I even undertook the impossible challenge of charming GOG into getting a big discount on the game! Have fun af.gog.com/redeem/IMPOSSIBLE?as=1694877399

Fun Fact: When Spiff says he’s “exploiting a game into Oblivion,” what he means is not a figure of speech but rather a state in which the game’s exploits have made it functionally indistinguishable from The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion.

Spiff out here just casually duplicating pandas, a feat most zoos have yet to replicate.

Making a game difficult by making the A.I. smart ❌ Making a game difficult by making the A.I. cheat ✅

Rain of frogs is actually a hugely useful spell once you get its power up. You just summon it on their backline and they spend the entire fight with frogs not shooting your units.

Most people might think an impossible game is a really difficult one, but for Spiff, this just means one he can't cheat in

The unit duplication glitch seems like it would be even more powerful if used with the Undead faction, and their devour skill. You could get *a lot* of attack and defence over and over

"This is not going to be a clean fight" - Spiff when he cannot exploit a part of the game

"Why fight your enemy when you could turn them into profit!" Spoken like a true Brit

"It's too difficult" Spiff: *Hold my 10 gallon cup of Yorkshire tea.*

Spiff when he hears theres a tea unit ingame : “Today we’re gonna find out how to make tea the most inexplicably broken thing in the universe”

Thanks so much for highlighting this game on your channel Spiff, I had not heard of it before this video and am now thoroughly enjoying playing it in a perfectly balanced manner.

Honestly, this game feels like it was made specifically for Spiff. A relatively easy to find exploit that abuses the power of Tea to receive an endless army of Tea Knights. Perfection.

"Cheats harder than a Russian child at CS:GO" I'll have you know I spilled tea while laughing at that little line from the intro. While watching the rest of the video, I had to clean my keyboard while playing golf because I had to get the tea off.

Everyone: This game is a so hard its impossible Spiff: Finally a worthy oponent

I swear every time I ever seen you Play games with like this style. You always go beyond the understanding of this game, and you become an understanding God where everyone in the game will never stop you becoming what you are.

I'm really glad you covered this game! It's an unsung gem, especially for someone who played a TON of heroes of might and magic 3.

This game was designed to be exploited. The developer is in league with Spiffing Brit. The first red flag is the OP tea house, the second is the unit dupe that was deliberately programmed in.

With tea knights becoming immortal with the help of a tea house I feel like this game was made to lure spiff into playing it 😂

I like when he says something and then right after says that it's not true, it's really funny and doesn't get repetitive what so ever. Good video 👍

Gotta admit, whenever I see someone figure out how to exploit a game, I have an equal mix of judgement and admiration. But, this fellow carries himself with grace, and doesn’t try to mask his exploitation skills as “I’m just a genius”, but actually breaks down each step with clarity. I like it, and appreciate it, and I have a lot of respect for it. :>

Spiff isn't limited by difficulty, only by how much tea he has left.

The fact that you can actually lose battles and big army's even if you are duplicating units really shows how hard and unforgiving this game can be when you play it without "intended by the developer" game mechanics

so glad you made another video on this game! the last video made me go buy the game and people are right it is tough. took me a few matches but now im smashing the AI on easy mode! another exploit ive found is the body guard skill rank 5 is completely OP especially if you can buff those units.

