|
|
Post by Bagpuss on Mar 11, 2021 12:09:48 GMT
Recently started playing this with my second RPG group as a break from Roll20.
It's in Early Access, but it feels so complete that, that is misleading. It got 4 million copies sold in the first three weeks on Steam, and 500,000 concurrent players, which made it in the top 5 of most played games ever.
Got to say I can see why it is so successful. While the textures on the graphics are pretty basic the lighting and mood of the setting is so beautiful and relaxing, or dark and threatening at night. Playing with a group of friends is a great shared experience, and exploring is so much fun either solo, or as a group as the monsters get harder based on the number of players around.
Building your Viking settlement and unlocking the various build materials and equipment by killing the bosses is a clever mechanic. With the resources spread across islands and not being able to use portals for metal ores means you have to sail, which is a really enjoyable mechanic.
The wind effects all sorts of things, obviously sailing, but also if deer can sense you when up wind, or how trees fall when you cut them down.
If anyone else is playing care to share your experiences? Most recent incident I recall is crashing or karve into a troll that was wading near the coast during heavy fog. The shear panic on the voice chat as it started swinging a tree trunk at our little boat was incredible.
It's about £15, something like $20 and is easily worth it. |
|
|
|
Post by Bagpuss on Mar 11, 2021 15:27:12 GMT
Thought I would include the release trailer so folks had an idea what I was talking about. The whole team that put this together were initially 2 people I think the studio is up to 5 now, since the money started coming in. You play a Viking sent to the world of the dead to battle Odin rivals.
|
|
|
|
Post by evileeyore on Mar 11, 2021 19:53:13 GMT
Yeah, it looks excellent, but my piotatoe still hasn't been updated... I've been lazy as i was kinda waiting for CP2077 to get passed the "2 month bug shake out" before I bothered, but then CP2077 happened and I suddenly had even less reason to make any haste...
So now I have a reason again. I figure I'll get into it in about a month.
|
|
zappo
New Member
Posts: 29
|
Post by zappo on Mar 11, 2021 20:05:23 GMT
My friends are liking it, and we'll play it together. I've bought it, but I'm in the middle of a work crunch, though, so it'll be a few more days before I actually get to run it.
|
|
|
|
Post by Eldorian on Mar 11, 2021 21:04:11 GMT
I've been playing this, too. So far I'm up to iron armor and I need to find a new swamp to exploit. I just join my friends games occasionally, but I haven't done a "shared world" type game. Maybe I'll get my brother to start a server up, since he never turns off his computer and has fiber internet.
|
|
|
|
Post by Bagpuss on Mar 12, 2021 8:33:36 GMT
I've been playing this, too. So far I'm up to iron armor and I need to find a new swamp to exploit. Yeah we haven't even got to iron yet, only having killed the first boss. We won't kill a boss unless we are all together. So the first week we played we didn't fight the main boss in the shared game because we were all just learning the ropes. Second weekend we killed the stag. This Friday we plan to fight the Elder, and possibly the next boss. I started a solo game but haven't been playing it, as I tend to login to the shared world as I am the host, and then whoever is available joins and we just explore and gather resources. Would could all have a set of bronze equipment by now but we prefer the troll armour for speed. One player spends most their time building structures, one likes running off on his own exploring, while the rest of us seem to do a mix of both. The scout marks stuff on his map and then we all go out and raid a burial chamber or mine a copper source. Had to stage a few rescue operations to get the scouts stuff back on occasions. So our progress technology wise has been slow since we only kill a boss on a Friday, but during the week we build and gather and search so we don't seem to be short of anything. |
|
|
|
Post by Devoid on Mar 14, 2021 2:46:31 GMT
Yeah, it looks excellent, but my piotatoe still hasn't been updated... I've been lazy as i was kinda waiting for CP2077 to get passed the "2 month bug shake out" before I bothered, but then CP2077 happened and I suddenly had even less reason to make any haste... So now I have a reason again. I figure I'll get into it in about a month. Your potato probably could still run it. Good luck finding a decent graphics card now or even in a few months without paying double, triple, or even more over their MSRP (we have cryptomining and scalpers to thank for that). |
|
|
|
Post by Eldorian on Mar 14, 2021 3:19:43 GMT
Eh, despite looking pretty low end, it actually doesn't run that great. I'm not sure his potato could run it.
