Black complains about whining. Proceeds to whine incessantly the whole game

I've only been watching for the past month or so, but I have seen you made a lot of small subtle changes to make your content more 'beginner friendly'. I am delighted to see the direction your channel is going and am looking forward to more great content like this. :) keep it up

Man, that chat was on fire!

LMAO physically laughed at “I do not know why I did that.” Digging through outta music!

I have no idea what algorithm put one of your videos in my feed, but I'm glad it did. Your high level of game play, detailed explanations, and clear love for the game make these videos fun to watch. Plus I feel confident I can beat my buddies next time someone brings out the Catan board given what I've learned from you. I always pause right at the start after learning your placement position and see if I can correctly identify the picks.

every single one of us gasped and feels your pain at clicking the knight instead of monopoly

I've just binged through all of your content. I didnt even know Catan before! Thanks for the entertaining videos :D

Red: a big part of Catan is a mental warfate Black: but it's whinning Red: which you seem to be pretty good at *SHOTS FIRED SHOTS FIRED*

Awesome video! That ending was so sad, but your narration was pretty hilarious (and still genuine). Thanks for posting it!

25:51 I would have built the roads along the coast, just in case you may take a sneaky longest road with a roadbuilding, or trading your resources (especially your ore) for roads; ok actually its not really sneaky etc. but if you connect your roads it would have given you one extra road

Glad you moved to colonist.io , seems like a much more friendly platform. So cool that you got sponsored by them!

At the beginning, you asked the viewers where they would have started. I started where Black did. That 4 on brick is basically the only brick in the game. Very important. That's why black won.

I feel like you need to play a bunch of games with only a 30 second clock or like a 10 second clock so you when you switch back to a 60 second clock you will feel like you have ages

I subscribed. Saw you in my recommendations a couple weeks ago, and your placement strategy videos got me back into the game (I'd played it years ago when I was a kid, but very poorly). I don't subscribe to many people - in fact, I'm only subbed to some 6-7 channels after many years of using KZfaq, but I've been so impressed by your high quality content and analysis that I now count you among those channels. Please keep up the great work!

I feel like first settlement should be the 8/4/3, where black first settlement was. The clay is super important, you get really good ports and it seemed pretty clear that at least some dessert spots with wheat or the sheep/wheat/ore port spot at the top would be free. All pretty good spots that work well with the first settlement. This board looks like a lot of dev cards are going to be played and you need too much dice luck to really secure that. So 8/4/3 seems 'safer' just because you are way more flexible with winning. But maybe the 2nd settlement would be too weak to support that, hard to say for me.

Hey DyLighted - I LOVE watching your videos. Because of you I switched from catan universe to colonist and I have had SO MUCH FREE FUN! Between colonist and you I feel like my game has really improved :) I love your content...I love to relax after a long week watching a video while I cook or hang out. Its so well edited and you can tell how passionate you are. Thanks for all your hard work :) P.S. black was hilarious this game. ...

Been waiting a while for this!

Fine, have my sub. Strategy game players have to stick together.

My man really never asks to like, subscribe or hit the bell, and we take advantage of him for it. Man... you deserve to promote yourself!

Hey man! I'm a big fan of your work. Its crazy that in just a few days I went from a beginner to actually playing all the time. You showed me some great placement tips and how to become an ore-wheat-sheep god. If anyone is reading this I would highly recommend the game. It is under-appreciated, and if it got the attention it deserved it would probably have a reliable online service. Thanks!

26:00 I would've placed my roads along the coast as it allows you to more easily connect your roads and sneak in a longest road of 7 length for a win

Wow I actually deduced correctly where you would put your first settlement. I’m learning guys!!!

Thank u for being my inspiration for this game. Is there any chance I could gift u an even better microphone? I think its necessary to sound as nice as possible in this kind of analysis videos.

