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Yeah - it is interesting because if you took out the crusher (or made it a fast crusher so it wasn't guaranteed death), that was a very interesting room with the caco and specters. I think the crusher was a bit too far, though.

I think those are my favorite runs - the ones where you're going, "Uh... okay, how can I recover from this...?" I have the same feeling about FTL, lol. Actually... maybe I should do a Thursday series of FTL at some point.

@@davethefoxmage5797 I'd watch that series too.

I think for me, the thoughts I've had so far apply to pretty much every level. "Combat's fun, the maps are a short, beginner-friendly size so far, but there's a lot of hitting a switch and wondering what it did." I wonder if they would have benefitted from making the maps a little larger, but taking away 80% of the switch-flipping? Not sure, but that thought just hit me, lol.

@@davethefoxmage5797 that and remove all of the barons, though admittedly that'll probably be way less of a hassle on ITYTD

Very true, lol. I've gotta say, I've been very surprised just how much HR dials things back at lower difficulties. From its reputation, I went in half expecting the first video to be "So, uh, this is clearly a joke difficulty on this wad (similar to Italo Doom). Uh, new wad next week!", lol. That's been a very pleasant surprise, but they may have nerfed it a bit too far for this one. :-)

Well, the next wad I currently have in mind after HR will definitely be an ITYTD one (and probably also a poor life decision, lol). I'm thinking this map was just a bit on the easy side - even compared to the one before it. If the arachnotrons had been out in the open rather than separated out, it would have made a big difference. :-)

Even if sometimes easy, ITYTD casual gameplay has its stressfree charm:)

​@@CacovadingVery true! It could also be lulling me into a false sense of security for what's coming, lol.

@@davethefoxmage5797 Oh, yes, indeed! :)

Yeah - I'm thinking even compared to the map or two before it, this one was a bot underwhelming. Though I wonder if it might be a different story pistol-starting it, actually. On the other hand, they load you up as soon as the level starts, so...?

@@davethefoxmage5797 Yeah, holding off a bit on the rockets would have changed the dynamic a lot.

I think her mechanic is starting to click with me - my first time through the game, I struggled quite a bit with her, lol.

@@davethefoxmage5797 IMO Brooks is probably my favorite since she's so versatile. good block, good damage, good dodge, even has some good cards for midrow objects. though I can see why the Shard thing would be a bit hard to get past.

@@dotcomgamingd5564 I also wonder if she's had a little rebalancing since the first time I played. My first time through the game was within a week of it being released (bought it on release day), and they've definitely done a lot since then!

That's very true - they definitely have their place. I think for me I over-worry about dead draws in my first hand or two. :-)

@@davethefoxmage5797 oh don't worry I get that. too many times I've been nearly irreparably screwed over in either turn 1 or turn 2. usually happens in Slay the Spire more since block goes away after each turn, sometimes Ill get all attack cards and be forced to bite the bullet.

@@dotcomgamingd5564 "Okay, I should be fine as long as I draw at least one... crap..." lol

Same here - I tend to always expect a trap when grabbing keys or hitting switches, lol.

According to DoomWiki the baron count is greatly reduced across the board with one notable exception. MAP32 actually has *more* barons on easy and medium, but in that case it looks like they're likely using them in place of arch-viles, so that's probably a good thing. I did take a look at what's coming up and I can say with certainty that MAP07 is going to be a bit anemic.

@@Spectere Oh, yes it is. That will really take the teeth out of it. They needed some better balancing of challenge from ITYTD and HNTR to HMP, UV, and Nightmare on it.

So far, aside from a lot of "Okay, what did that switch do?", I've actually been finding HR pretty fun on ITYTD. It hasn't been very grindy yet, at least. :-)

I think they are my favorite mechanic in the game, because they make you completely change your playstyle. If you also have Isaac on your crew, it gets nuts, lol.

Good to know, lol. I'm pretty bad at finding secrets in Doom, so I tend to just assume it's some trigger I didn't find. :-)

Actually, it's thrown me off with at least one caco before. I had my back to it and expected it to come out into the main room. Then I went looking around for it assuming I'd lost it, lol.

