Remembering back to the first episode Oppy says that the instability scrambles everything it comes in contact with and matter has lost the ability to maintain its physical properties, but it is never stated that such matter is destroyed. So I wonder if the people killed by the instability aren't actually dead. Maybe they continue to exist but not in a physical sense which is why Tobias and Allen were still able to communicate with the "living" during the gamma ray surge.
I like how, since Tobias talked about your dash ornament (His Gumberoo) that also means he got to see your car in person, alongside all the modifications you made to it. I don't know why, but that's oddly heartwarming for the first person you have heard in the zone to see your car, especially how they got so excited after putting 2 + 2 together with how fast it was moving.
And so the bonkening saga comes to a close, the same as the trunk does as it descends on Chris' head. At episode start: BONKs so far: 15 Current Bonk-less streak: 28 Best Bonk-less streak: 55 Current successful trunk-closing rate: 222/237 (93.7%) 1:35 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 29) (223/238 success rate) 2:37 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 30) (224/239 success rate) 3:56 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 31) (225/240 success rate) 5:38 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 32) (226/241 success rate) 14:20 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 33) (227/242 success rate) 15:34 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 34) (228/243 success rate) 17:33 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 35) (229/244 success rate) And so ends the saga, the tale, the legend of the legendary driver Chris. With just 15 BONKs out of 244 possible times, it is pretty impressive, putting him at a neat 93.9% success rate. Thank you for reading these and see you in future series, this is your friendly records keeper Adam Bárta, signing off.
58:50 Honestly the twist I was expecting was, the people you interact with, just aren't there. Long since perished. However they're stuck in a way over the radio, or perhaps the Station Wagon Remnant itself. And going by the ending with the well allowing you to "talk" with Tobias again, there may have been a plan for that being it. Given you're dealing with a lady in her admitted 80's somehow surviving in a secluded part of an absolute hellscape (by choice) and a pair of, at least middle aged men in a not so much hellscape (though weirdly being in the Midzone apparently never invite you over). Both of their survival seems pretty exceptional as I think it's been 10 years (The zone gets expunged from everyone in the 80's, game takes place in the 90s). But going by the ending where we deal with Tobias one more time, it's clear the zone isn't big on Mortality and can allow communications between folks who shouldn't be breathing. And given you're rolling around in a mutation that's supposed to influence your mind, to head to the well for it's own reasons basically. It using the voices from long dead folk (that may have even tried to escape in the wagon leading to it being a Remnant now) to convince you isn't the craziest thing. And you'd be hard pressed to say it even lies to you. It warns you, but due to whatever effects it has, you push on with it regardless. And Said Warnings can be considered to be in it's self intrest as you have a shared destination. It also lines up with the characters leaving. Tobias is brash, and perhaps as a spirit would be a bit too much for the Remnant Wagon to really handle, so comes up with an excuse to get rid of it. And once you reach the well, it still has a hold on you, but since it completed it's mission, doesn't really have a reason to really push you there any more. So "Oppy" choses to leave, leaving the meekest member Francis to act as a glorified guide in your extended stay in the Peninsula. Note how while They're all keen on getting you out of the zone, it really does boil down to getting the Remnant Wagon to the Well ; something the voices comment on as being the goal as the previous remnant owners. But well, a Station Wagon is a bit more useful then a teapot. But once you're "Free" of the Remnant, no one is really left to help you get OUT of this hell hole. And you're basically trapped, with a carrot on a stick wielder to convince you to "go back into the zone, for science" in Francis.
Since folks are talking about how a DLC or a Sequel might pan out, I figure may as well see how I'd want it to go down. After a few years being in the Peninsula (perhaps to your own confusion as there's not a REAL reason you're still there) helping "Francis" track down what the zone has to offer, a new voice appears. In the form of a ARDA task force meant to sweep the zone for any breechers. Perhaps aware of you specifically, or just doing a routine thing and finding you. (in terms of gameplay could offer new enemies who focus on exposing the wagon for what it is, a shitheap running on supernatural means) In a desperate fit to keep you "Francis" convinces you that ARDA will only, at best kill you, at worst experiment on you (perhaps in a not too subtle way to imply it's more talking about itself). Could even bring back Oppy or Tobias to try and convince you to head to the Well (to set off a Gama radiation blast that'd drive ARDA off). Before giving up the subterfuge and revealing it's nature as a parasitic supernatural entity which has found great success in the station wagon via you. Gathering more and more information to use in disguises to convince folks to go to the well (though it hasn't had much reason to go back to it after successfully returning). And it continues pushing you back to the well mainly out of self preservation (terrified of what ARDA would do to it). And there could be an alternative story line were you DO co-opperate with ARDA to get out of the penisula and away from the manipulative Wagon. Could tie in nicely as if doing what the Wagon wants will result in less quirks. Where going the ARDA route could make it VERY HOSTILE to you (Imagine your wheel jerking fully in a direction every time you hit top speed)
@@pbsixgun6 Yes entirely possible. As a viewer I don't think I noticed any quirks besides the Horn Honks when Trunk Closed (or is it Trunk Closed makes Horn Honk?)
@@thetoastmonster I just completed the game. Some of the quirks are very subtle, but I saw I few of the ones I also got during Chris' playthrough. - Radio volume fluctuates when wipers are turned on - Wipers get 'stuck' or stutter But some quirks are very annoying. Like when doors open when you put the car in park, or worse, when it is put into drive.
The reason to use different panels / doors than just radiation resistance ones lies in adjancency bonuses. Each part provides the bonuses to itself and its neighbours. I ended my run with Olympium, lead, insulated and corrosive resistant paneling giving me resistance to practically everything but not quite all around the vehicle. Tobias dying and Francis taking the lead leaves the aftergame with a bit bad aftertaste since Francis will keep constantly making references like "If Tobias was here to see this". I want to drive around a bit and take in the sights, have a good time. With Francis on the lead that becomes increasingly hard.
Thank you a lot, Odd, for this series!!! To me, the whole story was really beatiful and sort of innovating or really ingenious. The way they have pretty much only four main characters to make the whole plot to develop and move forward, having as much weight and intensity as any other story. Even more than many others there are out there... Not to mention that three of those four characters are voices on a radio and the other one doesn't even talk, lol!!! To me, instead of that feeling like something that was lacking, felt much more like an achievement from a storytelling perspective. Also, the whole way that the character arcs were handle really got to me emotionally and that felt just super satisfactory. I simply can't believe how much I've enjoyed this series, so lots of thanks againg to you, Odd!! 😁
When we got the message on the FAX machine a few episodes back where the message was like "I've been turned into pure data, don't delete any files on your computers whatever you do!" I thought that was setting something up for the plot, but then nothing came of it. Thought perhaps it was setting up for a reveal that Oppy, Tobias and Francis were no longer human, and were instructing you in hope of some kind of rescue from their digital existence. After all, how else could they have survived so long in the zone with no outside support?
TBH from the first moment I swear that was going to be the twist. That all those folks you talk to are trapped basically in the Remnant. Maybe on a last ditch effort out of the zone they all happened to get stuck in the Station Wagon. Or Deus Ex Machina for the radio. Either way, no one you'd ever meet. While Oppy mentions "I'm behind a literal cloud of instability, you ain't finding me", Tobias and Francis are mentioned to be in the Midzone. But they never mention WHERE. And for sure would be at least semi-accessable (as they have to do some scavanging of their own to survive).
I bought this when you played the preview and waited so impatient for release just finished it a couple days ago and am blown away by how good it was you are right a few little things could be tweaked but the amount of menu options it has for player comfort is incredible and honestly losing tobias hurt my heart. As always thank you for bringing us this wonderful in depth playthrough and keep being awesome ❤
Because it wasn't stated, you can draw your own conclusion on their relationship, if it matters. What is wrong with saying you love a friend that you have spent decades with? Of course you are going to miss some-one that close, romantic or otherwise.
