Murder Island: Big Trouble on Murder Island

time for the thrilling conclusion!

Dang did none of them see that last guy behind the rock? He was still fucked but still.

Woohoo!

I missed it live because of my stupid new shift times, nuts! Thanks for putting it up so quick.

doki doki

Now we finally have that visual record ;)

This was very good. I need to check the end to see if it was smooth in the archive.

Edit: Yep, ending is perfect. Oh man,

Don't stop believing.

Best I could do with my limited skill set:

@vaeng said:

Best I could do with my limited skill set:

Ha! Beautiful...

@vaeng: Yeeeeees.

@vaeng: i feel all funny now.

keep the murder coming

I'm not usually in the business of providing "alternative" thumbnails, but I believe this is a more fitting thumbnail for what transpired.

I have a question, who is this guy that everyone ignores? Is he a new GB employee or just a GameSpot dude?

Some tips overall.

- Looting is bad. Like loot your first area. Loot another area nearby. After that all buildings should be avoid avoid avoid unless you want to apartment camp. The buildings are either going to be already empty ( because by the time the circle has closed twice everyone has looted basically everything inside the circle ), or you'll get murdered by campers. After the second circle the treeline/trees/rocks are significantly better cover.

- Y'all love to split up, especially Dan. That's fine for those first two loot zones since it's rare you'll encounter anyone else ( and a loss barely matters since restart is so easy ), but when you are all splitting up at 20-30 left it's led to a lot of bad deaths. Especially on teams since everyone else is going to be rolling up squadlike.

- Camo is actually super important. Try to find grey or green stuff and wear it. Lategame is all about tree/rock cover, and the better you blend in to those the longer you'll live.

- On that note, shooting dudes might be the first impulse ( and obviously you guys are trying to put on a show for us and we appreciate it ), but it's usually the worst impulse. As soon as you move/fire at all you've given up your position and given them a chance to fire back at you. If you sit still and let enemies think a place is empty/feel safe and turn their back on you, you can do SO MUCH murder without ever taking a hit.

I can't even remember how many dudes I've murdered now with a pistol because I stood next to a tree and they either ran past me, or ran straight to my tree for cover. Since I didn't start firing until they couldn't do anything about it I won all those encounters.

The biggest tip I can think of though is speed. You guys are super slow. You shouldn't be following the circle as it closes, because as Jeff points out constantly "there will be dudes shooting the people coming back to the circle.". You can get lucky breaks for a whole game, and never get fired back at as you follow the circle but it's rare, and it's what kills you guys 9 games out of 10. Even with those lucky breaks, once the circle starts closing faster/closing into no building areas/fields it's all over for you. You are suddenly running across an area with no cover to a space where dudes are on top of a hill with better guns then you.

The better idea across the board is to be the first people to the "middle", so you can murder the campers/endgame players as they slowly trickle in to set up in the various trees/murderzones. Even if you have awful close range guns, you can murder the people that have better guns by just being there first. Being the guy in the field waiting for people to run to him nets you all the best equipment in the game just by banditing, and keeps you safe as you can see where everyone goes when they arrive at the final areas.

Loot your first area, loot a second area if needbe while you wait to get a general feel for where the center will be, then make your way there. If all you have is junk guns and no scopes, take them from murdering dudes making their way along.

Possibly the best video description so far, looking forward to crackin' open a new Murder Island

It seems like this game is wearing thin for Jeff, non longer the enthusiasm he had for it a month+ ago.

Maybe I'm wrong though.

Finally purchased and downloading this as I type. >:)

Anyone else having this reload on them every minute or so?

@nals: I just like shooting people. It's fun.

@alex: It's the best part!

These streams made me do the same. Great times, even if I've never done better than 3rd.

That last round was incredible. Killing the lone guy in the cargo crate, driving through the river, Dan sacrificing himself and killing dudes as the circle enclosed around him, Ben's absolute disregard for plans, and Alex nearly pulling it off in the end. Beautiful.

Oh hey, here's a very old Gin Face Jeff shoop I made wayyy back in 2009, which is suddenly appropriate.

Enjoy! It's a phenomenal game.

confirmed: giant bomb and krombopulous michael both just love killin'

Jeff low-key projecting that he just wants to play lone-wolf in this game lol.

I just kinda realized this is probably the closest we'll actually ever get to a spiritual sequel to Jagged Alliance 2. Well, one that doesn't suck, anyways.

1:01:00 Haha!

@alex

Top-level prologue there, man. Just needed a rolling text crawl to accompany it.

Man I hate being one of those people, but the only thing that bugs me is how they refuse to stick together early game when they know there are enemies. Like at the power plant, Alex didn't stand a chance in hell against those two guys.

Anyway, despite that little greviance this is becoming an all time favorite feature of mine.

There's something a little too real when Brendan Fraser was slowly dying and nobody coming to the rescue.

#shaqmandown

the internet keeps telling me no one wants to hire him anymore. :(

Poor Alex. So close at the end he could taste it.

Re: The scourge of wet butt...

Please, have the camera be on someone who tab loots so they aren't ignoring T3 helmets while saying it's a bunch of T1s.

It hurts.

@excitable_misunderstood_genius: I'm going to keep hurting you. I'm going to throw T3 helmets in the garbage in front of you.

So...close....

Alex intro at the start was brilliant

I can't see the last shot in the clip, but if you look really carefully, you can see the last guy go left towards the rock from a tree to the left. Just at the top of the hill. Must have been just behind it.

I bet everyone who watched the stream live skipped to the end of the video.

The description on this video reminds me of Sorcerer, for some reason.

Oh yeah, because it has trucks and murder in it!

@alex: *Chef kissy hand motion* This comment is your art.

Alex is such a dry boy.

Stop Crawling! You give away your position every time you move. Moving targets are harder to hit; So, run!

If I'm scanning an area and I see back things moving on a green surface, I will shoot!

Note what you'll use for cover before you engage.

Use pistols offensively, SpecOps teams do in the real world, so why not. They're very accurate and are better than a shotgun when the target is sweeping across; they're faster than an assault rifle and certainly faster than a battle rifle in close combat.

Yo, Have more fun. Be offensive as a team.

Also, watch Patrick and Austin play this game; They're hilarious.

Now, forget everything I've said. Ya'll are awesome.

I like the busting into homes and looting stuff part, but I'm not really feeling the die immediately to unseen assailants bit.

Maybe it's covered in the half of the stream I haven't watched yet, but maybe try like, getting one gun and a piece of armor and just look for people to end. The spend half an hour acquiring stuff then dying in two seconds seems detrimental to chicken feasting.

@ripelivejam: Oh boy here i go killing again

Jeff is finally at the point where I was as soon as the quicklook was over. 30 minutes of looting and dying during the first encounter to an enemy you didn't even see isn't fun. It's just aggravating and boring to watch.

I hope Jeff Bakalar get's in on one of these streams before they stop doing them. I guess he's a busy man though.

Alex: "Tell me about the shotguns"

I would not have expected to seriously ask this question, but I'm going for it. Would you put this above Zelda for game of the year?