Part 1: TF2 has genius weapon design Part 2: Existential crisis about Valve's continued neglect

I think the push for realism is harming games as weapon design is often handy capped by sticking to realistic portrayals of real life firearms.

This is honestly one of my favorite TF2 videos in a _VERY_ long time, and it's an excellent take from someone not already stuck in the TF2ber community.

11:25 "Just minor differences between all your different choices." Proceeds to show the Iron Bomber

I'm officially checking my og status before 1k

You sir, are so refreshing I love the editing it doesn’t feel pretentious or overdone and it gets true job done. And your voice… it’s so… powerful. I like you.

This is genuinely a fantastic video, keep up the great work, and I hope to see you rise through youtube's algorithm

This was an amazingly comprehensive and well rounded analysis of game design that would usually work so well in the background

Honestly thought I was watching a youtuber with over 100k Subscribers because of how good the video was, but how surprised I was to see how many subs you have. You deserve way more for the content you make!

Oh wow I thought this guy had more subs. The algorithm did good and also great vid.

I found this vid through someone sharing it in a tf2 discord, and I'm glad I gave it a shot. This is a very well written video essay, and I shall watch your career with great interest.

I think this is also an under appreciated part of bf1’s game play too. The various wacky ww1 weaponry gave a lot of variation between weapons and gameplay styles

Fun video, I really like your editing and how you script things! I see so many videos about why x or y weapon is dogshit for one reason or another (because they usually are), but it's refreshing to take a look at how great the overall design aspect of this game is

Great video and very well made, hope to see more videos from you!

Watched 2 of your videos and they’re so proper and well crafted and detailed. Already my favorite person to absorb information from.

the smg and pistol for the scout are useful weapons. the balance of the jarate and mad milk in most scenarios is that you lose those weapons for items that only debuff the enemies instead of dealing direct damage. by the way, random crits are not a problem if you account for the chance that any damage taken might be a random crit. the less damage you let the enemy do, the lower the chance you get hit by a random crit. yes, even hitscan can be avoided reliably.

We gotta thank the good boy for fighting the bot crisis for this long. He's a trooper

I don't know why, but the 0:46 bit is what made me subscribe right after seeing it. Something about it just screams "you'll enjoy this dude's content" And then I finished the video and I indeed enjoyed every second of it

Nice work! This is probably the most refreshing tf2 video I’ve seen in a while.

I adore your humor both visually, via text, and what you say. Subscribed thank you for making my day

this is a really fun and thought provoking video, keep it up!

That Smart Pistol comment made me think a little bit, and I realized that it the smart pistol’s design is awesome, it was just a little OP. Yet another reason to love TF2. No, the other one.

Great quality video! I can see you growing a lot in the coming months!

Awesome video man, the editing, music, cohesive points.

Damn, dude! Nice video! Your channel will blow up real soon if you continue with this quality!

Great video and really happy for you it's getting a bunch of views!

Wow this popped up in my recommended since I watch a lot of TF2 stuff and I made it 20 minutes into the video before realizing it wasn't done by one of the "big names" in the community. 2k subscribers is wild for the quality put into this! Very nice job dude, keep it up!

Damn this was like... really god damn good, how come you only have like 500 subs, this is like top notch

ayo got this recommended and this is a really nice video good job also dont forget at 13:09 the sydney sleeper can extinquish teammates (btw idk if this is intentional but when you were counting the five major things tf2 weapons do to improve the game, the way you wrote the numbers were all ending with "st", even though for 2 its "nd", 3 its "rd" and past that its "th")

Don't discount the audio design; knowing that a player can identify what weapons they (and others) are using (based not just on visual, but solely on audio). This is GOOD game design overall.

absolutely amazing edits, i am melting into this video rn, this gives me SsethTzeentach and uncle dane vibes

Well done. I can’t say I agree with every point that was made but your production quality is most certainly up there.

Yo this came up in my recommended. Hope your channel grows!

very high quality video, subbed

I just want u to know i scrolled past this but then thought about the thumbnail some more and i was like "this probably goes hard" and i was hooked like 1 minute in on ur comedy and style

great vid, pretty well produced. One criticism is that your audio levels for your spoken track are all over the place, you might wanna look at that in the future. Also the background music track was almost non-existent, those levels could be messed with a bit too. Overall, great vid and I've subbed, can't wait to see more!