29:34 - You did one easy/straight-line drive for that middle highway junction and then loaded into the easy drive for the second highway junction (the one you selected from the map after leaving the garage), skipping the actual location/stop for the middle highway junction. It saves you some time, but in the case of those highway junction stops, also eliminates the chance of any Anchors - as Anchors do not spawn on the easy drives. So free mats and a bit faster of a ride to your end destination, or the free mats along with an actual map between to possible provide anchors at the cost of additional time in your run.
The entire video, after leaving the garage, Odd just leaking fuel all over the back seat of the car 😆 Honestly surprised you never looked at the Pneumatic Locker, Not sure why you would need more than one, but it seems to have unlimited storage
Thanks for sharing your adventures with the Pacific Pounder turned Pacific Pound Cake turned Pacific Princess. It was great to be along for the ride, bonks and all. 😎
If I had to describe this game, I'd say it's the setting of _Control_ combined with the gameplay of _Subnautica_ . I actually thought the car Remnant was going to be something akin Stephen King's _Christine_ when we started out, so I'm a bit disappointed the car didn't play a bigger role in that regard. But nevertheless, great series, great game. And it almost feels like they're leaving off to set it up for a sequel to continue the story - or to make you think and interpret the conclusions that are never really explicitly stated as conclusions, only as interpretations, hints or speculation.
Man what a great series this was to watch, honestly I hate to see it go :( , one of the very few I've been able to watch from start to finish, kind of hoping there's gonna be some DLC at some point, but yea this was definitely a great series I'll probably end up watching again sometime, lol.
Thanks for the playthrough Chris! I loved the concept, design and upgrades. Also the voice acting was really good. I just felt it got a bit repetitive at the end, but overall, I really enjoyed it.
I really enjoyed watching this game. I thought the story telling was fantastic, all the little short stories for info on the anomalies made it feel real. I'm sure some people want their games to have 100s and 100s of hours of gameplay, but I appreciate a game that just sets out to tell a story and not suck 100s of hours.
Those who enjoy games with a longer playthrough can enjoy the replayability though. Trying out different builds and adding skills that they didn't use in the last playthrough could make it feel like playing a new game. So they could probably get at least double the playtime out of it before it feels repetitive. Completely agree with you about it being nice to see a game that doesn't get lost in side quests and such and instead stays focused on the story it is trying to tell.
Totally agree with you that getting to meet/see the people you were in constant communication with during your journey would have been a great payoff. I think that the reason Tobias's death wasn't as impactful was because even though we got to know him through the radio at the end of the day he was just a voice without a face. Even getting to see them on a monitor at the game's conclusion would have been enough to just put a face on the people who were essentially your travel companions in the zone. Hopefully with updates and patches they'll work out the bugs that you experienced like not being able to collect fuel from the synthesizer and having to travel through junctions even after getting the upgrade ability to bypass them. Even with those flaws this looks like a solid game and it has been fun watching you play it.
I spent like double the amount you did on grinding for resources. I wanted every upgrade. I like the sound design too. I also felt like the deep zone threats should have been more difficult and that it needed a fast travel to get to the zone you wanted to farm. It was interesting too that the vibe of the early zones is WAY more chill, which I did miss sometimes. I wouldn't have minded a chill stable deep zone run or two, instead of always barely managed chaos and a mad dash to get resources. Overall, a solid game and an excellent price point for what you get.
Paint might be a good idea given he was running out of space. But like nothing indicates scrapping paint is a good idea (especially for how semi-rare it is). For SURE Decals would be a hard sell.
Tobias and Francis: literally exchange "I love you"s as Tobias knowingly risks his life in the end Odd: It seems like they were together? More than just buddies. I know he was talking through a lot of that scene, but this genuinely made me laugh out loud. Never change, Odd, never change, hahaha.
i think they are supposed to be an homage to "Click and Clack - The Car Guys" , they had a long running show on NPR . Click and Clack were brothers , separated by 12 years?
I appreciate he's trying to play the game, but considering he started out with the whole 'let's play the story' thing... I'm kind of glad he only had a few episodes left after that, because it really soured me on his playthrough.
I feel like the unstable energy cores should've only been available in the yellow approaching storm (with more time to explore in the approaching storm) and the corrupt energy cores only available in the red storm.
Stephen King was once asked what kind of story "The Shining" was. He thought, and eventually called it hopeful. Because any story that implies some sort of life after death was inherently hopeful. I think that this game is too. It's bittersweet, but hopeful. Oppie finally accepts forgiveness from the ghost of her husband (ghosts you might see in that final run towards the portal). Francis has a new purpose - to continue to chase down the mysteries and stories of the zone. For those people who want a story that does its job, this is it. Forty hours of explanation, and a satisfying ending. Me? I'm only on part four of the frequency files. I've got a mere 38% of my logbook filled out. If Francis's is here to help me make further discoveries, I'm in for it. I'll keep driving until I have logged more anomalies (including that one in the very opening zone that's still eluding me). And Olympium doors and panels. I want to see how those look, blast it. Mr. Odd, thank you for sharing your route with us. I'm still a few junctions behind on the Pacific Pounder, as the Seattle Cutlass had to finish her journey first. But I'm catching up now. I promise. To you other drivers out there, whether you take an early off ramp or if you drive until your tank is empty, your battery oxidized, and the abductors are dragging you offroad (again), do me a favor? Log your travels for me. Because the best part is the journey, isn't it? Petal to the metal, folks! ...and what did Tobias mean... "Until next time"?
Great story with great potential for continuation in an sequel or an DLC. I honestly greatly wish that Tobias hadn't died, but with the ending dialogue and ending itself, it seems that there's still hope to potentially get him recovered, revive him, or at the very least, continue to be able to talk to him past his body's death (although speaking of that, I still don't think we can outright assume his body died for sure, despite what the story and the characters tell us - I think there's still a chance he could have had survived, maybe just severely injured and close to death). Whatever the case, I hope to see more on this if developers have anything planned more in the universe of this game. Onto some other things though - I have to say that I fully agree with car customization and those later parts past steel, though for me, I also wish that people could remove the ARDA decals from car's parts separated out from other vehicles in the wild and that those could be also their own decal to apply if you wanted it - Also, more stickers - Way more stickers to find would be great. Those are only really two minor complaints of mine though. I also can't really agree with the fast travel thing - I like how the driving and despite the available upgrades, still being forced to go through these paths and get more immersed into the world still. Sure, it did get a little bit repetitive near the end, but it was still very enjoyable. I think for the most part that's all I have to say on this. Although I don't watch you often and aren't really subscribed, I still thank you for the series greatly!
The thing is, once you get the Junction Bypass upgrade for the garage, you can just select the furthest highway junction you can reach, and the only parts you have to travel in between are those straight stretches of road along the highways. No need to do every junction along the way.
I could see the no teleport system being more bearable as actual downtime if the destination area or anomalies was more dangerous as mentioned, and also if the crafting/upgrading was less messy in the second half of the game. The gameplay loop would then be: Crafting( brief thinking/planning time) > downtime on the long roads > dangerous destination area. Subnautica also had various landmarks and interesting biome landscapes while traversing whereas most of this was dark and not a lot of change in the background, so unless you're someone who still plays Euro truck Sim to this day, I get why most people would like a fast travel system.
Liked this - it happened at a pace I enjoyed. I’d enjoy if you redid Lamplighters with Nocturne & Isaac plus used the sniper lady (I think she was given high ground to shoot from & only one UA-camr took advantage of it before he rage quit). Thank you
Great playthrough, incredibly frustrating to not be able to interact with you as you asked questions and missed stuffs (understandable as you are actively playing the game). The quick update were impressive but I believe I would have enjoyed slower ones if it meant we could leave impactful comments between sessions.
