HYT4LE: The Ultimate Minecraft Killer? 😱

So hi tail the like supposed successor to Minecraft has provided us with a pretty big update regarding their newly built game engine play testing they have planned some like upcoming looks at game play and screenshots and that sort of thing we’re going to go ahead and take a

Look at the info that was provided to us and what was kind of implied within that information and have a little talk about when is hi tail likely to come out because it’s been 5 years already so first though I think that we should do a

Short recap of what tail even is and after being announced a whole 5 years ago how we got to the point that we’re at today high tail is being developed by high pixel Studios who started back in 2013 as a mod team for Minecraft they created miname servers and since then

They became a Powerhouse when it came to larger scale Minecraft modding and servers and eventually growing into a full-blown development studio called Hypixel Studios and in 2018 Hypixel Studios announced hight tail which Bears some resemblance to the game that hundreds of millions of people love Minecraft Hypixel Studios was acquired

By Riot games in 2020 and Riot games is responsible for a number of very popular games such as League of Legends and valerant and while they now own Hypixel Studios Hypixel operates independently underneath them but they have the resources available to them and the experience available to them that Riot

Has to offer now in early 2021 Hypixel made a big decision the current game engine that they were using to develop High tail was not going to be enough to handle the game as they wanted it today and in the future so rather than stick a

Band-Aid on it and keep making it work they decided to start over and develop their own game engine from scratch so I applaud this effort and while this is the main cause for the game’s delay and is the reason why there’s so many memes out there making fun of hight tail never

Coming out I do agree that this decision was for the best due to my experience with Minecraft Bedrock Edition you see Minecraft Bedrock Edition initially known as The Better Together update came out in late 2017 as a un version of Minecraft for PC Mobile and console all

To be working and playing together and while that sounds like a great idea in my opinion it was not done properly and in fact was done very poorly rather than making an allnew game engine that would properly be optimized for all devices and handle both current and future needs

Of Minecraft Mojang instead they decided to use the mCP or Pocket Edition game engine that’s right so rather than having a fresh brand new game engine built in 2017 for the exact purpose that they intended it to work for and likely releasing Bedrock Edition a year or a

Couple years later than they wanted to instead they decided to use a game engine made for mobile phones from 2011 so in my opinion terrible mistake on Mo jang’s part and it’s actually really good to see Hypixel not make that same mistake and have the foresight to see

That they need to have a fresh game engine that can do everything they needed to do now and things they intend to do in the future rather than sacrifice quality just to put the game out sooner and start making money sooner anyways so here we have high tail a game

Who should look familiar to Minecraft players but specific details of the game are actually largely unknown at this point but we do know a few things for example we know that you’re going to start out in a central location called orbis which is like this large island or

Continent full of PVE based Adventure encounters challenges likely bosses maybe quests and more and I suspect that it’s going to be more like a like an RPG light type of an area when you’re inside of orbis we know that there’s going to be special gear we know that the

Combat’s going to have different attacks and the combat system is probably going to be closer to I don’t want to say RPG games but maybe more like action games where you have like different buttons can do different types of attacks maybe you can even skill them up again it’s

Not really known but we know it’s going to be more than Minecraft’s simple single button combat that that they have if you even want to call that a combat system Minecraft you just click the attack button that’s really all that you do now surrounding this island continent

Is going to be the remainder of your world and I believe that just like Minecraft is it’s going to be an infinitely procedurally generated world full of biomes structures encounters for you to explore and play the way that you want to play so I don’t know if the aim

Is for it to be a full Sandbox game like Minecraft more survival based more action Venture based or what the mixture of those things is going to be but if you go through and look through all the footage that they provided from the previous game engine the game will

Include plenty of creative building opportunities with a huge variety of materials or blocks to do it with as well as a lot of Creator based tools for you to be able to plan build make mods or add-ons and that sort of thing as well they’re really working on

