Project R.I.S.E Alpha Test First Look: Gameplay & impressions! What's next for @supercell ?

Everything that Supercell picks up is something that works and then make it work better and more streamlined and for more wider audience. Which is also by doing MoCo.
MoCo is just like version of Diablo. So, I don't know.
I'm still thinking that this will have problems long term in the endgame. They try content-wise.
Fuck. Revive me, guys.
Could be. Oh, I can revive myself i don't want Uh-huh, uh-huh Bye.
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Welcome to today's episode. My name is Mati Lančarič.
I'm Jakub Remian. We are your hosts.
And it's only two of us here because Half Gamer is, well, we're actually playing game again. And it's Project Rise.
So Felix is not here. Well, surprise, surprise, surprise.
Yes. Exactly.
No ads, no Felix. Supercell game.
So so unfortunately, this is what is going to happen. So this is our third episode for Project Rise, and this is already alpha test, if I'm right.
This is the third one, if I understand. Third one, yes.
So, okay. I'm going to share the screen.
Well, share the screen. share my phone because I'm the one who's playing the game actually I was able to run it on my fucking emulator but it crashes right after joining the game so thank you again well it's called mobile phones and mobile games for a reason it doesn't a reason.
It doesn't supposed to run on the fucking emulator. But you know how it works.
Yeah, as per usual we'll run through the changes and what's been pretty much happening with the game and then go into some gameplay and probably go even into some yeah crazy attempts of me crazy yeah exactly but before we go there you know what today's episode is also brought to you by pvx partners because our dearest sponsors the most effective credit line for marketing so if you're scaling your game or gaming business and you need funding, here's the deal. PBX Partners, no equity dilution.
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It's pvxpartners.com and we can actually go and play Project Rise. Let me actually share my screen and this is it.
I'm on floor 14 and I haven't died yet which is unusual. The difficulty is much easier.
It's easier, yeah, because the last time I played, and I was, well, I didn't get that far. I think I was stuck on floor 10 because most of the time when I played, wait, oh, I need to actually click on things, so so i don't go to the mode anyway so i was kind of um playing alone almost all all of the time so now when i actually go and play i can get bots But only after some time.
After like... Only after...

I will show you.

You're not match made

like for like what,

10 seconds or something?

Yeah, I think 15,

but I will check.

So I'm going to play.

You're going to read the notes

or just comment

or how do you want to do it?

Because there are

so many things.

Okay.

And I'll read the notes,

I guess,

after you finish the floor

or something,

we'll get to the

Tower Forge upgrade

and then run through the UI. Yeah.
Of UI. So what's happening with the game? So as I said, this is the third alpha.
I think we predicted... It was pre-alpha.
Two pre-alphas. Hey, look.
Pre-alpha? Yes. No, this is alpha, but the two previous versions we played were both pre-Alpha.
Yeah. Honestly, I was expecting that this would be the last one, like something in Q1, but it's definitely not this one.
It's probably one more during Q1, so definitely don't count this January one as it is. I think one more.
Or, I don't know, but like, yeah, let's see. We'll be one more.
You think like one more test and it's gonna be killed or alone or soft launch soft launch well you never know right I think they're gonna soft launch why shouldn't they now if anyway so exactly the scorebuster drama is that they will not soft or global launch everything so I you know why not kill now and not sweep in the drama of course super OP isn't it like selfie and shit not really but it's definitely better than the Barbarian before. It's the stinky cloud there.
But honestly, I really enjoyed playing the Barbarian, but as soon as I saw I unlocked the Fisherman for Flood 5, then I said yeah, let's go. This is new.
This is new look. It's obviously the color coding.
So I assume different variety of perks, right? Yeah, there are four different varieties. It says in the loading screens.
Nice. So yeah.
You see also the visual effects on the one that's like the more like rare. Oh, yeah..
Yep. So let me run through the notes quickly.
So what's changing? There's hero page UI has been innovated. I think minor changes there.
HUD UI has been innovated. I mean, the main core gameplay one, the one that you're seeing now, the one when you're in the game, I guess a little bit more cleaner.
I don't see functional changes. Perk recycling before and after is changed, and this is kind of one of those changes.
So let me read through the patch notes. We reworked the place of the perk recycling screens.
Yes, there were two of them, and it was annoying. Now we kept perks are highlighted highlighted on the left and the rest that will be

discarded by groups separately on the right.

