Throwing a bundle of dynamite around a corner and then seeing a cultist go flying while he screams like Goofy will never get old. One of the best feelings in video gaming.
Nah. I grew up in the 1990's. Blood is normal difficulty. Because EVERYTHING was harder in the 1990's! People nowadays are wusses! And Civvie just needs to git gud!
Out of all the Build engine games, Blood was the only one that felt to me like it recaptured that special something from Doom 1 & 2 - while bringing it's own "unique" to the table too.
I really wish the modding community was larger, the game has so much untapped potential and it shows with the few mods it has, almost all of them are so well made it's incredible. I specially love Arcade mode, sadly the modder disappeared years ago and left that beauty of a mod right there, half way done to perfection, the mod went to the point of making Tchernobog an actual threatening final boss, it's an experience that makes Ultrakill pale with how frenetic it becomes.
"Wake up Eduardo... huh, what's this 'Fresh Supply' you speak of? Steam? 2024? Bro, just come over, dad bought me this brand new 486 and a new game called Blood. It's pizza, dr pepper and DOS install night."
Haha, this is a great overlook of the Blood enemies, I really enjoyed it. I'd like to add three comments. 1. The Voodoo Doll is actually more than useful against cultist in water. You don't have to aim accurately, the doll hits the hitscanners in the water pretty well. 2. One of the most beautiful things in Blood is to release a full double-barrell in the face of a Cultist or Ackolyte just in the moment when the throw a bundle of dynamite at you. It explodes right in front of their face, which is jus ah, the best. 3. Cheogh can actually be pitchforked in a Zombieman-like way, if you can catch the rhythm of his clawing. Or by circle-strafing. Also, placing the Life Leech on the ground and crouching can eliminate a literally endless amount of Cheoghs.
Your narration is great, I think this is the first time someone covered all of the enemies of Blood in detail and I'm happy you did, this is my favorite game of all time and a great part of my childhood.
@jcdenton6427 except those goddamn spider-head crabs though. I can deal with hitscanning cyborgs and relish the punishment, but having motion sickness from melee-dodging an enemy that's attack animation is restricted to jumping is just plain irritating to deal with in a high-octane, ballistic heavy fps. they're so trash that they make me appreciate the elevator spawn of that swarm of headcrabs that hurtles at you from above during the first part of playing half life. but that's my opinion. Otherwise great game. Love to see the enemies die in ion fury.
@@eMoss-k7j they are a bit annoying but I git used to it after playing the game over and over and over again. Stun stick is good against them, as it can sometimes do chain lightning, but the best way to deal with them is to just crouch instead of looking up and down when they jump
That's exactly what I do p. They're even when toggling crouching and swatting at them, it feels like such a nuisance to be at times encountered with rooms populated up to the ceiling with hordes of them. I actually think that the corrosive millipede enemy is vastly superior, overall. Even the spider-drones that fly around and occasionally evade the magnums deadlock aim mechanics are, while still a bit of a hassle, at least serve a decent purpose in that encountering them usually results in the benefit of honing two v key combat mechanics, those being evasion and long-to-medium range accuracy(especially since these type of disembodied cyborg enemies are virtually almost always certain to be present when the gameplay makes it appropriate for them to be there: and that's whenever you happen to be in an open level area... even when they are there in some indoor arenas, I feel like you never have to deal with them being planted on you as heavily as their ground-level siblings are). And that's probably what I hate the most about the spiders tbh. The game just dumps them haphazardly, yet with constant placements that appear to have no internally logical purpose as to why they have to be so omnipresent. When you enter combat with any of the regular to airborne enemies, a bit more often than necessary have I experienced them being interspersed among waves of enemies that arguably are much more lethal, but what's interesting is that throughout the game, this works only really one part of the game and that's when you're introduced to them within that small corridor where they were introduced to you, and did so with a concise execution. I'm sorry I sound so bitter about such a small and miniscule trash tier enemy. I'm as of recently playing the game on the second-hardest difficulty, and I'm basically almost devoid of any ammo, my health is down to about 48, and I'm saved right before the boss with the mech at the plaza. I've tried backtracking even to a significant distance to search for either visible secrets or pick ups I missed. My health is so low that even the pizza in the lobby before entering the boss arena does so little for improving my hp. And here's the biggest example of my complaint: in the short few minutes running around the plaza before the boss is scripted to enter the area and fight you, there is a sudden outpouring of hitscanning enemies that, while scrounging for what supplies you frantically try to outmanuever the gunfire surrounding you during this momentary mini-horde. And for whatever reason, yes, the spiders are thrown in at you in ridiculous quantities during this short time. Idk like, my reflexes can only handle so much sometimes. Standing still during this area to dispose of them economically makes you so easy to be shredded by ranged attacks, whereas the dizzying panoramic circulatory space for the arena practically puts you to be frenetic but in a way that reduces both accuracy and exposes you to blind spots ... Tl;dr, none of these things are the worst in isolation, but seeing these little fuckers jump around your death screen when you're barely given enough time to cleanly eliminate at least a good portion of the first wave of enemies Like you're forced to waste ammo on them too much in this section. and I would not be this salty if there was a better balance for the amount of spiders this arena will dump on you. But then again, returning to the WONDERFULLY creepy corrosive-spewing android millipedes is such an underutilized enemy for how much better they do the same role as the spiders(like the fact that the segments of the millipedes length can become separate if smaller enemy units individually about roughly the exact size and below-waistline height of the inferior spider pests; severely fewer encounters with these incredible, slinky long bois compared to this frustrating oversaturation of the former. The only cool thing about the spiders is their death animations, and tbh even the flying head variation looks better to both electrocute by baton alt fire, or seeing to see them be burst into flames in mid air before hurting to explode without any direction is still even better to watch die than the spider bots. I'm sure you get the gist as to why I find them so personally infuriating. And I get that really, I tend to dislike them overall moreover than how most ppl see spider bots are, and that's as quite fairly, a very simplistic type of enemy unit that can be dismissed calmly as nothing except by most who don't even hate them because they're so easy to be killed, and that tend to judge the spiders medicore if occasionally tedious adversaries. but like, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, this being any bit of a hindrance to me enjoying a game like ion fury is really more negligible than my complaints above might appear. I think part of what makes any shooter to be memorably engaging is to have not just great enemies in gameplay is that if you have one or two utterly hateable and borderline worthless type of filler enemies, it enhances the overall determination to become better at the gameplay because that hatred caused by weathering those weakass spiders will sometimes give you at least the motivation in destroying them to go forth and be shot with adrenaline afterwards to let that residual if still potent hatred influence how mercilessly you will go about killing the enemies with guns, making even the one-shot and ur dead hitscanners more mentally cathartic to overcome. anyways, thanks everyone for letting me have this platform to briefly rant about such a tiny but contempt-worthy enemy unit lol. For the record, I still think they're nowhere nearly as trash as half the enemy encounters/boss battles thrown up on you throughout the second dark souls game. like the giant rat boss that inflicts toxic on you rapidly despite it being otherwise a comically easy enemy is beyond even hating because it's such a cheap, throwaway means for a developer to increase the difficulty of an enemy/boss that otherwise would be better to not even exist within the game. And though I hate the spiders in ion fury, I don't think they ultimately should be removed from the game entirely despite being so trash. At least they clean up nicely when they're dead and forgotten about in the battlefield. I can always respect something I viscerally hate than something I think is pointlessly used against the player to inflate gameplay needlessly. thank god ion fury isn't dark souls 2, is about the gist of it lol
It’s still mind-boggling as to why Tchernobog has less HP than almost all the other bosses, but hey, after fighting stone gargoyle after stone gargoyle, I ain’t complainin’ haha. I also can’t tell you how relieved I was when I found out about the shotguns-akimbo strat for the Beasts. It gives you so much more room to deal with those guys! These “Understanding…” videos are really fun to watch. It’s cool hearing you talk so in-depth about these things, and your narration is so good 💪 Looking forward to Dark Forces!!
