Been curious about seeing a Fallout 76 video. Yep, I know that will get 9000 dislikes for the suggestion, but it would be very interesting to watch. Far Cry 6 is also on my mind as well.
Fun Fact: When Spiff says he’s “exploiting a game into Oblivion,” what he means is not a figure of speech but rather a state in which the game’s exploits have made it functionally indistinguishable from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Strategy games like this are far from the first kind of game to do this. Fighting game bosses that read your inputs and do behaviors irreplicable by humans and don’t take normal damage come to mind
ie 80 % of games do this xD strategies? often let the ai genereate resources out of thin air. fps? enemy shooting through foliage with headshot accuracy - and so on. very hard difficulties, more often than not, base itself on cheating through game rules and common sense to pose a challenge to a player.
Rain of frogs is actually a hugely useful spell once you get its power up. You just summon it on their backline and they spend the entire fight with frogs not shooting your units.
Potent Summon Bloodsucker is also huge. They spread out over a huge swath of the battlefield and harass the enemy units. One of the few ways to deal with troublesome units like Horros
Thanks so much for highlighting this game on your channel Spiff, I had not heard of it before this video and am now thoroughly enjoying playing it in a perfectly balanced manner.
Honestly, this game feels like it was made specifically for Spiff. A relatively easy to find exploit that abuses the power of Tea to receive an endless army of Tea Knights. Perfection.
This game was designed to be exploited. The developer is in league with Spiffing Brit. The first red flag is the OP tea house, the second is the unit dupe that was deliberately programmed in.
Hello friends! I have been playing this game since before release and since I am a huge HOMM 3 fan I find it amazing. It's a fresh new take on the genre by people that know it well. Here are a couple of tips to win consistently on Impossible+ on most factions and heroes: -Spend the first few days massing up troops and building essential buildings - depending on the faction and build order (its random for each game) and ofcourse your hero's abilities. DO NOT pick a fight until round 3-4 or even 5 unless you feel extremely confident you will only suffer minor losses. You may want to get to tier 3 units or an upgraded tier 1 or 2, or build a mage's guild. Also, a first week build shoud definately be the Infirmary. Maybe before the first battle if you find it too hard. -Plan your battles with great care. First week battles are limited and there is always a very strict order you can follow. There will be 2 easy battles for the wood and ore mines, another for the Pillar (for the secret treasure, which you should hire a second hero to find and transfer to your main most of the time) and maybe a random creep guarding a small treasure. You Dont Have To Fight Every Day. Take on ONLY fights you can win decisively. -In battle you should always have an advantage. Stronger units, a good hero ability, a good spell. See what works for you. If you have none of these things, wait for better units but be warned that this sets you back against the AI. Unless you have a plan to capitalise and catch up it will not work to wait too long, although patience i and defence is key for many situations in this game. -During the first few turns where you are not fighting, use the time to explore and try to find XP chests with your hero. Prioritize skills that give you a combat advantage or free troops. Good examples include Mastery, Legion, Mercurial (its busted always take a beginner), Elementalism, Offence, Bloodlust ect. Learn which skills are good and focus on them with a side of support skills. Restart game if you suffer massive losses first week or just save scum. In general, try Might heroes first ( the top 3 ones on every faction). Magic is weaker/more complex/worse scaling. -Needless to say, learn the different abilities of the various units and the hero skills. This will take time but Its a fun game, enjoy playing it. Start on lower dificulties and work your way up. -By the second week aim to get your economy going. Upgrade your econ buildings, build an army to take on some more difficult battles (like mines) and towards the end tier 4-5 units if u can affort. -Again, if you find yourself losing battles, your build is not strong enough. This is a game where one lost battle means the game most of the time. Restart and try a different build until you find something that works for you. -An early capture of an enemy faction is a great advantage. If you feel strong enough to take them, go for it. Anyway, experiment and dont be afraid to restart if things go south. If you think of a build work on it until it just works. I may update this if it gets upvotes. Cheers.
@@dabestgrimmreaper4 Yes and no. It's cheating in the manner that he's abusing bugs and glitches. *Hacking* is when you use an external client or mod the game.
"Cheats harder than a Russian child at CS:GO" I'll have you know I spilled tea while laughing at that little line from the intro. While watching the rest of the video, I had to clean my keyboard while playing golf because I had to get the tea off.
@@timewarpdrive77 If he was really scottish, wouldn't he have typed it like this though: "Cheats harder than a russian bairn at cs:go" I'll hae ye ken ah spilled cuppa while laughing at that wee line fae th' intro. While peepin' th' rest o' th' video, ah hud tae wash mah keyboard while playing golf fur ah hud tae git th' cuppa aff.
The fact that you can actually lose battles and big army's even if you are duplicating units really shows how hard and unforgiving this game can be when you play it without "intended by the developer" game mechanics
Nah it just shows he held back on using the glitch to its full potential. It would hurt the viewer retention if every fight was just a full 10k+ unit steamroll and he knows that, hence him "losing" to the impossible AI.
It’s pretty much why cheating in games got boring rather quickly when overdoing it, it’s why if you won every time you wouldn’t find it exiting anymore, it’s why it’s what we’re the most disappointed by the things we’re looking forward to the most when they don’t live up to our expectations-it’s brain chemicals playing us, and it does get exploited-a lot ;-)
@@OouzyYew452 yup, that's why spiffs most interesting videos are the ones where he's using interesting strategies to do unexpected things in games vs just using a dupe glitch as an "I win" button
I feel like I want to see The Spiffing Brit and Josh Strife Hayes do a collab of some kind. Even if y'all just play an MMO together and chat like it's a podcast about nothing, I feel like it would be highly entertaining.
