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hey bro on this is steve from gamers nexus dotnet and we are at the end of pax prime 2014's first day it is Friday of course and I am joined by Keegan Gallic who is helping us with some of the camera work and writing here and today we checked out a game called nosgoth yep bye psionics Square Enix yeah published by Square Enix a third-person battle arena much like Forge and what was the one you play Yuri oh you're very teary what was the one who reviewed though the really bad one oh man there were some really bad ones oh well there's one called skaara that's yeah hun yet yeah I had a preview up on that yeah it's not like that because this one is good yeah this we like nosgoth let's get that yeah we both we both like nosgoth the pacing feels good the combat feels pretty fluid you plays two races humans vampires and they have pretty distinct differences in their mechanics the vampires are are much quicker than the humans yeah vampires are quicker and they can scale the terrain humans can't scale they can just run kind of jog not very much to that they shoot though and am temple they can tumble yeah they can also get pounced on by vampires yeah well you know they can tumble so you just tumble aside that was the problem i had actually was a you as a human you just tumble out of the side of everything and then shoot them and they kind of died vampires unless you really get on top of them tackle them do whatever you're just not going to kill them fast enough unless they're very bad it's kind of cool though because the vampires can scale buildings and jump over things that the a1's can yeah that's an element of verticality the movement and the terrain feels great I like that part a lot you can scale things easily but not too easily you you could move through things well but the the vampires that really felt different it set them apart the fact that they could scale in the humans couldn't and it feels well integrated and when I was talking to one of the developers he was there actually the lead designer he was saying that at a higher level of play right now the humans are actually dominating the vampires yeah because of the aiming element because humans have a lot of ranged weapons yeah and that makes complete sense there were several fights that I felt like I should easily have lost but I just didn't because I could shoot them and then tumble and even though they were faster they couldn't really deal with the tumbling if they can stop that somehow maybe but right now the tumbling is just it's overpowered and it is a free-to-play game they're monetizing it by selling the usual skins and cosmetic upgrades yep there's also convenience upgrades and I think they call them side grades their official word is side grades they don't want us to call them upgrades okay because it sounds like you're buying it sounds like pay to win if you say operated yeah you wouldn't want that but it's an upgrade in the form of convenience normally so you start with two classes on each on each race humans and vampires and then you unlock more every five levels and then yeah i should say that's the part i didn't get to experience i only played one class for me Trace that I played and won very fast vampire just moves in he can leap across the map do a tackle if you actually hit with that it's fantastic but usually I just use that to engage attacked the human i played was significantly better grenade launcher and a flamethrower and rolling and that was it that's all I needed and the levels don't actually impact your power in the game they're only for unlocking classes so the game everyone kind of has the same power level and then becomes more of a skill-based the obstacle so so that is nosgoth check the link in the description below for more coverage on that from the two of us and we will see you all next time thank you