*I never expected Them to let me keep the memes in the ad read but they did!!! Thanks StarTrek Fleet command: **wehy.pe/y/4/TheSpiffingBrit* Also if you want to grab this game for cheap I negotiated with GOG to get it down to 30% off for 10 days so have fun: af.gog.com/redeem/RatGang?as=1694877399

@null

Жыл бұрын

First reply

@infinitykiyen6270

Жыл бұрын

Perfectly balanced ad lol

@Arthurschkil

Жыл бұрын

Hey I recommended the game on discord. Not sure if you saw that or it's just coincidence

@wolfcommando8467

Жыл бұрын

I can't until you play Terra Invicta and create an and-game spaceship in the first month spiff.

@mryellow6918

Жыл бұрын

@@TheHarmacist001 I bet the publisher also disagrees.

The game killing itself so you can't win is a perfect ending for a game like this.

@thespiffingbrit

Жыл бұрын

The final defence system from the devs

@resileaf9501

Жыл бұрын

Can't believe the game Sansed itself.

@Nerdnumberone

Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit You know you're a master exploited when the game engine itself rage-quits on you.

@hunterrhoades1813

Жыл бұрын

@@thespiffingbrit indeed... How gutless!

@bruticus1496

Жыл бұрын

Reminds me of the Star Trek where Lt. Cr. Data stalemates the chess master that came to watch the war game

I was low key expecting Spiff to produce rats to send to other cities and cause a plague leading him to a win without doing any damage.

@Pudcup

Жыл бұрын

Haven't we all done that before with bribing with tea

@karsakasdasfa6474

Жыл бұрын

Winning using biological warfare

@tambow13

Жыл бұрын

with all the used tea bags he probably has I can imagine that's his form of payment, rats aren't that picky :D

@foxbird123

Жыл бұрын

I would like this comment but it has 666 of them and I wasn't going to break that number.

@sergiogonzalesYT

Жыл бұрын

That was ancient's biological weapon of mass destruction xD

Congratulations Spiff! You bullied the AI into rage quitting. That takes *real* talent.

@plate2105

Жыл бұрын

780 likes, no comment?? let me fix that

@nahimgood6656

Жыл бұрын

No teacup, no tea, no food, let me fix that

@normalhuman9878

6 ай бұрын

I did that with the frost troll near High Hrothgar in Skyrim. I wedged myself on a rock and it disappeared without a trace.

“A strange game. The only winning move is not to play.” - Joshua, 1983.

@joesherman6145

Жыл бұрын

Great film

@donald12998

Жыл бұрын

I'm not familiar with that Bible verse.

@ezonplays2260

Жыл бұрын

I'm pretty sure that quote is from first strike.

@ssquirrel88

Жыл бұрын

The movie, "War Games" with Matthew Broderick

@robertarmstrong3939

Жыл бұрын

Dame we just fishes war games in my ap class

“Prepare for the Ratpocalypse” Pretty sure that’s just the Black Death Spiff

@Leyrann

Жыл бұрын

Poor rats always get blamed for the Black Death even though there WEREN'T even any rats in Europe (except for a few port cities) until the 17th-18th century.

@aminatandour589

Жыл бұрын

@@Leyrann Not to mention the plague bacteria originated from Marmots, not rats ☹

@harmless9336

Жыл бұрын

@@Leyrann sounds completely like the rats fault and you can’t convince me otherwise. What is hand washing and why would anyone ever do that?

@filipeisabelinho3425

Жыл бұрын

@@harmless9336 next you re going to tell me throwing your feaces out the window and have it just stew on the streets isn't hygenic??

@ARL2D2

Жыл бұрын

That's a love deathr robots episode

The game reacting by killing itself to stop you REALLY makes it seem like it was fully intended to be impossible to win.

@TimedRevolver

Жыл бұрын

Wouldn't be surprised if a game with AI that cheats so blatantly has a system in it that crashes the game if you're winning.

@meliasnahtony2951

2 ай бұрын

@@TimedRevolver So the AI learned the Big Brother move of resetting the console when the little one is winning

Spiff: "Its a game a lot like Heroes of Might and Magic..." Me: "Ah.. So Necromancer than?" Spiff: "And we are playing as Necromancer..." Me: "Yap."

@blackjack2526

Жыл бұрын

MONSTER ENERGY

@rubyalexey8692

Жыл бұрын

"500 RATS!"

@MDMDMDMDMDMDMDMDMD

Жыл бұрын

Necro has to actually play in this game, instead of just chilling at home for most of the game.

this is like one of those choice things where it gives you options who would you take with you to fight for you. And no one I know ever, ever picks the 1000 rats. I knew I was right and this video proves my point.