Hehe, yeah, as soon as I saw that there was a faction with a Tea House and Tea Knights I knew it wouldn't be long before Spiff dropped a video focused on Pillar :)
awesome! I played Hero's Hour after seeing someone play it because it's clearly HOMM3, and wishlisted it on Steam. I really like the auto battler design replacing the old turn based hex battles, makes the game flow and changes it from being 'just' a copy of HOMM3. So. Much. Nostalgia. and also fun :] it's like Two Point Hospital - clearly Theme Hospital and super happy about that!
I hate to be pedantic, yet you weren't just turning your enemies into profit, you were simultaneously killing them, which is even better than just one or the other. Bravo, Spiff!
From what ive heard and experienced, people issue isn't necessarily that the game is too hard but that the ai is very unforgiving and prone to rushing your base with huge armies early on, even in the easiest modes. Once you get past that point, game kind of a joke honestly.
True, in my experience you either absolutely obliterate the enemies midgame or get rolled early on completely. Which is a shame really, because I enjoy playing the game, not 30-40 minutes of loading screens and skippable fights, once you've crossed a certain line.
@@poilboiler I have to give Hero's Hour credit for one thing, it artificially bumped the difficulty up to the point where 1 fight might not instantly win you the game. The infirmary, reinforcements, army deployment limit, and almost complete lack of control in battle make it to where there might be 2-4 important battles in a war rather than just 1.
But that is exactly what the difficulty of a strategy game is, defeating the AI when single player, defeating other players on multiplayer, what kind difficulty were you expecting from such a kind of game? I just dont get your point of "the game inst necessarily too hard", you cant have dark souls or devil may cry type of difficulty on a strategy game.
I swear every time I ever seen you Play games with like this style. You always go beyond the understanding of this game, and you become an understanding God where everyone in the game will never stop you becoming what you are.
The troop duplicator exploit does work however you must make sure to set combat speed to 1/2 for best results. It will not work at all at 2x speed and can actually cause you to lose troops instead of gaining them. Attempting this on any bodyguard units may result in all of them disappearing entirely for the rest of combat. My conclusion is that 1/2 speed is tea and 2x speed is coffee. Additionally this exploit can make it possible to sometimes lose a battle despite having thousands of duplicated troops in reserve - further testing required to find the exact circumstances. Edit: This works incredibly well with any unit that has retreat, with the upgrading through combat of the Horde faction, as well as any hero with the Healing skill; Tobruni and Erandu of the Horde are excellent at turning a pair of Harpies into a couple hundred permanent Furies in a single battle! I can't believe Sir Spiff noticed me, I feel so blessed! This is replacing the time I had dinner with The Queen as the greatest moment of my life! ^_^
What version of the game are you trying it on? I can't get it to happen on 2.0.5. Edit: oh nevermind I was doing it wrong. Thanks for the 1/2 speed tip.
@@MrAdannor what exactly does i have to do, i cant seem to get it workig, the troops i duplicate just spawns another untit a bit further away from the originial one, even at 1/2 speed.
Id love to see a graph of when in the video the viewers like it, similar to the analytics for when people watch. I imagine there would be a spike at the beginning, one at the end, a spike at the spot you ask for likes, and then smaller spikes at funny moments
I've been looking forward to when the next video came out because this is since my shipment arrived the first time I'm sat back, relaxed and have a warm cup for Yorkshire Gold tea.
Thanks Spiffing Brit is the best. He helps me avoid games with stupid balances. So for every game he manage to break, he helps to deduct the game from my wishlist and avoid spending on a poor exploitable game design.
Make sure that when you use this exploit you save before if you keep your armies to single entities... sometimes while duplicating if you're going fast, you can actually delete the units entirely. They won't show up to be deployed but it will show that they're still in the army. Also with the Decay faction's Malediction, Devour, and the Dark Ritual abilties... you can create an endless stream of dark horrors that are very very top tier busted.
Sir Brit, I just came across a fun exploit for Crusader Kings 2. If you launch a save as Byzantine without Conclave dlc then relaunch with it it will change their succession to Gavelkind and allow you to change it. My family is still ruling 100+ years in LOL
I can very easily imagine this was made by a long time Heroes of Might and Magic fan that was, shall we say, disappointed at what Ubisoft did to the series. There are just too many similarities to think there's no inspiration there.
They outright say it's heavily inspired by the old series because no one was making games like the old series any more, but with their own twist. I personally dislike the whole realtime battle aspect, but all the power to them anyways!
wait a tick, "sat back, relaxed and a nice warm cup of tea....." I think this is the first video I've not heard "a nice warm cup of YORKSHIRE tea".....
Okay I’m curious if anyone else appreciates him mentioning to like the video because I watch youtube on the same level as television so I kind of forget 90% of the time. so I actually appreciate him doing that
"...not only the ai is going to be given so many crazy bonuses but also the starting monsters nearby to us have far more pops than they logically should" me: hes going to do necromancy isnt he
"see's impossibly set game, designed to murder anything in existence with maximum level difficulty settings" Spiff - 'sips yorkshire tea' ... challenge accepted Game - 'nerivously sweating and waving white flag' ... okay you win
so glad you made another video on this game! the last video made me go buy the game and people are right it is tough. took me a few matches but now im smashing the AI on easy mode! another exploit ive found is the body guard skill rank 5 is completely OP especially if you can buff those units.
