I honestly loved the beginners curve in this game. Every time you died you would come back a little bit stronger and make it past whatever killed you last time but then quickly get killed by something else. Rinse and repeat until you learned how to make intelligent decisions in the spur of the moment.
I would rather cook them on a fire because the meat and three carrots cooked give you the same amount of hunger as a meatball but more hp and you don’t even need a crockpot
Noob: Genuenly tries to survive, tries his best, takes the order taken from the game (Dont starve) as seriously as possible Pro: Doesnt give a shit, is insane, murder hobo, never had a problem with food because they just get meat from kills
I can’t even use caves and I have over 20 hours of experience if I wanted to i could survive winter also I don’t agree with pro strat they don’t even get moggles truly a useful item
on the frog rain note, i find endless entertainment in using it to kill the Moose Goose. tons of meat, no gear wasted, and a boss gets pummeled by *frogs*. great show
I once had a world where there were 3 to 5 moose gooses around one area, the result was well, exactly as you described infinite meat and feathers for weather pains.
To be fair, I'm not sure if rushing the ruins to get all the good gear is a noob or pro move. It's more of a challenge to slug your way through the game with crappy equipment.
I remember the 1st time I killed Deerclopse... Not really knowing much about anything, and sacrificing about 10 pigs and 4 of their huts in the process. I was so happy when he died. I gathered all the meat, stuck it on my drying racks. Never knew what to do with the eye... So I ate it. I remember thinking, "That wasn't even as good as the mandrake soup from earlier" *facepalm*. Oh the noob days lol
I know professionals like going around the world and killing every boss they can as fast as they can but sometimes that gets a little boring because if you aren’t in your own world.. everything gets reset anyways
@@happyjay9168 any proof? Just get lost you ain't funny. Just cuz He likes Wolfgang And PiTS him in the thumbnail doesn't mean He judges all other characters.
1000 plus hours into the game and never felt the need to rush anything, ruins, bosses or anything. Never looked at DST as a pro/noob game. Next thing sims, animal crossing and something else is supposed to be played a specific way :D
The reason you have 1000+ hours is because you didn't rush things. If you rushed things you would have done everything in the game more times than you can count by your 250th hour and moved onto a new game. The only exception to this is content creators like rick who continue playing for the sake of blessing you fools with glorious knowledge and challenge runs. Out of that 1000+ hours you have spent on this game, a large percentage of it was spent just doing nothing/ boring repetitive tasks and passing the days, and probably using sgm to afk for drops. Sounds boring as shit time well spent! Every game has pros and noobs. For this game it comes down to efficiency, as DST at it's core is a game about time management.
No, DST barely has any content to really be played like sims, animal crossing or whatever. Realisticly, if you play like super slowly, by the time you get to day 400 or so, you probably did everything there is in the game.
Edgy Rick is a noob. Look at how he made his cave base at the end. Placing a ice box first? Come on. You always place the crockpots as close as possible first then the ice box inbetween.
This comments section is basically full of people joking, people who deserve to be r/wooooshed, and people pretending to be trolling r/wooooshers after the get called out for being dim
Idk why someone wanting to play a game about surviving means they’re a noob they are just trying to play a game why is someone a “pro” because they have a different play style it’s a stupid assumption just because someone has a different play style than a “pro” doesn’t mean they are good or bad at the game
Someone who knowingly uses methods that are vastly less efficient than better ones are stubborn and ignorant. Why would you willingly handicap your gameplay? The teaching of bad practices is another thing which is why experienced players don’t like Thebeard777.
@@gabrielcornwell3790 Why do people who clearly don't want to improve at the game, go to these tips videos and then start aggresively defending their shitty playstyle?
Blue Jay ok but isn’t it stupid that someone is shitting on others playstyle just cause I don’t rush ruins day 1 doesn’t make me a noob it just isn’t my playstyle and I’ve improved on my game just fine I don’t need these stupid videos I’ve played this game for years and I’m doing just fine I hate the assumption taht just cause I hate on the vid I’m not good why should someone’s play style conclude who they are as a player thsi so stupid for every game that it finest matter games like cod and overwatch yes there are noobs and pro but a game where the whole point is survival it’s dumb that if you play one way such as making farms or not rushing ruins makes you a noib
Honestly, the best thing you can do early is just map out the world. Run around the edges, gather resources on the way but not in abundance, just as much as you need and take opportunities that are given to you. See a bunch of grass gekkos bunched up? Run into them and get 10-ish grass. Move on. Just don't spend days chopping trees and picking twigs etc. But most importantly, have fun and play however you want man. Everybody has their own preference on how to survive in the Constant :)
Running edges? What an extreme waste of time... Fuck that. Anyone with half a brain runs the roads in search of the 1st segments of key locations. Swamp/PK/Desert/Quarry. You literally get set up in 1/8th to 1/16th the time with all of the same things as the fool running slowly around the edges of the world. By the time he circled the map, the road runners have a full base with everything they need. Worst advice ever.
@@AmyLovesYou Running around the map is literally the best idea ever, making a base is useless if you don't make a base in a good spot. Just gather a ton of resources you find along the way.
I don't see why so many people died to Deerclops. I find him really easy, like one time I was playing Wendy and I hadn't really prepared for the Deerclops fight at all, I didn't have sanity food or anything, all I really had was a football helmet, a couple pierogi's, and a tentacle spike. So I was really not very prepared, but I still easily killed him, keep in mind I was playing Wendy who is famously bad for giants because she does such little damage and Abbigail is pretty useless against them. The only part I really had trouble with was dealing with the shadow creatures after the fight, because the fight went on for so long and I had nothing to raise my sanity, and I was getting dogpiled by like 3 terrorbeaks, but I still pulled through that and went on to summer.
One of my friends complained to me that the game was impossible to pass day 1 since the darkness kills them immediately. Then I asked them about torches, then they replied "There are torches?".
@@kuple1021 lol! First time I got killed by darkness I just went "what? ... Oh... Grrrr... NEVER MORE". Next live I crafted a torch as soon as I could. But I feel the same every time we get an update with new creatures or biome... Me: Oh something new... Oups it's trying to kill me...
@@isabellecolmont4718 Me in my first hour of gameplay: oh this game is fun - dies to a spider. Me after 10 hours of gameplay: made it to winter finally! - freezes to death - me after 1,000 hours - eats everything in sight before it eats me - everything in this game wants to kill me!
