i absolutely love how the game just fucking *rags* on hi-point mercilessly for example; the in game description of the C9 is as follows: "Since 1993 the Hi-Point C9 has been a great choice for those who value their lives over their dignity."
Hippints are surprisingly reliable, and as proven by demoranch, LITERALLY BULLETPROOF. well. I mean it still works after being shot in the side of the chamber with a 9mm so. Yeah id say its reliable.
@@benfennell6842 He literally shot the strongest part of the gun, which is the barrel. If he had shot the slide or frame it would have been obliterated, as it is made of pot metal. POT METAL. If one throws a hi point hard enough at a rock it will break the slide in two, as seen in the link below. You could potentially do the same by throwing it anything else as hard as rock like a brick wall or concrete. th-cam.com/video/flVBPpKG4zA/w-d-xo.html
@@benfennell6842 it can be reliable thanks to its tolerances and the fact that it is straight blowback, but I would not dare compare its durability to others, just wanted to say that. Hope I didn't sound aggressive, just really don't like pot metal guns. Sure as hell beats a stick, but I'd think I'd rather use a Jimenez if I had to use a pot metal gun, looks like an actual gun and far better for carry.
The misfires are explained in the lore: The "Threat" is messing with your firearms to make them more unreliable and more prone to malfunctions and misfires.
It exaggerates Murphy's Law. Anything that can go wrong, will. So don't make mistakes. Operating should come to you like breathing, if you handle yourself perfectly, you will perform well.
@@TheJubiter Not all NDs are. You can get slamfires very rarely which are impossible to stop. (Besides the cleaning kit but that's compound exclusive).
Also, as a part of the lore "the threat" controls probability to some extent- essentially making murphy's law a reality the farther up you go in initiation ranks. That's why some of the tapes detail how important it is for you not to make mistakes.
The amount of negligent discharges too he has, for not clearing his fire-arm (unloading it for simple people) all because "its tedious" is humiliating. Gun safety 101 everyone.
it even extends to the players physicality, the threat is affecting the probabilities of everything to the extent that the reason you get injured with every fall is you landed poorly, and even manipulating ricochets to be more likely to hit you.
@@hornyducks4090 with the glock it is. no safety or or anything, god I hate that thing. Also, with one of the later weapons, you don't want to lower the hammer all the way since it can lead to accidental discharge if you land badly, but that's as easy as just half cocking it, or letting it rest on an empty chamber.
That’s also why holstering quickly almost always results in pulling the trigger, why the guns jam an unrealistic amount, why there’s so much fall damage, etc. The whole point is to demonstrate what would happen with a handgun in the worst case scenario. A lot of people don’t seem to understand the lore, or at least don’t acknowledge it as much as they should. (like this reviewer, for example)
@@kevinragsdale6256 The devs are almost fuddlike with how they treat auto-loaders in the game. revolvers of course never jam and are reliable but semi autos jam constantly.
This game is criminally underrated. The game has no actual "hitreg" issues like Gman stated in the video, however there was really no way he would've known that at the time he made this. The sight alignment is actually taken into account in the bullet's point of impact(versus Point of aim), IE if the front sight has swayed below the rear sight notch, the shot will hit low. But the only way we really know this now is because there's a significantly refined shooting range in the recent compound update.
the moment you start talking about button inputs, i realise that it was not a VR game at all. got to say the animation was so nice i thought it was reading hand movements.
As an American who likes to shoot guns, the re-holstering thing is huge in gun culture. Re-holstering is the most dangerous thing any hobbyist shooter will do without going into a firefight. That's why most people just use shooting benches at the range, but if you carry, then it becomes dangerous to pull out your carry firearm simply because you'll need to re-holster it. Drawing or unholstering is not nearly as dangerous, but can be if you're not wearing the right clothes.
Rifles were Actually added in a mod for the first game, specifically a bolt action and a pump shotgun. They were actually more simple to use than any of the other guns.
Rifles are like spears: Easier to use and far more powerful but far more bulky and heavy. The pistol is like a sword. Sure, it has less range, less power but it's a lot more maneuverable and compact.
Just imagine if they added LMGs. They'd probably have a mechanic where your barrel can overheat and you'd have to replace it or something. Man, I seriously hope this has mod support.
The whole point of Receiver was a sarcastic answer to naysayers of realism in video games who ask "Would you rather have a separate button for taking out the magazine and putting it back in?". Simplifying the handling in any way is sacrilege
on control remapping; he literally says that he was able to memorize the controls, if you can do that, then i dont see the need to simplify the controls for the sake of "making the controls less awkward" when the whole fucking point of the game is to have a set of obtuse and awkward controls that forces new players to re-think how guns work, especially if you've shown yourself capable of memorizing the controls. Cause, y'know, it prooves that they fucking work.
What you're missing out on is, the platforming part. Half the fun is finding out you can jump outside of the map's boundaries to avoid areas completely, or to get to the multiple levels each section has. Once you realize you can do that, this becomes an adventure game
"Getting an empty cartridge stuck in your ejection port is the last thing you want, believe me. I've had plenty of empty cartridges stuck in my ejection port, it's not pretty." - GmanLives recalling his nights at the gay bars
Thankfully they updated the rank system today, you no longer lose a rank when you quit and all ranks are saved when you die. Its much better Also included in the update is an ending fix, thankfully
The_Bearded_Engi holy fuck finally, I stopped playing the game for a while because I got too infuriated about having to go through the first 2 levels 50 times to get to the third level and die almost immediately. Sweet Jesus
Are you implyimg my 300 hours in modern warfare and owning severa la nerf guns dont make me a guns expert Sonny jim?, i take great offence to that you know
you kinda missed the point when talking about the weapon controls, its supposed to be complex and obfuscating, its the games main point of difficulty, that guns are complicated and dangerous and you need to learn how to handle them
@@henstar337 Yeah. But that's like resetting until you get a god-tier gun on the first room in Enter The Gungeon, or resetting until you get god-tier items in The Binding Of Issac. Does it work? Yes. But you're a little bitch for doing it.
Exactly. If you had a traditional control scheme it would only diminish the effect. Part of the joy of Receiver is running about a room trying to avoid flying drones as you scrape up ammo on the ground, load it into the gun, stretching your hand across your entire keyboard, then try and have to figure out how to shoot the damn things while you're desperately mashing W and swerving from left-to-right. The obnoxiousness of the control scheme makes achieving the desired result all the sweeter.
@@Milo-xb3gj this is the best counter to the controls are too hard argument, because without the dark souls tier weapon handling that really is all that's left lol.
Worry not, it is a terrible gun in-game also and basically just to make life harder in the later stages where a 92FS or 1911 are just too easy to handle
I actually really like how jovial the narrator is sometimes, and then suddenly you have a tape about a guy wanting to kill his wife and kids and then himself, and the music just starts swelling into this horrifying drone, and the gun starts turning on you... And then afterwards there's a tape about how mental wounds can heal with time, and that one should take their time with shit, and whatnot. It's... Idk, it's just feels so real, yknow? Kinda reflects how some people's mental illnesses are, like bipolar and shit? Suddenly, you're all the way down in the pit, ready to go apeshit, and then something bright and beautiful and calm happens. Then again, I've never really dealt with issues like that myself, I've just had friends and loved ones with problems like that. Anyways, it's also super tense, and I like that. When you hear a turret beeping, and you know you only have two loaded cylinders left, or when you first find ceiling turrets and you're caught off guard totally. That's shock. And the soundtrack that plays when a turret comes into view, or detects you, holy shit.
That hit deep. IT2 in the Navy pending medsep for that same thing - didn't even last through the first 6yr contract. Oh well. Thanks for writing it Bruce 🤙
@@arbayer2 Former AF here. These things happen, don't beat yourself up too much. Find a veteran group in your local area. It can be a really great source of support when you feel distant from the civvie side.
Also the voice is explicitly a receiver being spoken 'through' by whoever in Reality A. So it makes sense that he's inconsistent with tone, he's not speaking for himself, but for some otherworldly force. Also yeah the tone shifts are definitely intentional, showing that firearms are both just a tool like any other with interesting history and funny anecdotes, but also reminders to take them seriously, they're not toys, and they're only a bad thought away from causing major damage. Hell one of the tapes even starts with jokes about how the Hi-Point has a dumb name, and ends with how the inventor of Hi-Point never really recovered from learning one of his weapons was used in a school shooting. So it's not like the tonal shift is exclusively from tape to tape, it's clearly intended as it happens even within tapes.
