Vagrus (2021) - Sandbox Post Apocalyptic Bronze Age RPG

what's up guys and gals welcome back to the nerd castle today in the world of indie games we're going to be checking out vagras the riven realms which has actually officially come out in 1.0 this is a game that like i can best compare it so i'll give you an idea of the setting first this is a game that is set in kind of a grim dark fantasy realm that is currently in its bronze age uh so you've got gladiators you've got kind of imperial infantrymen you've got hoplites and stuff like that but it's set in a world that has like orcs and has like monsters and has things of that nature as well and you are the leader of a caravan a comitatus is what they call it in the the context of the game and really it's kind of an open world sandbox rpg where you sort of do whatever you want and i do feel like there's a very very large lack of those going around lately like i'd actually i'd like to see more games that focus on like trading and not so much on like violence and whatnot it feels like trading games have really fallen by the wayside and i do think that vagras is probably the best hope of a revival for that genre and so anyways this is a game where you're free to pretty much do whatever you want you manage your caravan you cruise around the native lands and you try to make money and you try not to run out of it that really is kind of the lose criteria is when you run out of money basically you can't hire any of the people to look after your caravan now big warning here at the beginning the closest thing that i can compare this game to is sunless sea now this game has a lot of dialogue this game has a lot of reading this game has a lot of menus it has a lot of things that you need to track and keep track of but i think that's actually one of the things that makes it compelling so whereas i think that like a lot of people are gonna bounce off of this game just largely due to the fact that it is imposing when you first get into it just kind of all the stuff that you can or might want to do at the same time i have a hard time thinking of too many other games that focus entirely on being a trading rpg that have the amount of depth and things to do that vagras has so anyways we're going to dive on in today spend about 30. i'll probably cut this one a little bit longer actually just to do the game a little bit better of justice but we'll be here for a while you can check the game out see if it's the right thing for you if after watching this you wanted to get the game for yourself i got a link for you down below in the description so that you can check that out you can also swing through my discord you can actually interact with me directly there you can swing through my twitter um you know i post on it sometimes when i feel a funny funny jokes coming on out and then you can check out my twitch stream where we may actually end up playing this one because i do want to get into it in more depth so anyways let's start a new game now the first thing that we've got to do is we need to make a character i'm going to put the game on wasteland mode one thing to really keep in mind with vagras is that this is not a combat game combat is costly combat does not make money at the end of the day you are a trader your job is to make money by like buying something here and selling it over there you can take combat quests and you can become a mercenary company over time but in the beginning of the game it really does behoove you to avoid combat altogether uh the other half is that we're going to be kind of skipping all this stuff over here because this character creation and the beginning tutorial portions of the game can easily eat up the entire 30 minutes that i have to show you stuff so we're just gonna go straight on into character creation i'm gonna make an orc there are a number of races here that you can make they all have kind of different perks and things that they're good at some of them are better at trading some of them are better at fighting some of them are better at knowledge just kind of depends who you pick actually we could do a dwarf he's got evaluate right there that's pretty good i like the idea of evaluate yeah let's do that that'll allow me to track prices a little bit better and maybe maybe make us a little bit of money on like perks and whatnot i would like to be an adventurer well maybe not an adventure what does the veteran get you get boost you get fighter one tough artisan we get engineering okay we can be a scholar uh we can be a criminal carpenter that's kind of an i don't i don't normally think of carpenters as being criminals we'll just go for the simple one for right now we'll go with a dwarvish adventurer all right we can decide what we want to be you can be a traitor a mercenary or an explorer explorers tend to do better on the world map when it comes to randomized events and things you have to deal with while you're on the road traders tend to make a lot more money because they have the ability to appraise things and figure out what they're worth and mercenaries tend to do a lot better in combat situations because they start out with a much larger defense retinue stuff like that but honestly this is just kind of like a starting point for your skills all of the bonus stuff that they kind of give you uh the bonus stuff can all be gained through other means as you play the game it's just really the perks that are gonna stick with you forever so go with a trader since that's in the spirit of the game uh for our ambition we wanna become renowned i want to be a famous trader someone like marco polo where they tell my story forever for adventuring and then we get to decide what skills we want to take there's all kinds of stuff here honestly it would take forever to go through all of them but what i'm gonna do is i'm gonna come up with kind of like a idea of a character for myself i'm gonna put all the points in and then we'll come back in and we'll talk about just sort of the synopsis of that character and the impact i expect him to make on the universe that