First of all, I love this game. I bought it during the winter sale along with a few of my other friends. We’ve been hooked on the game for the gameplay loop, build diversity, and world in general. The multiplayer gameplay feels fun and rewarding.
Some feedback I’d like to leave:
- Steam Deck: Works great on main server, but less so on the experimental server. Not sure if it was because I played the Deck on wifi, or if it’s a Deck issue. On experimental, there were many more ‘Attempting to reconnect’ notices, and way too much sliding around. The sliding around thing locks you out of other animations and is uncontrollable. The sliding issue even happens when I’m the only one playing in a realm.
- I think off-hands have a lot more potential. I think shields could have a push-block of some sort, kind of like the heavy weightclass push. It would also be cool if you could have your shield up and parry while holding the button. I get that may be too good, but it could have the same vulnerability while allowing the input (basically just QoL).
- Backstab is often janky. Sometimes, I’ll see the red skull pop up for backstab, press the button, and then not even an attack comes out. It messes with the flow of gameplay. Backstabs also miss in places I feel it shouldn’t. I know it shouldn’t be too easy to get a backstab, but often times it feels as if my attack should have landed as a backstab. Like it will be red for a split-second and I push the attack button, but it then turns back to white. Maybe a slightly more generous timeframe would be nice, because I’m still behind the enemy.
- Some enemies (not all) with wide swings that hit behind them feel a bit unfair. I’m talking about the smaller enemies where their swings don’t look powerful at all at the end of the swing, but the hitbox at the end of their swing will still be strong.
- Housing: I read that the devs don’t want to add a grid system and I think that’s fine. What I think should be added is an option to turn the object by a certain degree of increments (ex. 15 degree increments), so the player can have consistent angles if they so choose to.
- Available constructions to enhance the Rookery would be cool. Working beds, more chests, training dummies (training dummies in town are way too far from a whisper), etc.
- Some effects get obnoxious in multiplayer, like ice bows that shoot a spread of arrows.
- Sometimes the camera gets the background environment to fill your screen when you’re fighting. For example, when you’re in a cave and a stalagmite gets in the way of the camera. Feels bad when that happens.
- I hate the rude dude that stands outside of the purchase-able home by the cemetery. Like the dude is literally on my porch and he tells me, “Keep walking,” every single time I go to my house? Can there be a quest to kill him? Or at least move him off of the porch.
- I really love that to re-spec your build it only costs 1 ember. Please keep that as is! I love trying out different builds.
- Love the cats and dogs around town. Can we get them as pets in the house? Pet furniture would be neat, too.