Maybe it's just EA but.....

[WookieNinja87]

I play single player because I am streaming it and don't want others to ruin my stream by trolling, etc. Thing is however that gaining levels at around lvl 10+ is really bad. I'm level 11 now and my experience tonight wasn't good at all. Crafting and the like gives so little experience but if I go out to fight or capture pals then I will get 1 or 2 tapped by pals that are my level. Anything lower gives very little experience. I know this is an early access game but damn it feels like the devs didn't think this through. Also the game crashed my pc when I went to respawn for the 7th time and decided to spawn on a different island to check them out. I really hope the devs figure this out. No decent gear for my level, no way to fighting what is my level without extreme difficulty, no way to farm xp. Please devs throw us a bone. I loved the game at the start but after 2 hours of wanting to pave my head in with a Pal I'm burnt at this moment.

[baileyjk01]

You need to capture 10 of the same pal, they give a lot of exp for the first 10. im level 34 and getting about 2k exp per capture

[WookieNinja87]

Originally posted by baileyjk01:

You need to capture 10 of the same pal, they give a lot of exp for the first 10. im level 34 and getting about 2k exp per capture

See and this is just an example of a bad mechanic. I can't use these extras on my base nor in my party. So I capture them and get xp then? Just drop them gaining me nothing? Also why 10 of the same? Sure there are "pals" everywhere but not of the same. So to do this I have to spend an hour or more just looking for that one specifically. I'm sorry but I'm not a fan of that. I think it's nice having something a bit different and new but seriously? I'll still play because I find the game mildly humourous and intriguing but it's clear this game is far, far, far from being polished or well thought out. It's like a kid saw pokemon and wanted to put guns in it so they just started making stuff off the top of their head without thinking it all through. To finish the tutorial you have to fight a boss fight that is clearly out of range for any new players. Maybe if you want the first boss to be hard and have to grind out for don't put him in the tutorial.....These are just grievances I have from the first 6 hours or so of playing. Also pals my level shouldn't be able to two tap me. It's just not good game mechanics.

[Tachrayonic]

Looks like you haven't seen Pal Compressing yet, let's just say there is a use for excess Pals of the same type

[WookieNinja87]

No I'm level 11 man. I either sit at my base grinding crafting for 2xp every few seconds or I go fight pals my level that can 1 or 2 tap me. Or I do like the other comment said and grind away hours to capture 10+ of the exact same pal over and over that I can't use.

[Galvanized Dreamer]

Originally posted by WookieNinja87:

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Go to a settlement and sell them. Pick out the ones you want with good traits, and just sell the rest.
As for why 10? It's not that you're supposed to catch 10, it's that that's your limit for first-time XP bonus, because the game expects you to catch more than that for one reason or another; whether that be for reasons I won't state for spoilers, or for, breeding, or cash income.
As for pals your level being able to lay you out flat: Put some points into health. Also: Get your Pals to do the hard work, you're just a flimsy little human, not a demigod like most ARPGs. Getting other things to do your dirty work is the point of the game.

[SoloQ]

You can fuse them into each other. Or butcher them for the resources.

And "it's a bad mechanic because I don't understand it" isn't a good reason for something to be called bad.
Also, you bought a mon catching game to complain about the mon catching aspect of the game, WHAT?!

[Noelle]

You haven't heard of type advantages, the Shield, or pressing CTRL to dodge-roll, have you?

[awanderingswordsman]

You don't need 10, you just get MASSIVE bonus xp on your first 10 captures of every pal. I got from level 1 to 17 in about 3 hours when starting over on my friends world. Just catching the super easy low level stuff like lamball and cattiva and stuff like that to 10 each will skyrocket your level.

Crafting gives effectively zero xp. Killing wild pals and humans does give some xp, which is nice earlier on, but eventually that too falls off. I'm at level 40 and it's 2 xp to craft something, about 100-500 to kill something level 30+, and like 9k xp to capture a pal that I haven't captured 10 of yet. That is THE way to level up.

[Swift_Talon]

Originally posted by WookieNinja87:

No I'm level 11 man. I either sit at my base grinding crafting for 2xp every few seconds or I go fight pals my level that can 1 or 2 tap me. Or I do like the other comment said and grind away hours to capture 10+ of the exact same pal over and over that I can't use.

You are now high enough level to craft a shield and armor, there are a lot of ways to mitigate damage including using combat pals and focus on dodging and let them fight for you.

