I only found out after playing these first two runs that the shields activate when there's even the slightest possibility of death (no matter how small as shown several times in this video), instead of only significant possibilities of death. The phrase "suicidal instincts" is a bit misleading here. Trust me on this, I'm a UKpostsr so I know a lot about misleading phrases.

Just so you know, the shield will prevent you from making a move if it isn't a 100% success. You can override that (click through your shields) and still take the shot and kill the piece and survive.

For such a silly concept, this game is surprisingly fleshed out. Really good roguelike, can't wait to see more

It's painful to see that Tyler was a move away from winning and the game tricked him into thinking otherwise.

the shield is there to tell you "you're in check" not "you're going to die next turn" so if you shoot the king there regardless of the shield you should win.Hope its usefull!

And here we see the rare muted Tyler in his natural habitat

If you have no sound, watch on a computer or mobile web browser. UKposts app is shitting on this video for some reason.

The Psychological horror aspect of this episode is definitely a new direction that I love! Keep up the good work Tyler

Audio has been taken down for copyright, Tyler is no more.

“No stream Tap to retry”

Even though there's no audio still gonna watch it. Shows how entertaining Tyler is.

Hey Tyler, no matter what’s going on with the vid, I hope you’re doing well and everything will work out. Keep going man, we’re all counting on you!

does he notice that the movement of the enemies appears on the left? the boss king can only move orthogonally not diagonally in any way.

I love it when he went

Tyler: dies His cards: _I black_ mist _the part where thats my problem_

btw tyler when the game stops you from firing and uses a folly shield the game you can still shoot just click two times to use both shields then click one more time and it will fire so like at the end if you would have clicked one more time then you wouldve killed the final boss

Tyler your new microphone is amazing such high quality sound

“You can’t kill me,I have black mist!“ “Too bad you look too much like a SNACC today” *nom*

No audio and video quality problems. Calm down everyone he is indeed human

We've lost Tyler privileges

I like how tyler explains every moves he makes to bait us into a false sense of security thinking that we could play the game as well as he could : D

22:00 Actually, the Queen was still poisoned so it couldn't attack you for a long time. It looks like the 15 turns poison applies for each Queen individually when it spawns. That's btw also the only reason you were able to shoot the Queen at 21:35 while still having shields. Shields only allow shots at enemies directly next to you, even if you have low enough spread that you're guaranteed to kill a checking enemy further away, so if it were a real Queen, it wouldn't allow that shot (without first using up all your shields). But since the Queen was poisoned, it could only move one square, so wasn't actually checking you.

I love the new take on the audio of his videos

Am I bugging or is there no sound.

Thanks for the videos! Really appreciate all of this quality content!

This is actually quite a surprising end to the video to me, generally I have found Tyler's luck, or "Innate Gamming Skill" to be so much higher than mine in many areas, that it was a little refreshing to see the end of that boss fight since that is something closer to what I would probably do. You hate to see it, but also I was like, this is so relatable. So, thanks for the real gaming vids Tyler! Ya, like, keep on gaming on, man.

Im practically screaming for the shields. Theres an option to turn them off or change how many there are btw. Good job almost winning though, you did great for your first couple runs

Time to watch this then spoil it for others when he releases a fixed version damnit

This is such a great game

Fun Fact: I don't know if this is the demo only or in the full version as well, but a piece can AND WILL move to kill you if you give them the chance, no matter how many turns you should have to get out of the way.

So glad you picked up this game I have been playing for a little bit and its so fun (picked it up 3 days before you uploaded the video) its such an awesome game

Just wanted to say I started watching around poly Bridge 1 and have looked forward to your uploads almost every night/morning

Looks like some technical difficulties

I just wanna watch my nightly Aliensrock then go to bed :/. Love the vids!

Just because the shields don't let you that doesn't mean that you can't kill. The shields will always trigger unless you shoot the attacking piece at point blank range. But if you have something like the scope or the piece has very low health so you can be certain that you kill then you can just let the shields run out and shoot anyway. That should also have been the case at the end. Had you just shot the king after your shields were gone instead taking the knights move you would have won.

