Mistylands disappoints

[⭐Rodent⭐]

We waited too long for this mediocre update. The new area does not add anything significant to the game. It's not immersive and looks too repetitive. The landscape is just ugly and boring. It all looks the same and inspires no desire to explore it.

[Dwarflord]

Kill Yagluth twice (should probably be doing this anyway to get a Yagluth trophy you can hang at your house). Make 8 Wisp fountains. Collect Wisps for one single night (I think it's 12 minutes). Have enough wisps for a very long time. Put the fountains by the chicken coop so if you happen to be feeding the chickens and it's nighttime, you can pick a few. I have over a chest of wisps, and I put the wisp torches all over the place.

[RotGoblin]

Originally posted by FissionChips:

Originally posted by Nascarman:

There needs to be a better way to farm wisps on the go. You basically have to farm it to get it at all since sleeping at night locks you out of getting them. It would really be nice if the wisps stayed for a couple minutes in the morning so I could swing by every day and collect them on the way to doing other things.

Stay up for five minutes at night, feed the chickens, farm a couple of turnips. But also, wisps appear during the day during rain, apparently that's dark enough - so I agree that they should also stick around for a minute or two at dawn/appear at dusk.

Exactly, I can get 20 per night for a couple of minutes chilling as a drink a cup of tea.

[OneEye]

Originally posted by Highwayman:

Originally posted by OneEye:

Mistlands is the only biome that has caused me to not even have the motivation to play anymore. I love the game which is what bothers me but this biome is just made the way it is simply to remove ranged weapons from the equation except when some flying set of ass cheeks decides to park over you. It seems crazy to me to spend so much time designing a biome that you can’t see except by 30m increments. I had to talk a friend of mine into not getting the game because (and yes we all know it’s early access) the game up to the mistlands is great but at that point it hits a wall, not of difficulty but of fun. The enemies don’t seem to be effected by the same hinderance the player has which is crazy unless you can tell me some lore reason why they can see through it. Yes I get maybe the bugs have some ability to sense you walking through tremors. What does the flying ass cheeks have some sort of sonar then?

These are just my opinions and I don’t need a white knight to come in and debate me either because it’s not worth your time or mine to bother because neither of us will change our minds so save it.

So you don't want anyone to change your mind, but you'll dissuade your friends from playing because of your opinion? That's pretty poor.

When I know what types of games my friends play, yes. On the off chance, how could anyone change my mind or me change the mind of a person im having a discussion with? I should have worded my reply a little more tactfully because I was in a bout of insomnia when I wrote it. If after him watching me stream a game for him if he is interested I would love to play with him.

[OneEye]

Originally posted by Polonius Ulf:

Originally posted by OneEye:

Mistlands is the only biome that has caused me to not even have the motivation to play anymore. I love the game which is what bothers me but this biome is just made the way it is simply to remove ranged weapons from the equation except when some flying set of ass cheeks decides to park over you. It seems crazy to me to spend so much time designing a biome that you can’t see except by 30m increments. I had to talk a friend of mine into not getting the game because (and yes we all know it’s early access) the game up to the mistlands is great but at that point it hits a wall, not of difficulty but of fun. The enemies don’t seem to be effected by the same hinderance the player has which is crazy unless you can tell me some lore reason why they can see through it. Yes I get maybe the bugs have some ability to sense you walking through tremors. What does the flying ass cheeks have some sort of sonar then?

These are just my opinions and I don’t need a white knight to come in and debate me either because it’s not worth your time or mine to bother because neither of us will change our minds so save it.

I'm sorry you dislike the Mistlands, but your reasons why are not accurate or fair.

Ranged weapons are not out of the equation. Yes, soldiers are resistant to pierce, but they are resistant to blunt and slash, as well. Guess what they are not resistant to, and try again.

It is your choice to perceive the gjall as a flying set of ass cheeks. That's a great description. But don't let words rule your perceptions. They also look like brains, bloated ticks, and the war machines from Spielberg's War of the Worlds. A thoughtful criticism of the gjall, as opposed to knee-jerk hostility, would say they are derivative.

Yes you can see the landscape. Sometimes, you can only see a little. At other times it suddenly clears to reveal vistas that I choose to characterize as fascinating and highly engaging, but I suspect you would find something negative to say.

Enemy sight is as limited as ours. The lore reason they can find us is that they also use their ears.

Look, you don't like the Mistlands. Cool. You don't have to justify that to anyone, but if you think that you do, you don't have to find something wrong with every little bit of it. That looks like an agenda.

I am not trying to rescue you. (Interesting that you try to ward-off any kindly response) I want to rescue other people from this disinformation. If I was charging in like a white knight, my lance would be aimed at you.

But I'm kinda sure Vikings didn't do the knight thing. ;)

I firstly would like to apologize for my ill conceived post. it was early in the morning for me and insomnia had turned me into a grumpy ♥♥♥♥♥. I do appreciate you taking your time to write a reply to me and be a lot more civil than I was and unfortunately that is already out there no sense in doing an edit haha. Anyway my friend isnt hard set against the game as of yet, I will have him watch me stream it and see what he thinks. Again sorry for the asshattery and I wish all you well sincerely.

[Polonius Ulf]

Originally posted by Sardonic:

Originally posted by Dwarflord:

With a very few (but notable) exceptions (mainly the mist clearance radius), I have found the Mistlands to be pretty awesome. More exciting and with more going on than any other single biome. But that's just like, my opinion, man...

