Appendix: - I forgot to mention later that Phoenix-Beacon is 'still' in the game in the form of Nexus, it's a weaker version but still has tons of central control and is probably highly frustrating for new players to play against. Phoenix Nexus has very interesting play patterns but overall completely prevents the opponent from attacking usually. - Super-super old almost decade old footage of OOCBA exists, and has even more ridiculous balancing. Forgot to mention it. - The Spaghetti Monster also once sent a .swf of EVEN OLDER balancing than that. lol - The Spaghetti Monster is probably planning to use AI to complete the rest of the game, which is going to be sad because it means we won't get authentic balancing from the Spaghetti Monster itself, seriously, the most fun ever is mocking the developer's choices, and if an AI is making balance choices, where is the fun in that.

It's so fascinating how these weird niche internet subcultures have such deep and intricate lore. Makes me wish I could consume all information in the universe, there's a ton of little dramas that only a small handful of people ever even know about. I've had periods of investment in a large number of internet communities throughout my life, and they're all such strictly temporary experiences. I've had extremely heated arguments about 40k rules, gotten really angry about some forum admin who nuked the forum in a tantrum, dived waist-deep into an image-editing-based strategy game forum for like 3 weeks, written some shitty homebrew rules article for an internet magazine about a TTRPG that probably had double-digit players globally that I've never even played. You're making me nostalgic, Icely. Now I'm sad that all these things are lost to time, that I barely even remember them.

So supposedly this game is “releasing” in a year and a half… Anyone got yandere dev’s contact cuz I think he got a friend

the ancient advanced battles of chess are truly wild

I used to love this game before the flash-pocalypse, but I never played it competitively or knew anything about the developer ….that was probably for the best.

the worst genre of bad game is a bad gamr that had all of the instruments to be good it just isnt

greed is my favorite Binding of Isaac mode

Rip icely 2, we'll never get the 5 hours cba iceberg video

no icely don’t leave you still have to make an in-depth video about the history of soul flare’s competitive viability

this game is a really interesting rabbit hole, and i feel like you've only *barely* scratched the surface even throughout all of your videos

Your computer is having asthma, icely. Save it.

You can always tell how much someone loves something by how much they complain about what's wrong with it.

Noooo don't abandon this channel I love the fascinating lore. Also, if you want to do an open source implementation of anything related to OOCBA I would happily contribute.

So I used to be top 30 with a soulmaster build around flexible options depending on the opponent (but the meta meant mostly using soulmaster+antimage+bishop to stomp phoenix beacon players) and then Greed came out. I was a free-to-play player, so I only had access to, like, 1 level 1 greed, and suddenly everyone was running tons of max level greeds with fire elementals and hugely expensive minions due to all the points greed saved. I stopped playing. It was sad to see what had up till then been, to my mind, a surprisingly well-balanced game go to shit almost overnight.

Greed+++ Battle Advanced

originally i though r/anarchychess was the pinnacle of chess brainrot but clearly spaghetti monster have been outcompeting the entirety of reddit since forever

I have no idea what is happening, but I love it

Well that was a nice nostalgia trip back to 2016 4:00 - Oh yeah that checkmate was neat at the time but early CBA swappers could deal with it much easier compared to the terror of Valktal, which forced Firewall to come into existence [as Valktal immediately countered 2-space wizard swaps and multiple Valkyries with portals could even counter the most well placed paladins (one of the best king defenders at the time, no castling) and stuff ;D] 8:37 - Eggs&Bacon an absolute classic which made already dying memories of Valktal's reign fade into obscurity :D 13:43 - Playing against old gravmage was much like playing modern yugioh where you always go second and the enemy sets up the board which doesn't allow you to play :P 19:59 - Yep that went suuuper well considering that Greed became pretty much mandatory in most armies just to keep up with the enemy's greed and their more expensive pieces, and synergies between them, which greed facilitated! 26:08 - Angel getting more justice for Valktal with its obnoxious gameplay but evolving it even further... Valktal just unavoidably took your king and won in the first turns while Angel did the exact opposite and forced you to stay until that 1 morale ping kills ya :D 27:47 - Thankfully I wasn't playing when this was introduced but even before that I killed my fair share of PoisonMages just trying to move kill things for free, ended up like a moth near the flame. ; Still I have a soft spot for the even older PoisonMage++ as that was the main part of the army which brought me to GM. Right now people know well enough how to play against status comps like poison-freeze, freeze-thunder etc. But back then PoisonMages++ with FrostMages++ were my main pillars. 29:54 - That happened too during my break but I did some experimenting with the nerfed Nexus when I returned to the game right near the Void update and it for sure was interesting... 31:07 - I missed that window as well but even after that the prevalence of Lich and Elementals really made me gravitate towards the NullMage on release (not the current form but its old form on ++, considered unusable by many back then but managed to clutch it a few times for me due to the Lich/Elemental armies being relatively weak to it as people didn't know how to handle it yet. ;D 33:00 - And we made it to the last major update, what a journey it's been :) Voiding is bad enough but having a voided and nulled piece was just stupid :D ; 0 cost value drained mover which can't even block due to nulling turning it phantasmal and unable to block... Fun times ;P Anyway thanks for bringing me back into those more fun kong times before its ultimate death.

I hope to see more videos about this game in the future, it's been really engaging so far

Oh no, don't end the channel, I still don't know how many clones of this there are and how they screwed it up.

8:37 oh my goodness it's that one song from that one felix the cat game you gotta know how much this warms my heart as the sole fan of ВМВ, so thanks icely!

Can we make a CEO which preserves the most balanced versions of all the pieces but also some of the jank of OOCBA? We can call it…new old old chess battle advanced.

