@@expendableround6186 Spike sounds like it was made with the purpose of being pointy, while "Hrot" would describe something being pointy, whilst that isn't it's main purpose i guess. Like, I wouldn't call the tip of a sword a hrot, but I would call a nail a hrot. That might just be the way I use it though
"The boss of episode one is the reanimated corpse of Czechoslovakian Communist leader Klement Gottwald on spider legs" might be my new favorite out-of-context quote from these videos.
Yeah, skimming through a Wikipedia article. So much research. Such academic acumen and erudition. Hope he gets an honorary doctorate from Charles University. He sure deserves it.
Hi, I'm Czech. Good that you made this video. The "Hrot" means tip, spike, or apex. I believe that the aim of the game was a nostalgia and parody on our socialist times in the Quake-like coat. Btw. The table at 11:32 is an ashtray.
As a Texan who watched this on a phone with barely a connection, thanks Civvie. HROT was a really fun game, and hope to see more updates and levels. Edit: Thanks everyone. Things are coming back to normal on my side of the state, but continue to send best wishes and support to others that aren't doing great.
If you don't have heat in your house, make sure to run your water just a little bit. The smallest continuous stream you can get out of all the taps. It keeps the water moving so it doesn't freeze and burst your pipes. Stay warm and stay safe!
Civvie: *implies the sickle is a reference to Dusk, thus triggering Gmanlives* Also Civvie: *proceeds to demonstrate he knows far more about the game's setting and inspiration than Gman did*
11:30 Yeah that's actually an ashtray. They were absolutely everywhere back in the day because everyone in Eastern Europe smoked so much tobacco their organisms evolved to synthesize nutrients straight outta nicotine.
i bought an ultra wide too... i gave it to my dad for free after having these same problems with recording shit now i haven't bought him a birthday present for 3 years riding off the back of that thing, it's a win win
Having the same problems with ultra wide here too. For things like "pro" FPS play and technical tasks barring VM applications it's great, but for video recording you're better off with just a standard 16:9. Best of both worlds would be using it for editing, OBS, and chat as a secondary with your primary being a larger 16:9 for gameplay. Also, what's with a lot of these 21:9 monitors having some of the WORST scalers I've ever seen? Mine will take a 480p 16:9 input just fine but it stretches it out to 21:9 rather than simply pillarboxing it, and it stretches to 1080p by nearest neighbor, turning most Xbox 360 games into multicolor smears on screen.
As a czech citizen i asked my grandfather and yes, everything in this game is 100% true, especially the color scheme, this is how things looked like back then.
It's great to see that civvie actually took the time to do some research unlike some *other* reviewer. No, Prague is not neighboring to Russia nor is it a small town.
When Civvie's channel came into existence, I basically stopped watching GmanLives altogether. To be fair though, I feel like they compliment each other: Civvie's channel is for people who know some shit about games. Gman's channel is for people who don't.
@@aschtheconjurer I do like both but I don't marathon gmans videos like I do Civvie's. Gman only talks about the game itself with immature "hey look at me I browse 4chan too" humor mixed with gitgud bs while Civvie usually talks about the context and history of the games while mentioning the people behind them and making it all super interesting with his fun dungeon lore. I agree they compliment each other but Gman is basically a one trick pony. I respect his skill at fps games for sure but he might want to get more creative with his video ideas other than hiring a thumbnail artist that's good at lewding fps characters.
Me: I think this guy might be confusing an Civvie episode with a game episode. I also wonder why he is quoting himself like that... did he just say that out loud, is it a script for a play or whats the deal
@@jensrobot 1°: The title of the game is just HROT, so will be another episode since Civvie ends what he start. 2°: Its just a joke. 3°:I just wrote a comment, nothing else.
I have no doubt Civvie will continue this when/if more episodes gets made. He is a man of the people! A peoples man some might say But hey you never know if development of the game will stop, many games never make it to v. 1.0. I do however think Civvie making this video is raising awareness of the game so thats good news for the devs (and us)
Civvie: Did you not expect the bulldozer to come to life? Me, having beaten Alan Wake at least 3 times: Actually, I would have been severely let down if it didn't.
The second most unexpected pleasant surprise of today was Civvie dropping a playthrough series of this game. The MOST unexpected thing of today, of this week, of this month and of the past bloody year was Civvie melting my heart in the intro. Thanks for the shout, brother. The Czechs and Slovaks hear you.
Yes! As a czech im really, really happy to see how much research Civvie did on this game and the history of the ČSSR. ......Unlike some other reviewers *cough cough* "HROT is set in a small socialist town neighbouring the Soviet Union"
@@gohstdude2 i don't "hate" him, i just think he's worse/ sloppier than civvie in many ways. this is a good example: while civvie did his research on hrot, gman just didn't give a shit about it
Something impressive about this game is just how fast the developer responds to feedback. Features and fixes have been requested on the Steam forum and added/ changed the next day.
I saw a thread of someone who played the game but couldn't go far due to their arachnophobia (you fight spiders in the dark and even a giant spider as a boss); Literally just 3 hours later the Dev responded with an update that lets you turn off the spiders by replacing them with rats in the options menu. It's bloody amazing.
@@socksleeve Ikr? I wish more game devs were like this, listening to the community and considering others conditions, and I'm saying this as someone with a terrible phobia of cockroaches... I love Resident Evil 7 but certain parts involving insects were too much for me. But what really impresses me is how fast the dev responded, and with an update no less! Dude is a real MVP.
Man I still remember the days when Civvie would only have to play How'd I Do once to get all his patrons listed. Man's moving up in the world, despite his incarceration.
This is why I like Civvie so much. Other youtubers just review the game and be done with it. Civvie gives us history lessons and background checks into the games that borders on being Easter eggs, like the Gustav picture frame you can kiss; would’ve just be a weird inclusion if you didn’t know about that infamous moment.