Wrote some thoughts as I was going through the video: 1:38 I like your spot and your reasoning behind it. I think you also could consider the 3-4-8. It's the only good brick spot and it's pretty likely you can get wheat and sheep on your last placement. Not sure which one I would chose in your position. 23:17 Why don't you cash in some of those wheats for a brick or wood? You just picked up a road building.. you can try and build a settlement next turn on the ore port. I'd say this is pretty urgent considering blue is going for a competing spot. You could also try trading a wheat for a brick or wood too. Did you consciously chose to buy another dev card instead of this, or was it not something you considered? 25:56 You placed your roads in the wrong placement.. you should have gone along the coast to the same spot instead so you could potentially connect to your other settlement for longest road later. 31:29 You bought the 2 dev cards almost immediately without stopping to consider your options after picking up the mono. After getting the mono you could have built a settlement bringing you to 8 points, meaning next turn you could have attempted to use mono to steal longest road and claim the victory, or use the mono to build 2 cities at once (which would now be possible as you'd have 2 settlements on the board). In fact building a settlement is just straight up better than fishing the deck for a VP card, regardless of the other reasons. 32:33 If you had've used your roadbuilding earlier correctly, you could have mono'd ore on this turn and built 2 roads for longest road and won the game right here. And if you build a settlement the previous turn instead of buying a knight, you'd be on 8 points with 1 sheep 3 ore 2 wheat at the start of this round, then you could mono for a minimum of 3 ores (as you just rolled a 9), which leaves you with 6 ores to convert into 3 roads - this still would've allowed you to take longest road and win even with the incorrect road building placement. 34:00 Crushing defeat. Maybe also time to focus on eliminating the scenarios where your turn ends before you've made your moves, this seems to happen to you pretty frequently, and stopping those unforced errors is probably the easiest way you can improve your results. Would have loved to see you in the grand finals! Great video nonetheless, thanks for sharing, really enjoyed this tournament series :)

Man. I love your commentary and your drive to provide value to others. The lessons at the end really seal the deal

Another great educational video, thank you so much for your effort in producing these. My concerns about Colonist are as follows; 1) Even under fast mode it takes about an hour to get through a game versus 20 to 35 minutes on Universe. 2) I have a harder time following the graphics to see what people are comments about, trading and receiving when the dice roll, knowing how many resources I have. Even you seemed to lose this game due to the graphics in this episode. 3) When someone drops and the computer takes over, the computer is much dumber than in Universe, its just not programed as well and it is not as competitive and makes really stupid plays. 4) Harder to get the games started in Colonist, finding a game where everyone is "ready" is frustrating. At least it works once you get started though.

Yay, have been looking forward to this!

Great video D, unlucky on the loss. I can relate to your play style from a POV outside of Catan. I used to fence sabre for fun in college, which is the quickest weapon type in fencing. The biggest problem I had, and many spectators and opponents commented on it, was that I fenced in my head and not on the piste. As a result I got hit in the mask a lot whilst I was working out how to win; they literally said it was like I was absent. I genuinely think you play the game in your head better than anyone else, but you need to translate that game onto the board. I know Colonist is a bit laggy, you know Colonist is a bit laggy, so when you've got your plan, double check once then execute!

I feel a lot of your mistakes are due to Colonist itself. I am not a frequent Catan player, but I find it super difficult to follow what goes on, and the software does not help, so here's some ideas / thoughts that crossed my mind while watching since you appear to be promoting them now in some sort of official capacity. The UI should give you small beeps when you have your last 5 or 10 seconds. If you make a lag when making a move, and your move goes through after whatever timer expires, it should not happen. (Which is easily done by associating board state with your commands.) Also, many UI elements are unnecessarily huge and text-cluttered. If you want a usable text log, you should not have to scroll every other second. Same with the chat box. Make the text smaller and put it at the bottom so you can read entire messages without things having to wrap. Why does blacks name get iconized? It is confusing. Why is the 'confirm dev card use' window so huge and all text except for picture-like buttons, when you can simply put a picture of the dev card with 'Use this?' It totally did not achieve the intent of 'did you pick the right card' because the UI failed to point out well enough that you clicked the wrong button. Why aren't dev cards more visually distinctive? Mistakes could be avoided in current layout by spacing them away more from your normal cards. Why is the timer so tiny and hard to see? Remove the digital aspect and turn it into a colored circle that gets emptied pie-slice style. It will be super obvious when it disappears. Circle color indicates intent so you know what phase you are on. Also put the timer neatly in the top left, and put the dice there too perhaps. Everything informative is crammed with tiny letters in the bottom right making it hard to get a simple overview. Even as a mere viewer, I keep bouncing my eyes to the playing field to discover numbers, to the timer, to the dice, to the log at top, to the bottom left cards, to the top right chat, etc etc. Perhaps it is made worse by you cutting out dead space, but if I am losing tons of time trying to figure out what happened two seconds earlier because I was looking at something else, then I probably am not the only one to struggle. All around, I feel the game gives useful UI spots to useless icons, big areas of UI to things that don't need to be big, clutters up useful information in relatively small space and all around actively hampers usability. When it comes to a tournament especially, you want information to be very clearly laid out so players can focus on playing against players rather than playing against the game itself. The end result of watching your videos is that I don't even want to play Catan for myself; I'll just end up raging. Understanding what just happened should always be easy when you are paying attention so that you can focus on figuring out the motivations of the players instead. Sorry for the long post, and good luck on your videos!

