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Welcome to my channel! This is a brand new channel currently focussed on roguelikes and similar styles of games. We are about chill gaming vibes here đ
Top 5 Tips to STOMP Darkness 100 in Death Must Die!
Today we're going over the top 5 tips to help make darkness 100 MUCH easier in Death Must Die!
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Evasion 101: czcams.com/video/9R8telTXp-8/video.html
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League of Legends Swarm Is Kinda... Bad
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I checked out League of Legends Swarm and things weren't feeling great... Hit that subscribe button :)
Goin' Crazy, Shankin' Fools! Brotato Danger 5 on CRAZY
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Today we continue our journey to beat Danger 5 with ALL of the characters in Brotato! Next up lets get Crazy... Hit that subscribe button :)
How To Use Multi-Equip, Unlock Loadouts and Stash Space! Quick Guide
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How To Use Multi-Equip, Unlock Loadouts and Stash Space! Quick Guide If you found the video useful hit subscribe to help the channel grow :)
Powers Kront Goes BZZZT! Darkness 100 Build Guide | Death Must Die
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Today we have a build guide for Ancestral Knowledge Powers Kront for Darkness 100! This build is super fun and my favourite way to play Kront! Hit that subscribe button!
Halls of Torment Review
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Today we review Halls of Torment. An action roguelike inspired by old school ARPG's. Is this one worth your time? twitch.tv/explosivepaddle explosivepaddle
Channel Update, Thank You, NA, Halls & Death Must Die Act 3 Plans!
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Small Channel Update today as we crossed our first 100 subs! Yay :) THANK YOU!
OOPS.. I Broke the Game - Darkness 100 Black Lightning Lorien Build Guide
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Today we BREAK Death Must Die Darkness 100! Enjoy :) explosivepaddle www.twitch.tv/explosivepaddle
Roadmap Update! New Events, DLC and Console Release! Nordic Ashes
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Hey guys today Nordic Ashes put out a new roadmap for the game so we'll go over what to expect from this game in the coming months. Hit that subscribe button :) twitch.tv/explosivepaddle explosivepaddle
Darkness 100 Desert Rose Immortal Avoron Build Guide | Death Must Die
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Darkness 100 Desert Rose Immortal Avoron Build Guide | Death Must Die
Crit Tank Gladiator Build is CRAZY! Brotato Danger 5
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Crit Tank Gladiator Build is CRAZY! Brotato Danger 5
Don't Sleep on Evasion When Building Your Character! | Death Must Die Quick Guide
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Don't Sleep on Evasion When Building Your Character! | Death Must Die Quick Guide
Darkness 100 Summoner Nixi Build Guide | Death Must Die
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Darkness 100 Summoner Nixi Build Guide | Death Must Die
Yes You've Been Sleeping on SUMMER as a God! Death Must Die
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Yes You've Been Sleeping on SUMMER as a God! Death Must Die
Act 2 Review After Darkness 100 on ALL Characters | Death Must Die
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Act 2 Review After Darkness 100 on ALL Characters | Death Must Die
How Hard Is Darkness 100 in Act 1? Elusive Merris Build Guide | Death Must Die
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How Hard Is Darkness 100 in Act 1? Elusive Merris Build Guide | Death Must Die
Darkness 100 Wanderer Skadi Build Guide | Death Must Die
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Darkness 100 Wanderer Skadi Build Guide | Death Must Die
One Big CHANGE I'd Like to See in Death Must Die
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One Big CHANGE I'd Like to See in Death Must Die
Can we get our first WIN? Halls of Torment
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Can we get our first WIN? Halls of Torment
Darkness 100 Poison Darts Nixi Build Guide | Death Must Die
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Darkness 100 Poison Darts Nixi Build Guide | Death Must Die
BD Games (Publisher) was BANNED from Steam and ALL games Removed! Wtf Happened?!
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BD Games (Publisher) was BANNED from Steam and ALL games Removed! Wtf Happened?!
Does Curse of Weakness STACK? Death Must Die
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Does Curse of Weakness STACK? Death Must Die
So I Played Halls of Torment for the First Time...
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So I Played Halls of Torment for the First Time...