@bluemaster7530

Жыл бұрын

i mean, given the much smaller amounts of everything else, not taking the rats is stupid. There's so many of them that they could just devour anything the moment they reach it, or just kill you without bothering with the defenders.

@Zaczac111

Жыл бұрын

Death by a thousand *rats*

@LutraLovegood

Жыл бұрын

Rarr would

A game that cheats like crazy, then throws a tantrum and tableflips when you start winning? Wow I've played with some humans like that. AI is getting so life-like!

@Yeetmastr4

10 ай бұрын

exactly

I had a feeling this video was coming after my armies got wrecked by doom stacks of 200 rats in the Champaign. Great Video, hope my comment goes through!

As a swiss citizen, i can totally agree that with enough cheese you can beat everything.

@alexkaplan6581

Жыл бұрын

Your own arteries included!

@DrgnZip

Жыл бұрын

Isn't Switzerland neutral?

@bluemaster7530

Жыл бұрын

​@@DrgnZip They're cheese power is so great that they decided to spare the world, believing it unfair.

@akostoth9389

Жыл бұрын

Whilst you being completely *NATURAL* ... Now that's a lot of Cheesing

@instantautopsy7581

Жыл бұрын

As a Wisconsinite, I agree that cheese is the key to ultimate power.

Spiff: "Do i look like a kidney dealer?" Me: Points to rimworld Spiff: ......

@brampelberg9335

Жыл бұрын

He said don't answer that!

@arjunsatheesh7609

Жыл бұрын

Keep Calm and Drink Tea

@badvoodoo2097

Жыл бұрын

Sip the Yorkshire gold until they forget the war crimes

@Fruitcupper

Жыл бұрын

Master organ dealer! 😷🔪♥️ 😅🤣

@Sumirevins

Жыл бұрын

Spiff is much more than a Kidney dealer I can tell you that much...

"A cheap tier 1 unit can't just objectively be the best unit in the game!" Starcraft's marines beg to differ.

@barsni4779

Жыл бұрын

Watch ten mil round to take down interstellar military vessel!

@maikwildgruber1650

Жыл бұрын

watch preatorians die in rome 2 by trying to kill levy pikemen...xDD

Spiff: decides to cheese the game, somewhat literally. Game: ragequits to avoid the loss. Spiff: "Rats!"

So... what I've gathered is that he exploited the game in such a way that he made the game itself rage quit? Neat.

@Broadpaw_Fox

Жыл бұрын

Yours is the first comment I've seen that states this correctly. It really does seem like the game just rage quit... lol :)

Spiff: “This is a rat” A.I.: “Dear God…” Spiff: “There’s more” A.I.: *NOO!!*

I love how Spiff finds a new release and proceeds to beeline for the undead faction, knowing it will undoubtedly have exploits

@nathanielbass771

Жыл бұрын

every undead faction has exploits, even in warcraft 2 XD For example, in the campaign mode, creating undead only required corpses, so if you had dark knights, you just had to have some corpses around. Their weakness was that their hp gradually reduced though XD

game dev: nooo your supposed to get frustrated at our poorly balanced game, not have fun Spiff: *hehe rat army go squeak*

@Jim_WoodPike_Gherkin_WangWick

Жыл бұрын

Vermitide in an nutshell

Most times, rats flee the sinking ship. In this case, they took it over and began a pillaging worthy of the Vikings.

Spiff is a perfect example of if your formula works, the algorithm doesnt matter, spiffs videos have been so unique to him for so long and it just doesnt matter if they are clickbaity or not, he stll will get views, props to you spiff you are very unique and have grown a loyal audience!

Spiff: "Do I look like a kidney dealer to you?" *Fortunate Son plays over Rimworld flashbacks*

something you said about "recruiting their army back instantly" reminded me of an active space game (NOT turn-based) where one AI "faction" had a "reinforcement" ability that would give it a new fleet of you captured all it's planets... BUT...in one mission that fleet was IMPOSSIBLY HUGE! seriously, in that game the size of your fleet is limited by the number of planets you control, and that AI's "reinforcement fleet" was THREE TIMES BIGGER THAN YOU COULD LEGALLY HAVE IF YOU CONTROLED EVERY PLANET ON THE MAP! which i DID! ZERO chance of winning. i gave up after that.

Normal History Teacher: Let's talk about the Great Plague of London. The Spiffing Brit: Let's become the Great Plague of London.

