what pisses me off about the "new weapons" is that they're not even new exotic weapons, every single one is just old weapon skills put together. none of them are unique they're just pre existing loadouts that are now the only option for playing., there's nothing new, this is a update filled with nothing.
@Pantheon-with-a-P its just a fire pike with reckless leap, lady lucks lantern, and phalanxes weapon passive right ? what did they make unique/new about it
Godhand has Aleray's passive now, not new or anything but possibly more fun to have it on Godhands weapon with the beam rather then on its own. Same goes for eternal winter its old Pangar's passive on a cold axe with grim onslaught (and old axe spical) and then the legendary slam attack is an old axe special as well, admittingly its a more complex weapon now, but its come at the cost of reducing the options players had in the past. say you may be a player who really liked Pangars passive but preferred on say a war pike instead of an axe, now you no longer have the option to play the game in that manner. players lost agency with their builds this patch which made the fact that we traded that for a rehashing of what we already had, this time with no option to build around our preferred playstyle, makes this a very frustrating change
Imagine booting up Monster Hunter World to find all your progress had been reset and you could only craft one weapon of a predetermined type per monster. Absolutely abysmal change, I feel so bad for Dauntless fans
Monster hunter wilds releases in a few months and Dauntless takes itself out back and takes a puff from a 12 guage, guess we have somewhere to go soon at least
Played Dauntless for hundreds of hours, took a break for a few months and came back to this, such a shame. Dauntless had so much potential. Anyway, I bought MH world complete edition on sale for $20 so Im eating good now
I played dauntless during a long time and never heard about or cared to search for other similar game, but oh my god u people talk so much about this monster hunt that i am gonna give it a try, since i'm gonna need to learn a new game (dauntless is a new game now, no idea how to build anymore) I think it is fair to try monster hunter. It was fun dauntless, rest in peace.
@@MannuelVictorLimeira im a MH veteran and played Dauntless at launch for a month or so . To me Dauntless seemed to be a trimmed down rip off Monster Hunter has generally a simple game loop : Kill Monster/gather stuff -->Build weapons/Armor--->Kill Nastier Monster repeat, sounds simple but depending how good you are and what you hunt a Hunt may take anywhere between 5 - 45 minutes PLUS the quests (missions) are not all Kill the Monster some may be deliver x pieces of something like special mushrooms or even steal Wyvern Eggs (trauma inducing for old time Vets)
@@MannuelVictorLimeira Try MHW: Iceborne, they're on sale right now with a price of a meal. I also played Dauntless as my first hunting game like you, but man I can tell you're gonna love Monster Hunter franchise. Try all 14 different types of weapon to find out which one is your favorite, and I heard that they're gonna launch another session of MH Wilds beta test for new players soon. Hop on hunters, see you in the hunt!
Its difficult to like Dauntless now, I play Warframe too, they release a great update now, this update came with a new vehicle, a motorcycle, this bike was suppose to work only in the new areas of the update, but beacuse of a bug you could use it everywhere, the devs saw that everyone liked this, so they decide to transform this bug into a feature, its official, you can use the bike everywhere now.
It's wild because people have noticed that the Atomicycle works better in the Open World locales than the K-Drive. I'm hoping they can do this with the Kaithe as well.
the writing was on the wall tbh. the game has been on life support for a while and this is a last ditch effort to squeeze out every last cent from the remaining fans before shutting down the servers
Right out of the gate, THEY LIED TO US. The whole time they kept announcing the update and what was coming, they kept insuring us that all of our weapons were going to be left alone, our builds were going to be left alone, the only changes were our cells were going to only be level 1 now, and that they were removing all of the unique weapons and armors. Instead, they took all of our weapons, left only the unique weapons that are now the only available weapons in the game that are locked to a single elemental damage type, and above all cut off any ability to make modular builds because you have to compile both armors and multiple cells together to get a high enough tick to get a single perk to activate. Gone are the days where you have 6-10 perks active at different levels to get a boost in combat, now you have to go full sweat mode to stack up perk points to only get a few perks active. And that's not even touching on the fact that the new weapon system kills any ability to actually enjoy the game in our own way. All the weapons are element locked as well as upgrade locked, the weapon you get is the weapon you get, end of story. You can't change the weapon stats, and you can't even make the same type of weapon in a different element anymore. I want my Terra axe back. And the pay for weapons is just a slap in the face no matter how you look at it. Free to play games have always been about allowing the players to eventually get everything they want in the game without having to pay for it. Oh, and don't think for a second all the "rewards" they are offering actually mean anything, because what they are giving us to compensate our loses still aren't enough to max out any of the weapons. "We're sorry for deleting all of your years of hard work and grinding, so here is a generous gift from us to get you halfway back to where you were as our deepest apologies." The saddest part of all of it was the fact they actually responded to the first wave of negative reviews and backlash with a call out to the veteran players to come in and prove that the game was still playable. "We know the game is a total failure now, but we're sure that given enough time our OG players can show you that it is still possible to progress. They won't let us down." All it actually did was make all of those veteran players throw their hand up and walk away from the game, giving it even more negative reviews and finality.
I've played dauntless for about 5-6 years. Even with all it's flaws I still loved it. The build diversity just made me want to stay even after the reforge update. After losing my account cause of some dumb reason I don't even know myself I still held out hope that maybe something interesting would be added to draw me back in. Now I'm happy I lost my account sooner.
