Thank you for your review in the name of Ice Code Games crew! And yes, we are working very hard on all the issues that you've mentioned =)

@jacekkwc

Жыл бұрын

Right now, I'm nerfing Blackhearts. Any suggestions? ;)

@kronosDking

Жыл бұрын

​@@jacekkwc Here are some: 1. Nerf their HP. 16 is a lot. Even putting it down to 15 would help since 16 is a much harder breakpoint to reach. 2. Make their HP swap ability only available once they reach half HP, or something similar, so you could wear them down in one turn and then have an easier time taking them down the next turn without risking an HP swap.

@jacekkwc

Жыл бұрын

​@@kronosDking Ok, interesting propositions. I'll test it, thank you!

@wrongthinkgeek1702

Жыл бұрын

A possible suggestion based on Mortim's review here, specifically about the cards system. If you haven't already, you should make the Dead Man's Hand (Aces and Eights for both black suits) do something special. It has too much notoriety in Old West lore to not utilize.

@snyperheadshoot

Жыл бұрын

Ben gave some good ideas, imo, it is fine, as long as you know not to damage them before killing them, you could either nerf them or make them more scarce. I don't mean to dogpile with issues, I enjoyed the combat a lot, but it would be really appreciated if there was a codex with all the types of enemies, mechanics and status effects. For instance, Laughing Deer has a trait that can give him bloodlust, but there is nowhere I can see what that does exactly, some games do this by highlighting the word and when you hover over it, a brief explanation is given. One final issue, it would be good to have the option to retry to the loading screen, additional to the one that takes you the the first round. Great game overall, GL to you and your team with future projects, your ask for feedback and transparency are appreciated!

You 100% games faster than I finish the tutorial.

@jacoporegini8841

Жыл бұрын

@@longle88 It is fun, but I am genuinely impressed

You have joined the likes of ACG and Skill Up for me. Was an easy subscribe and I appreciate what you do...can't even remember the last time I 100% a game. Hope your channel keeps growing - you deserve it!

@MrPrinceofSaiyans

Жыл бұрын

My exact life story

@5fmuke535

Жыл бұрын

Both are trash; he is far more skilled, and unbiased.

@xNachtmahRx

Жыл бұрын

Skill Up has become a meme. He mostly says the opposite of what the general consensus is to get some sweet views. Mortismal has become the only reviewer that I watch, at least atm. Rest of my YT is about guitars or rpg challenge runs lol

Really impressed at how quickly you got this one out. Awesome job as always.

Early Bird gets the worm lol. Love your videos man, best game reviews on the internet, bar none. Its also awesome that basically every game you review are games I have either played or am interested in playing. Keep it up man

Was waiting on this review. Been seeing quite a few playthroughs, however, I really want to experience this one myself first. Cheers!

I would say "bravado" system is pretty addicting & it should be in a lot more tbs tactical games.

@Blooden91

Жыл бұрын

King Arthur: Knight's Tale did something similar. You restore your AP by killing "Pawn" fodder-type enemies, which allows you to set up some satisfying kill chains, especially in combination with "+ %damage on killing an enemy" abilities.

@littleindiemaster7707

Жыл бұрын

@@Blooden91 There is a big difference between AP recovery in some moves and passives, and AP recovery in a core-system that every character always has access to, and is so important that the whole game is balanced around it

@Misantronic

Жыл бұрын

gears tactics did this as well. it was even more satisfying in my opinion.

Was holding off on purchase until this video's out. Thanks.

@Fjoergyn1199

Жыл бұрын

Also check out the Hard West 1. Very entertaining :)

@Fjoergyn1199

Жыл бұрын

@Francisco Camacho Yeah, it's always dirt cheap on sales. So there is really no excuse to not play it if you're into tactical combat. Definetly on of the better ones out there.

Great review. Looks like this turned out well, plus, it's releasing in the middle of a bit of an RPG drought imo so the timing is perfect.

Thanks for the fast, quality work on this review. If you ever get the chance, I'd like to see you review Othercide.

Thank you for the excellent review! I am excited to play this game. The bravado system is ingenious and the skill tree system based on playing cards gained from missions is brilliant. It is incredible how these two systems work together to make the game more fun and interesting, but also force tough choices about how to share the 52-card deck among the party. It seems reasonable there will be some DLC, perhaps extending the ideas of Scars of Freedom for Hard West. Publicly-traded Polish developer Ice Code Games can leverage the fact that its market cap almost doubled to $30 million after the release of HW2. It is amazing that Hard West from CFG in 2015 sold over 500,000 copies on PC alone according to published results. HW2 improves HW in many ways, although they are independent titles with different lead designers. Another amazing fact is that that HW2 temporarily hit second place on Steam's Global Top Seller list within only a few hours after release!

