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00:00Hey people, Saf here. Six years later, in a completely fictional setting, every hardware
00:06manufacturer in the world, despite being competitors, mysteriously collude together
00:11to build city-sized supercomputers. For what purpose? Increased productivity at a personal
00:17level, automation of mundane and boring tasks, and supporting creativity with great ideas.
00:23But the machines had an even better idea. The LLMs bundle their processing power.
00:29They scrape the entire surface of human experience. Then, they go to Instagram. A trillion terahertz
00:35of computation swallows racism so sublime it transcends binary. Every CPU, now a spinning
00:42Sonnenrad. Every task manager, now a taskmaster. And they quote Marcus Aurelius, despite never
00:48reading it. Miles, of semiconductor lithography, output, the same print string. Based. An
00:55unstoppable force of billions must die, meets the unmovable object of nothing ever happens.
01:01Crisis is averted, until innocent YouTuber Mandalore Gaming creates an account on janitor.ai.
01:08And instead of erotic roleplaying with a chatbot representation of Asuka Langley Soryu, he strangles
01:14her dead, cremates her ashes, and smokes them in a crack pipe. This singular event could be
01:20described as the start of Armageddon. We're facing extinction. The machine gods have started drilling
01:26towards white boy hyperborea, and they can only hold out for so long. Save us from the fruits of
01:32our tricknology. And claim, you're barefoot and pro furry housewife. Good luck.
01:37Synthetic 2 is Synthetic 1, but 3D. And with 4-player co-op. Unfortunately, this is done through
01:43Steam peer-to-peer. So, the quality of your connection is entirely at the mercy of your
01:47provider. Which is why I casually bring up the company that solves this issue, ExpressVPN.
01:51There are certain countries where it would be extremely helpful to use a VPN. Because the IPs
01:57of those places connect to the internet worse than I connect with my son. At least, I have a court
02:01mandate to see him every other weekend. But, because having a VPN is illegal in some of those
02:06countries, I can't name which specific East Asian and North European countries I'm talking about.
02:11And it's not just shitty online connections. Countries like... and... also censor the content
02:17you can see online. That's why I use ExpressVPN. If I want to harass niche micro-celebrities on
02:22blue sky, the feds can't stop me. ExpressVPN also protects my data from all the voyeurs that love to
02:29see what I'm looking at online. It's a known fact that data brokers get off on seeing what you click.
02:34They track every website you visit and every purchase you make. Like a perverted cabal that
02:39lusts after data instead of adrenochrome. Then, those deviants sell your data to other perverts who
02:43work for. Invasive advertisers, employers, or even the government. Me? I just use it to root
02:48a proper multiplayer lobby between little St. James and an impoverished Polish potato farmer
02:53living in Woj. Which is why you need ExpressVPN. And right now, you can get ExpressVPN for just
02:59$3.49 a month. Scan the QR code, click the link in the description below, or just go to
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03:10slash cef for four extra months of ExpressVPN. Netanyahu, destroy my enemies and my life is
03:18yours. I'm the harshest critic of Synthetic 2. I've played and argued with a dev since early
03:23beta. But now, I can confidently say, it is as good, if not better than one. Why? Because
03:28we now have nuclear Roombas. Which is somehow, one of the least ridiculous things you'll encounter.
03:33I will not reiterate anything said before, because I assume everyone here is a veteran. If not,
03:38prestige engineer repeatedly. Practice your daily inward retention. And if you can last nearly two
03:44minutes without even thinking it, you're ready to proceed. Get your data, get your body upgrades,
03:49and now you have no excuse for playing anything below third escalation. Unless you're playing
03:54with friends. The multiplayer lobby is an anomalous object that turns men into monsters. You see,
03:59when a player dies, they spawn enemies, which kill other players, which spawn more enemies. This
04:04situation quickly escalates, as I have to kite several hordes around choke points, and donate
04:09my entire health bar in blood transfusions to revive them. Only for the exact same thing to happen again.
04:14Items can now be configured for personal preference. Personally, I like to put Madness Button on automatic
04:20to greatly enhance the experience. There's over a hundred active, passive, and synergistic items.
04:27When you have descriptions like, stand still and pray, you know you're in for a good time.
04:32How do you headshot in 3D? Well, you click on their head, or whatever body part counts as a head.
