Glad Civvie has managed to escape the TnT Evilutioun mines for the time being

Here's an existential nightmare to consider. Sheep don't give you souls...and neither do enemies TURNED INTO SHEEP. So apparently being transformed into a sheep makes you lose your soul O_O

Love how Civvie videos are like "Here's an old game that's pretty good I like it" followed by a50 minute descent into madness

For anyone who's wondering, the weird chain thing the glyph does for the Assassin is essentially an extremely finicky trip-mine. You click and it shoots forward out from your body and attaches to the first surface it touches, then it fires a chain back along the original trajectory, which extends until it touches something else. When the chain is broken, a small explosion *travels backward along the chain,* killing anything in its path. If you know all this in advance, this is awesome. If you don't, it just means the glyph goes out, the chain shoots directly back towards your face, your face breaks the chain, the glyph explodes, and you die. The chain also has a limited range, and if it "breaks" by reaching the end of its range, the glyph just explodes immediately. This is what happens in the clip--Civvie fires the glyph, it attaches to the wall, then shoots a chain right at his face, which he dodges, the chain extends past him into the sky until it reaches its range limit, breaks, and then a tiny explosion travels down the chain's trajectory and clips Civvie as it passes by, and it kills him.

Civvie's little storytimes establishing the background of a game's creation are always so nice. No matter how short or long I always end up with a burning hatred towards Activision.

It's called an "employee productivity enhancer" at Activision, Civvie. Not a ballista.

Honestly one of the weirdnesses that carried over from Hexen is that the designers really had a hard time figuring out how to simultaneously balance different classes for the campaign and for deathmatching. Like the Wraithverge in Hexen and the powered up Ravenstaff in Hexen II were both massively powerful in the campaign mode, because they were so ammo efficient and you could fire-and-forget. They were terrible for deathmatching, though, because player speeds were so high and the damage was SLOW enough that the enemy player could kill you while you waited for the ravens to finish them off, and then you have to go collect all your weapons and items again. The obvious reason why Civvie didn't play the Assassin very much is that almost all of her strengths were made for deathmatching--hiding in shadows requires you to stand still in a darkened area and wait for enemies to come to you, which *literally* doesn't do anything in campaign mode because enemies don't come to you unless they're already aware of your presence, and then they don't "lose" you just because you've started hiding in the shadows. Meanwhile the necromancer is very transparently designed for campaign mode. The magic missiles for example are almost COMPLETELY useless in deathmatch, because the projectiles are so slow and player movement is so fast. Bone shards are only slightly better--they do a lot of damage, but the other three classes all have easy access to high burst damage projectiles, so while you're standing outside of cover trying to keep a stream of bones on them, they're stepping out of cover and firing a single meteor from the meteor staff which might as well be a rocket launcher. Even if you're using the powered up Ravenstaff, the equivalent weapons for the Paladin *and* the Assassin are both seeking weapons that will one-hit kill you. You have to fire like four projectiles worth of ravens and then frantically dodge instant-death homing projectiles for like 12 seconds while the ravens get the kill for you. It absolutely does not work. I played a LOT Of Hexen II deathmatch, and the mechanics of the games are always the same: you spawn, you head immediately for the nearest high-value item--a tome of power, one of your lvl 4 weapon parts, or the particular other weapon for your class that's best for deathmatching (Assassin's crossbow, Necro's bone shards, Paladin's axe, Crusader's meteor staff), and you pray you can collect all of the pieces to assemble your class's particular death-machine before whoever currently has their own death-machine running can use it to destroy you. You assemble it, use it to insta-gib whoever the current king of the hill is, and then frantically try and continue insta-gibbing the other three players before they can assemble all the components of their own death-machine, until you run out of mana or tomes of power and someone gets the drop on you, and then it repeats. It massively favors whoever is the current player at the top, and the only real difference between the classes is basically "How easy is it to assemble my death machine" and "how effectively can I defend myself if I don't have all the parts of my death machine yet." The Assassin has two different death-machines--the powered up Scarab Staff (which fires that hellraiser shit) and the powered up crossbow, which fires five auto-aiming exploding bolts. The Necromancer only has one death machine--the powered up Ravenstaff. Without both the Ravenstaff AND the tome of power, the Necromancer is forced to try and kill people with the powered up Bone Shards, which fires exploding clusters of bones which are kind of like the quake rocket launcher but with more shrapnel--effective, but it's a skillshot. Meanwhile the Crusader has a great early-game death machine because he can use the vanilla Meteor Staff or the powered up Ice Rod both as death machines...but only for the early game, because when people get more kills they level up, and once they level up they have too much HP for either of those to deal with. Their late game tools like the light ray need you to be CRAZY accurate against fast-moving human targets, and the powered up version of the Meteor Staff and Ice Rod all do this sort of crazy semi-randomized uncontrolled destruction which is good for preventing someone from going into a room, but not actually good for killing anyone. And the Paladin has the strongest late-game death-machines, because the powered up Purifier rockets are actually seeking projectiles which explode on impact and wipe out literally anyone in a single shot, but their early game tools are heavily limited by their lack of ranged options. The most frustrating part of all this of course is that the Demoness is completely and utterly broken in deathmatch, and all other classes become instantly obsolete as soon as she's an option. Her starting weapon is ranged, which is already a game changer. Both her acid spell AND the firestorm are completely viable one-hit kills when powered up with the tome of power, and the Tempest Staff packs enough punch to one-hit a player WITHOUT the tome of power, it has a homing projectile. She has like FOUR options for weapons that can one-shot a well equipped player, one of which doesn't require a tome of power, and she can FLY. The second we got the Portal of Praevus expansion back we banned the Demoness in deathmatch. She was such bullshit.

