I Exploited This Game's Entire World to Create Infinite Chaos - Enshrouded
Summary
TLDRIn a humorous and unconventional playthrough of the game 'Shrouded', the player, Josh, embarks on a journey filled with mischief and mayhem. Disregarding the game's intended path, he opts for creative shortcuts, exploiting mechanics, and causing chaos along the way. From breaking priceless artifacts to terraforming the landscape and trapping NPCs, Josh's irreverent approach showcases a unique and entertaining perspective on gaming. Throughout the video, his witty commentary and disregard for conventional gameplay provide a refreshingly comedic experience.
Takeaways
- 😃 The game starts with a humorous character creation process focusing on aging gracefully and choosing an over-the-top hairstyle.
- 👨🎓 The protagonist wakes up in a mysterious chamber, beginning their adventure on an unknown planet humorously named 'Enshrouded'.
- 😬 Ignoring the game's tutorial and lore, the player opts for exploration and unintentional self-sabotage, leading to humorous mishaps.
- 👻 Encounters with the game's lore are humorously avoided, preferring action and exploration over reading.
- 🚒 The player creatively bypasses intended game paths, finding alternate routes and making 'friends' with the game's creatures.
- 🛠 Crafting and building become central themes as the player establishes a base, highlighting the game's survival and construction mechanics.
- 🚨 The player humorously navigates challenges and enemies, often using unconventional methods to survive or progress.
- 🔫 Combat is approached with a mix of strategy and humor, focusing on exploiting game mechanics rather than traditional fighting.
- 💥 The exploration of 'Enshrouded' reveals a rich, interactive environment where actions have visible and often humorous consequences.
- 👮 The narrative is filled with quirky humor, from naming characters to the descriptions of in-game actions and discoveries.
Q & A
What was the initial warning message about in the game 'Enshrouded'?
-The initial warning message was about the GPU driver being outdated, suggesting an update for an ideal game experience.
Which hairstyle did the player choose for the character, implying a midlife crisis?
-The player chose a hairstyle that screams midlife crisis the hardest, although it was described as just looking good.
Why did the player name their character 'Lord Mustache'?
-The player chose the name 'Lord Mustache' due to selecting a beard option that featured an overgrown mustache, hiding the top lip.
What does the player encounter upon waking up in 'Enshrouded'?
-Upon waking up, the player finds themselves in a weird little chamber from which they gleefully escape.
How does the player react to the lore of the game 'Enshrouded'?
-The player chooses to ignore the deep lore of the game, preferring to focus on gameplay rather than learning the world's backstory.
What happens when the character dies in 'Enshrouded'?
-When the character dies, they simply come back to life, allowing the player to continue the game.
What is the player's strategy for finding an alternate route in the game?
-The player attempts to find an alternate route by exploring and trying to land on the side of a slope or finding other ways around obstacles instead of following the suggested path.
How does the player deal with the shroud in 'Enshrouded'?
-The player is consumed by the shroud when their shroud protection is depleted, indicating they should spend limited time in the shroud and let it recover outside of it.
What is the significance of the flame altar in 'Enshrouded'?
-The flame altar marks the player's home and allows them to commune with the flame, which adds a marker to their map and provides various upgrades and benefits.
How does the player utilize the game's mechanics to their advantage in 'Enshrouded'?
-The player exploits game mechanics such as the regeneration of trees upon exiting and re-entering the game, creating multiple workbenches for convenience, and building a base by terraforming and using crafting tools.
Outlines
🎮 Introduction to Inshrouded and Character Creation
The video begins with the host, Josh, launching the game 'Inshrouded' despite an outdated GPU driver warning. He enters the character creation phase, choosing an older character with a stylish hairstyle and white beard, humorously named 'Lord Mustache.' The gameplay starts with the character awakening in a mysterious chamber, leading to exploration on the planet Inshrouded. Josh humorously avoids the game's lore, emphasizing gameplay and exploration over narrative depth. Initial exploration leads to humorous attempts at navigating the game's terrain, including a failed jump aiming to bypass a suggested route, highlighting the game's exploration and experimentation aspects.
