Dark Envoy - Artifact Hunting High Fantasy Strategy RPG 

Hey Splattercatgaming. Thanks for covering our game. It was a blast to see you play and thanks for kind words at the end. We're very passionate about the games we develop and we'll do our best not to dissapoint you with 1.0 release. We'll throw in a mighty shotgun too :)

The Mini Skirt of Valor!!! I laughed way too loud and hard at that one😂🤣😂

Looks dope, and I love when RPGs have guns with no restrictions

The Graphics in this Game actually seem pretty Good.

Loved Tower of Time so have been looking forward to this.

8:38 re, "rack it, tap it" I've heard you say something similar in several instances where you're shooting in various games. The saying is "tap, rack, bang". The meaning behind the saying is that your weapon doesn't fire. To correct it, you tap the magazine up into the weapon to make sure it's seated. Then, you rack the bolt to try to chamber the round. Then, bang, hopefully it fires. So, "rack, tap" is out of order and makes no sense. Well, unless you're saying rack the weapon and tap the thing you're trying to shoot.

Well... Shield as still pretty and very useful to clean close quarters (and house) even now. We also use armors. Modern ones, but still armors 😂

I rly like the action turn based-ish gameplay... Wished more turn based titles where more like this... This looks rly good 👍🏻

Wow! Great intro!

Oh I want this game.

Reminds me of Dragon Age in a lot of ways that are getting me kind of excited. I hope they have support and a budget to see this thing through. Looks like it could be competition for some triple A titles.

Splattercat: You know, what I choose to put in my butt is between me and my butt... Me: Normally, I'd say, "No questions asked". But since scorpion eggs are involved, I have SOOOOOOO many questions.

the grey section looks like a shield... would've thought that is a common mechanic... you know, you got a section of your health that can automatically regenerate either out of combat or after you don't get shot in the face. I heard a lot of games used it...

agree with you about the setting splat, it seems almost all "FANTASY" settings are infested with super advanced sci fi shit and vice versa. Its lazy world building that doesnt even bother to take its own realities into account, it just slaps together popular things that people like and then "balances" them so your wooden club can totally take on a death star. it also seems like your two starting abilities are just straight up magic, they cost mana, you didnt fire shock bolt out of your gun. I guess its just easier to animate things without adding gizmos.

Malakai Malakaisson, and Kaela Mensha Kaine? Someone in the developer team loves Warhammer 🙂

2:27 Miniskirt of valor. Lulz.

That girl sounds like Ezri Dax!

The game looks great. Can it be played like conventional turn based strategy game? Like Solasta and Divinity OS games?

You always do better against scorpions with some actual leg protection.

25:24 You can watch most of that series splat mentioned here ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-0GNmOu0mpBU.html the playlist might have suffered from some bit rot though, I've seen some episodes with 33 on them and that playlist only goes to 28?

I like that this is real time, a lot of these kinds of games turn me off since they're turn based and I don't really find that fun.

Hello. Could you spell out the RPG that you are mentionning at some point? "Arclight" or "arclash" legacy, something like that. I can't find any reference on it. Thanks !

Is the grey the armor value?

Katanas are all cool and edgy, until someone shows up with a Model 870.

so many ad breaks....jeez!

Then those who were gathered together asked him, " Lord, are you going to restore the kingdom to Israel at this time? He answered them: "It is not for them to know the Times or dates which the father has set by his own authority." (Acts 1: 6-7) Signs influence us in everything we do. When you're driving and you see a red light, you stop. For some, however, this sign simply means "slow down a little." When you see a sign "20 km / h", you should slow down. But for some this sign means nothing. Signs have meaning. Although we cannot tell the year or the month, much less the day of Jesus Christ's return, we can see signs of the Times telling us that his return has been getting closer and closer. What are these signs? they are clearly recorded in the Scriptures. The Old Testament contains hundreds of prophecies about the coming of the Messiah to Earth. Through these prophecies, we know that Jesus was the Messiah, for he fulfilled each of them. He fulfilled all the Old Testament prophecies that pointed to him. So when we look at prophecies about our future, we also know that they will be fulfilled exactly as God said, because there are five times as many prophecies about his return to Earth for the second time, than about his first coming. The return of Christ is something the Bible really emphasizes. God wants us to know Bible prophecy because 30% of Scripture is devoted to it. It is important to study Bible prophecies because they teach us about our future. And they also assure us that God always keeps his promises.

Dialogue is unbearable. Feel sorry for the voice actors.

