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Maximilian Dood| 05:52:57|Mar 29, 2026
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Host discusses EVO awards results, event vibe, and impressions of announcements.

Maximilian Dood breaks down EVO announcements, Avatar Fighters news, and a deep dive into Invincible Versus while sharing candid thoughts on pricing, accessibility, and the game’s evolving motion and balance.

Summary

Maximilian Dood tackles a packed Evo Awards news cycle, flagging surprises and shifts in who’s driving the fighting-game ecosystem this year. He confirms Avatar Fighter’s price at a friendly 30 dollars, contrasting it with earlier predictions and wider market fears, and highlights a deluxe/season pass structure that tees up 12 characters with a ballot for a future add. He stays plugged into Invincible Versus, praising the game’s hand-drawn art, crossplay ambitions, and the surprisingly deep tag/assist system after hands-on beta talk. Throughout, Max riffs on the broader industry, noting who owns EVO and why he’s stepping back from official involvement while still watching for great outputs from EVO Japan and beyond. He also shares thoughtful takes on sponsorships, health considerations, and the ethics of endorsing real-world products, tying it back to a desire for sustainable, enjoyable gameplay. The stream interweaves live reactions to Avatar’s roster reveals, character designs (Azula, Saka), and the potential for two more Invincible characters before launch, all while peppering in personal anecdotes and hunting for the “best of both worlds” in indie and big-budget IPs. Finally, he rambles through patch notes, updates, and a long-form on how modern 2D hand-drawn fighters can deliver value at a $30 price point, arguing that accessibility can drive the scene forward rather than the opposite.

Key Takeaways

  • Avatar: The Last Airbender Fighters will launch with 12 characters, with a year-one pass adding five more and a ballot for a future fighter.
  • Avatar’s base price is confirmed at 30, with a deluxe edition offering a digital art book, soundtrack, and exclusive skins.
  • Invincible Versus now sports a stronger animation baseline and a crossplay-enabled, five-platform readiness (PS5, Xbox, Steam, Switch) with rollback netcode.
  • Maximilian points out that hand-drawn 2D animation surrounding Avatar’s roster is a premium choice that justifies price against modern 3D fighters.
  • Open beta chatter suggests Invincible Versus will continue to evolve post-launch, with two more characters hinted or planned for 2026
  • Max emphasizes the value of accessible entry points in fighting games, arguing that cheaper launches can broaden the audience and boost lifetime sales.
  • Max shares personal philosophy on sponsorships, health, and how sponsorship decisions should align with long-term well-being and influence on players.

Who Is This For?

Essential viewing for fighting game fans curious about EVO’s big announcements, Avatar Fighters as a budget-friendly entry point, and Invincible Versus players eager for deep system mastery and crossplay. Also valuable for streamers weighing sponsorship ethics and the implications of corporate ownership in esports.

Notable Quotes

"Avatar was going to be $39.99. And I'm like, if this was really well priced, it would be 30. You know, 30 would be the good spot. Um, and it's 30."
Max discusses the Avatar price reveal and pricing strategy.
"The deluxe edition is 50 standard edition content, digital art book, music soundtrack, unique HUDs."
Details of Avatar deluxe/season pass package.
"It's crossplay between five different platforms. actually six because of X and S."
Invincible Versus cross-platform reach.
"2D handdrawn animation, all across the board is like, damn, dude. I love this shit."
Praise for Avatar’s hand-drawn art style.
"The game is $30. Incredible."
Reiteration of Avatar price at launch.

Questions This Video Answers

  • How does Avatar Fighters price compare to other 2D fighters released this year?
  • What makes Invincible Versus different from other licensed IP fighters in 2024?
  • Will Avatar Fighters' year-one pass impact the initial player base or slow down new buyers?
  • Does EVO Japan 2024 signal a shift in how Western studios approach console esports participation?
  • How important is rollback netcode for Invincible Versus on Switch and the other platforms?
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Full Transcript
Transcending history and the world. A tale of dudes and souls eternally retold. We don't need to shine to see how far we come on our journey. Ever to go searching for our star deep in the night. Pray in my heart for that special life. Shower me with love. Show me with power to sh car Heat. Heat. Heat. Yo, what's up, dudes? Oh my god, what time is it? 8:30. Yeah, calm, cool, and collected. 8:30 p.m. No problem, right? Late as hell. Sorry about that, chat. Welcome back. I literally had this the uh the title in the stream and everything prepped and started and then uh you know dad stuff just happened and eventually I am putting the baby to bed is what it is. Um here we are and then I fell asleep for like 30 to 40 minutes. I'm like, "Oh, there's things to talk about, man. And if I don't talk about the things, we're just not going to be able to do it." Because, um, yeah, Evo Awards had a bunch of announcements as expected. Different ones than I thought they would. Different ones than I thought they would. Uh, so that was that was interesting. The baby is 5 years old. Shut up. Um, yeah, dude. I was right about Avatar pricing. I was just I was well joking. I just say [ __ ] But the presumption was that Avatar was going to be 40, right? Avatar was going to be $39.99. And I'm like, if this [ __ ] was like really well priced, it would be 30. You know, 30 would be the good spot. Um, and it's 30. And I'm like, [ __ ] in this economy, damn. Damn. So when Max jokes about [ __ ] it gets real. Got it. There is a documented history. Um, yo, she thanks for the 10 gift subs. Hi. Hello, Kenny. How was the Evil Awards? Uh, you did not win best dress. Did you lose to like Tasty Steve or some [ __ ] man? That son of a [ __ ] Um, how was the EVO Awards, Kenny? How was it? It was good probably seeing people in real life. Every dude. Oh, Ryan Hart won. That son of a [ __ ] Um, every everyone sounded drunk. I won't lie. Like people are trying to talk and there's just like from this end I I I turned into a couple of times this end all I heard was like degeneracy from like the 180 line like here's what I'm watching but from this angle back here it just sounded like everybody was sloshed. You just hear somebody's trying to talk like whoa whoa what's going on in there dude what is going on like so and I didn't even watch the entire thing but a couple of times that I watched it was like like I just want to thank everybody just sounds like people are in full conversation and they're screaming at each other. Um I'm like wow what the hell what's going on over there? Um, good. Very good. Very good. No, I did not go. Um, uh, I I I hope the best for everybody that was there. I hope it was a good show. Hope it was a good event. Hope there was like a lot of cool networking stuff like that. Um, and I've already had a big conversation with the production crew um, from the EVO side this year. Yeah, I was just going to sit out. I mean, and they completely understood. They completely get it. Uh I I know all the people that have been involved with that stuff for like literally 15 years. Um and I hope the best for them. I'm glad there's announcements and things like that. We get to talk about some stuff. But um yeah, you know, there's no ill will against them specifically, but EVO as like a giant organization. Yeah, I'm just going to take a step back. I'm just taking a step back. Um but I do honestly hope that uh there's some great stuff that comes out of EVO Japan. EVO uh July uh is it July? EVO EVO June. Regular EVO Vegas. Um you know, we'll be going back to regular viewers and not official involvement. And that's that's pretty much what it is. So, uh yeah, I'm looking forward to that. Looking forward to just hanging out and seeing how it goes, you know. Uh Deadpool, thank you for the 119 months, dude. Noses, thanks for the 101 months. Slothy, thanks for the 41. And Yoshi, thanks for the 10. Um, there's a nice Invincible versus expedition. I think I tuned into that. That was during the pre-show. For some reason, it had like the beta characters. I didn't have anybody new. Uh, really? I didn't have anybody new. Huh. That's surprising. Any word on the FSF remake update? Like, what the [ __ ] is going on with the teaser? Uh, nothing, man. No, no, no. Ain't got nothing. So, you're not going to EVO? No. No, I won't be going to EVO anymore. I won't be officially involved with EVO anymore. Uh, not after they got completely bought out. No, I'm pretty good, dude. I'll just be watching. I'll be watching and hanging and chilling. I'll make my way to other events and things like that, other tournaments and stuff. Um, if you guys if you guys if your intention was I'm going to go to this EVO thing to have a chance to see a um like a Max event or a show or a meet and greet, I just won't I will not be there anymore. Um, but I honestly hope the best for them. I don't want to remove the ability for them to be successful. They can do whatever they want. I'm just Who bought them out? Akidia. So, a big Saudi invest in investment group. Um, pretty much government investment group. They're owned by the Saudi government now. Uh, 100%. 