Decent video though I'd like to point out some extra tips for dealing with enemies; - This is probably the most important tip for dealing with cultists: CIRCLE STRAFE! Every type of cultist won't fire at you unless they are looking directly at you. So if you have an encounter with a cultist take advantage of their slow turning speed. Once they start shooting at you they won't stop until you hit them with something or you run to cover where they can't see you - If you mash the use key before a hell hand grabs on to you it's actually a lot easier to get them off you rather than just reacting to the choke; Even on extra crispy. You can also manipulate where a hand lands so you can get one off you AND have it land right over your crosshair if positioned correctly. - For dealing with the phantasm the tommy gun can work just as well. You can even bait them to melee and tap the alt fire once and it's about the same as using the shotgun alt minus damage and knock back. Preferable over the shotgun? No, but still useful. ANYWAYS please excuse my geeking out. I enjoy when someone releases a high quality blood video (which is pretty rare as you'd imagine) and this is definitely one of them :)
Glad to see people are stil enjoying this game today. I remember playing it in the 1990s on our little Acer computer in my mom's work office. Such an unreal experience to go from SNES to this
This video is absolutely fantastic, and reminds me that I need to finish my extra crispy/pitchfork start run soon. Subscribed and I hope you make more vids like this :)
Good coverage. Most enemies can be downed in versatile ways, but some are some serious pieces of work. Especially the flame bois... A few notes I'd like to add: - A bug in DOS Blood made it so that if you killed an axe zombie or any form of cultists and they dropped a life essence, you could gib the body and it'd drop _another_ life essence. But you can only gib corpses of those enemies if they were killed by means that cause normal death animations (no fire, no voodoo magic for zombies, and no gibbing). So for the sake of cheese, the best strat was to get close, duck, aim up and BOOM with the shotgun. The mook would die, the body would fly upwards, and gib when it landed. That's 💯% and exploit and I bet fixed by Fresh Supply, but it's worth mentioning. - The cleaver tossed by Bloated Butchers deals spirit armor damage (vomit is normal damage), and at least in DOS, can also be negated by ducking. The cleaver hits, but deals no damage. Not sure it was fixed in Fresh Supply. - If you're close to Cerberus but not in bite range, he'll stop spitting napalm balls and blow out singular little puffs of fire. Don't be fooled, those can TORCH you. They're basically the same as catching a Hell Hound's full fire breath, so they'll ignite you for a very long time, and with no water pools around in the places Cerberus appears, well... Lovely compendium, Eduardo, cheers!
@@EduardoAndFriends En marana domus nava crunatus! (I admit I had to look this up from the blood wiki lol. For some reason the cultist language is really focused on massacre and blood 😅) I also like the fact when cultists are burning, they switch to English, screaming "it burns, it burns!" In reality it was probably just the same sample used as for Caleb - to save memory- but in my head I always explained it as simply that the cultists simply forget shouting scary one liners in their cultist language when they are burning and revert back to their actual native language, English 😅
Beasts have one other big potential strategy regarding their stomp: it does "falling" damage to the player, at least in vanilla versions. Not sure if this was changed/fixed for Fresh Supply off hand. However this means that if you have Jump Boots [which negate falling damage when turned on, they don't just let you jump high], you can completely shut down their stomp. It won't protect you from their scratches though. Also, it can be situational if you have Jump Boots during various Beast encounters or not, and to utilize the boots well, you have to have a good timing of their stomp animation for the most efficient use of the boots without draining them out [since they can be toggled on and off], but still. :V
Awesome work! Just had this vid pop up in my suggestions yesterday and subscribed after seeing this and some of your Doom vids! Would be cool to see you do a vid like this either for the other Build Engine games or even Doom and the various other Doom/GZDoom engine games (I will be watching the Hexen vid after typing this)! Keep up the awesome work!
Amazing video, really love the little easter eggs in your lines, the consistency, the PASSION that surrounds this whole video as well as the acting and enthusiasm in your voice - makes me feel you've done plenty of Caleb impressions in the past, and I bet you do them really well, too haha :D And also, incredible tips! One thing I really love to do with cultists is stunning them with the Tommy gun, then running up to them and shotgunning them point blank - preferably while crouching, too, much like how you do it with zombies. Oh, and also, gargoyles seem to turn pretty allergic against TNT once you learn how to bait them to throw bones and offer them a biteful of dynamite :)
EXCELLENT video man! Content was great, but your dialog was very solid with all the pacing, the jokes, and the details. Bonus points for using old Blood music. You should totally make more Blood videos, fellow Bloodite. 🦇 Makes me want to make another review on Blood over my super old crappy one.
Modern games often lack stuff like what this game has : Blood is great because it dares to be a video game. It doesn't try to be realistic, it's FUN. The ragdoll physics of explosions are chaotic and such chaos = fun. In my 40 years on this planet, I'd the say the most fun core gameplay loop of any FPS has been on Blood and it's down to all different ways of how TNT can...interact with cultists and other enemies. There are FPS games that have better levels or better graphics...but Blood is the most fun. Alt-firing a TNT so it bounces from a wall and slides next to a cultist- and then seeing the pile of gore flying from there - it's just bloody fun. Modern games try too hard to be realistic. I don't want realism, I want goofy ass ragdolls, explosions and cultists.
Edit: im on my 2nd playthrough of Fresh Supply and just learned the zombie pain sound cue from this video. I usually TNT or burn them down immediately but sometimes it's only possible to blast with projectiles and give them a chance to rise again, so thanks for the tip! Nice touch making the thumbnail resemble the delightfully perverse animations on the "Help" screens😊
Glad to see playing on Well Done. It turns Blood from a boomshoot into a tactical shooter :p Edit: also fun to jump over gargoyles while dueling them with pitchfork
For Zombies, Butchers, Cultists and Gargoyles, if in large crowds, napalm and the spray can, individually, some flares (Bloated Butchers or Gargoyles,) or shotgun to the face (Axe Zombies and Cultists). Small enemies usually come in packs, so Spray Can or Dynamite works really well. Hellhounds and any fire based enemy usually fall ill to the Tesla Cannon. Number one thing about Blood is movement is all about mastery, as Civvie put it in his pro series (I can't do him justice here) because like most fps games, movement is important, but with Blood, it's different, there's more to understand and put to use like crouching is an essential element to enemies like Hitscanners like the Cultists, jumping over enemies allows you to escape tight situations. Dynamite is also an essential element, like grenades Call of Duty, toss them around corners, find little cracks in the wall, etc. The only mistake to be made is having the mindset that 1997 ain't got shit on modern players, never assume that, because back then, sure, Circle strafing seems primitive now, but then, it's what scored a girlfriend, but the developers didn't fuck around when they were making this game. In exchange for this simplified advice table, could anyone tell me if there's a console port? I'm broke and can't afford a PC for this game that I fucking love.
