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^^^^ Accurate assessment ^^^^ I love Valheim, but it is best played with a crew of your besties who wouldn't steal your poo poo or crash trees on your painstakingly built king's hall.
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iminers posted:Those chests that are expose to guard your stuff are not locked in anyway. Go up to it and hit e to open it and take what you need from your angry neighbor. Theres nothing he/she can do about it. You can get wards, they stop people from opening chests and doors within a radius, i've got that on my house. If you want to give other people access to it, you have them touch the ward you make before you turn it on, then once you turn it on everything is locked down. I'm not sure if that stops you from using deconstruct on your friends stuff, i'll check tonight. The tree thing is amazing though. I've planted 200 tree's on a downward hill, with a few on the top, then I chopped all of the ones at the top and had them crush through all of the tree's below like a domino effect. It took four of us with carts to clean it up. Regardless, because your character moves between worlds, all of my fancy builds are going in my world where i'm not killing any world bosses, so my town shouldn't get attacked by trolls or whatever.
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Feb 8, 2021 12:16
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iminers posted:Ive been playing valheim since i picked it up two days ago. The main issue here is that it's not meant to be Rust. It's designed to be played co-op with a handful of friends. Edit: I mean the tree physics is still hilarious but it's basically just not designed for standard survival game mentality.
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I built my own viking house.   As you can probably tell I don't usually build houses in survival games. (in honesty it's expanded upon an existing house.) In our co-op others have build our house, but even if simplistic, it's still fun and I wanted to try it out too. Building the roof properly is a nightmare and probably would require planning the house shape in advance. Still it has room for a forge but I'll probably make a separate house for the kiln and the smelter.
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That's what we've done. We've got a town with a house per person. A couple of people have moved so we've converted their old houses into warehouses/smelters or fermenters and the whole thing is walled off/pathed. Having seperate buildings for things ends up looking really nice. I even pathed out to the nearest black forest and built a bridge over the river. Now we can get carts over there to mine copper/tin and grab core wood with ease. It's been really fun.
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Nerf the drat mosquitos and the game is 11/10. Now its just 10/10. Love building bridges over the rivers to get to new areas. Me and my buddy just found a nice pair of small islands to build a base on and to bridge two large continents together.  Going to be great building there once we get bored of trying to find the fourth boss location.
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Feb 8, 2021 20:52
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I cobbled together this house together in my first 2 hours with the game. As soon as I discovered that you have to structurally reinforce buildings internally I was hooked. I can tell I'm going to spend so much time building my own little Skyrim.   
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Whats highest tier gear? Im at bronze atm
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Dandywalken posted:Whats highest tier gear? Im at bronze atm If anyone answers that tag it as a spoiler because for once I've gone into a game completely blind and I'm enjoying it.
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Same hear, I'm blindly wrestling loving skeletons for magic lava fuel so I can maybe smelt one bar of bronze, and I'm loving lovin it
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Feb 9, 2021 09:09
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I am immensely enjoying Valheim but for the love of Odin give me a horse or a magic stag or something. The boss power does not count. Also maybe I'm just garbage but the stamina regen is waaaaay too slow for the pseudo Dark Souls combat they're going for. I'm spending 3/4 of a fight walking around kiting enemies to regain stamina.
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Feb 9, 2021 10:23
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GruntyThrst posted:I am immensely enjoying Valheim but for the love of Odin give me a horse or a magic stag or something. The boss power does not count. I'm using the Stagbreaker hammer (with the axe/shield for a backup set) and I definitely feel this. Usually a friend is tanking and I'm doing crowd control by hammering draugrs and skeletons to bits. Despite what I said I'm gonna want one spoiler for upgrading Stagbreaker: what do you need to upgrade the workbench to level 5? I'd love to upgrade ^^ further but I can't even though we're into iron recipes already. We're currently clearing a swamp area for iron. Is it a next area thing? The AOE on the hammer is massive and it stuns too. It almost feels like cheating when we reached a big draugr village on the border of the swamp biome where the draugrs were hanging out inside the houses with spawners, and I just blasted the houses on the outside damaging everything inside too (and they couldn't open the door themselves)
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Note to self: when exploring a new continent, put down the portal BEFORE attempting to kill the first new thing you see Edit: Valheim: You Could Eat Another Bite GruntyThrst fucked around with this message at 12:58 on Feb 9, 2021 |
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TeaJay posted:I'm using the Stagbreaker hammer (with the axe/shield for a backup set) and I definitely feel this. Usually a friend is tanking and I'm doing crowd control by hammering draugrs and skeletons to bits. Stag-Breaker is neat for being swamped by pixies or whatever, but blow for blow it doesn't square up the damage of a 1h axe. Not that I mind, I like that different people in the group can have a different role and thunder.
