It makes me genuinely happy to see eclipse genuinely enjoying a good game instead of playing garbage and getting hate comments for it, you go eclipse!

if you enjoyed this gameplay I guarantee you’ll enjoy Ultrakill

closest thing we're gonna get to eclipse playing ultrakill

Hello, to answer the question about the soundtrack, yes, Potoe did make all the soundtracks! I myself actually helped with May The Heights Collapse and SEARCH AND DESTROY, mostly on guitar and drum work so it's nice to see OST get some attention. I love the game a lot as well, truly fire.

3:30, for anyone curious to try the game, the sword isn’t actually that bad, it has several combos which are incredibly game changing, most notable being the early game Sword and Slingshot combo, which can turn into sword and Flamethrower. Both of those items have a little,mechanic from ultrakill, where you can fire off a “coin”, and hit it with the sword, similar to the flamethrower except it’s slower and explodes on hit. (I saw my friend use this in our duo run, and it killed damn near everything.) Oh! And there’s pogoing, which is hard to explain but is a very good movement option.

There's lots of good games in Roblox that are ruined by locking stuff behind randomness, "spin for ability" type of stuff. It's nice to see games that don't lock stuff with RNG, totally gonna give this game a try.

One step closer to a probably never happening (said himself from a QnA) ULTRAKILL video

Potoe is actually the soundtrack designer, he also made soundtracks for Dummies versus Noobs, the other game MiGato (the guys who made hellmet) made, before making hellmet. (all of these games are connecteddddddd)

another tiny thing: this game was greatly inspired by Ultrakill, meaning a lot of things you think might work do. my favorite thing to do with the slateskin potion and cannonball/timebomb is fly above the (current) final bosses head and quite literally slam dunk on it. it also topples the entire thing and my god is it fucking amazing. Edit: I only just know realized almost every single comment talks about the fact this is inspired by ultrakill lol

This game is basically a cool spin on ultrakill, where as there you mostly have weapons with variations, in CI you get to have 3 or 4 weapons by the end of stage 4 (latest stage at the time of writing) and instead or getting variations, you upgrade your existing weapon. The upgrades are usually either a buffed version of the existing weapon (katana, cannonball, multi rocket launcher) or a new gimmick (for example, firebrand has slower speed, sets on fire, fire blast attack) There's a good reason like every comment is comparing it to ultrakill, as a lot of the weapons, techs, enemies and bosses are basically stylized recreations of their ultrakill countrrparts, for example, i think the current final boss, great dracobloxxer or whatever his name was is meant to resemble the leviathan, although he looks a lot more like a metal gear ray

Eclipse, "Combat Initiation" is actually inspired by Ultrakill. Go play it Eclipse, You won't escape the ultrakill fans unless you play the game. PLAY IT.

How many times did we tell you you'd love Ultrakill?! (This message should be read as a light hearted message, not a criticism) This game is heavily inspired by Ultrakill, so if you loved it, you should definitely buy Ultrakill, you'll love it. Fun fact, Potoe did make at least some of the game's musics, as you said, and they also did Hellmet's ost :D

Didnt expect you to review this game. I know you already said you wouldnt in one of your q&as but I like being stubborn, you should try "ultrakill", its the fps shooter that inspired this game and seeing how you liked it you will definitely enjoy ultrakill

here is a few things to keep in mind, Melee hits heal, dashing and then jumping lets you do a long jump letting you go super far, you can pogo using various things such as the sword or rockets after a long jump letting you cross the entire map in a few seconds, verticalality becomes easy once you realize you can pogo up walls, as the game goes on the game reveals a lot more. the progression in of itself is knowledge of how to better play the game, this is why I would recommend playing in multiplayer servers to learn from others or try to discover more things for yourself. (hope this helps you understand a few of the flaws that you pointed out) Edit: levels are mostly for more skilled players who don't want to play with newer ones, and the big part of goals in the game is getting a better rank than C and grinding out your skill to you dont die even once and maintaining your score.)

I've been waiting for this! I love it!

So happy you played my suggestion and enjoyed it, knew you would love it, love your videos, dont stop making them!

I was excited for this review, W vid

The person who said that eclipse wouldn't like ultrakill must have their eyes popping and their jaws dropping after looking at this one.