I don't like playing it like the Pro strat. I like to keep it simple, build my base, then fight bosses. I like to explore my world and see how long I can survive. But I can make a world just trying Pro strat. I don't fully follow Noob strat either. I take time to build base, rush food, rush recourses, make sure I can survive winter and summer, and I do good. Just finished summer, 2 times. It's harder to rush ruins or anything else when you're on console like PS4 because of lag, harder to kite, you can't teleport as far with Wortox, etc. It'll be my first time rushing on a world.
@@darienlizama7449 There are definitive strategies that improve rates of survival, to say there aren't is foolish. The methods outlined in this video shows the inefficient playstyle of a new player, vs. a pro player. DST is a race against time, anywhere that you can move faster to gather more items is better. Just because a game doesn't measure what better play is does not mean your incredibly inefficient play style is fine and just the same as better play styles.
@@EdgyRick DST is not exactly a race against time, you can take it as slow as you can. though being faster is a great strategy it is not the completely necessary, also there are many ways to be fast without going to the ruins, and even one of your examples didn't involve speed and more involved exploration. not only that but my "inefficient" play style has in fact allowed me to survive for very long. a noob vs pro" example is not accurate as there are many things a "noob" can do that might stick or even help players further in their experience with the game. one thing i want you to know is that your examples aren't the best and they aren't meant for everyone. we all have play styles that can differ and still be just as effective as the other. please try to see your strategy as an opinion instead of straight up fact. i apologize for the long rant though i don't want you to take it as me saying your play style is stupid, just that it isn't necessarily the number one choice.
@@darienlizama7449 My playstyle isn't meant for everyone yes - but also just because you survived for a long time doesn't mean you are good or playing in an efficient manner. My playstyle is the most effective playstyle, period, full stop. This is why I can do challenge runs such as survive with my maximum hp modded to 1 for 100 days without much issue (ua-cam.com/video/FbFo4CA_1pI/v-deo.html), whereas for a normal player that would be a hellish experience. I also finish much more content in a much faster time period than a normal player would and "finish" the game, faster than one would (by killing the Ancient Fuelweaver.) On this channel I only teach the absolute best methods because everything in-between is simply a waste of time if you can skip right to the end - the absolute best tactics. Some players will never be good enough to handle such tactics, or don't want to play fast - and that's fine, but this channel isn't meant for them, and it wouldn't be fair to the players who want to learn the best tactics for me to water down my content by adding some unnecessary garbage to the mix for them.
@@EdgyRick i get that and i shall respect it, though i recommend keeping an open mind and try understanding and being more professional in the comments, it can give you the impression of being arrogant or childish.
No man. Even when pros dont rush the ruins, they still differs from the noobs in playstyles. Pros focus more on valuable resources and always prepare for the next big target like seasonal bosses or dfly while the only thing noobs care about is to stay barely alive and run away from danger all the time
DankFrank agree. Even the game's title 'Don't Starve' is rather deceiving. It tells newbie 'not to die' than 'fight to get food'. So newbies never dare to kill mobs and stay forever vegan lol
3:46 mom can I get that noob? *Independantly gets a beefalo hat* No we have noobs at base. Noobs at base: steal my thermal stones and lures deer clops to base.
This has helped me a bit, i've rushed the ruins with WX-78 for a fully upgraded robo-boi but i needed tips on winter, due to the fact that i set up a temp base at dragonfly to kill him for the scaled furnace and gems, so i make my base in winter.
Semi pro here. On frog rain i go next to moose goose and let the monster fight them. Also i let tentacles fight deerclops. Not bc I can't fight him. But bc he also gathers tentacle spikes for me
I do farm, live somewhat near beefs but far enough so they dont make my life a pain during spring, don’t really rush the ruins much and I usually only live for around 150 days so I may be a noob and tell me if I am
i think it's a good playstyle, if you know how to kite, how to survive all seasons and know the important crockpot recipes i think you should be able to survive forever. you're probably not a noob, Edgy Rick just has his very Ruins-rushing playstyle that he just can't live without for some random reason
Basically anyone can survive indefinitely, also don't prioritize beefalo as basically anything they do is superseded by things like bunnyman farms and pig lightbulb farming. Also I see alot of people are afraid of going to the ruins, but you really shouldn't be, the loot there is amazing, and they aren't hard if you are prepared.
no 150 days is rather good farms are good dragonfruit pie is great after it is rolling just one dragonfruit and 3 twig for 40 hp is good also ruins rush is not needed it can help but is not needed
@@venturoes1912 as a wx main who fully understands the value of ruins loot more that most others, I still usually don't rush the ruins unless I don't come across any clockwork in the overworld while looking to camp. Usually I can fit about an entire base on the go while looking for a spot to camp (2 crockpots, 8 dry racks, alchemy, fire pit, lightning rod, 2-3 chests, 40 pinecones, 50 grass tufts and 30 saplings). After basing on about day 3-4 I mass pick flowers til I have about 50 to feed to the pig king's villagers for poop before I hammer all their houses to bring home and rebuild like 5 pig houses while grabbing a tier 3 spider den from the set piece on the way back home. Then a net for fireflies and a beefallo horn and wool by like day 8-9 and I'm pretty much set for winter. I usually then go for tentacle spikes but not always. Where I go from there is usually where I try different stuff cuz at that point everything needed to survive spring and summer just falls into place.
I find both ways as a good fun, ruin rushing can get repetitive tho. If you already have the best loot you tend to lose the drive to keep playing. Boss rushing is the most fun in my opinion get in a world to boss rush and repeat it's different every time. Makes me wish there was more challenge modes like in adventure.
I’m such a noob! And I love it because I’m having fun and enjoy the game my way. Nothing worse matters pro or noob it’s just a label, having fun is the important thing.
Ye. Ima probably just do what is fun. Rn I am enjoying a world I started as wortox. I played a game a WX once. Honestly, the only things I can recommend is have fun.
Base by day 8? I usually don’t start mine till day 14, but by that point I’ve got so much pre-built and tons of supplies because part of my strat includes building a science machine while exploring to get some key recipes, then smashing it before continuing.
This is great for people like me who are not 100% a noob, but not really a pro either. I am a wicker main and usually try to set up base near a swamp, but suck at kiting and die from a tentacle, even though I can get other things to fight them, but I want to learn and get better at kiting and the same thing happens during winter. Bad kiting usually leads me to dying from Clops.. At least I can admit I am not a pro or a noob. I have the knowledge with the game, but need more practical experience by trying out what others have done. Thank you Rick for these videos!!!
