Many ways since its not like Wario is invincible 24/7. Even if Hank "can't" kill him, OP only said name 1 character who can stop Hank which I doubt Wario could stop him
>its not like Wario is invincible 24/7
He kind of is when the only prerequisite to his immortality is for him to just not feel like dying. >OP only said name 1 character who can stop Hank which I doubt Wario could stop him
He's an immortal, surprisingly quick and athletic fatass with a moronic amount of strength. The most he would need to do is ram into Hank once and he's done for. Whereas the Hank's only chance is running away.
Anyone with the equivalent of Hold Person, Hank's basically just the most skilled and talented out of a bunch of otherwise mundane characters. Doesn't have any real resistance to superpowers.
>otherwise mundane characters
They can literally all parry, dodge, redirect or just flst-out block bullets. Even basic AAHW have TAC Bars. Sanford and Deimos arent as strong or skilled as Hank, and both can snap the necks of G0L3Ms and MAGs. They are all blatantly superhuman.
cope, the fanbase is full with moronic kids and those kids are infesting other fanbases with their autistm
Tricky mod was pretty good actually, but is a shame about the fandom
These people don't know Hank.
Yes, I played Postal 2.
Hank would fricking mop the floor with Postal Dude
>t. doesn't remember any Postal content past the Fudge Pack
The Easter Bunny and The b***h moved more frantically than Hank could in his wildest dreams, and The Dude slapped them around.
>watched all the parts again >hank is the one that start the fight in 1
I conditioned myself into thinking that hank was the one with boombox and i dont know how
He is most definitely OP, especially in later chapters. Just not invincible. Dual wielding and shooting behind himself without at all looking doing flips and acrobatics and being improbably strong. He's definitely the strongest non-supernatural being in his own series.
>Hank and Deimos got off-screened by the Auditor after Expugation >Higher Powers have to "revive" Hank again, >Normally they would use a Improbability Drive to make a copy of Hank to "revive" him >Since there are none left, they search hell for his soul to put in a corpse instead >only one can leave
Doc is the one who usually puts Hank into a new copy of himself. But apparently Hank is integral to The Machine's plans so who knows what the frick is going on.
My theory since Tricky is some kind of Elder God demon he resurrected Antipathy Hank after quickly murdering him in a rage, that Hank's soul still died and went to hell while the freshly resurrected one lived on to become MC 7 Hank as a copy.
The half that got destroyed was when Hank was still his Antipathy self. The other half that was still alive and moving got revived, creating two Hanks.
My theory since Tricky is some kind of Elder God demon he resurrected Antipathy Hank after quickly murdering him in a rage, that Hank's soul still died and went to hell while the freshly resurrected one lived on to become MC 7 Hank as a copy.
I like that theory. Of course Tricky's method would be fricked up and cause problems.
Watch dedmos adventure to see best boy back in action
Also MC11 dropped and was kino, the last one is 9.5 that's about what happens to Hank after his death in MC7
Why are there 2 Hanks again?
Probably his souls gets cloned each time he's brought back or hell laws got fricked once Tricky killed the Retainer
Exactly. Sanford abd Deimos are a package deal. No shit they'd lose one on one but together they can actually kill Hank and live after doing it. They did it in Project Nexus 2 so they're the only two that can kill Hank.
How much of a grudge do you have to hold to be that mad even after death?
Tricky wasn't even trying to kill him half of the time, and he was still nothing but bloodthirsty
They're a mysterious military group, seemingly some major paramilitary organization with a deep grudge against S.Q. Possibly sponsored by one of the Employers.
Do you think the reason as to why we never see Jebus again is due to the Retainers keeping watch over him in hell?
It would make sense as Jebus without his halo is only as good of a fighter as Deimos or Sanford and Doc can't bruteforce a revival without an opening
>why the frick would doc revive him
In the games, the two of them have some semblance of history
Whether that would ever be reflected in the animation was an assumption on my part
IF Jeb is still there and hasn't dissolved entirely yet, he most likely already been Retained. Assuming The Machine even designates him as that troublesome of an element to begin with.
The recently-added Magiturge path in Project Nexus basically confirms that this is its goal. Specifically, it wants to complete its 'redefinition' as The Madness by finding and dragging the Maker into "the abyssal depths beneath Nevada" and apparently forcibly merging him to itself, which will end everything everywhere forever.
>"Nevada is a riddle with no solution. A setup. With no punchline. The Machine, Nevada's Syntax, The Maker, The will behind the pen. All things that are, exist as a part of The Machine's limitless sprawl. All, that is, but the Highest Power, and the abyssal Depths beneath Nevada. The story that is told is nearing its end."
>(Upon completing Contract 1) "The Maker's hands have been idle so long, they have forgotten their work. But their craft requires they tread the most perilous path and nurture from it fruit to bear. To control The Machine, to direct it, without becoming part of its story, has proven contradictory. Paradoxical. Even to one of such infinite power as The Maker. Yet a machine cannot define itself... And if The Maker were made to merge with their grandest creation, if they were taken as a part of The Machine's composition... It would forever be beyond their control. The story that is told is nearing its end."
>(Upon completing Contract 2) "The Maker must remain unseen, unperceived by The Machine. Unknown to a structure that defines and is defined not only by matter, and space, and time, but by purpose. Intent. Fate. Every story told is a cog in the framework of The Machine. Every hero. Every Villain. A subject of its influence. Pulling the machine closer to its redefinition. Closer to The Madness. But the eldest of all storytellers must not be dragged by The Machine into the corrupted depths beneath Nevada. Should this come to pass, then the chaos of that realm would rewrite all things, for all time. The story that is told is nearing its end."
Will Krinkels ever reveal what this "Maker" looks like? He sounds like a pretty big deal.
2 years ago
Anonymous
We've seen him already. He appears when you do a second imprint in Arena Mode near the end to give you some cryptic lore exposition before you fight the Grand Steward.
2 years ago
Anonymous
So if this guy is essentially God of Madness why is he scared of The Machine? Why does The Machine HAVE to exist to hold the fabric of reality together?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>So if this guy is essentially God of Madness why is he scared of The Machine?
It's described as his "sibling" and presumably holds equal or greater authority. He also literally can't even enter any iteration of reality or any of the stories since The Machine will detect him and drag him into the abyssal depths below Nevada to incorporate him into itself and complete its redefinition. It will also presumably locate him if the Mandatus isn't continuously enmeshed either.
>Why does The Machine HAVE to exist to hold the fabric of reality together?
It's literally the fundamental makeup of everything that exists. Even the Maker himself only avoids becoming a part of it because he literally exists outside of existence itself, and that would all go away if he tried to directly intervene or expose himself for too long.
2 years ago
Anonymous
So basically...Maker made Nevada. His brother, Machine, then came along and tried to assimilate everyone in Nevada into his Hive Mind and now the Maker is too scared to touch his creation because he's afraid of being assimilated too?
2 years ago
Anonymous
The Maker seemingly either made Nevada via the Machine itself or aided in its creation by directing the Machine. He himself tells the Player when he meets and the latter asks him if he's "the all-powerful God who invented Nevada" that it's "Yes, but mostly no."
What's so bad about being assimilated anyway? The Machine and it's robot are b***hes anyway that die from regular bullets so I don't think it's more powerful than The Maker if his creations are The Employers.
>What's so bad about being assimilated anyway?
See
>(Upon completing Contract 1) "The Maker's hands have been idle so long, they have forgotten their work. But their craft requires they tread the most perilous path and nurture from it fruit to bear. To control The Machine, to direct it, without becoming part of its story, has proven contradictory. Paradoxical. Even to one of such infinite power as The Maker. Yet a machine cannot define itself... And if The Maker were made to merge with their grandest creation, if they were taken as a part of The Machine's composition... It would forever be beyond their control. The story that is told is nearing its end."
>(Upon completing Contract 2) "The Maker must remain unseen, unperceived by The Machine. Unknown to a structure that defines and is defined not only by matter, and space, and time, but by purpose. Intent. Fate. Every story told is a cog in the framework of The Machine. Every hero. Every Villain. A subject of its influence. Pulling the machine closer to its redefinition. Closer to The Madness. But the eldest of all storytellers must not be dragged by The Machine into the corrupted depths beneath Nevada. Should this come to pass, then the chaos of that realm would rewrite all things, for all time. The story that is told is nearing its end."
. Reality dies and The Machine reigns supreme forever and ever. Moreso than it already does.
>The Machine and it's robot are b***hes anyway that die from regular bullets
The Player is a First Generation Nevadean like Phobos or that dude trapped in Marshmallow with the Artifact, they all have the capacity to become Gods akin to the Employers. And the Player especially has begun to enmesh the Mandatus at that point and intends to let himself be consumed by the Nowhere and repeat the loop. He's strong enough by then to directly combat god-tier threats and take on the Grand Steward, who itself should sit above the Employers in terms of power.
>so I don't think it's more powerful than The Maker if his creations are The Employers.
The Employers serve the Machine. 2bDamned has notes stating that they are "stewards of the Machine" who administrate Nevada under its will. They're not allies of the Maker.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I hope we can hear from The Machine, I feel like The Maker might be full of shit, if Reality is going to end if The Machine is in control why would it have bothered maintaining it all this time?
2 years ago
Anonymous
Doc explains that The Machine has a broad goal involving the First Gen Nevadeans, no doubt related to The Madness. It NEEDS Nevada intact for whatever the hell it's planning. It's why the Employers were willing to let Jeb and co foil Phobos' attempt to attain Godhood, since he would have annihilated Nevada and its reality in the process.
Krinkels has also stated that even the Employers don't know the Machine's actual plan, they just do as it wills.
2 years ago
Anonymous
But why is the automatic assumption that the world would end? Maybe the Machine is trying to unfrick Nevada because at one point it was livable with a sun and not constant red tinted hellscape. Hank and co. Are definitely NOT heroe's of the story.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Anon, I don't think The Machine literally redefining and turning itself into "The Madness" implies anything good. And its chief servants and enforcers have only made the world an even shittier place.
It also literally rules Hell and traps people there until their souls and minds dissolve.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Hank and co. are still fighting the Auditor >There are still 3 other Employers left to go and then there is the machine >Hanks been needed to be revived like 3 times, Deimos is now Rockmos, Sandford is having a mental breakdown, and Doc is handsoff and seems to be less of a fighter than the rest
Literally how are they gonna take down the machine?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Sandford is having a mental breakdown
I think its a physical breakdown more than anything. He's now the least superhuman of the field duty lads and has been fricking pulverized without dying and being revived.
Also hank's gonna get a shonen power up and Jebus will come back through the power of friendship.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Jebus will come back through the power of friendship.
