Give yourself some ‘house rules’ to increase the difficulty. Limit armor, food buffs etc.

Originally posted by stvlepore:

Give yourself some ‘house rules’ to increase the difficulty. Limit armor, food buffs etc.

This is no different then telling somebody to "get good" when they find it too hard. It's just the opposite. Get bad! Play poorly and pretend you're stupid. The answer is not telling people how to play the game, it's the devs actually listening to one of the largest complaints about the game. Difficulty, it's either too easy or too hard.

@Obi-Jorma The game definitely needs difficulty settings. For now I set the Players X setting when I play singleplayer, but it can't be used in multiplayer and it only affects creatures.

Please tell me you killed Yagluth and you are now exploring at night.

Idk I think this conclusion might be related to your map seed, overall progression, how knowledgable/smart or willing to read the wiki you are and so on. I personally think that the difficulty rn is okay for most people but it may be too easy for the "hardcore survival" crowd, especially those who are using guides, tricks or videos to help them along. It also kind of depends on the goals you set for yourself. For example I put a priority on raising my stats asap and every death is considered to be a (major) setback. But for others it could be either farming resources or simply doing bosses. All of this requires to think in many variables and think that the average player isn't smart and therefor I don't think the game is "too easy". lol

Edit: Would be nice if you showed, arguments first of all and also how many hours you played and maybe screenshots and such so people know why exactly you think this game is easy.

Originally posted by Dialtone:

Originally posted by stvlepore:

Give yourself some ‘house rules’ to increase the difficulty. Limit armor, food buffs etc.

This is no different then telling somebody to "get good" when they find it too hard. It's just the opposite. Get bad! Play poorly and pretend you're stupid. The answer is not telling people how to play the game, it's the devs actually listening to one of the largest complaints about the game. Difficulty, it's either too easy or too hard.

@Obi-Jorma The game definitely needs difficulty settings. For now I set the Players X setting when I play singleplayer, but it can't be used in multiplayer and it only affects creatures.

Congrats, your 100% wrong, WTG

Just only use troll armor and no black metal weapons. Stay in the Iron Age with tools/weapons. Still easy but will still be punished if you make mistakes.

Difficult is ok when you start game and don't take too much time grinding for better gear.
I am talking about biome difficulty, It got super easy after swamps. With iron gear and ok food, you are almost invincible on all biomes execpt plains. And
And if you get in bad situation you can just build walls if you have some wood with you :D
Also AI ain't smart either and their pathfiding for example in woods around objects is bad.
Also yes I could play stupid by not eating good food and all that, but mehh!
I just hope that in future you could adjust difficulty, and I play with 2 friends so I can't use console commands to increase player count.

Originally posted by Dialtone:

Originally posted by stvlepore:

Give yourself some ‘house rules’ to increase the difficulty. Limit armor, food buffs etc.

This is no different then telling somebody to "get good" when they find it too hard. It's just the opposite. Get bad! Play poorly and pretend you're stupid. The answer is not telling people how to play the game, it's the devs actually listening to one of the largest complaints about the game. Difficulty, it's either too easy or too hard.

@Obi-Jorma The game definitely needs difficulty settings. For now I set the Players X setting when I play singleplayer, but it can't be used in multiplayer and it only affects creatures.

Not really true. Some people are new to this type of sandbox game and sometimes don't have the reflex to set challenges to themselves.
For instance on my newer playthrough I nerfed myself by not parrying at all. I had more fun. I parried my way through my first playthrough and greydwarves, trolls, fuelings, they were all the same enemy.
Though it's also on the devs to balance their game as well. That's why it's an EA game and we have tools to give some feedback

It would be nice if there could be like level 2 or level 3 biomes.
More resources and more difficult version of enemies would appear in these areas, but they could be further in map so players spawning on starting island don't get asswhooped.
Think about level 3 burial champer in black woods for example they could be more maze like and filled with traps and tougher skeletons or something, but there could be more and better loot.

Again, are you exploring at night after killing Yagluth?

One thing I do agree with is that mobs could have better/more difficult star variants depending on either game stage (prefer this one) or how far you explore out rather than it being random the way it is now. That way mobs could become more increasingly difficult, give better rewards and so on the farther you progress in the game, keeping the fun.

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

Again, are you exploring at night after killing Yagluth?

Nope haven't yet killed it I am tempted to kill it, but my friends don't yet want to kill it.
Now I am thinking that maybe I should take my best gear and ♥♥♥♥ ton of food and just go boss killing rampage so I can kill the last boss and I don't ''ruin'' our server.

Originally posted by stvlepore:

Originally posted by Dialtone:

This is no different then telling somebody to "get good" when they find it too hard. It's just the opposite. Get bad! Play poorly and pretend you're stupid. The answer is not telling people how to play the game, it's the devs actually listening to one of the largest complaints about the game. Difficulty, it's either too easy or too hard.

@Obi-Jorma The game definitely needs difficulty settings. For now I set the Players X setting when I play singleplayer, but it can't be used in multiplayer and it only affects creatures.

Congrats, your 100% wrong, WTG

I see you played 3,436 hrs of Civ V. Great game, one thing it has that many other user friendly games have is, Difficulty Settings. Without difficulty settings they'll never make a wide audience happy in Valheim. Care to explain what you think I'm 100% wrong at?

Originally posted by Obi-Jorma:

Originally posted by PakaNoHida:

Again, are you exploring at night after killing Yagluth?

Nope haven't yet killed it I am tempted to kill it, but my friends don't yet want to kill it.
Now I am thinking that maybe I should take my best gear and ♥♥♥♥ ton of food and just go boss killing rampage so I can kill the last boss and I don't ''ruin'' our server.

So just to be clear you are complaining that your game has become too easy but have not done the one thing already built into the game to bring the world up to your current ability.

Seriously go kill Yag, continue playing and see if your complaint is valid.

Originally posted by Elidrin:

Seriously go kill Yag, continue playing and see if your complaint is valid.

Content isn't finished beyond Yagluth so we don't know how hard the game will be, only that the unbalanced unfinished endgame we currently have does get a bit harder after killing Yagluth. Once higher tier gear is in the game, gameplay after Yagluth might become just another small step up like after the Elder, Bonemass and Moder. The part of the game that has had the most balance passes is progression up to Yagluth, not after.