100%. And that's just kind of like ah, good on him. You know what? Good on him. I just um I It's the same thing with like SNK. the majority of SNK's owned by like the Saudi government in some way, but I I'm like, good on him. I just don't want to be officially involved, you know? That's it. I just would prefer just to uh play the games or watch the shows, you know, like there's official involvement with stuff all over the place. I'm not going to tell you how you should feel about it. You should go check it out if you want. I'm going to be checking it out, too. It's just when I'm officially with something, I'm representing uh either that product or representing that uh organization or something like that. That's kind of where I draw the line in some of that stuff, you know? Yeah, they own 10% of Capcom. Like there's all over the place, dude. They own Square Enix. Like the the investment side of it is is everywhere, you know? But when it's like that much ownership, it's like, whoa. Okay, this is not the same grassroots FGC thing that it was historically. It just isn't. It's it's it's grown into something much different. That's government organization now. So, that's the thing. Uh I I but it's not that I want them to be unsuccessful. I want things to be successful. I do I want things to go well. I'm just going to watch it. You know, it's not America owned. Yeah. E dude, trust me. I have had plenty uh American government organizations come to me with big offers and I'm just like I think I'm good. What's the goal here? We're trying to get [ __ ] recruited for the pedophile wars. Um how about no? How about no? Uh Oni, thank you. Hyper combo finish stockwall Mitch Zombie Novastar Funk Master Deadpool Nosis Ball. Thank you Slothy. Appreciate it. Um yeah, so Jesus Christ. What should we check out first? Um, uh, should we, uh, do the Avatar trailer or Invincible stuff? Invincible got straight up like its last character, right? Like it's it's actual last character. Um, the Avatar [ __ ] is pretty crazy cuz I think I saw it in the video and I was like, I think uh they showed all the characters in the Avatar thing, but they didn't show them in game yet. What the hell is going on? What about a mirror? Um, h why you don't like Saudi? I have nothing. I have no issues with Saudi at all. Um, I have issues with like government entities across the world, but I'm good. I'm good. That's a bit you got to understand from my perspective, government entities is a lot bigger than like dudes going to arcades and playing games and trying to keep that spirit alive. You know, that that starts to reach a level that my my dude, I don't even want to do sponsorships for sodas. like I I've declined sponsorships for Red Bull for a decade. Um I drink it, but I know that shit's not good for you. So there's a difference where it's like I know that this could potentially lead to something that is actually like uh G-Fuel. Yeah, I've declined that too. Um I know that this leads to something that like is is unfucking healthy like this or it could lead to a direction that is like where I don't know what I'm influencing here. I don't know what I'm doing to people by like endorsing this in some way. That that's that's just the thing. I have no control over this [ __ ] So, I'm not even I am not even comfortable um telling people to go eat or drink like foods that I know are unhealthy. I just don't I don't I don't want to do that. Uh I'll do it for like products and things like that, just games and [ __ ] It's like, yeah, this is just a video game, but when it comes to like people's actual physical, you know, physical capabilities and stuff, Liquid Death sponsorship, I'd be down for that [ __ ] I drink it all the time. I hoist that [ __ ] on my back because uh Chipotle the [ __ ] feal place. Eat fresh. You guys forgot about that, Chad? I've never [ __ ] I've eaten at Chipotle once in my life. Um, and you guys forgot about the the the huge E.coli outbreak at at Chipotle for like multiple times in in the 2010s. Like, it happened multiple times and I was like, I'm good, bro. I'm good. Don't need to eat here anymore. I didn't forget. Like, and now the people that run Chipotle are like, "Our food is only for people that make over $100,000." Well, I think I'm good. Think I'm good. I'm good. I'll just live without that sponsorship, you know? Oh, the E.oli. Oh, yeah. Think I'm good. It's not run by the former Starbucks CEO. Anyway, In-N-Out. I wouldn't even tell people to eat In-N-Out necessarily. Wouldn't even I'm not I'm not gonna tell you what the [ __ ] to eat. Like I'm not. This is why like I the only things that I do are things that I know are particularly healthy, which usually come down to like the food in a box things, which I will eat myself and have eaten a lot of. But still, it's like I usually don't do a ton of food stuff. I've done a couple. I actually have done Firehouse Subs before. I'll be real. I have literally had an opportunity for a Firehouse Subs um thing, but they're also a charitable organization, and their food is [ __ ] delicious. So either way, I'm only going to do [ __ ] for things that like I know that I would put into my own body. And yeah, I even in the case of like Red Bull, I love Red Bull. I drink it like I'll I'll drink one or two Red Bulls a year, but that thing will [ __ ] kill you. Like that shit's really bad. Uh over if you especially if you drink too much of that [ __ ] When's the HelloFresh sponsorship? HelloFresh factor. The only the biggest thing about those meals is that I know they're all real food, you know, like the biggest difference with them is that I know they are actual food. And the biggest reason I know they're food is that when you get it, cuz I've eaten a lot of them. Um, they go bad really fast. Like you get it and it's like this goes bad in a week and I'm like, "Oh, it's actual food." And then you eat it and it's like, "Oh, okay. It's actual food." Kino Boricanin, thank you. Thank you very much, dude. Um, but even honestly, like even with that stuff, I can only eat it so much. Like I would eat it for like three to four months and then I'm like, I think I'm good, man. Like I need to I need to eat something else, dude. Anyway, you have to do a crazy stunt every time we drink a Red Bull. Yeah, I'm going have to uh surf an arcade stick down a mountain or some [ __ ] Leave me at the Avatar thing, man. Hold on a second. Uh, you heard from a certain group that are going after you from your take about Alex. How are you feeling? Um, people that love incest really don't like what I feel about Alex. Um, which is just that his story is [ __ ] That's it. That's the end of the story. That's literally it. Uh, and there's a sizable amount of those people on Twitter. That is the end of the story. And I'm just like, you know what? I'm just really not down for characters burying their cousins and or sisters. Uh just not down for that [ __ ] man. Sorry. And they're just like really upset about that. Cannot believe. Um Conquest or Avatar? Uh Avatar. Wrong one. There we go. [ __ ] Avatar fighter. Oh, it's changed to Avatar Fighters. Good. Very good. Um, anyway, how could I say something so controversial? Y'all king shaming now? That's my That's my kink, bro. My uh my kink is to king shame people. Don't you [ __ ] kink shame me. J Prince, thank you. So, yeah, Evo Awards happened. I didn't get a chance to go or uh you know watch it, but there was a brand new Avatar trailer and there's a whole bunch of news on this. The craziest one that I saw is that the game is $30. Um and we were literally talking about this like yesterday, what the ideal pricing would be for some of these games, how like Invincible Versus is discounted, how even Tokon is discounted. Um, and now Avatar is a $29.99 game for its base version, which is insanely cool, especially that the PlayStation now costs $30,000. The price is going to keep getting higher until our demands are met. Okay, listen. Price of the PlayStation will keep getting higher until our demands are met. Ooh, new art. Moving my face. Oh, that's a new logo. What the hell? Hey yo. Whoa, whoa, whoa. I'm going to have to go back. That was the whole ass. It was the whole ass roster. Anything different here? Pretty much the usual, you know, ranked player lobbies. Nice hit boxes. Wow. What the hell is Samurai Aa? What the [ __ ] is that? Oh no. Saka looks really f Wow, Azula looks cool as [ __ ] cuz she has lightning fire. Wow, she's the jury of the game. Holy hell. Uh, I'm going to have to read this. All right, there's a lot of information there. And also July 2nd. Hey, a good time frame, right? Actually, a pretty good time frame. That is not bad. Am I going on vacation? That time frame. Hold on a second, chat. I'm taking a trip. It's either right after or Hold on a second. I need to check something. I need to see if this is literally landing on like the one week I'm taking my vacation this year. Hold on a second. Um, hold on. Hold on. Hold up. Hold up. I'm searching it. I'm looking. I am finding out. Hey, good news. Um, I'm leaving on July 4th, so I'll at least have a few days to enjoy this. I'll at least have a few days to enjoy this. Man, oh man, that that was about to be very scary. Um, let's go back. What is in here? So, 30 bucks. Incredible. Um, thank you Gameplay Group International for doing that. Uh, 12 characters, all the stuff we just saw. The deluxe edition is 50 standard edition content, digital art book, music soundtrack, unique HUDs. Yeah. Um, year one pass, five characters and additional character colors. Oh, so this just includes uh the first season, which is going to be five five characters in the first season. Holy crap, dude. Five characters. That's a lot for a 2D game, especially one that's hand freaking drawn. Uh, pre-order bonus exclusive character skin. Samurai Opa. I guess I'll be getting this exclusive character colors. Voting privilege for year one pass character. Oh, not car. I was like, that's impossible because these would have been in development for a while. I'm like, this doesn't make any sense. Um, it's not like these characters just get made after the game is done. I know they've been working on this stuff already for a while. You know, voting privilege for year one pass character means one character will be chosen. So, four are being worked on, you know, concurrently right now and then the last one is effectively a Smash pole style character. It's a Smash ballot. Yeah. And you know what? The fact that that is a pre-order bonus and not a deluxe edition thing, you know, I almost feel like they really could have they really could have and then they could have snuck that into the $50 deluxe version and been like, "Hey, so if you give us more money, you pretty much get to kickstart, you know, your character practically or hopefully kickstart your character." Yeah. Yeah, who knows who's who that's going to be. Uh uh I think I want Aman. Aman's