Originally posted by Beyloron:

Me and 3 friends played one world play-through of this game. The first couple days were a TON of fun, killing new creatures to get new materials and find new crafting recipes, building bases with a really cool base building system alongside the unique (at least to me) crafting station upgrade system, and exploring the big wide world of Valheim. However after the euphoria of clearing our first swamp dungeon, the problems started to arise.

1) Metals are not portable. At all. They are extremely heavy, can't be teleported, and are essential to every step in the game. Building a silver sword takes 40 silver ingots for the initial weapon with even more to upgrade it. Stack this along the fact that world gen can make it impossible to build near each resource, we have the next problem.

2) I'd love to have the option to build one big base as opposed to many small bases for each resource. The building system is too cool and developed to be hindered by the resource gathering in the game. Unfortunately not being able to teleport metals means you have to build smelters, forges, forge upgrades, and the likes at EVERY ingot location. While you could do this once and just move the materials, if you ever need more iron or copper or anything you've already moved past you have to rebuild a base to craft with it. On top of this, silver has a good chance to not spawn in a given mountain biome, just because of world gen. This means you might get one silver vein at one mountain, but not get enough to build what you need. Then you need to move the metal and everything else to ANOTHER MOUNTAIN, which might not have any silver anyway. My party went through SIX mountain biomes with no silver in them. With it taking so much to make everyone armor, this was a large part of our hours in the game.

3) Stats should matter more than they do. It takes an UNGODLY amount of running to get to T100 in it. If you die, you lose an amount of levels proportionate to the level of the skill (at level 40-50 we noticed you tend to lose about 3 levels a death). This means you can lose a couple hours of level progress by getting jumped by some Fulings when not paying attention. This on top of the fact that T100 running only gives you a slightly noticeable increase in running is nuts. I use running as an example, but the rules apply to all stats. At max level you won't notice much of a difference between you and someone fresh in the game with no stats. It doesn't feel worthwhile to try and level anything at all.

4) The world is just too dang big! Everything is so spread out it's ridiculous. We had 3 deer boss summoning statues right on top of the main spawn, about a 2 minute run max to any one of them. The next boss was about a 15 minute run to the south of the base, with no water or lakes nearby to really help that. The third boss was even farther in the opposite direction! We spent hours just looking for ruins to get the map fragment so we could hurry up and travel for 20 minutes to the next boss. Going from spawn to the edge of the world is a half hour adventure in the fastest route we managed to find, and you can get screwed over by wind direction, random world gen, and even more. On top of the time to run resources from base to base or explore the map top to bottom, there's the biggest issue I have with the game.

5) Empty content. THREE whole biomes in the game have ZERO content to them as of now. The ashlands has a new resource, "flametal", which has no use in the game as of writing this. It is empty content with no reason to even bother thinking about. On the opposite end of the world is the far north; a barren, empty, snowy wasteland that nothing appears in. Roamed these icy lands for about an hour, and saw... nothing. Same with the mistlands. I thought maybe the endgame boss might have something to benefit me... but I was left with a "Yagluth Thing", a placeholder item. Not even a special trophy or material for armor upgrades or something. Nothing to farm, nothing to grind, the only thing to do is build a better base. and wait for flax to grow to upgrade armor.

Now before it gets spammed, yes i'm aware most if not all of these issues can be solved with mods. I know the game is in early development, and I know the team is smaller and they're working hard on the game. This is just an opinion on the game in its current state. The game is fun and engaging, but only while the new game charm lasts. I think the devs might be working in the wrong direction with the game. I think it needs some updates to quality of life and content already in the game, such as bosses and flametal. I'm looking forward to the next mountain / mistlands biome updates. There's ton of space for content in the game as it is, and that should be capitalized on.

LMAO, EARLY ACCESS GAME, STILL IN DEVEOLPMENT. You complain about some basic "brutal survival" ascpects games like this are designed to be, Then say to us you know the game is early development and "now before it gets spammed" comment you made, which idicates a immature understanding of the game your playing YET again in the curreent state.

Very strange to write all you did which is whinning when it comes down to it, then say you know its early deveolpment, then to say the world is just to dang big???????? W.T.F LMAO

Again W.T.F is this comment "I think it needs some updates to quality of life and content already in the game, such as bosses and flametal. I'm looking forward to the next mountain / mistlands biome updates. There's ton of space for content in the game as it is, and that should be capitalized on. [/quote]

ITS EARLY ACCESS What do you not understand about that, LMAO, they are still adding and developing the game. No kidding it needs content which they are creating for us, wow maybe you should read patch notes and read what Iron gate has explained about there game for us before you make such a childish immature post like this one. crying is all you did in a irrational way.