expect the person to just run as fast as they can, but every time they check behind themselves and see the png has gotten closer, that adds a whole lot of tension.
yeah thats kinda what being chased is
And with this new nextbot, when players look behind them when they're being chased and it is nowhere to be found (hide mode) is even more unnerving, cuz u dont know where the heck its hiding
@@DustySiren pretty much, although in most video games (including gmod) your character cannot run in one direction and look in the other, so there is a lot of this start/stop motion that can be quite panic-inducing.
Also, the way the doors take time to open is terrifying
Nextbots have a velocity function. At max speed, it outpaces player characters so running in a straight line is certain death. By dodging and weaving it amps up the tension because you have to maneuver well instead of just running forward
Gargitron is super scary! Thanks for taking the time to make an actually scary nextbot :)
Planning to play around with it?
@@DraedonDev check my latest video, i already did
@@TheRogurt Thanks for bringing attention onto it! Hope more gets to experience this nextbot!
can you play gm_my_atonement?
Wasn't there that one Obunga Nextbot?
I think it's the faces that does it for me. it's not a person coming after you, it's just the face. Humans are very good at seeing faces, so I think they always appear closer when all we see is the face.
The thing that is scary about Nextbots is the anxiety you get from them, you dont know their position, but you just know they are behind you, you hear their theme and you start feeling anxiety when it gets louder and louder, but youre still not dead, its like as if they are toying with you
I hate how at 6:58 I actually got massive chills
the fact that he just disappears is fascinating
New Objective:
*Survive
It’s like when you go get a shoe to kill a spider and it’s gone when you get back.
i got chills here 3:16
Guess I’m nextbot num cause it didn’t get me :(
Edit: 7:46 got me
the fact that this thing doesn't jumpscare you makes it all the more terrifying if you ask me. It just feels so real
*I* feel like having no jumpscare simply doesn't work, because like, you just die and that's it, meanwhile jumpscares make you even more scared of it because if it catches you'll get jumpscared, it makes you have more reasons not to want to die, and makes it so when you die it feels "more legit", no that's not a good way to explain it, idk how to explain it but I hope you understand me.
Why would this thing be terrifying in real life even if it doesn't jumpscare you? You may ask, well it's simple, you don't need any more reasons for you to not want to die from it like it happens, at least for me, in games, you don't need to make it so when you die it feels "more legit", because like, it's real life, if you die, you die, there's no respawning.
@@JoziGlitzh mine's the way around. The jumpscare itself is the moment where you're trying to open the door and the thing's already behind you. This thing knows where you are and is constantly approaching you, and puttiing a jumpscare wouldn't work, since it doesn't matter if you get jumpscared when you die. You're dead anyway.
@@donnycorn3086 Yeah but, at least for me, that dead feels "fake"
@@JoziGlitzh because… its a nextbot? it isn’t real? they’re only supposed to induce a feeling of dread. the point of the nextbot in general is that players, aka us, want to stay away from them. that’s it. they’re superior to players in every single way, being faster, sneakier, and smarter. (in terms of waiting behind doors/corners for you to come close to it, doing other asshole ai things etc) of course the death alone will feel fake… it’s gmod, after all. did you expect it to have the last of us 2 worthy death screens?
@@user-wq3uw5zc7n No, I was expecting it to have a jumpscare. Didn't you say the point of nextbots is to stay away from them and to induce a feeling of dread? Yeah well, jumpscares are a good way to do this.
8:36 “Peekaboo!”
when i first played gmod, i felt like these "nextbots" were coming after me in gm construct. so i basically go in a room and burry myself in there with large props and still having the feel they're standing there waiting for me. when i go out i feel watched, like something is staring into my soul and trying to catch me
Being chased by an entity you know little of, is terrifying by itself.
So if i throw a bowling ball at you and you run in the opposite direction it's terrifying
@@cubicallystupid That is neither an entity I know little of or chasing me, that is in fact a bowling ball you threw at me, so no not terrifying.