I never researched the game to the extent to allow me to play on a pro level micro-wise. However over many attempts at the constant my macro got good enough where I would do many of these noob strats and had zero trouble surviving as long as I want. The problem is you don't reach the games full potential despite being able to survive consistently. That can get boring after your first year. Your vids have opened up some new play styles but to claim those strategies as "noob" is a little too naive. (Edit) wiped out entire frog rain last night at my base during night cycle. I was wolfgang... I ate many legs.
I think you mean how effective it can be to completely circumvent the games challenges. There are plenty of players that are exactly like described in the video. Beating Dark Souls doesn't make it easy. It means it is beatable challenge.
I don’t really get your dark souls comparison. Getting end game gear quickly and easily means you have the skill to do any boss, and end game gear to kill them with.
@@SVJLuna with DST the point isn't to kill the bosses. It's to survive the longer. So when you're the god of your world you can pass to the next or makeup your own goals. So having the endgame gear doesn't make sure you'll be able to do everything you want. And by the way noobs like me are not good enough to actually kill all those bosses even with endgame gears as timing is of the essence and it's not as easier said than done. 😋
Isabelle Colmont Well you can survive infinitely but there are endgame bosses to fight, the “hardest” challenge of the game. If you can ruins rush you can do anything else, with the op gear to survive anything that happens. If you somehow can’t kill deerclops with thulecite gear you will not be able to ruins rush in the first place.
I think this is the first time rick mentioned that something a pro can do is megabasing. And i think its also the first time Rick mentioned living further than day 35. Usually he kills all the raid bosses he likes by then and deletes the world.
I still really dislike the idea behind megabasing, this game just does not work well for it. There isn't much room for creativity and it actively tries to destroy your work. Also, killing raid bosses and deleting world is what DST is made for fight me.
Edgy Rick the point of megabasing is so i can flex at my skills of how many days i can survive. AKA the only way to prove your skill of the game. In all seriousness, DST is really poorly made for any sort of endgame. Megabasing is just bored casual players trying anything they can to squeeze out more content from the game.
bruh i keep playing with some of my new friends and they don't notice when their football helmet breaks it's frustrating as they expect me to know everything and i am mediocre at best
I guess I’m moderately good, I do what the noob does but I actually hunt and get good food, while kiting, basically I’m not a god that rushes ruins, mega bases, and kills all bosses on day 1
Quite long frog rait will result in many frogs and they easily kill one Hord. It's best to use them on Moose/Goose untill they kill all of them around. Another options is to run away from frogs and they will dissapear next morning because they jump into a pond at evening if rain stopped.
I pick flowers you only need one in your general location and they provide decent rot for grass toughs and you get the same amount of butterflies from just one also I would recommend not going for berry bushes as you can get tons of perogi/ meatballs with cactus and spiders/hound mound.
Don’t gather tufts in autumn. Waste of time, because they will only grow like once before winter by the time you’re done and it’s better to do this in spring.
@@whimsicalchronicles8798 uh, thats not how you were supposed to play the game.. its a meme im not saying ur playing wrong, but i dont see much wicker mains and i forgot wicker existed dont ask me why lol
Whereas "noob" is a term that can be used in this game to a certain degree (until the point you can actually keep yourself alive indeterminately), "pro" is a little bit more controversial. There is no real meta-game. No real way to say "yes, this is what a pro does". Knowing a single build order for a specific subset of characters does not strike me as a "pro gaming", in any game. It's like saying "i'm a pro age of empires 2 player, but I only play with the best three civs and use only this techniques". But, at least there is a clear and concrete end in an AOE2 game. There are ways to know if a player is pro or not (time, accuracy, speed, score, strategies, build orders): a pro player, knowing all the aforementioned factors, will behave in a similar manner to the rest of the "pro players" while evolving alongside the metagame. (for the ones who does not know what "meta game" means, it is just the "most efficient tactic available". The word itself says it: the most efficient tactic available, which means, to achieve some goal. But in DST, there is no concrete end nor goal, one can say that dont starving isn't even the whole point of the game. It's up to the player to decide what to do. Rushing ruins is as valid as, say, making a megabase on the overworld, going full nomad, making a megabase in the caves, or a sea base, or whatever. And all this styles of game are totally valid, and they all have their complexities if you go to the high end spectrum. For example, making a megabase, maintaining it, and making it aesthetically pleasing (which can be an important factor for a player, and can also have the same relevance as another aspects of the game as well) can be hard, and requires a different level of focus and commitment, than, say, rushing the ruins. After knowing all the mechanics, internals, details (from the basic stats and day cycle up to knowing spoilage times, cook recipes, combat, character-based strategies, team combinations, etc... the list can go far), you just have to do whatever the f**k you want, and you can become a pro in doing what you do. Maybe you just want to be the best at, idk, exploring the world? That's totally valid. So, actually being a pro cannot mean you "rush the ruins and blabla wolfgang/wicker/wendy"... You should be good at every fucking single possible gameplay style, just as it happens in every game. You may be not the best in every style, but saying that "pro equals one style" is not acknowledging what other gamestyles can offer regarding complexities, richness or experiences. And I didn't speak about the social factor of it, because only applies to DST. This is why I think the "pro" term in this game is, as minimum, controversial. I play regularly with a friend who likes to base ASAP, and he practically gives a f**k about the location! And, hey, this can make things more difficult, and maybe as a result of the added intensity of the gameplay (not having everything you need close, for example), the experience tends to be more fun, a little less "comfort-zone-ish" overall. So, you may end up thinking about surpassing things you would not be facing having you selected "the perfect base spot". So, make whatever the f**k you want. In the end, after having some knowledge (apart from the basic ones), there are multiple ways to have fun... and you know, you bought the game to have fun. Don't forget that. Said all this, I do like a lot your videos, they're fun. But can be a little intoxicating for people who swallows everything the hear/see. They may end up trolling or being aggro to other players because of not accepting the freedom of the game. Cheers.
I had the same thing in the beginning: i suggest getting some steampeople to play with you so you can play once a week with them, or if you are playing single player just tell yourself to play in the"old" world for 5 minutes, its easy to keep playing once you start
yeah i definitely recommend playing with people, it's the easiest way to learn. plus you get stuff faster with more people around and there's a lower chance of dying quite as often.