@@lmayo870 they literally just need to spam-adding new behemoth, new weapon type with unique mechanic, but they choose to remove everything and be like "ohh, you lost everything? here, take this 14 shit"
@@chandra_abhiramaif they simply went back to reforged but fleshed out other systems and buffed the reforged effects to actually be a worth while grind. Then focused on new weapon types and behemoths the game would be golden. But they just continued to put out nothing and what they did do was always at a detriment to the game. The sheer thing they could add that would totally rekindle people to play again. Add a bow, or daggers. Maybe even a rifle or something unique like a flail or some sort of shield and sword or spear l. They could easily. Make those new weapon types. It's not that hard. But they won't. Because they were bought out by a crypto company who was probably gonna milk the game dry and put in crypto or nfts before it died because no one trusts or cares about crypto anymore. They ruined the game. They had a good system great combat and nice systems but refused to actually build on it. And instead out in a system nobody would ever want, removed pretty much the entire game. So they could sell a sliver of it back for real money. And then tried to put a bandaid over the game ending problem. And refuse to actually fix it.
"New weapons" my ass...bows, rifles, shields, lances, traps, a bolo? Fuck anything would be better than the absolutely nothing we've had for years. The newest weapons were the strikers and that was a billion years ago...they teased us with art of the bow and bows being part of the mastery tree but then they flat out said THERE WILL BE NO NEW WEAPON TYPES. This game is brimming with potential but has snobby fuckin devs that think they know what we want when they clearly have no clue.
i was still waiting for that magic aether book weapon i suggested that specializes on faster elemental stacking just like CB specializing on crits, hammer on stagger, pike on wounds, etc. when used, shock book stacks paralysis effect faster, blaze book on burn effect, etc.
Naw Rams is a fucking stupid compensation. That's like if Warframe got rid of all the companions except the Sentinels and said "here, in exchange have 2mil credits". That's a lot but it's not fucking hard to just earn at ALL...
Tbh it would be more like Warframe completely deleting the Helminth, 90% of the weapons, amps, and warframes, as well as all the companions except the sentinels and giving us the credits in return
the fact that the compensation we're getting is basically a item that lets us skip engaging with the new system goes to show that the system in place now is simply unfun and no one even wants to work with it.
Came into Dauntless before Trials was even a thing and when we had Old Ramsgate. This here feels like a fat betrayal in the highest sense and it HURTS 🤕
This, the first ever upgrading system was the best one BY FAR, they could have reverted the inclusion of the slayer path and reforging system, gave us weapon swaping and companions and the game would have PEAKED.
@@lmayo870 Reforged was an update I wasn't around and tbh, it wasn't the worst thing considering I played grinding games but it was far from perfect but it looks far better than what we have now
Your sentiment towards the end of the video hit the nail right on the head. It's my thought EXACTLY. When people talked about Destiny 2's downfall, I was very much on the outside apathetically looking in despite playing that game more than Dauntless, honestly. But there's something about this that stings much worse. I think it's probably D2's slow decline versus this damn cliff-dive of an update. It's destruction is so assured, and I'm gutted because Dauntless has always had a special place in my heart.
I know. I hurts me how every game I played and liked has some bs Pladins: Pretty much Irrelevant Fortnite: OG Fortnite is back permanently, 3 games modes, an actual casual experience, yet all the commonunity cries about every day are all minor changes. Rouge Company: Pretty much dead Overwatch 2: Yes it's free but now I know it's just broken promises. And now this...
The og CEO’s of Phoenix lab stepped down years ago then got bought out so there’s been a lot of directive changes over the years which is why it feels all over the place over the years
Oh no, so the cell change is like what happened to Monster Hunters skill change from old world to new world... but in reverse... Old MH had the threshold system (where you have to reach a certain number of points in a skill before it activates) and changed to the better and more liked active system (where a single point of a skill will give some sort of benefit, even if it is small)... and dauntless decided hey, lets take this good active system and go to an old and stupid threshold system... WTF
I could see arguments on both sides. Old MH I actually had times I sat down with pen and paper and wrote out different armor pieces with skill points and figuring out how to craft the perfect set. New MH makes things a lot simpler but it could be argued that it’s too easy to amass skills now. I like the new system but I wouldn’t mind another go at the old system, maybe just polished up a bit somehow.
The new MH skill system forced us to clown armor, which before we got Layered armor, looked absolute ass. In old MH games you can get away with not looking like a clown by equipping most of the set.
@TabbuEme not true, the old games also forced you into clown suits if you were using mix sets (which, the only reason not to is because they look like clown suits), except for really specific sets that could combine function and form. That being said, I feel like the new system removes all of the thought out of it, especially the removal of negative skills
I just did the same thing, even if they bring everything back +weaponSwaping and new behemoths and stuff, I don't trust them anymore, they can wipe everything out again. And I just preordered monster hunter wilds, it sounds better
mh has always been better than dauntless tbh, i tried dauntless when it came out and i couldnt see why people would ever play it over mhw other than not having played mhw beforehand
Their responce was basically the corporate version of "We hear you and do not care." If they were going to actually fix things the way people are wanting, they'd come out and say what it is they're going to do. However, because they're not reverting, they're probably going to try and power through with the current systems and just update them instead. Likely in a way the community's going to be, at best, mixed about.
Honestly at this point I wish they would’ve just gave dauntless an honourable death, when phoenix labs sold over to this slop crypto company, and I know it wouldn’t have benefited them, it would’ve been nice if they did one last event, like a “End of the Isles” update where we get a nice cinematic send off, ya know for all the time, effort, money, dedication the community put into this game.
Veteran of the game here, i stop playing around 2022 shortly after they did the whole chain blades rework, they ruined my boy, it used to be fun in solid as a weapon but at that time the rework ruined it so i left plus the epic account through psn got an update that bar me from playing dauntless in 2023 so i think of it is a blessing in disguise
I like the new chain blades tho, they are a bit less agile than the old one thats for sure but I enjoy them. What killed the game for me was the introduction of the slayer path and reforging.