I was puzzled by this "table" then realized that yeah, these were a thing. Back then when smokers were among us because it's not enough to live in the industrial area to make your life shorter.
@@SpecShadow so that's why fastfoods are so popular? Cause they're healthy, basically a Philosopher's Stone in form of digestible? I get it now, while rolling a ciggy
I got me a 32:9 from LG a while back. Great for the home office but NOTHING supports that aspect ration in games. I've felt like a goldfish looking out of his bowl for the past year...
Yeah ultrawide monitors are not good for old games and those inspired by classic titles... Only useful for new fancy (focused on graphic) games and heavily modded games like Skyrim or Stalker Anomaly.
@@dondog1278 see that’s the capitalist in you breaking out. Simply recite the sacred mantra. That being most of the communist manifesto and just assume that the ghost of Stalin will lead us to glorious victory with our pauli exclusion violating super shotgun armies!
Quantum mechanics is just part of superstructure with underlying capitalist base. As we dismantle systems of power there is no reason to believe in such lies deceiving the working class.
@@dondog1278 Much like almost all of Quantum Mechanics, it's a lot of mathematical speak in order to get across an incredibly simple point: "Two objects (except for of course wavelengths, as they do not classify as objects) cannot occupy the same space at the same time." If we remember that fermions are essentially subatomic particles, meaning electrons, neutrons, and protons, breaking this down further, it's essentially that "no two subatomic particles within the same atom can occupy the same state at the same time", for example - no two electrons within the same atom can have two identical values applied to them, they MUST be opposites. Using this information, we can deduce that it is physically impossible for two objects to exist within the same space at the exact same time. In Hrot, the super shotgun's barrels are clipping directly through the center bar of the gun - thus violating the basic law of physics that two objects cant occupy the same space at the same time - thus further violating the Pauli Exclusion Principle. In short - it was an overly complicated way to tell a simple joke (or perhaps a simple way to tell an overly complicated joke, depending on how you look at the matter. It's a 'glass is half full/half empty' logical deduction conundrum).
The color scheme is not only a reference to Quake-engine games, but also a cultural reference to the period of Communist regime in the 1970s and 1980s, referred to as "Normalization". This period is usually remembered as devoid of spirit, grey and depressing. The inscriptions and signs are also cultural references to existing places or to propaganda signs that used to be put on every corner during that time. Couple of notes: - What you call a "table" is actually a public ash tray. This used to be a common feature in many public spaces. - That gym scene is a reference to compulsory gymnastics classes in schools, hated by many. - I cannot really find an explanation for so many sewers. In fact, 95 percent of sewers in Czechoslovakia were just narrow pipes, not walkable tunnels like in New York. I suspect that the developers made this deliberately to tease retro-game players, who like to make "sewer level" jokes.
12:04 ACTUALLY Česká zbrojovka, better known only as CZ did made a Chez double barrel shotgun wich DID violated the Pauli's Exclusion Principle right before Dirac could describe all spin -1/2 massive particles in 1928. So yeah, you are wrong.
Fills my heart with joy to see Civvie doing a fundraiser to help millions of my fellow Texans out, as well as all the others spread across the US affected by this storm.
@@AnubitekOfficial To be fair the approximations of seasons on the calendar aren't accurate, it's man-made and based on predictions. Don't be sad. Nature is doing it's thing.
Wait , didnt texans vote for their electricity network to be unregulated and split from the federal network? Isnt this like "you saw what you planted"? Im EU
Learn what? He even mispronounced "Slovak", a two-syllable word, and he kept referring to Czechoslovakia as being "Soviet" which is a flagrant mistake only an American would make. Also you misspelled "inadvertently" :^)
I get all nostalgic whenever someone mentions a Flak Cannon. Brings me back to Unreal Tournament and the epic steaksauce goodness that was the Flak Cannon. Why can't devs make weapons like that anymore?
I remember the AMD 64-bit transition and it… not handling that well. And specifically the flak cannon. Shoot an oncoming Scorpion in the face and it might rocket into the sky and explode off the world ceiling… which you would then have to dodge upon its return to the ground. Was always hilarious. Friggin' loved the Flak.
May I just say, thank you Civvie-11 for raising over $9000 and counting for the people suffering from the winter storm. As someone born and raised in Texas, you have my eternal gratitude and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
Program shitpost; Uses CRT; //for shits and giggles and also to make old school looking window with code results(never used comments in Pascal) Begin Writeln('Pascal is actually good for smth?'); End.
Corrections: 13:07 in the new update, all land enemies die in water instead of bobbing like before, so shocking the horse in water is pointless Also, 11:30 pretty sure that's an ash tray, a public one I guess.
@@jamesmiller113 I see, it's a blood sausage variant. I can't see how it's a pudding, but it's your language. Still, I maintain that if you have to consume a can of raw blood and fat, you gobble it down.
Civvie, one of the only UA-camrs out there that I saw actually fucking checking for the pronunciation of stuff when not even the goddamn "pro" journalists on tv will do that when they got freaking Google in their damn pocket. I salute you good sir. *respecc intensifies*
I´m Slovak (former Czechoslovak) and everything in this video is true. Color palette is correct, historic realies are correct, even language in this game is correct. Even Civvie´s pronunciation of game´s title "Hrot" is correct. Very well done!
Going from games like Catacombs to Wolf3D to Doom to Quake (and the "brown shooter" craze Quake spawned for the next decade+) was mind blowing at the time. Graphics and gameplay tech was moving at bloody light speed back then too, as it was only 3 years from Wolf to Q1 -- a night and day difference graphically; at least as drastic an improvement as current-gen fps games look compared to Quake, except it only took the relative blink of an eye to achieve that back then. And only 5 years from Wolf to Deus Ex, which is still impressive for it's huge maps, fleshed out world, total interactivity, etc. All stuff which have become almost standard for decades now, but was again like night and day from the simple 2.5D, 320x280, shoot-everything-that-movies-in-a-repetitive-maze games that started this genre. Maybe it's just me, but past about 2010 or so, things have really hit a huge plateau in gaming, especially the fps genre. I mean both graphically and gameplay wise in comparison to the incredible leaps and bounds of 1990s-2000s development. Kids today are spoiled and don't get that, and don't understand how jaw dropping it was for a generation raised on Atari consoles, arcade machines, and 486 IBM PCs to play a primitive, pixellated brown game like this for the first time. Thing is, even older games as "primitive" as Blood or Doom are still fun as hell; though I find it funny the retro look of that whole era is now considered cool and trendy when for me it's just nostalgic...