Just have fun guys, Edgy just showed the most efficient way of progressing. And of course, it's not the only way of playing, but everyone should try it, it' fun xD (until it gets boring :v)
DS: "Welcome to Don't Starve! Protect yourself from the elements, don't pick fights, stay sane, and secure food sources." Also DS: "Your first mistake is building a base, not killing everything in sight, not using shadow swords, and using a farm."
Liked the video? Leave a like and I'll send a real life giant frog rain to your house 100% no scam.
Edgy Rick cant wait to die
When you’ve been playing Don’t Starve for years and still use the newbie method ...
I would like to see you play as a Wortox and do a series where you play as efficient as you can.
oh no.
Please do I'm ready with my 100 traps
Noob strat: build your base immediately
Pro strat: destroy everything
True Pro strat: turn everything that can harm you off in the world settings
Mega pro strat: rollback every time you lose 1hp
ULTRA PRO: ROLLBACK EVERY TIME THEY SEE DANGER
EDIT: OR IF THEY LOSE ONE HUNGER OR SANITY
U l t a p r o s t r a t - infinite health hunger and sanity mod
O M E G A P R O S T R A T: Just not playing the game, cant die if you wont play.
Dumb Yoshi UNUNGODLY START: DONT
I honestly loved the beginners curve in this game. Every time you died you would come back a little bit stronger and make it past whatever killed you last time but then quickly get killed by something else. Rinse and repeat until you learned how to make intelligent decisions in the spur of the moment.
This was me by the T lol
I would survive 3-6 days and die from starvation. Now I’m surviving over 200 days no problem. Now I have to learn about the caves.
Caves are good early game for bunnymen farm. Easy meatballs in winter.
I would rather cook them on a fire because the meat and three carrots cooked give you the same amount of hunger as a meatball but more hp and you don’t even need a crockpot
@@jasonsenter1646 dude inventory space
Noob: Genuenly tries to survive, tries his best, takes the order taken from the game (Dont starve) as seriously as possible
Pro: Doesnt give a shit, is insane, murder hobo, never had a problem with food because they just get meat from kills
And that's a fact
Ahahaha true, this is what this video tells you
@@Yoyo-br2el Yep this guy basically says this:
Noob = People who play the game as intented.
Pro= tryhards
I'm a Wigfrid!! I just can't help it!!!
I can’t even use caves and I have over 20 hours of experience if I wanted to i could survive winter also I don’t agree with pro strat they don’t even get moggles truly a useful item
on the frog rain note, i find endless entertainment in using it to kill the Moose Goose. tons of meat, no gear wasted, and a boss gets pummeled by *frogs*. great show
haha big goose go HONK when frog rain go BRRT
I once had a world where there were 3 to 5 moose gooses around one area, the result was well, exactly as you described infinite meat and feathers for weather pains.
@@EdgyRick can you do a guide on the new characters? Like wurt wortox and wormwood
Brought some frogs to two beefalo herds in frog rain once. There by the time the rain stopped we had a net of over 250 frog legs.
@Wilson the I bruh He ain't lakurion.
A true pro can survive easily no matter his playstyle or character while having fun
rly true
Except Wes of course
Wes tho
His perk is his beard
@@dsadudes80 his beard does nothing
I am definitely a noob but that’s ok because I have fun instead of going try hard
Baxmus Skywalker same
same
yea you are
@@ey8648 No point in trying to argument brah, you got PWNED
You need a balance of not being a braindead fire camping ice eater and not being a bitter tryhard. That is the right way to play
By his logic, everyone should only have one type of playstyle and start with Wolfgang, WX or etc to Rush Ruins
Yeah man there are 2 playable characters in the game and a single playstyle, thats the way it works didnt you know?
@@zombie_bro1192 very true
To be fair, I'm not sure if rushing the ruins to get all the good gear is a noob or pro move. It's more of a challenge to slug your way through the game with crappy equipment.
The video did include the non ruins rusher playstyle though, exploring the edge of the map and building a mega base in the oasis desert
I blame world generation for not giving me enough light bulbs near the cave entrance and now I can't explore the ruins
I remember the 1st time I killed Deerclopse... Not really knowing much about anything, and sacrificing about 10 pigs and 4 of their huts in the process. I was so happy when he died. I gathered all the meat, stuck it on my drying racks. Never knew what to do with the eye... So I ate it. I remember thinking, "That wasn't even as good as the mandrake soup from earlier" *facepalm*. Oh the noob days lol
That fun, i love how you enjoy game like that way, no mod no more infor, just discover anything by yourshelf, this game is fun
Just A Chair Some players have their fun by being efficent
@@confidential5743 you mean like Edgy Rick over here? :D
Kane Exactly
I have eaten a mandrake lol
Back to the "I know everything about everything because I play Wolfgang." content I see... ;)
😂😂😂
I know professionals like going around the world and killing every boss they can as fast as they can but sometimes that gets a little boring because if you aren’t in your own world.. everything gets reset anyways
It's nothing about wolfgang it's about the fact that Edgy Rick is just bad
@@jasonsenter1646 but we like the feeling of people saying that you are op
@@happyjay9168 any proof? Just get lost you ain't funny. Just cuz He likes Wolfgang And PiTS him in the thumbnail doesn't mean He judges all other characters.
I like how it's still the same type of content but it's not actually triggering and more "suggestion" based rather than obligation.
Agreed
0:38 Bye bye guardian's horn
the void went yoink
@@EdgyRick true
Void:guess i'll take that
That was uber PRO Strategy!
Exactly it took 38sec to see who is real noob here
Rick: uploads video on dst
Everyone else: *You what!?*
1000 plus hours into the game and never felt the need to rush anything, ruins, bosses or anything.
Never looked at DST as a pro/noob game. Next thing sims, animal crossing and something else is supposed to be played a specific way :D
THANK YOU, thank you for simply existing with this mindset and not being toxic. You are really amazing!
Ejmin Hartoonian awwww, thank you :)
The reason you have 1000+ hours is because you didn't rush things. If you rushed things you would have done everything in the game more times than you can count by your 250th hour and moved onto a new game.
The only exception to this is content creators like rick who continue playing for the sake of blessing you fools with glorious knowledge and challenge runs.
Out of that 1000+ hours you have spent on this game, a large percentage of it was spent just doing nothing/ boring repetitive tasks and passing the days, and probably using sgm to afk for drops. Sounds boring as shit time well spent!
