Why is Fishing Substantially Slower?

[Dave Johnson]

I regularly get 30+ seconds between bites, which is incredibly frustrating when there's still a chance to "whiff" your catches.

I thought the developers were planning on making this a 1-for-1 recreation of the fishing system, but it seems (from what I've played / what I'm hearing from other players) that they've nerfed it by making it more tedious.

[Dr. Atrocious]

I haven't played Fate in years, so I could be misremembering, but it certainly seems far more tedious than before.

Anyway, I don't recall having to stare a hole through my monitor with full focus for nearly a minute trying not to miss the split second I get a bite.

[Dave Johnson]

Originally posted by Dr. Atrocious:

I haven't played Fate in years, so I could be misremembering, but it certainly seems far more tedious than before.

Anyway, I don't recall having to stare a hole through my monitor with full focus for nearly a minute trying not to miss the split second I get a bite.

Yeah, right now I've just been watching something on my 2nd monitor while I listen for the sound-cue.
There's a few things I've noticed about fishing:

1: the aforementioned LONG timer between bites.

2: they've added a lot more to the "loot table" in fishing.
I've been catching things that I've never caught in any prior Fate game. My character is only level 5, and I caught a "Floating Mind" summon spell, which is over level 100 magic.
Also caught a Flawless Vile Tarantula fish as level 0 right after creating my character. Lol

3: I have not caught a single Legendary item after about an hour of fishing in town / in dungeons.
Granted, that might be because fish bite at a rate of about 2 per minute now, instead of the original game's 1 fish per 10 seconds or so.

[Dave Johnson]

Originally posted by LoudmouthNINJA:

Oh it's definitely been nerfed. Probably because one of the most commonly known things is that fishing was legitimately over powered, people would fish for 30 minutes at the very beginning of the game and go full god mode right at level one.

I think it's been replaced with the fact that now you can keep accepting quests for the same floor that you're currently on and farm exp/items though questing. It made me have a pretty significant increase in power but it took a little bit of work to do it instead of just fishing.

The goal is absolutely understandable, but I do wish that they had altered the loot-tables instead of just extending the timer between bites.

Since they fixed that, they fixed the scaling for Quest Rewards, and the overall economy seems wholly improved, I'm hoping that means that they also fixed the "Buy>Enchant>Sell" loop that generates infinite money in the mid-late game.

[Dave Johnson]

Originally posted by LoudmouthNINJA:

Originally posted by Dave Johnson:

I do wish that they had altered the loot-tables instead of just extending the timer between bites.

Some are saying that they did. You wont get the artifacts that sell for stupid amounts of money anymore.

I'm sure they're still in the loot tables, but it seems like the loot tables have been filled with a lot more clutter... PLUS the fact that it can take upwards of a minute between bites now? Nope, not okay. Lol

[Dr. Atrocious]

Originally posted by LoudmouthNINJA:

Not trying to come off as rude by how I say this but I think people should just get over the fishing thing and actually play the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game legitimately. So many people are crying about the fishing that it feels like that's all they were interested in. They're sitting there tapping their foot in the first town and i'm killing things in the dungeon actually playing.

Do quests, get gold, hit up that gambler and get awesome gear.

Last I checked, it's referred to as "feedback".

Obviously, most are here for the nostalgia. So, if there's something off about it, why can't they say so? Part of my and other's experience playing the "♥♥♥♥♥♥♥" game is fishing.

Rather than complaining about people playing the game how they want to play it, why don't you just play the game?

[Dr. Atrocious]

Originally posted by LoudmouthNINJA:

Someone's defensive.

You're in almost every thread telling people to just play the game. A bit overboard, don't you think?

[Exotic_Butters]

i use to farm the ponds at the starting village till i got a really good pet but now it is so painful to fish

[Dave Johnson]

Originally posted by Exotic_Butters:

i use to farm the ponds at the starting village till i got a really good pet but now it is so painful to fish

It's an absolute slog, yeah.
I can get "re-balancing", but don't ACTIVELY make fishing miserable.
Sitting there for 2 minutes between bites, just to get "Failed!" notification when you set the hook.
Bogus beans, my dude.

[Dave Johnson]

Originally posted by LoudmouthNINJA:

Someone's defensive.

"get over the fishing thing and actually play the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game legitimately."

Bro, if you don't like the feedback you're seeing from other players, feel free to disagree- but don't pretend like someone's "getting defensive" for no reason when you make comments like that. Lol

[RexesTub]

Should have never changed the fishing, think i am going to demand a refund, and appreciate my old copies of the game.

[CtrlAltNeo]

Originally posted by RexesTub:

Should have never changed the fishing, think i am going to demand a refund, and appreciate my old copies of the game.

The fishing is horrible but this is a little extreme, but its your money LOL

[☠ Darth Chocula ☠]

just use the mod to restore fishing.. its really simple

[cooltiger243]

on one hand i miss being able to fish up legendary artifacts and breaking the economy , on the other i guess i see the desire to balance the game. personally i wish they'd just lower the timer , that way those who want to brute force the loot tables .

[KaioBlue]

What mod do you use to restore fishing though?