For those of you disappointed in the lack of mention of the Gaur, this is a fair criticism! I hope to make a future video about the Gaur, but we couldn't find enough good gaur clips in time to launch this video. Sorry about that!
Can y'all please just treat verified youtubers like normal people that do normal things like watch UA-cam videos. Anyways, TierZoo is too OP, his "video creating" stat is way overjacked.
I know that you typically focus on builds rather than mechanics, but I would really like to see a video on the "adrenaline" buff, a status condition that can sometimes make intimidation backfire in the most hilarious ways. It's a ridiculous status effect and I'd like to see if it's truly as op as it seems.
yeah tbh i think the rng for adrenaline is a little busted allowing even relatively low strength builds in the middle weight class to flip over cars. i would love to see a video explaining how that works from a lore perspective
Buff?? All of my adrenaline rushes leave me a sweaty, shaking, gasping, unintelligible and nauseated mess who can't even walk, talk, or think properly, with a nice big helping of impending doom on the side.
I really like the stand alone videos on specific animal family groups, but I’d also love to see videos on certain outliers of said families that people seem to label as superior to the rest. For cattle it’s the gaur, ratites the cassowary, deer it’s the moose and as of late giant anteaters have been receiving credit for being able to fend off jaguars. I’d love a video discussing the cassowary, maybe calling it something like “The Problem with Ratites” given their general low placement on the tier list?
“Are all ratites low tier?” might be a more fitting title since people sometimes seem to also bring up the fact that Emus alongside cassowaries shouldn’t be F tier, the group of birds is so interesting so their own stand alone video discussing which place higher then others would be great. He already hearted the original comment so I hope that means the idea might happen one day, I love the more bird based videos.
@@fluffysheap the thing is, based on fossil evidence, they seemed to have gotten the memo for a bit, but decided to go back to land dwelling for whatever reason. Too much effort I guess, honestly relatable
@@DeckKnight that was when the Australian based humans were less advanced and hadn’t unlocked the advanced gun items also yeah, it was a conflict since the emu players were stealing food from the humans, causing a conflict between the classes. Although it wasn’t a war. Emus and cassowaries are very solid builds and the strongest birds by far, The ostrich is quite overrated because of the base size and mobility
You could also mention, that Bison on the European server, basicly have no natural counters. Its size and mass is so great, that there is no predator main capable, of preying on them. Brown Bears and Grey Wolves sometimes try, but due to Bison living in wooded areas, they can defend much easier.
Bison aren't supposed to be on the European server though, right? It was human mains using an exploit to get them over there. Edit: I was apparently unaware that European Bison had been reintroduced following extinction in the wild. That's neat.
@@KindredBrujah Yup, they were primary tp tier oon European Server for the whole last expansion, but due to human mains, the playerbase did a rage quit. Only recently, thanks to human mains chilling out, Bison mains trully started to once again, take top tier.
As a human main that has worked with cows for years, you forgot to mention one thing! Their pack tactics ability is very similar to that of wolves, and although their intelligence isn't quite high enough to use them as a damage dealer companion, they still have some of the dog's positivity buffs as well. They make an exceptional high HP mount, or even a Tank party member! I've even seen cases where, with a high enough bond level, the cow will protect a sleeping human main.
It'd suck trying to gain exp from one of them if they huddle in a group, especially if you play the wolf or bear build. As another human main, I, too, find them to be great a support class.
@@lastmanstanding5423 It seems like a lot of animals can get really strong after unlocking Symbiosis, just by playing support to Humans. I mean, if cats, an assasin build can do it, anyone can.
@@muttmanic6949 Agreed... If you think about it Human Symbiosis Perk is a bit broken. There is almost no player class that Humans can't match with. Almost too OP. ps. But also beautiful
I would suppose that the large dinosaurs were probably banned because they started to stifle build variety. I think the devs really wanted to see what a mammalian meta could look like Some of the builds like Notharctus simply got improved in general, so they lost their playerbase over time. Niche optimization is what's killed most builds, since you'll find very few that are willing to play a build that's slightly worse in every regard. It's also very hard to get into a legacy build when there are no mentors willing to take you under their wing. Builds like humans and cyanobacteria also alter the game rules, making a lot of builds less viable.
Various balance patches made the builds unplayable. Imagine being a Tyrannosaurus main during and after the KT balance patch. I'm sure there were many irate players at the time!
I see it as "Do we kiss orrrr?" xD When people fight, I always think there is such tension and they look like they're about to kiss :D This gives me the same vibes.
As a retro gamer, I hope we'll one day get a video on all the legacy classes currently still in the game. Monotremes were suspiciously omitted from his Australia overview, but living fossils would be interesting too.
@Romuland Meier Noobs clown on them because they game over when flipped on their backs, but I'd like to see their main stay in the game for this long, let alone without the ability to flip back on their feet. Any build that has been in the game for this long in spite of all the power creep is successful by default. Sure, stuff like mosasaurus looked cool and was absolutely oppressive back in its day, but where are they now? Some might argue that losing their playerbase equates losing the game, since spawning in new players is the main quest. Legacy builds deserve respect, even if they don't have all of the fancy features newer builds may have.
@@rainpooper7088 horseshoecrab players are Suprisingly social and hell each other turn if nessesary. Also have a rare ability which gives increased resistance against bacteria type npcs (which can also be looted by the human players).
@@Dan_Kanerva i once thought kurzgesagt was pretty much unanimously loved, but seeing as they make videos on climate change, that's not really possible no matter what stance they take
I just found your channel today. If this is how biology was taught in high school I’d have a different career. This is some of the best stuff I’ve seen online ever
This channel has the perfect mixture of useful information, less useful fun facts, inside jokes and ever improving editing. Honestly, I really appreciate the amount of work that goes into these vids, thank you a lot :)
I remember when I first seen Tierzoo. It wasn't long ago but I'm sure his subs was around 500,000 or less. I'm glad that his subs jumped to the millions. I'm sure Tierzoo remembered. I jumped on today to be happy to see his deserving fame. Keep it going buddy. From your faithful subscriber, Superduper PS, Thank you everyone for sharing these videos, we need to make a real video game based off of this channel
I recall when I first discovered his channel, that was when he made his cat tierlist (the first one to "blow up" in relative terms to his audience of the time) I think he had like 40k at the time, and I just knew that he was gonna blow up. This has been a fun ride to see him explode in popularity Rewatching his videos is a favorite past time of mine at this point
You would really like the subreddit r/outside because this guy didn't invented this concept, he just presents like an Outside youtuber, even calling reality "Outside"
Very great improvement. I love how you gave "servers" a difficulty rank. I also like how generic cattle had a ranking based on who would be friendly or casual with the playing animal.
