I love how this was originally going to be a pacifist run with culture bombs, but then he power leveled out of it and discovered unlimited horsey boys.
In my first playthrough of humankind opendev I was originally a society with a minimal army doctrine.... until the Celts invaded.... then I quickly raised a powerful army, took his army and wiped his civ from existence, then we started vassalizing(making a puppet country) or conquering every one of our allies and neighbors(who totally betrayed me by the way) and began to militarily and economically dominate for the rest of the game! You know, its always that one civ in a game that pushes you over. Just one bad turn to reduce a peaceful civ to warmongering
@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck As should all of us, you see by being so insignificant we effectively dissappear in their mind's eye which creates an unquenchable amount of power in our hands. You see by pressing the crouch button with 100 sneak we disappear so quickly you'll leave the AI talking about the wind.
The joy in Spiff's voice when he says "it's like I've discovered Christmas again, except the presents are murder!" Full of childlike wonder, truly inspiring, better than Miracle on 34th Street!
@@TheRevDel That's the earliest you might get it, but it might take nearly 55 years as well; it may arrive anywhere within that timeframe, and is entirely up to spiff and any third parties he depends on to get the horse to you.
@@Force2reckonVods If Spiff got a personal horse and named their personal horse something like Wind Chaser, then the former. If Spiff got a blonde coated horse and named it Applejack, then the latter. 😋
I like how Spiff sounds acutally so defeated, disappointed, and sad, that he finally achieved world domination, had all the money, all the science, everyone was a vasal of his. He literally achieved everything he could ever wanted in a game, and it made him sound so sad and defeated.
This game looks great. I love how the avatars adopt the clothing for the time period and culture you chose I wished they did that in Civ through a mod or a feature. I always wanted to see George Washington wrapped in rags in the ancient era to him being a cyborg in the Future era.
@@Jokie155 There's my big hope. That the Endless team jumping into the historical genre, as well as Old World (which is pretty good, look it up, peeeeerfectly balanced ~also I need people to play it with~) that they'll *hopefully* pull enough interest and pop enough competition into the niche that Civ will *do* something... Doubt it but.
"One exploid to rule them all... Oh no, that went to fast, I was not even use this one properly... ok, ok, wait, there are just too many, let's use one per era. Just because."
"I'm going to ignore the fact I can change my religion and focus entirely on just raiding stuff down to the ground." I think the Mongol's in real life did the same strategy.
"We are in a brand new era as the Huns, and everyone around us is... NOT the Huns. And as you know, this means they are all going to die!" Total War: Attila anyone?
Hahaha, Spiff: "This seems a little bit insane!" while talking about stuff he's got from being a *whole era* ahead of the AI xD - totally perfectly balanced by the end though! I can't wait to see how Humankind (in general) handles in MP, that's gonna be the real trick
when spiff puts everything is broken on the thumbnail rather than perfectly balanced, you have to realize that it's broken than you have ever imagined.
@Dyanosis I'm so sorry for my English but knowing 5 languages at the same time makes it sometimes very hard to make a perfect sentence especially if they are from different family groups . plus my comment was just a joke .
A: I will admit to being morbidly interested in a Cyberpunk Fortify Restoration loop. The fact it crashes the game isn't surprising, but I wasn't aware of items that allowed one to stack modifiers ala Skyrim.
I enjoy how Spiff's character is all about being smart and posh yet he can't pronounce/read out correctly 50% of what's in front of him. Never change, just keep on crunching those numbers
@@chaz32 do you realize that his videos concentrate on the exploit not the game difficulty. It's like saying that a challenge isn't challenging because the game difficulty isn't cranked up to it's maximum plus his is a caricature of old British conquerors mixed up with some insane quotes only he can imagine. So next time find real reasons to be salty 😉
I know that Spiff is a man of culture, refined tastes in tea, masterful strategist, however I did not know he exceeded pop culture mastery with the reference of Breakin' 2 - Electric Boogaloo. Consider me now a vassal lol!
@@TheArklyte time to whoop your ass so much that your people will end up burning the western Roman Empire in the other side of the Afro Eurasian continent
20:06 "And so naturally it only makes sense that I send out a whole bunch of floating horses into the ocean..." Come on, Spiff. Obviously, they're now SEA HORSES!
The current requirement is to watch 2 hours of Humankind content (or at least to have it in the background) on Twitch with a connected Games2Gether account until December, 29th. 1st hour is going to drop the Lewis persona.
@@thespiffingbrit The outbreak of the new variant, which spreads even faster from what I've seen and heard, might prevent you from voicing your own character unfortunately. I'm not letting myself get too excited at the moment, but Tea damn it I really want to get excited.