we're gonna be living inside of okay so i've got all my points in play right now uh you've got a couple of different things you have resourcefulness over here resourcefulness is a stat that's just for like various stuff you get extra movement points things of that nature you have authority this is how well you keep your your caravan in line uh this is actually a very very important stat for maintaining some level of cohesion amongst your cohort uh we've got no leadership abilities except for traverse and so i can use my resourcefulness which is these little pips over here in order to gain extra movement points on a day this can save you this is very very important i would definitely keep that slotted on in i see my character as kind of a keen eyed appraiser a deal maker the kind of guy that gets stuff done moving things from point a to point b so i gave him two points in evaluation so we can figure out what objects are going to be valuable i gave him magic sense so that we can occasionally find magic items when we're going through just the various listing of stuff i gave him persuasion for deal making i gave him two in charisma so this is our ability to inspire and earn trust and then we've got two and savvy so he's a little bit smarter and then we've got tough over here uh you are going to get more insight as the game goes along the game does not use an xp based system for advancement instead the game rewards you in the same way sunless c does by like doing stuff so as you go places you see things for the first time you meet people for the first time you complete jobs things of that nature you will gain insight points and so none of this stuff is locked we can increase this stuff later on but insight is a limited resource there's only so much insight on the open world map at the beginning of world generation so you do want to be careful because this is not just for your advancement insight can also be given to your followers to make them better as well and so there there really is kind of some hand wringing and some pearl clutching i think about the character advancement in this game our name oh i don't know dude we can go with uh we'll be rogar let's be let's be rogar iron saddle that sounds good that sounds like a sweet name oh it doesn't like me having a last name okay i take it back all right and then we'll just continue onwards sleep slowly but steadily overwhelms you it is late in the exhausting journey of the mesmerizing voice of the old man you don't know you faintly recall stumbling to your tent and crawling outside and then is only darkness okay morning creeps up quietly on the arid wasteland uh we've been given a quest effectively this old man is gonna tell us to go meet a buddy of his in the nearest city and so we're just gonna like get on to that because this is a long conversation uh we'll wish him well and then this is what the game actively looks like right here i'm sorry to those of you that really like the kind of the scene setting um and the the lore dumps and things like that but this is a very wordy game in the same way that sunless c is a very wordy game and so they're going for immersiveness i have read all these things like i know what i'm supposed to be doing right now and so we're going to get up to that but we can only see this far on the map this grid right here effectively that's how many movement points it's going to take us to go from here to here in the top left you can find on the ui we've got our movement points this is forced march points so if we use our forced march it makes people upset but you can cover a lot more ground in the case that you're like running low on supplies or something is going critically wrong we've got the morale of our company they are currently obedient we've got how rested they are how fed they are we've got our cargo how many days worth of supplies we have uh we have our defensive power and we have our offensive power for if we are attacked or if we plan on attacking anybody we have no deputies right now so you don't really need to worry about that there is a little wheel that's always going to surround your comitatus it gives you the option to camp and it gives you the option to scout scouting gives you some rough idea of what's going to be ahead if there's an event there or anything else resting is what you do when you run out of energy we have access to this little hand-drawn map up here there we go it's taking its sweet time to open uh we've got to go to torzag's shelter where you're going to get introduced to a character who is based on somebody you might know so we'll kind of head that way we don't really have much else to accomplish here we'll march out to four that sounds good and then do i have let me see here can i so we've moved to the road and we're gonna need to camp inside this camp menu don't be too worried about this this game is very very intimidating when you first come on into it but at the end of the day all you really need to know is that in the top left right here you have your daily upkeep this is how much your soldiers are charging you in order to stay loyal effectively and they will start to desert if you take too long without paying them the good news is it'll give you a warning if you haven't paid them in too long and they'll say there's grumblings around the camp but there's no real negative effect that surrounds that event that's just kind of the game notifying you like hey maybe we should pay the troops we can adjust how much we feed everybody just in case we want them to be like more obedient or more nourished uh more rested so on and so forth and then over here on the right it's important that you set up your defense orders so you can set up like how many guards you have effectively to keep an eye on things so you can keep your obedience up you can keep your morale up by posting like a full retinue of guards so if we do that right there that's the perfect example i think this may negatively affect your vigor though but i'm not entirely sure about it and then we end the day and that's going to give us all of our points back