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episode 36 we have a rat in the house
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we kick off our creator spotlight series of interviews with a long look at the patron saint of 3 stars, rat_329. find him on the hunt banish extract podcast or at his youtube
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Introduction and Series Overview
00:00:14
Speaker
All right, ladies and gentlemen, welcome back to another fun episode of waiting for other players. A hunt showdown podcast is John cat coming at you live from the cat house. Uh, we're light one ombre this week. Uh, this is episode one of our interview series that I was talking about during the state of the nation with one of our first
Interview with 'Eternal Three Star'
00:00:34
Speaker
Cry about that, you dirty old bitch.
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Speaker
fans. Uh, if not the first one, you were, you were pretty close down the pipe. Uh, we're starting our interview series with the, uh,
00:00:43
Speaker
Would you say eternal three star? Is that, is that, is that what you go by on the patron saint of three stars? Yeah. Uh, rat three to nine patron saint. It's nice to be here. Yeah. Yeah. We've, we've been, we've been kicking around this ball for a while, trying to get together and I'm glad to finally have you here. Oh man. It's, and I'm, I'm happy to be here. I just liked, uh, joking around with you guys on Instagram. So.
00:01:11
Speaker
That's mostly me, but yeah. That's where all the magic happens. Oh, yeah. I mean, I just decided one day I was going to message you guys. I was going to call the hotline for the first couple of episodes just to see, like, what the hell? I don't know. Here, we'll burn our... I'm going to stick with the segment things because it's what I have the soundboard set up for, and I love them too much, but we'll hit this one. I'm your huckleberry. Just my game.
00:01:42
Speaker
Yeah, as far as the hotline goes I Stole that bit from there's a podcast. I listen to called tadpog Tyler and Dave play old games It's two guys. Well three guys at this point. They have their producer on with them But it's three guys and they just play retro games, but for a long time they had a Google voice voicemail thing but the whole bit was only two people ever called into it and
00:02:11
Speaker
say would just have backlogs of voicemails from just two different people. And I was like, this could be fun. People could call in with the gameplay or whatever.
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Speaker
but I think we went like six or seven months and nobody called and eventually Google just shut it down. Oh shit. I was going to say with this information, I'm going to call to give you guys hell weekly. Uh, I'll, I'll keep you posted. I might bring it back. I don't know. But yeah, eventually Google was just like, you do know this is not being used, right? I was like, yeah, okay. Fair enough.
Gaming Discussions: Helldivers and Baldur's Gate
00:02:46
Speaker
But, um,
00:02:48
Speaker
Yeah, I mean, this is usually the segment where Harrison tells me that he's been playing some weird, obscure German import of Pokemon or Power World or whatever. Is there anything that you want to go over? You've been into anything weird this week? I've been playing so much Helldivers and just barely bought Horizon Zero Dawn, so I'm playing that for the first time. Nice. Nice.
00:03:16
Speaker
Yeah, I don't have a lot to add. The limited amount of time I have, we've been trying to chip our way through this event, but playing a little bit of Helldivers ourselves. Harrison had a small problem with Baldur's Gate, so he's taking a little break.
00:03:33
Speaker
small problem like an addition to it or? I think it was the company he was keeping. It was a group of four and it kind of imploded and there's a bunch of fighting between them and it turned into
00:03:48
Speaker
I told Harrison, you know, I'll play, we could play a trio like we do for hunt. You know, we'll play hunt for a little bit. Then we'll go play balls or skate. He was like, I'm not going to lie to you. This shit aggravated me so much. I'm going to need a minute. So no joke. I, uh, I just played it solo, like figured I'd try that out. And I didn't look through like the description of the backgrounds before I picked.
00:04:16
Speaker
I kind of was like, oh, dark urge. That sounds cool. Yeah. So I did that. And needless to say, I'm in act three now and only four companions have survived. It's it's a tough it's a tough game because either they all start dying off or they all start getting frustrated with who you're dating. Yeah, yeah, we're in my case.
00:04:45
Speaker
I did one thing at the beginning of the game that made like nine different people immediately aggro and then act two didn't help any because I did something there that also made people aggro on me and lost me another like three companions that I had to kill. It's like it's like the worst case scenario for like it's almost like there's telltale games where you would fuck up so bad
00:05:12
Speaker
Everybody hated that. Yeah, yeah the little pop-ups were like so-and-so will remember this and you're always just like well that's gonna bite me square in the ass. Oh, yeah, it's like I did the one thing and it's like 90% of the people in this world hate you now. Mmm be prepared for that. Yeah Harrison Harrison's a bit bristly so I think it was just it was a mutual thing of
00:05:39
Speaker
Everybody in the crew was rubbing each other a little bit and then it kind of blew up So I didn't want to push the issue but I mean if you rub each other enough eventually something's gonna blow up So yeah, that's that's if you didn't make the joke. I had it. I had it in the chamber, but you're gonna get sticky Yeah, yeah, something's blowing up somewhere Generally all over somebody's face
00:06:03
Speaker
Yeah. Faith, face, neck and chest. I don't know. I'm rapes ceiling. Yeah. Yeah. Real, real Randy. Uh, not rainy Moss Marsh, rainy Marsh situation. He's locked in the, when they turn the internet off on South park, uh, we'll launch right into the segment two before we start diving too much into the cum jokes. I have no idea.
