Forts Amateur League Playoffs! - Forts RTS - Livestream

foreign [Music] [Music] [Music] foreign [Music] and welcome in welcome one welcome all thank you guys for stopping by so early as we are just getting started here for the Ford's amateur League playoffs that's right today we have the fort's amateur League playoffs we've gone through the season the players have scored made their scores played their matches and today we're going to Crown Victors I am joins here with 42 scientists one of the community members he was helping put things together here as we uh as will be jumping right into the action here momentarily all right it looks like we're all set to go on my side 42 we're ahead and introduce yourself to those that were just trying to uh just signing in here well greetings everyone so I'm 42 scientists you might know me from the community and I'm currently well running basically the league with the help of crunkinator who is also in the lobby right now and so we'll see now the playoffs on the amateur League it should be interesting yes I am super excited for this mind you I I realized that I did not cover most or any of the amateur league on the channel so far as uh there's just so much Sports going on it's it's quite difficult to keep up with it all but this this is the finale of the Ford's amateur League this is the playoffs this is where things get extra spicy and I'm very much so looking forward to it so let's see if the teams are ready to go I believe we are yes all right Chad so remember we do have a delay here so there will not be there will not be much in the way of interaction during the matches thing you have to worry about go ahead and post it in chat and we'll uh we'll get to it when we get around to it remember you could use the bracket commands to get access to this very same bracket that you see here on screen right now that way you guys can keep up even if you're not seeing the bracket on screen at any specific point in time as the first match we'll be jumping into [Music] oh oh boy this is uh this is what let's start let's do it and I let you do the introduction if you want to I guess sure I'll go ahead and do that one uh here on the left hand side we have the knights this is uh this team is CR is made up of a shadow Knight and Island Boy now I believe they actually had a a substitute that came in I think that's for another team so this is the actual team okay thank you and they're here on the left side they're playing as the Moonshine Commander is that moonshine no no no yes it is jeez it's been so long since I've seen that Commander good Lord uh this is actually wait isn't that buster no that's Buster that's Buster with the uh Jesus it's the EMP Commander recipe has a like a shield thing yeah I always confused between the two because of testing they were uh yeah I know I know it happens it happens the best of us oh no so this this one is Buster this is the one with the uranium rounds moonshine is the one of the uh extra EMP yes but anyways they're playing and okay so ah I have a friend who is Dutch I only mentioned that because this they have the Dutch flag on their Insignia here um and from what I recall the letter g in Dutch is per not pronounced like it is in English it's more of the the very throaty sound which is very unpleasant so I'm going to try to pronounce this and I'm sure Felix is going to I'm sure I'm going to hear about it from Chad and or Felix or both Martin I think it's how that's pronounced yeah probably very throaty and I'm not going to continue to pronounce it like I'm probably going to try to continue to pronounce it like that for the at least a few times but here on the right hand side it is team and please correct me if I am incorrect it's going to be a great experience but in the top base we have Felix you know him you love him what are the more common players here in the forge community it's always around love to see him it's a great time makes for some just some great meme stuff with it as well and the lower Fort we have Acker freak and it looks like there is some it is still strange to me seeing the upgrade Center because it just doesn't feel like it's part of the standard build because it's been so many years of the uh of the upgrade sensor being just categorically avoided well it's very useful for support or high Eco builds but it is right now yes and I think more importantly due to the choice for to go play as the architect Commander all right because the architect's active ability has such a such a fast build speed it allows team two here to catch up in any potential lost time so they can actively use a build order which purposefully causes them to lose time on their everything and in doing so seed the alpha strike they see the first shot they they aren't going to be prepared for Canada clock but they are able to catch up and keep up with their opponents after they take the first hits their Commander ability will be charged they just press that Commander ability button and suddenly they're on Canada o'clock timing ish again but also have access to the upgrade Center which is just a good thing like and that that is a strategy we've seen a fair few times in the Ford's pro league as well uh yes even yesterday I saw a match where a Tim was going for architect and re-high Eco and looks like uh Parker is currently a really big mine and so they were always really defensive and using the active to defend but also gets weapons quickly exactly it's it's like having it's like having your cake and eating it too it's beautiful so now we are transitioning away from the array aggression with buses and sniping turbines and looks like we are seeing how we serve from Felix and the platform plasma paraben form IQ well we are seeing a couple cannons from Team One review right now yes I am always I'm a fan of this one um the just pure can industry right like you can't go wrong with it especially considering they're playing as the Buster Commander with its it just causes extra damage like you get a little extra burn a little extra penetration that's a higher repair bill there's there's no going wrong with it it's just it's just a good time and yeah contrary to how it serves which can be shut down and lasers which can be deflected with the shields exactly very um consistent source of damage exactly it's I and to be honest I don't know if either team I don't think I would favor either team here the Howitzer and with the fire beam plasma combo for the follow-up it's it's devastatingly effective case and points Shadow Knight falls to the howitzer Howitzer plasma beam Cuts clean through one player is eliminated and just like that night the knights well they're down a player that puts them at a significant disadvantage not like this Knights of the Round Table cut clean off the surface of the of the terrain leaving victorious in this round impressive very yeah that was clean that's the uh that's one of these strengths of the howitzer it just hits so hard that yeah it can be shot down yeah there are ways of completely preventing it from doing anything at all but it just hits so hard like there's no there's no easy come back to that you just cannot take those kind of hits okay that's supposed to deal with these fire beam um preventing AA from connecting to the howitzer yeah that was very well done he loved to see it I so I realized that this is called the Ford's amateur league but if you've noticed players like like uh Felix for example they've been around since forever we're talking toward it like actual Twitter competitors here like this is not some push over level League here players are incredibly incredibly competent and they will end the game given any opportunity that's what we're here for is it so good all right so next up we'll be going into Pro bra team versus Howie accelerator which I I did see I was I was talking with ASCA about this so there were there's like can we please have the mod which makes the Howitzer projectiles in in per uh incorporeal to each other so they could actually uh so they could actually do an accelerator because that would be amazing yeah that's a nice one I I just at this point I just want to see them actually do a Howitzer accelerator complete with the proper capacitor and everything yes yes it would be devastating oh my lord it's it's just it just makes me so excited and giddy thinking about it top tier pronunciation of the team name Felix alright so on the scale of comedic to actually reasonably close which which side was that on it's like so this is this is just me going off of because because I used to have a Dutch friend and um I I like learning about things so I would try to pick up words every now and again but the um that that is one thing I remember there's a lot of those very throat sounds and so that's I've tried I've TR I haven't looked it up I probably should have looked it up I should look it up there's trust Felix did not troll me as a mistake but yeah if I recall correctly good Lord okay so we are just waiting for the next set of players to join the lobby and then we will be good to go the Germans also like to have those uh those fun sounds yes always so painful to pronounce it's it takes I'm sure it takes a little bit of practice um it's not a it's not a sound that it's not one of those sounds that exists in the English pronunciation of things but it's like I could do it I just I don't regularly and it feels weird I'm sorry I get a little carried away I just have so much fun trying to pronounce all these things because there's so much different variety of words and team names so much diversity around these days foreign also is that you have different types of the sound so you have the classic yeah it's all all messed up in the in those languages you have several of those at once oh lord it's almost like it could be a different accent at times although I think that's not quite accurate it's there are many different ways of saying it and I personally don't know which way is correct just because well I'm not Dutch and I don't of course I'm unfamiliar with the language and the words and so that's I don't know the the way it's supposed to be said let alone any potential accents which could then modify it further it was pronounced better than you expected with the G sounds a bit off that's hard for anyone that ain't Dutch it's fair enough I'm I'm happy I was in the ballpark I'm learning the um I'm trying to think is this I think I added a little bit too much I think it's I think I added a little bit too much throat to it it's just more of a pro I I can't I can't analyze it that deeply I don't know you think like button Maybe yeah maybe I don't know foreign [Music] this is the uh the Russian team I believe yes absolutely I'm so excited they always I I like this team how race he usually comes in with some different strategy that doesn't usually work particularly well but it comes close and it makes me happy because it's just a little bit different from what we normally see and it's it's so very close to winning every time it feels like they actually just a little bit more practice that could stand up to what we would normally consider the more common builds I think they haven't lost a single match in the whole league so far that does not surprise me that does not surprise me at all so basically the way the league works for the amateur league is that we have two different groups and so uh teams don't compete between groups this is why both lag mutton and pro routine hasn't lost any matches yet because they didn't have to compete between each other and so that's why we are having those final play well that's interesting see who comes on top okay okay that's interesting to me uh that actually makes things a little bit more exciting as well because these are these are like the top of two different of two different Towers a question from Chad would I say Ford's is a good beginner RTS I would say yes yes yes it is um obviously it's a couple of things yes definitely yes yes yes yes yes there's a I I was the Fords is obviously not a traditional RTS however all of the same mindset all the same management economies and build orders all is directly apply applicable like I could do all the all the concepts I would use for Starcraft for doing a typical multiplayer I can just transfer them over to forge terms it works um and that's a Starcraft is you know your Pinnacle RTS let's start now and we're good to go and map isn't right I think uh um uh let me check oh I should have checked beforehand one moment please do this idiot but yes Ford's is a is a good beginner RTS just because it is much more simple than many of the other things it doesn't have you don't have to be paying attention to four different screens at once it's got all the fundamentals most of the fundamentals with a less verbosity in the things you have to do and it also works very well because it could be a very casual game as a most people who play Ford's play it because it's they think it's something akin to poly bridge and you could play it in a game in a manner similar to poly bridge but once obviously once you play multiplayer and get into the real RTS elements of it it's not exactly poly Bridge it just looks like it and crumbles like it in all the best ways okay we can start now for real all right and we're off ladies and gentlemen welcome to the next round as here we have on the left hand side it is team ahawi accelerator who won't be building a Howitzer who might be building a Howitzer accelerator it's lpgk and sweep LPG and the top base sweep in the lower base they are playing as the warthog commanders we could expect something fairly standard out of them in terms of build order on the other side it is pro-bra team vertex and Hal rassi Hal rasi in the lower Fort vertex in the upper Fort apparently undefeated in the fort's amateur league so far they're looking to come out of this with a clean record a clean sweep across the board they're playing as the spook Commander so again another Commander that plays particularly standard I did mention previously that Pro Barrette team is but I'm familiar with them for their somewhat less than standard build orders however so far they seem to be going for is one of the more common build orders I say is if they didn't just disconnect their minds why are you like this it's fine it's okay they're okay they recovered they're just um restructuring their base in a way that would make pinch fist envious oh no and so it's worth mentioning that sweep is a substitute for how we accelerator Ah that's that's the one I was that's the one I was thinking of before okay so the player for sweep is not the same player that I was in playing on team how it's How We accelerator for the majority of the Ford signature League uh there was a last minute uh substitute which is unfortunate but um it is what it is so it looks like team one has ooh Mr turbine right then uh but also is a bit earlier on the tech which is to be expected since spook is more in the reaction basically yes I am interested to see exactly how this plays out we do see Team how we accelerator uh specifically lpgk uh going with the going with the EMP harassed for the start we've seen this many a time where you just basically slapping EMP down and send a few Rockets out just because you can and for no other reason I'm a bit surprised that there is no NT air from Team 2 since there's food they should have been themed they think this EMP I don't even we didn't to be honest yeah it is easy to miss uh you can team how accelerator can cover it obscure it by