My Review after 200hrs

[LambrosTs]

I really enjoy playing the game, and I think I will superpass the 800hrs I have at a similar game. I would like to say the likes and didn't likes from the angle of my view.


(+)
1. The graphics: the way everything looks, the quick pass of the night when you sleep, if you watch the sky, the so many different colors. 
2. The building system: You literally can build every blueprint you create in your mind or an actually excisted blueprint. 
3. The scaling of the land: up you go to the mountains, down you go to the shrouded areas, in the tunnels, in the surroundings, and totally enjoy walking the lands. 
4. The story: main quests, side quests, and the fcking NPCs (please put more NPCs). 
5. The skill map: a really easy way to choose who you become and with whom to combine your main skill tree. 
6. The items, both built or found, look like a big collection, but I don't know how big it is. If I already found everything, I think we need more. 
7. The fighting: I really enjoy the fights, both solo and with my friends at our server. Nice movement, nice effects.

(-)
All the things I will say without reading around for days are my opinion only. I don't ask to change anything, but I think it would be nicer if it were different. 
1st: Waiting too long for graphics to be stabilized. Every game I played in early access had stabilized graphics. So that's a serious (-). I am playing with an RTX 4060ti and 36GB of RAM, and every now and then my FPS drops by half and comes back up instantly, making the game freeze for less than a second. It is annoying. 
2nd, I don't like the fact that when I am in building mode, the pointer is not as accurate as it should be to build what you like. Also, at doors and windows, sometimes it takes too much time to put them in the right place for no reason. 
3rd, it is totally exhausting to make seeds, and it makes me extremely furious to see them just disappear on the soil after a few seconds when they are planted.


These are for now, and I totally recommend "Enshrouded" to all survival, basebuilding, and Kinda RPG lovers. In my eyes, I saw a beautiful game that has many potentials to be perfect. I'm waiting to see what comes up next!

See ya around,
Love you all.

[Bloodyfear]

we need to see what more will they add in this game in the roadmap.... hope itss coming soon

[Idlemind]

Story? I thought there was next to no story kind of an Ark / Palworld type game... just a big beautiful but otherwise empty space. Like you can base build but so what do you actually need a base, does it serve any purpose? Honest Q because I am thinking of getting it but I don't like Ark or Palworld.

[gezzer]

As for your disappearing seeds, there seems to be a bug with the item placement exclusion zones. Certain areas will be excluded but you will still be able to drop/build/plant something. More importantly there's nothing indicating that you can't do it. All that happens is it's gone either right away or after a restart. I had it happen with some walls I built on one base. I got the red can't place wall graphic. So I moved until the wall part was no longer red and thought I was fine. Nope, gone the next time I played. Sucks, but you just have to experiment until you find a spot that works I'm afraid...

[Nerevar]

Originally posted by Idlemind:

Story? I thought there was next to no story kind of an Ark / Palworld type game... just a big beautiful but otherwise empty space. Like you can base build but so what do you actually need a base, does it serve any purpose? Honest Q because I am thinking of getting it but I don't like Ark or Palworld.

you need 1 big house for storage and the npcs to get some of the quests. and a farmfield. and some comfort items for getting more max stamina.
thats about it. besides that building has no actual gameplay purpose. you can fit everything into 1 slightly bigger square house. rest is purely building for buildings sake. there is no attacks so you never need to build any defenses or walls around your base.

[gezzer]

Originally posted by Idlemind:

Story? I thought there was next to no story kind of an Ark / Palworld type game... just a big beautiful but otherwise empty space. Like you can base build but so what do you actually need a base, does it serve any purpose? Honest Q because I am thinking of getting it but I don't like Ark or Palworld.

At this point the only reason for a base is to get buffs. You have a number of crafting NPCs that need to be sheltered (inside I guess). And the fancier you make your base the more of a resting buff you get, which is actually a bit important. As for a big fortress? No, you don't need to go to that extreme other than for aesthetics. I have a small 3 story building that does everything needed...

[Dreadstone]

Originally posted by Idlemind:

Story? I thought there was next to no story kind of an Ark / Palworld type game... just a big beautiful but otherwise empty space. Like you can base build but so what do you actually need a base, does it serve any purpose? Honest Q because I am thinking of getting it but I don't like Ark or Palworld.

That would be incorrect vis-a-vis story. Not only are there five (5) minor questlines (and the associated "story") for the NPCs, there is an overarching story line (perhaps more than one), as well as a lot that is hidden beyond EA.