The suicide assisted room is quite a difficult part but there is a guns akimbo power-up in the level that could help you kill those Phantasms easier. It's on the other side of the Sick Ward though, so you'd have to prepare first & rush to the room after picking it up.
Nice video! Here as instructed to leave a comment saying you're wrong for choosing fresh supply and should play in... NBlood! Or NotBlood! DON'T SUFFER THROUGH DOS IT'S HORRIBLE. NBlood is more accurate than Fresh Supply. Demo playback compatible. NotBlood is based on NBlood, and has some really nice options (including the ability to change hitscan enemies to use fast projectiles instead, so they can actually be dodged, tweaking the rat hitboxes, fixing the gargoyle crouch bug, and restoring the pitchfork alt fire!) I coded the share keys option for multiplayer in NBlood and a few small bugfixes. Tip on fighting hellhounds: get close, and they will always melee attack, which is preferable to the flames. Also, try out the alpha levels pack!
Glad to see a comment pointing this out! Fresh Supply isn't as accurate as it should be, and it's even missing bits of code from the original game. That's why it's incompatible with some mods. Some enemies are more vulnerable to fire than others, and that function seems to be broken/improperly implemented in Fresh Supply; the difference is quite noticeable when using NBlood or NotBlood. My favorite feature of NotBlood is that it fixes explosion sector detection issues along with other bugs from the original.
@@TimeSplitter1701 Yes, that explosion fix is great, and so is the hit detection fix for projectile paths. The original game's algorithm could have projectiles sometimes phase through enemies. I also love the option to replace akimbo with quad damage, and the smaller hitbox for player projectiles so you don't blow your face off when trying to shoot around corners. NotBlood is my preferred way to play, especially if I'm playing multiplayer with inexperience people. Another issue with Fresh Supply is crushers frequently fail to kill you. NBlood is based on reverse engineering and decompiling bits of the original exe which is why it is so accurate.
My knowledge of Blood was limited to Civvie's series. I appreciated the humour and all that, but your presentation is much more systematic and clear. The fact that we still don't know about stuff like HP values shows how important open source codes are. I'm also very impressed with Blood's showcase of the power of the Build engine (or KEX for the remaster). Actually I'm wondering what the latter could mean for Doom since the newest official source port is also KEX based.
@@EduardoAndFriendsNightdive didn't take any major chances and I sort of like that, id24 feels like a natural extension of MBF21. On a DW thread it was quite accurately described as a "conservative update" or something of the sort. It's also good because GZ already exists for the crazy modding stuff, physics changes and all that jazz. It's a bit too early to make any sweeping judgements but so far it's alright.
Not mentioned: circlestrafing works against the hitscan enemies. The Tommygun's secondary fire can stun the Cultists, but not the Fanatics. Jumping also helps to avoid damage from the hitscan enemies.
Some things to note that might not have been fully mentioned: The bloated zombies MELT to fire damage. They seemed to take double damage from fire dealing weapons. Spray cans kill them in seconds along with flares. Gill beasts are fully and completely immune to whatever damage type the Tesla cannon is. Gargoyles upon taking damage will reset their melee attack. So what does that mean? Tommy gun in a 1v1 fight will invalidate them as they keep trying to attack and each bullet negates that melee attack animation. You can sit in their face not moving and they'll never get an attack in. Also this means that fire damage also breaks them as every tick of the damage over time will also reset their melee attack. Hit them with the spray can or a couple of flares and they can't do anything until the fire goes out while you casually pitch fork them in the face.
I started playing Blood on "well done" But after a few playthroughs, it was too easy, as I became accustomed to the enemies, maps and weapons. Now I play on "extra crispy" and it is both challenging and fun! You can too! Might get angry a few times but it is worth it. Kinda like being able to play Doom casually on Nightmare! As for the Hell hands, the damage in the original DOS game was directly tied to the frame rate. Higher frame rates resulted in more damage. To the point where removing the frame limiter on some ports could result in instant death the very frame they touch you. Also, the whole not being able to remove them with the use key is another hidden variable. The "remove with use" mechanic resets with the frames. So you have to tap the use key fast enough to eject them from your neck. If the frame rate is too high, the "use counter" resets to zero the next frame after tapping the use key. Again, all this is fixed in most modern source ports such as BloodGDX and NBlood. In older DOS versions, raising the resolution would decrease the FPS, which would allow the "remove with use" thing to be effective, and reduce damage per second done by the hands. EDIT: The green spiders' darkening the screen attack was also tied to the frame rate. In modern ports, or with high FPS, the screen darkens for a second and then returns to normal. Back in old DOS versions of the game, the screen would darken for several seconds up to minutes with enough hits. This is because the screen "undarkens" with each frame. Higher frame rates return the screen to normal faster, and almost instantly if high enough.
"Man, the enemy HP is seriously overtuned in this game," I think, before remembering an old LP of Blood II and seeing the sequel, among other things, got even wilder with the HP values.
i do believe this has more to do with RNG damage spread and considering the fact that GT Interactive released it in a state that has yet to be polished which they refuse to let Monolith to do that, its most likely tied to the framerate.
I noticed in the game they have Shrink Shrooms, but they never shrink you which I think would have been an interesting in game element. You accidentally eat a shrink shroom when fighting zombies and a zombie crushes you. But, he forgot the worst enemies in Blood which are worse than any of them "Fall Damage" and "Door Frame". If you stand in any of the door frames and don't move you will auto die. And Fall Damage is ridiculous which is kind of weird since Caleb moves like an Olympic Sprint runner, so how does that work? LOL 20:30 This has nothing to due with the fact the Fanatics are Hitscan Enemies 0 Chance LOL. Cheogh and the Cultist Priest both have one major disadvantage if you go close enough to them where you can hit them, but no far enough away where they will use a ranged attack you can go around in circles with your pitch fork to remove them. I think it's coded into the game since their own blast radius attacks damage themselves.
Sorry for another comment but on the topic of the fishbois, one of the first maps in the expansions has some aquarium vibes. There is a big glass tube with a shark man in it and next to it is one of the shirtless "innocent" guys and a bunch of chains. Not sure if expansions are 'canon' or not but the impression I got was that the cabal kidnaps people and initially turned them into axe zombies but progressed into weirder stuff as they began creating foul abominations that mix man and beast, hence the distubingly human screams you hear upon blasting a shark man
As far as I remember the plasma pack didn't add alt-fires for some weapons, they had them even in the original full release. It added the ability to use the tesla guns akimbo though, that didn't work originally.
New alt fires for Life Leech and Napalm Launcher with Plasma Pak, not in the original, according to the sacred texts. And new akimbo for the Tesla, aye.