building like a turbine immediately afterwards also with the 30 second delay it's wow that made it inside and actually collided on the internal structure which is not something you see all the time uh but that's a pretty hefty that's a pretty hefty hit for those who are unfamiliar with the EMP it doesn't deal any real damage however it does shut down everything in a wide area around the point of impact this means that sure it won't be dealing a whole lot of actual damage but what the EMP does do is it locks down and delays progress so this basically means that any and all technology in progress any minds or economic production is halted it makes it such that you can delay your opponent by if you can keep my lockdown it's about 10 seconds each hit and if you get hit three or four times that'll delay your entire builds potentially by 30 seconds which is fairly significant when you're in a 2v2 scenario oh jeez is the Ping that bad well only for harassment so far it's okay I it feels bad man because oh it spiked to 1700 oh oh I feel so bad for him and like we we even picked a European host just to try to just to uh mitigate this as much as possible it's unfortunate like from in my experience yeah we don't have a better host at this time I guess exactly it's it's just the closest to all the players involved and a majority of the players are pretty okay we've got a hefty chunk of them in the hundreds but I find that any ping below 300 is fine after after about 300 is where things start to become Jank so having a spike to 1700 for example is a problem that's that's when things start getting de-sinky four mines disabled for 10 seconds each that cost 160 metal there yeah yeah no it's it's significant it's absolutely significant you do not want to get hit by those emps but it looks like both emps have been sold off as we are no longer in the phase of the game where the emps are meaningful the question now is does this opening volley take out how we accelerator weapons it does not sweep managing to keep their weapons alive will be able to finish construction or at least continue Construction uh sweeps plasma laser down there is not particularly quick so it does mean that it's going to have to take another hit or potentially take another hit I are aiming for it once again is that it yes there it is one destroyed so here's the thing about weapons in production the um weapons that are still in progress that are under construction they can't be repaired so typically oh no [Laughter] oh no hitting their own doors when you build two tiny doors welp the first Howie from Howie accelerator has been fired and successfully hit themselves which is unfortunate but you know it happens to the best of us and uh here we are oh geez as Hal Rossi looking to aim again once more to remove their opponent that's a beautiful shot and the plasma because why not just the remaining Minds yes deny the minds of the opponent because you can yeah that was very that was very well done t uh pro pro team show having a dominant performance here even the shotgun already prepared and pre-aims clears this guy how we accelerator completely shut down in this match so far and even if the Howitzer did go through harassi has his uh background oh it's her defense so yeah suffering much damage some background bracing to catch the how it's your shell just to make sure that it detonates on the exterior of the base in the ablative armor rather than act rather than uh going deep and causing critical damage notes that lpgk here has the same kind of setup a little Howitzer Shield um but again only one player Sports blinking right now yeah it's a little rough looking uh I think the the actual all the extra weight trying to connect to his teammates once base has uh negatively affected the structure of his of his fortification here all right lpgk does have does have significant does have the uh stability Tech and that will keep that will keep his base intact so yes there are blinking struts but those aren't critical they are no longer the primary load bearing struts so they are they are fine to break or take heavy hits again you can't keep doing this another self-detonation of the Howitzer that's uh that's unfortunate and now football team really has uh the map control right now so they should be good to go oh yes LP he's trying to keep up map control he's got Gunners behind doors but you could see who's dominant here because Pro breath teams Gunners are just all out there and exposed and they're not being punished for it as hellrazy looks to aim and cut deep does cut deep but not enough to break anything as LP is trying to snipe I'm curious what was LP's strategy here LP should be firing their Primary Weapons yeah like they have they're off cooldown they have the energy for it hmm why you no shoot maybe he's looking for targets for the cannon not very struggling with APM as well probably well that's that's what I was thinking because uh LP was sitting on the sniper for an extended period of time which that's something I find myself doing whether it's a trap every time trying to uh use the sniper rather than the cannon you have a perfectly good can and you just tap it once then go back to the sniper no no that EMP s so snakes through so many shots well he's taking every hit and survives for now but he won't be able to sustain that for long exactly LPG case base here it's strong it's beefy it's collapsing oh no there it is every time this always gets me yes with that Pro broad team moves on in the upper bracket remaining undefended so far or undefeated so far all right so we will be moving on to the lower bracket I believe yes it should be in that order and so we're we will be looking at how the accelerator versus knight of Round Table so looking at Challenger mode it shows the next match is pro-bred team versus hakos well I think it's uh not three in any particular order to be honest I do agree so yeah we will do the button one boost sounds good to me it looks like we have some well actually well it will depend on which match does their Vito first maybe we'll see personally I'm partial toward doing the uh lower bracket first just so we can get the final results just back to back threaded the needle yeah that EMP made it the cross for gunners now that was there's always a chance it's a small chance but there's always a chance oh my okay so at the moment for those who are watching we are we're handling the vetoes and the match management the cat hurting behind the scenes well looks like we will be doing the upper bracket first upper bracket so this light Challenger mode is actually saying that since the first match in my order so hopefully why not all right so we will be doing the finals match next the undefeated teams facing off to see who comes out on top which will be proper team versus Apple slash 911. foreign now something that we haven't explained yet is the reward prize the reward for winning the forts amateur league go ahead and uh explain to Chad what what the benefits of the victors so basically the way it will go is that the winner will have the chance to go to the uh pro league and to do that basically we'll take the two best teams so uh currently it would be a proper team and uh and So based on which one wins the finals they will be able to choose which of the button to pro league teams they will fight to be able to get to the product so they are not guaranteed to go to the pro league right now if they win they will just have the chance to fight one of the project teams one of the bottom project teams and if they win this match they go to the pro league exactly and that's that I think is an exciting way to do it because it basically means that the Ford's amateur League can the four temperature lead players can literally claw and fight their way into the Ford's pro league just by Smashing the competition hard enough mistakes are really high exactly and that's that makes for even better matches and also it's good I'm sure it's going to lead to some uh substantial I'm not going to use the word bullying because that's not the correct word uh the for the bottom of the fort's pro league player teams you have to defend their title going to get a little bit laughed at I think well definitely they lose they might get a bit locked up yeah yes the uh the smack talk is it because it it is all in good faith it's all in good fun the players look the players do off at smack talk each other and it's it's fun to watch and there there's lots of smack talk opportunities there but again the uh the amateur League teams aren't really random things either they think there are some tournament winners among them and everything yes well at this point a significant majority of the players here that we're seeing both in the amateur league and in the pro league are tournament winners or regular competitors yeah like everyone here I think pretty much everyone here is has participated in the official tournaments at least once uh possibly I couldn't remember that because there were so many that's true ah okay there has been a slight change that I didn't see first um but yes I think those had decided that the winning teams of this the winning team of this uh tournament actually will automatically proceed to the product the second team will have to fight their way through okay so minor change from the last time I I looked last time I object but I think the reasoning is because they want to have um to have like forced change happening in The Prodigy so that there is not any uh well it's only stale basically we'll have some change going on and that's for the good for the better I mean I I agree with that actually I I do yeah it sounds it sounds like a good thing to me just that we have constantly revolving players hey more opportunities [Laughter] oh no why does no one want to play on the base I can't possibly imagine why you could say it's a rather abysmal map I haven't checked a lot from the amateur league but I have stats for the Broly and I think Abyss was only played once so far or like 30 matches oh geez yeah you know Abyss it is unique it is fun it's just it's stressful it's it's very stressful powerful there it's very powerful and you have to constantly be looking at and watching almost three different screens worth of locations and it's it's a lot to deal with all your normal build orders don't apply or there's nothing vanilla like about it in terms of the map it's very different very aggressive and very stressful it's fine people really like a thumb down though yes because once again we will be playing up and down up and down is one of my favorite Maps it's very simple it's vanilla like he's got a bit of variety it's the perfect range where you can still use those closer range weapons like rockets but not so close that you have to use them hey yeah it's got a little bit of variety with the standard vanilla forward as well as the uh hanging for it yes the stalactites for it yeah I wonder why the one plays on balls either hey at least balls is fun balls has got some uh strange and wild strategies on it but it is fun you gotta be careful with the angles from top to bottom base oh good lord yes there's a lot you can do there's a whole lot you could do on with the uh balls map namely the four swings that people like they eaten swing [Music] I still I still have a hard time believing that man actually managed to pull off that core swing in a match like an actual tournament match because the thing is it's really not consistent enough to be pulled off normally yeah exactly it requires timing and it's affected by lag and it's not a consistent swing to say at least like I think he said himself that he misses like three times every 10 depends oh 30 loss rate is not what you want and just immediately lose the game 30 chance so it looks like teams are choosing the recommenders right now excellent good question from Chad unrelated to Forts I did hear about macabellum yes I've followed macabella for some time um I haven't put it on the channel but I am aware of it and say uh neat little work in progress game very direct strike like extra nukes on balls yes the uh there's all the extra Island expansions are great great for many things don't tell me that Felix actually beat both wings oh no that's insane because uh Felix if you've if you've done what you're hinting at oh god oh no okay wait what stupid okay so they did miss it one time okay well now I'm gonna have to go check that out that's these sandals replaced that's crazy so wait he's telling us that's even one one teammates messed up the crosswing and and died spoilers go away that's this thing I'm sorry yeah but wait what I'm surprised that that would be impressive that would be impressive for sure as in curses covered beyond all reason I've not covered on the channel though I was waiting for the steam release as it does it is mechanically sound it's got it definitely needs a few touch-ups on things um one of the things that it doesn't do very well is the out of game experience it basically requires you to be like command line and everything to get multiplayer and Maps working um it doesn't have great ux at the moment so I hesitate to jump into it but it is a reasonably functional I can actually pretty good RTS game and it's it's one of those RTS games that I I have an incredibly High incredibly High Hope for so it's it's on my list of games that I check up on every couple months just to just to see how it is it's progress keep up with this progress I believe I will be doing a big push forward on that steam release which is like next on its development roadmap ish next dish eating not gonna terrorize this anymore uh not not in the Ford's damage really no Eaton's in the uh Eaton is in the Ford's pro league all right so it looks like the players are readying up so we'll be jumping into the match moments early get ready get excited as we jump into versus Pro broad team this is this is what I'm looking forward to because these are incredibly competent players doing gaming okay so we may go and we're off ladies and gentlemen welcome to the final match the finals the decider between first place and second place in the Ford's amateur league as here we have in the left hand side it is pro team I'll rise in the top four vertex in the lower Fort they're looking forward to taking this Clean Sweep undefeated in the amateur league if they win this this match against their opponent's team Martin Felix in the top Fort Acre freak at the lower Force well these are some incredibly experienced players and this is gonna be I have no idea which which uh Team would be favored here um I have no idea either to be honest like this isn't I most of the time especially when we're dealing with something like the amateur League I I have generally an idea of who's gonna win uh Ford's is a game that has a particularly consistent skill uh skill curve so you can fairly reliably determine or guess who is going to win just based on the player's skill like the the more skilled player will win a vast majority of the time and I have no idea who's going to win here because both of these players are just both of these teams and all four players are just incredibly good at the game already goes down to struts and comment social choices yes speaking of choices yes Pro broad team is the architect Commander we do see both players getting the upgrade Center considering the upgrade sensor costs 600 metal there any time they spend the extra money on the upgrade sensor it just means that they're going to be fairly substantially behind their