Encompassing this whole big system here for players to use so now let’s move into the news it was actually given to us so it sounds like the large scale of development of the engine is done and that they’ve already been porting over or remaking the things that they had

Designed in the old engine over into the new engine and some of those systems are even at the point of working on refining so it it hasn’t been like totally clear what that process has been like but it was mentioned that they were continuing to both design the game itself and also

Use this time to rethink and test many aspects of the game that they already design things like combat creature AI player movement um the adventure cont cont that they’re going to be providing the Creator based tools that they’re going to be including in the game all of

Those things and I imagine during this two years of developing the game engine they continue developing all the other aspects of the game as well and as they mentioned in the blog post they’ve been porting these things over and getting the new engine to have that look and

Feel of what they intended High tail to have a lot like what we’ve seen in the gameplay footage that I’ve shown you here throughout this video so let’s talk about um advancements and the their Adventure part of the game so this is something they highlighted and I’ve

Pulled a few things from here that I find interesting so first of all they say here that they’re creating the tools and content necessary for players to tell their own stories in a blocky world then they’re using these same tools to build the world of orbis what this means

Is a lot of the developer tools that they’re using to make the game are the tools that they’re giving the player base to use to craft their own experiences now it’s a little unclear how much of that is like pertaining to like your normal I guess what you would

Call a survival world versus a creative world if there even is such a thing versus people that can make like mini games and and full-size maps and mods and that sort of thing now they talk a lot about orbis in here and orbis is again that like Central continent that

You’re going to kind of like start in and where all of the action adventure of the game is and they spent a lot of time here actually like crafting the lore of this area orbus isn’t just going to be an area with Random Encounters and structures with Mobs plugged into them

Like you see in Minecraft it’s going to be a much more storied area with factions within it like I said it seems like they’re probably going to have quests within there and a lot of the things that you find throughout the game items that you use materials that you

Use or maybe even like systems and mechanics that you use throughout the game a lot of those will have like stored Roots inside of like orbus itself so orbus will like have a main role in the game now whether you’re required to go through that role to be able to like

Properly access everything in the game or if it’s more like um like a Minecraft where you kind of have access to do everything more or less from the start and you can find what you need just out in the world that’s kind of unknown but regardless of which way it is even the

Stuff that you find out in the rest of the world that’s procedurally generated a lot of that stuff is going to be inspired by and you could probably learn a lot from orbis and they spent some time talking about how they have like rethought and redesigned a lot of things

In here just to have a little bit more of a story behind it and purpose behind things so they talk about the I think it’s called a Quebec yeah Quebec here and they talked about how they went through like Design Elements this being kind of the some of the original designs

And actually eventually morphed it into something like this big guy right here and then they go into examples of like how the Quebec will or like that Civilization or uh race or faction or whatever you want to call them how they Inspire maybe different things in the

World that they they’re kind of building out from here they talk about how like they use music to grow trees that then are like shaped in or made to be tools of some kind basically so it’s kind of a story behind or inspiration behind a whole lineup of itemization or maybe

Mechanics in the game that we maybe don’t know about yet on our end but is giving some depth and some interest to the game outside of just collect stone make stone tool collect iron make iron tool they’re trying to make the game more interesting than that by what

They’re talking about here okay so this part right here a capital for avatars is one of the most interesting parts that I found out of everything that we learned here and essentially it looks like it’s acting as some sort of like a shared Lobby of some kind they say in high tail

The heart of online online social play is a shared space called the capital this is where players from all parts of hiil come together to make friends share experiences compete in Min games discover new adventures seek challenges trade show off pets and Companions and more it’s like a big Social Hub and

They’re really giving away maybe they’ve talked about some of these things before like I’ve heard of pets before and things like that but there’s things in here that I hadn’t heard of before either for example they talk about trade what are we trading so if this is like

Truly like a RPG is or action adventure Style game where you’re you’re finding unique equipment that maybe has different stats or abilities to it while you’re going through orbit or maybe there’s an advanced crafting system where you can craft like really like good good unique powerful tools weapons

