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Quoting: MasterSleortI say let free market forces dictate whether it is a feature that will stay or not. If people are getting burnt or don't feel the value is there, publishers will be hesitant to use the feature. After all it's also a way to get advanced negative reviews.

This is true - "advanced access" could result in negative reviews that destroy "release day" sales. Hopefully that's enough incentive for greedy publishers to be cautious about milking this too heavily.

It really depends on the number of people who get roped into this advanced access thing versus how many people wait patiently for the actual release day, and how many people in the advanced access actually refund their game. If you make most of your sales in AA and then people don't refund your mess, well, you're golden. :D

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I'm eagerly awaiting the moment in the near future when EA will complete its transformation into a cyberpunk dystopian corporation and develop an "anticheat" that will enhance your sense of high stakes and accomplishment and literally fry your brain if it thinks you're cheating. They can even call the anti cheat ICE, so it goes well with the Frostbite engine.

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Quoting: TheRiddickWe have seen this optional thing happen before then you have 99.99% of servers using it anyway forcing Linux users to play in their own little echo-system.

Still a major thorn in Linux Gaming's side, this kernel or even normal anti-cheat software.

While we can all definitely agree that it sucks when we can't play something on Linux that otherwise runs great, except for the anti cheat, there's a lot to be said about anti cheat software being flawed on a fundamental level and fully supporting such software on Linux makes next to no sense.
What is most baffling is how quickly both developers and gamers adopt them, even though their effectiveness is questionable and they often end up hurting normal paying customers more than they hurt actual cheaters.

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Modding tools are great when they're available and work, but my personal gripe with them is that the community on each game uses a different tool. It just doesn't take long for a user to juggle ten different mod managers and it gives me PTSD from using 4 chat programs to talk to different people back in the 2000's.

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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* :whistle: :whistle:

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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