Highfleet Review | Photosensitive™ Seizure™ Edition™ 

Highfleet: The only game where launching a nuclear warhead results on a obligatory, important lesson in *Second-Strike Capabilities.*

Sseth is the kind of Car Salesman that tells you everything BAD about the car, but somehow still convinces you to buy it.

12:30 "The death of one is a tragedy, but the death of millions is a good start!" That line really inspires me!

"the game takes place on fictional desert planet Khazahstan, where rebel forces has taken over" and Khazahstan is blown into riots just three weeks later. Sseth finally got place of Bogdanodoffs.

As a guy who lives in Kazakhstan I can proudly say "Just like in simulations"

You know, I never thought of the Titanic tragedy as the passengers' fault. This truly revolutionizes history.

>fuel is a problem >enemies spam missiles >your ships break down constantly >you can hire mercs >rebels have air supremacy >your fleet morale drops when it gets dark >precision munitions are expensive as hell >you're one button away from a nuclear war this review aged beautifully

“Using nuclear warheads is a genie you can’t put back in the bottle” “This is fine as I only have one wish… A NUCLEAR WINTER”

Normal people warning for epilepsy: "If you are sensitive to flashing lights or intense sounds please, PLEASE, click away from this video for your own good" Sseth: *"You have three seconds to live"*

I knew you'd make a video about this game, nuclear warfare isn't something a true schizo can resist.

Sseth is the kind of person who's voice you want to stay stuck inside your head while describing every detail and object around you.

i heard somewhere that if you destroy the escape pods mid combat you wont have to worry about losing kindness by not rescuing afterwards im sure the person who told me was a perfectly sane individual with a perfectly intact moral compass

*"When you first saw Sseth's Highfleet review, were you blinded by its majesty?"*

“Oh yes, Koshutin is gonna get so much money from this!” “Oh no, this is gonna be too much for his sleep-deprived sanity!”

When your 3 months old game review becomes a commentary to the actual war happening. Pure gold.

It's a rare game where Nukes are a powerful force but not worth using simply because the other side has them too.

"the slightest puncture of its crussy" I can never eat crabs the same way again, thanks sseth

I've never been so happy to hear 'Hey hey people'

That "Emperor Putin" joke either aged really well, or horribly.. I can't tell.

Remember how Sseth predicted coronavirus in CK2 video? Now it seems like it's Kazakhstan's turn.

“The Death Star of David” (work in progress) may be one of the best cursed sentences I’ve heard in ages. Always nice to see you back Tovarishch.

"The death of one, is a tragedy. But the death of millions, is a good start" - TZEENTACH, Seth. 2021.

"Your are tasked by the emperor of russia himself Vladmir Vladmirvich Putin to restore order" Oh boy

The ELINT system looks a lot like real Russian RWR (RADAR Warning Receiver) systems in their aircraft. It has that weird "pretend phone for kids" bit around the outside (which lights up showing the direction of received radiation), and the part in the middle (besides the "Warning! Danger Close" bit) shows the intensity of incoming radiation. I think it was Growling Sidewinder (a DCS youtuber) who made a video of him flying a MiG-29 against an F-22, having to try to locate and intercept the F-22 using solely the RWR. He had to time his missile-dodges based on when he saw the radiation rapidly increase in intensity as the Raptor's missiles approached. He successfully dodged two or three missiles, but was unable to get visuals on the target and was splashed by a shot he dodged incorrectly. Very weird stuff, but an important part of any aircraft's arsenal.

Sseth bringing out the 2ch combat pictures solidifies him as a PhD in Slavic history

This is how you know Sseth really likes this game. The man wants more of it, so he made a review about it to draw attention to it, and probably triple or even quadruple that lone developer's profits overnight.

I am convinced that Sseth can predict the future...

No way you don't speak Russian or lurk on 4chan. That "kokloschwein" meme was top notch

When Seth,the man who singlehandedly made Synthetik popular gives you an epilepsy warning you better believe it.

When the world needed him most He came back

What I love about our game industry, it's that you have three options: ancient quest games, rudimentary shooters funded by FSB and a Russian Roulette of indie games that could be either a crappy F2P multiplayer, or something actually great, like this one right here

Gentleman, this video is starting to age like a fine vine.

This game looks like how burning diesel fuel smells. But in a good way.

THE KING HAS RETURNED

"You're vastly outnumbered, outgunned, and flatout broke" is the quote that really got me involved into finding out how the story of SSeth's playthough proceeded.

Well, that Kazakhstan-Rebelion-Putin joke aged pretty good, this man is a prophet

The sound of this game is essentially for when you can't decide between being an Electronics Warfare officer or a gun battery one so you choose both and go for the ASMR porn of rattling ammo belts and electronic signatures disappearing.