The fact that I beat my first game of heros hour in hardcore+ in the biggest map legitly with pyre is insane Early game I literally just hug my castle to defend and get resources from mines, pyre gets a lot of troops every battle for literally no cost to aid in offense and defense. The ai beat each other and I slowly saved up on resources. The pyre has a major spell that can spawn a real army of troops every 7 days, basically it is a suicide squad except it isn't weak at all, and u can use this with every hero. Soon enough, I have one hero that constantly changes unit into higher tier for free and has a lot of useful skill, his army is so strong that my other hero can literally not own an army and win any battle just using bodyguards and pyre portal because bodyguards scale with the difference to ur strongest army......
Best thing about the infernal gate is that it will save your ass in ANY battle. Entering a dragon cave, the gate's there. Enemy attacking an unguarded town, the gate's there. Attacking an enemy city with a caravan with one single lousy soldier? The gate's there! The Pyrespawn giving you a bunch of free gold after every battle is just gravy on top.
“I’m British so I’m not at all a normal human being”. This phrase is a genius joke but unfortunately, it’s self deprecating in a way that even makes me feel embarrassed for him
Mercurials are insanely good. Bodyguards too once you get it to the highest level (very easy with the upgraded tavern. Mercurials really are the way to go in this game
I love that you give Hero’s Hour so much hype! It’s such a good game and it deserves it. And hopefully this duplication exploit gets fixed faster than Necromancy got nerfed after your first video 😬
Well that's one scary way to win, but also thanks spiff, the new years livestream questions I asked have now properly taken seed, and will soon bloom into either some Yorkshire tea worthy leaves or wither away love the vids
Its a game I would never have found. I would never have played. I dont understand but! Great fun to watch. I'm hoping for some more 'mainstream' madness. Big big games bent over and spanked until the developers weep.
Its honestly interesting how these strategy games seem to get easier, if the difficulty is turned way up. Like the Total War Warhammer 3 videos as an example, i think most of them were turned up to max difficulty in one way or other, and they just seemed easier.
Ah, Spiff makes me proud to be British, and I end up falling into my accent everytime I watch one of these videos. Simply the English pride is too strong!
Gotta admit, whenever I see someone figure out how to exploit a game, I have an equal mix of judgement and admiration. But, this fellow carries himself with grace, and doesn’t try to mask his exploitation skills as “I’m just a genius”, but actually breaks down each step with clarity. I like it, and appreciate it, and I have a lot of respect for it. :>
One thing about the difficulty, for us plebs, is it very much depends on what map you you pick, my first few games were much easier on the huge maps or with a gray town between the enemy and I
personally my favorite blend of tea is my "Special Blend". tastes absolutely delicious, and goes great with the screams of the coffee loving peasants in the torture dungeon downstairs.
16:40 "...the end of the Green Empire and the rise of the Tea boys..." had me rollin' holding my stomach and trying to survive the laugh-onslaught. Idk how that phrase ticked me so much but thanks for the laughs, my dear dear person.
the idea of a game that will always exploit & cheat harder than you is pretty scary. for spiff itss just a causal wednesday of tea sipping with an extreme battle of wits
Honestly (since the tea house's ability was mentioned), I had a joke that goes like: "What does the queen drinks? Immortali-tea", but as soon as I wanted to comment that joke at september when I firstly saw this video the queen have passed away, making any immortal jokes obsolete. Anyway, that's a good video
"Luckily, by mixing the Immortali-Tea, which we have access to, that grants the first 500 power units immortality, it turns out when you duplicate those units, those units stay." I see what you did there.
When somebody tells an exploiters like Spiff, or us his loyal disciples, we don't feel discouraged. We take it as a challenge. And we are yet to fail in overcoming it.
What people miss is Bodyguards. After the upgraded tavern (statue of champions?) Every hero your recruit gains extra levels of Bodyguards (even if they don't normally get it) which gives you HALF the difference between that heroes army and their strongest army, capped at 200 power per level. For free. That's how they get "free" units. You can too.
Here’s an interesting thought- what if there’s a game that really DOES want you to exploit it? Like, imagine a game that seems too difficult but has EVERY exploit spiff ever showed us. One where the exploits are never patched out, because the game dev legitimately wants you to use them. Random thought, I know, but wouldn’t that be interesting?
They would definitely need to tutorialize at least one of the exploits and straight up go "this is an exploit, you'll need to figure all these out to beat the game".
So, Magic: The Gathering then. There's a meta game associated with M:TG, where people try to figure out how much non-infinite damage you can deal on turn one - that is, the deck has a fixed but large turn one damage potential that is not dependant on player choice. *Graham's Number* has long since been exceeded.
The unit duplication glitch reminds me of Futurama when Zapp Brannigan beats the 10000 killer robots by throwing wave after wave of men at them until the kill switches turned the robots off...
After years of watching the two and comparing their content, when I heard Spiff say, "75 cups of yorkshire tea", it finally hit me who he reminds me of. DF. Spiff is the UK version of the US's DangerouslyFunny, its almost uncanny how similar their reporting, commentary, and speaking tempo are.
"We have to fight otherwise we're never gonna survive" ~ Spiff If that quote was in any other context it'd make sense, but since it's in the context of a literally impossible scenario aside from the exploits he's using it does not
Luckily they already patched out the people cloning, so we can't duplicate your people duplication. Edit: The murcurial unit is absolutely busted. Ood, the unaligned hero centered around them I do think is the strongest hero in the game by a long shot.