And even after that post, they still didnt really say that they will fix those problems. They didnt say that weapon crafting will return, they didnt say that cells will not be destroyed. They just gave money to us and "trust me, we will fix"
Bro ever since the update came out the behemoths are on McDonalds Wi-Fi, and they will lag out and teleport across the battlefield and somehow when I’m far away from it I’ll get one shot and die
This update was the best thing to happen to dauntless' competition. I've never seen a game shoot itself in every way it possibly could have with this update. The funniest part is all the cope some of the remaining fanboys still have. Like bro it's dead, leave it alone lol😂
Funny how Dauntless regressed from "Monster hunter at home" to yet another boring mobile F2P game with microtransactions as the "fun" part of the game. I feel like the only game that got close to being ruined this hard by a single update... is Helldiver 2 and that was not even a gameplay related issue for the most part... it was just sony being dumb and wanting PC players to get doxxed through their PSN accounts just to play the game.
the difference between helldivers 2 and dauntless is that hd2 has made a comeback, dauntless will never (and if they do, it'll take forever and it wont be worth it)
@@franciscomoraes8464 so it is still the fake pull back sony put out (you don't need PSN, but every country PSN is not allowed in is conviniently banned/restricted?)
The devs are literally just babies when people have fun and guess what you can see it before this update too with so many nerfs to attack speed, removing pursuits, and so much more genuinely hope they fall down and fail hard from the looks of it they are.
Randomly came up on my Recommended. Thought “surely this update can’t be THAT bad TH-cam hyperbole is a whole industry”. But I’m quite wrong. What a PECULIAR set of choices and I’m sorry to everyone who has enjoyed Dauntless. Truly.
I remember waaay back in the day where they changed the whole town and took away these coins you could earn to get paywall stuff and that's about where I stopped. I earned all of them and they were like "spend them in a week because we are taking them away!" Was recently wondering what ever happened to this game. Kinda sad this happened.
Played the game about 6 years ago and thought it was neat but stopped to focus on other games. I've seen multiple videos in the past few weeks about the downfall of the game, pretty sad.
Next they’ll release “Dauntless: Classic”, go back to the book with the challenges in it, bring back patrols and pursuits, and make us pay for the honor.
I used to play dauntless on the daily . I used to play with a small twitch streamer . We used to play with like 3 other people throughout all of summer and autumn 2024 . I used to love this game . I hopped on today read the patch notes and could not belive it. It is absolute garbage now .
Some developers should just swallow their pride and say "yeah we messed up and we are returning the older version of the game" that's the ONLY way dauntless could still be playable but the damage has been done and dauntless will forever be damned because of this downgrade of an update
That entire update post could basically be translated as: "We tried to turn this game into a microtransaction store disguised a game, but it backfired horribly. Please take this tiny bit of bait to come back and spend money."
this was an update to get one last burst of money before the game gets shut down or put in stasis and it's obvious the same thing happens in countless mmos
As someone who hasn’t touched the game since beta and was genuinely curious about trying again once it was on Steam… yeah the game is probably just fucked The reception of the update was so terrible there is zero chance they can ever recover that reputation and bring in new players. I hadn’t had a single piece of content related to this game on my feed until this all went down. Dauntless is the next MH Wilds advertisement out there at the moment.
I remember playing one update where the fight only took 10 seconds to beat the monster and asked me to auto join another hunt, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be touching the game again
Dauntless is such a disappointment, i loved the idea of having a competitor for Monster Hunter, but after 2 months of play, everything just felt... stale. Possibly because i was playing alone, or because i was also playing Save the World and Apex Legends... But i never got the grip i felt was needed. It's sad that the game never went anywhere, and even in his highest highs, it never caught main stream attention. Hopefully Phoenix Labs makes a comeback or implement some ground breaking features that will draw my and everyone else's attention. But for now, it's just another game that never reached it's peak, and never will.
yup pretty much sums it all up right there. In my opinion dauntless "peaked" back in like 2018-2021 ish, and it wasnt even a popular game or anything it was just fun
ty for youre video man, I was taking a pause on this game after crafting all the weapons and armor, I came back with hope for this game when I saw the new monster but when I saw everithing else it was hard, I will continue playing but since it's hard for me to late go a game with more than a 600 hours on it.
It hurt seeing this game fall through the ground into the earth core. Bad timing, bad management, and bad business strangle this game's potential. What's worse is it didn't die quick but a slow gargle, painfully grasping for air all the way and you can feel every minute of it.
Honestly the only thing that can save them at this point is reverting this update altogether, I just wonder if they have the balls to do so (or if their parent company will allow them)
Man it's been forever since I played dauntless, (I played back in 2019-2020) I played every day got all weapons to 20, reforged spear like 5 times, bought a cosmetic sword skin to cosplay metal gear rising, and left after the halloween event. It may have not been my favourite monster hunter game, but it was the one I liked looking at the most. My shock is insane seeing this, completely nullifying all rounder builds as well as cells perma locking is straight up monkey town 💀.
I remember when I played dauntless on release and it was surprisingly good, and then I took a break and came back later, and I'm pretty sure it was the update before awakening, but that alone completely killed my drive to play it
As someone who got the big expensive Founder Pack all the way back when Dauntless marketed as "Monster Hunter but on PC", I was long ago burned by how Dauntless evolved into what felt more like one of those early MMO "Kill 15 Boars" quests. We were promised a game where you sky sail to a set of islands with 1 big dangerous monster that grew more powerful the longer you let the battle go on, gaining new movesets and elemental quirks as it got closer to death. And when I returned to the game a couple years ago, I got dropped into a landmass with monster fodder events left and right that turned the Shrike into just another mob to throw at you. It was genuinely heartbreaking to see the massive gap in what I paid for and what happened to it. I didn't stick around long enough to learn if the old single Monster hunts still existed, I played at most on that fodder field for 2 hours before quitting again. Rest in Peace, Dauntless. You could have been something.
