What are you Playing Now? Volume XIX: The New Beginning of the End of the Middle

[LadyCrimson]

Enshrouded:  Well, I'll be dipped in .... I was making new chrs/saves/testing and realized that each save, even offline/SP, is still like creating a separate world "instance" of the game - which you can then enter/visit with any other character you create.  Meaning you could take chr. #2 and enter chr #1's save/world and grab anything out of chests. leave and go back into chr #2's world/save.  High level tools, gear, big storage boxes, working workstations, whatever.

Keeping that join-server-like feature as part of offline/SP is nuts. Talk about sandbox-replay shortcuts.  So that gives Enshrouded a few extra bonus points until a possible full creative mode.

I think I'm lacking the snow biome.  I'm not sure I care. I'm almost current max-clvl already, and the progression of shroud and dungeons are becoming more aggravating (platforming jumps, maze-likes, getting constantly lost/turned around, ugh). Plus I don't need snow-themed furniture, haha.   My fave biome so far is the 2nd one (kind of a redwood/forest rainy biome) and it's probably the only one I'd want to base in, anyway.

[Hurlshort]

17 minutes ago, LadyCrimson said:

Enshrouded:  Well, I'll be dipped in .... I was making new chrs/saves/testing and realized that each save, even offline/SP, is still like creating a separate world "instance" of the game - which you can then enter/visit with any other character you create.  Meaning you could take chr. #2 and enter chr #1's save/world and grab anything out of chests. leave and go back into chr #2's world/save.  High level tools, gear, big storage boxes, working workstations, whatever.

Keeping that join-server-like feature as part of offline/SP is nuts. Talk about sandbox-replay shortcuts.  So that gives Enshrouded a few extra bonus points until a possible full creative mode.

I think I'm lacking the snow biome.  I'm not sure I care. I'm almost current max-clvl already, and the progression of shroud and dungeons are becoming more aggravating (platforming jumps, maze-likes, getting constantly lost/turned around, ugh). Plus I don't need snow-themed furniture, haha.   My fave biome so far is the 2nd one (kind of a redwood/forest rainy biome) and it's probably the only one I'd want to base in, anyway.

I assume snow is on the development plan, since the game isn't even officially version 1 yet. I haven't even reached the water biome yet.

[LadyCrimson]

51 minutes ago, Hurlshort said:

I assume snow is on the development plan, since the game isn't even officially version 1 yet. I haven't even reached the water biome yet.

It's already in the game. I've seen ppl on forums talk about it. It's mountains I guess.
I've been focusing on exploring and seeing what one can do with building blocks (no gravity/structural integrity considerations, can "float" bases, like in NMS).  I still haven't even tamed a cat/animal.  Just like in real life these days, I don't really want to take care of one.

Edit: I went without the larger backpacks for ages because that swamp FT spire annoyed me - I kept falling with those bouncy pads. Later I finally tried chopping a stairway into a tree and got to the top that way. I hated that swamp area.

Edited Monday at 07:34 PM by LadyCrimson

[Hurlshort]

1 hour ago, LadyCrimson said:

It's already in the game. I've seen ppl on forums talk about it. It's mountains I guess.
I've been focusing on exploring and seeing what one can do with building blocks (no gravity/structural integrity considerations, can "float" bases, like in NMS).  I still haven't even tamed a cat/animal.  Just like in real life these days, I don't really want to take care of one.

Edit: I went without the larger backpacks for ages because that swamp FT spire annoyed me - I kept falling with those bouncy pads. Later I finally tried chopping a stairway into a tree and got to the top that way. I hated that swamp area.

My biggest issue is altitis and worlditis. Like, I keep starting new characters on new worlds with new server rules. I'm an expert on the first 10 hours of the game.

[LadyCrimson]

1 hour ago, Hurlshort said:

My biggest issue is altitis and worlditis. Like, I keep starting new characters on new worlds with new server rules. I'm an expert on the first 10 hours of the game.

With the way melee animations work, I haven't had alt-itis like I do in some games. I've tried melee a few times and once I melee-thrust myself off a cliff. Technically I think using the staff to cast spells does the same forward/stuck in an elongated animation movement but since you cast it from afar it doesn't bother me.  I might try the bows later. Of course, I'm still using mostly the easy settings, because after the first 20 or so hours,  I'm just trying to rush to unlock stuff. Having to find/loot block varieties in "random" places is so annoying.  Loot a chest, bang, "true sandstone fancy block discovered."  Pffft.

Edited Monday at 10:23 PM by LadyCrimson

[LadyCrimson]

Enshrouded: 
I found the snow biome. Or rather, I found some edges of it. I guess I didn't notice before because I've been using double-jump, gliding, and a lot of pickaxing to reach places before the game wants you to, I think. So I'm often in tunnels, or it's night, or ---
Anyway - I glided and then made a tunnel upwards in this one spot. I hit patches of snow and new granite/blocks (I can now build snowmen).  At one flat cliff ledge some way up, I plopped a base-altar. Good thing, since about 60 more seconds of tunneling upwards through rock, I wtf dropped dead, apparently from cold. Tried again, paid more attention, saw the tiny "frost death imminent" timer bar this time. So I went sideways. Found another snowy ledge, but this one had a nice, empty, pre-built fancy stone house. So I put a base altar in there as a foothold.  there was a path upwards. So I tried again, just walking. Worked for a while, then that bar showed up again and I had to rush back down.  I think it's "altitude" based, not the actual snow.