Idunno, I feel like walls are C-tier at best sure they may have some of the highest defense stats in the game, and this stat can be further boosted thanks to the fortify ability from friendly players... but it comes at the cost of having all other stats near completely bottomed out. Not only does this mean an attack that can bypass a wall's defense will almost certainly cripple if not outright defeat it, but it also means that wall players are heavily reliant on other players to do much of anything. Heck, they're so reliant on other players that they can't even complete the game's main objective of reproduction without another player deciding that another wall player should be generated. A fun gimmick build, sure, and a strong defender at that. However, the over-reliance upon other playerbases to function severely cripples the walls' capabilities as a class. Now if they give it mobility or hunting skills in a future update, I can easily see it becoming a top-tier build, but for now it probably sits firmly in C-tier.
I’m sure someone else has already commented on it, but the picture you used for the Yak on the tier list is actually a Scottish Highlander Cow. It’s an old heritage breed of cattle, but still cattle. My father raised them when I was growing up because they were hardier than regular beef cow breeds.
TierZoo also often mixes up the Water Buffalo and Cape Buffalo, when they are actually quite easy to tell apart. The silhouette for the water buffalo when its stats were shown, is actually a Cape buffalo for instance.
And you will seek Me and find Me when you search for Me with all your heart. -Jeremiah 29:13 “For God so loved the world, that He gave His only Son, so that everyone who believes in Him will not perish, but have eternal life. -John 3:16 Repent therefore, and turn back, that your sins may be blotted out. -Acts 3:19 If are in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church (These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches) If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church. If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC (Different from the Church of Scotland) If you are English I recommend the Free Church of England. (Different from the Church of England) Online you can look up church finders for each of the groups and it will show you locations.
These bots are more contagious than the apparently bajillion Covid variants out there, sheesh! But yeah the exceptional production value put into these videos, definitely makes it worth the wait between the uploads (for those of us that don't have Curiosity stream or Nebula). Tierzoo is one of the few great sources of original and creative content left on YT these days.
Nope, they're part of the same subfamily as antelope (Alcelaphinae) rather than Bovinae. They're still part of the Bovidae family though, so they're still pretty closely related.
I know it's kind of a niche thing unless you absolutely dominate resources like humans, but I wonder what a crafting class tier list would look like. I assume bees would dominate, but I'm curious about the usefulness and viability of other crafted homes and such, and how they stack against each other.
i think this idea actually has alot of depth to it ngl, bees, birds, beavers, naked mole rats if you wanna count underground networking, they all are great base builders
Yeah, this man makes his living making what is essentially a low budget documentary series and the whole UA-cam is begging to be fed from his hand. Such skill
@Zonetic yet, he explains things in a way that is less boring than a documentary. Still got the general information without the long drawn out delay. That's the new meta.
Watched this video, thought "this is extremely funny and also interesting at the same time, I wish there were more videos like this". Now I've discovered your channel is dedicated to these videos. Best channel on youtube
Whenever TierZoo uploads, my day automatically gets better. Let’s give a minute to thank this man for uploading free, high quality content for over half a decade.
You'd be surprised about how good they are with them too. I've seen them play headbutt people and not do any damage. That much control after a huge wind-up is incredible.
as a human main, i have played with goats before. barely a minor tap, hardly enough to deal damage. but ive also seen them oneshot predator players. it was a lil scary to see. i kept thinking, so glad he didnt hit me like that.
@@aopmemer2817 What's funny is certain bots (cryptocurrency scams and self promos) are actually real life players whose "job" is to talk to themselves via alt-accounts and/or use alts to upvote their promos to artificially boost their XP. It's a pretty pathetic yet fascinating class to put "skill" points into.
This is one of the very few channels I'm willing to put up with watching the sponsor message, just so I don't miss the outro afterward. In fact I think it's just you and Adam Neely. And your awesome theme music is most of why.
TierZoo has consistently the best matching sponsors on YT. Sometimes his entire videos are borderline ads for the sponsors. But as long as the content is great, it's a win for all of us.
@@lemurwrench6344 I wish I knew, I could’ve sworn I heard it as a kid but it must be public domain if so because Shazam, Google etc don’t know what it is (their databases are what they sell)
Man, I missed seeing a video of yours ao much! Of course I love Casual Geographic as well, you're both amazing content creators, but you're also both unique in your take, so Casual uploading more didn't stop me from missing your uploads. GG, TierZoo! May you have a great 2023 ahead of you!
can you please do a video about okapis? They’re beautiful animals with good stealth and a fairly large amount of HP, and I think they are very underrated.
I don’t know if he would make one SPECIFICALLY about okapis. Also predators can smell them from far away which takes away from their stealth..maybe he could make one on the giraffe family (includes okapis)
@@VelociraptorWithInternet true, but the fact to they can already walk within 30 minutes of birth is amazing. And unlike giraffes, they only have one natural predator(the African leopard) while giraffes have many predators. A video comparing the two would also be quite good, though
Bro you forgot the Gaur. It the biggest tipe of bovine and it's a really good build. The speed is pretty low, but it's by far the strongest tipe of bovine.
I feel like normal cattle cows could be in S teir as well. They just have a slightly different play style. They sacrificed a lot of their play time for optimizng their build to be able to exploit the insanely OP human player's defensive infrastructure like fences, walls, guns and even human pets to keep them alive. And as a result they're able to copensate with an enourmous boost in the sheer number of playtroughs. Probably the most of almost any mammel except for maybe pigs and some small rodents. It means they don't really have to spec into any defensive stats or any main stat at all for that matter, except HP, and get a very easy playtrough most of the time. If you think about it, their play style is a lot more like mice/rats but way bigger and easier.