Keeping the Subnautica comparison, they really need a cyclops. some kind of temporary mobile base, maybe within the walls between the zones where you could store items and start missions from. Edit: Also, I think it would have been nice if the car has some sort of notification when something that hasn't been scanned is near. maybe there is something and I just missed it, but during my play-through I gave up on trying to scan anything except what was need for upgrades.
Not a bad game, but overall I felt like it could have been so much more ... everything, the narrative, the gameplay loop, the itemization, the progression, all just oozed with unrealized potential.
overall i agreed with you, wouldve been nice if you could change the location of your garage or something, some sort of autopilot wouldve been nice for on the roads so you could make repairs or fix it whilst climbing out, making it more dynamic. i felt like there were too many upgrades, which isnt something i would normally say, its just that the layout was confusing and you couldnt unlock everything, and there was so much to craft you forgot half of what you unlocked and i dont blame you for it, was a bit much. storywise, i expected some kind of twist at some point, hoped on some betrayal, or doublecrossing, but that didnt happen, wouldve loved to meet the characters, but im glad they stuck to only 3. i never really connected with the 3 characters tho. the ending was kind of an anticlimax imo, you were working on trying to get out of the peninsula, but you never did, I hoped/expected once you returned to the real world something dark happened, nuclear apocalypse or something dramatic explanation why all the stuff happened? maybe aliens? Overal 7.7/10 I loved watching it, but i wouldnt play it myself, I also find it hard to recommend to others, since its quite a niche youll either love it or hate type of game.
Awesome series Odd, thanks for this. Normally I don't like people talking, however with you I actually like your thinking process. For the 2 last parts the audio went softer and softer.. for the love of everything Odd.. keep your audio fixed mate!
If they do make a dlc for this game I’m hoping there will at least be a character model for Francis bc I really wanna see how he looks. Sure there will be fan renditions but I wanna see what the game devs designed for a character like Francis
It's a good game. I enjoyed watching and playing it. The thing that's bothering me the most the fact that I cannot save whenever I want, I stop often when I play and sometimes I can't afford keeping it running. Basically forced to continue or lose progress, I mean I get why but you know.. 2nd I fully agree with you on basically fast travel, especially when you reach "deep zone". Time is precious, time is money, simply put I don't wanna waste my time driving through no longer needed areas to my destination, just get me there. Lastly yeah detailing station need some work. Now that being said, I still think this a game that came out of nowhere and crushed many AAA titles at least to me.
Funny how Starfield got panned for being fast travel reliant but here people want fast travel. :P It is a good game, but there are some gameplay issues and it is best treated as a walking simulator instead of a skill based driving game.
@@nidungr3496The thing is the game has an upgrade item that reads like it'll allow the player to bypass junctions. That upgrade is useless if the player still has to drive those areas because they're not bypassing them. I don't think people are saying that fast travel should be able to be done freely out of the gate, but once they've passed through an area being forced to go through it again to get to destinations that are further away I get why they don't like that.
@@ChristopherOdd That was, quiet the good-long read, took me around 30~min more or less to read it. I understood the technical side especially for a small team. But to me and I can only speak for my self, I can't buy the gameplay side, I understand yes. Because in the end it's up to the player to play it as he see fit whether it's cheesy or not so long he enjoys it, options in my opinion always great. That said, you can only admire how determined they are to make the game how they wanted it to be and as good as they possibly can make it. Respect! Can't say the same about many others.
Who or what are the Remnants, the Tourists and the creepy triangular-shaped bipedal figure with a hat which was mentioned in one of the Anomaly Studies? What happened to the Mailman? Was/is the Pneumatube the Mailman's Remnant? Still some unanswered questions. I guess it's a good setup for DLCs, which I certainly look forward to. They could've easily made this into a horror game, though part of me is glad they didn't. All in all, 'twas a good game, a solid foundation for future iterations.
Really good series but the story felt weak with a lot of loose ends. I agree on the fast travel bypass, I understand why they went with a mechanic like this but still. Apart from these two drawbacks, the game was well made with interesting concepts & very creative enemies. I will give it 7 out of 10. Looking forward to your next series. p.s Pacific Pound Cake was a beaut 😂
Well think this will be my last mission too, and i'm really hoping the devs did something crazy and added more content in the "carry on driving" bit. / there's loads of anomalies and other stuff i've not found just thinking it'd be nuts if the story carried on a bit after. will see i guess. - Thanks for series really enjoyed that.
Another one bites the dust. Great content Hope other devs take inspiration from the game's mechanics & other content creators continue playing whack games so Commander Odd Rises
Unfortunately, Odd took on the worst tires in the game last minute 😅 Basically Summer Tires that eat battery. Still, completing it must be pretty satisfying.
Hey bud cool game over all. But it did seem short. I'd like to know how long in total was for you. The end was a bit cryptic as well. Is it over? Can you leave the garage and still do stuff? Did they do an Easter egg thing and you carry on with the new guy for more adventures? A sequel, I can't see how that could work... what would have been cool is starting as the doctor just before everything went to crap. Experiencing every thing, do a 10 years later thing and carry on. Just some thoughts. Take care.
Yeah, you obviously didn't know what I said in the previous vid....the car panels and doors only needed 1 and maybe a back up of each 'protection' so they ALL had a purpose as long as you put at least 1 of them on the car, Or that is what other people have commented on other videos I've seen.
I've been watching your videos since Subnautica, then I became curious about Xcom, but I notice that you're already getting into a routine. When you start a new series, you want to finish it as quickly as possible and move on to the next one. Pacific Drive may have been similar to Subnautica, but the further you went into the series, the faster you wanted to get to the end. I always liked your meticulous checking of everything and now, "give me fast travel", you were no longer interested in new anomalies. Just finish it. It's a pity, these gamplayers are no longer any different from other creators. I wish you all the best.
Thanks Odd. This game misses the mark for me like Outer Worlds did. So much potential. So close. Good games, but somehow falling just short of the potential. A game I really enjoyed and probably won’t play again.
Thx for this nice series; I realşy would like to see you playing this kind of games; it is very enjoying to watch you playing Subnautica, Pasific Drive, Monkey Island, Dead Space, Miasma Chronicles, Lamplighters...
Is it? Gamma rays, the type of radiation generally regarded as "harmful" due to its penetrative power, exist at frequencies around 300 ExaHertz - or 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 Hertz. Vague "consumer electronics" operate at frequencies in the 10 GigaHertz or less range... 10,000,000,000 Hertz and lower. This includes microwave ovens, cell phones, wireless routers, televisions, radios - basically any "consumer electronic". That's several orders of magnitude different - indeed, the two are on opposite sides of the visible light spectrum's wavelengths, and "consumer electronics" operate closer to sound waves in frequency than ionizing Gamma radiation. Do you think hearing someone speak, or hearing an instrument play - or seeing literally anything - is a radioactive danger? It's wise to be skeptical of potential dangers, but it's more wise to recognize the difference between fear mongering and genuine hazard.
@@kaelananderson9237 Thank you for your analysis. I’m not going to pretend that I ran the numbers, or that I am qualified to speak to this area of study. I was merely trying to comment on the great tally of old TV sets, without spoiling. Question: would the amount of those TV sets raise risk to a human, or is the effect neither additive nor multiplicative?
