Quoting: AnzaBeehives

Thanks, yes, I'm not there yet, I'm still at the wooden club stage in this reroll (haven't gotten back to it yet) as I was enjoying wandering around. I also didn't know about the honey, I just thought the purpose of the bee hive was to piss me off :-)

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Some of those settings don't actually work as advertised yet.

1) No Cost building does not work at all. You still need every petty piece of wood or stone, and it does consume it.
2) My gear still dropped on death, despite the slider setting.
3) I don't think the resource collection slider works on the full position, 3x pickups. I only ever seem to get 2

I can't be motivated to go look for my dropped stuff, I had wandered far from the spawning stones, enjoying traipsing around, minding my own business and bashing things that dare to attack me. The nerve... I'll just have to learn to like raw pork if they are going to be like that.

I'll just start over again next time I revisit this. I'm sure it won't be long now and this will be good for me with those settings.

I got killed by a bee hive, spewing toxic gas (or something greenish). I found a perfect shelter, with a roof and working door and everything, but it had a beehive outside at the back. It was a cool spot, kind of on an islet in a creek, I'd have marked that as my home. So I thought I'd burn the beehive with a torch. Oh no, of course you can't do that, that would be too sensible for it not to be a flame retardant bee hive. I stood there too long trying (it didn't take that long) rofl!

Mind you, I've been attacked by several things and had an easy time fighting them with that combat slider on the easiest, so there's that.

So I enjoyed this a bit tonight, but again, I think I'll wait until they fix these settings before I sink any more time into this. I'll stay on this beta train and check it again when it gets an update :-)

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Is this "beta" not public? All I see in the beta drop list is None, or

default_old - Previous stable
default_preml - last stable build before Mistlands

P.S. Never mind, got it. Enter:

yesimadebackups

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That's what I've been waiting for :-)

But damn, I have so many games on the go right now it's better than Xmas.

Going to have to try this tonight for sure though.

P.S. Just looking at the screenshot of the new settings, I'd say that's better than any kind of "creative mode" because it's got more fine grained control. People like me who just want to wander around, explore and enjoy stuff can enable all of it (TBH I'm not even really into crafting, bare minimum to progress, sort of thing) while others might just want to tweak one unpleasant aspect of it.

This is quite likely to make anyone happy.

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I've been using this client on the beta train, and I don't get black screens, but what I do get is corrupted buffer contents showing briefly when drawing client window canvas now. It could be anything that was on the screen in the last few minutes, garbled, or sometimes it's just coloured TV "snow" like corruption.

I chocked it up to the browser initializing compositing for accelerated canvas etc. where my X client display is not regulated as such (old school WM). It's more related to X client and drivers I think than the software it occurs in.

It's harmless to me, though could be an embarrassing security/privacy issue for somebody that cares.

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Quoting: LungDragoWe want you to enjoy the game as well, but I wonder really what are your expectations?

I pretty much made my expectations clear, I want something to make the game easier, and less tedious. That is coming, and I said I'm going to wait for it.

It's not a stretch, lots of survival/crafting games have an easier mode where you don't have to worry about various things.

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Quoting: PescoYou complain about its unfinished state, yet it is clearly listed as an Early Access game, with all the warnings and disclaimers they include.

I'm not "complaining" about it, I said that for additional reasoning why I'm going to wait, and possibly why things like those pigs might happen.

P.S. I've bought many early access games, there's no promise that they will ever be finished, really. I might have even liked earlier iterations of them better.

Two 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.

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Quoting: LuxZgAnyway, millions of people liked this game so... Yeah ;)

Does that make you feel smug? I might counter that with millions of people don't value their time. Millions of people like stupid music that's so bad it makes me angry. Millions of people think Donald Trump should be ruling the world with an iron fist.

There's no safety in numbers, that kind of stance never convinces me of anything.

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Quoting: justsomejoshForgot to quote (hope it pings on edit too)

Quoting: LungDragoStuff

I couldn't punch kill the pigs, it wasn't killing them and one bite or hit with the tusks and I was dead. Sometimes two and three at once chasing me. I literally had to keep running until I gave up, and this happened to me twice. Quitting doesn't even help, because it saves every aspect of your game state then. I don't think that was supposed to happen, no, because it seemed impossible for starting out with nothing and having to scrounge.

I do have a toe hold now, I have a lean-to, a hammer, a club. But I quit there and didn't get back to it. I'd rather wait and see what they come up with now and I'll start over then. I want to explore.

How many games like this have I played? Not that many, and I don't get far unless there's some sort of easy mode where I can bypass tedium and danger. For example Subnautica.

I'm sure Valheim did it better while they were developing their databases (or folks probably wouldn't be so happy with it), but I bought that "Sir You are Being Hunted" game early, and every time I started liking the world I had, an update would come and I'd have to start over from scratch. That happened several times. When the game was "final", it got a version of Unity that was deadlocking on me, as were other games based on Unity 5, Linux and Windows (and in those days, I mean IN Windows 7). I never did overcome the yuck factor for that game again (never went back to it).

That's why I'd rather wait.

I wouldn't know how "crazy" the world generation is in Valheim, because I've only seen a very small portion of the area I'm in, which was pretty similar each time. What I'm talking about is world generation not having the things you need, before the enemies come. Redo the world, and next roll of the dice you'll find a pistol and some ammo or whatever (whatever you need to get a toe hold)

I really didn't know about picking up the stuff though (I was led to believe it was like permadeath). That's better. No Man's Sky actually had a similar metric.

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Boars 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.

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