Splatter : "I like antagonism" Also Splatter : "I got so scared for a second, I just burned my tootsies!" 🤣

Happy New Year Splat! Been loving the content in 2023 and looking forward to all the new games you’ll bring me in 2024.

Happy New Year Splatt. Keep 'em coming.

@13:41 when Splat says he doesn't know enough about a gaming topic? That says something! Brilliant critique as always, even if you don't think so, I think you have a great industry knowledge. Keep 'em coming.

> Splatty, "I do most of my videos in one take." Splatty got that Fuck it, we're doing it live mentality.

i got 14 and a half hours into this game and id say its great to just sail explore and do quest once and awhile. id call it a chill sea of thieves

Had my eye on this game for awhile. Thanks for covering it.

@joewilson3393

5 ай бұрын

I have too, though I noticed a lot of owners of the first game complaining that he abandoned them to start this one.

@Resskaar

5 ай бұрын

@@joewilson3393 first one was abandoned

@vforwombat9915

5 ай бұрын

you had yer arrr on this game?

@NEO.E.D

5 ай бұрын

@@Resskaar I played the first game, how was it abandoned? The devs were updating it for a while after it came out of Early Access, added more quests, more weapons and even multiplayer at the request of the community.

I recall the 1st game had issues with limited combat and lack of naval interactions a bit disappointing that it's the same issue here, but thanks for covering the game anyways. I do like the ship movement and customisation though, I remember that was a lot of fun in the 1st game too.

Excellent run down as far as i can tell atm, bought it this afternoon after watching your video and it's almost exactly what I'd want, so after having several problems with Sea of Thieves over the last year I think this will be my new piratey go-to for a fair while now, CHEERS!

Hey Splat, great video thought your points at the end are spot on. IMO some sort of naval combat would make it amazing along with a combat overhaul is a great idea to make the game feel less repetitive and spammy.

Thank you Splatty. Happy New Year.

Happy new year splatt! Thanks for everything

I appreciate you prepping the final thoughts as being criticism of what needs work, and not to be taken as an overall review.

you know it's gonna be good when splatt starts off the intro as a pirate.

Thank you, Salt 2 definitely looks nice. Time to wishlist and see where it goes.

Hey, Splatty! I got this game on your first showcase of it and played it to the point that I beat the final boos of the time before I quit. There definitely is a perfect parry window and one of the things I ran into was combat becoming a bit too easy by the end. I couldn't take melee damage by the time I knew the timing and it made the final boos a bit too easy to beat. I'm happy to say that the window is still in the game but they aren't as forgiving with it. Happy New Year!

@vforwombat9915

5 ай бұрын

"of it and played it to the point that I beat the final boos " well, I'm sure some ppl were cheering you on.

@andrewdawson816

5 ай бұрын

@@vforwombat9915 Oh God, I didn't to a spell check! NO!!!!!! haha

@vforwombat9915

5 ай бұрын

@@andrewdawson816 typos are fun!

@andrewdawson816

5 ай бұрын

@@vforwombat9915 They are, indeed. especially when you can make sense of them like that. Masterfully spotted, I must say.

Thanks great video looks like i will enjoy cant wait to start playing

Heh. Where I grew up, outside the city pool, the only places to swim were rivers that were usually flooded and too dangerous. Plus LOTS of water moccasins. I didnt learn to really swim until highschool.

Looks promising, if they improve combat, add more weapons and ship combat, it will be something to look out for.

@thesleepygiant3157

5 ай бұрын

first one had coop, games gonna be real nice if he adds coop to 2

very nice from splat to promote that Crypt Walker to the rank of Captain ;P

LOVE THIS!! CANT WAIT FOR 1.0

I've had this game for a little over a year. I will poke into it periodically, to check out the new stuff. I'm waiting for the multiplayer update to be put in before I REALLY get into it though. I would love to play this with my husband! I know they are working on multiplayer, but it's not going to be done until at least this summer (or later). I can't wait though! I just don't want there to be any online combat added. I'm cool with NPC ships, but I do NOT like pvp at all.

Thank you for digging up that treasure!

Loose loot is something I love in BG3!

