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@FordThunderCougarFalconBird

Ай бұрын

Luke, did you mean to turn your comments+replies section off on your live show? Just curious.

@Blank_Account

Ай бұрын

Luke from the bottom of my heart you need a new thumbnail game brother

@sbcroix

Ай бұрын

So... People should complain, that's how you get s the developers to address things.

@atushub9995

Ай бұрын

Hey Luke have you heard that Xbox insider leaked said Xbox wants a fallout 5 as soon as possible so they may hand it over to obsidian

@FordThunderCougarFalconBird

Ай бұрын

@@atushub9995 Obsidian will be busy for the next few years with Outer Worlds 2 and (I think)Avowed 2.

Finally, a colony sim game where you can play as an avatar instead of hovering above the town like an ethereal god.

@bemboing4338

Ай бұрын

Yes instead of an ethereal god you get to play human walking around just like jesus

@lhart9938

Ай бұрын

@@bemboing4338 Grilled Cheesus.

@FlyingFox86

Ай бұрын

You can't actually play as the avatar. The walking around is just a nice way to view the settlement, there's no actual gameplay with the character.

@buttergolem8584

Ай бұрын

It's more like your Lord in Stronghold.

@Rabarbarzynca

Ай бұрын

Your shoes are sick as well.

the 3rd person walking around your village sold it for me

@mygetawayart

Ай бұрын

played it a few minutes and I'm already in love with it. Incredible how much it adds to the immersion.

@user-kv1kj9pn8p

Ай бұрын

You cant do anything in that mode though

@zlotywest860

Ай бұрын

​@user-kv1kj9pn8p no reason to do anything. It's a city build sim mainly. Thats what's lacking in city skylines. Since you don't have an own bloodline or something like that, your character isnt really there. It's just an immersive way to have a walk through your village. Don't get why people always want more. Why not change it into an rpg and add armors and weapons to buy. And naval warfare. 😂

@CommanderCodyChipless

Ай бұрын

​@@zlotywest860fr, modern gamers ask for way too much without realizing, then get mad that every game is trying to be an all in one RPG.

@user-kv1kj9pn8p

Ай бұрын

@@zlotywest860 Calm down. I was just stating that you can't do anything in that mode if that's what sold it for him. No need for a Reddit post

Insane how this was made by one single developer

@Half_bread

Ай бұрын

My friend just told me this I’m impressed by this one person to make a game like this

@MixMeister5000

Ай бұрын

It was started by one guy, there is a small team behind it. None the less , very well done!

@druid4243

Ай бұрын

​@MixMeister5000 mostly still one guy. He hires temporary contractors for some stuff.

@rubentelur

Ай бұрын

were in the "single dev makes games better than triple a devs made by companies" era

@raskolnikov6443

Ай бұрын

@@druid4243yep still only one permanent dev (this is his baby). But of course he commissioned the music and some assets. But the code has all been written by him.

An early access game built by one person outperforming AAA multi million dollar game is the literal epitome of the game industry now days 😅

@dmcs5150

Ай бұрын

Reminds me of the good old days when private developers were putting out loads of Atari 2600 games before the monopolies took over.

@Lock2002ful

Ай бұрын

Also tells you everything you need to know when publishers want to sell you the lie that game development is so expensive now and takes so long. Well, only if you’re incompetent, inefficient, have bad management and if you needlessly spend hundreds of millions on marketing. I’m not footing the bill for all that.

@bratbrata4974

Ай бұрын

The answer is very simple. In Poland we have many excellent programmers who love to play. Good because Polish ;-)

@Wimbold

Ай бұрын

@@Lock2002ful Of course it's cheap when you have some dude working on the game for free. Another story when you have a few hundred people strong team who all earn 100+ grand a year.

@Lock2002ful

Ай бұрын

@@Wimbold It’s hilarious if you really think that game developers in big studios earn 100+ grand a year. You apparently also failed to properly read my comment where I mentioned several reasons as to why these so called AAA games are so expensive and take so long. Not one of the reasons I mentioned was size of the studio or high wages.

