I will say there have been a couple new submissions since recording this (and before publishing), but of course more (through the mod) would be needed to sustain it. Or not, not every series is meant to last forever...
Hey man, I have watched you daily for years. I really empathize with you and I want you to be successful at the channel and happy in your personal life. I'll throw some ideas your way, though you may have already thought of them: -Boss challenge content. You haven't done a ton here, so more single tower showcases or limitation challenges could be fun (1 category, only long range, short range, no farming, no paragon, only use the smallest piece of land, etc.) -Compete with another Bloons TH-camr side by side (split screen) with live commentary at a challenge of any kind, such as first to finish or least cash on a boss run or chimps game etc. I like MackanRules and Metallic Pops or even Aliensrock personally but there are other choices. Just please no Tewity he's so childish. -Making awkward combos work, like monkey teams type thing. Finding really unconventional synergies to survive. Maybe randomly generated them with a webapp. -Just talk about your life while playing anything, even just black bordering maps. I always like to hear your thoughts or updates or old stories. -Combine modes like Chimpoppable. -Try to do hard challenges (like Chimps on extreme maps) with C rated towers or below. -Do something with least tiers or cash. I love the elegance of games with very few towers. Maybe boss runs, maybe not. -More tower theme challenges. There's probably a ton left, like towers with hats, blue objects, electronics, ancient weapons (arrows, fire, etc.), homing attacks, etc. -Idk about the rest of the people but I don't really care if your salvage runs aren't dead accurate. If it saves 80% of the effort, just get the round number nearest hero level and have either all abilities on cool down or off cooldown, doesn't matter. The goal is for us to see you build off some wild strats, not just to help the OP actually finish the run. He probably just restarted or overwrote it by now anyway. If you like this list I can keep brainstorming for you. I support you 110% brother. Keep going. While nothing is certain, it's statistically likely that life gets better from these lows. Reversion to the mean and all that. Peace!
ya man, you got those golden handcuffs. doomed to eternally play a small flash game. haha. enjoy your life. enjoy your time. don't stress. your nightly uploads have been nice. but we don't need them. Fly free my friend. youtube will auto-recommend to most of us if/when you do come back. If you switch to a new game(or go general streamer), you got a huge headstart. Just make sure to plug your old channels so we know where to go ----New MOD idea...Allows you to enter all the tower and cash and cooldown values into a save file/game save...idk how you would place the towers...guess it would have to be a mod that lets you edit all your towers/cash in game. The previous mod which saves a players game state, is going to be hard to align with "i got stuck randomly while playing"...its means everyone always has to use that mod 100% of the time....and I know just form ISAB content, he turns alot of his mods off often too.
Have you considered making the series a segment for other videos? I'm just coping 💀 Thank you for the salvage series anyway, It takes a lot of brainpower to keep videos interesting and then enacting them. But I hope you know that I am mostly watching your channel for you ❤ much appreciation.
i think the problem with getting runs to salvage is that your viewers are watching a pro player, they are bound to get better at the game, at least i'm only good at the game because of you :)
I think the issue is that most people that need help with salvaging the runs are mostly new people and people who download the mod are most likely people who know how to play the game and don’t really need the help. From my POV but i really enjoy these videos
Yeah probably. I also wonder how many people even play with mods, I know I don't as a mobile only player. I probably wouldn't play with mods on pc either
@@kingpikachuthethirdi play with mods on pc but you gotta be pretty tech savvy to be able to install it and most people probably wouldn’t go for that much effort
im an absolute dumbass and even i can tell that so many of these people just need to restart and do something slightly different or change it completely
Hey man, I have watched you daily for years. I really empathize with you and I want you to be successful at the channel and happy in your personal life. I'll throw some ideas your way, though you may have already thought of them: -Boss challenge content. You haven't done a ton here, so more single tower showcases or limitation challenges could be fun (1 category, only long range, short range, no farming, no paragon, only use the smallest piece of land, etc.) -Compete with another Bloons TH-camr side by side (split screen) with live commentary at a challenge of any kind, such as first to finish or least cash on a boss run or chimps game etc. I like MackanRules and Metallic Pops or even Aliensrock personally but there are other choices. Just please no Tewity he's so childish. -Making awkward combos work, like monkey teams type thing. Finding really unconventional synergies to survive. Maybe randomly generated them with a webapp. -Just talk about your life while playing anything, even just black bordering maps. I always like to hear your thoughts or updates or old stories. -Combine modes like Chimpoppable. -Try to do hard challenges (like Chimps on extreme maps) with C rated towers or below. -Do something with least tiers or cash. I love the elegance of games with very few towers. Maybe boss runs, maybe not. -More tower theme challenges. There's probably a ton left, like towers with hats, blue objects, electronics, ancient weapons (arrows, fire, etc.), homing attacks, etc. -Idk about the rest of the people but I don't really care if your salvage runs aren't dead accurate. If it saves 80% of the effort, just get the round number nearest hero level and have either all abilities on cool down or off cooldown, doesn't matter. The goal is for us to see you build off some wild strats, not just to help the OP actually finish the run. He probably just restarted or overwrote it by now anyway. If you like this list I can keep brainstorming for you. I support you 110% brother. Keep going. While nothing is certain, it's statistically likely that life gets better from these lows. Reversion to the mean and all that. Peace!
@@navimations8395 he would unironically love puzzle games, given that strategy games and card games are up his alley. whatever he does, I'll probably watch it. he's just so chill
Man, it sucks to hear how things are going rough, sorry to hear that ISAB. Not good with words but I hope you know you have the support of a dedicated community ❤️ wishing you the best. I know I unfortunately can't speak for all your viewers but I always look forward to any content you put out
Perhaps ISAB could try a run where he had to get 1 tower from each letter of the alphabet in a 100 round game of CHIMPS. That could be interesting due to having to get 26 towers with the limited amount of money available in CHIMPS.