Tapping a perk moves it between

the key discard piles.

And tapping, recycling,

recycle dumps everything

currently

sweet tower tokens for

your trouble, blah blah blah.

Some small quality of life fixes like being able

to see when the next key perk

slot opens up and seeing a breakdown

of the total recycle amount.

Yeah.

Wait, so when I

tried to recycle the perks,

I couldn't even see properly

what those perks

are until

I just kind of

held my

finger on top of the perk just

to see. So you need to tap

Thank you. are until I just kind of held my finger on top of the perk just to see.
So you need to tap and wait and hold the finger, which was really unusual. I just found it by accident.
Tower upgrades. In pre-alpha 2, your floor performance and recycling perks earn passpoints which rewarded you with chests.
That was a stopgap measure that was always intended to change. Going forward, floor performance will still earn passpoints for chests, but recycled perks will generate tower tokens, a currency that levels up your account so that over time you can access to features and upgrades that help you your journey up the tower and where you're experiencing the tower.
Some examples are upgrades of the tower. Yeah, so if I understand correctly, tower upgrades are basically like features that you slowly upgrade as you go in progress.
It's almost like Trophy Road. Yeah, I like Trophy Road.
I think Monopoly Go has this setup where the stronger you get the more features the game unlocks. It's not like...
I will show you. Well, I'm not sure if I can if you can see the whole progression, but it's...
Not Tower Forge, by the way Upgrades. I know it's two different things So Phoenix Feathers increase the max number of Phoenix Feathers you can carry between the floors and yes this means you now start with none Forge unlocks the Tower Forge where you can generate new perks with gold, TikTok Trials, daily quests that you can complete for extra rewards while journeying up the tower.
And a lot more to be revealed soon. Yeah, I guess we'll talk about the Forge and its update when we'll actually see the Forge screen, not now, because I think that's the first meta feature that they added here.
Yeah. Because first two tests, we just get the barebone game.
That was, I mean, barebones. I have pre-roll now.
I have pre-roll now. Okay, fuck.
Didn't help that much. Because the pre-roll, I actually unlocked in the tower.
So how do you find the game? As for like, player perspective it's definitely easier when you don't play alone and I don't think that much changed I played it I think first on Saturday for like 10 minutes and I was surprisingly annoyed I didn't know why why. But then I started playing again and I was like, ah, it's actually quite fun.
The problem is when I hold my phone I almost it's just like I can fry egg on that phone. I read that a lot of people are complaining that it's already on the phone It's like, fuck, I can really I can make my breakfast

for sure. Easily.

It really drains the

battery. So I played for

I think like 20 minutes

as one session and then

I think it was like 30 or 40%

of battery gone.

That's just like, come on guys.

