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hey everyone this is steve from gamers nexus donna and today we are playing shootmania storm which is a sweet new twitch shooter game in the style of quake and unreal and this one's a bit different from those it is it's very fast just like them except you only have one weapon and we're going to talk about that in a moment it does what what happens here is because you only have one weapon there's no you know counter-strike style by system there's no I don't know there's no unreal pickup system you need to be very good with that weapon and you also need to be very fast and very good at dodging because you only have a couple hits and then you're out for the round so because this game only gives you one weapon and because you only have four charges of that basically plasma cannon before it cools down it takes a bit of strategy and a lot of aim to figure out where and when you need to place your bullets to take out your current or multiple enemies and what eventually happens is the player who is the most dexterous and most able to think on their feet and dodge the incoming rounds is the one who will probably win so we are currently spectating because I joined in the middle of around this is actually this is the first round of the map so that's convenient all these players right now are getting squished toward the middle of the map by this storm you see on the outline edges of it so the way this happens at the beginning of the round some player captured this pole in the middle that we're looking at right now it's effectively capture the flag type thing except in a free-for-all format once someone has captured that pole they initiate the storm which is on the outline edges of this arena the storm slowly compresses players toward the center of the map eventually eliminating those who are caught in it and obviously forcing them to fight so it keeps rounds very short and very and just really you know off the flying off the cuff so you do get a ton of points for capturing the pole however everyone kind of Wow take that guy out pretty fast everyone kind of convergys toward the center and goes for it because of the amount of points you get so I'm going to stay on the outskirt of the map until the storm has been initiated that sort of gives me a chance to get more points through other means like killing players or out surviving them and the game actually is it's very challenging in in these free for all matches this this is called royal this game mode there are a couple other game modes and then there are a good deal of unofficial game modes that players have made so basically you only have two shields you have two hits and you're out and this is actually a healing pad right there I need to get moving because that storm is closing them two hits you're out and if you happen to die before the pole is captured which is to say very early in the match then you end up getting to respawn except you only respond with one shield let me focus on killing sky for a second so this is incredibly hard okay so I won that round I gained thirty eight points i'm pointing out the screen as if you can see it again 38 points i hit 16 people or got plus 16 rather for hitting people and I out survived the other 11 players which then doubles to survival score of 22 because I was the last man standing so that gets you quite a deal more points we're going to ignore some of the complexities of the scoring system it's really not that hard to understand but we need to focus on gameplay before going into the the numbers of the game so gameplay pretty straightforward you want to hit players there's some strategy in rushing the pole because you get a lot of points for triggering that and you also force a conflict between yourself and all the other players who have rushed who are probably fairly good players but there's also a strategy to stain toward the outer edges like I did last nap you saw how well that worked not always the best because you may get eliminated and then you didn't get points for the pole you didn't get points for surviving you just get screwed all around however there's also a strategy just to how you shoot how you fight so we see in the bottom left user interface is kind of annoying but in the bottom left you can see I have four charges for my plasma cannon will call it currently down to three and what happened to your ouch I'm down to one shield now you can see that in the middle bottom as well what happens is as you shoot that initiates a cool down and yeah this guy's good okay so he won that round as you shoot it initiates a cool down so if I fire four rounds in rapid succession then I'm out of shots for a good you know a couple seconds which is actually a very bad thing so as getting back to the original point here of this of this monologue their strategy to conserving your shots and letting the enemy shoot their four rounds and then trying to fire back at them during their recharge so I hit him once he's got one more shield again you only get two shields so that makes it very easy to die also makes for some interesting dynamics when you and the other player both have an equal exchange and hit each other once because suddenly both players are forced with the decision you know do I play aggressively or defensively right now I'm getting tag teams here by two players but luckily there's a healing pad right here so if i do get hit as long as the storm is not too close i can try to recover some of that damage you can see he is doing that right now that's the guy i hit earlier anyway what's happening here is the player who hits 200 points first will win you get points in three major ways by out surviving players oh that was close by out surviving players by hitting players and by capturing the pole and then your points are doubled or something like something crazy that you get a good deal more points for winning the entire match that's hits that's points I got for hitting players that survived I survived you know X many more people and then pull in the middle everyone gets a point for the round as well I believe G is that guy does not like me am I going on about here kind of folk star not dying right now I'm gonna run for the healing pad while I have a second to break free and cuz losing a shield so early is a massive detriment if you end up caught in the final two battle in the middle and you only have one shield and he has to your I mean yeah you better be a damn good shot and speaking of being a damn good shot being a twit shooter oh gosh again be nuts Hood shooter the game realize pretty heavily upon mouse control and upon your ability to move on the keyboard you know high DPI is kind of cool but I actually play with low DPI in effort to better control my mouse when I'm aiming and I have found that that actually works better that's a whole different discussion let's see if this guy that guy got eliminated by the storm I think no he did not anyway comes down the game comes down to your ability to aim and once you have two players in the center like this it's really just like a back and forth kind of juking match whoever can shoot the other guy first and trick them into running a bullet or just really spray and praying but that is not so viable in this game because of the four bullet cool down you think about what else i can tell you about this game so told you about the bullets told you about the shield system the pole system there's also an elite game mode this is royal but i will show you the elite mode in the future perhaps even in this video depending on how time works out but how elite is basically a 3 vs 3 juggernaut match so think of it like your typical juggernaut game like from Halo except there are three players per team and then there's a rotation one player each round from one of the teams will be the juggernaut versus three players from the other team so you have red vs. blue say red starts the rotation one of their players will start as the juggernaut