🌟 Internet Famous Volound / Conor Sweeney - Minor Total War Content Creator, “trailblazing gameplay purist”, vegan warrior, amateur slinger. Previously seen chimping out over Rome: Remastered, now chimping out in this thread.

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

And Volund could've also made Legend-level challenge vids with TW games but he's still stuck in the time period 2 weeks after the release of R2TW and hasn't mentally matured past the "angry reviewer" type.

I mean, even if he made challenge videos, he'd have to do it on a TW he hates, that being TWWH3. Because there sure as shit isn't a huge fanbase that'll come in droves to watch a Shogun 2, Rome 1, Medieval 2 challenge video unless he tries to appeal to zoomers in editing and energy. Legend doesn't really do either but since he's playing TWWH3 and using appealing "tactics" for nu-TW fans he still gets plenty of attention. Speaking of attention, his response to PA is the most viewed video in a while. And if you see PA's channel, well it's clear to say that his attempt to garner views with drama backfired hard and had the reverse effect with Legend.

 

[Administrator Flotsam]

he'd have to do it on a TW he hates, that being TWWH3. Because there sure as shit isn't a huge fanbase that'll come in droves to watch a Shogun 2, Rome 1, Medieval 2 challenge video unless he tries to appeal to zoomers in editing and energy. Legend doesn't really do either but since he's playing TWWH3 and using appealing "tactics" for nu-TW fans he still gets plenty of attention.

For whatever reason I thought Legend was still doing historical TW challenges and campaign-saves. I had a look over his recent uploads and its all TWH3. I get Legend recommended a lot and its always his historical vids that get recommended so I thought he was still doing that on the side. Sadge.

I think Legend is the only guy who'd get attention on a historical TW vid if he made one today. Even then, its sad that CA has won in effect and historical TW has been erased from modern gameplay vids in favor of WH.

PA strikes me as a guy who's easily influenced and doesn't think a lot before acting. It shows in his actions and in the content on his channel where he's erratically throwing stuff at the wall to see what sticks. Would've be surprised if this drama is what pushes him into complete obscurity.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

Even then, its sad that CA has won in effect and historical TW has been erased from modern gameplay vids in favor of WH.

Not as much as you'd think, TWWH isn't doing that well. At launch it got 160k players but immediately declined to 8.3k in but a few short months, only gaining players again half a year later with their big "2.0" release. Only to lose a lot of players again (but not as much as before) and cost on 20k-30k, with the only real bumps being the free weekend (which didn't last of course), and some other bump I don't recall, which also didn't last.
Their only real income from TWWH3 being the DLC, which are relatively cheap and probably have a decent cost to make, so they aren't gaining massive amount of income each release, especially since a lot of people probably won't by them or will get them on sale along with the actual game (which is even less money). Same with Rome 2, and their other games, which are earning even less (Shogun 2 especially, they made an update that broke shit and removed chat) than TWWH3 for obvious reasons.
Despite how many are playing TWWH3, there's still thousands that are playing the older historical games, when combined there are even more players playing them than WH3. So, not too bad for the historics, and given how much people were hyped of a potential Med 3, even the WH fans (somewhat, some were salty because "boohoo they're not focusing on only WH").

EDIT:

I get Legend recommended a lot and its always his historical vids that get recommended so I thought he was still doing that on the side.

Same, and here's a comment I found.

After he got removed from the partnership program, it was like a weight was lifted and he can-you know-do what he wants to again. But something must have changed behind the scenes. Last I check he still wasn't on the partnership program, but he's doing exclusively WH3 content now, I wonder why when he clearly barely enjoys it. Also, follow-up on the PA drama:

 

[Computer God Autism]

Even then, its sad that CA has won in effect and historical TW has been erased from modern gameplay vids in favor of WH.

Not exactly, the content style has just drastically changed. Pilp's M2 Hungary Experience video put out three months can get close to 200k views for example.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

https://youtube.com/watch?v=FGhBkq4epYEProbably more relevant than in the Volound thread.

Crosspost, was in my recommended. Skipped to the end and it looks pretty modest.

Spoiler

No one in grifter, puts himself in "struggling" which...I'm not so sure about that. Puts Volound in "Apathetic/Quit" which is fitting. Puts PA in Struggling instead of grifter surprisingly. Don't know or care about anyone else.