This felt like a video made about TF2 by someone who doesn't actually play it very often.

Love the video. Interesting break down of TF2 weapons.

Very nice video and very good editing.

What a video! Enjoyed it the whole way through, your humor, editing style, and analytical nature had me hooked. You've got quite a way with nudging people who don't know much about the game in the proper direction, and return focus when needed. This was fun, witty, entertaining, and educational. Keep it up! Hoping to see more rad content from you in the future.

Very fresh! killer thumbnail design

This video was honestly really well made, and you're pretty funny d-(OuO)z definitely subbed

Wow. You’re, like, good at this whole youtube thing. REALLY good.

2:56

This was pretty good. Well done.

i have a feeling the channel's only gonna go up from here good job, the algorithm gods have blessed you

Thanks for mentioning the detonator for movement. Bc thats my go to weapon i LOVE. It has around corner timing wich i enjoy and gives me movement

One thing, the Hippocratic oath is a complete side-grade. yes it is stock with how damage is dealt with, but like you said. "items can give characters whole new ability's." and when playing medic it is an information game, if the other medic is better at gathering info than the other one that could cost the entire game. but the usage is really only used in comp because your team can organize around the newly collected info. but yes in terms of actual gameplay it's bone stock. great vid i liked it but i just wanted to clarify, cheers

Good video. It's weird you have only like 800 subs

This is quality content man!, glad to see the youtube algorithm agrees

when i legit saw the video, i thought u had like 100k subs maybe more, but turns out its almost 500, keep up dude, u might be famous, and thank you for the video

Excellent video!

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Dawg I looked at the subscribe button thinking you were some 100k sub youtuber I hadn't seen before. Lo and behold somehow fewer than 1000. You're going to make it big, man.

Very very well made. Hope the algorithm keeps you alive.

Hey there, great vid! keep up the good work.

im seeing comments from 5 hours ago saying you have 30 subs. as i'm watching this you have 155, congrats on the algorithm blessing. it helps that the video is really good, i was surprised you have so little

Here at 2.6K. Good job mate!

13:15 God damn you, HE IS BURNING while you are holding the Sydney Sleeper!!!

Good stuff pal! Earned a sub :)

This video is so good, and ur voice match the quality

Subbed for the Sydney Sleeper love. I have a Spec KS Strange one (with non-crit or mini-crit Strange Part) and it's my pride and joy

Great video but if I have to say something about your script style I would recommend that whenever you give an example you should lead up to it. You spoke about how stock Spy is boring here 17:40 but you gave Engineer as an example of your point. It is fine to do so but for a viewer to follow along it is quite jarring to just jump from point to point without a connection between. But yeah cool video keep up the good work.

The weapon balance and nuances of the weapons remind me alot of deep rock galactic.

this is an incredible video that gave me a renewed appreciation for my most played game

That stray dog line hurt my heart

9:59 i didn't knew Demo's eye moved like that lol

This video actually brings up a great part of game design that I subconsciously slipped into forcing into pretty much every game I can. For example, the loadouts I use in Battlefield 1 are as gimmicky as physically possible, which I think is most apparent by my Assault loadout, where I use the Frommer Stop Auto which fired its entire mag in about a second, has shit control, and low damage, but in 200% damage servers (the only ones I have fun in), it's just barely more than enough to get a kill, I also use the howdah pistol, a four-barreled shotgun pistol (that also happens to be in TF2), which also has abysmal control, but will annihilate anything you can hit, paired with these, I also run the AT Rocket Gun regardless of what clutch piece of engineering can spawn on the map, or even if it's there. I use that thing to sniper people from the longest ranges I can to obliterate them in the most absurd way possible. Hell, I play Support and tanks like they're snipers too. Making the game as strange as possible with as standout weapon designs as I can is the only way I can have fun in games. I dunno, just seemed interesting. Thank you for bringing this to my attention. I think people care way too little about good & interesting weapon design. Sorry for the wall of text.