For anyone reading this in the future: the best way to avoid the Threat turning your gun on you is to completely unload it (rack the slide to make sure, if it has one). Make sure you aren't holding a magazine, either (having one in your inventory is fine).
Even the fired rounds? If so it's not the end of the world, I'm just asking. To those who don't know; the metal that the shell are made of would expand from the heat witch is why the eject rod is needed to shove the bigger shells out of the tiny hole, they also can't replace the rod with bigger holes for the expanded rounds because when they are fresh they'll have too much space and either can't get hit by the action pin, or the bullet will slam into the barrel due to misalignment.
Even if the game itself is pretty limited (enemy types, level parts etc) I just can't stop playing. The gun mechanics, the eery atmosphere and the music is soooo good.
It's funny how he was using a snub nose revolver, and that he forgot the fact that you can even see the bullet trajectory. But nooo, it's the hit registration's fault.
@@justanothergopnik1853 lol yeah, in some of the footage he used to illustrate the point you could literally see the bullets ricocheting off from grazing hits. But suuuure, its the hitboxes at fault.
One of the most common things I see is that "Receiver 2 is a gun/firearm sim". That's not the case. Receiver 2 is an exercise in zen state and being able to complete a complex set of constructions on the fly and under stress. The fact that the game is focused on firearms is like the skin over top the design. There's a reason why there's so many binds for controls versus something simplified. For the newer player, something as simple as quickly reloading is going to end up in fumbling. On the other hand, the player who has internalized the binds can clear a malfunction without hesitation and re-engage immediately.
I feel like the "jovial" reading of the gun history is intentionally at odds with the other audio tapes. It feels to me like the narrator is purposely making it sound almost like gun porn, appealing to the paranoid mindset the game is building up. The only comforting sounds are jerking off guns and making the history feel all happy and shit.
I always thought it was just to show that even though the receivers are the good guys they are still pretty much cultists and are at least a little bit unhinged. All of the floppy disks you find detailing the lives of other receivers kinda shows that most of them are social outcasts that are at least a bit strange, The advent of the mind kill leaving all of them in basically an eternity lasting mental battle dying over and over again until they finally manage to collect enough tapes to ascend.
fun fact: the only rng in this game is if you always remember to hold the holster button another fun fact: press f with the revolver for more accuracy, hold f, then m1 and stop holding f to not shot yourself
@@yesimrealhuman4245 maybe so as I've not played the game but as ggman said ammo and tapes vary quite a bit. When he beat the game from finding 3 tapes next to each other and a shittone of ammo that's all RNG based
The holster feature is SOOOO FUCKING ANNOYING. Dude who the fuck wants to decock their gun, or unload it every time they holster it. And it feels chunkier and less intuitive than Rec 1
I've seen a lot of people, especially steam reviewers, critique the too many buttons thing, and I really disagree. There's a learning curve for sure, but arguably the main focus of the game is fostering a respect for the danger guns present by making you think about every thing you do to use them. E opens the cylinder and R closes it because those are two different actions. I don't mean to imply that people critical of the system would prefer the whole thing was simplified to pressing R, but there are fewer steps between Receiver's system and that than one might think. Also you get used to it pretty quickly and you feel like a badass when you can go through the whole process without the help menu. I'm not a diehard fan, I just want the main focus of criticism to be on the lack of content.
I have the first reciever. Also, the tape stuff. I actually find it funny, like you are finding someone's diary and life but not in the right order and sudden shifts in what is going on make you chuckle a bit
I bought the first one like 5 years ago, never played it with more than 30 fps, seems it's really bad optimized even though graphics are as basic as they get, still fun though.
While I agree with your criticisms on the basis of "fun," I think most of the weird design decisions are meant to emphasize its themes and give the player full control over their actions. - I think the de-ranking system is meant to hammer the idea of controlled, deliberate procedure into the player. I just wish it kicked in at the third level instead of the second, since level 3 is basically where Receiver 1 already was. - Having to repeatedly mash W to run gives the player full control over their movement speed, as the speed you press it changes the speed you move. Unnecessary, but the idea is sound. - Having each action bound to different keys is less arbitrary than it might seem at first, as nearly every key has some kind of synonymous action. Z is ALWAYS tied to loading bullets into, R is always tied to slide operation, E is always tied to manipulating something separate from the gun. V is for some kind of gun-specific function. So, no, the gameplay design has very little to do with "fun" or any kind of efficiency, but it does fully embrace full player control over their actions, and learning those bizarre controls and mastering your own style of deliberate procedure is part of what eventually leads to success. Ultimately, seems like you had a good time with it, and I fully agree with just how mean the RNG and holster misfires are. I just personally find the controls and gameplay loop MOSTLY feed into its core narratives rather well, which I, in turn, find extremely compelling. Good vid, mate! Greetings from muthafuggin' TEXAS!
TDUShelby This. I’d also add that repeatedly pressing “w” reflects the intensity of the action being performed, while also complicating weapon handling- like irl.
I think it should also be mentioned that the tapes, are 'made' by one guy, based that it's always the same narrator, of some bat-shit crazy, crackpot, conspiracy, doomsday cult. While this is purely conjecture on my part, this is highly reminiscent of cults and sects that also employ this sort of tier system, like Scientology for instance. Based on this, it would only make sense that the game reflects the cult part as repetition of, at the end of the day, frivolous, menial tasks and listening over and over again to tapes of some less then 'clear' of mind narrator. The narrator always seems to be very distraught when he talks about their dogma, while joyously recounting gun history, probably in part to make him seam paranoid or otherwise mentally unsound. Also MindTech... need I say more. Also "Spoilers" from here on out: Also nobody seems to care talking about the biggest non-spoiler in the room: The Game literally tells you at the end, that you're in some harebrained inception-style three layers of Kevin Bacon dream and how the threat is fucking with You while your acshul, real, trve body is 'tearing at the shackles [of their control] in reality A'. Which is a reprisal of the first game's tape "Reality B".
@weebles just hold the tab button down bro, It's more efficent this way as you can get 1 more extra bullet loaded if you keep the chamber loaded and fill the magazine. Emptying your chamber and then putting a magazine in leaves you with 1 less bullet when you load the weapon. (In lamens terms the chamber takes a bullet from the magazine when you pull it back, but if you keep the chamber loaded you won't need to pull the chamber to load a round in, leaving you with 1 more bullet than the magazine can hold)
/k/ the game; Plus, I know that the weapon handling is awkward, but I think that's exactly the intention, to subvert what players know about shooters and make them learn once again how to handle the very intricate mechanism that is a handgun.
@@Money_Shot-j8u It can't really get much more realistic without replacing the keyboard with a working gun replica that has electrical contacts wired up to it.
@@CrizzyEyes I was speaking more on how it portrays how easy it is to ND, and the frequency at which guns jam. The game is actually very good, for what it is, and those two things are explained in the game as being caused by the in-game forces... But still unrealistic for the firearms depicted nonenonetheless. I mean, your average handgun will not jam every 2-3 shots unless there's something seriously wrong with it, or it's just THAT dirty... Or unless there's a dark force causing it like in the game. Lol
@@Money_Shot-j8u "I mean, your average handgun will not jam every 2-3 shots unless there's something seriously wrong with it" - for training purposes some people mix snap caps into their magazine so that the handgun gets a failure to fire every once in a while. Or, damaged/worn magazines are retired from use but reserved for training because of their higher rate of malfunction. This way you train clearing malfunctions without having to wait for a "real" one.
The controls make sense in that they sort of represent what you're doing. Grab a new magazine, you need to reach down, so Z. Push the chamber cylinder back into place, you're pushing it right, so you push the button *to the right* of E.
Hey Gman, you can shoot the legs of the turrets as well. If your gun is powerful enough they can bend or even snap completely off. Not to mention there are a few more weak points you missed such as the battery in the base and the main power wire in the middle. You wouldn't see em if you didnt look for em but yeah. The guide on the steam forums made by some dude talking about all the enemies is actually a really good read if you're interested.
To be fair it makes more sense than Shift. Sprinting is exhausting, and not something people often do. Same thing applies to the button, nobody really wants to mash, but it gives yoiu a nice speed boost. It's kinda a nice middle ground between an infinite sprint, and a too short sprint, you go as long as you keep mashing. It would be cool if the faster you mash, the faster you sprint, giving a risk/reward system.
It was implemented in the original game to make running not merely a Pareto dominant way to play the game. The reason it was made to be like this is because you lose a lot of directional control and situational awareness for the ability to get out of dodge. It is the closest thing to an optimal way to implement running/sprinting in this game.
