My Favorite Scam Of All Time - Day Of Dragons
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- Опубліковано 23 бер 2024
- Day Of Dragons concept art, and cinematics are property of Beawesome games, and I am using them under fair use of adding commentary and a legitimate review of their product abiding by free speech laws. I could have made this video much longer than it was but I decided to keep it short. Oh and lets not ignore how much the lead developer meatrides Anthomnia for publicity. IGP made a video years ago, but everything he said and shows holds up true to this day. Please go check it out. Here's the link :
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I could have made this video much longer than it was but I decided to keep it short. Oh and lets not ignore how much the lead developer meatrides Anthomnia for publicity. IGP made a video years ago, but everything he said and shows holds up true to this day. Please go check it out. Here's the link :
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Try Wings Of Dawn, its ALOT better. No P2W dlcs, not ripoff dragons, better world design. Is a work in progress but you can get access to it from their patron, and dayum from what they have is BEAUTIFUL!!!!
@@PCFrenziedFlame I'm actually in their discord already. Been keeping tabs on it for a while
awesome!@@halfslyced
After all the shadow bans and threatening to end Anthomnia's dog, I've been pretty salty with the game for quite some time. I did also buy the Bio dragon. But I haven't played the game for a few years. The Isle, PoT, and BoB are all both superior imo. Including certain Roblox games as well, like Creature's of Sonoria.
@@echotrash466 Ima just sayy Sonaria is only good if you have a Badger like crew with you or you are good in combat in that game to the point you can fight anything as anything
Trying to compliment this game is like trying to compliment an AI drawing. It might look kinda decent, but none of it is legit. And it still looks kinda bad lol.
Perfect comparison.
Not the double comment 😭
fr but i just wanna be a dragon so my money will go to this shit sadly
Use dragon mods in path of titans
AI drawing gonna be more legit than human drawing in few years but ppl dont wanna acknowledge that because they dont wanna get replaced
Dude I alone could come up with more creative dragon concepts then some of these. Like that one dragon is literally just the Skrill with its back legs cut off 😭
Their imagination is horrible. They are just rebranding already popular designs
@@halfslyced that’s what I’m saying lmao
@@halfslyced its funny how pretty much all of their dragons are similar to httyd dragons
and if one of them isnt? then its a mix of 2 httyd things
That's because none of the concepts are their own, they are purchased assets. I'm pretty sure the blue kick starter dragon is ripped straight out of that one roblox game.
They first released fake game of throne dragons and fake dragonheart dragons, a fake dune worm, folowed by a fake toothles, I'm not even surprised about the fake skrill.
Oh na, dreamworks could straight up sue these guys for the blitz striker trailer. What in the skrill is that
Seen so many people say that lmfao 😭
Also a dragon that copies the HTTYD night fury and stormcutter (aka Cloudjumper)
@@WildWorld81 they're bafflingly uncreative
Don’t forget the night fur- Shadow stalker 😂
If DreamWorks actually cancels BeAwesomeGames with this method it would actually make up for every atrocity they've thrown forth as movies this year. They'd be hero's‼️‼️
Day of Dragons is very creative when it comes to naming creatures!
- Ice Wyvern
- Nurse Dragon
- Hybrid Dragon
- Bioluminescent Dragon
- Feathered Micro Dragon
- Fire Behemoth Dragon
- Acid Spitter
What amazing names!
Bro I didn't even notice this 💀💀💀 this is amazing
Wonderous names which really brings out the creativity of dragons
Those aren't the official names tho, only placeholders until they get their "scientifical" names, tho some of those are still lazy XD
Ice wyvern is Frostfell
Nurse is Broodwatcher
Hybrid is Drawern
Bioluminescent dragon is Biolumin
Micro is Feathered Zygovo
Fire behemoth doesn't have an official name yet
Acid Spitter is...Acid Spitter Drake
Fire behemoth became Fire Claw I think@@Hazriel
You mean the
FrostFell (free)
Brood Watcher (free unlockable as in quests)
Dravern (free but rare with breeding)
Biolumin (Kickstart)
Zygovo (free)
Fire Claw Behemoth (DLC, which i despise)
And Acid Spitter Drake. (DLC, which I despise)
Mimikor (Patreon)
Along with the
Shadowscale (Free)
Inferno Ravenger (Free)
Flame Stalker (free)
Singe Crest (Free)
Tidal Shock (Free)
Venom Ampithere (Free)
Ice dragon (Free)
Acid wyvern (Free)
Venom Drake (Free)
Ah yes… the kickstarter exclusive dragon…
(There is no kickstarter anymore)
Those who backed the game before the Kickstarter ended, some Kickstarters got access to the bio dragon
@@halfslyced yeah I know, it’s honestly slightly worse than dlc’s since you can actually GET the dlc’s
@@TheVikingCarnotaur and the fact they were planning to make a good chunk of the playables dlc right after it broke its initial goal of 12k on Kickstarter shows the lead developer has only just been after money the entire time.
@@halfslyced remind me, how much money did they make again?
@@TheVikingCarnotaur over 500k 💀💀💀
To be completely honest if I raised over half a million dollars in kickstarter to create something as simple as a dragon game, I'd make the entire game in it self free of charge and release little to no DLC's. I don't understand how one can have that much money and STILL want to rob their playerbase of another 20 dollars in DLC's.
No amount of money is ever enough for somebody that doesn't care about their art. The lead developer no longer cares about the product, and that's even assuming he cared in the first place. I find it disgusting nowadays that the wrong people get into positions of power and corruption.
Jao is enjoying his 20k+ a month he gets from patreon subscribers. He needs it to pay for the horses he falls off.
make the Game free: check
release dragons as dlcs: no check
instead, release dlc skins, or anything that doesnt lean towards pay to win to earn something from the game: check
you need to do a bit math, half million is nothing. for example: 10 people work there with a monthly payment of 5000$ so the money is gone after 12 month.
