Rhapsody replied to Serious discussion about Mistlands January 11, 2023 @ 12:22:14 am PST
The biome is also the most impressive technically. Even if the mobs now frequently get stuck since the first balance patch, especially in dungeons, they are still impressive-looking, imaginative and have pretty robust animations compared to other previous creatures. The terrain generation system also never fails to impress me. I've had the same world going since almost the beginning of early access and never ran into any hiccups. Placement of Yggdrasil trees is sometimes little wonky, but that's how it is in all biomes. The biome has worked as intended even on an old pre-update world. I'm also glad they didn't leave dungeon verticality as unique feature of frost caves, and it's always fun to find a hidden chamber or extra royal jelly even if the current seeker AI is a mistake in the confined quarters. And visually and graphically ML is just golden.
I completed the biome before the balance patch so the current iteration is pretty boring to me. Maybe I just have a lot of experience in the game under my belt (400 hours or something when ML launched) or I just know my own playstyle and capabilities and limitations better than most.
I don't know what the trouble with material transport is, that seems pretty subjective to me. In my opinion it's the mining of silver and at some points the iron that is more tedious than shipping it. You don't actually need to ship any metals from Mistlands since there are no new ores or metals there. Black metal is widely available thanks to fuling patrols that can spawn even in Meadows once Yag is defeated. If anything, ML update reduces very much of the need to transport metal since all essential metals except black metal are available in the biome, and ML biomes are often adjacent to Plains; You no longer need to mine hundreds of silver to get a decent sword; magic requires virtually no metal to upgrade whatsoever and the magic staves are better than bows.
Popping Bonemass power before entering a dungeon and making use of the root harnesk trivializes the danger in Mistlands, especially in the current version of the game.
I completed the biome before the balance patch so the current iteration is pretty boring to me. Maybe I just have a lot of experience in the game under my belt (400 hours or something when ML launched) or I just know my own playstyle and capabilities and limitations better than most.
I don't know what the trouble with material transport is, that seems pretty subjective to me. In my opinion it's the mining of silver and at some points the iron that is more tedious than shipping it. You don't actually need to ship any metals from Mistlands since there are no new ores or metals there. Black metal is widely available thanks to fuling patrols that can spawn even in Meadows once Yag is defeated. If anything, ML update reduces very much of the need to transport metal since all essential metals except black metal are available in the biome, and ML biomes are often adjacent to Plains; You no longer need to mine hundreds of silver to get a decent sword; magic requires virtually no metal to upgrade whatsoever and the magic staves are better than bows.
Popping Bonemass power before entering a dungeon and making use of the root harnesk trivializes the danger in Mistlands, especially in the current version of the game.
9:13 am, January 11, 2023