The music has me thinking of this like a yakuza substory where Ichiban is convincing you to quit the game, and how letting go of it doesnt mean the good memories went away or dont mean anything or something like that.
We used to have the cells destroyed back in beta. It got removed as it hindered the experimentation with builds. They removed builds, so now we can spend money again on cells. Hey, shareholder profits will go up as sadly only the veterans will leave who cared for the game.
Phoenix Labs got purchased by a crypto company back in 2023. That's where this update came from.
And is probably why they don't do the easy thing and revert. They are most likely not allowed to revert the game.
True, wish I would've mentioned it in the video
Once again crypto ruining gameplay experience.
@@lmayo870 and they also canceled a project that looked genuinely good
funny how the game already has the nft-slop game aesthetic
This update is a good monster hunter advertisement
Literally bought MH world for the first time after all this crap dropped
WAIT HOLD UP GIVE THIS MAN A TRUE
Hollllly you're just NOW playing MHW? @@cryogenicwaif4688
I don't even need advertisement for monster hunter, MH was better even before Awakening lol
True. MH wilds isn't too far away
JUST OPENED DAUNTLESS AND IT SAID PRESS “A”. IM ON PS5!
WE ARE SO COOKED!!
IT'S SO OVER
OH GOD
Meanwhile I still waiting on those 500 peerless stone that were supposedly promised.
It got changed to 60@@Lazarop99
@@saltedgods6960 that’s what they gave out at launch. With this update we are supposed to get another 500
what pisses me off about the "new weapons" is that they're not even new exotic weapons, every single one is just old weapon skills put together. none of them are unique they're just pre existing loadouts that are now the only option for playing., there's nothing new, this is a update filled with nothing.
Truly the biggest nothing burger in a long time
Not all of them, take a firestorm for example.
@Pantheon-with-a-P its just a fire pike with reckless leap, lady lucks lantern, and phalanxes weapon passive right ? what did they make unique/new about it
@@gusboo6377 oh.... What about the legendaries of godhand and eternal winter? Very nice
Godhand has Aleray's passive now, not new or anything but possibly more fun to have it on Godhands weapon with the beam rather then on its own.
Same goes for eternal winter its old Pangar's passive on a cold axe with grim onslaught (and old axe spical) and then the legendary slam attack is an old axe special as well, admittingly its a more complex weapon now, but its come at the cost of reducing the options players had in the past.
say you may be a player who really liked Pangars passive but preferred on say a war pike instead of an axe, now you no longer have the option to play the game in that manner. players lost agency with their builds this patch which made the fact that we traded that for a rehashing of what we already had, this time with no option to build around our preferred playstyle, makes this a very frustrating change
Imagine booting up Monster Hunter World to find all your progress had been reset and you could only craft one weapon of a predetermined type per monster. Absolutely abysmal change, I feel so bad for Dauntless fans
Don't feel bad for us, we're migrating to a better game soon lol
@@lmayo870 What game? The new MH? I was gonna get back into Dauntless pretty soon but lmao, yeah not anymore.
So you're saying that if I were to go back, my progress would be gone and my max tier axe I spent weeks grinding for along with it?
@@Ozzy08018yes, in dauntless
@@lmayo870 I'm really glad to see how many Dauntless fans are flocking to Wilds
Monster hunter wilds releases in a few months and Dauntless takes itself out back and takes a puff from a 12 guage, guess we have somewhere to go soon at least
Played Dauntless for hundreds of hours, took a break for a few months and came back to this, such a shame. Dauntless had so much potential. Anyway, I bought MH world complete edition on sale for $20 so Im eating good now
They wanted to make sure Monster Hunter had ZERO competition
I played dauntless during a long time and never heard about or cared to search for other similar game, but oh my god u people talk so much about this monster hunt that i am gonna give it a try, since i'm gonna need to learn a new game (dauntless is a new game now, no idea how to build anymore) I think it is fair to try monster hunter.
It was fun dauntless, rest in peace.
@@MannuelVictorLimeira im a MH veteran and played Dauntless at launch for a month or so . To me Dauntless seemed to be a trimmed down rip off
Monster Hunter has generally a simple game loop : Kill Monster/gather stuff -->Build weapons/Armor--->Kill Nastier Monster repeat, sounds simple but depending how good you are and what you hunt a Hunt may take anywhere between 5 - 45 minutes PLUS the quests (missions) are not all Kill the Monster some may be deliver x pieces of something like special mushrooms or even steal Wyvern Eggs (trauma inducing for old time Vets)
@@MannuelVictorLimeira Try MHW: Iceborne, they're on sale right now with a price of a meal. I also played Dauntless as my first hunting game like you, but man I can tell you're gonna love Monster Hunter franchise. Try all 14 different types of weapon to find out which one is your favorite, and I heard that they're gonna launch another session of MH Wilds beta test for new players soon. Hop on hunters, see you in the hunt!
Its difficult to like Dauntless now, I play Warframe too, they release a great update now, this update came with a new vehicle, a motorcycle, this bike was suppose to work only in the new areas of the update, but beacuse of a bug you could use it everywhere, the devs saw that everyone liked this, so they decide to transform this bug into a feature, its official, you can use the bike everywhere now.