got a cool look to him. Suki would make a lot of sense. But wait a minute. Let me go back. Uh wait, wait, wait, wait. 12 characters. Holy [ __ ] So, wait a minute. Uh it's been a long time since I've seen the show cuz I watched it when it came out. There is no Is this a Kora character? This is or is this the dude that's like following them around like he's Mr. X or some [ __ ] Is it a Cor is is is Zahir? He's from Kora. Okay. He doesn't look familiar. I'm trying to remember. There was a guy in the first few seasons of Avatar that like hunted them down or some [ __ ] And that that's not that guy. He also has a much different kind of character design than the rest of them. This is the guy that Simmons loves. This was like Simmons favorite character. I'm thinking of Combustion Man. Okay. It's been a while. Um, Zahir. Yeah, I I again, I've only seen the first season of Kora, which is why I obviously want Aman, but yeah, Simmons loves Zahir. Interesting. He's like the anarchist. Interesting. He's the evil He's an evil airbender. Good. That's good. Um, Saka Aula. Wow, they are doing um Ozai. That Well, that makes sense to me. What's her name again? Ozai makes sense because they need a final boss. And we're going to need like a juiced out version of Ozai, right? Like straight up Ozai under the eclipse type [ __ ] Koshi. Thank you. I always mix up these characters names. Oh, that's Avatar Kyoshi. Who is Suki again? I'm mixing [ __ ] up in my head. Anyway, Ozai's cool. I I like that. I think that's neat that they have a a good last character, you know? Oh, the Saka's girlfriend. Yeah. Anyway, I'm mixing [ __ ] up. Um I think this is a pretty good roster. I don't know. At least At least you have to wait a minute. Oh, and these two. So, like pissed off evil Avatar Ang pissed-off evil Avatar Kora. Uh, Avatar State characters. Yeah. Huh. Yeah. pretty much Shinang and Shin Kora probably going to be deviants of some of their play style, you know, um slight alterations on their existing art. You think that's just art? Uh I think it's very convenient that if you add all these up and this and this, it's 12. I think you're seeing I from my perspective in terms of making a trailer I would say this is the 12 characters and these two characters back here are the final two that we have not actually seen in game yet you know the dev said that all 12 are on the screen yeah I mean that's what I'm pulling out of this um I wonder what these two play like very curious pretty much violent a and evil Kora possibly possibly avatar state are the last two gotcha Yeah, I think that's fine. I think that's fine. I would like a version of A that uses like all the elements or something like that because this one does not. Uh I wonder I don't know how the like the deviation of Kora is because Kora is already using everything normally. Um let me go back and look at game play this. These are the characters we've already seen. New art. This looks great. Game looks good, dude. I find it crazy that like just look at look at where we're at right now, dude. Look at where we're at right now. They could have made any one of those absolute throwaway Avatar games that they've been making for the past 84 years. You know, been making they've been making absolute throwaway Avatar games for god knows how long, dude. How many of them are even like seven out of tens? Uh it's it's been rough. And now they just show up and like we're just going to make the best Avatar game. Um, also looking the most accurate to the show because no other games usually do that, you know. Most of them most of them do not hover in that space. Could have gotten an Avatar Arena Fighter by Bamco. Yeah, you could have gotten the guys that made Jump Force to make an Avatar Arena Fighter. Okay, Iro. Yeah, Iro would be good DLC. Whoa, Iro would be good DLC. Uh, Aman, there's probably several others. Iro feels like he's a given, you know? Are they going to have Iro just like have a buff install? They should. He should just like get buff. Ty Lee, that's a neat one. Cabbage man. Cabbage man could be an assist. Oh, have they mentioned anything about the background characters? Can Cabbage Man be an assist? Is that possible? Wow. What the hell is Saka doing? What in the hell? They didn't say anything about new assists. He's a Is he a run character? He is. He's literally running across the screen. He is actually running across the screen. So, is he a run stance character? Where's the new stuff? Yeah. Wow, he looks good. Holy [ __ ] Wow, she looks great. Wow. Look how Look how pissed and angry she looks. Hell yeah. Oh no. Like all the hyper personality in Azula. Dude, look at some of these frames. Look at some of these frames. Hold up. Hold up. Hand and go damn it. [ __ ] and elbows. Um, look at all this handdrawn animation, chat. Literally every goddamn frame made by a human drawn. There's no tweening, brother. Ain't no tween. Damn. Cool. This is great. Damn. I'm in like hand animation heaven with the the gold man game in this. Holy crap. She did have some similar moves to um to Zuko. Ain't no twins. Yeah, that I in my opinion these guys are doing everything right. Like the only thing that has been rough so far is that not enough people have had a chance to play this. Even my good friend Steven um is like I still haven't played that game. And I'm like actually you're right, you haven't. Uh he's and like many others, you know, the the beta had a lot of specifics to get into it. Um and not a lot of invites were sent out because it was a closed beta. So at some point they have to have like a global, you know, at some point they have to have like a beta or something cuz this is out soon, man. This is like four months away. Three months away. About to be three months away. Roll back crossplay. Cheap 2D fighter. Isn't that everything the FTC asks for? Well, I mean, it's like and well, and also a really good IP and also plays very well. Like, yeah, is kind of satiating. A lot of like there's a reason why most people that even remotely enjoyed fighting games have pretty glowing praise on this [ __ ] when it comes out or when it was first playable because it played really well. Like, it actually was like good. Was it [ __ ] up and busted? Oh, it was. But like the foundation was really good, dude. Um, here's the problem. I don't like playing this [ __ ] in a bubble. I want other people to see how this is, you know? Like some people might see the animations, the backgrounds, whatever. Like, once you actually play it, that goes away. Like, you're completely sold. You're you're you're literally living an Avatar show. People think it's crazy that this game is $30. 2D animation is not cheap, but at that price point, it's going to sell way more copies. Avatar had tons of fans. Um, do people think it's crazy that it's $30 as if that's more expensive? Because that is the disconnect, right? And I I this is what I was saying. This is what I was saying uh when we were talking about the price point of this game uh like a couple of days ago. I was like, unfortunately, because it is a 2D game, 2D handdrawn animated games are undervalued. uh a general population doesn't know the the value of that. So they assume that if it's a 2D animated game that it's actually worth less than a highfidelity 3D game. That's just the nature of it, man. Which is which is why it's very difficult to justify most very large developers, hey, Street Fighter or SNK, you guys should just go back to making sprites, you know, like there's a problem with that because of overall marketability and affordability. So, in that way, the fact that this game made the choices they did and chose to make the characters actually 2D, everything is indeed 2D handdrawn elements all across the board is like, damn, dude. I love this [ __ ] I actually love this [ __ ] So, I was expecting it to be more cuz I know that that's not cheap. That's expensive and it takes a long goddamn time, dude. Because of that, I was expecting it to be 40, if not maybe more. Um, and straight up it's 30. It's actually $30. So, yeah. Yeah. Pretty amazing, man. I think that's really amazing. There's an IP tax in there, but I think I I don't know. I I don't I don't I don't I don't know. They They did it. They managed to do it. I'm I'm very happy they did. The biggest reason, chat, that even I was a pro a defender of like free-to-play fighting games was the cost of investment, right? Was that fighting games are so goddamn expensive. If you if you bought any General Bandai Namco game and you entry bought it at entry $60 to $70 and you purchased every season pass DLC for like four years, you have spent $200. Like it it's it they're insanely expensive, dude. So if if anything when I was trying to propose the defense of why I think there should be freeto-play fighting games without there being make a predatory [ __ ] the whole point of that was I want the barrier of entry to be lower so that people can just get into this stuff and find the fun so that they can eventually fall in love with it. You know what I mean? Um, and yeah, I do I do feel that if you have a game that is just a cheaper price point nowadays, that's very appealing, dude. Like, we've seen time and time again games come out and they're just like a little bit cheaper than the really expensive [ __ ] and that suddenly looks real appealing in the current global economy. What's the shelf life of this game, bro? The shelf life of this game is going to be the same as 99% of all fighting games. It'll be really popular in the first month and a half. It'll teeter out like 50 to 70% like every [ __ ] fighting game. And then there will be a subset group of people that are really into this stuff and some people that'll come back for DLC every once in a while. That is every fighting game. The the amount of times that that has altered or been different has been like just recently with Street Fighter 6. Um, and Street Fighter 6 is the most unique diamond in the rough because that just doesn't [ __ ] happen to games, bro. It just doesn't like the nature of 99% of fighting games, Street Fighter 6, you know, Street Fighter 6 otherwise, is that Yeah, you know, they're the most popular in the first couple of months or so. That is that's pretty much it. So, you got to get It's