 

[No-Bark Noonan]

Volound is extremely retarded in anything that touches veganism. Dunno why really and don't care, his views on the case are just moronic.

However, he he's done the usual autistic thing about Azov batallion and Ukrainian government, on his expounds channel, debating nafoid scum and other redditors on how they are totally not nazis and how the govt of UA totally wasn't wishing this very war themselves so they were ditching all diplomatic attempts to cease Donbass conflict too. That was quite useful (lotta sources). Though, he sides with Russia clearly, which I dislike too.

 

[ratnoid]

Small update related to Volound.

LegendofTotalWar recently posted this: https://www.youtube.com/post/UgkxkpNJUDL0Vo_vAJnqfNINFd_Cf7sd3qen

Here is a part relevant to Volound, where he recollects the incident and elaborates on it:

Spoiler: Bit about Volound

In 2023 Creative Assembly issued a copyright takedown attempt on Volound. He was reacting to a leaked video of a conception video for Hyenas that used clips from movies, none of which are the copyright of CA or SEGA. He dissected it intensely and commented over every moment of the video. This is transformative and fair use, and even Youtube itself threw the takedown attempt out. This was a blatant act of intimidation. If Volound was lying CA could easily deny that it happened, but they didn't. They just ignored it like they always do.



At that point in time Volound and I were not on friendly terms. I reached out to him regardless and asked what happened with the takedown. He provided me screenshots of the documentation with evidence that he was telling the truth. I then tweeted that CA owed Volound an apology and that acts of intimidation were not acceptable. I wasn't demanding that heads should roll. A simple acknowledgement that they screwed up would have been enough. I just wanted to make sure it didn't happen again.



I was the only content creator partnered with CA at the time that stood up for Volound. A few creators privately messaged me telling me not to defend Volound. I tried to explain to them that the rules have to apply to people we like and dislike equally. It doesn't excuse anything he's done to piss you off but two wrongs don't make it right. We cannot just enforce the rules when it suits us or else they're not rules. They become weapons that are used to destroy those we disagree with. It puts whoever enforces the rules into positions of power where they can mete out justice as they see fit. I'm not having any of that. What they did was blatantly fraudulent and to this day they never took accountability for it because there wasn't enough pressure put on them to do so. I took the consequences for this stance and I'm not sorry for it.



I've tried to not call out specific bad actors within CA when they aren't public figures or executives. So in this next case the person shall just be referred to as Influencer Manager.



The person that signed the form to strike Volound was Influencer Manager. In the years I was in the program Influencer Manager manipulated me and fed me false information. He even privately messaged "evidence" against Volound when I was feuding with him. He made promises he didn't keep and used emotional blackmail to try to get me to fall in line. When those tactics failed he pushed me out of the program by cutting me out from events I should have been invited to which everyone else was invited to and told me that I should leave the program despite me not technically breaking any rules. If I had broken any rules I would have been booted out. He didn't kick me out, but made it unbearable for me to stay so I left on my own. This relieved CA of having to provide a reason for blacklisting me. This then allows the entire community to make up their own reason for it that aligns with whatever reason they don't like me and defend CA on their behalf. Genius. They don't even have to do anything, you do their work for them. Every gripe I've had with CA is directly confrontation with Influencer Manager. I gave him multiple opportunities to try set the record straight and talk it out and he refused every single time. Preferring instead to use soft intimidation tactics. "you say you don't trust us and that makes us upset. please stop saying these things about us or maybe you should leave". I am paraphrasing a bit here and I don't want to post the actual DM's because there is legal issues in doing so. But any time he said something like that I'd respond with "Tell me how I'm wrong. I want to be wrong. Explain to me where I've got it wrong". He never even attempted to explain his side.



The final straw was when I caught him in what appeared to be a very obvious breach of contract and when I confronted him about it rather than addressing it or explaining it he contacted SEGA legal team in order to intimidate me. Maybe I was wrong, maybe they were wrong. Don't know because I wasn't given a chance to resolve it. I knew this was a losing battle at this point and left the program because I knew no matter what the outcome was it was bad for everyone involved. Efforts to hold Influencer Manager accountable were completely failing so I left the program and admitted defeat. I don't have the resources to go to court over this and even if I did and I won it'd still be a loss because getting any amount of settlement money from CA after the crap that happened with Hyenas would have put the company in even more hot water. The last thing I wanted was to actually be responsible for them shutting down. So I just had to slap a big L on my forehead and walk away.