I am 40 years old, found you years ago on twitch or YT can't even remember, watched your stuff not very regularly though whenever could or had time, on trains, after working hours, or weekends, man you are doing something good, your personality and the way you are, funny, serious, humble and drown in the world of video game, I am not sure what is it, but I heal like slowly inside, as I watch you going through those dungeons. Cheers mate, and thanks for everything you do.

"I wonder if might effects gun dmg?" *Gun damage listed 3 inches away* Oh well guess we'll never know. Love you splat =P

I played demo during Next Fest with my friend in coop and we had a good time. Looks pretty good as far as indie crpgs go. And I liked Tower of Time very much from those developers so my interest grows quite high.

The grey part of the health bar seems to be armor. Also you kept hitting "s" to scroll down which is also bound as the stop command. That is why they kept stopping

@18:06 Who would've guessed that scorpions would do a pincer attack?

There's this brutal medieval/sci fi movie called It's Hard To Be A God. The game's narration reminds me of it

Cringey dialog written by an only child?? But it's isometric and I can shoot things so count me in. At a sale price of course 😁

As soon as sister mentions the scorpion egg incident, Splat's mind is on the butt track

@21:00 I like the mini shirt on the battlefield look better ;). Didn't it work for the Roman military?

33:00 Not sure I'd trust the "more DPS" without checking range. Range 20 vs 12 and less armor penetration on the pistols seems to be the tradeoff. How armor-y are critters with exoskeletons?

The dialogue sounds so weird in this game...like it's in an echo chamber and not coming from the characters mouths.

combat seems ok, liking the map system not wasting the players time, level-up system looks like a decent way to do things though i wonder if it's possible to gimp a build to the point it hurts your progression to the next level (likely depends on if there's a way to farm up more money or if the areas have fixed numbers of enemies/quests/missions to encounter). Heal system i'm on the fence with. A couple of bad encounters could ruin a run/quest if it's all locked in but if you can exit gear/level up and try again later that's acceptable. On the fence with the "live slowdown" system at the start of combat, IMO it needs something clear as to how/when it activates and ideally under player control not automatic on every combat opening. Maybe ration them out (5 seconds of slow per "charge" 30 seconds to replenish a charge, 3 charges in total, if someone wants to stall out a combat by running then let them, within reason) Not a fan of encumbrance systems or heavily limited inventories, especially when every encounter is throwing 1-4 items of loot at you.

The dialog and animations are.... Off-putting

Someone that worked on that opening sequence was clearly a fan of Total Annihilation....and I approve!

Nobody wants the Disney Litigation Enema.

Tower of time was shocking good, been looking forwards to this since I found out they were doing a second game.

yuck that back and forth close up right when the game starts is not good. any kind of 'acting' is hard to do well with the uncanny valley anyway so i think its best to just not have close ups like that unless its a real cut scene someone poured time into. VA wasnt bad, script wasnt terrible, but they absolutely do not mesh well with the awkward wooden character models with odd hand gestures, also just them standing there with jump cuts... could use some work

I'd personally re-colour the ground-warning to yellow/orange instead of red because red make it look like a trap-detection ability has gone off. Colorblind options are of course a nice addition to any game, if the colours are in the .ini or .pak file may as well let people edit the ones seen all the time from a game-screen. Some range indicators on "white"/passive damage and spells (when selected/hovered-over) would be handy melee could use some innate AoE (cone/PBAoE/cleave/pierce) to make up for the additional risk especially when it's ranges characters most likely to be taking advantage of the cover system. was there an actual pause system? even if no commands possible it would be useful to allow players (solo at least) to read UI elements while nothing is happening. Looks like a fine start just needs a little bit of polishing.

today was a very butt themed video

First thought. Van Helsing. Second though divinity. Third thought, I've always got room for good arpgs.

Pretyy cool looking title. I really like the idea of a Brother-Sister main characters you get to control. As long as their dynamic is good between themselves and other possible characters you might get in the future. Especially if some proper character growth is written into it as the story progresses making each of them more endearing to the player in their own way.

Heh, Jill should see this. Definitely plus points for the female armor design. It's terrible how once you've heard her rant, you cannot stop looking for those design quirks.

About "...punk" games - check brainpunk ;-) That's an interesting twist on a concept of an Internet, where all of human brains are connected into one big network (instead of just PCs). "Scarlet Nexus" would be a good example.

Oh sweet a CRPG. I was expecting this computer game channel to show off a TTRPG today for some reason. Thanks for being specific there buddy.

