The first time I ever played I built a treehouse because I figured it was the safest. After a few ingame weeks of gathering resources, building traps and border fortifications during the day and cowering in the treehouse at night a mutant patrol came and fucking knocked down the tree
Same here. Omg. An armsy came. This was the most panic my friend and I had. We were like wtf but felt safe in the tree. Then all of a sudden everything disappears and we're falling... Omg.
Oh yeah, those big mutants take trees down. Armsy especially can 2 shot trees occasionally. I thought tree houses were safe too. But you gotta invest a lot of defense for all the trees on the ground level to prevent them from getting toppled along with everything in them
Not gonna lie, multiplayer in this game where you and your dumb friends (aka me and my dumb friends) go in entirely blind and let yourselves make ALL the mistakes and accidentally develop a bone cult is part of the beauty of this game
My friends and I also played it blind back in the day and it was absolutely hilarious or scary at points, we found out that if you build A LOT of appliances on a raft the game's framerates will drop immensely and one friend got obsessed with building war-rafts
Running solo is probably one of the more terrifying experiences I've had in a game. Multi-player, on the other hand is me and the boys making a giant Christmas tree out of body parts and worshipping it for a week before setting it on fire, making every bone item in the game, and doing it all over again all while talking like cavemen.
Playing The Forest alone: "oh god, what was that noise outside my house? It sounds like it's breaking down the walls." Playing The Forest with friends: "Dave if you take more of Bob's bones from his bone collection, I'm going to destroy your historical log cabin and leave you with nothing but your tape tunes!"
Yeah, playing with a friend always will make horror games less scary, I mean I had a session with 3 other buddies and the moment we saw our first armsy our collective thought was to kill it with our katanas we found.
I remember in one multiplayer game, me and my friends managed to basically make peace with one of the mutant tribes. They would come and praise our base, put their effigies on the perimiter to dissuade other tribes, and even came to our aid in combat sometimes. What a cool game.
@@BBaaaaa It took a long time. We're talking we had a fully built up base by the time they stopped attacking us, so yeah it was a good long while. It was a pretty decent time ago so the details of that game are fuzzy for me, but I distinctly remember that tribe never attacked us again after a while.
This shouldn’t be possible unless you have red paint 24/7... they cannibals will survey your base, deploy effigies, all the sort, but if you have a big base, regardless of paint, WILL attack in a large group.
@@toaster_rtx1829 Like I said, fuzzy remembrance at best. One of my friends may have been painted up most of the time, or maybe we just bugged them out somehow.
When playing multiplayer with my friends, this game goes from scary to “Manifest destiny simulator” we go full genocide. Giant towering walls, catapults, hundreds of bones for armor, hundreds of skulls as catapult ammo, it’s great. Makes my ancestors happy I’m sure.
I used my 'splodies for more of a "I don't have time to cut down these 6 trees and I can just go back into the cave and get more" type of gaming experience.
I found The Forest scary for the first hour or two. You learn very fast that you can go from being hunted the the terror in the forest you once hid from. I went from cowering in caves to eating the corpses of tribesmen in front of their people. I don't know if I can really call it a horror game, I feel like it just has very horror-esque aspects.
@@themoleman6806 It actually made me sad because after they stop pushing you around, it goes from "Please don't hurt me, I mean no harm" to "COME SAVE YOUR PEOPLE" and you don't really have much option to avoid that if you don't wanna get bullied.
Playing The Forest with the boys was the most fun I've had in a while. To be honest the glitches actually add to the experience since most of them are hilarious.
A year ago or so I played with 3 of my friends and we somehow managed to bug out the ropes from the caves so we could climb up into the sky indefinitely, I'm sad I can't remember how we did it because it was really funny and also kinda useful 😂
God I miss the time where rabbits would run through bonfires and just keep running, either not dying or if they did die the flame itself would keep running around the trees anyway. It became a beautiful night of tiny will-o-wisps running around the woods as we watched. Just Lovely.
Going into the caves the very first time was pretty creepy. The final end area was legit mind blowing. Didn't see that coming at all. Hyped for the 2nd game.
Wanna spook your friends the next time you play the forest? Use dynamite as your light source while exploring in the dark. It's brighter than the lighter, doesn't effect the in built nightvision like a lit torch does, and as long as you're holding it, it won't explode.
Single player: horror survival getting chased by monsters 2 people: managing to to survive for a while and less scared Squad: chases after monsters and swinging their axes
The start: You are a prude to the madness, scared of everything. The end: You are a veteran monster, who would scare you in the beginning. The Forest is a journey from Civility to Primal Survivalism. From a survivor by chance to a survivor by might.
Farket, a guy who did a lot for the wiki and has several seasons of Forest lps, has uploaded a few videos with information from the devs on both The Forest and Sons of the Forest.
I remember when it first came out, models were flying all the places, players ran around with fire a row burning everything, character die by falling 50cm height...good times
You made me rember something. My group and I were playing in our village of sorts and then we saw a chief mutant fall near us. We rushed and pummeled him and apparently everything was alright but then he rose but he wasn't walking! He was sort of levitating with a broken neck, he went straight to a campfire and then he started moving in circles around it. I think it eventually disappeared but that waa the creepiest thing I had seen so far.
As a native So Cal resident who moved to Ohio, I really emphasize with that little bit at the beginning. Even after 2 years is still weird to go out somewhere and NOT see desert
Also everything is so flat out here! I was talking to some kids that were skating the other day and ended up having to painstakingly explain what bombing hills was.