I love how every time he says Activision even after the graphic goes away there's still lightning sounds

The little lightning strike every time he says Activision is priceless

"Do you know what a Golem is?" My heart stops every time Cancer Mouse speaks

I worked on Portal of Praevus ages ago and while he was playing it I was trying to remember what levels I built. Pretty sure I built the very first one, I remember that, but beyond that the only thing I could remember specifically was making a room with a fake reflective floor. I was happy to see you died to a yakman there, and that I wasn't misremembering.

37:30 this moment here had me dying with laughter. Just the fact that Civvie as a sheep could do nothing except stand and spitefully baa and bite at the bosses ankles until he got blown up absolutely killed me xD

I remember back then when I was a kid, my mom used to work in downtown and sometimes she would bring back some PC games, they used to be cheap; one day, she came back with two boxes, saying: "the vendor said this game was bundled with something called 'expansion', I don't really know what that is, but it looks like two games in one". For my surprise, it was Hexen 2 and Portal of Praevus, soon to be my favorite game ever. I still show the boxes to my mother sometimes asking, "hey mom, remember when you gave me this? They're like pure gold now!"

Oh boy I’ve been waiting for this one. My mom bought this one in early 1998. We’d just bought a new computer and she used it to test it’s limits. Over the course of the next 6 months give or take, she and I raced to see who could complete the game first. I was 13 at that time. One of the most difficult experiences I’ve ever had. She played Necromancer and I played Assassin, I think a big chunk of my issues came from my choice of class, but I loved that crossbow. Since then I’ve played it multiple times, but I learned stuff here I had no clue you could even do. Might boot it up again this week. It’s about time I finished my Paladin Run. EDIT - my mom won the race, and to celebrate I bought her a copy of Tomb Raider 2, which we worked on soon after. Then just before the year ended, the two of us finally finished Robin Hood, Conquests Of The Longbow with a perfect score, a project we’d been working on since 95.

I'm so glad to see Cancer Mouse back. With a name like that, I'm always afraid for the little guy.

It's so disappointing seeing what Activision became, knowing it's origins as the world's first third-party publisher after a bunch of Atari 2600 programmers got tired of working for Big Atari and decided to branch out for independence. They literally morphed into the very thing they were created to get away from.

The ending hits differently, the way EA treated American McGee is downright soul crushing.

I like to imagine Civvie is real, but I wouldnt wanna live in a world where I have to live with consequences of Civvie being real

Civvie has conditioned me to feel terror every time the words "Raven" and "Activision" are in the same sentence.

My favorite thing about the Hexen videos is Civvie explaining the game's core progression in explicit detail in the form of a single sentence that goes on for all of some time. Many moments like 12:13 are what Civvie pours lots of care into, because he does it a ton. It keeps me so engaged that I don't mind how long he can talk about Hexen.

God bless civvie for putting two projects together in the same month.

As a student of physiology and tactics of yakmen: they have a bug which makes them completely invulnerable for a short time, because they can "block" attacks, but the block state remains for a time. This makes shooting them at all a huge waste. You can circumvent this by only attacking them when they're also attacking you.