cheap, bro. It's not like you're losing out on money. It's 30 bucks. It's literally $30. So join us. Like the the the launch of the game is going to be wonderful. There's going to be a ton of Avatar fans and [ __ ] All the FGC heads are going to rank up super fast and get away from all like the Avatar fans that are just here to like play a goofy Avatar game and have fun with it and they'll be able to play each other and not have to deal with the FGC nerds. Like dude, this is it. This is literally what you want. And the the biggest thing that would prevent you from engaging with a fighting game is that in the launch period, it's expensive. You don't want to spend that much on a fighting game. I get it. That makes sense. But it's it's it's 30. It's it's literally like one of the cheapest price points I've ever seen for a fighting game that's actually like pretty well featured. Like it's good. So, I mean, look at Azula's face. I I would highly recommend it, bro. Like if you want the opportunity to fight people and and actually get true competition of people that are around your skill range, if you have not really played a lot of fighting games before, then my dude, the launch period is it. Like that is it. The first couple weeks, the first month, it's just going to get harder and harder and harder to get into this [ __ ] I can barely afford fuel in my car. I understand. I understand. This game's what, like two gallons of gas now? Cool. Very cool. This is going to be crossplay on Xbox, PS5, Steam, and both the switches. Holy [ __ ] Holy [ __ ] It's It's crossplay between five different platforms. actually six because of X and S. Holy [ __ ] it's on switch one. God damn. Um, cool. Very cool. And it has pretty good roll back. Yeah. And it's literally made by the dudes that made all those crazy ass Marvel mods we've been making for years, chat. And ex Killer Instinct devs. I mean, hate to say that I am just behind whatever they do. You know, they've provided some of my favorite fighting game experiences over the past 10 years. Yeah, I'm just behind what they do. You know, XKI devs as well as the dudes that were making those Marvel 3 mods. Yep, that's them. That it's it's it is them. I Okay, I'm looking forward to it. I'm looking forward to it. I want to see more of Azula gameplay, dude. But how many more characters do we have to see? They They showed Azula and Saka. Uh, one, two, three, three more characters. Well, well, four or five for them to actually make trailers on and [ __ ] like that. Um, anyway, good on you, Gameplay Group International, Inc., good on you. Um, that's going to make a lot of people happy and definitely make the game much more approachable for a whole a whole different audience than normally could have been, you know. Good [ __ ] I like the logo, too. I like it. I like what they did with the blue and the red and the stuff. It's catchy. They need a new name. No, it's fine. There's There's literally already been an Avatar Legends game. Like, oh, you mean this? I agree. I agree. The publishers's name is quite funny. Um, what the hell is this? This thing keeps popping up. YouTube really wants me to look at this [ __ ] What is this, bro? I have too much of this [ __ ] Oh my god, brother. I I already have too much of this [ __ ] I have no space for this [ __ ] anymore. Wow. Wow. Just one more. No, dude. Me and JJ like literally emptied our bank accounts buying one of these back when Advent Children came out. Like we emptied our [ __ ] bank account. I have it downstairs. It's like Cloud and Sephro falling through the rubble of the Shinra building um of Midgar. And they're like uh they're like stabbing each other. It's two different pieces together. You know, this thing's this thing's way too [ __ ] big, dude. That makes sense. Got a bigger house. I don't No, I'm not. I have like a few statues, but I'm not like a big statue guy. I ain't Jailey. The goddamn detail is insane. Why? Why is this? What? Why am I being targeted? The Tifa statue doing the Jacko pose. We made a video on that. Damn, they chose a good [ __ ] Wow, you stupid [ __ ] [ __ ] you. What does this [ __ ] cost? Like a grand? Two grand? Holy. I was I bro it costs more than my first car. Holy mother of God. I was like, "Yeah, that [ __ ] looks really goddamn detailed." Dude, this is the kind of statue where they'll sell 10 of them and they're good. They don't even need to sell like a thousand units or some [ __ ] They'll literally sell like 10 to 20 of them. Like they're a like they're a car and they'll be good. 1/4. I mean, I don't know what that means in statue world, but I think that means really [ __ ] big. Uh, bro, chill. Chill. Regular version is What is the deluxe version? Oh, it comes with all the extra bells and whistles. Still, that's insane, dude. That's [ __ ] insane. They announced the first two Invincible versus DLC characters via screenshot. What? I have to check that out. Prime 1 Studios is amazing but super expensive. Yeah, I think that's the idea is that they don't need to sell a [ __ ] ton. They don't. Even the Killer Instinct statues I got cuz I ain't missing out on that [ __ ] Um, I don't think the KI statues were Prime Studio. No, I literally have a Folore and a Saberwolf statue, but they were not that expensive at all. Anyway, wonder if we got a Tifa statue. I don't want a Tifa statue, brother. I want Tifa in Tekken. Very different. you seen their biking one? No. No. This is the first time I clicked on that [ __ ] Uh, Conquest of this Invincible got its last character uh that has been added to the game. Uh, let's take a look. Jesus, there's been like three big Invincible trailers over the last few days. How many characters are going to be in the beta? How many characters are we going to get the ability to play? Uh, which is not that far away, man. It's like two weeks away. Finally, I'm free. I've arrived. As long as he does the blood over, there is no greater pleasure than feeling the warmth of my fist drenched in your blood. Go be lonely somewhere else. Waking me up. Nothing to do now but die. Damn. Look at this game now, dude. Holy [ __ ] Yeah. Wow. I need a pause on that [ __ ] Cool ass looking character. All it hits. They all fear you. Like how he has all these like messed up teeth. This is a good looking stage. Damn, this stage looks like some [ __ ] out of the Matrix. Now we're getting something. Wow. Okay. Glory awaits us both in depth. I'm ready to play more of this game, dude. As I am. I'm ready. Very good. Take it to your grave, boy. Ah, that's a boost dash combo. Wow. Holy crap, that looks amazing. Wa. I'm going to enjoy this. Oh, Mark has a different costume. He has like his new costume. Conquest. I don't even get a real name. Only a purpose. Who the hell is She-Hulk? What? I've seen this guy. I've seen videos of this guy. This guy like dies or comes back or some [ __ ] Raging pissed off. I've seen this dude on the right. Um, she's a season 4 character. Does she have like a big ass battle axe? She might be mad cool. Uh, where is Omniman? He's He's was announced like 8 months ago. Um Oh, where's Omniman? I guess that is the meme. She has a staff. Okay. She steals electricity. They have Abraham Lincoln. He's here to free the slaves again. Uh, cool. Cool. I'm back for the people. Abe Lincoln, no joke. Oh, literally Abraham. What? He literally is. I don't know enough. Literally is Lincoln. Like literally, it's not a joke. Like resurrected DNA like a clone of Abe Lincoln? Yes. No. Immortal. But he would No, he was the actual president. So, you're saying Abraham Lincoln was an immortal alien or some [ __ ] and he couldn't die? It's the same one that freed the slaves. Does he have a top hat? That's my next question is that does he have like the top hat? Is there an option to put on a top hat? Like a big one? Chad, are you lying to me? because I'm gonna I'm gonna tell the devs that. I'm gonna be like, "Is this guy Abraham Lincoln?" Um, anyway, never ne we would never lie. Uh, she seems really cool. A blinking. Uh, and then fall 2026 and winter. So, they got two more characters this year. Who else from the show would people really want until you get a completely non-invincible fanboy like myself bitching to the moon about spawn chat, right? Who's missing? It's pretty much Thrag, right? I know. I know that. I know who that is. At some point I'm going to be bitching and all the Invincible fans are going to get angry at me because Max wants Spawn. Duh. Mer Twins, Shapesmith, Tech Jacket. Okay, they have I I'm seeing plenty of [ __ ] that could fill out this roster. All right. Yes, that that I mean granted Spawn was in the Invincible Comics. cool. Very cool. Very cool. I want to go back and look at it. Dude, this this screenshot. Check this [ __ ] out. Holy [ __ ] Damn, dude. This game has gone through a a massive overhaul. God damn. This is a cool looking shot. Like, this guy looks better than he ever has. Like, I mean, I don't know what to say here. Here's the here's Can I Can I have a outsiders perspective really hot take? I kind of think that like the in-game representations of this of Invincible Versus at times now look even better than a lot of the comic or the show. Like I don't know what to say. Like sometimes the show can look really good or other times the show can look like really like lowbudget. But they have a whole bunch of comparison shots. And I see the comparison shots, I'm like, the art style is fine in the comic. It's a little like straightforward, but the way the game has progressed, it's like some of the some of the representation of these characters now. No kidding. Like they look the coolest in this game. it just saying comics are different art styles and stuff later. I'm not saying the comics are bad. I'm not saying they're bad. I'm saying that like I'm vibing with the art style of this game a lot now when before it was clearly lacking. It was like clearly one of the things that they needed to really polish up and obviously they have. Game's almost out. Dude, waking me up. What does he do? But I like this stomp, dude. I hope it's a normal having fun. I'm thinking this guy's going to be on the team, right? I I no matter what I'm playing Omniman. The unfortunate thing is that I've been playing Mark since like godamn the