@@cubicallystupid Another thing I might add is unpredictability. You fear of that you have no control over.
@@cubicallystupid what kind of dumb comparasion was that?
@@maxotto9877 that doesn't sound like a bowling ball, but an antimatter bomb
i think the reason why nextbots are so unnerving is because the png most of the times is a picture of something staring at you and since the image follows and aways looks at you it is unnerving, thats why some 3d nextbots arent as scary
Thats one of the reasons why Obunga is a terrifying nexbot, not only is the obunga picture already creepy, (since the terriformars are already creepy as shit) but its mainly in the eyes, and what you said
It's always watching, no matter where you go...
@@spartanking9807 one of the biggest reasons why bunga is terrifying is because it’s silent
Don't forget angry munci. It's not cute and squishy anymore...
Which is why the SCP face here isn't so unnerving, in my opinion.
It needs to be more of a face.
Eyes ever focused, unblinking.
Distorted just enough that you can't quite make out what's wrong.
Honestly, I'd get one of those AI image generators to whip something up. Or just rip something from Junji Ito or Trevor Henderson
Never would I ever have thought you’d go from nextbot gmod horror to Minecraft horror, you’re a horror hero, invading the safe comforting environment in games, and turning it into a nightmare, good work man, seriously you’re gonna go far with quality mods and content like this, especially now that you’ve taken the large step of doing so in Minecraft which is in dire need of more horror content.
The scariest nextbot in my opinion is the one he showed in the beginning and there’s another one like that shown and it’s horrifying because of the two pale and lifeless eyes in the middle of that shadow, that terrifies me
Something that learns from the player. During the stalking phase when initiates that 50/50, there should be a 3rd move where it just watches you and moves closer based on if you’re looking at it or if line of sight is broken. There’s some potential here I think we should refer to the animal kingdom’s most sadistic animals and how they hunt their prey
basically the stalker nextbot, he only moves if you aren't looking.
I love it and absolutely hate it
so kinda like the weeping angel statue things from doctor who where they only move if your not looking?
3rd move where it moves based on line of site, 40% moves forward, 40% stays still, 20% hides. Its frightening know something that could chase you, watch you, slowly follow you, then with the blink of an eye hide. Feels like uncanny canyon.
chill dont create another 173, one's hard enough to deal with man, dont make me have to fight 2
Never heard of nextbots until now but the noises it made when hunting were genius. That tension it generated was better than any soundtrack. Silence is safety
I think he should make the music abruptly start playing when it flipped tails to chase you, so then even silence isn't safe
@@darkbluefire2617 there’s a new Nextbot named terminus. Same AI as Gargitron but with more features. When it hides it’ll mute itself sometimes
i love how he could jumpscare us at any moment and didnt.
One of the scariest things about nextbots before Gargitron is when they manage to kill you far from spawn.
Now you have no clue where it is, while it speeds toward you knowing exactly where you are.
The panic usually makes me just delete them from the menu.
For me, a terrifying figure is all about the eyes. Ever since I was a kid, the monsters I imagined hunting me in the dark always had wide, unblinking, unsettled eyes.
I had arachnophobia when I was a kid (I kind of supressed it now) and the only real reason I was so scared of spiders was because of their unmoving black eyes.
man the monsters I imagined where cylinders with lamprey mouths, and googly eyes with jaws that lead into an abyss.
yeah me too thats why i used to be so terrified of obunga
Ah, is Butterscotch YOURS? They've been haunting me for most of my life. I still see them. They used to open my closet. They tap on my walls sometimes, they truly do scare me.
facts, i think the fear factor lies in the eyes and mouth, i haaatteeee creepy smiles, and dead, terrified or distorted looking eyes
One of my favourite anecdotes about NPC AI comes from a video by The Librarian on the Gmod LIDAR gamemode, where he remarks how the mod works on any map with a navmesh and suddenly realises the implication lol
I hadn't heard of LIDAR before this comment, just watched part of The Librarian's video and it looks absolutely horrifying...