Anon, Krinkels said that Jebus had "gone the way of the Sheriff", the dude is gone for good. If anyone is getting asspulled back into the Madness as an ally, it's gotta be frickin Tricky.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>gone the way of the Sheriff
He's comin back too a-and he's gonna be the real man behind the strings and
JUST YOU WATCH, SHERIFF IS COOL
2 years ago
Anonymous
>If anyone is getting asspulled back into the Madness as an ally, it's gotta be frickin Tricky.
im pretty sure he cant comeback to life since his body is pretty much gone
2 years ago
Anonymous
Per a chart Krinkels made, Tricky isnt allowed to stay in the Other Place for very long. It always spits him back out eventually.
2 years ago
Anonymous
They won't. Hank couldn't even beat a Retainer on his own, and Krinkels has stated there are many more like it. There's also the Grand Steward beyond the Employers, and the Nowhere if you count that as an actual entity, both of which are before you can even think of confronting the Machine. Assuming it's even possible, since everything in the series outside of the Maker and whatever is below Nevada is a part of its framework, including the cast. And even the latter is beneficial for it, since it will somehow use that to make the Maker a part of itself.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>and Krinkels has stated there are many more like it.
We don't even need word of god, 9.5 itself shows there are at least like 900 of them.
That said, you shouldn't count Hank and Friends out. At one point, fighting the Auditor seemed hopeless, and then Hank kicked his ass. They're gonna do it. They're gonna save Nevada.
2 years ago
Anonymous
What's so bad about being assimilated anyway? The Machine and it's robot are b***hes anyway that die from regular bullets so I don't think it's more powerful than The Maker if his creations are The Employers.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>So if this guy is essentially God of Madness why is he scared of The Machine?
Imagine it this way.
Let's say, hypothetically, you found/created a omnipotent artifact that is capable of altering the destiny of ANYTHING you wish.
For example, you could wish for the weather to be destined to be clear tomorrow, or wish that there shall be no more traffic jams on your way to work for the rest of time.
Pretty fine and dandy, right? It sure would be, that is, until you realize that it doesn't just affect what'll happen in the short term. It completely rewrites the destiny of whatever that is effected by your wishes, meaning that whatever happens afterwards is completely predetermined with no random element whatsoever. I sure hope you didn't wish for anything that directly affects (You), bucko, because that'd mean your free will is gone FOREVER. No take backsies.
Now, imagine The Machine as that fate-altering artifact, except it is constantly governing the removal of the random element at all times, and has done this for all of time.
There's a problem though - it's breaking down.
The Maker is in the same position as (You) in the hypothetical scenario. If he tries to fix The Machine, he becomes part of its algorithms and loses control. And since The Machine governs the entirety of Nevada, he is powerless to stop the impending Madness that threatens to bring an end to all that he holds dear.
The Maker is a god held hostage by his own creation, and for that reason he is as good as dead.
Simply put, Nevada is FRICKED.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Give it to me straight because I haven't played the newer PN game, Just who is the Auditor in all of this?
2 years ago
Anonymous
>There's a problem though - it's breaking down.
Even worse. It is INTENTIONALLY breaking itself to frick everyone over for completely alien and incomprehensible, but malign reasoning. Everything it does, it has calculated and manipulated towards causing the Madness.
The Machine is the ultimate conductor for the ultimate ride, and it has removed all the brakes and sabotaged the engine so it can crash this train with no survivors.
Give it to me straight because I haven't played the newer PN game, Just who is the Auditor in all of this?
One of the Employers, servants of the Machine. Glorified middle management, in Krinkels own words.
2 years ago
Anonymous
That's a pretty good summary of the situation, damn Navada is really doomed without the constant Enmeschment loop, but if that keeps happening why not just let it all end at that point?
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The Auditor is just an Employer like Stygian and Conductor. They're angels/Maiar stewards to The Machine that can interact with and run the agencies/cults around Nevada.
What the hell, You mean after ALL of the stuff seen in the animations, He's not even the only guy in charge, but not THE one in charge? Just how deep does this go?
2 years ago
Anonymous
It's almost 20 years going on top of entire fan made stuff, the lore goes very deep.
2 years ago
Anonymous
In order to get the basic idea of the lore, you need to play Project Nexus 1 & 2.
I was always under the impression that the lore was told through the fighting and what's going on in the background(posters, signs, etc)?
2 years ago
Anonymous
In order to get the basic idea of the lore, you need to play Project Nexus 1 & 2.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Out of all the Employers, Deliberator seems the most likely to be their effective leader. And even the Employers sit below what seems to be The Machine's personal handmaiden/avatar, the Grand Steward.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>And even the Employers sit below what seems to be The Machine's personal handmaiden/avatar, the Grand Steward.
Hopefully he's also weak to Lightning Punch
2 years ago
Anonymous
That's a pretty good summary of the situation, damn Navada is really doomed without the constant Enmeschment loop, but if that keeps happening why not just let it all end at that point?
Give it to me straight because I haven't played the newer PN game, Just who is the Auditor in all of this?
The Auditor is just an Employer like Stygian and Conductor. They're angels/Maiar stewards to The Machine that can interact with and run the agencies/cults around Nevada.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>but if that keeps happening why not just let it all end at that point?
That's the thing, it already has. Pretty much everything that happens in Madness is set after the events of Arena mode (roughly a 30-year gap in time between arena mode's end and madness 1, i think.) Where the Machine has thoroughly decayed and has fricked reality backwards. "Preventing the end of Nevada" was impossible from the start.
Instead, the loop exists as a way to preserve a little piece of Nevada before its fall for as long as the Protagonist continues the cycle of being untold. It is also designed to spare the Protagonist from the Madness that awaits everyone else.
It's basically intended as the Maker's way of spiting the Machine by having a moment in time be stuck in pre-Madness, forever.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Will the game be updated enough that the Arena Guy just refuses to Enmesch anymore and let's the stasis loop end? It must be pretty tiring doing the same thing over and over and over again.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Despite arena mode being just about killing grunts over and over again, one could assume the protagonist doesn't just do that all the time while living life in the city. It's unseen while the player is playing but they probably go do normal grunt things when not on a job. And with a city as large as nexus city there's a whole hell of a lot you can do to not go bored during eternity.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Simply put, Nevada is FRICKED.
Nah, Hank's got this.
2 years ago
Anonymous
t. Hank
You said that about Phobos. And the Sheriff. And Jebus. And the Clown. And the Auditor. And...
2 years ago
Anonymous
>You said that about Phobos.
Dead >And the Sheriff.
Dead >And Jebus.
Dead >And the Clown.
Shut up >And the Auditor.
Will be dead in 12
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Phobos
Not really dead dead, just trapped in the Other Place forever.
>Shut up CANNOT KILL CLOWN
2 years ago
Anonymous
Hell will vanish once we break the machine, and everyone in it will be dead dead.
2 years ago
Anonymous
That will also kill you and everything else that exists and does not exist, Hank.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Sounds like a bluff. Nevada wasn't always this way. In fact it was normal like a week ago
i dont think anything outside nevada even exists
not like because theres only nevada, but that the farther you go from nevada, the less real it becomes
Where the frick are you guys getting all this lore from? Is it from Nexus? I havent played it, is it likr canon to the series or its a different timeline
Nexus is a massive fricking loredump that adds another entire Madness Combat worth of lore onto the series
I think we don't have to worry about Sanford and Deimos being permanently offed. If we got the whole Dedmos thing going, Krinkels knows they're fan favorites and has them safely set aside.
>Sandford and Deimos killed Hank at the end of project nexus because Hank gone into "orders are orders even if it means world destruction"
Wtf is his problem?
wtf these animations are still going? It takes me back to when I used to make gay little violent stick cartoons using PowerPoint on the school computers
Goku
Demonbane
almost any eldritch entity (shoot, Cthulhu will work)
I think Duke Nukem and Doom Guy could, Serious Sam is a maybe
Doom Slayer
Kirby (lore)
Master Chief (lore)
Samus, if she is powered up
Yeah, he was also fricking up the Auditor real good even before Phobos. These Employers entities are pretty powerful and can frick up Nevada if they go unhinged.
Funnily enough, REALM sort of downgrades the Employers in comparison to the canon. In REALM, they can permanently die and are closer to standard angels than proper Gods. In the main series and Project Nexus though, they're literally dimensions/entire realities onto themselves (Jeb himself explicitly says that Phobos' planbto make himself an Employer, having Gestalt enmesh the Other Place snd destroy our universe in the process, would turn it/him into a "God-Realm"). They can't even exist in Nevada for long since they'll cause a "two shaken up soda cans" situation and implode everything.
This is to the point that you can completely bad end in the Haunting of Nevada House scenario in Arena Mode if you let the Demomaniacs succeed in their ritual to summon Stygian, who instantly causes the end of the world and a game over.
Eh, I think REALM keeps it so that only named Employers are powerful while the standard red ones are lesser Angel or Maiar entities. The main Employer Kelzad in Realm has his entire purple crystal dimension and even takes over Nexus City engulfing all of Nevada.
Yeah, but Sokar (the Employer possessing Kelzad) isn't LITERALLY his realm. He controls it with absolute authority and is the undisputed strongest of the observed Employers in that series, but there's no indication given that Sokar's realm is indistinguishable from himself in the same way that the Auditor's Hell IS the Auditor. Even his claim to being the concept of Madness itself mostly comes across as hype.
I knew I should have changed "entity" to "god"
One of the outer beings.
I barely know the mythos, but I'm sure one of those is above in ranking.
I'm talking the ancient old ones.
The Employers are basically Outer Gods as is (being entire realities means that they're really well beyond Great Old One status); though admittedly, Krinkels considers the Auditor "inferior" to the other Employers since he's the sort of unga moron who picks fights with mortals to begin with. And the Machine and Maker are above both of them.
I'm now immediately imagine the half mag rush attack from the game except its the claw and he instead of just punching you drags you through several different levels before killing you
Osman Sinnoks from Brutal Orchestra.
Man is like Andre the Giant if he was hopped up on adrenaline and had the ability to literally remove people from reality as well as being able to survive being vertically bisected and STILL keep fighting.
>Madness Global
That feels like a movie sort of deal. Like, if Krinkels ever decided to make a 2-hour movie (Something like Killer Bean's movie) to end the series, it would be Hank and co. trying to undo madness permanently before it fricks the world for good.
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I hate how these remakes makes everything so slow and how the music is soulless compared to the original or how the animation doesn't follow the music, that's one of my favorite things in madness animations
I kinda like the slow pace of the older remakes in retrospect considering how insane the scale and powerlevels of the newer one are in comparison. Makes them feel fittingly more grounded.