Gameplay Highlights and Strategies
00:06:31
Speaker
Um,
00:06:33
Speaker
Outside of Helldivers, is there any gameplay? This is your chance to throw some of your gameplay out. Do you have anything you want to go over? There's only two that I can think of. I think I sent you the clips specifically. Yeah, we shared it. One of them, I yelled stealth through the VoIP as I threw a frag grenade and actually got a kill with it. And then the other one, you said you shared it.
00:07:02
Speaker
I got a headshot from further than I thought I would with the marathon. Absolutely just swiss cheesed a little shack with dually lamats and then
00:07:17
Speaker
Like I'm actually pretty proud of the second kill. I just kind of swapped the lamats to shotgun and then ran to a door and punched it as I was running past. So they'd think I was coming out or going in and they shot the door to come out. And as they were rushing me, I turned around and hit them with the shotgun.
00:07:36
Speaker
I felt disgusting afterward, but it felt so good at the same time. It's the Harrison is a weird unique power of the distraction or like the bait and switch where he'll, uh, you know, he'll shoot out a window and then somebody will be, somebody will turn around to see if he jumped out or not. And he'll catch them in the face with a, you know, with a Pax or something. Harrison has a weird, a weird talent for being slippery like that.
00:08:02
Speaker
And I wish you guys were on PC so I could play with you guys. That would be so much fun. Oh yeah. Well, I think Harrison has it on PC. I was talking to, um, I think Malcolm Anderson, one of the legendary hunters was hitting me up on Instagram and he said that he wanted a PC, a PC view since we usually talk about the way we see stuff on console.
00:08:25
Speaker
And, uh, from what I've heard, Harrison has bought the game on PC. I don't know how much he's fucked with it on PC, but I mean, we're, we're on our way. Harrison should be. Harrison should be screwing around a little bit. Well, now I've got a friend. Yeah. Screw with him in the bayou. Yeah. I mean, I'm, I'm running this show on a potato. So I don't think for as long as I have this, as long as I have this laptop, I don't think I'm.
00:08:50
Speaker
I don't think I'm picking it up on PC. I don't know, man. It runs pretty well on the Steam Deck, like surprisingly well. Is that truth or is that April Fools? Because I've considered getting a Steam Deck just for... No joke. My buddy Drake from Hunt Lowdown, I'm not sure if you've listened to that any, but he's one of the two hosts on that show. Okay. And he, when he moved, he didn't have
00:09:18
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his pc set up or it was it was being shipped or something but he was posting videos onto his discord of him playing it on the steam deck and he just connected a a wireless keyboard and mouse to it and it was running really smooth yeah i i've been kicking around the idea of either steam deck or a steam link like just link it to my television but uh you know it's
00:09:46
Speaker
I think Steam Link, you have to have a PC running it.
Gaming Setups and Preferences
00:09:50
Speaker
That's the other problem. That's the other problem. That happened to send you a picture of my setup. Oh, no, this is I bought this laptop, but not a lot. I mean, it's not super old. It's old enough, but I never really had a reason for like a PC setup outside of
00:10:15
Speaker
like I gotta look for a job, let me fire up the old laptop or something, and Steam never really struck home with me. I have some Steam titles, but I was never a big Steam guy. I wasn't either, honestly, I didn't get a PC until, I wanna say it was 2020 or 2019, like end of 2019, beginning of 2020, and I was on PlayStation 4 before that. Yes.
00:10:45
Speaker
I was like hardcore into the consoles, but I saw the light and yeah, it's great. I've never been happier with any gaming platform before. It's what I keep hearing. And now you keep running into all these
00:11:06
Speaker
Like, uh, like I got a buddy I work with that's big. He was big into console gaming. Now he's big into PC gaming, but like there's games I keep finding that are PC exclusives that aren't on steam. Like you have to do all these other launchers to get them. Like, uh, we did a whole episode about that game, which fire, which is still playing that so bad.
00:11:29
Speaker
I'd go nuts on that game if they had it on PS5 right now, even in beta, but it's like, it's its own launcher. It's its own, you have to go to its own site to get the damn thing. Is it really? I could have sworn it was on Epic. Uh, I, cause I think that was one of the things I looked into getting the Steam Deck for was like, can I play Witchfire like off the Steam Deck? And they said you can, but you have to download a bunch of other shics. It's a separate launcher. Hmm.
00:11:56
Speaker
That's weird. Oh, well, yeah, it's on the Epic Game Store. So if you have the Steam Deck, you can't play Epic Games on Steam Deck. So if you're wanting to play EGS, may as well just pick up an ROG Ally or something like that. Okay. Here's a quick gameplay thing. How did that goofy-ass paddle you got work out with the track pad? Honestly, I...