TOP 10 Unique Armour Pieces in Act 2 | Death Must Die
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TOP 10 Unique Armour Pieces in Act 2 | Death Must Die
Darkness 100 Whistling Arrow Lorien Build Guide | Death Must Die
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Darkness 100 Whistling Arrow Lorien Build Guide | Death Must Die
TOP 10 Unique Weapons in Act 2 | Death Must Die
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TOP 10 Unique Weapons in Act 2 | Death Must Die
Death Must Die's Roadmap Revealed! QoL Changes, Loadouts, New Items & Act 3!
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Death Must Die's Roadmap Revealed! QoL Changes, Loadouts, New Items & Act 3!
Darkness 100 Dash Merris Build Guide | Death Must Die
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Darkness 100 Dash Merris Build Guide | Death Must Die
Don't Sleep On CURSE Items When Building Your Character! Death Must Die Item Guide
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Don't Sleep On CURSE Items When Building Your Character! Death Must Die Item Guide
What I take issue with is claiming to have played "the first couple of hours" when there's more characters to unlock, builds to try. Ultimately it's a limited, almost cheap clone of a vampire survivors with league skinned onto it, but it's by no means "bad". The controller support is not a fair argument, as this is baked into the league client, not a standalone game. Imo it's fun to try out, but builds are just limited to rng in 15-20 minute runs. Claiming that you played for a few "hours" without ANY mention of this just tells me this is just a low effort attempt at being "hipster" about the game.
It's a first impression of the game. not supposed to be a deep review. I played for roughly 2 hours and didn't make a whole lot of progress because of the issues mentioned in the vid. people can feel how ever they like of course but I found this game very frustrating to try and get into. was recommended by a friend cos it's the genre I like but clearly didn't click for me. not sure if that really makes me a hipster but yeah sure I guess? thanks for the comment!
Nobody shares this sentiment
Some do, and that's fine.
im debuting the game how can i get waste items?
in general loot will drop randomly from enemies/bosses or can be sold by the shopkeeper. the exact waste item I used in the video is a unique item though so it won't be sold in the shop. item rarity is affected by the difficultly you play on as well, 30 being max for better items, but I goes up to 100 for the challenge. hope that helps!
@@ExplosivePaddle thx for the respond it help me a lot!
Lorien is like the easy mode for this game, all builds are strong and easy to play even with D100
Yepp he sure is!
...aaaaaand you talked about that later on in the video, of course... đBut I stand by my point: Reprisal in this build would be awesome. đ
Yes justice would be great I did one run with the double auras that was really fun as well! Kront is a super power haha. Thanks for checking out the video!
Hey man, very good build and very very nice video here, just show how powerful a hero Kront is! About the third god: I think Justice fits kinda perfectly here too, with Radiance enhancing the damage at low range, Reprisal to stun enemies, and even Celestial wings to boost your movement speed. But yeah, this was just the first thing that came to my mind :D
I have not seen any items with summon movement speed or summon attack speed. I feel cheated...
Yes the RNG on boots is rough! :( Took me many, many hours to get some of these drops..
Hi, I bought the game cause Act 1 was really well made, really well designed, everything about it, no matter the pixelated nature of the game, and even the funny stuff where elite bosses would say things like go slower, I will get you and things like this. The stupid dialogs between the characters, the Gods, their portraits, powers, etc everything really well designed. Then Act 2. I felt this was a bit rushed, it could have been on par with the quality of Act 1 and it would've been awesome with an Egyptian theme, this was not so awesome though. Rushed, poor sprites, textures, as if drawn by 5 year old who would still do better, poor animations, I'm really sorry. Inconsistencies in the design, some sprites did not feel like participating in the pixelated theme, other sprites felt like they wanna be kindergarden egypt, and the cheesy run away voice over. It's not scary, it's not funny either, just poor, cheesy, I assume rushed, I'm sorry. Please don't rush Act 3, you can do much better and you did make an amazing game. I can't wait for Act 3 so there's better gear to find and mainly so I can just skip Act 2. Just because I said I can't wait for Act 3 so I can finally skip Act 2 doesn't mean anything, don't take this literally, take your time please. I got other games to play while I wait for Act 3. There's also some balance issues with the all the game gear if you wanna review it.