Oooh I'm curious about your review for this one!

I have no idea how you manage to do what you do! Respect

good review, thanks.

Fantastic review, man.

bravado system reminds me of the action reset from killing untrained enemies in Expeditions Rome, just extended out to all enemies instead of trash mobs. I dig it.

Always have said you can never go wrong with magic and guns. I really liked the first HW and will wait til of course this gets some balance issues, but glad to see its back.

Idk about your gameplay, but I took the alternative secret path for that final fight in chapter 1. So it kinda make it easier as you flank the enemies in waves, instead of straight to fight multiple simultaneous waves.

Among other things: appreciate the timestamps!

Your a machine! This game just released!

M.2 = slot type NVME = speedyboi Just thought I'd share, it took me forever to figure that out

@Dermetsu

Жыл бұрын

I can confirm this man is right.

I bought this game on release and for some reason I just never got around to playing it/ finishing it. So I started on it again last week and I absolutely loved it. I loved the setting and atmosphere and coming out of Warhammer 40k Chaos Gate (because of the new dlc), it was nice to play a squad that had personalities.

I still stuck at first mission after prolouge and this man already 100% it.

dude how many ppl play on your steam account? XD u are insane!. nice vid.

Thanks for another informative review. These days one major deciding factor for me is how long it takes to finish a game. I want to experience games to completion but don't have alot of time. In your reviews would you mind sharing your approximate hours for the first play-through?

Thoroughly enjoyed the game. My biggest gripe was with the lack of a check on thrown items (like dynamite), for both yourself and enemies. Being able to lob dynamite from across the map and have it land exactly where you want because you can see 1 square through a window is ridiculous.

I had a blast with the first Hard West, as well as with the second one, and I hope they will make more Hard West Games in the years to come. The first one was great, having DEATH ITSELF being the narrator? You don't get that too often :)

Good show sir! Yeah the blackhearts is a ******** hehe

Ah, the missing Nine of Hearts and the missing Jokers. Classic.

Did not have that much trouble with the blackhearts, after the first time just follow the golden rule that you leave them alone if you cannot kill them and it was not too bad. When they attack they do not do much, a 1 damage AOE (at least on hard) that also depletes your luck. Their ability is to swap HP and status, so the damage can be pretty high if you get them low then they swap HP with one of your guys. Explosives are cheap and plentiful and only 1 AP, which solves a lot of the difficulty problems, but not tried nightmare yet. I am always impressed by how fast you can 100% these games though. Did you find the jokers? Saw the spoiler for the location in the steam forum, and complately missed them on my first playthrough. They are difficult to find for sure. Well the Ch3 one is easier to find naturally. I was missing a TON of loyalty though as I pushed Clalish too high too early (and maybe overdid it) wasting quite a few points. Edit :: The most annoying opponents I found was at the end of the game where I found an opponent with a similar ability that DID use the ability at full heath.

@Misantronic

Жыл бұрын

dude, at least add a spoiler-warning

@MrEtheric

Жыл бұрын

@@Misantronic Yeah you are right, made it more vague now. Sorry about that.

@trinayreddy5118

Жыл бұрын

Any idea on where to find the joker cards cuz I can’t find them at all

Luckily: since it's a Unity game there should be mods eventually. Hopefully they'll put out a cleaner mod like Pathfinder games get to keep the load times down. Interestingly: the only game I've ever had break to the point I had to clear out of the registry, in my entire 38 years on this planet, was WotR; which is also a Unity game.

I lived the part of the demo i played. I really wish it officially worked on the Steam Deck. I mapped controls to enjoy it, but missed out on the videos

'That wasn't part of the deal Blackheart! That wasn't part!

thanks for the review. did you say thirty dollars? i see 20 at the moment though

I enjoyed* the Bravado element in the demo, but at the end of it I worried that it needed better balance. It didn't take beyond a half-battle before I had understood it fully and then it's just about how you implement it from there on out. If the combat going out into the rest of the game is just an expansion of that implementation I would find that a little disappointing. My counsel would be to limit the Bravado recharge to 1 refill of AP per turn. It would slow battles some, sure, but it would at least not be an exercise in how to mop up a screen of bad guys, rinse, repeat.

Played through all of this myself, enjoyed it a great deal, had some issues with some of the later game fights and i don't like the bullseye system, this game has really reliable combat when it comes to chance to hit and the luck system, the RNG of getting critical hits really doesn't fit, would of been much better if it was like Fallout 4 where you can build up a meter to save a critical hit for later or as a minimum range in which you can auto-crit someone if they lack cover. Surprised i missed the 2 joker cards, i do quite a bit of overchecking to see if i miss stuff, so either well hidden or moon logic.

@steve87j

Жыл бұрын

Going to try this out. however Warhammer Chaos Gate is my favorite Tactical game since Xcom!