i would personally love to watch the alphabet series done again from A, it started a long time ago and a lot has changed in the game. plus, a chimps strategies series could be fun even at this point
Heres my 2 cent, You've grown enough to the point that your audience would likely follow you to what ever you do. I know for me personally i watch you for your personality/as background noise and not actually for bloons itself. If you were to slowly start introducing new games people would probably bounce to it so long as its clear who theyre watching and theirs something to keep them around. Like im not the biggest league fan but the extras league videos have been intriguing to me. It's also getting to the time of the month where ad revenue is at its lowest so arguably theres less to lose during January-early February if you were to experiment a little each week. Also we would pay towards a patreon, kofi or youtube partner program (if the later was advertised more) and its definitely an option for creators especially with how rough youtubes becoming. enough people would be willing to sign up to allow some extra wiggle room to find a new setting in the algorithm. That and btd6 wont really stand at its peak for much longer the community is becoming a lot more quiet/inactive with the lack of updates and new content. If you don't give yourself wiggle room soon to do other things its likely a ship that you'll be forced to die on. Obviously it is extremely hard and wont be easy to find a work around that fits for you especially given how life is atm for you/the people close to you. Id say its worth a shot though. Wish you the best man
For this channel, the audience would not fall off so hard for new games because it’s much more podcasty but main channel it would absolutely flop if he tried new games simply because of how the videos are created
ISAB you are like the technoblade (R.I.P) of btd6 you are iconic every video is amazing and you always get back and i hope you keep going because you're the only reason i know this game and 1 of my favourite youtubers and yeah just always remember to put your life before this(i know this is wrong because of the fact that you're a full time content creator so it's your job and you can't really take that much time of but yeah just hope you get better)
I always thought of the salvaging runs not as a challenge, but a way for isab to teach ways to actually understand and complete runs and not need to salvage them, showing what towers are good and what are bad and how to use then in the best way. At least it helped me with some runs.
Just good luck with that. I don't know what is in your life but I know the effects of it. Just know that I already admire you because as much as I love the series of games, I cannot play the same thing for months before getting bored and needing to play something else in order to be able to physically convince myself to play it again. That also goes for project in my life. And yet you did multiple bloons video a week for years now. You did a lot and you are stronger than most of us (at least for this). I just hope you'll get through this.
im sorry everythings so hard I hope that you can figure it out but I have to say I appreciate you making a video like this speaking your mind and letting everyone know how things are youre an awesome guy and genuinely i watch your vid before bed everyday when its there and hopefully i get to keep hearing your voice in the future isab good luck
I understand the burnout, obviously not to the same extent. I’ve been trying to beat every map on chimps and don’t want to anymore because it’s not new or fun. The bosses have been underwhelming recently too and I don’t like races. Idk if you’ll read this but I hope you’re doing well and we all enjoy card storm here
yeah i really didn’t expect myself to like watching bloons card storm so much. i wouldn’t mind more of that content even if it’s just grinding the ranked mode.
I've always been a huge bloons fan, and in June 2020 I found your channel and have watched nearly daily ever since, and over the past 4 years you've become my favorite youtuber. I love your chill vibes and always looked forward to an upload and shared to a ton of my friends. I hope things get better soon, and I hope you have a great holiday ISAB.
Hey, thanks for being open with us about this. I really don't comment a lot, but i just wanted to mention that i watch almost every single one of your videos, at least on the main channel. You've been a big part of my life, and to many others, even if you don't know them. And you sound genuinely sweet.
i’d recommend setting up some sort of system where people can sign up to help turn runs submitted without the mod, into save files. basically let ppl recreate runs and then load it into the mod, so ppl who are weary of modding can still have their runs submitted. i’m sure ppl in the community would volunteer if you set something like that up :)
Hey I absolutely love card storm it’s an amazing underrated game and watching you play is always a blast I’m not saying only do that but a video here and there would be amazing times are rough I get it but you helped me through my rough times so don’t give up man you’re an amazing TH-camr and I’ve been following you for a while now. Just make sure to put yourself as a priority content is second!
You *can* employ us to take the screenshot ones that have to be built up, build them up with the mod enabled, and export the product, essentially meaning that it will save you from doing all the buildup. I hope you've considered this idea more than I have, since it feels kinda smart on paper.
One thing that I’ve had fun with recently is trying to do chimps runs, but getting all of my towers to be the same color by the end of the game. It’s a lot more difficult than you might expect for some colors, especially in terms of dealing with camo and whatever. It might be cool to see some of that content.
Perfectly normal for burn out. I would come back to it when you're feeling more up to it :) Or maybe get someone to volunteer setting submissions up and them getting a modded version of it. If someone wanted to volunteer on discord
A shame indeed. Tbf I'm curious how much of your audience actually plays the bloons td game series, I know I never did. It seems like a fun game but living vicariously through you is more fun. I for one understand your descision, i imagine others do too. ❤️ u isab
Maybe there’s some old series you could revisit now that the game has changed? Not sure what exactly that would be, but maybe certain videos or challenges from years ago are different enough nowadays from when they were first released
Wouldn't it make more sense to have a mod that allowed you to recreate a run exactly instead of requiring the people to use the mod. Like a true sandbox mod.
There does not exist a BTD6 mod creator who has a broad audience on TH-cam. It's your chance to be that person. If there's not enough official content, take it as your task to make that content.
We do enjoy the ranting. Wish it was under better circumstances though I'm sure you feel the same way. I hope some solutions or good news comes up soon for you
I would love to see more battles 2 content from you! Each game and strategy is different and exciting to watch! I love watching you apply your knowledge to bloons against other people!
I think a few Videos of you going back to older btd games especially btd5 or more obscure ones like bdt adventure time could be fun. Looking back at them and trying how hard they are after all your experience or maybe some challenge ideas in those games. Btdx would also be fun and this type of content could be refreshing. Much Love and don't worry things will work out in the end
Maybe doing some sort or series where you highlight each monkey (or even every individual t5) where you go into a chinos game ( maybe a cool map editor level) and base you strategy off of that path/monkey
i've watched your daily new video while having breakfast for so long its gonna be sad to not have that anymore 💔 but it's fair to take a break, on another note i'd watch any content about any game you enjoy even random ISAB extras videos you've done in the past like the league one or the one naming all the upgrades etc and i hope everything else gets better for you as well!
Remember the video when you made that challenge with 1000000% Moab hp? I think you can make truly 1% ability cooldowns with that same technique. Alongside techbot that would be a throwback to quantum entanglement.