This reminds me of that one puzzle that was making the rounds a few years ago. It had several different groups of animals and it said pick 2 to defend and the others would be attacking you. And one of the options was like 10k rats. Which you just obviously had to pick. But others were saying rats are useless. Thank you spiff for showing the might of the rat.

@just_that_crazy5179

Жыл бұрын

Suicide squad taught me that rats are fucking useful like goddamn

@sytritewarum5720

Жыл бұрын

Rats would be capable of so much, if they weren't so prone to distraction that they tend to forget that they're on their way to get a drink of water...

Already pledged my allegiance to the rat overlords ages ago in MTG....where rat spam seems to work well as well. (Thrumming Stone, cast rat, cast rat, cast rat, etc)

@nicholasfarrell5981

Жыл бұрын

EDH, or 60 card?

@justanaverageferret

Жыл бұрын

@@nicholasfarrell5981 EDH. Marrow Gnawer, rat colony based. I wanted to use the utility rats especially a couple out of new Kamigawa.

@MisterDarren

Жыл бұрын

Don't forget your Thornbite Staff! *squeaks happily

@dakkath414

Жыл бұрын

Splash green for Bloodbond March

@justanaverageferret

Жыл бұрын

@@dakkath414 Sadly can't without changing commander

I will never understand how people can enjoy playing against an AI that literally cheats.

@rubyalexey8692

Жыл бұрын

you learn how to cheat back

@Wyzai

Жыл бұрын

because most of the time AI that doesn't isn't hard to beat. Usually AI isn't very smart.

@sattm8230

Жыл бұрын

I'm sorry to break it to you, but basically every game you play has cheating AI.

@JohnDoe-vm5rb

Жыл бұрын

Ai inherently cheats. It's controlled by the program which by it's nature knows everything. the trick is making it not cheat blatantly, to let players recover and/or be obnoxious about the cheating. Then there is the very simple "making a good ai is hard". Cheating is easier, faster and less resource intensive than a good ai, ignoring costs of getting even made. As for why? I know a lot of players, including myself, enjoy overcoming odds. The kiss of death is when you realise the ai is blatantly, "unfairly" cheating, like an army magically appearing outside a town that doesn't even have buildings to make them in total war

@diddlenfiddle7311

Жыл бұрын

@@JohnDoe-vm5rb Hard's an understatement. There'd need to be a crazy breakthrough for a strategy ai to be as dynamic as a human's potential. I think in real-time it's not as bad as no human can micro manage on a cpu's level but it's screwed at turn based.

When the game crashes it tells him “You’re trying to use the battle facade to lookup terms that aren’t engaged in the battle” Must mean the game realized he’s using the auto resolve to cheat 🤣

You are the first person on this universe that I know who made an AI rage quit This shall be one of your greatest achievements good sir

When I heard Spiff talking of a game similar to a Heroes of Might and Magic, and playing Undead, I really thought it was gonna go for "recuiting" the enemy armies into his own like in other videos like these. But then... the Rat Nation attacked. I'm not gonna lie he had me on the first half. I've always loved to find a cost effective unit with lots of upgrades in games like these. Making a God out of the Unworthy... and dirt cheap too!

As the owner of 5 pet rats, I am not at all surprised by the amount of damage that these rat units are capable of. Great vid!

So let me get this straight, the game crashed on purpose because it thought spiff was cheating?!? 😂🤣

@ElBarto-ft1qe

Жыл бұрын

The game activated the anti-Spiff code 🤣

The Spiffing Brit, the man who can make an AI rage quit.

Honestly, if this game is as hard as he claims, I feel like Spiff is less destroying the game's balance and more fixing it.

@admiralsap

Жыл бұрын

It really isn't. Anybody who is vaguely familiar with the mechanics of HOMM-like games will crush the AI on the highest difficulty with any strategy.

@TheVoidIsCold

11 ай бұрын

It's actually pretty easy, Spiff was either exaggerating or the AI was nerfed by the devs

I was expecting you to find some glitch or skipped over bug to create infinite or invincible troops. But instead you found something even simpler and just brute forced the AI into submission. Classic!

"When enemies give you endless hords, you make a endless corpse army out of them" - probably Spiff

Well the pro exploiter had the upper hand but the impossible game had never been finished because they didn’t expect anyone to get that far so it crashed, ultimately maintaining its title.

As a friend of mine once said in regards to tactics like this, "Quantity has a quality all its own."

@cjwyalk7843

Жыл бұрын

Your friend was Stalin? And you lived? Impressive…

Spiff: *Wins impossible game* Impossible Game: *Flips table*

"A cheap first tier unit cannot be the best unit in the game!" *HOMM 3 SKELETON FLASHBLACKS*

@ganjagank4787

Жыл бұрын

Robe of the balanced king

One of your best! Keep at it, would love to see more of this game!