Game: has tool that allows you to build irregular plots. American: Let's build grid shaped suburbs!

@seanjones9473

29 күн бұрын

I thought the same thing. My town looks like a mess of inefficiency while Luke's looks like a suburb of Dallas, Texas.

@Mr.Byrnes

29 күн бұрын

Why are Europeans obsessed with us 😭😭😭

@Tr1ploid

29 күн бұрын

​@@Mr.Byrnes I don't want to type a rant but a nauseating vain comment like yours prompts me to. Maybe we are so called 'obsessed' because you constantly try to impose yourself on the rest of the world through war/agression/capitalism/political subterfuge/mass media etceteria. I don't want to think about Americans, but our lives are constantly bombarded with the influences of american corporocracy and value systems, down to our very traditions and lifestyle disappearing in favor of American-influenced superficial mass-culture. The influences of the USA on the world are constant, never-ending, destructive, and obnoxious.

@Mike_Dubayou

28 күн бұрын

@@Tr1ploidwe live rent free in y’all’s head lol maybe tone down the arrogance?

@megaplexXxHD

27 күн бұрын

You dudes really took a normal, innocent and funny joke and made it something political about whos got the bigger pepee🤦🏽‍♂️ maybe you should just chill for a day, stay off the internet and get your head free because this hatred seems to be affecting you guys

people need to remember there is a difference between a multi million dollar company putting out early access a week before the launch as a paid bonus and a solo dev putting it in early access to get actual feedback

@OrangeNash

Ай бұрын

Yes. And people need to realise that pointing out problems is feedback that the dev has asked for and is the whole point of EA. Some tend to be knee jerk reaction defensively, putting down any identified problems with: "Shut up!! It's early access!!!".

@Talon18136

7 күн бұрын

For most arguments you can say hey it’s an early access game but people need to report actual issues or provide feedback on features you want to see in the new beta update it now tells you in the bottom corner if you modded the game and issues in relation to those mods don’t need to be reported

After watching shogun…..I want this but in feudal Japan! Imagine designing your own castle and adding traps for intruders/raiders.

@Cyanapanasati

Ай бұрын

Mmhhhhhhhmmmmmm. That is my attempt at a type version of the cute nodding yes girl gif. 🫶

@Cyanapanasati

Ай бұрын

Super agree! Excitedly..essentially

@joaofarinha551

Ай бұрын

Great. Then it can represent the show itself. 99% talking and 1% battles

@LilScotty10

Ай бұрын

@@joaofarinha551 🤣😭

@SL4PSH0CK

5 күн бұрын

hoping for a mod support a long the way

I love how Luke put the corpse pit directly in the middle of his town. 😂

@FlyingFox86

Ай бұрын

Luckily, the smell mechanic is still under development.

@Cyanapanasati

Ай бұрын

😂

Blows my mind the requirements for PC being so low. Next level optimization from such a small team

@archangelcastro5179

Ай бұрын

Meanwhile you have fallout 4 running at 70 fps on a 4090.... diference between a good developer and a trash one

@T.K.9

Ай бұрын

@@archangelcastro5179 fallout dev be like "buy a better computer" and I am like Bro I have the best of the best go freaking optimize your got damn game.

@HalIOfFamer

Ай бұрын

Not next level. It's just that most devs don't optimize at all these days. Because you'll just buy a better computer.

@wellhelodeer2680

Ай бұрын

Less than 15gb total download too. You love to see it

@luca_lwls

Ай бұрын

"Team" lol

I don't get how you can say the preparation aspect of the military is a weakness ??? It would go against the whole scheme of the game if you just go to battle at any time without collecting the necessary resources and equipment.

@Talon18136

7 күн бұрын

Yea I’m not sure he understands how it’s supposed to be done this isn’t an arcade game like he is used to 😂

ITS ON XBOX GAME PASS FOR PC if you have it, since no one likes to tell people.

@Cyanapanasati

Ай бұрын

Wait whaAh? Fr fr?