I hate how these remakes makes everything so slow and how the music is soulless compared to the original or how the animation doesn't follow the music, that's one of my favorite things in madness animations
The slow pace is good though because it has better fight choreography and creative kills instead of just shooting a room full of guys once and moving on, there's an actual fight being viewed.
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I kinda like the slow pace of the older remakes in retrospect considering how insane the scale and powerlevels of the newer one are in comparison. Makes them feel fittingly more grounded.
I think they try too hard with it and does't look as good but I can see why people would like it
is decent but is not as good as the original, besides it doesn't match the animation that well, for example in the original when Tricky gets shot the music changes a bit in tone, it's the little details man
Besides Hank killing all of the grunts in the disco before and after they get revived looks smooth and cool af, but here in the remake is meh
So many of these fan animations have this super weird "wiggly" animation on all of the characters, like they aren't even in control of themselves, and the camera is operated by some drunkard. They're also overproduced in the wrong ways, focusing more on detailing the background and characters rather than the actual animation quality.
Basically these people need to learn from Krinkels a bit harder.
Because of how """cool""" they try to make the aniation look it all ends up looking like a bland overcooked mush. What's great about Krinkels' stuff is that everything has juuuust the right ammount of movement and everything is given juuuuust the right ammount of screentime. His attention to small details as well is something that no one is capable to replicate. All in all, fan animations were at their best when they weren't trying so hard.
Watch the videos, read the Newground video descriptions, play the games. Really not that hard to figure it out. Hell watch some generic yoytube explaination video if you can't do it.
Use guns only for Hard Sell, n51 does not frick around, melee is downright useless because ninja's and psycho's can stunlock you. Also Vampires are weak to fire and stakes that can kill them in one animation.
whats the best approach for hirelings? feels like getting tanky fricks to distract enemies while you commence the jigglin is the go-to but im not sure if optimal strats have been figured out or what
They're a mysterious military group, seemingly some major paramilitary organization with a deep grudge against S.Q. Possibly sponsored by one of the Employers.
I don't think they work for or with any of the Employers, they have to be some strict third party organization. They've only appeared once and weren't talked about at all.
Because Hank is a fricking menace, he's slaughtered hundreds of victims to the point that an entire agency was created with the only purpose of stopping him.
But those people are all bad guys? They work for the Auditor, who Jeb wanted to stop. In MC8 he's literally doing the same stuff than Sand and Dead were up to.
Originally the AAHW were just meant to stop Hank but through their horrific means to do absolutely anything including using the Improbability Drive Jeb has declared them to be Sinners no better than Hank.
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I was always under the impression that the lore was told through the fighting and what's going on in the background(posters, signs, etc)?
There was a lot more, entire page long descriptions on Newgrounds.
Jeb himself started out thinking that the Employers were working for the greater good of Nevada, or at least that their Nexus charter was beneficial. He only fully turns against them near the end of Project Nexus 2 and even then, he still brings up the charter as something worth following and kowtows when they show up near the end of the game (despite clearly disliking it) because he has no more cards left to play at that point and he's staring down four demon Gods who could unmake him with a literal thought in the face.
Jeb himself didn't even have beef with the AAHW themselves until they proved that they and the Auditor are equally as vile as Hank himself.
>are equally as vile as Hank himself. >Breaking reality and enslaving the souls of all who live is equally as bad as out-murdering prople trying to kill you
Man Jeb you can go frick yourself
MC7 takes place an indeterminate amount of time after Project Nexus 2, where Hank willfully blasted Jeb off of a supermassive tower right before Jeb could stop the project from threatening all reality by safely shutting it down and actually working to instate change for the better in Nevada. Solely to complete his mission to destroy it, which would destroy all of Nevada at MINIMUM. And this was AFTER Jeb forced down all his dislike for the man being a murderous monster after previously refusing to work with him and Doc, all to save the world.
Jeb is justifiably pissed and wants him fricking gone. He's nearly as bad as the Employers themselves.
Jeb is an avenging angel punishing the Sinners and evil in Nevada (which is almost inherently evil by its very nature, because of The Machine). Phobos was the one who wanted to transcend to godhood at the cost of all reality, and that's why Jeb killed him. Twice even.
I gotta a question though, if Hank is just as bad as the Auditor is, why do Doc(2BDAMNED), Sanford, and Deimos keep bringing him. Especially back when the higher powers aren't involved, and they could essentially be Hank-free?
Hank is an effective weapon despite being almost completely uncontrollable. He can hold his own against Tricky and the Auditor, Sanford and Deimos are just guys and whole together they can almost be at hos combat level but seperate they can be widdled down.
Because Hank is the muscle and really, really, REALLY good at killing whatever you point him at. Sanford and Deimos also kind of consider him a friend, despite his bullshit, which is why they didn't off him at the end of Project Nexus.
Doc himself doesn't seem to care either way. Fighting the forces of Hell means you can't be picky about who recruit.
Pretty certain they didn't want to kill him. Hank himself says he doesn't consider them his friends yeah, but Hank is an butthole. He hates everyone except Doc, and even that's debatable.
Of course they didn't want to kill him, probably thought they couldn't but the feeling wasn't mutual with Hank and when it came down to it Sanford and Deimos can kill Hank but only together, if it was one on one Deimos would immediately eat shit, Sanford could last a little longer because he's a melee beefcake but not much longer.
Pretty certain they didn't want to kill him. Hank himself says he doesn't consider them his friends yeah, but Hank is an butthole. He hates everyone except Doc, and even that's debatable.
what the frick was Hank's problem in project nexus
That was fricking weird. Felt very out of character, given how we've seen him be so protective of Sanford in MC9 through 11.
Project Nexus hank is the MC9.5 hank that got left behind in hell, which is why he's a fricking butthole, he got straight up ditched
>in the animated series has enhanced physical strength, speed and endurance >can rip off heads like they're taped on >but somehow two random grunts that got splattered by a giant building(but not) can beat him
I just can't buy it, chief.
Black person they're a tagteam and their skilset is way above grunts. It's fairly believable that they can kill Hank with their fighting style (Deimos being the gunman in the back while Sanford tussles with Hank in the front)
>Deimos being the gunman
Oh, A gunman! Hank hasn't fought those before. >Sanford tussles with Hank in the front >tussling with someone that can kill you in one punch
Like I said, Can't buy it.
Anon Sanford is swole, he can definitely take a Hank punch, also their experienced so they wouldn't be actively taking hits, they never do when fighting agent goons. Combined they're equal to fighting force with Hank.
>takes place 30 years ago
No way, because Doc would be stuck in the enmeschment loop, but Dr. Crackpot and Phobos are alive so this time period is very fricky. How would the continuity still happen if the enmeschment loop keeps happening?
The Enmeshment loop more or less works by cutting out that period of Nevada for the Player and repeating it without beginning nor end. Nobody else experiences the loop but them, but it perfectly copies everyone they interact with down to personalities and mannerisms all.
2 years ago
Anonymous
What happens if the Arena Guy stops doing the Enmeschment loop? Will this copy of Nevada just cease to exist or will these time loop doubles go out in the world?
2 years ago
Anonymous
If he stops smashing the Mandatus, Nevada falls to The Machine and it likely succeeds in locating and assimilating the Maker into itself.
There was a madness series that was two people. One in red and another in blue. The only I remember is "Heaven or Hell" "Let's do this"
Xionic Madness, most likely.
2 years ago
Anonymous
*enmeshing
2 years ago
Anonymous
But how is the continuity going on outside of this loop? If it keeps getting reset every time how is this stopping The Machime outside of this loop from finding the Maker?
Friendly reminder hank is so homicidal that he would kill an another version of himself given the chance
That's more Antipathy Hank, he was powered by rage for the Clown, killing people with a severed head, 7's Hank seems more tired and a bit less violent to an extent. The whole "hello again...and again....and again...and again...and again... shows he's not into it as much anymore.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>If it keeps getting reset every time how is this stopping The Machime outside of this loop from finding the Maker?
Machine is likely too busy using algorithms to deal with the Enmeshment of Mandatus (recall that 2BDamned defines Mandatus as a "limb" that The Machine has extended at one point) to focus on whatever the Maker is doing.
2 years ago
Anonymous
What is the Maker even doing? Seems to be frick all really, everything he say's is very incoherent with no real forward goal.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Trying to stop The Machine, recognizes he can't stop The Machine, and is now mostly just trying to preserve what little he can to spite The Machine before he goes down.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Since modern Hank can't even beat a Retainer there's really nothing that can stop The Machine at all? Maker can't be this pathetic he has to have something out there.
2 years ago
Anonymous
I mean, if the Maker has a plan, he certainly isn't spilling. Only the Gambler knows, if anyone does.
2 years ago
Anonymous
Regular Hank can't do shit, but he got MAG'd in 9, got Jebus powers in 10, and Auditor hacks in 11. In his current form, especially now having learned how the retainers fight, he'd tear them to pieces. He was on par with the Auditor even before MC11. Clearly he and his buds will just keep megamanning new powers until they can kill god and turn everything back to normal.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>absolute endgame Hank is going to be Madness Combat personified
2 years ago
Anonymous
>on par with the Auditor
The Auditor mostly didn't seem to be actually using his powers effectively. He mostly relied on material weaponry to do his shit, when even Tricky merged with him was freely fricking reality up the ass with impunity. Hell, Phobos was at best only a pseudo-Employer (if that) and it still took Sanford, Hank, Deimos, and Jeb working together to finally take him down.
I think the Auditor being such a failure when it comes to being an Employer likely has to do with him existing to keep a certain level of 'order' within Nevada and the fact that he stoops to the level of a mortal to fight them. He's an idiot who just so happens to be a God.
2 years ago
Anonymous
>Hell, Phobos was at best only a pseudo-Employer (if that) and it still took Sanford, Hank, Deimos, and Jeb working together to finally take him down.
Well that was back when they were less skilled, and all of them but Jeb were normal humans
2 years ago
Anonymous
xionic madness?
Xionic Madness, what a fricking flashback that is. It was a perfect encapsulation of the mid-to-late 2000's 'coolguy' edgy.
And I adore it
I just read through the entire thread, and holy shit, is all of project nexus 1 and 2 canon? I've only watched the animated series. I didn't realize there was so much more fricking lore to it all
Yes all the games and videos are canon. There's a specific timegap that happens from the videos and on to the games because characters like Sherrif are alive again, even Hank mentions the time he actually killed him.