@@atommik2 No offense, but if he pays them 5k a month im not surprised hes out of money. What an idiotic choice. Not even triple A devs get paid that much
The sad part is it could of been good
All good things are ruined by greed
mf dropped the hardest quote wtf@@halfslyced
@@halfslyced 100% True, Greed is a poison when it comes to games and movies
Not with the dev team they have, it couldn't. The IDEA has potential. But the dev team NEVER had a chance to make it good.
Yeah...
I actually had hope for this game when it was in its legacy
As a concept artist it actually hurts my brain seeing these dragon designs
I don't think that you have to be a concept artist to have your brain hurt by these designs
Im a normal artist and there are no thought behind any of them. Which i feel bad for the modeler of the dragons because they're so generic.
The shadowscale could've been more bat like
The flame stalker is just a normal dragon
The IR looks and acts like dehydrated Monstrous Nightmare
The Acid drake is...just so ugly looking. I hate its u dipping snout.
@@devilchomps3295 acid drake is a discount shadowmane and the weird blue gamepass dragon is actually painful to look at
@@devilchomps3295 there is thought behind some of them, but that thought was "hey this dragon is popular in pop culture, so if I include it as a playable in my game, that will SURELY get people to buy it!"
see: Shadowscale, Dravern, Inferno Ravager, Blitz Striker, Singe Crest
Actually there are currently five playables. However two of them are so similar I don't blame you for forgetting.
Ah yes the one with arms and one without the arms
Peak Design
Truly we have been blessed by their masterful variety in design.@@-CrriissppyyAppllee-
I noticed this after I filmed the whole thing. And I literally noted this too but completely forgot. I don't know why they would add 2 nearly identical playables back to back 💀
Which of em are identical?? If u mena flamestalker and inferno ravager they aint identical at all, ones a wyvern, ones not, one can set itself on fire one cant, also one has the spini thing on uts back etc@@halfslyced
@@weirdran9314 still doesn't stop the fact that both are incredibly forgettable generic fire dragons
hopefully Wings of Dawn will save us. . .
That gams looks good so far, I'm looking forward to playing that when early access drops
@@halfslycedwings of dawn is trash
@@Cross3x7 cope
@@Cross3x7 elaborate, I'm curious why so
@@Cross3x7 day of dragons meat riders alert
For a first time developer Jao should have considered the art style direction the game. He settled on a hyper realistic tone which I have no doubt has cuased a plethora of problems during its development, such as time and money. I would have taken inspration from games with basic but charming graphics like Valheim, Lethal Company, etc. These games have a massive playerbase due to the fact the devs focused on the gameplay itself over graphics. You know, games designed for fun?
It doesn't help Jao goes out of his way to avoid any other coder working on the game with him. Claiming the other coder might "steal his custom codes". Instead of hiring, he blew 50k on music (16 songs estimated $8300 each). When ever he complains about the work load, I just roll my eyes.
Money shouldn't even BE an issue for Jao, he gets almost a quarter million a year from Patreon ALONE
@@IndominusRex-wc1ey WHAAAAAT???
@@halfslyced Jao just launched the "Beta" version, the version before the 1.0 update, as a separate game for 5 bucks. 😂
@@cfowler7936 I jus saw that too 😭 ain't no way he's charging more money for something he coulda made a separate branch 💀
@@halfslyced Jao blames Steam for not allowing him to put it up for free. He's saying Steam is forcing him to make money 😂 What a clown.
“Blah blah even games with 400+ developers take several years so be patient because this is definitely reasonable” *hollowknight has entered the chat*
In no defense of DoD people, but Hollow Knight missed its coming out mark (2015) for two years (2017)
Plus Silksong. One day.
@@WingyLalkawhen are you releasing rainworld 2?
@@Who1156 sooner than the next DoD ptach im sure of, so hopes up
Tbh I don’t think a 2D platform is a fair comparison to an open world game
The saddest part for me was the way other UA-camrs were making videos talking about how they’re excited for this game to come out just for everything to quickly fall apart
12:41 I mean… WolfQuest Anniversary Edition is the realistic animal simulator I always dreamed of so…
Same, this is the ONLY one that has genuinely never disappointed me. Love this game
@@Neytiri94 exactly it's the only one that isn't a scam, bad devs, or a bad game in general
This makes me want to make a dragon survival game that is better than DOD out of spite
No, don't do what path of titans did. Make it with love not spite.
@@halfslyced Path of titans was not a spite game lmao. You really are uninformed. BoB was the spite game because Dondi literally told Pred to make his own game and Pred said "bet". I don't like the direction BoB went, but it still has 10x the content The Isle does.
@@blobbertmcblob4888 both of them are spite games. I know the whole lore trust me.
@@halfslycedI already want to make it, I'm quite passionate about it. This just adds to my motivation.
Lmao, you're joking but that's exactly what Draconia is, and it's an incredibly controversial game made by controversial people (as well as The Archotek Project, because the main dev used to work at The Isle's dev team).
12:51 I disagree, given the state of AAA games these days I'd say both The Isle and Path of Titans are better off being indie, dev teams for both of those games are doing a better job than most high budget studios these days.
Yeah tbh AAA studios have been in shambles recently. You got a point.
Counterpoint
Capcom because monster hunter
@@IndominusRex-wc1ey it is a good game but I wouldn't necessarily put it in the same genre as DoD, the isle, etc... where you play as the creature itself. But a lot of people who play these games play monster hunter as well so I see where you're coming from
@halfslyced no I mean like Capcom is a trustworthy AAA company becuase they made Monster Hunter, which has 2 smash hits in a row which have dominated Capcom's everything atm
@@IndominusRex-wc1ey oh yeah, true. I saw the trailer for their next monster hunter installment and it looks excellent
the fact that they have to have 500k to make "professional" models and concepts, while i do that for free and for fun lol.