@@yon_monsterNo worries. I just bristle at remarks like that because it's the kind of off-handed, unnuanced statement that some people will run with to form, at best, unhelpful and, at worst, dangerous "theories". To answer your question - perhaps marginally? There are two factors to consider regarding electromagnetic radiation: intensity and frequency. Differing intensities is why you shouldn't stick your head in a microwave oven but your cell phone doesn't cook your hand, even though they both operate at similar frequencies (around 2.4GHz) - the microwave oven's EM radiation is more intense and directional. The quantity of TVs would impact the intensity experienced, I believe additively, but this would only cause a heating effect, not damage at a cellular level, because the frequency wouldn't be changed. I also imagine this effect would be fairly marginal due to the inverse-square law - the intensity of an electromagnetic wave falls off very quickly because for every doubling of the distance from the source the intensity experienced is quartered (this is mathematically related to the square-cube law where if you make an object 2x bigger in length, its surface area becomes 4x bigger and its volume 8x). Frequency describes the rate at which the wave oscillates - 1 cycle per second is 1 Hertz - and has an inversely proportional relationship to the wavelength - the physical distance over which one cycle is completed - with higher frequencies having shorter wavelengths, and lower frequencies having longer wavelengths. Imagine a swinging pendulum: the pendulum will make more back-and-forth cycles in a shorter amount of time if it's travelling a short distance, but if you pull the pendulum really far back it will take longer to cycle. (As an interesting aside, this is why the metal grille on a microwave door keeps you from being cooked like your food. The holes are much smaller than the wavelength of the microwave radiation [around 12 centimeters] and so it doesn't "fit through", but visible light is higher frequency, shorter wavelength [400 to 700 nanometers] and passes through easily). Frequency also has a directly proportional relationship to the energy of the photons that compose the wave - so higher frequencies are more energetic. This is the energy of the photons themselves and is unrelated to the intensity of the wave. This energy is what makes the much higher frequency gamma rays dangerous - the photons have enough energy to rip electrons off of atoms (called ionization) and a narrow enough wavelength that they pass easily through most material. The frequency doesn't change with intensity, so even if you stack up a whole mess of TVs they won't suddenly start emitting dangerous ionizing radiation, just a greater quantity/intensity of the same (relatively) low-frequency waves that don't have the energy to disrupt the structure of atoms (just bounce into them, making them vibrate more, resulting in more heat). Hopefully this long-winded explanation helped! I'll admit I'm reaching the end of my knowledge and understanding of the concepts involved so I probably couldn't elaborate further, at least not in a meaningful way, if you still have questions. Thanks for not taking offense to my original reply and showing an interest in the science. :)
@@kaelananderson9237 TY for response 😊 the explanation helps a lot, where the intensity and frequency is what would cause cellular damage, and TV sets don’t emit bands until lower frequencies. And, although the effect might be additive with so many TVs, the intensity and frequency emitted would not be the type of cellular damage associated with apocalyptic radiation. Happy Sciencing 🧬
Don't get me wrong, I loved it through and through. But I wish they would go more into what the remnants are exactly, what the anomalies are exactly, etc.. I get it - they are meant to be ghosts or something seeping in from afterlife.. but that's sort of generic.. I don't feel that the story has concluded. I hope there will be DLC that sets it all straight. Also, some more explanation on how Oppie can just leave now and judging by what she said - she could always leave? I thought nobody can leave the zone now.. Hmm.. It's a good story, I just wish for DLC with proper ending now :)
All of those things could be answered in a sequel. Remember Ophelia told Francis at the end "there are so many more secrets to discover in the zone" before tasking him with continuing to discover and unravel those secrets. If they make a sequel maybe that's when we'll finally learn the origins of the remnants and why they are in the zone.
The remnants kinda got explained as being triggers to "The Well" anomaly at the center that sets off massive Gama Radiation blasts when it comes into contact with said Remnant. The First was apparently a Tungsten cube. TBH I think it'd be interesting if the Remnant was a single entity and it keeps trying to fufill it's purpose of activating the Well (somehow). Thus why all previous Remnants made their owners go insane and disappear (presumably to the well). And while either failing to get it's owner there (a teapot that makes delicious tea isn't the best for traversing a hellscape) and eventually having to find a new target to occupy after it's clear it's current form can't satisfy it's need to return to the well, drifts to something else. And it just so happens to land in the Wagon we find. Clearly after everyone is long since gone. As for why Oppy can leave, tbh I think the Remnant may also be able to harbor spirits. And uses them to convince it's latest victim to it's will. It's one thing to have some eldritch entity tell you go to the center of Radioactive hell, and others providing a cast of "friends" to get it to where it ultimately wants, but at the hosts own will. Since the Remnant finished it's goal of reaching the well, it wouldn't have a need of Oppy or Tobias. But could spare Francis to keep you running around with it. Oh, and the reason Oppy can leave is she's a spirit and is basically passing on.
amazing game dont care to much for all the loading screens tho u just be driving an boom loading screen. wish is was more open without the loading screens.
Pretty much, yeah. One of my bigger disappointments with this game which I kind of forgot to mention in my own, separate comment under this last episode. I sort of get the story for why we can't go literally everywhere we want to but it still sort of hurts. I hope that an DLC or sequel could change that aspect. Maybe a mod perhaps? People have modded games not too open for modding in the past. I guess we will just have to wait and see! :)
Loved the series. However, in the last couple of episodes, you seemed extremely rushed. They a whole different kind of vibe to them. It's a shame, but sometimes that's just life, I suppose
People say that in almost every series. We have better stuff so we can move through stuff faster and we don’t need to scavenge for supplies for upgrades that aren’t required.
All this talk about skipping and cutting out parts of the lets play... That's disappointing. That's not the kind of gameplay I'm here for. When I played I decked out the car with the best stuff, farmed olympium, sought out the Chiaki podcasts on the map and prioritized those areas... I would've thought you'd get the whole journey over destination aspect of all the youtubers.
Remembering back to the first episode Oppy says that the instability scrambles everything it comes in contact with and matter has lost the ability to maintain its physical properties, but it is never stated that such matter is destroyed. So I wonder if the people killed by the instability aren't actually dead. Maybe they continue to exist but not in a physical sense which is why Tobias and Allen were still able to communicate with the "living" during the gamma ray surge.
I'm picturing Mr Spock raising an eyebrow saying "interesting "
That one fax message literally claimed this, I believe it said that they are digitised and deleting the message would kill them
I like how, since Tobias talked about your dash ornament (His Gumberoo) that also means he got to see your car in person, alongside all the modifications you made to it.
I don't know why, but that's oddly heartwarming for the first person you have heard in the zone to see your car, especially how they got so excited after putting 2 + 2 together with how fast it was moving.
And so the bonkening saga comes to a close, the same as the trunk does as it descends on Chris' head.
At episode start:
BONKs so far: 15
Current Bonk-less streak: 28
Best Bonk-less streak: 55
Current successful trunk-closing rate: 222/237 (93.7%)
1:35 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 29) (223/238 success rate)
2:37 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 30) (224/239 success rate)
3:56 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 31) (225/240 success rate)
5:38 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 32) (226/241 success rate)
14:20 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 33) (227/242 success rate)
15:34 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 34) (228/243 success rate)
17:33 - no incident (no incident since last bonk: 35) (229/244 success rate)
And so ends the saga, the tale, the legend of the legendary driver Chris. With just 15 BONKs out of 244 possible times, it is pretty impressive, putting him at a neat 93.9% success rate. Thank you for reading these and see you in future series, this is your friendly records keeper Adam Bárta, signing off.
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Thanks for all these comments you made, i read them all and it was glorious.
@@cloontje Thank you very much 😁
Great work!
The dedication is pretty amazing!
58:50 Honestly the twist I was expecting was, the people you interact with, just aren't there. Long since perished. However they're stuck in a way over the radio, or perhaps the Station Wagon Remnant itself. And going by the ending with the well allowing you to "talk" with Tobias again, there may have been a plan for that being it.