By the way radar jammer works exactly as you would expect it in real life. It outspams enemy radar with it's own emissions making them unable to see anything but source of emission, so putting it onto flagship is a really bad idea because every single radar-guided missile will come right at it like moths towards lighthouse. Best way to use it is to slap it onto some very fast unarmed brick and let it bait out enemy missiles (that don't restock magically until enemy fleet rearms at staging point) while your main fleet goes the other way.

this aged well

Aged like a fine wine

Thanksgiving to the Merchant’s Guild as they gift us before entertaining themselves on the Black Friday Gladiator Matches

"the death of 1 is a tragedy , the death of millions is a good start " this killed me

good god. a non-slavic youtuber that pronounced "babushka" correctly. another reason why I love sseth. fucking thank you.

for anyone in the future that got this game, here are some life saving tips and a good start guide. Turn off your radar and rely on elint and your IR radar. Elint is a system that detects other radar systems. Enemies will use their elints to find you but also keep their radars on. Which is a great way to spot and avoid them. Only turn your radar on when you think your close to something you wanna attack. Like a cargo ship or town. But for the most part, keep it off. Build role specific ships. I would edit already built ships, add modifications, remove aspects to have very designated roles. Combat ship, radar ship, fuel ship, missile ship, aircraft ships, anti missile ship, decoy ships. I dont know why they want the prebuilt ships to do a bit of everything. Not how that works IRL Combat ships are heavily armored and heavily gunned. High caliber cannons for damage and miniguns to shoot down incoming missiles and cannon fire. 4 or 5 miniguns can literally shoot down anything shot at it while 4-5 large guns will instantly kill most ships.(Large expensive ships) Aircraft ship which holds bomber and fighter planes. Sending a few bomber planes to a town before you arrive can kill everything before you even get there. You can always buy more planes and bombs too. Fighter planes either assault ships or take down other planes and missiles. Once i learnt how to use this system, the game became 5 times easier. Most useful support ship. Radar ship which has unblocked radar, elint, jammer, IR radar. Which gives a much longer detection range than the main ship. Make them fast too so they can possibly scout ahead. Better than sending in the large slow fleet and getting into trouble if your uncertain about an area that recently had hunters. Fuel ships which is essentially a big tanker with jets. Usefull for splitting into 2 parties or just extending the range of your main fleet. Missile ships are extremely important. Get a ship with just the basics and load it up with Silos and put in ballistic missiles. Firing missiles at enemies before a big fight can cripple them and you can always buy more in towns. VERY usefull for taking minimum damage in bigger fights. Anti missile ship which has tons of those anti missile rockets and medium caliber cannons to shoot down ballistic missiles. When you detect incoming missiles, send this ship out infront to intercept everything. Great for when THAT missile spamming fker ship detects you later in the game and fires 30+ missiles at you.. If he finds you.. Which would end most normal runs. A decoy ship to lead enemies away from the main party. cheap lightweight throwaway ship to stop the large hunting parties from finding you early. Only ever use the jammer if missiles are coming at you and you think it might end your run. When you turn on the jammers, all enemies get notified of where you are. But the incoming missiles freak out and miss. Better haul ass to a few towns away after.

The editing and commentary is top tier, could make any game entertaining

What seth forgets to mention here is the best part about this game. The atmosphere. Everything and i mean EVERYTHING in highfleet is meant to make you feel immersed.

Rewatching this after the Russians sent troops to Kazakhstan to support the government after recent extreme civil unrest

This video hits different after February 2022

"The Death Star of David" My fucking sides.

Everytime Sseth disappears, I am torn between "Damn, I want him to upload soon" and "He's taking this time to play games that he will review for us and that he enjoys. I hope" edit: congrats on 1 mil man

Holy shit did seth predicted the Kazakhstan rebellion 2 month before hand.

finally got my hand on this gem. Decided to go on a glorious run of pure kindness before got caught up when a babushka decided my fleet is a danger to her hometown. When all of my ship got destroyed, i know it's only matter of time till i activate the ol' nuke switcheroo. thousand dead at the cost of only -1 kindness, it's not a bad deal i think to myself. That's it, until the SG decided to nuke the rest of my fleet to winter wonderland. 10/10 will commit 'warcrime' again.

You gotta love Sseth. Dude treats everyone equally, regardless of disabilities. You either handle the seizure inducing scenes or, alternatively, engage in a very intimate session with the floor.

As a russian i can attest that this game is not a dystopian depiction of our impending future, but rather, a hyper realistic depiction of mundane reality

This video aged beautifully

0:39 my dude made a prophecy lmao

Well shit, I expected Mandalore to do a review on this because of Vangers. I didnt think the African Warlord himself would grace us with it after all this time. Highfleet is special. Hammerfight and Vangers are such weird, old, underappreciated games and I'm glad Konstantin is back in the fray. Highfleet is a damn fun game even with it's minor flaws and technical hiccups. I do wish the developer would stop caving so easily to singular demands and maintain his vision, but he hasnt made a game in almost a decade and a half.