W WARFRAME DEVS (I've yet to play 1999)
Besides space because motorcycles can't fly
@@glowdonk yet
@@glowdonk i already saw a vid bug about it LOL
It's wild because people have noticed that the Atomicycle works better in the Open World locales than the K-Drive. I'm hoping they can do this with the Kaithe as well.
Ironically enough, Dauntless should've slept on this update
TRUE ‼️‼️
Imagine spending years of hard work with only focus to make the game worse
why
@@LazyBuddyBanBasically risk of rain2 2nd dlc and WC3 reforged situation all over again…..
the writing was on the wall tbh. the game has been on life support for a while and this is a last ditch effort to squeeze out every last cent from the remaining fans before shutting down the servers
Maybe, but I think I was too blinded by hope to see them
@@lmayo870 *blinded by COPIUM
there, fixed for ya :D
When you sink years into something even a game its resonable to be emotional about it
I guess so, maybe it's cause this is the first time this happened to me
Remember, never trust a company owned by crypto bros.
You're absolutely right
Right out of the gate, THEY LIED TO US.
The whole time they kept announcing the update and what was coming, they kept insuring us that all of our weapons were going to be left alone, our builds were going to be left alone, the only changes were our cells were going to only be level 1 now, and that they were removing all of the unique weapons and armors. Instead, they took all of our weapons, left only the unique weapons that are now the only available weapons in the game that are locked to a single elemental damage type, and above all cut off any ability to make modular builds because you have to compile both armors and multiple cells together to get a high enough tick to get a single perk to activate. Gone are the days where you have 6-10 perks active at different levels to get a boost in combat, now you have to go full sweat mode to stack up perk points to only get a few perks active.
And that's not even touching on the fact that the new weapon system kills any ability to actually enjoy the game in our own way. All the weapons are element locked as well as upgrade locked, the weapon you get is the weapon you get, end of story. You can't change the weapon stats, and you can't even make the same type of weapon in a different element anymore. I want my Terra axe back. And the pay for weapons is just a slap in the face no matter how you look at it. Free to play games have always been about allowing the players to eventually get everything they want in the game without having to pay for it.
Oh, and don't think for a second all the "rewards" they are offering actually mean anything, because what they are giving us to compensate our loses still aren't enough to max out any of the weapons. "We're sorry for deleting all of your years of hard work and grinding, so here is a generous gift from us to get you halfway back to where you were as our deepest apologies."
The saddest part of all of it was the fact they actually responded to the first wave of negative reviews and backlash with a call out to the veteran players to come in and prove that the game was still playable. "We know the game is a total failure now, but we're sure that given enough time our OG players can show you that it is still possible to progress. They won't let us down." All it actually did was make all of those veteran players throw their hand up and walk away from the game, giving it even more negative reviews and finality.
Dauntless died a long time ago. This update was just the nail in the coffin.
Honestly I'd have to agree with you on that one
Sad but true, had promise.
nail? this "update" was a freaking tungsten rod from orbit lmao
That's not true, did you at least play it?
This update is the best advertisement for Monster Hunter Wilds I've ever seen.
For sure lol
Stolen comment.
Then give me your money
I've played dauntless for about 5-6 years. Even with all it's flaws I still loved it. The build diversity just made me want to stay even after the reforge update. After losing my account cause of some dumb reason I don't even know myself I still held out hope that maybe something interesting would be added to draw me back in. Now I'm happy I lost my account sooner.
RIP to your account but yeah The game really fell off around 2021 ish
@@lmayo870 they literally just need to spam-adding new behemoth, new weapon type with unique mechanic, but they choose to remove everything and be like "ohh, you lost everything? here, take this 14 shit"
@@chandra_abhiramaif they simply went back to reforged but fleshed out other systems and buffed the reforged effects to actually be a worth while grind. Then focused on new weapon types and behemoths the game would be golden. But they just continued to put out nothing and what they did do was always at a detriment to the game. The sheer thing they could add that would totally rekindle people to play again. Add a bow, or daggers. Maybe even a rifle or something unique like a flail or some sort of shield and sword or spear l. They could easily. Make those new weapon types. It's not that hard. But they won't. Because they were bought out by a crypto company who was probably gonna milk the game dry and put in crypto or nfts before it died because no one trusts or cares about crypto anymore. They ruined the game. They had a good system great combat and nice systems but refused to actually build on it. And instead out in a system nobody would ever want, removed pretty much the entire game. So they could sell a sliver of it back for real money. And then tried to put a bandaid over the game ending problem. And refuse to actually fix it.
Dauntless Awakening needs to be put to sleep. What an absolute middle finger to all of us, especially for those of us who were there at the start.
Without a doubt, they should put the entire game in the dumpster at this point
All of my builds man😅 I wasn’t the best player but I was sure knew what I was doing and now I’m a noob again.
"New weapons" my ass...bows, rifles, shields, lances, traps, a bolo? Fuck anything would be better than the absolutely nothing we've had for years. The newest weapons were the strikers and that was a billion years ago...they teased us with art of the bow and bows being part of the mastery tree but then they flat out said THERE WILL BE NO NEW WEAPON TYPES. This game is brimming with potential but has snobby fuckin devs that think they know what we want when they clearly have no clue.
i was still waiting for that magic aether book weapon i suggested that specializes on faster elemental stacking just like CB specializing on crits, hammer on stagger, pike on wounds, etc.
when used, shock book stacks paralysis effect faster, blaze book on burn effect, etc.
@HardiniMalemona you're already a better game designer than half that god damn studio.
Naw Rams is a fucking stupid compensation.
That's like if Warframe got rid of all the companions except the Sentinels and said "here, in exchange have 2mil credits".
That's a lot but it's not fucking hard to just earn at ALL...