Im honestly impressed with how long you’ve been keeping up with bloons, I’ve been having trouble playing myself. An idea is a modern take on btd5 daily challenges/oddysey, etc things from older games, but its a dying path
You've been dedicated to bloons for so long, it's cool to see your commitment. I said it before but I do enjoy watching the randomizer mods with some niche to it like bosses or something. Maybe you could try going back to monkey teams and do chimps on it? Or whenever there's the insta monkey prizes with certain maps getting extra points to it, maybe you could grind out to get the highest reward? Sort of like trying to fill out the insta monkey pool and take us on the journey? Just as a way to continue making content without too much effort?
A lot of what I do in BTD6 is just playing easy or intermediate maps with the cards, since it's like a random towers mode. Sometimes I pick a random hero with a wheel of names, sometimes I pick a hero combo, but usually it's just to have a few minutes of fun. I think maybe I should get back to trying for black borders, that might give me some content to send in to ISAB, and as long as I don't have the chance to get my account flagged I don't mind messing with a mod to send a full save file
The only idea I had was pushing mods like the Ancient Monkey or Random Ultimate Crosspathing "to the limit" so to speak. Something like one of those towers/mods going as far as they can in freeplay without any restrictions, or something like one or both of them (if they're compatible) unrestricted vs something *insane,* like a boss (or several) at 2500% boss health. I feel especially that something grand and large scale like that would be a good send-off to content around a mod, or even something like the prelude to a break. Again, I'm not in any position to make any requests and ultimately your health is of the most immediate importance.
Isab, Sorry to hear you have been feeling so burnt out. I want to say that with time, you might feel some of the passion come back. But that's obviously not a promise I can make. I hope you can find enjoyment again in whatever you choose to do if you do end up stepping away from TH-cam! But until then, I hope you will keep making videos about my favorite silly monke game.
I think a big problem is the fact that when installing mods, there's a big warning saying that it could get you banned and to use a secondary account, and people don't need to salvage runs on their secondary account, if they even have a secondary account.
There is a reason why people have not been giving submissions without the Salvage mod... it is too risky and techsavvy for most people. You might need to switch to manual salvages...
I feel like there needs to be an option in the base game to place towers in the challenge editor that the player can start with. (Maybe these towers could be unsellable so that the player has to deal with them and build their defense around them) I think that could make challenges much more fun and interesting.
Simply put: I don't think a problem like this is going to go away without either a substantial amount of time, or a large leap into discomfort. I understand the easy things, going "Just branch out!" or "I'll be here no matter what!" is a nice, comfortable answer to give, but it's pretty clear that simple rhetoric is beyond the stage of what can be given, and I like to try and think deeper than just whatever would feel best in the moment. I think that with this particular case of, not just burn-out but dry well syndrome, the most I see youtuber's do is simply get more and more esoteric with their content, and granted there's some fun in that, watching somebody rank every single upgrade from tier 1 to 5 is fun for a couple hours, but it's not a very sustainable form of content, it's not really 'doing' anything, and it seems to me like you share that kind of opinion, that the fun is in the 'doing' rather than the 'making'. That kind of perspective makes this challenge a lot harder, because once you've already done everything, the 'doing' gets less and less appealing, regardless of how much it's shaken up and re-arranged. That leads into the point I had with the first line: Either waiting it out and riding until the game has substantially more content to get use out of, or taking a big risk and seeing how it plays out. The most healthy for the channel would be to just stall, continue making content as you have, keep pushing and prodding the game until something new and interesting crops up, you'll likely never scare away viewers by doing that and it'd be a consistent method to keep people 'around' so to speak. The second option is there for the people who aren't as attached to youtube as a lifestyle, if they can survive even through a 'drought' of viewers, then the potential reward of no longer just being 'the bloons guy' could be immense. I've seen the pivot work and fail plenty of youtubers in the past, so I can't in good conscious recommend one way or another. Regardless, despite how I criticized them, I know reassurance works, I've seen it work in real-time, so I'll say what I truly meant by all of this; I love watching your videos, and I hope that I can continue to watch them in whatever form they may be. I sincerely hope that the issues you're facing lessen, or at the very least don't get worse, and so long as you don't choose to quit youtube altogether, I'll be around to see whatever comes next.
Take your time and pace yourself - you don't owe us anything, but you owe yourself care and to look after your health (and sanity). Even if you released 1 or 2 videos a week, us viewers would still watch and enjoy them! Health matters more than popping Bloons for views!
We support you no matter what you decide to do on this channel. Take care of yourself first. That being said I also understand that this is your source of income, and if you're burnt out of btd6, you could try other games? We understand that it might hurt your revenue in the short term, but it will likely recover and benefit your mental health in the long-term. There are also other tower defense games that might not kill your channel in the algorithm (thronefall?)(dome keeper?)
Damn sad to see it go, it's always fun to see and helped me learn more about the game. Maybe we just need to get people maybe the community or someone to get the salvage runs up to be the same as the submissions and then use the mod to let you salvage them?
Honestly Isab, I can’t understand what you may be going through but I’ve been watching you since 2020 and I can have an idea why your getting burnt out. I’ll leave it at that. Other than what may be going on up in Canada all I want to say is I’m going to watch your content no matter what and if you need to take a break take a break, I understand it may not be in your best interest to do so but if it’s needed tske it. more on wanting to branch out your Interests and video making, I remember you talking about your degree and how you have been thinking about posting other games recently and I think it would be a great idea, some advice I would stop worrying about the algorithmic so much and do what you want to do, I can promise that I’ll still be here watching the videos no matter what and I’m sure other will too. I’m staying here because I was promised a face reveal at 1 million and I won’t miss Mr. Isab monkeys face reveal. Good luck with whatever you’re going through man, love you Isab and best of luck.
Wait, why don't you make farming and boss guide. I have been looking for one that isn't too hard to follow. I would also love a strengths and weaknesses guide for every tower
hello isab, I have seen some of my favorite TH-camrs going through something similar like this before and they stoped careing about what they post and just post what they want to play or do, what am trying to get at is that I love watching you videos because you are the one making them not for the game you are playing just thinking of watching you play Minecraft sounds so awesome that would really be something I want to watch and not because I don't have TH-camrs to watch but to see what you would do.. anyways I know you will do the right desition ⸜(｡˃ ᵕ ˂ )⸝♡
It might be worth asking other content creators what they’ve done. It could be in terms of making more exciting BTD6 content or in more general terms, like how to make content for a channel that isn’t the main game the audience is used to.
