Damn RNG

[WeylandYutani]

It takes me often so long to find just simple things like Stone, Tabacco, Bandage Plants, they are so rare, rng and extremly hard to find depend on what Game you start. You could be lucky or dont find anything. Sorry but thats dumb, thats no challenge or difficulty, then dying after an hour because you couldn't find stone.

Please i don't want any tips, i want this to be changed, rare is good but that is ridiculous.

[frillen]

Once you have gotten some experience and have figured out how and where to look for certain things you will find that there are plenty of everything :)

[LaOldi]

Originally posted by frillen:

Once you have gotten some experience and have figured out how and where to look for certain things you will find that there are plenty of everything :)

True story, just play for a while and you will get an eye for the things. I ran araound in the jungle for about 18 days (ingame) before i found a banana even though I knew they had to be there. Now I have an eye for them and find them more frequently.
And use your comon sense. Stones are obviously common near cliffs, rivers or bigger rocks.

[WeylandYutani]

All the Videos i watched People argue about the same thing, that its stupid how they can't find Stone, Plants for Bandages or Tabacco. To remember the Map and Locations of these things is not the answer, its the excuse. Sure when i play the Game around 100 Hours then i know the Map but a Game should work from the start not after you learned it. We talk about a Game not a Book to learn for School.

[frillen]

Originally posted by WeylandYutani:

All the Videos i watched People argue about the same thing, that its stupid how they can't find Stone, Plants for Bandages or Tabacco. To remember the Map and Locations of these things is not the answer, its the excuse. Sure when i play the Game around 100 Hours then i know the Map but a Game should work from the start not after you learned it. We talk about a Game not a Book to learn for School.

It's a survival game with a high focus on realism, if you ended up in a similar situation IRL then you would need to learn a lot of things to survive like finding your way, be aware of the surroundings, what plants are useful for different purposes and not etc. - That is the whole point of surviving, spoon feeding takes away from the challenge of learning how to master a game :)

About the Youtubers complaining about not finding any of the stuff they need, I have seen several Youtubers playing with their head up in the butt, running around like there was no tomorrow, seeing them complain about where are the flowers while I could clearly see that they had missed several - Had they taken their time and progressed slowly examining the surroundings thoroughly then they most likely wouldn't have had much problems finding what they needed :)
Not naming any names, but I saw a youtuber complaining about some problems that had been bugging him for the past 3 or 4 episodes of his Let's Play series, had he checked the controls he would have known how to throw a spear and had he checked his notebook he would have known how to treat certain diseases...

I know that most youtubers play a lot of different games, so they haven't got much time to learn a new game, but it doesn't excuse them when blaming the game for mistake they make because they didn't take their time to figure out why they struggled with something.

If the game really was so unbalanced or hard to learn then please explain why most of us that bought it from day one had it nailed within few days?

[Cougarific]

Originally posted by WeylandYutani:

We talk about a Game not a Book to learn for School.

There's a certain generation of gamers now who grew up on games with big flashing arrows over enemies, tips like "Press Space to Jump" appearing every time they approach something you can jump over, and glowing dots leading them to their next objective.

They'll eventually learn there's another type of game that asks you to use your brain to figure stuff out instead of just mindlessly following the on-screen prompts.

In survival there are no Participation Awards. You survive, or you die.

[Janky Nose Hair Guy]

Really guys its up to the devs on this one. This is the first survival game where I really, really had to*slow down and think* The game isn't a sim and it's not Fart Cry 6.

I love the fact that you need to use your brain and look for things. Plants don't have huge signs on them that say "EAT ME!" Maybe the tutorial needs to be fleshed out more. I mean this IS Early Access.

[Byron1c]

They never fixed it. Its still ♥♥♥♥ in 2024, and Im just about done trying to get into this "Game". Its another POS that failed to live up to any of the hype or fanboi praise. Its nice to see that all games have their blind devotees blindly defending every lack of function, game decision, and jank as "how its meant to be", they probably like being spanked too.
This game is completely illogical. People trying to defend the discovery aspect are just stupid and blind to the idea that not everyone is the same as them. You need to look for things yourself in this game, but you also have to wrestle with the illogical crafting, horribly basic "survival guide" written for a 12yo without hardly any useful information in it. And supposedly the main character has experience in the amazon?! BS! The moron freaks out at having leaches on him, he should have stayed at home.
Want to boil water? You have to know the right *combination" of actions to make that happen. I know I want clean water, but cannot even use leaves to collect it or channel it?? Noo because that logic is not included, only the "logic" they have chosen to include. Want to chop down a coconut tree - you cant because "logic". There is NO INDICATION the trees cannot be chopped down, until you realise that the noise is different and you break ANOTHER axe, and there is no damage on the tree (not that games always follow that guidance regularly either)
Another damn game that fails to live up to their own advertising and hype.... Im nearly done with this POS.

[Byron1c]

Oh, and if a person on their own WAS thrown into a situation like that, even with experience, they would PROBABLY DIE. Its not like one native on their own tried lots of things and worked out what killed people, made them sick, and what didnt. They used animals, and the fact that their mate died from eating the strange mushrooms they found, and learned to avoid things that way. Same with medicine. They had LOTS OF PEOPLE.
I guarantee most of us (me included) could NOT make a fire, let alone anything else, without assistance from some modern technology, and/or experience making all this ♥♥♥♥.
There is very little "REALISM" in this BS game.