Volound also replied with this on his recent video:

Basically, shit is the same as usual. But it's curious to get more context.

Originally posted about this in: https://kiwifarms.net/threads/total-war-thread.10984/post-22677932

 

[Computer God Autism]

Basically, shit is the same as usual. But it's curious to get more context.

This is the sort of stuff that Volound should have been hounding CA over, and if he hadn't been such a and egoist he probably could have flipped a lot of the oldheads.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

This is the sort of stuff that Volound should have been hounding CA over, and if he hadn't been such a and egoist he probably could have flipped a lot of the oldheads.

Nah he rather argue over jannies being jannies and be a tankie. Seriously I would love to see him talk about this with people actually rallying behind him as opposed to demonizing him. He's a sperg but he's one of the few who could actually bring this to light without compromising, such is the power of spergery.

 

[Cozy Crouton]

Nah he rather argue over jannies being jannies and be a tankie. Seriously I would love to see him talk about this with people actually rallying behind him as opposed to demonizing him. He's a sperg but he's one of the few who could actually bring this to light without compromising, such is the power of spergery.

I would fucking hate for Volound to be a rallying point. I can't imagine a worse person to be the people's champion. Mouthy retards with personality disorders tend to be horrendous figureheads, and I suspect he'd immediately try to leverage it as some kind of sekrit army that he's the leader of, based on how he already tries to do just with the 5-20 dedicated cock-cleaners that he has currently. I'd rather CA die than have everything I dislike about the company associated with Volound, because even when he's right, he's wrong.

 

[ratnoid]

Volound joins the Loremaster of Sotek vs LegendofTotalWar fight. I'll see if I can write a summary of this whole drama sometime.

Local:

The video is kinda hard to listen to. Because while he covers someone as obnoxious, fat and gay like Loremaster of Sotek, Volound can't stop himself from being gay as well. Like there is a point in the video where he giggles like a gaylord while trying to prove why boycotts work and he begins bringing up historical examples like South Africa and also Israel being boycotted. Reminder, the topic is about a fucking video game. Volound also tries to villainize Sotek further by saying shit like "he is the type of a person who'd be OK with no blacks allowed signs back in the days!"

 

[Computer God Autism]

The video is kinda hard to listen to. Because while he covers someone as obnoxious, fat and gay like Loremaster of Sotek, Volound can't stop himself from being gay as well. Like there is a point in the video where he giggles like a gaylord while trying to prove why boycotts work and he begins bringing up historical examples like South Africa and also Israel being boycotted. Reminder, the topic is about a fucking video game. Volound also tries to villainize Sotek further by saying shit like "he is the type of a person who'd be OK with no blacks allowed signs back in the days!".

I would unironically watch a Volound vs ArchWarhammer bloodsports-style livestream, though Volound is too much of a coward to ever confront someone in a live, unedited setting. Smug gay communist trying to tell smug gay unironic liberalist how both he CA are a bunch of nazis when CA (and GW, which Volound also denounced as Trump-loving nazis) blacklisted the gay liberalist because he was accused of being a nazi for criticizing their gay communist pandering years before the gay communist returned to Total War.

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

I can't imagine a worse person to be the people's champion. Mouthy retards with personality disorders tend to be horrendous figureheads, and I suspect he'd immediately try to leverage it as some kind of sekrit army that he's the leader of, based on how he already tries to do just with the 5-20 dedicated cock-cleaners that he has currently.

Fair, he would make shit worse if he was the leader of any movement, but I've seen his fans shit on him often. He's one of the few and biggest anti-CA YouTubers out there but people came for that rather than him specifically, so it would be the idea of "fuck current CA" rather than championing Volound.

I'd rather CA die than have everything I dislike about the company associated with Volound, because even when he's right, he's wrong.

CA might just bite it in that case given their only real way of staying afloat is Warhammer and government gibs (I think?). Looking forward to that honestly.

