High level thoughts

[Evocator1000]

Thanks for sharing

@lifeandlives

• Stamine and equip load are way too low. I can’t think of another game where equipping one clothing item in 2 or 3 separate slots is enough to push me into heavy. It feels really punishing to not be able to equip “normal” items into different slots without running into issues.
• Stamina in the early game runs out way too fast, and leveling up honestly hasn’t seemed to make the issue much better. Every single action requires a lot of the stamina bar, and there’s no easy way to recover stamina outside of the potion. I can’t quantify it, but stamina management in other games just doesn’t feel this cumbersome.

It is expected to invest heavily into Equipmentload to be able to carry heavy gear. Items can also have reduced weight or increase your equipmentload. Also - Its not so bad to be on the heavy side - armor upsides are really good and you get the special shove ability.

There are ways to manage stamina - for example green gems in certain gear slots - If you want to play more actively. Otherwise its mostly about staying out of range for a little bit. But I agree that it can feel too punishing especially at the beginning. Slow down - That helped me.

@lifeandlives

Others have said this as well, but something needs to change with the approach to food and dying. I am simply dying too often, and punishing that death by then destroying the weapons I’m using (and trying to get used to using), feels like recovering from the death is just way too hard.

If you get into cooking it gets easier. Collect resources and craft food as much as you can. Increased healing on some items also does help. If you are truly getting stuck you can start a new realm to farm some food, though i agree that is not ideal. One thing they could do is allow food/healing resources to respawn when you die (though that doesn’t solve the gear issue).

Once you get through the start, u can buy the most necessary things and repair for cheap.

@lifeandlives

I think the game is simply packing too many systems into one thing, and making each one of them hard. Stamina? Hard. Mana/focus build-up? Slow. Death? Destroys your weapons over time. Lots of enemies? Every single one of them hits like a tank and doesn’t reward nearly enough XP outside of the very, very high leveled enemies. Resource management? Wait hours for the upgrade to happen, even if you found all the equipment for it.

They are ambitious… That’s what this EA is for. Try to give feedback - What do you like? What don’t you like? Have any ideas or alternatives? Share it in the Forum.

@lifeandlives

I think this is a “me” problem but holy hell I cannot figure out how to reliably parry in this game. I have 0 trouble doing so in Sekiro, which is the staple of a good, functional parry system. This game? I’m lucky if I hit it a tenth of the time. A quick cursory look across forums is telling me I’m the minority, so maybe I just need to get good or something.

Yes, I agree. - You could add to this post - link. A lot of the animations are too whacky - Seems like you have to learn every single one to be able to parry efficiently. I’d love a clear indicator (color / sound / some stylistic element).

@lifeandlives

I really don’t understand what the resource management and timer on building upgrades does for the game. Where is it adding meaningful difficulty for players vs simply slowing down how players can upgrade weapons/buy equipment that they want.

I am also not a fan. I’d much prefer a minigame or no waiting at all. But I think they do it for multiplayer and resource economy, which they are planning to implement. In singleplayer it is simply annoying.

Maybe chime into some conversations