So far, it's been surprisingly enjoyable. A couple maps have had a bit of "Okay, I flipped a switch. Which did... something, probably? Somewhere?", but combat-wise I'd say ITYTD has been pretty fun so far!

@@davethefoxmage5797 (whoops, this was from a week ago roflmaobbq) I didn't start feeling the CBT on UV until around MAP09/MAP11, so I guess we'll see if that holds true with ITYTD as well. :) The incoming damage being halved should help quite a bit…maybe!

Agreed! Every ship is pretty unique to play. :-)

Thanks!

That's very possible, lol. From what I've seen/geard with otgers playing it, there's definitely some meanspirited-ness mixed in with these maps.

Thanks! Yeah, I know I had seen someone get the BFG secret before (Spectere, I think?), but I couldn't remember how it worked, lol.

@@davethefoxmage5797 Interesting. I watched decino's gameplay (5 years old video) lately and he said there that this BFG cannot be taken... Either way a good map to spark such discussions. :)

@@Cacovading I also wouldn't rule out me misremembering, too. If decino said it can't be gotten, I'd trust that, lol. I've been going out of my way to not re-watch things before I do these videos. My goal is to do the experience of "Hey, a youtuber I like played these, and they looked cool. I wanna try it!" 🙂

Agreed - I love when games have things like that. Especially here, where there is so much dialogue that depends on what combination of crew and ship you have. :-)

Thanks! So far, I've actually really been enjoying it - Hell Revealed seems like it is much less grind-y on easier difficulties. So far, at least, lol.

I love the mechanics of the Jupiter, but in terms of sheer power, I think the Ares slightly beats it. Unless you have Isaac in your crew, which makes the Jupiter insane, lol.

​@@davethefoxmage5797oh lol I actually was talking about the Ares

@@dotcomgamingd5564 lol Yeah, I figured. i think the Ares is my favorite ship, but you can definitely cause some damage with the Jupiter and Isaac. ;-)

"I regret nothiiiiing!!!" lol

Thanks - I'll be boosting it a bit starting with the next episode. Something about Cobalt Core makes the volume levels a bit harder to get right than Doom. :-)

Yeah, took me a minute to figure out what was going on there, lol.

Agreed - I can see interesting stuff in it, like some of the traps are pretty enjoyable. But for me, if I'm hitting switches, I like to have some idea what the switch is doing, lol. I'm genuinely curious when we'll see our first baron, too!

​@@davethefoxmage5797Ill sayyyy probably by map05

They're so much fun when you have the right stuff to synergize with them. :-)

I'm thinking next week I'm gonna up the difficulty a bit. A couple of nice, easy episodes for a warmup and to show how approachable the game is for anyone new to deckbuilders. :-) Funny enough, I'm normally terrible at them, but somehow the mechanics of this one just clicked right away for me, lol.

Thanks! I'm kinda nervous what I'm walking into with this wad, lol.

Ah, excellent. I grew up in a Mac household. Playing games through an emulator back in those days was... surprisingly doable, but you had to be okay with very low FPS and more strategy-type games. lol ...But at least we had Marathon! ;-)

Well, so far the Baron count is sitting at zero. I'm curious how long that will last, lol. It'd be really interesting if most of them were replaced by Hell knights.

Always double down on corrosion! lol On the easiest difficulty levels (and with the right characters), it's surprisingly easy to make crazy combos in Cobalt Core. I might do a few rounds on the hardest difficulty, just vecause that gets insane, lol.

No problem! This game pretty much instantly made it into my top 5 games of all time when I picked it up on release. I had gotten kinda discouraged by the youtube algorithm crippling my videos of it and ended up dropping it. But I kinda started thinking... do I really care? So... it's back! ;-)

Thanks! It's gonna be another week since my voice is recovering from a concert yesterday (that didn't occur to me beforehand, lol). Nothing bad could possibly happen!