🔨 Beginning of Base Building and Resource Gathering
Josh transitions to base building, focusing on collecting resources essential for crafting basic structures like the flame alter, workbench, and construction hammer. He humorously describes the process of gathering twigs, plant fibers, and stones, leading to unlocking new crafting recipes such as axes and pickaxes. The discovery of the terraforming feature excites him, allowing for landscape modification. Despite the tedious resource collection, the prospect of crafting and terraforming keeps the gameplay engaging. The paragraph concludes with Josh outlining his strategic approach to base expansion and resource management within the game's boundaries, illustrating the depth of the crafting and building mechanics in 'Inshrouded.'
🛠 Advanced Base Building and Exploration
Josh's narrative progresses with advanced base building strategies, utilizing a construction hammer and crafting additional workbenches for efficiency. He emphasizes the importance of strategic placement and the benefits of crafting multiple workbenches to avoid backtracking. The discovery of new crafting recipes, such as beds and fireplaces, adds layers to the base building aspect, offering customization and functional improvements to his base. Josh's humorous take on the game continues with his attempts to rescue a character, leading to the use of a summoning staff, showcasing the game's blend of crafting, base building, and adventure elements.
🌍 Expanding Exploration and Meeting Challenges
As Josh delves deeper into 'Inshrouded,' he focuses on expanding exploration beyond the immediate base area. He crafts a summoning wand and introduces a new character to his base, leading to new crafting options and missions. Josh's adventurous spirit shines as he undertakes a quest to clear the Shroud from an Elixir Well, showcasing the game's combat and strategic elements. He employs creative strategies to bypass a powerful enemy, highlighting the game's flexibility in approach. The narrative also touches on upgrading the flame alter, emphasizing the importance of resource management and strategic planning in expanding the game's exploration and building capabilities.
🚀 Utilizing Creative Strategies for Game Advancement
Josh explores advanced game mechanics, such as using the glider for extensive exploration and exploiting the game's respawn mechanics for resource farming. He humorously navigates the game's challenges, from engaging with NPCs to upgrading his base's flame alter for greater building capabilities. The strategic use of altars and the creative bypass of combat scenarios underscore the game's open-ended gameplay. Josh's narrative culminates in a daring attempt to reach a mysterious tower, showcasing the inventive and humorous approaches players can take to explore and conquer 'Inshrouded.'
🎉 Concluding Adventures and Exploits
In the final segment, Josh continues his humorous and inventive exploration of 'Inshrouded.' He ventures into uncharted territories, leveraging his makeshift bridge and glider to explore and activate fast travel points, demonstrating the expansive nature of the game world. The narrative concludes with Josh's misadventures in attempting to enter a seemingly inaccessible location, leading to unexpected outcomes and discoveries. The video wraps up with Josh inviting viewers to express their interest in further adventures, leaving the door open for more exploratory and humorous content in the game's expansive and interactive world.
Mindmap
Keywords
💡Character Creator
💡GPU Driver Outdated
💡Shroud/Shrouded
💡Terraforming
💡Base Building
💡Crafting
💡Lore
💡Summoning Staff
💡Resource Collection
💡Flame Alter
Highlights
Josh starts the game 'Enshrouded' by selecting a character and giving it a humorous name.
Despite warnings, Josh chooses to ignore the game's lore and focuses on exploration and mischief.
Josh finds an alternate path avoiding the intended game route by exploiting the environment.
Using a humorous approach, Josh creates 'Lord Mustache' and bypasses traditional gameplay.
Josh experiments with the game's physics and mechanics, leading to unexpected outcomes.
The discovery of a resource collection and crafting system is made fun of.
Josh demonstrates how to exploit game mechanics for unlimited resources.
The base building feature is humorously misused to create unconventional structures.
Josh explores the concept of 'Shroud' in the game, a hazardous zone affecting gameplay.
He humorously navigates the game's survival elements, like crafting and base protection.
Creative use of game's terraforming feature to alter the landscape drastically.
Humorous interaction with the game's NPCs and storyline, ignoring conventional objectives.
Exploration of the game's boundaries and physics to find glitches or exploits.
Josh uses unconventional methods to solve puzzles and progress in the game.
