Originally posted by glass zebra:

Just let people enjoy what they enjoy. It's not like a change to the store page makes any "non-casual" any less of a viking (which none of them are) for playing that game or whatever your reason is to look down on this. In my opinion the old trailers were overselling the difficulty a lot and Valheim isn't some super hardcore death simulator with no rest for the wicked. Once you hammer some wooden shelter together the game is rather chill and you can survive easily with berries and mushrooms and a stick to defend yourself, without any sense of urgency that many other games have.

Try and tell people that when your friend goes from 100 to 85 in his Bow, Run and Jump skills from dying three times in a week. See how hard it is to watch someone's back, when they literally can't clear the same Mistland gaps that you can. When they shoot at half the rate because tripled draw time, you'll be on the receiving end of the fights they can't take. Watch as their muscle memory betrays them at every step of the way, how you have to intervene so they don't die yet again from an enemy that's below 1% health.

You're talking about the early-game.

I'm talking about the trailers' bait-and-switch of being lured into the fantasy of wielding staves... when you'll be stringing that bow a few thousand times. And you'd better not die when you're done making bows powerful, or else you'll be stringing that bow a thousand more.