Was starting to wonder where you had gotten to! So glad to see you back and an excellent topic! Kinda surprised you skipped the Spanish Fighting bull. Those things are a whole other level of angry. I'd love to see the following animals done. -Chickens (have you ever faced an angry Rooster?!) -A revised Goat video. -The Deer family. Actually a Farm tier would be awesome. Farm animals placed in a tier based on input/output, user difficulty and intelligence stats. :)
Cape Buffalo, the only animal even humans with guns will make a point to not fuck with. If you shoot one and don't see it drop, let it go, odds are very good it'll kill you when you go looking. If shot, with a gun that will kill an elephant, they will use their own wounds as bait to lure the humans, plural, attackers, into a deadly ambush. They're not just very well armed and extremely tough, they're also clever and vengeful. They don't care if they die if they get to kill you while they're at it.
@TierZoo thanks for this, I love cows, and have been singing their beastly praises for years now, I grew up in cattle country, once my friend threw a small boulder at a bull and hit it right between the shoulders, the bull didn’t even flinch, it was subtly impressive.
Side story about bison. Was visiting Yellowstone and on a guided tour, our host was explaining about how the bison had almost been wiped out. The guy had a gift for storytelling and by the end all of us felt a lot of empathy towards the plight of the poor buffalos. So right after he gets done telling us about how they're doing better now but really pulling on our heart strings to make us care about them, he ends with, "Oh and where we're going there's a restaurant that serves bison steaks you GOTTA try them they're so delicious." Bloody SILENCE on the bus as we just stare at dude who insisted we eat the animal he just spent 10 minutes making us care deeply about.
LOL I am a teacher and I do the same thing- create sympathy for a critter and then talk about eating it. It's how you get through the day when you tell the same story over and over and over.
Actually that might make sense tho. Animals like cows, pigs and chickens are incredibly numerous because we raise and eat them, and encouraging people to eat bison might do the same, especially since there are between 200,000-500,000 Bison being raised for meat. Plus Bison will also attack and kill other bison during mating season so it’s not a problem to take one or two out (and perhaps enjoy the meat while you’re at it) to help keep the population healthy.
Yes? What do you think the Plains Indians ate? "A dead buffalo is a dead Indian." One legend tells that some time after people had arrived in this world from the previous one, they experienced hard times and famine. Their brother who had stayed behind in the previous world saw this, and came as the buffalo to feed them.
there are a lot of cultures that eat the animals they worship. respect isn't mutually exclusive in that case. you can eat he bison and thank for the meat before and after the meal, many culures thank it after the kill. this natural respect is a big part of life.
don't forget that bisons from NA have a very close relative in europe (mainly france and poland) where it has slightly bigger horns and longer legs where it is more useful in snowy forests, also with a grey skin it can be pretty hard to see even if the animal is quite large.
Other advantages of the European bison include being browsers instead of Grazers and having higher held heads with front facing horns. Granting them access to more food and better combat options. He said bison used to be S-tier, and I say they still are whit an exception of American plains bison.
@@indyreno2933 They´re also called Wisent (at least in german). They were almost hunted to extinction but a program in Poland is helping them recover and they are now releasing the first herdes in western europe, were they used to live (like France and Germany for example). Really exciting stuff!
@Sunday dude, the two known local names of the European Bison (Bison bonasus) are wisent for the German Bison (Bison bonasus germanicus) and zubr for the Polish Bison (Bison bonasus bonasus), similarly, the known local name of the American Bison (Bison bison) is yanasi.
I subscribed because someone else recommended your channel and I saw two of your videos and decided they were awesome. You deserve more subs for your fun and witty content 😊
Mr. Tier each one of your videos is always better then the last. Not that they need to keep increasing so much in quality, but I’m glad you do it anyway
Sad to see Aurochs not on the list even as a mention. I'd love to see a video on the rise of the human build and the builds that changed to fit into the new meta that emerged around them. On paper the aurochs seemed so much better before their respec into cattle, but the core ability they gained in that respec is the "docile" trait, that allowed them to team with human players. That alone should put them in the a-tier: the protection of human teammates us absolutely the most important one available in the anthropocene patch.
I really love all the video-game references packed into your videos. As at Oldshool Runescape player I feel kinda superior cuz I feel like osrs gets the most little easter eggs and references, whether it's songs, sound effects, hit splats and health bars, there's by far the most rs references, but I love spotting all the others like the Black Ops 2 menu music in the first half of the video (wow what a throwback) or more modern ones like the new pokemon game health bars. I just love it, so damn cool
and they can jump way higher than people think as well. people in bullfighting rings aren't as safe as they think. if a bull wanted to gore the crowd they could do it easily
yep, i've seen one split a massive wood beam in half with a single kick... at the cost of its own leg which pretty much exploded below the knee i wouldn't want to be hit by that, omfg. thank you, wood beam. your sacrifice will be remembered.
You make life better man, the only thing we could ask for is more and or longer uploads. Plus from all those cute cow clips you showed I might get a pet cow in the future
Actually, even before gunpowder tech made it to the North America server, the Comanche faction of human players made some pretty devastating strategies against bison players. One of the most infamous was the “Buffalo Fall” maneuver, which involved inflicting herds of bison with the Spooked debuff and herding them towards cliffs. In fact, this strategy was so effective that the Comanche faction often ran out of inventory space when looting.
I could watch thousands of these videos and never get tired. Thanks for putting in the effort to make them, I always get super excited when I see them in my feed.
I love the Ordon Ranch theme from LOZ Twilight Princess! It's really underrated and fits perfectly, not just for the music but the subject of this video.
I wanna see you make a tier list for a server or a biome in a server (cover the food chain of an area, and demonstrate how things rank amongst each other)
Wow that bull jumping into the stands was some really high level intelligence like "When I get the chance I'm gonna do this shit". Jumped up there like a cat
Cape buffaloes were always one of my favourite builds as a beginner player. Their team strats are rivalled only by the musk oxen(which is actually a caprin build that spec'd into bovine power stats)
For those of you disappointed in the lack of mention of the Gaur, this is a fair criticism! I hope to make a future video about the Gaur, but we couldn't find enough good gaur clips in time to launch this video. Sorry about that!
Please make a video ranking the different corvids
Ya bison are definitely not bigger than gaur, those bastards are HUGE
gaur none
@@texasyellow3563 Seconded
How many people are on your team?