Spiff discovering the Zerg Rush strategy is genuinely hilarious.

You know, I do sometimes imagine Spiff standing in a seedy alley, wearing a trench, coat, calling out to passersby, offering discount kidneys for sale. 😂

Based on the ending, this game puts the "flipping a table" in "flipping unbeatable."

you know an exploit is good when you make the game itself flip the table and rage quit lol

Spiff... I'd love to see what deck you'd come up with in Yugioh. That game is so ripe for exploitation for 15 to 20 year old cards everyone forgot about. Its honestly a ton of fun.

3:35 he’s cracked the code for how New York managed to become the biggest city in the USA.

Thank you for indexing the ad portions of your videos so that I can easily skip over them. You are a true gentleman.

I'm so glad that Spif did this one, good to know that I won't enjoy playing it personally and can sit back, relax with a cuppa tea and watch Spif

Well, that was a spectacular ending, even the game cant handle your exploits. Come to think of it, this might be the first time that this happened, that's one achievement to mark off from your list....

"This bad boy can fit so many rats into it." Me: snicker.

I love how the rats just bob their heads endlessly like they're listening to the best of metal

That strat was way too cheesy. It was absolutely ratdiculous. Complete moused the point of the game. You rode in on your rodents and razed their roofs like a rascal.

You know it’s hard when Spiff strategically takes a loss, any loss

spiff you´re relly the best, man! you´re videos are just super hillarious and fun to watch.

"unfair or ungodly unfair" reminds me of a few oldie RTS games i grew up with. finally i've beaten original C&C; but man. there's some out there that really you have to go above and beyond in to get ahead.

Glad to see Your video on my newfound TBS. It was Glorious and I am also glad I won't get rat plague from not clicking a like among the first 10k for once :P This game really is something else from HoMM3. Just wait to discover how broken spells are. They can rend army based heroes/wielders helpless, the only counters are specific artifacts or A single maxed up skill you need to luck out on first (or a rare talent) AND you can cheese out those spell via units/skills/boosts/artifacts before the enemy can make A move. Love it! :D

I wish I could see the devs reactions to this.

This reminds me a bit of me playing Stick Wars in middle school. You get Sword guys first, but they end up being one of the best and strongest in the game because of their speed and minimal cost Just by manually controlling one measly swordsman, you can bully the AI into premature defence, allowing you to get ahead in men and resources. Additionally, a manually controlled Sword guy can take down miners, take down archers, take down mages, distract giants, distract Spartans distract mages. They can do it all

I just remembered an old game i have called "Warlords 3". it's a turn-based game with lots of different units, and one of them is Giant Rats. BUT in that game, giant rats have an odd ability called "banding", which makes them stronger IF you have a bunch of them in ONE stack. (no stack can have more than 8 of anything, BUT a city could hold 32) so having 5 or 6 rats, an "officer" unit that gives every unit in the stack a "morale" bonus, AND a "Hero" that gives every unit in the stack a "leadership" bonus, and you've got a pretty powerful team. add in a unit with the "fear" ability (reduces enemy morale) and you've REALLY got something.

All hail for our new rat overlord!🐀🙌

Yay!! Spiff got a new sponsor!! This makes me happy! So, Spiff, are you going to prove how absolutely perfectly balanced Star Trek: Fleet Command is?

This reminds me of my best Magic: The Gathering deck. It was called, very simply, The Rat deck. All the creatures were rats that were cheap and quick to cast, and all the spells/enchantments were based around buffing the crap out of them. Ironically the Plague Rats are what really made the deck. Hard to kill off a 24/25 Plague Rat that keeps sending hordes of lesser rats to block everything. XD The game has changed a lot so not sure it would work as well now, but it was great fun back in the day.

Nice how this game keeps true to its roots in some way. In Heroes 5 one of the strongest units also was the tier 1 of undeads. Though there it was skeleton archers that you could fairly easily get insane amounts of to one shot anything else from range. Plus, in case you lost a few hundreds...just resurrect them with a spell that one certain hero started with. (this was, until they nerfed the necromancer ability to be near useless)

I can't believe that he *literally* cheesed the game, gg Spiff

Spiff: Do i look like i have kidneys to for a dealership?! ***spiff also remembers the rimworld episodes*** Spiff: Wait dont actually answer that question

@taiwanisacountry

Жыл бұрын

Was it not part of a birthday stream? Yes he is a kidney dealer even on his own birthday.