@@jozef.majernik "regime" is a value-neutral term in political science regarding an institution with established geographical limits, and laws created by a form of government. Either works really.
@@spiraljumper74 i've never seen "establishment" used like it's used in the game. if you speak of a political establishment, it has something of a pejorative sense; no establishment calls itself that. "the socialist establishment" sounds more like the ruling class of the regime than the regime itself, which is what the quote originally refers to.
@@jozef.majernik Both are pretty common, innocuous terms in political science. Establishment has the extra implication of a nominally stable status quo I guess. It could be a cultural thing as well- "regime" is on the edge of being a pejorative in America because our politicians tend to call foreign governments that they don't care for "regimes" while our own are "administrations." Even though those terms exist within the same value-neutral political hierarchy. Specifically, regime is referring to the entire organization of the government, with all its attendant parts and constitutional documents. While the administration is whoever is responsible for running the government at the moment. That was actually why I responded in the first place, as someone whose education was mainly focused on political science, the seemingly arbitrary values of these labels in America always bothered me and struck me as dishonest political posturing.
"If you thought the rocket monkey was confusing I don't know what to tell you about the pig spitters." It took a solid 20 seconds for that sentence to fully sink in.
My sister and her little family, are one of the affected down in Austin -_- I have no idea how much Red Cross is actually gonna do or care but I really appreciate that you raised some money to help out all that chaos in Texas rn.
Was it really that bad in Austin? I was in San Antonio and I was barely affected. Some sections of the city had power outages, and no one wanted to drive cause they were scared of the roads, but besides that it didn't seem too bad here
0:52 "written in Pascal" what the fuck i thought Pascal was just this thing highschool "computer science" classes kinda faffed about with for a couple years back in the late 80s before ditching it for more practical and full-featured languages like qbasic. I'd be less weirded out if you told me this was written in Logo.
From what I have heard, the first versions of Pascal weren't very practical, but during the MS-DOS era it was pretty powerful with great tooling in the form of Turbo Pascal. In discussions related to it, there are always people who praise how empowering it was at the time compared to the alternatives - great compilation speed, great performance, better design decisions, more pleasant if verbose syntax, etc. The implementations that are out there nowadays (Delphi, FPC) still seem to beat most modern languages in performance and some people still swear by them as the best way to quickly throw a GUI application together.
@@sauronmauron6965 " _In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move._ "
I'm not a professional etymologist or languagist but my best take is that hrot in this context means "ostensibly elite unit dropped behind enemy lines on a suicide mission to inflict maximum damage on the enemy." A barbed spearhead that does more damage coming out than it does going in.
At 13:05 - the horse is not 1-hit by lightning in water, the horse just instantly dies when it touches deep water. Water doesn't conduct electricity; so far the only "conductivity" is between enemies and corpses, though not all of them either. It just happens that using electic weapons also instakills you, but that is correlation.
Love your stuff Civvie 11! If you ever get out of the Dungeon, come by to Prague! I'll show you how metro station Kosmonautů really looks like. We can have a beer or shoot a horse with a gas mask together!
I gave Hrot a pass after just seeing how brown it is and how it's *another* retro shooter. Actually hearing the audio for it and now knowing that it's made in a custom engine, even I can't deny it's got a good bit of effort put into it. Might give it a try sometime.
Czech language, where you can have sentences without a single vowel, like: "Prd krt skrz drn, zprv zhlt hrst zrn" (warning: don't try to translate it).
After Civvie graciously covered so much Slav jank, he got rewarded with a game entirely taking place in a sewer.
The extended lore of comments like this is pure gold.
Now I want to see Civvie play Sewer Shark for the SegaCD.
least its good slav jank this time!
He needs to play the game the most alien to his channel, the apex of combloc jank, shadow of Chernobyl
Maybe when he gets to RAGE, it'll be SEWERSVILLE DUUUDE!!!
Alternative title: Oops! All Sewers!
Metro taught me that most of Eastern Europe is made of sewers and subways.
@@bmylyzgtsqyfw almost. It’s made up of subways, sewers, and crazy drivers
@@bmylyzgtsqyfw only if czech was eastern Europe right?
@@Pancombine18 everyone knows Russians live underground like moles due to the cold and the Zone creatures roaming the surface world
@@Pancombine18 It’s closer to Vienna than LA to Las Vegas - but don’t expect us Americans to know that
The term you're looking for is Zombunists.
Or Combies.. wait that sounds like some other kind of gas masked dudes.
Ah shoot he makes that joke later on.
Marxist-Zombiists
Zomrads
Zombcialists?
Fuck beat me to it
The Romero's face slowly appearing in the background is always something i'll be fond of.
Who can resist that smile?
Great smile, evil desires, that's what gets you
Lmao
"Hrot" means something like "tip", as in "tip of an iceberg", but I feel like "spearhead" would work too.
@Legofan94 Nah I wouldn’t use that word for those. It means sharp tip, mostly the tip of a tool
I thought it translated to “Spike.”
@@expendableround6186 Spike sounds like it was made with the purpose of being pointy, while "Hrot" would describe something being pointy, whilst that isn't it's main purpose i guess. Like, I wouldn't call the tip of a sword a hrot, but I would call a nail a hrot.
That might just be the way I use it though
The tip of a spear, or a point. It's a pun on point man.
@Legofan94 Like... A pinnacle?...