SHIP! It's a SHIP! Boats are carried on the ship and if you suddenly end up in the boats then there's a chance somethings gone really wrong 😂

back in yeh ol' days of sailing, sailors seldom learned how to swim. it was generely considered better to drown than to tread water till you grew so tired you drowned... or got eaten by mermaids or sharknados... happy new year splatt

This game is actually awesome. And the devs are super active still.

Holy Cow!!! I just noticed that Splattercat has over 850 subscribers and it didn't seem that long ago that he was going through some health issues and was laying low. It is awesome and I hope he is getting what he wants, deserves etc., but damn, that is awesome that Splattercat is getting up there. His content is solid and I have been a fan and subscriber for years!!!

@johnnymetonymic

5 ай бұрын

I'm really surprised it's not more. I've been subbed forever.

Happy new year! hope you have a wonderful year!

Rpg combat! Nice! Much more intrigued.

Thanks for sailing captain! ^^

Sometimes I miss the ship battles in Sly Cooper 3

I can't wait to try Salt 2, but daren't touch it yet. The final thing I need to do in Salt (1) is find the Jungle Queen and then I'm done, but I just know if I leave it now and start Salt 2 then I'll never get around to it. I just can't find that blasted spider. Probably hit 15-20 jungle islands at night already, and...nothing :D

I think two things (maybe three or four) need to be done to the combat to make it more interesting and engaging. First, and hopefully very easiest, is give the parry animations a cancel. So if you want to parry in the middle of a swing, you can. Without that, the game feels like it has no control over combat because parries don't have a visceral and useful feel to them. You'll always left click spam until you can cancel the swing animation to parry. Second, get rid of the incredible RNG on damage numbers when swinging your weapon/firing your weapon. Make the damage consistent (based on stats and the type of weapon or damage type) and give players a reason to aim for weak spots or use specific types of damage (crushing for skeletons, for instance). Right now it seems to be "put biggest damage number on, swing endlessly with left click." Third, they need to make trash mobs less tanky. Less hps, but more dynamic combat for these. Again, the combat seems terrible because it's just you mindlessly spamming left click, and that can be fixed, but even if it is, making normal enemies bullet sponges is not a good move for fun gameplay. Fourth, bosses (and maybe normal enemies) *NEED* special moves that are telegraphed to an obvious degree so that you can either run, parry, or reposition yourself to either avoid massive damage and/or hit them in their weak spot very hard. This also might mean you would need to put some movement skills into the game (short range teleports, double jumps, dodges, rolls, etc) and might make your game be in danger of picking up a "souls-like" tag on steam, but so long as the combat isn't too punishing, it will be fun and engaging but not so rough that it'll discourage people who want to play. So to sum up, they need to add rhythm and timing to the combat, and add some variety to movement and movesets, and move away from the RNG on damage numbers. Not an impossible task, and I hope they add it in before release because the game looks *REALLY GOOD* otherwise.

When there is coop, I'll check it out!

lol good pirate impression

The audience would get confused I think if it wasn't a single take. You would be on an island we didn't seen you get too. Which would ruin the experience. Great video! Love Hawaii too! 🙂🤙🫡

Looks great but wish it did have co-op a la Raft. My gaming buddies love both SoT and Raft this looks like it could scratch both those itches.

Splice the mainbrace mate! Btw? No respectful pirate would call their vessel a "boat" lol, great game. Thanks!

Roughly half the video elapsed before touching on fast travel, which is a huge part of any open world game. No mention of crafting, durability, multiplayer. Appreciate the coverage as always, and will keep half an eye on this one. Regarding the damage ranges: it would be cool to see the spread on weapons tighten up as your stats and skills increase. I like the idea of them having some variance as not all blows are as successful as others. Maybe he parried you that time, or you didn’t quite hit the critical spot, or whatever.

They could just make the combat like Dark Souls and it would be perfect. Doesn't have to be complex, just a light attack, heavy attack, a dodge roll, parry, etc... but with smooth animations and gameplay feel.

I totally didn't knnow they were making a sequel to Salt, I'm gonna have to look into this

I am really looking forward to this game hitting 1.0, i enjoyed the original one quite a bit many years ago.