0:00 GOD DAMMIT, I got baited again!

Nooo! Don't abandon this channel!!! Hearing you rant about the spaghetti monster is soooo funny! Also hearing the weird stuff they get up to is also funny!

Great series. The amount of disdain you put into each utterance of "The Spaghetti Monster" will always live in my heart

if i was to make a "build your own army" chess variant game i would include a paid dlc to unlock custom pieces but the unlocked pieces would be strict downgrades and the dlc would be called "pay to lose"

Why do you refer CEO as Old Old Chess Battle Advanced?

2:00 As someone with criteria and research time, I fully agree. I would recommend hitting something like Fobert Miles instead, because Grand is not a good read at all. Most solo devs are not like him, especially others like Steve Walmsley. Anyhow, onto a piece I hate but don't see much! 3:49 Multiuse Armor screams OmegaNoobance 7:42 Btw I really like the stylistic choice of doing the version updates like a scratch lottery 19:05 I never even saw any Grav before the "can't move forward" one. Very scuffed. Thank you for the history 21:03 This unit used to be the bane of my existance. I don't think it's so bad as SK and EE3 to my playstyle anymore, but damn it's hard to know how to counter it effectively as a low ELO player 26:22 This thing carried me to Master when I added it to a mediocre 91 point army. Threatens mate and launches a Nuance piece to the middle. Stronk. Especially with retaliatory minions you can set up 32:55 And every time I face it I consider trading away a 15 cost piece for the Lich, losing regardless 38:17 Great message. Thank you for your content. See you in the ladder 38:46 I hope not! I would love to keep watching unot criticisms and knwledgeable tactics

8:30 that background is an awesome detail

i played a game on kong this dev made where you try to kill an immortal spider, it was both interesting and confusing i was aware this one existed for a while but did not know the true rabbit hole (or perhaps spaghetti hole) i never entered

Nooo…. Don’t abandon the channel, I love these videos

Icely uploaded about CEI and yesterday about CBA; my day has been made

"Is spaghetti monster bad at balancing or intentionally doing pay to win" BOTH, he's a cryptobro, ofc he's doing intentional pay to win, and it's obvious he's trash at balancing. I bet some intentionally OP units were massively UP. Greed+++ is just the most blatantly obvious because "a free rook that isn't even free until +++" is just so blatant. EDIT: OMG AS BAD AS MORALE IS, WHY WOULD YOU MAKE MORALE GAIN.

11:33 hey look its me! deep and rich lore of crab when?

The base concept of this game is really interesting. I wonder if there is some stuff like fixed boards that people play that are fun and balanced or is it just that constant struggle to find fun in annoyence

Love those Videos

Best video on this channel yet

Wait a minute, why did the OOCBA developper make an ARG ripping off the When They Cry VNs out of all things?

Can't wait for December 1st next year.

Great vid, I found this game years ago and thought that I definitely have to give it a try, well 8 years later and I didnt even start it lol. Do you stil somewhat enjoy playing it or did you find more balanced alternative?

the psych ward part is crazy as THIS IS A CHESS GAME. Also tbh i'd be down to watch about other P2W games on kongerate.

34:57 spaghetti monster's name is uncensored

where did the space game videos go mr clerery

why is everything involving your chess hijinx a giant spaghetti monster hole

Grid change: Base is + but black is red. Plus. ++ is like Ranger but Poison. +++ is like ++ but Magic destroy.

It seems like a lot of the problems with the pieces come from the tier mechanic. Reminds me of plant leveling from PvZ2. Such a shame, since a lot of these actually have interesting concepts that could probably have been executed better if the developer was competent.

Minesweeper rougelike? Don't you mean DemonCrawl? :walcome_buck:

Good vid

Man, I played this all the time as a kid. I have no clue what happened here.

only a psych ward patient could make this game

33:21 I left right here and was really confused

I think greed should of had the movement of a rock plus diagnal but on kill greed gets gets poisoned for 3 turnes and remove the on death

make gravmage pay 0, justice for gravmage

Oh boy, I just started playing this game. It's worse than I thought and I put the bar so low its in hell.

19:17 WTF IS THAT WHERE IS THIS TEASER FROM

I didn't pay enough for that mess

chess disaster advanced

The Worst Balanced Chess Battle Advanced In The History

Pls explain what chess battle advanced is, I can't understand this meme

So why haven't this been remade then?

34:56 you forgot to spaghet.

I dont even play old old chess battle advanced

34:57 Name Reveal

Chess Fite Next

Cheater Blink Acquired through money

isnt this just chess evolved online?

Chess Balanced Advanced

I have returned to this game, honestly it's quite fun. One lad in their discord server taught me about more aggressive deck options, which I LOVED. TEMPO ON TOP. also you lied to me that stall was the meta, it's not, it's really not.

11:34 *lie*

Finally, context.

Would you be interested in a remake of this game in something like Roblox I've been thinking about making one for a while and I wanted to see who would be interested in that

He’s talking about Ms. Marvel …Good lord Blink and Ms. Marvel are so overtuned

if a game is pay to win but its client sided, then cheat.

Please start calling things by their actual names.Please. at this point you are unnecessarily replacing everyword with injokes(?) That no one gets. No Skinner box, no spaghetti monster, no cryptogrames, no old old Chess battle advanced. Swear to God it's not even funny, man. And you repeat it like every give sentence. It's just irritating at this point. Just stop. Don't even explain. Just stop. I beg you.

what rabbithole did i just fall into

Chess Battle Advanced, Fully Extended Development, Including Huge Gamebreaks. CBAFEDIHG