 

[Radola Gajda]

Volound joins the Loremaster of Sotek vs LegendofTotalWar fight. I'll see if I can write a summary of this whole drama sometime.


https://youtube.com/watch?v=CEqfZGiyyz8
Local:
PearGolemAttackedMe.mp4


The video is kinda hard to listen to. Because while he covers someone as obnoxious, fat and gay like Loremaster of Sotek, Volound can't stop himself from being gay as well. Like there is a point in the video where he giggles like a gaylord while trying to prove why boycotts work and he begins bringing up historical examples like South Africa and also Israel being boycotted. Reminder, the topic is about a fucking video game. Volound also tries to villainize Sotek further by saying shit like "he is the type of a person who'd be OK with no blacks allowed signs back in the days!"

Fair, he would make shit worse if he was the leader of any movement, but I've seen his fans shit on him often. He's one of the few and biggest anti-CA YouTubers out there but people came for that rather than him specifically, so it would be the idea of "fuck current CA" rather than championing Volound.

People who still pay attention to CA in 2025 are part of problem . Most people who made original TW are long gone. So everything modern CA is going to make is going to be Warhammer/ Warhammer -like

 

[Tri-Tachyon'sClown]

People who still pay attention to CA in 2025 are part of problem .

Agreed, which is why I stopped paying attention to CA for the most part. Sometimes I check around but I have seen anything related to CA since I checked this thread again, and then a long time before that.

Most people who made original TW are long gone.

Can be said for most things I enjoyed at one point, nothing good last forever and you should never count on the replacements to not be from Temu.

So everything modern CA is going to make is going to be Warhammer/ Warhammer -like

While I'll always be a fan of the historical, it wouldn't even be that bad if it were made by people half as competent as the old devs.

 

[Armor King]

What are Volounds views on the Pakistani rape gangs terrorizing little white girls thoughtout Britain?

 

[Computer God Autism]

What are Volounds views on the Pakistani rape gangs terrorizing little white girls thoughtout Britain?

"It's not happening- okay it's happening and here's why it's a good thing."

 

[Justsomecicada]

This is the sort of stuff that Volound should have been hounding CA over, and if he hadn't been such an and egoist he probably could have flipped a lot of the oldheads.

he was too busy leading a mob to try to cancel Warhammer fantasy instead

 

[Computer God Autism]

he was too busy leading a mob to try to cancel Warhammer fantasy instead

Based.

Geedubs also axed old Warhammer Fantasy years before Volound started his spergouts.

Also in the offchance that anyone in the thread hasn't yet seen it, CA has announced they're beginning work on Medieval 3:

Honestly, I see it as a win-win. It's either good, against all odds, or it's bad but the publicity sees renewed interest in Medieval 2 and its modding scene, similar to the boost Victoria 2 got after Victoria 3 failed.

 

[DogZero]

Based.

Geedubs also axed old Warhammer Fantasy years before Volound started his spergouts.

Also in the offchance that anyone in the thread hasn't yet seen it, CA has announced they're beginning work on Medieval 3:
https://youtube.com/watch?v=qFKhUJTnC-E
Honestly, I see it as a win-win. It's either good, against all odds, or it's bad but the publicity sees renewed interest in Medieval 2 and its modding scene, similar to the boost Victoria 2 got after Victoria 3 failed.

CA has failed to demonstrate any progress on fundamentally fixing their deeply flawed battle engine or design philosophy of the last 15 years. This is very clearly a desperation move since even their last defenders jumped ship. It is a transparent attempt to manufacture hype and goodwill during a PR nadir by finally promising what people have been asking for, but the people who asked for it gave up awhile ago. The fact it's in pre production speaks to this motive even more.

It will be ass, and there is no probability of it being good just as a dead tree produces no fruit. Nothing at CA, from the personnel, to management, to methodology has changed enough to make it a possibility. Even the promise of a new engine seems to be mostly focused on visuals, which has never been the issue, rather the core way units and battle is simulated since the Rome 2 engine.

I suspect volound will point this out as he has before. He will get hate from the handful of CA fans left, then be vindicated when it comes out and is bad. Another easy W. I said this since the generation of this thread but he is right about Total war, its all the other shit and his general spergy temperament that makes him a cow.