Nice video!

underrated channel

Yk that thing where people say here before so and so and it’s really quirky I would never do that I love you too much I wish you luck in blowing up amazing video

"or aegis reflector" randomly reminded me how much fun it is to hit the unblockable set ups into corner loops and steal rounds doing 75% off one anti air conversion, god i love 3rd strike and i'm glad those types of insane tools are cool.

Another good example is halo. Even though it's a major AAA game franchise it doesn't fall into the pitfall of having just copy paste weapon design. All of the weapons are just outright wacky. Most of them are effective killing machines, some are just pure utilities, but all of them are unique.

in titanfall/apex i'd more consider the iconic weapons to be the flatline or the RX01 series, they're instantly recognizable and awesome

Another game that shares this type of "weapon design" is the Garden Warfare series with its character varians. Basically every character has diferent variants that either sacrifice some of its DPS for an status effect (fire, toxic, freze) or completly change how he is played. A clear example of this is the Castus that can go from a sniper-like class that is efective in medium to long-range combat to a Bandit equiped with an automatic neddle gun (?) that sacrifices damage-per shot and acuaracy that dominates in medium to close combat.

TF2 always holds a special place in my heart. It was one of my top 3 games to play back in 2009 and I always looked forward to playing after school. I loved how different the gun play and feel the game had that was different than what any game at the time had. Also afking at a farming server for loot was always fun haha!

I was going to sub, but then I saw you voted "no" to Halloween mode. 15:39 I was wondering who the guy was that votes no. Looks like I found you.

I love hearing people who don’t normally make tf2 content attempt to explain the bat shit insane mechanics of tf2.

Damn, didn't realize I'd watched this guys vids in the past, just going through Kaluka's channel after his most recent video. Give me more!

fucking hell thats actually scary that you read my mind about the BFG like instantly

Sydney Sleeper is more of a Dennis Rodman weapon. It’s not about putting up a lot of points, it’s more about getting rebounds. Edit: I respect ground strike soldier.

Undoubtedly, this video is the best example of why I love TF2 so much.

The dragon's fury is everything a sidegrade should be And then there's the detonator-jumping axtinguisher madmen

what the hell man you are too good for 90 subs only

My brother in christ, you need more subs.

5:40 it's true, i side main demoknight, it's so satisfying to run into a room and kill 2 people and die, the fact that he's a drunk "black Scottish cyclops" adds to how funny it is, it's also terrifying when you see someone fly from the skybox and decapitate you

They should have done more with the weapons. They should have pushed what was acceptable in a balanced fps. They did do that for a good chunk of the weapons, but each of them should be very unique. Fun in its own way.

i havent watch the video so maybe its in there but id like to shoutout the pump shotgun with a drum "mag" on the front of it. there is no way in frozen hell that thing would function but its so silly that it just works in my mind

The classic story of a high quality, undiscovered KZfaqr making a video about TF2 and then blowing up.

Lovely video

Quite entertaining. I will admit I wasn't asking a single question that you, Kaluka, imposed on me using the second person. I hope that spiritual invasion worked better on others.

Underrated channel

Thank you for your video

Nice vid

There was potential for a full battle engie loadout, complete with mini dispenser and mini sentry. Valve ripped the new pda away before it even came out

Is that actually a picture of you at 0:48?! 😯 Just messing around, keep up the good work

Fantastic video def gonna sub! My only critique is that you sometimes loop around and make the same points that you did in previous parts of the video which makes it mildly repetitive and drawn out. Besides that, perhaps full weapon and mechanic explanations instead of brief mentions would be a better idea for outsiders who haven't played tf2 before.

Cool af, 1+ sub

This level of editing, and 197 subscribers? Well I just gotta be 198. It's worth noting that, while the wrangler is the best example for engineer's lack of balance, it's not the best example of his weapons being designed around his counters. As far back as the introduction of the southern hospitality that's been a hallmark of his sidegrades, but when the pompson was designed to drain cloak and even uber, and the original short circuit set up a near-permanent No Explosives zone around your gun, the wrangler was actually outclassed as a counter to his counters.

I dead ass thought this was a dedicated tf2 channel with like 200,000 subs for a second 😂