Saw a mutant in the bushes, we stared at each other and the mutant started to teabag and ran away. 🥺 Scary, but very fascinating tribe. More research is needed.
My biggest problem with the forest is the difficulty later in the game when the game has shown most enemy types it just starts throwing like 30-40 cannibals a day and like 10 mutants and it's just not very fun trying to build while I'm getting beaten up by the third group of cannibals in the space of 5 minutes.
Building on an island with a zipline from the forest above makes the game much more forgiving. I was having fun doing house boat pirate raids on the shoreline and ended up making the biggest island my base which was a ton of fun.
Not to mention they are able to destroy your buildings. I think I stayed In a treehouse for most of the game because when I wanted to build a house they just destroyed it.
@@AbstractTraitorHero i definetly hope that the ai can flesh out more tribes, like having factions who will at first all hate ypu but based on what you do can align with their religion or something, maybe one side hates fires and another likes them making alot of enemies. Kinda hard to make functional though and kinda turns the game into an rpg.
My brother and I played this for HOURS a few years ago, it was a blast. Our PCs ran it at 20fps but it didn't matter. Thank you for reminding me of those awesome nights!
me without the katana: oh no scary cannibal mutants what will be of meee me after getting the katana and seeing literally any enemy: *omae wa mou shindeiru.*
The Forest is such a great game. I first played it back in 2015 or so, and recently I started a new playthrough in co-op with a friend. I'm really hyped for Sons of the Forest this year.
1st day: alright let's build our shelter before the cannibals appear 1st month: alright let's build our custom fort before mutants appear 7 years: alright let's continue construction of the city and build around and entrap mutant and cannibal spawns trapping them in a unbreakable prison where they kill eachother for my amusement (Yes that last one is possible I'm still working on it)
My dumb ass spawning in and building my first house inside the main village: 🗿 One of my favorite build-spots is actually over the sink hole and using zip lines to get in and out, Farket has a great video about how to do that.
For the regrow trees option, the game will only respawn trees from stumps. So you can hit stumps to remove them and the tree won't grow back even with the option on.
I just want to point out how genius the mechanic of the cannibals dragging you to the caves actually is. Not only is it a great way to force the players hand and introduce them to the caves and throwing them in deep water, it’s not only terrifying, but it’s also a great way to get around a ‘game over’ screen. Tension would be immediately lost once you realise you just hit ‘load last save’. Sure you still understand they are a threat, more than ever now that the mystery of fighting them is gone, but that mystery is what keeps it unnerving.
Unfortunately you don't always get thrown into the caves. If you die in a certain way, you either just reload to your last save or die permanently (I believe it's based on difficulty)
You know what man, I wasn't expecting a cooking segment in the middle of the first video of yours I clicked on and I'll be honest, put me off just a little tiny bit. But by the end of it I was actually engaged and watching what you were doing. Considering me subscribed
My friend and I love this game, right now we're playing a challenge for the hardest mode and the worst location (8 patrol routes). We also have made a point to be as aggressive as possible from day one. The thing that keeps us alive is the one shot headshot bow feature.
Okay, for going through forests, you need to make sure you have a machete, in case you get tangled up in branches and stuff. Also an older style hockey mask, because there are always branches just at head height that will get you in the face if you aren't protected. Lastly, you should go at night. You can go during the day, but trees have terrible night vision, so it's just safer for everyone involved.
When you have tree regrowth turned on, you can prevent a tree from regrowing by destroying the stump. Trees also always fall away from you, so if you face away from your base when you finish chopping, it won't fall on your base unless it bounces off of another tree. Walking around trees also don't chop them faster btw. It looks like it would, but it takes the same amount of chops even if you stand still, so the only reason to circle a tree is to keep an eye out for mutants.
My buddies and I built in this same area our first playthrough. We lived in tree houses connected with custom bridges. I was titled the "Sun God" as I was armed with fire and the dress of the flight attendant's corpse you get your axe from.
Ngl, why unity has bad rep is because good unity games pay for unity not showing the "made with unity screen" but bad ones just stay with the free version showing it. The difference between paid versions and the free version is tiny and one of them is the start screen.
I really enjoyed your cooking segment, here in méxico we have the tradition to "clean" the beans, and with that I mean that we put some beans on a table and throw away the bad ones or if there is any rock. Is really nice to see how people in other countries work in the kitchen, your dish make me remember a dish my mother make from time to time named "frijol con puerco" or translated in english, pork and beans, unlike the american one this is made with black beans and the meat is really tender, great video as always.
When my friends and I first went into the Forest, I decided that melee combat was too risky (hard survival difficulty) and taught myself to do bow trickshots to instakill them with an arrow to the head. The only issue was that we became so effective at killing that masked mutants raided our base like twice a day.
This video is how I found your channel, and lots of good games from it. I love your videos and the work and care you put into them. I love the cat bloopers and the cooking segments, and as an artist, I always love your little ending affirmation in your latest videos. It means a lot. Keep up the good work at your own pace! :}
Me a forest veterinarian: ah yes new players always are poring in New players: noo I have plane axe you cant defeat me Me with full creepy armour: pathetic
"There's nothing stopping you from destroying what you love" So young and you already figured out what I still can't get right, I think it's gonna get better
i remember once, i battled all 3 creepy mutants at once, just cus i didnt know what they were. i did cheese the cowman a bit by standing in the water, but that was the most terrifying moment ive had in a video game- edit: i personally chose canibalisim, cus its fun.