This is the first time I've watched a KZfaq video where I felt like the sponsor and the content creator actually had a mutual relationship besides money.

Thanks for the video. One thing I noticed is had you played the road building by going the other way around the 6, you would have been better positioned to take longest road yourself, and didn’t really have to sacrifice anything. Connecting for 7 total roads would have only required 2 more roads.

Subbed! I most enjoy these under 45 minute post game analysis videos. Also I like co-commentators (like other pros) a lot! Thanks for your efforts on these videos.

It's so frustrating to watch you lose because you don't move fast enough. You do that so often!

One of your new viewers for sure but I subscribed. Keep up the great content thank you

Just wanted to say I like your videos, you have a very good voice an rythm for these video. Not too fast but not slow either. Keep up the good work.

Hey DylLighted, thanks for the amazing content, and for putting in so much time and effort into these videos. Especially your attitude towards the game, man, you really changed the way I think about Catan. My catan friends and I have been big fans of yours, hope you keep up the great videos!

I love this overanalyzed catan stuff. Keep it coming! I feel like you made two mistakes this game though. Firstly as other people pointed out, using roadbuilding alongside the coast has the upside of making more room for roadbuilding, plus the potential to get longest road of 7 with another roadbuilding. The way you placed the roads doesn't seem to have a purpose. For your first settlement spot, wouldn't it be way stronger to go on the 6/9 wheat port right away? I feel like the wheat port is usually gonna be stronger than the 12 wheat. Think about it. Once you do a single 4-1 wheat trade, you already exceeded the expected production of the 12 spot over a game. Expecting to get the 9 wheat port is optimistic. Just point the road inwards to the right, then you have the same reach, except you can build on 9/6/3 and 6/4/12 if you want. I would be really interested to hear what you think of the 6/9 spot. Am I crazy or is it better than 6/9/12?

I tend to stay away from subscriptions, but I have watched ALOT of your videos in the past few weeks, so you can have the sub. Love the content, and the amount it has improved. Keep it up!

I just want to say thak you DLY. I learned a ton from watching your videos. I was a pretty poor catan player and thanks to your amazing analysis videos I learned the intricate dynamics of the game and it really boosted my play. I encourage you to continue with your videos and wish to maybe meet you one day in a catan tournament. Hope you see this man :)

I found colonist from your channel and played it with my friends today because of you! Thanks man!

YES! finally another upload. I know you mentioned it takes much time to release this vids. For that I thank you. Please don't ever stop, I've improved so much thanks to you. Cheers, E

Nice game and excellent commentary as always! At 6:52 I would prefer pointing the road to the north, mainly to avoid any confrontation with Blue. Also because a road building card would allow sneaking up on the 6-4 ore port, with the prospect of connecting with my other settlement with a road of total length 7 (no roads wasted).

I am definitely one of the newcomers in the last few weeks, and I am glad I subbed! Love watching the gameplay and commentary!

First position: at the end of the day, there'll be tons of ore available, so I need strong wheat and sheep, and the presence of 12 and 2 smack in the center makes the port locations much more attractive. I select 69 wheat port. For the fourth player I have a monstrous idea: take the 64 ore port and then take the 6912 ore-ore-wheat, already well on your way to your first city. Then quickly hit two cities, trade ore for wheat if necessary. Lay your 64 road to the left and lay your 6912 road to the right. The goal is for the next town to be 2610 and also citied up ASAP.

You definatly entertained me, subscribed.

I love your videos, you've made me kind of obsessed with this game!

Thanks for reminding me to subscribe after watching a dozen of your videos. Thank you for all the great content you make, it's been nice while teleworking and staying home

Don’t know why I wasn’t subscribed. I am now!

I loved that you keep producing content to us! Great work man!!

I love the fact that he was named wood brick so the chat registered as the pictures lol

Subscribed because you asked, been enjoying your content and have started online catan since discovering you on youtube.

