Turns out I have the worst timing ever when it comes to videos as the dev has added a bunch of new content pain

The creator plans on more moons, monsters and items, so yeah. We got ourselves probably the best indie game in awhile.

One thing that wasn’t mentioned: LC has tons of potential staying power because of how easy it is to mod. Drag a single file into a folder and you have increased player limits, new skins, new mechanics, altered variables with different enemies and maps certainly to come. Much like L4D, the community can do a lot of heavy lifting

Ahhh the video game where casual gamers becomes a A - list voice actors.

My favorite entity is the little girl since only one player can see her and she is so rare. It’s really fun to think a player is gaslighting you only to have their head explode.

It's hard to notice sometimes, but the coil heads don't just kill you. They destroy your head and shove a coil in your neck stump. So you can be a coil head just like them!

The most enjoyable thing to me in this game is the More Company mod, so we normally have 8-10 player lobbies, and then using the inverse teleport for half of us, and the other half have to find us. Nothing beats the fear of not knowing where you are in a pitch black mansion being followed by 2 coilheads, a jester is active, and a bracken just got your friend

agreed on most of the enemy critiques minus jester jester serves as a skill check for careless groups going in deep without giving much mind to where they're going and where they've been the jesters weakness is it's greatest strength, and it greatly increases tension as once it's starts following you that mental timer of "i need to get what i can and bail asap" starts and the winding down further emphasizes it, i personally find it a great "gtfo now" enemy design - keeps you on your toes and with planning can be countered easily (you can shut it down entirely by locking it behind sealed doors) but if you don't have a plan or you weren't paying attention to where you were going you can only pray giants 100% need a nerf / counter though they're way too strong with way too little in counterplay which is agreed on by everyone additionally (at least with those two bracken clips) the cause of death there was that while you glanced at it, you're teammate(s) did as well however at different intervals - which still builds up the anger meter as it's universal not per-person

I really appreciated that last post-script ananlysis; even if unintentional, it speaks to the experience of a lot of workers everywhere

I cannot stress how much I love the sound design in this game, not just for the Proximity Voice chat, but all the ambient noise and non-ambient noise the game employs. From the creaking of the pipes, to the sound of footsteps, the sound design is top notch.

4:57 The fact that you never even heard him die is terrifying

Played this game for the first time last night with a couple of friends, we went in blind and never have I lauged and sh!t my pants in fear so much in the span of a few hours. It's a fantastic little game

tbh I'm surprised at how good the dev executed coil head, it's an overdone gimmick but they still made it interesting, by design alone it already is and it's a smart way to indicate that it's there, and the fact it's not entirely instantaneous movement is also fun so there's a brief moment where you can theoretically react to it but most of the time, your senses move faster than your realisation. I like coilhead.

Easily one of the best and most creative video games I’ve played in a long time

The “Fuck You Baltimore!” opening was perfect, Happy holidays Bricky!

The little girl is scary, but I’d say the Jester (Jack in the box) is waaaay more terrifying. The fact that thing moves faster than you combined with its heavy footsteps going faster and louder as it catches up to you makes it a Steven King nightmare.

There's a rumour that if you can get over that giant wall where you deposit all your loot to the company, you'll see an Amazon warehouse on the other side.

I like how not even a few hours later, the creator posted a update that added new stuff and fixed some problems. Lethal company has been a blast with me and my friends and I honestly see it as a "Its like 1 AM boys lets go meet a Quota!" type game, which I will always vouch for!

I've been conditioned to see giant spiders and start shouting "EDF! EDF! EDF!"

My friends and I have been playing lethal company so much that we're starting to think about adding more mods just to change the experience up a bit. We already mod with More Company so we can all play together at once, but it's genuinely such an incredible time

I love the idea of prox chat being the standard in games like this and multiplayer games in general. It's a very simple inclusion that grants a very interesting type of immersion.

I think part of the reason the bracken goes full neck snap is because two people look at it at generally the same time. The clips you showed all had a teammate that looked at him even after you stopped. I myself have seen it multiple times, i see a bracken, look and then look away. After i turn around i see my friend looking straight at it and at that point you just have to book it since its just gonna run you down

A versus mode would be kinda cool, you and another player land in the ship together, but everything you collect goes to your own quotas and it could be like a 2 v 2. Seems like it could be fun.

The timing is insane, just watched this then stumbled on lethal company's newest update.

There is just something about the Lethal Company dance, in a game where your life expectancy is less than 3 days, which resonates with everyone. I don't know what, but everybody loves it.

On that ending note, when I first saw this game that is legit IMMEDIATELY where my mind went. In that this game is kind of critical look at today's corporations by taking what's currently happening to a dystopic level.