Where the frick are you guys getting all this lore from? Is it from Nexus? I havent played it, is it likr canon to the series or its a different timeline
Yes all the games and videos are canon. There's a specific timegap that happens from the videos and on to the games because characters like Sherrif are alive again, even Hank mentions the time he actually killed him.
I still think the best segment is an injured Deimos and Sanford fighting through the waves of morons and gradually healing/grabbing their outfits along the way.
every time i see this character, it reminds me of some dude i know on Steam that has Hank as his profile picture who died in Syria. he was an atheist from Finland who somehow converted to Islam and became radicalized. he went to Turkey, crossed the border and i have never heard from him again since 2015.
>from Finland
Why is it always Finnish people when I here about people's online friends going fricking insane and getting themselve killed or doing some other crazy shit?
No sunlight will literally drive you mad. I'm in Texas and have been staying out of this hellish 102+ Degree F weather and have noticeably less energy, am more irritable, and worry more.
You ever think that, maybe, if you're the kind of person to go outside, you have hobbies that you're into that you simply can't do when inside? So you're irritated when you can't go outside?
I've been working nightshift, awake after the sun goes down and asleep before it comes back up and I don't feel much different
maybe it's because I was already a pale frick that hated the sun
buy one of them torches that you can light up near you that gives off lots of smoke to repel the bugs. or just burn some egg cartons, that does the trick for cheap
I don't understand why it keeps flipping that Madness characters aren't human but there's the entire trailer and all this art that has them humanized. Didn't Krinkles say that their flesh feels like clay and thar a Madness guy would freak the frick out of they ever saw a human? They even know their hands float and did a reality breaking experiment on it.
Yes but one was the original and morphed into the elder god entity called The Clown that can manifest and possess other people.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the only reason why Tricky hasn't been considered for being ascended to Employer status is because The Machine considers The Clown to be too unpredictable in the short-term to focus on administrating Nevada.
What's the name of the song that plays against the Machine in the final fight of Arena? I remember it also shows up in one of the old trailers for Proyect Nexus.
I love the cloning angle they're going with here, which is a first because usually it's a horseshit trope to handwave away consequences. Here, it's just creating more consequences yet to be seen. It also makes Project Nexus make more sense. I also love how much of a genuinely unlikeable butthole Hank is in Nexus.
>uploader 'Santy the Grunt' >joined YouTube in 2020 >has FNF uploads and uploads such as picrelated, uploading about 1 video a week since they joined (large quantity of SPAM)
>haha little cartoons go brrrrr >actually the godhead is you and it achieved chim which began the age of man and the tree of life hgave everyone chakra and the titan created the burning legion and the first yokai became feared then father was actually a hummunculus and gilgamesh wanted immortality and the god gave kain super vampire power for killing his brother and actually he was never infected with a second version he just had his memories surpressed and then the conjuction of spheres happened and then todd made another shit game
What the actual frick?
I'm stuck on the vampire mission and don't care to progress further now.
When you get back outside you get swamped by a lot of yellow vamps that keep murking me. It's super annoying to do the entire thing again as it's a lot of walking.
basically anything that's size micro csn takedown and permanently kill any vampire like wooden stakes
torches also deal fire damage and get dropped by the hunters
I'm a Gankerisitor to this board and you niggets just hit me in the nostaljiaballs. We used to play madness about 20 years ago during IT lessons at school as only flash games worked on the crappy school computers. Good/weird to see its still going even if it has changed drastically. Damn I feel old now.
So how does the timeline look like? Is project nexus 1 as canon as project nexus 2? And when does it happen if all the guys are in their advanced outfits?
Ok can someone redpill me on the lore of MC? I've been looking for a good summary or place with lore-dump but can only find gay ass "ice-berg" videos about MC fnadom drama
Jackie chan
Mario with a star
Could Mario with a starman beat Goku? He's completely invisible in that state.
kirby
The Auditor
Wario
Yeah right
Alright wise guy, name one thing Hank could do to kill Wario.
Many ways since its not like Wario is invincible 24/7. Even if Hank "can't" kill him, OP only said name 1 character who can stop Hank which I doubt Wario could stop him
>its not like Wario is invincible 24/7
He kind of is when the only prerequisite to his immortality is for him to just not feel like dying.
>OP only said name 1 character who can stop Hank which I doubt Wario could stop him
He's an immortal, surprisingly quick and athletic fatass with a moronic amount of strength. The most he would need to do is ram into Hank once and he's done for. Whereas the Hank's only chance is running away.
Anyone with the equivalent of Hold Person, Hank's basically just the most skilled and talented out of a bunch of otherwise mundane characters. Doesn't have any real resistance to superpowers.
>otherwise mundane characters
They can literally all parry, dodge, redirect or just flst-out block bullets. Even basic AAHW have TAC Bars. Sanford and Deimos arent as strong or skilled as Hank, and both can snap the necks of G0L3Ms and MAGs. They are all blatantly superhuman.
Hank has moron strength even before his MAG form. The dude is canonically stronger than GO3LMs, even as a normal grunt with a penchant for killing.
Some butthole with a microphone.
I fricking hate zoomers
get over yourself, old homosexual
FNF was made for a Newgrounds Game Jam. Its a rhythm game cut of the same cloth as Madness Combat.
You're not just old, you're moronic.
cope, the fanbase is full with moronic kids and those kids are infesting other fanbases with their autistm
Tricky mod was pretty good actually, but is a shame about the fandom
>fanbase
>fandom
ZOOM ZOOM ZOOM
That new part's so fricking good. Had the soundtrack on repeat since its release.
Just, just listen to it!
I like it but it doesn't feel as strong as other episodes, like it lacks the impact and rhythm of the previous episodes
Jesus is just too powerful and based
I've never heard something quite like the MC10 theme. The Apex of Newgrounds really.
Binah
These were so fricking cool back in the day do they make em anymore?
Uh, yeah, there's even a decent game out.
A new part came out just this week.
Cyber Jesus for one.
Die again again, Hank.
Postal Dude
yeah no
postal could regen a lot but hank would be unhittable and would instakill postal
hes not that good
>t. doesn't remember any Postal content past the Fudge Pack
The Easter Bunny and The b***h moved more frantically than Hank could in his wildest dreams, and The Dude slapped them around.
These people don't know Hank.
Yes, I played Postal 2.
Hank would fricking mop the floor with Postal Dude
Jebus.
Tricky.
The auditor.
Himself.
Also, project nexus is boring.
>endgame
Hahaha, we all have shotguns and full TAC. Hope you went into guns.
>not using the chameleon implant
me
apparently Jesus
multiple times as a matter of fact
Sekiro, both will just die to each other constantly
that would be a kino duel
>watched all the parts again
>hank is the one that start the fight in 1
I conditioned myself into thinking that hank was the one with boombox and i dont know how
Anyone with a gun. Hank is just a master weapon wielding martial artist and he's not OP. He's "died" like 6 times.
He is most definitely OP, especially in later chapters. Just not invincible. Dual wielding and shooting behind himself without at all looking doing flips and acrobatics and being improbably strong. He's definitely the strongest non-supernatural being in his own series.
why did Hank try to kill himself?
He stole his kill
Always be stronger than your past self, even if that means killing your future self
I want to mating press femHank
how big does my wiener need to be so femHank let's me frick her?
Clown sized
Which Hank do you want to bang? It varies wildly.
in this case consternation Hank looks hotter
not a bad deal
femHank fricks YOU
Why is femhank a thing?
Rule 63, anon.
I don't like it, this isn't right.
What isnt?
R63 madness characters.
imagine the sex with a female Tricky, you'd die if you don't please her or get your pelvis crushed if she starts having those weird epileptic atacks
No please, I'd rather a girl oc, I can't get into r63 it's too weird.
BUILT FOR HUMAN wiener
N51 wiener specifically.
i'm thinking that these posts are probably just salty shilling his OC on Ganker
>no cross on the face
into the garbage it goes
Rude, Jeb doesn't have a cross on his face.
yes he does, dumb waifugay
Post 5-6 Jeb you dumbass.
not only did you try to go for the "t-that doesn't count!" argument but you're also blatantly wrong
Yeah he does
b***h looks more like a thing thing desing with breasts than anything madness
evona is better
I think Liz is cuter tbqh family.
Mmm big liz.
isn't she completely redesigned now that her creator put her into fnf or some shit? like far uglier and just a girlfriend recolor
I would like her to stand directly over me so I can fap looking up her skirt.
What if she decides to press down and crushes your head in? (Mag's weigh a lot)
What a way to go bro
Sounds like a pretty shitty and painful way to die to me.
Hey even Krinkles himself has done some of it
I love Hank worried expression
don't post it
don't post it
don't post it
don't post it
don't you fricking post it
post what ?
>didn't appear in the game all
What the frick how could they do Torture dirty like that?
>is all gay shit
OHMIGOD JC A BIMBO
A BIMBO!?
Name of the artist? Couldn't find them thru the signature and Yandex gives nothing.
If there's more Hank then there's less Hank things for Hank to do
Antipathy Hank is a c**t that's why.
He's the coolest tho
Trust nobody not ever yourself
Only one of them gets to live while the other is stuck in hell, why do you think?
I wish there was a place where you could browse all the posters through the series
CJ
Why are there 2 Hanks again?
>2
There is a Hank in hell for each time he died.
>Hank and Deimos got off-screened by the Auditor after Expugation
>Higher Powers have to "revive" Hank again, >Normally they would use a Improbability Drive to make a copy of Hank to "revive" him
>Since there are none left, they search hell for his soul to put in a corpse instead
>only one can leave
Deimos is back to Nevada thanks to 2bdamned so I don't think they would kill him off camera after he got a whole miniseries
I think he meant Sanford, which is still confusing because Krinkels confirmed he was still alive after the events of 11 but y3r78xwfig43husi2w3gjuh
Doc is the one who usually puts Hank into a new copy of himself. But apparently Hank is integral to The Machine's plans so who knows what the frick is going on.
It's called 9.5, it takes place during MC9 not after Expurgation.
My theory since Tricky is some kind of Elder God demon he resurrected Antipathy Hank after quickly murdering him in a rage, that Hank's soul still died and went to hell while the freshly resurrected one lived on to become MC 7 Hank as a copy.
would make sense to explain why we see only 2, since the other times he would be revived the "right way" unlike what it happens with Tricky frickery
There are apparently around 7 variations of Hank running around in Hell.
Depends on the retainers though, Hank 7 only got out after being retained when the retainer was fricked by Tricky.
how do you know? he haven't died that many times I think
punished Hank would remain as the best, and he's stronger than consternation Hank too
He's died four times, three times by Jeb and once by Tricky.
Agreed. He was pushing consternation Hank's shit in. I still like both for different reasons though.