Not sure about cows but you’re definitely OP
Hi gotham, love your vids
Can y'all please just treat verified youtubers like normal people that do normal things like watch UA-cam videos. Anyways, TierZoo is too OP, his "video creating" stat is way overjacked.
@@randomzergling bruh, who the hell expects gotham chess here
Yea I think he should be nerfed
gotham f tier chess player 😹😹😹😹😹😹😹
"Your call was HERD" absolutely brilliant, killed me.
Also loving the Darkest Dungeon sanity effects for fear.
Most of the game effects are on point in all videos.
Crows got me thinking about how OP Cows are…
Crow moment
CROW
The cow is that one JRPG boss that teaches you that debuffing is crucial.
Which, ironically, would make them Matador from SMT 3.
@@JackgarPrime You know, I thought that with reference to matador, but I didnt connect the dots lol
Yeah in the rare JRPG where you actually *can* debuff a boss...
Bro ong large games always got that one case where you need hella buffs or hella debuffs to win
No need by me I got live long debuffs
Chronik debuffs are so unbalanced
I know that you typically focus on builds rather than mechanics, but I would really like to see a video on the "adrenaline" buff, a status condition that can sometimes make intimidation backfire in the most hilarious ways. It's a ridiculous status effect and I'd like to see if it's truly as op as it seems.
yeah tbh i think the rng for adrenaline is a little busted allowing even relatively low strength builds in the middle weight class to flip over cars. i would love to see a video explaining how that works from a lore perspective
A vid about the best abilities would be pretty cool and adrenaline would be one of them.
He probably will mention it, since he rates animals on how fun they would be to play more than how well adapted they are.
Buff?? All of my adrenaline rushes leave me a sweaty, shaking, gasping, unintelligible and nauseated mess who can't even walk, talk, or think properly, with a nice big helping of impending doom on the side.
i wanna see a video on chickens
I really like the stand alone videos on specific animal family groups, but I’d also love to see videos on certain outliers of said families that people seem to label as superior to the rest. For cattle it’s the gaur, ratites the cassowary, deer it’s the moose and as of late giant anteaters have been receiving credit for being able to fend off jaguars. I’d love a video discussing the cassowary, maybe calling it something like “The Problem with Ratites” given their general low placement on the tier list?
“Are all ratites low tier?” might be a more fitting title since people sometimes seem to also bring up the fact that Emus alongside cassowaries shouldn’t be F tier, the group of birds is so interesting so their own stand alone video discussing which place higher then others would be great. He already hearted the original comment so I hope that means the idea might happen one day, I love the more bird based videos.
The problem with ratites: All the other dinosaurs evolved into birds, and they didn't get the memo
@@fluffysheap the thing is, based on fossil evidence, they seemed to have gotten the memo for a bit, but decided to go back to land dwelling for whatever reason. Too much effort I guess, honestly relatable
@RL emus literally won a war against humans though so automatic S-Tier.
@@DeckKnight that was when the Australian based humans were less advanced and hadn’t unlocked the advanced gun items also yeah, it was a conflict since the emu players were stealing food from the humans, causing a conflict between the classes. Although it wasn’t a war.
Emus and cassowaries are very solid builds and the strongest birds by far, The ostrich is quite overrated because of the base size and mobility
This channel is an absolute gem. Some of the most original and accessible science communication of all time. Just brilliant stuff.
thanks kurtis, appreciate your input mate, you have a good one hey champ.
You mean mooooving!
That digital render at 5:33 was awesome! The quality of your videos are genuinely fantastic!
I like how it immediately cuts to the actual clip of the exact same action, it could be a good format for fast or difficult to follow movement
It was probably a leaked video of the devs working on the game.
@@Megadeth7811 yeah it looks like a new animation. These devs are amazing
@@PringlesonTheIII wait what… GAME?
I think the clip after it is absolutely hilarious hahaha
This mans comes in a couple times a year to drop the single most infotaining videos on the platform. I love it lol.
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You just gonna snub ZeFrank like that? True Facts About Social Media Infotainment your comment is not.
Yeah, unfortunately his videos take quite a lot of time to produce, but you can't rush greatness.
The trials and tribulations of forgetting one's youtube account password
You could also mention, that Bison on the European server, basicly have no natural counters. Its size and mass is so great, that there is no predator main capable, of preying on them. Brown Bears and Grey Wolves sometimes try, but due to Bison living in wooded areas, they can defend much easier.
Bison aren't supposed to be on the European server though, right? It was human mains using an exploit to get them over there.
Edit: I was apparently unaware that European Bison had been reintroduced following extinction in the wild. That's neat.
@@KindredBrujah Yup, they were primary tp tier oon European Server for the whole last expansion, but due to human mains, the playerbase did a rage quit. Only recently, thanks to human mains chilling out, Bison mains trully started to once again, take top tier.
@@lewycraft it’s crazy the amount of builds that rage quit due to human mains.
@@kingofgrim4761 Frankly, with how cheap and busted human mains can get, I can't say I blame them.
@@KindredBrujah They got a forced respawn on the EU server by the host.
I misread "are crows OP?" and now there are cows
You DO have a video about crows!
As a human main that has worked with cows for years, you forgot to mention one thing! Their pack tactics ability is very similar to that of wolves, and although their intelligence isn't quite high enough to use them as a damage dealer companion, they still have some of the dog's positivity buffs as well. They make an exceptional high HP mount, or even a Tank party member! I've even seen cases where, with a high enough bond level, the cow will protect a sleeping human main.
It'd suck trying to gain exp from one of them if they huddle in a group, especially if you play the wolf or bear build.
As another human main, I, too, find them to be great a support class.
yeah... I think cows are S tier ever since they unlocked "Symbiosis Pack" with the Human main players.
@@lastmanstanding5423 It seems like a lot of animals can get really strong after unlocking Symbiosis, just by playing support to Humans. I mean, if cats, an assasin build can do it, anyone can.
@@muttmanic6949 Agreed...
If you think about it Human Symbiosis Perk is a bit broken.
There is almost no player class that Humans can't match with.
Almost too OP.
ps.
But also beautiful
@@lastmanstanding5423 Hence why human mains are so broken. Human OP, pls nerf.