@Talon18136

7 күн бұрын

Yes it’s on pc game pass

People are so goofy that they will purchase a game that is openly and very clearly in Early Access and then complain as if it's the final product. Don't complain! Report your thoughts thoroughly and let the company build from your feedback.

@OrangeNash

Ай бұрын

And they go on about how they are so looking forward to the HUGE BATTLES that will be better than total war. Even though the developer has announced it's not a war game, it's a city builder that ends with a few small battles.

0:36 Luke just going with the good old american grid style

@regulator18E

Ай бұрын

If by American you mean Helenic society that had been using grid planning since 2600BC, then sure.

@FlyingFox86

Ай бұрын

@@regulator18E Yeah, but Luke is neither Hellenic nor 4600 years old, so it's probably the American style.

@vanguardv1nce12

Ай бұрын

@@FlyingFox86 you got him there

@jonasqueiroga5106

Ай бұрын

For true American style you need a 12-lane highway.

@regulator18E

Ай бұрын

@@FlyingFox86 thats not how it works.

Also keep in mind: its made by 1 person!!! It's amazing!

That army was not there to attack you. They were there to attack the bandits for the other lord that’s off the map

A medieval city builder that's got so much hype around it that even Luke Stephens covered it.

The background music in the beginning bought back that Witcher 3 nostalgia.

@davidfcorreia

Ай бұрын

The music is so good

Games really good after 2 hours. It isn't pointlessly hard, but you can amp up the difficulty if you want. The way the roads and buildings snap into place makes this really easy to play. It isn't hard at all to make it the way you want. Lots of resouce management. You have to take people away from foragers huts in the winter, and then use them in something else. All of this is easy and pretty much self explanatory. Really easy play here.

Whoever made this game is exceptionally talented, should be given some kinda game award.

I think it is necessary to complain about poor features even in early access. That's the point of letting people play it, right?

@Talon18136

7 күн бұрын

As long as it is to the appropriate channels for example the discord for the game where the dev has asked people to submit feedback rather than just complaining for the sake of complaining

What if this is a game to us, but actually, we are affecting the reality of real people in an alternate timeline where these are actual real people? Villager: "WHY GOD! WHY IS THERE FAMINE AND WAR!?" Luke: "Whops..."

@FlyingFox86

Ай бұрын

That's the plot of an episode of Stargate Atlantis.

I was happy to see that the Steam reviews are pretty good so far. I bought a copy of the game just to support the dev. Looking forward to trying the game when I get off work.

@bvyup2112

Ай бұрын

it is a good game. Best city builder ive played in a long time. The way the roads and buildings snap into place makes it a pleasing experience.

I'm glad people seem to be enjoying this game. Hopefully it keeps being supported for a while because there's so much they could add if they wanted.

@patrickmiddleton1750

Ай бұрын

There’s so much that should and likely will be added, but even as a small early access it is still very fun.

Hope modders get in there and do their thing too

@Talon18136

7 күн бұрын

Gosh I hope not

He puts big studios in a light of shame. In addition he needs our support!

I got it the day it came out and been hyped for it for ages. Suffice to say that I'm mostly very pleased with the game so far! I began to grasp the sheer scale of a single gameplay loop when I expanded into my second territory and remembered that the end goal of the basic game is to command every territory on the map while I've already sunk over 15 hours into just one (huge farming village, all those morgans need lots of people to farm them) plus the first tier progression of a second. Only real complaint so far is the timing of the farming system. The system is set so that harvest must be done by October, so you MUST have all your crops harvested by the end of September or you will lose them by the game "resetting" a field for the winter. and changing it to whatever your next crop rotation is. This proves to be rather inconvenient if some of your fields have fallen a bit behind on the harvest schedule. I've repeatedly lost anywhere from a quarter to several morgans worth of crops. I tried to fix the situation by simply preparing the fields sooner, i.e. plowing and sowing my wheat in the fall and letting it overwinter (actually how it's done irl) to then begin growing on its own in the spring, which would give me a little more time come August/September to get things harvested. As it stands, this hasn't worked for me, as the farmers will just re-plow and sow the already plowed fields once the snow is gone. If you have large fields and are trying to maintain the food/population balance while still having enough people to work the fields in a timely fashion, the October reset is a challenge to get around.