At 25:50 I think you made a slight mistake. If u would have built along the coast you would have a slight bit of a better chance for longest road. All you would have to do is build 2 roads connecting your settlements and you’d have 7 roads in a row. I know that this is extremely unlikely that you would get longest road but it’s possible. Please correct me if I’m wrong on this.

thanks man! I always watch your videos and I am owning friends with my wife now lol. greeting s from Chile, really appreciate all the help u put !!! :)

your analysis helped me win my most recent game with my friends (3 person game with 4 deserts) - went a dangerous no brick route but it payed off in the long run

Just started watching your videos and binged them all love the content thanks for all the great videos! I'm learning so much

I got into Catan and I really love the game. Your videos helped with that. Therefore I would like to thank you.😄

Sucks about all the misclicks and such. Black was really annoying in the chat the whole game, although red's "you seem to be good at whining" comment was funny. Also, your mic sounds weird and echo-y in this video.

Dude you are very good at this game but as everyone probably tells you, you need to play way faster. The fact that you timed out choosing which cards to discard is crazy man haha. I don't even know why you were debating. You gotta trust your instincts dude. Regardless, love watching your videos man.

Good game. Thanks for the video. And great tournament. Colonist is great but don't you think there should be more time given to discard cards and place robber? Also I found when I did games with my friends, the map was always the same. Do I have to buy maps? Thanks!

15:55 - play the knight first, so even if you get 7'd out, you can still keep the city ;)

Just discovered this channel, love the commentary!

Wow your channel did kinda explode, dude great times. Also I gotta wonder if red considered 3/6/11 road towards wood port, and then 2/8/10 road to the right at all. That seemed like a slightly stronger pick to me, especially considering no one is competing for your expansion towards the right I wouldn't think. Idk it's not necessarily better, but also seemed strong to me. Oh and blue omega screwed up there with that second road lol 14:20 it seemed stronger to me to accept 2:1 sheep for wheat and city right? edit: dude that's rough haha. also black seemed to not understand to concept of... playing the game

I really like the 9-4-3, it's low production, but brick is VERY low & high ore values wheat more as well

black malding in chat was entertaining

good shit dude, love the colonist.io things. the actual game is a little hard to follow, plus im familiar w this shit

Whoever makes the fewest mistakes wins - Johan Cryuff

I like how this is an ad for colonist but showcases the ways colonist sucks

Something that I'd like to know your opinion on As the first move of the game, when you rolled the 7, you robbed the 8 ore over the 10 wheat. Black was on both of those spots. I understand both sides of the argument: 8 produces more and gives ore, which is against your win condition. The 10 gives wheat, which is a rare resource and black already has wheat in hand. However, what specifically made you choose the 8 over the 10? You could be the main wheat provider in the game or simply slow the game down for everyone else because they would have useless cards in hand without any wheat.

31:01 You can also buy a dev card and then trade 2 ore for a brick and build a settlement. I would have bought 1 dev card and then decided to either buy another one or build the settlement based on what the first dev card was. Since you got the monopoly with the first dev card which is what you were looking for, and you can only play 1 dev card next turn, I would have then built the settlement. It gives you guaranteed VP, whereas another dev card is at best a VP. It may also provide an extra sheep if a 6 is rolled and guarantees you 4 sheep per 6 rolled which you could 4-1 for anything else you might need.

Quick question . Why 6-9-12 over 6-3-11? You get another resource and you also get the chance to punish blue for being greedy

Videos are great diylighted. If you don’t want to edit as much, that would be perfectly fine

Dude! I know that feeling. I play on the way to work in the morning and make some stupid clicks half asleep. Catan life!

It seems like there ought to be a "cancel" button and hotkey after selecting a development card and before completing the action it does, ie. placing the robber or roads, or selecting resources. There is no reason to show other players you selected it before committing a move. Pretty much any digital turn-based game will have this option. Omitting this is an interface design choice that I'm really not a fan of.