Yall need to give Peglin a go once it is released. I mean a pegged like shooter with powerups, the "ability" to save-scum, and a whole lot of synergies to experiment with. Sure it may not get a very long series but definitely a handful of episodes of "perfectly balanced" gaming can be achieved with it.
I even undertook the impossible challenge of charming GOG into getting a big discount on the game! Have fun af.gog.com/redeem/IMPOSSIBLE?as=1694877399
Noice
Been curious about seeing a Fallout 76 video. Yep, I know that will get 9000 dislikes for the suggestion, but it would be very interesting to watch.
Far Cry 6 is also on my mind as well.
please link the spiff co mug
i need a new mug :D
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Tea a liying D: its 15% discount ?! O-O)
Fun Fact: When Spiff says he’s “exploiting a game into Oblivion,” what he means is not a figure of speech but rather a state in which the game’s exploits have made it functionally indistinguishable from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.
Stop right there criminal scum! Nobody exploits the game on my watch!
when you break a 2d tactics game so much it turns into a 3d open world RPG
That just means, it's a basic level of exploiting... imagine, if he could "exploit it into Skyrim"?
@@pyrokar1990 no, no... Skyrim is less exploitable, the right term would be into Morrowind :)
@@martinjoster3282 what about into daggerfall
Making a game difficult by making the A.I. smart ❌
Making a game difficult by making the A.I. cheat ✅
Strategy games like this are far from the first kind of game to do this.
Fighting game bosses that read your inputs and do behaviors irreplicable by humans and don’t take normal damage come to mind
ie 80 % of games do this xD strategies? often let the ai genereate resources out of thin air. fps? enemy shooting through foliage with headshot accuracy - and so on. very hard difficulties, more often than not, base itself on cheating through game rules and common sense to pose a challenge to a player.
You're talking about mario kart ?
Spiff out here just casually duplicating pandas, a feat most zoos have yet to replicate.
Clone-das
@@brucebaker810 pan wars?
I think I heard the sound of a thousand zookeepers cry out at once before suddenly being silenced.
keyphrase "most zoos"
@Eric Nunya Genetics and cloning stuff is actually pretty hard.
Rain of frogs is actually a hugely useful spell once you get its power up. You just summon it on their backline and they spend the entire fight with frogs not shooting your units.
Frog
Potent Summon Bloodsucker is also huge. They spread out over a huge swath of the battlefield and harass the enemy units. One of the few ways to deal with troublesome units like Horros
Most people might think an impossible game is a really difficult one, but for Spiff, this just means one he can't cheat in
And such a thing is yet to exist
@@thespiffingbrit i chalange you to somehow exploit chess then
@@HaartieeTRUE you kill your opponents until you are only one there. Here you go, problem solved.
@@HaartieeTRUE use an ai?
Yeah cause duplicating is an intended part of the game
"Why fight your enemy when you could turn them
into profit!"
Spoken like a true Brit
Spiff when he hears theres a tea unit ingame :
“Today we’re gonna find out how to make tea the most inexplicably broken thing in the universe”
HA as if tea wasn't broken enough
"inexplicable". Tea is what created the universe. How dare you suggest it should not have this power
error, inmortal elizabeth created tea and then tea created the united kingdom and the united kingdom the whole word
@@RealThermite guess she didn't drink enough tea
Thanks so much for highlighting this game on your channel Spiff, I had not heard of it before this video and am now thoroughly enjoying playing it in a perfectly balanced manner.
"It's too difficult"
Spiff: *Hold my 10 gallon cup of Yorkshire tea.*
*Sips tea aggressively*
@@thespiffingbrit You hearting my comment *and* commenting to it brightened my day :))
Gallons? Surely, you mean liters..😂😂
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@@pappazmurf normally yes but us brits inexplicably measure beverages in imperial sometimes
Honestly, this game feels like it was made specifically for Spiff. A relatively easy to find exploit that abuses the power of Tea to receive an endless army of Tea Knights. Perfection.
This game was designed to be exploited. The developer is in league with Spiffing Brit. The first red flag is the OP tea house, the second is the unit dupe that was deliberately programmed in.
Yeah that glitch looks WAYYYY to simple to have been overlooked. I think it legit might have been deliberate.
It's simpler than that, the dev spilled some tea on their pc as they made it making everything perfectly balanced
Hello friends! I have been playing this game since before release and since I am a huge HOMM 3 fan I find it amazing. It's a fresh new take on the genre by people that know it well. Here are a couple of tips to win consistently on Impossible+ on most factions and heroes:
-Spend the first few days massing up troops and building essential buildings - depending on the faction and build order (its random for each game) and ofcourse your hero's abilities. DO NOT pick a fight until round 3-4 or even 5 unless you feel extremely confident you will only suffer minor losses. You may want to get to tier 3 units or an upgraded tier 1 or 2, or build a mage's guild. Also, a first week build shoud definately be the Infirmary. Maybe before the first battle if you find it too hard.
-Plan your battles with great care. First week battles are limited and there is always a very strict order you can follow. There will be 2 easy battles for the wood and ore mines, another for the Pillar (for the secret treasure, which you should hire a second hero to find and transfer to your main most of the time) and maybe a random creep guarding a small treasure. You Dont Have To Fight Every Day. Take on ONLY fights you can win decisively.