Please make a game
Link your game bro I’ll rate it 10/10 right now no cap
@@s.t.5915 dont worry i will
its gonna be a dragon horror game
Draconia is barebones, but still better than DoD imo
Nothing's behind a paywall, devs are kind, and they constantly update.
Also, yeah, levlliing's horrid but at least it has customization lol
Draconia is so good a whopping 8 people play it every day
But the flying animations in Draconia 🤮
Draconia is still in alpha I believe so it has its downs but I suspect itll get big
@@Skywalkerkenobi Draconia has been in development for nearly 8 years now lol
The devs are...alright. they don't take criticism well, but they take it better than DoD and the isle
I came across this game, was super hyped as I love dragons and survival games and became even more so when an actual update was promised. Ever since, it’s been a roller coaster of “updates” and the lack thereof. I still love this game, I enjoy the concepts, but my love for the game is truly for the community groups I found through it. For me, it’s the friends I’ve found that make the game fun and a comfort in my life. At this point, we’re all just crossing our fingers it will actually keep getting better and are striving to enjoy what parts of it we can together.
One day... We'll get the game we deserve 🙏
I would despise this game if I weren't so obsessed with the Zygovo, little egg thief. Really wish they wouldn't take years to do a sinular update
Man this makes me appreciate the developers of Wings of Dawn so much more. They don't even have a public tech demo yet but they've already been miles more transparent. Hopefully it'll shut this nightmare down, I only heard about the game back when there were accusations of it being one giant asset flip.
Lmao Day of Dragons was hyped like this before it was released. Don’t hold your breath
@@yeahokbuddy2510 DoD was touted as a glorified asset flip shovelware almost immediately after it even appeared on the map. It's how I avoided falling into it, that and the knock-off Nightfury.
@@yeahokbuddy2510 except Wings of Dawn posts MONTHLY video updates and they show first hand all of the progress made in one month. They make more progress in one month than DoD did in 2 years lmao and they've been extremely consistent with updates. The game is developing pretty fast
@@yeahokbuddy2510No theres a clear difference between the 2.
somehow the update from early access to 1.0 also made the game have less things do to. At least in early access there was eldering, where you hunt mushrooms to grow your dragon to the next stage after adult. Now that that's removed the only thing to do after reaching adult is just sit in one place for 40 minutes waiting for eggs to pop out of you
It's evolving... Just backwards 💀
I've always wanted a game like this since I was a kid, it's unfortunate that this hot pile of garbage disguised as a game is one of the only ones in the genre that people are playing/giving money to.
I regret buying this game, first time playing, utter ass, takes extremely long to grow anything, world design is blander than fuck and everyone is just nesting all the time for like super dragons.
They really had the audacity to implement a "mega map" and it broke the game's performance. The old map felt like a bare bones empty Minecraft flat world.
Breeding/nesting is the only gameloop in DoD, there's nothing else to do. Probably be another 5 years before we get any of the promised things.
Right now Beawesomegames are looking like CIG. Promise the world and deliver as little as possible while asking people to keep giving you money.
Wonder if Star Citizen will be finished before DoD, maybe that could be another video.
I hope rather, the people get their money back, OR the game actually gets updates making the game “good”.
Also, how come games on ROBLOX are “better” than this game..?
@@Orangethemartianmade by people with passion. Something DoD lacks.
one way or another, i aint gettin my money back, and i couldnt regret it more
As someone who backed the Kickstarter--Don't buy this game. Blew over 80$+ for a game that can't even run half the time. Which is insane considering how absolutely BARE BONES it is. Ignoring all the KS stuff for a moment, let me talk about the game itself.
1. As you've seen, the game runs extremely poorly. It doesn't matter what rig you're using, expect frequent frame drops, lag, and Dsync. Expecially during fights. Which sucks, because dynamic flying and dynamic battle were one of the main reasons why I opted to try and back this game. But, just like the Isle, expect to just jerky run around each other. It's a little better in the air, but not by much.
2. And speaking of PVP: Expect a lot of it. Between there being literally NOTHING else to do, and the map never producing enough AI to feed the populace, its about the only thing people can do to remain sane / survive.
3. PVE... Outside of finding water, hunting a few scattered AI, and searching for mushrooms(?) don't expect much. The map may look pretty but it's extremely bare bones, with no real substance to it. Think they had one or two lore-ish tidbits to find back in 2023... but it really wasn't worth nearly dying for? Which, back then, you did very quickly due to how poorly balanced the PVE was. Food and water used to drain ridiculously fast--To the point were PVP groups started rescuing hatchlings who just spawned in.
4. The menus--Poorly optimized, organized, and are just overall too clunky for my own personal taste. If you ever open the Stat menu in games it's.... a lot to stare at.
5. Gameplay: Again, outside of PVP there isn't much to do. Sure, you can nest people in to try and grind better stats--But why? From 1-50 hours, the gameplay is all the same. There's nothing new or innovative to be had here. It's just a reskinned survival game.
As far as a survival game goes---It's not worth the 20$ asking price, let alone the 40$+ you'd need to purchase everything along with it. This game has been in development for 3 years now with nothing but a few extra models and bug fixes to show for it.
i feel so sorry for you, i really hope you either get your money back, or the devs get their shit together to deliver your satisfaction.
I have two friends who donated to the kickstarter of this game lmao i am glad i’m not that irresponsible with my own money
I wouldn't blame you if you did. There was solid potential when the Kickstarter dropped. Do a little digging on the other hand... The results are less promising. Please check out IGP's video on the whole thing, I have the link in the description.
To create an open-world dragon sim would be my ultimate dream. I have tons of amazing concepts. I simply don't know how to create a damn game. lol
First you need a billion starting money. Then you need someone okay with making computer programmers cry.
They never finish anything without someone pushing death lines on them.
They will simply keep adding new nonessential features until the game breaks if you let them.
Gamer's believe that if it's not broken, don't fix it.