Right? I'm over here scratching my head trying to figure out how much more the devs could have crammed into this biome to appease the disappointed players. /shrug

++ My feelings, too. Mistlands is gorgeous and there is a lot going on.

It's not perfect. The black metal forge is…special. But you can make a space for it. Start with interlocking hare rugs to create a floor suitable for the spills of alchemy, use nothing but black metal chests for storage…

…and screen it all off with tapestries or something.

It's a brand-new biome. They'll tweak it.

But I hope not too much.

[⭐Rodent⭐]

Mistylands doesn't have anywhere near the work it took to create other areas, like meadows or blackforest. It seems like a job done in a hurry without much effort.

[Faceplant]

Originally posted by A Face in the Crowd シ 🔴:

Mistylands doesn't have anywhere near the work it took to create other areas, like meadows or blackforest. It seems like a job done in a hurry without much effort.

You're going to have to clarify that one, considering that pretty much every aspect of ML is a step above any of the other biomes (textures, complexity of the dungeons, mobs, etc), plus they added magic and it's whole associated infrastructure, a whole new set of building materials, NPCs, player flight, a whole suite of new foods, including a whole new class of food, two new workbenches and workbench upgrades, a cauldron upgrade, a new refiner and it's associated materials. I could go on...

[FissionChips]

Complexity of the dungeons? Like that player with a gaping hole in the wall into world void? Or how they're multistory - something Shadow Warrior figured out roughly four decades ago on DOS and which is probably just a tickbox in unity these days?

Most of what they added expands on existing work - new building pieces on top of the existing building system, player flight was added by mods at least a year ago - it even has the same name featherfall, new foods which are just new items in the existing food system... I could go on, but the point is most of the mistlands expands on the base work already done, it implies they're roughly finished with the engine and generating content. Which is actually worrying because there's still problematic engine bugs to fix.

[Lil brekky]

Originally posted by FissionChips:

most of the mistlands expands on the base work already done, it implies they're roughly finished with the engine and generating content. Which is actually worrying because there's still problematic engine bugs to fix.

Valheim's development is an emperor has no clothes on situation

[Sun]

Originally posted by A Face in the Crowd シ 🔴:

Originally posted by Cognizart:

I felt the same way until I explored it and it is actually pretty cool

Good for you.
I find it just boring.

find a new game to play. this one is not for you

[Shillen]

Originally posted by Werric:

I don't know what it is about the Mistlands but it just misses the spot for me somehow. I don't mind the mobs at all. Well I do curse when a 2* seeker lands on my head but the biome itself is just meh. If I had to rank the biomes for my faves it would be a little like this

Plains>=Mountains>Blackforest>=Meadows>Swamp>Mistlands.

Interesting your ranking is just easiest to hardest if you ignore meadows. I personally found the plains and mountains to be the worst biomes because you can basically immediately get all the upgrade materials without much effort.

[A-Rex]

Why is the new Etyr stuff is so weak XD got me hyped for a minute, but i have it max level and it is sooo weak jesus. Anyway the weaponds combat fells unbalanced

[Werric]

Originally posted by Shillen:

Originally posted by Werric:

I don't know what it is about the Mistlands but it just misses the spot for me somehow. I don't mind the mobs at all. Well I do curse when a 2* seeker lands on my head but the biome itself is just meh. If I had to rank the biomes for my faves it would be a little like this

Plains>=Mountains>Blackforest>=Meadows>Swamp>Mistlands.

Interesting your ranking is just easiest to hardest if you ignore meadows. I personally found the plains and mountains to be the worst biomes because you can basically immediately get all the upgrade materials without much effort.

I'm sorry when has the Plains ever been the easiest biome. The easiest is by far the Meadows. Anyway as I said I don't mind the mobs at all. My comment was purely on how I feel about the different biomes.

[Sardonic]

Originally posted by A-Rex:

Why is the new Etyr stuff is so weak XD got me hyped for a minute, but i have it max level and it is sooo weak jesus. Anyway the weaponds combat fells unbalanced

You're the first person i've seen say that EVER. Most agree magic is OP. I concur it is as well.

Originally posted by Shillen:

Originally posted by Werric:

I don't know what it is about the Mistlands but it just misses the spot for me somehow. I don't mind the mobs at all. Well I do curse when a 2* seeker lands on my head but the biome itself is just meh. If I had to rank the biomes for my faves it would be a little like this

Plains>=Mountains>Blackforest>=Meadows>Swamp>Mistlands.

Interesting your ranking is just easiest to hardest if you ignore meadows. I personally found the plains and mountains to be the worst biomes because you can basically immediately get all the upgrade materials without much effort.

Same here. I wish they'd flesh plains out more. It has no dungeons and the villages and structures are poor replacements for them. Aside from deathsquitos in the butt, there's no real sense of danger or challenge there.

Originally posted by A Face in the Crowd シ 🔴:

Mistylands doesn't have anywhere near the work it took to create other areas, like meadows or blackforest. It seems like a job done in a hurry without much effort.

I'm not going to even try figuring out how you got to that conclusion.

[Duurti]

I downloaded a mod to get rid of the mist. Problem solved. That was the single complaint I expressed. Now I can play the game without that annoyance. Elden Ring can once again be the only game I play that also pisses me off.