-In battle you should always have an advantage. Stronger units, a good hero ability, a good spell. See what works for you. If you have none of these things, wait for better units but be warned that this sets you back against the AI. Unless you have a plan to capitalise and catch up it will not work to wait too long, although patience i and defence is key for many situations in this game.
-During the first few turns where you are not fighting, use the time to explore and try to find XP chests with your hero. Prioritize skills that give you a combat advantage or free troops. Good examples include Mastery, Legion, Mercurial (its busted always take a beginner), Elementalism, Offence, Bloodlust ect. Learn which skills are good and focus on them with a side of support skills. Restart game if you suffer massive losses first week or just save scum. In general, try Might heroes first ( the top 3 ones on every faction). Magic is weaker/more complex/worse scaling.
-Needless to say, learn the different abilities of the various units and the hero skills. This will take time but Its a fun game, enjoy playing it. Start on lower dificulties and work your way up.
-By the second week aim to get your economy going. Upgrade your econ buildings, build an army to take on some more difficult battles (like mines) and towards the end tier 4-5 units if u can affort.
-Again, if you find yourself losing battles, your build is not strong enough. This is a game where one lost battle means the game most of the time. Restart and try a different build until you find something that works for you.
-An early capture of an enemy faction is a great advantage. If you feel strong enough to take them, go for it.
Anyway, experiment and dont be afraid to restart if things go south. If you think of a build work on it until it just works. I may update this if it gets upvotes. Cheers.
Everyone: This game is a so hard its impossible
Spiff: Finally a worthy oponent
Tea giving immortality? These developers clearly watch this channel.
Honestly though. Impossible to beat without cheating.
Spiff: Our battle will be legendary!
@@brainstormsurge154 is it really cheating though if you haven't loaded up an outside client and the game just lets you do that?
@@dabestgrimmreaper4 Yes and no. It's cheating in the manner that he's abusing bugs and glitches. *Hacking* is when you use an external client or mod the game.
The most british thing ever. Using the Chinese for their tea
"Cheats harder than a Russian child at CS:GO"
I'll have you know I spilled tea while laughing at that little line from the intro. While watching the rest of the video, I had to clean my keyboard while playing golf because I had to get the tea off.
is it even possible to cheat harder then a russian child in csgo? i am not convinced.
"playing golf"
Get out of here ya scott
@@timewarpdrive77 If he was really scottish, wouldn't he have typed it like this though:
"Cheats harder than a russian bairn at cs:go"
I'll hae ye ken ah spilled cuppa while laughing at that wee line fae th' intro. While peepin' th' rest o' th' video, ah hud tae wash mah keyboard while playing golf fur ah hud tae git th' cuppa aff.
@@spoonman9584 this just proves that you are secretly Scottish!
@@abadgurl2010 yes
Pandas are endangered, so this was all completely ethical since you were helping them fight extinction
The fact that you can actually lose battles and big army's even if you are duplicating units really shows how hard and unforgiving this game can be when you play it without "intended by the developer" game mechanics
Nah it just shows he held back on using the glitch to its full potential. It would hurt the viewer retention if every fight was just a full 10k+ unit steamroll and he knows that, hence him "losing" to the impossible AI.
It’s pretty much why cheating in games got boring rather quickly when overdoing it, it’s why if you won every time you wouldn’t find it exiting anymore, it’s why it’s what we’re the most disappointed by the things we’re looking forward to the most when they don’t live up to our expectations-it’s brain chemicals playing us, and it does get exploited-a lot ;-)
@@OouzyYew452 yup, that's why spiffs most interesting videos are the ones where he's using interesting strategies to do unexpected things in games vs just using a dupe glitch as an "I win" button
I was afraid he were going to do the "eat your own dragon" strategy, but as always, He. Isnt. Human.
"This is not going to be a clean fight"
- Spiff when he cannot exploit a part of the game
I feel like I want to see The Spiffing Brit and Josh Strife Hayes do a collab of some kind. Even if y'all just play an MMO together and chat like it's a podcast about nothing, I feel like it would be highly entertaining.
With tea knights becoming immortal with the help of a tea house I feel like this game was made to lure spiff into playing it 😂
Hehe, yeah, as soon as I saw that there was a faction with a Tea House and Tea Knights I knew it wouldn't be long before Spiff dropped a video focused on Pillar :)
It's almost...TOO perfect. WAIT! it's a TRAP! Spiff! Get Out!!
awesome! I played Hero's Hour after seeing someone play it because it's clearly HOMM3, and wishlisted it on Steam.
I really like the auto battler design replacing the old turn based hex battles, makes the game flow and changes it from being 'just' a copy of HOMM3.
So. Much. Nostalgia. and also fun :] it's like Two Point Hospital - clearly Theme Hospital and super happy about that!
"Why kill your enemies when you can turn them into profit?" -Mindset of the British Empire
Edit: how did this get almost 2000 likes? That's wacky
I hate to be pedantic, yet you weren't just turning your enemies into profit, you were simultaneously killing them, which is even better than just one or the other. Bravo, Spiff!
Mindset of China too.
Yes, the empire the sun never sets on... Because even God can't trust the Brits in the dark.
'grindset
@@xantishayde-walker4593 slaves of war 🙄
I'm really glad you covered this game! It's an unsung gem, especially for someone who played a TON of heroes of might and magic 3.
Spiff isn't limited by difficulty, only by how much tea he has left.