It would be great if this game could customize the appearance and clothing of lords in the future, and even have a family system. In other words, having your own home allows you to see your family walking around the city at any time. You can even hire subordinates or assign family members to manage certain positions for you. If these features are added in the future, this game will be worth playing for me.

@Talon18136

7 күн бұрын

Those would be great features

I can't wait to play. I bought and downloaded it this morning before work

Wait you get your actually explore your town instead of just hovering it?? That’s amazing

It’s still pretty rough for an early release, but I bought it to support this developer as it looks promising

Really looking forward to this now all my friends have stopped playing Tarkov, time to step back on a solo trip this and Frostpunk 2 will be getting looked at

@calebbrown578

Ай бұрын

The state of tarkov rn makes me so sad

@witu_low

Ай бұрын

I stopped playing tarkov yesterday. Great timing.

@CHAOSMOVEMENT

Ай бұрын

@@witu_low I bet a lot of people stopped playing Tarkov recently, since they announced that money grab.

@levipeterken4020

Ай бұрын

@@CHAOSMOVEMENTwhat was the controversy? Haven’t played in ages

@DsgSleazy

Ай бұрын

@@levipeterken4020 Some ordinary gamers made a video on the controversy.

Luke, that first unit you were trying to rally was your retinue. You don't have to have enough equipment to kit an entire unit, just as many weapons as you have.

In the 2000s, there was a medieval city building sim called Medieval Lords. I wonder if it inspired this new one. Impressed that it's all by one developer. Well done !

@Talon18136

7 күн бұрын

I know the dev said he did take inspiration from banished as well

Grow some aloe vera plants, and harvest a leaf every day and put the gooey stuff on the rashes. The rashes will go away and you will have much better skin overall.

@twogruden9943

22 күн бұрын

Vit A and zinc can also help greatly.

I hope they add stone buildings. Like advancing to using stone instead of wood and then be able to build castles and stuff. Just for fun. Wanna make a very disciplined people surrounded by stone walls and then take over the map.

@atlantic_love

9 күн бұрын

Same. I think the map is way too small to allow for that kind of evolution.

Holy all this is for one developer? this is the real future of gaming a new generation of independent and passionated game developers

@Talon18136

7 күн бұрын

Back to how it used to be you mean

I really do see myself playing this game a lot. It really gives me Banished vibes and it is fun to watch the people build while an avatar. And the bandits add a little bit of diversion for the day to day building and harvesting.

I am usually not a fan of these games, but it is so easy on the eyes and even the ui is kinda lofty. a chill game and incredible feat by the dev

Knights and merchants used to be my favorite game as a kid, I was kinda giving up on the genre because nothing was done with it until I heard for this game and I couldn't be happier

I was thinking this was going to be a modern version of ‘Defender of the Crown’ for those who remember that old classic on the Amiga. Looks more like Sim-city in feudal times, which is also cool.

Black and white but more realistic. Looks beautiful! I loved B&W, so I'm into this too. Hope going to full release goes smoothly and people will be patient and understanding.

What really excites me about this is it feels like the developer is making a game they'd want to play. And they probably will. So they care about it actually being fun to play. A lot of these big cash grabs, the people in charge of it aren't going to play it, so they don't care if it's fun. I don't need extremely high tech realistic graphics, it can look like Fable for all I care, as long as it's fun.

Been playing this since yesterday. It's like a nice up-to-date cross between Banished and Streets of Sim City.

Thank you for your kind and fair review! 😊

Someone needs to make a mod that replaces the third person character to the Burger King.