"The boss of episode one is the reanimated corpse of Czechoslovakian Communist leader Klement Gottwald on spider legs" might be my new favorite out-of-context quote from these videos.
an interesting and unique comment!
From Icarus' stream: t-vore-ish.
Doesn't make much more sense in context
To be fair, is it any less novel in-context?
That moment when civvie spends almost 2 minutes of video to really show us GASMASK HORSE really got me.
It officially fuels my nightmares
I was wondering if nobody else was gonna talk about that. Da fuq, was that in the game?
Did that horse gib into 2 dudes? I don't even..
What was even the deal with that?
@@DanielAyy he just really wanted to convey to us the fact that it haunts his nightmares
by making it haunt our nightmares
Thanks for the history lesson, Civvie. It's rare to see a foreigner do so much research on Czechoslovakia.
Yeah, skimming through a Wikipedia article. So much research. Such academic acumen and erudition. Hope he gets an honorary doctorate from Charles University. He sure deserves it.
@@exterminans That cereal must've been nice, shame somebody shit in it.
Few know about Klement Gottwald and his spider-legs of death
@Emanuelgamer 1313 ohhhhh thats good
Why didn't they call it "SlovakoCzecha?"
“Remember our friend the Gas Mask Horse?”, Civvie asked as reality itself began to fizzle and break around us
Hi, I'm Czech. Good that you made this video. The "Hrot" means tip, spike, or apex. I believe that the aim of the game was a nostalgia and parody on our socialist times in the Quake-like coat. Btw. The table at 11:32 is an ashtray.
As a Texan who watched this on a phone with barely a connection, thanks Civvie. HROT was a really fun game, and hope to see more updates and levels.
Edit: Thanks everyone. Things are coming back to normal on my side of the state, but continue to send best wishes and support to others that aren't doing great.
Stay warm fam hope the storm goes away soon.
Hope you and rest of folks get back much need power and warmth. Stay strong.
If you don't have heat in your house, make sure to run your water just a little bit. The smallest continuous stream you can get out of all the taps. It keeps the water moving so it doesn't freeze and burst your pipes.
Stay warm and stay safe!
Sorry about that, it's not easy being in texas
Hope your state govt humbles itself and asks for sone god damn aid, you shouldn't be like this.
A Czechoslovakian shotgun that violates Pauli exclusion principle sounds like a badass weapon from another game.
Also it's not something I would put past the wizards at CZ to actually develop in secret.
Perfect fit for ultrakill !
There are Russian blow forward shotguns that do that, action it's a real thing
Sounds like something from Caves of Qud
But there are pump forward shotguns in real life, Neostead, for example.
Civvie: *implies the sickle is a reference to Dusk, thus triggering Gmanlives*
Also Civvie: *proceeds to demonstrate he knows far more about the game's setting and inspiration than Gman did*
oh God, *he* made a video on this??
ugh... send me the link
@@Mate_Antal_Zoltan *No.*
@@krodmandoon3479 no, please, you don't get it! I *NEED* to hear all those dumb immature 3rd grader jokes about sex!!
Oh look another person who thinks Gman vs Civvie is an actual war going on
@@Mate_Antal_Zoltan well I didn’t know what felt wrong with him but you put words on it
11:30 Yeah that's actually an ashtray. They were absolutely everywhere back in the day because everyone in Eastern Europe smoked so much tobacco their organisms evolved to synthesize nutrients straight outta nicotine.
i bought an ultra wide too... i gave it to my dad for free after having these same problems with recording shit
now i haven't bought him a birthday present for 3 years riding off the back of that thing, it's a win win
Prey 2006 when?
Having the same problems with ultra wide here too. For things like "pro" FPS play and technical tasks barring VM applications it's great, but for video recording you're better off with just a standard 16:9. Best of both worlds would be using it for editing, OBS, and chat as a secondary with your primary being a larger 16:9 for gameplay.
Also, what's with a lot of these 21:9 monitors having some of the WORST scalers I've ever seen? Mine will take a 480p 16:9 input just fine but it stretches it out to 21:9 rather than simply pillarboxing it, and it stretches to 1080p by nearest neighbor, turning most Xbox 360 games into multicolor smears on screen.
@@KiraSlith Guys, just get a really big desk and put a 24" 240hz 1080p or 27" 1440p 240hz monitor next to the ultrawide, problem solved
Capitalism is useful actually.
@@Zellio2011 What I am probably gonna do
As a czech citizen i asked my grandfather and yes, everything in this game is 100% true, especially the color scheme, this is how things looked like back then.
Even the gas mask horse?
this is still how 50% of ex soviet countries look today but in real life there is more gray
Eh. Still better then Detroit.
@@ZeoHidra Especially the gas mask horse.
it' wierd how different communist countries can look so different. Here in Poland everything was just grey, you'd be lucky to make brown poop xD
It's great to see that civvie actually took the time to do some research unlike some *other* reviewer.
No, Prague is not neighboring to Russia nor is it a small town.
What do you expect? Gmanlives puts no effort into his videos.
When Civvie's channel came into existence, I basically stopped watching GmanLives altogether.
To be fair though, I feel like they compliment each other:
Civvie's channel is for people who know some shit about games.
Gman's channel is for people who don't.
@@aschtheconjurer I do like both but I don't marathon gmans videos like I do Civvie's. Gman only talks about the game itself with immature "hey look at me I browse 4chan too" humor mixed with gitgud bs while Civvie usually talks about the context and history of the games while mentioning the people behind them and making it all super interesting with his fun dungeon lore. I agree they compliment each other but Gman is basically a one trick pony. I respect his skill at fps games for sure but he might want to get more creative with his video ideas other than hiring a thumbnail artist that's good at lewding fps characters.
I would like to give ups to Gman though for recommending ICARUSLIV3S. That guy makes really great DOOM content!
