Dire Wolf question - can you only boost stamina once during night?

[lefiath]

With the Plague fiasco going, I'm trying the Dire island - right away, the wolf made a bad impression by quickly running out of breath and seemingly having no way to boost the stamina.

So there I go, during the night it howls and it boosts it's stamina. Once. Not by feeding on deer or rabbits, by howling. Am I missing something, or is that it and for most of the day the wolf is just going to run out of breath, making it almost as slow as the Warhorse?

[Robin]

I think if you stand stil it will howl again when out of breath, but maybe depends on the timing of the first howl if that's possible or not. I usually still got a bit of a boost in the early parts of the day, iirc.

Honestly I didn't have the warhorse problem with the wolf, since you can just get the places during the night rather quickly. Plus since you need to be escaping the island, it shouldn't take much more than 5-8 days on each island, so you don't need to get around all that much anyway

[lefiath]

It doesn't howl during the day, only when moon is visible - and it can do that multiple times per night, but it's still not consistent for me.

And you are right, I've realized that eventually that it's a pretty boring challenge honestly, you just do something super safe over and over.

[Survivalisme]

Try to walk during a few seconds when he starts to breath heavily, then run a little, and walk again, etc.

It's not ideal but still better thant the warhorse, who doesn't give a f*ck if you slw down and runs out of stamina anyway.

[Robin]

Originally posted by Muž pěti armád:

It doesn't howl during the day, only when moon is visible - and it can do that multiple times per night, but it's still not consistent for me.

And you are right, I've realized that eventually that it's a pretty boring challenge honestly, you just do something super safe over and over.

Oh the moon has to be visible too, I never cought on to that tbh.

Yeah I stopped after 3 or 4 islands cause it seemed to same thing over and over, since they can't really cramp up the monsters too much in the first 5-8 days cause you just don't have the upgrades then to deal with crazies stuff anyway. But then there's never really any challenge to it it seems, just make archers, clear some area so you get more coins and then spend it on the ship. (At least so far. Maybe later the ship is further away and you need to clear a portal first, idk. Let me know if it ever changes please, in case you keep playing)

[Survivalisme]

Originally posted by Robin:

Originally posted by Muž pěti armád:

It doesn't howl during the day, only when moon is visible - and it can do that multiple times per night, but it's still not consistent for me.

And you are right, I've realized that eventually that it's a pretty boring challenge honestly, you just do something super safe over and over.

Oh the moon has to be visible too, I never cought on to that tbh.

Yeah I stopped after 3 or 4 islands cause it seemed to same thing over and over, since they can't really cramp up the monsters too much in the first 5-8 days cause you just don't have the upgrades then to deal with crazies stuff anyway. But then there's never really any challenge to it it seems, just make archers, clear some area so you get more coins and then spend it on the ship. (At least so far. Maybe later the ship is further away and you need to clear a portal first, idk. Let me know if it ever changes please, in case you keep playing)

I stopped before landing the sixth island, but will go on until I get gold crown.

Until now, nothing change much. There is just a little more greeds on red moon nights (but still no breeder or floater on the first red moon on each island).

Will tell if it changes before the island 10

[lefiath]

So, yeah, didn't get to island 10, the difficulty goes the same way as campaign, the every day attacks get worse and worse and since you have to start on a new island every time, it becomes more and more problematic.

Finally I had a blood moon with two breeders, if it wasn't for the wolf being able to one hit kill them, it would all be over for me. I'm stuck on the fifth island, slowly bleeding away, I can't defend against the massive attacks from each side every day, because I couldn't get catapults up in time, and the "amazing" wolf is so slow and useless for managing things that I just got overwhelmed. It's so frustrating.

[Robin]

oh ok, interesting. Thanks for the report! Out of curiosity, how many days does it take you to build the boat on a new island? (Say for the last 2 islands)

[lefiath]

Depending on the island (right now I've started on a real sh.itty one, camps behind portals on both sides), around 7-10 days, I'm slow and I've also wasted some time on the first good run destroying few portals before I've realized I don't have to do any of that. The winter eventually got me, because my income dwindled away.

[Survivalisme]

Originally posted by Robin:

oh ok, interesting. Thanks for the report! Out of curiosity, how many days does it take you to build the boat on a new island? (Say for the last 2 islands)

6-8 days, excepting the very first island which took me 10 days.

For the moment, my maps were correct. I'm going with 6th island and beyond, this morning, will tell you what I encounter

[Survivalisme]

Ok, reporting in from island 6 : I lost. They kidnapped my puppy on night 6.

I must admit there is a step up in the difficulty with this 6th island !

First night : a dozen of masked greed on each side ! Thank god I had anticipated and had built tier 2 wood walls.

Second night : tier 2 wood walls were not strong enough ! If it wasn't for the wolf ability to attack, I would have been overwhelmed.

Third night : tier 1 rocky walls barely broke, again the wolf were very useful.

I died on night six because I was scared anticipating the red moon, so I spent all my coins on the boat instead of buying the iron upgrade. Result : I counted on my wolves attack but I missed A SINGLE GREED which took my puppy

So it was hard (that's the kind of challenge we expect) but doable and I will retry surely

Edit : I made it to island 6 without buying a single time iron upgrade. It is useless if wou stay no more than ten days on each island. But starting wth the 6th island, it seems that iron is necessary !

[Robin]

cool, thanks a lot for the report. Guess I'll give it another try then

[lefiath]

I'm on island 7 on day 38. Like I've said, there is no raise in difficulty per island as far as I can tell, or it's very mild. All that matters is how fast you can hop from island to island. And I'm afraid of the winter, there is no way I can get to island 10 before it starts. So I'm thinking what to do, if I dare to sit on one island for 20 or so days, or I'll risk starting on a new island in winter, where there is a guarantee that I get no money with the wolf.

I'm learning that the Pimpwolf is necessary to defend. At this point, I'm relying solely on it's abilities.

[Robin]

I was on island 9 at day 38, got my pup stolen cause my attack apparently missed a guy on day 41 :(
I started to really like the wolf for it's ability to make a lot of gold. You can go into a forest with empty purse in the mornign and come out with 20+ gold on your way back. It's really great.

Other than that it's really just about spending msot of your gold on the ship adn leave the island on day 5. Don't upgrade you camp other than the first one to get archers and upgrade the walls manually to stone 1. I guess from island 8 forward we could use stone wall upgrades because the ability can backfire and the pup can get stolen. But before that stone 1 is enough. Get 8 additional archers for the island (so it's 12 in total) and you're good until island 8 or 9 as well.

Seems more tedious than interssting still unfortuantely, so I'm not gonna bother playing it all again just for the last couple days at this point

[lefiath]

All right, I made it in day 45. It's absolutely doable much faster, probably can be done under 30 days if you're really crazy. You can jump comfortably from island to island in 4-5 days.

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=1853030174

And I must say, I've changed my mind about the challenge - when you realize that it's all about mad dash to the finish, to do everything as fast as possible (finish before winter comes), it becomes enjoyable. Even the Pimpwolf becomes enjoyable when you start playing in very specific way.