Can we just appreciate how impressive that man's jump was at 4:32? Got that "my life is on the line" power boost
Mario main IRL
mobility investment build
It’s called the adrenaline power up
Adrenaline is a hell of a drug. Just saying.
Can we just take a moment to appreciate the amount of effort they put into this
Should definitely do a list on banned and non-played builds, would be interested to see why they were banned/no longer played.
I would suppose that the large dinosaurs were probably banned because they started to stifle build variety. I think the devs really wanted to see what a mammalian meta could look like
Some of the builds like Notharctus simply got improved in general, so they lost their playerbase over time. Niche optimization is what's killed most builds, since you'll find very few that are willing to play a build that's slightly worse in every regard. It's also very hard to get into a legacy build when there are no mentors willing to take you under their wing.
Builds like humans and cyanobacteria also alter the game rules, making a lot of builds less viable.
Various balance patches made the builds unplayable. Imagine being a Tyrannosaurus main during and after the KT balance patch. I'm sure there were many irate players at the time!
Builds that are too powerful against humans don't stick around for long.
@@cattysplat mosquitoes...
@@dandei545 Real
2:12 that "your call was herd" achievment was very creative
I love the goats at 5:07, they're just looking at each other awkwardly like "well what now?"
"Guess we'll call it a draw"
"Yeah ig, wanna rematch?"
"Ya sure, I'll beat yo ass tho. Don't mind?"
"Yeah, *_your mo-"_*
I see it as "Do we kiss orrrr?" xD
When people fight, I always think there is such tension and they look like they're about to kiss :D This gives me the same vibes.
@@zyzy9245 HAHA THAT'S SUCH A MOOD
those are rams
@@Fx_Explains yeah I was wondering who was gonna tell them
As a retro gamer, I hope we'll one day get a video on all the legacy classes currently still in the game. Monotremes were suspiciously omitted from his Australia overview, but living fossils would be interesting too.
Would be very keen to see the Auroch in comparison to the current meta
The horseshoe crab, successful for over 400 million jears.
@Romuland Meier
Noobs clown on them because they game over when flipped on their backs, but I'd like to see their main stay in the game for this long, let alone without the ability to flip back on their feet. Any build that has been in the game for this long in spite of all the power creep is successful by default. Sure, stuff like mosasaurus looked cool and was absolutely oppressive back in its day, but where are they now? Some might argue that losing their playerbase equates losing the game, since spawning in new players is the main quest. Legacy builds deserve respect, even if they don't have all of the fancy features newer builds may have.
@@rainpooper7088 horseshoecrab players are Suprisingly social and hell each other turn if nessesary.
Also have a rare ability which gives increased resistance against bacteria type npcs (which can also be looted by the human players).
please never stop educating and creating content you’re such a breath of fresh air online.
some people go out in nature and hear Attenborough or Irwin. But I hear TZ when i am observing wildlife.
he is already better than Kurzgesagt, because he ain't funded by billionares
@@Dan_Kanerva i once thought kurzgesagt was pretty much unanimously loved, but seeing as they make videos on climate change, that's not really possible no matter what stance they take
@@Melecie wdym
@@Dan_Kanerva kursgesagt is funded by billionaires?
I just found your channel today. If this is how biology was taught in high school I’d have a different career. This is some of the best stuff I’ve seen online ever
I milk this channel every day!
you mean dumber
This channel has the perfect mixture of useful information, less useful fun facts, inside jokes and ever improving editing. Honestly, I really appreciate the amount of work that goes into these vids, thank you a lot :)
Nice avatar
It has become an S Tier ranking channel.
And gaming stats for new and old players. It's just good all around.
@@jdm1066 especially with the nerfs in UA-cam.
For a long time, I consider this channel Human-level tier OP in the UA-cam meta.
The devs did a really good job on the ragdoll effect. The physics engine is top notch.
I'm a big fan of the ray traced global illumination.
@@ShinyGG Nah, they should definitely keep the ragdoll in. It's one of my favorite parts of the game aside from the reproduction mini-game.
It's good despite some glitches and hackers like the goats who ignore walls
yeah a lot of players take it for granted, but its really good.
4:20 the cow vs cat matchup is absolutely me every time I’m PVP vs a spider
This made me chuckle
Welp, time for an arachnid tier zoo... and then a centipede one!
Spider mains are so bad at the game and would be better off uninstalling
What is the games name?
@@Landmuncher The Game of Life
I remember when I first seen Tierzoo. It wasn't long ago but I'm sure his subs was around 500,000 or less. I'm glad that his subs jumped to the millions. I'm sure Tierzoo remembered. I jumped on today to be happy to see his deserving fame. Keep it going buddy. From your faithful subscriber,
Superduper
PS, Thank you everyone for sharing these videos, we need to make a real video game based off of this channel
He was at 500k like 4-5 years ago
@@ZeroDimlol
I recall when I first discovered his channel, that was when he made his cat tierlist (the first one to "blow up" in relative terms to his audience of the time)
I think he had like 40k at the time, and I just knew that he was gonna blow up. This has been a fun ride to see him explode in popularity
Rewatching his videos is a favorite past time of mine at this point
Seriously, I always love your videos. The way you word stuff all like a video game just vibes with me so much, it's crazy.
You would really like the subreddit r/outside because this guy didn't invented this concept, he just presents like an Outside youtuber, even calling reality "Outside"
Very great improvement. I love how you gave "servers" a difficulty rank. I also like how generic cattle had a ranking based on who would be friendly or casual with the playing animal.
Wanted to shout out the great use of 3D in this video! Your low-poly style has grown a lot since I last saw it, great job.
I love that you acknowledged us pedants who would point out any inaccuracies at 1:55
5:14
Holy crap, can't believe they finally added playable walls!
Not sure where they fit on the tier list yet, I'm hoping for B-tier
As a wall main, I can say walls are S tier with skill
Idunno, I feel like walls are C-tier at best
sure they may have some of the highest defense stats in the game, and this stat can be further boosted thanks to the fortify ability from friendly players... but it comes at the cost of having all other stats near completely bottomed out. Not only does this mean an attack that can bypass a wall's defense will almost certainly cripple if not outright defeat it, but it also means that wall players are heavily reliant on other players to do much of anything. Heck, they're so reliant on other players that they can't even complete the game's main objective of reproduction without another player deciding that another wall player should be generated.