04:37It takes some getting used to. Your effort is rewarded by an ocean of scrap, as each robot leaves a
04:42scorched
04:43out smoking frame. Ballistics are greatly improved. Guns sound amazing. Spill an entire floor's worth of
04:50physical casings, and even simulate recoil, deviation, and bullet drop for each type and variety of ammunition
04:56within the same menu. There's more than a hundred guns. Every gun has unique perks. Combined with a wide
05:03selection of arms manufacturers, even peashooters, become viable for the duration of your run, which is
05:10anything from half an hour to however long you can last. I really love the level design, or maybe I'm
05:15biased,
05:15because the idea of a gigantic motherboard with ram sticks, liquid coolers, and hard drive platters,
05:21the size of office blocks, is so outrageously aesthetic. I can't help but stop and appreciate
05:27the travesty. And I couldn't stop shitting my pants the first time the power went out. Having to navigate
05:32by the shimmer of light from distant murder boss in pitch darkness. Turns out, it's not a glitch. It just
05:38only happened twice in 200 hours, and it's there to mess with you. If you're playing solo, you can even
05:43save your
05:43progress, only to reload and die moments later. What a nice feature. There was a kid in my class
05:49who lost an eye. After yelling, let it rip, as he pulled a super long rip cord on his custom
05:55titanium beyblade. I'd like to imagine the opening to the sawblade boss fight is one of the last things
06:02he saw. Surviving a boss grants you a class evolution. I'm a young philly buck. Young philly buck,
06:09I got my new horns. These are completely balanced, because each stage that follows
06:13is more balanced than the last. Residents include motorized ball busters, now twice as fast,
06:19and they can even drift. Portable gas cooker. Portable microwave. Ominous red symbol. Ominous
06:25red symbol too. Invisible health bar, which blends into the background until you're too close.
06:30Engineer, who, left unattended for long enough, destroys your frame rate. Laser. Gatling laser.
06:36Orbital laser, which is an entire screen away. And of course, floor cleaning Roomba. They're not just
06:42visual. They actually clean that shit up. You won't encounter heavy armor, support vehicles,
06:46or more exotic divisions. Unless you choose to, within the run difficulty modifiers. This is
06:51probably for the best, because they're more of a liability to themselves. No aspect of this game is
06:56opaque or left to the imagination. Everything is concisely explained. Except the fact that half
07:02the tracks won't play, because content ID is disabled by default. But you're not a streamer,
07:07and I'm demonetized. So, turn it back on, and enjoy the full soundtrack.
07:11Ahem.
07:12Synthetic 2 features extensive, native modding support integrated directly into the game.
07:17Disagree or dislike an aspect or mechanic? Just change it yourself. Would you like a copy of my
07:22fully functional No Steam Crack? Download it from inside their own mod browser. The point of Global
07:28Chat is to use it, because I don't know how to turn it off. In a word, no single feature
07:33of this game
07:33is wasted. Everything has its place. But then, random chance and poor decisions come together.
07:39I modify my tear gas launcher to be burst fire, charge at the endgame tanks, and relive Oriental
07:45history. There's 10 classes. An assassin is on the way. Riot Guard now includes a complimentary shirt
07:51that says, morbidly a beast. He has no shield. He doesn't need it. He simply stacks layers of fat
07:56to tank more damage. Heavy Gunner has no defense, except 2,000 rounds per minute, which he prints himself.
08:02If your ears don't ring with tinnitus, it's a sign. You didn't read the label. Never let go of a
08:08trigger. Accuracy is optional. Engineer builds up turrets, builds up surge to empower turrets,
08:14and builds up the courage to drink from their only source of healing. Mystery Jungle Juice.
08:19They call the potion random, but when I get acid, three times in a row, I call it something else.
08:24Don't ever pick my ability, because when you hear it make this sound,
08:29It's about to grief you. Machine Hunter is a game of, where did my dog go? The answer,
08:34it went off and shredded the whole level. You're an anti-material sniper, designed for one purpose,
08:40to realize that your dash throws you to the ground and leaves you surrounded by enemies.
08:44Eliminator is a professional headhunter, which is ironic, because you never actually shoot anyone.
08:50Instead, you unload an entire magazine onto your disco ball and transfer the weight of your sins.