@@EduardoAndFriends Been a very long time since I played the original release, guess I confused some things. This video is making me think I should have another run through the game, I do that every year or so haha. Edit: Using the flare gun on cultists is actually not recommended imo, they don't drop ammo if they catch fire before dying. They still drop keys and special items if they have one, but I have never seen one drop ammo after running around on fire. I believe it's something to do with the way the build engine handles actors, the burning men are generic for all cultists so it doesn't know which ammo to drop.
This game will never stop being funny to me, mostly becaus of the Cultists, which are an endless source of amusement. Its not just their chanting or their screaming, its the way they keep messing up in new and unexpected ways, like walking down ledges, stepping on lava or blowing themselves up with Dynamite (bonus points when they take some of their friends with them).
@@EduardoAndFriends For me the thing I noticed most was the dynamite, like the area of effect is just way off. I normally am not sensitive to these things, but I couldn't play it anymore.
Shame we have no information regarding the code, to be honest. I would be interested in how exactly does the hitscanner behaviour work in this game. Cultists are absolutely insane with their accuracy and reflexes. They do not seem to have the "walk first" bit of code like in Doom, for example.
Absolutely! Definitely whatever “chase” portion of their code gets greatly reduced each time the difficulty increases. Would be great to know specifics!
While code was never released, there is NBlood, which is demo playback accurate for behavior. The code can be confusing though. "Sprites" are what game entities like enemies are named the build engine. Sprites of the kDudeCultistShotgun type are shotgun cultist specific code, so code handling that type, and any code applied to all sprites, defines their behavior. Probably most of it is in ai.cpp, aicult.cpp, and actor.cpp.
Well, the DOS verison is the most accurate one, since all ports (including Fresh Supply) are based on reverse-engineering and approximation. So there you have it - a reason to play vanilla ;)
The moment I saw the hands classified as a nuisance, I actually began wondering if this guy knows what he's talking about. For a long time I was under the impression that depending on the difficulty level, there is a certain delay before you can push it off, which on _Well Done_ is long enough to leave the player near-dead. This is also what I remember from BloodGDX. And if it is not so in Fresh Supply -- well, I reserve the right to believe that this is *another* thing they screwed up while porting. And I also remember being completely unable to push them off when using immortality cheat. A monster that can break your game even when you cheat. How's that for a nuisance enemy?
@@EduardoAndFriends Yeah, they are definitely awesome. I'd say though your voice tone (compared to Ahoy) sounds more mocking while Ahoy has a more serious tone (makes sense, his videos are made like in a documentary format)
Best FPS? Far from it. Talking about enemies, many of them can be easily cheesed. Many enemies pojectiles are fired only horizontally, so if you crouch or jump on something, they can't hit you (that includes bosses).
Envelope-ing? That's not how you pronounce Enveloping. It's En-Vel-Op-Ing, not En-Vel-Ope-Ing In general I think you could maybe work on sounding a bit more natural with your delivery, the content is good but you just sound kinda stilted sometimes
I get where you’re coming from but your idea of an appropriate delivery will 100% conflict with someone else’s idea of an appropriate delivery so I think I’ll settle on what I’m happy with instead. Cheers, fella
Throwing a bundle of dynamite around a corner and then seeing a cultist go flying while he screams like Goofy will never get old. One of the best feelings in video gaming.
Nothing compares. :)
MADANAK PALLAAAAX.
i know there are "translations" for cultist speak but i prefer my weird phonetic spellings
@@ThommyofThenn me too. ;)
Oh hell yes. I caught a few really good ones when I made my Blood review.
yeah, i do wish more games would have jabs like this, closest thing i remember is the flechette grenade from cruelty squad.
"is this hard? Of course it's hard, it's Blood." (Civvie11)
😄
"Ah, that... vintage boom shoot. Yes, '97, a good year."
Nah. I grew up in the 1990's. Blood is normal difficulty. Because EVERYTHING was harder in the 1990's! People nowadays are wusses! And Civvie just needs to git gud!
Out of all the Build engine games, Blood was the only one that felt to me like it recaptured that special something from Doom 1 & 2 - while bringing it's own "unique" to the table too.
I've been looking for BLOOD analysis for a while and here it is! Superb!
Thanks!
Always love to see people shining a spotlight on this game.
It really deserves a larger fan/modding community.
It totally does need a bigger mod community, big agree!
@@EduardoAndFriends Do deathwish
That’d be fun. Would be hard to find things to say that others haven’t already said … but it would be fun. :)
I really wish the modding community was larger, the game has so much untapped potential and it shows with the few mods it has, almost all of them are so well made it's incredible.
I specially love Arcade mode, sadly the modder disappeared years ago and left that beauty of a mod right there, half way done to perfection, the mod went to the point of making Tchernobog an actual threatening final boss, it's an experience that makes Ultrakill pale with how frenetic it becomes.
Blood already has a sizable map making base actually. Far larger than Shadow Warrior for example.
the fact the cultists survive under water makes me think hp lovecraft vibes and they have gills on their neck
"Wake up Eduardo... huh, what's this 'Fresh Supply' you speak of? Steam? 2024? Bro, just come over, dad bought me this brand new 486 and a new game called Blood. It's pizza, dr pepper and DOS install night."
It’s pizza time. 🍕 👌
Haha, this is a great overlook of the Blood enemies, I really enjoyed it. I'd like to add three comments.
1. The Voodoo Doll is actually more than useful against cultist in water. You don't have to aim accurately, the doll hits the hitscanners in the water pretty well.
2. One of the most beautiful things in Blood is to release a full double-barrell in the face of a Cultist or Ackolyte just in the moment when the throw a bundle of dynamite at you. It explodes right in front of their face, which is jus ah, the best.
3. Cheogh can actually be pitchforked in a Zombieman-like way, if you can catch the rhythm of his clawing. Or by circle-strafing. Also, placing the Life Leech on the ground and crouching can eliminate a literally endless amount of Cheoghs.
Blood has the best gore and gibs out of the classic build engine games imo
Any fps at all in my opinion! The art design is so damn tight. :)
"Wafer thin potato chip floating on the breeze", 😂 brilliant man, brilliant script thus far
Cheers! 😎
Your narration is great, I think this is the first time someone covered all of the enemies of Blood in detail and I'm happy you did, this is my favorite game of all time and a great part of my childhood.
Thanks. :)
Very well made. Now here hoping to see Ion Fury enemies too, that game deserves as much attention as the other Build classics.
Yes, Ion Fury is amazing. AMAZING.
And thanks!
@jcdenton6427 except those goddamn spider-head crabs though.
I can deal with hitscanning cyborgs and relish the punishment, but having motion sickness from melee-dodging an enemy that's attack animation is restricted to jumping is just plain irritating to deal with in a high-octane, ballistic heavy fps.
they're so trash that they make me appreciate the elevator spawn of that swarm of headcrabs that hurtles at you from above during the first part of playing half life.
but that's my opinion. Otherwise great game.
Love to see the enemies die in ion fury.
@@eMoss-k7j they are a bit annoying but I git used to it after playing the game over and over and over again. Stun stick is good against them, as it can sometimes do chain lightning, but the best way to deal with them is to just crouch instead of looking up and down when they jump
That's exactly what I do p. They're even when toggling crouching and swatting at them, it feels like such a nuisance to be at times encountered with rooms populated up to the ceiling with hordes of them.