00:12:26
Speaker
It works really well. I tested it on my nephew's PlayStation 4 because I don't have one. Okay. And it wouldn't work. I don't know why it wasn't working. It's advertised as working on it. I've got to look more into that. Okay. But it's actually, I did a whole stream playing the finals with it and first like three quarters of it, I didn't really, like I couldn't,
00:12:55
Speaker
get a kill for the life of me with that controller, but then I figured out how to actually make all the gyro work and everything and it's a game changer. Again, same guy I work with. I showed him the
00:13:13
Speaker
the controller was talking about and he, uh, I think he got caught up trying to use it for ready or not the cop game that's all over steam. Yeah. And, uh, he said that it was so frustrating because it keeps wanting to auto map stuff to different parts of the controller. Yeah. Yeah. That was, that was one thing I was running into, but I figured out that if you look at the controller and like figure out all the buttons on it,
00:13:40
Speaker
and then map it just with your keyboard and mouse to those buttons in game. It just registers as another keyboard. Okay. So yeah, it'll hold those. How's the track pad feel? It's not bad, but it's definitely for like the fine adjustments to aiming because the main part of aiming is definitely the gyro for that controller.
00:14:08
Speaker
Okay. So it's like having a switch in your hand. Yeah, it's, it's, it's odd. It's like, it's like they combined the PS4's gyro with, with that track pad. And so like, if you want to get a headshot, you get like to the general area with the gyro and then kind of fine tune it with your thumb. Uh-huh. Uh, last question before we launch into our interview segment. Uh,
00:14:39
Speaker
Have you ever recovered from within the concertina bomb and frag bombs? Cause I did watch that stream and I, I watched it while I was at home working out and I had to jump off the treadmill because you definitely killed yourself with, was it a sticky or a frag?
00:14:59
Speaker
You were cooking it to throw at the assassin and it was literally like two and a half minutes into your stream. I remember the one you're talking about now. Shit. Yeah, I don't think I've ever recovered from that. So the match started, we ran in and I was like, oh, assassin's here. Sticky doesn't work and I don't have a shotgun to make it work. Yeah.
00:15:25
Speaker
I'm going to cook this big dynamite bundle. It was something stupid. I'm walking by the treadmill and I could hear the, I could hear the fuse burning. I'm like, I hope he throws this soon and you throw it into the door frame or something. And your partner, you said, uh, can you come pick me up? And all your partner said was just like, how?
00:15:47
Speaker
Like, how are you dead right now? Poor element. He has to put up with so much stupid shit that I do. But yeah, I figured I'd cook this big dynamite bundle, just run in, and once he pops up, I'll throw it. Because he normally pops up within like the first three seconds I run in.
00:16:07
Speaker
Yeah. Assassin decided, fuck you, Rhett. The second I ran in there and he waits until like 10 seconds to even start coming toward me. But I was cooking it as I ran through the door. I was like, where's Assassin? And I threw it right as like the the throw icon started getting shorter. Yeah. And yeah, that that took me out and all Element could say was how. Yeah.
00:16:33
Speaker
We just started. Yeah, I don't even think he was in on the bit with the because the stream is on your YouTube channel and it's just called horseshoes and hand grenades. Yeah, because you were rocking the the farrier fist and explosives the whole time.
Humor in Gameplay and Streaming
00:16:50
Speaker
But yeah, it was a good time. Yeah, the the mean the mean play is always like.
00:16:57
Speaker
I know it aggravates the shit out of Harrison and our third guy sometimes, but I'll just take the dumbest loadouts and either I'm going to strike gold or you're picking my ass up for the most of the match. Oh, it bugs the shit out of all the people I play with too. Don't worry. I try to have a theme every time I stream just because I'm like, well, I'm going to be here for a few hours. I may as well have something funny that's just going to happen. Oh yeah.
00:17:26
Speaker
That one was just, I'm gonna run only the knuckles and explosives, like I'll take guns, but I'm gonna try to mainly get kills with the explosives. And yeah, that happened. I think I got a team kill by accident, because I threw the grenade near the, like we were about to extract, and I was like, oh, well, I've still got a dynamite stick, so I'm gonna throw it straight up.
00:17:56
Speaker
But I'm gonna hold it for a minute so that when the arc goes clear to the top, I'll throw it, it'll explode out of our range. But I threw it just early enough that it arced down a little bit and then exploded just within range to kill me and both of my friends. Oh, it's the early version of stratagem kills from Helldivers at that point.
00:18:18
Speaker
Oh yeah. Yeah. That's the whole thing with Helldivers is halfway through the mission, you start giggling at how much you're killing your friends just because your, you know, your stratagems are doing twice as much damage as you are. Oh God, my friend Atomic, me and him just got into a team kill war the other night on Helldivers.
00:18:39
Speaker
And it all started because I said that the sickle isn't as good as the plasma shotgun. And it just evolved from that point. Like he was he had an energy shield generator backpack and I threw a stratagem to stick to the top of the shield. It was it was ridiculous. Those are the best games, though.
00:19:02
Speaker
But speaking of atomic, I've got another clip somewhere I'll have to send you. It's just as bad as me whiffing that big dynamite bundle. I'm crouched at, I wanna say first testimonial. It might be healing waters. It's the church with the big cemetery area out front and the tower. I wanna say it's healing waters. But I'm crouched there.
00:19:28
Speaker
And, uh, I'm sitting next to one of the, one of the gates that take forever to lift. And they're like, Hey man, we're both dead. I think they've got a shotgun. I was like, it's okay. I got a bomb Lance. We're good. And then I hear them running on the other side of the fence and I pull out a concertina bomb and I get it ready. I throw it, but it goes straight up in the air.