I'm actually super happy you enjoyed this game. I adored it while playing with my friends and its super replayable.

god i love videos about games you enjoyed. keep up the good work Eclipse! ❤

i think the best part of combat initiation is when the great 8 snowmans get summoned and you have to duel against them

I recommend trying Decaying Winter. It's a loot and shoot wave survival in 1st person perspective with 2 different endings. You lose if all team members die during one of phases. It's really difficult yet really rewarding when you learn.

I played this with 3 of my friends, one of them did play it with me when the 3rd stage was the last one, and the other 2 are not a big fun of this kind of games, and we all STILL had a blast, using the grapling hook to melee the giant dragon robot while my friends dealt with the drones it spawns, while also parrying the missiles back at the giant beast while it disabled my hook, its a thrill you hardly get in other games at least at this level. Glad you played it. Even if it doesn't change much for me, im still glad you enjoyed it.

Thank you for finally playing my favourite game! Theres a lot more complex techniques like nuclear reactions and slam dunk if you needed to know. This was my go to game in roblox and seeing you love it, It makes me happy. Love what you do eclipse.

the level design verticality thing makes sense, but they give you some tools to get up, such as the tubes up to the tall towers on stage 3 bouncing you up high, to pogo'ing with swords, etc. very happy that eclipse checked out this game.

6:57 there is a trampoline in the blue tower next to the building that lets you get on top pretty quickly

I played Combat initiation when it started getting popular a few months ago, and then again in this content update, and i gotta say its an excellent game, and after wanting more gameplay like it i decided to buy ultrakill, I strongly suggest you try out the game. That being said, great video as always Eclipse, keep it up!

LESGO Oh yeah, also about difficulties, devs said they’d add modifiers instead to make the game easier/harder for more/less rewards Also-also you should upload your first playthrough (if you recorded it)

Potoe is the music composer for Combat Initiation, he also made all of the boss themes for Hellmet's sister game Dummies vs Noobs, as well as some songs in Hellmet itself. So I'd listen to those too since according to yourself, you're passionate about sound design.

I found this game through a friend a day ago. Happy you also liked it! Definitely inspired by ultrakill, though. No doubt about that.

Bosses and mini bosses (most of them) from ULTRAKILL. Thanks for showing me this game!

It's been a long time since i didn't watch your videos Eclipse, but you're still here on KZfaq to see how Roblox games are with humor and etc., anyway thank you for showing me everything on Yba before, because this is how i discovered your channel and I like it, so i know you for 3 years ands maybe more now, so yeah, thank you Eclipse, continue all your great work on KZfaq man.

and after all they probably won't listen to what people say about progression , it's an fan game about ultrakill , and also the game is pretty new , so the leveling system might be for later , as they only recently added accessories, The difficulties might also be added in the future as it's basically an ultrakill fangame , and ultrakill has standard and sandbox mode but also 2 way easier and 2 way harder modes as of right now, the musics are also inspired by ultrakill, THE GODZILLA ROBOT has been inspired by the earthmover from ultrakill , if you haven't played ultrakill yet and like this kind of gameplay but you wish it was longer try ultrakill

i LOVE combat initiation, being well made and fun with good mechanics, and being based off of my favorite game (ultrakill)

As someone who has been playing this game for over a year, I am SOOO happy you finally covered this one!!! And every single one of your criticisms coincides with my ones, so trust me, you're not alone in thinking the progression and other things fall short. Also you played at exactly THE RIGHT timing because last week a mega update dropped where your favorite stage ( rocket arena) was released. The game used to be worse back then, but it's a game in development and that's to be expected. All we can do is wait and thank the devs for like, everything. Also potoe indeed did create the ost, but someone named FPLester appeared as a cameo artist and made what is currently my favorite theme i the game, king's theme. (castle crusher)

I'm happy to see you covering this game. Also I did not know they added a level 4

Hey Eclipse. This game is great, but if you ever play it again after an update, just know that if you dash and then jump really fast, you fly at mack fucking ten, which is a mechanic based off Ultrakill, also if you get the shotgun kind of upgrade for the paintball gun, you can parry your own bullets and turn them explosive, which is also based off Ultrakill.

Nice video!

I've been so excited for Eclipse to review this, especially after update 2.0!

