Game is way too stingy with information (stats)

[Shockwave]

What is my current health? No idea. My max health is 100 but I don't know my current health.

Which means I don't know how much dried fruit heals me. It seems to heal me MORE than Cram (or equal) despite the description saying Cram heals you more.

In fact all the healing foods feel like the heal the same except maybe meat which seems less, but it's hard to gauge without numbers and the game wont' give them to you.

Is a T2 shield more durable than T1 shield? No real Idea. Seems like it.
Do all T2 shields have the same durability? Hard to tell.

If this information exists anywhere in game we can't find it. Makes it obnoxiously hard to choose equipment or understand why one T2 shield costs WAY more to make than another T2 shield, etc. Or the Masterwork shield... which seems more durable but by how much?

[GreyBeard512]

Open your inventory. Near the bottom left corner of the screen is a small button that says "Stats".

I think durability is always in percentages. But better tiers are supposed to be better items, so I would assume higher tier shields are more durable. I think the Master Works shield has infinite durability - it never breaks. (I haven't used it, I carry the pickaxe instead.)

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by GreyBeard512:

Open your inventory. Near the bottom left corner of the screen is a small button that says "Stats".

I think durability is always in percentages. But better tiers are supposed to be better items, so I would assume higher tier shields are more durable. I think the Master Works shield has infinite durability - it never breaks. (I haven't used it, I carry the pickaxe instead.)

Yes I know the button for stats.... please explain how you can use that to see ANYTHING regarding the post above?

Durability is always in percentages, of course it is... you can see that on all your items... but that doesn't tell you if one item has more durability than another now does it....

One would assume higher tier items are more durable... I said that in my post but it is an assumption and some T2 shields are more expensive to make than others....

The Masterwork shield has a durability bar that goes down, and can be repaired back to full. so clearly it has durability. If it never actually breaks (goes to zero and doesn't break) then the developers are kinda douchy... it should always have 100% durability.... We've always repaired it before it hit zero.

[lx]

yes, but i dont feel bad about it. in this game it does not matter. its sufficient as it is.

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by lx:

yes, but i dont feel bad about it. in this game it does not matter. its sufficient as it is.

It's game... you can always make the argument that it doesn't matter... but it is a simple thing most games do and this game seems to just block alot of the information you usually have.

[Agarillobob]

I agree, its small things like this that show how mediocre this game is afterall and its refelcted in the initial price
its fine for what it is but its lacking in polish

[lx]

its not about polish, its about not being cluttered with useless stuff.
id ask this myself in other games, but not in here.
you need to understand that not all games should be the same and have the same features. "most games do" is nonsense. with your logic there should be only 1 game in existence, as every game will be 1:1 the same.

[Shockwave]

Originally posted by lx:

its not about polish, its about not being cluttered with useless stuff.
id ask this myself in other games, but not in here.
you need to understand that not all games should be the same and have the same features. "most games do" is nonsense. with your logic there should be only 1 game in existence, as every game will be 1:1 the same.

Huh? Most games do it because it is what should be done. It's obvious, and it's easy. You don't have to represent health with a bar and not a number. It IS a number, it takes effort to make it a bar. You have to WANT to take away the number.... which is odd.

[Furryslayer, The]

Originally posted by lx:

its not about polish, its about not being cluttered with useless stuff.
id ask this myself in other games, but not in here.
you need to understand that not all games should be the same and have the same features. "most games do" is nonsense. with your logic there should be only 1 game in existence, as every game will be 1:1 the same.

Other games do things that make sense but that doesn't mean all games will even though they should? Stats are not "useless stuff". Stats are important.

[Agarillobob]

Originally posted by lx:

its not about polish, its about not being cluttered with useless stuff.
id ask this myself in other games, but not in here.
you need to understand that not all games should be the same and have the same features. "most games do" is nonsense. with your logic there should be only 1 game in existence, as every game will be 1:1 the same.

it is about polish, a polished game would have the option to show you those stats or hide them.
there are deffo informations hidden that are not useless and if you feel its cluttered again an option to hide it. Especially durability in numbers on armor and shields would be nice or how much % the nogrod armor increases your damage output and how much lower the defense is compared to mithril.
im pretty sure OP knows that games need to be different but showing exact damage values for armor and weapons isnt even a feature anymore its standard, the opposite deciding to not show them can be a feature adding to the game but this game def does not have that, they are just lacking the info.
"most games do" is actually a standard and not nonsense its the reason why games that "not do" are usually mediocre if the "do" are standard mechanics.
You are vastly over exaggerating that every game will be 1:1, you can take a look, many games do follow standards and they are not the same please you are not making sense with your post

[lx]

lots of people use rose tinted glasses, i wonder why not in this case.
how this game managed to attract the most intellectual, enlightened, insightful, ... people
when its nothing but a dig simulator, where you only hold lmb to dig.
and they need numbers for that
someone is wrong, could be me
may the stats be with you, always

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by lx:

lots of people use rose tinted glasses, i wonder why not in this case.
how this game managed to attract the most intellectual, enlightened, insightful, ... people
when its nothing but a dig simulator, where you only hold lmb to dig.
and they need numbers for that
someone is wrong, could be me
may the stats be with you, always

Probably because alot of us actually read the LOTR series in a book in print. I am still pissed they did not have Tom Brandi (i think i spelled his name wrong?) in the movies version..ugh.

[Furryslayer, The]

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

Originally posted by lx:

lots of people use rose tinted glasses, i wonder why not in this case.
how this game managed to attract the most intellectual, enlightened, insightful, ... people
when its nothing but a dig simulator, where you only hold lmb to dig.
and they need numbers for that
someone is wrong, could be me
may the stats be with you, always

Probably because alot of us actually read the LOTR series in a book in print. I am still pissed they did not have Tom Brandi (i think i spelled his name wrong?) in the movies version..ugh.

Tom Bombadil?

[RPG Gamer Man]

Originally posted by Furryslayer, The:

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

Probably because alot of us actually read the LOTR series in a book in print. I am still pissed they did not have Tom Brandi (i think i spelled his name wrong?) in the movies version..ugh.

Tom Bombadil?

Yea. I knew i spelled his last name wrong. Did you know they featured him in the War of Middle Earth games as a summon?

[lx]

id be moving on, but you got yourself into a trap.
so does the book have stats for the shields? what are the stats for bombadil's shirt in there?
and if there is no such thing, because tolkien is a kind of rebel nonconformist, id want you to point this topic's supporters, where they should go write that the book is not being informative enough

[Furryslayer, The]

Originally posted by RPG Gamer Man:

Originally posted by Furryslayer, The:

Tom Bombadil?

Yea. I knew i spelled his last name wrong. Did you know they featured him in the War of Middle Earth games as a summon?

That doesn’t sound like a super helpful summon for war