Programmers believe that if it's not broken, it doesn't have enough features yet.
Remember how Jao blew $15,000 on MUSIC?
Literally 😭, so many indie devs just find volunteers to do stuff for free and bro is out spending every dime he has
Actually it's 50k. He proudly posted about it on the DoD Discord. Meaning the 16 songs cost roughly $8300 each.
Ya'll know how costly his new ranch was?
I heard the final price for the music was $90K Jao said in an interview.
I think it would be cool if there was a creature sim where you played as a cryptid. A windigo, chupacabra, bigfoot, ect.. It would give more diversity than, this one shoots fire, this one shoots lightning, this one shoots acid.
interesting idea, I would definitely play it
It could be a survival horror
hell yeah I wanna play as mothman
Pot wanted to one up the isle so much they made a whole playable from scrap only a few days after the isle released their concept 🗣️🔥🔥🔥🔥🔥
Pot is better than the isle developer wise they take less time and prove their skills, not speaking from experience, but I’ve heard that the isle developers ban anyone who speaks bad about their game Path of Titans wants to hear feedback on their game and they don’t shut people down🗣️🗣️🗣️
@@NOWAHERRAMAIN well PoT devs have HORRIBLE game THO THEY LISTEN
isle devs dont listen.. BUT THEY STILL MAKE SOME GOOD SHIT
@@Tamim-56personally I find PoT more fun, but to each their own. The horrid toxicity of The Isle certainly isn’t enticing me back anytime soon
@@Tamim-56 why do utah pfp mofos always have goofy takes 😭 the isle hasn’t “cooked” with current development compared to pot
@@NOWAHERRAMAINmaybe the developers don’t want people to shut up but the toxic ass community SURE DOES. I received some of the most vile and brain dead comments from people who ass ride PoT just because I dared to share constructive criticism, at least with the isle when you want the game to improve then most of the community agrees and supports it. Overall I’ve met worse people on pot than I ever have in the isle
Legit yanderedev but with dragons
I remember getting banned before the launch of the game because I said that one of the dragons they showed was actually wyvern. He did not like that I was calling out some of his dragons as, well, not being dragons at all. lmao
Wyverns are a subspecies of dragons, THEY ARE STILL DRAGONS!
@@TheRiskyroar Dragons never existed so to try and say what is or isn't a dragon is a lost cause, you wanna call them dragons call them dragons ,you wanna call them wyverns call them wyverns.
11:58 Malgimation’s island and Creatures of sonaria is pretty fun (though obviously the absolutely asinine conversion rate between robux to money makes it so most games have to paywall most of their game sadly. I also like a game legit just called ‘roblox dinosaur simulator’ it’s actually really fun and the creator is aiming to create a system that’s more fair for the player! They have a cool style aswell :] they also have a trello that outlines their plans for the game in order of priority and only stuff that will be in the game is added to the trello! They also talk with their community and ask stuff, it’s really chill over there surprisingly!)
I really like the creature survival genre as I’m a paleo and spec evo fan! Although I usually go for more avatar-movie like designs like the only dragon I like to an extent I would want to play the game would be bio.
Also as a cos fan (creatures of sonaria) the player base is huge and absolutely insane lol
Oh hey, always fun to see fellow CoS players
@@Elvyne same!! :]
Haven't you heard? They hired another programmer but its only for Patreon. The only time they hired another programmer when they only have 1 working on the main game is only for patreon. Thats some BS and not only that they ordered flame stalker plushies but the kicker is you habe to be a 200+ patreon supporter to get it for free. Bruh this screams "Im doing this just for the money. Idc about my community."
Lead dev is wasting so much money just thinking about how to make more money 😭
Yeah his whole agenda is "how can I get more people to subscribe to patreon" the worst part about it is new players come to the game and see the gold or shimmer pearls and they ask how to get them & appear to be fine with chucking money at Jao.
I really wish there was a better dragon game out there, or at least one that has the flight DoD has because that's one of the only fun things about the game.
"I only need 12k to get started" to "Video games are expensive. That's why some content needs to be DLC!" right after it got 530k.
@@cfowler7936 the truth that some day of dragons fans refuse to understand
i remember being so hyped for it when it was announced to be released i was watching a bunch of videos on the pre release version my friend bought a couple days ago he has a 4070 ti and he struggled to run it medium graphics so it’s got poor optimisation, another thing horrible abt it is the community all of them will attack you if you give the devs constructive criticism or dislike the game, the game also has lacklustre gameplay with most of the time being sitting and growing or being attacked by a mega clan and lastly all the stolen ideas, assets (in pretty sure they stole an asset at one point), and looks of the dragon. i understand working with ue5 can be hard ive tried making a racing game on there with 16gb of ram and i couldnt run it after the coding, but thr devs got 500k to spend on hiring people, pcs and gambling, yesterday whilst driving around town i found a pc store selling a 4x 4090 pc with 120 gb of ram for $30k they could easily afford 10 if those and theyd be a lil overkill actually but idk how many devs are on the game but dont complain about bot having enough ram is a 1650ti 4gm vram laptop with 16 gb of ram can run the code and models of an arcade racing game (not sim racing sadly cus when i tried i didnt have enough ram) you could make this game with about 100 gb or ram and they probably have 100s of gb or like you said they gambled it all away. jesus christ my finger hurts from that
They added a low spec branch instead of actually optimizing their game. It's almost impossible to run more than medium settings.
@@halfslyced did i make any grammar errors my phone was horizontal when typing
@@ham_sandvich uhhh not sure but I understand everything you said anyways lol
@@halfslyced ok
I forgot about this until i saw it on steam today in my front banner. It said it had positive reviews overall but mixed recent and i was just like "wait, wasn't this that scam game?" and sure enough it was. How the fuck can ANYONE post a positive review for this game, given it's history?