You can do way better. I know it's alpha, it's unoptimized probably, but still.
Yeah, but still. Exactly.
That's a part of the experience. It's Unreal Engine probably, because it's not their engine.
It is. It is.
You were trying to load the game and it said on your PC that it's Unreal Engine. Yeah, it's Unreal Engine.
That's the problem, okay. This is one of the first, because most of Supercell games, if I understand this, are in their proprietary engine, so yeah, Unreal is a lot more heavy, but of course you can do much more beautiful stuff in it, let's say.
Also, there's this part that I'm going to show you. Secret room.
Secret rooms, yeah. That was there before, no? That was there before, but now it's really hidden in all of these levels.
So you need to find it. And it's not that easy to find, actually, because it was easier before, but now before but now at least I can you're getting random perks and random perks? yes exactly that's nice it is still alive nice what are the bots doing by the way in the meantime they're trying to just kill I think their main objective is to find the elevator and then just go there and then send me this way, this way, this way, this way, so I can come there.
So navigate pretty much. Yeah, pretty much.
I don't want to go there because I thought I'm just going to find this. So there is this new thing, which is called the elevator engine, most probably these three things.
So they're all in the level, but you can just have one and then you unlock the elevator. But if you have more, you get more, what is the currency there? It's like coins for for the chests so now I think I will get 80 but if I have all three of them 140 you had only one before? I have only one now I tried to find the other two but I mean for the sake of time and everything, fuck, okay.
You can't throw the units out of the elevator? No, no, no. Yeah, yeah, that would be great.
But I died, but thanks to my perk, I was oh, fuck. I was resurrected immediately.
It's actually becoming quite hard. It's level 14 now, or room 14, and obviously bots didn't help, or they don't help that much.
Ah, they're just meat. So it's not bad.
The problem I have now with this, because I upgraded the fishermen, and now I fish so instead of the small fishes and very quick attacks that I had before now I have one strong one and it's annoyingly slow so this power core is collected so these power cores they go directly into the chest so now you look so we have perk recycling

and now i need to hold my my my thumb on the so if you if you discard some of the perks you get

you get this points here yeah you get based war bonus duplicate bonus and additional from the

perks that you discard yep exactly so here. So here...
So risk-reward scenario again. Yes.
So, okay, chill, blah, blah, blah. So recycle.
This goes directly to... Oof, this is the hard one.
This goes here. So it upgrades.
Yes. So level two forge.
Can I get back there again? don't worry, don't worry so if you go to level 3 you get phoenix feathers increase phoenix feathers plus 1 now I have 2 already I guess plus increase maximum and then TikTok Terrells is what? Additional tasks for more rewards. So this is like Trophy Road something.
Yeah, exactly. And TikTok Terrells is basically daily missions.
Yes, that's daily missions. What are they giving? What currency? The core parts for what is this? For the chests.
For the no this so it's coins wild hero badge and then hero badge what's a wild hero badge I will show you if you don't have the the universal shard exactly now you got firecracker and you need to get shards of firecracker to update her but if you have the universal shard currency which is the wild exactly yes this is very common the classic stuff, I think. Let's go over the Forge, Tower Forge maybe.
Okay, we can do Forge. Yeah, so this is the new system that they added called Tower Forge.
I guess the one that's like meta game based one. The Tower Forge is where new perks are made for your next climb up to Tower by spending gold you craft a random perk from those available this means players will end up with different pools of available perks on their journey the forge has multiple levels each level gives access to subset of perks by acquiring tower tokens you can unlock higher levels of forge and more perks perks are classified as great super mega and ultra because although perks are not created equal all perks are all awesome awesome lastly some perks will only drop in specific tower environments so be sure to find them while you're on those floors of course since the game only has two environments this is a big deal right now but we'll hope it will become an interesting tactic choice once we start introducing more environments

into the game.

The cost of the refining, adding, and removing and breaking

things, the tower wasn't built in a day.

Da-da-da-da-da, share the feedback.

Thank you very much. Okay.

So let's just go to a

test on how this works. So

if I understand,

these are the perks that you brought

from the previous floor to the next floor, yes? No, no, no, no, no. These are the ones that I built or forged.
So I couldn't find these before I forged them. So all of these eight, as soon as I forged them, I could find them in the floor.
So that's why I have this. So you have them to the pool of perks that you can find.
Yes, exactly, exactly. So it's like a deck of cards much.
Yeah, but if you don't have these perks before, you can't find them, basically. Yeah, easy as that.
But there are some default perks if you don't have this unlock? Yes, there are default perks that you don't see. What happens if you click on Forge? Nothing, because I'm going to do to forge level 2 to forge more perks, which is in 100 whatever these diamonds are.
Okay. One more question.
If you go to the forge thing, this was one by one unlocked? Or how should I imagine the screen? Yes, I was just forging. By the way, the number of coins scales with each perk forged.