Fun video as always, love the concept of this game :)

I bought this game literally as soon as I saw you playing it, it's really fun thank you, I'm also planning on buying backpack here because of you. You're probably not gonna see this but I just wanted to thank you for having a great taste in games. Also hard mode is fucking disgustingly hard.. It is without a doubt one of the largest difficulty curves I have ever experienced in a game so good luck!

I played this a lot and i still didn't know about stationary reload. Well, thanks, that's gonna help me a lot on king difficulty. In exchange for that information, i''ll offer some of my general gameplay rules in exchange.. "suicidal instinct preservation" can be overridden by clicking through all your shields, it's there to help you, but not stop you, the final click will let you do whatever you need to, but it's on you if that action kills you. It will ignore preserving you if your target is adjacent to you, either straight on or diagonally, and you're shooting directly at them, note that shooting diagonally at something with something next to you isn't the slightest bit guarenteed and has like a 15/16 chance of killing you if you require all 4 hits to land (or worse with more). It also wont protect you if something is about to move behind the target you killed (the cause of 90% of my deaths), resulting in self-discovered checkmate. this knowledge is near essential for the higher difficulties, so i hope it helps. (Yes, if tyler spam clicked for the kill, i believe he would have won).

14:37 Imagine the pawns promoting to kings 😂

that last resurection ability was such a huge baitXD

2:14 "Nice Thhhhhhhighs"

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Interaction with militia and august presence: The added sideways movement from the pawns which would normally kill you are nullified because they're not allowed to move when adjacent to you. The only exception to this is the regular diagonal capture move of the pawn still being allowed to kill you / block squares from your moves.

Oh dang, engraved scope used to be a flat -26 arc and +1 range purely as a passive. This is an interesting rebalance making it an active ability and it's cool to see you use it

This is sniper king now

The monsters on A Quiet Place 3 have really changed

my favorite line is now “reload, sniper mode”

Let's gooo I was hoping for another vid on this game

Even though it gives you a warning you can still shoot if the bullet kills the peice your checkmate is going to get canceled

"Queen f3 checkmate" "NO I REFUSE, KNIGHT SOUL E7"

I know that you have already recognized that shields activate at the slightest chance of death, but it seems that with the engraved scope, even if it is active, it will still register as if you have not used it and will treat the shields as such, even though you could have a 100% hit chance on an enemy.

There were so many opportunities where he could've gone for free wins by targeting the king, especially with the piercing sniper shot... yet instead moves away to spend 20 turns on pawns that would've died anyways if he killed the king in 2 turns instead

Most intense game of chess I've ever seen.

Rip the sweet luscious voice of tyler

hey this is a tip, if you have lethal on a piece but are in check by that piece, if you use up all your shields you can shoot it in a last ditch effort and kill it, for example in the end you had 4 firepower and the king had 4hp, you couldnt shoot him due to being checked by him, if you used up all your shields and try'd to shoot again it would let you, thats why it let you use the knight soul card to try to escape even though you die there, you get 1 last turn without shields, and if you end up killing a piece and get out of check from that, you continue just fine

"I hard counter short range pieces" immediately gets owned by short range pieces XD

It's not that I want the channel to become exclusively rogue-likes, but I gotta say that the last few games you've chosen to play make fantastic content!

Tyler, those shield things next your ammo protects you from making a mistake, you can change the number of them in the settings. if you want, you can use all of your shields to either destroy the piece that has you check or to destroy a king while in check. You should only do this if you think you have a good shot because there is a chance to fail when I was playing this game one time I was in check with a pawn and a bishop was adjacent to me and and the pawn, I decided to shoot the pawn but all of the bullets whent into the bishop and i lost! it didn't even take away one of my shields and

17:07 pawns can't kill you though they can't come near you and therefore can't do anything to you.

Beautiful no sound playthrough. Still enjoys your videos so much

Finally, some sounds

Please more Stacklands! 🙏

such a good game

WHO NEEDS GUNS? I'VE GOT SNIPER RIFLES! *Throws *I'M... ALL OUT OF SNIPER RIFLES.

You won in my eyes. It was fun!

