Nice game. But pls stop making it hard for your players...

[lopschi93]

Yeah my buddy and I reaaaaally enjoy this game at the moment.
The views are awesome, the boss fights are nice (if they wouldn't bug here and there)
Most of the mechanics feel good and devs seem to care.

But PLS stop restricting stuff so much...everything seems to be gated behind 3,4,5 steps and then it's never as good as promised...

1) Reviving
Go to the dungeon which the tutorial shows you, get the stone table.
HAHA the part you needed was in another dungeon and you cleared the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ dungeon for nothing. Since the bots protect 2 tables and 2 revive parts...
Then you clear all this and you get to revive them...which means ONE every 30min.
We did a boss fight. Died (which is okay. Did it too early but wanted to try it). Now we both have to wait ONE HOUR for our 2 people to respawn and play your game again....

2) Awerness strength for boss fights.
I was 34 and 80%
My buddy 38
We kill ape boss.
HAHA your level is not high enough for the reward...are you kidding me??
I can't even summon him. If I want to fight the bosses with nothing but a wooden spear let me...and let my party members loot...

3) Portals....go to the dungeon. Loose an NPC to traps. Carry stuff out but oh no. You are allone? You can't carry that much. Come back with a buddy and 2 carrying npcs. Beat the boss. Get portals. FINALLY connect your bases.
"no mounts allowed" oh...okay...well let's just tame more jaguars and park them at the bases.
"no items allowed" wait WHAT? WHY?? Valheim what did you do...and how could soulmask not learn from the restriction mistake...

It always seems you fight through such hardships in an awesome game but the rewards are always lacking something...

To be fair we play on a private server so no PVP or other people to worry about so maybe some of this stuff makes sense from a balancing point of view. But my god is this annoying. And I even wanted to play solo :D

PS: Which level are you guys? I know the people on YouTube are already done with everything but I am wondering. Level, characters, technology levels? Where are you atm?

[Goldie]

You say you are playing on a private server, there are some adjustments you can make to make the game better for you. You can enable the portals to let you bring mounts and items and you can lessen the time it takes to revive your npc tribesmen down to 3 mins from 30.

[Xerastraza]

1.) Have a back up combat tribesman if you limit yourself to just one your going to run into this a lot.. You get to have 18-33 for a reason. If you wanna be cheesy you ca set perfect remodel and lower the revive rate to 3m if your solo or dedicated server hosting.

2.) Can't argue this if ppl wanna die doing something too early i agree let them. But some of the gating is to give you time to build up and prep. Kind of like an MMO got to meet level requirements do complete things keeps players playing longer.

3.) This is changeable in settings as well if your SP/co-op or dedicated server hosting. will allow you to fully portal everything.

I am at awareness 60, i have done up to griffin and have finished a base in the snow biome.
Have yet to try mammoth as i am waiting for a friend to catch up in awareness levels cuz they just don't play as often or as long.

[loserman(FAT)]

If you have a private server then many of these things can be changed in the admin panel. Portals can be set to allow followers, mounts, and all items to be teleporred. The remodel time can be adjusted.

The table can be grabbed multiple times from multiple dungeons. Our tribe has 6 of them, with 2 at our rainforest hub, each one can resurrect a character so just grab an extra table to be able to remodel in parallel. Also enable the perfect remodel if you haven't already, leveling the character again is just masochism.

Currently myself and one other tribe mate are at awareness 53, gearing up a couple bow users to take on the griffin soon.