V Rising

Been playing this the past few days, it's really good, scratch that Terraria itch, it's very heavy on combat with lots of bosses which I like, there's some grinding but not too much(and it's mostly combat grinding too, don't really gather that much, mostly ores every new tiers). Lots of stuff to do and unlike Terraria I felt it plays very well without the wiki, I did use the wiki to figure out some things but overall the whole progression system is included in the game so you can't really get stuck trying to figure out what's next which I like.

Running on local, didn't have to touch the options much, mostly I changed it so I can teleport with items to make it less tedious when running back to base and made it so items stack up higher so I don't need to add a bunch of chests with redundant shit.

Early game felt a bit lacking, like the whole act1 thing is basically an extended tutorial you just kinda plow through it super quickly but starting act 2 and 3 you start having to stop to farm things every now and then which is nice, and the combat gets more challenging too.

Yeah 3rd partying that fight and killing them both is a common tactic and can help unblock if you if you're stuck.

I got to about the middle of Act 2 and started having trouble with some of the bosses solo. Like I would get really close and just couldn't quite get a win. Probably getting too old for that twitchy shit.

Really good game though. I'll probably go back and try to run it with a group this time.

What is PvP like?

Yeah I just use solo since I have no real interest in the multiplayer thing, works fine, server "shuts down" whenever I close the game(servant missions keep ticking though so you get your loot when you wake up as you would normally), there's really nothing complicated about it either and in fact it lets you tweak a lot of difficulty/grind options since it uses the server ruleset, so if you don't want to grind as much you can make stuff loot more often, get more out of ressource nodes, reduce the cost of crafting/buying from vendor and so on, it's really nice. I think after I'm done with this run I'll start another in Brutal difficulty to see the boss changes and I'll likely make everything way faster to farm so I don't have to spend as much time.

I'm at gear 84 now so nearing the end kinda, I need to farm more rifts to get a weapon, clear out the few last bosses I have then do the megabosses at the end for the last gear upgrades.

In typical fashion I started my brutal alt before I finished the game, surprised that it's not that bad (yet). Part of it is being used to the game but a bigger part is using ranged weapons(crossbow first then bow). Ranged weapons are hilariously easier to play on these early bosses. I'm like halfway into act2 so far and pretty much none of them punished me for being ranged, in fact for most being ranged means just having to dodge less stuff or having more time to adjust to dodge. So far most bosses actually aren't much different, I think some have more projectiles and what not, and the old lady in Dunley had a new phase but it's been pretty much the same I think.