How many play through to max all companion loyalty? I could only max 2. Also, in my game, not all the hellspawns are counted for the achievement. After 1 playthrough, only got 7 of 60.

@MortismalGaming

Жыл бұрын

2 minimum, and hellspawns are only found in the first mission, later iterations are bloodspawns and don't count

Looks like fun! Do we need to have played the first one or is this standalone?

@MR67UToob

Жыл бұрын

I finished the first game a while back but this looks like a completely different story, so it should be standalone.

This game looks good.

_ooooh…_ when I saw trailers for this I got confused as to how they’d made a sequel to Weird West so absurdly quickly (having forgot the first word of its title, and it looking very very similar in style and theme) How strange.

can u tell us in every such video in future, time to beat the game on each dificulties (from ur side)

@Dermetsu

Жыл бұрын

Look at his steam profile playtimes.

Without asking for too much detail, is there any way to farm xp or items? I like tactical games, but one issue I had with games like Divinity was that there was only a set amount of xp you could farm to a point. It restricted the gameplay a bit for me.

@MortismalGaming

Жыл бұрын

No

@bhavyaperindia13

Жыл бұрын

@@MortismalGaming aw

Seems they made some improvements. In the first one I went solo evil guy and sat in a building with a shotgun. As all evil bastards do.

Please check out Shadow Tactics: Blades of the Shogun....I think u gonna love it

You don't stop working

I kinda wish there was a bit more classes to the system.

They should have include overwatch ability since we can only play with 4 character and debuff regenerating zombi that can do bleeding damage.

@MortismalGaming

Жыл бұрын

Overwatch kind of conflicts with bravado, it was intentionally left out

When it comes to a creepy western feel and replayability, should one buy this or weird west? I am aware that they are hardly comparable when it comes to gameplay, which is why I explicitly ask in terms of "Bang for your Buck"...

so essentially wasteland but in wild west

This game looks like the cowboys have come to Colorado Springs from Arizona.

Damn, it’d be nice for a consoles port

Is this game replayable? Or one time is enough?

@MortismalGaming

Жыл бұрын

Once is probably enough for most, twice would pretty much cover everything

Do enemies have infinite respawns?

@MortismalGaming

Жыл бұрын

No

@naomiwebber217

Жыл бұрын

@@MortismalGaming thank you! It annoys me to no end when games do that.

100% after less than 4 days? dang...

How long is it?

@venomenoide

25 күн бұрын

16:01 Min

Love they made a 2nd game. - But I quit after that mission that forces you to play in 6 rounds and way too many enemies, and mutant beasts that claw you to death in one swipe. I don't have time for shit like that. That's not hard - that's developers who are on acid.

Supernatural/fantastical Western stories actually are actually an established genre. It's called "Weird West"

I played up to the blue dynamite mission, not far, before requesting a refund. Bravado felt like it was more of a puzzle game than a tactic game trying to adapt to a situation. I liked the idea and concept of the game but overall it just felt tedious.

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i didnt even know there was a Hard West 1, that is what mainly put me off to this

@crozraven

Жыл бұрын

as someone who played HW1, story is not really related as far as I know. It's a separate sequel.

I have been playing dungeons and dragons (as a dungeon master) for many, many years. Balancing encounters is a big part of it. And i can say, with complete honesty, that the blackheart enemies are the most bullshit, outrageous, unbalanced, and ridiculous form of artificial difficulty i have ever witnessed lmao That said, the game still very fun in exploration and narrative. Just got it on Steam, -50%.

I feel the game was poorly balanced. There were some missions that were basically impossible to do while doing the side objectives, while the previous and next ones were super easu

Better wait until it is fully patched and a DLC. It feels the best West to me so far.

"Mortismal Hard West".. KZread go.. Uploaded 18minutes ago. Great! hahahaha Anyway, while I am primarily TB player, from your video I did not clicked with the game, I think I will buy and will use 2 hours refund window on steam.. eg. I will be ready to refund, but I do hope I will click with it and have a great time

@FonzieKree

Жыл бұрын

@@ukaszkowalczyk6120 Thank you, I am already past two hours of refund period and I do not regret it. I will not play it again, but I am having fun

free comment. also there was some impostor/spammer with your profile pic in the comments, offering free stuff and giveaways and whatnot. fyi.

@MortismalGaming

Жыл бұрын

Yeah starting to see a lot of impersonators as the channel grows, I've been pretty quick about removing them so far and I adjusted the chat filter a bit to hopefully catch more of them

I tried to like it. The world design, sound und characters are very nice. But the game is more of a puzzle game because there is basically just one correct way to solve a mission and its bonus objectives. Because of this illusion of choice my interest petered out after less then 5 hours. And yes, the Blackhearts f*cking suck.