Given you're dealing with a lady in her admitted 80's somehow surviving in a secluded part of an absolute hellscape (by choice) and a pair of, at least middle aged men in a not so much hellscape (though weirdly being in the Midzone apparently never invite you over). Both of their survival seems pretty exceptional as I think it's been 10 years (The zone gets expunged from everyone in the 80's, game takes place in the 90s).
But going by the ending where we deal with Tobias one more time, it's clear the zone isn't big on Mortality and can allow communications between folks who shouldn't be breathing. And given you're rolling around in a mutation that's supposed to influence your mind, to head to the well for it's own reasons basically. It using the voices from long dead folk (that may have even tried to escape in the wagon leading to it being a Remnant now) to convince you isn't the craziest thing. And you'd be hard pressed to say it even lies to you. It warns you, but due to whatever effects it has, you push on with it regardless. And Said Warnings can be considered to be in it's self intrest as you have a shared destination.
It also lines up with the characters leaving. Tobias is brash, and perhaps as a spirit would be a bit too much for the Remnant Wagon to really handle, so comes up with an excuse to get rid of it. And once you reach the well, it still has a hold on you, but since it completed it's mission, doesn't really have a reason to really push you there any more. So "Oppy" choses to leave, leaving the meekest member Francis to act as a glorified guide in your extended stay in the Peninsula. Note how while They're all keen on getting you out of the zone, it really does boil down to getting the Remnant Wagon to the Well ; something the voices comment on as being the goal as the previous remnant owners. But well, a Station Wagon is a bit more useful then a teapot. But once you're "Free" of the Remnant, no one is really left to help you get OUT of this hell hole. And you're basically trapped, with a carrot on a stick wielder to convince you to "go back into the zone, for science" in Francis.
Since folks are talking about how a DLC or a Sequel might pan out, I figure may as well see how I'd want it to go down. After a few years being in the Peninsula (perhaps to your own confusion as there's not a REAL reason you're still there) helping "Francis" track down what the zone has to offer, a new voice appears. In the form of a ARDA task force meant to sweep the zone for any breechers. Perhaps aware of you specifically, or just doing a routine thing and finding you. (in terms of gameplay could offer new enemies who focus on exposing the wagon for what it is, a shitheap running on supernatural means)
In a desperate fit to keep you "Francis" convinces you that ARDA will only, at best kill you, at worst experiment on you (perhaps in a not too subtle way to imply it's more talking about itself). Could even bring back Oppy or Tobias to try and convince you to head to the Well (to set off a Gama radiation blast that'd drive ARDA off). Before giving up the subterfuge and revealing it's nature as a parasitic supernatural entity which has found great success in the station wagon via you. Gathering more and more information to use in disguises to convince folks to go to the well (though it hasn't had much reason to go back to it after successfully returning). And it continues pushing you back to the well mainly out of self preservation (terrified of what ARDA would do to it). And there could be an alternative story line were you DO co-opperate with ARDA to get out of the penisula and away from the manipulative Wagon. Could tie in nicely as if doing what the Wagon wants will result in less quirks. Where going the ARDA route could make it VERY HOSTILE to you (Imagine your wheel jerking fully in a direction every time you hit top speed)
Thanks so much for playing through this series. It's been a real highlight watching each part as they release. 💙
Man, this game is charming. That car repair diagnosis must have taken incredible patience to code and debug
Only for it to feel completely superfluous and confusing. Shame.
@@thetoastmonster I think it just needs someone who can pay more attention to what is happening around them.
@@pbsixgun6 Yes entirely possible. As a viewer I don't think I noticed any quirks besides the Horn Honks when Trunk Closed (or is it Trunk Closed makes Horn Honk?)
@@thetoastmonster I just completed the game. Some of the quirks are very subtle, but I saw I few of the ones I also got during Chris' playthrough.
- Radio volume fluctuates when wipers are turned on
- Wipers get 'stuck' or stutter
But some quirks are very annoying. Like when doors open when you put the car in park, or worse, when it is put into drive.
The reason to use different panels / doors than just radiation resistance ones lies in adjancency bonuses. Each part provides the bonuses to itself and its neighbours. I ended my run with Olympium, lead, insulated and corrosive resistant paneling giving me resistance to practically everything but not quite all around the vehicle.
Tobias dying and Francis taking the lead leaves the aftergame with a bit bad aftertaste since Francis will keep constantly making references like "If Tobias was here to see this". I want to drive around a bit and take in the sights, have a good time. With Francis on the lead that becomes increasingly hard.
I love a good road trip! Thanks Mr. Odd, and please stay on the lookout for future DLC revisits
DLC? are you serious?
this crap has gone too far.
Thank you a lot, Odd, for this series!!! To me, the whole story was really beatiful and sort of innovating or really ingenious. The way they have pretty much only four main characters to make the whole plot to develop and move forward, having as much weight and intensity as any other story. Even more than many others there are out there... Not to mention that three of those four characters are voices on a radio and the other one doesn't even talk, lol!!! To me, instead of that feeling like something that was lacking, felt much more like an achievement from a storytelling perspective. Also, the whole way that the character arcs were handle really got to me emotionally and that felt just super satisfactory. I simply can't believe how much I've enjoyed this series, so lots of thanks againg to you, Odd!! 😁
When we got the message on the FAX machine a few episodes back where the message was like "I've been turned into pure data, don't delete any files on your computers whatever you do!" I thought that was setting something up for the plot, but then nothing came of it. Thought perhaps it was setting up for a reveal that Oppy, Tobias and Francis were no longer human, and were instructing you in hope of some kind of rescue from their digital existence. After all, how else could they have survived so long in the zone with no outside support?
TBH from the first moment I swear that was going to be the twist. That all those folks you talk to are trapped basically in the Remnant. Maybe on a last ditch effort out of the zone they all happened to get stuck in the Station Wagon. Or Deus Ex Machina for the radio. Either way, no one you'd ever meet. While Oppy mentions "I'm behind a literal cloud of instability, you ain't finding me", Tobias and Francis are mentioned to be in the Midzone. But they never mention WHERE. And for sure would be at least semi-accessable (as they have to do some scavanging of their own to survive).
I was expecting Tobias to be a radio, Francis to be a spectrometer and Oppy to actually be the ARC Device.
Faxes seem to be lore and memes, but don't have much bearing on the story - I had one that was the "We're just men, just normal men" snippet.
I bought this when you played the preview and waited so impatient for release just finished it a couple days ago and am blown away by how good it was you are right a few little things could be tweaked but the amount of menu options it has for player comfort is incredible and honestly losing tobias hurt my heart. As always thank you for bringing us this wonderful in depth playthrough and keep being awesome ❤
Because it wasn't stated, you can draw your own conclusion on their relationship, if it matters. What is wrong with saying you love a friend that you have spent decades with? Of course you are going to miss some-one that close, romantic or otherwise.
A bit sad that the series has ended. Really liked the atmosphere in this one.
Pleasure to watch your plays Chris! ❤
29:34 - You did one easy/straight-line drive for that middle highway junction and then loaded into the easy drive for the second highway junction (the one you selected from the map after leaving the garage), skipping the actual location/stop for the middle highway junction. It saves you some time, but in the case of those highway junction stops, also eliminates the chance of any Anchors - as Anchors do not spawn on the easy drives. So free mats and a bit faster of a ride to your end destination, or the free mats along with an actual map between to possible provide anchors at the cost of additional time in your run.
I'm sad to see this series finish, it was great to follow along, thank you Chris!