Double the madness.
Hank was missing half his head in episode 7.
The half that got destroyed was when Hank was still his Antipathy self. The other half that was still alive and moving got revived, creating two Hanks.
that's not how brain works anon
it literally does. you can lose half your brain and still be you. hemispherectomy is a thing.
also hell and souls don't exist and this is fiction.
>hell and souls don't exist
Cringe take.
>*tips fedora*
Holy shit I stopped caring about MC for a couple years and now I'm seeing the latest one has Antipathy Hank back?
>I stopped caring about MC for a couple years
Well yeah, there was nothing to even care about for a decade.
I keep thinking 2012 was 2 years ago.
Well, aside from Project Nexus.
I like that theory. Of course Tricky's method would be fricked up and cause problems.
It's so weird to think the funny dj zombie clown that tried to kill Hank with a giant marshmallow at The Bakery is a nightmare elder god.
Watch dedmos adventure to see best boy back in action
Also MC11 dropped and was kino, the last one is 9.5 that's about what happens to Hank after his death in MC7
Probably his souls gets cloned each time he's brought back or hell laws got fricked once Tricky killed the Retainer
Hank.
The only thing that can kill one-man army is another one-man army
Bill is strong but he dies in 1 hit. Hank can tank hits heavy enough to knock him through concrete walls and survive.
AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA
Sanford and Deimos.
they would job hard unless they go at the same time, and that's gay
Exactly. Sanford abd Deimos are a package deal. No shit they'd lose one on one but together they can actually kill Hank and live after doing it. They did it in Project Nexus 2 so they're the only two that can kill Hank.
Isnt Tricky the sole reason Hank has a fricked up mouth?
Anyhow Pico, pico could take him maybe. Maybe Dad.
>Pico
lol, lmao even
>Dad
he's strong but idk much about him so who knows
pico is a national newgrounds hero you ingrate
(hero here is subjective)
I know but he still would get trashed hard by Hank, dude is just too op for human standards
>Posting the inferior version
Step aside.
How much of a grudge do you have to hold to be that mad even after death?
Tricky wasn't even trying to kill him half of the time, and he was still nothing but bloodthirsty
how do i achieve such natty?
get your head ripped off by a reality breaking zombie clown and be resurrected by a higher power
but if we're talking pure ability, this Hank's probably inferior to anything past demon claw
Mango Tango
>watching from the first one right now because why the frick not
>turns out Itazura Madness music was based on MC2 music
Cool
what's the deal with this game? it's so weird
but also fun
Love games that allow you to become extremely overpowered, but I only figured out that you can go on forever from first difficulty by accident.
Who the FRICK are these guys and why are they more dangerous than both the Nexus Core and AAHW?
They're a mysterious military group, seemingly some major paramilitary organization with a deep grudge against S.Q. Possibly sponsored by one of the Employers.
There's always a bigger fish
Do you think the reason as to why we never see Jebus again is due to the Retainers keeping watch over him in hell?
It would make sense as Jebus without his halo is only as good of a fighter as Deimos or Sanford and Doc can't bruteforce a revival without an opening
or maybe no one bothers with him, I mean he quit with Auditor and why the frick would doc revive him??
homie is on his own
Jeb never worked with Auditor, only the Sherrif. He's branded the AAHW as all sinners.
>why the frick would doc revive him
In the games, the two of them have some semblance of history
Whether that would ever be reflected in the animation was an assumption on my part
IF Jeb is still there and hasn't dissolved entirely yet, he most likely already been Retained. Assuming The Machine even designates him as that troublesome of an element to begin with.
The reason Krinkels gave is that he is in actual hell with the sheriff and not in wherever Hank ends up every time he dies.
All of them
FNF is cancer
This, Girlfriend is pretty hot but man the dev team is a complete fricking joke. Frick homosexual Muffin.
>Lost Jebus and got Sanford and Deimos
No, it's not an equivalent exchange. I want Jebus back. Dumb fricking furry ass b***h krinkels.
Jeb powers are cool af to watch, it's a shame he's still dead and would probably not get the halo back ever
I'm still holding out hope for a Jeb appearance in hell
Thoughts on the New Origin voiced by Senator Armstrong himself?
currently on my pure STR massive, what does the magic man do?
game where you play as a G03LM or MAG fricking when
I didn't get to be a big buy in MPN arena yet, that one doesn't count?
Why is Nevada so fricked up?
because of joe biden
Hank killed the Sun.
It's hinted because of the improbability drive. The auditor is powered one.
It's just like that here, the only thing that Madness doesn't feature is the 24/7 liquor and slot machines in gas stations
It's complicated
Life is simply unfair.
>tfw Krinkels has implied things are somehow worse outside of Nevada in-universe
I wonder if the end game of the machine is to take Madness on a global scale? No longer contained in Nevada, madness is just frickin everywhere.
The recently-added Magiturge path in Project Nexus basically confirms that this is its goal. Specifically, it wants to complete its 'redefinition' as The Madness by finding and dragging the Maker into "the abyssal depths beneath Nevada" and apparently forcibly merging him to itself, which will end everything everywhere forever.
>"Nevada is a riddle with no solution. A setup. With no punchline. The Machine, Nevada's Syntax, The Maker, The will behind the pen. All things that are, exist as a part of The Machine's limitless sprawl. All, that is, but the Highest Power, and the abyssal Depths beneath Nevada. The story that is told is nearing its end."
>(Upon completing Contract 1) "The Maker's hands have been idle so long, they have forgotten their work. But their craft requires they tread the most perilous path and nurture from it fruit to bear. To control The Machine, to direct it, without becoming part of its story, has proven contradictory. Paradoxical. Even to one of such infinite power as The Maker. Yet a machine cannot define itself... And if The Maker were made to merge with their grandest creation, if they were taken as a part of The Machine's composition... It would forever be beyond their control. The story that is told is nearing its end."
>(Upon completing Contract 2) "The Maker must remain unseen, unperceived by The Machine. Unknown to a structure that defines and is defined not only by matter, and space, and time, but by purpose. Intent. Fate. Every story told is a cog in the framework of The Machine. Every hero. Every Villain. A subject of its influence. Pulling the machine closer to its redefinition. Closer to The Madness. But the eldest of all storytellers must not be dragged by The Machine into the corrupted depths beneath Nevada. Should this come to pass, then the chaos of that realm would rewrite all things, for all time. The story that is told is nearing its end."
Will Krinkels ever reveal what this "Maker" looks like? He sounds like a pretty big deal.
We've seen him already. He appears when you do a second imprint in Arena Mode near the end to give you some cryptic lore exposition before you fight the Grand Steward.
So if this guy is essentially God of Madness why is he scared of The Machine? Why does The Machine HAVE to exist to hold the fabric of reality together?
>So if this guy is essentially God of Madness why is he scared of The Machine?
It's described as his "sibling" and presumably holds equal or greater authority. He also literally can't even enter any iteration of reality or any of the stories since The Machine will detect him and drag him into the abyssal depths below Nevada to incorporate him into itself and complete its redefinition. It will also presumably locate him if the Mandatus isn't continuously enmeshed either.
>Why does The Machine HAVE to exist to hold the fabric of reality together?
It's literally the fundamental makeup of everything that exists. Even the Maker himself only avoids becoming a part of it because he literally exists outside of existence itself, and that would all go away if he tried to directly intervene or expose himself for too long.
So basically...Maker made Nevada. His brother, Machine, then came along and tried to assimilate everyone in Nevada into his Hive Mind and now the Maker is too scared to touch his creation because he's afraid of being assimilated too?
The Maker seemingly either made Nevada via the Machine itself or aided in its creation by directing the Machine. He himself tells the Player when he meets and the latter asks him if he's "the all-powerful God who invented Nevada" that it's "Yes, but mostly no."
>What's so bad about being assimilated anyway?
See
. Reality dies and The Machine reigns supreme forever and ever. Moreso than it already does.
>The Machine and it's robot are b***hes anyway that die from regular bullets
The Player is a First Generation Nevadean like Phobos or that dude trapped in Marshmallow with the Artifact, they all have the capacity to become Gods akin to the Employers. And the Player especially has begun to enmesh the Mandatus at that point and intends to let himself be consumed by the Nowhere and repeat the loop. He's strong enough by then to directly combat god-tier threats and take on the Grand Steward, who itself should sit above the Employers in terms of power.
>so I don't think it's more powerful than The Maker if his creations are The Employers.
The Employers serve the Machine. 2bDamned has notes stating that they are "stewards of the Machine" who administrate Nevada under its will. They're not allies of the Maker.
I hope we can hear from The Machine, I feel like The Maker might be full of shit, if Reality is going to end if The Machine is in control why would it have bothered maintaining it all this time?
Doc explains that The Machine has a broad goal involving the First Gen Nevadeans, no doubt related to The Madness. It NEEDS Nevada intact for whatever the hell it's planning. It's why the Employers were willing to let Jeb and co foil Phobos' attempt to attain Godhood, since he would have annihilated Nevada and its reality in the process.
Krinkels has also stated that even the Employers don't know the Machine's actual plan, they just do as it wills.
But why is the automatic assumption that the world would end? Maybe the Machine is trying to unfrick Nevada because at one point it was livable with a sun and not constant red tinted hellscape. Hank and co. Are definitely NOT heroe's of the story.
Anon, I don't think The Machine literally redefining and turning itself into "The Madness" implies anything good. And its chief servants and enforcers have only made the world an even shittier place.
It also literally rules Hell and traps people there until their souls and minds dissolve.
>Hank and co. are still fighting the Auditor
>There are still 3 other Employers left to go and then there is the machine
>Hanks been needed to be revived like 3 times, Deimos is now Rockmos, Sandford is having a mental breakdown, and Doc is handsoff and seems to be less of a fighter than the rest
Literally how are they gonna take down the machine?
>Sandford is having a mental breakdown
I think its a physical breakdown more than anything. He's now the least superhuman of the field duty lads and has been fricking pulverized without dying and being revived.
Also hank's gonna get a shonen power up and Jebus will come back through the power of friendship.
>Jebus will come back through the power of friendship.
Anon, Krinkels said that Jebus had "gone the way of the Sheriff", the dude is gone for good. If anyone is getting asspulled back into the Madness as an ally, it's gotta be frickin Tricky.
>gone the way of the Sheriff
He's comin back too a-and he's gonna be the real man behind the strings and
JUST YOU WATCH, SHERIFF IS COOL
>If anyone is getting asspulled back into the Madness as an ally, it's gotta be frickin Tricky.
im pretty sure he cant comeback to life since his body is pretty much gone
Per a chart Krinkels made, Tricky isnt allowed to stay in the Other Place for very long. It always spits him back out eventually.