opponents in terms of getting out weapons so they will be not firing first because they won't have weapons out and Under Construction and building before their opponents of course because they're the architect Commander they do have the ability to rapidly construct their weapons after they've been pummeled a little bit whereas their opponent's team Martin uh they're playing as the Eagle Eye Commander Eagle Eye Commander I'm going to say got a fairly significant rework in the uh in the last balance patch I changed the style at which that plays away from miniguns and toward heavy weapons where now eagle eyes heavy weapons can double shot or rapidly reload I think double shot is a more descriptive term for it basically their weapons their heavy weapons like cannons howitzers and the uh the heavy laser can reload twice and then fire twice so if you wait for two reload periods you will double load your Cannon and then you can just double fire your Cannon which is incredibly powerful it's incredibly powerful for I think it's spit most I mean obviously it's powerful for every heavy weapon but it's I think it's most powerful on the Howitzer and on the laser beam the Howitzer because that's just two howitzers one one launcher and that's how it's just disgustingly powerful um and the reason for the laser being incredibly powerful is because the laser beam can be fired from the same it's two laser beams from the same spot which means you don't have to focus the beam you just dig deep and then dig deeper again immediately which most players are not prepared for and laser beams they dig very deep so that's that is something that uh Team Watson will be able to uh team aggressively Dutch will be able to uh be able to take advantage of here it's like President just right Buzz so empty air he tried the uh Team getting a little bit getting a little bit bullied by this EMP although it is about a past time when the emp's value is worth anything I'm surprised that the EMP still exists uh the red team here on the right has multiple snipers on the field generally the EMP has sold off once the snipers are once the snipers come out because it's just it's too easy to snipe um I find it strange that they didn't really try to snipe the EMP but I mean that's their decision no other preparing for how it's four o'clock with their end here now yes are you speaking Russian why are you like this that's so cool I appreciate it I appreciate it I really do the uh coming in there with the the triple sniper a unique feature of the Eagle Eye Commander uh from its original launch is that it can you can actually group fire snipers which is good fun it's one of the stronger antsier weapons available just a wall of snipers or one of the stronger map control tools available just for destroying destroying ansier looks like the proper team is really behind on weapons but that's because they have almost all upgraded Minds which is impressive by itself yeah I don't blame them like at this point if you've got okay so this is where things start to go wrong for them um this is a trend I've seen many many a time uh going hard defenses into well going Max Eco with six seven mines upgrading all of them and then just becoming the ultimate thickness of a fort does require that you don't expend much on weapons just because you can't do both things or you can't do all three things it's it's too expensive and this does mean that you can't get weapons first so you have to take a few hits and your opponents will get to to fire a few shots on you now we saw what happened there a pro Brett team lost two cannons because of that and that's gonna set them back much further than they wanted much further than they planned for and yeah sure Pro broad team they've got like twice the Eco of team but at what point is Eco not enough when you're losing the game so now that we're listening on their back foot waiting for relative to pop up and then finally get some weapons down yes whereas team is about to get about to get incredibly aggressive here there goes one howitzer show double shotguns ready to go keeps the Howitzer away oh it cuts so deep second shotgun keeps the second keeps the doubled Howitzer shells away but wait for it snipers are really good because you don't really have to aim that much as well yes honestly I think this is the first time I've seen a group this is the most effective I've seen group snipers I think ever um I'm happy to see it because it is nice to see them get some love that's for sure this is gonna have to go away because there is a cannon behind that yes yes for sure uh one thing I do want to say uh this is the moment when Pro broad team is going to try to take the upper hand now obviously Pro bra team has the economic Advantage So eventually if this game goes on indefinitely it will Trend toward Pro broad team um the thing is they just have to live long enough to get there and they're trying for it this is their moments and there it is pro-bro team with two howitzers sitting back building up for a very long time behind absolute dummy thick amounts of wood spam manages to get their weapons on Target and brakes Felix himself Falls thank you oh there it is yeah good shots very well done pro broad team takes round one well now we'll go to the uh button Parts because yes those are still uh year one matches and the reason for that is uh wait I'm just gonna check on that okay is this one of your one of your three best thing to do this report first yeah this is a real one because it's the upper final and the Grand Final would be the winner of the upper brackets versus the winner of the illusion brackets all right still has a chance if they win the lower final first we'll have the lower semi-final it's our accelerator versus knight of roundhead excellent so this is once again up and down how original everyone's favorite map let's switch teams and let's wait for everyone to join that was satisfying it's it's quite rare that I get to see the architect like the heavy ego play actually work out usually the aggressive player the aggressive team gets far enough ahead that they can keep that they can keep ahead it's nice to see at the over the Eco strategy actually work out for them like most of the time whenever we see something that's a high Eco plays its early aggression transition into eco with just a little bit of a little bit of pressure on top to keep their opponents away and then utilize the massive Eco advantage to uh become thick but to see Eco early and then actually live long enough for it to pay off that's it's nice to see it's very nice to see very well done pro Britain as the next match will be how we accelerator versus Knights the Round Table double Howitzer disgustingly powerful yes yes it is that's why Eagle Eye is so popular now just the the double the ability to double shot the Howitzer allows you to have effectively two howitzers but only have to pay the cost for one but imagine actually having two habitators with July that's for how it serves um oh my God that would be disgusting that's enough how it starts to even bypass AA he just just brute force it AAA can't doesn't have enough DPS to bring down the howitzers what are they doing they're doing the insanity cat hurting the best kind okay it looks like they have their bands already done yeah everything is sorted out they just need to come in now yes just waiting for the players to join the lobby and then we'll be good to go [Music] [Music] oh uh one thing I should mention I forgot to mention this earlier actually work is currently live on Twitch if you guys are looking forward to these exact matches but cast in the native German tongue make sure to check out zeld's you guys could get your uh a Germanic Twist on things and maybe he's able to pronounce properly maybe actually I would be now I want to know zeld's work foreign thank you I hope they don't run too late or they will have to Forfeit yeah that would be um really rather unfortunate um as I'm not seeing players supposed to be here they were here oh no well they were informed eight minutes ago and the rules say after 15 minutes they forfeit so we'll have to wait just a little bit longer and it works for me what's up with the Fords having so many German players uh so relatively recently uh a very large content creator within the German ecosphere actually decided to check out Forts and got a little bit addicted to it and they brought a significant viewer Basin and so forts always was popular in the German community at least by indie game standards but once someone more mainstream hopped in and saw forts if they brought with him a heap ton of new players and so they just joined in the existing joined in with the existing player base like zelzevik has been around for quite some time and then suddenly 2 000 viewers showed up and now there's a substantial like it's it's gone quite I don't know if viral is the right word it's not it's not quite viral but very popular that's always nice to see yes yes it is ah looks like they won't have to Forfeit hey foreign half of their team is here now and there it is alright sweets the players are here great you did it now they will choose their commander and we will be able to start sweets let's go foreign [Music] ladies and gentlemen welcome to the first match in the lower bracket where here we have on the left hand side it is Howie accelerator lpgk in the lower base sweep in the upper base they're looking to claw their way back into this tournament as they're facing off against team Knights of the Round Table Island boy in the lower forts Shadow knights in the upper fort Knights of the Round Table is playing as the pinch fist Commander pinch fist one of the more popular Pro I think probably the most popular I would say I think I think that's the most popular Commander so far in both the Ford's amateur league and the forts pro league looks like you deceived it does look like a dc'd i okay I'll let you you rejoin but I won't post the match looks like everyone is doing fine beside you yes something I don't know what happened there uh my game has fully crashed okay well um okay I guess you will have to just stick to my voice to to have the commentary for now it works for me well it's hard as much happening to be honest so they're not missing out on the honors right now just tell me practical sniper harassment yeah usually the first minute or two is not exceptionally exciting yeah give me a moment guys I'm just seeing some classical build order orders from both teams how many acceleration on left side is going for ammunitions planted Factory to classical most likely how we and plasma fire beam combo and on the right two militants plans so a lot of cannons ahead huh yeah uh game has crashed again that's good yeah like it it hard locks like I can't even like I have to force and task it okay give me a minute oh touch looks like you'll have to go to with the Salzburg extreme for now yes make sure to check out zeld's work on Twitch you guys can see the match currently live all right then I'm gonna ask Cronk if he can do something for us um give me a minute here I just did a quick repair so now we have all right so I should I'm come I'm going to try to come back and I did a quick repair uh hopefully it just works I've not seen this kind of issue before um just ask Chrome to uh spin them out for you I guess on the VC well if that works so you're connected can you join and yes hey there we go all right perfect watch live issues I guess technical difficulties huh that's a new one I've not actually seen that issue before all right well we're finding new things to be honest so really that's the surprise as it's Canada clock right now and it looks like how the accelerators are making their opening volley oh with the door snipe so everyone was just playing truce match no no aggression for five minutes they were waiting for you and uh well ropes didn't save him this time as uh nice the round table loses the player how we accelerator doing a Howitzer things Island Boy gonna try to retort with their own cannon fire but it's not quite enough that's how we explore how we accelerator just takes the hit and doesn't care looks like he'll be different thing with shields against lasers which is uh convenient that is generally now you want to do it as laser follow-up beautiful using their Commander active ability to boost the extra laser and Howitzer damage leaving Knights of the Round Table Island Boy struggling for economy taking on a couple of their turbines in the process Island Boy will be opening up their cannons and double shot here this could potentially nope should we get a miss Island Boy doesn't manage to land the cannon in a place that matters taking out knots but a heap of sand it's going to give how we accelerator the opportunity to land another volley laser follow-up there it is and they are currently trying to get some more weapons to be sure to destroy him oh absolutely here we do see how we accelerator a sweep in the top base specifically is building a second Cannon or building a cannon to add into their habit sir a door snipe beautiful how accelerator loses another fire beam that's uh Island Boys been doing pretty pretty good with these door Snipes actually managing to punch through things uh will that do it yeah okay yeah laser beam is strong how we accelerator well done this was the lower final one the lower semi-final yes um excuse me I will be doing the lower final next and then the grand finals where we will determine victory foreign that a lot of these matches have been so one-sided yeah there haven't been a lot of uh swings going back and forth huh I mean heavy weapons they hit hard they're strong yes usually we points yeah usually we do see a fair bit of uh usually we do see a fair bit of back and forth and frankly the howitzers the players have been with the exception of with the exception of the uh Pro bra team the howitzers have been pretty just dominant they've managed to make it across the open air dealt critical amounts of damage and ended the game are just outright this is amazing the difference when watching having played and not having played yes the uh this is an RTS game a lot of people don't what was it Romero came up with this quote I still love it because it's a good quote a lot of people play Fords expecting poly Bridge they get they find out that it's uh not just poly bridge but speed running poly Bridge while uh while Under Fire and that's not the quote that's me paraphrasing it poorly because I don't remember the quote I need to write that quote down food because it's it's a good quote because he takes so much time writing anything exactly he really chooses his words wisely foreign [Music] yes it's the thing is forts it gives off these very almost artistic fun kind of uh Vibe which it does have significant elements of that where you could just I remember especially early on I would spend I think literally hours just building giant Forts and just playing around the physics because you can it's like it's a full physics Sim that you could build structures and do cool things with and a lot of people go into Fort saying oh yeah let's Let's uh just play this cool looking construction game but there's so much more to it yeah there's so much more to it the amount of times I remember playing multiplayer especially in the early days where people would get actually upset at you for shooting at them because you broke some thing that they spent like four minutes constructing and they're like I spent four or five minutes working on this cool looking bass and