I tried several times recently but I don't get the save/ load salvage buttons in the menu so I can't do anything :( I really like trying to set up runs for you to salvage so it's sad to see it go
one thing you could always try is post like a pilot type video of another game and see how it does if that's something you're intersted in, kind of like aliensrock style content mixed in with bloons to try and help the burnout
If I'm being honest, I'm not sure what you could do for new content because you've done a lot of stuff already. I personally like the random stuff oriented challenges and I think that still has potential. I'm not sure. But probably mixing up challenges is your best bet. Like x amount of bosses with only 1 tower to do it all. If it's too easy then try half cash with it too. Like try to keep the tower as much as possible until you have to switch and avoid all instant win towers like spoke factory. Like only limit up to tier 4s or something. That's only my one idea. Now my other one is to focus on one tower and educate us about it. Like the stuff you can do with that one tower, strengths and weaknesses. Maybe showcase in it a game mode where it's strongest or in its weakest form. I personally learned A TON from watching you play chimps and all that stuff. If none of that works then I wish you luck on this journey. Much love from your viewers!
Hearing this shit is just like damn. It’s sounds really fucking tiring and not being able to take a break cause TH-cam funky is just screwed… I’m not sure what a solution is, but I do watch your your BCS videos if it provides you some reassurance. This is your job and I wish you had more people you could relate too and help you out more on it. I just hope you can figure out whatever it is you need. Peace all love bro you got it.
Bro membership is a good way to salvage the channel itself. If 5% of your daily audience becomes members you would have something around 8-10k members. Exclusive content, challanges, maybe coops or anything that feels exclusive would be nice and compensate the lack of views if you really thinking about shifiting the channels direction
I hope you consider continuing a few of these salvage completions on stream! At least the few submitted via mods. Keep a few of the good ones for a video someday could work. But it's up to you of course :)
You could randomize challenge editor try to beat them with least cash or tiers also you could try to beat bosses with random towers (with modifiers to make it possible)
make sure to have fun with things, ISAB. i've loved your videos ever since those hacker v hacker games in BTD1. i'm proud of you, even if its a bit weird to say, LOL.
idk if this has been thought about or brought up but i thought about it: if someone like me for example made a run, i think it’d be interesting to see if you could solve it with what towers i have unlocked/paths since i dont have every 5-5-5 path
(Not that I got the skills to make this happen) we need mod v2: advanced scraping. A mod that takes in a screenshot and sets up the run. Places monkeys, upgrades them, sets hero xp, cash, and ability cooldowns. Or maybe some kind of cheat for isab to quickly manually do all that? I'm sure there are already mods to set in game cash, so just need one with a nice UI to set hero level and another to adjust ability cooldown? Maybe with all that it could be easier to set up runs from screenshots? Idk, just throwing it out there to maybe save the series. Ultimately, you need something where beginners (who need help with salvaging) can easily provide all the information and something for isab to easily turn that information into a starting point.
I feel like modded custom tower showcases or just modded content in general could be a good temporary solution for lack of content in the meantime until the next update because: 1. Those videos seem to perform about as well as the other videos, if not sometimes a bit better. And in my opinion they’re some of the more enjoyable videos to watch. 2. They seem like they’d be fairly low effort videos to make compared to others like challenges. 3. Mods would probably provide enough content to keep it feeling fresh for you in the ~1 month until the next update.
i think the problem on not getting many submissions is simply because of small % of players who like, need the salvage help in the first place probably already being kinda low, plus it coming only from your community rather than the whole btd6 community, and then you have how many of those players who watch you and need some help are actually willing to put the effort of making a submission rather than just restarting and trying something different, and then how many of those players are actually on pc, and how many of them play with mods, and then how many of them are actually also willing to download that mod to get the help, so i guess the scope of players that fit all of these is a bit too narrow and ends up filtering way too much of players, so i kinda understand why there would be only 4 submissions, but well, not everything can go the way we like, i would like to see more content on that, but if there arent enough submissions for it, i guess it cant be a frequent thing
I think this needs mentioned on the main channel with one last salvage video outright saying, "This will be the last salvage video unless I get submissions through the mod, because I won't be doing any of the others."
I will say there have been a couple new submissions since recording this (and before publishing), but of course more (through the mod) would be needed to sustain it. Or not, not every series is meant to last forever...
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Hey man, I have watched you daily for years. I really empathize with you and I want you to be successful at the channel and happy in your personal life. I'll throw some ideas your way, though you may have already thought of them:
-Boss challenge content. You haven't done a ton here, so more single tower showcases or limitation challenges could be fun (1 category, only long range, short range, no farming, no paragon, only use the smallest piece of land, etc.)
-Compete with another Bloons TH-camr side by side (split screen) with live commentary at a challenge of any kind, such as first to finish or least cash on a boss run or chimps game etc. I like MackanRules and Metallic Pops or even Aliensrock personally but there are other choices. Just please no Tewity he's so childish.
-Making awkward combos work, like monkey teams type thing. Finding really unconventional synergies to survive. Maybe randomly generated them with a webapp.
-Just talk about your life while playing anything, even just black bordering maps. I always like to hear your thoughts or updates or old stories.
-Combine modes like Chimpoppable.
-Try to do hard challenges (like Chimps on extreme maps) with C rated towers or below.
-Do something with least tiers or cash. I love the elegance of games with very few towers. Maybe boss runs, maybe not.
-More tower theme challenges. There's probably a ton left, like towers with hats, blue objects, electronics, ancient weapons (arrows, fire, etc.), homing attacks, etc.
-Idk about the rest of the people but I don't really care if your salvage runs aren't dead accurate. If it saves 80% of the effort, just get the round number nearest hero level and have either all abilities on cool down or off cooldown, doesn't matter. The goal is for us to see you build off some wild strats, not just to help the OP actually finish the run. He probably just restarted or overwrote it by now anyway.