Hello friends! I have been playing this game since before release and since I am a huge HOMM 3 fan I find it amazing. It's a fresh new take on the genre by people that know it well. Here are a couple of tips to win consistently on Impossible+ on most factions and heroes: -Spend the first few days massing up troops and building essential buildings - depending on the faction and build order (its random for each game) and ofcourse your hero's abilities. DO NOT pick a fight until round 3-4 or even 5 unless you feel extremely confident you will only suffer minor losses. You may want to get to tier 3 units or an upgraded tier 1 or 2, or build a mage's guild. Also, a first week build shoud definately be the Infirmary. Maybe before the first battle if you find it too hard. -Plan your battles with great care. First week battles are limited and there is always a very strict order you can follow. There will be 2 easy battles for the wood and ore mines, another for the Pillar (for the secret treasure, which you should hire a second hero to find and transfer to your main most of the time) and maybe a random creep guarding a small treasure. You Dont Have To Fight Every Day. Take on ONLY fights you can win decisively. -In battle you should always have an advantage. Stronger units, a good hero ability, a good spell. See what works for you. If you have none of these things, wait for better units but be warned that this sets you back against the AI. Unless you have a plan to capitalise and catch up it will not work to wait too long, although patience i and defence is key for many situations in this game. -During the first few turns where you are not fighting, use the time to explore and try to find XP chests with your hero. Prioritize skills that give you a combat advantage or free troops. Good examples include Mastery, Legion, Mercurial (its busted always take a beginner), Elementalism, Offence, Bloodlust ect. Learn which skills are good and focus on them with a side of support skills. Restart game if you suffer massive losses first week or just save scum. In general, try Might heroes first ( the top 3 ones on every faction). Magic is weaker/more complex/worse scaling. -Needless to say, learn the different abilities of the various units and the hero skills. This will take time but Its a fun game, enjoy playing it. Start on lower dificulties and work your way up. -By the second week aim to get your economy going. Upgrade your econ buildings, build an army to take on some more difficult battles (like mines) and towards the end tier 4-5 units if u can affort. -Again, if you find yourself losing battles, your build is not strong enough. This is a game where one lost battle means the game most of the time. Restart and try a different build until you find something that works for you. -An early capture of an enemy faction is a great advantage. If you feel strong enough to take them, go for it. Anyway, experiment and dont be afraid to restart if things go south. If you think of a build work on it until it just works. I may update this if it gets upvotes. Cheers.

"Why kill your enemies when you can turn them into profit?" -Mindset of the British Empire Edit: how did this get almost 2000 likes? That's wacky

From what ive heard and experienced, people issue isn't necessarily that the game is too hard but that the ai is very unforgiving and prone to rushing your base with huge armies early on, even in the easiest modes. Once you get past that point, game kind of a joke honestly.

awesome! I played Hero's Hour after seeing someone play it because it's clearly HOMM3, and wishlisted it on Steam. I really like the auto battler design replacing the old turn based hex battles, makes the game flow and changes it from being 'just' a copy of HOMM3. So. Much. Nostalgia. and also fun :] it's like Two Point Hospital - clearly Theme Hospital and super happy about that!

Well that's one scary way to win, but also thanks spiff, the new years livestream questions I asked have now properly taken seed, and will soon bloom into either some Yorkshire tea worthy leaves or wither away love the vids

wait a tick, "sat back, relaxed and a nice warm cup of tea....." I think this is the first video I've not heard "a nice warm cup of YORKSHIRE tea".....

The troop duplicator exploit does work however you must make sure to set combat speed to 1/2 for best results. It will not work at all at 2x speed and can actually cause you to lose troops instead of gaining them. Attempting this on any bodyguard units may result in all of them disappearing entirely for the rest of combat. My conclusion is that 1/2 speed is tea and 2x speed is coffee. Additionally this exploit can make it possible to sometimes lose a battle despite having thousands of duplicated troops in reserve - further testing required to find the exact circumstances. Edit: This works incredibly well with any unit that has retreat, with the upgrading through combat of the Horde faction, as well as any hero with the Healing skill; Tobruni and Erandu of the Horde are excellent at turning a pair of Harpies into a couple hundred permanent Furies in a single battle! I can't believe Sir Spiff noticed me, I feel so blessed! This is replacing the time I had dinner with The Queen as the greatest moment of my life! ^_^

"i am british, i am not a normal human being". Wiser words have never been spoken

I would love if this was made into a series, I would love to see how you exploit your way through stalker misery or something

Tea existing in any game automatically guarantees Spiff’s victory. Nothing stops the power of the British empire when tea is involved

I feel like I want to see The Spiffing Brit and Josh Strife Hayes do a collab of some kind. Even if y'all just play an MMO together and chat like it's a podcast about nothing, I feel like it would be highly entertaining.