I really like this game for control handling. Its so weird on purpose. You have to repeatedly smash W to run not because devs want you to suffer (not totally sure about that tho), but to take away your control of anything else while doing so. Same with gun operating - having to manually do everything makes you really focused on how you handle a weapon - not just press R and forget about it. Overall, 10 deaths caused by firing your leg out of 10.
I remember seeing a video where the developer talked about Reciever, and in that, they chose to have the mash w mechanic for sprinting to add urgency and tension to the gameplay, and also to impress on people that you're meant to take the game slow.
His complaints make it seem as though he never actually played reciever 1 they copied that control scheme so that players wouldn't have to learn a new set of controls if they'd played the first game gun handling was meant to be tedious on purpose
one whole year later, but i could 100% tell he didn't play the first game since he rarely if ever made any references to it throughout the video and many criticisms he has of the game is something that receiver 1 had and all of it's playerbase that receiver 2 is dedicated to, enjoys
@@justiceforjoggers2897 It's occasionally called that but that goofy, top-heavy handgun is actually called Yeet Cannon G1. Hi-Point let the internet name one of their new weapons.
About the E+R to reload a revolver, this was a decision by the devs to keep the controls rather close to the first game. So people who played the original Receiver could get used to the changes brought by Receiver 2 more easily.
Yet another good hit. Holy hell rewatching your vids is such a good thing. You truly took "timeless" by the balls and took it with you. You're like a good wine. You just get better with time, but you're good no matter what.
"Imagine if you went for your driving test and you failed at reverse parking so the instructor makes you go back and do the theory test again." Welcome to the American CDL system if you do your test wrong three times.
This game reconstructs the gunplay the first tore apart. Yes it’s tedious to maintain a gun, but once it’s working you’ll know just why these things are so prevalent in modern weaponry.
Great video! BTW, yesterday, the devs released a patch that changed the Ranking system (you're not longer "degraded" if you die/quit the game), and other changes: "The 2.0.1 update for Receiver 2 is OUT NOW, featuring many of your most-requested changes and tweaks. Save progress on quit instead of losing rank, updated exit message to specify that progress will be saved. Progress is autosaved after every rank up or death. Sprint key acts as “walk” key when “hold to sprint” mode is disabled. Disabled “tap to sprint” when "hold to sprint" mode is enabled. In “hold to sprint” mode, sprint key acts as a modifier for forward key. Desert Eagle negligent discharge now kills the player in one hit instead of two. Enemy spotlights now get blocked by walls even on "fastest" and "fast" quality levels. Made sure all tapes are the latest revisions, this should fix tape/transcript discrepancies. Can customize "jump" key binding. Can customize "kill player" key binding. Added dialog when setting a conflicting keybind. Fixed crash bug (the one that made the memory usage appear to grow forever). Fixed massive log file size. Fixes to stats system. Fixed some occasional reflection problems (bright flash on AMD, black on nVidia). Fixed "reset defaults" command in keybinding menu. Fixed problems when customizing keybinds. Fixed "swing out cylinder" keybind. Fixed several asset placement and rendering issues in various tiles. Fixed graphics glitches when breaking glass on Linux. Fixed clicking sound when pulling back Colt Detective hammer. Fixed error message when shooting Newton's Cradle. Fixed problems with gun operation/guns getting stuck during and after threat echo event. Fixed problem with ending. Fixed various minor bugs. Fixed various typos. "
I actually really liked receiver 1. Although incredibly simple, its tense atmosphere built by the instant death when shot and music really made it fun for me. Also it had a good modding scene. Far from a perfect game, but one that I enjoyed playing nonetheless. Also incredibly impressive for a game jam game. Great vid btw!
Oh, and also - some guns get spawned with a hidden game mechanic: poor maintenance In this state, the gun has a much higher chance to malfunction and to fire a shot even when holstering slowly (hold tab) This happens with glock a lot, but also found 1911 to do it too
Toaster the game has a lot to say about mental health, checking on your friends and the anxiety and fear that media consumption causes. I loved receiver 1 (have over 100 hours in it) and I’ve already put in 50 hours into the second. Definitely give this game a go, dude.
Also its a game whose tapes clearly are the epitome of "guns are just tools for the job, nothing else. The media and else wise are more harmful for the self than owning any fire-arm for a disciplined, mentally calm, citizen or individual."
For what it's worth, I didn't get an error message when I beat the game. I think that was a glitch. Mine played the last tape and then closed Receiver 2 entirely. The punishing level progression (which was thankfully tweaked to at least remove derank on quit) can certainly be described as padding, but if you want to be generous, you could say it does raise the stakes by introducing a legitimate dread of dying. As for me I never once engaged the safety on any of the firearms, I just got really intentional about using the "careful holstering" mechanic.
"If guns are this skittish in real life, it's a wonder anyone in america has working legs" That's probably because the 99% of those that _do_ have working legs understand that they're handling a _gun_ lol
Pro tip with the revolver: If you hold G and V you can pull any good rounds straight into your inventory instead of having to pick them up off the floor
Once you've had enough of hardcore mode, just use these cheats: Type "insight" to go up a rank. Type "idkfa" to get pockets full of bullets. The game is now fun!
"Australian millenial thinking he's a boomer complains about guns not being easy to use." P.S: The de-ranking system on leaving is gone in the latest patch.
Regarding the "hit registration", in the first clip you missed, you hit the building behind, that's what it deflected off of. The next clip, you hit the shroud, which isn't a weak point, but can kill if you force it to fly into a wall after. Also it seems you're only ever firing with the hammer uncocked. With double actions you can manually cock the hammer to get a more accurate shot since the hammer isn't pulling back and tilting your aim while you pull the trigger. It also makes it more 'hair trigger' and goes off immediately on shooting. The rest of the shots were just over the camera. For those drones, they nearly always are either dead or capable of dying in a single shot the center. Either you break the motor and they're dead, or you break the rotor guards and they die if they hit a wall enough. The camera is an instant kill but much harder to hit. Just aim for the central pillar of the body. Or, if you're as close as in the clip, the battery.
The most disappointing part of the game is the ending. There is none. There's actually an ending 'cinematic' you can access by hitting ctrl+f12 in the pause menu to open a debug menu. Thankfully someone made a mod that removes de-rank on death, w for sprint, and glock-leg. By the way, there's de-rank on QUIT, which is retarded. A+ for the firearm mechanics though. They're perfect.
@@CecilioSprayetti Wait, he shits on hipoint as in he's against the Yeet Cannon name or against the community picking it? Yeet Cannon was an Instagram gun meme, HiPoint didn't even want to do the YC-9 but got bullied by the community into doing it.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Nah, he mentions how Hipoints are relatively unreliable and cheap, they are starter guns and mentions how people used them as burner guns so they had to work with the feds to fix it. Doesn't say anything negative or positive about the name yeet cannon just mentions how it came about
The green box is the worst target. It has the thickest armor, and so direct hits aren't likely to break it. Ammo box for easy kills, camera to flex and avoid bullshit (camera lights distracting you or the rare case where they load one in the chamber), battery if you've gotten the jump on them.
Dev Boss: "Alright team this game is going to focus on highly detailed, great looking weaponry. To start off, what weapons should we incorporate into the arsenal?" Dev Team:" ..." Dev Team: "... uhhh maybe we should in the FN Fiv-," Jerry: Hi-Point! Dev Boss: PERFECT! ADD IT!
People do t realise how detailed the guns are in this. It's a highly realistic closed loop physics simulation simulating every moving part down the the smallest springs created using manufacturer design specs. It's insane how there are no real animations for the gun and everything is physics based.
@@brando3342 This wasn't a joke. He literally, literally said "photorealistic" in the literal sense. OFFTOPIC: photorealistic is used in a sense to say "trying to look real". Skyrim is considered a photorealistic game, or Call of Duty. As opposed to Team Fortress 2, or XIII if you're that old lmao idk
2LT Sheridan I was making the joke. Also, photorealistic does not presume "attempting", it presumes success. If you say "that is photorealistic" it means it is indecipherable from a photograph.
You can remap the buttons. I have 2 side thumb buttons on my mouse which I use for the slide lock release and racking the slide it also makes the press check easy as I can easily press both with my thumb at once.
