first play through and on easy and man i was unprepared.. i won but alot of people died...super duper stressfull especially the final day where its 150c for a few hours but that few hours is hell man... overdrive full upgraded and it does nothing.. geez what a game
@@irvinsambire5827 Dude... i completed first campaing with saving scum on survivor diffuclty. It was very hard. Near 20h and search a optimal way to survive (well, i still use faith anyway). My first completion was "several times restart" and 20-50 deaths (no Tesla city).Still not regretting. All campaigns are good and last one (On the edge)... Worse at least paid Last Autumn, but better than Rifts (useless one, only for Endless extreme/ Building Extreme)
It snuck up on me. I was content. I was happy. My people were happy. The music kicked in .. the heart rate went up .. the people started beeing not so happy..mines about to collaps.. coal supplys plummeting into nothingness .. and it always got colder ... the music must have been playing for at least 4 minutes befor I really noticed it and realized that this was IT .. not any old storm, but THE storm.
@@MrWongWey given that one year after the fact I still experience a slight elevation in heart rate and go into "attention" mode when I hear this song without expecting it tells me that you are right. This game got me good.
On one hand I say Hell Yeah!!! On the other I say, nah. Each episode will be rushed and it has way to little personal drama for TV. You can't show how you put children to work and send 300 people to die only so 200 can survive with personal stakes.
@@Cloud_Seekerit’d be a political drama with a few special individuals to represent the various dynamics of the city. A worker revolt leader, an overworked engineer, a confident yet slightly incapable leader. It doesn’t have to be about the city itself, it could be about the people in the city, and how their actions affect their preparedness for the incoming storm
@@coalkingryan881 Don't forget to add a few characters representing the working class, engineering class, noble class, how they interact with each other and how they must learn to set aside the prejudice of the old world simply in order to survive. Oh and a season dedicated to the months prior to the cold, how they see the first signs and take the first steps, and how the generator that will be the main focus of the series is built to begin with. As for the leader, I would go with someone with a good heart and foresight, though not perfect and in need of support from all classes to make the right choice. Oh and please, automatons. And a group representing the scouts, aka the gigachads, fighting bears, discovering the destroyed egenrator and whatever scattered survivors they can find. And the father that must search for his daughter once the storm hits
@@Cloud_Seeker I say something like that made in Hollywood is near to impossible. Look at how they throw politics and messages around in almost every films. I rather want a TV show of this of episodes from other media that follow the core value theme of Frostpunk and not opted to changes. Perhaps a British-made since the game does take place in Britain or somewhere in the British Empire where the events of the game take place.
Me when I first played this game: No one will die on my watch. Me after losing countless people, and restarting multiple times: The city must survive. No matter the cost.
Me after witnessing countless victories by sacrificing people: This time, No one's gonna die, nor the City! And I success, for Christ sake, on standard difficulty
my first play through, i lost more than 2 thirds of my population and was eventually exiled as i failed to provide enough food, medicine, and heat the homes suffieciently
I made the mistake of going Order over faith on the second playthrough (the Survivor playthrough). It's incredible how effectively the game made me hate my citizens as they mocked, insulted, and attacked me for doing what was necessary. I ended up intentionally running the generator on overdrive until it exploded... Now I do Faith, and haven't had that issue again.
@Videoms "faith will give hope while order inspire" Not really. Faith does give a very strong hope bonua but order is mainly better at productivity. They still want to overthrow you unless you go full dictator.
@Videoms Hard to top that but you might be able to with faith... If you go faith and establish Public Righteous Denouncement, and ALSO have the prostitution law, some of the "faithful" will severely beat up a prostitute for immorality. Here's the kicker, though. Nobody chooses what job they work in the city, you choose it for them. So that means you mandated prostitution, FORCED someone into prostitution, then started a religion that makes it immoral and did nothing about them getting their asses kicked for being forced into sex slavery.... Goddamn this game can get dark!
Most terrifying part of this game is hearing the announcer in a dark and scared tone yell "Brace yourself. The storm is here" and then this music plays
I would like to take a moment to remember: *The overworked steel mill laborer *The officer who got shanked *The plot device *The ten scouts who I sent to fight bears *and the four refugees who died waiting for medical
I left the overdrive on out of pure stupidity and after i had the choice to yeet the child in to the generator, my first thought was: "GUYS! WE CAN USE CHILDREN AS FUEL TO HOLD THE CITY WARMER!!" it was a good idea to only let you do that once...
@@paladinboyd1228 Ah, yes. In times of war, the laws remain silent. True, it is fitting. The game was literally build around the idea, that the end justify the means. There is no black or white. There is only grey.
I was so scared for my city. I couldn't tell if people in the last few hours were dying of either starvation or frostbite. Discontent was so high, people were losing hope, but that little sun icon...that was my hope. The storm ends and about 100 died, i cried my eyes out. But guess what...the city survived.
A reminder that, the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth is -89.2 celsius. In the game, the temperature during the storm is almost 2 times lower than that at -150 celsius. Remember that it got so cold the mercury was frozen solid but the temperature is still going down. However we have to include the facts that the City is in an area where because of the layout being in a crater-hole sort of area, they aren't directly being hit by the Storm. That, and as far as I know the Generator is constantly putting out heated air upward so that might help too. Still, that's still really, really cold.
Using multiples and percentiles is useless for temperature because there's no standard reference point. You seem to be implying 2x lower at 0C, but you could just as easily use room temp (20-25C) as the baseline and suddenly that comparison is wildly off. For comparing temperatures, only delta matters.
@@thebookonthegoat8068 Some fictional rock disease from an anime game called Arknights. Essentially a person gets infected with magical rock dust that cause the cells in one's body to turn into magical rock that has the potential to make all of your vital organs nonfunctioning. Think of tiberium from that one Command and Conquer game or protomolecule from the Expanse.
Sacrifing steam core is so fricking expensive and you'll never know when to find another one. Children are a disposable tool at this point, you can find another one by birth or survivors hut. 😅😂
Constantine XI died on 29 May 1453, the day that Constantinople fell. His last recorded words were: "The city is fallen and I am still alive, no Emperor should outlive his Empire!", and then he tore off his imperial ornaments so as to let nothing distinguish him from any other soldier and led his remaining soldiers into a last charge where he was killed.
Indeed. One of the most moving battles in mankind's history. Actually the sacrifice of Constantine was not some act of pride or vanity. He and the other defenders of the city were buying time for the evacuation to proceed, once the walls have been breached.
If I recall correctly, -273°C is absolute zero, with nothing colder below that, at -150°C you are technically past the halfway to absolute lack of movement down to your very atoms.
True, but temperature itself is not important if it can't be transferred to you - it is the rate of heat exchange that is important. For example, that temperature, in very thin atmosphere, you would not feel cold at all - as a matter of fact, you'll have a problem cooling down. It actually happens to astronauts - they work in conditions a few degrees above the absolute zero, yet they need cooling systems in their suits, not to warm up. And in the game? Well, the whole problem would have been solved by simply digging in. Or finding a cave. Deeper caves are almost completely unaffected by outside weather due to the fact that heat from the core moves through the earth and even average caves maintain 12-14 degrees Celsius for the entire year, even if it is freezing outside. For a -150C? Just send people to the mine/cave and build a nice door at the entrance. They would be more than fine. But if we went with logic and reason, this nice game would not exist, or at least not as it is now :)
@@Wustenfuchs109 But also keep in mind that would be a 1800s mine, it would be a deathtrap to a small group let alone an entire city, thats not even covering the ventilation. Plus if you leave the generator off in the middle of the storm it would probably shatter beyond repair. Hiding in the mines or staying close to the generator, neither option is good, suppose its a matter of which is the lesser evil.
@@williamaldred335 In reality, you can hunker down a few hundreds of people (as in the game) in a mine, a natural cave or even in a tunnel in the ice (the one you'd make with a wall drill in the game) until the storm passes, with no problems. Mines of the 1800's were not a safe place to *work* in, but if no one is mining, everything sits still (people in their sleeping bags, sitting out the storm), you don't have a problem. And ventilation is the least of your problems - that is something even an unskilled crew can make with some basic resources. And we are talking about people who build entire cities in the game - to them, piece of cake. As for the generator in -150C, you are somewhat correct - if the generator was shut down and left to cool to -150C, it would indeed become brittle to mechanical damage. But as long as something is burning inside, it won't become brittle, as basically anything burning will keep the temperature of the iron/steel itself above 0C.
@@Wustenfuchs109 не плохо, но шахты в игре замерзают даже при работе генератора(воздух в них слишком холодный), да и в добавок генератор работает не совсем на угле, он работает на взрывоопасном газе из земли, уголь лишь искорка для него
First playthrough: I will be a decisive but just leader. No unnecessary cruelty. 5 minutes later: ANYONE LATE TO CHURCH GETS FED TO THE WOLVES. Also we're having sawdust for dinner.
@@dragonfriend9364 I always go for Soup as i get more rations for the same amount of raw food that the sawdust recipe uses, as I recall it's something like 2 raw food = 2 sawdust rations or 4 soup rations
Toll the Great Bell Once! Pull the Lever forward to engage the Piston and Pump... Toll the Great Bell Twice! With push of Button fire the Engine And spark Turbine into life... Toll the Great Bell Thrice! Sing Praise to the God of All Machines
-150 degrees celsius. There is no heat in the world that can protect you from that. This is the point where even the well prepared just says "AM I LOSING?" out loud.
That is the scary part you are not focusing on the people only your time and The ganarator as it rumbles and the risk of overdrive and an explosion as it burns Cole
"Hey dad, why is my sister called Rose?" "Because your mother likes roses." "Thanks, dad." "No problem *Violin Section of The City Must Survive.* - Stolen from a Bricc
I hate how they determine what constitutes as crossing the line, I went down the order pathway, I always chose the "positive" options and yet I was seen as "crossing the line". I dont even understand what that means to the developers
Kasey Brinson Well the snitching law and propaganda are considered extreme for the fact that you shouldn’t need to lie to the people to keep their hope high or turn them on each other secretly to lower discontent. Same goes for the Faith keepers and their version of punishment. It’s just unnecessary and too far.
@@cdrcrash468 Well you see, I dont get that. The whhole "its too far" stick, it doesnt make sense to me because isnt the survival of the colony the biggest worry? Maybe I should put it a different way: If you were in a plane and the plane crashes in the artic, after you ran out of food would cannabalism be too far to go for survival? I do not think it would be, but I am sure others would disagree. Or for a different example: should genetic modifications for unborn children be legal? I have heard "no because the child doesnt get a choice in the matter" bbut isnt that the same for just birth in general? The poiint I am trying to make I guess iis that morality is subjective and trying to put a pin on some thing as "going to far for the sake of survival" is also subjective, as such I dont get why they put in the morality counter thing.
Copypasted a comment from a "The City Must Survive" video, the video itself was deleted a long time ago. "The demon of the storm snarled its worst outside the ice-crept window. In the distance, the generator snarled back. A single flame-wreathed eye of hell standing defiant to the storm. Inside we hid like rats. Curled against one another. The braver men were in the mining caves, laying down their lives to keep our little eye of hell glaring skyward. Braver men were in the wards, burning anything they could find to keep the blanket-laden people warm. But for us? We watched. The storm roared at us, and the generator roared back. We watched, huddled against the far corner and eyes locked as the mercury dropped and ice swiftly crept across the glassy pane. Wisps of winter seeped through the wood and steel planks, and we just huddled together for warmth and watched. The clouds bloomed. Gathered. Shivers of ice-kissed light speared through the clouds as the swirling snows and winds tried to strangle the generator in the distance. The fire flickered. Cowed for the briefest of moments as the mercury continued to fall. Flickered, until the decision was made. The storm snarled at us. Bared its teeth. So the safeties were lifted. The coal flung into the maw from hell. Our little maw of hell. And the generator roared back at the storm."