walking on roads is much faster than walking through the hinterland i highly recommend that you do not walk through the hinterland as much as you can help it uh it will create problems for you you will run into things that go wrong we've got to go all the way up to torzags and so like it should take us a couple days to get there but once we arrive i i think that we'll be all right one thing that i would like to see is automated resting uh so i think they should add like a little check box right here where you can set up all of your so if like you can set up your camp menu that's what i would like to be able to do is set up my camp menu and then there's a little box right here that says auto rest um with current settings and then as you walk it just automatically rests you when you run out of movement points unless you otherwise uncheck the box uh just so you don't want to keep opening and closing the camp screen i think that is one of the fiddlier things with the ui that i think i could do without but other than that that's like the one thing that i'm like eh i would rather not but you know i'll do what i have to here let's go visit our contact inside of torzags we'll do that on tomorrow i guess we'll rest for a little bit then we'll head on into torzag's shelter you reach the fortified gates of the great city after waiting your turn in line chatting travelers bleeding beasts of burdens swearing loaders exhausted slaves decrepit pilgrims and fellow vagrai you are greeted roughly by the guards under the shadow of the gatehouse we can approach uh so they're going to inspect us we have nothing to hide so that's fine and then we've got to pay a gate tax in order to get into town we've got different coins you've got bros you've got lurg and then you've got uh changers i guess and so we'll head on into the mancio we're supposed to be meeting up with somebody in the market district according to the old man at the beginning of the game you guys didn't see that portion but this is basically how you start out let's go talk to braxius and look it's me they actually after i covered the game a couple years ago they put me in the game as like one of the intro guys you make your way to the part of the market that lies east of cal risk market huddled between two taller decrepit buildings braxia's storefront is not much to look at only his name is written on the stone slab above the doorway there's no sign no display no stall nothing inside's a dark little room with a dirty counter a strange odor and nondescript trash that barely passes for wares and a demon kin fellow fiddling absent-mindedly with a gadget he looks up as you enter what can i do you for he says with a ghoulish grin he can't help it he's got pointed teeth a big nose a crown of jagged horns it's on the top of his head but also the side of his jaw his eyes burn with a pale orange light and he's surrounded with an almost palpable aura of nervousness surely this can't be the guy you were supposed to be meeting you braxius yep in the flesh he bows his head theatrically i specialize in connecting people i might have someone you will find useful and even help you in getting them to join you and i owe ago so like there everybody wins okay so like what's it gonna cost me ah there's a lady with a very special skill set that i have in mind she's good at finding her way across the wasteland she's also good in a fight and she can track down pretty much anybody she's a bounty hunter and she's looking for a comitatus to join so that she can traverse the room and claim bounties as she does i also heard that she may have some kind of connection to the imperials but you'll have to ask there about that one herself your name is krifta okay what do you want for this nothing like i said i owe a ghost and he told me i can pay him back by aiding the people that he sends over to me weird right not so much anyways at any rate i can arrange a meeting yeah sure we can meet her minutes after you tell braxious you want to meet her he's closed down the shop and he's leading you to find her you find a quiet table in a tavern corner while braxius gets drinks and by the time you finish the first a woman shows up with a strange gate and greets you krista looks like a cross between a human and some kind of carrion bird clearly the result of the taint she observes you with large beady eyes and clacks her beak before addressing you in a chirping voice so they say that you're recruiting you need a scout a tracker i can do that i've been all around the continent tough as nails and know how to hunt it's true what the demon spawn says vagras but as you can see i have questions okay yeah um i'm just gonna decide so that we can get moving i'm gonna take her on and i'm gonna pay her her three lurg so there it is we got our first party member and those are gonna be added to our cohorts excellent crafta says as she pockets the coins i'll buy rations and gear for the road also there's a job i was offered you might be interested in becoming partners on that we can talk about it later i'll meet you at the mancio the sooner we leave the city the better she leaves in a hurry now that crypt is taken care of i can help you recruit another guy two options in fact you want to hear me out all right let's hear it cool so there's two guys in torzags that i could put you in contact with both have problems i can help you solve their problems for them one that is i mean i can help you with one of the two and you'll owe me for it you ask about the two individuals one's a dwarf and a pretty nasty one at that he's connected though and knows a lot of people in low places the other one's an orc and he's tough even for his kind he's somewhat of a celebrity around here a gladiator but then he started to train people that wanted to become warriors rather than worrying himself and he's fed up with that now he wants to travel so you know okay let's take the orc good as i've said gorogoro's an orc and as you'd expect he's a pretty good warrior kind of a celebrity in all honesty his gladiator days are behind him but an associate of his