you just shot it like what's wrong with you it's like this is a multiplayer game the entire purpose is to blow each other up okay hey Romero coming in with the actual quote people see Ford said expect Angry Birds wind up trying to speedrun Paulie Bridge while taking fire yes that's the quote that's the good one right there thank you Romero there's a uh we'll be cleaning covers though yay Caverns and let's put the moonshot variant just for the cool music yeah so there's there's a lot that goes into actually building your forts actually getting things to go cleanly and smoothly and so it is a proper RTS game and just failing to keep on top of your Eco on or keep on top of your uh construction on top of your build will leave you behind it's all the little things that matter thank you okay great they are done with their V2 all right the players are in the match is made time's up let's do this and we're off ladies and gentlemen welcome to the lower bracket finals the match before the grand finals here we have on the left hand side it is team Howie accelerator trying to claw their way back to the victory in this Ford's amateur League sweep is in the lower Ford's LP GK is in the upper fort they're facing off against their opponent's team Felix in the upper Fort Akra freak in the lower Fort playing in the red they're playing as the architect Commander architect Commander we saw team pro bruh managed to pull off the it's quite uncommon but incredibly High Eco strategy of literally getting all of their mind upgrades and then building the thickest of wooden forts with the highest amounts of Defense just to one shot their opponents with an incredible DPS burst with double howitzers are trying to do the same thing here already oh yeah oh yeah we've there's they've opened up the front of their Fort leaving their all of their minds exposed but exchange they get an additional mind for it will it be worth uh we will see this looks like team how we accelerators doing the same thing except that they aren't building all the mines so they didn't need to do that there's there's no benefit to doing that uh they could have just put the Mind back yeah this mine which well opened up opened up their entire e-codes your destruction could have just been put back there and they wouldn't have to worry about their Eco getting destroyed at all so this is this is happening but either way both teams are going for the heavy weapons Tech a bit of variety yeah we don't really see much the early aggression being like with rockets and everything going through but it does sometimes happen in the uh probably yes the uh it is so hard like there is a fair like obviously there is some substantial amounts of harassment going on there's a bit of aggression but no one's actually trying to remove the other players in the game at this point oh that was close that EMP almost got taken out on its first launch this is if I were these players I would be selling off the EMP right now like I just wouldn't play with that oh that's twice that's twice sweet like that's not that's not even like oh there it is okay there it is yeah yeah that's that's why I just don't even bother the EMP like you can't you can't defend it there is no if you fire your EMP and it lives that's not something you did to make it live that's on your opponent's just not keeping up with things like it's that's that's just what's going on there so team loses a loses their loses their EMP to the sniper which is no big surprise um similarly how we accelerator is still active with their EMP but only because team actually lost their sniper in the sniper duel so they weren't able to snipe it back so Howie accelerator is actually take showing a pretty dominant performance here in the early bit stage of the game dominance enough in fact that they've managed to fully charge the architect ability for team so it's not even Canon o'clock yet quite it's coming up on Canon o'clock now and at this point in time has actually managed to get a full use out of their Commander active they will actually be able to do the opening volley that that is not something you see every day Architects getting the opening volley and Canada for the heavy weapons complete with howitzer I that I am kind of surprised they didn't just destroy destroy sweep there like no no one truly expects the Howitzer at the four and a half minute mark that's that's devastating now these are going all the way to defend as best as they can yes I mean you have to like there's howitzers on the field already my concern is that acre freak in the lower Fork is vulnerable to howitzers oh a beautiful hit how we accelerator loses one of their cannons lpgk takes a direct hit from Felix's Howitzer and with it they lose one of their heavies a swing and a miss LPG fires but does it quite hit anything it's close very good shots well aimed burning deep sweep yes so this is going to put team in the lead I would say uh with how we accelerated down to a single heavy weapon mind you Howie accelerator is playing as the eagle-eye commander they do have a Howitzer and it is fully loaded so it can double shot at any point in time it is just a matter of when they actually pull the trigger on that um they need to make sure to land the double how it hit because if they don't they have nothing else going for them so right now they're sitting on their snipers they're probing everything for AAA they want to make sure that the skies will be clear so they can get that Howitzer in and it looks like they're prepared for it there is no response from this Howitzer is going to go clean across and cut very deep Felix taking it to the face like a champ I'm a bit surprised that Aker didn't try to shoot down the Orbiter with his shotgun uh yeah uh that's a good question either way uh Felix does take it without any serious concern the joy of having the joy of having not been fired upon for the duration of the match so far you have a lot of extra resources and just pump into your blade of armor uh Felix will be reacting to this by building an mg wall nice Shield yeah this is a shield placement I've seen a fair few times on this map specifically just because the lower players almost exclusively go for lasers it helps immensely to have that shield around your core in that specific location uh because the the energy lasers will come from below and slap the bottom of your core which is already happened and has been deflected by that energy Shield as team activates their Commander ability granting them bonus build speed looks like they're using it just to build a couple extra wind turbines to get the energy production to rapidly fire their weaponry the ants here is online looks like team Howey accelerator will not be will not be a double firing their Howitzer this time oh that's uh that's unfortunate how we accelerators lower player again loses their weapons this is oh no the laser through the defenses takes out a chunk of the turbines um this is the part where team how we accelerator gets slowly grinded into the ground turn to dust one one explosion at a time at this point how the accelerator is just behind in map and well everything and team is not going particularly hard in the damage output they're just slowly grinding down how we accelerator here you can see that there is an upgrade sensor out of out of Acker freak like aquafreeze not adding in a bunch of weapons they're getting additional Eco instead they've got their wind turbines upgraded this is this is the bit where instead of going Eco first they're going Eco second weapons first keep your opponents in check lock them into their box so they can't do anything and then you expands take the maximum amount of Eco and turn it into additional Firepower to wrap up the game this is their strategy and this is a it's working it's clean it's precise it's calculated and I don't see a particularly effective means for how we accelerate ready to get out of this like even I would have to go for some door Snipes but I'm not really saying that right now exactly and that's why I always say when there's a laser beam player door Snipes are relatively easy so you could never quite count them out but now it's a Howitzer and a cannon which yeah the Canon is good at door sniping yeah it's guaranteed to do damage there's just nowhere on any of these bases that's vulnerable to Game ending amounts of damage it's you could break a a sure you could break a laser beam with the door snipe uh that's gonna leave them still with three laser beams to deal with which is not a great condition to be in uh not as how we accelerator anyways so we're seeing Rockets being at it yeah I mean it's the next stage you need damage output Rockets are premium damage output there's that energy Shield saving the core once again LPG hanging on his Cannon oh that's unfortunate it gets burned out of the sky again as the Howitzer comes in and knocks team how we accelerator out of this league team Martin takes the Victory and moves on to the Grand finals I have those great those those grand finals will be uh best of three this time yes I'm so excited so this will be a best of three grand finals it'll be a rematch of the upper bracket once again yes but this time with more map choices uh more meaningful commented choices because one thing to note is that uh if you win with one Commander you are not allowed to pick it again yes so these are the two teams that I'm looking forward to most here uh and pro-bra team probably the most skilled players I have seen in the fourth amateur league so far I am not surprised to see them in the finals again not at all surprised and so just as a reminder the winner of this match of this set of matches will go directly in the pro league while the loser uh well they will still have the chance to uh to battle their way into the Prodigy I believe I'm just gonna check in on that um the FAO running up and second button FPL team may play each other for the final FPL spots yes and also another another thing to note is that iflaj Matan wins this battle three there will be a second one because well they were in the loser brackets they need to win twice in order to win the whole tournament oh my and this will definitely be very interesting yes all I'm hearing is more Forts and more forts makes me happy Felix don't let us down give us more forts I am really liking the veto process it really feels like a mini game where the players can battle to get their maps in yes I like it uh definitely need to smooth it out to make it less spreadsheet but I I mechanically I I appreciate it it's it's well it's well created yeah it's official balls has been banned once more oh no you mean team won't get to won't get to swing balls again not this time no ball swing oh no they will be playing on snow leopards for the first match snow leopards that's it ah man snow leopards I appreciate the map uh I hate having a teammate looming above me it's anxiety inducing that's that's the only reason I don't like this map that is literally the only reason I do not like this map is it otherwise great map as a duchy you know I've not seen that many that many uh duchies in chat I mean I recognize many of the names so I let me refer it so you guys have bid here it's just I never knew I was not made aware the Germans are very vocal about it mostly because aggressively German it kind of stands out uh all right and now we are just looking for we're just looking forward team oh we got the uh The veto yes it would definitely be extremely cool to have the veto process be in game I guess but that's a lot of work for our four tips it would be nice I don't think it's necessary um at the end of the day there isn't all that much there's there is a competitive scene but it's been run by the community for so very long that yes it's not exactly a it's not one of the major selling points for the Ford's game it's it does cater it does advertise and attract a very casual audience that just enjoys Angry Birds which is good it's I just appreciate the game is deep enough to support like a proper competitive experience and it makes for such a great viewer experience that the people who just like watching Angry Birds can come here and watch Angry Birds but have like Angry Birds worms pick your pick your similar game in from a viewer experience but the actual players get to play a real RTS game and it's satisfying ways and also the huge huge budding Community sometimes you don't even play the same game to be honest yes and there have been some modded tournaments as well recently the board ships Parliament the which one what the four chipsaw tournaments I guess oh yes yes yes but they call the bug ships yeah yeah that's it I don't I don't know where the name came from but we do I was I did cast that one I've got that one the mod of that on the channel That was a technological catastrophe for a majority of it but incredibly satisfying when we actually got it to work in German how dare you come over here to the English chat you have a perfectly good sounds work nah yeah it's it's always good fun I appreciate I appreciate the uh I appreciate trying to pronounce all the German words It's a Good Time Imagine an Angry Birds themed for its mod it's not a bad idea I there's like four different modders in chat people like watching trick shots a lot more than trying to recreate them yes there have been a lot of German teams in the pro league as well between dynamothill spectacular and uh what was it again oh yeah way too hectic yes people from all over the world and compete yes that is the uh between the Chinese teams the Russian teams with the relatively recent edition of teams from better like make themselves known as like the Chinese teams and the Russian teams or is they come in with such very different strategies it's refreshing okay I mean especially liking the Teutonic and the cloud with the Phantom threats yes I've got a it just makes me happy every time because there's there's so much there's so much going on like the uh what is it I was I'm trying to put together the next AI tournament but at this point in time there is quite literally so many activities going on in the Fords community that there's just not enough time there's not the players are overbooked before its gameplay and I can't get that I can't fit the AI tournament right now and it makes me sad so I got to put in like for next month ish after the uh FPL finishes up so there's more days in a week need more days in the week to play forts Alex says I hate the idea of the Angry Birds I hope it would be funny uh [Music] we even had some War be told about the center of gravity main reason we have an aggressively Dutch team name is to counteract the German team names balance is required you you could try but then there's spec fanatica coming in [Music] foreign good Lord so many mods like four ships tanyas there's a lot of good mods out there AI tournament's best tournament I I do enjoy the AI tournaments I enjoy them greatly they make me happy and each one keeps getting better as well with all the additions and changes yes that is one where it's it feels the AI always feels messy to me because when I think AI I I can't think AI in the way that Forge does it but that's not usually what I'm accustomed to working with so trying to get it to work trying to get my brain and the features and things to work in the forts game as I would want it to it's just not it does it's not designed to work that way and I would have to do a complete overhaul and I don't even know how to I I don't quite know how to do that hey yeah you're gonna