I don't blame anybody for having fun in the game. But there is no excuse for some players defending the developers actions. I swear their player base has been brainwashed into a cult.
@@halfslyced I heard they are deleting negative reviews and make false positive reviews. Altho im not sure how much about this is true. Poeple were really unhappy when "update" dropped. So I saw mostly negative. Poeple complaining abot the update in DoD discord server were getting banned.
Also, NaughtyDog made An entire Uncharted game IN ONE YEAR. So that "most games take 5-7 years" is bullshit. One of the most awesome and professional game studios proved that statement wrong.
Untrue. Uncharted took a while to make. No good game takes a year. It's just not possible when you're using 3d assets on larger scale. The average timespan is 5-7 for a small team, and 3 for a large one. Solo devs can take forever.
@@skittlecornnation4323Uncharted: Lost Legacy took 1 year to make. Not the Uncharted games with Nathan Drake.
@@devilchomps3295 when you reuse assets yeah it’s gonna take a shorter time. But building from the ground up won’t take 1 year. Make a game first and see how long it really takes.
@@skittlecornnation4323i have. I'm in college for it :D. Literally the assets in DoD are store bought. The only thing taking eons to make is the dragons. If they stopped making future content, worked on what needs to be in the game NOW (quests, new environments) then this game would have much more content that is has. It's called prioritization. All of what Jao's patron has is nothing but dragon concepts. Why make more dragons when there's nothing to do in the game but lay eggs and one shot bugs? Make a game first then you'll see why this game is losing it's players :D
@@skittlecornnation4323even the textures are store bought, which is totally fine but you can see in vacant areas without foliage to cover it there's tons of tiling (caves mainly) Textures (usually) are made in a program called Substance designer. I've used it myself, it's really fun to make a texture from scratch using just nodes. The issue i have is, usually a texture has exposed parameters to change the pattern and shape of that texture to avoid tiling. Exposed parameters are translated to UE5 or unity to use like a "brush" so you can change how something looks without needed to make an entirely new texture. Unless the pack they used didn't have exposed parameters, there shouldn't be obvious tiling everywhere.
Just a tidbit in case you don't believe I'm not a game designer :D
And people are saying the isle takes long to makes Progress. yes but once you have bought the game you can't buy more than that so no scam compared to dod
Path of Titans has made more progress than any creature survival game I've seen. I'm sure there are others out there, but in my experience, they've made even more progress than The Isle ever could, which I was into Legacy before PoT came to Xbox, which is my main platform. Mainly because of the mods they have, not to mention crossplay, is why I think they're so successful. Like, people have even made fantasy mods for PoT, with some dragon mods being a part of them too, like the Dracoviper, Noviana, and Ophis. With more still to come!
Heck, even ARK has better dragon mods than DoD, which I lost interest in after the whole controversy surrounding it
Well, it's still better than Dragon: The Game, which never got finished. Can't we have good dinosaur/dragon survival games for once? The graphics don't even have to be realistic whatsoever, we just want good gameplay.
The only thing I like about the game is the flight mechanics... I think that's it.
What I don't like about it is the fact that the majority of the dragons are too similar to the dragons from How to Train Your Dragon - Shadow Stalker/Nightfury, Inferno Ravenger/Monstrous Nightmare etc. This irks me the most about this game. It's hard to grow a dragon coz you're always getting killed/starving to death/dehydrating, it's hard to find food in most places, the dragons are stiff and feel more like statues (and you'd think they'd have more fluent animations by now), and the list goes on.
I agree with every single point you've made in this video. This game ultimately stinks.
Also, new sub!
^^ I feel the same way tbh. The thing that gives me hope about this game is the flying mechanics/ animations, everything else just pains me... The movement on the ground feels so insanely clunky, a long with just how goofy some of the models are especially as hatchies.
Is there a single "animal survival game" that isn't a scam?
Nah its crazy that the isle devs made 2 games in the time most devs cant make 1
They might be slow, but at least they make some dinosaurs dlcs 💀
They didn't make "two" games. They remade the old game because they updated legacy so infrequently that the technology outgrew the game. Dondi didn't remake the isle because he "wanted to", he remade it because he HAD to.
@@blobbertmcblob4888 yeah but they basically made a new game. The ONLY thing they reused from legacy is the dinosaur models and some animations and sounds.
You proved me right in the second sentence lmao "They remade the old game" that's a second game it requires a new download, there's different maps and there's different dinosaurs they're different in many ways they share a genre and a name maybe next time don't try to disprove something that's true.@@blobbertmcblob4888
@@halfslyced and the fact its not even a paid dlc either bro 😭😭
In another video discussing this game, I brainstormed several ideas to fix the creative bankruptcy of this game. I suggested ways to make baby and juvenile stages more interesting by giving them age-exclusive hunting methods, such as the baby using an enlarged, glowing version of its flame sac to lure in prey, or the juvenile having more muscle in its legs for high-speed running since its wings aren’t developed for flight yet.
Another thing I devised was exclusive methods for each dragon to hatch their eggs. Fire dragons would have to find a suitable environment (+speed if desert, -speed if tundra, etc.) and then they could gather nesting materials for their species to speed up the incubation process, like hot coals for a fire dragon or a special type of ice for frost dragons.
Survival games have been cursed for years now, but there’s several ways to make dragons more interesting. *I’ve spent about 4 years writing a book series about dragons and I’ve made vastly more unique dragons than the people who made DoD* . Like some people have said, a couple of the dragons are just ripoffs in terms of design and the actual gameplay is extremely barren. You have no idea how badly I want a dragon survival game or even a good free roam-sandbox game, but as long as greed and incompetence exists, we’re probably never gonna see it in this lifetime.