Each forge?

Yes, I forged.

First forge was on level of coins like 40, I think.

I don't remember anymore.

But yeah, it was 40, 80 and then just goes up.

I would guess that it's just eight of the same for everybody,

just in random order.

Exactly, it was a random order.

It was a random order. And then as soon as i started i forged them here then i i immediately found them in the uh in the game levels yeah the levels so yeah so it's pretty much like something similar to like vampire survivors vampire survivors have that system that when you can move higher and like unlock and stuff, they added more stuff into the mix.
But these guys don't have recipes yet, which is like, you know, collect two perks and fuse into weapon, whatever. Yeah, yeah, yeah.
But it's like typical roguelite mechanics. That's like...
This perk is just fucking terrible because it consumes two random perks to generate a random level 3 perk

but I had a level 3 perk

and it consumed

but it was

good

or at least what's the

color represents

the purple was what rare

I guess so

great super mega ultra

thank you very much super self for making it

really easy to understand what the color means

Thank you. means shit.
Great means shit, exactly. Yeah, okay.
What do you say? Great, super, ultra, and what? Mega and ultra. So mega goes after super and after mega goes ultra.
You know, like, if at least you have some consistency, guys. You have common, uncommon, rare, and epic or whatever, like 90% of your games.
Or at least the same terminology as quadbusters. You have ultra and then mega is way different than, what was it? The mega evolutions that they have there? Yes.
So it's not even in the same order as it is. Anyway, okay.
It's confusing. So we can, what do we want to do? We can do heroes and upgrade the firecracker.
Yeah, because here we have the heavy fuel, so it's a trade. Kills with heavy attack spawns a firework.
Great. Love it.
We have more. No, we don't.
How can you upgrade these heroes? You need their shards and you need... Shards and coins.

And coins.

Pretty much Clash Royale still gotcha, yeah?

Same thing.

Yeah, look.

Upgrade.

Yoo-hoo.

New upgrades.

And how do you get a new hero?

It drops from the gacha?

So one dropped from the gacha just now, which was the firecracker.

I unlocked Fisherman on the room 5.

By script.

Yeah, pretty much. I guess.
But yeah do you get the counters done? No idea, man. Click on the button or like the...
Okay. Nothing.
So here, nothing, nothing. It doesn't say...
Ah, counters, upgrades and trades are not available in the alpha test. So you don't.
No, no, no. I saw it in the...
No, no, no. Wait.
It's written there. Yes, but this count is upgrades and traits.
But the actual hero is there. Yeah, the character is there.
I played with the character. So chance to unlock this...
That was the sign. Go back.
Chance to unlock this hero in 12 more chests.

Okay.

Oh, okay.

Interesting.

If you read stuff, then you know.

Yes. Surprisingly effective.

Yeah.

Which I never do.

Which I never do.

I should get better in this.

Okay, so I need to get

12 more chests, which is...