very beginning. So, I'm just familiar of how he works. Uh, but I'm thinking Omniman. I really, really, really like Allan the Alien. It's going to be Omniman, Allan the Alien, and I'll be real, when I when I was fighting John um, and he was using Monster Girl against me, bro, that Monster Girl assist is a war crime. That [ __ ] is crazy. It's an assist that appears from the top of the screen and falls and causes a ground bounce. It is crazy. I'm like, "Okay, Monster Girl is definitely going to be like my assist character." Like, I'm just going to learn how to play her because that it's too good. It's way too good. So, you know what? I saw I saw that fight with what was it? Um, what was it? Gurr versus Justin or something at the very end of this is cute. I like that it's a uh I I saw like Justin versus Gurr I think at the end of the EVO award thing. And you know what you know what Gurr was doing? He was using um he was using the heroic strike like actually using it which is the [ __ ] that turns an alpha counter defensive state into offense where you have to force them into a tag a tag mix right you have to you have to force them into this [ __ ] So whenever I was watching him, he was able to flip the match on its head because he was using the alpha counter all over the place and there are specific ways to stop it because it loses to uh anti-armour moves like exs and supers that Justin just wasn't ready for just and barely anybody in the betas, barely anybody that has played the game is uh was doing that [ __ ] Like I was having to show it off to people that it's like you start getting scared that you can even touch me, dude. It's like yeah, this is where the game goes. Like it it really is a teeter totter effect, dude. it fear and so will you. This stage is great. So he has like an anti- projectile. One of us is going to die today. Now we're getting some. Damn. This a cool ass super, dude. Holy [ __ ] He literally has like a fire brand super. You're almost as crazy as I am. Just the sumo slam. Take it to your grave. Look at this [ __ ] Yeah, these are these are where the big damage of the game is, chat. These are boost dash cancels. I like it that they make it repeated headbutts here. Um, but you do heavy dash heavy dash devi. So, you know, like an MVCI when you can do heavy dash heavy dash heavy. It's very famili It's very similar, but in this one that uses your boost gauge. So, you're going to get a whole bunch of heavy attacks all over the place. Also, some [ __ ] that I noticed. Some [ __ ] that I noticed. Cool shot in air combos when I was last playing the devs. You see how like there's launchers, right? Like literally smash attacks like this, right? The game has like Dragon Ballesque two H's which lead to a smash attack and when you're in the air you have like a stomp down right there's like you can do down heavy in the air. So I noticed something. The smash attack and the slam down are really good for getting them up there and getting them down there. But you know what they do? They build a huge chunk of the combo gauge. Like a big one. Welcome back. So, if you find a different way to combo outside of the smash attacks to get them into the air or to get them back down to the ground without doing the easy thing, you just get bigger combos. You get more rewards. So, if you're able to utilize assists or anything like that. Also, when I was messing around with this stuff, dude, you can literally do a full assist loop cycle because using your assist in combos now brings down the combo gauge a little bit. Um, the funny thing is it doesn't lock out the character from being used again. So, even if you start a combo, use an assist, do like a big move, do a big EX move, continue the combo up, and bring in another like assist, you can actually go back to the first assist. Literally, you can tag back in and use the first assist again. So, I I had a I had a combo that was so long because I found a character that had a really really really long um EX move and I was like, can I like push this? So, I used all my resources on it and I literally cycled back by assist characters in the combo like a fifth time and I was like, "Holy shit." So, it was assist one, assist two, back to assist one, back to assist two, back to assist one. There's like a 3se second timer so that they come back. But if I get this, if I push this [ __ ] further and further and further, there was enough time for them to recharge in the background to get them to come back. And I was like, "Wow, there's going to be some nutty ass optimization in this game." Now, the fact that you can do that, like it was, it took me a while in training mode to find out what even to do. So, I was like, "Okay, but eventually you'll run out of resources, right? Eventually, you're going to not have enough resources cuz the EX moves are what take forever." It was just very interesting. Like, there's basic combos where you use assist normally and there's an entire process of like actually there's an assist rotation that you can you can use a few times. I'm like, that's a lot different. That's way different than other fighting games. But here's the thing. Also, I I don't know what the hell's going on, dude. Level threes do so much damage. They did a lot of damage in the beta. I swear to God, in that last build I was playing with John, I'm like, there's no reason this should kill. There's zero reason this could kill. Why did it kill me? What the [ __ ] Like, even like a very basic combo into level three, if you use your level three, they do a [ __ ] ton of damage, dude. I'm like, whoa. Holy [ __ ] man. Curious if that's going to stay. There's definitely some goofy fun stuff here. It's super easy to do level three into any move. Oh, yeah. Super easy. Anyway, I'm getting kind of excited. I want to play more. I want to see if there's a I don't even get a real name. I'll check to see if there's any any potential in the near future with the invincible versus crew chat. Um where we can get more matches if if there is a playable build that has Conquest in some way in a similar way that we showed off Alan the alien. Uh I'd love that. Yeah, I'm very curious to see how Conquest plays. I'll I'll learn like a couple more characters as well other than the ones that I was uh using kind of consistently. It's like two weeks to the beta. I don't know if the beta is going to have a different roster. No beta for PC. There's no beta for PC. There is not um because of like leaks and [ __ ] So cool. Very cool. That's probably the best character they could have added. In fact, most people thought that this character was going to be DLC. Um that's good, right? It's good. That's good. Beta's 10 characters. Who is what it was before? So, wait a minute. Hold up. Why am I not understanding this? You're Universa and the Immortal are out when the game The game is out in spring. So, I'm a guessing I'm a guessing they're just summer. They're going to show up at just summer time frame 2026. You know, are they day one? Oh, [ __ ] hate my eyes, bro. chat. I read this. I read this. I read that. I read this. I read that. I read this. I read this. I looked over here. I looked over there. I looked I read this. I looked over here. I did all this. I looked over there. I did. And then it's right [ __ ] here. It's literally right [ __ ] here. Right in front of my goddamn eyes. It's the exact same [ __ ] when your wife go says, "Hey, can you grab the milk out of the fridge?" Sure. And then you're just looking in the fridge and you're like, "I don't know what to tell you. There's no milk. There's no milk anywhere. And then she rolls up and just grabs the milk right out of the fridge right in front of you. And you're like, no. Needed more yellow paint. Dude, even yellow paint isn't enough. It's entirely in yellow. Welcome back to the stage of history. Anyway, yeah, that's Wolverine. That's Wolverine. I was wondering where our keys are just to find out. They're on the counter the entire time. Yeah. Where's my cheese? Thank you. ASAP Leak Razor Ash Ketchum Hose uh Psychosis Patrols Mist Sumi Nova Bruno.games Red Quest Unattractive Atom uh and Vexaloxs. Thank you dudes very much. Welcome. Welcome back. Um Blessing Junior, thanks for the raid earlier. Chokubo, Killer Roxis, Solo Jorge, Lion Pajamas, It's Schmoop, Copavi, Fireheart, Tri Edge, The Cruel Reality, Titan, uh, Strike, Freedom, Tillman, Scorpion's Pupil, J Prince, Sir Black Shield, Breie, it's uh, Barack King, that's what it is. Thank you, Money. Money and Kino Bor Kino Boricun, thanks for the 20 gift subs earlier. I think I got you earlier. Thanks, guys. Uh, chat, what else did I miss? Anything else? Was there anything else at EVO Awards? These are all these are all very good announcements. Character looks great, you know. I think uh I think I I think the invincible versus roster at that launch is looking really good. Did you miss the avatar stuff? We went over it. We definitely went over it. Did Conquest eye change sides? That's a good question. Probably not. Like his eye and his arm. I'm going to assume his arm always remains on his right arm so that the when the model flips. Yeah. Yeah. Yeah. It exactly. It switches arms. That's just the way like fighting games work, dude. Just in general. Don't worry about it. Don't worry about it, dude. Don't worry about it. That's in 3D. In 3D that doesn't make sense. Well, I mean it it does because you're you're flipping model, you know, you're just flipping it. It's fine. It's fine. The Hellboy arm issue. Yeah. will we get GTA 6 before Virtual Fighter 6? That's our meme now. No, dude. VS6 ain't coming out this year. No, no, no, There was really nothing else out of the EVO Awards. Nothing else. That was like the two big announcements. No, nothing from SNK or anything like that. Huh. Well, [ __ ] Well, [ __ ] Um, Crimson Desert just got like another update, too. Like actually just got another like relatively big update from what I understand. The devs are updating that game like it's an actual MMO. They they're they're going through an MMO like quite literally development cycle because that's all they know. So, it's like interesting. SNK added KOF98 to its tournament series. That's cool. That's actually really cool. Oh, the character movement feels