Poison is OP

[Mut389]

In my opinion the poison is OP and the timer to spread or become fully infected needs to be lowered, it quickly will spread to the whole map and completely ruined my play through and is impossible for me to clean it now. Im obviously no professional at this game but from my gaming experience it seems to spread too quickly and takes too long to get under control.

[Bobywan]

On first try, it feels overwhelming because you were not prepared.
Just prepare in advance with exterminators, harvesters and doctors.

[Markus [Stray Fawn Studio Dev]]

Hi Mut389

Poison in the demo is flawed and will be reworked for the Early Access release version. We have a new version ready and it will be tested very soon with our beta testers. The demo version won't be updated unfortunately.

Here's an older post from me where I describe a way how to combat poison :)

https://steamcommunity.com/app/1121640/discussions/0/3192493519706494511/#c3192493519707111297

Good luck and cheers,
Markus

[Mut389]

awesome, the demo seems fun, obviously its a demo and very early, however im lookin forward to getting my hands on this game on release, keep up the good work guys!

[esturias]

Your opinion will change drastically as soon as you start a second game.

[Bobywan]

Originally posted by esturias:

Your opinion will change drastically as soon as you start a second game.

Agreed, I'm afraid the poison will be nerfed too much because of player complaining thye didn't suceed on their first playthrough...

[esturias]

Originally posted by Bobywan:

Originally posted by esturias:

Your opinion will change drastically as soon as you start a second game.

Agreed, I'm afraid the poison will be nerfed too much because of player complaining thye didn't suceed on their first playthrough...

I'm pretty confident that their strategy with this isn't just nerfing.

[Mut389]

Originally posted by Bobywan:

Originally posted by esturias:

Your opinion will change drastically as soon as you start a second game.

Agreed, I'm afraid the poison will be nerfed too much because of player complaining thye didn't suceed on their first playthrough...

Well the game's focus, at least in my opinion, is in building, researching, and helping the big guy survive. The fact that the poison can completely wreck your entire game if you don't heavily prep for it kinda shifts the focus away from what I feel the developers are trying to achieve. Its called Wandering Village, not Wandering Poison, just my 2 cents.

[WereVrock]

I think decontaminator can be buffed to work slightly faster and they can be made to kill upto 3 plants that are close to each other.

This way we can have an epic battle against the poison that would not easily overrun the village.

[XIII]

Idk, ive just played through the demo and never really had problems with poison. Didnt even have decontaminators, told my villagers to harvest any poison plants with max priority.
But I definitely see how you can get screwed if you dont react instantly.

Either way the demo was a lot of fun. Really looking forward to when this game comes out :D

[Fogey Gamer]

Yeah. Not OP for sure.

[DCI_Benway]

I'm on playtest and one run I wasn't paying attention and ran the beast right into a batch of poison - It spread so fast through the camp that it destroyed everything and killed everyone. Was no way to combat it in the short time I had been playing.
Hoping it was a fluke and will be avoidable next time.

[Bobywan]

Originally posted by NonBritGit:

I'm on playtest and one run I wasn't paying attention and ran the beast right into a batch of poison - It spread so fast through the camp that it destroyed everything and killed everyone. Was no way to combat it in the short time I had been playing.
Hoping it was a fluke and will be avoidable next time.

Now that you know what to expect, you know you need:
- herbalist + doctors
- Onbu bile extractor + exterminator (1 centered on Onbu's back is enough for a while) or at least a bunch of harvesters for the first little cloud.

Also don't forget to order Onbu to run through the cloud the reduce the quantity of initial spawn.

[Setari]

Yeah I'm hoping the poison gets tuned DOWN in terms of spread speed cause jeez. I mean I know I'm playing on 4x but still.

[Bobywan]

Originally posted by Setari:

Yeah I'm hoping the poison gets tuned DOWN in terms of spread speed cause jeez. I mean I know I'm playing on 4x but still.

Just dont play in 4x when you get in a cloud. That's common sense.
A single exterminator is enough for early clouds. A second for later one just to be safe.

[Markus [Stray Fawn Studio Dev]]

Poison got reworked and should be more forgiving, though you still have to be on your toes :)

Decontaminators also got reworked and it should be easier to contain poison (if you have the needed resources :) )

Looking forward to let everyone play the game very soon.

Cheers,
Markus