That sinking feeling in your stomach when the campaign has been going great, you think you've managed to sneak past them you hear "thermal signature detected". It's only rivaled by the cold, bitter sadness you feel when you realize that was the _first_ of _seven_ cruise missiles headed your way from two separate directions.

"we're the good guys. god is with us on this campaign" did not age well

IT'S REAL BOYS

As the other commenter said, the setting literally is “Russian Empire meets Dune”

this is the type of game i would have absolutely no fun playing and be riddled with anxiety, but absolutely enjoy watching others play, and learn the lore.

those names hit different now XD

Seth predicted the protests in Kazakhstan.

The fact that he used a more appropriate lesser-known imperial version of the “farewell of a slavic woman” [Прощание славянки, prosh’aniye slavyanki] as credits music is a nice cherry on top. The attention to detail and cultural know-how is amazing.

I wish he'd mentioned the part where you get to Kiva and suddenly the game goes from a roguelike tactics game, to a real time strategy game, where the entire rebel army is now hellbent and killing you and your new fleet of loyalists that popped up out of the woodwork, and you have to micro-manage around half a dozen fleets in real time using an interface that was only designed to handle one or two.

0:58 >Khiva This one didn't age the best, did it >Target is a nuclear plant This one REALLY didn't age the best, did it?

Just coming back to this vid so I can get some tips for WW3

The custom ships are amazing

I have no fucking idea how you're even able to understand all of these mechanics and have the brain power to actually play the games you reviewed, It's honestly fucking insane, kudos to you

Sset is a prophet. Khazakhstan is on the rails to his vision.

Wait why did the developer remove the ambient sound design in the shipworks? The sounds design is the best part of the game.

I can't help but feel some games only retroactively exist whenever Sseth talks about them.

Huh, that's why this game had a familiar aesthetic, some familiar sounds, and an overall familiar feeling... Same developer as Hammerfight, another "weird flying machine" game. Good to see he's still making games.

0:36 This description is, at time of writing, unbearably accurate.

There’s a revolution going on right now in Kazakhstan You’ve set it up, didn’t you?

as a Kazakhstan resident, it's indeed a fictional desert planet which has some traces of intelligent life

I was told the dev for this game was both a genius and insane, you drove that home pretty damn well Sseth and I appreciate it Here's to hoping your fiber lines stay safe and the merchants guild has located the bastard that did it and given him proper punishment in the barney cell

0:35 Sseth confirmed for wizard

Storyline starting to seem familiar with recent events

Protip: Strip all the armor off the Sevastopol at game start. Removing parts takes 0 time and will massively reduce its weight, therefore increasing its speed and fuel efficiency. Later on you can add a flight deck and planes and turn it into a tanker/carrier/missile support cruiser, which is its best role fit.

Dear SSeth, if it's 20mm or more, it's no longer a machine gun, but a machine cannon. That's why the German horse drawn 20mm "fuck you and the house you're hiding in" gun was a cannon.

Well, about that whole Kazakhstan thing...

This aged perfectly

It's always a delight to hear "Hey Hey, People" especially after 4 months.

"...when all your senses are drowned out by the scream of gunfire." As an American, you have my attention.

"The windmill of friendship"

so... about Khazahstan being taken over by rebels...

Being Russian and understanding all these memes is just hilarious

The brilliance of Russian technology is that it either doesn't work at all or survives through 2 nuclear winters before needing to change out a spring

12:22 Sseth : "The Death of One is a Tragedy, but The Death of Millions is a Good Start" Joseph Stalin : _"I see you're a comrade of rich and diverse culture aswell..."_

“Our forces to the south got glassed” Ominous

Some serious props for these extremely intricate and, quite frankly, obscure references to the modern Russian/CIS culture. I am genuinely starting to believe you're very much akin to Revolver Ocelot, Sseth

You do the "пожалуйста" part well, and that's the most important. How well you say the rest is irrelevant as taking the money is of the utmost priority.

The Kazakhstan part at the beginning is unsettlingly relevant now

"I trust in Jesus Crist" Konstantin Koshutin

The best part about Highfleet is that winning the campaign just means you're ready for the real battle.

I love how the Russian dev is like "I believe in Jesus Christ" and then the chaos continues

He has holy foresight, and can see into the future.

Radar Jamming works great if you know how to use it. Whoever has the jammer is like screaming in their ear with a megaphone - they'll know they're there, but they won't think about anything else until the sound stops.