@@Gargin Same here! I was caught completely off-guard by the first shadow. The concept works really well
I watched the vid thanks to your comment. Thanks for pointing it, it was a fun watch and I genuinely felt fear through a YT video, something that hadn't happened in a while
The chilling feeling when I realised.
🤦♂️
The scariest parts of these maps are doors that don't open
I think they’re so effective because by giving your brain the information “you can only run or you fail” and have an extremely effective chaser after you, it immediately tricks you into the flight or fight response, it doesn’t have you hide and avoid like most horror monsters, you have to panic and just run
And you can never keep it away forever
Your next bot is probably the scariest nextbot out of every nextbot made in the history of Gmod. Good job bro...
For now (im not making one someone will probably improve on his design)
Finally a nextbot that isnt copy and paste
What about Mochi or whatever his name his
@@Pradawitwill he’s just fast
His picture isn’t as unsettling as others Nextbots
9:10
I love how you can feel the panic just by seeing the movements of the player, slamming into walls trying to escape something that it barely saw in the peripheral of it's eye, lingering, taunting, playing with their food.
That’s called being scared
I almost passed myself
i fucling know right
I almost died💀
@@your_food_is_ready thats the point
Obunga to me is the scariest because he is completely silent unless youre above him and you hear a hearbeat sound. Munci is also scary as hell becuase of his extreme speed making it near impossible to outrun him.
I like the use of SCP-079’s face. It’s a very creepy texture that’s never used to be unnerving, you mostly connect it back to a harmless computer that you make a deal with, rather than a creature hunting you down.
Honestly hearing Sanic was the first ever next bot put a massive smile on my face
Yes same
it puts a massive MILE for me too :D
Found you ;)
Eh. Only did a kilometer for me.
same I couldn't help but start giggling
Insane vid. Deserved to blow up
Hey! I just watched your recent video ❤
Thanks dude means a lot
@@Gargin
Outstanding work. Seriously, this is amazing stuff.
Cringe
@@De7Sanchez 🤓
been binging some of your horror coding videos, and I’ve been super impressed with each one! Taking very well known games and infusing primal or liminal horror elements is so much fun, and seeing the end results of these concepts is just perfect! Thank you so much for making these.
I've had this Weegee nextbot in my library almost ever since I got gmod and Steam itself and I was surprised to see them resurge in popularity. I love the eery message I get when I spot a nextbot in a place it's never been, saying "This nextbot needs time to learn the map. This could take a few minutes or a few hours." Back then, my adolescent mind was absolutely bewildered at how smart they were. Not only was it good at tracking me down, but when I was slightly out of range for it to chase me, it would actually hide behind a wall or around a corner. The only things in your favor are it's momentum/slowed acceleration, and large pits that don't have any hills to leave them
I love that Gargatron's friction is a little bit off and it takes a second to correct its path on a tight turn. It's like a predatory mammal overshooting its pounce because it has not just a desire, but a NEED to catch you. It makes the nextbot feel more like an actual presence compared to the constant perfect beeline nextbots tend to make.
It's the opposite for me. The constant perfect beeline the old nextbots have are what makes it really scary to me.
The perfect beeline movement loses it's scariness quickly though as you realize you can't beat it so you kinda give up. If you can outmanoveur it with lots of turns, it gives you a hope you can beat it, which also keeps the fear alive when you make a mistake
@@pyrogreg8 Exaaactly. I remember a meme edit of a comic that kind of summed that up.
"Is this Hell?"
"In what sense?"
"The present moment is eternal and painful."
"In Hell, there is relief in utter hopelessness. Here, our actions have consequences for ourself and others."
"Truly, it is worse."
As a child, we had an old, blind dog who passed away
I had sleep paralysis that night, facing my closed door, the light shining through the bottom
A playing card with my blind dog on it, slid under the door, and hovered towards me, always facing my direction
Unable to move, this unfeeling image of my dead dog approaches me at my most vulnerable
Oof.