I actually think that the corrosive millipede enemy is vastly superior, overall. Even the spider-drones that fly around and occasionally evade the magnums deadlock aim mechanics are, while still a bit of a hassle, at least serve a decent purpose in that encountering them usually results in the benefit of honing two v key combat mechanics, those being evasion and long-to-medium range accuracy(especially since these type of disembodied cyborg enemies are virtually almost always certain to be present when the gameplay makes it appropriate for them to be there: and that's whenever you happen to be in an open level area... even when they are there in some indoor arenas, I feel like you never have to deal with them being planted on you as heavily as their ground-level siblings are).
And that's probably what I hate the most about the spiders tbh. The game just dumps them haphazardly, yet with constant placements that appear to have no internally logical purpose as to why they have to be so omnipresent.
When you enter combat with any of the regular to airborne enemies, a bit more often than necessary have I experienced them being interspersed among waves of enemies that arguably are much more lethal, but what's interesting is that throughout the game, this works only really one part of the game and that's when you're introduced to them within that small corridor where they were introduced to you, and did so with a concise execution.
I'm sorry I sound so bitter about such a small and miniscule trash tier enemy. I'm as of recently playing the game on the second-hardest difficulty, and I'm basically almost devoid of any ammo, my health is down to about 48, and I'm saved right before the boss with the mech at the plaza. I've tried backtracking even to a significant distance to search for either visible secrets or pick ups I missed. My health is so low that even the pizza in the lobby before entering the boss arena does so little for improving my hp.
And here's the biggest example of my complaint: in the short few minutes running around the plaza before the boss is scripted to enter the area and fight you, there is a sudden outpouring of hitscanning enemies that, while scrounging for what supplies you frantically try to outmanuever the gunfire surrounding you during this momentary mini-horde. And for whatever reason, yes, the spiders are thrown in at you in ridiculous quantities during this short time.
Idk like, my reflexes can only handle so much sometimes. Standing still during this area to dispose of them economically makes you so easy to be shredded by ranged attacks, whereas the dizzying panoramic circulatory space for the arena practically puts you to be frenetic but in a way that reduces both accuracy and exposes you to blind spots ...
Tl;dr, none of these things are the worst in isolation, but seeing these little fuckers jump around your death screen when you're barely given enough time to cleanly eliminate at least a good portion of the first wave of enemies
Like you're forced to waste ammo on them too much in this section.
and I would not be this salty if there was a better balance for the amount of spiders this arena will dump on you.
But then again, returning to the WONDERFULLY creepy corrosive-spewing android millipedes is such an underutilized enemy for how much better they do the same role as the spiders(like the fact that the segments of the millipedes length can become separate if smaller enemy units individually about roughly the exact size and below-waistline height of the inferior spider pests; severely fewer encounters with these incredible, slinky long bois compared to this frustrating oversaturation of the former.
The only cool thing about the spiders is their death animations, and tbh even the flying head variation looks better to both electrocute by baton alt fire, or seeing to see them be burst into flames in mid air before hurting to explode without any direction is still even better to watch die than the spider bots.
I'm sure you get the gist as to why I find them so personally infuriating. And I get that really, I tend to dislike them overall moreover than how most ppl see spider bots are, and that's as quite fairly, a very simplistic type of enemy unit that can be dismissed calmly as nothing except by most who don't even hate them because they're so easy to be killed, and that tend to judge the spiders medicore if occasionally tedious adversaries.
but like, BELIEVE IT OR NOT, this being any bit of a hindrance to me enjoying a game like ion fury is really more negligible than my complaints above might appear.
I think part of what makes any shooter to be memorably engaging is to have not just great enemies in gameplay is that if you have one or two utterly hateable and borderline worthless type of filler enemies, it enhances the overall determination to become better at the gameplay because that hatred caused by weathering those weakass spiders will sometimes give you at least the motivation in destroying them to go forth and be shot with adrenaline afterwards to let that residual if still potent hatred influence how mercilessly you will go about killing the enemies with guns, making even the one-shot and ur dead hitscanners more mentally cathartic to overcome.
anyways, thanks everyone for letting me have this platform to briefly rant about such a tiny but contempt-worthy enemy unit lol.
For the record, I still think they're nowhere nearly as trash as half the enemy encounters/boss battles thrown up on you throughout the second dark souls game.
like the giant rat boss that inflicts toxic on you rapidly despite it being otherwise a comically easy enemy is beyond even hating because it's such a cheap, throwaway means for a developer to increase the difficulty of an enemy/boss that otherwise would be better to not even exist within the game.
And though I hate the spiders in ion fury, I don't think they ultimately should be removed from the game entirely despite being so trash. At least they clean up nicely when they're dead and forgotten about in the battlefield.
I can always respect something I viscerally hate than something I think is pointlessly used against the player to inflate gameplay needlessly.
thank god ion fury isn't dark souls 2, is about the gist of it lol
Man, if you light the Mini-Calebs on fire, they magically grow. That's something, alright.
DO NOT TRY THIS AT HOME.
loved the writing and the humor. it also goes pretty in depth even though im no Blood expert. this is a 10/10 vid!
Thanks mate! Really digging your videos too!
It’s still mind-boggling as to why Tchernobog has less HP than almost all the other bosses, but hey, after fighting stone gargoyle after stone gargoyle, I ain’t complainin’ haha. I also can’t tell you how relieved I was when I found out about the shotguns-akimbo strat for the Beasts. It gives you so much more room to deal with those guys!
These “Understanding…” videos are really fun to watch. It’s cool hearing you talk so in-depth about these things, and your narration is so good 💪 Looking forward to Dark Forces!!
Thanks man! And thank you for the shotgun strat wish I knew about it years ago. :D
Decent video though I'd like to point out some extra tips for dealing with enemies;
- This is probably the most important tip for dealing with cultists: CIRCLE STRAFE! Every type of cultist won't fire at you unless they are looking directly at you. So if you have an encounter with a cultist take advantage of their slow turning speed. Once they start shooting at you they won't stop until you hit them with something or you run to cover where they can't see you
- If you mash the use key before a hell hand grabs on to you it's actually a lot easier to get them off you rather than just reacting to the choke; Even on extra crispy. You can also manipulate where a hand lands so you can get one off you AND have it land right over your crosshair if positioned correctly.
- For dealing with the phantasm the tommy gun can work just as well. You can even bait them to melee and tap the alt fire once and it's about the same as using the shotgun alt minus damage and knock back. Preferable over the shotgun? No, but still useful.
ANYWAYS please excuse my geeking out. I enjoy when someone releases a high quality blood video (which is pretty rare as you'd imagine) and this is definitely one of them :)
Cheers! Thanks!
So which is it then. You called it decent, then called it high quality heheh. They do not mean the same
@@BUKUDI What I mean is it is still well made even if it misses a few things
Glad to see people are stil enjoying this game today. I remember playing it in the 1990s on our little Acer computer in my mom's work office. Such an unreal experience to go from SNES to this
Awesome! I love hearing people’s personal history with games. :)
This video is absolutely fantastic, and reminds me that I need to finish my extra crispy/pitchfork start run soon. Subscribed and I hope you make more vids like this :)
Thanks! More on the way. :)
Good coverage. Most enemies can be downed in versatile ways, but some are some serious pieces of work. Especially the flame bois...