@@whereismyspacetiger4571 how many times do you rewatch Civvie's videos? I may have a habit of listening to them many, many times over, lol
See that Civvie video title has "Episode 1"
Me: "Ah shit, here go again."
Me: I think this guy might be confusing an Civvie episode with a game episode. I also wonder why he is quoting himself like that... did he just say that out loud, is it a script for a play or whats the deal
@@jensrobot 1°: The title of the game is just HROT, so will be another episode since Civvie ends what he start.
2°: Its just a joke.
3°:I just wrote a comment, nothing else.
he shows in the video that it's the episode 1 of hrot, he finished all that's in the game right now
@@willb.7417 By now, because the developer just released one episode and Civvie will probably do episode 2 when comes out, so its not the end.
I have no doubt Civvie will continue this when/if more episodes gets made. He is a man of the people! A peoples man some might say
But hey you never know if development of the game will stop, many games never make it to v. 1.0. I do however think Civvie making this video is raising awareness of the game so thats good news for the devs (and us)
"Wait, it is all sewer?"
*looks out of window on Vltava and Prague*
"Always has been"
Co picujes, pekne to tam mate xD
@@drumset7916 A hlavně že tam šaliny dali pod zem aby ses na tu Prahu nemusel dívat :D
@@rezaka116 aspoň tam jsou lmao
Civvie: Did you not expect the bulldozer to come to life?
Me, having beaten Alan Wake at least 3 times: Actually, I would have been severely let down if it didn't.
Game needs a sequel already
Or that dammn train
@@ironwill1646 Spoiler
Isn't alan wake like a force ghost in that Control DLC
@@yourbrainonegg159 i think? one day ill finish control and its dlc. or watch a lets play. i know hes the focus of a dlc
@@yourbrainonegg159 _It's complicated_
The second most unexpected pleasant surprise of today was Civvie dropping a playthrough series of this game.
The MOST unexpected thing of today, of this week, of this month and of the past bloody year was Civvie melting my heart in the intro.
Thanks for the shout, brother. The Czechs and Slovaks hear you.
Yes! As a czech im really, really happy to see how much research Civvie did on this game and the history of the ČSSR.
......Unlike some other reviewers *cough cough* "HROT is set in a small socialist town neighbouring the Soviet Union"
lmao, who said that?
I'm guessing Gman?
@@jozef.majernik gman
Why do Many fans of civie hate gman ?
@@gohstdude2 i don't "hate" him, i just think he's worse/ sloppier than civvie in many ways. this is a good example: while civvie did his research on hrot, gman just didn't give a shit about it
This game just said: "Here, akimbo pistols. Now *take down that helicopter* "
I picture gaz from cod 4 saying this
Like *knife the watermelon*
The horse doesn't get one hit by lightning in water. He simply drowns instantly.
The shotgun guys die as soon as they hit the water too.
@@Puffie40 It seems like everything does, except the fish of course.
@@roberte2945 They did that on purpose.
No fair going into water and having everything shoot at you at no cost while you get disorientated and drown.
should have worn a scuba mask instead
As a Czech "Hrot" is also street slang for a dispute/drama nice to see that Czech video games are still out there doing some good.
Something impressive about this game is just how fast the developer responds to feedback. Features and fixes have been requested on the Steam forum and added/ changed the next day.
I saw a thread of someone who played the game but couldn't go far due to their arachnophobia (you fight spiders in the dark and even a giant spider as a boss); Literally just 3 hours later the Dev responded with an update that lets you turn off the spiders by replacing them with rats in the options menu.
It's bloody amazing.
@@LaRavachole Plague be upon ye
@@ghoulbuster1 *WOE*
@@LaRavachole that’s so fucking cool of the dev to do.
@@socksleeve Ikr? I wish more game devs were like this, listening to the community and considering others conditions, and I'm saying this as someone with a terrible phobia of cockroaches... I love Resident Evil 7 but certain parts involving insects were too much for me.
But what really impresses me is how fast the dev responded, and with an update no less! Dude is a real MVP.
Civvie playing Hrot: "Wait, it's all Sewers?"
Hrot: "Always has been."
No no no, Hrot would be like: *DA YISS, BEEG SEWARS*
@@JeanMarceaux More like, Hrot: Chort! Da.
Man I still remember the days when Civvie would only have to play How'd I Do once to get all his patrons listed. Man's moving up in the world, despite his incarceration.
Leaked beta version of Stalker looks hrotastic.
Yea, it looks hrot!
This is why I like Civvie so much. Other youtubers just review the game and be done with it. Civvie gives us history lessons and background checks into the games that borders on being Easter eggs, like the Gustav picture frame you can kiss; would’ve just be a weird inclusion if you didn’t know about that infamous moment.
11:30 thats actually an Ashtray, commonly placed in train stations and other public areas
I was puzzled by this "table" then realized that yeah, these were a thing. Back then when smokers were among us because it's not enough to live in the industrial area to make your life shorter.
ASHtray. ASHot. ASH Williams.
@@judsongaiden9878 Fun thing is that Ashot is an actual name.
@@SpecShadow so that's why fastfoods are so popular? Cause they're healthy, basically a Philosopher's Stone in form of digestible? I get it now, while rolling a ciggy
I knew someone had to point this already.
A word of advice Civvie: get rid of that ultra wide monitor. It caused more problems for me with every game, with every recording than its worth.
I got me a 32:9 from LG a while back. Great for the home office but NOTHING supports that aspect ration in games. I've felt like a goldfish looking out of his bowl for the past year...
Yeah ultrawide monitors are not good for old games and those inspired by classic titles...
Only useful for new fancy (focused on graphic) games and heavily modded games like Skyrim or Stalker Anomaly.
ultrawide is still great for productivity tho. gaming and especially gaming and recording can be a pain
yeah.. id rather have 144hz than ultrawide
but ultrawide is still super cool when u get it to wrok!!
But Civvie, there was a Czechoslovakian super shotgun that violated the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
I still dont see what any of this has to do with fermions...