Jesus Christ. I’m glad I’ve never had one of those, but at the same time I feel like I should worry for when I do
@@luisitocomunista546 nah when i had my sleep paralyses it was hella weird. So first to describe the feeling. You know that feeling when you want to scream in a dream but you can't? Or you want to run but you cant. Yeah exactly that feeling. Then second thing, everything is real, nothing seems off. You sleeping room just looks like how it was before falling asleep. So when i was in my sp my room looked like always but my door was open which was odd. See my bed was facing my door , and behind that door is a long hallway. Then i see a doctor or something like that , 2 meters tall, dark eyes. He walks towards me, bends over and just looks into my face which i cant move, so close to me that his tip of the nose is touching mine. But at that point i was in full counciousness, being able to have toughts like i do have right now. So after an unplesent 5 seconds. I was like "hey this isnt real, and i wasnt scared anymore. Right after that i woke up. "Woke up"
Because it felt like i was never asleep. My room looked identical, my sleeping position. The brightness of my room. How did my "sleeping brain" know how my room looked at night?
Even my door was open, which to this day. Is very unsetteling. It was 5 years ago. When i was 15. To this day i still have simmilar things happening. But never as real as the ones happend that one night.
sorry for my english, i wasnt in the mood to look for any typos
@@Minecraaft93I think that’s because you’re not actually asleep anymore, you’re awake but your brain is still seeing things due to those weird dream chemicals still being in your head, hence why your room looked the same, because you were actually seeing it…
My first SP experience was waking up paralysed to see my gf getting ready for work and to the left of her was a tall black figure with a hat just standing there, which she obviously didn’t see, she also hadn’t notice me awake but paralysed despite my best efforts to talk. He also had a clone that was stood beside my bed that leaned over and shoved his face in mine, similar to your experience, the whole time I was pretty calm with the most frustrating thing was just not being able to move honestly…
@@ieatalotofpizza6531 Yeah exactly, funny how our experiences were pretty similar. Well i got to say that if i saw my girlfriend i would probably be pretty scared for her. Since i couldnt move. But you girlfriend shouldve seen that your eyes were opend or no? Because you just mentioned that were not really asleep. So why didnt she see your eyes were opend? Or were they even opend?
And yeah after like 5-10 seconds. You do get pretty calm since you realize that its not real. But i really want to know where our brain gets the information to "build" these dark creatures. Is it from the movies we watched etc..
anyway. Like if you are not asleep while a sp are you then also able to feel pain? So many questions..
And also the fact that they shove their face into ours. Like do they want to kiss or something?
Dude, I was literally watching one of your other videos, and when I switched to this one I saw a difference of 600 subscribers!
channel 10/10
i feel like the roblox game doors perfectly captures the liminal feeling, the strange nextbots (such as rush and ambush) and the npcs (such as figure and seek). the creators of doors put so much effort into creating such a perfect game and it still has the humour of a nextbot here and there. its really a very good game and psychologically keeps us constantly alert and with the feeling of being watched and yet complete abandonment and loss.
I think the black figure with just 2 eyes for facial details is the scariest one for me. Ive seen it on videos and it always starts staring then moving at lightspeed to scare you
Edit: I couldnt have yall arguing in replies for a week. I looked it up and its angry munchi😭
im pretty sure thats N from the mandela catalogue, but im not sure.
Angry Munchi
mandela catalogues in the real life
Scp-079
That's the homie from the Boisvert videos
I think another reason is what I’d call The Skinwalker Effect. Naturally an AI Nextbot or NPC isn’t going to generate its own noises on the fly and has to rely on sound files. But there’s something about the perfect repetition of the noise with no pitch or speed variation that also makes it scary, because it seems unnatural to us, like how Skinwalkers perfectly imitate noises and repeat them, but never changing pitch, speed or anything.
Well said!
