I'd love to see a necromancer lord game where you can build things out of bones and body parts. Not just humanoid units, but abominations with 8 arms, even entire siege engines and giant monsters made of many bodies, etc. Kind of like Besiege, but comically edgelord-y.
Growth is parts you get every day. There are some recipes that are flexible(Bastard Orc, Mutant), most are based on rpg classes def worth finding those combo's even for later game.
Some of the earlier ones are based on rpg classes, but many feel like just a matter of combing different variations from a certain "list" of parts (unarmored or armored skeletons, unarmored or armored zombies, different species etc.) Really it's a matter of figuring out the "rules" the developer used to think of specific recipes, and even then there are some weird ones. The flexible recipes are all different species combos as far as I can tell, though not every interspecies recipe is flexible.
Recipes are super worth using - they give buffs on top of the specific part characteristics. That said, the actual end-game units are usually custom. There are just some combinations of parts that work so much better for specific purposes (especially defending your tower or controlling a unit to go take out lairs) than the default recipes. At that stage I mostly use them to throw a group of units out to defend the tower.
@@justinthompson6364 Dunno, for some of them the bonus isn't worth using inferior parts. Like all of the Jotun have Jotun chests that do nothing but provide health and armor, for example. Replacing those with a demon chest for AoE fire damage instead if a flat upgrade. That said though the recipes are great for pumping out fire and forget minions quickly. The bonus value makes them very worth using for anything you don't pilot directly.
@@AndragonLea I would argue Jotuns aren't really endgame units the same way things like demons are. Late game, maybe, but you can start getting them a while before you're consistently obtaining anything with torso abilities, and they're noticeably cheaper.
@@justinthompson6364 Yeah. I like using their recipes for a good long while during what I consider the mid-game. They're not as suicidally fast as many of the vampire frames (amazing cheap AoE, but god help you if you don't one-shot), decently tanky at a time in the game where that still matters and their weapons are a decent mix of AoE and damage. They just fall of lategame where the tankiness they get from their limbs, torso and recipe bonus stops mattering because any pack of enemy spawns will kill just about anything that touches them while also being tanky enough that Jotun weapons (even with multiple + damage blueprints maxed out) will no longer one-shot them. At that stage Jotun will just walk in and die.
@Wanderbots idk if its a intended game mechanic but if you dont spawn ur dead the monsters wont spawn. u can save up parts every morning and sell them for mana and save the parts u want, and the cat doesnt start the monsters so u can use it to.
this sounds unintended, i don't think that the devs want the player to sit on an empty map for an hour doing literally nothing and just amassing r esources
Would love a bounty system like Majesty, so you could at least nudge your units in certain directions. A simple unit XP system would be cool too, so they could lvl up over time (if they survive)
I picked this up the other day, bastard orcs and bastard orc skeletons saved my life plenty of times on account of their combo having a hefty price reduction. I also have a skeleton base buster saved, the important parts are two orc maces and a body with a cloak. The rest is preference
it's a pain to defend until you get the vampire or some good ranged unit. at which point you control it and slap it in the middle of your base, then it annihilates anything that comes close. then it becomes something of a mini incremental game
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I'd love to see a necromancer lord game where you can build things out of bones and body parts. Not just humanoid units, but abominations with 8 arms, even entire siege engines and giant monsters made of many bodies, etc. Kind of like Besiege, but comically edgelord-y.
Growth is parts you get every day.
There are some recipes that are flexible(Bastard Orc, Mutant), most are based on rpg classes def worth finding those combo's even for later game.
Some of the earlier ones are based on rpg classes, but many feel like just a matter of combing different variations from a certain "list" of parts (unarmored or armored skeletons, unarmored or armored zombies, different species etc.) Really it's a matter of figuring out the "rules" the developer used to think of specific recipes, and even then there are some weird ones.
The flexible recipes are all different species combos as far as I can tell, though not every interspecies recipe is flexible.
full franken beast with many many limbs and possibly more than one head and body. Sounds like fun.