lannister has gotten into trouble he's got the opportunity to field a couple gladiators against the gladiators of his accusers and should he win clear his name however he himself cannot step into the arena and only goro goro stepped up to defend him meaning they are two gladiators short but i got two guys to round out the team you win the fight you will make guru gore indebted to you he wanted to leave torzag anyways and you will owe me a favor right you want to do this yeah let's do it now we're talking the pawn broker claps all right you go about your business give me an hour to get things done sounds good out onto the street so inside every single city there's various tasks that you can undertake the most important one is going to be this little flag icon right here it's going to allow you to take jobs for the guild uh because you are a trader most of it is gonna be like transit and logistics so there'll be people that are like hey take this 20 stone over to this place over here and then you go do it you get paid and in fact i do highly recommend having played around with the game that you do that because unless you've got like a good hundred bras lying around money goes down quickly and so i like to get myself a little nest egg so that i can kind of just do things freely for a while without worrying about my financial status other people can play the game a little bit closer to the red line if they want but that's just the way that i prefer to do it you'll find that in our deputies right here we've got uh krifta has joined us and now we're going to go get goro goro and i'm pretty sure that's in the market district yeah dreis's compound over here alright so you walk into an atrium that is the main hall and call out loud if anybody is there in the poor light provided by braziers and twinkling crystal lamps you notice a man enter and walk slowly towards you salve he says without enthusiasm afraid i can't help you the school is closed the man is wearing leather armor in the imperial style with a gladius impugio hanging from his belt his bitter face is balding or framed by balding hair that's turning gray this must be dreas all right um what happened and so roughly he's going to tell you that he got into trouble with the city leaders he was accused of a crime and now he has to duel in order to proof his innocence and so we will offer our aid there we go and so we accept goro goro's offer for him to join us in exchange for helping him in the fight and then he will become another member of our retinue sorry if i'm moving fast through all of this but there's like a lot of dialogue and i want to show off gameplay if you guys are deeply upset by the way that i covered this game i will take that into account when i get further you know games that are like this that are very very wordy but i'd rather leave like all the nitty gritty of the dialogue to you and then i'll just explain kind of what happened until we can get up to the free play portion of the game all right so we end the day and it is the day of the fight we arrive at the agreed upon place and it's time for us to battle you enter through a gate arch and follow the others down some dark corridors and ascend some stairs and arrive at a premium box this is where paulus anteus is the small aging magistrate sits in a high-backed chair with a board expression wrapped in furs against the chill overseeing this matter is clearly a great convenience for him a tall thin fellow in a turbine colorful clothes and expensive jewelry is buzzing around the praetor whispering in his ear constantly this must be the man who drea is wronged and now has a face the instructor walks up to them while goro gore and you stay back you can see both the indifference on the face of the praetor and the contempt of the face of the tarkian diplomat okay you spot a boy of 10 or 12 in tarki and garb standing row of chairs his left eye and forehead are bandaged he is holding the hand of a little girl with shaggy brown hair and large eyes dreis walks over kneels down and hugs her he says something in strokes she strokes his rough face does daughter goro goro growls she was taken by the praetor until the matter is resolved as a hostage for leverage okay so here we go we're ready to fight so fights are pretty simple in this game it's pretty much like they hit you you hit them we've got leorack which is one of the thugs that braxius gave us specifically for the fight and so we can do a rigorous jab over here these guys have armor as far as i know and so like if we click on them we can figure out what their evade and their block and their armor and everything else is so that person has the most armor we're gonna have to strip that so i'm gonna start with the slinger and if we can get rid of him maybe that'll minimize a little bit of the damage that we're gonna have coming in uh we have been hit with a slingstone kind of sucks would rather not be hit with a slingstone i've also been stabbed with a gladius because this is not going great he can't do anything from the position he's in so we got to move forward goro goro has mighty swing i'm going to say go for the mighty swing right there and they both evaded we might actually lose this this fight is actually kind of close even if things are going well so there's a pretty good chance we're gonna lose here uh keep stan stabbing the slinger eventually he will go down he's at half health now slinger threw a stone we got lucky and dodged right there so you love to see that i'm gonna have him go for the double swing again uh he hit her for one but you know we gotta strip armor off people so maybe i'll do that next turn as we'll start breaking armor if they would stop kicking this guy back in the line it would be great uh unfortunately we've also been javelined right there which is kind of a bummer we're we're taking a reasonably decent scuffing right now i'm gonna break the armor on her because she has two armor that's gonna make it so i can actually deal damage to her from here on out i am gonna start focusing well let's let's go after her her armor is pretty