He has found a way to duplicate tea, though, so I don't think he'll ever run out.
Has to be true
@@COArSe_D1RTxxx I have to know this exploit. Might be to powerful for the normal mortals but I have to know
> be me
> indie developer
> make a game
> a popular youtuber plays it
> ITS THE SPIFFING BRIT
From what ive heard and experienced, people issue isn't necessarily that the game is too hard but that the ai is very unforgiving and prone to rushing your base with huge armies early on, even in the easiest modes. Once you get past that point, game kind of a joke honestly.
True, in my experience you either absolutely obliterate the enemies midgame or get rolled early on completely. Which is a shame really, because I enjoy playing the game, not 30-40 minutes of loading screens and skippable fights, once you've crossed a certain line.
Kind of my experience with Tide on H+. Survive early game = win.
Isn't that just what the Heroes of Might and Magic 5 AI did? Either you beat the first rush and won or you didn't and lost. Booooring.
@@poilboiler I have to give Hero's Hour credit for one thing, it artificially bumped the difficulty up to the point where 1 fight might not instantly win you the game. The infirmary, reinforcements, army deployment limit, and almost complete lack of control in battle make it to where there might be 2-4 important battles in a war rather than just 1.
But that is exactly what the difficulty of a strategy game is, defeating the AI when single player, defeating other players on multiplayer, what kind difficulty were you expecting from such a kind of game? I just dont get your point of "the game inst necessarily too hard", you cant have dark souls or devil may cry type of difficulty on a strategy game.
I swear every time I ever seen you Play games with like this style. You always go beyond the understanding of this game, and you become an understanding God where everyone in the game will never stop you becoming what you are.
The troop duplicator exploit does work however you must make sure to set combat speed to 1/2 for best results. It will not work at all at 2x speed and can actually cause you to lose troops instead of gaining them. Attempting this on any bodyguard units may result in all of them disappearing entirely for the rest of combat.
My conclusion is that 1/2 speed is tea and 2x speed is coffee.
Additionally this exploit can make it possible to sometimes lose a battle despite having thousands of duplicated troops in reserve - further testing required to find the exact circumstances.
Edit: This works incredibly well with any unit that has retreat, with the upgrading through combat of the Horde faction, as well as any hero with the Healing skill; Tobruni and Erandu of the Horde are excellent at turning a pair of Harpies into a couple hundred permanent Furies in a single battle!
I can't believe Sir Spiff noticed me, I feel so blessed! This is replacing the time I had dinner with The Queen as the greatest moment of my life! ^_^
What version of the game are you trying it on? I can't get it to happen on 2.0.5. Edit: oh nevermind I was doing it wrong.
Thanks for the 1/2 speed tip.
After duplicating and the end of the battle, my troops are gone...all of them.
@@Z3ro72 yup unless you have a way of gaining troops after death they don't stick around
@@MrAdannor what exactly does i have to do, i cant seem to get it workig, the troops i duplicate just spawns another untit a bit further away from the originial one, even at 1/2 speed.
@@thespiffingbrit OMG, you responded to my humble reply! I LOVE YOUR CONTENT (͠≖ ͜ʖ͠≖)👌!!!!!!!!
Also, thank you explaining the flow! ☜(ˆ▿ˆc)
I like when he says something and then right after says that it's not true, it's really funny and doesn't get repetitive what so ever. Good video 👍
Id love to see a graph of when in the video the viewers like it, similar to the analytics for when people watch. I imagine there would be a spike at the beginning, one at the end, a spike at the spot you ask for likes, and then smaller spikes at funny moments
The analytics of the Funny. A truly worthy field of study.
"i am british, i am not a normal human being".
Wiser words have never been spoken
I've been looking forward to when the next video came out because this is since my shipment arrived the first time I'm sat back, relaxed and have a warm cup for Yorkshire Gold tea.
Mitosis had me in Bloody Tears™ when it actually started happening
Tea existing in any game automatically guarantees Spiff’s victory. Nothing stops the power of the British empire when tea is involved
Ra Ra Raj!
Excluding the Boston Tea Party
@@alloounou6900 the rebel colonists targeted the tea supplies first, which is clearly a war crime.
Exactly why you must target the tea supply first
Thanks Spiffing Brit is the best. He helps me avoid games with stupid balances. So for every game he manage to break, he helps to deduct the game from my wishlist and avoid spending on a poor exploitable game design.
Make sure that when you use this exploit you save before if you keep your armies to single entities... sometimes while duplicating if you're going fast, you can actually delete the units entirely. They won't show up to be deployed but it will show that they're still in the army. Also with the Decay faction's Malediction, Devour, and the Dark Ritual abilties... you can create an endless stream of dark horrors that are very very top tier busted.
it does not work on 2.0.5 , can u tell me on what version i can use this exploit
@@mahfoudnaripo1056 It's still working for me so I am not entirely sure if maybe you're not lining it up right or what exactly.
@@mahfoudnaripo1056 play at 1/2 speed. 2x speed is coffee, 1/2 speed is tea.
Sir Brit, I just came across a fun exploit for Crusader Kings 2. If you launch a save as Byzantine without Conclave dlc then relaunch with it it will change their succession to Gavelkind and allow you to change it. My family is still ruling 100+ years in LOL
I can very easily imagine this was made by a long time Heroes of Might and Magic fan that was, shall we say, disappointed at what Ubisoft did to the series. There are just too many similarities to think there's no inspiration there.