Nice to see you playing this game

The timing... I just started playing and learning this game and then this video cones out

This game is so goated like had me kicking my feet while playing bro I felt like a kid 🙏🏾😭

Thank you for playing Also sorry for recommending it without any description.

the sword is actually insanely versatile, it can sword pogo which carries momentum, allowing you to fly across the map at mach speeds, the parrying mechanic superboosts projectiles, allowing you to redirect them at your cursor for MASSIVE damage, and best of all the weak spot on the tanks takes like quadrupled damage from swords

decaying winter next ( suggestion l

"why dont you play it already ?" i have ultrakill sir

SO glad eclipse finally played this its so much fun with friends

Hey eclipse! Looking at this video and when you were talking about snipers, it reminded me of another game called 'Dummies vs noobs'. Not sure if you have tried it (I'm a bit lazy to check) but playing the game was a very fun experience for me. Just a recommendation for you to try when you're bored!

eclipse MASSIVE oiled up gyatt clapping recoil

For glass houses you can use dash jump that makes go really fast and if you have rocket boots paired with it you can traverse the entire map in seconds, if not the same dash jump is good enough for mobility. Love your content keep up the great work.

new eclipse upload! truly a celebratory occasion

Glad eclipse is enjoying good games

Hey Eclipse, the combat initiation video was good myself has played and loved the game but some problems with that video in my opinion are the sword nitpick and level nitpick 1. The sword nitpick is mostly untrue sword is not only good for mobility but for bosses take Jason he has a lot of attacks that you can parry which deal a ton of damage but also restore you health and sword can be used for mobility for "Pogoing" and scaling walls. (This part is mostly opinion based) but saying the glass houses are weird map is strange the map has cover (houses, tunnles, behind the hills) I get how there isnt very much cover but there still is some and the cannons on the top of the towers can be scaled if you used (jet boots, sword, grapple hook,ect.) Other than that I agree with your video and I think its a really good video!

thank god u played this game i love this game so much and have wanted u to play it for so long

about the "tweakability" of the gameplay you mentioned in the difficulty section the next update will add modifiers that should change up difficulty and gameplay a bit i doubt more difficulties will be included in the update but i agree that it would add more for experienced players and give less experienced players a chance to play the game

LMAOOOOOO I WAS LITERALLY THINKING OF SUGGESTING THIS GAME TO YOU IN DM'S YESTERDAY 😭

Yooo I absolutely love this game too!!!! I definitely recommend revisiting this game soon because theres lots of hidden techs with combinations of weapons like hitting the trowel wall with superball auto targets the superball to enemies. I do understand the weakness of the sword but mention the pogoing tech with the sword and the mobility of it!!!! Truly love this game and your content you a real one

I was one of the earliest players who played the game at february and i'm proud that the game gets a lot of recognition of the 2.0.0 update because it is a MASSIVE update and i remember that it took 3-4 months to update the game which is 2.0.0 (excluding the april fools).

I wasn't that interested in this game at first because I don't like roguelikes. But now seeing that it's basically Ultrakill meets classic Roblox, I might give it a try. Thanks for the recommendation

Mr eclipse thank you for playing “Ultrakill” it means a lot. It was a disappointment to see you belittle my beloved sword but I understand, your play style would never see the full potential of it. Thank you for this amazing video

Wait a second. That's illegal! Another good game review!

What you can do in this game is honestly awesome. The movement can be amazing with certain items. With the sword you can dash and jump then slashing the ground with a sword to pretty much bunny hop across the map

Combat Initiation looked really good. I don't know if eclipse just really sold it well, but I'll definitely be jumping on with some headphones and some fellas to run this. Soon as I heard the sound tracks I knew I'd have to at least give it a try.

There are some player accessories that guarantee a certain gear in the first 4 options after defeating Jason, they are unlocked with achievements that are directly related to what you do with the same gear you use

Hey eclipse, quick tip for subsequent runs; if you jump right after a dash you can perform a sort of super dash that takes more stamina, but lets you travel twice as fast. On top of this, after using one of these you can go into first person and throw either a superball below you (to bounce off of it) or hit the floor with your sword to jump higher and conserve your momentum. No clue why the game never tells you this although it’s an intended feature, but oh boy, as someone who uses it all the time was it a pain to watch you move so slowly. Also play ULTRAKILL, I know that you probably won’t but it plays a LOT like combat initiation, and well… the game’s simply a masterpiece.

