It seems to be worse if you run and it makes a long line, when dragging it ashore your stamina drains like crazy. With the best foods, muckshakes etc.. ie a stamina build for bowman it is still seriously fast drain, just like the issue with fishing. It's like they just fired out some random numbers without testing the game..

Guys went up to mtns today to get wolves, the 3 of them died about 20 times.. the wolves are endlessly spawning, you don't even get time to heal up or retrieve before another wave comes.. but they did manage to bring back 90 silver, so now i have wolf armour.

I am playing on a full server, today we fought bonemass, with 9 guys and it really does scale up.. it's crazy how much food, potions etc you waste now.

But it is still fun to play. Esp in mp, where everyones helps when you get knocked down.
You don't get that in singleplayer.

But I'm not overly impressed by this H&H patch.

I think they did a great job at making the game more difficult and balanced, it was way too easy before once you got hold of some endgame foods, and if you're dying from wolves, you need to pay attention more, they howl all the time and you can easily sneak shoot them.

Bread+Eyescream+Onion Soup = 250 stamina. No problem with fishing.

It's just like real fishing. When the serpent tries to pull away from you, it drains stamina. When the line slacks, you recover stamina

We have a non written rule on our server. Always sail with MAX stam1na food buffs. You don't need HP on a boat but you might need a tons of STAM1NA.

Originally posted by Jolie Rouge:

Bread+Eyescream+Onion Soup = 250 stamina. No problem with fishing.

lol spoilers

Thanks for sharing--keep working at it.

it doesn't make a whole lot of sense...
sometimes it doesn't drain stamina
sometimes it does.

XD yep and the green stuff still sinks

have you tried this with stamina boosting foods ? stamina meads?

Haven't had much luck myself yet, not sure how pulling animal in your direction works, it seems if animal pulls away you get a heap of stamina taken away but how do you combat that? Do you walk/sail with it in it's direction but then who's leading who here cause the animal will always try to run away

Originally posted by Martin:

Trying to get a serpent onto land is extremely difficult now.

It was made nearly impossible for solo players with the previous update when they nerfed the harpoon stamina. Now it is impossible for a solo player with the new food update. Seems to me they are forcing us to multiplayer with these updates, of which will be the end of my playing this game, unfortunately, because so far I have really enjoyed playing.

Well, you don't really need a harpoon to get the scales anyway, just get it to follow you to the shallows and then if the scales land in somewhat deep water you can make a little platform and jump in and the speed will carry you to the bottom

haven't bothered with a harpoon in a while. they will chase you right up to shore. i've had 2 run off on me in 800 hours.

From my experience, it only drains when the serpent is moving in away from you.

So what I do is hook it, then I try to keep pace with it as we approach shore. If it starts swimming away, I'll drop to paddle, or even reverse speeds. Until it locks back on to me and then I'll speed up again.

It's definitely more tricky to rope it now, but with practice you can still totally do it solo.

And, as mentioned above, you can always just half-sail into shallows and fight it there. Most of them will still try to attack you there.

It seems to be worse if you run and it makes a long line, when dragging it ashore your stamina drains like crazy. With the best foods, muckshakes etc.. ie a stamina build for bowman it is still seriously fast drain, just like the issue with fishing. It's like they just fired out some random numbers without testing the game..

Guys went up to mtns today to get wolves, the 3 of them died about 20 times.. the wolves are endlessly spawning, you don't even get time to heal up or retrieve before another wave comes.. but they did manage to bring back 90 silver, so now i have wolf armour.

I am playing on a full server, today we fought bonemass, with 9 guys and it really does scale up.. it's crazy how much food, potions etc you waste now.

But it is still fun to play. Esp in mp, where everyones helps when you get knocked down.
You don't get that in singleplayer.

But I'm not overly impressed by this H&H patch.