How's The Update?

Is it really just a bunch of furniture and food recipes after all these months, or is there any actually worthwhile new content?
11:13 pm, September 18, 2021
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Altimely replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 4:14:02 pm PDT

Originally posted by Maroliver:
It sucks. At least D2 Resurrected comes out this week.

Funny, another franchise with an overly critical and entitled fanbase.
2:13 am, September 19, 2021
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ᴛᴀʟᴜ 🐦 replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 4:14:24 pm PDT

Originally posted by Maroliver:
It sucks. At least D2 Resurrected comes out this week.

Too bad D2 resurrected is censored to sht, the amazon looked like a man from last i looked lol
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Altimely replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 4:17:59 pm PDT

Originally posted by ᴛᴀʟᴜ 🐦:
Originally posted by Maroliver:
It sucks. At least D2 Resurrected comes out this week.

Too bad D2 resurrected is censored to sht, the amazon looked like a man from last i looked lol

You are face blind if you think she looks like a man.
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PyrateLV replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 5:58:17 pm PDT

It's meh. I feel we should have gotten a lot more building pieces than we did.
New food and kitchen stuff is ok, but I'm not fond of the re-worked Health/Stamina system when it didnt need it.
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Saint Dongymybongybibbonglebonk replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 6:03:13 pm PDT

Originally posted by Altimely:
Originally posted by Maroliver:
It sucks. At least D2 Resurrected comes out this week.

Funny, another franchise with an overly critical and entitled fanbase.

The fanbase for this isn't critical enough, this is a pretty poor amount of content for 8 months work, especially with the amount of money they have made...
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crom-cythraul replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 6:09:49 pm PDT

Awesome Patch finally riding implemented the Trader spoilered ;)

If you not throw your greydwarf eyes away you have nice food now.
After last Patch everything works as desired. (Tar pits are appearing)
Also the slightly stamina drain reduce on the bows good.
Fulings are still do able and the growths are pretty fun.

Performance improvment you can feel it if you build a HUGE city.
I m not waiting for patches i play other games and then a enjoy when it is finally there.
Go on with it small nice ideas.

You can say it takes it time but it is finally her.
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Frost_knightz replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 6:20:00 pm PDT

Originally posted by Saint Dongymybongybibbonglebonk:
Originally posted by Altimely:

Funny, another franchise with an overly critical and entitled fanbase.

The fanbase for this isn't critical enough, this is a pretty poor amount of content for 8 months work, especially with the amount of money they have made...
True
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Atoli Fuzen replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 6:31:02 pm PDT

I am finding that the skills are not working currently.. with a 40+ sprint it feels like my stam runs out as fast as it did at level 1 sprint pre-patch (pre-patch i could actually run for a bit before running out of stam) and all the weapon skills feel like they do nothing now. the damage from a level 8 skill player to a level 60 skill player using the same bow is only off by about 5 damage per shot. and testing the stam drain is the same between us as well. so i dont know if it is a bug. but the skills feel turned off.
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jamesc70 replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 6:35:26 pm PDT

Originally posted by Mackenzie:
Is it really just a bunch of furniture and food recipes after all these months, or is there any actually worthwhile new content?

I wish there was more, especially new biomes, and some of the changes are just bad (but are being tweaked- food already got a tweak, and I'm guessing stamina will also in the future).

There are a ton of undocumented changes, which the devs should have described to stop some of these '8 months and that is all we got' posts. https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/pq13bv/list_of_undocumented_changes/

Some people are seeing 50% improvement in frames also, so it seems the graphics engine got some love too.
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Macdallan replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 6:42:12 pm PDT

Originally posted by PyrateLV:
It's meh. I feel we should have gotten a lot more building pieces than we did.
New food and kitchen stuff is ok, but I'm not fond of the re-worked Health/Stamina system when it didnt need it.

I have to agree on the food and stamina/health overhaul. It wasn't needed. They at least took some time to work on the balancing a bit due to the overwhelming negative reception, but I don't think they're quite where they need to be with it yet. Some players like it, some really don't. I think they could have just slightly tweaked the old system and had better results - and happier customers but they may get it right after a few more updates and a bit more balancing. Since they've been quite receptive to player feedback I think they'll find a middle ground where most people will be happy or at least okay with the system.

I wouldn't have complained if they added a few more building pieces and options, but there's still time for more to be added later. This isn't the only update that's going to happen.

Unfortunately I feel like they're pushing things toward more complex crafting in general, and crafting (cooking for now but I think the rest is going to get more complex) is another thing I liked better before the update. Food was fairly simple for the most part. Now there are more things to cook with, more things required to cook, more upgrades all of which require more space. More inventory management, more micromanagement, more time spent crafting which will lead to less exploration and combat. It feels like just a bit too much of a shift in the focus of the game, and for a lot of us it's a shift away from what we liked about the game. Simple, effective, fun.

What do I mean? Well, you could just go kill a deer, kill a couple neck, roast the meat, grab a berry or a mushroom then jam it all in your face and go kill stuff. Took a couple minutes. Now you have to collect more foods, worry about which stat to buff - health or stamina - carry barf berries in case you have to change things around later (barf berries need to go away - it's ridiculous), carry more food, and you need more advanced cooking stations to cook stuff you could make with just two stations before the update. Unnecessary complexity. Conan Exiles made that mistake with so. Many. New. Crafting. Stations. Valheim is starting to go that way, and I hope they stop and think about it before they go too far with it.

Originally posted by jamesc70:
[There are a ton of undocumented changes, which the devs should have described to stop some of these '8 months and that is all we got' posts. https://www.reddit.com/r/valheim/comments/pq13bv/list_of_undocumented_changes/

Some people are seeing 50% improvement in frames also, so it seems the graphics engine got some love too.

This is actually what I'm the most excited about - better performance. I can turn up a few of the graphics settings that I had to turn down to get decent FPS. I also agree that the complaints about time versus content are mostly from people who don't understand what else they did, what challenges they faced, and and how long this stuff usually takes for such a small team. If some people did just a bit of research they'd realize that their expectations are unrealistic, that more was done than they can see at a glance, and maybe a lot of those posts wouldn't happen.
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Grandaddypurple replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 3:36:03 pm PDT

It's a bit underwhelming overall. Nothing to make a fuss about though in my experience. Started a new game after 5 months and enjoying it so far
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Maroliver replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 3:38:10 pm PDT

It sucks. At least D2 Resurrected comes out this week.
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theotheoderich replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 4:10:31 pm PDT

I like the new update. We started a new game, and it is great (again!). From my point of view the new food system is working great. You have to care what you eat :-)
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ᴛᴀʟᴜ 🐦 replied to How's The Update? September 18, 2021 @ 4:11:33 pm PDT

great, finding alot of new stuff, fun to start over again from the beginning, exploring, building, leveling, all fine and good. Alot of stuff have been changed, you have to play to notice the difference, some food items had their textures updated, you can now stack coal, core, fine wood and a whole lot more.
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