know what the AI would do if you could write it over yeah because currently it just follows like a script but if you were to have like branches it would be so complicated it would be quite a lot yes um time to for sure not cheat next AI tournament I'm totally not injecting some code that just rewrites the entire yeah I I oh no it's it's just the way that the Ford's AI is kind of sort of pretty much hard coded you can't can't work with it like you can't change the AI you could just change some of the stats on it and the way it and the way it uh the way it is restricted you know small amounts of Its Behavior it makes for Less interaction for the actual AI so much as just directing it in a direction to go but I would like to be able to overhaul the AI entirely so we can actually get we could actually get some incredible AIS in these tournaments these competitions okay we are good to go as soon as he really really all right the match is made the time is now the players are psyching themselves up and getting prepared one button press away from this match starting okay the countdown is now time's up let's do this and we're off to the first round in this best of three here we have on the left's hand side the currently and only undefeated players in the forts pro league it is pro bra team playing as the spook Commander vertex is in the lower Forts and Hal rasi is in the upper Fort they're looking to reassert their dominance over their opponents as on the right hand side in the red it is team accurate freak in the lower forts Felix in the upper Fort playing as the warthog Commander I expect similar build orders out of these players this is already a mirror match of the previous matchup earlier in this event spook vs warthog both of these commanders tend to play standard that is to say another Commander has any traits or abilities which cause the which enable the players to gain some benefit by going for some unusual build order both of these commanders play particularly standard so we're not looking to I do not expect to see anything crazy here as is it looks like both teams are going for about the same build order all the way around uh t a pro broad team is a little bit further ahead in their build order with their upper player already one quarter of the way completed with their municious plant that's their heavy weapons technology whereas haha slot is neither plays a little bit further behind for both for both of their players I'm not sure if this is a difference in priority or what's going on there acre freak is just floating minerals okay now Acro freak was just floating material which is not not what you want if we go ahead we were very busy in the sniper duel yes still checking out the materials floated uh that's it's 67 metal hmm out of agric there which is not that much that's only that's only about three or four seconds well but vertex has now floated 300 Note 4 400 metal and 450 plus metal floated which is quite unfortunate for vertex there that's gonna set them back yes that is half of a Cannon worth of metal floated away which is quite unpleasant quite very unfortunate generally not how you want that to go but with it that's that is actually Gonna Leave team yeah in general like in some ahead in aggregate ahead of pro brought team but not by all that much both let's see I'm trying to see who's ahead in the race and that's I don't think either team is particularly ahead it is worth noting that pro-bred team does already have their how it's replaced whereas just now placed so in terms of Howitzer placement Pro broad team is ahead of uslaw in terms of laser placement is significantly ahead of probe red team Anything Can Happen basically yeah actually Felix reason really doesn't like those turbines I don't blame him like look at them being all out there waving at you completely exposed and vulnerable looks like no team is going towards the land the extra lens that's offered to them for now this could have been deadly always scary we have Acker freak uh reacting with metal placement yeah well done that'll just make sure that they're not a oh they're not in danger of any significant collapse this is messing up his uh plus mango yeah uh hacker freak with the extra greed not building metal and appropriate timing it is past Canada o'clock and not having metal at all is dangerous like that's potentially gonna Gonna Leave You In A Game ending position where we have probe red team ready to fire their weapons alrassi activating the commander active so they could use the spook ability to see where exactly those vulnerabilities are and sending that Howitzer directly to the weakest spots in Acura freaks base a base built with greed not defended takes a Howitzer straight to the face and with it loses a fire beam that's not the world you generally want to be in Echo freak does manage to keep their plasma beam alive oh yeah it uses it perfectly oh yeah that was well done with the commander active ability out of slaw the warthog empowered weapons the Howitzer crushes and the laser beam cuts took over his teammate indeed vertex Falls but vertex is old base oh no it crumbles however I see tried so hard to rescue it but it's too little too late it burns to the ground where's that buzz saw when you oh Felix still has the buzz saw the trunk the dangle is not long for this world [Music] he catches it oh no he catches it with a single strut you've got to reinforce that if you want to keep it oh there's no way there's no way that's not being okay yeah yeah that's gone he's going to try to rescue it uh is he gonna try to save it or how Rossi stops trying to save it and fires the weapon so we're gonna miss the Howitzer misses and with no other weapons of fire there's nothing else to do but to try to reclaim That Base uh the question I have is how do you keep it because Felix can disconnect that all day every day like that is not a defensible position at all and with Acker freak looking to destroy the all the actual mines on the expansion there's not going to be any tangible benefit period to to attempting to expand and hold to that location how does Hal Rossi come back from this like the one howitzer is good but the Howitzer alone doesn't end the game that you need more to win this right now would be to disconnect Felix and make him land on egg fridge yes and the Howitzer is particularly good at that if you could slam it into the uh into the terrain just above the foundations there however it's a bit well defended Yes Rick gets back to the point of you need more than just a Howitzer like you need a cannon or a second Howitzer could help of course second Howitzer suffers from the anti-air concerns lack of map control it's not it's not amazing situation is struggling to land the single how it could have thought ah this is heavy yeah yeah you can't the expansion is unrealistic I think it's not a particularly viable as tempting as it is yeah yes I don't blame him for this one I don't blame him for this one the consistent damage output of a standard Cannon will be much more value here for how racy than the howitzer so how it's the chances of making the Howitzer across the fuel they're just not a thing right now and we'll see the standard Cannon right now there it is this will at least give how raster the opportunity to get a door snipe if alrassi can door snipe the Howitzer from that will do some actual it'll actually keep him in this game if he can keep it alive if he can keep it alive yes although it is it is well defended uh even from the even from the empowered warthog shells we I don't expect that to break mind you if it gets focused by too many things like hey how would sir and two Buzz saws Ander fire beam and T plasma beams then it's not going to survive but then again nothing and how rasty's base would survive that at least not if it Focus fires so that's that's kind of an unrealistic ask unfortunately that is the that is the uh the ask that how rassi has to uh or ask he has to survive because that's exactly what's coming toward him there's the fire beam the first Buzz saw the second Buzz saw the Howitzer the first plasma and the second plasma and there it goes for that first game well done Martin takes round one in his best of three one will be on stalactites one of my other favorite Maps but this time you don't have the the top player being able to land on the other one exactly yes true swap sides and foreign all right looks like the match is made round two ready to go and we're off ladies and gentlemen welcome to round two in this best of three now in the last match team managed to take one points off of pro broad team putting them in the lead however remember that this is a double elimination once the uh once if manages to manages to take this best of three they will have to do so a second time because Pro broad team has been undefeated so far so they will have to be defeated twice to be knocked out while has actually been defeated by a pro-broad team already once in this series so in order to take total Victory and take first place for themselves they will have to win two best of threes and this this is potentially their first as in the left hand side is setting themselves up for victory Acker freak in the upper Fort Felix Neil lowerford are looking to destroy their opponents Pro broad team and probe red team they're they're pulling out all the stops with vertex in the first in the top four however I see the lower forward they're going with the pinch fist Commander they are taking all the weights off of those breaks and selling the brakes in the process just straight taking the brakes off the car taking it to the pawn shop selling the brakes for the extra money and turning it into technology as they are playing the Pinterest Commander which enables them to sell off all of their forts for extra cash thus their forts look particularly anemic and skeletal in appearance and for it they gain a jump start on their production and economy and we're seeing the first EMP being placed of course we are a little bit different flavor going on here with Pro broad gym placing the EMP while managed to go with the similar kind of strategy with to the EMP for the same reasons but instead of EMP they go with the buzz saw the buzz saw is significantly more destructive but doesn't guarantee that doesn't deal as much Splash damage or as much direct Slowdown oh it's not just the day that you see a door's knife using an EMP it happens but it is not every day the EMP technically does some substantial direct damage so it can kill off things like snipers and turbines and machine Gunners it's just very rare that it directly hits things because it's it's very loose and inconsistent in the in the path it travels it looks like Felix is hanging title that sniper to destroy the TMP well I don't blame him like that's that's what the sniper is good for while harassi is starting to get his weapons down and we're seeing a bunch of snipers from is that no or maybe 20s um I just you gotta be having fun with this right like it's it's not it's a meme Strat it's not like it's okay it's not like this isn't powerful we've seen it work to Great effects it's okay it's strong it gets the job done it's just not particularly reliable so you don't see it very often and it's hard to pull off like it's mechanically challenging but we're seeing triple 20s Magna beam combo yeah um definitely not something you see every day it's I I'm I had I don't think there's anything else to say about it I just want to see how this works out this is uh this is exciting I haven't seen this this strategy in quite some time I think I think what they're saying here is however I think probe broad team is saying we're gonna do something risky for it because if it works it will be awesome and amazing and if it doesn't work we could still win because we have an entire extra best of three dead zero three of yeah to make the comeback and looks like they're going to shoot there it is Magna beam focusing that fire almost directly onto the core yeah pro protein wasn't quite ready for that I needed to wait just a little bit longer as hell rassi opens fire with the fire beams just to delay things as they can once the Magna beam comes online they will be selling off they the wooden structure and then firing again there's a door snipe well that's unfortunate and the EMP sniper yeah yeah yeah okay this is this is why cannons are good uh triple Cannon can't go wrong with it always breaks things uh triple 20 millimeter has been knocked down and I suspect we will not be seeing the triple 20 come back in the near future as we have double door Snipes from Team um very very good yeah that leaves pro-bred Team without any actual offensive weapons um no weapons for probe broadzem remain and Seema actually has three cannons a fourth about to complete and with the Buster active ability just increases the damage mind shots oh a beautifully aimed hit oh no read that sniper so this isn't I I give credit Perhaps Perhaps the pro Bureau team for trying this I I want to give them applause applause for making the attempts and they're still trying for it they haven't given up yet they want to make it work and I'm proud of them I'm very proud of them I didn't expect it to work like is going for they're going up to five cannons I it's they're going up to five cannons like you can't that's so many cannons oh it hurts my soul to see this every time like mine dies as here comes the empowered cannons out of double shot you can do it Magna beam is locked behind an EMP door it's so pretty very impressive to have all those thoughts land on mine I think oh how like patterns aren't extremely reliable when aiming so that's very impressive yes yes it is a friendly fire oh no Felix how could you well uh wow voice crack I haven't had one of those in a while oh no was that a door snipe no I think that that was just a single door okay okay I was like no not like this you had the 20s back on the fields well unfortunately vertex after losing losing their 20s again leaves their core down to 57 they probably want to move their cannons to keep them away from the core at this point transitioning to bustles I don't blame them oh my God I just realized that is actually vulnerable to but God the Cannons merged they all fired onto the same spot in the base uh is that gonna cause the battery did it double tap the battery no no okay they got they got the storage but not the battery I was like I couldn't tell if they double ignited the battery or if it was just a storage it was it was just a storage I was saying team here is actually vulnerable to vulnerable to the buzz saw because they did not meddle themselves up at any point hacker freak getting a little a little risky with it leaves themselves in a position where they can be full killed by Buzz saws not even including just to their cannons those are some very long metal people yes yes it is as the Cannons just keep slamming into the fronts of valorasi here our seat did manage to reconstruct their minds but ooh a beautiful Wombo Combo the energy beam that's just insults injury the energy beam breaking open the metal and the buzz saws chopping through the rest that actually puts team a little bit does it actually put them on the back foot oh no they had such a lead they had such a lead and still Pro broad team even despite opening up with memes with the mass Buzz saw transition takes out Acker freak leaving Felix alone to 1v2 the commander active ability will penetrate how raci's base igniting everything and dealing massive damage look at the deformation left