I actually did a review on the channel for act 2 saying its very unbalanced right now. You are definitely correct about that! And I've heard some other people also say they preferred act 1 over act 2. Its understandable if you liked one better than the other. I think its also worth remembering Death Must Die is made by 4 people and not everything they do will be perfect. The voices were just as cheesy back in act 1 though weren't they? There is also an upcoming patch to address some of these issues, hopefully it will improve the game from its current place! Thanks for checking out the video :)
@@ExplosivePaddle I don't know, there were some voice over laughs, I found it funny most of it, I don't know maybe I overreact, cause there is noticeable difference between those two acts. Overall the game is amazing for its simplicity, sorry if I was overly critical of Act 2, maybe Act 1 raised the bar a bit too high, I don't know. Anyway, even if there are many games that came out with similar gameplay style, this one is probably the best of them. Again, thanks for a wonderful game!!!
number 100 sub, love it.
yooo thank you!!!
Love this build, but I do it a bit differently; I grab the black lightning gloves and then grab a few different bows- a crit one, a strike dmg one, or strike dmg + strike count one. Maybe it's semantics and yours is more maxed(?), but the way my brain sees is by putting the lightning on the gloves I can use the bow (which arguably carries more stats than a single piece of gear) to drastically amp either my crit chance or my strike damage. BUT i haven't actually crunched any numbers. Cheers
oh interesting yeah my bow could have a better roll on it as well unfortunately came with attack damage. if I can find some gloves with the perk on it maybe we can revisit the build and make it more crazy. I have some pieces that rolled with "when an enemy attacks you there's a chance black lightning triggers" but the bow + bask in greatness feels like more spam haha. thanks!
Yeah, i love this build, đ
Equilibrium?
I was doing tier 2 items for this particular list but yes equilibrium is a great choice for tier 1 maybe I'll make a video for tier 1 uniques as well đ
Nice video! Gladiator is a fun character.
thanks!
The stat Evasion has Diminishing Returns, stackings lots will never achieve 100% evasion, this is obvious and is balanced this way for very simple reasons But each point of evasion is the equivalent of 0.65% Effective Health Points, this is where the "linear" scaling comes from, no matter how much evasion you have, each 1 point of evasion is = to 0.65% EHP Similar to armor at 0.5% EHP per point Having a strong mix of all three, Armor, Life and Evasion, will give you the best durability when paired next to Curse of Weakness
You are very knowledgeable good sir! thanks for clarifying this
Shame the Black Lamp isn't considered a summon, but eitherway nice run here :) love me some Blood Sword action
bro, thanks so much--this was GREAT--will be watching you other videos when/if needed for NA as well. Cheers!
Gem High wasnt better due to enemy count, it was better due to the fact it had no XP Requirement for it's stacks, any gem would count, now the gem must be 1xp or more, which warped strike and execution will never reach Summer isn't bad, never was, but outside of Trail of Fire and Fury, anything she offers, other gods just do better
Oh well there you go that's why it felt better back in act 1! đ€
Well the gem high thing makes sense but I've definitely seen some people saying summers bad which is what motivated this video! thanks fluffeh đ€đ
@@ExplosivePaddle For sure, it's a shame she gets a bad stigma from a lot of people, even back in act 1 people used to call her poor but she was used in the strategy for achieving the highest level possible back then, and was used in the second highest kill strat too :(
oh damn! I only started playing towards the end of act 1 so some of the old strats I'm less familiar with. I'm looking forward to September patch to see what changes they have cooking
Thank you! Finally someone understood the power of Merris through the dash. It makes me extremely happy when someone uses this build.
Looks like act 3 ist months away....
yeah I'd guess November for act 3 based off their Dev interview
1:57:48 you dont have to take items or skills, you can press B button and get xp(your xp bar on left is divided on four bars, you get 2 full bars of xp), dont use well too fast when you dont have potions maxed out. GPS from amulet helping you locate potions ingredients is to the right of your xp bar, its a little wiggly but it shows you the way, some ingredients are only in agony mode. Try to get some achivments, more achivments = more xp gain and you can look at exact amount of bonus xp in quests stone(max is 93%). And last thing i remember to write, current endgame is agony mode, but its gonna change in few months just check dev log from 26.07
Epic comment thanks! I'll check out agony mode on the channel soon :)
In my opinion, archer is best . I m on 62 difficult.
Lorien is S tier right now!
they just need to fix skadi and keep fates as bonus gods as they are, only change i would love to see is to remove -60% movement "difficulty". its a massive hinderance for any attack build and a nothing for any dash build. personally i hate "difficulties" that affect your character and i think its a lazy design... they need to change it in to something that affects all builds and we might see smaller gap of power between attack builds and dash builds i belive.
Actually 100% agree slow while attacking is just not fun!