Why can nobody figure out balanced difficulty in RTS/city building games? It's either free play mode or defeatist mode where you struggle to stay afloat and there's no room for creative problem solving. In every one of these games I end up googling what you're supposed to do step-by-step to deal with invaders who screw your game up while you're in infancy because you're stretched thin just trying to build basic crap or keep your people happy. The progression point where you can invest in defense is always still out of reach by the time enemies show up.

This was made by one guy. The future is crazy. We will see entire AAA level games made by a handful of people that can compete with entier teams from today. Yes, things like Unreal lower the bar to entity for bad games. But that's worth it to get more good games and creative ideas. Cool stuff, uk.

Dang, this looks graphically awesome. I hope the devs see the success they're hoping for :D

Early access is excuse in most case and it literally says on steam page it MAY OR MAY NOT be finished. Also this is just one guy working on it so if u dont like what current game is, better dont buy.

This game would have been a dream for the 20 years old me, but I'm not into this as I used you ,still I'm really tempted to get it.

i get dark cloud nostalgia when im walking around my village

I understand the whole early access thing. The thing that bothers me is that excuse can only take you so far. There are tons of games that spend many, many, oh so many years in early access. At some point, devs need to squat or get off the pot.

Sir, where is place to buy the castle behind you!!!!!

If this gameplay be like Stronghold Crusader but with better graphics, fight scenes, controls, building etc. I am sold. I am thinking of trying it this weekend.

I absolutely agree. 19:20 Thank you Luke for the wonderful video as always. Going to buy the game now. I think it’s still on sale 😮

Definitely is a niche, good on the devs for putting the work in to dial into this kind of market! 😃

Imagine if Dwarf Fortress looked like this

@michalvoh

Ай бұрын

I would play the F out of it.... I can´t play dwarf fortress (even with updated graphics), the movement of units make my eyes hurt after a while.

@29031994290

Ай бұрын

@@michalvoh same, I would be totally fine if movement at least flowed, but the frame by frame movement makes me tired

@Caes3r_

Ай бұрын

imagine if clash of clans looked like this

Where's Henry though? Need Henry to come wandering through following some plot thread before getting drunk with a priest and causing some chaos as a random event.

For some reason this is really making me miss the Black & White franchise. Great video as always Luke!

This looks amazing! Very promising 👏

This will probably be really cool in like 4 or 5 years!

How's the performance/FPS for y'all? Just wondering if I can run this at 60+ comfortably

5:31 Very British Medieval Peasant there Luke 😂😂

Hello. If anyone's brutally obsessed with purely hardcore Medieval warfare and society I strongly recommend Schwerpunkt's videos series

My lord is named "Wei Longdong"

5:45 In fairness, another game called Ostriv already did this years ago. I mean they don't show two people cutting wood with a saw horse (IIRC) but they do show it slowly being put together piece by piece in a detailed manner and I do remember it actually showing villagers physically putting things in place like beams, where in this game those things just kind of appear in place.

Awesome video, thanks! 👍👍

The purpose of early access is to have the community help build the game through constant feedback. There will always be rough edges but it helps give the developer guidance to finish the game. Which the game should launch in EA very feature complete. Baldurs gate 3 is probably the best example of EA. People are just dumb and like to complain. Manor lord is also on Xbox gamepass for free

We’re now at the point one single person can make a better game than Ubisoft.

Just hope the updates arrive quickly enough. Replayability isn't there yet

One thing to critique - the term "early access" has become this scapegoat for a lot of game publishers to cash in early, NOT saying this goes for Manor Lords, just pointing it out.

I’m not a fan of sim games, but I am a fan of you and your content so I watched this video in its entirety 😂

I’m very excited for this game. Hope it’ll be worth it.

How many builds are there? Can you build a wall? How many differet units are there? Is there a era upgrade? So from sticks > wood > stone > bricks > metal > titanium age? - or does we only get wooden buildings forever?

@crowsdontcry8258

Ай бұрын

There’s hardly stages, mostly goes in tiers to thatch-stone-brick

YOU should be able to rebuild slowly but surely with supplies and help from the neighbouring places for a fee or cut of future resources

how does this compare to Farthest Frontier on steam?