Every game has pros and noobs. For this game it comes down to efficiency, as DST at it's core is a game about time management.
TheCnicus good point. However, maybe i was also playing on social servers, chatting, roleplaying. This game is more fun Together ;)
No, DST barely has any content to really be played like sims, animal crossing or whatever. Realisticly, if you play like super slowly, by the time you get to day 400 or so, you probably did everything there is in the game.
Edgy Rick is a noob. Look at how he made his cave base at the end. Placing a ice box first? Come on. You always place the crockpots as close as possible first then the ice box inbetween.
This is obviously a joke, but I'll tag along... ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS??? THERE WON'T BE ENOUGH SPACE FOR THE ICE BOX YOU DUMBASS!
@@usernameig975 yeah there is.
@@thegreensunsetgroup2501 uhh did you not see the top of his comment?
@@aidonthebeast2446 u look like a fool
This comments section is basically full of people joking, people who deserve to be r/wooooshed, and people pretending to be trolling r/wooooshers after the get called out for being dim
This video is honestly scarily accurate of how a noob plays.
Because we were all the noob at one point. Way back when rabbits had no hunger bar I would catch and store them in many chests for food.
Idk why someone wanting to play a game about surviving means they’re a noob they are just trying to play a game why is someone a “pro” because they have a different play style it’s a stupid assumption just because someone has a different play style than a “pro” doesn’t mean they are good or bad at the game
Someone who knowingly uses methods that are vastly less efficient than better ones are stubborn and ignorant. Why would you willingly handicap your gameplay? The teaching of bad practices is another thing which is why experienced players don’t like Thebeard777.
@@gabrielcornwell3790 Why do people who clearly don't want to improve at the game, go to these tips videos and then start aggresively defending their shitty playstyle?
Blue Jay ok but isn’t it stupid that someone is shitting on others playstyle just cause I don’t rush ruins day 1 doesn’t make me a noob it just isn’t my playstyle and I’ve improved on my game just fine I don’t need these stupid videos I’ve played this game for years and I’m doing just fine I hate the assumption taht just cause I hate on the vid I’m not good why should someone’s play style conclude who they are as a player thsi so stupid for every game that it finest matter games like cod and overwatch yes there are noobs and pro but a game where the whole point is survival it’s dumb that if you play one way such as making farms or not rushing ruins makes you a noib
Me having a single player don't starve:
What are half of this stuff?
So basically, the noob doesn't craft armor
I mean yeah basically, armor is broken OP
I'm a noob
ruins are pain
god help me I don't know the game
@@mister_dadstersays_hi7372 just craft armor lol
@@mister_dadstersays_hi7372 even a grass suit is better than nothing but use log suit if you dont have pig skin
pretty sure he was writing a meme poem guys
Me: checking for tutorials because I'm new
Every tutorial : gathering ressources on first days is necessary!
Him: No.
Me: huh
Honestly, the best thing you can do early is just map out the world. Run around the edges, gather resources on the way but not in abundance, just as much as you need and take opportunities that are given to you. See a bunch of grass gekkos bunched up? Run into them and get 10-ish grass. Move on. Just don't spend days chopping trees and picking twigs etc. But most importantly, have fun and play however you want man. Everybody has their own preference on how to survive in the Constant :)
Running edges? What an extreme waste of time...
Fuck that. Anyone with half a brain runs the roads in search of the 1st segments of key locations. Swamp/PK/Desert/Quarry. You literally get set up in 1/8th to 1/16th the time with all of the same things as the fool running slowly around the edges of the world. By the time he circled the map, the road runners have a full base with everything they need.
Worst advice ever.
@@AmyLovesYou Running around the map is literally the best idea ever, making a base is useless if you don't make a base in a good spot. Just gather a ton of resources you find along the way.
@@AmyLovesYou Jesus Christ, I'm new to this game and you DST players are actually fucking obnoxious as hell.
@@iamv0id202 Thats why you go around using roads since they often lead to key locations like PK.
I don't see why so many people died to Deerclops. I find him really easy, like one time I was playing Wendy and I hadn't really prepared for the Deerclops fight at all, I didn't have sanity food or anything, all I really had was a football helmet, a couple pierogi's, and a tentacle spike. So I was really not very prepared, but I still easily killed him, keep in mind I was playing Wendy who is famously bad for giants because she does such little damage and Abbigail is pretty useless against them. The only part I really had trouble with was dealing with the shadow creatures after the fight, because the fight went on for so long and I had nothing to raise my sanity, and I was getting dogpiled by like 3 terrorbeaks, but I still pulled through that and went on to summer.
One of my friends complained to me that the game was impossible to pass day 1 since the darkness kills them immediately. Then I asked them about torches, then they replied "There are torches?".
your friend is pretty much me at first hour of the game
@@kuple1021 lol! First time I got killed by darkness I just went "what? ... Oh... Grrrr... NEVER MORE". Next live I crafted a torch as soon as I could. But I feel the same every time we get an update with new creatures or biome...
Me: Oh something new...
Oups it's trying to kill me...
@@isabellecolmont4718 Me in my first hour of gameplay: oh this game is fun - dies to a spider. Me after 10 hours of gameplay: made it to winter finally! - freezes to death - me after 1,000 hours - eats everything in sight before it eats me - everything in this game wants to kill me!
@@EdgyRick what did you do in Shipwrecked then ? Lol
Like I said, the beginners learning curve is great
Him : the noob will make a farm or something to make food
Me who doesn’t know what a farm is
I don't like playing it like the Pro strat.
I like to keep it simple, build my base, then fight bosses. I like to explore my world and see how long I can survive.
But I can make a world just trying Pro strat.
I don't fully follow Noob strat either. I take time to build base, rush food, rush recourses, make sure I can survive winter and summer, and I do good. Just finished summer, 2 times. It's harder to rush ruins or anything else when you're on console like PS4 because of lag, harder to kite, you can't teleport as far with Wortox, etc.
It'll be my first time rushing on a world.
I agree with you, this comparison is really stupid. Don't starve doesn't have a definitive strategy. Just Do what you need to do to survive
@@darienlizama7449 There are definitive strategies that improve rates of survival, to say there aren't is foolish. The methods outlined in this video shows the inefficient playstyle of a new player, vs. a pro player. DST is a race against time, anywhere that you can move faster to gather more items is better. Just because a game doesn't measure what better play is does not mean your incredibly inefficient play style is fine and just the same as better play styles.