This game is so good and had an outsized influence on my childhood gaming years. Custom fit for kids who loved knights, castles, ancient Egypt, Roman myth, monsters, etc. Top 5 of all time for me.

17:36 The most hardcore hellspawn of all time. He followed you into the lava just to keep beating you up, even if his own death was mutually assured.

The song in "Civvie Goes Insane for an Hour in the Desert" is "Samson & Delilah" by Shirley Manson, who is the lead singer of Garbage. As far as I can tell, she did this version of Samson & Delilah for Terminator: Sarah Conner Chronicles.

Civvie really working hard in the clown room for out entertainment

Of note the button in the Forge in Blackmarsh doesn't show up until you read the book in the secret altar about it. You can't just sequence break there, you have to touch that book once for it to show up at all.

"I just have to stop the Wheel of Time." Now I can't help picturing Civvie angrily shaking his fist at the ghost of Robert Jordan.

Funny thing about that floor tile puzzle, you have to walk over them slowly. If you do it too fast, it fails, even with the correct combination. It works consistently better if you wait for the floor tile to return its normal state after you walk past it, before moving onto the next one.

Medusa is the single best enemy to run across as the necromancer. If you crouch and melee them, they cannot touch you, and necromancer's ability to leach life means medusas are living medkits for you. War is also the easiest of the horsemen, and the trick to him is laid out all over his arena: Discs of Repulsion/ They reflect his scythes back at him. Just run around with the speed boots to gather a bunch of them, then spam discs when enough of those get close and he'll kill himself.

I adore this game despite its flaws. One of the most atmospheric games ever made. The soundtrack is so perfectly gothic: it's not showy or bombastic, just dripping in mood and perfectly fits the environs.

The Treasury Key has 3 different generation ways, depends upon which path you take at start of King's Court 1) Generation in Stable:- Most well known, you notice a diary near hay stack that tells you to dig around near tree near the forge by a shovel 2)Generation in Inner Courtyard:- You go to Anton's cell to figure out he has treasury key. You dig his grave with help of shovel to find out Treasury Key. 3)Generation in Palace Entrance:- In King's Court, there is a Butcher's Shop. Go down in that shops cellar to find a diary that says, "Treasury Key is buried in a place where water flows upwards". You go to Palace Entrance and go to outside area with fountain (water flows upwards). Here you dig with shovel to find the Treasury Key.

Civvie's videos prove how rich the FPS genre has become over the 30-something years of games. Truly wonderful.

You can just see at 29:18 the pure confusion, rage, and relief just the movement of the camera. Perfection.

When I was a kid I made it through Hexen without any hints, just because I didn't have internet at the time. Say what you will about how frustrating this game is... It's all true. But I love it, and it can be finished entirely on engagement and determination. A little later, as a teenager, I couldn't get through Hexen 2 - I got stuck on the Egyptian level and never understood what was required of me. All my life I thought I was lacking in wit... But now, thanks to Civvie, 11 I know... And yes... It wasn't worth it.

Stay tuned for Civvie's upcoming sure to be a hit single, Yak Man Fever!

Friendly reminder: u can push Werejaguars with discs of repulsion into lava 😊

09:07 - The magic missle effect is fixed in an unofficial version/fork of Hammer of Thyrion port which was last updated in 2021. It has problems with transparent textures being fullbright, otherwise it's ok. It's also fixed in the FTEQW port, but the bone shard weapon gets broken instead. That port also feels off from the others. Even the original (also in software mode) has this problem for some reason. 07:02 - It's a tripwire like behaviour. If you throw it on an enemy it won't do any/much damage. You have to stick it to a wall or floor. 09:57 - Checked the map files, there is no 3rd weapon for singleplayer in the first section. 13:38 - If I remember correctly it can also place the key here: 14:53 15:24 - Not only you need to use the swim up key for this, but you need good timing and a lot of momentum to jump out. Edit: 21:42 - There is a working trigger push zone that would work, you can deactivate it with any trigger later. Also it makes a wind sound if it pushes you. It was used in the addon and it works with the main game too. There is also an interval repeating trigger if it could be turned on again. Almost forgot you can set a key to the "lift object" action, that works with any pushable object. And for some reason even on enemies. You can kill any enemy if you jump or drop on top of it enough times. Only does minimal damage, but I could kill the imp with it. In the map editor you can exclude any class, difficulty or deathmatch mode from any dynamic element (doors, walls, buttons, items, etc.). Update: Other comments pointed out that the CD version doesn't have this bug with the magic missle. Tested it: version 1.03 or 1.15 (unofficial) doesn't have this problem. Source ports don't really work with the 1.03 version. UQE port only works with 1.11. Hammer of Thyrion can work with 1.15 and the transparency bug is also fixed with that.