00:19:55
Speaker
comes right back down lands on top of me and my friend atomic still gives me shit this day about that and it was like two years ago. Yeah, that's what you say the minute that the frag dynamite bundle goes off and that the horseshoes and hand grenades stream. I'm still getting shit about the
00:20:16
Speaker
the concertina trap that I whiffed on. Oh, yeah, it's atomic. I'm I'm glad atomic wasn't watching that day, because otherwise it would still be coming back. Like he'd be sending it to me randomly. He'd be telling anybody who is saying they're going to jump into a game with me. Hey, be careful if he pulls out a concertina bomb. Oh, he'd clip it and make it into the same way that I have Harrison's bullshit as a. Come on, you you don't want to play now.
00:20:47
Speaker
That's music we made when we were doing backyard wrestling in the early 2000s and his gimmick was he was the VIP and it's basically Harrison dialed up to 10.
00:20:59
Speaker
But we had him rap a whole song for his entrance music and he didn't think I still had access to it. So my buddy that made the music, he put it on Apple, Apple, iTunes, whatever years ago, and I stumbled onto it, paid my dollar 99. And now that's just every, every time I talk to Harrison about anything, I'm just seeing fucking awesome. Just, I just keep dropping sound clips on him. He's like, I don't know where you found that shit.
00:21:28
Speaker
I do. That's where I found that shit. I think I put the clip up on TikTok. I'm not sure. Dude shoots at us. It's me and Element and Drake playing and Drake was at AFK for a minute. We were like, we're going to go get this first clue. You know, he'll show up later. And I ran into the compound.
00:21:50
Speaker
And right as we get in there, another team starts running at us and shooting at us. And I get shot at twice. I squeal like a bitch, which has like, I've been called an audio flash bomb by dark a few times now. Uh, and I immediately yelled Drake help, but it, it basically sounded like it sounded like help. Yeah. Cause I, I was freaked out a little bit, but
00:22:18
Speaker
You can watch any of my clips on Instagram. I sound like that constantly. They clipped just me yelling Drake help and made it a soundboard in his server, which is basically the hunt lowdown server at this point. That's a friends for right there. Oh, it's it's great. It's so good. All right. Let's let's reel this bad boy back in. We're going to hit the soundboard that Harrison loves.
00:22:54
Speaker
Okay. Um, we're going to get
Streaming Journey and Game Comparisons
00:22:59
Speaker
down to business here. I have a series of questions about you and your history with hunt as a streamer. And, uh, this should probably round out what we got going on here. All right. Sounds good. Uh, we'll start with a question. Number one, uh, rat three to nine to unique ass name. I'm assuming it was a Tarkov before hunt.
00:23:23
Speaker
No, it was Hunt mainly, but I did one stream with Tarkov and the servers just kept shitting the bed on me and I tried, like I didn't know how to edit. I still don't know how to edit videos very well. So I was like, well, I'll just take that shitty stream and I'll try to make like a compilation and see what I can do with editing. And it's the worst video ever. It's absolutely horrendous. But
00:23:53
Speaker
That was the first video I posted onto YouTube, which is where I now stream exclusively. I only stream there because Twitch doesn't have as high of bit rates.
00:24:05
Speaker
But yeah, that was literally just like an inside joke between me and one friend because we were talking about how bad the servers were. Okay. And I was like, I'm gonna make just a compilation of the server shit in the bed on me. Turns out, best part about that whole video, it wasn't even the servers, it was my shitty internet at the time.
00:24:27
Speaker
that kept dropping the connection. Yeah, never take responsibility. It's always the servers. Yeah, always the servers. Yeah, just shitty servers. Um.
00:24:38
Speaker
Have you gone back to Tarkov since? I know a lot of people come and go with the different wipes. Have you given it another chance? I've played it here and there, but not a whole lot. I thought that it was going to be more like Hunt where there was like a defined objective to it rather than just collect as much shit as you can and get out. Exactly. And I don't do as well in such a free flow thing. I've got horrible ADHD. Like I'm not sure if you can tell when I talk, I just kind of go.
00:25:06
Speaker
Nah, me too. Me too. And if you give me just kind of a general objective that's like, hey, go out there, find whatever you can and get the fuck out, I'm gonna get distracted by something, the time's gonna run out, and I'm just gonna have a bad time.
00:25:23
Speaker
That's why, uh, whenever the, the occasion that we do play hell divers Harrison's always leveled so much further above us because for one, I don't get a lot of time to play, but he'll play by himself. And if I play by myself, I'll just get lost in the sauce. And the next thing I know the map is ending and I'm out there closing bug holes. Like, what do you mean? I got two minutes left. I haven't done the objective yet. I'm just going towards red blobs. Here's the
00:25:53
Speaker
Because I play alone sometimes and I get just as distracted. What you do is you leave your lobby open. And so when you're about to dive, there's going to be about three to four random people that just join out of nowhere.
00:26:07
Speaker
they'll keep you on track because you're going to be like, oh shit, the timer's about to be done. Yeah. Oh, all the side objectives are done and they're all waiting at extraction. Okay. I'm going to go over there. Yeah. Yeah. Hopefully we share my samples I've been collecting while I'm off just doing whatever. I've found every sample this map has to offer, but all the side objectives are done because they're the real MVP and I have shiny syndrome. Um,
00:26:35
Speaker
Next question, what is it about Hunt that keeps you coming back to the game? The lore, the gameplay, the competitive edge? What is it about Hunt that keeps you coming back? No joke, it's just because it's unique.