A few notes I'd like to add:
- A bug in DOS Blood made it so that if you killed an axe zombie or any form of cultists and they dropped a life essence, you could gib the body and it'd drop _another_ life essence. But you can only gib corpses of those enemies if they were killed by means that cause normal death animations (no fire, no voodoo magic for zombies, and no gibbing). So for the sake of cheese, the best strat was to get close, duck, aim up and BOOM with the shotgun. The mook would die, the body would fly upwards, and gib when it landed. That's 💯% and exploit and I bet fixed by Fresh Supply, but it's worth mentioning.
- The cleaver tossed by Bloated Butchers deals spirit armor damage (vomit is normal damage), and at least in DOS, can also be negated by ducking. The cleaver hits, but deals no damage. Not sure it was fixed in Fresh Supply.
- If you're close to Cerberus but not in bite range, he'll stop spitting napalm balls and blow out singular little puffs of fire. Don't be fooled, those can TORCH you. They're basically the same as catching a Hell Hound's full fire breath, so they'll ignite you for a very long time, and with no water pools around in the places Cerberus appears, well...
Lovely compendium, Eduardo, cheers!
Fantastic additions, thanks! 😁
CRUDOX CRUO!
Boo hoo when will the hurting stop? 😅
@@EduardoAndFriends
En marana domus nava crunatus!
(I admit I had to look this up from the blood wiki lol. For some reason the cultist language is really focused on massacre and blood 😅)
I also like the fact when cultists are burning, they switch to English, screaming "it burns, it burns!"
In reality it was probably just the same sample used as for Caleb - to save memory- but in my head I always explained it as simply that the cultists simply forget shouting scary one liners in their cultist language when they are burning and revert back to their actual native language, English 😅
@@ocean_monster1 😄
maranax pallex!
IT BURNS IT BURNS!!!! 🔥
Duke 3D, Shadow Warrior and Blood.
The holy trinity of fps games.
Beasts have one other big potential strategy regarding their stomp: it does "falling" damage to the player, at least in vanilla versions. Not sure if this was changed/fixed for Fresh Supply off hand. However this means that if you have Jump Boots [which negate falling damage when turned on, they don't just let you jump high], you can completely shut down their stomp. It won't protect you from their scratches though. Also, it can be situational if you have Jump Boots during various Beast encounters or not, and to utilize the boots well, you have to have a good timing of their stomp animation for the most efficient use of the boots without draining them out [since they can be toggled on and off], but still. :V
That is AWESOME and makes so much sense. Thanks so much!
I remember visiting the Blood web page back in 97 and reading about these monsters. Its such a cool roster :)
Hell yeah. :p
Another great look into a classic, kinda interested to see what other games you give a look next.
Thanks, already decided on the next one. :)
Awesome work! Just had this vid pop up in my suggestions yesterday and subscribed after seeing this and some of your Doom vids! Would be cool to see you do a vid like this either for the other Build Engine games or even Doom and the various other Doom/GZDoom engine games (I will be watching the Hexen vid after typing this)! Keep up the awesome work!
Thanks!
I love how every enemy in Blood’s bestiary looks like an animatronic you’d see at Spirit Halloween with a $500 price tag
love the channel mate
Thanks!
really nice video, you should make similar videos about other old fps games, would love to watch that
Oh I shall! Working on another one right now. :)
What is the song that plays at 4:32?Amazing video btw,i really like enemy analysis videos,keep it up!
Thanks! It’s an unused tune for the music test for the game setup. A real banger!
Hello Eduardo. My name is Eduardo Ramon from the Philippines. Glad your video was recommended to me because I am just discovering boomer shooters.
Hi! Awesome, hope you’re enjoying the games. :)
Amazing video, really love the little easter eggs in your lines, the consistency, the PASSION that surrounds this whole video as well as the acting and enthusiasm in your voice - makes me feel you've done plenty of Caleb impressions in the past, and I bet you do them really well, too haha :D
And also, incredible tips! One thing I really love to do with cultists is stunning them with the Tommy gun, then running up to them and shotgunning them point blank - preferably while crouching, too, much like how you do it with zombies.
Oh, and also, gargoyles seem to turn pretty allergic against TNT once you learn how to bait them to throw bones and offer them a biteful of dynamite :)
Fantastic, thanks!
EXCELLENT video man!
Content was great, but your dialog was very solid with all the pacing, the jokes, and the details. Bonus points for using old Blood music.
You should totally make more Blood videos, fellow Bloodite. 🦇
Makes me want to make another review on Blood over my super old crappy one.
Thanks man! Yeah I’d like to do some more Blood stuff, just gotta think of a new angle haha! I look forward to your stuff 😎
Okay, you've done it, now I want to play Blood
Do it do it do it
Sure, one more playtrough and maybe Death Wish again if I feel like it
... again! (c)
Modern games often lack stuff like what this game has : Blood is great because it dares to be a video game. It doesn't try to be realistic, it's FUN.
The ragdoll physics of explosions are chaotic and such chaos = fun. In my 40 years on this planet, I'd the say the most fun core gameplay loop of any FPS has been on Blood and it's down to all different ways of how TNT can...interact with cultists and other enemies. There are FPS games that have better levels or better graphics...but Blood is the most fun.
Alt-firing a TNT so it bounces from a wall and slides next to a cultist- and then seeing the pile of gore flying from there - it's just bloody fun.
Modern games try too hard to be realistic. I don't want realism, I want goofy ass ragdolls, explosions and cultists.
Edit: im on my 2nd playthrough of Fresh Supply and just learned the zombie pain sound cue from this video. I usually TNT or burn them down immediately but sometimes it's only possible to blast with projectiles and give them a chance to rise again, so thanks for the tip!
Nice touch making the thumbnail resemble the delightfully perverse animations on the "Help" screens😊
Thanks. Only thing missing is mimes!
Glad to see playing on Well Done. It turns Blood from a boomshoot into a tactical shooter :p
Edit: also fun to jump over gargoyles while dueling them with pitchfork
@@ThommyofThenn Is Extra Crispy as nasty as everyone says? Perhaps the equivalent of Nightmare in Doom?
@@dreadwanderer It was balanced with coop play in mind.
@@grahamwilson4053 Yeah so I heard but it seems to be much harder than UV Plus in Doom, which is pretty much UV with co-op monsters enabled.
Really good video about one of my favorite fps games. Groovy.
Thanks :)
That animation when using akimbo tesla gun alt fire is so satisfying!
Hell yeah!
1:40 - Cultists' lift off never gets old.
Never. NEVER.
Lovely video. This is also one I’m yet to do. I have done both shadow warrior and duke3d. I love the day of the triffids reference!
Ooh nice! Look forward to that. :D thanks man!