I played the whole Hexen saga (starting with Heretic) with a friend, coincidentally named Exen, a few years back. This one was simultaneously the one I enjoyed the most, and the only one that gives me puzzle PTSD upon the mention of Egypt and drives me into a trance from which I always wake up several days later, naked and with my hands bloody in the middle of a nondescript farm with no sign of the owners whatsoever. Great games, yo.

It's good to see Katie back. I missed her.

I don't know why, but I'm so tickled by your choice of using Sonic 2's special stage music. Definitely fits the chaos

This is one of those games that I played as a kid, confused me, ditched, then dusted off some 10 years later, finished with a guide, then replayed like 20 times in a row from memory

I remember banging my head at the Egypt combination puzzle for so long, since you have to go through it correctly three consecutive times, doing each one of the patterns. But the order is not randomly decided when you start the puzzle, it's set when you start the level and resets if you get it wrong, so you can just quicksave before each try and be done with the whole thing in two minutes.

Hexen II was my introduction to FPS games as a bright eyed child, there was nothing like getting into my parents computer and just getting lost in it. And I still love it to this day, flaws and all. Later on I even played split/controls with my little sister which was super fun, and hosted LAN parties.

Two things I wasn't expecting today, two Civvie videos, and a Civvie video with a "Young Frankenstein" running gag! Thanks

I love how the thunder goes off in the background when he says ...Activision... Even in the normal part of the script

Not only it's Hexen II, it have Dark Tower references. Pure gold.

Stylistically, Hexen 2 holds up _very_ well for such an old game. 1997! Man, what a time! I never liked the gameplay much, but the models, textures, enemies... God, I love this game!

Fun fact: as a kid I got completely stuck about ten minutes into Hexen II and couldn't work out how to complete one early level. We didn't have the internet back then, and none of my friends had the game, so that was that lol. Never got to play more than those first ten minutes.

"You see, in the 1980's Steven King did 50% of the worlds cocaine, but there are *other* worlds than theses..." If that's not an opening to the new "Dark Tower" streaming series then I don't know what is.

Thanks, Civvie. Unironically. It's been too long since I watched the Terminator tv series.

The assassin may not be the best character, but she was the most fun imo. Trying to make the perfect grenade throws never gets boring.

I used to play this game sitting in my dad's lap when i was like 6 yo, i controlled the shooting button and my dad the rest. SO many memories, and so many hours searching where the fuck to go damn you hexen You keep bringing memories every video, and i have no people of my age that had played games like this so i can only talk about this games with my dad or watch your videos, i fucking love your content civvie

50 minutes of Civvie partaking in my main childhood memory. I got Hexen II on a CD off a games magazine, and from the first time I watched my brother play through Blackmarsh, the passion hasn't waned a bit. And it was the first game to teach me any English! I need to play Portal of Praevus.

Yay cancer mouse

That lightning strike on the Activision logo, this is AAA content right here. Just mh mh mh perfect. Love Hexen 2, everything about it. One of my all time favourites. Although Heretic stuck the most. Even more than DooM tbh.

Civvie's John Carmack descriptions are worth a like and 5 replays alone.

3:36 I think cancer mouse is getting in through the vent, we saw him in it in the end credits of that one episode where civvie pressed a button and drowned himself in boxes.

Also, I reccommend the unofficial 1.14 patch for Hexen 2 and the 1.15 patch for Portals of Praevus, these fixes among other things the transparency bug Civvie 11 described here!

I see that many enemies in Arcane Dimensions come from Hexen II. Also, that Zan took a lot of inspiration from here for Hedon.

You're right, it's not a ballista, it's a springald. The difference is simple, a ballista fires a rock, a springald fires a bolt.

7:40 always tasteful Civvie, 10/10 would lel again

Civvie, I have been at home with a back injury that I'm about to have surgery on. Thank you sir for bringing a smile to my face.

I'm amazed at how many adjectives exist to describe John Carmack

The wizards were ported to the Quake mod Arcane Dimensions where they're just as annoying, but at least Quake now has wizards after constantly making references to having them. Yakmen too, only they're actually pretty simple in AD.