"The animations of pulling back the slide" All of the animations of the guns in this game aren't really animations, they're physics simulations down to every spring and pin in the gun. Pressing F doesn't animate the hammer back, it applies a force to it (this is why the gun kind of gets yanked back when you cock or rack it.) How to enjoy this game better (specifically directed at the video creator but if you wanna pick this up do this too) 1. Lock weapon to centre of screen in settings Can't stress this one enough, nobody likes that shitty box aim garbage like you're playing time crisis 2. Bind shift to sprint Duh how is this not standard 3. Bind holster to alt Or any button easier than tilde and tab, you'll need to use it slot. 4. Cock the double actions. Giggity. Seriously though, the early double action revolves cant hit shit past 10m without being cocked before each shot. Accuracy is really important so this is a must. 5. Drill. Giggity. Ok I'll stop but seriously. New gun? Look in help and read about it. Drill loading a few times all the way up to a full mag and one in the chamber or however much it can carry. Drill reloading mags and swapping mags. Drill unloading incase you find kurt Cobain's suicide tape. Drill the safety, d̶r̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶m̶u̶m̶ And now you fumble way less and the gameplay is smoother. You also feel like an absolute God when you execute that perfect reload or clear that jam you *drilled* for. Main take away? Drill every o̶n̶e̶ gun And that's how you enjoy receiver 2
@@technoturnovers7072 not really about optimisation, if it was down to that I'd hotkey reloading to R. It's about fun, and for me ADS box aim is the exact opposite of fun.
@@benfennell6842 I think it's more fun when the controls are effective for the task at hand, and being able to follow up shots is pretty important to being successful at this game; also, I would HIGHLY dispute that reloading isn't fun, it contributes to the balance of the game and enables the use of mechanical skill. It might not be fun when you fuck it up, but it just makes the reward when you succeed better
@@technoturnovers7072 no I'm saying I WOULDNT hockey reloading to R, because despite that being technically the most efficient way to play its removing the fun. Plus getting attacked by drones with box aim enabled is total ass.
I can't wait for reciever 3 where you clean carbon out of the star chamber with a qtip.
Reload bullets manually by being the creepy old guy at the gun range who collects shell casings. LMAO
If there's no muzzleloaders, percussion caps and paper cartridges I will whinge about it online
@@Sheridan2LT This guy gets it
@@UziIdiot The third game is going to use SPORTS as a control scheme.
@@DiggitySlice LOL no you do what you want man! I'm just commenting on how boring and frustrating that would be LOL
Me: oh, this looks like a fun VR game.
Later: oh, this isn't a VR game
jjkusaf I felt that
Yep. still looks fun though.
Thank god
Receiver 1 was fun and the controls where very interesting and fun
Same here. Like what? Im confused.
i absolutely love how the game just fucking *rags* on hi-point mercilessly
for example; the in game description of the C9 is as follows:
"Since 1993 the Hi-Point C9 has been a great choice for those who value their lives over their dignity."
Hippints are surprisingly reliable, and as proven by demoranch, LITERALLY BULLETPROOF. well. I mean it still works after being shot in the side of the chamber with a 9mm so. Yeah id say its reliable.
@@benfennell6842 And he couldn't even destroy it by obstructing the barrel with all sorts of stuff. Even welding the damn thing down.
@@benfennell6842 He literally shot the strongest part of the gun, which is the barrel. If he had shot the slide or frame it would have been obliterated, as it is made of pot metal. POT METAL.
If one throws a hi point hard enough at a rock it will break the slide in two, as seen in the link below. You could potentially do the same by throwing it anything else as hard as rock like a brick wall or concrete. th-cam.com/video/flVBPpKG4zA/w-d-xo.html
@@grizzlyadams5410 fair point
@@benfennell6842 it can be reliable thanks to its tolerances and the fact that it is straight blowback, but I would not dare compare its durability to others, just wanted to say that. Hope I didn't sound aggressive, just really don't like pot metal guns.
Sure as hell beats a stick, but I'd think I'd rather use a Jimenez if I had to use a pot metal gun, looks like an actual gun and far better for carry.
The misfires are explained in the lore: The "Threat" is messing with your firearms to make them more unreliable and more prone to malfunctions and misfires.
It exaggerates Murphy's Law. Anything that can go wrong, will. So don't make mistakes. Operating should come to you like breathing, if you handle yourself perfectly, you will perform well.
@@g80gzt "slow is smooth, smooth is fast"
"Focus on your breathing. AUGH WAAAH OH GOODD WAUUUUAGH. How did you do?"
I love this games tapes.
That isn't a misfire. A misfire is when the gone *doesn't* go off
@@dubber1416 misfires happen in the game too, and couldn't NDs be considered a malfunction of the user?
@@TheJubiter Not all NDs are. You can get slamfires very rarely which are impossible to stop. (Besides the cleaning kit but that's compound exclusive).
Also, as a part of the lore "the threat" controls probability to some extent- essentially making murphy's law a reality the farther up you go in initiation ranks. That's why some of the tapes detail how important it is for you not to make mistakes.
The amount of negligent discharges too he has, for not clearing his fire-arm (unloading it for simple people) all because "its tedious" is humiliating. Gun safety 101 everyone.
@@FenrisulfrSkarr it's not even unloading it, it's lowering the hammer or putting it on safe
it even extends to the players physicality, the threat is affecting the probabilities of everything to the extent that the reason you get injured with every fall is you landed poorly, and even manipulating ricochets to be more likely to hit you.
@@hornyducks4090 with the glock it is. no safety or or anything, god I hate that thing. Also, with one of the later weapons, you don't want to lower the hammer all the way since it can lead to accidental discharge if you land badly, but that's as easy as just half cocking it, or letting it rest on an empty chamber.
That’s also why holstering quickly almost always results in pulling the trigger, why the guns jam an unrealistic amount, why there’s so much fall damage, etc. The whole point is to demonstrate what would happen with a handgun in the worst case scenario. A lot of people don’t seem to understand the lore, or at least don’t acknowledge it as much as they should. (like this reviewer, for example)
A Hi-Point in a game...I have seen everything. Also, of course a 1911 will jam
I almost couldn't believe it.
The glock jammed too
@@kevinragsdale6256 The devs are almost fuddlike with how they treat auto-loaders in the game. revolvers of course never jam and are reliable but semi autos jam constantly.
Revolvers almost never jam
@@barnyhitman that does sound fuddy, last revolver I had fail on me was a rossi. It didnt jam, but the firing pin broke off and was a paperweight.
This game is criminally underrated. The game has no actual "hitreg" issues like Gman stated in the video, however there was really no way he would've known that at the time he made this. The sight alignment is actually taken into account in the bullet's point of impact(versus Point of aim), IE if the front sight has swayed below the rear sight notch, the shot will hit low. But the only way we really know this now is because there's a significantly refined shooting range in the recent compound update.
the moment you start talking about button inputs, i realise that it was not a VR game at all.
got to say the animation was so nice i thought it was reading hand movements.
This would probably be a lot more fun as a VR game
Erik Musta there’s plenty of VR games with this level of gunplay already, this opens that to a broader audience
@@connormac2855 Examples?
And someone can definitely keep their head that stable in vr
@@connormac2855 A lot of people say that but there arent that many
As an American who likes to shoot guns, the re-holstering thing is huge in gun culture. Re-holstering is the most dangerous thing any hobbyist shooter will do without going into a firefight. That's why most people just use shooting benches at the range, but if you carry, then it becomes dangerous to pull out your carry firearm simply because you'll need to re-holster it. Drawing or unholstering is not nearly as dangerous, but can be if you're not wearing the right clothes.
My dad once shot himself in the thigh while his gun was holstered and almost hit his femoral artery by 1cm.
@@NecrotekLabs a criminal once blew off his testicle due to him holstering in his pants, not a pocket but just using the butt of the pants.
I remember reading a news story about a guy blowing his dick try to re holster his glock in his appendix holster
@@uppishcub1617 i felt that you know
@@uppishcub1617 better carry a knife than a gun if you are doing that
Jesus, no kids
When Rifles get finally added you'll need a second keyboard.
Rifles were Actually added in a mod for the first game, specifically a bolt action and a pump shotgun. They were actually more simple to use than any of the other guns.
@@gold_spin1639 yeah rifles are usually easier to manipulate than handguns.
@Mialisus yeah receiver 1 had I think just one weapon mod and it was decent but difficult to install and a bit janky
Rifles are like spears: Easier to use and far more powerful but far more bulky and heavy.
The pistol is like a sword. Sure, it has less range, less power but it's a lot more maneuverable and compact.
Just imagine if they added LMGs. They'd probably have a mechanic where your barrel can overheat and you'd have to replace it or something. Man, I seriously hope this has mod support.