Humorous and inventive use of the game’s mechanics to overcome challenges in unorthodox ways.
Transcripts
hey there it's Josh welcome back to
Let's game it out we're checking out in
shrouded today and yes I see this
message right here your GPU driver is
outdated please update for an ideal game
experience yeah we could do that or I
could just hit play oh boy it's
character creator time which one of
these short kings and queens do we want
to play as we're going to start with
this guy because I want to keep the
dream alive that we can look this good
when we're his age now let's see which
one of these hairstyles screams midlife
crisis the hardest I'm tempted to go
with this one or even maybe this one but
I think we all know we're going with
this one that's not even midlife crisis
that's just looking good and
unfortunately we don't have that many
color options so I guess Pure White it
is and if you're going to give us beard
options of course I'm going to choose
the kind of overgrown gross mustache who
wants to see that top lip I don't and
for their character name Lord mustache
Von suffering oh that doesn't fit Lord
mustache it is so our journey begins
with us waking up in this weird little
chamber at which point we can gleefully
escape and here we are on planet and
shrouded I mean I'm pretty sure that's
not actually what it's called it's just
what I'm going to call it see this guy
over here they wanted to learn the real
lore of this game like what the world
name is and the lore was just too deep
and no thank you we're already too old
we're not going to let that happen to us
or our ABS we can read their book though
see what did I tell you it's a bunch of
lore quick run run as fast as you can
don't let anything stop
[Music]
you oh except maybe death well I guess
now we get to see what happens when you
die oh okay we just come back to life
well thank goodness for that anyway as I
was saying welcome to the world of been
shrouded a game where I don't learn my
lesson the first time and we see if we
can jump down here without dying but I
feel like if we hit this just right we
can land on like the side of a slope or
something and survive oh or not okay you
know what I'm pretty sure what the game
wants me to do is go into that cave
there and then pop out right there oh
yeah see there you go did you see that
little thing fly over there and light up
that Lantern pretty sure that's the
tutal tutal telling me this is the right
way to go which means we won't be doing
that at all instead we're going to try
and see if we can find an alternate way
around like I bet if we just go over
here hop on over here to this little
spot and then jump on this ow and then
we'll just slide on down this and we're
home free we did it there we go made it
down without taking that structure over
there and look at that I've made some
friends I'm sure if I just keep running
everything's going to turn out okay oh
my goodness and it has they've left me
behind Okay so first things first you
see how there's like a camp here we got
to do something like that I mean not
just like this this isn't our cam nor do
I want it to be I mean after all I was
going to steal their things but G it's
more lore that it wants me to read it's
my personal Kryptonite quick run from it
as fast as we can anyway as we can see
this used to be what looks like a town
which is fine by me because they're not
going to need these wood supplies
anymore and I certainly will not to
mention these barrels that are just in
my way and apparently are hiding the
most sacred of treasures churning butter
just kidding that's not for us take that
all right let's see what this Treasure
Chest has for for us oh good items for
killing anyway we're just going to run
around and rans Sack this place and I
could be concerned that there's a fire
still lit indicating that there's
probably somebody still around but why
would I worry when I can just punch the
campfire to death oh wow and nature
immediately reasserted itself and no
lore I won't read you but I will break
the table you're on I can't break this
can
I oh well there you go and now that
we've broken down everything not nailed
down what the heck is this wo wo wo
turns out there's some bad guys in this
game that really want a piece of us
that's okay we can punch them too yeah
and that's when I noticed that weird
Cloud we walked into I think that means
we're in the Shroud or the enshrouded or
it's enshrouded or I'm enshrouded
whatever something is enshrouded that's
what matters most and it looks like this
is where some of the bad guys live and
give us stuff like shroud spores a
strange kind of energy it appears
unstable for now but perhaps it can be
refined and that's great and all but I'd
rather refine this right now a rusty
short sword anyway as you can see we can
only spend a certain amount of time in
the Shroud and it's even kind enough to
remind us to leave but of course we're
not going to and instead we're just
going to wait and see what
happens oh yeah see there you go it's
the Shroud and it's consumed us your
shroud protection depleted remember to
let it recover outside of the shroud I'm
sorry that I wasn't paying close enough
attention to my shroud refractory period
so yeah it sounds like we should
