Vermintide and XCOM Combine Into a Solid Challenging Strategy RPG - Shardpunk 

Shardpunk creator here - thanks for the coverage, Splat. You are a real treasure!❤

The whole second part of the video I was screaming at Splat for mentioning about grenade use and then not using them on the tight group in the doorway

Love to see you're checking this out! I played it a bit when it came out and loved my time with it! Seems like the dev is really great. It's awesome to see someone who cares so much about their product.

The X in XCOM is for "extraterrestrial". This would be more of an SCOM, at least I assume the enemies are subterranean.

It's worth noting when you come across additional characters later on in the game they *are* leveled up to be on par with the rest of your party and don't start at level 1. (With the downside being you cannot customize the points already spent.)

Hell yeah. Always a good morning when our splat cat dwarfy boy puts out a new video

This game looks like a lot of fun. You have done so much damage to my wallet, but have added so much fun to my gaming. Thanks Splatter!

Happy to see you revisit this, I didn't pick it up at launch as the devs said they'd be adding to it so I figured I'd give it some more time to cook. Nice to be getting another look at the progress they've made.

XCOM 2: War Of The Chosen player here. I just wanna say that (at least in my game) the enemy often moves their cannon fooder first. The grunts go first. They eat the overwatch shots. Then the psychic aliens and commanders come to take over my guys and buff their aim. And if you play War Of The Chosen theres also Chosen who will appear on missions like Nemesis from Shadow Of War and mess up your mission. Theres also a lot of debuffs from global map. For example a guaranteed reinforcements as soon as things go loud. I was literally stuck for like 10 turns trying to take back control of the situation cause I was getting overrun by grunts dropping every turn on both my flanks. Also The Lost are a fun mechanic that also creates Horde Shooter mechanics within XCOM.

Splat has a literal aimbot on his team 😂

Title grabbed me! It is everything I want from a game.

Crystal Punk. Crystal Shards. Shardpunk. I get it now.

*reads the title* You had me at everything you said.

Thanks for covering this game. Certainly looks like something I'll enjoy but I hadn't noticed it before. Going to give it a try.

I mark this game as a diamond of a game. Something special and one of my best buys.

Hey Splat, you ever check out a roguelike called 'Brutal Orchestra'? I've been playing a bunch and it's awesome. Tons of meta progression, interesting gameplay mechanics, and a story that actually makes you want to do run after run. Anyway, had to mention it, I feel like it's an overlooked gem. Have a great one, brother.

5:11 "you kind of have to move quickly..." "...i have never had to cannonball a map, unless there was an objective that said that there was a bomb that was going to go off in like ten turns..." 26:22 "double moving gets me into trouble again. unfortunately because this game is so balls to the wall you kinda have to double move."

Anyone else see "Active profile: FART" 🤣 🤣 splattercat Earned this like.

I'm 25 hours in. The developer has put infinite love in it. So well made....

Splat, I'd love to see you play this game called "Small Saga" - switchblade-wielding mouse RPG

FYI Shardpunk is on sale till 3/11 on steam. I’m excited to finally pick this title up.

Played this through way back when. I definitely recommend it if you can digest the graphics. Its a lot of fun.

Scramble turns are for the birds

This is like a 40k Mordheim.

Hope you feel better soon mate.

I'd pay good money for a game mode where I play as the ratmen trying to stop the filthy humans instead.

Tearing my hair out over all the missed opportunities to use explosive barrels or the barrel-carriers when the enemies were all lumped up 😅

Bought it on your recommendation, enjoyed it, but kinda felt too short. Is there an open world take on this? i.e. Vermintide + XCOM + Battle Brothers?

It's insane how much time has passed since I found this channel. Or in just recent times...this video came out last year in November but it feels almost like a century, and considering so much can happen in the 3-4 months since this video released. Losing a job, losing more hearing, realizing you've worked the same dead end job for some gods forsaken reason for 8+ years and only ever came home to consume media and suffer financially. Don't get me wrong if I didn't have certain channels back in 2017-2019 things would have been very difficult for me but it does make me feel old and useless...I should have gone to school or worked better jobs I guess. Anyways I mostly found you Splat in 2020 and I hurt my hearing in 2021-2023 and then just last summer I lost the rest of my low-mid dB's due to my previous employer...man ruined my life for the last 5 years.

"Active Profile: FART"

So the name Shardpunk is exactly that. Technology runs on shards. Think of shards as Warpstone from Warhammer.

I wonder why the footage was cut out where Splat splated his team :D

love the concept of x-com and slay the spire. The pixel art and palette is turning me off as there is nothing to easily focus on. It all just blends in like a spectrum game with too much detail. Just my opinion, love the idea of this.

this game looks pretty good. I think i will WL

maybe they cahnged the name b/c they were worried verminfall was too close to vermintide? Like i am not saying i would agree with this, but considering bethesda sued notch over scrolls, its possible

I've had covid twice. Each time my first test was negative. Have fun with that information!!

Can we have Shartpunk based on that one monster from Jay and Silent Bob?

If there is one thing I hate, it's being forced to a time limit to complete things as mandatory and not optional.

Scavens doesn't exist, yes yes

Hmm 4:30 I wonder if there was a word in the game for that

Keeps on talking about Enemy Unknown... but Enemy Within and XCOM 2 solve the overwatch issue by putting timed objectives on EVERY map.

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Saying that something is controversial implies that there were those who agreed with it

I'm very curious why he removed that line from the title.

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Piezoelectric punk

He he "Fart"

Is this RimWorld?

With xcom being stinky pooh on the Steam Deck I'll be giving this a whirl to see if it fairs better. (Once I finish with Midnight Suns)

Press alt+f4 to load the game.

I remember the scramble turn controversy. I hate the scramble turn. It's bullshit. It's literally a free first move for the AI. I mean, it's turn based for a reason. I take a turn, the AI takes a turn. The scramble turn is the AI getting a free turn for every unit. And it happens in the *middle* of the player turn. It's SO annoying.

Brainlessly toothpasting :)

rats

hehe fart funny.

Scramble turns just seem to be a cheap mechanic to me. I prefer stuff like the interrupts of each enemy like Silent Storm.

Bizarrely enough, I don't remember this one being pixel art.

Not being able to play at my own pace makes this a hard pass.

This game is good, but a bit easy

Yet another pixel art game that bites the dust commercially.

dumb suggestion splattercat when you say something like "min maxing" maybe have a yt card with a real short video explaining what some gaming terminology for the people who have been out of gaming for a while or for the newbs??

All these games where you're killing skaven when I just want to play as the Skaven. ;_; (Not interested in the 4x games)

im proud that i am the first one here

This game is punkin' ass

I'll pass. I absolutely hate this style of pixel art and animation.

Whilst I love you’re content - I have been watching for months and I still feel like an idiot every time you refer to a game as a 2AP 🤷‍♂️😂 Like who knows what that is??? At least explain it so I don’t feel stoopid

A somewhat disapointing game.

Can they make games with art styles that arent for kids again

30:59 Unless it's Splat's fault for not setting-up his key-binds properly, that is beyond unacceptable. That's is the sort of thing that, completely on it's own, makes a game an automatic DQ, no exceptions. There just too many similar games that are properly executed to waste the time and thought power even _considering_ one with such a fundamental, critical flaw. I really do hope it was because Splat screwed-up.

4:22 Yes! Team Imperial Empire 100%! The best kind of empire. Those non-imperial empire tossers can kick sand.

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