Very enjoyable series Christopher, thank you and thanks to the developers
The entire video, after leaving the garage, Odd just leaking fuel all over the back seat of the car 😆 Honestly surprised you never looked at the Pneumatic Locker, Not sure why you would need more than one, but it seems to have unlimited storage
should definitely have a side playthrough and get olympium parts and everything. the late game customisation is nuts
Thanks for sharing your adventures with the Pacific Pounder turned Pacific Pound Cake turned Pacific Princess. It was great to be along for the ride, bonks and all. 😎
If I had to describe this game, I'd say it's the setting of _Control_ combined with the gameplay of _Subnautica_ .
I actually thought the car Remnant was going to be something akin Stephen King's _Christine_ when we started out, so I'm a bit disappointed the car didn't play a bigger role in that regard. But nevertheless, great series, great game. And it almost feels like they're leaving off to set it up for a sequel to continue the story - or to make you think and interpret the conclusions that are never really explicitly stated as conclusions, only as interpretations, hints or speculation.
Man what a great series this was to watch, honestly I hate to see it go :( , one of the very few I've been able to watch from start to finish, kind of hoping there's gonna be some DLC at some point, but yea this was definitely a great series I'll probably end up watching again sometime, lol.
Thanks for the playthrough Chris!
I loved the concept, design and upgrades. Also the voice acting was really good.
I just felt it got a bit repetitive at the end, but overall, I really enjoyed it.
Gonna miss this. Great series mate.
I really enjoyed watching this game. I thought the story telling was fantastic, all the little short stories for info on the anomalies made it feel real.
I'm sure some people want their games to have 100s and 100s of hours of gameplay, but I appreciate a game that just sets out to tell a story and not suck 100s of hours.
Those who enjoy games with a longer playthrough can enjoy the replayability though. Trying out different builds and adding skills that they didn't use in the last playthrough could make it feel like playing a new game.
So they could probably get at least double the playtime out of it before it feels repetitive.
Completely agree with you about it being nice to see a game that doesn't get lost in side quests and such and instead stays focused on the story it is trying to tell.
I seriously they develop a part 2 of this game. 😁
Totally agree with you that getting to meet/see the people you were in constant communication with during your journey would have been a great payoff.
I think that the reason Tobias's death wasn't as impactful was because even though we got to know him through the radio at the end of the day he was just a voice without a face.
Even getting to see them on a monitor at the game's conclusion would have been enough to just put a face on the people who were essentially your travel companions in the zone.
Hopefully with updates and patches they'll work out the bugs that you experienced like not being able to collect fuel from the synthesizer and having to travel through junctions even after getting the upgrade ability to bypass them.
Even with those flaws this looks like a solid game and it has been fun watching you play it.
I spent like double the amount you did on grinding for resources. I wanted every upgrade. I like the sound design too. I also felt like the deep zone threats should have been more difficult and that it needed a fast travel to get to the zone you wanted to farm. It was interesting too that the vibe of the early zones is WAY more chill, which I did miss sometimes. I wouldn't have minded a chill stable deep zone run or two, instead of always barely managed chaos and a mad dash to get resources. Overall, a solid game and an excellent price point for what you get.
Great series! This is the first stuff of yours that I've watched, but I really enjoyed your commentary! I'll definitely be watching more!
Thank you for this great series!
This would look awesome in widescreen/ triple monitor setup!!
Yo Chris if you need chemicals, just scrap the decals or paints. And keep up the good work my friend
Paint might be a good idea given he was running out of space. But like nothing indicates scrapping paint is a good idea (especially for how semi-rare it is). For SURE Decals would be a hard sell.
Tobias and Francis: literally exchange "I love you"s as Tobias knowingly risks his life in the end
Odd: It seems like they were together? More than just buddies.
I know he was talking through a lot of that scene, but this genuinely made me laugh out loud. Never change, Odd, never change, hahaha.
i think they are supposed to be an homage to "Click and Clack - The Car Guys" , they had a long running show on NPR . Click and Clack were brothers , separated by 12 years?
may Ophelia could be based on Nina Totenberg ...?
I appreciate he's trying to play the game, but considering he started out with the whole 'let's play the story' thing... I'm kind of glad he only had a few episodes left after that, because it really soured me on his playthrough.
@@Baiswithdon’t be so sensitive
lmao get over it xD@@Baiswith
I am going to miss this.
I feel like the unstable energy cores should've only been available in the yellow approaching storm (with more time to explore in the approaching storm) and the corrupt energy cores only available in the red storm.
I want to ride in a ChristopherOdd, 360 degree, fully articulated driving simulator. When you role, we role!
Loved this series!
Stephen King was once asked what kind of story "The Shining" was. He thought, and eventually called it hopeful. Because any story that implies some sort of life after death was inherently hopeful.
I think that this game is too. It's bittersweet, but hopeful. Oppie finally accepts forgiveness from the ghost of her husband (ghosts you might see in that final run towards the portal). Francis has a new purpose - to continue to chase down the mysteries and stories of the zone.
For those people who want a story that does its job, this is it. Forty hours of explanation, and a satisfying ending.
Me? I'm only on part four of the frequency files. I've got a mere 38% of my logbook filled out. If Francis's is here to help me make further discoveries, I'm in for it. I'll keep driving until I have logged more anomalies (including that one in the very opening zone that's still eluding me). And Olympium doors and panels. I want to see how those look, blast it.
Mr. Odd, thank you for sharing your route with us. I'm still a few junctions behind on the Pacific Pounder, as the Seattle Cutlass had to finish her journey first. But I'm catching up now. I promise.
To you other drivers out there, whether you take an early off ramp or if you drive until your tank is empty, your battery oxidized, and the abductors are dragging you offroad (again), do me a favor? Log your travels for me. Because the best part is the journey, isn't it?
Petal to the metal, folks!
...and what did Tobias mean... "Until next time"?
Great story with great potential for continuation in an sequel or an DLC. I honestly greatly wish that Tobias hadn't died, but with the ending dialogue and ending itself, it seems that there's still hope to potentially get him recovered, revive him, or at the very least, continue to be able to talk to him past his body's death (although speaking of that, I still don't think we can outright assume his body died for sure, despite what the story and the characters tell us - I think there's still a chance he could have had survived, maybe just severely injured and close to death). Whatever the case, I hope to see more on this if developers have anything planned more in the universe of this game. Onto some other things though - I have to say that I fully agree with car customization and those later parts past steel, though for me, I also wish that people could remove the ARDA decals from car's parts separated out from other vehicles in the wild and that those could be also their own decal to apply if you wanted it - Also, more stickers - Way more stickers to find would be great. Those are only really two minor complaints of mine though. I also can't really agree with the fast travel thing - I like how the driving and despite the available upgrades, still being forced to go through these paths and get more immersed into the world still. Sure, it did get a little bit repetitive near the end, but it was still very enjoyable. I think for the most part that's all I have to say on this. Although I don't watch you often and aren't really subscribed, I still thank you for the series greatly!
Really good series, cheers Mr Odd
The thing is, once you get the Junction Bypass upgrade for the garage, you can just select the furthest highway junction you can reach, and the only parts you have to travel in between are those straight stretches of road along the highways. No need to do every junction along the way.
I could see the no teleport system being more bearable as actual downtime if the destination area or anomalies was more dangerous as mentioned, and also if the crafting/upgrading was less messy in the second half of the game. The gameplay loop would then be: Crafting( brief thinking/planning time) > downtime on the long roads > dangerous destination area. Subnautica also had various landmarks and interesting biome landscapes while traversing whereas most of this was dark and not a lot of change in the background, so unless you're someone who still plays Euro truck Sim to this day, I get why most people would like a fast travel system.
All that paint waiting in the storage 🖌
Liked this - it happened at a pace I enjoyed. I’d enjoy if you redid Lamplighters with Nocturne & Isaac plus used the sniper lady (I think she was given high ground to shoot from & only one UA-camr took advantage of it before he rage quit).