I love the multiplayer, my best friend and I play it quite often and we refer to it as "going to the cottage" as if we're just going for a nice summer vacation, referring to the cannibals as our neighbours etc. We played it for like 70 in game days until the save got lost, and we had been to the bottom of the sinkhole but never set foot inside the research facility because we didn't want to go save Timmy... 😂 We spend so much time building multiple bases with increasing complexity and we love it, I love how I can have fun with my best friend like that even after she moved out of town and I can't see her as often anymore.
Fun fact On the beans receipe you can cut down time all the way to 5 hours if you add frying a lot less water and more intense heat At least that's how my grandmother did it
It really depends on your behavior when they’re around, and if you’re chopping trees *in* their territory. It also depends on if you’ve previously been hostile with then. But generally speaking, they’ll stick to mostly being curious with the occasional testing of your resolve to see what you’ll do. If you stick to a nomadic lifestyle, run from canibals whenever you see them, they’ll mostly leave you alone. I once made it 17 days without a single fight with a canibal. But that requires alot of patience and the ability to not hit a canibal when one just thwacked you across the head. But if you’ve been well behaved, not chopping trees will make them not so prone to be aggressive. But that also depends on the temperament of the tribe and the individual AI tribesmen your dealing with.
Played in multiplayer with friends. I got lost on one of the bigger caves, came back to the base donning a whole set of bone armor after slaughtering 3 villages worth of cannibals. TalkingRaven died that day, and the Boner was born.
I *strongly* recommend playing the Forest in the order Charl lists. If you skip base building and go for the caves early on, then the great cave gear makes combat pretty trivial and ruins any scariness the game had. I definitely wish I'd built a big base my first time, so I could really fuck around with the natives while I was still underpowered.
This game is a gem, it’s an amazing mix of horror and survival, you really go in as a naked baby and come out a red covered lumberjack with the fireman axe😂
about the trees... you can just keep the regrowing trees option on because you can just remove the stumps of the trees forcing that specific tree to no longer grow back
Though it might detract from some fun in the game, building a large base is entirely optional. I got through the whole game with 2 boathouses and a few tree houses spread out through the island. Went for a more nomadic/stealth approach and only fought when absolutely necessary or in caves. If you learn to hunt with the bow, you'll never run out of food. Only needed some water collectors and drying racks in each base. Avoiding the mutants whenever possible saves you a LOT of trouble and resources. I know you miss out on the base defense minigame, but I was more into the cave exploration
I have fond memories of playing this game with my friends. I can't wait for the sequel and I hope it improves the multiplayer aspect on top of the single player.
I still can't believe how good this game turned out and how the story went along. I remember watching it when the Pit was just put in and iirc you can just fall into in the small pit of water on the bottom. It wasn't until last year that I was able to see the full release being played by a streamer I watched that was playing with their friend. It'll be interesting to see how The Forest 2 ends up and if Timmy reappears and we get to see how he dealt with that revival thing compared to Megan.
The Forest is one of my favorite games, and I really think it’s because I played with a friend. At the beginning, we were hesitant to go into caves, had a home on an island to avoid enemies, and generally didn’t do much to provoke the cannibals. By the end, we were actively fighting enemies to burn them for bones, luring the mutants around to knock down trees for us, and nearly 100%ed the game. I don’t think I’ve ever played a game like it before or since. Even without the superb survival aspect of the game, the horror and story were so engaging that my friend and I stayed up late almost every night poring over the lore we had discovered, making guesses as to what had happened on the island, and generally being way too into it. The power of two people with ADHD focused on the same thing will do wonders! Anyways, awesome video, you nailed exactly how this game is so good at what it does. I’m so excited for the sequel!
The tree problem you mentioned in your video is really easy to avoid: After cutting down a tree, walk up to the stump thats left over and give it 3-5 hits with your axe or so and it'll break. This will prevent the trees from respawning
My favorite spot to set up is on the shoreline close to the big island near fertile lands. Lots of resources, 2 entrances for mutant spawns, and turtles continuously spawning. Any savages that show up either run afoul of the traps set up on the cliff top or end up with arrows in the face.
My friends and I made this big base at the coast... Which turned into a strange wild west town with a bridge out to distant islands. We assigned roles to one another, one was a priest, I was an innkeeper, another was a shopkeeper, some were assigned to security and such... And then we roleplayed out a strange colony slowly going mad and becoming as bad as, if not worse than, the cannibals. Case in point, the priest was secretly hiding a room full of mutant limbs he would snack on at the back of his church. And even worse; every night we would lure a normal cannibal into the center of the village, past the big walls, and onto a platform with a rope trap. He would hang upside down while the priest gave a sermon, followed by us pelting him with stones, and ending with us setting him on fire with an aerosol can. Good times...
This video was not in my notification and i have the bell checked so i dunno if youtube is shadow banning you. i got here by refreshing the channel page
You should play Green Hell. You have to survive in the amazon rainforest while dealing with parasites, wild animals, tribes that haven't seen modern man, insane climate, etc Playing Alien: Isolation with 0 brightness is beautiful and terrifying. You can't see jack in mildly dark places with it down to 0. You can't see the alien unless you're in an area with lights or windows or if you flash your headlamp on it but thats a guaranteed death.
Whenever my friends and me are playing this, they joke about me going full german mode everytime since I start hunting and cremating cannibals as soon as i have an upgraded spear......
I respect the bean segment. As a Southerner, butterbeans and blackeyed peas are the superior legume for this. Ham hock + S&P + a diced onion and stew your beans down for a few hours until there isn't a ton of liquid left. Serve with a big pan of cornbread and some sliced raw onion.
