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   Also there is a thing we are not including in our calculations right now. Just throw your mind back to all of the characters you have played as who died within their first few fights. I know I have sacrificed many a character myself. Now of all characters, not just your own, what is the ratio of people who end up mastering combat when they have to do it every day for weeks and weeks (assuming the time dilation and all) and it looks less absurd. It isn't that every survivor after the apocalypse is able to master any skill they come across. It is that of say the one in a thousand that survive of those one in maybe a hundred that have the ability to master the world.

   I don't currently use skill rust because I am against the current implementation of it. It feels wrong to just lose hard work because I don't religiously bandage myself and ironically capping by int feels like a bandage with it to. I think there is a system that could work but it would need testing and too many people don't want to even touch it to get it done in any good speed.

   The skills feel a lot more balanced which is nice. There is also two types of matches now. The first type is quick matches which is like how the game originally was where you level up then put points into skills as the match goes on and at the start of the match everyone starts at level 10. The second type is permanent matches which use a level which goes up slowly as you play and it stays between games. If you played back when it basically switched to just that for a while then any levels you got then probably are still on your character.
   Another thing is that the netcode is improved. The only time I have experienced any kind of lag related annoyance was when I was uploading a video at the same time and the ping was definitely above 300. Even with servers in England and other such far off places (I live in America) have good ping for me, sub 100 most of the time, that even when they are on those servers I can have a good time.
   Finally there is a new gamemode. Its a zombie thing where it is basically a PvE sort of thing. Each map has bombs at various locations and the way you set them off is by filling them one by one with a thousand zombie souls each. In a quick match the way you get experience is by returning the souls to the bomb. Also the zombies comes in waves and start when people have touched the next bomb. Once you complete the first way when the wave is called everyone gets rooted for a short amount of time and the only way to survive that is if you are with the others and you all work together, though I assume if you pick a really good hiding spot you might be able to survive.

   So I have another video up now. Here it is. I have a backlog to about the seventh (as marked) video and after that I will try to limit it to the matches I think where really interesting.

   Okay I have a more proper video up now. The start shows how to setup a queue for quick matches and then two games. The first game is relatively quick as I joined partway through and the second is proper length. I don't do quite as well in this video but later ones will have me getting better. Anyway here is the video

Yeah I already fixed it. I was posting somewhere else which doesn't like normal spaces and forget I had copied that over the link.

   Can confirm, was fun and there was a lot of Bay12ers randomly on. I will have a video up soon enough after some editing. Not exactly my best as I am definitely not good enough to talk and play. Also the zombie mode is really fun to play even with just a few players so even if there are only a couple people on its interesting to hop on and give it a go.