Well it’s also fitting because those creatures tend to follow you if you say their name
Something even more eerie to me personally is if they only change *one* thing every time. Like making it slower, making it higher pitched, or just repeating it faster. The tension increases much more quickly when it REALLY tries to “become human” and it gets jammed directly into the uncanny valley for me
Yes
@@ryanbui2046 It's experimenting.
I feel like what makes a Next Bot scary is that it is a form of any type of image that suddenly comes for you and the fact that you can't hear them makes it even scarier
8:36 the slow slide in and then back out made me laugh. And great video, the design for the ai is simplistic yet very effective, props to you m8
Okay, using Mangle's audio files for 079's face specifically make it so much more of a vivid nightmare experience. You have good taste in horror development, well done
Also having 079 stalk you is so in character
Two things:
- The image you used blends into the background of most levels, but not _perfectly;_ it isn't jarringly obvious, but still looks unnaturally uncanny, which is a very good middle-ground
- You also gave it that "Hide" action, which can clearly screw with people dealing with it as when it suddenly darts behind something they'll automatically assume it is going a different path . . . only to find out that it's nowhere i sight, which not only throws their entire train of thought off, it makes them panic as they've essentially lost track of this thing thats trying to find them
Not bad, not bad at all.
I honestly wish the face had its eyes pointed at you more with more shade to it tbh, but I completely agree that it feels… too familiar, perfect uncanny valley action there
Not realizing that it’s gone to hide until it’s been gone for a while also means that you’ve unknowingly wasted some amount of that precious downtime before it attacks again.
I feel like messing with it’s chances on hiding and chasing depending on distance would make a great effect, the farther away you see it the higher chance it wants to run away, but the closer it is when you see it the higher chance it chases
7:50 nooooooooo thank you I’m just a watcher, I’m not even playing and I DID NOT LIKE THAT 😭😭
Horror games could learn from this, especially in sections where you have to run from a monster. Usually it's just some combination of run to a certain point to win, or find a set location to hide in, and then run some more. But here, even though it's always after you, there's no necessary downtime from hiding, you're always free to move ahead or not.
Like Outlast?
So like Baldi's basics... almost. Baldi can lose you though the moment you open a door he is gunning for you again.
This is similar to parts of resident evil
If horror games learned from this than horror games will become very bad.
@@emerald7914 No
This is actually genius, i never would have thought adding unpredictability to nextbots rather than them just chasing you down endlessly would make them more terrifying and unnerving than they already are. Amazing video bro! This needs more recognition fr and i want to see more people make their own unpredictable nextbots
I have an Idea where if it is chasing you, it will play loud audio, but when it is hiding or stalking you, it will play quiet or none loud audio like the sounds Gargatron makes. This will make it alot more scary when it actually chases you down.
and maybe for extra evil points, give it a small random that he instead makes little to no noise when giving chase, or making loud noise when not chasing you, just to throw you off
My only complaint with it, is that it cannot jump. If you get on top of a little house or car or garbage or something, it can't jump to catch you. I know this cause I'm screwing with it rn.
@@yourehereforthatarentyou That gives me an idea for a sort of nextbot map.
The nextbot, like the guy above said, makes a loud noise when chasing you, and is otherwise slightly quiet, to the point where running around drowns it out. Avoiding the nextbot is one of the only strategies, as the map could be tight corridors with doors every now and then.
However, here's where the evil comes into play.
There are small radios scattered around the map. They spawn randomly, and if close to them for too long, they emit a loud noise akin to the nextbots. This is mostly to startle you, and run into the actual nextbot, but also notifies the nextbot of where you are.
Features that I'm not sure about:
Safe Zones
Multi-player
Other NPCs roaming around
Cameras
A way of getting away fast (A subway? A bus?)
A good bit of randomness does wonders for any threat in a horror game. They can can go from scary to terrifying.
you succeeded with making an unnerving Nextbot. I genuinely got creeps the single time I let it fully roam around.
also did you make it so that it makes a loud jumpscaring sound when you manage to kill it? Because all the times I used the "anti-nextbot laser" mod to kill it, it did exactly that.