The first time I came across this game was years ago when one of my friends had her cousin over at my house for a get together kind of deal and he had his laptop with him and he was playing the forest and my sister and my friend and I gathered around him and watched him play the game. I remember being so excited about it, and I always wanted to play it. Watching this video now I’m thinking that maybe I wouldn’t be able to play this on my own. I think I would get so freaked out to do anything and never actually finishing the game. Would love to play with other people though
Ok now I uderstand why our base was getting frequent visitors. Jesus what an experience it was every day fighting mutants just to get food. (We literaly built our base next to the main camp.)
The Forest is such a fun game. A friend of mine and me built a giant multi-layered house on the water using custom building and we became essentially invincible cuz they do not really enter the water. We built so much stuff in this game its so goddamn fun. This game is like our resting spot whenever we dont really wanna play a souls game or Ark or something else we just play the forest and keep building one of our multiple projects we still have sitting around. The sequel is a game i am so excited for.
The first time I ever played I built a treehouse because I figured it was the safest. After a few ingame weeks of gathering resources, building traps and border fortifications during the day and cowering in the treehouse at night a mutant patrol came and fucking knocked down the tree
they knocked the tree to save the trees
Ironic
@@niggacockball7995 they’ve become the very thing they swore to destroy!
Same here. Omg. An armsy came. This was the most panic my friend and I had. We were like wtf but felt safe in the tree. Then all of a sudden everything disappears and we're falling... Omg.
Taking one tree's life to destroy the one who is destroying multiple is a worth sacrifice.
Oh yeah, those big mutants take trees down. Armsy especially can 2 shot trees occasionally. I thought tree houses were safe too. But you gotta invest a lot of defense for all the trees on the ground level to prevent them from getting toppled along with everything in them
Not gonna lie, multiplayer in this game where you and your dumb friends (aka me and my dumb friends) go in entirely blind and let yourselves make ALL the mistakes and accidentally develop a bone cult is part of the beauty of this game
Not just one dad, THE DAD COLLECTIVE
"Accidentally"
Madman Madison The communal son
Y'all ever just accidentally a cult?"
My friends and I also played it blind back in the day and it was absolutely hilarious or scary at points, we found out that if you build A LOT of appliances on a raft the game's framerates will drop immensely and one friend got obsessed with building war-rafts
Running solo is probably one of the more terrifying experiences I've had in a game. Multi-player, on the other hand is me and the boys making a giant Christmas tree out of body parts and worshipping it for a week before setting it on fire, making every bone item in the game, and doing it all over again all while talking like cavemen.
Sounds like fun.
Choosing between single player and multiplayer is the difference of “I’m in danger” and “You’re in danger”
Apes together strong
@@d.n5287 that pretty much sums it up
@@bobberman4641 *"You're endangered"
Playing The Forest alone: "oh god, what was that noise outside my house? It sounds like it's breaking down the walls."
Playing The Forest with friends: "Dave if you take more of Bob's bones from his bone collection, I'm going to destroy your historical log cabin and leave you with nothing but your tape tunes!"
accurate
Yeah, playing with a friend always will make horror games less scary, I mean I had a session with 3 other buddies and the moment we saw our first armsy our collective thought was to kill it with our katanas we found.
@@GlitchTechV1 nice
“Sounds like someone’s breaking in!”
@@no0b420 lmao
I remember in one multiplayer game, me and my friends managed to basically make peace with one of the mutant tribes. They would come and praise our base, put their effigies on the perimiter to dissuade other tribes, and even came to our aid in combat sometimes.
What a cool game.
That's awesome. Was it hard?
@@BBaaaaa It took a long time. We're talking we had a fully built up base by the time they stopped attacking us, so yeah it was a good long while. It was a pretty decent time ago so the details of that game are fuzzy for me, but I distinctly remember that tribe never attacked us again after a while.
This shouldn’t be possible unless you have red paint 24/7... they cannibals will survey your base, deploy effigies, all the sort, but if you have a big base, regardless of paint, WILL attack in a large group.
@@toaster_rtx1829 Like I said, fuzzy remembrance at best. One of my friends may have been painted up most of the time, or maybe we just bugged them out somehow.
@@Chimera144 Type slower.
When playing multiplayer with my friends, this game goes from scary to “Manifest destiny simulator” we go full genocide. Giant towering walls, catapults, hundreds of bones for armor, hundreds of skulls as catapult ammo, it’s great. Makes my ancestors happy I’m sure.
You are now in tune with your viking heritage, good job.
Even better if your an American
me and my friends turned into fucking george of the jungle battling tarzan
@CrappyOneshots Same but I was the one trying to avoid that route.
Somehow I ended up becoming the one killing the most.
@@icecold1805 if you think other races didn't do this kind of stuff in the past too you really need to relearn history
After I discovered how to make bombs, the game became The Forest : Modern Warfare
I used my 'splodies for more of a "I don't have time to cut down these 6 trees and I can just go back into the cave and get more" type of gaming experience.
Outcome tree go boom
veitnam
How to kill a mutant
1: scream incoherently
2: throw all of your bombs and spears at it
3:it dies if your in normal
4: in hard mode you fucking die.
what’s a cannibal. Oh you mean Charlie
I originally assumed that the forest was just another "survivalcraft" thing. I'm glad that it evolved as it did.
the ending is a bit meh, but otherwise its indeed great.
Also... the devs never fixed a lot of bugs, which is sad
I found The Forest scary for the first hour or two. You learn very fast that you can go from being hunted the the terror in the forest you once hid from. I went from cowering in caves to eating the corpses of tribesmen in front of their people. I don't know if I can really call it a horror game, I feel like it just has very horror-esque aspects.
