What is the WORST part of this game?

[zreese]

Just wondering. Stardew Valley gets so much universal acclaim, I wanted to know what people consider the weakest feature or mechanic in an otherwise excellent game.

[Tantalite]

The lack of clear direction for controls or any sort of tutorial. It's kind of a "here's a new world...figure it out. Have fun!" You pick up on them pretty quickly if you don't look at the control menu.

[jfoytek]

The weakest part of the game is its strong point....

Every character in the game has obvioulsy been hand crafted if you will to have a personality, a routine, a certain personality... because so much attention to detail has been put into this there are only about 36 Characters total in the game....

The Map is also done with the same sort of precision... So where it lacks is in more characters and more sandbox... The game is so good that it leave's you wanting more.... Its like having a bowl of Icecream and wanting another bowl of icecream... The first bowl of Icecream wasn't big enough...

So thats how I feel here... I want more characters I want more sandbox because omg the game is soo good give me more of it!

[Jaz]

I dont like the fact that even though you spend all the time and effort to upgrade your tools, it still costs the same amount of stamina to use them. While you can technically get things done faster, there is still no point in having a large farm because you'll blow all your potential profits on making or buying food to replenish your stamina.

Also, the soil enrichment recipes that are supposed to allow crops to remain watered overnight are pointless. They hardly work when you compare the first and second tier recipes. At the most, maybe 5-10% of what you've planted will be watered the next day. I haven't done the actual math to support that but now that I think of it, I will. Either way, its not as efficient as the game makes them out to be. Better to fertilize and do the work to water and double your crop yield.

Lately, i've encountered a weird glitch / bug (whichever) where my in game cursor slowly starts sliding its way across the bottom of the screen until it reaches the center. If I dont catch it in time and I happen to be harvesting or talking to someone, all the sudden something ends up in my hands and I end up gifting it or constantly asked if i want to eat whatever I'm holding. I use a 360 controller and I dont think the game was optimized very well for controller use.

And whats with the hot bar. Seriously, pick a side, either Top or Botton. The constant flicking back and forth is a minor annoyance. I see that it is intended to prevent the hotbar from blocking the view of things but maybe implement a UI scaling option to reduce its size and then pin it to one place.

Lastly, the days are way to short for how much there is to do. By time Ive tended my fields I have to go guzzle down food and then I may have 3-4 hours to run all the way across the town to harvest minerals in the mine. Sure, you could argue "Use the teleport totems" sure, but to do that I have to have the materials to make them and either way, i have to run all over the place to harvest. Movement is way to slow for 10 minute increments in time (vanilla version, no mods).

Dont get me wrong, I love the game. Its consumed quite a few hours of my life since I bought it three or four days ago but it needs some improvements and tweaks to the vanilla version so one doesn't have to rely on mods to get what they want.

[jfoytek]

Originally posted by Jaz:

I dont like the fact that even though you spend all the time and effort to upgrade your tools, it still costs the same amount of stamina to use them. While you can technically get things done faster, there is still no point in having a large farm because you'll blow all your potential profits on making or buying food to replenish your stamina.

^^^^ This is your playstyle, I never have to eat my food at all.... If your making a farm that is so large your using all your stamina to water it? Whose fault is that??? Make the farm big enough that you can handle managing it... As you level up your watering can gets more effiecent... you get acess to sprinklers... to tech that helps your farm stay watered etc.... There is nothing in the game that makes you, choose to make your farm so big you need to eat your food to have the stamina needed to manage it!!!

That is simply not being effiecent!!! And is a playstyle choice!

[Ilucie]

Originally posted by Jaz:

I dont like the fact that even though you spend all the time and effort to upgrade your tools, it still costs the same amount of stamina to use them. While you can technically get things done faster, there is still no point in having a large farm because you'll blow all your potential profits on making or buying food to replenish your stamina.

Its not true. First days in game: almost dead after watering 5 fields. 3rd year: Watering 20 fields, go to mines, melk 10 cows - no problem.

The further you come with your skills, the more you can do.

[PeripheralVisionary]

Inb4 Fishing.

[jfoytek]

Originally posted by Jaz:

Lastly, the days are way to short for how much there is to do. By time Ive tended my fields I have to go guzzle down food and then I may have 3-4 hours to run all the way across the town to harvest minerals in the mine. Sure, you could argue "Use the teleport totems" sure, but to do that I have to have the materials to make them and either way, i have to run all over the place to harvest. Movement is way to slow for 10 minute increments in time (vanilla version, no mods).

Again Playstyle choices.... You have built too large or a farm too fast... You should consider putting sprinklers in!!! I rarely do anything on my farm other then harvest and replant! And if you have decided to fill every tile of the farm, whose fault is that???

[Perpetual_Retrospect]

Originally posted by Jaz:

I dont like the fact that even though you spend all the time and effort to upgrade your tools, it still costs the same amount of stamina to use them. While you can technically get things done faster, there is still no point in having a large farm because you'll blow all your potential profits on making or buying food to replenish your stamina.

Also, the soil enrichment recipes that are supposed to allow crops to remain watered overnight are pointless. They hardly work when you compare the first and second tier recipes. At the most, maybe 5-10% of what you've planted will be watered the next day. I haven't done the actual math to support that but now that I think of it, I will. Either way, its not as efficient as the game makes them out to be. Better to fertilize and do the work to water and double your crop yield.