00:26:52
Speaker
There's not a whole lot of games that are not only first person shooters, but also have like time period accurate, accurate guns and aren't based in a time where everybody has automatic rifles and punked within two an inch of their life. Yeah. And so I, I saw it and I was like, Oh, Hey, there's guns that are like single shot or, you know, single action revolvers. Like this seems kind of neat.
00:27:18
Speaker
And when I picked it up, my friend sent me a video about it, and I was like, that looks interesting, but I hate battle royales with a passion, and the video he sent me...
00:27:30
Speaker
described it as a battle royale, but it was like a bunch of old dudes from Crytek sat down and they were like, hey, battle royales are cool right now. Yeah. Let's make our own and make it as wildly different as possible. So I did a little bit of research on it. I was like, oh, this seems like something I could actually get into. It's not just King of the Hill. Like if I get to that boat and there's five people still on the map, I can still get out. Yeah. So so I picked that up.
00:27:59
Speaker
and kind of just fell in love with the way that they've built the world up. I love creepy shit and voodoo shit, so it had that down. I love Southern Gothic stuff, which I will die on the hill that this game is Southern Gothic, not cowboys.
00:28:20
Speaker
No, no, no. Well, it is
Cultural Context and Podcast Preferences
00:28:23
Speaker
Southern. It's Louisiana. Well, it's the, so the- The bayou, like I would say Cal, if it was set in Tombstone, Arizona, I'd be like, no, this is all cowboy shit. But I think when you get down into the bayou, I don't think you can get more South than the bayou. Well, I mean, it's like,
00:28:42
Speaker
It's one of those things where Weird West and Southern Gothic are the two genres it would fall under because of the supernatural stuff. But Weird West generally means that there's also alien shit. And this doesn't really have any of that. It's pretty much all just supernatural. So where it's got the voodoo stuff and it's not all just like gunslinging cowboys. They've got the dudes with the masks. They've got all the lunatics and stuff.
00:29:09
Speaker
It really solidly falls under Southern Gothic, whereas with Westerns, they generally are Wild West, which ended, like the Wild West time period ended in 1895 and the game takes place in 1897. Yeah. So it's just outside of the Wild West taking place in the Industrial Revolution. So it falls solidly under Southern Gothic. And it's an argument I've had with everybody.
00:29:38
Speaker
Yeah, well Southern I'd say Southern Gothic or I've I've described it to several people as Cthulhu without the tentacles or like HP love crap without the tentacles Like it's got that but it's got like that underpinning of It's unexplained. Well, I mean in the lore they try and explain stuff as best they can but like if you're just playing the game face value you're like I
00:30:05
Speaker
It's unexplained where the rifts are coming from and all this stuff, where these monstrosities are coming from, and you're not some paladin or anything. You're not blessed from an outside source. You're just a dude trying to sort it out for himself. Yeah, you're just some fuck nut that's like, hey, I want some money, and there's a gun there, and they said there's a monster out there that they'll pay for.
00:30:31
Speaker
You know, apparently the American hunters association is going to give me some kind of cash if I get this and get out, you know, before they fell apart. Yeah. Um, yeah. Uh, got one or two more before we, well, here we'll do my, I have rapid fire here for the end. Cause we usually like to cap it around 30 minutes. Most people don't like the short episodes, but the shorter time length, but, uh, I kind of like keeping it.
00:31:02
Speaker
around 30 to 40 minutes, keeps it bite size. Yeah, I think the explanation you gave one of the episodes is that you just wanted it to be about the same length as a quick play game. Yeah, like a general round of the game, but also, I've listened...
00:31:22
Speaker
Hunt Banish Extract, which you guys should listen to. It's a very good show. Uh, you guys tend to go a little bit longer, but you guys have a lot more people talking. You have a lot more to stay. Like the conversation flows a lot better, but for like two guys and the bits, like you guys have a lot of, a lot of irons in the fire. But like, as far as like me and Harrison, I was like, there's nothing worse than two guys that just babble for an hour in circles.
00:31:53
Speaker
So I was like, if we keep it short, we can keep it tight, we can keep it on the track. And if we need to go longer, we can, but we shouldn't like make it a requirement. And that was just pretty much like where we left it at where we're like, no, we're not going to say any more than we have to.
00:32:09
Speaker
Yeah, with me, they were like, hey, you wanna be a guest? And I was like, all right. And then it just went off the rails so quickly. And they were like, hey, you wanna just not stop coming back? And I was like, cool, yeah. And now it's six guys that just don't stop shutting up, yeah. Nah, you guys have a lot of good, solid opinions. But I've compiled 10 questions that were made by Bernard Pivot.
00:32:39
Speaker
And then James Lipton took them for Inside the Actor's Studio. And I've now repurposed them for Waiting for Other Players podcast. And these are my 10 interview questions that will be asked of all of my guest co-hosts. So starting off, question number one, what is your favorite cuss word in the bayou?
Community Insights and Game Dynamics
00:33:05
Speaker
Favorite cuss word? What's your favorite cuss word you love to say in the bayou?