I rushed to complete all Techs. The buildings are all properly insulated. Every part of the city have a Steam Vent protecting it. The Automatons are working non-stop to deliver coals to the Generator. The Coal Mines are caving in. There's no choice but to abandoned the lower parts. The Hunters Hangars and Hot Houses are frozen. I can only hope the storage will last. The Generator is on the maximum setting, and I have to manually turn the Overdrive on and off to avoid damaging the Generator. Yet the houses are still freezing. The Final Storm hit. I am warned that the Generator's stress is reaching Critical. With reluctant, I shut down the Overdrive for one final time. The number of Gravely Sick skyrocketted. We did everything we could. Now we wait. Moments later, the Sun rises. We survived.
During the Storm, you can make a choice: Run the generator past 100%, causing it to threaten an explosion. You will (100% f the time) have the option to fix the generator, either with a steam core or by sending in a child [to their death]. After fixing it, the stress drops by a decent amount, allowing you a few more hours' release from the deadly cold.
@@rockspoon6528 Didn't have that option popped up. Couldn't even if it does. I already spend all the Steam Cores (thank a lot bugged Outpost forcing me to dismantle/rebuild every time a Core is delivered) , and since I am aiming for a deathless run without "crossing the line" that option is no good either. Luckily, didn't have to. Saved every last one of them.
@@ShinigamiSamaH It doesn't just 'pop up,' you trigger it by running the generator on overdrive past 100%. The first time you do so you're offered a choice to use a steam core, a child, or let it blow.
-150c "A miracle occurs in the middle of the storm, the father who went to find his daughter has returned with her." I do not regret having left a family without eating that night, I gave him provisions thinking that he was going to die. I cried when I saw that they returned safely.
@@justthunderbolt40 it's not like you got him killed because you wanted to. You may blame yourself for the incompetence but during your playthrough you were the best those little people could rely on regardless
When you realise this Steampunk City Management has a final boss fight and you have to prepare while dealing with problems inside your city. After that, the song starts with the voice of the announcer saying: Brace yourself, Storm is here.
may be a lil late, but you could have like 30k coal and alot of food (yes, on extreme) before the storm even arrives. So you can not only not sacrifice people, but even deconstruct mines for steam cores, so you get more infirmaries, but usually i have around 20 around because of tesla city
This was one of the most intense game moments ever. An in-game week of pure struggle, trying to keep the heat as high as possible, watching as your coal supplies fall precariously low at night, and this music in the background. Well done to the devs.
Played this game for the first time in the middle of a freezing Upper Midwest winter. Played the final storm at 4am after stupidly starting a game at 11pm telling myself I'd just play for "an hour". Got so into the game that I decided to throw the windows open and sit there freezing my ass off for full immersion while my city battled through mindnumbing temperatures. Made it to the finish line -- barely -- with my generator almost exploding, with Discontent almost maxed. Most intense gaming experience of recent memory. 14/10 wish I could experience it all for the first time again.
Since that storm I fear in frostpunk the cold At the time I play the last autumn Dlc an when there stand first snow I instantly think fuck This game has become my favourite game of all time (on ps4)
I'm canadian. Once I went climbing a mountain during winter. Temperature was near -40. I played this music all day long on repeat until I reached the top. It really gives hope and energy, and I needed it.
“Boys, I am grateful!” The foreman’s cry was barely a faint whisper above the screaming winds, yet by no feat of divinity or luck, but instead his own indefatigable presence did every man working the generator hear him. “Praise be the Lord! Praise Him for this trial, this divine test of perseverance!” In and out. The steam billows, and for a few precious seconds, warmth reaches into the bones of the workers. It pushes them on, some faint memory of that heat giving them strength after the cold had latched on again. “For we are but vain beasts, that delight in our own inventions and works. I believe our Father to be an accommodating one, despite the scripture. Why else would we still be here, lads?” A great shout goes up amongst the workers. They cannot see the foreman through the suffocating grey of the snow, but in their hearts he was no less than shoveling the coal alongside them, calling the gauge, releasing the pressure. In and out, the steam billows. “Brought to our lowest, lads, we walked these frozen wastes. We carved a place to be reborn from this merciful pit in the sleeping Earth. And God believes in us!” In and out. The steam billows, though the gauge still rises. The generator is stressed to the breaking point, but the men know this. They continue on anyways. “That is why this cruel boreal veil now accosts us! To test us, to help us ascend. We have put our hearts, the very soul of our race, into this here smoking Tower of Babylon. But this time, God’s sent some encouragement our way! ‘Rise,’ he says! ‘Rise!’ Ha ha ha!” A great crash sounds in the distance, followed by a great multitude of screams hidden behind the greater howl of the freezing world. The winds have torn apart one of the homes. The men do not stop, but they are frightened. The gauge rises. In and out, the steam billows. “Through this storm we rise from this Earth to become greater! Death means nothing to the singular man, for we are the city, lads!” In and out. The steam billows. Another cry of strength, of defiance sounds out from the men. To touch the machinery is to burn one’s hands, even through their clothes. The wind howls. “And the city will survive! It must! I know it will, because should our coal run out, then that stubborn black tar in your souls will reignite it. We are Londoners! Nature has always been a cruel bitch to us, and we would have it no other way.” The men cry out as one voice. An indecipherable chorus of voices, young and old, deep and high, tired and frenzied. “So thank you God!” In and out. The steam billows. The plating shakes. “Thank you for your faith in us!” In and out. The steam billows. A great metal screech pierces the night from the generator. “Thank you for flinging us from the nest, so that we might fly!” In and out. The steam billows. The world assaults the light of the generator. “Thank you for seeing us here, for preserving our hearts and love for you and each other!” But the generator will not die. “Thank you for the strength in my lungs to shout these words of praise to you and these fine bastards with me!” The city must survive. “And thank you Lord, for letting us show you just what the fuck we’re made of!” The light will survive.
(Foremans are order nor religion) Sir, one of the new foremans you established with the new law has lost his mind and shouting about God and shit and encouraging some of the workers but upsetting the order of the city, what should we do? 1. Execute the man generator heat -one level, discontent - 15 2. Let him be generator heat +1, discontent +10, this may have repercussions in the future as more ppl may be influenced by his ramblings.
I like how at a point the music focuses on a clock's sound increasing the tension about how time is the only thing at that point you can focus on. And how during trying times time seem to go so slowly.
Nothing screams “will power” like a low brass section at their best. It’s the sound of the underdog getting off the ground and throwing that last punch that utterly destroys the prize fighter.
@Videoms He doesn't die. If you just ignore him, he will go and find he daughter. If you give him food, he will go find his daughter in the storm and come back. The only way of the dad dying is ignoring him and not letting him go.
@@theotv5522 I don't know, how am i supposed to remember a 4 month old conversation? I think he said something about the father-daughter event, and then later admited he just though it was like that.
Automatons the real MVP of all games. They would work all time, 24 on 7, everywhere. When your city gonna be frozed, only automatons keep work. All hail Automatons!
That last day before the final storm, everyone stayed home. I passed out wood and steel so everyone could shore up their houses. Some spent the day at the temples praying, others gathered their loved ones around them and huddled in their homes. Midnight came and we held evening prayers. Hope was high and discontent was no where in site. We stayed strong, thanked those that gave their lives so the coal mines could remain open. One day I will build a shrine for those 45 men, engrave their names in a block of coal and place it next to the generator. A fitting reminder for those that survived. This game was EPIC!
That last day before the final storm, everyone still attend their morning gathering, later digging deep inside those mines, drilling even deeper by the city natural wall. theres no hope for us. only morale. and the morale was so high, the people works overtime without complain. Midnight came and there were knocks on the people doors, the watchmen delivered our captain's words, ensuring the people that we will survive this. the frost came, and our guards and watchmen still patrol the city steps ensuring everyone is fine and everything is in order. We stayed strong, thanked those that gave their lives so the coal mines could remain open. we watch our flags waving by the generator with pride. we survived this. and yes it was worth it !
@@canomeister4327 ye i got unfortunate with the weather before the storm and ended up with -190°C at the mid to late stage of the storm .I had around 640 people going into the storm and like 60% froze to death, rest had pneumonia
you don´t have to let people die in the coal mines if you just use coal thumpers i used it on normal and had only three deaths(Messenger from Winterhome,Poet in the propaganda centre and one before the storm at some point).
Kills 157 people in coal mines propaganda paints coal miners as heroic martyrs as the overlord sends more bodies into the coffin that is the coal mine , The city must survive
@@stankobarabata2406 From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me. I craved the strength and certainty of steel. I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine. Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you; one day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you'll beg my kind to save you. But I... am already saved. For the machine is immortal. Even in death I serve the -Omnissiah- City.
@@DD-is3ng is it weird that I finished a new home scenario without anyone dying and I had no automatons at all? I've played through generator fully upgraded, steam hubs and heaters around the city. Surely, people got sick, and at the last day before the storm ended I had 50 sick people but no seriously ill. In around a minute before the storm ended I had 114 sick out of 197 population, still no seriously ill.
A game when the boss is not something you can actually kill A real Force of Nature against the specie which dominate the world Even with all science we acquire, this music gives me chills I wish I could experiment this feeling one time again the kind of game you want to discover the first time again
When everyone, literally everyone survives, a no death playthrough, but your hope was straddling near 1-2% and your discontent was sitting at 99% before the storm ends. So Ironic. 705 people saved and they were all about to break right before the storm ended, but luckily they held on a bit longer... as if we were in any real danger lol
my first play i managed to keep everyone alive, but it was LITERAL HELL. i saved everyone. it costed me people getting mutilated to heal them, but they survived
705? I'm assuming you had 11 Automatons then because there's a max of 694 people you can get in your city in A New Home, if you truly absolutely do save everyone and nobody dies.
"I do not ask to be your captain for the rest of my life. I do not ask that you venerate me as the true savior. I do not ask that you do not try me for my crimes. I ask only that you do that after the storm, so that I may die knowing that the city will survive."
That horrifying moment when you realize...oh fuck, I have to tell all the operations out there to return to the city, and then realize that the wall off death is literally closing in..
I literally screamed when I saw the wall of snow coming at me and I needed to recall everyone while looting areas and saving lost people from certain death this game truly made me scared from cold
I kind of just went into shock as the temperature fell towards -150. the gong kept ringing from people dying left and right. I wasn’t even aware that the game ended and I had “won” The city ... survived ?
That's the only thing I don't love about the game. On medium difficulty, some will survive even if you run out of coal in the middle of the storm, it's just an undeserved victory.
I wrote a poem about this song, because the heroism and desperation feels exactly like the battle of dealing with schizophrenia every day. I find strength and comfort in it harsh winter, a sinister fate don’t whimper, grit with an iron grip the longest winter the weak won’t make it gripping and gripping and wishing times simpler I hate it with all my might I hate it the callous weakness splinter the mighty felling iron crashing hinder comfort and peace, things we left when times were better and simpler gripping and gripping holding on wishing any moment now a release wishing we had more timber in this biting cold we won’t make it! we have to, I hate it! The weakness splinter! frostbite, my grip is frozen solid cursed be it! Cursed be the winter! hanging on hanging on in the deadliest winter! like a crushing wave with unyielding finality like a wave that kills off the weaker a thousand to one, they’re all gone I’m the last one standing in the war of winter my schizophrenia it killed off all the weeping sorry it killed all but me in this frozen nightmare winter it killed everyone but me in this war of dark iron frozen solid in this war of sinister lonely in this war of waking hell in this battlefield of last stand torturing iron winter torture, torture, torture! it never ends, it never got any better, even with pills a waking nightmare a nightmare to those without a voice no voice for stigma reasons no voice in endless midnight winter thank you for reading. I hope that one day society will overcome the deep stigmas surrounding this illness
That moment you know there is nothing you can do except sit, watch and hope no one or not too many die as the automatons gather as much coal as possible
Still I gotta say if there was a hell mode Where it actually does go to the absolute freezing point Where adams begin to free Watching those Atomaton's fall would be the second scariest thing for these people and be Horrifying to the Player as even the Automatons Bend to the winter And probably something worse Having the captain the player Being sent in to fix the the generator It will give you more time However you will no longer be able to do anything and I mean absolutely anything Because you are dead
Ah yes, I still hear the sounds of my people screaming in the freezing cold. 426 people before the storm and just 13 left after it, glory to new London.