Tbh it would be more like Warframe completely deleting the Helminth, 90% of the weapons, amps, and warframes, as well as all the companions except the sentinels and giving us the credits in return
THIS.
the fact that the compensation we're getting is basically a item that lets us skip engaging with the new system goes to show that the system in place now is simply unfun and no one even wants to work with it.
@@frostythesnowmanlolyeah, that and make the mods you equipped get destroyed when unequip
My Devs would never, & 1999 is Oppenheimer in a bottle
Just like Brazil, a fucked up progression system in a place full of unrealized potential...
One day the change will come
DAMN
Ih rapais
I’m sorry
Just like BRAZIL?!??
@@dimitriwarchief301 i mean,he is right
Came into Dauntless before Trials was even a thing and when we had Old Ramsgate. This here feels like a fat betrayal in the highest sense and it HURTS 🤕
I'm right there with you :(
This, the first ever upgrading system was the best one BY FAR, they could have reverted the inclusion of the slayer path and reforging system, gave us weapon swaping and companions and the game would have PEAKED.
Reforged was when I started having my doubts about the game, but I was too stupid and blinded by hope to quit
@@lmayo870 Reforged was an update I wasn't around and tbh, it wasn't the worst thing considering I played grinding games but it was far from perfect but it looks far better than what we have now
Your sentiment towards the end of the video hit the nail right on the head. It's my thought EXACTLY. When people talked about Destiny 2's downfall, I was very much on the outside apathetically looking in despite playing that game more than Dauntless, honestly. But there's something about this that stings much worse. I think it's probably D2's slow decline versus this damn cliff-dive of an update. It's destruction is so assured, and I'm gutted because Dauntless has always had a special place in my heart.
I know. I hurts me how every game I played and liked has some bs
Pladins: Pretty much Irrelevant
Fortnite: OG Fortnite is back permanently, 3 games modes, an actual casual experience, yet all the commonunity cries about every day are all minor changes.
Rouge Company: Pretty much dead
Overwatch 2: Yes it's free but now I know it's just broken promises. And now this...
The World and Wilds will take you in; come hither, Slayers! We're ready to receive you with open arms!
The patch notes sound like Corpo talk to try and put out some of the fires from the Inferno.
100%, it felt so disingenuous
I mean, they did pretty much start with "we're sorry y'all feel that way". That's never a good sign
It was quite literally "We hear you and We're sorry you feel that way, now thake this pittance and go back to buy all the progress we took from you"
Dauntless : Awakening❎
Dauntless : Downfall✅
This is true
The og CEO’s of Phoenix lab stepped down years ago then got bought out so there’s been a lot of directive changes over the years which is why it feels all over the place over the years
Oh no, so the cell change is like what happened to Monster Hunters skill change from old world to new world... but in reverse...
Old MH had the threshold system (where you have to reach a certain number of points in a skill before it activates) and changed to the better and more liked active system (where a single point of a skill will give some sort of benefit, even if it is small)... and dauntless decided hey, lets take this good active system and go to an old and stupid threshold system... WTF
Not everyone prefers the new system, it caused a build consolidation and skill bloat issues in the newer games that wilds is trying to fix.
I could see arguments on both sides. Old MH I actually had times I sat down with pen and paper and wrote out different armor pieces with skill points and figuring out how to craft the perfect set. New MH makes things a lot simpler but it could be argued that it’s too easy to amass skills now. I like the new system but I wouldn’t mind another go at the old system, maybe just polished up a bit somehow.
The new MH skill system forced us to clown armor, which before we got Layered armor, looked absolute ass. In old MH games you can get away with not looking like a clown by equipping most of the set.
@TabbuEme not true, the old games also forced you into clown suits if you were using mix sets (which, the only reason not to is because they look like clown suits), except for really specific sets that could combine function and form. That being said, I feel like the new system removes all of the thought out of it, especially the removal of negative skills
Threshold systems work and force you to think, the only issue is when you A) can't make decorations/cells and B) can't swap them freely
I just did the same thing, even if they bring everything back +weaponSwaping and new behemoths and stuff, I don't trust them anymore, they can wipe everything out again. And I just preordered monster hunter wilds, it sounds better
wise move honestly
mh has always been better than dauntless tbh, i tried dauntless when it came out and i couldnt see why people would ever play it over mhw other than not having played mhw beforehand
Their responce was basically the corporate version of "We hear you and do not care." If they were going to actually fix things the way people are wanting, they'd come out and say what it is they're going to do. However, because they're not reverting, they're probably going to try and power through with the current systems and just update them instead. Likely in a way the community's going to be, at best, mixed about.
1:50 my ears 🙃
Honestly at this point I wish they would’ve just gave dauntless an honourable death, when phoenix labs sold over to this slop crypto company, and I know it wouldn’t have benefited them, it would’ve been nice if they did one last event, like a “End of the Isles” update where we get a nice cinematic send off, ya know for all the time, effort, money, dedication the community put into this game.
Phoenix Labs SOLD Dauntless? that explains a lot.
@@jacktheomnithere2127 Phoenix labs themselves have been sold... twice
That would've honestly been the best ending
Veteran of the game here, i stop playing around 2022 shortly after they did the whole chain blades rework, they ruined my boy, it used to be fun in solid as a weapon but at that time the rework ruined it so i left plus the epic account through psn got an update that bar me from playing dauntless in 2023 so i think of it is a blessing in disguise
I like the new chain blades tho, they are a bit less agile than the old one thats for sure but I enjoy them.
What killed the game for me was the introduction of the slayer path and reforging.