Just do the thing where ya soak teabags in hot water and then rest the teabags on your closed eyes, both helps prevent pink eye or sties and actually really pleasant as long as it ain't too hot and you don't open yer eyes. As long as ya get it into ya one way or another. XD
I'm amazed Spiff hasn't figured out how broken the Byzantines + Dutch are yet. Hopefully he too will one day be making 40 - 100 k a turn with this perfectly balanced experience!
My cat literally kept pawing the thumbnail to your video on my recommendeds until I played it. Thanks for getting my kitty addicted to your British wit and Yorkshire tea worship.
10:58 Spiff: "We are the Huns, everyone around us is not the Huns, as you know this means they are all going to die." Me, thinking about Atilla the Hun: "...sounds about right." Seriously though, those Huns are... scarily accurate
Little blob dudes can build spaceships too! Tbh once you're past tribal it just plays like normal, since your creatures biology totally stops mattering.
“Someone who’s land that doesn’t belong to us ... meaning land that will soon belong to us”
Ah yes...the British way
The Stick a Flag in it strategy.
*(GOD SAVE THE QUEEN INTENSIFIES)*
*sips tea*
"It's like I've discovered Christmas, except the presents are Death!"
That's one for this year's highlight reel!
More like the roman way. "Hi... we are your new neighbors, and tomorrow, your new lords".
The Spiffing Brit is so British that he reads "Mausoleum" as "Museum"
in England, your mausoleum IS our museum ;)
Hell of a Freudian slip.
Steeee
"The Huns are completely broken"
No, they're historically accurate
They are the exception
Roll the Mongoltage!
When one guy took over more than a third of the world.
@@JarodCain A man of culture, I see
It's like a gazelle going "Cheetahs are OP"
I love how this was originally going to be a pacifist run with culture bombs, but then he power leveled out of it and discovered unlimited horsey boys.
In my first playthrough of humankind opendev I was originally a society with a minimal army doctrine.... until the Celts invaded.... then I quickly raised a powerful army, took his army and wiped his civ from existence, then we started vassalizing(making a puppet country) or conquering every one of our allies and neighbors(who totally betrayed me by the way) and began to militarily and economically dominate for the rest of the game! You know, its always that one civ in a game that pushes you over. Just one bad turn to reduce a peaceful civ to warmongering
It's like playing as Gandhi in Civ 6 and nuking everyone to oblivion matey, peace is never an option they say =)))
@@NguyenPham-bl6qm It's like playing as Gandhi in any Civ** fix'd
@@NguyenPham-bl6qm *Hello there.*
@@iateyourdrywall297 I take my words back ...
Game Developers: “Hey Spiff here’s our new game!”
Spiff: *breaks game over his knee*
lol
Devs: Thanks. We'll make sure your knee breaks next time you try this!
@@mhfiver2441 That's part of why he does it
I was an Game Developer too, until i took an spiff in the knee.
Humankind sucks, try old world, that is a good game.
"I'm trying to find where the other AIs have settled." - Spiff confirms that he is an Artificial Intelligence.
Does that mean he’s a hunbot
More like britbot. An AI that runs on tea and has the prime goal to create the entire world into tea production.
lol, the devs are learning. Have spiff break it *before* they release the game.
The most thorough, effective, and brutal form of quality control.
As a dev this is a great way to do things, it's like having an unpaid tester.
I thought the same as well. Big brain move by the devs there.
@@matthewtalbot-paine7977 and PR too
@@GundamReviver A little although he is shining a light on the bugs as well which is not ideal
Spiff: "we have vassaliced all other civilizations in the world"
That Green one: "no one move, just keep sipping tea and he won't notice"
I have mastered the art of being so insignificant that i have become invisible to the naked eye
@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck it's the way
green doesnt exist. he eliminated them.
@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck As should all of us, you see by being so insignificant we effectively dissappear in their mind's eye which creates an unquenchable amount of power in our hands.
You see by pressing the crouch button with 100 sneak we disappear so quickly you'll leave the AI talking about the wind.
@@Otto_Von_Beansmarck So, Canada then?
"Oh, I'm so excited to pillage this entire brand-new continent" is the most British thing I've ever heard.
21:50
The joy in Spiff's voice when he says "it's like I've discovered Christmas again, except the presents are murder!" Full of childlike wonder, truly inspiring, better than Miracle on 34th Street!