Thank you. never do, which I never do.
I should get better in this. Okay, so I need to get 12 more chests, which is...
Oh my god. This is quite a lot.
12 more chests is going to be a lot of pass points anyway. Shall we go to the hard floor? Yes, let's try.
I guess it's going to be much more fun than me playing with you on the floor. Yeah, that's true.
Let's see. We can select the hero.
Oh, interesting. So I can't select...
You can change the hero? I can't change the hero because... What's in the backpack, by the way? Only mighty heroes can be chosen.
Okay. It's feathers.
Oh, you can buy more feathers? Yes, but I have only two slots because I was yes but then if I go here and then look see yeah you need to upgrade the tower upgrades and then I need 80 more or whatever 83 more go kill yourself so you can get the upgrades for the forge so we can then see it in the second iteration. I mean, go win some points.
Go win some points, yeah. But this is interesting because I just, you know, I only can hear, I only be, look, only mighty heroes can be chosen.
So you really need to have your character evolve and upgrade it to actually get on the floor 15. Okay, good.
Phoenix, now can carry between two okay fine that's what we said yeah yeah okay i'm kind of surprising like how small steps this game is moving forward yeah right like honestly like don't get me wrong like they're doing great job and everything like it's getting more polished and stuff like that, but still I would expect much more progression unlocked already from a meta perspective. Man, I can't...
Exactly, I don't want to be rude or something, but I'm thinking if this is done by a small team that really needs to survive, this would be already in soft launch with way quicker improvements because it's just you have to. There's no other way.
Yeah, this is moving very slowly. Oh, fuck.
Okay. Oof.
Jesus Christ Christ maybe it's it's gonna be my time finally those two bots are there? not that go go go not that because I have that dead one perk but you have feathers no you can still yeah exactly where's that person that just died oh both of them died great how long it takes to select someone hopefully okay I'll just leave. Can you heal yourself somehow?

No.

I mean, there were some points.

And I have this perk that should give me...

Actually...

Yeah, it should auto heal.

Ah, the bots raise themselves.

That's great.

Yeah, it's good.

Okay, fine.

So I don't need to do it.

But they have only two feathers left

just die fuck

you have also two feathers left

yeah I know

we also have this really annoying

tower which

is quite hard to beat

are the mobs that hard because you're not

even touching the boss

oh kind of I am touching the boss

come on don't be that

it's actually they're getting harder and harder Thank you. even touching the boss.
Oh, kind of. I am touching the boss.
Come on. Don't be that old.

It's actually, they're getting harder

and harder, man. This is for 15.

And...

Both are dead again? Yes. Yeah.

One is dead.

Archers are the problem, no?

Yeah.

Ah!

And these jumping idiots.

Give me a break.

Oof.

Thank you. yeah and these jumping idiots give me a break wow it's but they have resurrect timers I see ticking timers no no it's if you don't resurrect them by the time they're dead permanently aha okay so 5 seconds I think your time is also taking quite a bit let's see if they will revive me yes please if he revives me don't go don't go you can't click revive now I can't revive myself but revive me, fucking idiot.
Okay.

I need to revive because if the time is gone,

then I need to use the feather, which I had to.

So, wow.

Okay, nice.

Thank you.

But if he revives me, then I don't need to use the feather, which is better. Ah, okay.
Understood now. So you can keep dying and reviving nonstop? Well, kind of, but someone needs to revive me.
Of course, like, you know, someone dies, then the other one dies, so on and yeah yeah help yeah fine i will try okay i guess

with bots it's different because they seems like they have unlimited reviving options which is good so they are at least a little bit useful some of these killing the boss at least yeah well someone has to. I'm trying to

survive. So this is

actually really

really... Come on.

Leave me alone. someone has to.
I'm trying to survive. So this is actually really

really... Come on.

Leave me alone.

These floors,

they're labeled hard.

They're supposed to be hard.

Yeah, they're supposed to be hard, of course.

Just die. Just fucking die.

I think you have also a guy with

low single target damage.

Yeah, look. Okay, so Sentry defeated 650 points nice wait a second you dealt 44k and the bob skilled 30k oh not that bad not that bad I know oh nice I know okay good I actually unlocked more more perks so I can keep more of them.
Yeah, I mean, this is just how it works. So higher floors, more perks you can keep.
Yeah, yeah, yeah. Pretty much.
Oof, there you go. So now floor 16, which is like easy floor again.
I mean, normal. So go open chest.
This is the chest. Yeah, but look.
Seriously. this is 10 and 100

but I had more

so I have

yes

you didn't get any points

no

why

yeah because you don't get points

because I didn't recycle anything

you get only from recycles and the base

and the base goes zero for this floor

exactly

yep

Thank you. because I didn't recycle anything.
You get all the chrome recycles on the base and the base goes zero for this floor.