Hey, Eclipse! I'd like to say that the reason there's so much verticality (in glasshouse) is because you're expected to gave gotten some way to deal with it, for example hitscans/auto aims (e.g. gun, ray, ricoshot gun + sling coin, sling coin + sword, flamethroer canister + sword), or some mobility gear or through pogoing which is available with most weapons (they've created a guide for it in game)

As a lvl 15 these are my 2 go to cosmetics for the noobies out their 1. Tixplosion- you can get this in sandbox and gives u a extra 50 Tix in every run which means, at wave 5 you can buy your weapons upgrade (except upgrades that cost 200 Tix) 2. Xenotargeting oculus- this easy to get that you might accidentally get it in a run. This cosmetic allows you to see the HP of any enemy. It's very helpful when trying to prioritize which enemy you can kill.

as a tip with the sword, you can use sword pogos to preserve your forward momentum which means it pairs extremely well with other mobility items like jet boots or just dash jumps, since you can pretty much cross the entire map in seconds with it

Game is great, and it gets greatly more challenging as you progress, having allies and possibly friends also increase the experience of the game, I don’t know what has changed since I’ve last played but the little time I played was very fun, I hope the game gets more support as it has plenty of potential.

Love how eclipse is on a trend of introducing us to peak (I'm still playing block tales, though i will wait for demo 2 to release)

Hey Eclipse, just wanted to say that a lot of this game's mechanics (I.E. the parry system and the movement system, and a few of the enemy types) are inspired by ULTRAKILL, and indie that's about $25 on steam, though the game is still in early access, with it's main gamemode, the story being a little over 2/3 of the way done (3 acts, 2 of which are done) It's an amazing game, and I highly recommend it if you enjoyed this one!

im so glad I decided to play this game before finishing the video blindly going into that boss fight was insane

Finally a game that eclipse really enjoyed and i do hope underrated games will soon be recognised

I knew he would like this game from the first time i played it and i was so ready for him to make a video on it

I'm happy he made this it showed me a very, very good game that I just got to enjoy with my friends thank you very much man.

about the difficulty: the next update is about modifiers, which will change your run by making it harder in some way (or perhaps easier?) with the effect of more/less points/xp

It makes me so happy to see him actually finding games he likes recently

the sword is actually one of the most important weapons in the game, parrying gives you so much health and is often the best way to deal with certain enemies, slingshot and flamethrower's alt abilities straight up dont work without it, and it has a shit ton of synergies as well.

Btw, with the sword you can parry attacks and pogo with the sword. Something with mobility, you can dash then jump right after so go super fast. When you combine this with pogoing, you not going to land on the ground for a while if you’re good enough.

That game is really fun i love its most recent update because it adds a reason for players to return to the game with accessories so imo the update was worth it

Movement is were the sword comes in. You can attack the ground while in first-person. If you time it, you can basically fly around.

The sword is one of the BEST weapons in the game Between the fact that you can parry (almost) EVERYTHING and that you can use it as a combo with other weapons to even deal more damage it makes it a must have

snipers can be parried but yeah i generally agree with your issues with the third level. I didnt even consider the issue with the tower tank until you brought it up because i usually upgrade my rocket launcher to the one where it has an alt fire that fires enough rockets to one shot

since you really liked combat initiation i wonder if you're going to try ultrakill one day since a lot of gimmiks are taken from ultrakill, glad you liked combat initiation and i hope u have a nice day :D

Hi mate, great video, would you be willing to cover a game called Fantastic frontier? Its on the less popular side (barely getting 100 active players atm) but its a game with lots of love and care put into it, and has a loyal community. Keep up the good work!

I felt it when Eclipse talked about the longevity of Combat Iniciation and comparing it to Hours, because those are two of my top 5 favorite experiences on Roblox.