@@dondog1278 see that’s the capitalist in you breaking out. Simply recite the sacred mantra. That being most of the communist manifesto and just assume that the ghost of Stalin will lead us to glorious victory with our pauli exclusion violating super shotgun armies!
We never said what the immortal emancipatory science of Marxism-Leninism would emancipate you FROM
Quantum mechanics is just part of superstructure with underlying capitalist base.
As we dismantle systems of power there is no reason to believe in such lies deceiving the working class.
@@dondog1278 Much like almost all of Quantum Mechanics, it's a lot of mathematical speak in order to get across an incredibly simple point:
"Two objects (except for of course wavelengths, as they do not classify as objects) cannot occupy the same space at the same time." If we remember that fermions are essentially subatomic particles, meaning electrons, neutrons, and protons, breaking this down further, it's essentially that "no two subatomic particles within the same atom can occupy the same state at the same time", for example - no two electrons within the same atom can have two identical values applied to them, they MUST be opposites. Using this information, we can deduce that it is physically impossible for two objects to exist within the same space at the exact same time.
In Hrot, the super shotgun's barrels are clipping directly through the center bar of the gun - thus violating the basic law of physics that two objects cant occupy the same space at the same time - thus further violating the Pauli Exclusion Principle.
In short - it was an overly complicated way to tell a simple joke (or perhaps a simple way to tell an overly complicated joke, depending on how you look at the matter. It's a 'glass is half full/half empty' logical deduction conundrum).
The color scheme is not only a reference to Quake-engine games, but also a cultural reference to the period of Communist regime in the 1970s and 1980s, referred to as "Normalization". This period is usually remembered as devoid of spirit, grey and depressing. The inscriptions and signs are also cultural references to existing places or to propaganda signs that used to be put on every corner during that time.
Couple of notes:
- What you call a "table" is actually a public ash tray. This used to be a common feature in many public spaces.
- That gym scene is a reference to compulsory gymnastics classes in schools, hated by many.
- I cannot really find an explanation for so many sewers. In fact, 95 percent of sewers in Czechoslovakia were just narrow pipes, not walkable tunnels like in New York. I suspect that the developers made this deliberately to tease retro-game players, who like to make "sewer level" jokes.
Ah, but Civvie. You have not taught us how to make beef stroganoff.
2 cans of Blood & Fat boiled with skimmed milk, serve with medkit.
"soviet russia" meme aside, it should be noted that there are a few pump-forward shotguns, like the Neostead or the RMB-93
also pancor jackhammer prototype
@@katter2000 ITS NOT REAL!
@@Carbine64 is it really? There's a prototype, forgotten weapons got a video about it where Ian takes the REAL thing apart...
the neostead is apparently the shotgun used in quake 2
@@katter2000 I was referencing Zach from mikeburnfire since he hates the Jackhammer
Anyone else think ab opportunity was missed not calling it the KGBFG
YES
no
maYBE
"Ball lighting launcher" is probably reference to same named Czechoslovakian movie "Ball Lighting"
In Czech "Kulový Blesk"
The movie came in 1978 and it's pretty well known in here so yeah it's probably by that, but just my guess.
12:04 ACTUALLY Česká zbrojovka, better known only as CZ did made a Chez double barrel shotgun wich DID violated the Pauli's Exclusion Principle right before Dirac could describe all spin -1/2 massive particles in 1928. So yeah, you are wrong.
@George Corbul Vhoooš
@George Corbul Yes...
Also lol, "Swoosh" XD
"Remember our friend the 'Gas Mask Horse'?"
*The universe now enters 'Level Two' after this epic phrase*
I think this is the first confirmation I've ever seen that "Civvie" is indeed supposed to mean "Civilian."
I thought this game was a legit fever dream. Holy fuck.
Fills my heart with joy to see Civvie doing a fundraiser to help millions of my fellow Texans out, as well as all the others spread across the US affected by this storm.
Sucks that youtubers are doing a better job at helping than the Texan government officials.
Stay strong you guys and gals times are tough
@@AnubitekOfficial
To be fair the approximations of seasons on the calendar aren't accurate, it's man-made and based on predictions. Don't be sad. Nature is doing it's thing.
damn skippy
Wait , didnt texans vote for their electricity network to be unregulated and split from the federal network? Isnt this like "you saw what you planted"? Im EU
I don't know what you're talking about. This game has a ton of colors. Brown, sepia, ochre, umber, beige, tan, bronze, wenge...
As a guy from Slovakia, this video makes me extremly proud. Also everything is really brown and depressing here, so that is totally on point
i call bullshit, your name literally says you're from dystopia
@@drumset7916 exactly
im from slovakia too
@@medicann_coping I'm sorry
@@indybingyi huh ?
Definitely gonna be fun to see Civvie cover the full release.
Same
Me: Sees dual pistol reload. "Oh sure, let's just not talk about that. Maybe it's even *too* awesome."
Lightning Gun, discharges underwater.
*_Romero vibes-_*
I lost it at the Romero watermark and replayed it a couple times.
John Romero: *Thriller laugh*
My dearest baby boy cries out in sorrow every bed time because you haven't finished HROT Civvie why are you making my wonderful child so sad
The fact that we inadvertantly learn more about history from Civvie than we did in school is astounding.
That wasn’t really a lot of history
Nah you just paid more attention to civvie
@@chrisf6657 ...Is that referring to me or the OP?
@@Neo2266. the op
Learn what? He even mispronounced "Slovak", a two-syllable word, and he kept referring to Czechoslovakia as being "Soviet" which is a flagrant mistake only an American would make. Also you misspelled "inadvertently" :^)
I get all nostalgic whenever someone mentions a Flak Cannon.
Brings me back to Unreal Tournament and the epic steaksauce goodness that was the Flak Cannon.
Why can't devs make weapons like that anymore?