Exactly.

Yep.

Welcome to the world of... Oh, nice.

I have actually two people,

real people playing with me.

Nice.

Which is great.

Thank you very much.

You get even worse.

Yeah, exactly.

Yeah, that's right.

My problem with this is it takes really long until you finish the level. That's my problem with this.
You can grind. At the session time.
Yes. You can grind a lot, which is good.
You can really upgrade the perks. You see this, I think the actual XP's are way faster now than it was before because I think I wasn't really able to able to progress so quickly okay let's see because this I felt like I'm stuck now I feel like I'm actually progressing which is nice it wasn't there before I guess they balanced it a little bit more I mean they should so again, okay another level okay, die they already found the elevator but we don't have the engine so we can't actually start

and just go there okay thank you

okay oh he found an engine so he can actually

can actually make it quite quick

okay i see wait so i get more points when I recycle this. Higher level, higher kind of recycling here.
This is the problem. So I have all these crystals, and I didn't see the wishing well.
Those are the elevator crystals on the top. These three on the top, top yes but these the diamonders now kind of trying to grind which are the 85 crystals I have that are that can be used in the wishing world oh maybe I found it once again I forgot you have the elevator crystals, you get more tower upgrade points.

You get more points to the chest.

Ah, so these chests,

there's so many currencies in this game.

Yeah.

Exactly.

It's quite confusing from the start,

but then not that bad.

Oh, fuck.

I don't want to die. I don't want to die.

I don't want to get on the auto run.

Yes.

Wait a second.

Where's the...

Oh, I know.

No, fuck.

I don't have enough time.

Because then the timer started

and then...

What happens if you run out of the timer?

No, it's just it goes automatically up and teleports you there so not enough time to grind the third key exactly and the wishing well because if I do the wishing well I have more perks so I can recycle them which gives me more points obviously who are these?

oh they're just frozen

that also probably means that you need to cooperate

because if you three were

going together you would be killing stuff much faster

wouldn't you?

yes of course

I mean that's the whole point

that's why it was so hard when I played alone

it was just impossible

I mean it wasn't impossible

it was quite hard and not fun

Thank you. point.
That's why it was so hard when I played alone. It was just impossible.

I mean, it wasn't impossible. It was quite hard and not fun.

This is at least a little bit of fun.

Very interesting.

I think the more I see

of this game, I'm just

more and more confused

regarding the long- term progression of this like where this game can go and where it should go that's my question like where this game can go and like if it's enough because imagine that this is your daily session my daily session is already a couple of hours it's good for now but you know this reminds me of our good old let's see, bunny you know what just for sake because there's like so many decisions and so many things which are kind of you know I wouldn't say casual already it seems to me this is going to be very, very niche. I want to say this reminds me...
I still don't have the first... Anyway, it's fine.
We can end there. No.
Of course, no. We can just now talk about where you should go and how this reminds me the good old Diablo 4 beta because it was I want to play this but then if I need to go to actually play it and go through all of this then it's just not going to be as fun, I guess, because this is limited.
I really need to play, and I don't, again, I don't know, like, how they're going to measure the retention afterwards. It needs to really go to soft launch, because this is everything here.
Your retention on your testers is, like, you know, that's what I'm saying. Yes, this is exactly, that's why I'm saying, like, this needs to really go to the, oh, here's the machine.
Yes, exactly. That's why I'm saying this needs to really go

to the... Oh, here's the machine.

Great.

Okay, so now I see it has actually

this...

Tester cohort will play anything.

Exactly.

Pac-Man, they'll play it.