Had this game for a while, played it a few times, its promising. Waiting a little longer for it to cook and be ready :)

Slumbering sepulcher

This looks very promising.

"Many fine substances " Lol i guess im the only one who caught that . Takes one to know one i guess . Happy new year brotha.

I'm about as tired of procedural exploration games as you are of deck builders Splatty, but I don't think I will ever be tired of Pirate and Nautical themes!

@idontwantahandlethough

5 ай бұрын

me neither! The pirate life really is the life for me i guess

@Varadiio

5 ай бұрын

I'm not tired of procedural generation, but I am absolutely annoyed by devs who use it to skimp on content. Games should be more dense than ever with the advent of procedural generation, and yet handcrafted maps used to have more content.

might get it if they do add other ships/naval combat

Was about to ask if you played the first one, but you answered it. As someone who played it to death, i.e 200+ hours and 100% I find this one a bit lacking. Not because Salt is bad or "not complete" as some would say. I find it's worth the money, great fun, and I've got little issue with the dev moving on. However I don't like the, to me, consolly/mobile gamey "SPEND MORE HOURS ON ME" level ups and silly farming that goes with it. Sure Salt had farming ,e.g the oh-so-fun tiger teeth necklace, but it's something you do for the enjoyment of the exploration, not to synthetically progress, if you catch my drift.. Also music. Can't remember if that song loop, you know which one, is in Salt 2, but if it isn't then add it. I can't count how often I went to deep water just to listen to it. Next level audio design that. So much of what made Salt Salt is Will Sterling.

The Driftwood Corsairs sounds like a minor league baseball team

As a Salt 1 player, every time I see Splatter talk about these devs I seethe with fury. For those who don't know Salt 1 was abandoned to make Salt 2.. with all the features they were promising us in Salt 1 development. The whole point of Salt 2 was not to make a sequel but to cash grab players. Do not trust these devs to ever finish Salt 2.. they'll be moved on to Salt 3 long before that.

it's all good splat, international speak like a pirate day is still a ways off, you've got time to recover.

I dig that survival/sandbox games wont focus that much on combat but the more they get away from skyrim combat the better

I'd actually set this to "ignore" in Steam originally. I just changed that. Game is looking WAY more interesting than it was before.

This seems to be a big improvement over the first installation of the series. Sorry if I missed this as I had this on another screen while working but how is the difficulty? I'm a big fan of games like this having a very hard start so you can really feel your power grow as you level up and get better equipment.

@falcon5190

5 ай бұрын

There is difficulty setting. Put it on legendary and you'll be begging for mercy at the start since animals you can 1-shot with starter bow on normal - you can't on the hardest difficulty meaning they run away and you're constantly fighting starvatiom + enemies can easily solo you, let alone if they team up.

I tried this game when it first came out and I found the grind to be insane. On top of that, the islands were so copy paste that I just couldn't enjoy it even though it was the type of game I was looking for. I really hope things have improved.

Damn Splat said he’s a one take Jake

What is a pirate's favorite letter? "Rrrrrrr" Ah, you think it be R, but it truly be the C

Yeah I hope they take what I said onboard and this game will rock hard

I think nautical combat would be a great addition, but given you are a solo person it's kind of silly to think of loading and firing cannons.

@5minutemovies977

5 ай бұрын

It's just a game, there are several ways to make it work.

According to the developer they finished their original and planned roadmap for Salt and then just moved on with the project. My guess is all the things they wanted to do, they just couldn't. So unless they are lying to us directly, then no they did not abandon the previous game. Salt 2 is a much more complex and better game, than Salt in my opinion.

first game was a neat techgemo/concept game, they better fukken make it a gull game this time if they will charge another sum for it

Already purchased it a while back but always nice to hear others thoughts on it.

It's a fun game. But i really miss ship to ship combat.

Play Atlas if you want a sailing game with things to shoot at in the ocean. Spend 15 hours crafting a 52 gun galleon.