Glad this guy actually found something good in a while now :D

Hey eclipse, the part where you are talking about the tank spawning on a tower is actually really easy to deal with, so let me tell you some counters that make you life easier - 1 : If you noticed the tube, you can actually walk into it and theres an elevator, the elevator will teleport you up the tower, which makes climing up much easier (the tube is where you mentioned the pit area) [i am also not sure if this is true, but its from what i remember] - 2 : If you decide not to do that, you can dash behind the tank and shoot its weak point with a rocket launcher, which might not some viable at first since it flings you, but it deals TONS of dammage (1 shots if you didnt upgrade to bazooka) Also, For the Music, Potoe is the main Producer, And We've seen a little bit of FPLester's work, as he created the King's Theme ! (Wave 35) Potoe Has Created : The Crossroads Theme, Jason's Theme, Chaos Canyon Theme, Glass Houses Theme, Vagabond's Theme, Rocket Arena's Theme (31-35, 36-40) And The Drakobloxxer's Theme.

You can use superball and sword to jump across the entire map by looking down and either striking the ground as soon as you're about to land (you gotta be looking all the way down) or looking down and using the superball. Of course, you definitely want to start it with a dash and jump, but if you combine both of them? The mobility is nuts, and it's honestly so fun to do. It's not really all that great though

hey, i realized from the background gameplay that you were doing normal dashes, if you jump and dash at the same time you go REALLY far and it uses 2 dashes (i just thought I'd point this out, the video was amazing)

The next update they're working on is adding modifiers for lobbies that can make it harder or easier. So give it a couple months and the lack of a lower/higher difficulty will be addressed.

There are ways to make the 3rd map easier with certain movement abilities, if you dash and jump nearly at the same time it uses 2 stamina and absolutely launches you combine this with a rocket jump when you're about to hit the ground will let you quickly close the distance between sides of the map, also you can just stand on top of the tanks and shoot their weakspot

Yeah, Potoe made *most* of the OST in Combat Initiation. The only exceptions are "I'm Being Reelistic" (Captain's theme) by Omnitica, onf of the only two soundtracks that weren't made specifically for the game, the classic "8 Bit Weapon (Bitblaster Mix)" which plays while you choose your weapons which also isn't an OST, and "CASTLE CRUSHER" (King's Theme) by FPLester

The sword isn't so much as a secondary as a tech in and of itself. You can Pogo and parry , which has many things to do with other weapons. For example, notice how parrying makes a projectile explosive? There's a trick that allows you to parry your "Scatterblaster" bullets in order to make them explosive and deal way for damage simply for having the sword equipped. Pogoing allows for greater mobility along with dash jumping, which allows you to go really fast for really long amounts of times, really you were correct, but its really for adrenaline junkies and Witches' brew addicts.

as u said the sword is better as a secondary weapon. It has a lot of synergies, so its very versatile. If you are in the air you can also climb walls, and combo enemies with the sword by just aiming at them.

hey Eclipse, I think one thing you heavily missed in this game are the movement mechanics. Looking off of your gameplay, I don't think you're aware of shift jumping, which is when you press shift and space at the same time and it causes a long jump that uses two stamina bars, which makes it way easier to deal with and get to those towers with the canons you were talking about. Another movement mechanic you missed (which I don't blame you for missing) is pogoing. If you long jump with your sword out, and stab the ground right as you're about to land, you do a pogo jump, which you can continue to do until you inevitably miss the timing. You can pogo with other weapons too such as the superball, where pogoing is where more straight forward than the sword, in which you long jump and throw the ball at the ground, giving you and extra jump. You can also pogo with the slingshot, but that's a little more complicated than the others I just mentioned. I suggest trying this out yourself in the sandbox mode, or just looking at pogo tutorials, it genuinely blew my mind when I learned this.

Eclipse, for level design the problem u have navigating is resolve by dashing and jumping at the same time which causes a superdash and combined with other items can send u flying into the air its really fun, i hope u find this comment

Speaking of game reviews, can you go over the game unusual force 4, it’s a fighting game based off of yakuza. Hope you see this message, and keep doing what you’re doing!

60 other people have probably said this already, but you should 100% play ultrakill since it's combat initiation's inspiration and has basically every aspect of this game you loved, just amplified a lot with probably the 2nd greatest video game soundtrack (below terraria calamity mod) and one of the best stories in a game.

-openned the video -"go play the game" -had a fucking blast playing it with some friends -came back to watch the rest of the video