That's why I'm saying this needs to go to soft launch, because

if it doesn't really go to soft

launch, then you will be

it's going to be misleading

it's not going to tell you anything

exactly

this is quite quick

but then

I think I grinded a lot of perks

in the wishing well so that's good

but then

I'm trying to still figure out what they're trying

to achieve

with third alpha test

yeah I also don't know. Why? Because the thing is that, let's say, if you take, let's take, for instance, Survivor.io, which is also roguelite.
It's not co-op roguelite, it's roguelite. The thing is that that game is driven mainly by giant progression of meta layers there's like seven or ten of them now i don't know even how many and that's it pretty much like you progress progress progress so many meta layers this has what like one so i don't know and I still don't think that

for instance can you create different tactics for this or this isn't something that you are creating builds for and stuff like that two or three that's it each character will have one best build and that's it probably but you die you go from floor 1 there's checkpoints there's checkpoints they said there are going to be checkpoints well maybe I'm going to die and see what's going to happen but it's like it's it's floor 18 and there's 7 more floors then what I don't think we're at the end game yet which it's I can't yeah well okay good so I can't get there of course in a very short period of time because now it's easier than it was before but then is it fun if it's easier I don't know like for me I'm maybe just like too much of a progression guy is Is that a thing? Yeah.

I'm a progression guy.

So I focus on progression, min-max stuff, and you know, like...

Yeah, yeah, yeah.

I don't think this is going to be kind of a game for you.

Is this supposed to be like for casual players?

Because they asked a lot of stuff in the survey.

They did, but the whole thing is kind of complex. Like, you know,

you having decisions around

perks, recycling, perk choosing,

there's like decision after decision

after decision after decision.

So many of them.

So what are you trying to say?

So it's not casual?

Yeah, for me it doesn't seem that much

casual.

Like compared to something like Clash Royale

or

Clash of Clans, for instance.

Thank you. for me it doesn't seem that much casual compared to something like Clash Royale or Clash of Clans for instance Clash of Clans is much more casual you build timers you do timers and like there's not many like options but still you have tactics yeah like you have limited tactics around like people's different forts and stuff and like i don't know what but still it's i don't know and keep in mind that this is also landscape joystick oh yeah yeah that's true it's just like yeah a little bit how can you can't be annoying it's just like smaller total the rest of the market because people just want don't want to do that they don't want to flip their phone.
They don't want to play with both hands. They don't want this and that.
So I don't know. I disagree with that because maybe, well, if you want to play a game like this, you really need two hands.
But that doesn't really say anything about the total addressable market. That's right.
You know, they change Brawl Stars. Yeah, I know, I know.
I know. And then, that's their biggest crossing game now.
Yeah. I mean, they change landscape to Portrait and stuff.
Yeah. I know, I know.
I know. Nice.
Okay, so, I mean, this, you know, see, I like, oh, okay. Nice.
Great. Thank you very much for finding this.
I found out that there is actually an icon on the map for this. So.
Keep in mind also that this is a core PvE game.

All of the Supercell games are, if I discount Heyday, are PvP.

Because we have Clash Royale, Clash of Clans, and Brawl Stars.

Okay, Heyday is PvE.

Not even PvE, it's a simulation.

It's a simulation, yeah.

Yeah, it's there.

But this is PvE. And there's also Mooko on the horizon, which is also kind of similar to this.
Yeah. It is.
It's called PvE. It's not a roguelite, but it's called PvE.
Yes, and you know what it reminds me? The situation we had with Squadbusters and Flobusters and Floodrush. Floodrush.
Exactly. One gets killed.
Yeah. Well, I guess which one has threat alpha test right now.
Yeah. And has Supercell IP.
Guess which one. Right? So.
You see how it went for Squadbusters because of that. Yeah, exactly.
Yeah, I know. Yeah, yeah, exactly.
I know. Blood Rush got killed, in my opinion, was a better game.

Because it was much more

clearer what's happening

and very easy to understand

because of the dynamics of the bubbles and everything.

Which 4D doesn't have.

And yeah.

I know.

And I absolutely agree.

It was the same thing for me.