For Zombies, Butchers, Cultists and Gargoyles, if in large crowds, napalm and the spray can, individually, some flares (Bloated Butchers or Gargoyles,) or shotgun to the face (Axe Zombies and Cultists). Small enemies usually come in packs, so Spray Can or Dynamite works really well. Hellhounds and any fire based enemy usually fall ill to the Tesla Cannon. Number one thing about Blood is movement is all about mastery, as Civvie put it in his pro series (I can't do him justice here) because like most fps games, movement is important, but with Blood, it's different, there's more to understand and put to use like crouching is an essential element to enemies like Hitscanners like the Cultists, jumping over enemies allows you to escape tight situations. Dynamite is also an essential element, like grenades Call of Duty, toss them around corners, find little cracks in the wall, etc. The only mistake to be made is having the mindset that 1997 ain't got shit on modern players, never assume that, because back then, sure, Circle strafing seems primitive now, but then, it's what scored a girlfriend, but the developers didn't fuck around when they were making this game. In exchange for this simplified advice table, could anyone tell me if there's a console port? I'm broke and can't afford a PC for this game that I fucking love.
Your voice and talking style is sooo beautifull!!!
Thank you so much!
The suicide assisted room is quite a difficult part but there is a guns akimbo power-up in the level that could help you kill those Phantasms easier. It's on the other side of the Sick Ward though, so you'd have to prepare first & rush to the room after picking it up.
31:10 there's a Guide Dang It moment in episode 3 when one of them is holding a key.
Your writing is superb bro
Thank you. 😎
Nice video!
Here as instructed to leave a comment saying you're wrong for choosing fresh supply and should play in... NBlood! Or NotBlood!
DON'T SUFFER THROUGH DOS IT'S HORRIBLE.
NBlood is more accurate than Fresh Supply. Demo playback compatible. NotBlood is based on NBlood, and has some really nice options (including the ability to change hitscan enemies to use fast projectiles instead, so they can actually be dodged, tweaking the rat hitboxes, fixing the gargoyle crouch bug, and restoring the pitchfork alt fire!)
I coded the share keys option for multiplayer in NBlood and a few small bugfixes.
Tip on fighting hellhounds: get close, and they will always melee attack, which is preferable to the flames.
Also, try out the alpha levels pack!
Super! This is info I was secretly after thank you! Gonna check em all out. :)
Glad to see a comment pointing this out! Fresh Supply isn't as accurate as it should be, and it's even missing bits of code from the original game. That's why it's incompatible with some mods. Some enemies are more vulnerable to fire than others, and that function seems to be broken/improperly implemented in Fresh Supply; the difference is quite noticeable when using NBlood or NotBlood. My favorite feature of NotBlood is that it fixes explosion sector detection issues along with other bugs from the original.
@@TimeSplitter1701 Yes, that explosion fix is great, and so is the hit detection fix for projectile paths. The original game's algorithm could have projectiles sometimes phase through enemies. I also love the option to replace akimbo with quad damage, and the smaller hitbox for player projectiles so you don't blow your face off when trying to shoot around corners.
NotBlood is my preferred way to play, especially if I'm playing multiplayer with inexperience people.
Another issue with Fresh Supply is crushers frequently fail to kill you.
NBlood is based on reverse engineering and decompiling bits of the original exe which is why it is so accurate.
A true hidden gem of the fps genre. This game didn't get near the love it deserved.
100%!
My knowledge of Blood was limited to Civvie's series. I appreciated the humour and all that, but your presentation is much more systematic and clear.
The fact that we still don't know about stuff like HP values shows how important open source codes are. I'm also very impressed with Blood's showcase of the power of the Build engine (or KEX for the remaster). Actually I'm wondering what the latter could mean for Doom since the newest official source port is also KEX based.
Thanks DW. :D big, big agree on the importance of source code releases! Also curious what it means RE: Nu Doom. :/
@@EduardoAndFriendsNightdive didn't take any major chances and I sort of like that, id24 feels like a natural extension of MBF21. On a DW thread it was quite accurately described as a "conservative update" or something of the sort. It's also good because GZ already exists for the crazy modding stuff, physics changes and all that jazz. It's a bit too early to make any sweeping judgements but so far it's alright.
i was half paying attention when the guy just said "if your testicles are unreasobly large..."
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very neat video
hope to see similar ones done for duke 3d and shadow warrior
I hope to cover those games too. Ion Fury too at some point. 👍
I understand now. They still hurt, though.
The best build engine game and one of the greatest fps game next to doom
100%!
Heck yes sire!
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Not mentioned: circlestrafing works against the hitscan enemies. The Tommygun's secondary fire can stun the Cultists, but not the Fanatics. Jumping also helps to avoid damage from the hitscan enemies.
My favorite game of all time. Not the best in quality that I’ve played, but certainly the most entertaining.
My friend Stephan Weyte voiced Caleb for this game!
He’s such a brilliant voice actor, please say hi to him from me! 😁
The standing reaper also drives the boat in boggy creek
Some things to note that might not have been fully mentioned: The bloated zombies MELT to fire damage. They seemed to take double damage from fire dealing weapons. Spray cans kill them in seconds along with flares. Gill beasts are fully and completely immune to whatever damage type the Tesla cannon is. Gargoyles upon taking damage will reset their melee attack. So what does that mean? Tommy gun in a 1v1 fight will invalidate them as they keep trying to attack and each bullet negates that melee attack animation. You can sit in their face not moving and they'll never get an attack in. Also this means that fire damage also breaks them as every tick of the damage over time will also reset their melee attack. Hit them with the spray can or a couple of flares and they can't do anything until the fire goes out while you casually pitch fork them in the face.
Nice, nice, nice. Great stuff!
I started playing Blood on "well done" But after a few playthroughs, it was too easy, as I became accustomed to the enemies, maps and weapons. Now I play on "extra crispy" and it is both challenging and fun! You can too! Might get angry a few times but it is worth it. Kinda like being able to play Doom casually on Nightmare! As for the Hell hands, the damage in the original DOS game was directly tied to the frame rate. Higher frame rates resulted in more damage. To the point where removing the frame limiter on some ports could result in instant death the very frame they touch you. Also, the whole not being able to remove them with the use key is another hidden variable. The "remove with use" mechanic resets with the frames. So you have to tap the use key fast enough to eject them from your neck. If the frame rate is too high, the "use counter" resets to zero the next frame after tapping the use key. Again, all this is fixed in most modern source ports such as BloodGDX and NBlood. In older DOS versions, raising the resolution would decrease the FPS, which would allow the "remove with use" thing to be effective, and reduce damage per second done by the hands.
EDIT: The green spiders' darkening the screen attack was also tied to the frame rate. In modern ports, or with high FPS, the screen darkens for a second and then returns to normal. Back in old DOS versions of the game, the screen would darken for several seconds up to minutes with enough hits. This is because the screen "undarkens" with each frame. Higher frame rates return the screen to normal faster, and almost instantly if high enough.
Noice!
GODS recommended this video to me
Chrysalid pods are definetly an alien reference to the ovomorph eggs.
Great video Edz, I've never played Blood but it looks really fun!
Thanks mate! It’s easily my favourite fps ever. ✊
18:16 Civvie got absolutely screwed in that room in his video
I think he was down to pitchfork, hehe!
Join us!
"Man, the enemy HP is seriously overtuned in this game," I think, before remembering an old LP of Blood II and seeing the sequel, among other things, got even wilder with the HP values.
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i do believe this has more to do with RNG damage spread and considering the fact that GT Interactive released it in a state that has yet to be polished which they refuse to let Monolith to do that, its most likely tied to the framerate.