The fact that the nextbot slowly hunt you down, hiding when it spots you trying to avoid it at any costs, gives you the unnerving feeling of being stalked. That is the scariest part about it.
Dude, I’ve always thought how creepy it was when a nextbot stops chasing you and just goes and chills in a room until you go towards it, obviously it’s a bug but it’s nice to see someone expand the nextbots behavior. Good work!
Dude I'm gonna throw HANDS if this doesn't blow up, good job
Throw them, now
It didn't blow up
@@adenmitchell7633 that reply aged like milk
Update: it blew up harder than a taco bell bathroom when I eat 24 burritos (I’m lactose)
Foolish idea to put the words blow and job in the same sentence
I appreciate the reliance on suspense rather than jump scares during the demonstration!
I cannot express how much I loved the Nextbot you made, did an excellent job on it man
Thanks! So glad you like it
@@Gargin Making it hide and stalk you instead of just chasing you was the best addition you could've given to its AI. Masterfully done, sir!
@@Gargin Nice work man!
@@Gargin Whats the map with the red carpet and stuff?
7:47 the way it just flies past him is fucking perfect
I LOVE it when the Nextbot disappears behind a corner and you don't know whither its still after you or gone. You want to look back and see but at the same time you REALLY don't want to look back and see, its just awesome.
Deadwater's Nextbot video was the first time I heard of Nextbots. In spite being just PNGs, their AIs and sounds made them fricking terrifying.
Deadwater used the Mirror's Edge parkour mod Beatrun in the video, which made the chase look more fun. Imagine Nextbots being able to hardcore parkour, too.
This thing is so well designed. It’s not even scary, it’s dreadful and nerve wracking. I was playing with it on gm_mallparking and I found a room with two windows with one exit being the door you use to come in. I broke one of the windows as another escape and I looked out of it. I then see this thing standing completely still staring at me down the hall, after like a second or two it ran away. Genuinely the first time I’ve actually been scared by a nextbot.
there's something about an unknown creature or being going out of sight i think its biologically engineered into us to be scared of that fact like how a crocodile goes underwater to strike
Dude your last sentence. You must be brave then. I screamed like a 7 year old with Obunga lol.
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Its not even a nextbot anymore, it acts sentient in an unnerving way its almost like its actually something
Good job on making this nightmare i hope your channel gets the love it deserves
This ain't nextbot, this is soonbot
@@smnio5619 nowbot
Oh my god its almost as if what you people call nextbots are literally the most basic form of a hostile character ai, lacking the most depth possible. Pretty much anything is better. You people are so fucking absurd
@@smnio5619 lmaoo
i mean it's still using nextbot tech so
My first experience with a Nextbot was back in Quake 2, where the Berserker monster was chasing me like crazy, its not exactly a nextbot I know... But the feeling of terror was the same. I shitted my pants whenever he saw me and screamed "trespasser!" and then started chasing me non stop...
I really like the segment you made to illustrate the difference between NPC's and nextbots!
Aaaaaand just watched Gargitron in action in one of Rogurt's videos. Definitely terrifying!
I always wanted a Nextbot that wasn’t constantly after you. I believe the best part of a Nextbot hunting you is when you don’t know where it is, only for it to appear and renew that fear. I’m glad somebody was finally willing to break the Nextbot formula and focus on where they shine the most.
thing that makes me scared of these bots is the way how it rapidly approaches you and the disturbing images they have on
8:20 I knew it was catching up fast so when you went down the stairs and turned the camera it was genuinely terrifying
The fact that the eeriness and scariness of this nextbot is so potent it got me through video the exact way playing the game back in the day did? That’s impressive
The most crucial addition to your png would be an eye. That's what personally really makes them creepy, is the fact that no matter what they're doing, there's always an eye on you
How does this only have seven views? What the hell? This production quality is goddamn magnificent. This is probably the best video I've watched in a while.
edit: HAD 7 views when i dropped by it on release
69 likes nice
it went from 7 to 14,985 in 3 days?