I'd enjoy seeing you exploit an old favorite game of mine called impossible creatures, the concept is pretty interesting and I think it'd be enjoyable!

I can very easily imagine this was made by a long time Heroes of Might and Magic fan that was, shall we say, disappointed at what Ubisoft did to the series. There are just too many similarities to think there's no inspiration there.

Id love to see a graph of when in the video the viewers like it, similar to the analytics for when people watch. I imagine there would be a spike at the beginning, one at the end, a spike at the spot you ask for likes, and then smaller spikes at funny moments

Dude, you're editors cracked! Nice job dude.

Always love watching you break it. Even tho sometimes they do fix it...

"see's impossibly set game, designed to murder anything in existence with maximum level difficulty settings" Spiff - 'sips yorkshire tea' ... challenge accepted Game - 'nerivously sweating and waving white flag' ... okay you win

I've been looking forward to when the next video came out because this is since my shipment arrived the first time I'm sat back, relaxed and have a warm cup for Yorkshire Gold tea.

The most british thing ever. Using the Chinese for their tea

16:40 "...the end of the Green Empire and the rise of the Tea boys..." had me rollin' holding my stomach and trying to survive the laugh-onslaught. Idk how that phrase ticked me so much but thanks for the laughs, my dear dear person.

The ultimate challenge for an exploiter: A rage game.

"...not only the ai is going to be given so many crazy bonuses but also the starting monsters nearby to us have far more pops than they logically should" me: hes going to do necromancy isnt he

Nothing puts a finish on my day quite like The Spiffing Brit and a fine cup of Tea.

This is wonderful!! You are such a talented individual xxxx

Make sure that when you use this exploit you save before if you keep your armies to single entities... sometimes while duplicating if you're going fast, you can actually delete the units entirely. They won't show up to be deployed but it will show that they're still in the army. Also with the Decay faction's Malediction, Devour, and the Dark Ritual abilties... you can create an endless stream of dark horrors that are very very top tier busted.

Only Spiff has the power to get pandas to multiply

Love the content keep it up

I love this game lol (also the bloodwarping ability for one of the decay heroes is OP even at lvl 1 it would be great to see a vido on it)

I love that you give Hero’s Hour so much hype! It’s such a good game and it deserves it. And hopefully this duplication exploit gets fixed faster than Necromancy got nerfed after your first video 😬

Game: Spiff Co, standard line, we outnumber him 3 to 1. Spiff: Then it is an even fight.

Omg. I need that merch mug, for my late afternoon decaf coffee

For extra immersion I like to boil a kettle in the background while watching any of the Spiffing Brit’s videos

Spiff, you never fail to entertain... also you have the best reminder to like that i can't resist... can you do surviving mars? i love the game, it's amazing and soooo good, and great music.

Spiff: too difficult? Spiff after drinking the GDP of a small country in tea: not difficult enough!

"Why fight fight your enemy when you can instead turn them into profit" pretty much sums up the vast majority of British history i think lol.

Thanks Spiffing Brit is the best. He helps me avoid games with stupid balances. So for every game he manage to break, he helps to deduct the game from my wishlist and avoid spending on a poor exploitable game design.

Ah, Spiff makes me proud to be British, and I end up falling into my accent everytime I watch one of these videos. Simply the English pride is too strong!

The fact that I beat my first game of heros hour in hardcore+ in the biggest map legitly with pyre is insane Early game I literally just hug my castle to defend and get resources from mines, pyre gets a lot of troops every battle for literally no cost to aid in offense and defense. The ai beat each other and I slowly saved up on resources. The pyre has a major spell that can spawn a real army of troops every 7 days, basically it is a suicide squad except it isn't weak at all, and u can use this with every hero. Soon enough, I have one hero that constantly changes unit into higher tier for free and has a lot of useful skill, his army is so strong that my other hero can literally not own an army and win any battle just using bodyguards and pyre portal because bodyguards scale with the difference to ur strongest army......