He says "death" not "murder", 21:50 or so
Imagine somebody would actually remind Spiff in 27 years that he owes them a horse.
more like 55 years, 14000 working days from now in the UK is Monday 25 November 2075
@@nienke7713 ah yes but he said between 10 and 14000 so I'm expecting mine to arrive the day before New Year's Eve
@@TheRevDel That's the earliest you might get it, but it might take nearly 55 years as well; it may arrive anywhere within that timeframe, and is entirely up to spiff and any third parties he depends on to get the horse to you.
Nienke Fleur Luchtmeijer pretty sure spiff will be dead by then. give or take
@@nienke7713 cyberhorse 2075
The best part about this channel is he plays strategy expansion games just like his ancestors would.
you mean the German castle Kardashians? 😂🤣
Spiff: Opens game
AI: Why do I smell Tea?
*SET FOR SEA AND SOUND THE TRUMPETS, WERE GOING TO HAVE SOME TEA AND CRUMPETS.*
@@FriedrichBarb *EARLY IN THE MORNIN’*
(God save the queen is heard faintly in the background)
Stroke, probably
The spy
Watching this after the full release and I've got to say, the Huns & Mongols have been greatly nerfed and... they are still overpowered like crazy.
Historically accurate.
2:15 Spiff is so powerful that he has a monocle and top hat in the neolithic era.
"This feels a LITTLE extreme."
The people who were besieged and subjucated by the huns probably thought the same thing.
What, you don't like Rohan 2: Theoden's Revenge?
Yup
Spiff: "Oh boy, here I go destroying Civ6 again!" (love it)
"We'll be converting all of their resources into horses." Spiff is a 10 year old girl, confirmed.
*OR* a 25+ year old guy.
@@Force2reckonVods If Spiff got a personal horse and named their personal horse something like Wind Chaser, then the former.
If Spiff got a blonde coated horse and named it Applejack, then the latter. 😋
@@LordNanfoodle xD
You, I like you.
I like how Spiff sounds acutally so defeated, disappointed, and sad, that he finally achieved world domination, had all the money, all the science, everyone was a vasal of his. He literally achieved everything he could ever wanted in a game, and it made him sound so sad and defeated.
This game looks great. I love how the avatars adopt the clothing for the time period and culture you chose I wished they did that in Civ through a mod or a feature. I always wanted to see George Washington wrapped in rags in the ancient era to him being a cyborg in the Future era.
You and Lewis gotta play head to head with both your characters
*yes*
@@thespiffingbrit who said anything about fairness?
@@thespiffingbrit you mean its the most balenced game ever
Twinky boi haedox wheres your character neopets is a 4x you make great videos on that
Is Lewis in the game?
“Peoples who’s lands don’t belong to us meaning their lands will soon belong to us” is the most British empire era saying there is
A full minute, you can’t get luckier than this
"The AI is slowly catching up."
Now there's an understatement if I've ever seen one lol
sorry to be nit picky but isn't it an overstatement?
correction it can be both that's weird
This guy is every game developer's best friend and worst nightmare at the same time
If I don’t get my war horse in 55 years you’re going to have a revolt on your hands lord spiff.
Civ killer? Civ is already killing itself with the DLC balancing...
Civ has been killing itself for several games now. It needs some real competitors to kick the devs into actually fixing shit and doing it properly.
@@Jokie155 There's my big hope. That the Endless team jumping into the historical genre, as well as Old World (which is pretty good, look it up, peeeeerfectly balanced ~also I need people to play it with~) that they'll *hopefully* pull enough interest and pop enough competition into the niche that Civ will *do* something...
Doubt it but.
@@Jokie155 Such a terrible take.
@@PrettyNormous Competition is good
What you mean Babylon being two eras ahead in tech in a marathon game isn’t balanced?
Spiff: Opens Game
AI: Why do I hear final boss music?
"Classic humans."
He has ascended beyond such petty creatures.
"That is the end of science. Science is over." -Spiff, 2020
Spore without evolving? That I'd like to see.
Bump
Double Bump!
Came here to say this so triple bump!
constantly being a sperm cell
That’s actually a speed run category for the game.
I love how he just auto-resolves the battles. Imagine if he did them manually.
Auto resolve could be broken
Right, Spiff I want my battle horse or I'm coming to put coffee in your teabags...
hold ya horses, he did say you would have to wait between 10 and 14k business days.. So believe it or not ya might be waitin for a minute or two.
@@erikblarg5498 But in order to hold their horses, they must first have horses *to* hold!
You may be waiting 38 years to get your horse just an fyi
@@faerylnhiikira1053 XD nice one
"One exploid to rule them all... Oh no, that went to fast, I was not even use this one properly... ok, ok, wait, there are just too many, let's use one per era. Just because."
This is just historical accuracy. The Huns love the snowball tactic.