If you like this list I can keep brainstorming for you. I support you 110% brother. Keep going. While nothing is certain, it's statistically likely that life gets better from these lows. Reversion to the mean and all that. Peace!
ya man, you got those golden handcuffs. doomed to eternally play a small flash game. haha.
enjoy your life. enjoy your time. don't stress. your nightly uploads have been nice. but we don't need them. Fly free my friend.
youtube will auto-recommend to most of us if/when you do come back. If you switch to a new game(or go general streamer), you got a huge headstart. Just make sure to plug your old channels so we know where to go
----New MOD idea...Allows you to enter all the tower and cash and cooldown values into a save file/game save...idk how you would place the towers...guess it would have to be a mod that lets you edit all your towers/cash in game.
The previous mod which saves a players game state, is going to be hard to align with "i got stuck randomly while playing"...its means everyone always has to use that mod 100% of the time....and I know just form ISAB content, he turns alot of his mods off often too.
Have you considered making the series a segment for other videos? I'm just coping 💀
Thank you for the salvage series anyway, It takes a lot of brainpower to keep videos interesting and then enacting them. But I hope you know that I am mostly watching your channel for you ❤ much appreciation.
i think the problem with getting runs to salvage is that your viewers are watching a pro player, they are bound to get better at the game, at least i'm only good at the game because of you :)
I was fully prepared to see "im quitting Bloons to play LOL"
absolutely sounds like something ISAB would do... It's his voice pitch. He'd make a good rager lmao
I'd see Astro bot
exactly
Arcane has turned him to the dark side
@@Taserface__Which one
I think the issue is that most people that need help with salvaging the runs are mostly new people and people who download the mod are most likely people who know how to play the game and don’t really need the help. From my POV but i really enjoy these videos
Yeah probably. I also wonder how many people even play with mods, I know I don't as a mobile only player. I probably wouldn't play with mods on pc either
@@kingpikachuthethirdi play with mods on pc but you gotta be pretty tech savvy to be able to install it and most people probably wouldn’t go for that much effort
@@sjnner yeah that's what I'm thinking
im an absolute dumbass and even i can tell that so many of these people just need to restart and do something slightly different or change it completely
I think it could be interesting if people did it to make custom challenges instead.
Isab can you salvage my parents’ marriage
He cannot
only way to do that is to time travel and make sure your not born
submit them via mod
No one can, it's your fault.
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Sad to see the series die. Hopefully it'll comeback one day. Glad we had fun together on it.
Hey man, I have watched you daily for years. I really empathize with you and I want you to be successful at the channel and happy in your personal life. I'll throw some ideas your way, though you may have already thought of them:
-Boss challenge content. You haven't done a ton here, so more single tower showcases or limitation challenges could be fun (1 category, only long range, short range, no farming, no paragon, only use the smallest piece of land, etc.)
-Compete with another Bloons TH-camr side by side (split screen) with live commentary at a challenge of any kind, such as first to finish or least cash on a boss run or chimps game etc. I like MackanRules and Metallic Pops or even Aliensrock personally but there are other choices. Just please no Tewity he's so childish.
-Making awkward combos work, like monkey teams type thing. Finding really unconventional synergies to survive. Maybe randomly generated them with a webapp.
-Just talk about your life while playing anything, even just black bordering maps. I always like to hear your thoughts or updates or old stories.
-Combine modes like Chimpoppable.
-Try to do hard challenges (like Chimps on extreme maps) with C rated towers or below.
-Do something with least tiers or cash. I love the elegance of games with very few towers. Maybe boss runs, maybe not.
-More tower theme challenges. There's probably a ton left, like towers with hats, blue objects, electronics, ancient weapons (arrows, fire, etc.), homing attacks, etc.
-Idk about the rest of the people but I don't really care if your salvage runs aren't dead accurate. If it saves 80% of the effort, just get the round number nearest hero level and have either all abilities on cool down or off cooldown, doesn't matter. The goal is for us to see you build off some wild strats, not just to help the OP actually finish the run. He probably just restarted or overwrote it by now anyway.
If you like this list I can keep brainstorming for you. I support you 110% brother. Keep going. While nothing is certain, it's statistically likely that life gets better from these lows. Reversion to the mean and all that. Peace!
W aliensrock fan
Great suggestions here
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Great suggestions
Great ideas 😊
Hope you find some more content to do in the future.
*sliding isab ten dollars*
Buy yourself something nice… don’t spend it all in one place…
W mans
How nice of you
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Alright that's it, I'm going to run 50 different CHIMPS games with Benjamin as my hero, just to salvage the series
If this is real, you are the real sigma
please do
Yes please
A true hero
Hey, it is what it is. Bloons is one series and you can only do so much with it. You could always walk the path of AliensRock I suppose.
Isab going down the Aliensrock route sounds interesting. I personally would enjoy watching him play other games.
Ditto
@@richardli9329 especially the puzzle gamer route
hear me out, he should play geometry dash
@@navimations8395 he would unironically love puzzle games, given that strategy games and card games are up his alley. whatever he does, I'll probably watch it. he's just so chill
is there a way to salvage this series?
More discount village!
drink the unstable concoction
Alch buff, mib with jungle drums, overclock, glue strike
cookie monster
Submit something!
Man, it sucks to hear how things are going rough, sorry to hear that ISAB. Not good with words but I hope you know you have the support of a dedicated community ❤️ wishing you the best. I know I unfortunately can't speak for all your viewers but I always look forward to any content you put out
Perhaps ISAB could try a run where he had to get 1 tower from each letter of the alphabet in a 100 round game of CHIMPS. That could be interesting due to having to get 26 towers with the limited amount of money available in CHIMPS.
i would personally love to watch the alphabet series done again from A, it started a long time ago and a lot has changed in the game. plus, a chimps strategies series could be fun even at this point
also, more black border runs
PFP checks out.
Heres my 2 cent,
You've grown enough to the point that your audience would likely follow you to what ever you do. I know for me personally i watch you for your personality/as background noise and not actually for bloons itself. If you were to slowly start introducing new games people would probably bounce to it so long as its clear who theyre watching and theirs something to keep them around.
Like im not the biggest league fan but the extras league videos have been intriguing to me.
It's also getting to the time of the month where ad revenue is at its lowest so arguably theres less to lose during January-early February if you were to experiment a little each week.
Also we would pay towards a patreon, kofi or youtube partner program (if the later was advertised more) and its definitely an option for creators especially with how rough youtubes becoming. enough people would be willing to sign up to allow some extra wiggle room to find a new setting in the algorithm.