Every character wants the fates +1 Dash First Strike Lifeline Extra Dice Luck These are all QoL effects that EVERY build utilises By having more than 3 gods is a build hinderance, not enabler, since now you're polluting your pool making it MUCH harder to find the blessings you want to be finding, overall slowing your DPS and progression The issue lays with balancing and not the god limit, but since it's Early access, Balancing is on the back end of importance as they focus more on systems
But wouldn't it be better to let the player decide if they want the fates as their 4th or not? I understand buffs such as first strike are great but the fates still synergize more with some characters than others imo but yeah it's more a balancing thing than anything I agree with you there!
â@@ExplosivePaddle To a point sure, options are always great right? But by having that 4th god be any of the others from the line up, will actually bring more issues than benefits, which would cause more frustration than satisfaction. Fates blessings do not count as a prerequisite towards other blessings, so picking them up has no impact on your other offers, meanwhile grabbing a 4th god instead would cause more bloat leading to more difficulty forming builds, which is actually removing options from the player as now you'd be forced to A) Run even more dice to compensate or B) Have builds where a large portion of the blessings you take are forced upon you from not having the freedom to choose. due to never having enough dice, + having to compensate for the passives bloat Generally though the real answer to all of this is Fates generally need more QoL :D like Gemini just being +Projectiles to all archetypes instead of just attacks, First Strike being Critical Damage instead of D2uD etc ^^
That's fair perhaps the fates need to be more generalist for all characters instead! Good discussion thanks for the comments!
@@ExplosivePaddle đLike the content either way, very clear and to the point videos, good work!
Yo, you can obtain only one item per run and after that well is broken, but you can(or at least i was able to do it few months ago) retrieve potions infinite times per run, all the weapons can be upgraded after you unlock upgrades and hit lvl 3,6 and 9 of weapon, +0.5 lightning strike means every second lightning strike you have one more projectile, if you have 20% extra multistrike it means every fifth attack with each weapon you get one more projectile
Hey thanks! This is super useful info :)
Wasn't their first mistake. First mistake was bad naming of their game. Then it was picking a bad publisher.
Developers decided to take money from a publisher that was engaged in practices against TOS. *shrug*
It's not like they would know this though. I highly doubt that the shady publisher was transparent about their review manipulation with game devs.
I miss the days when in order to get on Steam, you had to have the blessing of Gabe. I mean he greenlit Half Life 1, Half Life 2, Half Life 2 and a bit, Half life 2 and three quarters, and Half Life Alyx. His opinion on whether a game is worth publishing or not is worth all 3 of ours put together.
AI art đ€ź
Welp, that's a deal breaker
There was zero. Mention of ai art in this video?
Better than some random talentless f**k, copying others styles, techniques, and ideas, adding near to nothing to it (if not count his own sickness and fetishes), and taking a lot of money for this. Now AI will be doing this instead, clearly and for free, allowing even an indie solo dev to create a pretty game if the novelty of the art is not the main focus. AI cannot create something absolutely new; it cannot invent; it's an instrument. If you don't like its work, you basically just don't like human art in general. Or it's a skill issue of an AI operator, but I like this game art, so I doubt that's the issue here. Those useless f deserve what comes. I can carry a heavy rock from one place to another the whole day and call it hard work; the same is true here. Not worth being paid. Go and do a real job, or work at coal mines-AI will never take that. I had one of those games, so I guess I will rebuy it now, just for supporting the devs, and for some pigs to deteriorate faster, taking their truly destined workplaces.
Thing is, to procc fatality and your poison darts you need high crit with her, using a crit/attack damage dagger is best. And absolutely take crit from fates. Once you get those 2 you pretty much clean anything on sight because the darts actually hit hard. Until the freaking bug mages teleport bulls*** come.
This is true more crit would be nice. At lower darkness levels I would run this build very differently however at darkness 100 survivability is the most important factor for Nixi if you want to reliably beat it.
But does it stack even more with Merciful strike? That's another debuff to damage.
The answer is either no OR we hit so many diminishing returns that the number still rounds to 6. Unlisted video if you wanna check it out! czcams.com/video/6ySIowEdHOc/video.html
@@ExplosivePaddle Hmm fair enough, yeah ty
Game worth buying?