Option B! There can never be enough Spore!
"I'm going to ignore the fact I can change my religion and focus entirely on just raiding stuff down to the ground."
I think the Mongol's in real life did the same strategy.
Imo the huns seemed to believe "Peace by Power"
@@deejeh9494 No, they believed in horse power.
HUMANKIND DEVS: Fix these exploits EXCEPT for when Spiff is the leader!
Understandably, the Mongols were broken even in real life.
But they also werent capable of holding all that land, so not that broken.
@@FrostbitexP They were capable, it was mostly just colossal mismanaging a few generations later that caused the collapse.
there's a reason they needed to build a big fuckoff wall just to survive
@@Biodeamon Who is "they"? Are you talking about the Chinese big useless wall that didn't stop anyone?
The ancient mongols never washed themselves or their clothes for religious purposes.
The ad for humankind is pretty epic not gonna lie
"We are in a brand new era as the Huns, and everyone around us is... NOT the Huns. And as you know, this means they are all going to die!"
Total War: Attila anyone?
Here comes Attila the Spiff
grandma approved
@@thespiffingbrit xD
Hahaha, Spiff: "This seems a little bit insane!" while talking about stuff he's got from being a *whole era* ahead of the AI xD - totally perfectly balanced by the end though!
I can't wait to see how Humankind (in general) handles in MP, that's gonna be the real trick
@Java Monsoon Pfff, excepting I never play random lobbies, usually just a handful of good friends chillin and experimenting xD
Plot twist:
Spif is actually the QA tester for this game and this is just one of his reports.
"The developers have put me in the game"
That's awesome.
I want Spore!!
Great video, perfectly balanced as all things should be
when spiff puts everything is broken on the thumbnail rather than perfectly balanced, you have to realize that it's broken than you have ever imagined.
@Dyanosis I'm so sorry for my English but knowing 5 languages at the same time makes it sometimes very hard to make a perfect sentence especially if they are from different family groups .
plus my comment was just a joke .
@@Honey_B_River oof, I'd believe it hard for me to learn a new language, much less 5 x.x
@@zerwardzelaiine7622 it's just that I started from a small age
@@Honey_B_River ah ok, so it just sorta comes naturally
@@zerwardzelaiine7622 it's easier
A: I will admit to being morbidly interested in a Cyberpunk Fortify Restoration loop. The fact it crashes the game isn't surprising, but I wasn't aware of items that allowed one to stack modifiers ala Skyrim.
I enjoy how Spiff's character is all about being smart and posh yet he can't pronounce/read out correctly 50% of what's in front of him. Never change, just keep on crunching those numbers
Also has a vocab about as limited as the 13 year olds he's entertaining by winning half finished games on medium difficulty.
@@chaz32 do you realize that his videos concentrate on the exploit not the game difficulty. It's like saying that a challenge isn't challenging because the game difficulty isn't cranked up to it's maximum plus his is a caricature of old British conquerors mixed up with some insane quotes only he can imagine. So next time find real reasons to be salty 😉
@@bohnzo473 Since when did people ever need real reasons to be Salty? I thought that was just Humanity's Natural State of Being?
Spiffing brit plays with himself and films it
Sniffing Brit: I broke a game.
Me: hitting like before even watching.
A
I love how this video basically shows Spif becoming warhammer40k’s tryanids in Humankind
I know that Spiff is a man of culture, refined tastes in tea, masterful strategist, however I did not know he exceeded pop culture mastery with the reference of Breakin' 2 - Electric Boogaloo. Consider me now a vassal lol!
"The battle horse arrives in 10-14,000 working days"...jokes on all those people, Spiff doesn't work...
"I have no idea what it means but basically this is what it means."
"Museum of Halicarnassus"...
Spiff, a Mausoleum is for dead people, not perfectly balanced artifact acquisition.
Museums are full of stuff from dead people
@@CrimWorld9 that as well. I only know a few that actually have dead people in them
Collect dead people and their art.
Aesthete telling people that their culture doesn't matter is truly the most British power in this game.
Today I learned that when a man dies, a horse is born.
I can never get enough of Spiff saying "horsie boys"
"It's like I've discovered Christmas again, except the presents are death."
Spiff 2020
B. Ahh, spore and Yorkshire, what a great morning
Huns: Sees Chinese
Chinese: "Here we go again"
They're not broken
They're *historically accurate*
Huns:"it's invasion time."
Chinese:"it's assimilation time."