Subbed to this channel for retro gameplay, fell down the #FreeCivvie rabbit hole, and now I come for the lore. "Oh, hey Civvie." Dying. Best Cancer Mouse yet, with the possible exception of "The chip will be delivered though the bloodstream and contain the beta for Windows 11."

I'm so happy I found this channel. I laugh so hard at your frustration, but in a good way. Also, your ability to explain things and add humor is second to none. Thank you and Katie for doing this, thank you so fucking much. 😂

Hexen II is like Turok 2 where I love it but there's always a point where I get stuck and just stop playing (the game gets pretty cryptic)

I remember this game really well. The egyptian hub was an absolute nightmare with obfuscated and impossible to figure out puzzles. Blackmarsh was also a serious pain because of the quest items that would randomly show up in different places and it took forever to find them.

Oh, the satisfaction for the obsessive-compulsive in me that this video represents... Thanks, Civvie

Played when it came out. Got just beyond Egypt. Put the game aside and “forgot” to pick it back up. I was sooooo exhausted from it. Ty for the rant / depiction of Egypt section. Made my night.

are we gonna ignore how PERFECT the sync with the lightning was at 1:14

I've been waiting for years for him to finally cover this game.

This was my favorite game when I was like 8, when I wasn't playing it I was reading the guide book for it which I carried around so much it started to fall apart. So goddamn happy to finally see you do this video

I didn't even know this game existed. Man it looks so awesome! I love the first Quake so playing more of that sounds like a dream come true. Great video as always Civvie.

Great game. Loved the puzzles and getting lost in the levels. Fun fact about the Assassin and the Death fight, you can fly behind him and constantly backstab him for lots of damage

Who our friendly rodent palthat lives in reactor 3? C-A-N-C-E-R M-O-U-S-E Who's irradiated fur is slowly killing me? C-A-N-C-E-R M-O-U-S-E Cancer Mouse! Cancer Mouse! He by passes top security! Cancer Mouse! Cancer Mouse! Has insane tips for you and me!

I think this is the game I briefly played on a computer at my dad's work place. One of his coworkers was playing it and let me play for a bit. Probably should not have been loaded onto a government computer inside of a locked and secured room on a military base but these were all programmers in the 90s. Little things like "rules" or "regulations" or "national security" wasn't going to stop them from using the beefy PCs at work to play Quake engine games.

As soon as i heard "there are other worlds than these" i smashed that like button.

The powered-up Raven Staff looks like something Grimbeard would be proud of. As for Humiliating Death, I imagine you'd probably get the opportunity if you played Dante's Inferno.

Oh, I have waited for this! Hexen 2 is one of my favorite unfinished games along with Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines.

Thanks for the upload Civvie, it's a nice break from the soul-crushing monotony of fruitless job searching.

You're back and you're an absolute legend. So happy to see an actual video and not some 15 second clip.

My day improved exponentially just five minutes ago or so. Thanx Civvie-11, always coming in clutch

Love Katie's edits, Civi has some bantz but she's the one that gives these videos that specific flavor.

Great videos all around, thank you.

From one editor to another, Katie, you're great.

We technically got two Civvie vids in one day and I am okay with this

I've been waiting _years_ for this one. It was pretty close to worth the wait, too.

You are spoiling us. Thank you Civvie. For your content... and your sacrifices in the Clown Room.

never played more than a demo of Hexen 2, the ingame callout to Big Trouble made me smile

Amazing way to start my week. I never got past stage 3 on hexen 2 but then again I got the game when I was 13 lol. I'm still holding out hope you'll do AVP Civvie ! great content as always

I love this game, and I thrive in civvie's tears.

3:37 - אני יהודי.ה מישראל ואני יכול.ה להעיד שהקונספירציה להרס ת'יריון על ידינו אמיתית לגמרי, 100%, ממש כמו עכבסרטן. עכשיו אני תוהה אם האלגוריתם יאהב את ה-engagement הזה או שהוא יקבור אותי בחיים. בכל מקרה, הערוץ הזה מביא לי קצת הנאה בחיים של סבל טהור. היה נעים להכיר.

i love this channel. i need to play this. i actually loved hexen 64 when i was like 10.

I love how its recognizebly Quake but astonishingly well done

That time in the Clown Room must have done Civvie some good. He's back to playing frustrating but fun old school shooters again.

Underrated masterpiece IMO

I remember playing the demo of Hexen 2 from a PC Gamer CD, and then I ended up buying the game shortly after. Man, I miss the day of demos.

Been waiting for this since the Heretic and Hexen video. Knew it had to be coming. Happy to see this.