Edit: As for Roblox games, the big one currently is Creatures of Sonaria, and it has several problems of its own. The gacha system basically means the game is more like Pokémon than a survival game, as you’re constantly saving up money to spin those overpriced gachas for your favorite creature (and side note, the only way you can preview a creature is by its mugshot and a lot of creatures have extremely misleading, cool heads but stupid ahh bodies lol). I will say though that the recode has improved things a bit, the creature handling feels more like an actual animal whereas before it felt like driving a semi-truck, and the addition of new weathers and a seasonal clock that’s actually in season order (previously the seasons were just randomly picked, so you could have it jump from summer, to winter, to autumn, to famine-) has made it much better…but it’s still kind of a boring mess but that’s every survival game nowadays
Yeah from what I've seen from Sonaria, it's a pay to win loot box game
just a correction: the KS for the game ended in october 2019, im assuming that update was apart of them putting devblogs on their kickstarter
Gotcha, thank you!
Technically the game has been in development since 2017, according to the original post Jao left on the KS page. He completely dismisses it now and the game shown to us in 2019 was deleted and replaced with rip-off media dragons.
@@cfowler7936 yeah he was supposedly "working" on the game 2 years prior to the Kickstarter
He later admitted that him "working on the game" before 2019 was him thinking about the idea and learning to code, but then halfway through he switched engines because the one he used originaly (forgot which one) didn't have the possibilities he wanted, so technicaly the true coding work started AFTER the ks
Also the 500k from ks DID come in one batch, right after the kickstarter endes he got all of it (well most of it since he forgot to make a company and received the money as a private person, ergo he had to pay a lot of taxes and ended up wit ~300k instead) And it disappeared pretty fast after he insisted on hiring disney animators, an expensive concept artist who never worked for games before and giving himself the salary of a professional programmer so he can quit his job and "focus on the game". Since roughly 2021 patreon funds the development and gets pampered for it a lot.
I'm certainly part of the problem, like I am with Pokémon. But I'm certainly not gonna pretend that Jao is a saint. Banning and kicking people from the DoD discord just for giving criticism. Yeah not all criticism is useful, a lot of it frankly sucks. But kicking folk because they gave criticism doesnt make you or your team look good publicly Jao.
Shame this game just doesnt run as it should on most pcs. Mine may be a potato with an rx580, but it can run on UE5! That was until the update then it was nothing but fatal errors.
This game has potential and we want it to succeed.
Devs abandoned it
The performance is just ridiculous, I know it is UE5 and everything but surely they could of put some effort into somewhat optimizing it. My friend who has a RTX 4090 can only run it on max settings at 40 FPS in a half full server.
tbh Path of Titans if you left for a few months and came back there would be more changed than excepted. (I know from experience) as recently we just got 2 new dino in a rather short time frame compared to before.
I would LOVE my money back from this game, got it when it was released and i was PRAYING they would update at least the models/animations and sounds cause i just hated everything about that game and to see nothing but an even worse looking map is so dissappointing
And when did we start letting children become game developers huh? Where are his parents?
@@Cat-ih2ke extremely immature behavior from the lead developer
fact that they get 20k+ monthly on patreon...20k.... and the development is so bare bones
That's 240,000 dollars (if I did my math right) a year, and they made no real progress
Not to mention the developers lie to their audience outright and then pretend that they didn't. The gaslight their fan base and then cry when they don't reach their own deadlines that they set for themselves.
The worst part to me is the toothless rip off, its so shameless yet no one seems to mention it in neutral and positive day of dragon videoes. The dragon is also ugly as sin.
The animations, posture and wings seems stiff as well in all of the dragons, if they are gonna copy heavily from httyd they could have at least also copied the animations.
Or just referenced birds and bats.
The insect dragon doesnt even look like it belongs to the world and most of the stuff in this game is so generic. The only recognizable dragons are the httyd copies, the rest are stuff you see everywhere.
The damage day of dragons has done to Kickstarter-Survival Games is immeasurable. It is obvious that many many Kickstarter Games will not release or flop and thus not return the investment of the people but that is just the general truth about investing in entrepreneurs. But day of Dragons took one of the simplest, most desired ideas out there and nuked the trust of their backers to such a degree and with such a high funding of HALF A MILLIONS DOLLARS that no game of this type will ever get this much money collected again, no matter how well the team behind it would be set on making a good game.
As always, it needs exactly one singular person to destroy an entire trust based system for everyone after them. And god did they do a good job at doing so.
From the money they got they could have literally just hired every single needed member start to finish and the game would have been playable atleast. But they where here for the bills, and no a game to begin with. And why give the money away when you already got it.
Truly disgusting, disgusting people behind DoD.
True story. These devs are so crazy that they banned a former mod in their discord and proceeded to- because I knew said former mod- that they’d ban me from their discord and their game for being an “alleged alt account” of the banned user
Paranoia at its finest
Anyone tell me how the controller support is?
The names of the dragons just describes what they do. Not even a thought went into it.
We waited 2 years for an update that broke the game. They also only released half of it. Barely
I don't know much about wings of dawn, but if anybody wants a dragon game without humans and with designs closer to speculative biology, I'd like to recommend Draconia. It's still quite early in development, but looks quite promising. Designs in there take inspiration from dragons from human mythology.
Draconia is such a bad game, no one plays it.
major respect dude the only other person to talk about it is anthomnia and bros straight shilling.
They even managed to fuck up the nesting and eldering by making it take 100 times longer than it did before. No wonder the servers are basically empty two months later :/
I bought this game like- I don't know, a year ago? And once I did, I was VERY excited to play it since the graphics and videos were exceptional. I began playing and was amazed by the good quality and texture on both dragons and maps (I had never come across a good dragon game besides SoD before). I then introduced the game to my friend, and he absolutely loved it. We played every day, grew our dragons, protected each other from whenever one of us got killed and had to regrow, etc. I grew very fond of it, and paid for the Acid Spitter Drake AND Soundtrack.
