Originally posted by Padds:

four part level 3 troll armour , level 3 bronze shield , cooked deer , cooked boar and a blueberry

going towards the swamp for the first time a draugr comes around a tree i go for a parry and get one shot.

as i respawn im not feeling outplayed , punished for a mistake or even the low hanging fruit of a trial and error learning experience , im just annoyed that was cheap .

so what was my mistake? did the parry miss? am i not wearing enough armour? thw wrong type? does my shield not have enough numbers , did i need to have different food? did it get a random crit? did i land the parry but get overpowered because my food > its damage

how does the game inform me of the rule i failed at? what feedback is there to the player?

if the game just had armour and health and there was a tooltip saying armour reduces damage health is total damage you can take you then know all you need to know

valheim has stacked health, food , stagger bar thresholds, armour , parry , block etc all on top of themselves and as such there is just no clear communication coming out of the jumbled mess.



i restarted for heath and home im now at the end of the iron age the only new thing i noticed was the spice rack which gated me out of being able to make iron age food because turnips were non existent on my map. and the modified food system which well hasnt done anything yet. i just seem to have less stamina.

all i have noticed is i have died near a dozen times this play through and none of them feel like my fault and i dont know what rule i broke in any of them. well the ones to the tar monster and wolf is down to some large aggro ranges! but the rest, i dunno the game wont tell me.

what food are you using?

swamp shouldnt one shot u at all.
i think i had max troll armor+shield. food i use was queens jam+boar meat+deer stew. that total gave me 114 HP and 115 sta.

you should have 100hp alway.