Thank you
Good game
Great series!
Somehow played the entire game without knowing that static mist charges your battery...
"They seemed to be more than just buddies"
THEIR LAST WORDS TO EACH OTHER WERE "I LOVE YOU FOREVER"
YA THINK?
I love you forever
Great playthrough, incredibly frustrating to not be able to interact with you as you asked questions and missed stuffs (understandable as you are actively playing the game). The quick update were impressive but I believe I would have enjoyed slower ones if it meant we could leave impactful comments between sessions.
i hope you do another play through soon
Keeping the Subnautica comparison, they really need a cyclops. some kind of temporary mobile base, maybe within the walls between the zones where you could store items and start missions from. Edit: Also, I think it would have been nice if the car has some sort of notification when something that hasn't been scanned is near. maybe there is something and I just missed it, but during my play-through I gave up on trying to scan anything except what was need for upgrades.
I miss the horn
Not a bad game, but overall I felt like it could have been so much more ... everything, the narrative, the gameplay loop, the itemization, the progression, all just oozed with unrealized potential.
@@ddstevenson1 they still update the game and it gets better just rember that 😃
overall i agreed with you, wouldve been nice if you could change the location of your garage or something, some sort of autopilot wouldve been nice for on the roads so you could make repairs or fix it whilst climbing out, making it more dynamic. i felt like there were too many upgrades, which isnt something i would normally say, its just that the layout was confusing and you couldnt unlock everything, and there was so much to craft you forgot half of what you unlocked and i dont blame you for it, was a bit much.
storywise, i expected some kind of twist at some point, hoped on some betrayal, or doublecrossing, but that didnt happen, wouldve loved to meet the characters, but im glad they stuck to only 3. i never really connected with the 3 characters tho. the ending was kind of an anticlimax imo, you were working on trying to get out of the peninsula, but you never did, I hoped/expected once you returned to the real world something dark happened, nuclear apocalypse or something dramatic explanation why all the stuff happened? maybe aliens? Overal 7.7/10 I loved watching it, but i wouldnt play it myself, I also find it hard to recommend to others, since its quite a niche youll either love it or hate type of game.
Cool, thanks
Hope you play unicorn next!
Awesome series Odd, thanks for this. Normally I don't like people talking, however with you I actually like your thinking process. For the 2 last parts the audio went softer and softer.. for the love of everything Odd.. keep your audio fixed mate!
Had I not been travelling it wouldn’t have been an issue 😢
If they do make a dlc for this game I’m hoping there will at least be a character model for Francis bc I really wanna see how he looks. Sure there will be fan renditions but I wanna see what the game devs designed for a character like Francis
It's a good game. I enjoyed watching and playing it. The thing that's bothering me the most the fact that I cannot save whenever I want, I stop often when I play and sometimes I can't afford keeping it running. Basically forced to continue or lose progress, I mean I get why but you know..
2nd I fully agree with you on basically fast travel, especially when you reach "deep zone". Time is precious, time is money, simply put I don't wanna waste my time driving through no longer needed areas to my destination, just get me there.
Lastly yeah detailing station need some work. Now that being said, I still think this a game that came out of nowhere and crushed many AAA titles at least to me.
Funny how Starfield got panned for being fast travel reliant but here people want fast travel. :P It is a good game, but there are some gameplay issues and it is best treated as a walking simulator instead of a skill based driving game.
@nidungr3496 Really!? I don't get why people complain about fast travel, just don't if you don't want to.
@@nidungr3496The thing is the game has an upgrade item that reads like it'll allow the player to bypass junctions. That upgrade is useless if the player still has to drive those areas because they're not bypassing them.
I don't think people are saying that fast travel should be able to be done freely out of the gate, but once they've passed through an area being forced to go through it again to get to destinations that are further away I get why they don't like that.
They made like a 6 page post on steam talking about this. It’s a good read and I understand why they did it the way they did.
@@ChristopherOdd That was, quiet the good-long read, took me around 30~min more or less to read it. I understood the technical side especially for a small team. But to me and I can only speak for my self, I can't buy the gameplay side, I understand yes. Because in the end it's up to the player to play it as he see fit whether it's cheesy or not so long he enjoys it, options in my opinion always great. That said, you can only admire how determined they are to make the game how they wanted it to be and as good as they possibly can make it. Respect! Can't say the same about many others.
Who or what are the Remnants, the Tourists and the creepy triangular-shaped bipedal figure with a hat which was mentioned in one of the Anomaly Studies? What happened to the Mailman? Was/is the Pneumatube the Mailman's Remnant?
Still some unanswered questions. I guess it's a good setup for DLCs, which I certainly look forward to.
They could've easily made this into a horror game, though part of me is glad they didn't.
All in all, 'twas a good game, a solid foundation for future iterations.
Really good series but the story felt weak with a lot of loose ends. I agree on the fast travel bypass, I understand why they went with a mechanic like this but still. Apart from these two drawbacks, the game was well made with interesting concepts & very creative enemies. I will give it 7 out of 10. Looking forward to your next series.
p.s Pacific Pound Cake was a beaut 😂
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Well think this will be my last mission too, and i'm really hoping the devs did something crazy and added more content in the "carry on driving" bit. / there's loads of anomalies and other stuff i've not found just thinking it'd be nuts if the story carried on a bit after. will see i guess. - Thanks for series really enjoyed that.
Now let’s take this strange open world zone….. and mix it with a little bit of twisted metal black…. And cross out…. That’s what I would love to see.
Another one bites the dust. Great content Hope other devs take inspiration from the game's mechanics & other content creators continue playing whack games so Commander Odd Rises
Unfortunately, Odd took on the worst tires in the game last minute 😅 Basically Summer Tires that eat battery.
Still, completing it must be pretty satisfying.
I hope Unicorn Overlord is next.
in the end we were the pacific princesses along the way
FF7 Rebirth next please :)
Did you never find a payload in the full playthrou? :o
And so the Pounding stops....
Hey bud cool game over all. But it did seem short. I'd like to know how long in total was for you. The end was a bit cryptic as well. Is it over? Can you leave the garage and still do stuff? Did they do an Easter egg thing and you carry on with the new guy for more adventures? A sequel, I can't see how that could work... what would have been cool is starting as the doctor just before everything went to crap. Experiencing every thing, do a 10 years later thing and carry on. Just some thoughts. Take care.
So the whole game is about a sassy woman and some crippled romance story??? Good lord... Thanks Odd for playing this, so we don't need to.
Yeah, you obviously didn't know what I said in the previous vid....the car panels and doors only needed 1 and maybe a back up of each 'protection' so they ALL had a purpose as long as you put at least 1 of them on the car, Or that is what other people have commented on other videos I've seen.
I've been watching your videos since Subnautica, then I became curious about Xcom, but I notice that you're already getting into a routine. When you start a new series, you want to finish it as quickly as possible and move on to the next one. Pacific Drive may have been similar to Subnautica, but the further you went into the series, the faster you wanted to get to the end. I always liked your meticulous checking of everything and now, "give me fast travel", you were no longer interested in new anomalies. Just finish it. It's a pity, these gamplayers are no longer any different from other creators. I wish you all the best.
Thanks Odd. This game misses the mark for me like Outer Worlds did. So much potential. So close. Good games, but somehow falling just short of the potential. A game I really enjoyed and probably won’t play again.
Eh, I mean, it does have a tad bit of lost potential, but it's still an amazing story and game.
Thx for this nice series; I realşy would like to see you playing this kind of games; it is very enjoying to watch you playing Subnautica, Pasific Drive, Monkey Island, Dead Space, Miasma Chronicles, Lamplighters...
