Originally posted by Lil brekky:

I feel like the team uses "punishingly brutal" as a smokescreen for unjustified design choices which contribute no fun to the game.

No matter how hard you work, how powerful you get, you're constantly suffocating in valheim... suffocating under lack of stamina, even just to run around. suffocating under limited navigation options, limited inventory slots, limited time-limited buffs from food and powers...

See, Mistlands has all this cool stuff. But no mechanics that make it easier to enjoy all that stuff. in fact it seems like all the Mistlands mechanics are drawbacks.

Ok, welcome to our breathtakingly beautiful new land... that you can't see or move around in. you can do magic, at the expense of being able to move or survive. you can craft a bunch of new items... at the expense of desperately needed storage capacity... everything in Valheim seems to burn the candle at both ends, where's the lesson? where's the challenge?

After spending more time learning the ropes I am less annoyed with the mistlands. However, it definitely needs some balance tweaks for all the reasons mentioned.

The difficulty curve is too steep, there are a lot of small things adding up which detract from the fun and make dealing with this biome a chore. While it is much funner now that I have sort of gotten the hang of it, I reiterate that I believe it needs some adjustments.

Terrain should be slightly easier to traverse, mist should be slightly easier to see thru (at least with the wisp doohicky). Mobs need something too; easier to hear them from farther away, easier to exploit weekness, and the flying thing is a cheese blimp, that crap needs a solid whack from the nerf bat. I have found I can generally avoid them however it becomes an annoying run around to deal with and detracts from the fun of the game like it's just overly hard for no other reason than to frustrate not fun hard.