are shroud roots supposed to respawn

[Wrothbog]

i thought the point of the story was to clear the shroud? why are shroud roots respawning? it kinda makes progress feel pointless if you have to keep clearing the same roots

[Emerald Unicorn]

Originally posted by BlueSky:

Originally posted by Shiana:

Everthing respawns in this game outside your base. EVERYTHING. so it all feels quite useless. Make your base near the first boss, restart the server 5 times (single player), and you have a maxed out base. Broken concept for a broken game.

Pretty much this is a really dumb design idea. Maybe cause it is an xbox game? Incapable of saving open world progress.

The console hate is ridiculous. There are plenty of games that are on console that can do this, like Valheim. This isn't a "console port issue" it's a dev choice.

[Darhaksterion]

The roots and the bosses respawn, but you only get the skill point the first time you destroy a root. You cam farm bosses for loot though.

[cellogant]

Originally posted by Wrothbog:

i thought the point of the story was to clear the shroud? why are shroud roots respawning? it kinda makes progress feel pointless if you have to keep clearing the same roots

If you have a persistent server it’s very different depending on how often that server resets. If you destroy shroud roots the shroud is gone for a long time. I like it this way because the game is five times harder with the shroud and deadly shroud. Also leveling up what they sometimes call the passage level I think must have an effect on keeping the shroud at bay without needing to kill shroud roots.

Actually I’m starting to think that it’s mostly the passage level at your home base that really determines how far you can explore. But I also think that the persistent server keeps things from respawning as often as a single player game where each time you get on everything is reset.

[Sparrow]

It's a bug, cutting them back down again won't give you the skill points you've already gained from them.

[LizardKing]

You go and kill the shroud roots that have a ? on them. Once you kill that shroud root, it will become purple with a green check mark on it. Once it has that, it will respawn, but if you kill that one again, you will not receive a skill point. Only the ones with ? on them still will give you a skill point. Ya'll got it?

[LizardKing]

Originally posted by Sparrow:

It's a bug, cutting them back down again won't give you the skill points you've already gained from them.

What Sparrow said basically.

BUT.........if you kill it on your server, and your friend comes in that server that hasn't killed the shroud root you killed. Does he miss out on that skill point? Or does it show up to him as a ? still? Something to think about.

[SplitOmni]

Originally posted by CushyCrux:

Originally posted by Wrothbog:

great, so i'm not alone. well playtime is reporting 17 hrs so i might be done until more progress is made on the game in general. game can't be finished yet and everything we CAN do is transient

It's called early excess for a reason.

It is early access, and thats why people use the forum so the devs can take notes. You guys need to stop saying "its early access". Everyone knows, and the more comments about gameplay, the more input the devs have. That's the whole point. Guiding the game dev.

[NinjaShade]

Originally posted by Dre G Writer:

Originally posted by xXBulletJusticeXx:

I think you only get the skillpoint once, but the loot is farmable.

Well I guess I will have to find out myself when i next get on.

I can confirm that you do not get repeat skill points for clearing roots you've previously destroyed.

[Devil_of_Fire]

Originally posted by ndiddy84:

Originally posted by Sparrow:

It's a bug, cutting them back down again won't give you the skill points you've already gained from them.

What Sparrow said basically.

BUT.........if you kill it on your server, and your friend comes in that server that hasn't killed the shroud root you killed. Does he miss out on that skill point? Or does it show up to him as a ? still? Something to think about.

Yeah, I´m playing with a friend on a dedicated server, I killied one of the shroud roots alone and when it respawn the friend killed it and got his skillpoint.

[Tyabetus]

Originally posted by Harry Collier:

I was wondering the same thing. Plus I destroyed the root but when I exited the well the shroud was still there... that didn't seem right.

It only clears a certain amount of shroud around the root. Most of the shroud is impossible to clear. Only some spots around roots. Some roots are more interesting to clear than others.

[Gargoyle Girl]

Anything outside of your flame altar protected grounds will respawn eventually, including the ground itself.

Right now, anything you change that isn't contained inside of a flame altar zone will revert after a set amount of time, or when you reload the game. If it didn't, you would eventually run out of resources as well, since ores would never respawn once mined, and sparks from the various existing altars would run out as well.

[Gargoyle Girl]

Originally posted by Wrothbog:

great, so i'm not alone. well playtime is reporting 17 hrs so i might be done until more progress is made on the game in general. game can't be finished yet and everything we CAN do is transient

I don't think this game was meant to be 'finished'. I doubt the devs meant the game to be played once then just be over. You're trying to fight back against the Shroud, yes, but... look at the world for a moment. It exists randomly underground and can emerge pretty much anywhere. The areas on the surface are the size of actual oceans. And then there is the 'red ground' which is the same Shroud mold stuff, but will instantly kill you that you *can't* clean up, even if you were hardcore enough to mine out every ounce of the stuff you COULD mine out to clear it... which would probably take you years of real time.

Even if you take out every Shroud Root on the map, the existing Shroud would remain, and it's a fungus, so it makes sense that more Roots would grow, whether in the same spots or different places.

The transient nature of the game is more meant to give you infinite resources to collect for your base building. Anything inside the zone of your flame altar's AoE stays the way you make it, allowing for more permanent changes.

I could see stopping playing if taking out a Shroud Root actually reduced the Shroud in large amounts other than in it's immediate vicinity, but as it is, the Roots are just there for skill points; hit them once and move on.

[Tyabetus]

Originally posted by Wrothbog:

i thought the point of the story was to clear the shroud? why are shroud roots respawning? it kinda makes progress feel pointless if you have to keep clearing the same roots

I think the point of the game is humanity lost and you’re just there to eternally rage against them even though you can’t really undo anything. At least for now XD

[Shmitty85]

I'm fine with bosses respawning, bit generic in name, so far anyways. I agree though shroud roots should stay gone once you've cleared them. Especially on a solo server

[Jeremy]

I know this game is all about the shroud.. but it honestly makes exploring a nightmare and at night you literally cant see a foot in front of you when in the shroud.. god forbid there is a small hole you can't see..

I feel like at some point they should make it so removing a shroud root, removes the surrounding shroud for good. The whole objective is to clear the world of this shroud, right? I dunno...It's just not a pretty game to exist in when its just shroud covering all the good views =\