Originally posted by ECHOxxONE:

Started playing about a month after release, played about 555 hours first time around and now at 730, took a break for a few months and came back for Hearth and Home. It has been exciting to see and build with the new building items, food, health and stamina re-balancing as well. Great work. I was sad to see the old Valheim wave replaced, which is the only issue I had with H&H, :(
Please bring back the old Valheim wave.

At first it took me a few hours to re teach myself how to fight as the stamina changes were being felt for sure, frustrating at first, however that is on me to learn , grow and adapt to the gaming world I find myself in. Now that I am back into the Valheim groove of things, life is great. I rented a server and have four other friends with me, I am on most of the time and do all my own gathering, building and boss killing, then from time to time when people are on we might go and do some things together. Also we are normal game play with no mods, which brings home the true Valheim experience with it from gathering materials, to combat and of course building and crafting.

As a older gamer who has seen it all, Valheim has been an absolute blast which has brought many tears to my eyes, those tears come from being killed by the lean mean fighting machine deathsquito, that deathsquito sandwich is a mean one. From the hard hitting jaws of a Lox to the gas gas gas of them nasty foul blobs and the scary wraiths that make you shake in fear when you first lay eyes on them. Tears from the gang members known as Furling's aka goblins, there laughs being seared into your dreams when you lay your head down at night, waking up in the middle of the night thinking you just got hit with there slash,burn and spear thrust that make me cry, yes cry I said.

Then the big bad bullies called graylings,brutes and shamans that throw rock's at your head and scratch you to death or whisper noxious gas into your face when your peacefully cutting a tree down or picking some of the great tasting berries. Lets not forget about the pancake smash and horror's that come from the trolls, there foot step's I hear when I am out gathering even though there not around, there lurking from a distance, I think, wait maybe that's ptsd.
Tears that come from the joy of shipping home the spoils of war and then the loch nest monsters attacks, sinking your ship and all your spoils and hopes with it. So many more sad tears I just can't bring myself so speak of right now.

I am also talking about tears that last a Valheim life time and laughter that fills the soul, cutting down a tree and smashing yourself or your friend next to you to death, falling off your building without being buffed, running into a furling patrol and a deathsquito and a Lox sandwich(The best of all) , also watching that happen to your friends (even better) , tripping over something on the ground, o wait that was the greylings throwing a rock at me and giving me a concussion, sailing your ship across the open waters and sailing with friends. Also crashing into nothing while sailing and having your ship fall apart because you took damage from something, o and watch out for that rock over there.
Tears that come from laughter over sailing your ship with a friend and getting attacked by a sea serpent and attempting to get to land in order to keep the scales only to make shore and as you jump out there are trolls, skeletons,greylings,shamans,brutes all fighting each other and now you landed right into the middle of this madness and the sea serpent is gone, run for your life, run just ruuun.

I write this to express my joy of the game and all the exciting,funny and frustrating times I have had in the game, also because I have seen "some" negative post here about how bad the game is after the update. I am baffled at how a few do not know how to play the game, it is such a chill and easy game, truly. Then they do not take time to learn,grow and adapt and then they come onto the forums to trash a game that they themselves are responsible to learn how to play. I mean people crying about stamina, crying about dying in the meadows, the meadows of all place's, like Whaaat, then trashing the game because of their lack of ability to slow down and ask themselves, what can " I " do different, what can " I " do to survive and then go out and practice, test and mess around with new weapons, builds, and combat mechanic's. The fact there not properly crafting better foods and then crying about only being able to swing on or two times and there dead, like whaaaat, only if you do not buff up and or are not crafting decent foods, or do not know how to or when to block, roll dodge, swing your weapon and also walk away to regen stamina. I am so dumb struck at some of the crying posts on here, some make me laugh really good though, I can not tell if some are genuine or just trolls, two types of trolls were talking about in this game I guess.

I farm the plains, swamps and mountains with my troll pants,chest, padded helmet and wolf cape most of the time just chill mode, I die sometimes due to my lack of ability to pay attention and or properly apply combat mechanics, and sometimes you may just be caught off guard and that is ok, makes the game what it is.
Anyways, all I can say to the cry babies who are sobbing over the food/stamina changes is to take time to LEARN. I see people post the "get good" Comments sometimes, I would same the same thing to that is Learn, learn to play the game and life will truly get real easy real fast, also fun and exciting to play.
Then to everyone else who loves this game, as Joe Dirt say's "you gotta keep on keeping on" much love Valheim community. Stay frosty out there.

Thank you Development team at Valheim for such a great game, please keep up the hard work and I look forward to the Valheim journey ahead. Some of us realize the hard work you all have put in. Thanks again.