@@davethefoxmage5797 Hope you had a great concert!

@@ThistlesGarden I did! Smashing Pumpkins was the highlight for me personally, but it was an awesome show all around (excluding the fireworks).

@@davethefoxmage5797 Good to hear!

Thanks! For me, the change is mostly because I refuse to go to Windows 11 (I'll spare you the ranting about why, lol), and lately Microsoft has been back-porting a lot of the scarier stuff from Windows 11 into 10. I had expected it to make my computer faster, but I wasn't prepared for just how *much* faster. Pretty much all of my Linux experience for the last 15 years or so has been on servers, so I didn't know what to expect, lol.

@@davethefoxmage5797 LOL! I suspect for the same reasons why I switched. I did the switch after S2008R2 and Win 7 EOL'd. I had tried 10 for all of 3 days, and after doing a deep dive in the registry and seeing all the crap they backdoored from 7 to 10, I knew it wasn't for me. I went to Mint at that point. I suspected it would be slower than 7 was, and probably a little faster than 10 was. What I didn't expect was that it was faster than 7. (Even with massively overpowered hardware.) Pleasant surprise there!

@@LifeSeemsDead Definitely! After my last Linux-on-desktop experiences about 15 years ago (when it was still really clunky and took a lot of digging in to make stuff work), it's awesome to see how far things have come. Which is good, because as much as I used to love spending a day tinkering to get something working before I started doing IT as a job, I just don't have as much patience for it after doing it all day at work, lol. 🙂

Thanks! It's gonna be another week unfortunately (but for a fun reason - voice is recovering from a concert yesterday), but I'm simultaneously looking forward to and dreading it, lol. Edit: Typo

@@davethefoxmage5797 hey that's super cool! what concert was it?

@@dotcomgamingd5564 Green Day, Smashing Pumpkins, Rancid, and Linda Lindas. Definitely a great show, but if you have a sensitivity to fireworks like I do, be warned there are a TON of them. I ended up needing to leave about 1/3 of the way through Green Day, because even with my just-in-case earplugs (the fireworks were 3-4 times as loud as the music itself), it was too much for me. But even then, it was *definitely* worth the price of the ticket for the other three alone. 🙂

Thanks! Getting ready to record the final map as we speak. I've already decided what I'm playing next, even. lol

Thanks! And yeah, I'm not sure which is scarier in a big, empty room - a BFG or a key, lol.

Thanks! I've been debating restarting the series, actually. It originally died off because I think the algorithm was actively punishing me for uploading stuff outside my normal category. I've been coming to the conclusion I want to do it anyway though, lol. But with how long it's been, And I wasn't very far in, I might rename these to "First attempt" and start from the beginning. :-)

@@davethefoxmage5797 yeah you totally should restart it! I'd be down to keep watching.

Sounds good - see you there!

I guess that does make sense - same idea, just for a different reason, lol.

Thanks! I've been getting used to it and have been figuring out ways to make it work. We'll see how it goes!

Agreed! Though I'm definitely glad I could do that fight first (probably not an option when pistol-starting, though maybe with infighting?) I'm not sure whether that fight or the Big Pile o' Imps was my favorite, by the end, lol.

Thanks! It was only slightly terrifying, lol.

Thanks! I was actually very surprised I didn't need one. I was starting to assume that I'd discover the cyberdemon by getting surprised and dying to it, lol.

I was definitely on the edge of *my* seat at that part, lol. Even though this wad is a lot easier than, say, Sunlust, the stakes and pressure feel a lot higher without mid-map saves. :-)

@@davethefoxmage5797 Yeah, high risk, high reward;)

Thanks! I'm definitely getting nervous about what the last levels will hold, lol.

Yeah - I'm simultaneously nervous about what's coming in these last few levels, and proud of being able to get this far without mid-map saves. Hoping I can complete the whole wad that way!

Yeah - I've been enjoying how this wad sometimes surprises you by NOT having a trap. Of course, that leads to things like that final cybie a couple maps ago, lol.