Originally posted by Sthovin:

Nerfed, or too strong?

https://steamcommunity.com/app/892970/discussions/0/3192486635086486002/

From the linked thread:

Originally posted by Mousegerwitz:

After a game break of some months I came back to find Swamps have become impossible to make any progress through.
The volume, levels and speed of respawns has gone through the roof.
200yds turn around look back the way you came and the swamp is reinfested already.

About the 10th time I have tried to make it to a Swamp Crypt with all the best gear available, best meals, potions tons of XP.
As soon a I set foot from the boat in a minute I am surrounded hounded and its hopeless

Personally I found the swamps no real issue if you took the time to upgrade all your bronze gear to max, as far as I knew swamps were never nerfed but maybe I missed something

Just made a little experiment, copied my old bronze age freshmen char(all gear lvl1, xpt cape) and explored the same swamp on 205 and on 206.

Mace, buckler, bronze armor, finewood bow: all level one, a hundred fire arrows, basic meat and queen's jam, no PR mead. "i hate exploring game mechanics and love ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ on forums" starter kit, if you'd like.

205 was doable, mostly do to my prior experience, since i've rarely seen less than three enemies and stepping into the water meant nerly instant death(ostly due to a legion of leeches following my every step), and i had to run away every five minutes or so due to abomination(s!) landscaping the mess around to its liking and wraiths giving me a heart atack. i should've noted the numbers, but i'd give it a four funhouses out of five, nine sen's fortresses out of eleven and one badly lost graydwarf out of a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ billion.

206 was... lonely. I saw maybe two-ish leeches, one abomination which got bored halfway on its path to me and wandered off render distance(haven't seen it again, probably despawned), handful of draugr and one skeleton. Ah, a few surtlings as well, if they even count. It was a bit better at night, with whole one wraith, but i've still found myself more than comfortable. At least way more comortable than i should be with lvl 1 gear and no PR mead.

Confused by this data i've decided to check on other biomes and found the results pretty much the same. But this time with numbers. Hey numbers, yay.

Gear: irrelevant. Locations: same on both versions.
Meadows: skipped. Plains: still traumatized.

Black forest, all day of walking:
205: 7 graydwarfs, 6 skeletons, one troll.
206: 2 graydwarfs, but quite a bit of mushrooms.
Black forest, all night of walking:
205: 13 graydwarfs, 4 brutes, 6 shamans, 1 sad, half-dead skeleton
206: 6 graydwarfs, 1 brute, 2 shamans. but look and all this thistle!

Mountain, all day of walking and hopping on rocks:
205: 14 wolves, 10 drakes, 2 golems
206: 6 wolves, 7 drakes, no golems
Mountain, all night of walking and hopping on rocks:
205: 4 fenrings, 17 wolves, 8 drakes, no golems.
206: 1 fenring, 6 wolves, 9 drakes, 1 golem. Still quite a pleasant stroll, if not the damn rocks and drakes.

Pretty much it. Kinda thinking that maybe i should transfer this topic to bug section or whatnot.
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BTW, topic you've showed is a git gud issue, and it was on 205