The whole point of Receiver was a sarcastic answer to naysayers of realism in video games who ask "Would you rather have a separate button for taking out the magazine and putting it back in?". Simplifying the handling in any way is sacrilege
and then receiver fans went "yes. yes i would like that"
and now we have receiver 2
Satire isn't satire if you do the exact thing you're making fun of while rolling your eyes.
@@jays.6843 Agreed. It's kinda like when games make fun of sewer levels on a sewer level. It doesn't matter if its self aware, it still sucks.
This isn't even realistic to begin with.
on control remapping; he literally says that he was able to memorize the controls, if you can do that, then i dont see the need to simplify the controls for the sake of "making the controls less awkward" when the whole fucking point of the game is to have a set of obtuse and awkward controls that forces new players to re-think how guns work, especially if you've shown yourself capable of memorizing the controls. Cause, y'know, it prooves that they fucking work.
What you're missing out on is, the platforming part. Half the fun is finding out you can jump outside of the map's boundaries to avoid areas completely, or to get to the multiple levels each section has.
Once you realize you can do that, this becomes an adventure game
Yeah, until you fall like... a _foot_ and end up breaking your legs lmao
"Getting an empty cartridge stuck in your ejection port is the last thing you want, believe me. I've had plenty of empty cartridges stuck in my ejection port, it's not pretty."
- GmanLives recalling his nights at the gay bars
*Earthbound music plays* what
The thing I'm confused about is which ejection port? From the stories I've heard wouldn't believe the holes an undigested rice seed will jam into.
@@thelastminuteman7513 It's just condoms in his ass
GaymanLives
That accidental discharge mechanic isn’t exactly accurate. If anything, it’s an attempt at simulating trigger discipline.
Tetrumo that’s why they’re called Negligent Discharges , rule 1
the reason for high amount of malfunctions is explained in the game's lore.
@@delpher32exe I'll have to find that tidbit then lol
www.alloutdoor.com/2016/05/10/glock-leg-condition-dont-want/
@@MasterFancyPants yes, exactly that
Thankfully they updated the rank system today, you no longer lose a rank when you quit and all ranks are saved when you die. Its much better
Also included in the update is an ending fix, thankfully
I did wonder "Is that error *supposed* to be there? That doesn't look right to me!"
I guess it didn't!
The_Bearded_Engi holy fuck finally, I stopped playing the game for a while because I got too infuriated about having to go through the first 2 levels 50 times to get to the third level and die almost immediately. Sweet Jesus
@@thegeforce6625 they now have a compound to play with
Are you implyimg my 300 hours in modern warfare and owning severa la nerf guns dont make me a guns expert Sonny jim?, i take great offence to that you know
Should have played airsoft thats where all the special forces guys are
you kinda missed the point when talking about the weapon controls, its supposed to be complex and obfuscating, its the games main point of difficulty, that guns are complicated and dangerous and you need to learn how to handle them
@@henstar337 Yeah. But that's like resetting until you get a god-tier gun on the first room in Enter The Gungeon, or resetting until you get god-tier items in The Binding Of Issac. Does it work? Yes. But you're a little bitch for doing it.
Exactly. If you had a traditional control scheme it would only diminish the effect. Part of the joy of Receiver is running about a room trying to avoid flying drones as you scrape up ammo on the ground, load it into the gun, stretching your hand across your entire keyboard, then try and have to figure out how to shoot the damn things while you're desperately mashing W and swerving from left-to-right. The obnoxiousness of the control scheme makes achieving the desired result all the sweeter.
@@Milo-xb3gj well we kinda have ArmA, but without the collecting tapes part
@@Milo-xb3gj this is the best counter to the controls are too hard argument, because without the dark souls tier weapon handling that really is all that's left lol.
before wanting to take a gun and use it irl , play that game first
Game dedicated to gun porn. Has a hi point.
That would be the dark web of gun porn.
When you order Gun porn on wish
Worry not, it is a terrible gun in-game also and basically just to make life harder in the later stages where a 92FS or 1911 are just too easy to handle
10 millions rounds thru my hi point fo'ty, no issues....nigga
People shit on Hi-Points, but their carbines and handguns are fun to shoot, and well worth the cheaper price. A great burner gun.
I actually really like how jovial the narrator is sometimes, and then suddenly you have a tape about a guy wanting to kill his wife and kids and then himself, and the music just starts swelling into this horrifying drone, and the gun starts turning on you... And then afterwards there's a tape about how mental wounds can heal with time, and that one should take their time with shit, and whatnot. It's... Idk, it's just feels so real, yknow? Kinda reflects how some people's mental illnesses are, like bipolar and shit? Suddenly, you're all the way down in the pit, ready to go apeshit, and then something bright and beautiful and calm happens. Then again, I've never really dealt with issues like that myself, I've just had friends and loved ones with problems like that.
Anyways, it's also super tense, and I like that. When you hear a turret beeping, and you know you only have two loaded cylinders left, or when you first find ceiling turrets and you're caught off guard totally. That's shock. And the soundtrack that plays when a turret comes into view, or detects you, holy shit.
That hit deep. IT2 in the Navy pending medsep for that same thing - didn't even last through the first 6yr contract. Oh well. Thanks for writing it Bruce 🤙
@@arbayer2 Former AF here. These things happen, don't beat yourself up too much. Find a veteran group in your local area. It can be a really great source of support when you feel distant from the civvie side.
Also the voice is explicitly a receiver being spoken 'through' by whoever in Reality A. So it makes sense that he's inconsistent with tone, he's not speaking for himself, but for some otherworldly force.
Also yeah the tone shifts are definitely intentional, showing that firearms are both just a tool like any other with interesting history and funny anecdotes, but also reminders to take them seriously, they're not toys, and they're only a bad thought away from causing major damage. Hell one of the tapes even starts with jokes about how the Hi-Point has a dumb name, and ends with how the inventor of Hi-Point never really recovered from learning one of his weapons was used in a school shooting. So it's not like the tonal shift is exclusively from tape to tape, it's clearly intended as it happens even within tapes.
For anyone reading this in the future: the best way to avoid the Threat turning your gun on you is to completely unload it (rack the slide to make sure, if it has one). Make sure you aren't holding a magazine, either (having one in your inventory is fine).
11:50 *complains about poor hitreg while visibly missing the shot they were trying to make due to lack of ability*
Australians and guns is like the first caveman to discover fire. Foreign concept since the 90s
And he's shooting it with a snub nose revolver.
@@nbr1rckr lmao
@@justanothergopnik1853 Dont knock the gun, its way more accurate than you are. Its easy to blame the tool and not the carpenter.
@@FenrisulfrSkarr Not hating the gun, just saying that it makes his point even more of an excuse for having bad aim.
Yes, and the bullets fall out of the gun if you point it upwards. 10/10
@@0xB8xor0xFF You... you can look up in non-VR games, you know that, right?
@@TheRedpuff cant believe he commented that lol, he deleted it
Even the fired rounds? If so it's not the end of the world, I'm just asking.
To those who don't know; the metal that the shell are made of would expand from the heat witch is why the eject rod is needed to shove the bigger shells out of the tiny hole, they also can't replace the rod with bigger holes for the expanded rounds because when they are fresh they'll have too much space and either can't get hit by the action pin, or the bullet will slam into the barrel due to misalignment.
@@TheEmeraldSword04 interesting, even though I commented this a year ago
I've had the game for so long and I've never ever tried this, holy crap
Even if the game itself is pretty limited (enemy types, level parts etc) I just can't stop playing. The gun mechanics, the eery atmosphere and the music is soooo good.
It's also incredibly fun with cheats. Fill up a couple of mags and go blast some robots in glorious slow-motion.
"issues with hit registration" yeah sure, son.
It's funny how he was using a snub nose revolver, and that he forgot the fact that you can even see the bullet trajectory. But nooo, it's the hit registration's fault.
@@justanothergopnik1853 lol yeah, in some of the footage he used to illustrate the point you could literally see the bullets ricocheting off from grazing hits. But suuuure, its the hitboxes at fault.
In this game I've never felt like I missed a shot I wasn't meant to miss.
You can also tell in the game that the sights do wander slightly, which I believe does influence the trajectory.
I’ve literally never had an unreasonable miss or hit that didn’t make sense.
One of the most common things I see is that "Receiver 2 is a gun/firearm sim".
That's not the case.
Receiver 2 is an exercise in zen state and being able to complete a complex set of constructions on the fly and under stress. The fact that the game is focused on firearms is like the skin over top the design.
