Foxglovez replied to Is This Valheim in 2023? May 26, 2023 @ 5:46:21 pm PDT
Looking at your description of things I think a couple things would help you. Go into settings and turn up the critter sound, turn down the music a bit. It's nice you can hear your wife fart, but you would be much better off hearing the grey dwarf fart, or the other things going on that are well announced. But you have to recognize the sounds, like the low woofling of the trolls, the sound of ravens whenever you are around something interesting you Should Pay Attention To in the BF. If you hear even the quietest of wolf howl you are in for a visit, usually by 2.
Go home at night. Go home at night. Sleep at night.
You understand you have to have a bank of stam , running and jumping ability, all weapon skills. You get them by running, jumping and using those abilities all you can. At the end of the BF they should be in the high 20s, low 30s. 40-50s in the mountains. If they are not, you will have problems in the swamp and die quickly in the mountains where those skills are important. There are those that say skill levels don't matter. If you are struggling, then they do.
Stealth is a skill. Use it when you don't need it to build it up.
This is bad news but 160 hours is nothing unless you have an appointment in some other game. You should have piles of resources from the BF, half a chest of turnips, lots of blood bags, ooze, guck, chains. Your WBench and forge s/b at lvl 5. You should have all new iron weapons at level 4 when you leave the swamp which means lots of sunken crypts. You can't do that in 167 hours... You're rushing it. Yes you can snoop around the mountains early but it's time you could spend actually preparing yourself to be there comfortably.
And you need to know when to hold them and when to fold them. When to run and when to stay and fight.
There is nothing wrong with how the game works up through the plains. ML, well not every hit is a home run. You don't need to get gud but it would be in your best interest to learn what they hell your doing. Watch a few vids on the basics. I think that if you keep at it, in a few weeks or a month you will be having a great time. Or not, your choice. The game punishes those that don't prepare, don't pay attention.
Difficulty settings are in the works. Close to 3k hours of 99% solo, no mods, no dev commands. And I am older than dirt, can't see for ♥♥♥♥ and have terrible reflexes. It can be done.
Go home at night. Go home at night. Sleep at night.
You understand you have to have a bank of stam , running and jumping ability, all weapon skills. You get them by running, jumping and using those abilities all you can. At the end of the BF they should be in the high 20s, low 30s. 40-50s in the mountains. If they are not, you will have problems in the swamp and die quickly in the mountains where those skills are important. There are those that say skill levels don't matter. If you are struggling, then they do.
Stealth is a skill. Use it when you don't need it to build it up.
This is bad news but 160 hours is nothing unless you have an appointment in some other game. You should have piles of resources from the BF, half a chest of turnips, lots of blood bags, ooze, guck, chains. Your WBench and forge s/b at lvl 5. You should have all new iron weapons at level 4 when you leave the swamp which means lots of sunken crypts. You can't do that in 167 hours... You're rushing it. Yes you can snoop around the mountains early but it's time you could spend actually preparing yourself to be there comfortably.
And you need to know when to hold them and when to fold them. When to run and when to stay and fight.
There is nothing wrong with how the game works up through the plains. ML, well not every hit is a home run. You don't need to get gud but it would be in your best interest to learn what they hell your doing. Watch a few vids on the basics. I think that if you keep at it, in a few weeks or a month you will be having a great time. Or not, your choice. The game punishes those that don't prepare, don't pay attention.
Difficulty settings are in the works. Close to 3k hours of 99% solo, no mods, no dev commands. And I am older than dirt, can't see for ♥♥♥♥ and have terrible reflexes. It can be done.
2:13 am, May 27, 2023