Yea All of these comments are spot on from my experience. But the worst part about Mistlands for me is how it clearly demonstrates that Irongate doesn't actually understand what people play / enjoyed their game for. Mistlands is hard....VERY HARD and extremely unforgiving. The problem with this is its very late into the game and most players dont play Valheim for the challenge they play for the nice casual experience of exploring with friends and building a base/character together. The plains was the perfect level of challenge for this game because it was just brutal enough to have some funny interactions but just casual enough that you and some friends could have a good time.

Mistlands completely kills this element of the game. Everything is extremely deadly in the Mistlands and the terrain is down right frustrating for your average player. The average player doesn't just look at it as a challenge they look at it as annoying and not worth their time. So they quit. Like all of my group did. They just completely gave up almost instantly and nearly all of them had the same response. "its just not fun like old valhim was" "its to hard to see where you are going and everything we build gets destroyed instantly"

Mistlands is a server / game save killer. I stuck it out and found some stuff I enjoyed about the Mistlands myself. I plan on killing the boss soon and seeing what is next because i truly enjoy this game. But I don't think Mistlands current design is actually good for the game. It feels like an attempt to make it feel more like Dark Souls....but that is not the charm of Valheim and shouldnt be the goal from a design standpoint. I am all for a good challenge in Valheim but make it feel rewarding and not just completely unfair.