@@EdgyRick DST is not exactly a race against time, you can take it as slow as you can. though being faster is a great strategy it is not the completely necessary, also there are many ways to be fast without going to the ruins, and even one of your examples didn't involve speed and more involved exploration. not only that but my "inefficient" play style has in fact allowed me to survive for very long. a noob vs pro" example is not accurate as there are many things a "noob" can do that might stick or even help players further in their experience with the game. one thing i want you to know is that your examples aren't the best and they aren't meant for everyone. we all have play styles that can differ and still be just as effective as the other. please try to see your strategy as an opinion instead of straight up fact. i apologize for the long rant though i don't want you to take it as me saying your play style is stupid, just that it isn't necessarily the number one choice.
@@darienlizama7449 My playstyle isn't meant for everyone yes - but also just because you survived for a long time doesn't mean you are good or playing in an efficient manner. My playstyle is the most effective playstyle, period, full stop. This is why I can do challenge runs such as survive with my maximum hp modded to 1 for 100 days without much issue (ua-cam.com/video/FbFo4CA_1pI/v-deo.html), whereas for a normal player that would be a hellish experience. I also finish much more content in a much faster time period than a normal player would and "finish" the game, faster than one would (by killing the Ancient Fuelweaver.)
On this channel I only teach the absolute best methods because everything in-between is simply a waste of time if you can skip right to the end - the absolute best tactics. Some players will never be good enough to handle such tactics, or don't want to play fast - and that's fine, but this channel isn't meant for them, and it wouldn't be fair to the players who want to learn the best tactics for me to water down my content by adding some unnecessary garbage to the mix for them.
@@EdgyRick i get that and i shall respect it, though i recommend keeping an open mind and try understanding and being more professional in the comments, it can give you the impression of being arrogant or childish.
Football helmets are op for their cost btw 80% damage reduction for one pig skin and rope. In conclusion football helmets are god tier items.
I never knew the term tryhard could be applied to dst
So, you're basically implying that anybody who doesn't rush the ruins starting day 1 is a noob?
Not trying to sound rude, but he did say "Rush the Ruins OR Explore the World"
Sorry bud.
No man. Even when pros dont rush the ruins, they still differs from the noobs in playstyles.
Pros focus more on valuable resources and always prepare for the next big target like seasonal bosses or dfly while the only thing noobs care about is to stay barely alive and run away from danger all the time
@@papasgottaeat yeah prolly coz they dont know about anything they cant see infront of them because they're literally NEW to the game...
DankFrank agree. Even the game's title 'Don't Starve' is rather deceiving. It tells newbie 'not to die' than 'fight to get food'. So newbies never dare to kill mobs and stay forever vegan lol
Nghĩa Đỗ Minh ?,,
I would like to know your opinion on the new characters and reworks.
3:46 mom can I get that noob? *Independantly gets a beefalo hat*
No we have noobs at base.
Noobs at base: steal my thermal stones and lures deer clops to base.
Man, that type of noob is basically in 70-80% of servers I play
@@DevinZurita
They join my servers and I play in klei dedicated servers.
@@C4eam
OMG I KNOW RIGHT?!?!?!!?
Rj Pena in my megabase..
Noob: OO WALKING CANE AND THULECITE ME TAKE HAHAH
Where are my frogs, I was promised many yet I have found none. My disappointment is immeasurable and my day is ruined
The first time I played this game I did decently well by making it to spring
*but then the frogs came*
aw crap I feel this. The horror. The pain.
THE FROGS!!!!
Wow, me is noob, but Wolfgang to stronk me want mary! (Sory English poor, not tongue language.)
Nohomo
Homono
Hohoho
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When I was a noob and when deerclops comes I took him dragon fly with out knowing the that the eye ball will be a item I really needed
Oof
You are clever and think quickly tho
have it your way the most important thing is having fun
Yeah
I remember when i thought the first hound wave was an actual threat. I wasn't able to sleep for a few months
Well the noob start does work though, I got to winter with my friend until we accidentally aggro'd like 30 hounds at once.
Wow, this is my kind of "Tips" video, love it! I definitely made a lot of newbie mistakes but slowly learning this game and having a blast!
This has helped me a bit, i've rushed the ruins with WX-78 for a fully upgraded robo-boi but i needed tips on winter, due to the fact that i set up a temp base at dragonfly to kill him for the scaled furnace and gems, so i make my base in winter.
Well, me and my friend survived a couple years so far with a noob strat so that's fine for me I guess
Semi pro here. On frog rain i go next to moose goose and let the monster fight them. Also i let tentacles fight deerclops. Not bc I can't fight him. But bc he also gathers tentacle spikes for me
I do farm, live somewhat near beefs but far enough so they dont make my life a pain during spring, don’t really rush the ruins much and I usually only live for around 150 days so I may be a noob and tell me if I am
i think it's a good playstyle, if you know how to kite, how to survive all seasons and know the important crockpot recipes i think you should be able to survive forever. you're probably not a noob, Edgy Rick just has his very Ruins-rushing playstyle that he just can't live without for some random reason
Basically anyone can survive indefinitely, also don't prioritize beefalo as basically anything they do is superseded by things like bunnyman farms and pig lightbulb farming. Also I see alot of people are afraid of going to the ruins, but you really shouldn't be, the loot there is amazing, and they aren't hard if you are prepared.
no 150 days is rather good farms are good dragonfruit pie is great after it is rolling just one dragonfruit and 3 twig for 40 hp is good also ruins rush is not needed it can help but is not needed
You are a better man than I
@@venturoes1912 as a wx main who fully understands the value of ruins loot more that most others, I still usually don't rush the ruins unless I don't come across any clockwork in the overworld while looking to camp. Usually I can fit about an entire base on the go while looking for a spot to camp (2 crockpots, 8 dry racks, alchemy, fire pit, lightning rod, 2-3 chests, 40 pinecones, 50 grass tufts and 30 saplings). After basing on about day 3-4 I mass pick flowers til I have about 50 to feed to the pig king's villagers for poop before I hammer all their houses to bring home and rebuild like 5 pig houses while grabbing a tier 3 spider den from the set piece on the way back home. Then a net for fireflies and a beefallo horn and wool by like day 8-9 and I'm pretty much set for winter. I usually then go for tentacle spikes but not always. Where I go from there is usually where I try different stuff cuz at that point everything needed to survive spring and summer just falls into place.