Frostpunk's soundrack simply ingenious! That wind howling as ambient sound and restless violin... you can literally feel the frost just by listening this music! I swear, i am covered in goosebumps and my hands dead cold though it's +20 celsius outside.
The temperature plunges another ten degrees. The hunters huddle in the pub, their blimps grounded by the unearthly winds. "How much colder could it still get?" moans one, rubbing his hands in front of the heat radiator in the corner. It is the second day of the storm, with yet no end in sight.
"Emergency shift?!" blurted Staz, "This fragile mind, how much more ingenuity can it spew?! How many more inventions for this Captain; will he wither us right up to the moment the automata seize the means of production?!" Ewing's patented 'Double Dose of Death' was just about done simmering, testing his caffeine brew with the whisks of his bushy moustache first- a quirk he'd dare not share. "My God, Staz. I think you just might mean it this time around." says Ewing, his ice blue eyes all wide and glistening from the kick of the first sip. "Where's your Faith, old man? The storm's right around the corner, and we're to do what was asked of us from the very beginning- sit in this radiant tower of a workshop and figure out how to survive the following day." Eric was here by now, too, a quiet smile stemmed from the soothing of the familiar sight of the two polar opposites that be Staz and Ewing, hopeless in persuading the other. His walk brisk- too brisk for a man that's been woken up after a mere two hours of sleep, and tasked to work for the next twenty-four. He brushes past Joshua's workstation, eyeing him a gentle smirk while tapping the thermostat to make sure the heater's heating proper. Joshua eyes him back, a blink of reassurance. Four mugs of Double Dose of Death clunked onto the illuminated drawing table, which spanned across the main think tank chamber. "Come now, Staz" croaked Eric, his voice betraying his exhaustion, "the city must survive."
I played the game in a quite cold room with the AC on and that made the experience 100 times better. The moment the storm ended i jumped up and yelled "FUCK YESSSS" and then i sat there and actually cried. This is how good this game is. I've never really thought that a game would make me cry
A howling gale bursts upon the city, the generator creaks and groans under the weight of the wind, rattling windows shelter trembling faces whose lips utter words of prayer. THE CITY MUST SURVIVE
"STORM ON THE HORIZON!!!" Came a cry from the watch tower The foreman turned to his men with a grave look upon his face. "Rally your men and any child who would hold a shovel. We must take to the mines in fervour. Pray to your God for hell hath opened and visited it's wrath upon us. The heart must live, the engine must not fall silent. Now go! Go and pray we yet survive!"
The demon of the storm snarled its worst outside the ice-crept window. In the distance, the generator snarled back. A single flame-wreathed eye of hell standing defiant to the storm. Inside we hid like rats. Curled against one another. Brave men were in the mining caves, laying down their lives to keep our little eye of hell glaring skyward. Braver men were in the wards, burning anything they could find to keep the blanket-laden people warm. But us? We watched. The storm roared at us, and the generator roared back. We watched, huddled against the far corner and eyes locked as the mercury dropped and ice swiftly crept across the glassy pane. Wisps of winter seeped through the wood and steel planks, and we just huddled together for warmth and watched. The clouds bloomed. Gathered. Shivers of ice-kissed light speared through the clouds as the swirling snows and winds tried to strangle the generator in the distance. The fire flickered. Cowed for the briefest of moments as the mercury continued to fall. Flickered, until the decision was made. The storm snarled at us. Bared its teeth. So the safeties were lifted. The coal flung into the maw from hell. Our little maw of hell. And the generator roared back at the storm....
In case you didn't know, 11bit Studios (lovely chaps who made Frostpunk) are also the studio that produced "This War of Mine", which is based on the siege of Sarajevo. It's much more peaceful, but still emotionally rich. You get 3 civilians, strangers to each other, sheltered in one of many abandoned houses in the war-engulfed city, and the goal is to survive. You gather materials from things you find inside, cover broken walls so no one can threaten your "safety", build workstations and equipment. In the night, when omnipresent snipers are less active, one of yours ventures out of your shelter to get food and supplies. During daytime there will be people knocking to your door asking for help and sometimes during nighttime raiders trying to loot your base. You will have a choice of how you gather the materials - if you go to the market, it will obviously have other, probably not-to-friendly visitors. If you choose to loot someone's house, you can just kill the residents, loot them silently or not loot at all. They will have their own problems, and your people are not indifferent to what they are doing. You'll have to care for both their physical and mental well-being. There will be problems with medicaments, food, supplies and hostile survivors, with sleep and sanity, all while awaiting for the end of horrible conflict. I highly recommend the game, because while it doesn't bring the fear of sudden death to the somewhat epic threat like Frostpunk does (and does it perfectly), it builds your stress and fear of death in much more steady and realistic, relatable way. The games are kind of similar, but in terms of climate "This War of Mine" is more peaceful and personal.
@@dv3h890 Almost everyone who played frostpunk know about and came to this game because of this war of mine, which was much greater success and gained larger popularity. I think it does not need any introductions. I strongly do not agree that this war of mine is more peaceful tho. In frostpunk there are no combat and battle elements at all and there are no military units or troops you can train and no enemies at all (at least add polar bears and arctic wolves, omg), it is solely economical base building vs storms, and yeah, Londoners are not enemies in a usual meaning, they are just political opposition and I did not encounter any problems with them at all as they did not kill the others or did not destroy buildings and any stuff like that. In this war of mine there are lots of battle episodes and the situation is always either you kill someone or your character will be killed or you can escape and return without food or supplies, which is also a lose in the long term. Don't forget that there also enemies that cannot be killed on some locations, for example snipers who are very far away and you cannot even see them. Or when the winter comes you'll get almost the same gameplay experience of frostpunk, where your characters may become ill and die if you do not have any fuel to warm up the house. So it obviously is not more peaceful as you have to deal with both environment and human enemies
That final week, especially for me as my city was poorly managed. Was pure PAIN. No food, no steel ,no wood, and worst of all, no. Coal. Dozens of people were dying every day, i struggled to keep most places above freezing. After that horrid final day of -150c° i let out a sigh of pure relief. There were only 26 people left, but we made it.
Вот иногда играю и аж плакать хочется. Честь и хвала калекам, что взяв палки под банальные протезы пошли работать перед лицом бури. Добровольцам, что отдали свои жизни, ради того, чтобы угольные шахты работали. Отцу, что в -100 спас собственную дочь. Отважным докторам, что лечили сотни больных в самый разгар ужасного холода. Стражникам и Хранителям Веры, которые защищали людей от преступлений и краж. Да и всему народу. Каждый чем-то пожертвовал, чтобы город жил.
Да.. это прекрасно.. А у меня были все ленивые, работать не могли, даже порядок не помог.. Я не мог запастится угля, от чего мой генератор просто отключился, и город Просто рипнулся.. Но на 1 раз я отстроил не такой плохой город..
People: its gonna -150 outside, but only -70 in our insulated homes, right? We should be fine! Me, who only prepared tents for them: **sweating profusely**
@@ra.n9482 man I just finished this ans it was truly magical, never did winning a city builder feel this good, Also just got bioshock, is it really as good as they say it is? Kinda hyped
Sir, most of our people have abandoned their workplaces to stay home with their families. Only the medical facilities are still funktioning. The city holds its breath, waiting for whatever the end will bring.
God this is the best game Soundtrack I've heard in forever. Hearing this in the climx of the storm, mere hours before the end, generator critical, the very air you exhale freezing to dry ice instantly, I can just imagine the captain, at the foot of the generator, staring at the sky with defiance in his eyes, watching as the streets themselves snap-freeze in front of him in real time (6:49), shouting encouragement to the people, screaming back at the fury of nature, "We will survive! This city will survive! *THE CITY MUST SURVIVE!!!* " And as the frost closes the final few meters to the generator (8:24), he grabs the railing, and the last cry before the world turns white is "BRAAAAAAAAACE!!!!"
my director screamed something like: COOK HIM ON THE STEAM VENTS AND SHUT DOWN THE GENERATOR BEFOR IT EXPLODES! WE ARE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIEEEEE! ... we didn't ... well ..not ..all of us .. I got out 280- ish ...
Imagine a movie in Frostpunk "New Home." It's is completly silent, everyone is in their home, only the generator is hearable. And suddenly, you hear the announcement in a feared tone. "Brace Yourself. . . The storm is here!" And with the first tone of this Theme, the storm reaches the town, the wind rushes through the streets, slams against the houses and the generator loudly cracked from it.
The only building game where it took all i've got to make it through and where even i said to myself: THE CITY MUST SURVIVE! Hadn't a game in a long time, what challanged me that much where you count each death yourself from your citizen to try to plan ahead to keep the generator up and running while over night the supplies become so low, that it shows 1H remaining on the heart of the city. Honestly, one of my favourite games so far. Challenging, depressing yet beautiful and a great piece of design and the music is just perfectly fitting. Describing the merciles cold when families and workers just freeze to death in the mineshafts and so on.
A desperate father gets the supplies and my blessing as leaves to find his beloved child in a snowstorm. He made it. -150 Degrees Celcius and they come back alive. What a Chad.
The final storm in the main storymode drained my city dry. Not a single shred of coal, not a single plank of wood. Nothing left to burn. The people froze in their homes, in their beds, under their sheets. My city of over a few hundred men, women and children died, one by one. Bitten by the ice that tore down everything I had spent hours to build. But the end was in sight, the temperature would rise, and we could rebuild. Nearly five-hundred became one-hundred. Seventy. Fifty. And then, mercy finally arrived in all her beauty, and the storm did pass. The city survived, but it's heart was broken.
Finished the game 15 minutes ago , Haven't crossed the line , religion way , 691 people survived , 0 deaths during the storm [no cheats were used ] . I was surviving the storm for 3 hours , and when the temperature reached -150 , this part of music started to play {2:41} ,I was crying so hard because i was afraid of my people , hospitals full of sick people , generator 80% stressed , wind is roaring like a wild lion , and the graphic effects of the storm maked me to belive that I was literaly here , with my people , freezeing to death and fighting with the forces of nature . At the credits , game showed the timelapse of building my city , and what we had overcomed with my people . This game is absolute 11\10 , I'm 23 , and i can't tell that i'm an emotional man or a crybaby , but this game maked me to cry a lot . Thank's for an extended ost autor.
Just finished my first successful run of Frostpunk. During the last moments before dawn, had the generator in overdrive past the 90% marker and it threw the critical heat warning. All I could imagine was the generator crew standing in the middle of blizzard, rushing to shut it down while the captain is screaming at them to ‘Hold!’, desperately trying to buy their confidence in him for a few hours more until the storm broke. Survived at 97% overheat. Best fucking feeling ever.
It's been a year so idk if you've played it yet, but my personal experience, the game made me cry. That's how good it was. I've never been so emotionally moved by a game before honestly
This theme its just too fitting for the last stretch... you wouldnt even start to imagine how stressful the last minutes are where you just see how the temperature drops and drops without stoping... people getting sick left and right while putting the generator on overclock seeing that little red bar filling up where 100% means a catastrophe... The mines system colapsing from the cold while automatons try their best to collect even the slightest ounce of coal to keep systems running for enough time so you can make it. Listening to the people fall on desperation falling on their knees to pray refusing to work, all hope is gone and everytime at 8am you hear... THE CITY MUST SURVIVE! The last day you might make it but the last hurdle is ahead a drop on temperature so strong how could people survive... And yet, we didn't crossed the line
It's a good game to play in the winter with your window open keeping your room cold and a great soundtrack + content really puts you in the feel of the game.
@@salbondo6842 not everyone makes the right choices the first time, I have a hard time believing you did everything right without looking anything up or having prior knowledge of the game play. If you did that's impressive and all but still suss
Music for studying: Background Cool Jazz, Light Medieval Music, Studio Gibli ... Music for studiyng for your final exams TOMORROW: "The City Must Survive".