definitely limit our time in the Shroud
although something's telling me that at
some points we'll have to go through it
call it a hunch anyway the next order of
business is we need to find a nice place
to set up our base and and I think I see
the perfect spot over there somewhere so
I know I just said the thing about not
going through the Shroud but we're going
to go through the Shroud after all we've
got five minutes and all I need to do is
just run by the bad guys and just like
that we're through the Shroud and look
at all this beautiful space for setting
up a base I don't know about you but
this nice shaded area seems good to me
as soon as we clear out some of the Riff
raft like this wolf that appears to be
barking at a tree well so be it sorry
this is my land now I'm sure it
understands yeah that's the spirit thank
you for the blessing okay so in order to
get started we need to go to crafting
here's the basic setup we need these
Essentials a flame alter a workbench and
a construction hammer and you'll notice
they're all highlighted red because if
we click on them oh but of course we
don't have the required stone or in the
case of this workbench we need wood logs
and string well we know what it's time
for then the collectathon give me this
for twigs and plant fiber which after
grabbing enough of it allows us to make
string out of the plant fiber great and
the resource collection continues Stone
of course we can get out of regular
Stone like this after punch ing it a
bunch and the stone just kind of Falls
right off it what a deal oh boy and a
recipe unlocked strike that multiple
recipes unlocked like the ability to
build an axe which of course is for
cutting trees or a pickaxe which is used
for cutting rocks well don't look too
upset about your new pickaxe get to
mining there that's the good stuff oh
and what a curious border we have now
what does this do oh is this doing what
I think it's doing am I carving into the
ground I am carving into the ground well
this is just great oh boy do I love me
need some terraforming any game that
allows this really has my needs in mind
but let's not get too excited we're not
going to tear up the entire Earth just
yet because not only do we need Stone
but we have to chop all these trees down
first well have to is probably an
overstatement but there's always
something a little satisfying about a
little deforestation and before you know
it this looks like this see that's much
better look at all this detail we didn't
even know was here you know like this
rock we can see better and this little
Cliff side oh and also this giant thing
over here who could have known that was
just sitting there hiding from us anyway
with all of that out of the way it's
time to build our base so first things
first is we need to build that flame
alter because as the description says
that's what lets us Mark our home so
after a quick crafting of that let's see
where are we going to place this thing
now it doesn't want to let me shove this
inside this hole but something tells me
it's more about me needing to clear
space for it so let's even out the space
a little bit okay and there we go I sure
hope this is enough I guess we're about
to find out oh yeah there we go fits
like a glove and now the game wants me
to commune with the flame as you do here
let me break this down for you blah blah
story blah blah ancient vaults blah blah
one beckons blah blah space bar oh thank
God it added a marker to my map I love
not having to remember anything I did
notice something kind of silly though if
you exit out of the game and then load
back in well wouldn't you know it all of
the trees are back wow how lucky am I a
whole Forest to cut down again well now
that has me wondering something if I
just go back over here and chop down one
of these trees and then I go back into
the menu and I go over to the thing ofab
Bob and then I hit play again and then
we load back into the game ah yes there
it is our magical tree friend is back oh
I think I know what might be happening
here so if we switch to our pickaxe this
border appears on the ground which as we
know from placing our flame thingy that
this border indicates the edge of our
base so I'm willing to bet if we make a
hole right here and then if we also make
a hole right here I'm going to assume
that when we reload our game one of
these is going to be here and one isn't
okay well there you go mystery solved it
looks like the only stuff with
permanence is the stuff inside of our
borders so wait what happens with with
something like this where some of it's
inside but some of it isn't let's just
Hammer the whole thing down and see what
happens yeah there we go a little more
like that and definitely isn't like a
gross eyesore now anyway let's reload
and see what happens oh well there you
go and also it looks like we can see the
exact place where our base starts and
stops we can also see that there's like
a ceiling above us so it doesn't look
like we can actually go that high in the
air or presumably that low I mean I
assume we're about to find out and find
the lower limits of our base yep there's
the line that's how far down we can go
which goes down pretty far by the way
how far you might wonder oh pretty far
see there's the fire thingy and here is