[Geschrieben]

Originally posted by WookieNinja87:

Originally posted by baileyjk01:

You need to capture 10 of the same pal, they give a lot of exp for the first 10. im level 34 and getting about 2k exp per capture

See and this is just an example of a bad mechanic. I can't use these extras on my base nor in my party. So I capture them and get xp then? Just drop them gaining me nothing? Also why 10 of the same? Sure there are "pals" everywhere but not of the same. So to do this I have to spend an hour or more just looking for that one specifically. I'm sorry but I'm not a fan of that. I think it's nice having something a bit different and new but seriously? I'll still play because I find the game mildly humourous and intriguing but it's clear this game is far, far, far from being polished or well thought out. It's like a kid saw pokemon and wanted to put guns in it so they just started making stuff off the top of their head without thinking it all through. To finish the tutorial you have to fight a boss fight that is clearly out of range for any new players. Maybe if you want the first boss to be hard and have to grind out for don't put him in the tutorial.....These are just grievances I have from the first 6 hours or so of playing. Also pals my level shouldn't be able to two tap me. It's just not good game mechanics.

In the ancient technology section there's the "Pal Essence Condenser" which lets you use duplicate Pals to power up existing ones. Also, a major incentive to catch multiple of the same Pal is to get ones with better modifiers. It's not perfect, but duplicates definitely aren't useless. It is a creature-catching game, it wants you to catch the creatures.

I recommend messing with your world settings. You might find the game more enjoyable if you tune them to your preferences. That's why it's a sandbox survival staple to make them fine-tunable, it's not to make the game easier/harder exactly but to let you adjust things to the levels where you have fun.

[Ghevd]

Once you kill the first boss once just farm her ass for xp.

[WookieNinja87]

Originally posted by Swift_Talon:

Originally posted by WookieNinja87:

No I'm level 11 man. I either sit at my base grinding crafting for 2xp every few seconds or I go fight pals my level that can 1 or 2 tap me. Or I do like the other comment said and grind away hours to capture 10+ of the exact same pal over and over that I can't use.

You are now high enough level to craft a shield and armor, there are a lot of ways to mitigate damage including using combat pals and focus on dodging and let them fight for you.

yes and I have both but the armor isn't strong so literally they hit me and my shield is gone then they hit again and I'm dead. Add in that when I dodge if there is a rock or anything that the game dictates is solid my guy dodges in place allowing me to be hit anyways. I had that happen to me today. I got the triple shot bow and was keeping my distance dodging. I dodged and even though it was an open field with nothing an "Ore deposit" just happened to be right where I was dodging to because it was off screen. So I dodged in place and got hit killing me. Again I'm sorry and I'm not going to quit but I'm just kinda salty right now after around 7 deaths in 1 hour and then the game crashing my pc while I was streaming it.

[WookieNinja87]

Originally posted by Ghevd:

Once you kill the first boss once just farm her ass for xp.

At my level with my gear as good as it can be for my level I can't even do more than 100 damage to her before I'm defeated. I tried just to see what the boss was but holy hell it was like an end game raid boss. 10k plus health and massive damage.....smh I seriously don't think the devs thought this through.

[Swift_Talon]

Originally posted by WookieNinja87:

Originally posted by Swift_Talon:

You are now high enough level to craft a shield and armor, there are a lot of ways to mitigate damage including using combat pals and focus on dodging and let them fight for you.

yes and I have both but the armor isn't strong so literally they hit me and my shield is gone then they hit again and I'm dead. Add in that when I dodge if there is a rock or anything that the game dictates is solid my guy dodges in place allowing me to be hit anyways. I had that happen to me today. I got the triple shot bow and was keeping my distance dodging. I dodged and even though it was an open field with nothing an "Ore deposit" just happened to be right where I was dodging to because it was off screen. So I dodged in place and got hit killing me. Again I'm sorry and I'm not going to quit but I'm just kinda salty right now after around 7 deaths in 1 hour and then the game crashing my pc while I was streaming it.

Sounds like a skill issue
jk
Daedream charms could give you an army of DPS at that point in the game, could help.
Practicing calling back pals to dodge attacks can extend their life and combat effectiveness.
The fire fox harness gives the single most powerful weapon early game vie the fox F skill

[awanderingswordsman]

Until you get guns, the pals are going to be doing the lionshare of the damage. You should care a lot more about them than your equipment.