There's a reason why there's so many binds for controls versus something simplified. For the newer player, something as simple as quickly reloading is going to end up in fumbling. On the other hand, the player who has internalized the binds can clear a malfunction without hesitation and re-engage immediately.
Never thought about it like that.
Exactly!
I feel like the "jovial" reading of the gun history is intentionally at odds with the other audio tapes. It feels to me like the narrator is purposely making it sound almost like gun porn, appealing to the paranoid mindset the game is building up. The only comforting sounds are jerking off guns and making the history feel all happy and shit.
I always thought it was just to show that even though the receivers are the good guys they are still pretty much cultists and are at least a little bit unhinged. All of the floppy disks you find detailing the lives of other receivers kinda shows that most of them are social outcasts that are at least a bit strange, The advent of the mind kill leaving all of them in basically an eternity lasting mental battle dying over and over again until they finally manage to collect enough tapes to ascend.
@@gold_spin1639 Receivers are trigger discipline paladins, and I wouldn't have it any other way.
I feel its a statement on how the character is paranoid of media but has no problems running around with devices that can actually kill you
TOAOM123 I mean in this case the media is literally manipulated by an otherworldly cosmic force that wants to wipe out humanity.
@@gold_spin1639
Yeah in the literal
I'm talking about the themes
6:34 *ejects the round in the chamber then pulling out the mag*
Me: *OH NO*
You mean the most common cause for negligent discharges ever?
Typical
fun fact: the only rng in this game is if you always remember to hold the holster button
another fun fact: press f with the revolver for more accuracy, hold f, then m1 and stop holding f to not shot yourself
levels are generated completely randomly, that's RNG
@@Arnazisti the layout, the rooms are the same
Why do I think it's an alt+f4 tip and I'll shoot myself by accident?
@@yesimrealhuman4245 maybe so as I've not played the game but as ggman said ammo and tapes vary quite a bit. When he beat the game from finding 3 tapes next to each other and a shittone of ammo that's all RNG based
The holster feature is SOOOO FUCKING ANNOYING. Dude who the fuck wants to decock their gun, or unload it every time they holster it. And it feels chunkier and less intuitive than Rec 1
I've seen a lot of people, especially steam reviewers, critique the too many buttons thing, and I really disagree. There's a learning curve for sure, but arguably the main focus of the game is fostering a respect for the danger guns present by making you think about every thing you do to use them. E opens the cylinder and R closes it because those are two different actions. I don't mean to imply that people critical of the system would prefer the whole thing was simplified to pressing R, but there are fewer steps between Receiver's system and that than one might think. Also you get used to it pretty quickly and you feel like a badass when you can go through the whole process without the help menu. I'm not a diehard fan, I just want the main focus of criticism to be on the lack of content.
Oh lawd the way the character flinches everytime he shoots is so realistic.
Never managed to fire a gun without flinching in my life.
You need to dry fire them to get used to pulling the trigger without expecting the blast.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD I flinch after the shot not before…
That’s why I love this channel. It introduces me to so many games I’ve never even heard of.
I'm just here for the mom jokes.
Gman does weeb games. Enough said
Albert Romanov only after i saw your comment, i realized there was FUCKING NON OF THEM
@@yukisuzuki629
I know. The quality of this channel has really dropped.
I have the first reciever.
Also, the tape stuff. I actually find it funny, like you are finding someone's diary and life but not in the right order and sudden shifts in what is going on make you chuckle a bit
I bought the first one like 5 years ago, never played it with more than 30 fps, seems it's really bad optimized even though graphics are as basic as they get, still fun though.
While I agree with your criticisms on the basis of "fun," I think most of the weird design decisions are meant to emphasize its themes and give the player full control over their actions.
- I think the de-ranking system is meant to hammer the idea of controlled, deliberate procedure into the player. I just wish it kicked in at the third level instead of the second, since level 3 is basically where Receiver 1 already was.
- Having to repeatedly mash W to run gives the player full control over their movement speed, as the speed you press it changes the speed you move. Unnecessary, but the idea is sound.
- Having each action bound to different keys is less arbitrary than it might seem at first, as nearly every key has some kind of synonymous action. Z is ALWAYS tied to loading bullets into, R is always tied to slide operation, E is always tied to manipulating something separate from the gun. V is for some kind of gun-specific function.
So, no, the gameplay design has very little to do with "fun" or any kind of efficiency, but it does fully embrace full player control over their actions, and learning those bizarre controls and mastering your own style of deliberate procedure is part of what eventually leads to success.
Ultimately, seems like you had a good time with it, and I fully agree with just how mean the RNG and holster misfires are. I just personally find the controls and gameplay loop MOSTLY feed into its core narratives rather well, which I, in turn, find extremely compelling.
Good vid, mate! Greetings from muthafuggin' TEXAS!
TDUShelby This. I’d also add that repeatedly pressing “w” reflects the intensity of the action being performed, while also complicating weapon handling- like irl.
Id say it is the fun in itself
Bingo. When it comes to the gun handling mechanics, he didn't really understand the reasoning behind it.
I think it should also be mentioned that the tapes, are 'made' by one guy, based that it's always the same narrator, of some bat-shit crazy, crackpot, conspiracy, doomsday cult. While this is purely conjecture on my part, this is highly reminiscent of cults and sects that also employ this sort of tier system, like Scientology for instance. Based on this, it would only make sense that the game reflects the cult part as repetition of, at the end of the day, frivolous, menial tasks and listening over and over again to tapes of some less then 'clear' of mind narrator.
The narrator always seems to be very distraught when he talks about their dogma, while joyously recounting gun history, probably in part to make him seam paranoid or otherwise mentally unsound.
Also MindTech... need I say more.
Also "Spoilers" from here on out:
Also nobody seems to care talking about the biggest non-spoiler in the room: The Game literally tells you at the end, that you're in some harebrained inception-style three layers of Kevin Bacon dream and how the threat is fucking with You while your acshul, real, trve body is 'tearing at the shackles [of their control] in reality A'. Which is a reprisal of the first game's tape "Reality B".
@pat
I don't know, ask their parents.
4:10 _"When I die, just throw me in the trash."_
*gun barrel begins to turn to your face as you frantically rack the slide to unload the gun*
jontron: I DON'T LIKE WHERE THIS IS GOING
"Putting the safety on all of your weapons"
*is holding a Glock*
HMMMMMMMMMMMMM
Walking dead Glock
@@chunkytomatosoup1826 Truuuue lmao
Slide lock
@weebles just hold the tab button down bro, It's more efficent this way as you can get 1 more extra bullet loaded if you keep the chamber loaded and fill the magazine. Emptying your chamber and then putting a magazine in leaves you with 1 less bullet when you load the weapon. (In lamens terms the chamber takes a bullet from the magazine when you pull it back, but if you keep the chamber loaded you won't need to pull the chamber to load a round in, leaving you with 1 more bullet than the magazine can hold)
@@MrFriendlyCsgoContent I really need that 18th round lmfao
I'll stick to bolstering the 17 the 0in the chamber or the slide locked back.
/k/ the game;
Plus, I know that the weapon handling is awkward, but I think that's exactly the intention, to subvert what players know about shooters and make them learn once again how to handle the very intricate mechanism that is a handgun.
Playing this game is harder, but cheaper than learning how to use an actual gun
And also not realistic in terms in of learning how to handle an actual gun.
@@Money_Shot-j8u It can't really get much more realistic without replacing the keyboard with a working gun replica that has electrical contacts wired up to it.
@@CrizzyEyes I was speaking more on how it portrays how easy it is to ND, and the frequency at which guns jam. The game is actually very good, for what it is, and those two things are explained in the game as being caused by the in-game forces... But still unrealistic for the firearms depicted nonenonetheless. I mean, your average handgun will not jam every 2-3 shots unless there's something seriously wrong with it, or it's just THAT dirty... Or unless there's a dark force causing it like in the game. Lol
@@Money_Shot-j8u "I mean, your average handgun will not jam every 2-3 shots unless there's something seriously wrong with it" - for training purposes some people mix snap caps into their magazine so that the handgun gets a failure to fire every once in a while. Or, damaged/worn magazines are retired from use but reserved for training because of their higher rate of malfunction. This way you train clearing malfunctions without having to wait for a "real" one.
The controls make sense in that they sort of represent what you're doing. Grab a new magazine, you need to reach down, so Z. Push the chamber cylinder back into place, you're pushing it right, so you push the button *to the right* of E.