A fun gimmick build, sure, and a strong defender at that. However, the over-reliance upon other playerbases to function severely cripples the walls' capabilities as a class. Now if they give it mobility or hunting skills in a future update, I can easily see it becoming a top-tier build, but for now it probably sits firmly in C-tier.
@@ilshail153 Agreed, adding onto that rodents are a popular class in the meta right now, and their teeth deals increased damage to walls.
@@ilshail153 true but brick walls are S tier walls, they can even survive top tiers like big bad wolves
Walls ain't shit on their own but they're half of what makes humans and eusocial insects S-tier.
I’m sure someone else has already commented on it, but the picture you used for the Yak on the tier list is actually a Scottish Highlander Cow. It’s an old heritage breed of cattle, but still cattle. My father raised them when I was growing up because they were hardier than regular beef cow breeds.
Good spot, it is indeed a Highland Coo!
You were born to make this comment.
By hardier you mean harder to handle or physically stronger? or both?
@@katzea.a7880
Hardier means the animal is able to adapt to harsh conditions.
TierZoo also often mixes up the Water Buffalo and Cape Buffalo, when they are actually quite easy to tell apart. The silhouette for the water buffalo when its stats were shown, is actually a Cape buffalo for instance.
I forgot how much fun TierZoo is. This is fantastic!
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I never doubted.
Same, it's been a while since I watched their videos
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If are in North America, please go check out any of the churches available to you: PCA, OPC, Rpcna/Rpc, Urcna, or a canrc church
(These are conservative and actual Presbyterian churches)
If you can’t find one of the conservative presby churches then, maybe a Lcms or Wels Lutheran church.
If you are Scottish, I recommend the Free Church of Scotland and the APC
(Different from the Church of Scotland)
If you are English I recommend the Free Church of England.
(Different from the Church of England)
Online you can look up church finders for each of the groups and it will show you locations.
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This is such a fun way of talking about the world 💙
The effort he puts into these is insane!!!
The video came out 1 minute ago tf?
Bro tfucing bots r insane
These bots are more contagious than the apparently bajillion Covid variants out there, sheesh!
But yeah the exceptional production value put into these videos, definitely makes it worth the wait between the uploads (for those of us that don't have Curiosity stream or Nebula). Tierzoo is one of the few great sources of original and creative content left on YT these days.
@Don't Read My Profile Picture buddy no one’s falling for it we have braincells
wait, wildebeests arent cattle or buffalo?
Nope, they're part of the same subfamily as antelope (Alcelaphinae) rather than Bovinae. They're still part of the Bovidae family though, so they're still pretty closely related.
@@TierZoo I NEVER KNEW THAT
@@TierZoo whattttttt no wayy i never knew that cool fact !!
I thought they were cows, but that makes sense
@@TierZoo question. Do you plan on making remakes?
The editing is always top tier!
I see what you did there
It's amazing
hello sandvich, from the "Abandoned Dead Game"
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@1:34 ah yes the fearsome predator known for eating cows: the elephant
I know it's kind of a niche thing unless you absolutely dominate resources like humans, but I wonder what a crafting class tier list would look like. I assume bees would dominate, but I'm curious about the usefulness and viability of other crafted homes and such, and how they stack against each other.
Oh that's actually an interesting idea! Dams are probably high A or low S tier
i think this idea actually has alot of depth to it ngl, bees, birds, beavers, naked mole rats if you wanna count underground networking, they all are great base builders
How has no one mentioned ants in this comment thread? Literal gods of the base building meta.
Beavers
@@FinalUforiaall I could think about! Leaf cutter ants are insane
I just love this channel, the editing, the little jokes and easter eggs. Its just perfect.
Thank you!
Get out of here bot
Npc
Yeah, this man makes his living making what is essentially a low budget documentary series and the whole UA-cam is begging to be fed from his hand. Such skill
@@Spartan117xxxxxx Wouldn't say low budget since getting all these clips can easily cost thousands of dollars to begin with
@Zonetic yet, he explains things in a way that is less boring than a documentary. Still got the general information without the long drawn out delay. That's the new meta.
Thank you Tierzoo for continuing the adrenaline OST from black ops 2.
Watched this video, thought "this is extremely funny and also interesting at the same time, I wish there were more videos like this". Now I've discovered your channel is dedicated to these videos. Best channel on youtube
Mooove it!
Holy dev team, your editing keeps getting better and better, amazing job as always
Dev team lol
A day when TierZoo uploads is a good day.
1,000,000% young king good days goooood daaaaaayz
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"Deer's Unburden" had me rolling with laughter. Awesome video!
Thanks!
Thank you!
You should make a second channel that talks about history as if it was a TV show, just like this channel talks about nature as if it was a video game.
"On today's episode of Pompeii, who will win? Several thousand people, or the PYROCLASTIC FLOW? Find out now!"
This is incredible.
Yeah
well he is a biologist not a historian so its up to someone else to do that
apart from that...
You pretty much just described documentarys
ua-cam.com/video/Sq8MJ9aBegQ/v-deo.html
Whenever TierZoo uploads, my day automatically gets better. Let’s give a minute to thank this man for uploading free, high quality content for over half a decade.
Same here
bot comments always the same
100 videos in 5 years not including the curiosity only ones
30 seconds to pay tribute to TierZoo, and 30 seconds to report the bots.
I'll take "over used unoriginal comments on UA-cam" for $500 Alex
5:22 I knew goat's skulls made them op but god damn that goat really did just win a headbutt match with significantly less mass behind it
You'd be surprised about how good they are with them too. I've seen them play headbutt people and not do any damage. That much control after a huge wind-up is incredible.
as a human main, i have played with goats before. barely a minor tap, hardly enough to deal damage. but ive also seen them oneshot predator players. it was a lil scary to see. i kept thinking, so glad he didnt hit me like that.
I mean remember if you apply force to an object its gonna backfire too
@@hexnuts5849 Dude, goat gameplay is all about finding clever pathing.
@@hexnuts5849 Then you should meet a cat.
that bison at 7:00 really made every other bison clear the road with that charge
Fascinating content, thanks for making Zoology so understandable and exciting!
