Firstly, the game is in Early Access. The major updates are milestones for the devs to implement their original road map and subsequently, the minor patches thereafter are player-based suggestions that counter and agree with those major updates. It's not possible to implement every nook and cranny (is that how the spelling goes?) in every major update and appease everyone.

For example, I agreed with H&H, while a lot of others didn't. So in that sense, who should the devs agree with? The people that whine that the game has turned into a cooking/farming simulator, or the people that like the H&H updates?

Originally posted by Arachnovia:

I am sorry to have to say that now - but how can it be that I as a player can only drown in the water, cannot use weapons, but enemies can use weapons in the water and do not drown!

AGREED: Of course, I don't like everything the game has to offer. I agree about this. I made a point somewhere that players should be able to regenerate stamina if they aren't moving while floating in water. As for attacking hostiles with your weapons, monsters cannot attack you with weapons. They attack you with fists and stones. Players can attack in water with fists, but perhaps players should also be able to throw stones?

Basically, I agree that monsters shouldn't have that handicap over the player.

Originally posted by Arachnovia:

How can it be that trolls can run over pallisade high cliffs? How can trolling do as much damage to stone walls as it does to wooden palisades? How can it be that stone walls are destroyed by trolls just as quickly as wooden palisades?

AGREED: This also bothered me. Dwarves smacked my stone block about a dozen times with their fists and it broke. Has anyone ever tried punching concrete foundations or even castle foundations? I doubt even the strongest person in the world can knock down the stone foundations of a castle with their bare hands.

Originally posted by Arachnovia:

Overall, there is a lot going on in Valheim, many logic errors appear and the new food system is stealthily rubbish. A berry is introduced that enables me to change the food in my stomach, as if in a fight I really had the opportunity to vomit in peace, eat new food and then continue fighting. by the time I was done with it I died ten times.

DISAGREE: I had never had to use Bukeberries during combat. That's just silly. I always go on my adventures with a clear idea what I want to do. If I am to scour the forest for trolls to hunt, I eat two stamina-focus and one-health focus food to fight the horde of dwarves and trolls that spawn. Rarely had a problem with this. Only time I had a problem with this was I tried walking across water when the waves came in.

Originally posted by Arachnovia:

Especially since the whole thing is a feast for all anorexia and bullemia sufferers, now they can follow their obsessive-compulsive illness in the game. Irongate should be ashamed of it.

DISAGREE: You can say the same thing about killing in general. Why doesn't IronGate just take killing out all together?

We're talking about a fictional world set thousands of years in the past. A LOT of things didn't exist back then that it does today like Covid-19, HIV, human-induced climate change, giant gas binging trucks, etc, etc, etc, etc.

You're trying to create problems in a game, where none exist. It's almost like you're passive-aggressively trying to very indirectly tell the developers they're being blackmailed, and if they don't change their ways to suit your personal rhetoric, you're going to stomp your feet, scream rape and bloody murder, until they relent. Terrible. ;)

Originally posted by Arachnovia:

And then the new endurance system, how can I derail the whole thing in such a way that the player no longer has armor protection when stamina decreases? I have the maximum iron armor and am slaughtered every time I run out of stamina due to the consumption of food because the armor doesn't protect me at all.

DISAGREE: I, and many others like the new H&H system. I even made a short 6-ish minute Youtube review on it. I believe some people call it "get gud"? ;)

Originally posted by Arachnovia:

Do you really think your game will be so fun in the long run?

DISAGREE: There is this notion that something someone buys should last forever. Even my pair of 1992 Air Jordans didn't last past ten years, and they were about $140 Cdn at the time, 5.6 times that of what I bought Valheim for.

I would say if someone has clocked well over 200-300 hours for a $25 game, the game has done its job. Someone else who hated IronGate because the game didn't go their way, stomped their feet and yelled, paraphrased, "I PAY THE DEVELOPERS..." - yes, like the rest of us who paid them as well that didn't whine or cry or hate. I mean $25 divided by 200 is 12.5 cents per hour. I can't even buy a ketchup cup with that.

Originally posted by Arachnovia:

Even if other bases turn out to be smaller, this justification is flimsy and hypocritical and incoherent.

DISAGREE: There is this argument that is going around Facebook where a lot of people hate Star Trek Discovery and the new Star Wars' films. Their argument is that they're not Star Trek and Star Wars. However, if the creators made it as such, then it doesn't matter what fans that hate it say. If a creator for the new movies said one day, "We're adding Telly Tubbies into the latest gen starships" then Telly Tubbies become a part of the Star Trek universe. You have the right to not like it, but you don't have the right to say it shouldn't be done, because it's not up to you to decide that. It's up to the owners and the creators to decide that.

I may disagree with a lot of what IronGate has done, but ultimately, IT IS THEIR GAME. I am but a volunteer to their whims.