They won't. Hank couldn't even beat a Retainer on his own, and Krinkels has stated there are many more like it. There's also the Grand Steward beyond the Employers, and the Nowhere if you count that as an actual entity, both of which are before you can even think of confronting the Machine. Assuming it's even possible, since everything in the series outside of the Maker and whatever is below Nevada is a part of its framework, including the cast. And even the latter is beneficial for it, since it will somehow use that to make the Maker a part of itself.
>and Krinkels has stated there are many more like it.
We don't even need word of god, 9.5 itself shows there are at least like 900 of them.
That said, you shouldn't count Hank and Friends out. At one point, fighting the Auditor seemed hopeless, and then Hank kicked his ass. They're gonna do it. They're gonna save Nevada.
What's so bad about being assimilated anyway? The Machine and it's robot are b***hes anyway that die from regular bullets so I don't think it's more powerful than The Maker if his creations are The Employers.
>So if this guy is essentially God of Madness why is he scared of The Machine?
Imagine it this way.
Let's say, hypothetically, you found/created a omnipotent artifact that is capable of altering the destiny of ANYTHING you wish.
For example, you could wish for the weather to be destined to be clear tomorrow, or wish that there shall be no more traffic jams on your way to work for the rest of time.
Pretty fine and dandy, right? It sure would be, that is, until you realize that it doesn't just affect what'll happen in the short term. It completely rewrites the destiny of whatever that is effected by your wishes, meaning that whatever happens afterwards is completely predetermined with no random element whatsoever. I sure hope you didn't wish for anything that directly affects (You), bucko, because that'd mean your free will is gone FOREVER. No take backsies.
Now, imagine The Machine as that fate-altering artifact, except it is constantly governing the removal of the random element at all times, and has done this for all of time.
There's a problem though - it's breaking down.
The Maker is in the same position as (You) in the hypothetical scenario. If he tries to fix The Machine, he becomes part of its algorithms and loses control. And since The Machine governs the entirety of Nevada, he is powerless to stop the impending Madness that threatens to bring an end to all that he holds dear.
The Maker is a god held hostage by his own creation, and for that reason he is as good as dead.
Simply put, Nevada is FRICKED.
Give it to me straight because I haven't played the newer PN game, Just who is the Auditor in all of this?
>There's a problem though - it's breaking down.
Even worse. It is INTENTIONALLY breaking itself to frick everyone over for completely alien and incomprehensible, but malign reasoning. Everything it does, it has calculated and manipulated towards causing the Madness.
The Machine is the ultimate conductor for the ultimate ride, and it has removed all the brakes and sabotaged the engine so it can crash this train with no survivors.
One of the Employers, servants of the Machine. Glorified middle management, in Krinkels own words.
What the hell, You mean after ALL of the stuff seen in the animations, He's not even the only guy in charge, but not THE one in charge? Just how deep does this go?
It's almost 20 years going on top of entire fan made stuff, the lore goes very deep.
I was always under the impression that the lore was told through the fighting and what's going on in the background(posters, signs, etc)?
In order to get the basic idea of the lore, you need to play Project Nexus 1 & 2.
Out of all the Employers, Deliberator seems the most likely to be their effective leader. And even the Employers sit below what seems to be The Machine's personal handmaiden/avatar, the Grand Steward.
>And even the Employers sit below what seems to be The Machine's personal handmaiden/avatar, the Grand Steward.
Hopefully he's also weak to Lightning Punch
That's a pretty good summary of the situation, damn Navada is really doomed without the constant Enmeschment loop, but if that keeps happening why not just let it all end at that point?
The Auditor is just an Employer like Stygian and Conductor. They're angels/Maiar stewards to The Machine that can interact with and run the agencies/cults around Nevada.
>but if that keeps happening why not just let it all end at that point?
That's the thing, it already has. Pretty much everything that happens in Madness is set after the events of Arena mode (roughly a 30-year gap in time between arena mode's end and madness 1, i think.) Where the Machine has thoroughly decayed and has fricked reality backwards. "Preventing the end of Nevada" was impossible from the start.
Instead, the loop exists as a way to preserve a little piece of Nevada before its fall for as long as the Protagonist continues the cycle of being untold. It is also designed to spare the Protagonist from the Madness that awaits everyone else.
It's basically intended as the Maker's way of spiting the Machine by having a moment in time be stuck in pre-Madness, forever.
Will the game be updated enough that the Arena Guy just refuses to Enmesch anymore and let's the stasis loop end? It must be pretty tiring doing the same thing over and over and over again.
Despite arena mode being just about killing grunts over and over again, one could assume the protagonist doesn't just do that all the time while living life in the city. It's unseen while the player is playing but they probably go do normal grunt things when not on a job. And with a city as large as nexus city there's a whole hell of a lot you can do to not go bored during eternity.
>Simply put, Nevada is FRICKED.
Nah, Hank's got this.
t. Hank
You said that about Phobos. And the Sheriff. And Jebus. And the Clown. And the Auditor. And...
>You said that about Phobos.
Dead
>And the Sheriff.
Dead
>And Jebus.
Dead
>And the Clown.
Shut up
>And the Auditor.
Will be dead in 12
>Phobos
Not really dead dead, just trapped in the Other Place forever.
>Shut up
CANNOT KILL CLOWN
Hell will vanish once we break the machine, and everyone in it will be dead dead.
That will also kill you and everything else that exists and does not exist, Hank.
Sounds like a bluff. Nevada wasn't always this way. In fact it was normal like a week ago
i dont think anything outside nevada even exists
not like because theres only nevada, but that the farther you go from nevada, the less real it becomes
Apparently space is a thing, but Krinkels has stated it's weird even by Madness standards.
Nexus is a massive fricking loredump that adds another entire Madness Combat worth of lore onto the series
Can’t wait for MC part 10 bros
I just hope Sanford is okay
I think we don't have to worry about Sanford and Deimos being permanently offed. If we got the whole Dedmos thing going, Krinkels knows they're fan favorites and has them safely set aside.
Jebus will revive in Combat 11.
Y'know with the whole Christianity thing.
>Sandford and Deimos killed Hank at the end of project nexus because Hank gone into "orders are orders even if it means world destruction"
Wtf is his problem?
the last sentence of the order was "pretty please"
he obliged because they asked nicely
autism
>all this apathy and stuff talk
Do I have to rewatch the mainline stuff
I just remember Hank having a huge arm and Sanford dying
Deimos is the one who died, yeah watch antipathy kino and dedmos adventures
You have to play both games too.
also play project nexus
The canon answer
He said "1" but otherwise... wait no, let's face it, they got lucky as shit. Hank would normally destroy them.
I have a feeling a fellow melee autist could have a kino duel and win against hank
anyone knows how much strength do I need to dual wield the NK50 snipers in project nexus?
Look at how they massacred my boy.
wtf these animations are still going? It takes me back to when I used to make gay little violent stick cartoons using PowerPoint on the school computers
His giant form is moronic with the boring clumsy attacks it is limited to. Should've been revived in a cyborg humanoid form or just be normal again.
MC5 is a fricking masterpiece for me, wish they would bring back that Hank
the beginning when Hank goes all stealth with that music is absolute kino, it was the first thing mc i watched
Are there any actual girls in the Madness Universe? They're mentioned to exist in the games but will they ever make a live appearance?
Goku
Demonbane
almost any eldritch entity (shoot, Cthulhu will work)
I think Duke Nukem and Doom Guy could, Serious Sam is a maybe
Doom Slayer
Kirby (lore)
Master Chief (lore)
Samus, if she is powered up
Nevada is full of eldritch entities. Hank even helped kill one in the form of Gestalt/Phobos.
Yeah, he was also fricking up the Auditor real good even before Phobos. These Employers entities are pretty powerful and can frick up Nevada if they go unhinged.
Funnily enough, REALM sort of downgrades the Employers in comparison to the canon. In REALM, they can permanently die and are closer to standard angels than proper Gods. In the main series and Project Nexus though, they're literally dimensions/entire realities onto themselves (Jeb himself explicitly says that Phobos' planbto make himself an Employer, having Gestalt enmesh the Other Place snd destroy our universe in the process, would turn it/him into a "God-Realm"). They can't even exist in Nevada for long since they'll cause a "two shaken up soda cans" situation and implode everything.
This is to the point that you can completely bad end in the Haunting of Nevada House scenario in Arena Mode if you let the Demomaniacs succeed in their ritual to summon Stygian, who instantly causes the end of the world and a game over.
Eh, I think REALM keeps it so that only named Employers are powerful while the standard red ones are lesser Angel or Maiar entities. The main Employer Kelzad in Realm has his entire purple crystal dimension and even takes over Nexus City engulfing all of Nevada.
Yeah, but Sokar (the Employer possessing Kelzad) isn't LITERALLY his realm. He controls it with absolute authority and is the undisputed strongest of the observed Employers in that series, but there's no indication given that Sokar's realm is indistinguishable from himself in the same way that the Auditor's Hell IS the Auditor. Even his claim to being the concept of Madness itself mostly comes across as hype.
I knew I should have changed "entity" to "god"
One of the outer beings.
I barely know the mythos, but I'm sure one of those is above in ranking.
I'm talking the ancient old ones.
The Employers are basically Outer Gods as is (being entire realities means that they're really well beyond Great Old One status); though admittedly, Krinkels considers the Auditor "inferior" to the other Employers since he's the sort of unga moron who picks fights with mortals to begin with. And the Machine and Maker are above both of them.
How dangerous this guys would be in MC?
Who?
An Executioner of the Head would be pretty damn busted. Probably beyond anything not on the level of one of the Employers.
I'm now immediately imagine the half mag rush attack from the game except its the claw and he instead of just punching you drags you through several different levels before killing you
Hank is the worst character in the NewGrounds Rumble game.
Piconjo rapes him.
>Hank is the worst character in the NewGrounds Rumble game.
git gud
he sucks. Alien Hominid has one of the best frame data.
You know who rapes him the hardest I think. Samurai butthole. Hank is just the worst character in that game.
Osman Sinnoks from Brutal Orchestra.
Man is like Andre the Giant if he was hopped up on adrenaline and had the ability to literally remove people from reality as well as being able to survive being vertically bisected and STILL keep fighting.
>leave Hank to me
>Madness Global
That feels like a movie sort of deal. Like, if Krinkels ever decided to make a 2-hour movie (Something like Killer Bean's movie) to end the series, it would be Hank and co. trying to undo madness permanently before it fricks the world for good.
will project nexus ever receive more updates/DLC of some sort, or is the wizard the final addition
They've said they want to keep updating it, so yeah.