they have quicker movements they get a laser which is a different weapon I'll tell you about in a second and they get more hit points the other three players are the from the competing team they have the plasma cannons that everyone is using in this match elite is kind of the going competitive mode right now Ubisoft is pushing that one heavily for tournaments i believe they run weekly and monthly tournaments normally with prizes up to a couple hundred dollars in the case of the alienware tournament up to a couple thousand dollars and so that's the gist of elite Royal is this mode and then we also have some player-created modes called obstacle which is very cold at an entirely different video obstacle is basically your ability to move quickly through a course that is not competitive in a combat sense but competitive in a speed sensor sort of like platforming really what's our other mode battle is another player made mode battle is a basically a team domination style set up but it is i don't think it's official and then finally we have joust which is an official mode and joust is basically a 1v1 rotation knockout format so you go head-to-head with another player and then whoever wins that match stays in fights the next player you get knocked out until your turn which is normally within a couple minutes max so that's joust now I said I would tell you about the other weapons so right now we're using the plasma cannon I don't really know the proper name for any of the weapons I will warn you but we know this is a plasma cannon and oh yes there's also a grenade launcher equivalent I need to get away from the storm goodnight launcher equivalent and a sniper rifle which is basically a railgun three players okay so ones over there once in the other corner got him yeah yeah I know I stopped talking again but it's for a good reason as you can see because this is totally playing for money right now that's how good we are I'm conserving my shots i'm going to try and do a burst fire yep it was worth it so there's that strategy in saving up your ammo as i told you just kind of shooting one every few seconds is good to keep them suppressed I hid behind the pole let him fire off his shots and save them I for and then rapid fired at him I'm actually in contention for first place I'm in second right now goes to 200 points anyway multiple of weapons so plasma cannon you have a railgun which is a railgun is basically a one-hit kill sniper rifle that's a hit scam meaning there's no like there's no traditional leading the shot it's it you shoot wherever your cursor is it hits it no delay so that's the other weapon it's one shot before the cooldown on like this plasma cannon which is four shots and then there's a grenade launcher equivalent that I think is two shots before they cool down and has a massive AOE damage effect so that is a pretty sweet weapon the way you get those is by going to different pads or buildings in the game so you see here we have these healing pads you can step on something very similar to activate the sniper rifle on certain maps and that gives you a pretty good advantage if you have a vantage point a big disadvantage if you're bad shot because you only get one shot and then it cools down and they'll probably kill you before you can respond the grenade launcher is activated by going into a bunker and also some strategy to that because you can get trapped in those pretty easily storm will take you out where other players but the advantage of having an AoE weapon so right now I'm in second it's between me and him basically these other guys we won't even talk about them let's go into 200 points and first there will win so I'm gonna stick to my strategy right now on this map of about surviving and of hitting players I'm going to kind of avoid the pole I captured it once earlier but that was risky and it's really it's not trivial to get a pole with so many good players so I'm going to hang out get free points basically for surviving and then rely on hitting four more points not quite as free see if this guy comes out of there she that was close all right so i need to go heal before the storm gets closer and cuts off the healing pad and this will give me a pretty this will at least equalize the playing field if it comes down to me and another person in the middle because as i said earlier you want to have as much help as possible i can hear a guy there he is and that healing pads gone but it was well worth it because i didn't die there in the least i got an extra few points from him it's down to three players you can see in the bottom right the total current player count who ran right into that and now it's down to two players the guy in first and someone else of course i am rooting for someone else because i'm in direct competition with the guy at first but i'm guessing he will win he's a pretty good player yep he wins so he had 185 points i will be at whatever that plus that is and he's probably gonna win at the end of this round at which point we will end the video and jump to a new video on elite or obstacle mode which i really encourage you to check out because those are some sweet game modes it's really being that the game is so focused on cash this guy's aggressive so focused on player made content it is a mania planet game if you're not familiar with those they made the trackmania nations and trackmania canyon games there's a full map editor there's a skin sdk of some kind so you can skin your character i have a custom skin you'll see at the end of this and you can even create your own game modes which is what obstacle and battle are so hugely player-driven which i may not need to tell you this but is awesome because as the game ages you know every game is going to eventually age and lose support from its developer or publisher officially this game you have the tools to take it into your own hands which is exactly what happened with trackmania nations and really the developers as important as they are they don't play a huge role once it's out because the players are able to create often better for better or more interesting maps and game modes see if I can win this one I'm gonna let them kill each other if possible there are two other guys yeah guy in first over there he remembers I saved my shots last time he's doing that to me now it's pretty bad to jump because it's very predictable but you can jump in speed boost which I have somehow neglected to mention that's what that bar bar in the bottom right is he's gonna hit me I'm talking it's a speed boost it's what makes you go so fast in this game just like skiing and tribes you have a limited speed boost say good game good round and good fight limited speed boost once you've used it it's got a cool down just like the gun so that's the other part of the skill so to wrap the game up just this game mode at least it's basically three parts one part agility your ability to dodge one part aim and uh where's me where is me great grammar right there i am so there's my custom skin on the far left you can see that i was talking about one part agility one part aiming and then finally one part speed your ability to maintain that momentum and keep flowing with the map and that is probably one of the harder things to learn but it is so rewarding once you learn how to stay moving at a really high speed because i mean just like tribes it's you know it's fun and you're hard to hit you get to the pole faster all kinds of awesome stuff like that so that is shootmania storm this is the next map there are quite a few maps they're all very good except for maybe one check out the other videos on the channel for the full proper review that really explains everything in more constructed format rather than me just shout casting as I play and get killed and check out my videos on obstacle and elite modes which will be coming very quickly after this one so review will be published on the psycho to gamers excess 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