A mindless, impersonal, merciless force of nature is one of the best final bosses in any game ever made. This storm outdoes every evil speech or badass monster you will encounter in most games .
People can never compare the fear you get from this final push for survival. It's just nothing like I've ever felt in a game. They take your Power away from being able to save your population to just being able to watch, they kick you off of Godhood and all you can do is just pray that you did enough so that at least some will survive the onslaught to rebuild. Once that Temperature drops to -150 Degrees not even the Generator can produce enough Heat to save them. It's all. The. Will. To. Survive.
@@TheDankShrimp Things have improved for me. The worst days were Monday through Wednesday but Tuesday we literally had like 3 coats on with blankets inside our houses. We used our propane grill to warm up some bread and canned soups and boiled water. Frostpunk is one of my favorite games and I was thinking, wow we are living in a Frostpunk simulation now lol.
The first time i played the game, the storm arrived sooner than i thought, i was not prepared. The scouts that i send to get the last core that i needed died in the way back. The storm arrived, i didn't had enough food or coal. I had to put the generator in level 2, the only people working where the guards and the mines, it was too cold to activate the medical posts. Every day the cold was worst, the automatons stopped working correctly. I was praying for it to end. The guards started running away from their jobs, and the happiness was in the ground, people where dying left and right. At that point the only thing that i could do is wait while everything went to shit. Finally the storm stopped, i don't know how did i survived, half of the city was fucking dead. In the end the city survived... but at wich cost? ps: if i wrote something wrong, it's because english is not my main language.
Usually movie based on video games don't do well, but that's normally because the people behind the movie don't understand the game or fail to interpret it properly. In the case of Frostpunk, it could work, but a movie would probably end up being a social commentary, either through Order or Faith. Which is something we don't need. So yes, it could be done but I would strongly advice against it.
The reason I watch let's-players of this game is one very specific moment: At the end of the game, when they survive the storm and cheer for their achievement, and are suddenly hit with "and in the fight for survival, WE CROSSED THE LINE" The reaction of realisation, denial and sadness that they make at that moment is exceptional, and Frostpunk is the only game I know of that can cause this kind of reaction.
First playthrough. The last save was about 25 days ago. The storm is ruthless. -120 on thermometer. The sun icon is on the calendar. Majority of the city lay dead. Discontent dangerously high. I go for the faith protectors' headquarters and press a few buttons. Discontent falls... The few surviving people walk around the overdriven generator. Their bodies feeble. But their faith in upcoming warmth... unshaking. They know that only the lucky few will make it through. -150 hit that night... For them the bell tolls, for them who are doomed to have ice flowing in their veins. ...7 people made it. Five of them - badly sick, other two - a sick one and an amputee. They made it... but... they are left alone All alone. In this hell. To take a brief glance at the dying sun, before the next ever frost takes grasp.
This game is worth it. The climax ends with the person who continues to die with this music and the desperate dramatic effect. Impression of the first play is unforgettable. that is enough
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Engineer: Sir -150 celsius
Captain: Is that lowest we will see?
Engineer: Sir its lowest we can measure.
Jesus fucking christ...
Damn just reading this gave me chills (no pun intended)
Captain: -150 not great, not terrible
@@복치김-o1n Oh hello Diatlov
Bone chilling 🥶
"Oh boy, a new city management game!"
"... why does it have a boss music"
first play through and on easy and man i was unprepared.. i won but alot of people died...super duper stressfull especially the final day where its 150c for a few hours but that few hours is hell man... overdrive full upgraded and it does nothing.. geez what a game
@@irvinsambire5827 easy?
Onyx Rafle yea dont judge first time i got destroyed just got the game a few days ago...
@@irvinsambire5827 No I just don't remember there being an easy mode
@@irvinsambire5827 Dude... i completed first campaing with saving scum on survivor diffuclty. It was very hard. Near 20h and search a optimal way to survive (well, i still use faith anyway).
My first completion was "several times restart" and 20-50 deaths (no Tesla city).Still not regretting. All campaigns are good and last one (On the edge)... Worse at least paid Last Autumn, but better than Rifts (useless one, only for Endless extreme/ Building Extreme)
Texans when temperature drops slightly under 0 Celsius
"We are the only state that can operate independently, we have our own power grid!!!"
*laughs in Québec Hydrodams working at -40c*
Cries in undefrosted roads
@@JB-xl2jc that I'd why you lost all power
@@aregmartirosyan2076 Lol I'd not be caught dead living in Texas, I live in New Jersey, pinnacle of civilization
That violin, oh that violin....
It snuck up on me. I was content. I was happy. My people were happy. The music kicked in .. the heart rate went up .. the people started beeing not so happy..mines about to collaps.. coal supplys plummeting into nothingness .. and it always got colder ... the music must have been playing for at least 4 minutes befor I really noticed it and realized that this was IT .. not any old storm, but THE storm.
XenomorphsWrath This game should have been flagged for PTSD inducing.
@@XenomorphsWrath The City Must Survive.
@@MrWongWey given that one year after the fact I still experience a slight elevation in heart rate and go into "attention" mode when I hear this song without expecting it tells me that you are right. This game got me good.
I think what you mean is the cello
I just realized. Frostpunk would make for an excellent TV mini series.
I second this!
On one hand I say Hell Yeah!!! On the other I say, nah. Each episode will be rushed and it has way to little personal drama for TV. You can't show how you put children to work and send 300 people to die only so 200 can survive with personal stakes.
@@Cloud_Seekerit’d be a political drama with a few special individuals to represent the various dynamics of the city. A worker revolt leader, an overworked engineer, a confident yet slightly incapable leader. It doesn’t have to be about the city itself, it could be about the people in the city, and how their actions affect their preparedness for the incoming storm
@@coalkingryan881 Don't forget to add a few characters representing the working class, engineering class, noble class, how they interact with each other and how they must learn to set aside the prejudice of the old world simply in order to survive. Oh and a season dedicated to the months prior to the cold, how they see the first signs and take the first steps, and how the generator that will be the main focus of the series is built to begin with. As for the leader, I would go with someone with a good heart and foresight, though not perfect and in need of support from all classes to make the right choice. Oh and please, automatons. And a group representing the scouts, aka the gigachads, fighting bears, discovering the destroyed egenrator and whatever scattered survivors they can find. And the father that must search for his daughter once the storm hits
@@Cloud_Seeker I say something like that made in Hollywood is near to impossible.
Look at how they throw politics and messages around in almost every films.
I rather want a TV show of this of episodes from other media that follow the core value theme of Frostpunk and not opted to changes. Perhaps a British-made since the game does take place in Britain or somewhere in the British Empire where the events of the game take place.
This song embodies *Current Objective: Survive*
-150 C degrees
I'm ready, how about you?
@@Jockster109 not now Balthasar I'm trying to get enough coal.
December 2020
Survive the boss fight against chaos itself, the Mother Nature.
*Brace your purpose & adaptation*
*Survive the storm*
Me when I first played this game: No one will die on my watch.
Me after losing countless people, and restarting multiple times: The city must survive. No matter the cost.
@Videoms - Joseph Stalin simulator
Me after witnessing countless victories by sacrificing people: This time, No one's gonna die, nor the City!
And I success, for Christ sake, on standard difficulty
my first play through, i lost more than 2 thirds of my population and was eventually exiled as i failed to provide enough food, medicine, and heat the homes suffieciently
@Videoms nice
@@TyrDrum
As if Stalin had come up with the idea of dividing things into necessary and minor.
Me: I am good leader that will never do something immoral
*-150c storm approaches
Me: Use child worker corpses as fuel.
I made the mistake of going Order over faith on the second playthrough (the Survivor playthrough). It's incredible how effectively the game made me hate my citizens as they mocked, insulted, and attacked me for doing what was necessary. I ended up intentionally running the generator on overdrive until it exploded...
Now I do Faith, and haven't had that issue again.
@Videoms based ubermenchen
@Videoms "faith will give hope while order inspire"
Not really. Faith does give a very strong hope bonua but order is mainly better at productivity. They still want to overthrow you unless you go full dictator.
@Videoms its ok. Turns out I was jist bad. I seripusly underestimated the power of prisons.
@Videoms Hard to top that but you might be able to with faith... If you go faith and establish Public Righteous Denouncement, and ALSO have the prostitution law, some of the "faithful" will severely beat up a prostitute for immorality.
Here's the kicker, though. Nobody chooses what job they work in the city, you choose it for them. So that means you mandated prostitution, FORCED someone into prostitution, then started a religion that makes it immoral and did nothing about them getting their asses kicked for being forced into sex slavery....
Goddamn this game can get dark!
Most terrifying part of this game is hearing the announcer in a dark and scared tone yell "Brace yourself. The storm is here" and then this music plays
first time was honestly frightening.
I was gripping my mouse and did everything possible to keep the city running somehow.
i wish there was an alarm bell hitting while that happened
@@Keyhan-c8c alarm would cost 4 coal, we cannot afford that :D
@@baguettelauncher8839 4 coal and 10 steel ;)
@@Keyhan-c8c yeah, priority on technology decreasing generator's consumption xd
I would like to take a moment to remember:
*The overworked steel mill laborer
*The officer who got shanked
*The plot device
*The ten scouts who I sent to fight bears
*and the four refugees who died waiting for medical
*cat saluting
Press F for all the sick who died because there weren't enough engineers to staff the medical posts
ok, but did the scouts win?
@@gregday4682 In death, they have done their duty. In doing their duty, they have achieved victory.
The only defeat is a meaningless death.
10 scouts turn off the Tesla city power
You will always be remembered, Little Timmy. The boy who turned on the furnace and saved the entire city.
WE MUST SURVIVE!!!!!!!!!!!!
Unless you had a steam core at that point left...which I didn't. Rip timmy
@@ravenstudios13 You have few steamcores and like 120 children... use cheaper resource :D
@@luboshorak7191 :D
I left the overdrive on out of pure stupidity and after i had the choice to yeet the child in to the generator, my first thought was: "GUYS! WE CAN USE CHILDREN AS FUEL TO HOLD THE CITY WARMER!!"
it was a good idea to only let you do that once...
If the phrase "Desperate times call for desperate measures" was a theme, it would be this.
I also think the phrase “inter arma enim silent leges” Would also apply in this situation.
@@paladinboyd1228 Ah, yes. In times of war, the laws remain silent. True, it is fitting. The game was literally build around the idea, that the end justify the means. There is no black or white. There is only grey.
@@veslar I dunno, that OBEDIENCE bar looks pretty black to me.
@@veslar in my city there is only black. be it the hands of coal miners or the heart of the captain. the storm was afraid of what i had created.
@@philip8498 The storm tried to purge the nightmare that only a captain with a heart colder than said storm would create.
When you finally see that little sun icon appear on the weather timeline, so close yet so far away...
You feel every second.
@@rainmanslim4611 *BELL RINGS*
*Sound of tiles flipping*
It is now -150 degrees celcius. SURVIVE.
@@covariance5446 last hours were intense. The City must survive.
My reaction when I saw the sun icon.
MOVE FASTER YOU LITTLE YELLOW BASTARD!!!!
I was so scared for my city. I couldn't tell if people in the last few hours were dying of either starvation or frostbite. Discontent was so high, people were losing hope, but that little sun icon...that was my hope. The storm ends and about 100 died, i cried my eyes out. But guess what...the city survived.
A reminder that, the coldest temperature ever recorded on Earth is -89.2 celsius. In the game, the temperature during the storm is almost 2 times lower than that at -150 celsius. Remember that it got so cold the mercury was frozen solid but the temperature is still going down.
However we have to include the facts that the City is in an area where because of the layout being in a crater-hole sort of area, they aren't directly being hit by the Storm. That, and as far as I know the Generator is constantly putting out heated air upward so that might help too. Still, that's still really, really cold.
At that temperature Atmosphere itself would start freezing
Just -150 C is a temperature that is just about unthinkable.
Using multiples and percentiles is useless for temperature because there's no standard reference point.
You seem to be implying 2x lower at 0C, but you could just as easily use room temp (20-25C) as the baseline and suddenly that comparison is wildly off.