Wai wai waaaiiiit... A shotgun that fires OVER 5 meters away, accurately and does damage?! What madness in a video game is this!?! That alone gets major thumbs up. Rest of the game can be looking at loading screens and playing slidey puzzles and it'd still be above average haha.

Hi, May i try to bring executive assault2 to your attention? It is an rts/fps hybrid game in space and developed by one person for i think 4 years now. The game has come a very long way and i have been playing it scince release but it doesnt get the attention thatvit deserves. Maybe you couldt think about covering it if you like🤷.

Saw it has online-coop, which is an instant wishlist for me. I usually hate real-time rpgs with pause, and prefer turn-base instead, but the genre really lacks a big variety with online coop, so I guess I take, what I can get.

Wow, not sure what's going on with this one but I'm just getting non-stop ads followed by more ads. Reminds me of the last time youtube changed the settings without warning anybody...

My only "complaint" with these sort of games is.. I only want 1 main hero, not a party. It kinda changes the whole genre, but that's hat I enjoy.

Splater i watch all youre videos( I have bad news), YT has stoped recomending me all of youre videos, or maybe its me because i cant see youre videos pop up in the sidebar or the home intro. I strongly recomend you change youre thumbnails stile maybe put youre face somewere inside of the image too.

I too will rebind literally everything if I have to, just so I can have camera movement on WASD :D

Looks sweet! I love the leveling up stuff and how all the different gears shows up on your characters and looks really cool.

Was following this... it looks even better than I hoped. Thanks, Splat.

14:40 Most American thing I've ever heard Splatty Catty say!

Sense when did scorpions not like diplomacy! I thought that was spiders...

Everything having indicators it just removes all immersion. Drop the hand holding

It says 2023 release date any idea of when this comes out? This looks right up my alley.

coop campaign? ok NOW im interested; giving me Divinity original sin 1 vibes by that

Is there any AI control and commands for the other people in your party, or do you have to micromanage all their abilities?

Ah man it's hard enough to hear what the characters are saying in game so I hope they do clean up and master that audio a bit just so it helps me out a bit more...but other than that I mean the game looks like it has potential. I think for a game like this though the narrative will have to be super good.

fancy barrer shield door thing.. um just climb over the wall? lol

Combat looks awful. Sad... I had high hopes for this one.

The game looks like Tower of Time. Only the combats not in isolated area.

first conversation and the game don't waste time into putting the guy down, this is one of those.

the soul crystals are usd for crafting equiptment and enchanting gear

Coop crpg. I'm sold. Can't wait to play it with my partner.

Dialogues and jokes are cheesy, MCU vibes

This looks fun. Thanks for the vid. I may check it out.

Wow, this game looks awesome. Put it on my wishlist. Thanks.

voicework is a little stilted? awkward? The main pair actual voices are fine but something in the delivery/pacing is off-putting, side characters varying between "we have no budget" and "we pulled in some people from the street".

Loved it! I´m actually a fan of this developer!

I thought the style is familiar, so its the developers of tower of time.

Looking nice, i love that has time slowing combat

Interested since learning it has co-op! Wonderful that you highlighted this!

I think you meant to say "That's between me and my cheeks"

Too bad the only characters that can be made look Asian.

dararata dararata dararata dararã disney dont sue me in the butt

Game seems ok and yet i see nothing special about it.

Tried the demo and for some reason sometimes I just couldn't move with my characters or use their abilities so they just sat there getting bashed on and i ended up dying. No idea what causes it but I did make sure I had them targetted (clicking on them or hitting ~ or dragging my mouse over them) and it just wouldn't work. Gonna just wait for the game to come out I think the game has potential though.

Reference for full metal alchemist = instant like

this game was a hard no at the character creation

you got poisoned by scorpions, hence the grey.

"disney please don't sue me in the butt" 🤣

The worst part of this video was the narrator.

Zappy with sculpt spell? Yes please! :D

The setting seems similar to Arcanum

Seems a bit wordy

Onto the wishlist it gos this looks mean as.

Nice! Thanks Splat!

Thanks for showcasing! ^^

Dialog I rate meh minus, voice work 8 eye-rolls out of 10.

I recognize the voice acting from the intro of this game as Billy West , aka Zapp Brannigan from Futurama 😀 To think of it , he did more than just one voice in this game. On a different note , I remain baffled at how friendly fire has no effect in some games. ... and you Sir are a trigger happy person , I have to have to keep this in mind 😲

Hey Splat, I tried to see if you have covered it and couldn't find it. There is a really good indie card game called Erannorth Chronicles :) It's got an insane amount of freedom and customisation