Recipes are super worth using - they give buffs on top of the specific part characteristics.
That said, the actual end-game units are usually custom. There are just some combinations of parts that work so much better for specific purposes (especially defending your tower or controlling a unit to go take out lairs) than the default recipes.
At that stage I mostly use them to throw a group of units out to defend the tower.
Even even for endgame units I'd say it's definitely worth using the secret recipes. The problem is getting the specific rare parts you need...
@@justinthompson6364 Dunno, for some of them the bonus isn't worth using inferior parts.
Like all of the Jotun have Jotun chests that do nothing but provide health and armor, for example.
Replacing those with a demon chest for AoE fire damage instead if a flat upgrade.
That said though the recipes are great for pumping out fire and forget minions quickly. The bonus value makes them very worth using for anything you don't pilot directly.
@@AndragonLea I would argue Jotuns aren't really endgame units the same way things like demons are. Late game, maybe, but you can start getting them a while before you're consistently obtaining anything with torso abilities, and they're noticeably cheaper.
@@justinthompson6364 Yeah. I like using their recipes for a good long while during what I consider the mid-game.
They're not as suicidally fast as many of the vampire frames (amazing cheap AoE, but god help you if you don't one-shot), decently tanky at a time in the game where that still matters and their weapons are a decent mix of AoE and damage.
They just fall of lategame where the tankiness they get from their limbs, torso and recipe bonus stops mattering because any pack of enemy spawns will kill just about anything that touches them while also being tanky enough that Jotun weapons (even with multiple + damage blueprints maxed out) will no longer one-shot them.
At that stage Jotun will just walk in and die.
Love how wacky the zombies can end up looking
The frequency that Wander forgets about using the CAAAAAAAAAAAAT while also complaining about not having enough parts makes me cry inside
Just watched the other one. It needs more love but still great.
YEEEES! I was so hoping there were more videos coming on this! I really loved the first one and I'll enjoy a couple more!
this game is fun as hell
@Wanderbots idk if its a intended game mechanic but if you dont spawn ur dead the monsters wont spawn. u can save up parts every morning and sell them for mana and save the parts u want, and the cat doesnt start the monsters so u can use it to.
this sounds unintended, i don't think that the devs want the player to sit on an empty map for an hour doing literally nothing and just amassing r
esources
I just finished watching this an hour ago so yay... Being late is great
You can sort the inventory by switching the inventory category.
he intentionally does stuff the hard way to frustrate himself sometimes.
Reminds me a little of an old game called majesty, seems a little simpler(not that is bad) and much shorter runs. Neat game though
Would love a bounty system like Majesty, so you could at least nudge your units in certain directions. A simple unit XP system would be cool too, so they could lvl up over time (if they survive)
I decided to buy the game today, gonna play it probably tomorrow and im looking forward to it and to unlocking many of the roguelite features
I am enjoying this new series way more then I thought I would be. XD
Growth is the chance for it to appear
I picked this up the other day, bastard orcs and bastard orc skeletons saved my life plenty of times on account of their combo having a hefty price reduction. I also have a skeleton base buster saved, the important parts are two orc maces and a body with a cloak. The rest is preference
Love those beefy zomboys!
Perhaps keeping a mob of ranged skeletons will allow them to delete the enemies before contact damage gets them.
it's a pain to defend until you get the vampire or some good ranged unit.
at which point you control it and slap it in the middle of your base, then it annihilates anything that comes close. then it becomes something of a mini incremental game
Where ep 3 I need it
Every day @ 7 am EST till I reach ep 9. After that I need to record more and might miss a few days if there's a major update on the horizon.
@@wanderbots thank you for responding, your awesome. I can’t wait to see the rest of your Frankenstein children.
the fact that ranged units dont stay at ranged make this game 1000% less fun. will not be trying it after seeing that :(
They're working on an AI update that *should* fix it. Hopefully.
That's good to hear, I'll be watching for future updates to see if that happens
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