They outright say it's heavily inspired by the old series because no one was making games like the old series any more, but with their own twist. I personally dislike the whole realtime battle aspect, but all the power to them anyways!
Homam 3 crazy
@@KainYusanagi Can't wait for Songs of Conquest to come out. It's what all HoMM fans are waiting for.
It follows the formula even down to cheesing battles!
This game is what I wish Heroes of Might and Magic was when I was a kid.
wait a tick, "sat back, relaxed and a nice warm cup of tea....." I think this is the first video I've not heard "a nice warm cup of YORKSHIRE tea".....
@Christopher Matteson ha, there's green tea!
Okay I’m curious if anyone else appreciates him mentioning to like the video because I watch youtube on the same level as television so I kind of forget 90% of the time. so I actually appreciate him doing that
"...not only the ai is going to be given so many crazy bonuses but also the starting monsters nearby to us have far more pops than they logically should"
me: hes going to do necromancy isnt he
"Why fight fight your enemy when you can instead turn them into profit" pretty much sums up the vast majority of British history i think lol.
"see's impossibly set game, designed to murder anything in existence with maximum level difficulty settings"
Spiff - 'sips yorkshire tea' ... challenge accepted
Game - 'nerivously sweating and waving white flag' ... okay you win
Devs - 'writing preemptive resignation letters'
so glad you made another video on this game! the last video made me go buy the game and people are right it is tough. took me a few matches but now im smashing the AI on easy mode!
another exploit ive found is the body guard skill rank 5 is completely OP especially if you can buff those units.
The fact that I beat my first game of heros hour in hardcore+ in the biggest map legitly with pyre is insane
Early game I literally just hug my castle to defend and get resources from mines, pyre gets a lot of troops every battle for literally no cost to aid in offense and defense. The ai beat each other and I slowly saved up on resources. The pyre has a major spell that can spawn a real army of troops every 7 days, basically it is a suicide squad except it isn't weak at all, and u can use this with every hero. Soon enough, I have one hero that constantly changes unit into higher tier for free and has a lot of useful skill, his army is so strong that my other hero can literally not own an army and win any battle just using bodyguards and pyre portal because bodyguards scale with the difference to ur strongest army......
Best thing about the infernal gate is that it will save your ass in ANY battle. Entering a dragon cave, the gate's there. Enemy attacking an unguarded town, the gate's there. Attacking an enemy city with a caravan with one single lousy soldier? The gate's there! The Pyrespawn giving you a bunch of free gold after every battle is just gravy on top.
“I’m British so I’m not at all a normal human being”. This phrase is a genius joke but unfortunately, it’s self deprecating in a way that even makes me feel embarrassed for him
Mercurials are insanely good. Bodyguards too once you get it to the highest level (very easy with the upgraded tavern. Mercurials really are the way to go in this game
This man doesn’t need water, he just needs tea. Yorkshire tea.
Game: Spiff Co, standard line, we outnumber him 3 to 1.
Spiff: Then it is an even fight.
6:14 "Why fight your enemy when instead you can turn them into profit" That was literally the point of the British Empire
I love that you give Hero’s Hour so much hype! It’s such a good game and it deserves it.
And hopefully this duplication exploit gets fixed faster than Necromancy got nerfed after your first video 😬
Well that's one scary way to win, but also thanks spiff, the new years livestream questions I asked have now properly taken seed, and will soon bloom into either some Yorkshire tea worthy leaves or wither away love the vids
Its a game I would never have found. I would never have played. I dont understand but! Great fun to watch. I'm hoping for some more 'mainstream' madness. Big big games bent over and spanked until the developers weep.
Its honestly interesting how these strategy games seem to get easier, if the difficulty is turned way up. Like the Total War Warhammer 3 videos as an example, i think most of them were turned up to max difficulty in one way or other, and they just seemed easier.
Ah, Spiff makes me proud to be British, and I end up falling into my accent everytime I watch one of these videos. Simply the English pride is too strong!
Haha
I too am British. I agree with all of this
Gotta admit, whenever I see someone figure out how to exploit a game, I have an equal mix of judgement and admiration. But, this fellow carries himself with grace, and doesn’t try to mask his exploitation skills as “I’m just a genius”, but actually breaks down each step with clarity. I like it, and appreciate it, and I have a lot of respect for it. :>
One thing about the difficulty, for us plebs, is it very much depends on what map you you pick, my first few games were much easier on the huge maps or with a gray town between the enemy and I
It also depends on how many enemys the more the easier it will be since they will fight against eachother, unlike some other strategie games
@@Mendoza-yi6qk
Something that enrages me is when every AI regardless of faction decides you and only you are deserving of slaughter
7:55 this is what peak british performance looks like! I love this guy
The Video was essentially over after 5 minutes, but the other 24 minutes were also really fun to watch.
Thats kind of how the game goes in general.
Always love watching you break it. Even tho sometimes they do fix it...
Oh my god, item dupers in strategy games is the most hilarious thing.
4:28 Now that was a great joke!
Only Spiff has the power to get pandas to multiply
... now i wonder if any of them panda-breeding scientists have tried using Yorkshire Tea. ^^
Bears like honey. Honey goes in tea. Do I hafta draw you a picture?
(They have to show male pandas pictures.)
Dude, you're editors cracked! Nice job dude.
Looking at my coffee that I'm drinking while watching Spiff re-create reality around him just with the power of tea....and i feel sadness 😔
as you should *glares at your coffee with an unsettling amount of disrespect*
Spiffing brit deserves more sponsorships from yorkshire tea for how often he refferences it.