Holy shit, I never even realized that, *M E T A C O N T R O L S*
it's intentionally so clunky and tedious in order to add to the anxiety
I dont think many people even knew Reciever 1 was even a thing.
steamspy says Owners: 500,000 .. 1,000,000, so in my book it's a lot for an indie game made in 7 days
@@delpher32exe Pretty sure most people got this game because it comes with Overgrowth for free.
@@iowa6646 yeah, I only played it because I got it with Overgrowth, and I thought that Wolfire would've had some good quality in their other game.
I happened to buy it, my pc wasn't even able to run it well.
I never heard of either game until just now
Damn, when did this one even come out? I loved the first.
Pretty recently, i think it was 23rd or 24th of April?
@@automobiili_xd6236 Earlier than that for sure, but yeah I would say somewhere early to mid april
@@blomgus It was released on the 14th. Well, i don't have the best of memories i guess.
Literally April 14th dude. LMAO I tried it and I don't like it much
Yeah me too. I got it with my preorder for Undergrowth!
Hey Gman, you can shoot the legs of the turrets as well. If your gun is powerful enough they can bend or even snap completely off. Not to mention there are a few more weak points you missed such as the battery in the base and the main power wire in the middle. You wouldn't see em if you didnt look for em but yeah. The guide on the steam forums made by some dude talking about all the enemies is actually a really good read if you're interested.
The Cassete tapes are read by Alex Jones' Son
Really?
@@theflightlessbutdankkiwi3820 yes lol
based
Based and threatpilled
what’s his son’s name?
8:35 Why would you complain about Z being hard to press but then suggest H as the default button for holstering?
"they punish you for losing and push you back each time"
So you've just discovered grade retentions
To be fair, you don't go back a grade AFAIK, you just repeat that grade. Unlike here where you get demoted.
Ah, World of guns: Story mode.
xD I love World of Guns. My favourite past time activity
Ah yes, world of guns, aka: that pin was THERE?!
3:36 Me after playing Hunt Down the Freeman
Alot of the frustrations that you had is actually the point of receiver, especially if it is as short as it is ya know.
Fun fact if you look up and rush reloading a reolver especially the SAA you'll fumble the rounds and it won't reload
Also, if you keep pressing the ejector rod on any revolver, you just drop any rounds you're putting in.
The idea of mashing W to sprint had me audibly laugh, but it's an interesting method.
Kind of like every Rockstar game
@@maegnificant It's way easier to mash a gamepad button than a keyboard key though.
To be fair it makes more sense than Shift. Sprinting is exhausting, and not something people often do. Same thing applies to the button, nobody really wants to mash, but it gives yoiu a nice speed boost. It's kinda a nice middle ground between an infinite sprint, and a too short sprint, you go as long as you keep mashing. It would be cool if the faster you mash, the faster you sprint, giving a risk/reward system.
It actually works really well. Though I enjoyed the design of the controls more than he did.
It was implemented in the original game to make running not merely a Pareto dominant
way to play the game. The reason it was made to be like this is because you lose a lot of directional control and situational awareness for the ability to get out of dodge. It is the closest thing to an optimal way to implement running/sprinting in this game.
I really like this game for control handling. Its so weird on purpose. You have to repeatedly smash W to run not because devs want you to suffer (not totally sure about that tho), but to take away your control of anything else while doing so. Same with gun operating - having to manually do everything makes you really focused on how you handle a weapon - not just press R and forget about it.
Overall, 10 deaths caused by firing your leg out of 10.
I remember seeing a video where the developer talked about Reciever, and in that, they chose to have the mash w mechanic for sprinting to add urgency and tension to the gameplay, and also to impress on people that you're meant to take the game slow.
"Holstering your gun too quick and careless can result in negligent discharge"
*MC is using Serpa holster confirmed*
0:00 glock "perfection"
Somebody watched The Examined Life of Gaming
Epic reference.
Examineds review I felt was alot better, he is a true /k/ommando
Apparently he didn't sit through the vid then lol
His complaints make it seem as though he never actually played reciever 1 they copied that control scheme so that players wouldn't have to learn a new set of controls if they'd played the first game gun handling was meant to be tedious on purpose
one whole year later, but i could 100% tell he didn't play the first game since he rarely if ever made any references to it throughout the video and many criticisms he has of the game is something that receiver 1 had and all of it's playerbase that receiver 2 is dedicated to, enjoys
i can't believe you failed to mention the inclusion of the Yeet Cannon
The Desert Eagle isn't the Yeet Cannon?
@@justiceforjoggers2897 It's occasionally called that but that goofy, top-heavy handgun is actually called Yeet Cannon G1. Hi-Point let the internet name one of their new weapons.
@@EnoEtukeno
Oh hell yeah
The encyclopaedia entry in the game even has “Yeet Cannon” as the secondary name, just as the Single Action Army is called the Peacemaker
I don't think the Hi-point in game is a YC-9 though, I think it's just a C-9.
"The Riley Reid of gun porn".. I died
About the E+R to reload a revolver, this was a decision by the devs to keep the controls rather close to the first game. So people who played the original Receiver could get used to the changes brought by Receiver 2 more easily.
Sees a drones light
“So I just started blasting”
Your editing is getting better and better... I love it
Yet another good hit. Holy hell rewatching your vids is such a good thing. You truly took "timeless" by the balls and took it with you.
You're like a good wine. You just get better with time, but you're good no matter what.
"Imagine if you went for your driving test and you failed at reverse parking so the instructor makes you go back and do the theory test again." Welcome to the American CDL system if you do your test wrong three times.
The Examined life of gaming does a very good review of this. Good channel
This game reconstructs the gunplay the first tore apart. Yes it’s tedious to maintain a gun, but once it’s working you’ll know just why these things are so prevalent in modern weaponry.
2:07 I saw the hi-point and I just started screaming in fear, poor lad doesn't even know he's holding the dollar store pistol.
Please review house party
Regboy2011 :))))
How's it going, dude? Staying away from the alcohol?
@@southpaw117 who are you
*_"The American Stanley Parable."_*
Great video!
BTW, yesterday, the devs released a patch that changed the Ranking system (you're not longer "degraded" if you die/quit the game), and other changes:
"The 2.0.1 update for Receiver 2 is OUT NOW, featuring many of your most-requested changes and tweaks.
Save progress on quit instead of losing rank, updated exit message to specify that progress will be saved.
Progress is autosaved after every rank up or death.
Sprint key acts as “walk” key when “hold to sprint” mode is disabled.
Disabled “tap to sprint” when "hold to sprint" mode is enabled.
In “hold to sprint” mode, sprint key acts as a modifier for forward key.
Desert Eagle negligent discharge now kills the player in one hit instead of two.
Enemy spotlights now get blocked by walls even on "fastest" and "fast" quality levels.
Made sure all tapes are the latest revisions, this should fix tape/transcript discrepancies.
Can customize "jump" key binding.
Can customize "kill player" key binding.
Added dialog when setting a conflicting keybind.
Fixed crash bug (the one that made the memory usage appear to grow forever).
Fixed massive log file size.
Fixes to stats system.
Fixed some occasional reflection problems (bright flash on AMD, black on nVidia).
Fixed "reset defaults" command in keybinding menu.
Fixed problems when customizing keybinds.
Fixed "swing out cylinder" keybind.
Fixed several asset placement and rendering issues in various tiles.
Fixed graphics glitches when breaking glass on Linux.
Fixed clicking sound when pulling back Colt Detective hammer.
Fixed error message when shooting Newton's Cradle.
Fixed problems with gun operation/guns getting stuck during and after threat echo event.
Fixed problem with ending.
Fixed various minor bugs.
Fixed various typos.
"
Good review as always. Stay safe, and not sick
I actually really liked receiver 1. Although incredibly simple, its tense atmosphere built by the instant death when shot and music really made it fun for me. Also it had a good modding scene. Far from a perfect game, but one that I enjoyed playing nonetheless. Also incredibly impressive for a game jam game. Great vid btw!
I love the random games he talks about
local gun enthusiast shoots up robots in an apartment building.
again.
Oh, and also - some guns get spawned with a hidden game mechanic: poor maintenance
In this state, the gun has a much higher chance to malfunction and to fire a shot even when holstering slowly (hold tab)
This happens with glock a lot, but also found 1911 to do it too
"Almost photo-realistic graphics"? Bruh, u need to get out and experience real life more. 😆
Some of the apartment and hospital scenes are pretty nice, while a lot of the industrial\construction areas seem less polished graphically.
glad this game is getting some exposure, this has eaten away at my life
I've never seen a real-time stove pipe jam in a FPS before. Pretty cool
If you play this for an hour or two you'll never want to see one again. ;-p
"It piss me off!" *as gman reaches for his colt action single revolver*
Receiver 2: Hi-Point bad.
what do you mean “part social commentary?”
