Summary
How do you avoid falling victim to the eerie depths ofContent Warning’s “Old World”? This innovative horror multiplayer game has many ways to survive its dark and gloomy hallways and deadly creatures, but not all of them might be obvious on your first playthrough, or even your second. With a bit of experience and good old Internet advice, you’re able to become a Spooktube sensation in no time, and you just might be able to stay alive in the process!
Content Warning’s ragdoll physics and lovable character customizations make surviving a little less scary, but the humor of the game can only take you so far. You’ll have to have a game plan, a good camera, and an even better diving crew to watch each other’s backs when you’re in the darkness. Oh, and a winning personality. You’ve got to go viral, after all!
8Conserve Your Film
This is perhaps one of the most important tips to remember, especially when you’re tempted to go full YouTuber with a quirky intro and outro. The space on your camera will depletepercent by percenteach second you use your camera, so you must record what you need to and focus the rest of your efforts on navigation; you may always buy more film, but you might not have that option on your last day to get enough views, so it’s better to be safe than sorry.
What you record entirely depends on what is doing well with your Spooktube audience; it could be your “soothing voices” or just the terrifying atmosphere of the underground, but your audience’s interest is what matters. When it comes to engaging content and surviving the horrors within a strange world, less can indeed be more!
7Distribute And Designate
This will probably happen naturally, but spreading out who has what can help when it’s time to run away. Later in your playthrough, you might find things likedefibrillatorsandboom micslying around the Old World, so making each item a group member’s responsibility can help you balance your recording quality and team consciousness.
It can even help to have multiple defibrillators sincethose are your key to reviving your teammates,and your run will be far more efficient if you’re diving like a professional camera crew,especially when you start to pick up more tools. Maybe they’re from less successful Spooktubers? Who knows, but it’s your time to shine now! You’ll be more of a star than the piles of bones in the Old World, that’s for sure.
6Throw Things
This might seem like a chaotic bit of advice, and you’d be right! Someenemies, like theSlurper, willtrap you in place, and you’ve only got so much time before they make you their dinner. This is where your friends come in; their job is to chuck something (anything, really) at the monster to get it to release you.
It’ll incapacitate the monster and give you enough time to recover before something else comes along, so make sure to use those seconds wisely to avoid being incapacitated again. You’ll have to think fast and yell for your friends faster in most of these chilling encounters, and theSlurperis no exception; sometimes a monster can just pick you straight off the ground, so it’s best to go into theOld Worldaware of what could happen, and what can help.
5Follow That Plan!
Your urge to explore every inch of the game could get you into a sticky situation (sometimes literally) that can be hard to get out of, especially on your last day to get views. When you’re down to the wire on time, the best plan is a pre-arranged one.
In your house, there’s asimple board with instructions(and cute little doodles!) that lets you know what you can do when you go diving. Those same objectives also show up in thetop left corner of your screenwhen you leave the house, so it’s easy to remember if you want to have a little fun with the recording! As long as you’re not in immediate or even impending danger (but that’s part of the fun!).
4Teamwork Makes The Dream Work
Multiplayer games sometimes have an element of competition to them, but not Content Warning! You’ll become even better friends after surviving the Old World and filming together, especially ifeveryone’s doing their part. If you’re an organized group, your jobs are important, but if you prefer to charge in, watching each other’s backs is far more important.
Behind every successful video, there’s (most likely) an even more successful team. You work under duress sometimes when you’re in the Old World’s winding halls, and even a simpleflashlightis enough to fix that; Be the best teamSpooktubehas to offer, especially when it comes to the macabre and the unconventional!
3You Aren’t Safe
TheOld Worldis pretty much the most treacherous place out there, but if you survive for the majority of the day, you might find yourself in pockets of downtime that seem almost peaceful. Just like saying the word ‘quiet’ in a hospital, though, this downtime can sour fairly quickly, but you don’t have to have the quickest reaction time ever, justkeep your head on a swivel.
Monsters spawn randomly, and while you have time in between spawns to film transitions and the like, you can find yourself face-to-face with any of themobile monsterseven in the open air in front of your ship. Even theIron Maiden, which can and will launch itself across the room to entrap you, especially if you film it for too long; most monsters will attack if you’re filming themwithout moving away, but it can be especially startling if you aren’t filming them or aware of them at all.
2Save Those Clips
You might have seen this option after your video finishes uploading, but when you play your recorded video, there’s an option on the far left that lets youdownload the video to your computer! It’s a great way to make memories and makes the game seem all the more real, so if you’re a fan of found footage horror, this game has you in mind, and you can feel like you’re filming your own found footage video with this feature!
You don’t save the comments with the video, but those are more for your playthrough than for the memories, anyway. You can use some of the things the comments will say as guidance for what you film next! Interpret them how you want, and experiment with different success methods, but no matter what you do, keep filming the spooky things!
1Amp Up The Silly
It can be hard to figure out what will get you the most views, but as you might think, one of the most helpful things you may do to farm likes is tune into your senses of humor and play for the laughs on camera. You can even record knock-knock jokes and your audience will most likely receive them well if you’ve been successful for long enough.
You’ve got a limited amount of time to film, especially if you haven’t bought extra film yet, but even something as simple as hugging your friends can increase your views per video. Hugging also heals your friends, so verify to give hugs every day if your friends need them!