much stripped and so we can actually now start to deal damage i'm not exactly sure what he did right there if he just like belly bumped me or what evade right there very very bad i would have liked to have scored a hit right here but hits unfortunately don't seem to be forthcoming uh let's go for a stab right there partial block so two damage is good i would love for this person to die that's what i really really want oh he can't swing over to there okay uh maybe we bull rushed this guy back a line nope can't do it they're dodging everything is just too high there's no adjacencies here it's really unfortunate that i can't hit that right there kind of bummed out about it slowing down the fight and it doesn't need to be slowed down i need the fight to go quickly she's got five hp she's down to two hp eventually she should hopefully die we may lose one of our thugs he's got a turtle on his head so i feel like you don't have that much to lose anyways like the point at which you're going into battle with a turtle on your head i'm like there we go we finally crossed one of the dangerous threats off the list we can start whomping over here but because of his armor we're gonna have a hard time taking him out we'll go ahead and finish off the slinger as well because he has no armor and like no defenses so it should be pretty easy to resolve i'm gonna strip his armor real fast so that we're getting full damage on him from here on out he now has zero armor slinger took a shot at one of our bandits and missed unfortunately goro goro is starting to be a little bit beat up goro goro's had better days uh please hit oh my god another block okay as long as they keep like spreading the damage around i think we'll be all right but it's kind of hard to say there's four more damage out he's definitely not doing well and he swapped targets right there which is really really good let's go for a final sphere stab on the slinger sounds like a plan to me four damage right there from the club very very nice he should be kind of on his last legs um i don't really know where to put you that you can actually like do something you've got a spear and so i sort of feel like hey there it is he crits me i create you we all crit each other everything is fine and works out for the better and that's what combat looks like inside the context of vagras the animator many gl or the enemy gladiators lie on the sand bloody defeated but alive the crowd is chanting goro goro's name in a frenzy there is no dispute any longer no question about dreas's honor you win i won't forget this vagras i can now try to rebuild the school and perhaps you could drop by sometime a little girl waves and they go i'm a man of my word goro gora says i'm ready to leave the city in an hour i'll find you at your birth vagrants right after i say goodbye here cool and so we completed the quest just barely just barely it is a it is possible to fail that one though the downside is that we now owe demon kin a favor so that sort of is what it is every time you visit this game actually has pretty much the same structure as sunless sea if you haven't been to a place for a while you can come back to a place and basically you can choose to explore any of the various areas for like random events and things to come up in quest prompts there's a market over here where you can buy and sell stuff but we don't know what the prices are going to be looking like anywhere that we go we do have some luxury wine on us and it sells for a decent amount of money so i'm just going to get rid of it so that we have seed cash in order to get started in the game so now we've got 33 brass ready to rock and it cleared out some inventory space we need to buy some supplies but let's get a job first so they want me to do a supply run to actress's quarry this is clickable so if you wanted to know where stuff is at your little red flag right here it'll tell you exactly where you're supposed to be going in order to get jobs done if you click on the locations i think that's a really really good thing for them to include lumen is up and back that way okay so they want me to distribute to lumen as their multiple stuff going to lumen there is indeed multiple things going to lumen however it's taking up too much inventory space and we're going to need supplies for the road you can also buy mods and things so if you go out to the marketplace you can buy equipment extra things that you can put on your pack beasts you can buy dogs to protect your camp you can get hunting dogs you can get mining equipment so that if you come across a mining event you've got a plus one to your prospecting basically a very customizable game where you can definitely like kind of give your caravan skill sets sub skill sets and then like tertiary skill sets like some stuff you're really good at some stuff you're kind of good at some things you're not very good at and i sort of like that about it just i think that that layer of depth actually makes the game a lot better even though it's a lot to take in and figure out like what exactly it is you need at any given moment one thing that i would recommend picking up early is that you have workers that like work for your caravan so if we take a look at our crew we have seven soldiers two scouts five workers and eight slaves uh what you can do is you get these awnings right here and it lowers the amount of resources they eat on any given day it lets you stretch your food out a little bit further which i think is kind of nice actually it can be sort of helpful there's no adjustment on how much it's costing us day to day just to survive but we know that it's about 60 a day because we have 184 and we've got three days worth of food left so we'll probably want to stock up on food you can do that by shift-clicking on the icon right here it'll bring up this menu i'll buy 150 and then i also need to fill out that other stack and it looks like we're going to need like 66 i guess i think you can just type it in too there we go perfect so now we've got enough food for nine days we can actually make a run let's get