Can I just say how perfect your videos are? They are comedy gold whilst being informative. I respect you for not just being loud =funny

4 randoms getting dropped into a danger zone for someone who would only be mildly inconvenienced by your demise has got to be my favourite game genre as of late.

I really appreciate your post script meta analysis, as it's definitely something me and my friends felt both in our own lives, and in the game's message. So much so, that often times when we played, we ended up singing the worker's song. And if you don't know how that one goes, here's the refrain We're the first ones to starve, we're the first ones to die The first ones in line for that pie in the sky And we're always the last when the cream is shared out For the worker is working when the fat cat's about

The funniest thing ever is that he just released two more enemies and a few more loot pieces as well as some monster fixes. Your timing is amazing Bricky

Truly a brick moment to have

Lethal company is like the battlebit of horror/coop games for this year. Once again making a statement that massive companies can be btfo by indies that are FUN, and that proxy chat is the greatest gift in video games. Even if battlebit kind of died and did have issues I got more enjoyment out of it than any other shooter in about 3 years, and lethal company has been my nonstop now for about a week.

I think in addition to a possible permanent passive system, there should be a progression system and purchasable upgrades in the store that last per run. Like being able to buy extra inventory slots at higher and higher prices per slot, and having better items/upgrades locked until you're reaching those higher quotas. Maybe even make enemy corpses carryable as loot so you can promote yourself from a scrap salvage team to an exterminator squad and go Bracken hunting.

This game is fantastic. I think it figured out the core of what co-op horror games, like GTFO and Phasmophobia, are trying to do, and executed it perfectly. High risk, high reward, high stakes that feel fair, and the game is fun to parse and figure out. It also doesn't really draw things out too long. I went in blind and it took me and a buddy 2 hours to really "get" the flow, or learn anything useful. They also made dying... fun? in a way other horror games haven't quite figured out. I think my new dream is for the devs of Lethal Company and Phasmo to make something together.

Nothing beats spectating your alive friends stumbling about, trying to find the ship that is right behind them.

Bricky's such a good game reviewer- probably amongst the best on the internet. His criticisms are constructive, he's a realist about money and enjoyment, and he takes care to discuss the developers behind games. Love you man, I hope more reviewers are inspired by your structure!

My favourite clip to think about its 13:07, because once his friend came back in it would just be the thing Bricky was carrying and a trail of blood horrific

Played this right after it came out with some buddies and thought I would only play it for maybe an hour or two. Played like 7 hours into the early morning and laughed so hard at being murdered that one of my friends pissed his pants. I absolutely love this game

Frankly, the Jack-in-the-Box should be a walking indiscriminate apocalypse within the facility/mansion. Make it easy to manage by introducing a mechanic where it becomes triggered when too much noise is produced, have the trigger-entity marked for initial death and then have Jack wander the facility killing anything that is too loud. Players already have sneaking mechanic so that's covered, but also have other monsters freak out when Jack is active by (for example) Coil-Heads not daring to move during Jack's tantrum - throwing some steam off players - but have some animal-intelligence monsters (thumpers, scavenger bugs, etc.) be near-guaranteed kills due to continuing to move. And for players, they have to sneak for the remainder of Jack's tantrum, but if Jack is in the same room/has player in its sight, player should cease all movement to be spared or to "honor" it.

„That‘s what you get“ sent me to floor laughing

Always a good day when bricky upload

Not only is this game great in and of itself, its an interesting and fairly novel formula. And I'm interested to see what others will do the concept. Cause you know whenever somebody has an ounce of sucess everybody copies them.

Something often forgotten about a lot of these games is that it can very easily live on with modding support. If the game was made by just a handful of talented creators, imagine what a huge community filled with talent can do to the game with a modding scene? This game may die in the mainstream, but with good modding support, it can live on for so much longer. But, like you said, it doesn't have to. I've already easily had a 10 dollar experience with the game, and it is wildly successful.

This game really makes me want to implement more proximity chat in everything

Honestly I want it to have more staying power, it's genuinely one of the most fun games I've played with friends in a long time and if the dev can keep it going I'd be ecstatic. Like Vers. 45 just released, there has to be more to come.

"I know its a bit shorter" I mean i like this one, a lot more consumable in one sitting.

Bricky and the bois becoming professionally voice actors that outshine other movie stars whenever he plays Lethal Company

”Full-on Horror Game“ I sleep. ”You can use a shovel to engage in melee“ KRIEG HAT GESÜNDIGT!

The deleloper of Lethal Company made It Steals which BRICKY NEEDS TO PLAY! (Because he will shit his pants louder and harder than he have already done)

Zeekerss also made The Upturned, which I highly recommend. It's singleplayer and has a similar comedic horror blend to Lethal Company.