That and btd6 wont really stand at its peak for much longer the community is becoming a lot more quiet/inactive with the lack of updates and new content. If you don't give yourself wiggle room soon to do other things its likely a ship that you'll be forced to die on.
Obviously it is extremely hard and wont be easy to find a work around that fits for you especially given how life is atm for you/the people close to you. Id say its worth a shot though.
Wish you the best man
For this channel, the audience would not fall off so hard for new games because it’s much more podcasty but main channel it would absolutely flop if he tried new games simply because of how the videos are created
Thanks for all of the quality content ISAB :)
You're one of my favorite people to watch this year!
love u isab, hope things get better. will always respect any decisions u make for your content
Hopefully that btd6 Steam workshop or modding thing update help back up this concept
ISAB you are like the technoblade (R.I.P) of btd6 you are iconic every video is amazing and you always get back and i hope you keep going because you're the only reason i know this game and 1 of my favourite youtubers and yeah just always remember to put your life before this(i know this is wrong because of the fact that you're a full time content creator so it's your job and you can't really take that much time of but yeah just hope you get better)
I always thought of the salvaging runs not as a challenge, but a way for isab to teach ways to actually understand and complete runs and not need to salvage them, showing what towers are good and what are bad and how to use then in the best way.
At least it helped me with some runs.
Whatever you wanna do isab were gonna watch it the real fans
Just good luck with that. I don't know what is in your life but I know the effects of it. Just know that I already admire you because as much as I love the series of games, I cannot play the same thing for months before getting bored and needing to play something else in order to be able to physically convince myself to play it again. That also goes for project in my life. And yet you did multiple bloons video a week for years now. You did a lot and you are stronger than most of us (at least for this).
I just hope you'll get through this.
im sorry everythings so hard I hope that you can figure it out but I have to say I appreciate you making a video like this speaking your mind and letting everyone know how things are youre an awesome guy and genuinely i watch your vid before bed everyday when its there and hopefully i get to keep hearing your voice in the future isab good luck
I understand the burnout, obviously not to the same extent. I’ve been trying to beat every map on chimps and don’t want to anymore because it’s not new or fun. The bosses have been underwhelming recently too and I don’t like races. Idk if you’ll read this but I hope you’re doing well and we all enjoy card storm here
yeah i really didn’t expect myself to like watching bloons card storm so much. i wouldn’t mind more of that content even if it’s just grinding the ranked mode.
I've always been a huge bloons fan, and in June 2020 I found your channel and have watched nearly daily ever since, and over the past 4 years you've become my favorite youtuber. I love your chill vibes and always looked forward to an upload and shared to a ton of my friends. I hope things get better soon, and I hope you have a great holiday ISAB.
Hey, thanks for being open with us about this. I really don't comment a lot, but i just wanted to mention that i watch almost every single one of your videos, at least on the main channel. You've been a big part of my life, and to many others, even if you don't know them. And you sound genuinely sweet.
The only thing I can say, is regardless of anything that happens, always keep loved ones close. Nothing good comes from isolation.
i’d recommend setting up some sort of system where people can sign up to help turn runs submitted without the mod, into save files. basically let ppl recreate runs and then load it into the mod, so ppl who are weary of modding can still have their runs submitted. i’m sure ppl in the community would volunteer if you set something like that up :)
Hey I absolutely love card storm it’s an amazing underrated game and watching you play is always a blast I’m not saying only do that but a video here and there would be amazing times are rough I get it but you helped me through my rough times so don’t give up man you’re an amazing TH-camr and I’ve been following you for a while now. Just make sure to put yourself as a priority content is second!
You *can* employ us to take the screenshot ones that have to be built up, build them up with the mod enabled, and export the product, essentially meaning that it will save you from doing all the buildup.
I hope you've considered this idea more than I have, since it feels kinda smart on paper.
6:28 where are those?
he did what with his bloons?
One thing that I’ve had fun with recently is trying to do chimps runs, but getting all of my towers to be the same color by the end of the game. It’s a lot more difficult than you might expect for some colors, especially in terms of dealing with camo and whatever. It might be cool to see some of that content.
You have our support through your struggles
as someone who much preferred your other videos over the "salvaging runs" videos, i see this as an absolute win
Perfectly normal for burn out. I would come back to it when you're feeling more up to it :)
Or maybe get someone to volunteer setting submissions up and them getting a modded version of it. If someone wanted to volunteer on discord
A shame indeed. Tbf I'm curious how much of your audience actually plays the bloons td game series, I know I never did. It seems like a fun game but living vicariously through you is more fun.
I for one understand your descision, i imagine others do too.
❤️ u isab
Maybe there’s some old series you could revisit now that the game has changed? Not sure what exactly that would be, but maybe certain videos or challenges from years ago are different enough nowadays from when they were first released
Wouldn't it make more sense to have a mod that allowed you to recreate a run exactly instead of requiring the people to use the mod. Like a true sandbox mod.
There does not exist a BTD6 mod creator who has a broad audience on TH-cam. It's your chance to be that person.
If there's not enough official content, take it as your task to make that content.
We do enjoy the ranting. Wish it was under better circumstances though I'm sure you feel the same way. I hope some solutions or good news comes up soon for you
You can redo a couple of max buffed towers or continue the chimps max buff series
I would love to see more battles 2 content from you! Each game and strategy is different and exciting to watch! I love watching you apply your knowledge to bloons against other people!
Sorry you've been hurting man. Love you and your videos
I think a few Videos of you going back to older btd games especially btd5 or more obscure ones like bdt adventure time could be fun. Looking back at them and trying how hard they are after all your experience or maybe some challenge ideas in those games. Btdx would also be fun and this type of content could be refreshing. Much Love and don't worry things will work out in the end
Maybe doing some sort or series where you highlight each monkey (or even every individual t5) where you go into a chinos game ( maybe a cool map editor level) and base you strategy off of that path/monkey
i've watched your daily new video while having breakfast for so long its gonna be sad to not have that anymore 💔 but it's fair to take a break, on another note i'd watch any content about any game you enjoy even random ISAB extras videos you've done in the past like the league one or the one naming all the upgrades etc
and i hope everything else gets better for you as well!