behind harassi removing components of his base looking to reconstruct it such that in a way that it doesn't collapse himself as he kind of needs to so many Buzz saws Felix the last remaining player for team is doing what they can but it's not enough Pro broad team with the buzz saws dealing massive damage and taking this Victory even in the scores to one to one foreign well done well done it looks like we'll have a tie breaker on up and down excellent Matt's gotta this has gotta be scary for team for team uh I could do it one word at a time if they lose this one they won't be able to well they will still be able to go to the piano they will have to fight their way through yes this is match point for t for pro broad team if Pro bruh wins this they win first place in the Ford's amateur league and will guarantee themselves a place in the Ford's pro league that puts them in a great position here because remember they still have an entire extra life they have to they can they can throw away here if they want to they almost threw it away this time but even starting memes and even getting destroy having their memes cut down their dreams cut short the style they gain Stellar points for it and still won after transitioning out that was that was impressive given that last play I I think I'm going to favor pro team here and let's start this one today potentially the last match of today is exactly right as here we have on the left hand side going with the same strategy in the same Commander team after freak in the lower Fort Felix in the upper Fort are facing off against the apparent's dominant power it's Pro broad team how Rusty and vertex playing as Phantom oh no not like this they're gonna do them dirty pro team playing as the Phantom Commander the one Commander that strikes fear into the hearts of everyone oh they're even doing the Mind Games look at that moving the mind just to pretend they're going extra Eco which I think they are actually going extra Eco oh they're not going extra Eco they're not going extra eco look at that this is a revealed fake heavy weapons production facility this is not real it is free and does not provide the bonus it is just there to pretend the reality is T Pro broad team is going for dirty filthy cheese this is going to be rocket spam and this might just catch off guard com if they manage to completely Blindside their opponents they can end the game in extremely rapid fashion oh boy well uh the question is what will team do about this uh looks like they're continuing their standard build order as they're playing the Buster Commander with the Buster Commander they get uh they're going to be looking for heavy they're going to be looking for some heavy cannons just the standard cannons which could be empowered with the uranium rounds for bonus damage output a little bit of incendiary action yeah this is uh this is looking like is not is not recognizing it at all he's still being able to swipe this mind that's nice shooting he's gonna snipe it again you might he could be destroying it here I don't I mean with the buzz saw again but so I'll be coming off cooldown but more importantly is gotta be they're they're not they're gonna get completely blindsided by this is what's gonna happen here um they just placed an upgrade Center they're building Canon platforms they're not building defenses they're not building a a they've got technically they have map control right now with their snipers but oh God this is gonna be a catastrophe they have no idea like the Pro bro team already has three upgraded Rockets and there's more on the way they're not even building in a way that indicates that this is rocket spam they're building this such that it looks like it's cannons which they were showing to their opponents false flag information that they were going for cannons like this this would fool me yeah definitely like this looks like standard cannons or 20 mils to me I don't I do not see anything here that indicates that this is anything other than that aside from the freshly upgraded minds but it's too late the Rockets are firing and those are excellent choices of four shots oh and there it is you can't I've said it before and I'll say it again if you take three rocket hits uncontested that's it you have to have someone rescue you you cannot come back from that yourself and just like that team is all but entirely knocked out of the game both players from I have been disarmed entirely all of their weapon is destroyed everything on their bases are exposed the last sniper has just been taken out there's nothing left but a punching bag a single machine gunner is trying but that's six rocket launchers under constant fire the smoke launcher is going to help prevent rebuild as well as block AAA Pro broad team is now just picking a Target and saying it's time to end this looks like they've picked Felix in the upper base as their target for Destruction this is terrific to watch the worst part about it is I've been on the receiving end of this before I know how this feels it feels bad it feels real bad because as the player receiving this kind of damage you don't have a choice but to repair and if you repair you cannot do anything else it is a soft lock until someone rescues you it's it's the worst it is just the worst like here you have Acker freak trying to get the AAA to rescue Felix here but it's it's not enough the machine Gunners are overheating they don't have enough AAA here to stop it as it looks like probe red team is actually struggling for energy they had to stop firing for a moment so they could recharge their capacitors uh the moment has passed as the Rockets once again fly that are looking to make more turbines so they can shoot continuously as you can see the turbine exactly and that's what they're doing the turbines are being placed as we speak oh the sniper Felix manages to get the sniper out onto the field and takes out one of the rockets that will force Pro broad team specifically their lower base to actually put doors on their Rockets however vertex here already has doors on their Rockets so that won't work particularly well thank you however the brief respite has bought I my I'm deteriorating my ability to pronounce the team is failing me it's they they've gotten a little bit of a little bit of distance here they have actually managed to get snipers both players have some AAA to work with acrophoric managed to get a Howitzer placed it's three quarters of the way constructed at this point about Howitzer is there one Saving Grace it is their one hope their path to Victory the only hope they have is totally wonderful with the howitzer I would think both bases are at this point um like if you Empower that sucker and slam it into the foundation node on the lower base yeah yeah that's a good chance that goes down top is definitely vulnerable especially their weapons platform because he needs to have some doors some opening good Lord it is still looking incredibly rough for and now is about the time when pro-bred teams Eco and kitchen shotgun takes out shoots the down their hopes and dreams with double shotgun probe broad team defends the Howitzer and that will immediately trigger an incredibly violent response from Pro brought team onto the lower forts of the blue team left hand side is going to get pummeled here incredibly hard sniper fire shotguns and Rockets all converging onto Aqua freaks base hacker freak loses uh just about all of their exterior equipment the Howitzer again shot down there's not much they can do right now not really they desperately need a standard cannon on the fields uh Felix working on that exactly a standard Cannon would be able to make it across the field and deal damage a standard Cannon also good enough to break down these rockets in a single shot would be my personal preference for weapons in this scenario 100 of the time just because clinics will be able to shoot basically anywhere and have a good uh good shot yes exactly it will take some time before a standard Cannon actually shuts down this kind of pressure but only because you would need something like 12 shots and cannons have reload time heavy hit with the howitzer actually manages to land a hit follow up with snipers good follow-ups break end up taking out two of the Rockets that's good massive that's huge that is huge that might be just what's the funnels yes with those Minds destroyed that's going to put probe broad team a bit on the back foot uh you can no longer fire doesn't have the Eco for it he's sitting on zero money he actually has zero metal will have to sell off components of their base in order to funds resetting up their economy which means Pro broad team just lost half of their Firepower for at least the next 60 seconds or so with that one shot that is a huge setback yeah sure vertex in the top Fort is expanding massively with their with their weapons but yeah it's that's still a significant decrement in the Firepower the damage output that's going to give just a little extra time to survive and recuperate here because the time to get some turbines to get the kind of going exactly and that's what they need is going for a later game strategy if they can delay this game for another five minutes they will eventually get the upper hand it's just a matter of can they delay it that long at this point it's looking like they very well might I was fully expecting Pro broad team to wipe out at the beginning here with those opening volleys yet they managed to just barely survive and now they're actually fighting back sorry exposed Rockets oh it's so so painful all right Felix give us that Cannon shot love to see it great one he hit anywhere and did damage That's What mattered does that break doesn't so far oh he does oh no Pro brought team loses their Primary Weapons array they have well they still they managed to rescue a couple of the Rockets there's still a couple rockets in there which are now selling off from metal pro team full transitioning into mass energy weapons which I think is a good choice I think it's a great choice like actually transitioning to those later game weapons but man that's a this that's that's a massive setback for pro bro it seemed that solidly putslach in the lead like they have the the actual advantage for the first time this match is that did he get the snipe he got the snipe on it oh no prob teams yeah yeah that was that was going to happen the uh the fire beams were hitting the we're hitting the cannon under construction that was going to die the door snipe though that's painful that hurts that hurts a lot as we have probe broad team relegated to a single fire beam and a shotgun for damage output at this point every time they open that door Felix comes in with a sniper and shuts it down Felix just oppressive has been oppressive in all of these matches so far with that sniper managing to keep them in this game almost single-handedly with that sniper it's crazy it's now looking to add a second Cannon to his Arsenal good they could really they could absolutely use it speaking of which he does need to fire that Cannon okay I understand he's having energy production issues for unsurprising reasons oh not the best shot we could have made but okay nonetheless something worth noting here and I'm not sure I'm not sure what they should have done differently um but how raci has managed to float 5 000 metal in this vertex is at four thousand which is substantial and is probably related to why probe red team lost the advantage I he cloaked and then moved the shotgun up there and I don't know why foreign takes out takes out the Howitzer shell that Howitzer has been both MVP in removing most of probe res weapons in a single shot and almost entirely worthless that has been shot down every time but once oh no okay you gotta move those weapons now does he actually he fixed the deformation a little bit those those are fine he's gonna move him anyways just to fix things up make sure they don't get sniped or something I say as they get sniped got the fire beam spam at this point Pro broad team is just going fire beam spam I don't blame them because it's a good Strat but it is a strat that is looking to counter with energy Shields so they have energy shields on the field the top base is not can't afford an energy Shields at this point in time and the plasma destroying to a cannons it's it's so much pro-bred team has successfully transitioned from Rockets to fire beams and lasers and it's uh it's showing they're making a does he defend that is that no he doesn't oh the cannons he catches it he catches it he survives his teammate coming to body block for him okay all right vertex survives that but that was close that's not how they want this to go oh beautiful double fire beam into the plasma takes out acre freak Felix the last player standing has to win this for the team remember if hakoslav loses this they are knocked out and they take second place in the Ford's amateur League leaving Pro broad team to take total victory in these Grand finals and this is not looking amazing for for more with a single Cannon remaining Felix struggling for energy we'll actually wait ah good God I'm telling you man that sniper that sniper has been game changing Felix is outclassing pro brought team in the sniper ring and has done so consistently throughout the throughout their matches today like this devastating all right Felix you've got some energy to play with time to use it good job vertex and two and there it goes all of those all those expensive expensive fire beams taken out by a sniper there's only one fire beam left on probra team there was something like six of them built at one point and they're just all gone they're just all gone to a sniper good a single sniper at that behind a single door well it's given it's given Felix enough enough space to put down a second second Cannon it's a good work you've done it you've uh you've done the thing you've door sniped the opponents into submission will it be enough at this point so this is what concerns me at this point Pro broad team they're they're upgrading minds they're getting their economy in line uh Pro bro team as a the whole has significantly more Eco than uh Felix alone does yes Felix does have access to his teammates his one's teammates base and with it the mines but is severely lacking in energy production as well as being still is still behind in metal production just due to Pro Bros teams partially upgraded set of Minds kid too strong trying to trying to fire a beam spam to keep the to keep Felix's weapons from ever being constructed once again here come the cannons penetrates deep solid hit he gets him he got the battery the battery Chain Reaction vertex Falls how rest he immediately claims vertex's old base oh my God the Tabby spam it's a sniper spam out of hell rassi if you can't out snipe him you can out volume them with just massive Firepower I mean I'm a fan of that strategy I can get behind that one pro board team re-tasking the big open space in vertex old base three fire beams at a plaso beam that's dangerous that's very dangerous just a bit too much just a little bit much too much splashing around doesn't Focus the beam anywhere it doesn't penetrate deep enough to actually break things up in Port and looks like he's selling mines probably to make some silos that would be a fun fun strategy here going swore missiles or nukes just have a lot of empty air going I don't think alrassi is afraid of contesting the uh contesting the map control for the AAA I however I see is more than more than