@@TheArklyte time to whoop your ass so much that your people will end up burning the western Roman Empire in the other side of the Afro Eurasian continent
There will be one man who comes back in 38 years and asks where his horse is
Alas even the mighty battle horse dies of old age in s 38 year transit
20:06 "And so naturally it only makes sense that I send out a whole bunch of floating horses into the ocean..."
Come on, Spiff. Obviously, they're now SEA HORSES!
"A" all the way. Prove that basing a videogame off a tabletop RPG will cause players to break the game like people do in Tabletop games.
So this is from the devs that made endless legend? The UI was a giveaway.
Yep it’s from Amplitude
"Make sure you have a nice big cup of tea in hand" *sips coffee*
@Kyan Nurse MWAHAHA
In 35 years imma start asking where my battle horse is
I love how across the 26th minute the ambiance settles into Spiff's "putzing around" track
0:48 Oh. I thought Spiff made his avatar. That's actually pretty awesome!
Spiffing Hun be like "Look at my horse
My horse is amazing
Give it a lick
Mmmm, it tastes just like raisins"
"It tastes like sh*t"
The Spiffing Brit: "Do you wanna see next: A, B or C?"
All of us: "Yes!"
Seriously, pls do all of them!!! 😁
11:09 I'm going to build the "Museum" of Halicarnassus... Spiff, I thought you were supposed to be accurate? xD
Remember Spif, 14,000 days is only 38.37 years and you're on the hook for those horses.
Viewers: Wait, it's all horses?
Spiff: Always has been.
(horse noises are heard in the background)
20:45 the most British thing I've ever heard.
Is Spiff a pre-order character or built in the base game?
@@thespiffingbrit Neat
@@thespiffingbrit aww it would have been cool to have Spiff as an unlockable character when the player has a monopoly on tea
The current requirement is to watch 2 hours of Humankind content (or at least to have it in the background) on Twitch with a connected Games2Gether account until December, 29th. 1st hour is going to drop the Lewis persona.
@@thespiffingbrit The outbreak of the new variant, which spreads even faster from what I've seen and heard, might prevent you from voicing your own character unfortunately. I'm not letting myself get too excited at the moment, but Tea damn it I really want to get excited.
@@Fr0zenEagle did you not mean queen Elizabeth damn it?
Getting here early, and with a cup of tea? This is truly a blessed day
John Green: Huns, Mongols, Xiongnu etc "They're the exception."
"dup the horses"-Sun Tzu
The last time I was this early the Mongols hadn’t attacked Vienna yet
Spiff's personality is tea, money, and fire.
I’ve been diagnosed with a medical condition that will prevent me from drinking tea for at least 6 months. Can I still watch your channel?
Just do the thing where ya soak teabags in hot water and then rest the teabags on your closed eyes, both helps prevent pink eye or sties and actually really pleasant as long as it ain't too hot and you don't open yer eyes. As long as ya get it into ya one way or another. XD
Spiff actually manages to turn his empire into the undead.
The undead don't kill, they recruit.
Huns and Mongols, the undead of "Humankind". xD
I'm amazed Spiff hasn't figured out how broken the Byzantines + Dutch are yet. Hopefully he too will one day be making 40 - 100 k a turn with this perfectly balanced experience!
Spiff - you can't retreat from this bad boy.
Ai - **laughs in French.**
My cat literally kept pawing the thumbnail to your video on my recommendeds until I played it. Thanks for getting my kitty addicted to your British wit and Yorkshire tea worship.
xD
Damn I was just about to preorder this. Perfect timing to see some majestic exploits
People still pre-order huh?
@@Spider-Man62 very rarely, only one game every couple years or so. I find strategy games are usually OK for preordering
10:58
Spiff: "We are the Huns, everyone around us is not the Huns, as you know this means they are all going to die."
Me, thinking about Atilla the Hun: "...sounds about right."
Seriously though, those Huns are... scarily accurate
Anyone else realize the devs probably didn't bug fix a lot on purpose so that they'd get free advertising from Spiff?
when there is tea, I must answer the call
Spore *without evolving* when you need to go to *space?* This requires an explanation.
Little blob dudes can build spaceships too! Tbh once you're past tribal it just plays like normal, since your creatures biology totally stops mattering.
Spif: holds apple
“This is horse”
Spore without evolving sounds epic, especially as I just did it, and I recommend going social at the beginning of creature stage.
I absolutely LOVE watching your gameplay. I have no idea how I found you...but I am very happy that I did. :D
This seems historically accurate
Wait, a Spore exploit in 2020? I'm in!
I cast my vote for B!
I used to be straight but..
*_Looks at topless buff Spiff_*
The Huns are not cannibals, but they do turn your armies into food.... Hmmm.... Yep, that checks out....