Quoting: Mountain ManGames like these make me realize how bad I am at interior design.

Their Minecraft house: breathtaking Rivendell recreation
My Minecraft house: box made of dirt

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How *is* Street Figher 6 running for you, people? For me, it was always barely playable. I know my gaming rig is very old now, but the game itself doesn't appear to be short on hardware power. When it runs, it runs well. The stability is just horrible.

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How does this game fare when compared to Forever Skies? They both have the premise of having a mobile base instead of a static one, which I find interesting.

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Quoting: CanadianBlueBeerOk, the boar rune with no weapons would be annoying. (yet, all that meat and scrap leather early on, would be nice)

Ohhhhh....... 1 or 2 star boar WOULD eat you for lunch with no club/shield.

Finding that right off comes under the "RNG hates you" category.

You want to find those after you have some kind of shelter setup, so you can tame them.
(a buddy loves to tame the critters, I tend to just kill everything that moves)

:)

Yes, for sure a one or two star boar or neck would be a big problem. But I'm positive the starting area is protected. The only thing you might run into around the starting area is a starred deer and those don't fight back.

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Quoting: Liam Dawe*me remembering being killed by the boars quite a few times when first starting*

The difficulty absolutely isn't for everyone, and even some bits that aren't "difficult" can certainly be a challenge for people. Valheim is quite a brutal game, and anyone saying differently probably has played it a long time now.

Their upcoming upgrade with difficulty sliders should solve the early rough starts for people to learn it more.

Yeah, I got chewed by boars a few times as well. Ran like a king right into the boar runestone with no food and no torch on me. Chose to fight them instead of running away, panicked a few times during the fight and paid the price. But that whole thing was completely my fault. Not a "bugged game state in a procedural game".

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Quoting: GroganTwo of you now have stated the obvious, that I didn't try hard enough. Yes I did, I got where I am in the game by trying again until I did. I wasn't born yesterday, I can recognize a bugged game state in a procedural game, so I start over instead of wasting any more time on that. Moreover, I am excusing those encounters as early access "features".

As stated, I stopped there, waiting for something that will make my game easier and less tedious. I want to enjoy it, not get that "yuck factor" and not play it again like those others. That was really my main point.

Nice Vulkan game, huge effort, I just hope there's going to be something for me in there.

We want you to enjoy the game as well, but I wonder really what are your expectations? Valheim is already a very casual survival game. I can tell you from my experience that a 7 year old girl can play it and enjoy herself with no frustration involved. It's in fact one of the major reasons why this game blew up as it did back in coronavirus days. It removed a lot of the grinding and tediousness that's usually associated with this genre. The early access was and still is in a very playable state with very minimal bugs, including no wacky procedural generation issues. All that in a nice, endearing and atmospheric package that runs on potato PCs yet looks incredible at times. It was the perfect game for a wide population that's stuck at home.

And here comes you, who obviously did not enjoy the game, and it's your full right to do so, but then your reasoning sounds really weird to the rest of us. You're complaining that one of the easiest survival games out there is too difficult and you need an easy mode. You're complaining that boars are too difficult to defeat, but consider this:

• Boars do not kill you in a single hit despite your claim. Your starting health is 25 and they do 10 damage, so you survive two of their attacks. They actually do a little bit less, because you start with very crappy pants that still provide some armor. Furthermore, the starting area will have basic food like raspberries and mushrooms that give you more health, making you survive even more hits.
• Boars are really easy to defeat because of their single attack pattern they have. They charge at you and attempt to hit you, then they turn around and run away from you, turn around and charge back at you again. The charge is therefore always heavily telegraphed and you see it coming. It's easy to dodge roll and even side step. Even if the boar hits you, it runs away from you afterwards, meaning it's very easy for you to also run away from it, if you don't want to deal with it.
• Boars have really pathetic health of 10. They die in one club hit (12 damage) or two fist punches (5 damage each).
• Even after all this, if you still struggle with them or you run into a group of them at a bad time (they always spawn in large groups around a specific runestone, for example), you have the option of using a torch. They won't attack you at all if you have it out.