ourselves a job here let's go up to lumen it's not paying very well if there are better jobs i will take them the crimson gate that's pretty good paycheck man there's so many jobs going to lumen i super super hate that we can't take multiple jobs we can actually so if i take this one and i take this one yeah that's about right all right let's set out for lumen there there's not a whole lot left here to do you approach the mighty gates of torzag's shelter one can see the scorching desert sky loom above the cruel black battlements as the comitatus takes its place in a long line at the vast gate you notice a lean woman dressed in bureaucratic tunics and capes approach one of your guards and talk to them they walk up to you soon after apologies vagrants the woman says bowing her head i work for the magistrative tax collection no need to be alarmed i'm here to present you with an opportunity i have a message attached to some documents that need to be delivered to arkhan to a client of ours should you take the message you'll be compensated for handing it over what say you why not that's fair enough our client is a very resourceful man who works for a researcher of renown he's awaiting our message in ark into the north where he rents a small apartment above a tobacco shop on silt wade street his name is levantius okay sounds good we need to chart this out here real fast i think we need to take this road on the side right here and that's going to take us up to arkhan i think or lumen yeah looks like we've got to make this lumen run over here that's a long run i'm a little bit actually worried that we're going to have the supplies to actually make this happen um let's go for a full burst day people are gonna be mad at me but i'd rather get the job done i'd rather make some like while everybody's happy i would rather march them now than have to do it later when they're already upset about things let's go ahead and take a look and yeah dude we've made good maybe we'll double march tomorrow too uh everybody needs to be paid so we'll pay them and then we'll keep on going i would like to go 14 right there yeah we can do that let's do a big march right here first two days are gonna be rough but after that it's easy peasy living on easy street because it's easy street and it feels so sweet cause life is just a treat when you're on easy street all right so lumens up there although it doesn't actually look like a town proper this might be bad espacie blade that this might be real bad that's a if that's a town it looks like a very little one hopefully we can resupply there let's go ahead and march it on into lumen and see what happens here as we get further on into the game those persistent enough to travel towards the blinding light and scorching heat of the south calaris eventually reached the town of lumen and glints the sandstone buildings protected by the shielding wall most of the settlement was built under the sand sheltered from lethal temperatures in the unbearable shine of the surface at night brigades of prospectors flood the still searing crystal forest to get their hands on as rich a bounty as they can hauling it back to lumens bustling underground markets apart from the imperial crystal harvesting the town is famous for its resident crystal mansers ever delving into the secrets of the caleros okay so there's a tavern we can ask people about stuff but we're not interested in that right now we're interested in getting this payday so we're gonna go ahead and drop off the mushrooms and we will drop off the beer and that has actually given us a nice stiff little reinforcement to our financial situation i haven't decided how i'm going to apply that just yet i think it might be a good idea to pick up some more crew they do have fighters here that will raise our work that will raise our upkeep but it will make us more protected and more likely to be able to defend ourselves should we be attacked on the road and believe me brigandry happens if you're looking to actually do things the sterile way of trading just old school space trucking you know like kind of eve online or you know elite dangerous style you can do that you click on this little button right here and it'll give you a list of the prices at every town that you've been in and you can just compare the list effectively i would prefer that this actually get folded into the main display on this side like i would prefer for it to be based on your evaluation it would have like little arrows over here basically next to the buy and next to the cell telling you whether or not it's a good deal or a bad deal they could actually get rid of that entire menu right there for trading characters altogether but i suppose that's kind of part of the immersive nature of the game is they want you as a traitor to kind of be going through your ledgers and figuring out what you can move from where in order to make life more successful and so taking a look at things it looks like from what i can see so far not a lot of great deals here it looks like we can eke out some money on ceruleus crystals if they actually have those they do have ceruleus crystals so let me resupply real fast i think that if we get like 212 supplies so we need 212 supplies and then i think we load up on ceruleus crystals oh that's gonna take all of our net worth but on average we'll make uh one silver basically or one copper off of each one of these and so it should add up to a nice little payday in fact let me check and see if there's any jobs here do they have anything that they want me to take back to torzag's shelter real fast there are two escorts that we can do on the way to tour zags um on second thought i don't think i'm gonna take these i feel like there's a good chance yeah there's gonna be fights involved with these and like you really wanna avoid fights in the early games so i think this is just gonna be a bog standard trade run unfortunately hopefully we don't get rooked but i can stack on a few more crystals before we get out of here there are quests and things that you can seek out inside the villages so