I realized the VOD in question went up early (it was supposed to be set to private and then be put up probably around Monday). That said, I've been playing the game a lot more.
One thing I'm realizing is that the difficulty spike shoots up tremendously. If this is how hard it's supposed to get for what's level 1, I shudder to imagine what it'll be like at higher levels. There may need to be a lot of tuning done to the difficulty.