@@false_idol__ Nah it's still a horror game, for the tribesmen at least.
@@themoleman6806 It actually made me sad because after they stop pushing you around, it goes from "Please don't hurt me, I mean no harm" to "COME SAVE YOUR PEOPLE" and you don't really have much option to avoid that if you don't wanna get bullied.
Rip survivalcraft
Playing The Forest with the boys was the most fun I've had in a while. To be honest the glitches actually add to the experience since most of them are hilarious.
True true
Exactly, just like how we managed to get the log slide stuck literally _two_ minutes after building it
A year ago or so I played with 3 of my friends and we somehow managed to bug out the ropes from the caves so we could climb up into the sky indefinitely, I'm sad I can't remember how we did it because it was really funny and also kinda useful 😂
God I miss the time where rabbits would run through bonfires and just keep running, either not dying or if they did die the flame itself would keep running around the trees anyway. It became a beautiful night of tiny will-o-wisps running around the woods as we watched. Just Lovely.
Going into the caves the very first time was pretty creepy. The final end area was legit mind blowing. Didn't see that coming at all. Hyped for the 2nd game.
@Kole Koester yeah
@@FibroidAuto
Sons of The Forest: Blood Chronicles of Revelations.
@@lucascoval828 pretty cringy title.
Still, the title seem to point to something pretty cool.
The only time I've gotten close to the end is playing online with some people that knew what they were doing and were basically rushing the game.
Going to the caves in VR is terrifying
"PUT. THE SALT. AWAY."
I wish all recipe videos were like this. Straight to the point and driving the important part home.
This recipe goes back at least as far as my great grandmother and gd is it delicious!
Soup beans, is what this is
You can't stop me! Salt it all! Salt the Earth!
I think this video is literally my favorite on all of youtube
Wanna spook your friends the next time you play the forest? Use dynamite as your light source while exploring in the dark. It's brighter than the lighter, doesn't effect the in built nightvision like a lit torch does, and as long as you're holding it, it won't explode.
What about the panic suicide when scary shit happens?
@@UnknownGamer40464 I cannot emphasize this enough. DO NOT PANIC DROP THE DYNAMITE AT YOUR FEET!
Single player: horror survival getting chased by monsters
2 people: managing to to survive for a while and less scared
Squad: chases after monsters and swinging their axes
The start: You are a prude to the madness, scared of everything.
The end: You are a veteran monster, who would scare you in the beginning.
The Forest is a journey from Civility to Primal Survivalism. From a survivor by chance to a survivor by might.
That just sounds like "Reject Modernity. Return To Monke" with extra steps
Farket, a guy who did a lot for the wiki and has several seasons of Forest lps, has uploaded a few videos with information from the devs on both The Forest and Sons of the Forest.
I'm surprised he hasn't been burnt out from the game
@@gavinj-lol Makes me think of NL with binding of issac
@@SahiPie Speaking of NL, I uploaded an extended version of their Airship Fortress
Fuckin love farket
I remember when it first came out, models were flying all the places, players ran around with fire a row burning everything, character die by falling 50cm height...good times
You made me rember something. My group and I were playing in our village of sorts and then we saw a chief mutant fall near us. We rushed and pummeled him and apparently everything was alright but then he rose but he wasn't walking! He was sort of levitating with a broken neck, he went straight to a campfire and then he started moving in circles around it.
I think it eventually disappeared but that waa the creepiest thing I had seen so far.
@@aikou2886 sounds like a mutant ritual
@@commanderthorn8600 I gues his soul needed that in order to be able to rest.
As a native So Cal resident who moved to Ohio, I really emphasize with that little bit at the beginning. Even after 2 years is still weird to go out somewhere and NOT see desert
Come to Pennsylvania. We’re only one state over, AND we have mountains. Ohio sucks
Also everything is so flat out here! I was talking to some kids that were skating the other day and ended up having to painstakingly explain what bombing hills was.
@@CharlatanWonder I miss the mountains. Or like, the hills even
Empathize or emphasize? I’m so confused lol
@@stuglife5514 “mountains” your highest point of elevation is only 3200 feet we have lake. This post was made by Ohio gang
Saw a mutant in the bushes, we stared at each other and the mutant started to teabag and ran away. 🥺 Scary, but very fascinating tribe. More research is needed.
Teabag??? Lmao 😂
My biggest problem with the forest is the difficulty later in the game when the game has shown most enemy types it just starts throwing like 30-40 cannibals a day and like 10 mutants and it's just not very fun trying to build while I'm getting beaten up by the third group of cannibals in the space of 5 minutes.
Building on an island with a zipline from the forest above makes the game much more forgiving. I was having fun doing house boat pirate raids on the shoreline and ended up making the biggest island my base which was a ton of fun.
If you have the artifact you can stop mutant spawns and make cannibals friendly
Not to mention they are able to destroy your buildings. I think I stayed In a treehouse for most of the game because when I wanted to build a house they just destroyed it.
Everyone: "Valheim is amazing!"
CW: "You guys ever played The Forest, though?!"
To quote a wise philosopher, “why y’all always gotta put two bad bitches against each other”
I just really hope that the sequel sticks to the survival horror part of the game more rather than going full out with the action part.
I really hope it stays with the semi-possible coexistence angle for a while, like it. It humanizes them that it's possible to do something with em.