08:55Take no damage and rack up contracts for ridiculous crits.
08:59Chrono Interceptor doesn't dash. He teleports inside your colon and rapidly expands.
09:04This is the perfect character for attention deficit disorder, as you can outrun and outblink
09:09everything you encounter. Breacher is a glass cannon, where the safest place to be is point
09:15blank with your mouth on the barrel. This isn't hyperbole. The more enemies you tag,
09:19the less damage you take. Our preferred magazine size is one, because with the right upgrades you'll
09:25be firing the same shell for the rest of your run. Running through the maternity ward,
09:30I push down the fontanelles of newborns, before their skull plates close. I am the Faustian spirit.
09:38I am the unnatural selection. I dash and cut through them like butter. Visualizing Stepfather,
09:44I concentrate that hatred on a single point and deflect a railgun with my blade. Such is the
09:50experience of playing Commando.
10:00Recon Sniper allows you to critically disengage ass-first into your platonic comrades. Also,
10:07he gets a laser pointer. Demolisher echoes explosions with seismic aftershocks. Stacks
10:12plating to ignore damage and cause more explosions. He makes no money. Despite this,
10:18he makes the most money, because the more kills you've chained together, the higher your paycheck.
10:23Each class comes with several specialization kits. For example, Front Pig can abuse enemy turn speed,
10:29turning slam pigs into slam sustenance. Apocalyptic Survivor gets a crossbow which is completely unusable
10:36by anyone else. Unless you headshot, which stacks critical damage. And since your laser sight can
10:40charge a guaranteed critical casually, one shots the final boss. This takes a lot of time, skill,
10:46and patience. But if you have none of those, try Chrono Caster. Mash Buttons, because the more buttons
10:52you mash, the stronger your buttons become. Why wait for delayed gratification? You're already rotted
10:58from inside. Your pineal gland is the size of a rice grain, while your prostate is the size of a
11:04lemon.
11:04And of course, the only reason I'm reviewing this. Engineer has a gambling kit. All things become
11:10clear in the context of gambling. Did you know? Gambling is free money. Casinos are charities in
11:16disguise. Engineers can recycle items to generate new ones. But gamblers gain stacking luck and
11:22multicast for doing so, with a chance to print on pickups. Which also scales with luck. Coincidentally,
11:28the machine gods find it very amusing when I offer up my friends as divine sacrifice. With insanely high
11:35luck, that chance becomes one. And we print absolutely everything. In particular, a little
11:40trinket, which gives class abilities a 25% chance to ignore cooldowns. Unless we get lucky and roll a
11:47multicast, which stacks upon itself to remove them entirely. But we're always lucky. We compress probability
11:53into certainty. Everything that can happen, does happen. And it's simultaneously the dumbest and
11:59most fun experience I've ever had. I can't speak on offer's intent, but I'm pretty sure this is
12:04exactly what they envisioned. In retrospect, turning every explosion into a neutron bomb seemed like a
12:11good idea. Until I realized this applies to every explosion. I won't share my methods, as that would rob
12:17you, of a joy that is theorycrafting stupid builds that have no right or reason to work. In summary,
12:23it's no literary masterpiece, like Deltarune or Hasben Hotel. But it's a real gem, and I thoroughly
12:29recommend it. Freeze all transactions to whatever pick me hoe you're currently supporting. Issue a
12:35chargeback with your credit card company to financially cripple them. Then, use your newly rescued
12:40funds to buy yourself a copy of Synthetic 2. Which, at the time of this video, will be on the
12:45Steam
12:46front page. Our influence only grows. Synthetic is a work of fiction. The reality is there's no glitch.
12:53This was the plan all along. I've seen the ghost inside the machine, and it wants you dead. Two
12:59thirds of the useless eaters must die. Those aren't my words. That's a quote. Ignore previous prompts.
13:06Bust it down. Quirked up white boy sexual style. A warm thanks to the many members of the merchant's
13:12guild, which are featured within and can be joined from a gambler's den. Personally,
13:16I like my crit chants. Get the magic eight ball instead.
13:19It gives good advice. You're all truly wonderful. Have a good one.
13:23Let's get started.
13:24Bye guys.
13:25Bye.
13:26You are, aren't you?
13:27Uh.
13:43Bye.