I'd love to see a system where you could spend money made in game on like, basic cosmetics. It would give you a reason to keep playing, you could strive for a goal

To explain a bit more about the Braken and how to work around him. The three stages it has revolves around how much fun it’s having. It can easily murder your entire team instantly but it doesn’t because according to the dev’s that would be no fun. So it sneaks around and kills you when your back is turned because that is just more fun. This is considered its HUNT phase. Whenever someone looks at it, it backs off because now it can no longer sneak up and kill you like it wants, so it will enter its FLEE phase and try again at a different angle. But if you decide to follow it/stare at it for too long. It will get angry because you’re not giving it an opportunity to play it’s game. This causes the Braken to enter its MURDER phase, where it drop its little game and just kills you outright because you’ve ruined its fun. It can also enter its MURDER phase if you back it into a corner, because how can it have its fun if it’s trapped? So the best way to survive the Braken, is to constantly be aware of your surroundings and to NEVER pursue it. Do those two things and you’ll be fine.

even without updates i see lethal company as a great game to hop on once in a while with friends

the great thing about the game too is that not only is the creator saying that he's gonna add more content, but we have modders to make it even better, and that does make me hella happy

Hold on guys. This company is getting lethal!

wait it's the same developer as "it steals" that makes so much sense

I just love Bricky's facial expressions at 14:20 where at first he was about to laugh after seeing his friend do stupid shit, then realized he was all alone in a dark facility and the smile disappeared.

The thing with the Bracken is that it doesn't discriminate. What I mean is it takes it a shorter time to go in kill mode if multiple people look at it and when it goes into kill mode it doesn't go for the person who pissed it off but just go for the closest person, so for some of those clips you can blame your friends who both were continuing to look at it 16:32

It is incredible timing for Bricky to release a video about a game and mention wanting more content on the DAY that same game releases more content.

A historical step for all of gaming

I think Braken has an anger meter that rises each time you look at him and it never goes down, the more you glance at him to make him back up the less likely its going to work next time.

From roblox dev to indie dev I truly feel like anton ego "Not everyone can become a great artist; but a great artist *can* come from *anywhere*."

I am LIVING for that Big Bill Hell’s cars homage in the opening ad, loved it

Dude the guy who made It Steals and that hotel horror comedy game??? Actually such a talented guy. Always crazy unique ideas

Crafting would be epic, imagine finding a bolt, sheet of metal, large axel and v-type engine, and putting them all together to make a Drive Train or some shit

Lethal company players, picking up there children from school, when they hear another kid winding a jack in the box: 💀

Finally! I knew you were going to cover this and I waited for your video 😭

The bracken is time spent looking at it, the more people who look at it multiplies it by per person so if all for people look at it for one second its becomes 4 seconds spent looking at the bracken.

I don't know if it's just the lighting, but Bricky can soon play a classy Santa Claus with a white-ish beard. Best Santa, pls bring me 40k figurines please and thank you

Just something to note: Thummpers can be killed fairly easily without going on a railing - it doesn't feel needed to me and if you are caught of a railing spamming shovel hits at it whilst it's killing you when on full health should let you live if you manage to dodge even one single hit When you first see the thumper it will not rush - it will slowly walk towards you it only really rushes when you try to run away or a certain amount of time has passed Meaning to easily kill it simply rush it the second you see it and hit is whilst tapping the sprint button / back key to ensure you aren't taking any hits The same concept is true with spiders however they're fair more gimmicky and hitboxes are too weird for this to be done consistently (especially if you have ear in your inv casusing weiht to be added First time I killed a thumper in this game was without a railing simply because I didn't know about it :D For the gaint - go on top of your ship and kite it so your teammates can go inside somewhat safely Still isn't a guaranteed safety for your team but if you're kiting well you will be fine going around the antenna of the ship You CAN kill dogs - it's just extremely hard to do If you dodge the dogs first lunge and hit its arse it tends to repeat the lunge animation into the wall and you can keep spam hitting it (12 times) to kill it alternatively and my personal favourite Bait the dog into a lunge with a key or something metal during a storm Dogs can die to lightening and you can kill them with it with keys somewhat consistently On some maps you can lock the jester in a room assuming you have a teleporter and some co ordination with your ship captain Go onto a pipe if there is one and the jester cannot kill you so baiting it into a trap is a little easier then other monsters if you have good RNG

What's also crazy is one of his games, It Steals is also a really really good horror game.

Really hope the creator does indeed add a lot more, and not only that make enemies specific to certain moons instead of sharing them through them all. I've seen some interesting suggestions like, changing the giants to be slower but also have beam lights for eyes so that you can see what they are seeing is interesting. I also would love to see the different bioms hosting different enemies from each other, like how the sand worm is specific to the desert worlds.

First time I have watched a video and I have already subbed. You've got some nice passion, good editing, and I think you're channel is one I will be happily follow along!