Another great video, congrats! Tried colonist on my phone but it was really difficult - will have to play from laptop in the future!

glad to see you upload

I made a similar mistake in the last game I played. Played perfectly the whole game and (due to time pressure) panic played a knight before I rolled, forgetting that I could only play one dev card per turn. I had two free roads and could have stole longest road/built two roads and a settlement to win. Next persons turn, they stole longest road and won. It's haunting me lol :,(

Why not put your roads out on the edge after you play road building? I realize you aren't setup for roads at all, but doing so sets you up to get a 7 longest road if the cards happen to fall in your lap by chance, and it doesn't seem to be of any advantage to go inside like you did. Really love the content! Learning a lot!

haha, great to have you back dylighted:) we missed you. Maybe some speed practice in the next week though? ;)

Question: At 7:54 you say you blocked blacks ore to prevent a early development card buy. Wouldn't it be better to block his brick their? Because as I see it, your worst nightmare would be for him to get a round off good roles and for him to recognize that you reallllly want to wheat port. If he were to be able to cut you off, I would consider that a disaster. So yeah, in my mind it is better at preventing the worst case scenario, while still giving you a card. (Also him buying a early dev.card will drain him of precious wheat, so the chance of him cutting you off gets even lower) Please provide me with your insight, I would like to discuss this. Thank you :) PS: I haven't watched the whole video while I write this. PSS: I am not a professional Catan player^^

It is funny how you started to promote colonist. BUT. You clearly lost because of lagged/bugged colonist and their Paint graphics/interface. 1)At 17:44 we can clearly see that you clicked on discard with 3 seconds left. Because of lag/glitch it didn’t count and made auto-discard. 2)About using Knight instead of Monopoly. You would never make such a mistake on CatanUniverse (yes it is also bugged), because there you clearly see which card is which, and they are enough big to press correctly without missclicking. P.S. I’m not against colonist. But they are not any better than CatanUniverse... It is so hard to observe the game there because of in-paint-made-graphics and please-use-a-microscope-interface. I use it for Tournaments, but I also tend to constantly missclick there, because everything is so small. And I believe that’s the reason why you lost = Lag+Missclick

I think it's great that you start your videos by celebrating your happiness: "I'm delighted!" ;) :P xD

Oh man this crushed me the old colonist was so laggy man wow

great content bro, keep it up💪💪

It’s not that big of a deal, but while watching, I notice that I would have used the road building across the coast because it leaves the possibility of you snagging longest road, something that you never would have imagined with your strategy.

Hi dylighted! Keep up the work! Try to upload more weekly videos! I’ve learn a lot from your explanations! Keep it up m8!

I would've chosen 8/4/3 (black's spot) as first place, since you would've secured highest ore+wheat, plus some road material. You only needed a wool spot after that, and there were going to be several available, like 6/4+ore port, 11/5+wool port, etc

Subscribed, best catan content, keep it going!

Love all your videos!

Comment for the support :) also your sound is in this vid a little weird. Harder to understand for me, hope this helps making your vids even better.

Don't panic. Click with purpose. Time manage well. Don't run out of time on your turn. You could have won this game if you focused on monopoly quickly and first. Then build. Then get dev card. Always execute. Don't make mistakes.

BRUH. I hate those mental mistakes. Is conforting to see it happens even to the best

Two things: 1) I kick myself hard when I make mistakes too. My most common one is misreading the trade direction and giving up a precious resource when I think I’m getting one. 2) Timing out really sucks because the AI makes questionable decisions. The worst for me is when I have to go first and have very little time to analyze the board. Bonus - When complainers win it only reinforces the idea that complaining works. It’s the worst. Nice job.

i dont understand why you play so slowly, it constantly bites you, and its not like you change your plans, you still go forward with your first idea.

Great commentary. You've got my sub :D

I kinda feel those tournaments should have a bit longer turn clock. It is very easy to panic or for the server not to process the orders on time. Good play though and good luck on the next tournament

Ah that's brutal. Great effort though! Is there a cost to play on colonist? When you try to trade for a resource that isn't in anyone's hands, does it tell you it's not available to trade for? I think that's extra information that shouldn't be given out..

ya blacks comentary in the chat was annoying, but red was so savage, saying blacks the best whiner and then taking longest road and prolonging the game. red popped off and i love that for them no cap.

What a great video and a great game. Constructive criticism : you audio keeps wavering and sounds low to me in some places, as if you're away from the mic at some points. Can this be fixed?

two minutes for a turn is an eternity. no good reason for you to run out of time and make silly mistakes. you're better than this!

Loving the content! What's your take on Cities and Knights? I've had a very stable Catan group for almost a decade now and we play C&K pretty much exclusively after trying it out. How is the tournament scene for C&K, if any?