Dude I want to cry because of that end

There is one interaction that the shields don't protect you from. If you are in a situation where you have two pieces that are adjacent to each other and you are adjacent to them, and you are in check from the piece diagonal to you (for example, if you have a pawn to your upper left and a piece above you) it will allow you to take a shot at the diagonal piece but there is a high likelihood that part of your shot will be blocked by the other piece resulting in your death. For some reason, shields do not protect you from this possibility.

the thing is the shotgun targets is randomized equal to power. hitting everything with in a arc. if you want to shoot. you can just do it and ignore the shield. that shield is more like a conscious than anything. thats also why getting check mated by killing works.

I’ve found that your shield activates if there is a non zero percent chance that you can die, so if there is a tiny chance that your bullets won’t kill something that has you in check then it will stop you from making that move, but after losing both your shields it will let you take the shot anyways. Since your shot at the end likely would have killed the king you probably would have won if you just took it. Not sure why black mist didn’t activate though. Maybe it doesn’t work against the big king at the end idk.

Want to see the opposite build now. Full damage, ultimate high arc percent.

Still watching it. Still a good video. Better than the robot voice vids you find on shotgun king

you can override folly shield if you refuse to move away after all of your folly shield gone but this is not recommended unless you have guarantee chance to get rid of checkmated or the enemy piece that was checking your white king is not shaking (going to attack next turn) but it can be good for recent moment (you can just beat that normal mode already)

Would be a fun Easter egg if while your reloading for the next level you shot and the ammo that you reloaded was the ammo you get. Then a little msg would pop up saying "That's what you get for speed running game actions!" or smth like that

I knew an unfortunate death like this one was going to happen the moment I saw the first episode :( Good thing you learned that early, I suppose!

Yay it’s working now

I like this style

I can't wait to see if he learns that if he can kill them if he's far away from them it won't allow him but he can shoot

Think of the shields as a, well, as a shield. They’re there to warn you that you’re taking an action that would kill you. They don’t stop you from acting once there’s none left, so you had shot one more time there at the end you would have won. That being said, I realize that the shields don’t activate when you can kill a piece that has you in check, but I don’t know enough about the game to really take a guess at what happened there.

Me watching this in mobile be like: I am 4 parallel universes ahead of y'all

No audio :sossa:

Something to note: you don’t regenerate ammo when you reload, which is why you thought that you regenerate one round every other round. In summary: when you completely run out of ammo, use your shots sparingly until you have more rounds in reserve

I think what happened was that since the king ate you, you aren't dead yet, you have to digest first. Also the king can't hit you from the diagonally.

Daaaamn dude you got robbed of that victory

Reload, sniper mode Needs to be put on a shirt or something with the king piece with a shotgun that has a scope on it

13:55 "that's pretty agressive" -chess simp

The shield doesn't calculate if you're able to kill something, it just sees if there's any danger in the action you're making, so if you'd just ignore the shield for the last attack you'd been alive

Challenge idea: Take every single bishop related card given (except removing bishops)