Armor things of that nature maybe that’s where the trading comes in or maybe it’s for resources or materials maybe it’s kind of everything it’s kind of hard to say just from something so vague here what that trading is maybe it’s just something something that’s like not shared between worlds and then like if

It is from your worlds which worlds is it from is it from all of them collectively or do you have a world that’s tied to a particular character that you can then pop into this like shared area there’s so many questions that I kind of have in terms of what

What this trade really mean here the fact that you can show off pets and companions sounds really cool sounds like that’s going to be a a major part of the game at least for like self-expression and who who doesn’t love having a fun pet to follow them around

Everywhere they go right and then just otherwise just like General online collaboration mini games new adventures so sounds like some type of like adventure maps that you can go to challenges maybe there’s some type of scoreboards and um like competitive type areas it really sounds like a lot of the

Best of what you see from like modded Minecraft servers like actually integrated into the game which sounds really fun because when it comes to modded Minecraft you can only do that on Java Edition so it’s only PC players that have Java Edition to get to participate so with all of these things

Actually built into the game um you’re going to have everybody have access to participate and do these different things which I think is kind of cool kind of fun and it’s something that I really look forward to uh down below they talk a little bit about their inspiration behind the capital I don’t

Quite understand everything what they mean here like the community involvement and that kind of stuff I don’t know if there’ll be like Community submissions for things that go in the capital or what that exactly means but either way sounds kind of cool so what they’re saying here is like 2024 is when they’re

Going to be on boarding their teams to the new game engine which to me means that they have a separate team building the game engine and then there other teams that are in charge of like developing the adventure side of things the tools and all these different things they’ve been working independently and

Separately now they’re going to start having that opportunity to learn the new game engine and Implement a lot of those things um they talk right here about how we’re also going to be significantly ramping up our external play testing efforts which means we’re probably going

To see some type of like closed alpha or beta testing happen sometime in 2024 maybe mid to late 2024 I would I would hope um and hopefully yours truly gets to make it in that cuz I I love to share my opinions and thoughts and I would

Love nothing more than for this game to be an awesome game just like I want for any game I want Minecraft to stay and continue develop into an awesome game but I would like this game to be really fun and awesome in its own right as well

So they kind of talk here about future like updates they going to be giving expect the updates to grow in frequency as they move closer to the next phase of high Tales development which they’re happening they’re doing with the onboarding so we should start seeing more um screenshots more uh video

Footage them talking about more of the system in the game more official blog posts more information given out by the developers in unofficial like ways just via interactions with the community and that sort of thing so we should keep a lookout for that and honestly what this

All boils down to what everybody wants to know is when the heck is hight tail going to come out because again we’ve been waiting for five years for this game that’s a long time to wait after the announcement of the game but it’s not so unusual for a game of this scope

To take five five 6 8 even 10 years of development is not something it’s unheard of when it comes to gaming so while they did not say anything here in terms of when high tail is going to come out I definitely would say don’t expect

2024 um I would say it’s possible we see something in mid to late 2025 but who knows if it could get pushed out beyond that and how far they really are in development of all of the other systems and how smoothly it goes for them to implement those systems from the old

Game engine into the new one what types of things that get uncovered during play testing and what types of suggestions that the people to get the play test give them in terms of making this game even better than what it hopefully already is if you’re excited about hight

Tail or um have any thoughts or opinions about it drop me a comment down below I’d like to go through and read them and see what you guys think me being primarily a Minecraft content creator obviously this is a Avenue that I would like to go it’s the same genre of game

And when hight tail comes out I 100% plan on playing it on the channel covering hight tail news and if the game ends up being really good the better it is and the more that you guys like it the more I’ll do it and the more I’ll

Play it and the more I’ll stream it and the Let’s Plays and all those things I’m sure will follow shortly thereafter if you enjoyed this video leave me a thumbs up that like button helps more people find the video subscribe to the channel for both Minecraft and hight tail

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