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Linus tech tips coverage of pax 2013 is brought to you by western digital Intel and steelseries hey guys we're here at the Indy mega booth checking out loadout and as far as I can tell this game is about insane amounts of customization and just mad amounts of insanity is there anything else you can add about this game oh yeah well I mean that's that's the basic thing yeah it's completely mad so uh the big thing about it other than that is that a lot of player empowerment in terms of like being able to invent your own weapons so we've got a modular weapon crafting system there's billions of combinations you put pieces together and you invent whatever weapon you can invent with the pieces you got and there's some crazy combinations out there really up to the player play style and what you want to do with your weapon and when he says billions of combinations he isn't exaggerating there are actually billions of combinations so if you're the type of person that wants to tinker with things and make your own thing that's unique to you you can actually do that with this game you were describing something to me yesterday which was a sniper rifle that shot rockets that blew up and heal people that's right yeah that's got Kerry Wayne that when the key thing there is you also put the proximity detonator on it so that you can fire sniper grenades across the level they stick and then when people need healing they can run by them and the proximity timer goes off and it heals them in like a cluster of flak now all of those pieces are that's a like I just described like eight different modules that make one gun you could change any of those like you could change it to fire and now instead of being healing it's an unfriendly surprise to the enemy yeah it's that sort of thing there's no classes and load out so you really define your class by the weapons and your play style which is very cool because a lot of people like I just said earlier a lot of people that like the customization part being able to make something is unique to them you can that can be brought to the most ridiculous degree in this game everything about this game like I said earlier insanity the amount of everything in this game is insanity what's your favorite part about this game is it the customisation ok so the favorite my favorite part of the game is the fact it because of the customization you can play any role you want so I am not good at the enclosed fighting like I die a lot of the time so I play more of a support role and I do two things with that one is I've got a healing gun that lets me stay at medium range and heal people so I can stay out of the battle but still heal and the second thing I do is I like me in a sneaky Eric and so I've got a remote control rocket that I can fire all the way across the level and blow people up so between those two I'm like this interesting long-range medium-range support guy and I don't ever have to get into close quarters battles right now I'm going to lose that's interesting because a lot of people will complain in games in like similar to this style that say someone will go sniper and they find they're not very helpful to the team even though they might be whatever it goes back and forth but that sniper could shoot healing bullets we just at that point in time he's now helpful it's exactly yeah you in back you could even have two weapons one's your sniper headshot killing and the other is your sniper healing and now you're this weird sort of like combo sniper if that's the role you want to play that your class that you've made do it you know that could very be very effective something that you described to me yesterday again was the guy that made the he would shoot out grenade mines things that would follow him around and then automatically go on a laser target and that's and that's part of the hell of balancing this game we've had a great community we can gather a lot of data on what they're doing what's effective so we can balance basically with their help one guy made he made a laser-guided missile bouncing missile so he put down see on the missiles and then he would shoot out a whole bunch of mall at once and then he had like all these bouncing minions that would follow him around the level and then because he was on laser-guided whenever he wanted somebody to die he would just point a laser at them and all the missiles would suddenly leave him and jump on that guy and blow him up which is pretty awesome strategy we had to nerf it a little bit but it's still a viable thing to do that's very cool and it's nice to see that you guys are actively responding to different things that people are going to create because you think balancing more simple games is hard imagine having billions of combinations and trying to balance that so I definitely understand it's still in beta correct we are currently in early access so it's a closed beta early access on Steam we're going to be going open beta pretty soon here and of course it packs we've been signing up a bunch of people bring him right into the closed beta so we can grow the community that sounds good so if you guys want to pick up load out check it out on Steam try and get your early access if you liked our coverage of load out if you liked our coverage of the indie mega booth if you liked our coverage of packs be sure to subscribe to Linus tech tips