I'm here at 18,245 views in 3 days
24,508 views now.
gone up to 28,515 views
I absolutely love this idea, I really hope that some other creators showcase this.
omg i love the bell sounds as if its telling you your time is up
Cool thing to note: The png image used for Gargitron is SCP-079, aka the Old AI for it's nickname given by the foundation since it's an AI that's hell bent on destroying life, so that's an interesting easter egg or maybe it was just coincidence when choosing the image...
He mentions scp, so I take it it's deliberate
I *knew* it! I thought so... glad my binging of the SCP wiki 4 years ago wasn't all a waste of brainpower
Here's an especially evil idea. Perhaps during a chase the bot has a chance to randomly go silent when outside of the players view to trick them into thinking it left. You could further increase this deception by maybe having it stop for only a second or two then start moving again at full speed.
I love it
Heres an idea:A chance that when it sees you, it flees to the other side of the room, like, going not through but around it, so when you look to see where it went, it is right behind you.
The first clip of the Gargitron jumpscare was the first thing that has made me jump in my seat for a while! Well done!
One thing i'm thinking of is how they want to get you so badly that they run into walls. Maybe this can be turned into a 'slam into wall' animation for 3d nextbots, would be terrifying
Silly bots
a sort of "hit wall" animation would be sick tbh. a mixture of "you cant slow me down" and "i cant feel pain"
If something chasing me were to smack into a wall like a rag doll and immediately continue chasing me I would lose myself, that’s terrifying asf
I almost completely forgot about nextbots memories are flooding back to me of watching videos of people running from these when I was younger in g mod
I remember that I would get on the edge of my seat not knowing where the next bot would suddenly slide in from.
Thankyou for essentially defining what a nextbot is! I am making a video game and did not know my AI's are specifically nextbot AI's!
This is on the same level as when the Indominus Rex was created. The bot doesn't seem to be following a set program, it just seems like its playing with you, knowing that you're afraid of it and using it for their devilish sense of humor.
The sounds you chose for Gargitron were absolutely horrifying, it’s so good. The thumping noises as it gets closer to you are so anxiety inducing, and the subtle static sounds cause this huge feeling of dread. Amazing job on this!
At least one of them is a Silent Hill sound, in case anyone was looking for the source. I only know one of the sounds because I couldn't watch his nextbot for too long lol.
@@RenegadeShepard69 I am trying to find the sound effect he used, do you know it?
It's a mix of Silent Hill, Mangle and some others
@@Mig_V Yeah I know but the thumping sound? Is it from silent hill and what is the source
@@ruusuthecat2444 It's from silent hill 2 OST butterflies & secrets
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Like Pac-man
I've always liked how in Pac-man, Inky, Blinky, Pinky and Clyde are all trying to get to different spots relative to you, so they're always looking for different routes and in the process forcing you on to different routes. It would be interesting if different Nextbots could be set up with similar patterns.
The scariest thing you can encounter in real life is a person who cannot be bargained with, can't be conversated to, cannot be talked out of anything and only wants to harm or kill you and has no emotion that's why Nextbot images are so unnerving like a person who looks like a person, but you can clearly tell it isn't
This out of place feeling is pretty similar to hellmari in omori. Up until the first time of seeing her you were playing a pixelated game, when all the sudden the illusion breaks and you are reminded this is just a modern program running on your pc, pretending to be a retro game - until now, when it decided to show you that silent, horrifyingly realistic png.
not really, scariest thing is waking up and realizing im still alive
@@Blox117 so brocken 😢
@@Blox117 bro?
I’ve always believed that things floating or crawling rapidly are absolutely terrifying. I definitely think the right atmosphere and a rather creepy next bot create the perfect horror chase