Oh man I hated the rework, that's when I started to question the direction of the game
Goodbye Dauntless RIP 🪦
Rest in pepperoni
And even after that post, they still didnt really say that they will fix those problems. They didnt say that weapon crafting will return, they didnt say that cells will not be destroyed. They just gave money to us and "trust me, we will fix"
TRUE, it's pretty much a "let me cook" post but they've already burnt the dish 5 times over
“There’s nothing else that I can really do, except just to quit Dauntless”
Sums it up pretty well
Bro ever since the update came out the behemoths are on McDonalds Wi-Fi, and they will lag out and teleport across the battlefield and somehow when I’m far away from it I’ll get one shot and die
Dauntless Awakening did give me a wake up call. That it was dead since reforged.
This update was the best thing to happen to dauntless' competition. I've never seen a game shoot itself in every way it possibly could have with this update. The funniest part is all the cope some of the remaining fanboys still have. Like bro it's dead, leave it alone lol😂
THIS. They wanted to make sure MH had absolutely zero competition for some god forsaken reason
Funny how Dauntless regressed from "Monster hunter at home" to yet another boring mobile F2P game with microtransactions as the "fun" part of the game.
I feel like the only game that got close to being ruined this hard by a single update... is Helldiver 2 and that was not even a gameplay related issue for the most part... it was just sony being dumb and wanting PC players to get doxxed through their PSN accounts just to play the game.
the difference between helldivers 2 and dauntless is that hd2 has made a comeback, dauntless will never (and if they do, it'll take forever and it wont be worth it)
I can't play helldivers 2 in my country so for me that comeback is bs
@@franciscomoraes8464 so it is still the fake pull back sony put out (you don't need PSN, but every country PSN is not allowed in is conviniently banned/restricted?)
@@franciscomoraes8464well again, to be fair that's not the devs fault or choice, it's PlayStation being dumbasses
@@franciscomoraes8464 That ain't the devs fault though, just Sony being dickheads
The devs are literally just babies when people have fun and guess what you can see it before this update too with so many nerfs to attack speed, removing pursuits, and so much more genuinely hope they fall down and fail hard from the looks of it they are.
Oh Jesus christ it's Luther again yo can go back in time and stop the awakening
The dauntless devs are truly the fun police of gaming
Randomly came up on my Recommended. Thought “surely this update can’t be THAT bad TH-cam hyperbole is a whole industry”.
But I’m quite wrong. What a PECULIAR set of choices and I’m sorry to everyone who has enjoyed Dauntless.
Truly.
IDK why but that shout out for Brazilians made me happy, shout out from a brazilian and new sub! And great video
LET'S GOOOOO BRAZILIAN SUBBED 🔥🔥🔥
dauntless really saw MHWilds announce weapon swapping and was like "what if we copy that, but worse"
my title in monster hunter rise has been 'dauntless is third-rate' for about two or three years.
I remember waaay back in the day where they changed the whole town and took away these coins you could earn to get paywall stuff and that's about where I stopped. I earned all of them and they were like "spend them in a week because we are taking them away!" Was recently wondering what ever happened to this game. Kinda sad this happened.
I used to play this game a few years ago. I wanted to get back in it, but as someone who enjoyed the game a lot, this is a pain to see.
I love how I come back to dauntless after 2-3 years and the party's just over like everyone's gone
I got a beta key all the way back in 2017
it brings me sadness to see the state of this game today
They somehow made it worse than the beta
Played the game about 6 years ago and thought it was neat but stopped to focus on other games. I've seen multiple videos in the past few weeks about the downfall of the game, pretty sad.
You’ll never get a more gut wrenchingly honest admission of development failure and misstep than from a true fan.
i've given up on Dauntless a LONG LONG time ago about a month after Launch ...i absolutely have no regrets after watching this
You dodged a HUMONGOUS bullet
I'm in the same boat it felt "off" to me, so I stopped playing.
Also your vids are top notch from the sound to editing . Underrated ima sub
2:30 oh you can see that animation interrupt. That's so painful...
Gave me super old Monster hunter ptsd.
Next they’ll release “Dauntless: Classic”, go back to the book with the challenges in it, bring back patrols and pursuits, and make us pay for the honor.
MHW is $10 btw
I loved it too, but honestly Strikers was the beginning of the end. This is the 4th gear reset in the game, tells you a lot.
Might be the worst update in gaming history😂😂
Top 20 at least
Fat update and a worse one. An update with just a jpeg added is still an update. Benchmark must be bigger update but more nonsensical additions.
Top of my head is Risk of rain 2 seekers of the storm
@@bondrewd2147 ok but they're at least know the update was bad and now they're fixing it
Only others i can think of are the 2b2t 1.19 update and the helldivers 2 update.
I used to play dauntless on the daily . I used to play with a small twitch streamer . We used to play with like 3 other people throughout all of summer and autumn 2024 . I used to love this game . I hopped on today read the patch notes and could not belive it. It is absolute garbage now .
Some developers should just swallow their pride and say "yeah we messed up and we are returning the older version of the game" that's the ONLY way dauntless could still be playable but the damage has been done and dauntless will forever be damned because of this downgrade of an update
That entire update post could basically be translated as: "We tried to turn this game into a microtransaction store disguised a game, but it backfired horribly. Please take this tiny bit of bait to come back and spend money."
6:20 was that LTG? 😂😂
YOU NOTICED IT ‼️‼️‼️
This game really looks like something you'd play on mobile with one button.
Dauntless? more like DauntFULL
ChestNUUUUUTSS roasting oNnn an opehnnnn FIYYEEERR
its dauntLESS since they literally removed existing content 💀
it feels like fall in love with a nice girl and she became a toxic golddigger over the years. I loved you Dauntless, I rly did.
