jonnin replied to Stamina is just health, but you take damage every time you do something. March 4, 2023 @ 6:25:01 am PST
Stamina is a mechanic to make sure you play their way -- there are several of these and that is one of the biggest complaints I have about this game (which I love, but if you want a critic's eye... it has flaws of course).
Stamina ensures you can't spam things foolishly (like chopping wood / rock without holding some in reserve in case of attack) or swim forever. It keeps you from running all the time, or running during combat too much. It forces you to eat properly for your needs. It keeps you from spamming attacks for too long on tough enemy using some sort of stagger/stunlock weapon. All that sort of works pretty well as mechanics and general 'the world makes sense to me' stuff. Fine.
where it gets a little off the tracks is that it ALSO *encourages you to the point of you will be sorry if you don't* on several points, including things like always having a rested buff and avoiding cold/wet situations as much as possible and affects your choice of weapons (eg do you use the no-stamina crossbow or the high stamina spine bow?) so much that many people here encourage using low tier weapons to reduce the stamina use. IMHO you should never see it as more viable to use a low tier item over a higher one, indicating that something is off (possibly just that we can't fully upgrade the new ones yet). Stamina also forces you to grind up a LOT of skills if you want to be 'fully functional' -- run, jump, swim, fish, weapon skills all tie back to your stamina and thanks to super mario mistlands design, jump, something you rarely did before, is likely low and needs to be 50+ first time you go into ML zone. All this stuff funnels the player towards how the devs envision you playing, and stifle trying alternative builds (eg all health food, or all eitr food, or 2 health 1 eitr, etc) more than they should. They balanced the game around having that rested buff, so not having it is a penalty, instead of having it being a bonus, after the forest its just not a good option to try to make it on back to base without stopping to make a quick fire and roof.
Stamina ensures you can't spam things foolishly (like chopping wood / rock without holding some in reserve in case of attack) or swim forever. It keeps you from running all the time, or running during combat too much. It forces you to eat properly for your needs. It keeps you from spamming attacks for too long on tough enemy using some sort of stagger/stunlock weapon. All that sort of works pretty well as mechanics and general 'the world makes sense to me' stuff. Fine.
where it gets a little off the tracks is that it ALSO *encourages you to the point of you will be sorry if you don't* on several points, including things like always having a rested buff and avoiding cold/wet situations as much as possible and affects your choice of weapons (eg do you use the no-stamina crossbow or the high stamina spine bow?) so much that many people here encourage using low tier weapons to reduce the stamina use. IMHO you should never see it as more viable to use a low tier item over a higher one, indicating that something is off (possibly just that we can't fully upgrade the new ones yet). Stamina also forces you to grind up a LOT of skills if you want to be 'fully functional' -- run, jump, swim, fish, weapon skills all tie back to your stamina and thanks to super mario mistlands design, jump, something you rarely did before, is likely low and needs to be 50+ first time you go into ML zone. All this stuff funnels the player towards how the devs envision you playing, and stifle trying alternative builds (eg all health food, or all eitr food, or 2 health 1 eitr, etc) more than they should. They balanced the game around having that rested buff, so not having it is a penalty, instead of having it being a bonus, after the forest its just not a good option to try to make it on back to base without stopping to make a quick fire and roof.
3:13 pm, March 4, 2023