Yes, itâs amazing. Like Diablo 1 and Vampire Survivors had a baby
Yes I think so! early game you may die a bit as you learn and collect gear but it's very satisfying to complete the runs
Halls of Torment is great game, try to find npcs for equipment and potions(rerolls) in second and third map
The black lamp genie, i'm pretty sure it scales with power?? Because with the knight and some +300% power damage the geenie was insane, i'm talking 5k damage a hit. Usually he does way less than that.
interesting I would have thought it scaled with summon damage! I'll test this out đ
Idk if the game was kind of tailored for darkness 30, they can work there sure, but some of these melee characters are miles behind the sorceress or the archer. The orc is a decent melee but other than that... Just the fact that the archer can procc a strike 3 times!!!! with 1 crit is insanity. 3 proccs of master tornados with +4 missiles count is enough to shotgun just about anything... It's insane damage, not even close to what her poison or shadowshift will ever do.
Agree hopefully the balance patch has some huge buffs for these melee characters!
Thanks for this update,
No worries
I mean, the run was over at minute 3:51 tbh đ€ŁANY character with a little cast buffs (let alone the master of casts herself) dominates with landslide, it's insane.
Great game and all that but i feel there's no incentive to use a melee character most of the time. Like...I'ts like, yes but you get more armor... Are you? the assassin is literally paper and what do you get in return really? No, i'm gonna use my bow from a mile away, bouncing the attacks a billion times a second from a safe distance, proccing havoc on the entire map. Don't even get me started on those bugs moving at the speed of light shooting rays from outside the map doing half of your hp in damage trying to kill them with melee....
I'd like to see some buffs for most of the melee characters or some more interesting skill tree nodes. Lorien laughs at the melee characters :)
@@ExplosivePaddle That's what i'm saying, make the archer procc casts or strikes with his attacks and/or dashes and is over, bosses melt in 2 seconds, how is that even remotely balanced? Mind you, you had some insane HP and regen here and probably the only reason you survived. It's so much harder making a run with melee.
how to unlock level3? or it is not even in the game?
There's only 2 at the moment as the game is still in early access
This was so useful. Thanks!
Your nervous laugh throughout the video had me dying my man.
how is this not a more known channel. Amazing video + edit
thanks!
how to use items from black market?
Nice tips and tricks, wish I had seen this when I started. If I may, here are some comments/suggestions about Yggdrasil: - 4/4 on Limit Break is effectively worthless until you really have 25 leaves to spare; 1-in-20 chance of a legendary upgrade is not worth 25 leaves, much better spent elsewhere early on (pre-400 leaves I'd say). - The Boss XP Collect skill in the bottom left has quite good bang for your buck at 2/4, gives quite a few more level points each run. Admittedly worthless if you manage to always keep an xp attract ring on hand, which rarely drops before you can buy one from Gnoki, so the skill usually has some value at least. - The Seed Gatherer skill in bottom left area is a must for great QoL and for getting additional leaves from those seeds you couldn't be bothered to pick up. Huge. - The Pierce and Bounce skills only work on relics that have pierce and bounce on them already, so don't waste leaves on them if they won't help you.
Thanks for the guide! DO you know if anything big changed between 1.0 and now (1.1) ?
Nothing major in terms of systems changes, but they did add a new character I put up a short video going over her skills if that interests you czcams.com/video/DuWTHiFKwhY/video.html
thanks for making this. on the fence with this game
No worries. The Devs have been doing regular updates but there's still only 3 levels and UI problems still exist.
Been playing this since I got it yesterday. Didnât know how long it was out or if there was guides. Definitely gonna use some tips when I get home after work. đđŒ
Thanks for checking out the channel! Game only released 1.0 a month ago but was in early access for a while. Enjoy!
Thanks for showcasing the game!
You say it's better than other survivals, but only name VS and with a implication that it was the best in the genre (before this Nordic Ashes obviously). Is this some kind of joke? VS is shit that couldn't even rise over the games from over decade or two ago like Crimsoland that started the genre, it got popular by pure "viralism" like Flappy Bird. Try to compare it to Death Must Die at least maybe?
I haven't played every game out there and you're allowed to have a different opinion đ have a great day!
Great review, and I agree. This is the first bullet heaven that clicked for me. I think it's the combination of quite deep, interesting systems and the overall atmosphere of the game that did it
Thanks! They really nailed the tone and systems
Build sure looks fun, I had a lot of success with fire on Hafgrim so far
double ascended fire codex + fire staff is a fun loadout!
@@ExplosivePaddle Exactly!