Valheim - Viking Survival Game (Early Access)
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Daidraco
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Shit - I figured they would have at least put something in development for a DLC and charged 5 / 10 bucks for it. Right now, it just seems like a single persons love project and from the looks of whats being implemented, its the chick from the five original members.
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They just finished up the cross play feature, and have been working to wrap up the bug fixes on the backend in anticipation of Mistland. Just wish they'd pick up a few more devs to get shit done faster.
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Caliane
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its not that they walked away. its just that dev time on indie games is never as fast as you would like. Slow dev time on this was obvious right from the get go.
Especially true with Early access. Always a huge potential problem. Slow time. and god forbid you have to pivot game design or content. great if all your planned content is working properly and has no design roadblocks. If it does? got to scrap a ton of work, with paid customers asking "where is the update?" then, complaining incessantly about a feature that is scrapped.
EA often does NOT let you create the best game due to this. it forces you to stick by promised content, even if that promise is shit.
Especially true with Early access. Always a huge potential problem. Slow time. and god forbid you have to pivot game design or content. great if all your planned content is working properly and has no design roadblocks. If it does? got to scrap a ton of work, with paid customers asking "where is the update?" then, complaining incessantly about a feature that is scrapped.
EA often does NOT let you create the best game due to this. it forces you to stick by promised content, even if that promise is shit.
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I'm actually pretty happy with how they've kept the team small and the direction steady.
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The bank, then the beach, which is what I would have done.
Seriously though. The game still has plenty of magic in its current state. I'm replaying with my son, which has inspired me to look into mods. EpicValheim changes the game in some pretty prfound ways (fighting/exploration-driven economy through the trader, diablo-style magic items, etc.). Still enjoying it.
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I still had more fun with this game, than any other in the past few years. Wasn't 60+$ like many "AAA" titles either.
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Cybsled
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Pretty much this. Look at stuff like 7 Days to Die. It has been “alpha” for like 10 years. Patches come, but on a relatively slow time scale. Although not Project Zomboid slow (although I think they have a really small team that does work on this game on the side)
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Rezz
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I think they actually just recently added a person to the team for visual effects; I imagine there will be substantial ramp up time but maybe that will help with the speed a bit.
Still can't believe how slow it has been, and how absolutely bonkers their initial roadmap was. They promised mistlands and the ocean update at a minimum by end of last year, and here we are almost a year later waiting on them still. Talk about misjudging productivity hah.
Easily one of my favorite games of the last few years; there's only a couple of non-MMOs (well, non FFXIV games is probably more correct) with more playtime, and they are things like Stardew Valley and Terraria.
It has been pretty depressing that the majority of patches for the last year have been "We're adding the maypole!" followed by "We're removing the maypole!" =|
Still can't believe how slow it has been, and how absolutely bonkers their initial roadmap was. They promised mistlands and the ocean update at a minimum by end of last year, and here we are almost a year later waiting on them still. Talk about misjudging productivity hah.
Easily one of my favorite games of the last few years; there's only a couple of non-MMOs (well, non FFXIV games is probably more correct) with more playtime, and they are things like Stardew Valley and Terraria.
It has been pretty depressing that the majority of patches for the last year have been "We're adding the maypole!" followed by "We're removing the maypole!" =|
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Chimney
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If you haven't already then try out Grounded (on Gamepass PC if you use that) if you want to play a complete game. I am a self proclaimed hater of survival based games, but have put real time into Valheim, Grounded and Subnautica and enjoyed each, but Grounded is by far the most fun I had all the way through though.
Rezz
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Yeah I've played through various phases of grounded (and of course Subnautica. Emo SJWs to the core, but the first game is a masterpiece and the second is solid if not quite as good)
Trying to convince some friends to run a full playthrough but the kiddy-centric look/dialogue for some reason turns people off. I just think Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and am totally ok with it.
Trying to convince some friends to run a full playthrough but the kiddy-centric look/dialogue for some reason turns people off. I just think Honey, I Shrunk the Kids and am totally ok with it.
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Tarrant
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