What do you guys think of the Apotheosis remake?
Looks good but it feels kindof slow paced.
I kinda like the slow pace of the older remakes in retrospect considering how insane the scale and powerlevels of the newer one are in comparison. Makes them feel fittingly more grounded.
Grounded is boring, bro. It's a cartoon. Ot should be allowed to go as nuts as it wants. Heck, the first madness had Jesus as a bad guy.
It's not a matter of "allowed to". You can make a stylistic choice to keep it more grounded.
kino
this
I hate how these remakes makes everything so slow and how the music is soulless compared to the original or how the animation doesn't follow the music, that's one of my favorite things in madness animations
The slow pace is good though because it has better fight choreography and creative kills instead of just shooting a room full of guys once and moving on, there's an actual fight being viewed.
without good music that is not worth shit
I think they try too hard with it and does't look as good but I can see why people would like it
The music was good in that remaster I don't know what your on about, sounds like an actual club with the kind of grimy feel of Hotline Miami.
is decent but is not as good as the original, besides it doesn't match the animation that well, for example in the original when Tricky gets shot the music changes a bit in tone, it's the little details man
Besides Hank killing all of the grunts in the disco before and after they get revived looks smooth and cool af, but here in the remake is meh
So many of these fan animations have this super weird "wiggly" animation on all of the characters, like they aren't even in control of themselves, and the camera is operated by some drunkard. They're also overproduced in the wrong ways, focusing more on detailing the background and characters rather than the actual animation quality.
Basically these people need to learn from Krinkels a bit harder.
Because of how """cool""" they try to make the aniation look it all ends up looking like a bland overcooked mush. What's great about Krinkels' stuff is that everything has juuuust the right ammount of movement and everything is given juuuuust the right ammount of screentime. His attention to small details as well is something that no one is capable to replicate. All in all, fan animations were at their best when they weren't trying so hard.
basically my thoughts
also I guess the fast pace is what makes madness combat good for me, making everything realistic and exagerated is kinda boring
Honestly jumped the gun a little too far for me after 5
i have no goddamn idea what the hell is going on in the setting where can i read all this shit or is there a video summary somewhere
Watch the videos, read the Newground video descriptions, play the games. Really not that hard to figure it out. Hell watch some generic yoytube explaination video if you can't do it.
im workin on getting my third imprint and the only things i know are i fricking hate fighting vampires and hard sell sucks ass
>vampires
Easily the most bullshit enemies in the entire franchise. Frick Retainers. THIS is how you kill Hank.
Use guns only for Hard Sell, n51 does not frick around, melee is downright useless because ninja's and psycho's can stunlock you. Also Vampires are weak to fire and stakes that can kill them in one animation.
whats the best approach for hirelings? feels like getting tanky fricks to distract enemies while you commence the jigglin is the go-to but im not sure if optimal strats have been figured out or what
Gymnists and Bruisers with riot shields and heavy armor. Hirelings are pretty useless and only exist to be distractions.
MC 10 best theme
That was easy
How strong is Jebus in comparison to the rest of the cast?
Jebus can fly, use magic, raise the dead and has killed Hank 3 times so he's pretty strong, also his Binary Sword and revolver combo is kino.
Strongest non-God/demon member that we observe.
Tricky(mixed with the auditor)>Auditor(Hank hard counters him still)>Mag Hank>>Jeb>>>>the rest
>what da clown doin
I wonder what they were planning to do before Hank walked in.
Judgement from HOTD2.
i seriously hope you didnt forget to bring throwing weapons for every single round anon
wouldnt want to miss out on that acrobatics exp
YHVH
How did you get this picture of the Machine?
No, YHVH is just the Auditor. The Axiom is the Machine, Stephen is the Grand Steward.
How will Madness Combat end? Does it even look like its remotely close to doing so?
its all hanks fault
t. boomboxgay
you have to be a real frickin freak to hate the chicken dance song that much, hank
the maker is krinkles
the machine is adobe flashplayer
>the machine is adobe flashplayer
Oh shit that makes so much sense. And Krinkels can't fix it without distupting his workflow.
Will we ever find out about what the N51 are? Why were they interested in the Enmeschment device? Is there any text lore about them?
I don't think they work for or with any of the Employers, they have to be some strict third party organization. They've only appeared once and weren't talked about at all.
So in the context of all this nu-Madness lore, why the frick did Jeb kill Hank in MC7?
Because Hank is a fricking menace, he's slaughtered hundreds of victims to the point that an entire agency was created with the only purpose of stopping him.
But those people are all bad guys? They work for the Auditor, who Jeb wanted to stop. In MC8 he's literally doing the same stuff than Sand and Dead were up to.
Originally the AAHW were just meant to stop Hank but through their horrific means to do absolutely anything including using the Improbability Drive Jeb has declared them to be Sinners no better than Hank.
There was a lot more, entire page long descriptions on Newgrounds.
Jeb himself started out thinking that the Employers were working for the greater good of Nevada, or at least that their Nexus charter was beneficial. He only fully turns against them near the end of Project Nexus 2 and even then, he still brings up the charter as something worth following and kowtows when they show up near the end of the game (despite clearly disliking it) because he has no more cards left to play at that point and he's staring down four demon Gods who could unmake him with a literal thought in the face.
Jeb himself didn't even have beef with the AAHW themselves until they proved that they and the Auditor are equally as vile as Hank himself.
>are equally as vile as Hank himself.
>Breaking reality and enslaving the souls of all who live is equally as bad as out-murdering prople trying to kill you
Man Jeb you can go frick yourself
What the frick is Jeb’s deal anyways
The Savior that punishes Sinners.
He's Player 2
MC7 takes place an indeterminate amount of time after Project Nexus 2, where Hank willfully blasted Jeb off of a supermassive tower right before Jeb could stop the project from threatening all reality by safely shutting it down and actually working to instate change for the better in Nevada. Solely to complete his mission to destroy it, which would destroy all of Nevada at MINIMUM. And this was AFTER Jeb forced down all his dislike for the man being a murderous monster after previously refusing to work with him and Doc, all to save the world.
Jeb is justifiably pissed and wants him fricking gone. He's nearly as bad as the Employers themselves.
Yeah I'm sure wannabe god man only had the best intentions for the device that can be used to turn you into an actual god.
Jeb is an avenging angel punishing the Sinners and evil in Nevada (which is almost inherently evil by its very nature, because of The Machine). Phobos was the one who wanted to transcend to godhood at the cost of all reality, and that's why Jeb killed him. Twice even.
I can only think of one who has a chance
I gotta a question though, if Hank is just as bad as the Auditor is, why do Doc(2BDAMNED), Sanford, and Deimos keep bringing him. Especially back when the higher powers aren't involved, and they could essentially be Hank-free?
Cause he isn't. Jeb is just salty that Higher Powers like Hank more than him.
Hank is an effective weapon despite being almost completely uncontrollable. He can hold his own against Tricky and the Auditor, Sanford and Deimos are just guys and whole together they can almost be at hos combat level but seperate they can be widdled down.
Because Hank is the muscle and really, really, REALLY good at killing whatever you point him at. Sanford and Deimos also kind of consider him a friend, despite his bullshit, which is why they didn't off him at the end of Project Nexus.
Doc himself doesn't seem to care either way. Fighting the forces of Hell means you can't be picky about who recruit.
They did kill him in Project Nexus though? In fact hank was HOPING it'd come down to that, he never viewed Deimos and Sanford as his friends.
Pretty certain they didn't want to kill him. Hank himself says he doesn't consider them his friends yeah, but Hank is an butthole. He hates everyone except Doc, and even that's debatable.
Of course they didn't want to kill him, probably thought they couldn't but the feeling wasn't mutual with Hank and when it came down to it Sanford and Deimos can kill Hank but only together, if it was one on one Deimos would immediately eat shit, Sanford could last a little longer because he's a melee beefcake but not much longer.
what the frick was Hank's problem in project nexus
He felt very out of character compared to the animation series. Maybe there's a twist where it turns out he wanted to be killed for some reason?
Took his mission way too seriously.
Hank was always an butthole. The first thing he did was kill someone because of their boombox
That was fricking weird. Felt very out of character, given how we've seen him be so protective of Sanford in MC9 through 11.
Project Nexus hank is the MC9.5 hank that got left behind in hell, which is why he's a fricking butthole, he got straight up ditched
big if true
Why do people raise trained attack dogs when their only purpose is to kill things?
Would you a girl Sanford?
>frizzy hair with circle sunglasses
i hate that i find this cute
Is it because she is portrayed as tough looking, but still embarrassed about wearing revealing clothes?
that's the cute part, i just take umbrage with >sanford r63
oh well
Imagine using her massive booba as pillows sleeping on top of her rock hard abs as she holds you tight with her python arms.
anyone who engages in power level discourse is completely devoid of things to do, find something, anything else to do.
OP's question was just a convenient excuse to start a Madness Combat thread on the videogame board but I agree wholeheartedly with your opinion
I can't believe Nexus confirmed Sanford and Deimos can beat Hank if they work together
i've always thought that's how it was, Sanford and Deimos are Hank-level when united but are weaker when alone
>in the animated series has enhanced physical strength, speed and endurance
>can rip off heads like they're taped on
>but somehow two random grunts that got splattered by a giant building(but not) can beat him
I just can't buy it, chief.
Black person they're a tagteam and their skilset is way above grunts. It's fairly believable that they can kill Hank with their fighting style (Deimos being the gunman in the back while Sanford tussles with Hank in the front)
>Deimos being the gunman
Oh, A gunman! Hank hasn't fought those before.
>Sanford tussles with Hank in the front
>tussling with someone that can kill you in one punch
Like I said, Can't buy it.
Anon Sanford is swole, he can definitely take a Hank punch, also their experienced so they wouldn't be actively taking hits, they never do when fighting agent goons. Combined they're equal to fighting force with Hank.
i thought nexus was a sort of non-canon interpretation of madness
Krinkels has confirmed that it's entirely canon.
same
is it said when it takes place?
Before MC4 and 5 for the main story. Arena Mode itself takes place nearly 30 or so years ago, before the rest of the cast ever shows up.
>takes place 30 years ago
No way, because Doc would be stuck in the enmeschment loop, but Dr. Crackpot and Phobos are alive so this time period is very fricky. How would the continuity still happen if the enmeschment loop keeps happening?
The Enmeshment loop more or less works by cutting out that period of Nevada for the Player and repeating it without beginning nor end. Nobody else experiences the loop but them, but it perfectly copies everyone they interact with down to personalities and mannerisms all.