Lately, i've encountered a weird glitch / bug (whichever) where my in game cursor slowly starts sliding its way across the bottom of the screen until it reaches the center. If I dont catch it in time and I happen to be harvesting or talking to someone, all the sudden something ends up in my hands and I end up gifting it or constantly asked if i want to eat whatever I'm holding. I use a 360 controller and I dont think the game was optimized very well for controller use.

And whats with the hot bar. Seriously, pick a side, either Top or Botton. The constant flicking back and forth is a minor annoyance. I see that it is intended to prevent the hotbar from blocking the view of things but maybe implement a UI scaling option to reduce its size and then pin it to one place.

Lastly, the days are way to short for how much there is to do. By time Ive tended my fields I have to go guzzle down food and then I may have 3-4 hours to run all the way across the town to harvest minerals in the mine. Sure, you could argue "Use the teleport totems" sure, but to do that I have to have the materials to make them and either way, i have to run all over the place to harvest. Movement is way to slow for 10 minute increments in time (vanilla version, no mods).

Dont get me wrong, I love the game. Its consumed quite a few hours of my life since I bought it three or four days ago but it needs some improvements and tweaks to the vanilla version so one doesn't have to rely on mods to get what they want.

The amount of energy used per action is reduced as you level up, that combined with the increased area of effect on upgraded can/hoe and the addition of stardrops increasing energy levels makes energy essentially a non-issue after a while.

Regarding travel speed, priority #1 should be repairing the mine-carts. Those combined with the horse/stable make travel exponentially faster.

[Jaz]

Originally posted by Hyena:

Originally posted by Jaz:

I dont like the fact that even though you spend all the time and effort to upgrade your tools, it still costs the same amount of stamina to use them. While you can technically get things done faster, there is still no point in having a large farm because you'll blow all your potential profits on making or buying food to replenish your stamina.

Its not true. First days in game: almost dead after watering 5 fields. 3rd year: Watering 20 fields, go to mines, melk 10 cows - no problem.

The further you come with your skills, the more you can do.

I'll take your word for it. Right now im in summer of year 2 and have only gotten up to steel tools since iron has become so easy to find.

[Ilucie]

Originally posted by Jaz:

I'll take your word for it. Right now im in summer of year 2 and have only gotten up to steel tools since iron has become so easy to find.

Trust me. 130hrs ingame says a lot about my real life since that game came out :P.

I made a speed run on my second char. By summer year two I had complete iridum tools and was millionaire. was lots of hard work for my watering can LOL.

[Jaz]

Originally posted by jfoytek:

Originally posted by Jaz:

Lastly, the days are way to short for how much there is to do. By time Ive tended my fields I have to go guzzle down food and then I may have 3-4 hours to run all the way across the town to harvest minerals in the mine. Sure, you could argue "Use the teleport totems" sure, but to do that I have to have the materials to make them and either way, i have to run all over the place to harvest. Movement is way to slow for 10 minute increments in time (vanilla version, no mods).

Again Playstyle choices.... You have built too large or a farm too fast... You should consider putting sprinklers in!!! I rarely do anything on my farm other then harvest and replant! And if you have decided to fill every tile of the farm, whose fault is that???

Yeah, working on the sprinkler solution now but having a hard time finding gold ore and have been penny pinching and not buying it from the blacksmith. I guess I'm going to have to bite that bullet for now to save my sanity lol.

[Ilucie]

Go buy iridium sprinkler for 10k every friday in the sewers. I didnt craft a single one.

[kuufromspace]

I think it's really difficult to save up money for big improvements (home, farm buildings..). Especially if you want to play smart and save up some of your crops and minerals you gather before selling everything you get. And considering how much money goes to buying new crops, food to replenish health and stamina, and to get new weapons if need be. Not to mention that you can constantly buy something from someone you might need (animals and supplies, recipes, etc). I'm nearly at first years winter and reeeeally slowly getting to the point where I can just sell everything I gather so that I have money to improve my home and get more farm animals. Might be me and my method, might be the game's intented slow paceness, beats me. Wish it was way more obvious how to easily get money without having to google guides.

Oh, yeah. And when you progress, the days get too short. I've pretty much forgotten to fish completely. Having to run around for lakes, rivers, and seas to fish in alongside everything else you do in the game that already takes full days to do, it gets bit cramped.

And still, I've had the game for three days and I've already played it for 18 hours or so. Welp

[JellyPuff]

Hard to find something to complain gameplay-wise. Balancing and the progression, that is bound to it is a bit off. But that's about it, so let's get technical:

The controls for using weapons/tools are clunky. Like really, really clunky.

Chances are, that both my pretty much only complaints are going to get fixed in future updates.

[jfoytek]

Originally posted by Jaz:

Originally posted by jfoytek:

Again Playstyle choices.... You have built too large or a farm too fast... You should consider putting sprinklers in!!! I rarely do anything on my farm other then harvest and replant! And if you have decided to fill every tile of the farm, whose fault is that???

Yeah, working on the sprinkler solution now but having a hard time finding gold ore and have been penny pinching and not buying it from the blacksmith. I guess I'm going to have to bite that bullet for now to save my sanity lol.

So here are two examples

20 Normal sprinklers Iron and bronze watering 80 Tiles worth of crop's each day your off fishing or mining! Fishing is extra income and Mining will lead to more sprinklers....

Or you could just Make a 200 tile large farm with no sprinklers and spend all day watering it!!!
And then complain about how the game has made me a slave???