I thought it's going to be

find the power core. Yes, I know.
I need to find the power core. Where are these guys? Okay.
So the thing is, yeah, I need to find the power core. And then the elevator comes.
Or can we start? Okay, here we are. Maybe, yes.
Okay, good. Now you got ambushed in the wishing well.
Yeah.'s not in the wishing well it was actually the power core ah okay so even other stuff can be hidden yeah yeah other stuff can be hidden I need to I see it on the map it's just like you don't see the door yes not that hidden like you have wallhack on the right yes pretty much Basically. Okay.
Not that hidden. Like you have Wallhack on the right.

Yes.

Pretty much.

Basically Wallhack, yeah.

Okay, so here we go.

Yeah, so I'm kind of...

I don't know. Like, for me,

MoCo seems better.

Because in MoCo, I have a clear

progression in mind that they could go for,

which is just a typical kind of

casual version of Diablo, basically that's the thing do you really need do we really need what's happening do we really need another Diablo like game on mobile there's not many do people really want this I I don't know yeah me neither everything that Supercell picks up is something that works and then make it work better and more streamlined and for more wider audience which is also by doing MoCo MoCo is just like a streamlined version of Diablo so I don know. I'm still thinking that this will have problems long term in the endgame.
They try content-wise. Fuck.
Revive me, guys. Could be.
Oh, I can revive myself. I don't want to.
Okay. Great.
So I revived myself. Jesus Christ.
Just wait for two seconds. Yeah, I know.
That's exactly what I usually do. Recycle everything so we can get tower upgrades.
No, I can get this. Yeah, I but this is the next is Phoenix feathers the next afterwards is the pre-roll and 15,000 guys come on nobody's gonna get there during beta probably so they just almost probably yes okay but at least I can forge so you forge again shit skill so you already have them like this is grace skilled what was that so those are mega skills this is grayskilled.
Hmm. What was that? Oh, okay.

So those are mega skills, no? Oh, this is great.

This is mega skill,

yes. Hero stones with some skeletons' hands.

Okay.

Look, I'm just going to get...

If you die, there's an

area damage spell. Yeah, but

at least I can get

here. I think this is going to be the last

perk I can forge.

Crit after heal or fireball

flicker. We'll see.

Of course. Now, just some

bullshit. Yeah, exactly.

Crit after heal.

Yeah, but that's the thing.

I'm going to run off the coins which I run.

Okay, great.

You can get the same skill two times, yeah?

Yeah, exactly. So I'm going to

eventually get... It's a box

gacha.

I'm eventually going to get this shield

of sword. Oh, this is nice.

You just need to pay the highest cost, probably. That's it.

Yeah, exactly.

This is nice. It's a nice

addition, but still, in my opinion, very

light regarding new functionality,

new mechanics, and new meta progression

regarding the content they have.

So, yeah.

I thought that this would be

the end of this

alpha testing shenanigans

and go to soft launch after Q1,

but now I'm more skeptical.

We won't go into soft launch after Q1.

Definitely, no.

We'll see.

Oh, nice. Okay, I see.
I can see you right away. Nice.
Okay, good. Share the screen.
Okay, so I had 80% of my phone battery. Now I have 38.
My iPhone is four months old, basically.

So, guys, if you can do something about this

for the next... My whole Discord is full of

this. Yeah.
It's insane.

And now I can

really heat my

dinner on top of my phone

as well.

If I pick up my phone now,

I will get earburned immediately. Let anyway I mean it's okay I guess it's moving slowly it doesn't really move almost anywhere it's just very slow step by step which takes 4 months when was the last time we played this? Before I went to the US was like summer? Let me double check.
Check it in the actual... 1st November.
2nd. I was already in the US, come on.
I'm pretty sure I played this before I was in the US, man. Oh no, I was in the US.
You're right. I was in the US.
2nd of November, man.

I was in the US. Yeah, I was in the US.

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