I've never cared for complicated combat. The perfect game to model all games after for combat: the original Legend of Zelda🏆

As another Hawaiian, when I meet people in Hawaii who can't swim, it blows my mind

The only issue I have right now is I have had so many people in Sea of Thieves hold this up as the "PvE Sea of Thieves" normally in a derogatory way. So I legit see this as the "Sea of Thieves we have at home" meme incarnate. And seeing it's faults now I can say it fits the meme perfectly

@iamrightyouarewrong6730

5 ай бұрын

the funny thing is that salt 1 came out years before sea of thieves.

If the combat is pretty limited and not the best, even parry isn't working great, the last thing I'd suggest is trying to recreate something like Mount & Blade.

Much better than Sea of Thieves already. PvE actually works, you don't get teleported by ghost rocks, there's no chasing other players for 45 minutes and calling it gameplay.

@SirCuddlesWorth

5 ай бұрын

I wanted to like sea of thief's, but it's to much pvp griefing or just to many bugs. I miss AC *Black Flag.* Why it's not a full game by now is beyond me :/

@macdallanzero2145

5 ай бұрын

@@SirCuddlesWorthYou know Sea of Thieves has a PVE only mode now, right?

@OneEvanescent

5 ай бұрын

@@macdallanzero2145 Me and my brother recently started getting into that; it definitely removes the stress, but we've found ourselves occasionally missing the sense of danger. And, you get a lot less money in PvE mode

@Ludakrist

5 ай бұрын

I never really understood that game, you get money but for what? Most of the stuff you buy is just cosmetic aside from buying a different ship.

@OneEvanescent

5 ай бұрын

@@Ludakrist Yeah, it's just cosmetics. If farming up for fashion isn't your bag, it's pretty pointless. I for one like pretty shinies, so I like it

It would be amazing if you could do every video intro in-universe, like if it's a pirate game as a pirate, if it's a space game as a British officer, if it's a mad max style roguelike as a rough and ready Australian.

As soon as you said swashbuckling, I thought, ooh I wonder how the ship battles work. But no ship combat? Not really a swashbuckling without it so yeah, I'm with you and think it's sorely lacking and hope they add it. Seems kinda lonely without it. But the game right now looks like great fun and I can see how you could easily dump a weekend into it when just starting out.

Didn't the devs leave Salt 1 unfinished to create this one?

@GameTimeWhy

5 ай бұрын

I thought the devs were garbage too

@Gigaheart

5 ай бұрын

No, they finished their original planned roadmap. They just didn't add much else was my understanding and people got Salty about it.

Happy New Year Duder. This looks fuuuuuuuuunnnnn

Reminds me of the game Atlas (though I am not a fan of the studio behind ARC Survival Evolved and Atlas).

You should check out tiny rogues

For me, making the combat more difficult would make it a _definite_ "no." I like the exploration part of it. Building and crafting are all fine, too. But any time a developer makes the combat too difficult for people like me - and that doesn't take much - I'll just have to give it a pass. And I buy a _lot_ of games. But the solution to that is options - lots of options, including options for a very easy play.

4:18 There's no nautical combat?! 8:51 I was just thinking that it should have Mount & Blade style melee combat. But, I always think melee combat in games should be like Mount & Blade. 32:06 There's no other ships out on the seas?!

@ryanoh994

5 ай бұрын

1. No 2. Agree 3. There are but they are stationary. You get 'Sailors' and 'Merchants'

Reminds me of Blackwake. I miss blackwake. Too few players now. It was never big.

For anyone wondering, they have a roadmap and not many things still to be added, sadly. Multiplayer being the biggest one, but no ship combat and no improvement on current combat apart from more weapons. I will keep an eye on it, if the popularity explodes maybe they keep adding interesting stuff.

@azarinevil

5 ай бұрын

That's what we thought with Salt 1.. then they abandoned it to sell Salt 2. Everything they sell as a feature in Salt 2 was a feature promised on the Salt 1 roadmap too.

Fun substances, eh?

I hope they do not add M+B style combat, or if they do that it is optional. I'm disabled, and I do not have the coordination for that. The game is perfect as it is (for me!)

but are there several main quests though

heres a random comment on the game And on the condition that it's actually somewhat finished upon release. I absolutely hate games that go out of early access and are so unfinished and unpolished that it feels I've been scammed. I have no problem with good DLC that feels like it adds value to a game, not when it feels like it was deliberately held back from a game.