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I've completely stalled out after like 1.5 hours of actual progression. I have plenty of leather to continue, but I'm having too much fun playing architectural design simulator! At first, I was stymied trying to build a house like you would in Minecraft, frame out the walls, build the roof, etc. With the tops parts of my house in tatters on the ground, I remembered Pillars of the Earth from reading it a decade or so ago. Though I've forgotten large parts of the plot(except for the protagonist's mom pissing on the bible), I remember the focus on arches for building strength, especially with heavy materials. With that in mind, I started experimenting with cross bracing the roof structure. It works exactly as you would expect! Once I get the roof on this sucker I may actually see what the rest of the game is about.  Someone mentioned making a Valheim thread earlier. Is someone going to jump on that? If not I have to dust off my bbcode reference sheet.
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This games extremely goodDandywalken posted:Whats highest tier gear? Im at bronze atm The progression we have seen so far is after that is iron>silver >??? dark iron
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Feb 9, 2021 15:22
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In Valheim, it's possible to get a Fine Wood bow before you fight any bosses at all. The trick is that logs will do damage to other logs regardless of 'hardness' tier. Chop down a beech tree near a birch or oak tree, cut the trunk into a log, and then roll it over slightly uphill from the target tree. Repeatedly roll it away and either let gravity smash it into the tree or sprint/roll it back. Once the tree is cut down, repeat this process on the trunk/logs. Oak logs are especially hilarious as they have next to no mass so you can sprint roll them up a hill for better positioning. Do be careful that you don't get in the way of it rolling; oak logs are no joke. And then go cut down a couple pine trees from a black forest and craft your Tier2 bow to clown on the first boss.
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GruntyThrst posted:I am immensely enjoying Valheim but for the love of Odin give me a horse or a magic stag or something. The boss power does not count. The game seems to really incentivize a wholistic approach to progression. As you move into new biomes it's not enough to just build the new weapons, you need to begin harvesting the new ingredients to make the newest foods, build the newest comfort items, collect the newest potions, get the newest macguffins. It also really behooves you to avoid fighting at night and in the rain whenever possible, because cold & wet are huge debuffs. You need all the weapon types because enemies have weaknesses to certain damage types and it's much better to be using a lower tier of the correct damage type than to be using the newest tier of a neutral damage type. Game good Ambaire posted:In Valheim, it's possible to get a Fine Wood bow before you fight any bosses at all. The trick is that logs will do damage to other logs regardless of 'hardness' tier. This is entirely more work than it's worth. Tier upgrades aren't that dramatic, especially not for the first few tiers. Fart Car '97 fucked around with this message at 15:54 on Feb 9, 2021 |
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Me and my friend spent two days trying to find the fourth boss and the trader, first he finds the fifth boss out in the sea, a few seconds later the spoiler and then I find the fourth boss location. All goals completed in the same minute. And when I look for other stuff around the fourth boss I find the rune stone showing its location, just under 100 meters from it.
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Fart Car '97 posted:This is entirely more work than it's worth. Tier upgrades aren't that dramatic, especially not for the first few tiers. It may not have been ~efficient~ usage of time, but it was a heckuva lot of fun. And oak logs make for decent blunt destructive devices, especially against random mobs. Been playing BOTW off and on lately again and I love finding emergent gameplay like this.
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Feb 9, 2021 16:35
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Fart Car '97 posted:This is entirely more work than it's worth. Tier upgrades aren't that dramatic, especially not for the first few tiers. Not for the bow. Basic bow is absolute garbage and feels like poo poo even with decent skill level. Finewood bow is the first bow that has decent accuracy/arc flatness. A bit mroe damage is just a bonus.