For comparing temperatures, only delta matters.
@@masticatedaily1 huh, we learn something new everyday, i guess.
The dad who goes into the blizzard to find his daughter is just casually breathing liquid air like a chadlord
The Storm: Unstoppable force
New London: Immovable object
yes this exactly.
Oh hey Revs! It could be worse, imagine extreme colds with oripathy.
@@CrRaZzyX Oripathy?
@@thebookonthegoat8068 Some fictional rock disease from an anime game called Arknights. Essentially a person gets infected with magical rock dust that cause the cells in one's body to turn into magical rock that has the potential to make all of your vital organs nonfunctioning. Think of tiberium from that one Command and Conquer game or protomolecule from the Expanse.
@@CrRaZzyX another day in Ursus. Blessed be the Tsar.
may my respect go to that one child that fixed the entire generator at the age of 5, my hats go to you Sir
Kid? where is this?
@@honesto1590if you get the generator to max stress you can choose to sacrifice either a child or a steam core
Sacrifing steam core is so fricking expensive and you'll never know when to find another one. Children are a disposable tool at this point, you can find another one by birth or survivors hut. 😅😂
@@schyracollbrande1900you can’t get children from birth in the game
Timmy did us all proud
Constantine XI died on 29 May 1453, the day that Constantinople fell. His last recorded words were: "The city is fallen and I am still alive, no Emperor should outlive his Empire!", and then he tore off his imperial ornaments so as to let nothing distinguish him from any other soldier and led his remaining soldiers into a last charge where he was killed.
Indeed. One of the most moving battles in mankind's history. Actually the sacrifice of Constantine was not some act of pride or vanity. He and the other defenders of the city were buying time for the evacuation to proceed, once the walls have been breached.
Didn't expect to see a Byzantine history post on here, glad I did
why would you remind me of this you cruel bastard
But who opened the gates :(?
@@frysebox1 They knocked them down?...
If I recall correctly, -273°C is absolute zero, with nothing colder below that, at -150°C you are technically past the halfway to absolute lack of movement down to your very atoms.
True, but temperature itself is not important if it can't be transferred to you - it is the rate of heat exchange that is important. For example, that temperature, in very thin atmosphere, you would not feel cold at all - as a matter of fact, you'll have a problem cooling down. It actually happens to astronauts - they work in conditions a few degrees above the absolute zero, yet they need cooling systems in their suits, not to warm up.
And in the game? Well, the whole problem would have been solved by simply digging in. Or finding a cave. Deeper caves are almost completely unaffected by outside weather due to the fact that heat from the core moves through the earth and even average caves maintain 12-14 degrees Celsius for the entire year, even if it is freezing outside.
For a -150C? Just send people to the mine/cave and build a nice door at the entrance. They would be more than fine.
But if we went with logic and reason, this nice game would not exist, or at least not as it is now :)
@@Wustenfuchs109 But also keep in mind that would be a 1800s mine, it would be a deathtrap to a small group let alone an entire city, thats not even covering the ventilation.
Plus if you leave the generator off in the middle of the storm it would probably shatter beyond repair.
Hiding in the mines or staying close to the generator, neither option is good, suppose its a matter of which is the lesser evil.
@@williamaldred335 In reality, you can hunker down a few hundreds of people (as in the game) in a mine, a natural cave or even in a tunnel in the ice (the one you'd make with a wall drill in the game) until the storm passes, with no problems.
Mines of the 1800's were not a safe place to *work* in, but if no one is mining, everything sits still (people in their sleeping bags, sitting out the storm), you don't have a problem.
And ventilation is the least of your problems - that is something even an unskilled crew can make with some basic resources. And we are talking about people who build entire cities in the game - to them, piece of cake.
As for the generator in -150C, you are somewhat correct - if the generator was shut down and left to cool to -150C, it would indeed become brittle to mechanical damage. But as long as something is burning inside, it won't become brittle, as basically anything burning will keep the temperature of the iron/steel itself above 0C.
@@Wustenfuchs109 не плохо, но шахты в игре замерзают даже при работе генератора(воздух в них слишком холодный), да и в добавок генератор работает не совсем на угле, он работает на взрывоопасном газе из земли, уголь лишь искорка для него
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First playthrough: I will be a decisive but just leader. No unnecessary cruelty.
5 minutes later: ANYONE LATE TO CHURCH GETS FED TO THE WOLVES. Also we're having sawdust for dinner.
Church!? Get in prison for... Heressy!
And report to the guard station at once
I couldn't afford to put sawdust in, we need that wood for other things.
@@dragonfriend9364 I always go for Soup as i get more rations for the same amount of raw food that the sawdust recipe uses, as I recall it's something like 2 raw food = 2 sawdust rations or 4 soup rations
@@zachsmith1676 🤓
@@zachsmith1676Sawdust gives you 5 rations compared to 4 from soup
the ice cannot defeat the burning power of my industry
Toll the Great Bell Once!
Pull the Lever forward to engage the
Piston and Pump...
Toll the Great Bell Twice!
With push of Button fire the Engine
And spark Turbine into life...
Toll the Great Bell Thrice!
Sing Praise to the
God of All Machines
First playthrough: The Emperor went the Order route. Second playthrough: Decided to go with Faith.
I CAN HEAR THE MACHINE SPIRITS VOICE!
Praise the Omnissiah !
Cry in -60 Celsius ;(
-150 degrees celsius. There is no heat in the world that can protect you from that. This is the point where even the well prepared just says "AM I LOSING?" out loud.
That is the scary part you are not focusing on the people only your time and The ganarator as it rumbles and the risk of overdrive and an explosion as it burns Cole
@@aregmartirosyan2076 Cole deserves to be burned for stealing wood
well liquid nitrogen is -196c.
F*** this game the winds op
Jk I love this game
I was screaming in my head during the entire blizzard.
play this game on a snowy winter day while your room's window is fully open. Best way to experience this masterpiece
MAXIMUM IMMERSION
Then one random guy walks over and yells “brace yourselves, frost is coming!”
@@seivenk9453 🤣🤣
i actually kinda did that
The player...must survive..
"Hey dad, why is my sister called Rose?"
"Because your mother likes roses."
"Thanks, dad."
"No problem *Violin Section of The City Must Survive.*
- Stolen from a Bricc
joke theft
@@frocco7125
He confessed his crimes the authorities can't touch him
@@frocco7125 I'm just glad you didn't say "Stolen".
@@frocco7125 You cant get framed if you already confessed you crimes
@JACKSON LAUFENBERG Meanwhile, Frostpunk 2: "Coal is over." I think they picked that tagline specifically because of Bricky.
"And yet......We didn't cross the line."
I win at life, boys. I win at life.
Okay now do it in survival mode. I did it. Almost 60 hours of trying.
...?
I hate how they determine what constitutes as crossing the line, I went down the order pathway, I always chose the "positive" options and yet I was seen as "crossing the line". I dont even understand what that means to the developers
Kasey Brinson Well the snitching law and propaganda are considered extreme for the fact that you shouldn’t need to lie to the people to keep their hope high or turn them on each other secretly to lower discontent. Same goes for the Faith keepers and their version of punishment. It’s just unnecessary and too far.
@@cdrcrash468 Well you see, I dont get that. The whhole "its too far" stick, it doesnt make sense to me because isnt the survival of the colony the biggest worry? Maybe I should put it a different way: If you were in a plane and the plane crashes in the artic, after you ran out of food would cannabalism be too far to go for survival? I do not think it would be, but I am sure others would disagree. Or for a different example: should genetic modifications for unborn children be legal? I have heard "no because the child doesnt get a choice in the matter" bbut isnt that the same for just birth in general? The poiint I am trying to make I guess iis that morality is subjective and trying to put a pin on some thing as "going to far for the sake of survival" is also subjective, as such I dont get why they put in the morality counter thing.
Copypasted a comment from a "The City Must Survive" video, the video itself was deleted a long time ago.
"The demon of the storm snarled its worst outside the ice-crept window. In the distance, the generator snarled back. A single flame-wreathed eye of hell standing defiant to the storm. Inside we hid like rats. Curled against one another. The braver men were in the mining caves, laying down their lives to keep our little eye of hell glaring skyward. Braver men were in the wards, burning anything they could find to keep the blanket-laden people warm.
But for us? We watched. The storm roared at us, and the generator roared back. We watched, huddled against the far corner and eyes locked as the mercury dropped and ice swiftly crept across the glassy pane. Wisps of winter seeped through the wood and steel planks, and we just huddled together for warmth and watched.
The clouds bloomed. Gathered. Shivers of ice-kissed light speared through the clouds as the swirling snows and winds tried to strangle the generator in the distance. The fire flickered. Cowed for the briefest of moments as the mercury continued to fall. Flickered, until the decision was made.
The storm snarled at us. Bared its teeth. So the safeties were lifted. The coal flung into the maw from hell. Our little maw of hell.
And the generator roared back at the storm."
Holy shit, who wrote this and where can i find him!
I feared this tale was lost.
Thank you pal.
thats badass
That was intense
That was great storytelling. I felt really pumped up reading that! To whoever made it: you're good at this. Very good.
Writing from Canada. Currently -36c/-32f. My furnace is shaking with age, space heaters barely do anything due to bad insulation.
The Storm is Here.
Please try to make a fittingly thematic story out of this! I beg you mate
@@MegaSim3 Read about teh first colonization of Canada. This game basically resume the first winter of the French colons in Canada
Winter's here once more.
I rushed to complete all Techs. The buildings are all properly insulated. Every part of the city have a Steam Vent protecting it. The Automatons are working non-stop to deliver coals to the Generator. The Coal Mines are caving in. There's no choice but to abandoned the lower parts. The Hunters Hangars and Hot Houses are frozen. I can only hope the storage will last. The Generator is on the maximum setting, and I have to manually turn the Overdrive on and off to avoid damaging the Generator. Yet the houses are still freezing. The Final Storm hit. I am warned that the Generator's stress is reaching Critical. With reluctant, I shut down the Overdrive for one final time. The number of Gravely Sick skyrocketted. We did everything we could. Now we wait.
Moments later, the Sun rises. We survived.
During the Storm, you can make a choice: Run the generator past 100%, causing it to threaten an explosion. You will (100% f the time) have the option to fix the generator, either with a steam core or by sending in a child [to their death]. After fixing it, the stress drops by a decent amount, allowing you a few more hours' release from the deadly cold.
@@rockspoon6528 Didn't have that option popped up. Couldn't even if it does.
I already spend all the Steam Cores (thank a lot bugged Outpost forcing me to dismantle/rebuild every time a Core is delivered) , and since I am aiming for a deathless run without "crossing the line" that option is no good either.
Luckily, didn't have to. Saved every last one of them.
@@ShinigamiSamaH It doesn't just 'pop up,' you trigger it by running the generator on overdrive past 100%. The first time you do so you're offered a choice to use a steam core, a child, or let it blow.
@@rockspoon6528 as a Captain that choose Religious purpose I didn't take the choice, resulting in 100 deaths. I didn't regret my choice tough.
@@prongs82 I respect your roleplay but question your valuing of 1 steam core over 100 lives.
-150c "A miracle occurs in the middle of the storm, the father who went to find his daughter has returned with her."
I do not regret having left a family without eating that night, I gave him provisions thinking that he was going to die. I cried when I saw that they returned safely.
When that happened I laughed out loud. It's an adorable little sight in the middle of an absolute clustertruck.
I locked that poor guy in prison because I wasn’t paying much attention and he hanged himself out of grief.
So he manages to save her? Well, that makes me feel bad, I never had enough food to help him and he died in the storm.
@@justthunderbolt40 it's not like you got him killed because you wanted to. You may blame yourself for the incompetence but during your playthrough you were the best those little people could rely on regardless
@@DuckieMcduck That's a soothing truth, one that we all should remember everytime something goes wrong.
When you realise this Steampunk City Management has a final boss fight and you have to prepare while dealing with problems inside your city. After that, the song starts with the voice of the announcer saying: Brace yourself, Storm is here.
yes
Bro the fact they basically force you into sacrificing men to save the coal mines is what kills me. That -80% to all coal mines is so BS.