They're just trying to milk what's left of the playerbase.
this was an update to get one last burst of money before the game gets shut down or put in stasis and it's obvious the same thing happens in countless mmos
As someone who hasn’t touched the game since beta and was genuinely curious about trying again once it was on Steam… yeah the game is probably just fucked
The reception of the update was so terrible there is zero chance they can ever recover that reputation and bring in new players. I hadn’t had a single piece of content related to this game on my feed until this all went down.
Dauntless is the next MH Wilds advertisement out there at the moment.
I remember playing one update where the fight only took 10 seconds to beat the monster and asked me to auto join another hunt, and that's when I knew I wouldn't be touching the game again
game was dead back in 2018 when Monster Hunter Worlds hit the shelves
TH-cam knew I wanted to visit dauntless again and spared me by recommending this video.
Dauntless is such a disappointment, i loved the idea of having a competitor for Monster Hunter, but after 2 months of play, everything just felt... stale.
Possibly because i was playing alone, or because i was also playing Save the World and Apex Legends... But i never got the grip i felt was needed.
It's sad that the game never went anywhere, and even in his highest highs, it never caught main stream attention.
Hopefully Phoenix Labs makes a comeback or implement some ground breaking features that will draw my and everyone else's attention. But for now, it's just another game that never reached it's peak, and never will.
yup pretty much sums it all up right there. In my opinion dauntless "peaked" back in like 2018-2021 ish, and it wasnt even a popular game or anything it was just fun
The update is not Dauntless awakening it is Dauntless nightmare!
Just do a video of you playing monster hunter. More fun and I'd watch.
Maybe one day
Update was so bad he started playing Roblox tycoons instead lol
Mukbang for Christmas ?
NO. i said 100th video special and thats FINAL, sorry not sorry timmy poo
@@lmayo870 okay pookie
Cube world: hey I bet I can tank my community the fastest!
Dauntless: hold my beer
U fell off
this is true
ty for youre video man, I was taking a pause on this game after crafting all the weapons and armor, I came back with hope for this game when I saw the new monster but when I saw everithing else it was hard, I will continue playing but since it's hard for me to late go a game with more than a 600 hours on it.
I actually very like the ending of this video. Great job overall, but the closing part - that was awesome.
Capcom: Thank you for breaking your own legs Dauntless.
"take your mask off" instrumental at the end was so perfect lmfao
As someone who loved Dauntless, then kinda forgot about it for a couple years, it's been kind of fascinating watching the game self-destruct.
It hurt seeing this game fall through the ground into the earth core. Bad timing, bad management, and bad business strangle this game's potential. What's worse is it didn't die quick but a slow gargle, painfully grasping for air all the way and you can feel every minute of it.
Honestly the only thing that can save them at this point is reverting this update altogether, I just wonder if they have the balls to do so (or if their parent company will allow them)
never played this game before but i've watched enough jauwn to notice the very clear cryptoslop art style
My man pulled the brazilian move at the start, and that made me watch all the way, cheers mate, lots of love from brazil
In the quotes of our Rick May, considering this man just uses TF2 sfx, for this game I can only say:
"You will not be missed."
I loved the combat and grinding really was simple but coming back to this I would be happy just hearing them say they're reverting the update entirely
Man it's been forever since I played dauntless, (I played back in 2019-2020) I played every day got all weapons to 20, reforged spear like 5 times, bought a cosmetic sword skin to cosplay metal gear rising, and left after the halloween event. It may have not been my favourite monster hunter game, but it was the one I liked looking at the most. My shock is insane seeing this, completely nullifying all rounder builds as well as cells perma locking is straight up monkey town 💀.
I remember when I played dauntless on release and it was surprisingly good, and then I took a break and came back later, and I'm pretty sure it was the update before awakening, but that alone completely killed my drive to play it
I remeber playing this game in 2020-2021 during covid. So sad to see it killed by its own updates
As someone who got the big expensive Founder Pack all the way back when Dauntless marketed as "Monster Hunter but on PC", I was long ago burned by how Dauntless evolved into what felt more like one of those early MMO "Kill 15 Boars" quests. We were promised a game where you sky sail to a set of islands with 1 big dangerous monster that grew more powerful the longer you let the battle go on, gaining new movesets and elemental quirks as it got closer to death.
And when I returned to the game a couple years ago, I got dropped into a landmass with monster fodder events left and right that turned the Shrike into just another mob to throw at you. It was genuinely heartbreaking to see the massive gap in what I paid for and what happened to it. I didn't stick around long enough to learn if the old single Monster hunts still existed, I played at most on that fodder field for 2 hours before quitting again.
Rest in Peace, Dauntless. You could have been something.
The music has me thinking of this like a yakuza substory where Ichiban is convincing you to quit the game, and how letting go of it doesnt mean the good memories went away or dont mean anything or something like that.
i might have literally never heard of dauntless, but sure, i'll listen :)
We used to have the cells destroyed back in beta. It got removed as it hindered the experimentation with builds. They removed builds, so now we can spend money again on cells.
Hey, shareholder profits will go up as sadly only the veterans will leave who cared for the game.
The main thing I got from this video is OH DAUNTLESS IS ON STEAM?!?!??
Wait.... Magneto?? BUSS?????
Aw man, this is what i learn about dauntless after not thinking about it for a couple years?
Damn, this vid blew up. Congrats Lmayo.
didnt expect this to do so well if im bein honest
That’s crazy how with cells that pretty much made the reverse change that mh did
Imagine farming your ass off to finally get that 1 material that eludes you and the next day all your weapons get taken out of the game
I got curious when I saw Dauntless in the store a few days ago and was thinking about redownloading it. I’m glad I didn’t…
Wait dude WTF!! This video EXPLODED!! Congrats man!!!
thanks!! Hope you had a good trip with the fam