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I have no idea if I just landed my ship in a bad place but the swamp is really kicking my rear end. Can't make any headway at all.Fart Car '97 posted:The game seems to really incentivize a wholistic approach to progression. As you move into new biomes it's not enough to just build the new weapons, you need to begin harvesting the new ingredients to make the newest foods, build the newest comfort items, collect the newest potions, get the newest macguffins. It also really behooves you to avoid fighting at night and in the rain whenever possible, because cold & wet are huge debuffs. You need all the weapon types because enemies have weaknesses to certain damage types and it's much better to be using a lower tier of the correct damage type than to be using the newest tier of a neutral damage type. They should add a note about this in the tutorial because it does indeed make a ridiculous difference. I have to give this game credit for *really* digging it's heels in about co-op, though. You can do everything solo but the amount of harvesting required means you are gonna spend a whole lotta time swinging that pickaxe GruntyThrst fucked around with this message at 18:37 on Feb 9, 2021 |
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Feb 9, 2021 18:32
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Fart Car '97 posted:This is entirely more work than it's worth. Tier upgrades aren't that dramatic, especially not for the first few tiers. Very wrong when it comes to the starter bow. The finewood bow is an enormous upgrade.
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I do 20m deer kills with the crude bow easy. You suckers just have to practice 
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another one on the valheim train, ausgoons started a server and last night we all got in and made a great hall and started smelting, still a bit of a newb but hunting deer becomes easier once you get sneaking up and upgrade your bow to make it a smidge more accurate
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Quantum Shart posted:another one on the valheim train, ausgoons started a server and last night we all got in and made a great hall and started smelting, still a bit of a newb but hunting deer becomes easier once you get sneaking up and upgrade your bow to make it a smidge more accurate It was great fun and only a few avoidable deaths due to loving around.
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The Survival Simulation Megathread: was great fun and only a few avoidable deaths due to loving around.
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I've probably gotten killed by a falling tree trunk more than the enemy. (most of those were in the beginning, but still)
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Valheim enemy spoilers WHY ARE THE MOSQUITOS NUCLEAR ICBMS That's all my bronze equipment gone. Like, 10 hours of collecting gone poof. I legit think I'm done unless I join MP because I don't want to do all that mining alone again. GruntyThrst fucked around with this message at 19:57 on Feb 9, 2021 |
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GruntyThrst posted:I am immensely enjoying Valheim but for the love of Odin give me a horse or a magic stag or something. The boss power does not count. GruntyThrst posted:Valheim enemy spoilers WHY ARE THE MOSQUITOS NUCLEAR ICBMS I appreciate the brave Vikings throwing themselves into the cruel jaws of "It's balanced so solo is just as viable, really!" life for the sake of people still on the fence about the admittedly very cool looking EA survival game.
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Yeah I started the solo just to try out building, and while it was fun, I really wouldn't want to go through the resource gathering on my own. Any serious playing will be with our 3-4 man viking task force. That said I do hope they add some viking instruments for some sea shanties.
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Caved and bought Valheim, I'll give it a go after work.
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Ambaire posted:In Valheim, it's possible to get a Fine Wood bow before you fight any bosses at all. The trick is that logs will do damage to other logs regardless of 'hardness' tier. You can go the other route and get the troll in the black forest to knock down the trees for you if you don't die first
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Trying to avoid Valheim spoilers and having fun with it rn, but wondering a little about the end stage gameplay - is it intended to be a recursive thing eventually, or just build your Viking city and defend it eternally from monsters and stuff
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Early mining is so drat tedious. You need an absolute cartload of ores to get the things you need. I'm not threatened by the enemies but they sure are a nuisance, ores are heavy, and actually mining is quite slow. Maybe balance will be tweaked during EA.
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Valheim question. For anyone who has killed the second boss the Elder can some one tell me what gear you need? We sailed to the area where he lives and got two hit killed by Furlings and Deathsquitos We are fully decked out in level 2 Troll armor(has the same AC as Bronze) and Bronze swords. What the gently caress should we be doing, I mean we killed the first boss easy with basic leather armor. Does this next one need even higher than Troll or Bronze? We can't even approach where he should be due to these critters. Bum the Sad fucked around with this message at 01:17 on Feb 10, 2021 |
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Bum the Sad posted:Valheim question. For anyone who has killed the second boss the Elder can some one tell me what gear you need? You went to the wrong area, try approaching from a different direction, or sail around the coast until you hit the correct biome.
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Fart Car '97 posted:You went to the wrong area I see there are two different spawns for the Elder, should I have gone to the other one?
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Bum the Sad posted:I see there are two different spawns for the Elder, should I have gone to the other one? No you probably just hit a biome between you and it. Sometimes you run into small biomes.
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