@@theotv5522 The sacrifices to stay alive. The city. Must. Survive.
@@theotv5522 research coal thumper, spend those precious steam core on building robots, they will come handy
may be a lil late, but you could have like 30k coal and alot of food (yes, on extreme) before the storm even arrives. So you can not only not sacrifice people, but even deconstruct mines for steam cores, so you get more infirmaries, but usually i have around 20 around because of tesla city
This was one of the most intense game moments ever. An in-game week of pure struggle, trying to keep the heat as high as possible, watching as your coal supplies fall precariously low at night, and this music in the background. Well done to the devs.
It makes anyone's heartrate go up
Honestly the coal was the least of my problems , its easy to stockpile eough ro ladt the whole storm
@@saveimageas...9352 if you build spam coal thumpers yes it is easy
@@ozzithemozzi8841 if you make automatons to operate 3 mines it becomes easier... Low supply for me was 2k 😂
For me I was producing to much cole sobi had to build a pile of storages, I think I was storing about 15k coal at the end
Played this game for the first time in the middle of a freezing Upper Midwest winter. Played the final storm at 4am after stupidly starting a game at 11pm telling myself I'd just play for "an hour". Got so into the game that I decided to throw the windows open and sit there freezing my ass off for full immersion while my city battled through mindnumbing temperatures. Made it to the finish line -- barely -- with my generator almost exploding, with Discontent almost maxed. Most intense gaming experience of recent memory. 14/10 wish I could experience it all for the first time again.
I pumped my ac so hard it broke but at least i got immersion 😂
Since that storm I fear in frostpunk the cold
At the time I play the last autumn Dlc an when there stand first snow I instantly think fuck
This game has become my favourite game of all time (on ps4)
I lived in a city at 2000 meters above sea level when I played new home, I did exactly the same, I completed the game at 3 am at 3 degrees Celsius.
I'm canadian. Once I went climbing a mountain during winter. Temperature was near -40. I played this music all day long on repeat until I reached the top. It really gives hope and energy, and I needed it.
You were two temperature levels down from normal.
Crazy to think that eventually having two levels down seems like a luxury.
"i'm Canadian" i enough for this music lol
Legendary
no, you didn't
@@BrunoM321 I did actually! This music was part of a bigger playlist. Not much of a lie
“Boys, I am grateful!”
The foreman’s cry was barely a faint whisper above the screaming winds, yet by no feat of divinity or luck, but instead his own indefatigable presence did every man working the generator hear him.
“Praise be the Lord! Praise Him for this trial, this divine test of perseverance!”
In and out. The steam billows, and for a few precious seconds, warmth reaches into the bones of the workers. It pushes them on, some faint memory of that heat giving them strength after the cold had latched on again.
“For we are but vain beasts, that delight in our own inventions and works. I believe our Father to be an accommodating one, despite the scripture. Why else would we still be here, lads?”
A great shout goes up amongst the workers. They cannot see the foreman through the suffocating grey of the snow, but in their hearts he was no less than shoveling the coal alongside them, calling the gauge, releasing the pressure. In and out, the steam billows.
“Brought to our lowest, lads, we walked these frozen wastes. We carved a place to be reborn from this merciful pit in the sleeping Earth. And God believes in us!”
In and out. The steam billows, though the gauge still rises. The generator is stressed to the breaking point, but the men know this. They continue on anyways.
“That is why this cruel boreal veil now accosts us! To test us, to help us ascend. We have put our hearts, the very soul of our race, into this here smoking Tower of Babylon. But this time, God’s sent some encouragement our way! ‘Rise,’ he says! ‘Rise!’ Ha ha ha!”
A great crash sounds in the distance, followed by a great multitude of screams hidden behind the greater howl of the freezing world. The winds have torn apart one of the homes. The men do not stop, but they are frightened. The gauge rises. In and out, the steam billows.
“Through this storm we rise from this Earth to become greater! Death means nothing to the singular man, for we are the city, lads!”
In and out. The steam billows. Another cry of strength, of defiance sounds out from the men. To touch the machinery is to burn one’s hands, even through their clothes. The wind howls.
“And the city will survive! It must! I know it will, because should our coal run out, then that stubborn black tar in your souls will reignite it. We are Londoners! Nature has always been a cruel bitch to us, and we would have it no other way.”
The men cry out as one voice. An indecipherable chorus of voices, young and old, deep and high, tired and frenzied.
“So thank you God!”
In and out. The steam billows. The plating shakes.
“Thank you for your faith in us!”
In and out. The steam billows. A great metal screech pierces the night from the generator.
“Thank you for flinging us from the nest, so that we might fly!”
In and out. The steam billows. The world assaults the light of the generator.
“Thank you for seeing us here, for preserving our hearts and love for you and each other!”
But the generator will not die.
“Thank you for the strength in my lungs to shout these words of praise to you and these fine bastards with me!”
The city must survive.
“And thank you Lord, for letting us show you just what the fuck we’re made of!”
The light will survive.
Praise Pravus
Cease your mad ravings before I send the city watch to beat you up.
Foremen are Order, though...
Wow, that's quite a good text, consider me impressed! If you'd write a book about Frostpunk i would read it!
(Foremans are order nor religion)
Sir, one of the new foremans you established with the new law has lost his mind and shouting about God and shit and encouraging some of the workers but upsetting the order of the city, what should we do?
1. Execute the man generator heat -one level, discontent - 15
2. Let him be generator heat +1, discontent +10, this may have repercussions in the future as more ppl may be influenced by his ramblings.
I like how at a point the music focuses on a clock's sound increasing the tension about how time is the only thing at that point you can focus on. And how during trying times time seem to go so slowly.
that last part of the game may be like 10 to 15 minutes tops? but it felt like a fucking eternity
"THE SOUP! WE NEED THE SOUP! PUT THE COAL IN THE SOUP!"
Fuck that burn the raw meat!
PUT THE KIDS IN THE SOUP!
@@phantimon6175 worker: "yeay... meat. Anyway, has anyone seen Eric?"
WE NEED TO PUT THE COAL IN THE SOUP!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!"
PUT THE FUCKING SOUP IN THE SOUP
Nothing screams “will power” like a low brass section at their best. It’s the sound of the underdog getting off the ground and throwing that last punch that utterly destroys the prize fighter.
YEAHHHHHH!!!!!!
Respect for 45 miner who sacrifise their life for others future. And respect that brave dad who never gave up even in 100*C couldnt stop him.
@Videoms He doesn't die. If you just ignore him, he will go and find he daughter. If you give him food, he will go find his daughter in the storm and come back. The only way of the dad dying is ignoring him and not letting him go.
@Videoms wait rly? hmm. This is why I don't trust intel from the internet
@Videoms What? Then you just made up your own lore.
@@DytoxPrime Lmao what happened here?
@@theotv5522 I don't know, how am i supposed to remember a 4 month old conversation? I think he said something about the father-daughter event, and then later admited he just though it was like that.
Played this song in Brazil, now it’s Siberia
Now it's Rio Grande do Sul, bro.
Siberia came to Brazil
@@ender4101 KKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKKK
Well, now temperatures around here are getting close to 0 and negative, thanks
This music plays when you are brazilian and temperature reaches unthinkable 10C.
Automatons the real MVP of all games. They would work all time, 24 on 7, everywhere. When your city gonna be frozed, only automatons keep work. All hail Automatons!
That last day before the final storm, everyone stayed home. I passed out wood and steel so everyone could shore up their houses. Some spent the day at the temples praying, others gathered their loved ones around them and huddled in their homes. Midnight came and we held evening prayers. Hope was high and discontent was no where in site. We stayed strong, thanked those that gave their lives so the coal mines could remain open. One day I will build a shrine for those 45 men, engrave their names in a block of coal and place it next to the generator. A fitting reminder for those that survived. This game was EPIC!
That last day before the final storm, everyone still attend their morning gathering, later digging deep inside those mines, drilling even deeper by the city natural wall. theres no hope for us. only morale. and the morale was so high, the people works overtime without complain.
Midnight came and there were knocks on the people doors, the watchmen delivered our captain's words, ensuring the people that we will survive this. the frost came, and our guards and watchmen still patrol the city steps ensuring everyone is fine and everything is in order.
We stayed strong, thanked those that gave their lives so the coal mines could remain open. we watch our flags waving by the generator with pride. we survived this. and yes it was worth it !
Midnight came and we held evening executions.
only 45? good job i lost hundreds
@@canomeister4327 ye i got unfortunate with the weather before the storm and ended up with -190°C at the mid to late stage of the storm .I had around 640 people going into the storm and like 60% froze to death, rest had pneumonia
you don´t have to let people die in the coal mines if you just use coal thumpers i used it on normal and had only three deaths(Messenger from Winterhome,Poet in the propaganda centre and one before the storm at some point).
Kills 157 people in coal mines propaganda paints coal miners as heroic martyrs as the overlord sends more bodies into the coffin that is the coal mine , The city must survive
Did you have enough automatons? They can save you some lives.
@@DD-is3ng Keyword "some"
lies damnlies
Yup
@@stankobarabata2406
From the moment I understood the weakness of my flesh it disgusted me.
I craved the strength and certainty of steel.
I aspired to the purity of the blessed machine.
Your kind cling to your flesh as if it will not decay and fail you; one day the crude biomass you call a temple will wither, and you'll beg my kind to save you.
But I... am already saved. For the machine is immortal.
Even in death I serve the -Omnissiah- City.
@@DD-is3ng is it weird that I finished a new home scenario without anyone dying and I had no automatons at all? I've played through generator fully upgraded, steam hubs and heaters around the city. Surely, people got sick, and at the last day before the storm ended I had 50 sick people but no seriously ill. In around a minute before the storm ended I had 114 sick out of 197 population, still no seriously ill.
A game when the boss is not something you can actually kill
A real Force of Nature against the specie which dominate the world
Even with all science we acquire, this music gives me chills
I wish I could experiment this feeling one time again
the kind of game you want to discover the first time again
the game where mother nature throws you against a brick wall
When everyone, literally everyone survives, a no death playthrough, but your hope was straddling near 1-2% and your discontent was sitting at 99% before the storm ends. So Ironic. 705 people saved and they were all about to break right before the storm ended, but luckily they held on a bit longer... as if we were in any real danger lol
my first play i managed to keep everyone alive, but it was LITERAL HELL. i saved everyone. it costed me people getting mutilated to heal them, but they survived
705? I'm assuming you had 11 Automatons then because there's a max of 694 people you can get in your city in A New Home, if you truly absolutely do save everyone and nobody dies.
"I do not ask to be your captain for the rest of my life. I do not ask that you venerate me as the true savior. I do not ask that you do not try me for my crimes. I ask only that you do that after the storm, so that I may die knowing that the city will survive."
@@ladywaffle2210great quote
@@KCzz15 i think you can get more, if you welcome all the refugees
“(He) Who saves his country, violates no law” - Napoleon Bonaparte
May little Timmy’s sacrifice be remembered
he died eating sawdust
That horrifying moment when you realize...oh fuck, I have to tell all the operations out there to return to the city, and then realize that the wall off death is literally closing in..
"BOY'S! YOU HAVE TO COME BACK! STORM'S COMM- oh wait, they went into Tesla. FAK!"
I literally screamed when I saw the wall of snow coming at me and I needed to recall everyone while looting areas and saving lost people from certain death this game truly made me scared from cold
when the scouting party literally windsurfs into the city on the -150°C stormfront.
It's currently -40 windchill here, this song is playing. My furnace is cranking and the wind's are howling. The house must survive.
Брось ребёнка в печь и точно выживешь
Ой нытик мы в 150- выживали правда теперь большая часть калеки но все же живы
I didn't imagine a storm could work as a final boss, but here we are.
I kind of just went into shock as the temperature fell towards -150. the gong kept ringing from people dying left and right. I wasn’t even aware that the game ended and I had “won”
The city ... survived ?
@Videoms You won, but was it worth it?