Spiff: too difficult?
Spiff after drinking the GDP of a small country in tea: not difficult enough!
personally my favorite blend of tea is my "Special Blend". tastes absolutely delicious, and goes great with the screams of the coffee loving peasants in the torture dungeon downstairs.
"I call this... mitosis!"
"Oh god it's a dupe exploit" 😂
16:40 "...the end of the Green Empire and the rise of the Tea boys..." had me rollin' holding my stomach and trying to survive the laugh-onslaught. Idk how that phrase ticked me so much but thanks for the laughs, my dear dear person.
the idea of a game that will always exploit & cheat harder than you is pretty scary.
for spiff itss just a causal wednesday of tea sipping with an extreme battle of wits
Honestly (since the tea house's ability was mentioned), I had a joke that goes like: "What does the queen drinks? Immortali-tea", but as soon as I wanted to comment that joke at september when I firstly saw this video the queen have passed away, making any immortal jokes obsolete. Anyway, that's a good video
Spiff once again demonstrating his power over the mortals. Excellent😁
already patched, he wasnt running the newest version
"Luckily, by mixing the Immortali-Tea, which we have access to, that grants the first 500 power units immortality, it turns out when you duplicate those units, those units stay."
I see what you did there.
Who would win in a fight:
Thousands of max difficulty AI
OR
A insane Yorkshire tea fueled British game breaker
When somebody tells an exploiters like Spiff, or us his loyal disciples, we don't feel discouraged. We take it as a challenge. And we are yet to fail in overcoming it.
For extra immersion I like to boil a kettle in the background while watching any of the Spiffing Brit’s videos
You know something? I always have a religious experience watching Spiff. He always finds a Profit in a video. :D
What people miss is Bodyguards.
After the upgraded tavern (statue of champions?) Every hero your recruit gains extra levels of Bodyguards (even if they don't normally get it) which gives you HALF the difference between that heroes army and their strongest army, capped at 200 power per level. For free.
That's how they get "free" units. You can too.
THE SPIFFING BRIT.. is the British DF
Here’s an interesting thought- what if there’s a game that really DOES want you to exploit it? Like, imagine a game that seems too difficult but has EVERY exploit spiff ever showed us. One where the exploits are never patched out, because the game dev legitimately wants you to use them. Random thought, I know, but wouldn’t that be interesting?
So Skyrim, but it's actually a feature? That sounds like it would be difficult to hide the fact that it wants you to exploit it.
They would definitely need to tutorialize at least one of the exploits and straight up go "this is an exploit, you'll need to figure all these out to beat the game".
Goat Simulator?
Those wouldn't really be exploits then, they'd just be unexplained game mechanics.
So, Magic: The Gathering then.
There's a meta game associated with M:TG, where people try to figure out how much non-infinite damage you can deal on turn one - that is, the deck has a fixed but large turn one damage potential that is not dependant on player choice.
*Graham's Number* has long since been exceeded.
I need to see a The Civil Engineer and The Spiffing Brit to collab and go against each other in one of these games. Engineer vs Exploiter
thanks to "human duplication strategies" we now have an outstanding military
The unit duplication glitch reminds me of Futurama when Zapp Brannigan beats the 10000 killer robots by throwing wave after wave of men at them until the kill switches turned the robots off...
So that's why i seemed to get more troops out of no where, never bothered to really think about it. That's an interesting exploit.
doesnt work on newest patch, which was released weeks ago "beta branch"
@@WhatWillYouFind play at 1/2 speed.
6:02 "Three hundred and seventy fwee" - sorry to point it out, but that made me chuckle
Everyone: “This game is impossible”
Spiff: “Hold my Yorkshire Gold”
4:52 "i know how to exploit evry game in existence"
Exploit chess
After years of watching the two and comparing their content, when I heard Spiff say, "75 cups of yorkshire tea", it finally hit me who he reminds me of.
DF.
Spiff is the UK version of the US's DangerouslyFunny, its almost uncanny how similar their reporting, commentary, and speaking tempo are.
"We have to fight otherwise we're never gonna survive" ~ Spiff
If that quote was in any other context it'd make sense, but since it's in the context of a literally impossible scenario aside from the exploits he's using it does not
Luckily they already patched out the people cloning, so we can't duplicate your people duplication.
Edit: The murcurial unit is absolutely busted. Ood, the unaligned hero centered around them I do think is the strongest hero in the game by a long shot.
Note, they did *Not* patch the cloning as of me posting this message.
i dont think so, i just tried it and it worked fine for 1/2 speed land battles where im the attacker. boat battles and defensive battles dont work tho
@@SgtRock-et7zl on what version i can use this exploit
I’m always concerned and excited when you make a video
Yeah so can you tell me the "pillar of balance" and "tea knight" are not seriously shameless fan service to Spiff? ;-)
Yall need to give Peglin a go once it is released. I mean a pegged like shooter with powerups, the "ability" to save-scum, and a whole lot of synergies to experiment with.
Sure it may not get a very long series but definitely a handful of episodes of "perfectly balanced" gaming can be achieved with it.
Proven Yet Again Today ☕ Is The Only Way To Beat An Impossible Task
what a name, have a good day~
Nothing puts a finish on my day quite like The Spiffing Brit and a fine cup of Tea.
I want to see LGIO vs. Spiffing. I wonder what will happen when unending determination meets the final boss of exploiters.