I remember the AMD 64-bit transition and it… not handling that well. And specifically the flak cannon. Shoot an oncoming Scorpion in the face and it might rocket into the sky and explode off the world ceiling… which you would then have to dodge upon its return to the ground. Was always hilarious. Friggin' loved the Flak.
The Flak Cannon was beyond God Tier. King of kings of weapons.
Just a small correction 11:30 that is an ashtray :D Love the fact that you took the time to look up Czech history! Keep up the great work!
As someone from the Czech Republic, I'm really impressed with the research you've done! Great job comrade!
Someday Civvie will notice that this game came out full like years ago.
Shotgun sounds like someone gently slamming a door.
May I just say, thank you Civvie-11 for raising over $9000 and counting for the people suffering from the winter storm. As someone born and raised in Texas, you have my eternal gratitude and I thank you from the bottom of my heart.
I'm always amazed at how you edit the video to time the ads perfectly. Great job, Katie!
BEGIN
writeln ('Pascal is actually good for something?');
END.
Legit code would be like... [and then I started coding lol]
Lmao.
Program shitpost;
Uses CRT; //for shits and giggles and also to make old school looking window with code results(never used comments in Pascal)
Begin
Writeln('Pascal is actually good for smth?');
End.
Still waiting on Black Annex, the game on Steam that's written in QBASIC
@@Rizimar why would anyone put themselves through that
Corrections:
13:07 in the new update, all land enemies die in water instead of bobbing like before, so shocking the horse in water is pointless
Also, 11:30 pretty sure that's an ash tray, a public one I guess.
This is the best review of Hrot I`ve ever seen :D Thanks mate, greetings from Prague :)
As a proud citizen of Czech Republic... I approve this video
Regarding the Blood and Fat conundrum, I think you're supposed to gobble it.
This right here , Officer
Thanks Malcador
I think it's a translation of black pudding - which is pretty much that, and is exceptional (when fried)
@@jamesmiller113 I see, it's a blood sausage variant. I can't see how it's a pudding, but it's your language.
Still, I maintain that if you have to consume a can of raw blood and fat, you gobble it down.
@@rubenplooster5227 Check Hematogen its candy bar made from blood.
Seeing that gasmask horse's face falling off is gonna take a while for me to get over...
Pro Marathon when, Civvie?
Someone has to carry this torch
I'd watch the shit out of that.
YES!
Marathon? That would be interesting
That way we can learn why civvie hates halo
@@PS3_orange_box_Enjoyer he does? I wonder why.
Oh god. The swans! That takes me back.
How a little me discovered he had severe fear of heights.
Devs be like “I hear you hate sewers so we will make sure there won’t be any”
*proceeds to add more sewers*
You should do stand up.
@@swordofdanu I wish man but not many would get my humour
Mike Jaret needs to ride the Merrigoround in this game, because Mike J apparently gets motion sick.
do you really want him to spray his kosher man milk all over the place?
@@jeremyabbott4537 I just wanna see Mike J get uncomfortable from the motion sickness.
Oh, hey Civvie! You always make my day when you post! Never stop being you man #freecivvie
Saving people's lives from the confines of your dungeon. You rock, man.
Civvie, one of the only UA-camrs out there that I saw actually fucking checking for the pronunciation of stuff when not even the goddamn "pro" journalists on tv will do that when they got freaking Google in their damn pocket.
I salute you good sir.
*respecc intensifies*
I´m Slovak (former Czechoslovak) and everything in this video is true. Color palette is correct, historic realies are correct, even language in this game is correct. Even Civvie´s pronunciation of game´s title "Hrot" is correct. Very well done!
If we're going this deep into Czech references we better get a segment of fighting off a horde while riding a wagon full of huss gun ammo.
I feel Civvie missed the "New Weapon: Octo Shotgun" in that update
Is the barrel cluster arranged in an octagon like the Colt Defender?
@@judsongaiden9878 Heck if I know!
He will mention that on the next annual awards show featuring the 1 billionth time he talks about shotguns.
@@dabeln1 What do you think of the HROT shotgun being *reverse* pump-action in the style of an RMB-93?
"Commie zombies"
I think you mean ZOMRADES!
*distant Indonesian screeching*
I'm glad someone else thought the same
they aren't commie tho.
@@vyor8837 look up "Kureiji Ollie" and thank me later :P
@@Atiklyar ... Once again, they see commie.
Any culture man would have understood this meaning.
"... shotgun that violate Pauli's exclusion principle", I do appreciate Civie's physics jokes, it almost makes my phd in physics worth.
Going from games like Catacombs to Wolf3D to Doom to Quake (and the "brown shooter" craze Quake spawned for the next decade+) was mind blowing at the time. Graphics and gameplay tech was moving at bloody light speed back then too, as it was only 3 years from Wolf to Q1 -- a night and day difference graphically; at least as drastic an improvement as current-gen fps games look compared to Quake, except it only took the relative blink of an eye to achieve that back then. And only 5 years from Wolf to Deus Ex, which is still impressive for it's huge maps, fleshed out world, total interactivity, etc. All stuff which have become almost standard for decades now, but was again like night and day from the simple 2.5D, 320x280, shoot-everything-that-movies-in-a-repetitive-maze games that started this genre.
Maybe it's just me, but past about 2010 or so, things have really hit a huge plateau in gaming, especially the fps genre. I mean both graphically and gameplay wise in comparison to the incredible leaps and bounds of 1990s-2000s development. Kids today are spoiled and don't get that, and don't understand how jaw dropping it was for a generation raised on Atari consoles, arcade machines, and 486 IBM PCs to play a primitive, pixellated brown game like this for the first time. Thing is, even older games as "primitive" as Blood or Doom are still fun as hell; though I find it funny the retro look of that whole era is now considered cool and trendy when for me it's just nostalgic...
"lets just check the steam page..." NEW WEAPON, OCTO-SHOTGUN.
oh
The Gas-Mask Horse part was the most disturbing thing I've watched in quite a while, but it was so fitting.