capable of spamming down submachine guns and taking control of things uh the question is does Felix have a sniper and the answer is yes yes and that's going to be cause for concern for Hal rassi here because uh Felix knows who those fire beams are now okay Felix has got more important things to do all right so at this point pro team has approximately the same metal income substantially higher energy income fewer oh okay that's it that's a big hit he's aiming for the mines which would be an amazing hit if if if Felix managed to make that hit he puts himself in an incredibly dominant position okay okay you don't come back from this kind of dominant position and he's making a lot of turbines he is making sure but he needs him he's been suffering not having enough energy for this entire game uh worth noting that sniper took out two more fire beams during that mess so good good luck is we have a single fire beam and one plasma laser left for pro Bro Team a pro bro team does have two nukes both of which are revealed very good transition right there yes so yeah Felix is aware of those nukes and is just trying to aim for them right now I would too it's either you hit the nukes or you hit the mines both of which are good targets right now great targets right now the buzz saw is coming in to delay yes delay that as long as you can those nukes are potential game Enders obvious unsurprisingly Felix has a lot of AAA the nukes are not the most consistent threat however the nukes are existential and that's a problem he can can he get it yes that's oh this is all of the laser Weaponry for pro team has been removed by a sniper and he's getting closer to his Minds he is getting closer he's zeroing in this next volley I suspect will see us uh removing those minds and or these nuke launchers just simply a message saying that this is better than any FPL match he's seen so far oh my God it's it's close it's it's up there this is this is why we have the average Elite disorder they're out there's the First new kit the Cannons are zeroed and there's a mine one nuke remains so the thing about nukes with this much a a on the field it's not guaranteed to make it across it's not even likely to make it across it's it is unlikely to make it across however there's always a chance the nuke makes it because that's how the nukes work and if it makes it it deals potentially Game ending damage and that's that's just the name of the game that's that is how it nukes function so it is a problem and Felix needs to work with it now something something nice that uh that hell rest you did there is they moved they repositioned the minds from the in from their defended mind position to the undefended Mind position and replaced them with the missiles this way they can build the nukes in peace and we'll be able to uh reposition them into the firing position later as you see the cost is deer it cost is dire but it does results in guaranteed completion of those nukes uh looks like the fire beams will successfully Escape meanwhile Phoenix is building two 20 male cannons oh yeah that's gonna be any exposed weaponry good oh that's a lot of damage if you Cannon follow up this point Felix knows what how rassi has done with those missiles he knows the missiles are no longer in the exposed firing position he's now trying to aim for a house's defended eco his little pocket if Felix could break into alrassi's pocket um I think alrassi will no longer be able to stay in this game as is the damage that Felix has managed to deal to how rassi has left Taurasi in a particularly unattainable situation down to five Minds compared to Felix's six how rest he needs to do something to come back in this match yes it's rough how rest he's still constructing another plasma and still has another fire beam I don't know how many fire beams have been lost in this game but it is too many is the answer and all to snipers every one of them and he striking so hard to bridge to to those mines like it just costs more well and they're gone down to three Minds I'll rest he's suffering for metal production at this point cannons coming through 20 millimeters splashing everywhere standard cannons breaking and punching deep how rest he no longer has the medal to reconnect as they once did double nukes are completing right now it will be how rassi's last attempts at dealing damage here before their bases defense is completely crumpled you're going to see the nukes oh yep you can't even afford a sniper selling off the fire beam which he may actually need in order to get those nukes across the nukes oh no that's it what what is the plan here I think his primary plan is to get back to this exposed Plaza I don't but even then yeah without without the nukes what is your path to Victory like you just die here you cannot sustain these kind of hits like there's a certain you only have a limited amount of a blade of armor on your base and how rassi had ran out of it like this was the last but this is this was the last chance to fire any shots before your core gets exposed and you lose everything that only has one single unconnected mind and he he dies that's it Felix in a grueling 1v2 who manages to make the comeback of old stuff oh God that's exhausting just watching that laughs Felix not to take a full deal three to be done now good God well with Felix taking with Felix and taking that victory they they take this match in its entirety taking a life away from Pro broad team meaning that there is one life left for each team as we go into the next best of three this is epic the states are so high right now yes so let's see so let's first report on Challenger mode looks like Challenger mode isn't quite set properly to have another view of three but that's what we have decided to do anyway so let's view that match and discard those games I guess well remember guys take this opportunity to stand up stretch if you thought that was stressful well the players thought it was even more stressful so this is your reminder to any of your players watching make sure to stand up stretch let that adrenaline out relax for a moment and survive because your body needs it oh that was exciting and to think that started with a phantom cheese okay I have edited the challenge mode so that now it's a b05 and I just didn't count the last game so it's one one on a b05 basically which is just the same as the original viewer 3. all right and why did vertex left leave I do not know I'm back vertex come back cause we need you talk about carrying the team on your back Felix uh Felix performing over performing with those snipers accuracy playing ah they're checking out the replay from that I don't blame them oh my God that was that was a good match I I like that match I like that match a lot you know I was expecting I was expecting good I was expecting good games I wasn't expecting this good of a game yes yeah like there was so many fire beams just the laser beams in general getting sniped by snipers but gosh if you want a similar guy in game I would uh suggest Pro aim versus uh spec fanatica that just happened yesterday foreign exciting so you'll be able to watch that as well with the first match but just as just like this one which lasted for 39 minutes good God it's so much that match seems like it was snipers with cannons's support it really was the Cannons were the supporting weapons there I think Felix lost five years of his life in that match just just the stress they're fighting hard for it like that that was the match point that was match point for uh for pro broad team there Felix had to do that or they were knocked out and took second place foreign it's impressive it's very impressive and yes Bulls was banned again this big shock so what happened here is Felix made the mistake of using the ball swing Strat too effectively in their matches in the in the series pre-playoffs in the season and now and now team uh their opponents are just like nah we're not dealing with that there will be no ball swing but it was so good though no swing they want no swing this is sad very sad unless they wanted to attempt to swing on another map yeah I mean you could always do the vanilla swings yeah those are tried true didn't actually worked pretty well yeah they force playstyle though that's true and first match will be stalactites excellent all right the match is made it's a little bit more set up behind the scenes here and then we'll jump right into the match foreign laughs I like how Felix's word for people is just nugget I don't know how to feel about it before it's different it does foreign still like calming down from that last one Panic fit oh a big shock eh no one wants to deal with that no one wants to deal with that it's just it's too stressful man like the only potential giveaway that any that something was even out of place not exactly what it was but something was out of place was it was something like 15 seconds before they revealed uh the lower fort teams lower for uh how are I see upgraded their minds which would have been visible to to Felix and given that they had shown a build order which did not include upgraded mines which did not include an upgrade Center and given that there was no upgrade sound for it um it would have given away that there is a phantom and that they had enough grid Center which is just the reddest of flags well this wouldn't have like 10 minutes of time to actually think about it correct that would have been about 15 seconds of what do we do about this which is not enough time to appropriately react I mean every second counts but 15 seconds is not many seconds and also like you you there's no notification of it it's just there and you have to be looking at it and it's it's very easy to just miss that the minds were upgraded or just wait those minds are upgraded I didn't hear an upgrade sound was I paying attention enough to hear the upgrades on Wizard upgrade sound and I didn't just notice it because that's another good possibility so like and also maybe they were scouting as much because they had already spotted the cannon build order like if you know what they're going for at least you're confident what they're going for you don't need to worry about it so like that was incredibly well done for pro broad team just hiding it until the end it's uh it's a good match all around well they are almost done with the veto now we just need to have the final player come in for this next set of matches all right sniper is the most OP weapon for its it's it's up there it's very much so well potential yes yes absolutely okay so it looks like the picks and bands are completed the videos are finishing up all right now and with that finishing up will be all configured and ready to go veto is done foreign just waiting for the last player and then we'll jump into it so this next best of three I do wonder if there's going to be if the players are going to be a little bit more Cutthroat about it uh by that I mean by that I mean Pro bra team did actually have one match then the second match action specifically which was more of a meme match at least they started out with the they started out with the uh yeah yeah they started out with the Magna beam Strat just the more for fun Stratton the power strats and it ended up they did end up winning that match which is surprising which was surprising to me but it does make me wonder if Pro bra is going to go full full cut throughout every opportunity the same with the same with boys last 30 minutes yes this is tournament vanilla Works batches I'd sell vanilla there are no mods here this is the fort's amateur League the fort's official activities okay then we are simply awaiting the return of vertex into the lobby foreign or maybe have an AI on his side that would be a disappointing experience disappointed way to go looks like he doesn't really know what his teammate is doing and he's asking for a sub which is a sub-optimal huh okay and I don't really know what to oh wait apparently he's coming back never mind this should be working okay great it started to panic for a second why he calls tournaments just go right actually what time is it over there on that side of the world [Music] well uh for them I probably around midnight or something yeah I was gonna say it's gonna be further probably something like 1 2 A.M for them probably besides I'm indeed so Russia let's take Moscow and [Music] it's not too so bad it's actually 10 p.m looks like okay okay yeah yeah okay there's much more reasonable it's gonna say I was thinking more Australian time well Australian time would be uh devastating like four a.m Maybe yeah I um yes yes I do I do feel bad for the Developers for a lot of these because most of their player base is not around Australia so whatever they want to get involved in like actually participating themselves you're like oh we have to be up at three in the morning it's like I do not envy you I do not envy you at all come on come back we're missing you [Music] I wonder where Vortex actually went like what's going on you probably thought it was dumb because reasons huh interesting interesting hypothesis yeah we're still trying to sort out the rules properly it is the first season after all the first of many hopefully there are many things to improve upon for future uh of course iterations [Music] many many things to improve upon [Music] foreign and we are happy to take suggestions there have been so many suggestions from the players from the participants thank you he's having dinner hey some of us need food sometimes I could be making dinner right now actually how do you even how do you even say what I was attempting to prepare in English let's see the shepherd's pie interesting ah shepherd's pie I wouldn't yeah I would never have a guest that's that's naming yeah I don't know why it's called shepherd's pie I know what it is because I've told it's called Shepherds but I would imagine there are many more accurate names for that what is it called in French oh it's called Uh and basically it makes sense for the ashy Parts because that's uh what we call the Meat part but Palmer tea would be just like maybe the city it's come it comes from hmm okay I have no idea interesting you got me thinking about food I say we will give them two extra minutes and if it doesn't show up uh foreign sounds good to me which I'm sure will make haurasi rather sad but at some point unless unless how rassi has someone to substitute in already I don't think like I don't see any messages in vertex anyway I'm guessing there's some dming going on behind the scenes okay there we go ah perfect time as welcome back I am hungry for matches by your toast okay oh what what oh he timed out okay restart the timer no okay he's back please tell me he's back for for good now come on and do it okay [Music] let's go the players are ready the match has been made so let's jump into the final set of matches here in the grand finals we're off to a clean fresh best of three where ladies and gentlemen here on the left hand side it is team facing off against their opponents Pro bra team so effectively the scores are now zero zero and we need to pause almost three times out because alrassi timed out uh effectively the scores are now zero zero as well it is the best of three and we need two really the two wins for either player for every team to come out on top there are no more lives left snow scores no tricks nothing left but the Smashing of forts so now it will be time to see which Fort comes out on top as soon as El Rossi's internet stops dying I will say this uh the the from the