Wow, it's your first meta video where you actually made agreeable points that people basically can't get mad at.
Well done.
I know right?! I looked at this video and I was like OHHH NOO at first but later on I thought that's not too bad :)
@@happyjay9168 you grew a Brain over the course of a week? Job well done!
@@usernameig975 wtf do u want?
So Pros fight the guardian next to the void and lose Guardian"s horn. Interesting.
How about a guide on teamwork?
Teamwork? I dont thinl thats a thing in this channel, edgy rick will never waste his time on all these NOOBS swarming the game he plays so well
@@zombie_bro1192 Ok
Edgy Rick has no friends to make a team with
I just started to play this game and I dont like how accurate this is :D
All I see is Wolf Gang play here...just sayin
Ur pfp gae....just sayin
I find both ways as a good fun, ruin rushing can get repetitive tho. If you already have the best loot you tend to lose the drive to keep playing. Boss rushing is the most fun in my opinion get in a world to boss rush and repeat it's different every time. Makes me wish there was more challenge modes like in adventure.
summary: just play however u want and if its fun, then u doing it right :) dont be toxic bc someone isnt playing right, they will get it eventually
Its disturbing how accurate this is to what I see on public servers.
I dont rush ruins because it's really unfun in my opinion. I dont like strategizing the fun out of a game.
Pro tip: as WX, you can look in tumbleweeds for gears.
@@willw5868 Yeah except new players like half of this channel (not me) to rush ruins on day 1.
True pros abuse giants and make them do their chores.
I’m such a noob! And I love it because I’m having fun and enjoy the game my way. Nothing worse matters pro or noob it’s just a label, having fun is the important thing.
The man the myth the legend is back
long time ago( my frist 10h in the game ) i was that noob and when dearclops comes it a game over
Ye. Ima probably just do what is fun. Rn I am enjoying a world I started as wortox. I played a game a WX once. Honestly, the only things I can recommend is have fun.
Those frogs are malicious bastard though
All I see in their eyes as hatred they're not even that strong
Lol. My array of 6-7 regular traps would like a word with you.
@@d-swagg9683 the frogs do not fear God
Other players: burns tree for warmth
Me: *Cries in wormwood
Base by day 8? I usually don’t start mine till day 14, but by that point I’ve got so much pre-built and tons of supplies because part of my strat includes building a science machine while exploring to get some key recipes, then smashing it before continuing.
The myth and legend edgy rick
This is great for people like me who are not 100% a noob, but not really a pro either. I am a wicker main and usually try to set up base near a swamp, but suck at kiting and die from a tentacle, even though I can get other things to fight them, but I want to learn and get better at kiting and the same thing happens during winter. Bad kiting usually leads me to dying from Clops.. At least I can admit I am not a pro or a noob. I have the knowledge with the game, but need more practical experience by trying out what others have done. Thank you Rick for these videos!!!
Also use roads
0:36 Talks about pros starting a new world with pro tactics - loses the ancient guardian horn to the edge of the map, like a scrub.
I actually like to play relaxed because I enjoy exploring mechanics of the game that you won't experience if you rush everything
I really loved the lantern cheese highlight, warms the heart
The noob was a pretty accurate description of me
Well, I think the worst kind of noob is the player that build Improved Farms, to mass produce Dragonpie.
Carlos Augusto dragonpie still are good food for hunger, maybe best to use farm plots on but Pierogi is still better early game
@@awsome5879 Dragonpie is awful, since you need to tend to your farm
@@valdeborg6503 so the main reason that it's bad is because it requires effort, even though it's a small amount
If the ham bat had durability it would be impossible to rush the ruins without resorting to things like spears
how to sanity: kill spooders for silk and moonster meat. then make top hat. boom no sanity problem
Being honest, my first time playing was pretty much the noob path, minus the lack of armor, and the farm was berry bushes.
Same
8:00 you got a tip for summer. Thanks 😊👍
I never researched the game to the extent to allow me to play on a pro level micro-wise.
However over many attempts at the constant my macro got good enough where I would do many of these noob strats and had zero trouble surviving as long as I want.
The problem is you don't reach the games full potential despite being able to survive consistently. That can get boring after your first year.
Your vids have opened up some new play styles but to claim those strategies as "noob" is a little too naive.
(Edit) wiped out entire frog rain last night at my base during night cycle. I was wolfgang... I ate many legs.
This video proves how fast you can get endgame gear and how unchallenging DST is
I think you mean how effective it can be to completely circumvent the games challenges. There are plenty of players that are exactly like described in the video. Beating Dark Souls doesn't make it easy. It means it is beatable challenge.
I don’t really get your dark souls comparison. Getting end game gear quickly and easily means you have the skill to do any boss, and end game gear to kill them with.
@@SVJLuna with DST the point isn't to kill the bosses. It's to survive the longer. So when you're the god of your world you can pass to the next or makeup your own goals. So having the endgame gear doesn't make sure you'll be able to do everything you want.
And by the way noobs like me are not good enough to actually kill all those bosses even with endgame gears as timing is of the essence and it's not as easier said than done. 😋
Its mainly due to how easy it is to acquire a ham bat and football helmet. Pig houses give too many resources from hammering them.
Isabelle Colmont Well you can survive infinitely but there are endgame bosses to fight, the “hardest” challenge of the game. If you can ruins rush you can do anything else, with the op gear to survive anything that happens. If you somehow can’t kill deerclops with thulecite gear you will not be able to ruins rush in the first place.
As long as you have fun, it doesn't matter how you play.
Is it just me or did the noob description fit perfectly (I’m Webber) :,>
Wait, so the pro gets a walking cane before winter?
Yeah
Love the Undertale music from background, excelente video
The noob is exactly what I did in my first world lma
I think this is the first time rick mentioned that something a pro can do is megabasing. And i think its also the first time Rick mentioned living further than day 35. Usually he kills all the raid bosses he likes by then and deletes the world.
I still really dislike the idea behind megabasing, this game just does not work well for it. There isn't much room for creativity and it actively tries to destroy your work.
Also, killing raid bosses and deleting world is what DST is made for fight me.
Edgy Rick the point of megabasing is so i can flex at my skills of how many days i can survive. AKA the only way to prove your skill of the game. In all seriousness, DST is really poorly made for any sort of endgame. Megabasing is just bored casual players trying anything they can to squeeze out more content from the game.