What happens if the Arena Guy stops doing the Enmeschment loop? Will this copy of Nevada just cease to exist or will these time loop doubles go out in the world?
If he stops smashing the Mandatus, Nevada falls to The Machine and it likely succeeds in locating and assimilating the Maker into itself.
Xionic Madness, most likely.
*enmeshing
But how is the continuity going on outside of this loop? If it keeps getting reset every time how is this stopping The Machime outside of this loop from finding the Maker?
That's more Antipathy Hank, he was powered by rage for the Clown, killing people with a severed head, 7's Hank seems more tired and a bit less violent to an extent. The whole "hello again...and again....and again...and again...and again... shows he's not into it as much anymore.
>If it keeps getting reset every time how is this stopping The Machime outside of this loop from finding the Maker?
Machine is likely too busy using algorithms to deal with the Enmeshment of Mandatus (recall that 2BDamned defines Mandatus as a "limb" that The Machine has extended at one point) to focus on whatever the Maker is doing.
What is the Maker even doing? Seems to be frick all really, everything he say's is very incoherent with no real forward goal.
Trying to stop The Machine, recognizes he can't stop The Machine, and is now mostly just trying to preserve what little he can to spite The Machine before he goes down.
Since modern Hank can't even beat a Retainer there's really nothing that can stop The Machine at all? Maker can't be this pathetic he has to have something out there.
I mean, if the Maker has a plan, he certainly isn't spilling. Only the Gambler knows, if anyone does.
Regular Hank can't do shit, but he got MAG'd in 9, got Jebus powers in 10, and Auditor hacks in 11. In his current form, especially now having learned how the retainers fight, he'd tear them to pieces. He was on par with the Auditor even before MC11. Clearly he and his buds will just keep megamanning new powers until they can kill god and turn everything back to normal.
>absolute endgame Hank is going to be Madness Combat personified
>on par with the Auditor
The Auditor mostly didn't seem to be actually using his powers effectively. He mostly relied on material weaponry to do his shit, when even Tricky merged with him was freely fricking reality up the ass with impunity. Hell, Phobos was at best only a pseudo-Employer (if that) and it still took Sanford, Hank, Deimos, and Jeb working together to finally take him down.
I think the Auditor being such a failure when it comes to being an Employer likely has to do with him existing to keep a certain level of 'order' within Nevada and the fact that he stoops to the level of a mortal to fight them. He's an idiot who just so happens to be a God.
>Hell, Phobos was at best only a pseudo-Employer (if that) and it still took Sanford, Hank, Deimos, and Jeb working together to finally take him down.
Well that was back when they were less skilled, and all of them but Jeb were normal humans
Fricking thank you, anons
Well it probably takes place before madness combat 5, he wasn't nearly as much of a monster at that point.
Jiren.
JOBren?
El Hermano
I just read through the entire thread, and holy shit, is all of project nexus 1 and 2 canon? I've only watched the animated series. I didn't realize there was so much more fricking lore to it all
Yes, it's all canon.
Yes all the games and videos are canon. There's a specific timegap that happens from the videos and on to the games because characters like Sherrif are alive again, even Hank mentions the time he actually killed him.
Is the classic project nexus important to the story in any way or can I skip directly to the new one?
Still the best theme out of all of MC
that's not MC10
thats not 6.5
>Sanford's adrenaline shot right at the beat drop
There was a madness series that was two people. One in red and another in blue. The only I remember is "Heaven or Hell" "Let's do this"
xionic madness?
Xionic Madness, what a fricking flashback that is. It was a perfect encapsulation of the mid-to-late 2000's 'coolguy' edgy.
And I adore it
ENTER
Friendly reminder hank is so homicidal that he would kill an another version of himself given the chance
9-11 show Hank is a good boy who dundu nuffin. Hank was fighting himself because one of them was his MC6 self who was driven insane by agony
Where the frick are you guys getting all this lore from? Is it from Nexus? I havent played it, is it likr canon to the series or its a different timeline
Nexus is not canon
See
and
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I still think the best segment is an injured Deimos and Sanford fighting through the waves of morons and gradually healing/grabbing their outfits along the way.
Beside watching all of the madness combat episodes how to I find all of the stuff surrounding this?
tricky tricky bang bang gooberblat
every time i see this character, it reminds me of some dude i know on Steam that has Hank as his profile picture who died in Syria. he was an atheist from Finland who somehow converted to Islam and became radicalized. he went to Turkey, crossed the border and i have never heard from him again since 2015.
>from Finland
Why is it always Finnish people when I here about people's online friends going fricking insane and getting themselve killed or doing some other crazy shit?
It's the cold coupled with living in the happiest country in the world.
Combination of alcoholism, ingestible crystal meth tablets, isolation, depressing food and awful weather with little to no sunlight.
No sunlight will literally drive you mad. I'm in Texas and have been staying out of this hellish 102+ Degree F weather and have noticeably less energy, am more irritable, and worry more.
damn, i need to go outside more
You ever think that, maybe, if you're the kind of person to go outside, you have hobbies that you're into that you simply can't do when inside? So you're irritated when you can't go outside?
I've been working nightshift, awake after the sun goes down and asleep before it comes back up and I don't feel much different
maybe it's because I was already a pale frick that hated the sun
i just sit outside on my rocking chair in the sunlight while smoking a cigar and sipping my liquor every day, life doesn't get any better than that
dem bugs man... i hate em. otherwise i should do the same
buy one of them torches that you can light up near you that gives off lots of smoke to repel the bugs. or just burn some egg cartons, that does the trick for cheap
Is the first Project Nexus even worth playing? It's still canon to the story, right?
Yeah, it's still canon. It's mostly about how Jeb killed Phobos in the first place.
>the lowish poly humanized faces of the cast in the loading screens
neat
I don't understand why it keeps flipping that Madness characters aren't human but there's the entire trailer and all this art that has them humanized. Didn't Krinkles say that their flesh feels like clay and thar a Madness guy would freak the frick out of they ever saw a human? They even know their hands float and did a reality breaking experiment on it.
The art humanizes them for our convenience. Nothing more.
But it makes them look like something they're not? It just ends up being confusing.
So what was his deal?
this man who killed 30 people over a boombox is a menace
i must stop h-ACK
Sells mattresses and is the ceo of MERC.
I don't get it, after killing 30 people (27 if you don't count the zombies) why was he dancing to the music if it annoyed him?
he went mad
To be fair the guy with the boombox punched him first
I mean Hank plunged Nevada into chaos thanks to a boombox, but what was Tricky's problem?
Tricky was just a Brazillian clown turned demonic elder god entity that can't die.
I know it's le zoomer game but I'm honestly surprised that that small tidbit of Tricky being Brazillian was used in something.
Yeah fnf is cringe but the madness mods are some quality.
Scientist turned zombie clown turned unkillable demon god, actually.
Hoffnar isn't the original Tricky.
They functionally act the same though.
Yes but one was the original and morphed into the elder god entity called The Clown that can manifest and possess other people.
I honestly wouldn't be surprised if the only reason why Tricky hasn't been considered for being ascended to Employer status is because The Machine considers The Clown to be too unpredictable in the short-term to focus on administrating Nevada.
I don't think Tricky gives a shit about any of The Machines will, his only entire existance is to kill Hank fairly.
And that's fine. The one thing The Machine wants is Madness after all.
What's the name of the song that plays against the Machine in the final fight of Arena? I remember it also shows up in one of the old trailers for Proyect Nexus.
Here you go my homie.
Thanks you.
>tfw you been watching since marshmallow madness and you still don't understand any of this plot
same but i think most of it is because i have garbage memory and haven't played the games
Powerman.
I wish they put back the abomination finishers in nexus it was fun going unarmed and thrashing grunts around by the neck
I think that Venom Snake could stop him long enough to send him back to mother base then Snake immediately starts deploying him on missions
Bullets can't kill a dream
This is my story, b***h
>Bullets can't kill a dream
Hank will be the first then.
I love the cloning angle they're going with here, which is a first because usually it's a horseshit trope to handwave away consequences. Here, it's just creating more consequences yet to be seen. It also makes Project Nexus make more sense. I also love how much of a genuinely unlikeable butthole Hank is in Nexus.
Does anyone know where these sfx come from? I know one is a cs 1.6 sound effect
>uploader 'Santy the Grunt'
>joined YouTube in 2020
>has FNF uploads and uploads such as picrelated, uploading about 1 video a week since they joined (large quantity of SPAM)
Yeah i don't care about that
Quick-guide steps to become an Employer?
>no Maximum Ninja 4
>haha little cartoons go brrrrr
>actually the godhead is you and it achieved chim which began the age of man and the tree of life hgave everyone chakra and the titan created the burning legion and the first yokai became feared then father was actually a hummunculus and gilgamesh wanted immortality and the god gave kain super vampire power for killing his brother and actually he was never infected with a second version he just had his memories surpressed and then the conjuction of spheres happened and then todd made another shit game
What the actual frick?
Kirkbride syndrome
Wait, there are people who take Madness combat lore seriously?
should I play project nexus?
is it fun?
it's okay, I'd get it on discount
You can play as a mag after one arena playthru or cheating, max out your END and become a fricking blitz tank
or just tinker with your weapon to one-shot everything
I'm stuck on the vampire mission and don't care to progress further now.
When you get back outside you get swamped by a lot of yellow vamps that keep murking me. It's super annoying to do the entire thing again as it's a lot of walking.
use scalpels for instakilling bruisers and fire weapons to permakill the rest of the vamps
chef sometimes sells the flamethrower
basically anything that's size micro csn takedown and permanently kill any vampire like wooden stakes
torches also deal fire damage and get dropped by the hunters
I always thought the real madness combat lore was a multiplayer fps match gone mad after mods and hackers started playing.
also they get the halfmag charged dash punch attack which takes you instantly to any point in the map so the shit movement speed is a nonissue
meant for
also dual-wielding mini-guns
im fairly sure thats not possible since theyre forced 2handed
but you can dual wield chainsaws and it's fricking badass
I'm a Gankerisitor to this board and you niggets just hit me in the nostaljiaballs. We used to play madness about 20 years ago during IT lessons at school as only flash games worked on the crappy school computers. Good/weird to see its still going even if it has changed drastically. Damn I feel old now.
Dude easy! You! Any game where you control everything
Courier Six
So how does the timeline look like? Is project nexus 1 as canon as project nexus 2? And when does it happen if all the guys are in their advanced outfits?
Ok can someone redpill me on the lore of MC? I've been looking for a good summary or place with lore-dump but can only find gay ass "ice-berg" videos about MC fnadom drama
kelzad with his massive spergouts
What's the point of having supressors in arena mode?