better. Did you plan on watching some of the gameplay for Invincible? Yeah, you know what? I wouldn't mind checking that out. I don't know if any of those guys have had as much time as even I've had with the game historically. I'd like to see if they were figuring out anything really crazy different or crazy cool. Yo, thank you guys so much. seconds. Nine hours ago. There it is. Conversion though. And the tag. No break. Later on the end of this form. Okay. Just be careful. Recovery on the other side. That monster girl. Big assist. Getting the combo off of it. Three. But still three versus two right now. Getting down that last character. Very dangerous in this. See how different this is. I like that they're sticking to the movement. And it's definitely something you've seen from Justin Wall's game before, but Monster Girl really keep that monster girl move. The body splash is insane. Oh wow. Nice tag again. Small screen. Shut up, chat. Look at my face. Look at the reflection in my glasses. So check it out. Look what This is what I saw in the little bit. Uh I think I saw like the last round. Um, look what Gur is immediately doing. As soon as he takes a big block string, big commit uh big commitmental block string, he's doing heroic strike. Bam. Tag on heroic strike. It is just the way it is, dude. It's really good. And then you have to you have to be like you have to be like ready. Like the the the way you counter this is that it's a reaction thing, right? If you do light attacks and try to bait it, you recover way faster so you can beat it, you know, but your alpha counter turns into a tag opportunity It's a It's really good. It's where the mind games of the game really begin. Yeah. Attack. Get off. Wow. Big damage on the board right. Look at the mobility of the game now, brother. that bullet tag on throw. Yep. So again, it's it's not an active tag game because you cannot active tag in neutral, right? This is this isn't a game like 2x KO or um or even like to where you bring out the character first and then you tag into them. No, no, you can only tag on hit. going to hurt only when the attacks like land in some way. So that's the new animation. I think I think we saw it. You probably saw me playing the game like last week. This is if you want to tag bait. So if I don't know if you need to do it on block, but this animation right here is the bait. Like if you press the tag button twice, the character will faint and do Yeah, they literally call it faint. Um, and they will catch tag breakers. So, there is an RPS, like a rock, paper, scissors to the tag system of do you wait, do you react, or do you think they're going to faint? I think you if if Justin was ready here, you could have just punished, right? Similar to counter breaking, you can just punish. So, it's like, oh, you dropped your combo on purpose. Here you go. Let's kick your ass now. Bing fighting his time. doesn't want that clock to come into play because this is a whole new game mechanic when it gets down to the wire on the clock. The assist of monster girl that goddamn monster girl assist dude nice. Was this game always 3v3? Yes, it was. At least from any any kind of minor involvement that I had. Yeah, it was a 3v3 game. It still works. Damn. So, check it out. This some KI [ __ ] here, bro. Um, uh, Justin does a super tag, right? Like the big old hailtorm super into tag is really good. It's very powerful, but on hit, he tags in uh he tags in Mark. So Mark comes flying in, but Justin does the faint and it drops because he chose to go for I'm going to catch the the tag breaker cuz that's what he's going to go for, but he didn't go for anything. So Justin purposely dropped his combo on like well not on accident with the hope that he could have gotten a much bigger combo after. Oh my gosh. Is that a commando? Oh my gosh, it's a head grab. Yeah, that's also mad good, too. If you want to recover your boost gauge, you can tag after at the end of a round. Comes out in monster girl. Really, really in our favor. Back to that move. That goddamn assist. That is an overhead. Hard to block. overhead but gets it this time coming and more. Dude, too many faints. These guys are fainting like crazy. Oh my god. Cool. The girl is not fair, bro. You love that this game makes you play mental chess versus the opponent. Killer instinct, man. It's got the KI element to it. It's not as like integral in every single part because it can only happen in certain specific moments, but that's the Kness of the game. Wow. Wow. Bro, wait a minute. You was just training with G. Now you Bro, Jeremy. Oh my god. Get away, Jeremy. This guy. I'm ready to play more, my dude. Other side. Weird. And you can see that hit bar all the way maxed out right there. That's typically you see him go for the tag. It's the pick up again off the assist all the There's Yeah, got it. Got the right timing. Hey, so check it out. So, this is what's cool about it. Um, I think it's I think this is good. It goes for the heroic strike, right? So, the the alpha counter on defense, but it's not good against jabs and quick attacks. It's not that fast, you know? It's a little slow. right here off of like a late uh a late down medium, he goes for heroic strike, the alpha counter, but it's too slow. So, the only and I think it's punishable. The only way you can make it safe is by bringing in an assist, you know. So, you have to like cover your ass with assists and [ __ ] Got caught by the assist. Is it like drive reversal? 100%. It's drive reversal that leads to full combo. I like the back on the same but wasn't ready for the pickup. Go straight into the super this time. Oh my god. Yo, dash. This shit's cool, dude. It's so much faster than it was before. work for Justin right now. So, it's like drive impact. Um, no, you can't do drive impact on block. You can't you can't do heroic strike in neutral. Uh, it's you only you only can do it while you're blocking. And if you want to um if you want to tag after that tag is also breakable. You have to enter the tag miniame like the tag mind game after the heroic strike hits. Lot better. Okay. Push block gets him to safety using the projectile boosted dash. Not going to work once again. Long reaching Godamn gets the tag off of it straight into the battle. You see the tag and this time for the and for those that haven't seen this game like why do you tag in and [ __ ] when you successfully bring in a character in this game? This is this is the [ __ ] that I've been complaining that I want Toon to have which it still doesn't um even though it's way better. Here's the combo gauge. does a combo gauge very similar to Tokon, but when you do a tag, the combo's about to drop, he does a super and then does an active tag off of the super. The next hit should drop, right? But it doesn't. It it depletes like by a third. If you tag, you get more combos. So, the the the idea behind it is that if you bring in characters to tag, your reward is bigger, longer, more damaging combos. What's the what's the reason behind it? It can be broken. Your tags can be broken by like two different two different uh what's it called? Strengths or the fainting, right? So that's the risk. The risk is that there is a riskreward for making the combo bigger and bigger and bigger. And even if you try to break at the wrong time, you can actually catch the breaker and just keep going. You enter you enter a mind game once you're being hit by [ __ ] But the tag out there is three because of that. Mhm. And that boost is going to recover a lot faster. You can see the recoverable life gets the pick up. What I like about that is that it isn't exactly like Killer Instinct at all. It's a pretty unique version of what they do in KI, which is like when you're on defense and taking damage and [ __ ] you have to still think about stuff, you know? It fixes the problem that a lot of big tag games have, which is like the combos just get too long and you get you just have to watch [ __ ] No, you always have to be paying attention. But not dead. We'll jump the raw tag. He does. Battle Beast gets clipped by the low. The jump back. Oh yeah, he's doing it all day. Oh, he blocked the overhead assist that time, too. Oh, nice pick up. Okay, he can do some damage here. Wow, the assist interrupted just in time. He's piping all day. Wow, that assist was big. Big jumps, big heavies. He knows he's going to be able to get a combo off the conversion, but he's been using his way in and then calling assist right after. Oh my god. Ra's everywhere right now. Can you snap people's characters in or uh in or if they do the raw tag, they just get away for for free. Um no, no, you there's snapbacks all over the place. Yeah. Uh you can snap back. It's the monster girl. Okay. to save the life. Bulletproof. Finally gets the big hit, but no combo just in before the crouch. Heavy knock him out of range. Damn. There we go. Combo. Look at this [ __ ] dude. This is so [ __ ] cool, man. This [ __ ] is so [ __ ] cool. Look at this [ __ ] man. Look how scrambly this [ __ ] is. No combo, Justin. He didn't before the crouch heavy. Knock him out of range. It's a mixture of KI and Ultimate Marble 3. This is literally that tag off. Look at this moment. Bam. Bam. Oh god. Where the hell's everything going? Tried so hard, bro. This is getting crazy. 