|
|
|
|
Post by evileeyore on Mar 14, 2021 5:31:24 GMT
Your potato probably could still run it. No, it really can't. The computer is closing on 15 years old, has no graphics card, and I think one of the memory seats has died. I've actually been motivated to get a new compy because twitter and facebook occasional cause it to bluescreen. It's a Dell Dimension 3100 I picked on the cheap when an office I had friends at updated their systems like 10ish years a go. I was going to use it as a 'storage server', set it up with a raid card and just start cramming hard drives in it till it couldn't take anymore. Then my gaming PC let out the magic pixie smoke during a thunder storm. So I so stuck a gpu in the Dell and switched over to using this thing 5 6 7 ears ago. The gpu (which was old too) burned up about 4-5 years ago. I hadn't really had the money to replace it till now... Yeah, I was looking at gpus, fucking hell, $5k+ for a brand new top-of-the-line model? Fucking cryptominers. I swear to ZOD, they are all on my list should my Dark Legions ever show up. First against the wall. And I'll probably end up looking at a prebuilt specifically because of this despite my dislike for prebuilts. |
|
|
|
Post by Devoid on Mar 14, 2021 14:34:22 GMT
Your potato probably could still run it. No, it really can't. The computer is closing on 15 years old, has no graphics card, and I think one of the memory seats has died. I've actually been motivated to get a new compy because twitter and facebook occasional cause it to bluescreen. It's a Dell Dimension 3100 I picked on the cheap when an office I had friends at updated their systems like 10ish years a go. I was going to use it as a 'storage server', set it up with a raid card and just start cramming hard drives in it till it couldn't take anymore. Then my gaming PC let out the magic pixie smoke during a thunder storm. So I so stuck a gpu in the Dell and switched over to using this thing 5 6 7 ears ago. The gpu (which was old too) burned up about 4-5 years ago. I hadn't really had the money to replace it till now... Yeah, I was looking at gpus, fucking hell, $5k+ for a brand new top-of-the-line model? Fucking cryptominers. I swear to ZOD, they are all on my list should my Dark Legions ever show up. First against the wall. And I'll probably end up looking at a prebuilt specifically because of this despite my dislike for prebuilts. I know, right? I was planning on building a replacement for my 2007 desktop (Q6600) over the holiday, but COVID delayed the release dates for everything, then scalpers and cryptominers bought up the new cards once they were available, then the older cards followed suit once all the new ones were gone, leading to the hyper-inflated pricing of graphic cards overall.
As for the cryptocurrency market, I suspect this will bust just like in 2017 (when Etherium was leading the way profitability-wise in the prior boom). I'm just wondering when this one will crash.
I probably won't replace my desktop until a year or so from now as long as my current machine doesn't fail. Perhaps that may be enough time for AMD AM5 socket motherboards* to be released with some of the initial bugs worked out.
*Expected to include USB4, DDR5 (higher capacity DIMMs with ECC), and maybe PCIe5 (future-resistance, not that there are any devices in the consumer space that come close to saturating PCIe4)
|
|
|
|
Post by evileeyore on Mar 14, 2021 18:11:32 GMT
As for the cryptocurrency market, I suspect this will bust just like in 2017 (when Etherium was leading the way profitability-wise in the prior boom). I'm just wondering when this one will crash. In theory Nvidia was supposed to helping the gaming community out, with the release of the GeForce 16 series was is aimed at crypto, and the 20 series which is aimed at gaming. They even released updates to better further separate the two... unfortunately, the 'updates' that were to 'cripple' crypto mining on the 20 series were just that, released as an update, so no cryptominer would update, so the card works just fine for cryptomining. *le sigh* Like I said, I'll probably have to go prebuilt *wince* and just suck it up. I might be able to find a decent prebuilt I can roll back to firmware and do my own installs on. That's what I did with this Dell (and the half dozen other cheapy comps I picked up for similar purposes over the years and resold when I didn't need them anymore). I'm actually eyeballing one right now which is "in theory" Win10 compatible that was, again in theory, wiped before I bought it for $50. It's a Dell Optiplex 7100, I was thinking about turning it into my internet machine... but then I went Work From Home, and now have no space on the desk to do any work (I'm actually using a tray table to type from). I need a dedicated office. Which means I need to move. Which means I need to make more money...  |
|
zappo
New Member
Posts: 29
|
Post by zappo on Mar 15, 2021 7:12:41 GMT
We've played a lot over the weekend, and we killed the first and second bosses. The difficulty gap between the two is... substantial. We've explored something like 1% of the map, maybe a little more.