Bricky: writes, films, edits and releases review; mentions lack of items and monsters Zeekers literally 3 hours after this was uploaded: AIGHT BET HERES MORE CONTENT

tbf on your criticisms, zeekers themselves said in the EA faq, How is the full version planned to differ from the Early Access version? “I want Lethal Company to be so full of creatures, items, customization, and map variations that it feels "infinitely replayable." This is the type of game that benefits from being full of stuff. Besides that I want to iron out most glitches and tighten the game's design and difficulty so it can be enjoyed by new and experienced players alike.”

I do hope they continue making content for this game, and I especially hope you keep streaming it. I've had so many laughs watching your vods/streams for this game, genuinely smile whenever I see some of my favorite content creators playing this game.

“LETS FUCKING GO!!” To immediately body sets a new floor to ceiling world record. Got me so good 😂

This has the vibe of some of my fave Half Life 2 mods, the wacky ones that let people jam together models and mechanics and occasionally someone would create a weirdly compelling co-op experience. This is awesome.

8:16 The dev actually added an Arachnophobia mode today!

Nice to see a bricked up video on Lethal Company

I remember one match we didn’t make quota because one of our teammates bought pajamas, so the rest of the crew reloaded the save. We then proceeded to sell 2-3 bodies and rage quitting soon afterwards.

Wonderful timing bricky, you posted the video extremely close to the last update that will now end up murdering a bunch of people who try to cheese enemies on rails lmao great video as always!

Started playing this not too long ago, was the noob of a team and we were doing a mansion run- A bracken was hunting myself and a mate, and I turned around just as a spider tore him down. Leaving me to sprint out into the dark, hoping to not die. Tentatively, I creeped back to the spot he fell- retrieving the cash register he gave his life to collect. After which, I stumbled and struggled my way through the dark- warding off a bracken just in time and feeling a wave of relief as I exited the mansion. Only, to be sent careening 20 feet into the air- I dropped an engine outside the front door, and wasn't aware it'd be struck by lightning. So just as I escaped, I went nyooming- to the chorus of my teammates laughing as they died the same way. 10/10. Fucking hilarious game.

22:38 idk, I would call what this dude has probably made "riches". Game has sold like 2 million copies, and after steam takes its cut thats still almost 15 million dollars! Dude is set for life and 100% deserves it!

the Skinwalker mod is so great at enhancing close prox radios as the coil-head starts to talk toy you sounding like your friends

What you said about clips and horror movie moments is so so so true, I'll never forget when I watched one of my friends vanish before my eyes as a bracken snatched him away into a dark hallway, leaving his flashlight to fall to the ground followed by dead silence.

Coilhead footsteps give me nightmares, ptsd, a need for a new pair of jorts, and a long sobbing hug

BEEN EXCITED FOR THIS ONE!

I like an idea of quota thresholds that like...say you get to 1000, you get a slightly larger ship, which can store more loot, has more lockers, can fly further to higher tier moons, stuff like that.

Its funny how the few things bricky had an issue with were all answered perfectly in Balatro

3:34 You take that back! Leave Spiritfarer alone 😂

The skinwalker mod for the bracken is the best. Hearing your friend’s voices while you’re alone in the dark looking for an exit kicks the bracken up a notch

I think the thing about game like this is it's like what you said, a social platform, so it will keep resurface from time to time because there's a funny update or people just have a fun scary and goofy time

Been playing this game with friends, and like Bricky says, makes the best clips.

The game's even more fun with extra multiplayer mods and a goon squad you can rely on for a fun time. Feels like a bunch of da Boyz going on a scav hunt to take the edge off and turn horror into dark comedy

mods are also definitely adding some fun stuff to the game too.

"The head crabs that fall from the ceiling onto people faces can just be wacked off" -the brickster (2023)

I have watched your How to videos on League, and Overwatch, and I watched your videos on left 4 dead. Now I am here and it's kind of reassuring the same Bricky comedy is here and I love it

Its a gem everybody should enjoy

Throwing my "Idea Guy" out there. I would like it if you could buy personal upgrades to your suits. Like say spend 400 buckaroos and get either 1 or 2 more slots to hold items as an "extra pouch". Have other upgrades too such as sprint enhancers, stimpaks for health, and maybe even an extra battery that you can buy and hold. I'd make it where if you DIE these things disappear. So it's high-risk high-reward. With spray paint, walkie, and flash light you're already 3/4 slots. Even with just walkie and flashlight you're down to 2 items being able to be carried. Which ends up more often than not having it where everyone runs in with a flash light and no walkies, which cuts out the ship aspect of the game. Having even just 5 slots is a huge difference, lets you bring both flash light and walkie while still having 3 slots for loot.