00:33:09
Speaker
Cunt. What is your least favorite thing to be called in the bayou? A three star. I don't know. I think three stars pretty solid. I've dropped to a two star before. That's a sobering experience. The being like the whole patron saint of three stars things started out as a joke because they were like, you're never going to get out of three star. And so I was like, it's fine. I'll just be their patron saint because I've been there for 700, 800 hours.
00:33:41
Speaker
I mean, if you can keep it at three for that long, I think your MMR is probably like, you know, a speckle away from crossing you over. Oh, I've been in four star for the last couple of weeks, but I can't call myself anything but the patron saying of three stars until I've gone past 700 hours outside of pre-star.
00:34:02
Speaker
Yeah, well, yeah, and that's why even us, we're on the road to six stars. Not for both of us, just because Harrison flip-flops between four and five enough that I think I can push him to six. You got this clutch? Yeah, that's usually what I'm doing while I'm dead watching his stream. What's one thing they truly love about Hunt? This setting, the setting like the lore,
00:34:31
Speaker
It's just unique enough that there's nothing else like it out there right now. What's one thing that bothers you about Hunt Showdown? Probably the constant new guns. I know everybody loves the new guns, but... Or at the very least, all the new ammo that's getting added to every gun. Yeah.
00:34:59
Speaker
It's like when I started, every gun had its own identity. And I can't really say when I started because back when I started, it was pre-scrap beak and like the hand crossbow and the poison hand crossbow were considered two separate variants. Okay. So I remember that and I remember hating it because it was all so cluttered.
00:35:30
Speaker
But now every gun is getting every special ammo, so it feels like the identity of a lot of guns is just kind of being taken away. Yeah. What's your opinion on the Nitro Express? I'm going to get a lot of hate for this, but I love it. It's such a stupid gun that if you're... I want to know the thought process of somebody who's like, there's something I need to kill out there quickly and everything wants me to die.
00:36:00
Speaker
I'm gonna take a double barrel gun that has the biggest ammo I possibly can find. An elephant gun. And I'm only gonna bring six rounds. Just the thought process behind taking that gun into the bayou as like a person who would actually live through all of this shit is hilarious to me and for that reason I love the nitro even though I don't use it.
00:36:25
Speaker
Same. I have quite a few of them laying in my, uh, in my armory, but it's definitely a thing of being like, one day I'm just going to go through a tear of just a whole night of nitro express. I want to go a whole night of nitro express just so I can do a shitload of meme loadouts. Like nitro with, with, uh, two sparks pistols and yeah.
00:36:49
Speaker
or I would take it with like a precision, but I wouldn't take it with a good precision. I would take it with like a shitty Nagant precision. I wouldn't take it with like an uppercut precision or anything. Yeah. I want to take it with like, just, just to drive home the stupidity of it, like take a nitro and either a Springfield or a drilling and got the hand cannon variant and just like a shitload of flash bombs since it takes three to five business days to throw one now.
00:37:19
Speaker
I love but I love the new animation. I love that. It's it's like the shittiest glow stick of all time. You're banging it in the shit you throw. It's the first time I threw one. I was like, you could throw it any day now. Every time I see that animation, I can't think of anything but Heath Ledger's Joker trying to get the explosion to go off. Yeah, yeah, it's exactly what it looks like. I'm always like, I think I think it did it like I feel like I fumbled a roll or something in D&D where I'm like, is this a critical fail? Is this not going to work? Is this going to blow up in my hands?
00:37:49
Speaker
I wish that they had a chance for it to blow up in your hands and blind you. That'd be freaking hilarious. It's already useless. Nobody takes it. So you may as well throw something funny in there. Yeah. And then you see like Neo or Psycho Ghost just fucking using them to great effect. And you're like, I could do that. And it never works the way you want it to.
00:38:10
Speaker
Nothing nino or psycho ghost or hornet or any of them do things that I should ever say I can do that You can aspire to it, but it'll just it'll never work out the way you want it to I mean, it's good to dream.
Game Design Appreciation and Future Ideas
00:38:23
Speaker
Yeah What sound or noise do you love in the bayou?
00:38:31
Speaker
When you either step on a stick or a bug flies into your ear Yes, it feels like somebody just like snapped a stick in your ear or you actually feel like you got to swat away a mosquito in your ear there's been a couple of times like when I first started that that little like I was hiding in a bush and the the bug flying into my ear sound happened and I actually like tried to swat away a bug it and
00:38:55
Speaker
It's just it's so good. Oh, it's it's the the sound design is probably high on the list of things that I tend to always talk about when I talk about the game. Same. I bought really high end headphones just for this game. Oh, yeah, I miss I miss a lot of our cross chat when we're playing trios because I have the game so much higher than the actual group chat.
00:39:25
Speaker
So no joke, I've got my audio routed from my PC into a sound mixer for my microphone, then from the sound mixer into a four stack stereo system to route through a power amplifier to go to my headphones. It's like the Cal Naughton Jr. of sound engineering. I like to listen to the radio while I play games and I like to party. Yeah.
00:39:54
Speaker
It's a ridiculous setup. Like I actually had to get a special cable just for this because I needed to find one that was the RCA like the three color cables to an auxiliary cable to go because the stereo system's as old as I am. Oh yeah. It's 28 years old. My dad got it when I was born and he was like, hey, you can have this. And I was like, I'm connecting that to my PC immediately.