I noticed in the game they have Shrink Shrooms, but they never shrink you which I think would have been an interesting in game element. You accidentally eat a shrink shroom when fighting zombies and a zombie crushes you. But, he forgot the worst enemies in Blood which are worse than any of them "Fall Damage" and "Door Frame". If you stand in any of the door frames and don't move you will auto die. And Fall Damage is ridiculous which is kind of weird since Caleb moves like an Olympic Sprint runner, so how does that work? LOL
20:30 This has nothing to due with the fact the Fanatics are Hitscan Enemies 0 Chance LOL. Cheogh and the Cultist Priest both have one major disadvantage if you go close enough to them where you can hit them, but no far enough away where they will use a ranged attack you can go around in circles with your pitch fork to remove them. I think it's coded into the game since their own blast radius attacks damage themselves.
Sorry for another comment but on the topic of the fishbois, one of the first maps in the expansions has some aquarium vibes. There is a big glass tube with a shark man in it and next to it is one of the shirtless "innocent" guys and a bunch of chains.
Not sure if expansions are 'canon' or not but the impression I got was that the cabal kidnaps people and initially turned them into axe zombies but progressed into weirder stuff as they began creating foul abominations that mix man and beast, hence the distubingly human screams you hear upon blasting a shark man
Nice!
Plasma Pak was by Monolith so it should be as canon as the Plutonium Pack is to Duke 3D
@@grahamwilson4053 thanks
The only game I know of where the basic bitch enemies are the most dangerous
Blood was truly a masterpiece! Shame the second game turned out the way it was.
Haha, yeaaaaaah. Not great, that second game. :’(
As far as I remember the plasma pack didn't add alt-fires for some weapons, they had them even in the original full release. It added the ability to use the tesla guns akimbo though, that didn't work originally.
New alt fires for Life Leech and Napalm Launcher with Plasma Pak, not in the original, according to the sacred texts. And new akimbo for the Tesla, aye.
@@EduardoAndFriends Been a very long time since I played the original release, guess I confused some things. This video is making me think I should have another run through the game, I do that every year or so haha.
Edit: Using the flare gun on cultists is actually not recommended imo, they don't drop ammo if they catch fire before dying. They still drop keys and special items if they have one, but I have never seen one drop ammo after running around on fire. I believe it's something to do with the way the build engine handles actors, the burning men are generic for all cultists so it doesn't know which ammo to drop.
My favourite Blood addon is actually French Meat.
Nice, nice, I’ve still gotta play it but I’ve heard good things.
The goated game tbh
For real 👌
when i began playing blood recently i decided to try and save innocents
Nice! They deserve all the help they can get.
This game will never stop being funny to me, mostly becaus of the Cultists, which are an endless source of amusement. Its not just their chanting or their screaming, its the way they keep messing up in new and unexpected ways, like walking down ledges, stepping on lava or blowing themselves up with Dynamite (bonus points when they take some of their friends with them).
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32:17 LOL same, along with Peon quotes from WC2, and of course nobody gets it.
Zug zug 😢
@@EduardoAndFriends Yesh milord!
@@sozhran Stop poking me! ;)
Personally I swear by playing in the Raze engine, (which I think is built on a hybrid of eDuke32 and GZDoom but I'm no expert). I am wrong as well?
Haha I was just looking at Raze, it’s bloody awesome! Yeah I believe it’s a blending of the two sourceports. :)
@@EduardoAndFriends For me the thing I noticed most was the dynamite, like the area of effect is just way off. I normally am not sensitive to these things, but I couldn't play it anymore.
Can you do quake next pls ❤
It’s on my list! :p
@@EduardoAndFriends yippie
You do know NBlood is a thing, right?
Yes
Shame we have no information regarding the code, to be honest.
I would be interested in how exactly does the hitscanner behaviour work in this game. Cultists are absolutely insane with their accuracy and reflexes.
They do not seem to have the "walk first" bit of code like in Doom, for example.
Absolutely! Definitely whatever “chase” portion of their code gets greatly reduced each time the difficulty increases. Would be great to know specifics!
While code was never released, there is NBlood, which is demo playback accurate for behavior. The code can be confusing though. "Sprites" are what game entities like enemies are named the build engine. Sprites of the kDudeCultistShotgun type are shotgun cultist specific code, so code handling that type, and any code applied to all sprites, defines their behavior. Probably most of it is in ai.cpp, aicult.cpp, and actor.cpp.
There is an even more direct source reconstruction by the NBlood team.
Why do you usually play in DosBox and no in the remastered Blood - Fresh Supply?
This was prior to the remaster being released. And prior to my knowledge of sourceports too heh
Not DOS no, but NBlood... :p
Also a reconstruction of the source code exists.
6:26 - that a nod to Ghost I hear? ;)
😉
Well, the DOS verison is the most accurate one, since all ports (including Fresh Supply) are based on reverse-engineering and approximation. So there you have it - a reason to play vanilla ;)
хороший обзор
🙂 thanks
But wait, theres more!
It would be very remiss of me to not mention Mr Tickets Pwease, that’s for sure. :D
The moment I saw the hands classified as a nuisance, I actually began wondering if this guy knows what he's talking about. For a long time I was under the impression that depending on the difficulty level, there is a certain delay before you can push it off, which on _Well Done_ is long enough to leave the player near-dead. This is also what I remember from BloodGDX. And if it is not so in Fresh Supply -- well, I reserve the right to believe that this is *another* thing they screwed up while porting. And I also remember being completely unable to push them off when using immortality cheat. A monster that can break your game even when you cheat. How's that for a nuisance enemy?
Ticket Pwease!
“Hey, he didn’t pay!”
I wish this game was remade or series was rebooted
You do know about the cloak of invisibility secret before entering the tightrope auditorium right? 😂
Yup. Like LBF’s playthrough I’d already used it elsewhere.
Holy shit Blood Decino??
I’ll take it haha! 😎
Your voice sounds like a combination of Coincident with Ahoy
Perfect, I love those guys :)
@@EduardoAndFriends Yeah, they are definitely awesome. I'd say though your voice tone (compared to Ahoy) sounds more mocking while Ahoy has a more serious tone (makes sense, his videos are made like in a documentary format)
Marana pallex
CRUOOOOOOO!
GalleyUK was the best YT content for Blood, a shame he nuked his profile
Blood Fresh Supply is unplayable in multiplayer. Other than that, it is good.
Best FPS? Far from it. Talking about enemies, many of them can be easily cheesed. Many enemies pojectiles are fired only horizontally, so if you crouch or jump on something, they can't hit you (that includes bosses).
Envelope-ing?
That's not how you pronounce Enveloping. It's En-Vel-Op-Ing, not En-Vel-Ope-Ing
In general I think you could maybe work on sounding a bit more natural with your delivery, the content is good but you just sound kinda stilted sometimes
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I get where you’re coming from but your idea of an appropriate delivery will 100% conflict with someone else’s idea of an appropriate delivery so I think I’ll settle on what I’m happy with instead. Cheers, fella
"but you just sound kinda stilted sometimes"
Yeah, change the best thing about these videos. Fantastic suggestion.
sneak-DooM
why is your voice so freaky
I couldn’t possibly tell you, sorry
0:00 WHA?? YU FAKIN MODDERR XDDDDDDF