Remember the video when you made that challenge with 1000000% Moab hp? I think you can make truly 1% ability cooldowns with that same technique. Alongside techbot that would be a throwback to quantum entanglement.
my biggest worry is the green leaves on the account, will this mod flag me ?
Im honestly impressed with how long you’ve been keeping up with bloons, I’ve been having trouble playing myself. An idea is a modern take on btd5 daily challenges/oddysey, etc things from older games, but its a dying path
oh hey guess who’s on screen as his hero
I swear to ISAB, I thought this was gonna be some properly horrible news. Make whatever content makes you happiest!
You've been dedicated to bloons for so long, it's cool to see your commitment. I said it before but I do enjoy watching the randomizer mods with some niche to it like bosses or something. Maybe you could try going back to monkey teams and do chimps on it? Or whenever there's the insta monkey prizes with certain maps getting extra points to it, maybe you could grind out to get the highest reward? Sort of like trying to fill out the insta monkey pool and take us on the journey? Just as a way to continue making content without too much effort?
Holy heart attack on Christmas Eve thought it was like the end of videos in 2024
A lot of what I do in BTD6 is just playing easy or intermediate maps with the cards, since it's like a random towers mode. Sometimes I pick a random hero with a wheel of names, sometimes I pick a hero combo, but usually it's just to have a few minutes of fun. I think maybe I should get back to trying for black borders, that might give me some content to send in to ISAB, and as long as I don't have the chance to get my account flagged I don't mind messing with a mod to send a full save file
I really enjoy watching you play salvages :)
dude I'm so sorry. I honestly thought way more people were submitting with the mod and I will definitely do it because wow that's crazy.
Love and support from France
The only idea I had was pushing mods like the Ancient Monkey or Random Ultimate Crosspathing "to the limit" so to speak. Something like one of those towers/mods going as far as they can in freeplay without any restrictions, or something like one or both of them (if they're compatible) unrestricted vs something *insane,* like a boss (or several) at 2500% boss health. I feel especially that something grand and large scale like that would be a good send-off to content around a mod, or even something like the prelude to a break.
Again, I'm not in any position to make any requests and ultimately your health is of the most immediate importance.
Isab,
Sorry to hear you have been feeling so burnt out.
I want to say that with time, you might feel some of the passion come back. But that's obviously not a promise I can make.
I hope you can find enjoyment again in whatever you choose to do if you do end up stepping away from TH-cam! But until then, I hope you will keep making videos about my favorite silly monke game.
sad to hear this, salvaging runs are my favorite series
Isab bro you are the expert the legend. We watch you because you are hardcore.
Any map editor showcase/challenge? You haven't done any of those lately.
I think a big problem is the fact that when installing mods, there's a big warning saying that it could get you banned and to use a secondary account, and people don't need to salvage runs on their secondary account, if they even have a secondary account.
we love you isab, do what is best for you
There is a reason why people have not been giving submissions without the Salvage mod... it is too risky and techsavvy for most people. You might need to switch to manual salvages...
I feel like there needs to be an option in the base game to place towers in the challenge editor that the player can start with. (Maybe these towers could be unsellable so that the player has to deal with them and build their defense around them) I think that could make challenges much more fun and interesting.
Simply put: I don't think a problem like this is going to go away without either a substantial amount of time, or a large leap into discomfort.
I understand the easy things, going "Just branch out!" or "I'll be here no matter what!" is a nice, comfortable answer to give, but it's pretty clear that simple rhetoric is beyond the stage of what can be given, and I like to try and think deeper than just whatever would feel best in the moment.
I think that with this particular case of, not just burn-out but dry well syndrome, the most I see youtuber's do is simply get more and more esoteric with their content, and granted there's some fun in that, watching somebody rank every single upgrade from tier 1 to 5 is fun for a couple hours, but it's not a very sustainable form of content, it's not really 'doing' anything, and it seems to me like you share that kind of opinion, that the fun is in the 'doing' rather than the 'making'.
That kind of perspective makes this challenge a lot harder, because once you've already done everything, the 'doing' gets less and less appealing, regardless of how much it's shaken up and re-arranged. That leads into the point I had with the first line:
Either waiting it out and riding until the game has substantially more content to get use out of, or taking a big risk and seeing how it plays out.
The most healthy for the channel would be to just stall, continue making content as you have, keep pushing and prodding the game until something new and interesting crops up, you'll likely never scare away viewers by doing that and it'd be a consistent method to keep people 'around' so to speak.
The second option is there for the people who aren't as attached to youtube as a lifestyle, if they can survive even through a 'drought' of viewers, then the potential reward of no longer just being 'the bloons guy' could be immense. I've seen the pivot work and fail plenty of youtubers in the past, so I can't in good conscious recommend one way or another.
Regardless, despite how I criticized them, I know reassurance works, I've seen it work in real-time, so I'll say what I truly meant by all of this; I love watching your videos, and I hope that I can continue to watch them in whatever form they may be. I sincerely hope that the issues you're facing lessen, or at the very least don't get worse, and so long as you don't choose to quit youtube altogether, I'll be around to see whatever comes next.
I hope you can find a popular niche that allows you to be happy.
Take your time and pace yourself - you don't owe us anything, but you owe yourself care and to look after your health (and sanity). Even if you released 1 or 2 videos a week, us viewers would still watch and enjoy them! Health matters more than popping Bloons for views!
We support you no matter what you decide to do on this channel. Take care of yourself first. That being said I also understand that this is your source of income, and if you're burnt out of btd6, you could try other games? We understand that it might hurt your revenue in the short term, but it will likely recover and benefit your mental health in the long-term.
There are also other tower defense games that might not kill your channel in the algorithm (thronefall?)(dome keeper?)
The best thing for youtube is whats the best for you
Damn sad to see it go, it's always fun to see and helped me learn more about the game. Maybe we just need to get people maybe the community or someone to get the salvage runs up to be the same as the submissions and then use the mod to let you salvage them?
I love you just keep doing what you wanna do
Honestly Isab, I can’t understand what you may be going through but I’ve been watching you since 2020 and I can have an idea why your getting burnt out. I’ll leave it at that.