David Lynch would be proud.
2:24 The ultimate duty and honor of every citizen is the protection of the homeland and its socialist establishment - Czechoslovak constitution 1960
"regime" would work better than "establishment" tho
@@jozef.majernik by mohlo bejt, sem to psal narychlo
@@jozef.majernik "regime" is a value-neutral term in political science regarding an institution with established geographical limits, and laws created by a form of government. Either works really.
@@spiraljumper74 i've never seen "establishment" used like it's used in the game. if you speak of a political establishment, it has something of a pejorative sense; no establishment calls itself that. "the socialist establishment" sounds more like the ruling class of the regime than the regime itself, which is what the quote originally refers to.
@@jozef.majernik Both are pretty common, innocuous terms in political science. Establishment has the extra implication of a nominally stable status quo I guess. It could be a cultural thing as well- "regime" is on the edge of being a pejorative in America because our politicians tend to call foreign governments that they don't care for "regimes" while our own are "administrations." Even though those terms exist within the same value-neutral political hierarchy. Specifically, regime is referring to the entire organization of the government, with all its attendant parts and constitutional documents. While the administration is whoever is responsible for running the government at the moment.
That was actually why I responded in the first place, as someone whose education was mainly focused on political science, the seemingly arbitrary values of these labels in America always bothered me and struck me as dishonest political posturing.
"If you thought the rocket monkey was confusing I don't know what to tell you about the pig spitters."
It took a solid 20 seconds for that sentence to fully sink in.
Comrade, Episode 2 awaits.
I keep coming back to this game, for some reason it's become very addictive and comfy for me
My sister and her little family, are one of the affected down in Austin -_- I have no idea how much Red Cross is actually gonna do or care but I really appreciate that you raised some money to help out all that chaos in Texas rn.
How did things turn out? Were they alright?
Was it really that bad in Austin? I was in San Antonio and I was barely affected. Some sections of the city had power outages, and no one wanted to drive cause they were scared of the roads, but besides that it didn't seem too bad here
0:52 "written in Pascal" what the fuck i thought Pascal was just this thing highschool "computer science" classes kinda faffed about with for a couple years back in the late 80s before ditching it for more practical and full-featured languages like qbasic. I'd be less weirded out if you told me this was written in Logo.
From what I have heard, the first versions of Pascal weren't very practical, but during the MS-DOS era it was pretty powerful with great tooling in the form of Turbo Pascal. In discussions related to it, there are always people who praise how empowering it was at the time compared to the alternatives - great compilation speed, great performance, better design decisions, more pleasant if verbose syntax, etc.
The implementations that are out there nowadays (Delphi, FPC) still seem to beat most modern languages in performance and some people still swear by them as the best way to quickly throw a GUI application together.
Would you be less weirded if you got told it was written in Erlang?
Today I learned from Civvie that 'Smooth Rest Cafe' is the name of that legendary intro song.
Thank you Civ!
It's worth mentioning that forward-pumping shotguns do exist.
A lot of mistakes were made after WW1.
Civvie, after WW1 is a time frame of nearly 100 years that continues to grow.
I mean, he isn't wrong no matter how you slice it.
I mean,some mistakes where made when the Big Bang was generated,so fair enough for Civvie to already reduce the timeline
Yeah
I say that the problems REALLY started, either with Franz Ferdinand's assassination, or how precariously things were set, thanks to Bismarck.
@@sauronmauron6965 " _In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and has been widely regarded as a bad move._ "
I wonder if we'll ever see games where we explore some commercial-laden hellscape of failed Raeganomics... you know what, nevermind.
Thats just the US
Eh. Its all around us. At least watching "soviet horrors" is fun.
A never-ending Wal-Mart. Call it the All-Mart Megamall.
That’s just NARC.
We call that "Real Life."
Can’t believe civvie missed “zommunists”
I'm not a professional etymologist or languagist but my best take is that hrot in this context means "ostensibly elite unit dropped behind enemy lines on a suicide mission to inflict maximum damage on the enemy." A barbed spearhead that does more damage coming out than it does going in.
At 13:05 - the horse is not 1-hit by lightning in water, the horse just instantly dies when it touches deep water.
Water doesn't conduct electricity; so far the only "conductivity" is between enemies and corpses, though not all of them either.
It just happens that using electic weapons also instakills you, but that is correlation.
Love your stuff Civvie 11! If you ever get out of the Dungeon, come by to Prague! I'll show you how metro station Kosmonautů really looks like. We can have a beer or shoot a horse with a gas mask together!
"Remember are friend the horse with gas mask "
" oh that monkey is going to pay"
I never thought I would hear sentences like that
Awesome job fundraising, Civvie! You're doing the world a big favor!
That spinning decal of a shotgun is a mind-numbing exercise to deduce. Soviet RMB-93 combat shotguns did prime this way, good video.
I have convinced HROTdev to add drinkable beer... Life is good
And with Beer it will be better
I gave Hrot a pass after just seeing how brown it is and how it's *another* retro shooter. Actually hearing the audio for it and now knowing that it's made in a custom engine, even I can't deny it's got a good bit of effort put into it. Might give it a try sometime.
Czech language, where you can have sentences without a single vowel, like: "Prd krt skrz drn, zprv zhlt hrst zrn" (warning: don't try to translate it).
Would love to see Civvie trying to pronounce that. :D
I translated it.
The smell would be bad.
Grammar nazi here. Maybe grammar KGB? Most of these words are anachronisms, but sadly yes, this is a sentence.
I hate the fact I laughed at the word prd. Yes, I know what it means, I'm Slovakian.
add a beat and you have a modern rap hit
Fun fact blood and fat is a British delicacy, black pudding is basically that mixed with oats. Surprisingly not as bad as you think it would be.
Lightning gun that kills you if discharched in water is such a quake thing. Romero approves
One million percent sold on this game, thanks Civvie. Now if only I had twenty bucks to put into fun instead of my heating bill.