@@AbstractTraitorHero i definetly hope that the ai can flesh out more tribes, like having factions who will at first all hate ypu but based on what you do can align with their religion or something, maybe one side hates fires and another likes them making alot of enemies.
Kinda hard to make functional though and kinda turns the game into an rpg.
@@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479 But it would still be fun.
Maybe to get off the island, you'll have to repair the helicopter, and fly away yourself.
@@magniwalterbutnotwaltermag1479 Survival role-playing is fine
My brother and I played this for HOURS a few years ago, it was a blast. Our PCs ran it at 20fps but it didn't matter.
Thank you for reminding me of those awesome nights!
Haha same here, good memories
Ouch 4gb of ram
when im playing the forest at 15 fps it FEELS like 60 to me.
me without the katana: oh no scary cannibal mutants what will be of meee
me after getting the katana and seeing literally any enemy:
*omae wa mou shindeiru.*
sad that the katana actually sucks
Parry this you filthy casual!
**Teleports behind you** Nothin' personnel kid
Nani?
I take on armsies head on whenever I get the bone club. That thing is great!
0:18 "hey, could you sign my petition?"
Look, just sign the petition. I've got stuff to do
"Are you gonna sign my petition or will it be one of your surviving family members?"
No way you freaking pinko!
Just sign the fucking petition
Never realised how intuitive the AI is
You uh.... know you can just kill the tree stumps and the trees don't respawn right chief?
I'll admit I didn't figure that out unt much later in the game.
@@CharlatanWonder I didn't know that until 15 hours game time (That's a guess since I play on PS4)
@@gavinj-lol oh no....
I figured it out by chopping them on accident, there was a tree right next to it.
And I needed sticks, so....
Spoiler Alert: It's cannibals.
This is what Mandalore has been missing in his reviews, a cooking segment.
When I found the katana my inner weeb changed the game into doom eternal
suggestion: ''the forest: putting the survival into survival horror'' would probably be better
I think he took your suggestion lol. What was it before?
@@rayafk8502 the same but without the :
Ragnarox did a similar video recently.
The Forest is such a great game. I first played it back in 2015 or so, and recently I started a new playthrough in co-op with a friend. I'm really hyped for Sons of the Forest this year.
Can we get a F for the knife that probably fell under the stove
1st day: alright let's build our shelter before the cannibals appear
1st month: alright let's build our custom fort before mutants appear
7 years: alright let's continue construction of the city and build around and entrap mutant and cannibal spawns trapping them in a unbreakable prison where they kill eachother for my amusement
(Yes that last one is possible I'm still working on it)
God i needed a video like this, went through a recent breakup and i don't know what to really do on the weekend. Thanks for the good content
you are under friends here mate
Hope you're ok mate x
Stay strong brother, wish you the best
Hey dude if you need anyone to play or talk, we're here!
I hope your heart finds comfort, you'll do well.
You guys are so supportive and thank you all for the kind words! 🥺
Bro you really broke this game down in a way that I really want to play it now
My dumb ass spawning in and building my first house inside the main village: 🗿
One of my favorite build-spots is actually over the sink hole and using zip lines to get in and out, Farket has a great video about how to do that.
Wasn't expecting a cooking video paired with my gaming video, but for some reason it works.
“I have a fear of the ocean, so what better way to get over it than to play subnautica!” -me, most likely.
For the regrow trees option, the game will only respawn trees from stumps. So you can hit stumps to remove them and the tree won't grow back even with the option on.
I just want to point out how genius the mechanic of the cannibals dragging you to the caves actually is.
Not only is it a great way to force the players hand and introduce them to the caves and throwing them in deep water, it’s not only terrifying, but it’s also a great way to get around a ‘game over’ screen. Tension would be immediately lost once you realise you just hit ‘load last save’.
Sure you still understand they are a threat, more than ever now that the mystery of fighting them is gone, but that mystery is what keeps it unnerving.
Unfortunately you don't always get thrown into the caves. If you die in a certain way, you either just reload to your last save or die permanently (I believe it's based on difficulty)
Only veterans remember when there weren't :
Loading screens
Main menu
Caves
Ahh man i remember those days like yesterday ;)
You know what man, I wasn't expecting a cooking segment in the middle of the first video of yours I clicked on and I'll be honest, put me off just a little tiny bit. But by the end of it I was actually engaged and watching what you were doing. Considering me subscribed
When I played with my friends, I ONLY ate the rotting corpses of my enemies
My friend and I love this game, right now we're playing a challenge for the hardest mode and the worst location (8 patrol routes). We also have made a point to be as aggressive as possible from day one. The thing that keeps us alive is the one shot headshot bow feature.
there should be a feature to uproot tree stumps, so you can keep regrowing trees on but not have the problems listed in the video
You can destroy the tree stumps, making them unable to respawn
You didn't know you can destroy the tree stumps?
It prevents them from re spawning if you do that
How do you do that?
When I first started I was scared shittless by enemy's to the point where I just got off the game
Okay, for going through forests, you need to make sure you have a machete, in case you get tangled up in branches and stuff. Also an older style hockey mask, because there are always branches just at head height that will get you in the face if you aren't protected. Lastly, you should go at night. You can go during the day, but trees have terrible night vision, so it's just safer for everyone involved.
When you have tree regrowth turned on, you can prevent a tree from regrowing by destroying the stump. Trees also always fall away from you, so if you face away from your base when you finish chopping, it won't fall on your base unless it bounces off of another tree. Walking around trees also don't chop them faster btw. It looks like it would, but it takes the same amount of chops even if you stand still, so the only reason to circle a tree is to keep an eye out for mutants.