Go for chivalry combat and I will not get up from my pc till I die

This is what I wished Ylands (Bohemia Interactive) game plays like, focus on sailing, sailing/adventuring between islands, nautical combat (cannon fires between ships) like AC Blackflag. And honestly the AC Blackflag nautical gameplay formula is great already. Which is disappointing why Ubisoft do totally different from Blackflag system in Skull & Bones game.

@robando2922

5 ай бұрын

Yeah Ubisoft had the perfect skeleton with Black Flag and then shot themselves in the foot with Skull & Bones 😂

@v-alfred

5 ай бұрын

​@@robando2922yeah 😂 Ubisoft certainly shot themselves with massive cannon. I just don't understand what's their game designer thinking..💀

@robando2922

5 ай бұрын

@@v-alfred Lowest amount of effort for the highest amount of cash

@v-alfred

5 ай бұрын

@@robando2922 while sacrificing their reputation on the way, their reputation were never stable anyway, awesome😂👍

Sea of Thieves reskin :D Hope Rare wont sue this project

🖤

Back when the game was first previewed, the developer said they had zero plans to add in any nautical combat. I don't know if this has changed or not. Combat is serviceable and I do not expect it to change or get overhauled. It never happened in Salt and I don't expect it here. It has also been over a year and unless the developer has said they are going to change/overhaul it, don't hold your breath. This game is about cozy exploration. One of the big things Splat did not cover is World Tier. As you level up, your World Tier goes up. Unless it has been changed or updated when new islands are generated by you FIRST finding them, they generate based on your world tier level. World Tier is directly tied to level and difficulty of resources and enemies. You want better loot? Get that world tier up and find new islands. Also you are expected to use low level weapons until you can make Silver tier weapons or find them. His blacksmithing being level 20 is the start of silver tier. I seen lvl 40 was Ebony. That's your progression curve. Also yes there is a parry, you just have to time it right and you'd better learn it because click spamming in the later parts of the game aka higher world tier, will not let you last long. It is also entirely possible to discover content you can't do yet because you aren't leveled up enough. I am disagreeing with Splat about tying secondary levels to direct stats of your character. By doing that, you ensure the player is going to have to do something they don't want to level a skill they don't care about, in order to min/max the stats of their character. When this game was first previewed by splat, I beat it. I can see what has changed already from the last time I played this.

@azarinevil

5 ай бұрын

They could barely program functional boats in Salt 1, also remember they abandoned Salt 1 to sell more units.. Salt 2 is what Salt 1 was supposed to become before the dev got greedy AF.

@Gigaheart

5 ай бұрын

I spoke about this more in a previous comment in another thread. The developers have always maintained they finished their ORIGINAL road map. @@azarinevil

Hmm we'll see. Salt 1 didn't really go the way I'd hoped.

Single player Sea of Thieves, yes please!

Looks like raft with a boat?

There has been so many similar games released during the last decade... I guess the video didn't showcase the quest system, that's a shame. Also, I heard the dev straight up abandoned the first game.

2:43 What in the world!? Lol The way it looks make it seem like your character is only about 2 feet tall! Looks weird as hell like that!

Many people were mad at the solo dev he abandoned salt 1 ...

what happens if you fart in your diving suit while your underwater? do you get a gas debuff?

I dont think this indie developer can add all the things you want, that would be another game and a AAA budget

Happy new year. Yeah no naval combat = no interest, unfortunately. The rest of it looks pretty cool.

I've been interested for some time in a game that has a lot of Elder Scrolls' mechanics, but (a) isn't brutally gloomy like so much of Skyrim, and (b) isn't super outdated and janky like every other ES game. I feel particularly bummed that the world leveling in Oblivion and ESO make it feel like your character never really gets stronger, but Morrowind is... actually that old feeling. All that said, Salt 2 sounds like it's *close* to what I've been looking for, but not quite there yet. Does anyone here know of something in this wheelhouse but is more polished?