@joshthompson8478

Жыл бұрын

I came down to say wait remember RimWorld?

Happy to see this game getting more coverage. It's truly beautiful. Coming from HoMM3, it took a while to realize tier1 units can actually be deadly.

@someguy4252

Жыл бұрын

peasent flashbacks... seriously those folks are good sources for discount power... need a lot of ghosts? feed em peasents, need a lot of skele's? rejoice you have peasents! and you can usually get em in large quantitys too usualy making em go wild in the process...

Good to know that this game lived up to HoMM3's legacy, including even balance breaking exploits and tactics, it feels like home

Spiff: "pathetic Harry Potter spells" Also Spiff: shows photo of a Discworld cosplay I mean, Rincewind IS pathetically weak magically, but he wouldn't be seen dead in Hogwarts XD

@bionicdragon5

Жыл бұрын

God, I wish Terry Pratchett had lived long enough to hop on the "taking the piss out of Harry Potter" bandwagon.

@aerongray2228

Жыл бұрын

@@bionicdragon5 he would definitely have had something to say about her bullshit transphobia, though i guess before that he would have just made some silly parody of hogwarts as a bad school programme for the unseen university XD im glad i read harry potter BEFORE getting into discworld and old school fantasy, because as important as it was to my childhood its just a bit not-that-good. im spoiled n pratchett now, nothing is good enough any more.

"A strange game, the only winning move is not to play."

I can testify to Mr. Brit NOT being a kidney dealer. I have only ever purchased perfectly ethically sourced lungs from him. Wait I don't think I was supposed to say that last part... oh well...

Nice vid as always!

Of course it crashes in the end. The program really took the old AI aphorism "A strange game. The only winning move is not to play." to heart. Typical computer...

Rat King Spiff has a ring to it. Ending comment: What an anticlimactic bailout from the game after an absolutely insane exploiter v. exploiter AI battle.

The best advertisement for a game in early access that the developers could imagine. ) Thank you pompous Brit.

I love this game, and knew Spiff would too due to his incredible taste and love for Heroes 3! And, like always, undead are stupidly powerful!

So basically, you cheesed the game.

@maltardraco9555

Жыл бұрын

Give this commenter some cheese.

“Do I look like I’m a kidney dealer?” *Stares in Rimworld*

This is definitely one of my favorite videos so far 😂 that was the equivalent a of someone playing monopoly and being like “you can’t beat me if I quit” 🤣

One of the few channels I watch and don't skip through the ad break. The man is just too entertaining, even when selling things to me. Shut up and take my money!

Strange, most of your exploiting game videos make me want to play that game, even try some of but not necessarily. But this game? Despite looking gorgeous, having some fun sounding concepts does not feel like something fun to play.

*Sips Coffee Defiantly* Rat decks were always a threat back when I played MTG. It's funny how they are just as threatening in other games as well, and this one, in particular, had enough of Spiff's BS to toss the table.

Master Splinter would be proud of you Spiff. Great video!

"Good-great content Spiff-man brit. Great Horned rat approved-favoured."

Rat gang (as spiff requested)

this looks like the sort of game i would never play. i hope the devs learned a lesson from making this game.

a corpse being controlled by rats in a ratatouille situation? 'weekend at Remy's'

Great video as usual, its almost as simple and easy as Starcraft with only marines :)

@kintopacinn283

Жыл бұрын

Or Zerglings.

I saw already a bunch of people breaking this game as it's very poorly balanced, wonder which exploit Spiffing used. EDIT. No Spif, SoC is easy af. AI is just annoying but no match to average Heroes 3 player.

Ya know, Spiff is like Order and Josh from Lets game it out is like anarchy. But both are game exploiters almost as if two sides of the same coin, would love to see a collab between them someday~ I bet the energy would be lovely to see! It just popped in my head yesterday while watchin Josh xD

Loved the rat race!

Holy first time im here on new release video, tea is already ready

"Rats, we're rats, we're the rats, we prey at night we stalk at night, we're the rats."

After this we need a spiffing brit with a plague doctor mask with rats peaking out of his tophat

Aha the ultimate trick from the AI. When its about to get defeated it shuts itself down. Love it.

Your Curry-esque "SSSPPAAAIIAAACCEE--" is impeccable. Well done, sir.

Unusually literal use of the phrase “cheesing the system”, plus some ratastrophic puns.

This game looks beautifully designed

when you decided to auto battle to avoid the enemies magic is a huge sign you played the shit out of heroes 3

Lmaooooo maybe I’m too old but that yugioh dodododo just fckn cracked me up to death 🤣🤣😂😅