Other than what may be going on up in Canada all I want to say is I’m going to watch your content no matter what and if you need to take a break take a break, I understand it may not be in your best interest to do so but if it’s needed tske it.
more on wanting to branch out your Interests and video making, I remember you talking about your degree and how you have been thinking about posting other games recently and I think it would be a great idea, some advice I would stop worrying about the algorithmic so much and do what you want to do, I can promise that I’ll still be here watching the videos no matter what and I’m sure other will too.
I’m staying here because I was promised a face reveal at 1 million and I won’t miss Mr. Isab monkeys face reveal. Good luck with whatever you’re going through man, love you Isab and best of luck.
I think ISAB could try and branch out to become a variety streamer, as well as doing more major collaborations with other TH-camrs
Would intentionally challenging positions be played? (that I verify are possible) uploaded with the mod
Wait, why don't you make farming and boss guide. I have been looking for one that isn't too hard to follow.
I would also love a strengths and weaknesses guide for every tower
ISAB, I do have a challenge idea for you -
You have to beat the battle cat showcase quest without ever using the battle cat's activated ability.
hello isab, I have seen some of my favorite TH-camrs going through something similar like this before and they stoped careing about what they post and just post what they want to play or do, what am trying to get at is that I love watching you videos because you are the one making them not for the game you are playing just thinking of watching you play Minecraft sounds so awesome that would really be something I want to watch and not because I don't have TH-camrs to watch but to see what you would do.. anyways I know you will do the right desition
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It might be worth asking other content creators what they’ve done. It could be in terms of making more exciting BTD6 content or in more general terms, like how to make content for a channel that isn’t the main game the audience is used to.
I tried several times recently but I don't get the save/ load salvage buttons in the menu so I can't do anything :(
I really like trying to set up runs for you to salvage so it's sad to see it go
one thing you could always try is post like a pilot type video of another game and see how it does if that's something you're intersted in, kind of like aliensrock style content mixed in with bloons to try and help the burnout
If I'm being honest, I'm not sure what you could do for new content because you've done a lot of stuff already. I personally like the random stuff oriented challenges and I think that still has potential. I'm not sure. But probably mixing up challenges is your best bet. Like x amount of bosses with only 1 tower to do it all. If it's too easy then try half cash with it too. Like try to keep the tower as much as possible until you have to switch and avoid all instant win towers like spoke factory. Like only limit up to tier 4s or something. That's only my one idea. Now my other one is to focus on one tower and educate us about it. Like the stuff you can do with that one tower, strengths and weaknesses. Maybe showcase in it a game mode where it's strongest or in its weakest form. I personally learned A TON from watching you play chimps and all that stuff. If none of that works then I wish you luck on this journey. Much love from your viewers!
You did in fact scare the crap out of me, thanks ISAB lol
I think the problem is that the people that need/want salvaging are a very different group to the people that install mods
Hearing this shit is just like damn. It’s sounds really fucking tiring and not being able to take a break cause TH-cam funky is just screwed… I’m not sure what a solution is, but I do watch your your BCS videos if it provides you some reassurance. This is your job and I wish you had more people you could relate too and help you out more on it. I just hope you can figure out whatever it is you need. Peace all love bro you got it.
can't you remake them in sandbox / challenge editor
Bro membership is a good way to salvage the channel itself. If 5% of your daily audience becomes members you would have something around 8-10k members. Exclusive content, challanges, maybe coops or anything that feels exclusive would be nice and compensate the lack of views if you really thinking about shifiting the channels direction
I hope you consider continuing a few of these salvage completions on stream! At least the few submitted via mods. Keep a few of the good ones for a video someday could work. But it's up to you of course :)
You could randomize challenge editor try to beat them with least cash or tiers also you could try to beat bosses with random towers (with modifiers to make it possible)
I feel like the problem is that people who mod this game are EXPERIENCED players. And salvaging runs requires people who are begginer-ish
make sure to have fun with things, ISAB. i've loved your videos ever since those hacker v hacker games in BTD1. i'm proud of you, even if its a bit weird to say, LOL.
BTDB1?
The github dll wasnt downloadable last time i checked. I was about to submit but i just couldnt.
still says 404 when i click download
Lych chimps could be pretty interesting/hard. You would have to modify the health of the soul/oneshot it but i think it would be nice.
Have you checked out the 'map list' of the hardest maps?
idk if this has been thought about or brought up but i thought about it: if someone like me for example made a run, i think it’d be interesting to see if you could solve it with what towers i have unlocked/paths since i dont have every 5-5-5 path
(Not that I got the skills to make this happen) we need mod v2: advanced scraping. A mod that takes in a screenshot and sets up the run. Places monkeys, upgrades them, sets hero xp, cash, and ability cooldowns. Or maybe some kind of cheat for isab to quickly manually do all that? I'm sure there are already mods to set in game cash, so just need one with a nice UI to set hero level and another to adjust ability cooldown? Maybe with all that it could be easier to set up runs from screenshots? Idk, just throwing it out there to maybe save the series.
Ultimately, you need something where beginners (who need help with salvaging) can easily provide all the information and something for isab to easily turn that information into a starting point.
I feel like modded custom tower showcases or just modded content in general could be a good temporary solution for lack of content in the meantime until the next update because:
1. Those videos seem to perform about as well as the other videos, if not sometimes a bit better. And in my opinion they’re some of the more enjoyable videos to watch.
2. They seem like they’d be fairly low effort videos to make compared to others like challenges.
3. Mods would probably provide enough content to keep it feeling fresh for you in the ~1 month until the next update.
i think the problem on not getting many submissions is simply because of small % of players who like, need the salvage help in the first place probably already being kinda low, plus it coming only from your community rather than the whole btd6 community, and then you have how many of those players who watch you and need some help are actually willing to put the effort of making a submission rather than just restarting and trying something different, and then how many of those players are actually on pc, and how many of them play with mods, and then how many of them are actually also willing to download that mod to get the help, so i guess the scope of players that fit all of these is a bit too narrow and ends up filtering way too much of players, so i kinda understand why there would be only 4 submissions, but well, not everything can go the way we like, i would like to see more content on that, but if there arent enough submissions for it, i guess it cant be a frequent thing
I think this needs mentioned on the main channel with one last salvage video outright saying, "This will be the last salvage video unless I get submissions through the mod, because I won't be doing any of the others."
We love you ISAB
Can someone explain how to get mods. Every time i try it never works