You bought me with soundtrack from Undertale.
You really overestimate a noob in this game. I’m on day 29 and I have nothing like this
bruh i keep playing with some of my new friends and they don't notice when their football helmet breaks it's frustrating as they expect me to know everything and i am mediocre at best
I guess I’m moderately good, I do what the noob does but I actually hunt and get good food, while kiting, basically I’m not a god that rushes ruins, mega bases, and kills all bosses on day 1
Thing about sanity is that I dont have a problem with being insane but the sounds it makes. Cant stand that but I like the other game sounds .
You can actually turn it off with a client side mod.
I also recommend a mod to mute the sound that the flies on top of manure makes.
Sanity volume meter mod
I am in between to be honest I don't struggle much but I don't rush it even
YES I KNOW A WX MAIN THAT DOESN'T RUSH RUINS
lul
To be fair this game is extremely beginner unfriendly and takes a ton of trial and error to get better
Frog Rain + Beffalo Hord = Endless Meat production
Quite long frog rait will result in many frogs and they easily kill one Hord. It's best to use them on Moose/Goose untill they kill all of them around. Another options is to run away from frogs and they will dissapear next morning because they jump into a pond at evening if rain stopped.
You make new players look like they don't even know how to breathe
Just have your own strategy and keep that belly full
I pick flowers you only need one in your general location and they provide decent rot for grass toughs and you get the same amount of butterflies from just one also I would recommend not going for berry bushes as you can get tons of perogi/ meatballs with cactus and spiders/hound mound.
Just use poop
Don’t gather tufts in autumn. Waste of time, because they will only grow like once before winter by the time you’re done and it’s better to do this in spring.
@@awsome5879 laughs in applied horticulture
@@whimsicalchronicles8798 uh, thats not how you were supposed to play the game..
its a meme im not saying ur playing wrong, but i dont see much wicker mains and i forgot wicker existed dont ask me why lol
I feel slightly threatened
Whereas "noob" is a term that can be used in this game to a certain degree (until the point you can actually keep yourself alive indeterminately), "pro" is a little bit more controversial. There is no real meta-game. No real way to say "yes, this is what a pro does". Knowing a single build order for a specific subset of characters does not strike me as a "pro gaming", in any game. It's like saying "i'm a pro age of empires 2 player, but I only play with the best three civs and use only this techniques". But, at least there is a clear and concrete end in an AOE2 game. There are ways to know if a player is pro or not (time, accuracy, speed, score, strategies, build orders): a pro player, knowing all the aforementioned factors, will behave in a similar manner to the rest of the "pro players" while evolving alongside the metagame. (for the ones who does not know what "meta game" means, it is just the "most efficient tactic available". The word itself says it: the most efficient tactic available, which means, to achieve some goal.
But in DST, there is no concrete end nor goal, one can say that dont starving isn't even the whole point of the game. It's up to the player to decide what to do. Rushing ruins is as valid as, say, making a megabase on the overworld, going full nomad, making a megabase in the caves, or a sea base, or whatever. And all this styles of game are totally valid, and they all have their complexities if you go to the high end spectrum. For example, making a megabase, maintaining it, and making it aesthetically pleasing (which can be an important factor for a player, and can also have the same relevance as another aspects of the game as well) can be hard, and requires a different level of focus and commitment, than, say, rushing the ruins.
After knowing all the mechanics, internals, details (from the basic stats and day cycle up to knowing spoilage times, cook recipes, combat, character-based strategies, team combinations, etc... the list can go far), you just have to do whatever the f**k you want, and you can become a pro in doing what you do. Maybe you just want to be the best at, idk, exploring the world? That's totally valid.
So, actually being a pro cannot mean you "rush the ruins and blabla wolfgang/wicker/wendy"... You should be good at every fucking single possible gameplay style, just as it happens in every game. You may be not the best in every style, but saying that "pro equals one style" is not acknowledging what other gamestyles can offer regarding complexities, richness or experiences. And I didn't speak about the social factor of it, because only applies to DST.
This is why I think the "pro" term in this game is, as minimum, controversial. I play regularly with a friend who likes to base ASAP, and he practically gives a f**k about the location! And, hey, this can make things more difficult, and maybe as a result of the added intensity of the gameplay (not having everything you need close, for example), the experience tends to be more fun, a little less "comfort-zone-ish" overall. So, you may end up thinking about surpassing things you would not be facing having you selected "the perfect base spot".
So, make whatever the f**k you want. In the end, after having some knowledge (apart from the basic ones), there are multiple ways to have fun... and you know, you bought the game to have fun. Don't forget that.
Said all this, I do like a lot your videos, they're fun. But can be a little intoxicating for people who swallows everything the hear/see. They may end up trolling or being aggro to other players because of not accepting the freedom of the game.
Cheers.
Runescape music in the background? My man!!!
I want to get into don’t starve, but I can’t seem to keep the momentum to keep going further into the game.
I had the same thing in the beginning: i suggest getting some steampeople to play with you so you can play once a week with them, or if you are playing single player just tell yourself to play in the"old" world for 5 minutes, its easy to keep playing once you start
yeah i definitely recommend playing with people, it's the easiest way to learn. plus you get stuff faster with more people around and there's a lower chance of dying quite as often.
I thought you were done with this game
yes
@dougras drogado é verdade, eu tb parei de jogar e quando voltei ficou melhor. falando em pt por causa do seu nome aheuaheha
@dougras drogado i find the Game is the most fun while playing the first year, after that, either You try and Beat all the bosses or just restart.
that bramble bush symphony always hits hard
I blame world generation for not giving me enough light bulbs near the cave entrance and now I can't explore the ruins
Frog rain? Easy, go to mose gose or beffalo (If go to the beffalo and have near your base you can get 60-120 frog meat ;)
Yeah, but if a whole horde of beeffalo dies it does not respawn
>no geometric placement
Just have fun guys, Edgy just showed the most efficient way of progressing. And of course, it's not the only way of playing, but everyone should try it, it' fun xD (until it gets boring :v)
good video. i was a noob but i had common sense and good general survival strategy lol
DS: "Welcome to Don't Starve! Protect yourself from the elements, don't pick fights, stay sane, and secure food sources."
Also DS: "Your first mistake is building a base, not killing everything in sight, not using shadow swords, and using a farm."
When the game talks to you
vs when people who know what they are doing talk to you
This feels like a personal attack.