There where three bots here
Got rid of em!
Literally busted out laughing at you dropping a “Cow” list 😂 Thank you
@griffy ye no
The bots are here
REPORT ALL THE BOTS
@Fake Love no
@@aopmemer2817 What's funny is certain bots (cryptocurrency scams and self promos) are actually real life players whose "job" is to talk to themselves via alt-accounts and/or use alts to upvote their promos to artificially boost their XP.
It's a pretty pathetic yet fascinating class to put "skill" points into.
This is one of the very few channels I'm willing to put up with watching the sponsor message, just so I don't miss the outro afterward. In fact I think it's just you and Adam Neely. And your awesome theme music is most of why.
TierZoo has consistently the best matching sponsors on YT. Sometimes his entire videos are borderline ads for the sponsors. But as long as the content is great, it's a win for all of us.
Adam Neely is also great
What music is that anyway?
@@lemurwrench6344 I wish I knew, I could’ve sworn I heard it as a kid but it must be public domain if so because Shazam, Google etc don’t know what it is (their databases are what they sell)
@@lemurwrench6344 its the main menu theme of Call of Duty Black OPS 2
The editing is so great xD like I cannot express how goofy and funny these videos are while actually being informative.
6:10 Tierzoo: "Domestic cattle are the best in the game at milk production" *proceeds to show only beef cattle breeds for the next 30 seconds*
🐄🐄🐄
yeah only a few builds can detect the diference betwen a milk cattle build and a meat cattle build
Man, I missed seeing a video of yours ao much!
Of course I love Casual Geographic as well, you're both amazing content creators, but you're also both unique in your take, so Casual uploading more didn't stop me from missing your uploads.
GG, TierZoo! May you have a great 2023 ahead of you!
can you please do a video about okapis? They’re beautiful animals with good stealth and a fairly large amount of HP, and I think they are very underrated.
I don’t know if he would make one SPECIFICALLY about okapis. Also predators can smell them from far away which takes away from their stealth..maybe he could make one on the giraffe family (includes okapis)
@@VelociraptorWithInternet true, but the fact to they can already walk within 30 minutes of birth is amazing. And unlike giraffes, they only have one natural predator(the African leopard) while giraffes have many predators. A video comparing the two would also be quite good, though
I will never understand how you came up with the idea for such niche content, but I'm so fuckin' here for it. You deserve every sub you have, bro.
That EyeWittnes intro gets me every time 😭 The nostalgia hits to hard
Saaaammmeee
I really love all the RuneScape music and references in your videos
Man I haven't played RS for a long time, but hearing the music from it makes me smile.
2:13 "Achievement Unlocked: Your call was HERD!" that actually made me laugh. Sounds like you're already a father with puns like that.
Bro you forgot the Gaur. It the biggest tipe of bovine and it's a really good build. The speed is pretty low, but it's by far the strongest tipe of bovine.
These are insanely well-edited. Thanks for the great content TierZoo!
"Signature combat moves" with a bovine with a "Signature look of superiority" is the best part of the entire video.
I feel like normal cattle cows could be in S teir as well. They just have a slightly different play style. They sacrificed a lot of their play time for optimizng their build to be able to exploit the insanely OP human player's defensive infrastructure like fences, walls, guns and even human pets to keep them alive. And as a result they're able to copensate with an enourmous boost in the sheer number of playtroughs. Probably the most of almost any mammel except for maybe pigs and some small rodents. It means they don't really have to spec into any defensive stats or any main stat at all for that matter, except HP, and get a very easy playtrough most of the time. If you think about it, their play style is a lot more like mice/rats but way bigger and easier.
Was starting to wonder where you had gotten to! So glad to see you back and an excellent topic! Kinda surprised you skipped the Spanish Fighting bull. Those things are a whole other level of angry.
I'd love to see the following animals done.
-Chickens (have you ever faced an angry Rooster?!)
-A revised Goat video.
-The Deer family.
Actually a Farm tier would be awesome. Farm animals placed in a tier based on input/output, user difficulty and intelligence stats. :)
Cape Buffalo, the only animal even humans with guns will make a point to not fuck with. If you shoot one and don't see it drop, let it go, odds are very good it'll kill you when you go looking. If shot, with a gun that will kill an elephant, they will use their own wounds as bait to lure the humans, plural, attackers, into a deadly ambush. They're not just very well armed and extremely tough, they're also clever and vengeful. They don't care if they die if they get to kill you while they're at it.
The penny fight music!!! Your music choices are always so perfect!! Almost as perfect at the actual content :D
i love how this man explains science and biology in a video game guide way, it just captivates me
TechTree is the history equivalent of Tierzoo: ua-cam.com/channels/2bXLvvP5mV1TtJjcQjidAg.html
I don’t play video games and don’t understand half of what he’s saying…
@@jcorkable get gud scrub
Wow, this video is truly amazing! I couldn't take my eyes off it from beginning to end. Thank you for sharing such awesome content!
I’d love to see some Environment Tier Lists! Such as a tier list of all the animals in a given environment, ie Mountains, Plains, Sea, etc
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@TierZoo thanks for this, I love cows, and have been singing their beastly praises for years now, I grew up in cattle country, once my friend threw a small boulder at a bull and hit it right between the shoulders, the bull didn’t even flinch, it was subtly impressive.
That’s just moooooving.
Great video but what about Musk Ox?
musk ox are actually more closely related to goats than cows
@@TierZoo oh thats iitnerting
@@TierZoo what about Elon musk ox?
@@TierZoo oh
@TierZoo, actually, goats are more closely related to cattle than either is to the muskox.
Been gaming since the 80s... you, sir, are an S Tier geek. Respect.
Side story about bison.
Was visiting Yellowstone and on a guided tour, our host was explaining about how the bison had almost been wiped out. The guy had a gift for storytelling and by the end all of us felt a lot of empathy towards the plight of the poor buffalos. So right after he gets done telling us about how they're doing better now but really pulling on our heart strings to make us care about them, he ends with, "Oh and where we're going there's a restaurant that serves bison steaks you GOTTA try them they're so delicious." Bloody SILENCE on the bus as we just stare at dude who insisted we eat the animal he just spent 10 minutes making us care deeply about.