This game and subnautica are two early access games I thought looked amazing. Turned out to be good games too.
My buddies and I built in this same area our first playthrough. We lived in tree houses connected with custom bridges. I was titled the "Sun God" as I was armed with fire and the dress of the flight attendant's corpse you get your axe from.
Ngl, why unity has bad rep is because good unity games pay for unity not showing the "made with unity screen" but bad ones just stay with the free version showing it. The difference between paid versions and the free version is tiny and one of them is the start screen.
You've been killing it lately man keep it up!
After I got all the weapons and disowned timmy it became The forest:Imperialism edition
I really enjoyed your cooking segment, here in méxico we have the tradition to "clean" the beans, and with that I mean that we put some beans on a table and throw away the bad ones or if there is any rock. Is really nice to see how people in other countries work in the kitchen, your dish make me remember a dish my mother make from time to time named "frijol con puerco" or translated in english, pork and beans, unlike the american one this is made with black beans and the meat is really tender, great video as always.
When my friends and I first went into the Forest, I decided that melee combat was too risky (hard survival difficulty) and taught myself to do bow trickshots to instakill them with an arrow to the head. The only issue was that we became so effective at killing that masked mutants raided our base like twice a day.
This video is how I found your channel, and lots of good games from it. I love your videos and the work and care you put into them. I love the cat bloopers and the cooking segments, and as an artist, I always love your little ending affirmation in your latest videos. It means a lot.
Keep up the good work at your own pace! :}
Me a forest veterinarian: ah yes new players always are poring in
New players: noo I have plane axe you cant defeat me
Me with full creepy armour: pathetic
Did you mean veteran? I'm assuming you don't nurse animals in the game lol
@@CondemnedGuy Lol they have a whole fortified rabbit and squirrel rescue on the peninsula
"There's nothing stopping you from destroying what you love"
So young and you already figured out what I still can't get right, I think it's gonna get better
Good lord, this is absolutely horrifying. This is honestly an amazing horror game and I have decided I am never going to play it
You can turn mutants off tho
i remember once, i battled all 3 creepy mutants at once, just cus i didnt know what they were. i did cheese the cowman a bit by standing in the water, but that was the most terrifying moment ive had in a video game-
edit: i personally chose canibalisim, cus its fun.
Bought the Forrest in early access years ago. Never got further than 5 or 8 days per attempt because I am a big baby who can't handle the spooky.
LMAO
It's ok though, you know your limits
I play in peaceful soooo
I love the multiplayer, my best friend and I play it quite often and we refer to it as "going to the cottage" as if we're just going for a nice summer vacation, referring to the cannibals as our neighbours etc. We played it for like 70 in game days until the save got lost, and we had been to the bottom of the sinkhole but never set foot inside the research facility because we didn't want to go save Timmy... 😂 We spend so much time building multiple bases with increasing complexity and we love it, I love how I can have fun with my best friend like that even after she moved out of town and I can't see her as often anymore.
Fun fact
On the beans receipe you can cut down time all the way to 5 hours if you add frying a lot less water and more intense heat
At least that's how my grandmother did it
My best friend and I played through the forest together a couple months ago on ps4, probably one of my most fond gaming memories
Question: How do they treat you if you never chop down any trees? Since that seems to be their one big no-no and all.
It really depends on your behavior when they’re around, and if you’re chopping trees *in* their territory. It also depends on if you’ve previously been hostile with then. But generally speaking, they’ll stick to mostly being curious with the occasional testing of your resolve to see what you’ll do. If you stick to a nomadic lifestyle, run from canibals whenever you see them, they’ll mostly leave you alone. I once made it 17 days without a single fight with a canibal. But that requires alot of patience and the ability to not hit a canibal when one just thwacked you across the head. But if you’ve been well behaved, not chopping trees will make them not so prone to be aggressive. But that also depends on the temperament of the tribe and the individual AI tribesmen your dealing with.
Played in multiplayer with friends. I got lost on one of the bigger caves, came back to the base donning a whole set of bone armor after slaughtering 3 villages worth of cannibals. TalkingRaven died that day, and the Boner was born.
You can actually remove the tree stumps by chopping them with your axe, this will make them less hostile towards you
I *strongly* recommend playing the Forest in the order Charl lists. If you skip base building and go for the caves early on, then the great cave gear makes combat pretty trivial and ruins any scariness the game had. I definitely wish I'd built a big base my first time, so I could really fuck around with the natives while I was still underpowered.
Everyone gangsta till the smooth skin gets a pipe gun
you look pretty smooth to me buddy
This game is a gem, it’s an amazing mix of horror and survival, you really go in as a naked baby and come out a red covered lumberjack with the fireman axe😂
YOU HAVE NO IDEA HOW POWERFUL I AM THE MUTANTS WILL COME TO FEAR ME
Ever tried hard survival?
@@insidecoyote7618 YES AND THEY WEEP AT MY MIGHT
about the trees... you can just keep the regrowing trees option on because you can just remove the stumps of the trees forcing that specific tree to no longer grow back
22:23
Actually no, you can just destroy the stumps and the trees will never grow back around your base.
Though it might detract from some fun in the game, building a large base is entirely optional. I got through the whole game with 2 boathouses and a few tree houses spread out through the island. Went for a more nomadic/stealth approach and only fought when absolutely necessary or in caves.
If you learn to hunt with the bow, you'll never run out of food. Only needed some water collectors and drying racks in each base.