Come on man, how bad do you have to be to struggle with this? You are one button press away from lighting up a torch (that you start with by the way) and completely invalidating this threat. What is your easy mode? To have a damaging aura around you and boars just dying spontanteously in your presence? Because at this point, the only real way of making this even easier is just playing in Creative mode with no enemies at all.

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Quoting: GroganBoars were relentlessly pursuing me, absolutely relentlessly. There was no safe place to avoid them, there were no branches around. In two world generations. When I died, I'd have maybe 20 seconds before I'd start getting attacked by boars again. In the third one, the boars were nowhere to be seen, there was wood all over the place. Those greyling enemies were no problem, I can just beat them up.

I also don't like that you lose all your stuff and start over when you die. That's something they said they were considering for the easier mode.

I don't know what seed it is, it was whatever seed it used, I didn't choose anything. I don't care to play that game again until they fix it.

I find that to be common behaviour for procedurally generated "survival" games. You may not get a viable world to get the game off the ground and you may have to regenerate it. "Sir You are Being Hunted" and "We Happy Few" both did that to me.

This is also an unfinished game.

Branches on the ground are mostly an emergency campfire fuel, really. Do you realize that you can punch the thin, young birches with your fists, Minecraft style? Those tend to be everywhere as birch forests are everywhere, in the first biome. A few of those trees are enough to get you an axe and then you're golden from there. It's usually more difficult to find the stone you need early on than wood. As for boars, they will eventually stop following you when you run away far enough and you do outrun them. You can also make yourself a torch, boars (and greylings) are afraid of fire. Once you kill a few boars, you can get a shield and from there you should be fine.

I get what you mean with the procedural generation, but Valheim really doesn't do anything crazy with its world generation in terms of variance. All maps are very similar to each other in my experience. It follows a basic logic where the more difficult biomes start to appear farther from the starting location. As such, you are always starting in Meadows with Black Forests being close by. As I said before, the "hardcore" difficult starts are those that start you on a tiny island, but all that does is just force you to make a raft and get to a bigger landmass. Sometimes, a starting landmass can be dominated by Black Forest and other biomes instead of Meadows, which can be more difficult too. Even in these situations however, you will be missing things like honey, never a basic resource like wood (and stone drops from Greydwarfs if you can't find it on the ground).

What I'm trying to say here I suppose is that it seems to me your perception of the game got distorted in some way for some reason. It isn't a hardcore git gud tryhard survival game with brutal starts with relentless boars that are going to eat you. You can't die from hunger, the starting biome is very chill even in the nights and the world doesn't get harder if you don't progress by defeating the boss, meaning there is no time pressure on you either. You're more than welcome to take your time if that's what you need.

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Quoting: GroganI can't play this game. It took me 3 restarts to even get a world where I could get a toe hold without being relentlessly chased by pigs I can't fight, with no wood around.

Valheim has some moments that will catch people unaware and unprepared by design. When you're new, you're going to be killed by the first troll, by the first trip into the swamp and such. Dying in that sense is a part of the game. But I find it difficult to imagine that the early game, where you're mostly dealing with deer that just run away, boars that attack once then run away and greylings that attack very slowly would pose a problem to anyone. What is the seed you've been playing, man?! Even the "hardcore" starts on tiny islands tend to have enough wood to build a raft and get out of there.

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I know Baldur's Gate usually takes the crown as peak Bioware-era RPG, but for me, it's always going to be Neverwinter Nights. BG has tons of modern spiritual successors after it, but there's nothing quite like NWN. It's not just a standard campaign, but a platform for digital role playing.

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Tried to run the Proton version and well, it doesn't really work for me sadly. The load into the Immortal Empires campaign takes ages (and I just killed my Windows install to make room on my SDD for this, hah) and then either crashes or loads in successfully but crashes after I do a few actions on the campaign map. I hear the native version is much better performance-wise but crucially AFAIK, there is no crossplay between it and Windows, which makes the native version useless to me.

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