[LambrosTs]

Thanks everyone for posting, I built a small base at the beggining for store items and place NPCs and the farm, but then I heard that there will be attacks in the future planed so I transform my building to a serious castle I will upload a video in my channel in Youtube after I finish the aesthetics.

[Dark Consort]

Originally posted by LambrosTs:

Thanks everyone for posting, I built a small base at the beggining for store items and place NPCs and the farm, but then I heard that there will be attacks in the future planed so I transform my building to a serious castle I will upload a video in my channel in Youtube after I finish the aesthetics.

they did ??? :o

[PlagueBrain]

The occasional pixel hunting in building is my singular gripe with the system - and beyond that, I only hope they add more (different roof pitches when).

In re graphics - truly, for all the praise building gets, the art direction doesn't get nearly enough. It's gorgeous, and it really shows that a lot of time and thought went into making the environments. The character and gear models need a little more love, but they're entirely serviceable.

Originally posted by Idlemind:

Story? I thought there was next to no story kind of an Ark / Palworld type game... just a big beautiful but otherwise empty space. Like you can base build but so what do you actually need a base, does it serve any purpose? Honest Q because I am thinking of getting it but I don't like Ark or Palworld.

It is and it isn't.

There are NPCs - but right now, they're your craft stations and have fetch quests to extend what they can make. It's done well, and there is lore to the quests, but it's not like DQ Builders, for example, where the NPCs are more active in the world.

Base building is done very well - you're given a number of "altars" that serve as a drop that gives you safe areas to build in. You can use these are droppable respawn and fast travel points, build regional bases, build platforms up mountains, plenty of stuff. They give more utility for the core of building a base than most games do. There's also a rested buff that is pretty central to your success - and scales with how "comfortable" your base is. So aside from "it's where all your ♥♥♥♥ is," yeah, there is already a reason to have a base.

And there's the current will they/wont they about fleshing out some of the mechanics, including potentially adding base raids - but there's no roadmap released yet.

For my money - Breath of the Wild is a better comparison than ARK. "Legend of Zelda: Link to the Valheim" would give you a pretty good core idea of the vibe (including puzzle dungeons, of a kind).

It's geared more toward exploration and getting new gear than it is "surviving in the woods." And that's - unfortunately - something the devs didn't market about the game well.

It does have the sandboxy elements - the building and crafting and very lite survival elements - but it's not the focus. The focus is on the exploration and going through the main quest. There's just not a complete one here yet (only about 1/3 of the world is opened up at this point in EA), and there's prob going to be some tweaking in the storyline.

Story delivery is more Dark Souls than anything. Lots of pick-uppable lore to read, really good environmental storytelling in spots, etc. But like in BOTW - exploration and loot hunting and expanding your base (should you be into that) is the big focus, not a super-deep story.

Given that you didn't like Palworld and ARK so much - it sounds like you might at least want to give this one a try. I also don't care for those, but fell in love with this one pretty quickly.

You may not - and that's ok, we all have our weird-ass tastes. It is still sandboxy, just in a different kind of way, and it is early in EA and that may get more fleshed out (the world certainly will).

[LambrosTs]

For sure, I agree with you! I am not in love with the game; I just say that if it becomes bigger, I will spend a lot of hours playing it. The 800 I mentioned above are for Valheim, and I don't change the place that game has in my heart, but it's not a place to discuss this. Enshrouded has a long way yet to go to be a complete game. Just mention my +/-, and the conclusion is that I would recommend it to lovers of those kinds of games, and I will wait to see the whole game to decide. :)

And KOS-MOS yes they did... We will have raids as I was Informed!!!

Also love to have all of you here to exchange opinions about the game! Didn't thought that people will say anything in my post... <3

[Dark Consort]

Originally posted by LambrosTs:

For sure, I agree with you! I am not in love with the game; I just say that if it becomes bigger, I will spend a lot of hours playing it. The 800 I mentioned above are for Valheim, and I don't change the place that game has in my heart, but it's not a place to discuss this. Enshrouded has a long way yet to go to be a complete game. Just mention my +/-, and the conclusion is that I would recommend it to lovers of those kinds of games, and I will wait to see the whole game to decide. :)

And KOS-MOS yes they did... We will have raids as I was Informed!!!

Also love to have all of you here to exchange opinions about the game! Didn't thought that people will say anything in my post... <3

Daaaamn that's so cool if they do add this feature!