Avoiding the mutants whenever possible saves you a LOT of trouble and resources. I know you miss out on the base defense minigame, but I was more into the cave exploration
I have fond memories of playing this game with my friends. I can't wait for the sequel and I hope it improves the multiplayer aspect on top of the single player.
Never played this game but the fact that the cannibals apparently think and use tactics against you is terrifying.
Ok if we are going to call this game
Survival² horror game,
We have to call The game Darkwood,
Survival² horror³ game.
It's just a masterpiece.
I still can't believe how good this game turned out and how the story went along. I remember watching it when the Pit was just put in and iirc you can just fall into in the small pit of water on the bottom. It wasn't until last year that I was able to see the full release being played by a streamer I watched that was playing with their friend.
It'll be interesting to see how The Forest 2 ends up and if Timmy reappears and we get to see how he dealt with that revival thing compared to Megan.
Very weird that you’d upload this the day after I finally gave in and played The Forest *thonk emoji*
Alternative to regrowing trees, you can break stumps tp prevent the trees from regrowing, it solves the issue of unwanted trees
* cat interrupts * GIVE HIM THAT BEARD DAMMIT
for the whole thing about the painted mutants and the trees that regrow, if you chop down the stumps they don't regrow
The feline interludes were my favourite parts of the video
The Forest is one of my favorite games, and I really think it’s because I played with a friend. At the beginning, we were hesitant to go into caves, had a home on an island to avoid enemies, and generally didn’t do much to provoke the cannibals. By the end, we were actively fighting enemies to burn them for bones, luring the mutants around to knock down trees for us, and nearly 100%ed the game. I don’t think I’ve ever played a game like it before or since. Even without the superb survival aspect of the game, the horror and story were so engaging that my friend and I stayed up late almost every night poring over the lore we had discovered, making guesses as to what had happened on the island, and generally being way too into it. The power of two people with ADHD focused on the same thing will do wonders! Anyways, awesome video, you nailed exactly how this game is so good at what it does. I’m so excited for the sequel!
Lmao, me and my friend just slowly slid down to the sinkhole.
The tree problem you mentioned in your video is really easy to avoid:
After cutting down a tree, walk up to the stump thats left over and give it 3-5 hits with your axe or so and it'll break. This will prevent the trees from respawning
Ah, good thing he put a cooking tutorial in his videogame review.
Charlaton Wonder doing a cooking tutorial in a Videogame Review: I forgor 💀
My favorite spot to set up is on the shoreline close to the big island near fertile lands. Lots of resources, 2 entrances for mutant spawns, and turtles continuously spawning. Any savages that show up either run afoul of the traps set up on the cliff top or end up with arrows in the face.
What if you make those 100+ dollars madlads in your Patreon being capable of influencing the next game to be analysed?
My friends and I made this big base at the coast... Which turned into a strange wild west town with a bridge out to distant islands. We assigned roles to one another, one was a priest, I was an innkeeper, another was a shopkeeper, some were assigned to security and such... And then we roleplayed out a strange colony slowly going mad and becoming as bad as, if not worse than, the cannibals.
Case in point, the priest was secretly hiding a room full of mutant limbs he would snack on at the back of his church.
And even worse; every night we would lure a normal cannibal into the center of the village, past the big walls, and onto a platform with a rope trap. He would hang upside down while the priest gave a sermon, followed by us pelting him with stones, and ending with us setting him on fire with an aerosol can. Good times...
This video was not in my notification and i have the bell checked so i dunno if youtube is shadow banning you. i got here by refreshing the channel page
i got the notif
sometimes CZcams takes a well before showing any notification to someone, it's just the way it is.
You should play Green Hell. You have to survive in the amazon rainforest while dealing with parasites, wild animals, tribes that haven't seen modern man, insane climate, etc
Playing Alien: Isolation with 0 brightness is beautiful and terrifying. You can't see jack in mildly dark places with it down to 0. You can't see the alien unless you're in an area with lights or windows or if you flash your headlamp on it but thats a guaranteed death.
Whenever my friends and me are playing this, they joke about me going full german mode everytime since I start hunting and cremating cannibals as soon as i have an upgraded spear......
I respect the bean segment.
As a Southerner, butterbeans and blackeyed peas are the superior legume for this.
Ham hock + S&P + a diced onion and stew your beans down for a few hours until there isn't a ton of liquid left.
Serve with a big pan of cornbread and some sliced raw onion.
The recipes need to be separate videos bro, I want to be able to find your recipes by searching for them or saving to a playlist
Wasn't ready to hear the phrase "snuggle session" in a video about survival horror
But were you ready to have a cooking tutorial?
Great video, good to see The Forest get some love.
The first time I came across this game was years ago when one of my friends had her cousin over at my house for a get together kind of deal and he had his laptop with him and he was playing the forest and my sister and my friend and I gathered around him and watched him play the game. I remember being so excited about it, and I always wanted to play it. Watching this video now I’m thinking that maybe I wouldn’t be able to play this on my own. I think I would get so freaked out to do anything and never actually finishing the game. Would love to play with other people though
Ok now I uderstand why our base was getting frequent visitors. Jesus what an experience it was every day fighting mutants just to get food.
(We literaly built our base next to the main camp.)
The Forest is such a fun game. A friend of mine and me built a giant multi-layered house on the water using custom building and we became essentially invincible cuz they do not really enter the water. We built so much stuff in this game its so goddamn fun. This game is like our resting spot whenever we dont really wanna play a souls game or Ark or something else we just play the forest and keep building one of our multiple projects we still have sitting around. The sequel is a game i am so excited for.