31 seconds. Air to air. Ar. What a combo. Oh, that's a big ass happy birthday. Oh, what the [ __ ] is happening. What the [ __ ] is happening? Back. It's just like a What is happening? Bulletproof only left on the clock. Justin Wong has all three characters. A complete turnaround from game number one. But time winding down here. The cross, but Justin with the oppos get the as well. Big damage on the board. I think this this has got to be dead. Especially when you see the finishing move right here. Back down to the ground. Oh, consider his mercy though. The final shot. Oh, the and he bathes in the blood. Oh my god. It's like a scene out of God of War. G's got 20 seconds to try to survive to get to sudden death, but jump low on health for all the characters as well. That projectile assist definitely covering a lot of ground. You see the jump big armor move and steal these air assists from both sides coming from gets the big hit and he's got one bar. Goddamn battle beast, bro. Attack something right here. No sir, you're late. Godamn battle beast, dude. One a piece. Game number two go by way of Justin Wong. And a big switch up on what we saw from the gameplay there. Great mix up on both sides. Final game. Final final game of the exhibition. Yeah, dude. Most people haven't heard a lot of the music in this game. Some of it's really cool. It's got a very unique feel. No, that big cross up into the assist advancing forward. Ridiculous. Mhm. He knew girl was going to dash forward and he called out the forward dash. Okay. Gets the hit with the side switch. No throw assist. Good defense though. Gets the throw. Throw scale combo. Go straight into the super and the tag. Oh wow. Using his crazy. Yo, Justin Wong right now. The Adam Eve combo resets, makes you hold the block, goes for the mix while you're in stun from the super. That is definitely cheap. Had straight there. And G now lose that assist. Five more seconds. Also a lot of red light. Lost off it. Another thing you got to keep track of. And Gur is really low on boost gauge recovery for those assists. And you can see these guys using nothing but movement to make sure they get maximum usage on the normal catching him on the toes. Jump back all day. One dash in the combo. Here comes the tag. Might as well go for the tag. Does not fight. That's crazy that he called it. Drop the combo again. So yeah, why did this combo drop here? you're you the game gives you unique opportunities to tag into um characters during supers and [ __ ] So, you're supposed to to call the tag really specifically at a part at the end of this super. If you don't, it'll just like they'll just flop out. So, he he kind of hit it on the last one, but he didn't allow the impact frame to happen. The stomp like stuns the whole screen. If you tag in during that, it works. But the idea is that you can mess that up, right? You can't just like freely tag on anything and it just picks up automatically. No, no, no. There's certain parts of supers where if you tag during them, the combo will [ __ ] drop. Drops the combo again. The assist getting through it. Oh my god. Wild. Damn, what a break. Counter attack once again. Jump up. Push block. Actually resetting trying to find the big armor to hit on the way down. And that's what happens. That So, as a reminder, chat, you want to be tagging in like crazy. This boost gauge restores really slowly if your uh character is in main, but if you put them in the back, if you like swap out, it comes back mad quick. Like ridiculously quick. So it this is an important ass meter because two boost gauge bars you get a breaker. Like a real like a real breaker. Not like a tag breaker or anything. No, like a traditional breaker. Um so you have to like constantly be swapping them out. trying to get the button out of G the assist. Third of the assist. Oh wow. Big mix up into the corner. Go straight for the super and keep in position. I like it. Oh, he didn't bash the super. There's more to that. Get a conversion though. The jump into the assist once again. That was a nice little team. Oh, I'm going to check out Kunitsu when she releases. Never been really a big fan of her. might just play more of the game. You can bait breakers like in GG though, not entirely, but breakers can be beaten by some supers like to a degree. So like they're not entirely somewhat. They're pretty big and they track really hard the traditional breakers. He dropped it again and this time gets the pickup. has one more boost to go. Spins it all. Didn't get to level two, but got to level one at least. There's a no tag on that. I think that thing's good for Oi. Supers break armor. Yes, most do. I think there's some exceptions. Loves her for sure. One bar. You can armor break it. I like that jump back call assist. That way you see G's been jumping in a lot. Well, Monster Girl gets to the other side. Oh, Justin mid. He had the chance there. Wasn't able to get the hit. Aris once again armor on the way down. Yo, Justin is just blocking, bro. This is going to go to Sudden up, man. Oh, man. And we all know sudden death changes the rules of the game big time. It's just a timer of your health. Overhead. Justin trouble. Go straight for the super. Uhhuh. Going to get the kill. And now game has plank dashing. It does. It has like not the exact same as Marvel though. on the clock, but Justin has the meter lead right now. Four bars, right? He has access. Al is the only invincible move and he caught him with an air down medium now. Okay, what are you going to do with it? Has an assist there. No tags. Just takes the knock down. Goes for the They both call their back assist. 10 seconds to go here. Get out of here. Marina sh unlimited boost. Assist time out for 10 seconds. Boost is regening like crazy. Oh man, you see the flashing there from Gur. We'll use boost. He's going for it. 08. Wow, dude. That gets into the act. Justin is in trouble and it's only on the clock. GR has both characters two left. What is going to happen? If Justin can survive for 6 seconds, you will put G down to one character instead of two though. The timeout going to matter if get there. Yeah, the timeout doesn't matter because G gets all of the life into one life bar. Hit all these blocks. He doesn't get blocked. 3 seconds. Can Gloss out of two? He doesn't have the meter. Do as much damage as possible. final characters in the game. So, this is the gimmick of the game in the And if if it times out, it isn't like you you win whoever has more health. No, no, no. It enters sudden death. Your life bar is consolidated to like the final character if you have multiple characters and it starts counting down. So, it starts depleting life. It's going to be E. So, no timeout. Somebody has to die. Justin's life way less. He's got to find a hit to continue the combo to stop this. Look at the timer. It's at zero. when the life starts to go down on the Yeah. It's like after a few seconds the life starts to drain. So like the idea the devs told me this like we don't like the ideas of timeouts. They're like somebody needs to die. Like that that was their gimmick behind it. They're like somebody has to die. So let's just make it so that even if you get a timeout, you eventually have to take out the other person or there could be a massive comeback opportunity with you with no health. You know, invincible versus exhibition. Yeah, that was great. Dude, this I'm telling you guys, this new version of the game, it it is such a substantially different game than what what people were playing in that beta. I can't wait for the game to actually be in like an open beta state where people can try all the new all the new mobility cuz the mobility is one of the biggest craziest things that's changed from the previous versions. It just feels so much better to play. Let me see. Yep. Uh, GR I'm sorry that isn't over. It's a whippy zippy game now, dude. That was literally my feedback to the devs. Like this was sort of like kind of a grounded heavy game and now it's a whippy zippy ass game. There nothing big coming from them because they were still on the ground. The big jump down beat him going for cross up tag. Classic assist traps right here from like G. Yeah, too. The thing about this game, too. The throws are a little bit slower than other games. You can actually slightly react to breaking it, but they do leave combo. Oh, that's good to hear from that from Rip. So, that's how they ended up doing it. This the the throws are reactable. Um there's a lot of other [ __ ] to react to. So, it's another thing you have to think about. Uh but the reason that is is because they can lead to combos. Like back throw can lead just to combos for everybody. pick up the knock down in the corner too. And look, this game doesn't seem like it's crazy with the heavy, but you do see a lot of people stopping their comos early and forcing you in the mix with that sandwich pressure, maybe sometimes having a tag. There is hard knockdown stuff where you can really force a hard knockdown in a mixup that does exist. Be very important. Speaking of resets, goes for the overhead. It finishes him off with an assist call. That's actually pretty interesting, especially considering you can get close outs on characters with just those small okie exchanges and the snap out. Yeah, this looks a little a little saturated. Doesn't look like this normally faster. Not entirely scaled, right? Exactly. Can you get a much shorter combo because that on the back? There's invincible versus heavy motion controls. Uh, no. No. The motion control of the game is not the default one. If you want to use motion controls, you can, but the only motions in the game are fireball forward, fireball back, and DP. That's it. tries to go for something sneaky maybe with the reset. Yeah, he's been wanting he's been wanting these lows. He's found a few of those slides so far. Oh, almost got picked up by that battle be string. Wait a minute. Mark. Uh-oh. Get off him. Assist ready to go. Had to jump in. Damn. Okay. Wait a minute. Once again. Oh, bro. It's over. Oh, dead for sure. Smash it. That is going to send us to the last remaining character on the side. DPS are weird, aren't they? No, no, no. DPS are weird in Tokon. Uh, they fixed the DPS in this. They were weird in the beta. They're they're fixed now. The most out of everyone here today. I think Cloud has the second most though, so just to caught you off guard. I mean, we came in the building and G was already up on the sticks and like no one else in and then Rip went immediately to play. I wanted to play. Okay, push blocking. I like that resource to just build monster girl. Man, this character has so many instances where she's going to get these hits in the air. is not going to work. Damn, the juggernaut super. I like the delay. Spin some meter on top of it. Okay, assist breaker. Stop all of that. Yeah, but he loses a lot of red health there and his assistant timed out. Right now would be the time where you have to go and try to find an opening and really make him pay for using that assist breaker and close out on his character so he can get his life back. Is this game more Marvel than KI? Uh, it's definitely more Marvel versus Capcom because you're you're playing like 90% of