Toaster the game has a lot to say about mental health, checking on your friends and the anxiety and fear that media consumption causes. I loved receiver 1 (have over 100 hours in it) and I’ve already put in 50 hours into the second. Definitely give this game a go, dude.
Also its a game whose tapes clearly are the epitome of "guns are just tools for the job, nothing else. The media and else wise are more harmful for the self than owning any fire-arm for a disciplined, mentally calm, citizen or individual."
For what it's worth, I didn't get an error message when I beat the game. I think that was a glitch. Mine played the last tape and then closed Receiver 2 entirely. The punishing level progression (which was thankfully tweaked to at least remove derank on quit) can certainly be described as padding, but if you want to be generous, you could say it does raise the stakes by introducing a legitimate dread of dying. As for me I never once engaged the safety on any of the firearms, I just got really intentional about using the "careful holstering" mechanic.
A yeet cannon in game? Wow I did not expect that
"If guns are this skittish in real life, it's a wonder anyone in america has working legs"
That's probably because the 99% of those that _do_ have working legs understand that they're handling a _gun_ lol
I played this game too, it's cool.
Pro tip with the revolver: If you hold G and V you can pull any good rounds straight into your inventory instead of having to pick them up off the floor
Once you've had enough of hardcore mode, just use these cheats:
Type "insight" to go up a rank.
Type "idkfa" to get pockets full of bullets.
The game is now fun!
"Australian millenial thinking he's a boomer complains about guns not being easy to use."
P.S: The de-ranking system on leaving is gone in the latest patch.
Severance Blades Of Darkness! Please review it!!
Halfway in the vid Gman tells me that this controls like a vr game when the whole time i thought that this is a vr game
Regarding the "hit registration", in the first clip you missed, you hit the building behind, that's what it deflected off of. The next clip, you hit the shroud, which isn't a weak point, but can kill if you force it to fly into a wall after. Also it seems you're only ever firing with the hammer uncocked. With double actions you can manually cock the hammer to get a more accurate shot since the hammer isn't pulling back and tilting your aim while you pull the trigger. It also makes it more 'hair trigger' and goes off immediately on shooting. The rest of the shots were just over the camera. For those drones, they nearly always are either dead or capable of dying in a single shot the center. Either you break the motor and they're dead, or you break the rotor guards and they die if they hit a wall enough. The camera is an instant kill but much harder to hit. Just aim for the central pillar of the body. Or, if you're as close as in the clip, the battery.
The most disappointing part of the game is the ending. There is none. There's actually an ending 'cinematic' you can access by hitting ctrl+f12 in the pause menu to open a debug menu.
Thankfully someone made a mod that removes de-rank on death, w for sprint, and glock-leg. By the way, there's de-rank on QUIT, which is retarded.
A+ for the firearm mechanics though. They're perfect.
Adam why would you want to remove the holstering thing that’s one of my favorite additions it really keeps me paying attention
Adam They've actually removed derank on quit in an update that came out yesterday.
They just patched all of that yesterday. Everything, except for glock-legs.
Why'd you say about de-ranking on death if the ranking system is meant to be made that way?
Man they acted a bit early on that mod since they patched that out yesterday.
dang this is probably the first game that includes a Hi Point pistol
It's kinda interesting. People always rag on them, but they do what they are designed for.
@@q-tip4723 In one of the audio tapes in the game the narrator actually shits on Hi-Point and talks about the whole yeet cannon thing they did
@@CecilioSprayetti Wait, he shits on hipoint as in he's against the Yeet Cannon name or against the community picking it? Yeet Cannon was an Instagram gun meme, HiPoint didn't even want to do the YC-9 but got bullied by the community into doing it.
@@ChucksSEADnDEAD Nah, he mentions how Hipoints are relatively unreliable and cheap, they are starter guns and mentions how people used them as burner guns so they had to work with the feds to fix it. Doesn't say anything negative or positive about the name yeet cannon just mentions how it came about
@@CecilioSprayetti Ok, thanks.
5:14 you can also aim for the green box, it’s the fire control group, makes it so it can’t fire anymore.
The green box is the worst target. It has the thickest armor, and so direct hits aren't likely to break it. Ammo box for easy kills, camera to flex and avoid bullshit (camera lights distracting you or the rare case where they load one in the chamber), battery if you've gotten the jump on them.
**13 minutes of grievances** “but as a masturbatory tool for gun nuts, it’s pretty much unmatched”
Yeah, sold
Dev Boss: "Alright team this game is going to focus on highly detailed, great looking weaponry. To start off, what weapons should we incorporate into the arsenal?"
Dev Team:" ..."
Dev Team: "... uhhh maybe we should in the FN Fiv-,"
Jerry: Hi-Point!
Dev Boss: PERFECT! ADD IT!
I think you mean Yeet Cannon.
People do t realise how detailed the guns are in this. It's a highly realistic closed loop physics simulation simulating every moving part down the the smallest springs created using manufacturer design specs. It's insane how there are no real animations for the gun and everything is physics based.
Ahh GGman and his claims of "photorealistic" games... classic. Almost forgot who I was watching until I heard that lol
What tf is photorealistic for you? Lmao
2LT Sheridan
Do you watch many of GGman's videos? Sort of an inside joke brah.
@@brando3342 This wasn't a joke. He literally, literally said "photorealistic" in the literal sense.
OFFTOPIC: photorealistic is used in a sense to say "trying to look real". Skyrim is considered a photorealistic game, or Call of Duty. As opposed to Team Fortress 2, or XIII if you're that old lmao idk
2LT Sheridan
I was making the joke.
Also, photorealistic does not presume "attempting", it presumes success.
If you say "that is photorealistic" it means it is indecipherable from a photograph.
You can remap the buttons. I have 2 side thumb buttons on my mouse which I use for the slide lock release and racking the slide it also makes the press check easy as I can easily press both with my thumb at once.
theres a tape that explains that the mindkill severely degrades the condition of weapons, thus explaining the very high chance of a misfire.
You must be an awesome youtuber, because I've never heard of you, never subscribed, but I got a notification that you released a new video 😆
"The animations of pulling back the slide"
All of the animations of the guns in this game aren't really animations, they're physics simulations down to every spring and pin in the gun. Pressing F doesn't animate the hammer back, it applies a force to it (this is why the gun kind of gets yanked back when you cock or rack it.)
How to enjoy this game better (specifically directed at the video creator but if you wanna pick this up do this too)
1. Lock weapon to centre of screen in settings
Can't stress this one enough, nobody likes that shitty box aim garbage like you're playing time crisis
2. Bind shift to sprint
Duh how is this not standard
3. Bind holster to alt
Or any button easier than tilde and tab, you'll need to use it slot.
4. Cock the double actions.
Giggity. Seriously though, the early double action revolves cant hit shit past 10m without being cocked before each shot. Accuracy is really important so this is a must.
5. Drill.
Giggity. Ok I'll stop but seriously. New gun? Look in help and read about it. Drill loading a few times all the way up to a full mag and one in the chamber or however much it can carry. Drill reloading mags and swapping mags. Drill unloading incase you find kurt Cobain's suicide tape. Drill the safety, d̶r̶i̶l̶l̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶m̶u̶m̶
And now you fumble way less and the gameplay is smoother. You also feel like an absolute God when you execute that perfect reload or clear that jam you *drilled* for.
Main take away? Drill every o̶n̶e̶ gun
And that's how you enjoy receiver 2
don't center the gun, it makes it way more difficult to do follow up shots because the recoil will be transmitted directly to your FOV
@@technoturnovers7072 not really about optimisation, if it was down to that I'd hotkey reloading to R. It's about fun, and for me ADS box aim is the exact opposite of fun.
@@benfennell6842 I think it's more fun when the controls are effective for the task at hand, and being able to follow up shots is pretty important to being successful at this game; also, I would HIGHLY dispute that reloading isn't fun, it contributes to the balance of the game and enables the use of mechanical skill. It might not be fun when you fuck it up, but it just makes the reward when you succeed better
@@technoturnovers7072 no I'm saying I WOULDNT hockey reloading to R, because despite that being technically the most efficient way to play its removing the fun.
Plus getting attacked by drones with box aim enabled is total ass.
Imagine a deathmatch arena shooter with these exact mechanics
blinking when squeezing the trigger is a nice touch that you never see. this is something that actually happens when you go shooting.