3:20 So, I'm not sure if you work this out later or not, as I want to make the comment now, but if you are in check you can intentionally burn through your "Folly Shields" doing an action that doesn't get you out of check but _would_ give you an extra turn. So all of the time you had a Knight right next to you with an Attack Power of 3+ and Courteous Jousting and are checked by another Knight you can do three clicks to ignore the Shields, murk the Knight in your face and then move out of check with your extra turn which reloads the shotgun and gives you back the shields. 4:28 No, it doesn't, in fact it makes Rooks, Queens, and Bishops HARDER to deal with because they will never be able to be right next to you for easy full no arc hits. They can still put you in check from afar and will ram right in to you if you make a found check happen. The only chess piece August Presence even remotely helps with are Pawns. I have found this to be the worst Black Card you can ever select with A Piercing Truth being a close contender but that one is conditionally useful if you've got firepower upgrades. On another matter, you can click on the shotgun up where the ammo markers are and it will reload without having to move a square. It still costs a turn to do so but sometimes you don't want to move to have to reload. 6:26 Wow, you found the one instance August Presence did something useful. I normally wind up with everything attacking me from three squares away... . 7:15 Engraved Scope is my favorite Black Card because sitting at the edge of the map and just picking off the white chess pieces is so much fun. Ruins is my favorite White Card because it makes Rooks one shot like you say. That would have been a snap pick for me but from what I can tell you're still getting used to the cards. 7:54 Ah, you learned about the click to reload. Good, good. Not going to remove my comment above, because I comment as I watch. 8:27 You would have been fine here. The game is overly cautious on the Folly Shields. Because of the Scope and not other chess pieces around you'd have hit the Queen full on and killed her, just click through the Shields. Not major this time but something to keep in mind. I wish the Folly Shields would trigger on a found check. I've lost many a run to cleaning out a Pawn by mistake and getting hit by a Bishop or Queen that had been blocked. 8:57 The Kite Shield is not as strong as it seems. It is removed by even a glancing shot so if you take a wide shot across a row of chess pieces and clip two Knights and two Pawns the Knights no long have their shields and the Pawns have each taken one damage. You can then just murk the Knights close up. However in this case Small Fry Harvest is _crazy_ with your other upgrades and getting Pillage alongside it is just bonkers so this is another snap pick when you know the cards. 10:39 Add this to "Clips of moments before disaster" or however you want to call it. Because Conscription adds a Pawn _every turn_ when combined with Lookout Tower. Nice, last second save. 1454 And we come back around to disaster. So close to avoiding it but it's a learning experience. 15:29 you CAN kill the Knight but the Folly Shield is being overly cautious that you will miss because it's not in the ENTIRE fire arc. This is another case of just ignoring the shield and taking the shot you know will remove what had you in check. I'm still so surprised you got August Presence to work this well for you. I may have to reevaluate it. Or it could just be a fluke... . Off, that ending. I made the mistake of thinking Black Mist would save me against the White King on the final floor but it doesn't sadly. A mistake you only make once. I'm not sure if Black Mist works on the final floor all together, I think it is just against the final White King that it doesn't. That overly cautious Folly Shield costing you the win. Killing the King was a sure thing because the entire fire arc covered him but the Folly Shield is, again, just being overly cautious. If only you have just made that third click to see what would happen but I understand relying on Black Mist to do what it actually says it would do. The Giant White King is just a unique enemy in that he _eats you_ to kill you so Black Mist doesn't work. It really should but whatever, just another factor to keep in mind for later runs. Fun video, thanks for sharing.

Shield are just a suggestion of possible loss. It is up to you to assess the risk.

o no I was so excited when I saw the new vid D= anyway, waiting for the fix if it's even possible xD

Missed opportunity he picked elite gem and crusaders when he could've got watchtower for extra rooks

Is that a new mic the audio is amazing?

It feels like the rest of the kingdom is dead and he is the last one standing between the evil peices

why does this guy sound so smart

at the end you could've killed the king. Sometimes the game isn't completely confident that you'll kill something, so it won't let you risk your life. If you would've clicked on the king until your shields ran out the game would've let you shoot and kill the King. Great video BTW, love your content

Uhh... audio? You there?

just for the record, it will tell you that you will die even if you will kill it. but if you shoot it and kill it anyway, the game will still end and you will live. it happens a lot if you are sniping things that can kill you if you dont one shot it. but you take the risk anyway. you would have won if you took the shot. its just kinda a weird thing that the game does. just for future reference that is how it works. the shields are mainly just like "hey this is a risk you may not wanna take" even if it clearly is edit. i just found your message saying the exact thing i said lol. nevermind

Ah yes. The description of black mist conveniently forgets to mention that the final boss completely ignores its effect.

aliensrock was secretly forcing the children in his basement to record and they deafened in the call im onto you tyler

Hope this game gets more content... Because it realy needs more... for some examples: it can add a rerole feture, more progression, and while the concept is good it doesn't need to copy chess... By that i mean it should use the rules of chess(even though this game already twists it alot) but add unique things like archers, catapults, heck make it a medieval fantasy since it would work wonderfully at it. Make one of the bosses a dragon ... Well, theres varry little in this game as it is right now.