the time you're playing Marvel vs. Capcom and then like 10% of the time, maybe like 20, you're playing KI because of the breaker system. Get a little freestyle with the movement. Not able to close out that can cost you. Got the trade on the supers. I did not know what was going to happen. Monster girl with plenty of life left. Going to be able You like the speed of the game? I do now. You know, before I had some complaints about the speed of the game and the speed of characters. She's like, "Yo, that's I I definitely had some criticisms." But I think now it's in a real sweet spot. exhibition match, bro. Character that like lets him fly away, let him get I like that because attention to the combos, but we're going back into game two. Justin Wong with a clear victory. And I like how he's using his battle beast, man. Cloud is a player that's more focused on movement than anything. That classic assist. I'mma catch it and do it with a jump. And that's how Justin is really taking advantage. Last second there. Breaks out of the combo, but that just cost him his assist and some red life there on his battle for Justin Wong. But right now, you see they're sliding all around here. Look at this movement, man. Big dash punish as well. Great armor on his I was about to say Allan one of the newer characters especially on my side of a nice full combo conversion though and the tag no break laid on that breaker that time. Wow, that was cool. That was a good combo. Oh my god, body parts everywhere. And then he screams into the jump more. I'm going to be honest here. Cloud has ted the game. A lot of them wanted to run Cecil, but he wasn't available. Uh, really? He's not in this build. That's funny. Cecil got toned down a lot. Yeah, he has a lot more recovery on his projectiles and [ __ ] Pushing back. Yeah, Ceil was in the beta. No, he got toned down a lot, but he caught him. Watch your big damage on the board. No counter attack. Okay, trying to go for the double jump combos after the tag. And you can see they're going for like the singular movement and looking for that one big hit. Definitely a lot of tri jump. Goddamn Allen might have some of the best [ __ ] mobility in the game. Look at this [ __ ] dude. Double jump option. I think like these combos in the air, which look really cool. And I like how you guys vary up how people actually do their combos in the game. Like the prime example. Yeah. I think one of the big differences about this game that people don't really understand yet cuz they haven't had their hands on much, there are groundbased characters and air based characters. Most are air based and that just determines where you can boost. This game looks wild as [ __ ] Hell yeah. Airborne characters. It's a superhero game. It should be wild as [ __ ] Grounded characters like battle, you can only do it on the ground. Yeah. And that comes into like your resources as well, right? So you're This is the beta build. No, no, no, no. This game has all of the mobility changes, dude. Adam like this looks way like you do not remember what the beta looked like. It looks way different. In fact, since the beta um Oh, you mean the new one? Maybe the one next month. Yeah. Yeah, you may be. You may be right. Cloud the last character, right? You may be right. I thought you were saying the uh the previous beta because I'm like, dude, the entire game got reanimated. All the old characters got an entire refresh of animation. That you're going to get back anyway. So, you can see a chunk of a big chance here. If he can finish this one combo, he's going to get back all that red. Now, the comeback is possible. Okay. Okay. More than half life he gets back. But Justin been showing how he's been just the up back and heavy with battle beast has actually been the game plan. He wants you to over there are landing be whipping the air though, right? He's trying to cover with the assistant. The ult from Cloud is getting a workout. Oh my god, this is one of the coolest supas in the game. And it gets intense. Oh, those impact frames. Don't worry, I caught you a cab. Cool guys, don't look at explosions, though. I'm glad we keeping that superhero trope alive. Yeah, Cloud right now. Look at that boost. Catch Justin off guard. Justin swinging. You can see using that magic magic series to start it off. A lot of times light, medium, heavy. Even out. Wow, that's still picked up down normal. You still get that full series. A big combo pick up here. He's got to break this. He's going to attack it. He didn't tag. Throw back throw into combo. Justin Wong going to take the set over Cloud 8. They switched out Cecil for Allen the Alien in the upcoming open beta. Oh, really? Really? Too many people played Cecil. I'm guessing that's what happened. Too many goddamn people played Cecil, you know. Um, anyway, cool. Yeah, that was actually even better than I thought it was going to be. There were some genuinely like really cool matches and [ __ ] that happened there. Um anyway, yeah, I want to see Conquest in motion. I really do. I want to see what he looks like in the hands of the game's mobility and [ __ ] outside of the trailer. Ranked beta will have ranked and the top 20 get put into the credits of the game. What? What? Beta has a ranked and the top 20 get put into the credits. What the hell? That's [ __ ] funny. That's funny, dude. Wow. That's actually kind of neat. Can the bottom 20 be added to the credits? Can we add the the bottom 20 to the credits? We're just out here trying. Um, [ __ ] I want to play more. I want to play Invincible Versus now. God damn it. Uh, we got what, week and a half, almost two weeks. Son of a [ __ ] Uh, how would Max feel if Miyazaki made a Soulsorn Mecca racing game in the Hello Kitty universe with big Gordon music and a young Sheldon boss fight? Sounds great. Game out of game of the year. 10 out of 10. 10 out of 10. Game of the year. That was Fatal Fur yesterday. Good. Um, very fun. I thought it was very fun game. Uh, every time I go back to Ken, I really enjoy it. I'm thinking about playing more tonight. Yeah. Chad, should I run around um Ruby Oasis and just see what and just see how the changes are. Let me see if I even downloaded the um the update. I'm kind of curious how I need to update. How big is this [ __ ] Is this [ __ ] I'm kind of just curious. Oh, it big. Uh, no. It's two gigs. It's small. It's small. Not that big. Mario World. Monday or Tuesday? Mario World should be Monday or Tuesday. 2 GB is small. Yes. Uh time is ticking, I have to play Mario World. I I just do. I do. Read the patch notes. There's a lot of improvements for such a small patch. Really? I wonder if I'm going to notice how much there is because it probably affects like mid to endame. Um you stream Mondays now. I just stream Mondays now. I I just stream Mondays now. I guess so. That's just the way it 100% run. Uh, no. I'm just going to beat it. I'm just going to I'm just going to beat it. I just want to see what it's like, you know, so I can beat it. No stream on Sunday. No, I'll likely also be streaming on Sunday. Likely will. Do I will I try out Soros? Yes. Uh, Soros is my uh sequel practical sequel to my game of the year back in like 2021. So, hell yeah, dude. Hell yeah. Sus is the big dog that no one is ready for. Maybe. I mean, Returnal was some goated [ __ ] was some severely goated [ __ ] I I really liked that game. Going to fire up Eternal beforehand. With what time? I'm I'm not planning on that right now. The problem with Returnal is that it takes so many runs, you know? That's a big game. What does your sleep schedule look like, my dude? Uh stream till like 3 to 4 in the morning. Wake up at anywhere between like noon to 1ish. go pick up my baby. Uh hang out with her throughout the day as much as I can is depending on the day. Uh put her to bed and then stream. Uh not enough. No, that's enough. Like if I stop streaming at 3 to 4, I go to bed before 5. 5 to noon. It's like 7 hours of sleep, I'm good. I I honestly I to me, Chad, I'm a weird one. If I sleep more than eight hours, I don't feel good. I feel like [ __ ] But if I sleep like 6 to 7, like it's like it's this like perfectly habitable zone, you know? It's the Goldilock zone for me. A [ __ ] I said it. If I sleep six hours, not seven, you It's never going away, is it? I'm gonna have to get a 67 Benny emote. Yeah, I'm just going to have to get Benny going like this and [ __ ] animated. I'm just going to have to [ __ ] do it. Even my little girl goes and I'm like I'm like we we've read this book like six or seven times and she's like, "Daddy, she does the thing." I'm like, uh, yes. Yes. I combo breaker. Thank you. You're dead with five hours, but for some reason, you're fine with six. Yeah. No, I'm I am the same way. If you have five, I don't feel necessarily good. Um, yeah, the next meme will be even more annoying. How does she come across 67 anyways? She goes to school, dude. Like even kindergarteners know what that [ __ ] is. In fact, I I know they did to the the fac the the faculty smart, right? They had a 67 day where it's like, "All right, you [ __ ] get it out of your system." Like they had a day where it was like all about making the joke. So they had like an assembly for it just to let all the kids get it out of their system type of [ __ ] And I'm like, "Oh, that's that's actually kind of smart." So they were just all losing their minds and [ __ ] apparently. Even prek know six kindergarters invented it. I don't know where the hell it came from. All I know is that I'm jive with it, man. This patch is taking a while, chat. Hold on a second. Let me see what my download rate is at. Why has it completely stopped? Oh, no. We downloaded it. It's patching. It's updating the game right now. Okay, that's it. that I'm homeschooling. 67 was literally an Evo meme award nominee. Some of those awards are pretty funny. That's all I got to say. Some of those goddamn awards pretty funny. All All the All we have to do is get some decrepit ass politician to tell people at a rally, a televised rally, go get six or seven of your friends to go to the polls. It's over. It's totally [ __ ] over. It's [ __ ] done, dude. Nobody likes this [ __ ] anymore. No kings. I am definitely ready…

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