Wish it had fantasy elements feel like realism holds back how much a game can be

Early Access is meant to give players the opportunity to give feedback to the dev before full release. If you're not allowed to say the game performance isn't good and where, features you are missing etc. then what is the point? 'Early Access, so shut up until full release' defeats the purpose.

This game reminds me of the Stronghold series, down to crafting every single weapon and armor your fighters are going to use. Still, it's nice to see that inspiration mixed with more modern gameplay.

@atlantic_love

9 күн бұрын

The thing that bothers me about this game is the map. There's no sense of exploration when you can just zoom out and see the whole map in the shape of a "square" and its regions within that square. They reallly need to come out with procedural map generation.

"No last minute saves." So, just like real life then. That's a thumbs up from me.

Reminds me of stronghold crusaders

I can’t wait to lose my life to this game - thanks for the rundown Luke!!

this game is soooo much fun in the early stages and has sooooooooooooooooooooo much potential

I don't care if the game is unfinished, I am buying it right now it just looks amazing. Also the fact that only 1 developer made it is even crazier...

Everything's going pretty well, but i encountered bugs such as livestock grazing on crop fields, traders getting stuck at trade building, warning notification about not enough stables even though i have 25 small stables (20/50 spaces). Still, the game is ok for early access. Now, what I don't like about the region management is the fact that they are programmed to be completely separate states. I wish the Dev could just combine the different owned lands and make the people go in and out freely.

I just really hope one day the devs or a crazy modder add the bannerlord battle mechanics.

I just want a Banished + game. And this seems to be exactly that for me. Though I might still go and mod Banished for the 300th time and play that again as well.

Imo they shouldn't fix anything about bandit attacks and you not being prepared. Isn't that kinda the point? it's designed to be super realistic, so if you've been neglecting defense, you should be punished

I also got invaded but the invading army just passed trough my town and now they are defending me from the raiders.

i just wish the playstyle of mount and blade was included in the game, there hasnt been a more appropriate game to introduce it to, thats the only thing keeping me from getting this

@CHAOSMOVEMENT

Ай бұрын

I so badly wanted to lead an army into combat as well as set up the battle plan.

@ArtilleryAffictionado1648

Ай бұрын

bannerlord needs way more stuff to do. Its currently a loot simulator with some late game logistics. beautiful yet shallow

@oneill6291

Ай бұрын

@@ArtilleryAffictionado1648 Absolutely agree. So much potential there and the battles are incredible but the campaign map really needs a lot of work.

@SamayGhosh

Ай бұрын

@@ArtilleryAffictionado1648 yea I agree, thats why I'm proposing this aren't i?? Imagine with me, battles like in bannerlord, where you rally your army to all of the kingdoms and take em, mixed with manor lords base building, no 2 playthrus will feel the same, take over small town, build a city out of em along with a bit of Skyrim, where npcs give you missions and from time to time you can recruit some of them who are better than the average soldier all of that and one last thing, customisation feature for your soldiers, you can customize their Armor, color, mount, weapons and if they introduce stances like in ghost of tsushima then even that, thing is these games hand in hand have the potential to be a strategical warfare masterpiece of the generation And I've personally wanted it for years

@SamayGhosh

Ай бұрын

@@CHAOSMOVEMENT well if it's possible to put this whole new mechanic in an update, then the devs might do it, given most of the playerbase want the same thing

Wow, I just can’t look at it! Luke, you are one of the best guys on youtube, but what did you expect? Modern town layout really won’t work

Giving me Stronghold vibes and im here for it

Well, you tried to "goad" them into attacking you, not to "goat" them. Christ.

@NicholasBrakespear

23 күн бұрын

I ain't afraid of no goats.

9:47 Policies.. Ie PEASANT TAX! 😆

10:36 Sounds like Re-rolling on Remnant 2

Also available via Xbox Game Pass PC.

00:00 witcher song...

This looks like the spiritual successor to Ostriv, which was also developed by one person.

Is it early access?