Guess I need frost protection. I have zero idea how to get it. My altar stage is still only lvl 5, that's probably some of it.  Each altar level (for me so far) has at least one (shroud) material required that is so annoying to get, even with 25+minute shroud-time. Either because of grind or getting lost finding a POI area or a spawn area etc. Dangit, guess I gotta grind. 

Edited Thursday at 01:44 AM by LadyCrimson

[Hurlshort]

29 minutes ago, LadyCrimson said:

Enshrouded: 
I found the snow biome. Or rather, I found some edges of it. I guess I didn't notice before because I've been using double-jump, gliding, and a lot of pickaxing to reach places before the game wants you to, I think. So I'm often in tunnels, or it's night, or ---
Anyway - I glided and then made a tunnel upwards in this one spot. I hit patches of snow and new granite/blocks (I can now build snowmen).  At one flat cliff ledge some way up, I plopped a base-altar. Good thing, since about 60 more seconds of tunneling upwards through rock, I wtf dropped dead, apparently from cold. Tried again, paid more attention, saw the tiny "frost death imminent" timer bar this time. So I went sideways. Found another snowy ledge, but this one had a nice, empty, pre-built fancy stone house. So I put a base altar in there as a foothold.  there was a path upwards. So I tried again, just walking. Worked for a while, then that bar showed up again and I had to rush back down.  I think it's "altitude" based, not the actual snow.

Guess I need frost protection. I have zero idea how to get it. My altar stage is still only lvl 5, that's probably some of it.  Each altar level (for me so far) has at least one (shroud) material required that is so annoying to get, even with 25+minute shroud-time. Either because of grind or getting lost finding a POI area or a spawn area etc. Dangit, guess I gotta grind. 

Hah, I like how you were skeptical about the game a couple weeks ago, and now you are way further along than I am.

My flame level in 3, I think. Maybe 4.

[LadyCrimson]

13 hours ago, Hurlshort said:

Hah, I like how you were skeptical about the game a couple weeks ago, and now you are way further along than I am.

My flame level in 3, I think. Maybe 4.

It's winter and I have nothing better to do. Plus I'm pretty sure I have both more free time and more "ocd" factors.

At the moment I'd give the game in its current form maybe a B or B+.  I like aspects but there are still those super annoying things that get your goat, a little too often. So I try to focus on the things I like, until the game "forces" me to do otherwise. I've somehow finished 70ish "quests" (I use that term loosely) but there's oodles of them all over the map I've ignored and every new thing procs more.  I'm sure I'm missing a lot of NPC-crafts by not doing some of them.  I do like that there's no money/buying/selling. Just resource grind.

Speaking of which, I spent a few hours trying to get the 40 of the one item I need to upgrade the altar again. After that time I have --- 37.   And that's with the setting that I think increases amounts you loot a bit.  >.>   The "grind" is that you have to wait for enemies to respawn and ofc it's not a thing that spawns in numbers. It gets MMO old.

EDIT: if game didn't have all those easy settings I can turn on/off at whim, I'd probably have irritation-quit.

Edited Thursday at 03:48 PM by LadyCrimson

[Hurlshort]

I have two worlds really going, one is on easy and the other on regular. The easy one is less annoying with combat and death consequences, but I have noticed there are less enemies and it can be tough to get resources that require them. The standard world seems to have a lot more mobs.

I checked and I am at flame level 5 on the easy world and 3 on the standard. 

[LadyCrimson]

37 minutes ago, Hurlshort said:

I have two worlds really going, one is on easy and the other on regular. The easy one is less annoying with combat and death consequences, but I have noticed there are less enemies and it can be tough to get resources that require them. The standard world seems to have a lot more mobs.

On your Easy, did you slide every slider full to left? Because one setting controls the numbers.  Less/Normal/More, something like that. I left it on Normal because I don't care how many there are in most cases, as long as they die easy/don't kill me in one hit or whatever (bosses mostly, mobs are nothing).  The enemy I had to farm is a flying one and it simply doesn't spawn many in the few shroud areas it can spawn. I only found one larger area where maybe 3 spawned, other spots just had one.

I have now found coal, which means I can craft a hand-warmer, but I also need a certain kind of leather, which I do not have. Hehehe

Edited Thursday at 06:02 PM by LadyCrimson

[Sven_]

Unavowed.  


Becuz (pixel) size matters!   

Big props to Dave Gilbert for making a living by telling the stories he wants to tell for twenty years now? This one is also the game where he got a little inspired by Bioware-style companions. Gilbert's never been much of a puzzle guy, but this gives him something toy with. You even get to name your character and can chose an "origin", with the game starting out a little different depending on your choice.

Edited yesterday at 12:09 AM by Sven_