This didn't last long. I had major issues with the game -one I hadn't noticed- and began to experience terrible lag and constant errors of the game crashing, which caused my dragon to stay in game since I didn't log out safely, and would soon die. I didn't really bother at first, knowing it was a heavy game with many active servers. However, I did notice the 'soundtrack' I had paid for wasn't in my game. I searched for it, and eventually tried to 'activate' it by going on settings, but there wasn't a button for it. I was mad at first, knowing I paid for something nonexistent, but got over it.
My friend NEVER paid for the Acid Spitter Drake, yet he got it for free, while I bought the pack for it. I assumed it had become free, and of course, grew annoyed due to the fact I paid a few extra dollars for two things that one: didn't work. And two: assumed it had become free.
Here comes the worst part. Three months ago, I heard about the update of the Inferno Ravager coming into the game along recent news about Bioluminescent Dragon and the Magma Golem (I think that's what it's called?) coming into the game. I got excited, since my friend and I had waited for the Inferno Ravager to come out since forever. He successfully logged on the game, and waited for me, who on the other hand, couldn't enter the game. Why? The game had shut down completely on my computer due to lack of activity (which had never happened before on other games), and said I could no longer play. I searched the app I got it from (steam), searched good sources and honest videos on how to fix it, but nothing worked. I asked my friend if he knew about this, but he told me he had no idea what had happened. In the end, the game ended up becoming a total failure, and of course, damaged my computer in many aspects due to the fact it is indeed a big game with lots of graphics that take up space and overwhelms your computer.
What I am saying is: this game basically scammed me for a few dollars, which I am not mad about, but am annoyed. The developers keep promising upcoming updates which will soon release, but in the end become lies, and claim they have not been completed because of 'stress'. I do understand the challenges of making a game, but it isn't fair to make people pay for something that hasn't even been released yet for a game that barely works and has a dead community (not to mention most of those 'promised updates' never arrive). The lack of diversity is disappointing, and the dragon models are just ridiculous, and basically just a cheap copy of the HTTYD franchise.
My friend has also stopped playing completely, wanting to avoid encountering the same issues as me, and has uninstalled it for good.
Truly disappointing to see a game that could've been great, become a disappointment because of greed.
I got this game when I was into the survival genre, dismissing the scam allegations, after trying the 1.0 update once, I’ve given up. Most people play pve for some reason (if you can find a server with more than 5 people, not an exaggeration) where the entire gameplay is, finding bugs with trivially easy to kill ai, wait in ga full hour of not being able to do ANYTHING, just to be able to fly (the only half decent thing in the game) congratulations, you have nothing to do at all besides nest. A while back I was even let into one of the developer rooms. They haven’t made any progress in like 2 years. It was literally just models. Then 1.0 rolls around and guess what, it doesn’t even do anything besides add one playable and an hud change, not to mention the ridiculous texture glitches. Maybe if it adds larger, and actually good ai the game could possibly be fun. But they currently just have a few things planned from what I’ve seen. Honestly just don’t get the game. Probably the worst decision I’ve made with money.
Crazy thing is the more it gets developed the worse it gets. It was way better when it was just the desert.
I think pot may definitely diss the isle with the specific timing of some of the creature releases however I definitely dont believe that they just started developing it just specifically because the isle talked about it. The times this has happened the dinos in question were definitely in development prior to the isle announcement. Also pot is deinocheirus not the one you said. They obviously are basically the same visually but they are still technically not the same. I think the pot devs were working on it then the isle put that out and they were like “oh it would be so funny if we released this sooner”
I haven't played since Launch. I am a kickstarter. I won't touch the game. $40 down the drain, I'd feel better if my money was wasted on a Burger King order and only get a bag full of napkins, ketchup, and a few cold fries. At least I'd have some ketchup packs... with this game it's not worth a penny. Never has been. Nothing more than a money grab.
I'm really glad more people are starting to talk about this, I'm tired of BeAwesome's constant excuses and completely leaving their players in the dark
im a 2019 kickstarter, the kickstarter finished in november 2019. The 2023 "update" was just their "Dev Diaries 10/13 - 11/10".
add 3 extra dead years to your timeline :')
yes i have done a vid on this game coz i havent played it in like 1 year so i went to check out the 1.0 update, i agree with pretty much everything you have said in this vid, for how much money they have raised and for how long it has passed this is indeed lazy work, i had a bit of fun playing the game for sure but thats just coz there arent many dragon games like it out there, so more like a lack of games is the reason, havent had fun for too long since it gets old pretty quick from spawn camping to just nothing to do around the map besides flying around and dying to clans
The main reason it moves so slow is because the only programmer is the lead dev, who refuses to hire other coders so people don't "steal his code" makes me feel like he doesn't know how and is hiding it
yeah that sounds pretty stupid haha, stealing the code i mean just sign a contract and in the end more people working on it is for the benefit of the game@@halfslyced
i thought i had replied to you already the heck XD well yeah it makes no sense why he wont hire ppl with the money he made on the game but thats his prob i guess, like u said no wonder this game never sees more than 600 players@@halfslyced
@@em.gamess I think cause he's embarrassed to show other programmers how little he knows. (And to not share profits)
i also plan on making a game in the future, i rather share profits and get ppl who know what they are doing in order to create a good game rather then do what this guy has done i mean damn he was lucky raising 500k but he didnt put that money to good work it will hurt the game in the long run it already has@@halfslyced
I *want* a good dragon survival, I can wait years but this is not it. The game should not be so horribly optimized that even with recommended specs i get little over 40 frames cuz the map is so gigantic with only hotspots r decorated. I shouldn't have to switch to the low spec branch and have low settings to play.
The game is interesting. I want it to be better.
But the designs also feel cheap and copied. Its not unique (singecrest, shadowscale)
I am disappointed and i regret buying this honestly. Theres nothing really to do either, its a waiting simulator with nesting
Thats all to do, wait, wander around, eat, nest.
Im not hating but genuinely this needs change theres fundamental flaws here
Wow… the isle lookin a lot better now
4:25 the 500k came in around 1 month out of the blue lol
No point in discrediting path of titans for doing what the isle useless devs are unable to.