that's also something that you can definitely do if that's what you're into so basically there's kind of generic jobs and then there's main quest lines as well and the main quest lines tend to be the ones with the big rewards and the big paydays but for right now we're kind of like a little baby vagras and so we wanna we wanna take it slow and we wanna be very very careful about getting ourselves murdered i know who would have ever thought that getting murdered is a bad idea in the context of any game uh yeah we can move as far as we can oh really he'll like force march right there too okay i thought that once we ran out of ap uh-oh you've experienced rising disobedience among your workforce slaves are in part responsible preparing and handing out food at the end of the day when you make camp unfortunately there's opportunities for error being disgruntled the slaves slip up meals have not been savory or nutritious and this is the night that everyone realizes you and your comey is much on the bad food and grumble about the lot oh we've got to decide what we want to do here we can punish people i'm just going to do nothing for right now like i just i don't see the point i think i force marched people a little bit too hard so we have distressed morale right now i can fix that it's just going to take some time we just got to get back to tour zags the comitatus has seen better days in fact your kommates are in a bad mood yeah we'll turn things around dude you managed to avert or prevent the worst things that have come up today let's take a day and just kind of relax for a second yeah let's like fix our let's fix our obedience issues with double rations and a full retinue of guards there we go so now we should be in better shape i'll probably actually do the same thing tonight just to future proof us a little bit yeah we'll give them extra we'll give them extra meals you can like whip people or you can free slaves you can do that kind of stuff i don't know it's kind of dark it's not the kind of stuff that i get into in video games but the options are there uh let's go ahead and jump on in and we gotta pay the gate tax there it is and i need to get my payday real fast we gotta hey and there you go i think we get like one of the middle coins and one of the changers for each one of these that we sell so it actually came off pretty good i don't know if the price is going to adjust based on us selling here if nothing else we only we broke even and like there weren't any good jobs to do up there in lumens so i think that's kind of one of those things you want to keep in mind as well is that lumen is kind of a dead zone there's not a whole lot to do up there and so the fact that we only lost one bros going up there and coming back and got some reputation out of it i'm pretty happy with like i'm not upset with that result and we need to buy 398 meals there we go so we're stocked up for another nine days on the road we could buy some equipment we do have a little bit of stuff going on so blinders makes us better in a chase makes our outriders stronger maybe we consider making our retinue a little bit stronger so it costs actually not that much in order to hire a few more guards which i think is a good idea that'll raise our attack power what other jobs do we have around here we've got a supply run for house darius somebody gave us something to go up to arkan so we can go to this one right here it's only nine bucks which kind of sucks that one's also nine bucks i need to get some more slots over here is what i really need to do can i buy more pack animals oh there's passengers that want to go to arkan too we don't know what arkans prices are so i don't really know what i can take up there yet either although it seems to me like linen is usually pretty easy to distribute in like the outward areas of the kingdom that are outside of torzags and so carrying linen with you usually pays off in my opinion sometimes you get sometimes you get smoked but we can get some more beasts of burden they're expensive but it's possible that it'll increase our ability to uh they're 25 bucks gonna have to take a job on that one yeah i'll buy another beast of burden there we go that opened up our cargo a little bit so that we can like take more stuff so we got a supply run right there what else do we have going up to arkhan we've got a supply run going up to arkhan that's like i need to i need to get my stuff kind of arranged there we go all right let's head up to arkhan we've arrived a little place called crossroads you can't investigate here there's some little events and stuff that can happen but i'm more interested in turning around a profit right now so that's what i'm gonna do we'll go up this way and i think arkan is yeah it's right over here we're gonna stick to the roads for right now it's just safer this way i'm gonna pay everybody right now i do wish that it saved your button presses right there i would actually i'm the kind of person that prefers to pay what i owe every single day and so when i rest i would appreciate it oh we can lock it there we go lock the setting there is that option i just apparently did not do a good job oh we can send people out to harvest as well yeah it's not too bad idea so they have a hundred percent chance to fail they have a sixty percent three to critically 30 to succeed and we'll wait till we have more workers then i don't want to i don't want to gamble with the dice on that one but we made it to arkhan so let's see if we can get our payday here and kind of bounce back the scouts look for an adequate place to camp for the night and find an exceptionally good spot there's some water nearby and a crevice and proper cover that grants protection thanks to the terrain also there's another group occupying it already looks like a comitatus beast people wagons you know they are colorful and the people are much happier to see you than a comitatus would be they come unbidden and offer all kinds of services pot mending fortune telling professional companionship the smell of bog weed abounds in minutes they're already