cat hurting side of things it's actually been going quite smoothly uh that's it's very well done okay yes uh the there was some com there has been some comments about this speed at which players are finishing their uh their picks and bands but otherwise aside from the speed at which it's going the actual process is going smoothly things are working as intended more or less only having four tips yes it most certainly does and well and we are back on track we are once more progressing in this match as the left team here is playing as Architects we have seen this Commander a fair few times and with good reason which is the Commander these days is most strongly is most typically used for its active ability specifically its ability to rapidly produce weapons and devices this means that you can Tech switch incredibly quickly or most frequently you can construct or reconstruct weapons at an incredibly fast rate that way after you take a hit you could simply construct a set of weapons to fire back now the weapons we expect team hakos lock to use are heavy weapons because well those are the weapons that they do the most damage big shock but Pro board team is playing as the spook Commander so they are fully aware of their opponents uh of their opponent's choice for pretty much everything they know what weapons they're going to be going for they know what Commander is available to them it's they are informed and pro-bra team will be utilizing that information to their advantage but you do mostly just to Target specific points in their base which are most likely to be vulnerable but I am surprised to see an upgrade center from vertex yeah I was about to mention that because typically spook plays particularly standard like this book doesn't have anything which benefits build orders that deviate from standard build orders however parole broad teams top base specific specifically vertex here is deviating from what would be considered a common or popular build order and is specifically getting the upgrade center before heavy weapons this is as we could see for the purposes of upgrading their economy extra economy always nice to have generally you can't afford extra economy before weapons because doing so means that you won't get out your heavy weapons before the opponents and then you just start taking hits and it kind of snowballs from there and you don't want to be lacking that kind of map control for a substantial period of time which is necessarily part of what's going to happen if you get the upgrade Center so the top base here going for the uh the upgrade Center is an odd choice and a surprise to me given that they are playing as the spooka commander they did place to come down indeed a cannon has been placed for well a heavy weapon is in place for both players and pro bra team whereas has only just know placed there uh howitzer so this is actually going to put this is interesting so typically Architects can get away with doing the upgrade Center before heavy weapons because they can still get the heavy weapon placed and then rely on the architect active ability in order to catch up makeup for lost time that's why you often see the upgrade Center for architect however probra may have said hey architect is doing the thing where they're they're getting extra Eco because they could just use their active ability to make up for it so we could do the same thing because they're not going to punish us for it that's what I suspect is the thought process there they see that they're playing against Architects and they know that the architect players aren't doing a heavy weapons Rush they're going Eco first so they are also matching with Eco because they can that that makes sense to me first plasma shots not doing much unless Buzz saw follow-up doesn't quite make the cut but it is now the commander ability is active and with it the Howitzer comes out completely oh no that's death insufficient defenses around the core vertex Falls to a fire beam plasma beam combo and with it and puts team in the lead they should lead because one plasma won't be enough to do anything against uh left team exactly the one plasma will be enough to Door snipe but that's typically what plasmas are incredibly good at but in terms of actually breaking the Forts and removing players or dealing critical damage uh one plasma is just insufficient at this point in time so is not in danger of losing the game uh they could just have their time delayed at this point uh how Rusty needs to find some alternate solution to the problem while suffering heavy ooh heavy fire yes that's uh a little rough it looks like alrassi just trying to prevent that Howitzer from causing a problem it's extremely fast twin mil coming from from Phoenix before any exposed weaponry interesting on the choice for 20 mil as opposed to a standard Cannon given the context it's a good weapon to weaken defenses but it is so that plasma beam can actually cut really deep there I think it's not deep enough to hit the core but it can cut quite deep likely enough to disconnect the weapons and Echo freak now has two plasmas which is a potentially game-ending amount of plasma it's certainly enough to remove any of the weapons oh yeah that's that's enough to go to the Core uh how rassi's stole chunks of energy right out of the uh capacitors the actively firing plasma beam had its energy drained out of it oh that should be enough if you can aim that correctly not quite the second laser should be coming off cooldown right now so there's a potential to end the game well doesn't have the energy to fire it the sweeping the sweeping beam oh no the comeback the snipening is still happening Felix with that sniper just cutting off emotional damage the sniper takes out the lasers again and how harass he's like nope not dealing with this we're out go next I do not blame it for that one like this and they will be able to do it up here what who did they both leave why why it's two out of three to me ah gonna have to type their words in the translator so I could read it yeah I don't think I want to translate that okay wait I might not want to we're gonna have to ping them on Dia could you D ping them yeah yeah I'm doing this right now uh but I think that's a big rage grid let's see what 100 c answers the fourth oh they officially four feet ah well there would have been great matches well last match a little bit of an anti-climax for the one before that absolutely amazing it's unfortunate that they were un interested in finishing out their match but alas but okay with that but the forfeit from Pro broad team takes first place and guarantees them an opportunity guarantees them as slots in the next season of the Ford's pro league and with that probora team takes a second place it was second place they have an opportunity to join the Ford's pro league in the next season they need only fight for it as the let final as the lowest team the lowest scoring team in the Fords pro league will face off against the highest scoring team in the fort in the amateur League here that's going to be Pro broad team and the winner of that match will go into will be elevated into the forge pro league in the next season so we look forward to watching Pro broad team versus the whatever teams will be whichever team is not yet not yet determined team yes the main main series is still going on for the forts pro league still active and that's that will be the end of the Ford's amateur League congratulations one congratulations all congratulations team for taking those top two slots and the emotional damage from the sniper dealing critical quite literally game-winning damage with that sniper good God that has been a great set of matches ladies and gentlemen thank you one thank you all make sure to check out these matches in the German cast so you guys can see it in the native German tongue should you desire such things as outsvok are we doing this okay they want to match but yeah I think foreign are we doing this is this what we're doing it's just for just for fun at this point okay that's okay yes absolutely uh veto we should at least let them choose the map it's the it's the observers at this point is just The Observers versus the uh versus The Players that's I do have an observer team set up you're bad Eagle Eye let's just pick this perfect okay we'll we'll do 2v3 I know that's strong and I just need I want to go to effect okay all right then below are we missing uh armadillo there we go great oh that's entirely empty here well I guess I'll cast but I I will make sure not to give you uh info okay we're extremely okay oh oh yeah sure that's sweet all right guys so we're gonna do now is gonna have a little bit of a fun match it's gonna be the casters versus the winner of the Ford's amateur League uh this is not a fair fight this is not something serious this is just us having fun it's going to be three casters that's gonna be zaltzfuck armadillo and myself versus Acker freak and Felix so this will be a two versus three or three versus two now this is not a this is not a match we're expecting some kind of fair fight here we're just just having some good fun with the with the community because we can because we're all here we like playing forts we're gonna go ahead and do that just throw it in at the end of the amateur League here but the amateur league has concluded congratulations to you congratulations to you Slug and pro Brewer team for their exemplary performances okay let's go I have just added the select photo start mode so you can choose which Fort you like all right let's go uh here all right well let's do this match so on the left hand side we have ago uh only two players are against the casters The Observers consisting of amadino Salzburg and in curses himself we'll see how it goes in this epic showdown after all the action has path they are absolutely going to need that amazing sniping skill to keep up to keep these things going absolutely what are you doing why are you why are you building a machine oh God is he building he's building a minigun accelerator he's built he's he's building a minigun accelerator already like we haven't even uh why why are you like this is with his signature signature move I will build an accelerator a lot of times he has a specific Builder just for this threat yeah yeah I don't know it's I've seen it I've seen it question is is that is he going to oh well I even have the commander for it and everything oh yeah I didn't mention that yes uh I won't mention the commanders obviously yes I appreciate I can I can do my own scouting though yes you can have your guess yes well I mean I can see the uh the timings of these yes but it could be any other three Commanders it could be I am very um it's a bit it's a bit highly conducing to see to see him fire directly to his core there it is a little bit high with this one and getting his poor turbine Snipes this won't stop him he is struggling a little bit for energy and no no yo could have seen that one coming that's that's over yeah he won't be able to recover from this link the portal the wrong way Ah that's very sad and well now I can say that team two is playing armadillo with upgrading miniguns piercing miniguns ah yes big shock the extra memes well I hope Felix will be able to transition from his written spread you say that like he's just not gonna do it again hopefully his teammate has a better stress hey many gun accelerator it's it's really not a bad strap no it sounds about the thread it's just just the execution was a bit uh it also doesn't help that there were three people just sniping constantly yeah that's that's not something you typically have to keep it to take into account sorry about the sniping should be dance it's not like they did this uh it's every of their matches okay our modular is really liking his miniguns there's the namesake or the bus so I was almost kidding Phoenix he's starting to struggle like a freak is different thing for him but there will be more versatile shots foreign let's do this Felix is heavily tight oh Lord he trying just choose for buying it destroyed foreign curses my energy how could you do this to me foreign s we let them go the ones that no one defends increases almost ready to fire the pattern I say is if I have the money to do so now you do I do and so I shall questions doing a bit of equal damage at those doors and two gunshots it's starting to tickle a bit I right meanwhile Felix is reloading his uh container that's a scary thing to see charging up the accelerator well I could freak is taking shots for him if they actually made that work I would be impressed he will probably unleash that very soon and what will be the damage oh my God I specifically I specifically turned all of that to background bracing so it would pass through and not actually kill me very good stretch yes I was like I I'm just gonna take this yes I didn't expect that angle I expected a different angle but it still took too much so I'm I'm fine I'm just sad about it I'm a little bit short for money here um in all our military restrenching it transitioning out of his miniguns and those shots they want my Minds yes they desperately want my Minds one Canon is taken out from the bottom oh yes and the minigun as well that matters okay here we go all right guys once again defended from such things it's Rockets starting down and they will be devastating okay while Felix is struggling to give some energy production and cement here is now up the shotgun misses because it's really trying to keep himself up barely hanging I'm going to need so many things it is no longer any empty air from a battle South that Cannon still exists [Music] it feels a little clingy doesn't it actually yes yes it does Felix is trying to use his sniper to to have Advantage but there isn't much to be Snipes right now oh there's a fair bit of step to Cannon yes you cannot destroying one rocket and a bit of core damage maybe another thought another shot ooh good one oh that do it oh we're getting to critical damage now it did Tickle a lot yes there's more can I finally yes yes I can follow the average cutting shots and that will kill definitely Felix no a lot encourage people I won't say exactly how much but is it enough for that nope nope not quite close but not quite I think I could just live with these active edix has managed to get one legendary up and there's once more reloading his accelerator information on this for this so huge huge this the Excel that's the real reason he won wanted to do another game just to show up the accelerator and that's Felix down well the accelerator is mostly intact well it does occur freak know how to operate it see does he even want to work if you know these are a really weird science and I loved using those that they are absolutely a Weird Science are there no more machine guns huh neat Cannon time then so much good science with portals every finally Snipes them all did you shoot yourself I just watch this I couldn't tell maybe he did hey there it is that's the end ggs hey in a in a 3v2 yes they still managed to hold on for long yes I even took a hit from the accelerator you survived and survivors didn't yeah well I mean only so much I can do about that yeah all right then that will wind down this group here so congratulations again to Felix and Ecker freak team Slack coming in and winning it as always have a good one everyone I see you guys

Channel: Project Incursus Gaming

Views: 19,299

Keywords: Incursus, Forts, RTS

Id: cj29MJ8W25Q

Length: 234min 5sec (14045 seconds)

Published: Sat Mar 25 2023