But even if your theory that they made a dino in 2 DAYS just because of an art from the isle.
What is supposed to be the problem? Are you seeing a Deinocheirus playable on the isle? NO, it is us, players, who wins with this. Even years after that promise we are not seeing it yet, because all TI does, is promises, and PoT brings them to life.
At the end it is a competition between those two, and if path of titans can demonstrate they're able to make progress on their game, even with supposedly making dinos in 2 damn days, then that makes me respect them more, and see the isle devs even more useless.
What people don't get is 2 days is entirely too short especially since the models are made by one of the devs and not reused or purchased assets. It was hilarious when duck released and isle fans were going feral as if the playable could have its coding, abilities, stats, skins, model, sounds made in such a short time, it was obviously something in the works and they chose to release it then to jump on the hype. Isle fans forget the only dinos the isle actually owns are its made up ones.
I refuse to believe that anyone actually enjoys this game. rather that they pretend to enjoy it or cope with it by playing it just because there is no other dragon simulator
That, and because people like sitting around like they are in a chat room while they "roleplay" as a dragon
I have more hope for Draconia and "Dragon Game Project" for dragon sims but they are also very slow.
Question, can we expect publication of this game ? Or do you think it will be endless early access? 🤔
TECHNICALLY... it was released officially with it's 1.0 update in February...
At 5:05 you keep playing the clip of the ice elemental...and I noticed it's face keeps morphing....I think this animation was made by AI??????????
the kickstarters who were mass banned during the first Thanos Snap he had warned you all.
I don't have anything to do with this game but I've been waiting for this video to drop since your community post
Like making a mutiplayer 3d MMO survival game ain’t cheep but they could have made the models look a bit more unique and play slightly differently
I was considering to buy this game in the past, and was about to until I heard about how toxic and scummy the developers are back in August. Now I think it's a good choice to not buy it.
I literally see the discord mods being incredibly disrespectful all the time to people asking questions in the server its so bad . . . It actually makes me uncomfortable to be there with how they treat people who have understandable concerns.
Isn’t that electric dragon from Httyd too? I swear I watched the Race to the edge and it’s in there but with legs
Skrill
Lol the sarcasm at the beginning of this video was so thick that Tony Stark is making a suit out of it lol. But ye all jokes aside I do agree with some of the points made in this video and I absolutely hate how the shadow scales are just a dollar store version of the Night furry
Jao is just so disrespectful towards his community, for years he’s been teasing us with updates that never come while working on dumb products to try and squeeze his playerbase for even more money. Then god forbid you criticize the game, lest Jao throw a hissy fit over it-like when he wrecked the stat system in DoD, making it way more boring and scaled for a system that wasn’t even in the game at that point, then when the playerbase was reasonably mad over it he threatened to wipe everyone’s saves if they don’t shut up.
I was really excited for DoD, I’m a kickstarter backer and played pretty much since launch, but this recent 1.0 update combined with Jao’s constant scummy behavior crossed the line for me. It’ll take a miracle to get me to come back to it, if I ever do.
Anyway, any passing readers, just don’t buy the game. It’s not worth a single cent of your money, just take my and many other’s word for it that it sucks.
I love how Creatures of Sonaria (roblox) is 10x more fun than this
Oh cool another sonaria player, hi LOL
it's definitely not the best (it's a roblox game after all) but sonaria has some really good creature designs in it
WHY IS IT SO DIFFICULT TO JUST GET A GOOD GAME WHERE WE PLAY AS A DRAGON?! THE LAST ONE WAS "LAIR" BACK IN 2007!!
I bought this game because I wanted to play a dragon survival game but it was boring it wasn’t that fun, so I just stopped playing and started playing the isle even more.
the blitz striker is straight up the skrill from httyd..minus the legs. That is for sure a copyright issue
I’ve kept tabs on this game. Its progress reminds me of Saurian. It’s a shame really.
I finally accepted this game was ehh when they wanted to charge for the legacy version. This game is literally just a way for developers to make extra money without putting any of the work in. Then they keep pushing back the updates. I mean I understand things come up, but every single update has been pushed back. it’s getting ridiculous
This game has alot of potential. Compared to other games like Untamed, earning only 56k on KS and what they put as as a DEMO is very very concerning. It's not only sad but its wasting so much potential if he just hired more people. The coding is garbage. It took me 30 minutes just to drop a nest yesterday because of all the bugs. I get good games take time and alot of money to create..but look at other games then look at them. The fact that there STILL isnt really content in the game itself, like questing like POT as they promised. Their output with content is extremely depressing.
Putting out a demo for an unfinished game is a common thing. Developers do it all the time. Day of dragons made 500k off of their Kickstarter and all he had at the time was a demo with store bought pre-made assets.
It's always the companies with the most "inviting" names that end up being the most scummy. It's almost like it's all part of a big grift. Beawesome Games. With a name like that, how they be bad news? Oh noes! Turns out they are.
Theres a creature survival game called creatures of sonaria on roblox that has infinitely better dragon designs than this game.
Keep your hopes up, the are a lot of titles being worked on in the genre, I'm part of the dev team for Eternal Enemies. There are other titles also coming out.
Not one original dragon design in this game except that little one that flies real fast maybe. Literally if Path of Titans just implemented nesting already (which they should have ages ago when they added growth) and like a scent system Path of Titans would be wayy above the rest. I just want one game in this genre to do something that the players want.
if im being honest, it sounds like day of dragons was originally suppose to be a scam but they decided to make something to shut up complaining people, i wont be suprised if the person who made this game just goes silent and the game just disappears with the all the money they've gotten from it
I might be dumb but I have hopes that it will get better in 1.1 and beyond like a lot of the future dragons looks really cool so I hope they don’t ruin it
Day of dragons devs are actual slow cookers