The city survived just not the inhabitants
That's the only thing I don't love about the game. On medium difficulty, some will survive even if you run out of coal in the middle of the storm, it's just an undeserved victory.
Is that, celsius or farenheit?
@@jkl5901 The multiples of 10 are Celsius. That's just how nature works.
I wrote a poem about this song, because the heroism and desperation feels exactly like the battle of dealing with schizophrenia every day. I find strength and comfort in it
harsh winter, a sinister fate
don’t whimper, grit with an iron grip
the longest winter
the weak won’t make it
gripping and gripping and wishing times simpler
I hate it
with all my might I hate it
the callous weakness splinter
the mighty felling iron crashing hinder
comfort and peace, things we left when times were better and simpler
gripping and gripping
holding on
wishing any moment now a release
wishing we had more timber in this biting cold
we won’t make it!
we have to, I hate it! The weakness splinter!
frostbite, my grip is frozen solid
cursed be it! Cursed be the winter!
hanging on
hanging on in the deadliest winter!
like a crushing wave with unyielding finality
like a wave that kills off the weaker
a thousand to one, they’re all gone
I’m the last one standing in the war of winter
my schizophrenia
it killed off all the weeping sorry
it killed all but me in this frozen nightmare winter
it killed everyone but me
in this war of dark iron frozen solid
in this war of sinister lonely
in this war of waking hell
in this battlefield of last stand torturing iron winter
torture, torture, torture!
it never ends, it never got any better, even with pills
a waking nightmare
a nightmare to those without a voice
no voice for stigma reasons
no voice in endless midnight winter
thank you for reading. I hope that one day society will overcome the deep stigmas surrounding this illness
That moment you know there is nothing you can do except sit, watch and hope no one or not too many die as the automatons gather as much coal as possible
Yes and Control your genarater and hope you don't f up anything
-150 degree
Still I gotta say if there was a hell mode
Where it actually does go to the absolute freezing point
Where adams begin to free
Watching those Atomaton's fall would be the second scariest thing for these people
and be Horrifying to the Player
as even the Automatons Bend to the winter
And probably something worse
Having the captain the player
Being sent in to fix the the generator
It will give you more time
However you will no longer be able to do anything and I mean absolutely anything
Because you are dead
My favorite boss fight music
a boss that you can't even directly fight but just survive thats terrifying
@@Irisfantasies An enemy you cannot fight but, to survive it.
Ah yes, I still hear the sounds of my people screaming in the freezing cold.
426 people before the storm and just 13 left after it, glory to new London.
Humanity would be absolutely doomed
@@danielwoods3896 Yeah, with 426 people humatity's survival might be pussible,but with 13? No, to much incest.
@@danielwoods3896humanity could come back with enough genetic diversity to prevent major disorders from a number as low as 7
You need 4000 people to maintain humanity. 2000 minimum. If selected by a genealogy team, you could get away with 100.
@@speenta4879 That is not what I read.
Frostpunk's soundrack simply ingenious!
That wind howling as ambient sound and restless violin... you can literally feel the frost just by listening this music!
I swear, i am covered in goosebumps and my hands dead cold though it's +20 celsius outside.
The temperature plunges another ten degrees.
The hunters huddle in the pub, their blimps grounded by the unearthly winds.
"How much colder could it still get?" moans one, rubbing his hands in front of the heat radiator in the corner.
It is the second day of the storm, with yet no end in sight.
"Emergency shift?!" blurted Staz, "This fragile mind, how much more ingenuity can it spew?! How many more inventions for this Captain; will he wither us right up to the moment the automata seize the means of production?!"
Ewing's patented 'Double Dose of Death' was just about done simmering, testing his caffeine brew with the whisks of his bushy moustache first- a quirk he'd dare not share.
"My God, Staz. I think you just might mean it this time around." says Ewing, his ice blue eyes all wide and glistening from the kick of the first sip. "Where's your Faith, old man? The storm's right around the corner, and we're to do what was asked of us from the very beginning- sit in this radiant tower of a workshop and figure out how to survive the following day."
Eric was here by now, too, a quiet smile stemmed from the soothing of the familiar sight of the two polar opposites that be Staz and Ewing, hopeless in persuading the other. His walk brisk- too brisk for a man that's been woken up after a mere two hours of sleep, and tasked to work for the next twenty-four. He brushes past Joshua's workstation, eyeing him a gentle smirk while tapping the thermostat to make sure the heater's heating proper.
Joshua eyes him back, a blink of reassurance.
Four mugs of Double Dose of Death clunked onto the illuminated drawing table, which spanned across the main think tank chamber.
"Come now, Staz" croaked Eric, his voice betraying his exhaustion, "the city must survive."
I played the game in a quite cold room with the AC on and that made the experience 100 times better. The moment the storm ended i jumped up and yelled "FUCK YESSSS" and then i sat there and actually cried. This is how good this game is. I've never really thought that a game would make me cry
The Fall of Winterhome can be the hardest scenario, but A New Home will always have a place in our hearts, specialy for this song
A howling gale bursts upon the city, the generator creaks and groans under the weight of the wind, rattling windows shelter trembling faces whose lips utter words of prayer. THE CITY MUST SURVIVE
whose 'frozen' lips. ;)
I'm frocen
CITY MUST SURVIVE ✊✊✊
"STORM ON THE HORIZON!!!" Came a cry from the watch tower
The foreman turned to his men with a grave look upon his face.
"Rally your men and any child who would hold a shovel. We must take to the mines in fervour. Pray to your God for hell hath opened and visited it's wrath upon us. The heart must live, the engine must not fall silent. Now go! Go and pray we yet survive!"
The demon of the storm snarled its worst outside the ice-crept window. In the distance, the generator snarled back. A single flame-wreathed eye of hell standing defiant to the storm. Inside we hid like rats. Curled against one another. Brave men were in the mining caves, laying down their lives to keep our little eye of hell glaring skyward. Braver men were in the wards, burning anything they could find to keep the blanket-laden people warm.
But us? We watched. The storm roared at us, and the generator roared back. We watched, huddled against the far corner and eyes locked as the mercury dropped and ice swiftly crept across the glassy pane. Wisps of winter seeped through the wood and steel planks, and we just huddled together for warmth and watched.
The clouds bloomed. Gathered. Shivers of ice-kissed light speared through the clouds as the swirling snows and winds tried to strangle the generator in the distance. The fire flickered. Cowed for the briefest of moments as the mercury continued to fall. Flickered, until the decision was made.
The storm snarled at us. Bared its teeth. So the safeties were lifted. The coal flung into the maw from hell. Our little maw of hell.
And the generator roared back at the storm....
good fucking prose
Literally got goosebumps reading this. Fucking well done.
This is one of my personal favorites
I've seen this copied around, are you the original author?
Poland gonna be the hub of game design innovation. Lovely nation. Keep making all these something punk games.
In case you didn't know, 11bit Studios (lovely chaps who made Frostpunk) are also the studio that produced "This War of Mine", which is based on the siege of Sarajevo. It's much more peaceful, but still emotionally rich. You get 3 civilians, strangers to each other, sheltered in one of many abandoned houses in the war-engulfed city, and the goal is to survive. You gather materials from things you find inside, cover broken walls so no one can threaten your "safety", build workstations and equipment. In the night, when omnipresent snipers are less active, one of yours ventures out of your shelter to get food and supplies. During daytime there will be people knocking to your door asking for help and sometimes during nighttime raiders trying to loot your base. You will have a choice of how you gather the materials - if you go to the market, it will obviously have other, probably not-to-friendly visitors. If you choose to loot someone's house, you can just kill the residents, loot them silently or not loot at all. They will have their own problems, and your people are not indifferent to what they are doing. You'll have to care for both their physical and mental well-being. There will be problems with medicaments, food, supplies and hostile survivors, with sleep and sanity, all while awaiting for the end of horrible conflict.
I highly recommend the game, because while it doesn't bring the fear of sudden death to the somewhat epic threat like Frostpunk does (and does it perfectly), it builds your stress and fear of death in much more steady and realistic, relatable way. The games are kind of similar, but in terms of climate "This War of Mine" is more peaceful and personal.
@@dv3h890 Almost everyone who played frostpunk know about and came to this game because of this war of mine, which was much greater success and gained larger popularity. I think it does not need any introductions. I strongly do not agree that this war of mine is more peaceful tho. In frostpunk there are no combat and battle elements at all and there are no military units or troops you can train and no enemies at all (at least add polar bears and arctic wolves, omg), it is solely economical base building vs storms, and yeah, Londoners are not enemies in a usual meaning, they are just political opposition and I did not encounter any problems with them at all as they did not kill the others or did not destroy buildings and any stuff like that. In this war of mine there are lots of battle episodes and the situation is always either you kill someone or your character will be killed or you can escape and return without food or supplies, which is also a lose in the long term. Don't forget that there also enemies that cannot be killed on some locations, for example snipers who are very far away and you cannot even see them. Or when the winter comes you'll get almost the same gameplay experience of frostpunk, where your characters may become ill and die if you do not have any fuel to warm up the house. So it obviously is not more peaceful as you have to deal with both environment and human enemies
YOU'VE HEARD OF FROSTPUNK
NOW GET READY FOR
*_FLAMEPUNK_*
@@Resi1ience Somehow, I feel like huddling around a giant AC unit for survival... doesn't have the same ring to it.
For a sec I thought your name was "Ned Stark", therefore, I was looking for "Winter is Coming".
That final week, especially for me as my city was poorly managed. Was pure PAIN. No food, no steel ,no wood, and worst of all, no. Coal.
Dozens of people were dying every day, i struggled to keep most places above freezing. After that horrid final day of -150c° i let out a sigh of pure relief. There were only 26 people left, but we made it.
And then you start thinking that 26 people is not enough to rebuild a population, they will start to inbreed in 3 generations and die off...
How many people did you have at the start of the storm?
@@Enchanted_Gaming i think about 250
@@goosemann2389 wow
@@goosemann2389 I had 489 lost 45 to the mines
Вот иногда играю и аж плакать хочется. Честь и хвала калекам, что взяв палки под банальные протезы пошли работать перед лицом бури. Добровольцам, что отдали свои жизни, ради того, чтобы угольные шахты работали. Отцу, что в -100 спас собственную дочь. Отважным докторам, что лечили сотни больных в самый разгар ужасного холода. Стражникам и Хранителям Веры, которые защищали людей от преступлений и краж.
Да и всему народу. Каждый чем-то пожертвовал, чтобы город жил.
Да.. это прекрасно..
А у меня были все ленивые, работать не могли, даже порядок не помог.. Я не мог запастится угля, от чего мой генератор просто отключился, и город
Просто рипнулся.. Но на 1 раз я отстроил не такой плохой город..
Damn right
Про калек с палками ты про событие когда толпа калек попросила простые протезы что бы помогать на кухне или ты про всех калек с протезами
Those words "Brace yourselves, the cold is coming!" terrified me like no horror movie ever could
ГОРОД ДОЛЖЕН ВЫЖИТЬ
People: its gonna -150 outside, but only -70 in our insulated homes, right? We should be fine!
Me, who only prepared tents for them: **sweating profusely**
*2022 winter hits*
-Yeah about that...
Send in the child!!!!
@@kupieckorzenny5093 was it?..
You haven't earned the heat to sweat profusely
@@AmericanBrit9834 exactly
My only regret is that I can only play this game for the first time once. xD
NerevarNamorax i feel ya. still a great game but that first time through is magic. harrowing, sleepdepriving, frozen magic.
same dude
@@seraphik And terrifing
It's the same thing with most games . Skyrim , Bioshock ...
That sense of wonder on your first playthrough can't be replicated .
@@ra.n9482 man I just finished this ans it was truly magical, never did winning a city builder feel this good,
Also just got bioshock, is it really as good as they say it is? Kinda hyped
Sir, most of our people have abandoned their workplaces to stay home with their families. Only the medical facilities are still funktioning.
The city holds its breath, waiting for whatever the end will bring.
