Originally posted by Mummy:

It's tough playing solo. I place portals as I go so I don't have to walk ALL the way back. You need a second set of maxed out armor and weapons to get your body back. The mist is too extreme. i wandered around a large Mistlands area for several hours and only found one Infested Mine. Is that because I couldn't see or because there is only one in the entire area? I don't know, but it wasn't fun and I could not make progress for several hours because I could not find the mines. This is a test mode, so it can change, but in its current state, Mistlands is more grind than fun. Maybe that will change when I get more cores, but how long will that take?? Good luck!

Originally posted by LeFrenchie:

I remember ppl were crying about the mosquitoes in the plain, this sounds just like it.

Originally posted by Reggieraft:

I'm a very big fan of this game and was really looking forward to the Mistlands update. I've seen a lot of content creators really liking it, but my experience so far as a solo player has been very frustrating.

I have hundreds of hours in this game, so I was equipped with all the upgraded, best gear I could get. The first thing that I found frustrating was the mist. Even though you can equip the Wisplight, it's still very hard to make out the landscape around you. And the landscape is full of big cliffs that will take a lot of stamina if you have to climb over them (because of the mist I can't see if there's an easier way around them).
Then there are the seekers. The normal ones are not that tough, even though they come in small groups most of the time, but the 1-star variants and the soldier seekers are very tough, especially when they gang up on you. And there's almost no chance to run away and shake them off, because they are fast and can keep up and follow you, even on the cliffs because they can fly. Until you run out of stamina because of all the climbing and blocking and rolling and you die.
So I figured out the first must-have power is the Bonemass power. At least for a few minutes you can take some of their hits and tank through them.

Normally when I died in Valheim I could get frustrated when I knew I had to backtrack and lost progress, but usually I could see it was my own fault. But now I already had many times it really felt unfair, and there was nothing I could've done to prevent death. And then to somehow make my way back to that place as a naked man (withouth a Wisplight) is just a suicide run.

I hate cheating, even in solo-player games. But I already thought about cheating more in Valheim since this update than in my hundreds of hours before it. I don't think that's a good sign.