LOL I am a teacher and I do the same thing- create sympathy for a critter and then talk about eating it. It's how you get through the day when you tell the same story over and over and over.
That's why, you love chickens too - they are delicious and have to be protected.
Actually that might make sense tho. Animals like cows, pigs and chickens are incredibly numerous because we raise and eat them, and encouraging people to eat bison might do the same, especially since there are between 200,000-500,000 Bison being raised for meat. Plus Bison will also attack and kill other bison during mating season so it’s not a problem to take one or two out (and perhaps enjoy the meat while you’re at it) to help keep the population healthy.
Yes? What do you think the Plains Indians ate? "A dead buffalo is a dead Indian." One legend tells that some time after people had arrived in this world from the previous one, they experienced hard times and famine. Their brother who had stayed behind in the previous world saw this, and came as the buffalo to feed them.
there are a lot of cultures that eat the animals they worship. respect isn't mutually exclusive in that case. you can eat he bison and thank for the meat before and after the meal, many culures thank it after the kill. this natural respect is a big part of life.
The videos are few and far in between, but the wait is so worth it. The editing is getting out of hand! crazy good
don't forget that bisons from NA have a very close relative in europe (mainly france and poland) where it has slightly bigger horns and longer legs where it is more useful in snowy forests, also with a grey skin it can be pretty hard to see even if the animal is quite large.
That's called the european bison, the bison species in North America is more correctly called the american bison.
Other advantages of the European bison include being browsers instead of Grazers and having higher held heads with front facing horns. Granting them access to more food and better combat options. He said bison used to be S-tier, and I say they still are whit an exception of American plains bison.
@@indyreno2933 They´re also called Wisent (at least in german). They were almost hunted to extinction but a program in Poland is helping them recover and they are now releasing the first herdes in western europe, were they used to live (like France and Germany for example).
Really exciting stuff!
@Sunday dude, the two known local names of the European Bison (Bison bonasus) are wisent for the German Bison (Bison bonasus germanicus) and zubr for the Polish Bison (Bison bonasus bonasus), similarly, the known local name of the American Bison (Bison bison) is yanasi.
@@indyreno2933 Didn´t know that, thanks!
I subscribed because someone else recommended your channel and I saw two of your videos and decided they were awesome. You deserve more subs for your fun and witty content 😊
Mr. Tier each one of your videos is always better then the last. Not that they need to keep increasing so much in quality, but I’m glad you do it anyway
Sad to see Aurochs not on the list even as a mention. I'd love to see a video on the rise of the human build and the builds that changed to fit into the new meta that emerged around them. On paper the aurochs seemed so much better before their respec into cattle, but the core ability they gained in that respec is the "docile" trait, that allowed them to team with human players. That alone should put them in the a-tier: the protection of human teammates us absolutely the most important one available in the anthropocene patch.
How many girls have you been with?
There are some researchers trying to bring the Aurochs back, basically for europe, what the Thylocine program for australia is.
I really love all the video-game references packed into your videos. As at Oldshool Runescape player I feel kinda superior cuz I feel like osrs gets the most little easter eggs and references, whether it's songs, sound effects, hit splats and health bars, there's by far the most rs references, but I love spotting all the others like the Black Ops 2 menu music in the first half of the video (wow what a throwback) or more modern ones like the new pokemon game health bars. I just love it, so damn cool
Runescape and Smash definitely get the most references by far.
4:40 That was such a cool trick!😄🤸♂
The quality of the video seems to improve with every new release, i'm so glad you're continuing to work on this channel ❤
I absolutely love and adore cows so thank you very much for making this
5:35 damn, all those graphics for under 5 seconds of video
Another exquisite video, TierZoo! You're the man!
Though I must say: "Aurochs" is both the singular and plural for the word
As a dairy farmer, yes, yes they are. Also, they are way faster than people think
and they can jump way higher than people think as well.
people in bullfighting rings aren't as safe as they think. if a bull wanted to gore the crowd they could do it easily
And smarter. Cows aren't stupid, they're smart-but-slow. There's a difference.
Their kicks are worse than he makes out though. 😂
@@alexg1778 my dad broke his leg from a cow kick
yep, i've seen one split a massive wood beam in half with a single kick... at the cost of its own leg which pretty much exploded below the knee
i wouldn't want to be hit by that, omfg. thank you, wood beam. your sacrifice will be remembered.
7:51 "the human playerbase in the Indian server is notably less aggressive towards bovine players..." LMAO
1:45 This is a supreme edit worthy of any seasoned meme expert. Props to your editing squad.
Edit: 6:20 Is terrifying, good job???
I don’t know how this wound up in my feed but it was glorious and I’m so grateful.
Bovines are literally just light tanks! Definitely a powerful build
You make life better man, the only thing we could ask for is more and or longer uploads. Plus from all those cute cow clips you showed I might get a pet cow in the future
Amazing to see this channel grow from a few k subs to over 3 million. Well done, and well deserved.
Actually, even before gunpowder tech made it to the North America server, the Comanche faction of human players made some pretty devastating strategies against bison players. One of the most infamous was the “Buffalo Fall” maneuver, which involved inflicting herds of bison with the Spooked debuff and herding them towards cliffs. In fact, this strategy was so effective that the Comanche faction often ran out of inventory space when looting.
2:26 the hunger bar went the wrong way how dare you
Also why is there a fish in the cows inventory?
I could watch thousands of these videos and never get tired. Thanks for putting in the effort to make them, I always get super excited when I see them in my feed.
You know it's gonna be a good day when TierZoo drops a video.
I love the Ordon Ranch theme from LOZ Twilight Princess! It's really underrated and fits perfectly, not just for the music but the subject of this video.
Moooper!
I wanna see you make a tier list for a server or a biome in a server (cover the food chain of an area, and demonstrate how things rank amongst each other)
Wow that bull jumping into the stands was some really high level intelligence like "When I get the chance I'm gonna do this shit". Jumped up there like a cat
Cape buffaloes were always one of my favourite builds as a beginner player. Their team strats are rivalled only by the musk oxen(which is actually a caprin build that spec'd into bovine power stats)
my brother keeps hearing that game boy sound and confronting me about it with a smile.
Bovines, specifically cows are my favorite animals. Super happy to see you make this video on them! They're truly great creatures