God this is the best game Soundtrack I've heard in forever. Hearing this in the climx of the storm, mere hours before the end, generator critical, the very air you exhale freezing to dry ice instantly, I can just imagine the captain, at the foot of the generator, staring at the sky with defiance in his eyes, watching as the streets themselves snap-freeze in front of him in real time (6:49), shouting encouragement to the people, screaming back at the fury of nature, "We will survive! This city will survive! *THE CITY MUST SURVIVE!!!* " And as the frost closes the final few meters to the generator (8:24), he grabs the railing, and the last cry before the world turns white is "BRAAAAAAAAACE!!!!"
the witcher 3 have good soundtracks too. but yes i agree this is one of the best.
I see you also enjoy stellaris
my director screamed something like: COOK HIM ON THE STEAM VENTS AND SHUT DOWN THE GENERATOR BEFOR IT EXPLODES! WE ARE ALL GONNA DIIIIIIEEEEE! ... we didn't ... well ..not ..all of us .. I got out 280- ish ...
This is the definition of cringe.
Victor what?
Imagine a movie in Frostpunk "New Home."
It's is completly silent, everyone is in their home, only the generator is hearable.
And suddenly, you hear the announcement in a feared tone.
"Brace Yourself. . . The storm is here!"
And with the first tone of this Theme, the storm reaches the town, the wind rushes through the streets, slams against the houses and the generator loudly cracked from it.
The only building game where it took all i've got to make it through and where even i said to myself: THE CITY MUST SURVIVE!
Hadn't a game in a long time, what challanged me that much where you count each death yourself from your citizen to try to plan ahead to keep the generator up and running while over night the supplies become so low, that it shows 1H remaining on the heart of the city.
Honestly, one of my favourite games so far. Challenging, depressing yet beautiful and a great piece of design and the music is just perfectly fitting. Describing the merciles cold when families and workers just freeze to death in the mineshafts and so on.
A desperate father gets the supplies and my blessing as leaves to find his beloved child in a snowstorm.
He made it. -150 Degrees Celcius and they come back alive.
What a Chad.
I'm at work.
This song comes up, and suddenly the room goes colder.
Brave yourself! It's getting colder!
And you work doubleshift suddenly somehow
The final storm in the main storymode drained my city dry. Not a single shred of coal, not a single plank of wood. Nothing left to burn.
The people froze in their homes, in their beds, under their sheets. My city of over a few hundred men, women and children died, one by one. Bitten by the ice that tore down everything I had spent hours to build. But the end was in sight, the temperature would rise, and we could rebuild. Nearly five-hundred became one-hundred. Seventy. Fifty.
And then, mercy finally arrived in all her beauty, and the storm did pass. The city survived, but it's heart was broken.
Hey, on the bright side, if you passed the appropriate law... think of all the food!
Finished the game 15 minutes ago , Haven't crossed the line , religion way , 691 people survived , 0 deaths during the storm [no cheats were used ] . I was surviving the storm for 3 hours , and when the temperature reached -150 , this part of music started to play {2:41} ,I was crying so hard because i was afraid of my people , hospitals full of sick people , generator 80% stressed , wind is roaring like a wild lion , and the graphic effects of the storm maked me to belive that I was literaly here , with my people , freezeing to death and fighting with the forces of nature . At the credits , game showed the timelapse of building my city , and what we had overcomed with my people . This game is absolute 11\10 , I'm 23 , and i can't tell that i'm an emotional man or a crybaby , but this game maked me to cry a lot . Thank's for an extended ost autor.
Amen brother! You summarized it quite well! I felt the exact same way :D
Humanity in you will survive. And with you the city WILL survive.
Just this once! EVERYBODY LIVES!!
Oh, please. Faith is the easy way out.
I went the way of law and order. Propaganda is the savior of my city.
2:42 damn these violins its like i can feel them vibrating cold to me
Yes
By far, the most badass Final Essay I've ever written.
"The weather has a boss music."
-A random Steam comment
Just finished my first successful run of Frostpunk. During the last moments before dawn, had the generator in overdrive past the 90% marker and it threw the critical heat warning.
All I could imagine was the generator crew standing in the middle of blizzard, rushing to shut it down while the captain is screaming at them to ‘Hold!’, desperately trying to buy their confidence in him for a few hours more until the storm broke.
Survived at 97% overheat. Best fucking feeling ever.
I gotta say, though, surviving at a 100% or the engine exploding
This song gives me chills, and I haven't even played the game.
Thats what you call, "Musicians" they are very rare these days. Havent played the game yet, been listening to the sountrack since launch hahaha!
Chills ? How fitting.
It's been a year so idk if you've played it yet, but my personal experience, the game made me cry. That's how good it was. I've never been so emotionally moved by a game before honestly
This theme its just too fitting for the last stretch... you wouldnt even start to imagine how stressful the last minutes are where you just see how the temperature drops and drops without stoping... people getting sick left and right while putting the generator on overclock seeing that little red bar filling up where 100% means a catastrophe...
The mines system colapsing from the cold while automatons try their best to collect even the slightest ounce of coal to keep systems running for enough time so you can make it.
Listening to the people fall on desperation falling on their knees to pray refusing to work, all hope is gone and everytime at 8am you hear... THE CITY MUST SURVIVE!
The last day you might make it but the last hurdle is ahead a drop on temperature so strong how could people survive... And yet, we didn't crossed the line
Same
I love the quiet ticking in the background. Like a countdown, to your doom, or to salvation.
While listen this music, I feel the will of human that fight against cold storm. This is my favorite music in Frostpunk Original Soundtrack.
It's a good game to play in the winter with your window open keeping your room cold and a great soundtrack + content really puts you in the feel of the game.
Beating this game without losing anyone was the greatest satisfaction ever, then I deleted so it couldn't hurt me anymore
This is the way
It pretty easy on normal difficulty tho tbh I beat it on my first try
@@salbondo6842 not everyone makes the right choices the first time, I have a hard time believing you did everything right without looking anything up or having prior knowledge of the game play. If you did that's impressive and all but still suss
@@thecheezybleezy7036the game is pretty logical you just need to take your time i was on normal speed the whole time so I didn’t miss anything
@@salbondo6842 yeah I'm to impatient to play the whole thing on normal
R.I.P to the sawmill workers on the edge of the map that I forgot to put heating on, you will be missed.
Music for studying: Background Cool Jazz, Light Medieval Music, Studio Gibli ...
Music for studiyng for your final exams TOMORROW: "The City Must Survive".
@SmallAsianGuy "but sir, your mental state!!!"
"The City Must SURVIVE"
Yep...a city building game that gave me anxiety attack at every seconds
A mindless, impersonal, merciless force of nature is one of the best final bosses in any game ever made. This storm outdoes every evil speech or badass monster you will encounter in most games .
People can never compare the fear you get from this final push for survival.
It's just nothing like I've ever felt in a game.
They take your Power away from being able to save your population to just being able to watch, they kick you off of Godhood and all you can do is just pray that you did enough so that at least some will survive the onslaught to rebuild.
Once that Temperature drops to -150 Degrees not even the Generator can produce enough Heat to save them. It's all. The. Will. To. Survive.
Jestem dumny z moich rodaków że stworzyli taką piękną grę - I am proud of my compatriots who created such a beautiful game.
My partner: It's the middle of winter! Why do you have the aircon on full blast.
Me: The city must survive...
Texas feels like this at this very moment.
I was thinking the same thing. Nearly froze to death this week.
@@Martz604 You live in Texas, how's everything over there?
@@TheDankShrimp Things have improved for me. The worst days were Monday through Wednesday but Tuesday we literally had like 3 coats on with blankets inside our houses. We used our propane grill to warm up some bread and canned soups and boiled water. Frostpunk is one of my favorite games and I was thinking, wow we are living in a Frostpunk simulation now lol.
@@Martz604 Damn dude that sounds terrifying, I hope you and your family are okay, and that everything gets better from now on, stay safe.
Haven’t been listening too much to the news, how cold is it?
The first time i played the game, the storm arrived sooner than i thought, i was not prepared. The scouts that i send to get the last core that i needed died in the way back. The storm arrived, i didn't had enough food or coal. I had to put the generator in level 2, the only people working where the guards and the mines, it was too cold to activate the medical posts. Every day the cold was worst, the automatons stopped working correctly. I was praying for it to end. The guards started running away from their jobs, and the happiness was in the ground, people where dying left and right. At that point the only thing that i could do is wait while everything went to shit. Finally the storm stopped, i don't know how did i survived, half of the city was fucking dead. In the end the city survived... but at wich cost?
ps: if i wrote something wrong, it's because english is not my main language.
Wait, level 2 generator? How did you not get teh upgrade for the max heat?
@@brandondallaire I did had it. But i didn't have enough coal to make it work beyond level 2
@@pascuato2896 How? maxed steam coal mine with automatons are basically a creative mode
@@brandondallaire Im responding like 3 months late. But it was my first time playing and i didnt know how everything worked.
I remember when the dude who left to find his daughter came back in *FUCKING NEGATIVE 184 DEGREES* (-120 Celcius)
*NOT ONLY IS HE THE GOAT, HE ALSO IS DAD OF THE YEAR IMO*
Hope this game become movie...
You sort of have it in "Snowpiercer".
plz no let's not ruin his name with a ridiculous movie
it's because of people like you we cant have nice things in life anymore....
or maybe it's because everything that is beautiful and nearly perfect (like this) must be bent to a worst copy of itself, but hey it's for money!!
Usually movie based on video games don't do well, but that's normally because the people behind the movie don't understand the game or fail to interpret it properly. In the case of Frostpunk, it could work, but a movie would probably end up being a social commentary, either through Order or Faith. Which is something we don't need. So yes, it could be done but I would strongly advice against it.
The reason I watch let's-players of this game is one very specific moment:
At the end of the game, when they survive the storm and cheer for their achievement, and are suddenly hit with
"and in the fight for survival, WE CROSSED THE LINE"
The reaction of realisation, denial and sadness that they make at that moment is exceptional, and Frostpunk is the only game I know of that can cause this kind of reaction.
This song plays when the citizens realise their captain is a Darkest Dungeon player.
ruin has come to our city
@@DiegoRaistlin Nooooooo no more spiders please
@@DiegoRaistlin You remember our venerable generator, opulent and imperial?
First playthrough.
The last save was about 25 days ago.
The storm is ruthless.
-120 on thermometer.
The sun icon is on the calendar.
Majority of the city lay dead.
Discontent dangerously high.
I go for the faith protectors' headquarters and press a few buttons.
Discontent falls...
The few surviving people walk around the overdriven generator.
Their bodies feeble.
But their faith in upcoming warmth... unshaking.
They know that only the lucky few will make it through.
-150 hit that night...
For them the bell tolls, for them who are doomed to have ice flowing in their veins.
...7 people made it. Five of them - badly sick, other two - a sick one and an amputee.
They made it... but... they are left alone
All alone. In this hell.
To take a brief glance at the dying sun, before the next ever frost takes grasp.
Отличный саундтрек к отличной игре, в который раз убеждаюсь что будущее за инди играми и студиями...
Святая правда
Это уже не инди а проект на уровне WOW
"You fight fire, with fire, no? That's what I'm doing. To fight the cold... We need cold hearts."
5 Londoners left a dislike under this wideo.
there nummbers have doubles captian. We need watchtowers in our city to stop this.
HungryHunter watchtowers? Pff ,Propaganda center right now!
They're going to jail with beat-the-crap-out-of-them perk.
Londoners ruin everything
@@HungryHunter *Houses of Prayer
This game is worth it. The climax ends with the person who continues to die with this music and the desperate dramatic effect. Impression of the first play is unforgettable. that is enough
Как услышу эту мелодию, так сразу хочется навернуть супа из опилок и пойти вкалывать в шахту 24/7
О, я вижу того самого добровольца...
...и поцти менять подпорки
Главное, не стать финальной стадий эволюции ебеньградца и не стать этим самым супом! Я лучше на 24 в шахты
Всмысле, тебе сразу хочется жить в России? :)
Опа! Ave Kiska! DEUS WOLF!!1!