00:40:23
Speaker
Oh yeah. But I had to find the cable to do it and then when I got the new microphone, I got a mixer so I had to route the audio from the PC into that and then from that into the stereo system because my headphones are 250 ohm headphones and I need the power amplifier to drive them. Jesus Christ.
00:40:43
Speaker
You could hear the sun come up with those things. If a grunt farts across the map, I can hear it before it comes out of its asshole. Yeah. Usually, I don't have that much juice, but there's definitely times when I have my sound dialed in so good that I'm like, I'm telling them to shut up because I'm like, somebody just snapped a twig northwest
00:41:03
Speaker
And they're coming this way. But while the two of them are bickering, you just hear water sloshing and somebody coming up out of the creek. And I'm like, shut the fuck up. They're coming. I could hear them coming. On that note, what sound or noise do you hate in the bayou? That really big bonfire in one of the forts. Yeah.
00:41:27
Speaker
I love the inferno, but the fire is something that they have to work on, the sound. The regular fire is not bad. Fire bombs, not bad. Burning out a hunter, not bad. That one bonfire, it's like they cranked the volume up on just the bonfire to like 89. You can't hear anything at that. I want to say it's Fort Bolden.
00:41:54
Speaker
Yeah, it's a dissolve map. There's just the one bonfire and it's louder than anything has the right to be. And they've nerfed the sound for it like four times and it's still way too loud. But like a fire bomb, it's fine. A choke bomb, it's fine. That one bonfire makes me want to rip my ears off.
00:42:22
Speaker
What profession other than the ones that are already in the game what profession would you like to see a? Legendary hunter come like what kind of background do you think is lacking a prospector?
00:42:35
Speaker
I thought that too. I want this old drunken prospector with one tooth and an unkempt beard with like one strap hanging off of his overall. Basically another redneck but like better. Yeah. Like older, real scrawny. We got the old lady, give us a real old decrepit man. Like looks like he's related to the crypt keeper.
00:42:59
Speaker
with a pickaxe as his railroad hammer variant. I don't know why we haven't had a pickaxe in the game. The railroad hammer took forever to get, and I feel like I'm the only one that plays the damn thing. I play it occasionally, but I'm still pissed that we don't have a shovel that I can put in my arsenal. Yeah. Yeah. Can I get on it? Give me my shovel, please. I want a shovel, and then I want a skin that's just a shovel, but like somebody cut a smiley face into it.
00:43:30
Speaker
Yeah, like a good flathead shovel. Yeah, yeah, something like that. Like, give me, please, I want my shovel so bad. I was telling my wife, even if it's just like a folding and trenching tool. Yeah. Please. I mean, you could make them the same way that you make the, um, they could be throwable like you do for the throwing axes, but they just do like blunt damage. Have the animation where you pull it out and like you flip it over your hand and it flips open as you flip it. Oh yeah, that'd be great.
00:44:01
Speaker
I can't tell my word garden spade to somebody's chest You have to go pull it out like you're fucking 1980 slasher movie I Can't tell my wife. They've only done it the one time with the serpent moon, but like they made that one character that had like a progression to the skins you could get I
00:44:21
Speaker
I don't know why we haven't had, I keep saying we need like three amigos. You could just make it one character with three different progressive skins. So like I know the Viper was meant to be just like a test for the multiple skin skins, kind of like the new plague doctor where it's got two skins you can swap between. Yeah. I'm so pissed that the drowned rat did not just get added to the original rat skin as a toggle. Yeah, same.
00:44:51
Speaker
I got the I got the Billy the kid the drowned kid and it's the same thing or the bad hand the bad hands the same way. Yeah, same thing. Like why don't all of those skins just have a toggle and you have to unlock that separate toggle? Yeah, it would clean up the legendaries so quickly. Yeah, I feel like the legendary menu is kind of something that they need to I'd like for them to work on a little bit. Well, what sucks is they've already got a great
00:45:20
Speaker
template for it if you go to the store and click legendary hunters you've got that grid yeah just just use the same grid in the legendaries and then like off to the right hand side have it just pop up when you click them like it'd be perfect but I mean you got to remember I only play two hunters and that's the rat and the brown rat and I wish you could equip legendary hunters in a customized loadout yeah yeah that or but like
00:45:50
Speaker
With the drowned rat, that's the one that I've been maning since she came out because. Oh my God, it's such a good skin, but it came out. And now every time I want to hire her, the first thing I have to do is click 37 times on that right arrow. Yeah. And then by then I'm like, Oh shit, I passed her three pages ago and I have to click back three times. Please. Same thing when I'm looking for the, for the umpires bane, I'm clicking for six days.
00:46:20
Speaker
They really need a baseball skin for one of the grenades. Something. I mean, the bat already has... It's got two good skins for it. It's got the one from the event and the new one that looks like, you know, like you just took a chunk off a tree like a wizard staff.
00:46:37
Speaker
I should be able to hit explosives back with the baseball bat. If I'm skilled enough to do that, I should be allowed. Yeah, but then all that's going to take is that and then somebody's going to want to be able to catch bullets with the katana and it's going to be a totally different experience. Yeah, you got a point. I don't know. I mean, I'm here for it either way. I'll do either one.