We're struggling with long-distance hauling of ore. We had great hopes for the cart, but it's really hard to pull a cart over rugged terrain. How do people solve this problem?
We've also mysteriously lost our new boat, which sucks. I read online that this happens, and can be explained with tides carrying the boat away or smashing it against the rocks, or mobs attacking it, or some bug. Nothing to be done about bugs, but I wonder how do people protect boats. We could build some kind of closed harbor, but wouldn't waves still smash it against the harbor sides? Or a low tide smash it against the bottom? Maybe only some objects, like rocks, damage boats?
|
|
|
|
Post by Bagpuss on Mar 15, 2021 10:23:38 GMT
We've played a lot over the weekend, and we killed the first and second bosses. The difficulty gap between the two is... substantial. We've explored something like 1% of the map, maybe a little more. We're struggling with long-distance hauling of ore. We had great hopes for the cart, but it's really hard to pull a cart over rugged terrain. How do people solve this problem? We've also mysteriously lost our new boat, which sucks. I read online that this happens, and can be explained with tides carrying the boat away or smashing it against the rocks, or mobs attacking it, or some bug. Nothing to be done about bugs, but I wonder how do people protect boats. We could build some kind of closed harbor, but wouldn't waves still smash it against the harbor sides? Or a low tide smash it against the bottom? Maybe only some objects, like rocks, damage boats? Cart is really only useful near you base I found (so for us tend to get used for wood mainly), ships are the way to go for oar. Step one, carry enough ore back to base to make enough nails bronze for a karve. From then on load up the karve with ore and sail it back, everyone else carry ore as well to improve the load you can take. You've killed the second boss so have the key to the swamp crypts, so fill up a karve with iron ore and head back with enough to make iron nails, build a longboat. From then on fill the longboat with ore. Also handy carry enough stuff to make a portal when you get there (don't forget to make the matching portal before you leave). From then on you can carry nails through a portal to make another boat at the place to carry more stuff back. If you have lost a boat check where it was, if it was damaged by smashing against stuff or attacked the wood should be floating where it was the nails and hides sink, but if it was close to shore you might be able to get them still either by swimming out and looking down. Ours sunk in our harbour, to get the nails I had to jump off the pier and keep spamming E while looking at the nails, as when you hit the water you dive down a little which was enough to get me close enough to get the nails. We are past day 100, and only recently killed the second boss, we are doing the opposite of a speed run. Hope you have decent base defences if you've killed the second boss. |
|
|
|
Post by evileeyore on Mar 15, 2021 14:29:54 GMT
We're struggling with long-distance hauling of ore. We had great hopes for the cart, but it's really hard to pull a cart over rugged terrain. How do people solve this problem? I have seen canals used to great effect. |
|
zappo
New Member
Posts: 29
|
Post by zappo on Mar 15, 2021 18:24:18 GMT
Thanks for the boat tips!
We've killed the second boss, but we haven't found any swamp yet. Curiously, one of us met a draugr while exploring randomly, but there was no swamp nearby. Next time we play, we'll look at that area more carefully. I'm sure we'll find it soon, although losing the boat is somewhat of a setback. Hope you have decent base defences if you've killed the second boss. Er, not really, and one of us who was able to login today found out why that is a problem, just a few hours ago. Ouch. That's going to slow us down a bit.
What base defenses can be built? We could make a palisade, but we've seen mobs spawn right in the middle of the base. Not sure how to defend against that. I read advice about using the hoe, covering everything with workbenches, using wards, using fireplaces... but for each of these solutions, there's someone who says it's not working for them. |
|