Okay I’m curious if anyone else appreciates him mentioning to like the video because I watch youtube on the same level as television so I kind of forget 90% of the time. so I actually appreciate him doing that

Spiffing brit deserves more sponsorships from yorkshire tea for how often he refferences it.

Its a game I would never have found. I would never have played. I dont understand but! Great fun to watch. I'm hoping for some more 'mainstream' madness. Big big games bent over and spanked until the developers weep.

"I call this... mitosis!" "Oh god it's a dupe exploit" 😂

4:52 "i know how to exploit evry game in existence" Exploit chess

Spiff: A Master Exploiter Me: A Master Baiter

Mercurials are insanely good. Bodyguards too once you get it to the highest level (very easy with the upgraded tavern. Mercurials really are the way to go in this game

Spiff, you may want to hold back on the tea, I don't think even you can hold that much greatness.

The pigs made my entire day thanks for being awesome spiff

I discovered the duplication technique in the first or the first week I was playing, but I thought it was just an "accounting" glitch, and the number of ACTUAL units wasn't changing. Now I need to try this out before they patch it.

Looking at my coffee that I'm drinking while watching Spiff re-create reality around him just with the power of tea....and i feel sadness 😔

Spiff once again demonstrating his power over the mortals. Excellent😁

Keep up the spiffing work

That's a pretty crazy glitch, how you find them is incredible!

I bloody knew you were gonna do this as soon as I saw the damn Teahouse.

Here’s an interesting thought- what if there’s a game that really DOES want you to exploit it? Like, imagine a game that seems too difficult but has EVERY exploit spiff ever showed us. One where the exploits are never patched out, because the game dev legitimately wants you to use them. Random thought, I know, but wouldn’t that be interesting?

Sir Brit, I just came across a fun exploit for Crusader Kings 2. If you launch a save as Byzantine without Conclave dlc then relaunch with it it will change their succession to Gavelkind and allow you to change it. My family is still ruling 100+ years in LOL

spiff: exploits the game Me knowing they'll make tge game even more impossible after watchin this: **internal screaming**

Oh my god, item dupers in strategy games is the most hilarious thing.

These kind of games can be frustrating for casual players who arent trying to make the most meta builds tbf, it does make sense that they would struggle more than someone just trying to be the most optimized player.

6:14 "Why fight your enemy when instead you can turn them into profit" That was literally the point of the British Empire

Mitosis had me in Bloody Tears™ when it actually started happening

the idea of a game that will always exploit & cheat harder than you is pretty scary. for spiff itss just a causal wednesday of tea sipping with an extreme battle of wits

When somebody tells an exploiters like Spiff, or us his loyal disciples, we don't feel discouraged. We take it as a challenge. And we are yet to fail in overcoming it.

i think this is the first of your videos that i actually am drinking tea to

The unit duplication glitch reminds me of Futurama when Zapp Brannigan beats the 10000 killer robots by throwing wave after wave of men at them until the kill switches turned the robots off...

The Video was essentially over after 5 minutes, but the other 24 minutes were also really fun to watch.

Who would win in a fight: Thousands of max difficulty AI OR A insane Yorkshire tea fueled British game breaker

I had a blast playing this!!

I was afraid he were going to do the "eat your own dragon" strategy, but as always, He. Isnt. Human.

You know something? I always have a religious experience watching Spiff. He always finds a Profit in a video. :D

So that's why i seemed to get more troops out of no where, never bothered to really think about it. That's an interesting exploit.

I’m always concerned and excited when you make a video

Watching at work and you said "look at those t-boys, go t-boys go" and I had to stop and laugh because of how that sounds out of context.

thanks to "human duplication strategies" we now have an outstanding military

Spiff using the power of perfectly balanced british humans again to do what brits do best, conquering!

I only know of your favorite tea because you state it so much. I shall be buying some soon!

I can only imagine the glee you must have felt when you discovered the “Tea Knight” 😂