Originally posted by Nerevar:

and soon these moments will be ceaseing to exist as you can just turn the penalty for dying completly off. no more risk. on a toggle.

You'll also be able to turn on hardcore mode with a death penalty slider which you can jack all the way up. So everyone can play the game how they want to play it. Freedom of choice 👍😇😘🥰

For me it was the first time I found out sea serpents existed, at night, in a storm. Sailed over to this glimmering thing in the water and saw it rear its head and roar.

On a second note, related to the above, the first time you solo a serpent using the harpoon to beach it. Epic.

The Wraith in the Swamp probably scared a few years of life out of me. I hear a whisper, turn around, there it is, right in my face. AAGH!

As I mentioned in another thread, when I first entered Black Forest I found a stone tower and moved into that. Turns out it was very close to a greydwarf nest and in the roaming area of a troll. I built tall walls around it and a tunnel to get in and out undetected, and stayed very quiet when I heard the troll about.

I distinctly remember coming back at one point later in the game and showing those guys who was boss!

This is what it looks like now. I don't remember why I left, but, from the looks of the place, it's likely that the troll heard me at some point and showed me the way out!

https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2976258357

No matter how many times i restart or how much more experience i gain in between, it's the first swamp run that tends to stand out to me. Im almost always in troll armor at that point (never bother with bronze armor honestly), and since it's the first time there i don't have the terrain altered to make things easier. My goal is normally just to grab a few seeds and gtfo so i can start making better foods before i hit the swamp properly. There's a weird combination of sneaking around, frantically fleeing, or getting a chip on your shoulder because you know you can parry and destroy a solo non-starred draugr (before you return to frantic fleeing because you realize he wasnt alone and that archer over there is 2 star). All punctuated with the occasional "nope, nope sooooo much nope" moments when something like an abomination pops out of the ground in the direction you were first planning to go.

It's always hectic, but always in a different way each time you reach that point in a new character.

I've started over a number of times, enough that I really appreciate it when the rng hands me a gift. On this run there was a nice farm with a maypole close to the Elder, at the foot of a silver bearing mountain with several frost caves. After sailing and carting my iron back, I don't have to move my base for awhile.

Other times, I discovered my first swamp and found a turnip sitting right on the edge, just a little way down the coast from the trader. Sometimes it's the perfect view. In mistlands it was a sheltered alcove where I put my first mushroom farm.

Sometimes things just line up perfectly. I love procedural maps.

For me - when i was first exploring the swamp and had encountered a few abominations. I would just try to retreat and hit with fire arrows. I was walking backwards towards a Black Forest outpost i had near the swamps shooting at an abomination and turned around and right behind me was a Troll. Did a few dodge rolls to avoid any damage then the Troll and Abomination started fighting. I just kind of stood on the side and watched them fight. It was pretty amazing and unexpected, hadn't looked up much about their behaviors before then. But i definitely learned then to use that tactic more in other biomes.

Originally posted by Nerevar:

and soon these moments will be ceaseing to exist as you can just turn the penalty for dying completly off. no more risk. on a toggle.

You'll also be able to turn on hardcore mode with a death penalty slider which you can jack all the way up. So everyone can play the game how they want to play it. Freedom of choice 👍😇😘🥰

please keep the posts related to topic, respect your positions, this thread isn't for talking about game play suggestions

Originally posted by Nerevar:

and soon these moments will be ceaseing to exist as you can just turn the penalty for dying completly off. no more risk. on a toggle.

You'll also be able to turn on hardcore mode with a death penalty slider which you can jack all the way up. So everyone can play the game how they want to play it. Freedom of choice 👍😇😘🥰

Originally posted by Nerevar:

and soon these moments will be ceaseing to exist as you can just turn the penalty for dying completly off. no more risk. on a toggle.

I can already do that. I can be invisible to mobs. I can take no damage. I can fly.

But I don't.

Love it, I too had similar troll conflicts, being left for stranded a couple islands away because I didn't think a log troll could hit me on my boat while it was neck high in water

That feeling of hopping around swamp marshes avoiding puddles and leeches while peaking through the swamp branches and fog to see if there's enemies around or dungeons on the horizon is another iconic moment that comes to mind

when you find out dodging completely removes your hitboxes and you take on an abomination by yourself with only an axe.

The first encounter with a Troll is always a good one lol

That time I sailed for over an hour in real time to a far far far and distant shore, only to have a silent troll sneak up and stomp me the second I set foot on dry land. That's when it really dawned on me that this game is uncompromising and does not take prisoners.

Originally posted by MF:

That time I sailed for over an hour in real time to a far far far and distant shore, only to have a silent troll sneak up and stomp me the second I set foot on dry land. That's when it really dawned on me that this game is uncompromising and does not take prisoners.

My first Outpost was across the Spawn point Ocean ( actually was a MASSSIVE LAKE )

it did not get built up very well as i got assaulted by a troll, started shooting with my Finewood bow amde from 'rolled' birch logs, and suddenly there was 3 of them bashing everything, this wasnt even a troll raid, just Unlucky my first Post Eikthir exploration outpost introduced me to the Trolls. Ive never encounterd More than 2 trolls in a given area since, but i'd say that was one of my Most Iconic moments. they even trashed my raft, and when i got back nothing was left but Sparkles. cleaned up the copper node (unknowing of deeper veins at the time) and Left the 5 standing palisades as a reminder. carried remainign weight limit of core wood back to spawn base and stuck to land travels.

and soon these moments will be ceaseing to exist as you can just turn the penalty for dying completly off. no more risk. on a toggle.