Originally posted by Foxglovez:

Fishing used to be fun. You could actually catch fish, cook the fish and then eat the fish without a cauldron. By the time you have the cauldron fish is a waste of time until the burritos. Dumb change, just dumb. The fun in fishing has been removed.

Watching for wriggling fish, not wriggling fish, fish using up all stamina while not wiggling but game gets confused. Too much time spent for one lousy level one fish at a time. Even less fun is just standing somewhere throwing the line, pulling in the line over and over and over and over to get a few levels. You actually make fewer levels if you catch a fish because the leveling is just from pulling in. Not actually getting levels from catching fish? Yeah that makes equal nonsense kind of sense. Sad times. Best fishing is finding fish on the shore &/or building a fish farm as noted above. Sorry, rant of disappointment in the changes.

Respectfully disagree.

The new system once you get the gist of it is TOO EASY that's not an improvement I grant you. But its doable, the selections decent at 12 species with multi star variations for a touch of spice. As with everything skills levels are pretty irrelevant so who cares. As I said above took a couple of hours gained about 15 levels completed the whole 12 fish goal for the Hat. Naturally I was lucky I knew where to get Tetras but that's not a skill issue RNG smiled on me their.

The lack of recipes is just gotta be something they'll address. (Please god!)

Foxglove makes an excellent point on the weird counter intuitive reversal of requiring a cauldron to get raw fish.. totally wrong! All they needed to do was add the raw fish recipe to the handcraft one and problem solved. Using the cauldrons just lazy design.

Systems OK as it stands but obviously unfinished I think we ought to reserve judgement ill the point they say "This is its finished form"

For now get a rod cash in a few Trophy's for bait have a few hours fun.