A telling commentary on the amount of radiation, just from consumer electronics.
Is it? Gamma rays, the type of radiation generally regarded as "harmful" due to its penetrative power, exist at frequencies around 300 ExaHertz - or 300,000,000,000,000,000,000 Hertz. Vague "consumer electronics" operate at frequencies in the 10 GigaHertz or less range... 10,000,000,000 Hertz and lower. This includes microwave ovens, cell phones, wireless routers, televisions, radios - basically any "consumer electronic". That's several orders of magnitude different - indeed, the two are on opposite sides of the visible light spectrum's wavelengths, and "consumer electronics" operate closer to sound waves in frequency than ionizing Gamma radiation.
Do you think hearing someone speak, or hearing an instrument play - or seeing literally anything - is a radioactive danger?
It's wise to be skeptical of potential dangers, but it's more wise to recognize the difference between fear mongering and genuine hazard.
@@kaelananderson9237 Thank you for your analysis. I’m not going to pretend that I ran the numbers, or that I am qualified to speak to this area of study. I was merely trying to comment on the great tally of old TV sets, without spoiling. Question: would the amount of those TV sets raise risk to a human, or is the effect neither additive nor multiplicative?
@@yon_monsterNo worries. I just bristle at remarks like that because it's the kind of off-handed, unnuanced statement that some people will run with to form, at best, unhelpful and, at worst, dangerous "theories".
To answer your question - perhaps marginally? There are two factors to consider regarding electromagnetic radiation: intensity and frequency. Differing intensities is why you shouldn't stick your head in a microwave oven but your cell phone doesn't cook your hand, even though they both operate at similar frequencies (around 2.4GHz) - the microwave oven's EM radiation is more intense and directional. The quantity of TVs would impact the intensity experienced, I believe additively, but this would only cause a heating effect, not damage at a cellular level, because the frequency wouldn't be changed. I also imagine this effect would be fairly marginal due to the inverse-square law - the intensity of an electromagnetic wave falls off very quickly because for every doubling of the distance from the source the intensity experienced is quartered (this is mathematically related to the square-cube law where if you make an object 2x bigger in length, its surface area becomes 4x bigger and its volume 8x).
Frequency describes the rate at which the wave oscillates - 1 cycle per second is 1 Hertz - and has an inversely proportional relationship to the wavelength - the physical distance over which one cycle is completed - with higher frequencies having shorter wavelengths, and lower frequencies having longer wavelengths. Imagine a swinging pendulum: the pendulum will make more back-and-forth cycles in a shorter amount of time if it's travelling a short distance, but if you pull the pendulum really far back it will take longer to cycle. (As an interesting aside, this is why the metal grille on a microwave door keeps you from being cooked like your food. The holes are much smaller than the wavelength of the microwave radiation [around 12 centimeters] and so it doesn't "fit through", but visible light is higher frequency, shorter wavelength [400 to 700 nanometers] and passes through easily).
Frequency also has a directly proportional relationship to the energy of the photons that compose the wave - so higher frequencies are more energetic. This is the energy of the photons themselves and is unrelated to the intensity of the wave. This energy is what makes the much higher frequency gamma rays dangerous - the photons have enough energy to rip electrons off of atoms (called ionization) and a narrow enough wavelength that they pass easily through most material. The frequency doesn't change with intensity, so even if you stack up a whole mess of TVs they won't suddenly start emitting dangerous ionizing radiation, just a greater quantity/intensity of the same (relatively) low-frequency waves that don't have the energy to disrupt the structure of atoms (just bounce into them, making them vibrate more, resulting in more heat).
Hopefully this long-winded explanation helped! I'll admit I'm reaching the end of my knowledge and understanding of the concepts involved so I probably couldn't elaborate further, at least not in a meaningful way, if you still have questions. Thanks for not taking offense to my original reply and showing an interest in the science. :)
@@kaelananderson9237 TY for response 😊 the explanation helps a lot, where the intensity and frequency is what would cause cellular damage, and TV sets don’t emit bands until lower frequencies. And, although the effect might be additive with so many TVs, the intensity and frequency emitted would not be the type of cellular damage associated with apocalyptic radiation. Happy Sciencing 🧬
Don't get me wrong, I loved it through and through. But I wish they would go more into what the remnants are exactly, what the anomalies are exactly, etc.. I get it - they are meant to be ghosts or something seeping in from afterlife.. but that's sort of generic.. I don't feel that the story has concluded. I hope there will be DLC that sets it all straight. Also, some more explanation on how Oppie can just leave now and judging by what she said - she could always leave? I thought nobody can leave the zone now.. Hmm.. It's a good story, I just wish for DLC with proper ending now :)
All of those things could be answered in a sequel. Remember Ophelia told Francis at the end "there are so many more secrets to discover in the zone" before tasking him with continuing to discover and unravel those secrets. If they make a sequel maybe that's when we'll finally learn the origins of the remnants and why they are in the zone.
@@Furytear Exactly! That's what my big hope is for.
The remnants kinda got explained as being triggers to "The Well" anomaly at the center that sets off massive Gama Radiation blasts when it comes into contact with said Remnant. The First was apparently a Tungsten cube. TBH I think it'd be interesting if the Remnant was a single entity and it keeps trying to fufill it's purpose of activating the Well (somehow). Thus why all previous Remnants made their owners go insane and disappear (presumably to the well). And while either failing to get it's owner there (a teapot that makes delicious tea isn't the best for traversing a hellscape) and eventually having to find a new target to occupy after it's clear it's current form can't satisfy it's need to return to the well, drifts to something else. And it just so happens to land in the Wagon we find. Clearly after everyone is long since gone.
As for why Oppy can leave, tbh I think the Remnant may also be able to harbor spirits. And uses them to convince it's latest victim to it's will. It's one thing to have some eldritch entity tell you go to the center of Radioactive hell, and others providing a cast of "friends" to get it to where it ultimately wants, but at the hosts own will.
Since the Remnant finished it's goal of reaching the well, it wouldn't have a need of Oppy or Tobias. But could spare Francis to keep you running around with it.
Oh, and the reason Oppy can leave is she's a spirit and is basically passing on.
@@Furytear DLC wouldn't hurt either but whatever we get, I think I would definitely take it.
amazing game dont care to much for all the loading screens tho u just be driving an boom loading screen. wish is was more open without the loading screens.
Pretty much, yeah. One of my bigger disappointments with this game which I kind of forgot to mention in my own, separate comment under this last episode. I sort of get the story for why we can't go literally everywhere we want to but it still sort of hurts. I hope that an DLC or sequel could change that aspect. Maybe a mod perhaps? People have modded games not too open for modding in the past. I guess we will just have to wait and see! :)
ending? why? :-x
And ff7? Come on, Chris
The game's story is kinda good but I hated this ending.
Is he...ok?
Loved the series. However, in the last couple of episodes, you seemed extremely rushed. They a whole different kind of vibe to them.
It's a shame, but sometimes that's just life, I suppose
People say that in almost every series. We have better stuff so we can move through stuff faster and we don’t need to scavenge for supplies for upgrades that aren’t required.
And I put it on 2x speed for a lot of the episodes.
Absolutely disappointed. i've finished this game last night and the last part of the Zone and the ending were ruuuuuuuuushed.
its only been out 2 weeks you must have been playing non stop for the likes
All this talk about skipping and cutting out parts of the lets play... That's disappointing. That's not the kind of gameplay I'm here for. When I played I decked out the car with the best stuff, farmed olympium, sought out the Chiaki podcasts on the map and prioritized those areas... I would've thought you'd get the whole journey over destination aspect of all the youtubers.
oh no this has some ©️ 🎶
really? it ends with a friggen exposition dump? the biggest waste of time ever.