jugglers accompanied by flute players and they only ask for a small donation ah no i just i don't like getting mixed up with people on the road dude like we got like carnies or something happening here like i'm just like this seems like i'm gonna get ripped off that's what it feels like to me so we do have these jobs to drop off that's actually we've recouped the cost of our entire beast of burden already and so see that's why i like to take a cargo animal early is because like it'll allow you to kind of make a little bit more money along the way like you start with such a limited inventory capacity that you can only take one job at a time which means you're constantly like basically losing money between supplies and paying people if you can pick up that beast of burden nice and early to get like the extra three slots poof there you go then you're in good shape because then you can take like three jobs at a time unfortunately there's no jobs here so i think we got to look for trade opportunities if we really want to make this work out for us so i will probably do that let's take a look at cargo that they've got on offer as i recall from previous plays this place is a mining place so they produce marble and so i'm guessing that marble is probably going to be a good price but we can check it marble where are you at so we can buy marble here in arkan and we can sell it back in lumen for a profit uh we can take it over to there and we'll get two in profit for each one that we sell means roughly every five that we carry is going to give us a brass okay i think it's doable let's resupply first though now we know roughly what the supply cost is going to be for us to come up here so we're going to need 364. there we go oh nope i was down by 50. oh well apparently math is not an exceeding skill that i've been blessed with but we've got our supplies we're all good to go right there so i'm gonna pick up the marble over here we can take 48 marble with us which should net us a profit with 48 every five so that should get us nine broths that should at least take care of our overhead and paying everybody and pay for the food which we just did and it gets us back to the quest center so like all things considered i'll take it we are limited right there by our carrying capacity unfortunately but we'll go ahead and end our day here and i'll head back on down to tours eggs everything was fine on the way to tour zags no events on the road no problems everything's looking good i'm gonna force march them into town and we'll head on in we'll approach the guards and i've got nothing to hide so i'll pay the gate tax and then we can explore the city for a second let's go for a stroll after leaving the market district you walk down a fairly abandoned street leading back to the civic district when you hear alarmed voices ahead which sounds like a chase there he is get him someone bellows just a stone's throw away a lean fellow runs out at breakneck speed from a side alley across the street almost falling over and panting the man tries to climb a stone fence a few paces clearly trying to get away uh yeah we can capture him some of you are quick enough to pull him off the stone fences about to clamber up to the top hey you got him you got the bastard he's fleeing man half elf rogue in his custody the tainted man explains that he's a merchant of alchemy resources and herbs and his warehouse was ransacked by this fellow he assures you that he'll be put to trial and promises to send you a token of his gratitude the gift arrives now we have four medical supplies nice that's good let's go ahead and sell off all of our marble real fast yeah we more or less kind of broke even i don't know we're gaining reputation in xp and stuff right now too in case you were wondering so we've got 14 insight that we can play around with just to make our character better i'd probably increase my authority a little bit and i'd probably increase my resourcefulness ever so slightly so that we have more movement points there we go and so that's all done but yeah this is vagras there's a lot here to chew on and honestly it's difficult to do an impressions preview video of this game just because of the sheer volume of things there are to play around with obviously for this video i bypassed a little bit on some of the narrative elements in order to get you guys into the sandbox game proper but inside every single town there are a bunch of quests and a bunch of people to talk to in a bunch of dialogue like there are tens upon tens upon tens of thousands of written words in this game and they're all done very very well and it is very immersive so keep that in mind i don't know if i did the right thing when i covered this video when i covered the game this way but i felt like it was better since we're doing kind of a preview video just to give you like a rough synopsis you've seen what the types of battle look like there is kind of uh we skipped over it but if you fight on the road there is like a tactical battle so there's the darkest dungeon style duels that you saw in the gladiator arena and then there's another type of battle where you arrange your formations and the soldiers and the outriders and the workers in your camp they actually arrange kind of in little formations and they fight with like large-scale battles uh those are in there but that's mostly automated so anyways there's a lot to there's a lot to consume and digest here vagras the riven realms it's out in 1.0 right now and you can get the game it's done with its early access i'll see y'all later my name is splattercat i sift through the pile to find what's worth while in the world of indie games every single day so you don't have to i'll be back tomorrow with something hot and fresh off the chopping block bye everybody

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Id: zEl8wBmzBGI

Length: 44min 33sec (2673 seconds)

Published: Thu Oct 07 2021

Reddit Comments

[u/Kuroukira]

Jesus, 44 minutes video of gameplay with only one battle lasting 2 minutes? Goddamn.

[u/Seth_Mimik]

FYI riven rhymes with given.