00:47:02
Speaker
Uh, last question. If there's an end game for your time with hunt, what would that end game be? What would be the point when you feel like you're finished? Um, either when the servers are completely shut down or I'm just sick of the game. Um, I mean, my, my real end goal, I want to be a cry tech partner, partner just so that I can get a lamaskin called the lorat.
00:47:31
Speaker
What's the criteria for being a partner? I mean, don't you just have to stream the game and get a certain amount of views? You stream the game, I think it's...
00:47:44
Speaker
a thousand followers or something like that or a thousand views consistently and you have to apply and then once you apply like I could have sworn stuff shit which one I want to say it was Morgan or or Brie one of the two those two they applied to be correct or no it was uh it was Nino and Hornet
00:48:08
Speaker
those guys, when they applied, it took forever for them to get their partner status because they just didn't have it open.
Closing Remarks and Reflections
00:48:17
Speaker
So, yeah. I think the other guy that plays with, he plays with Kurti and Nino a bunch of the average Joe.
00:48:25
Speaker
Not Joe, not Joe. Oh, I think it's like Olive Meister. Oh yeah, Olive Meister. Yeah, I love that guy. I think he just got partner status. Did he really? I wanted because usually if we do, I follow him on Twitch, but I think the past couple of Twitch drops, he wasn't listed as a partner. He had that weird thing where it was like, you can get some rewards if you follow certain people.
00:48:54
Speaker
But you can get other rewards if you follow a Twitch partner, like a Crytek partner. And I don't think he had his opened as a Crytek partner. The last set he did. I hope he's a partner. Oh, he's great. He's great. I love his videos. He's freaking hilarious. Oh, he's stuff. And if him and Kirti get together, it's game over. I'm watching the whole stream.
00:49:20
Speaker
The Romero clan sends their regards. Because she's she's just madness incarnate and he doesn't help. He's just he's fanning the flames. It really doesn't help if you get psycho ghost in the mix, because he's memes incarnate. Yeah. Or Joe. Joe's another one that's just gassing you up the whole time. Oh, yeah. It's like they have that bonfire from Fort and they're just going to throw gasoline on it. And then throw bees at it. Yeah. Yeah. Always throw the bees at it.
00:49:50
Speaker
I think we're good. Heading out, is there anything, I'll throw all your links in the show notes, but is there anything that you want to plug on the way out the door? Yeah, go check out Hunt Lowdown. Drake is a freaking great guy. Baldor is a great guy. I love both of them.
00:50:11
Speaker
Mitchell Gertz, fucking love you, man. Me and him actually talked to each other a lot before I realized he was the Gertz that you mentioned in the show every week. Yeah, me and him talked a lot in Drake's Discord for a while there. We were playing a bunch of games together. It was a good time, so love you, man. Yeah, he's a good dude. He's a funny dude. Oh, yeah. Love Gertz.
00:50:37
Speaker
And other than that just yeah, I'm on YouTube and it's rat underscore three two nine and Come check out HBE if you haven't because we're madness incarnate for the audio world Yeah, I'll throw that in the the show notes I'll make sure you get some some plugs for YouTube channel hunt banish extract is
00:51:04
Speaker
I have been listening to quite a few. Even if I get behind, it's usually like a Tuesday or something at work. I'll just throw a couple on. But yeah, if you're not listening to that, go check out Hunt Lowdown. We need all the Hunt content we can get.
00:51:18
Speaker
Don't judge me for my conspiracy corner episode. That was a lot of no sleep and a lot of trying to figure something out through nothing. We might have you come back on here for some conspiracy video. Yeah. No, I'm here for that dumb shit. That is, that is my brand of madness. It reminded me of those old polygon unraveled videos with Brian David Gilbert. Oh yeah. When I listened to it back, I was like, Oh dear God, I've, I've become,
00:51:47
Speaker
what I used to laugh at. Or I thought of Charlie with Pepe Silvia from It's Always Sunny, where you're like, we're thinking it's 1122. What's so far fucking beyond 1122? There is no 1122. That was the first gift that was posted to Drake's server when I went off on that tangent. I just imagined you with a cigarette in each hand just pointing at a board full of string.
00:52:12
Speaker
That's how it felt when I looked at my notes afterward, but yeah, it was a good time. I loved it.
00:52:19
Speaker
Um, I think the legendary hunters real quick, uh, Mitchell Gertz, OG gamer manner of unveiled nitro innate, the ponytail palm Malcolm Anderson rat three to nine. Yeah. Yeah. We're, we're, we're happy to have all you guys in here. We're happy to have rat here. We're probably going to try and get a couple of you other guys, maybe throw you guys in the, in the hot seat, get you interviewed. Um,
00:52:49
Speaker
Do you have anything you want to say, uh, for our final goodbye? Love you. Uh, may the fire at Fort Bolden keep you warm. You live in a three star life, but God damn it. I hope you have a six star week. You guys, uh, thanks for being here. I'll see you next time. Love you. Bye. Now this doesn't want to work. Aren't you working? Come on you. Oh,
00:53:19
Speaker
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00:53:58
Speaker
I don't know if half of that shit came through. It was a little quiet but I think it's good. We'll find out.