the hollowed out husk of the lower
limits of our base now I didn't dig it
all up but you can see that the
boundaries are ever present but I got to
hand it to our little flame thingy it
does certainly give us a lot of space to
work with and you're probably wondering
how do we get back to the flame alter
well that's easy we just take the death
Express over to it TAA easy peasy and
now if we ever have to do some communing
this is the way we can do it it which
I'm sure we will be doing from time to
time because I see options like
upgrading the Altar and extending its
building range as well as strengthening
the flame which gives us fun benefits
like how many altars we can have active
as well as I guess different kinds of
shrouds we can go through how long we
can spend in the Shroud and then
whatever this fourth thing is I'm
already tired of reading and then all we
have to do is find this random stuff and
then when we're done being intimate with
the flame you might next wonder how do
we get down also
easy oh wait maybe not so easy well
surely there's a spot nearby that we can
hit that won't kill us somewhere okay
plan B first we're going to access the
Altar and then we're going to extinguish
this Flame extinguishing the flame will
reset the currently protected area after
some time or with the next start of the
game that's the plan and now we'll have
ourselves another leap of faith of a
certain kind okay now we're back at the
beginning and now all we need to do is
just run all the way back to where we
were it couldn't be more simple after
all it's just a haunted jaunt away okay
and here we are again and would you look
at that nature is trying to reassert
itself I don't know why I thought the
flame alter would still be there in the
middle but whatever it's not like we
can't just Place another one somewhere
in fact let's make it weird for now
we'll just put one right here which of
course is going to alter the boundaries
of our base now which only extends that
far actually you know what I bet we can
make this work I bet we can get it back
into the center there all we're going to
need now is our construction Hammer can
only be used within the range of a flame
alter works for me okay now that we have
our wild glowing Hammer it's time to go
into our wild glowing build mode look at
all this fun stuff we can build walls
and shapes and roofs and stairs and
windows and whatever although right now
I'm just interested in this making a
single wall block which let us just go
ahead and place one right here oh
missing materials craft blocks at the
work bench okay if you say so we'll go
ahead and do that I guess which let's
see where can we place this that is the
most weird looking maybe up against this
rock will do let's see oh yeah there we
go that's exactly how we want our
workbench now we can make blocks like
these rough stone blocks so let's go
ahead and craft some okay much better
here we go okay so we placed one and
we're going to place another and then
we're going to jump on this and place
another and another actually wait what
am I doing that's exactly what this
other stuff is for let's see let's find
a building piece that really speaks to
us yeah here we go this terrain tool for
making a little puck excellent and I can
just put this anywhere I want that's
much better look at that now I can just
jump on this and then make another one
and just keep doing this all the way to
the CER just got to expand the area a
little bit more there we go flame alter
number two ready to go now we can go
back over here to the first one and
disable it give it a quick extinguish
stare straight into its eyes until it
evaporates right in front of you and now
that we've got that squared away let's
get to making our base down there and
all that beauty of course we're older
and wiser now and we know if we just
jump off we'll die good thing we can
make crappy stairs to take care of this
let's see we'll take this and we'll just
rotate it like that and shove it into
the Earth and then take another one and
do the same whoops ah well it still
works that's all that matters and then
we'll just Place another one and another
one and so on and so forth what a master
class of architecture and now I'm hungry
for waffles for some reason okay so now
that we're down here let's get the
basics set up and for that we're going
to start with a workbench which we're
going to place in a weird way just like
that yeah you know what actually why
stick with one after all it looks like
I'm going to be using this thing quite a
bit so why not build a couple more of
these so I never have to go far to
access one and let's see one right there
yeah here we go a little more like this
finally I won't have to go far to use a
workbench there's always going to be one
conveniently in my grasp and now that we
got that little problem out of the way
let's go ahead and access literally any
of these now let's see what other kinds
of stuff we can make ooh beds fireplaces
illumination doors we love those yes
please give me a couple of these ooh and
building those unlocked new recipes now
we can do stuff like bowls and cups I
see we can really decorate our home or
whatever we want to call this I'm just
glad we have options oh when we should