I heard they removed freeze resistance from the feather cape and made it weak against fire too. They could at least increase inventory space and carry weight.
i love this game i really do i just find it hard to keep excited for it when they pump out updates at a snails pace, i have put the game on a shelf an will play it when its done in a few years....
Yea they really should put some of the most used mods into the base game already. The backpack expander, the bigger workbench radius (just make it a vanilla adjustable option) and the ability for the furnaces, windmills and kilns to pull from nearby chests. Restocking those is just so tedious in the base game.
Maybe the next biom, the Deepnorth will have a magic item effect where you could either increase your food consumption by 1 more food item to 4 total.... OR.... somthing different that would allow for more storage slots but not weight increase..... HOWever they could be mutually exclusive so.... you'd "wear" one for exploring and fighting and another for resource gathering......!!!??? thoughts?
Ditto. I'd also like to see a new slot for "base armor" (basically exchangable undershirts) they'd give no armor points but instead they'd give extra pierce or blunt protection. Maybe have 5 or 6 different ones ( one for pierce, eitr regen, blunt, slash, etc)
My problem is still the same; If you start a new playthrough, a lot of play styles, weapon types and armor types are very late game. We really need low level crafting magic, two handed swords, crossbows and so on, ashlands is just one biome before the last one.
My experience has been terrible so far, evertime I make it to shore I'm overwhelmed by like 10+ mobs in literal seconds and if I can find a safe place it only seems to last for a second before 4-5 mobs seem to appear out of no where.
I've found Mistwalker works wonders in the Ashlands, being able to slow things down with the Frost damage and some enemies being weak to Spirit damage. I'm sometimes lucky enough to lock a Morgen on the spot by running around it and constantly attacking.
I'm actually surprised you didn't mention anything about the speed runs of Valheim, with Mistlands it was already insanely hard to speed run, but with the Ashlands I don't know about speed runs anymore, I just wanted to know your thoughts on it because I came here for the speed runs but stayed here for the incredibly in depth and well put together guides that helped me grow as a player of this game
i wish they reduced the zerg of mobs but made all of them have +5% hp. specially if im already busy and sudenly some LIZARDS join in on the fun. Those lizards are unmanageable
Thanks for the breakdown man. Tried Mistlands launch with the local guys and we havnt played since. After its changes and how great Ashlands looks, will definitely check it out.
Thank you for your insights on the Ashlands Nick. I’m happy that so far it’s getting positive reviews from content creators such as yourself. I value your opinion on the updates and I’m excited to jump in and see it for myself. Keep up the great Valheim videos
If heard that the difficulty is a bit over tuned and almost too tough. But sounds like you enjoy it. Which gives me hope for when it comes to the base game. Can't wait!
I have to mention that Staff of Embers is probably the best damage staff. I know it's counter-intuitive to use it, but it does perform better than frost staff or the new one.
If you look for base in ashlands, bring a lot of stone and wood with you and suffer going araund its coast (you gona kill a lot of seperents). You gota find dweger village as you can get early flamemetal to upgrade your gear and when you land you can use dwarf help to kill them. Then start raising ground in circle near the dwermer base and place portal in middle and add the beacon to protect from fire damage. After this raise ground again in circle so your portal will not get koed by fire slimes. This is bare minimum defense. I play with no portal allowed mode and its fucking hell.
The new axes can not replace knives. I tried to make them work but as soon as you run into some high level mobs they become useless. You can't parry, you can't dodge because you get stuck in the attack animation for too long, and you can't stagger especially after the nerf. I feel like you are forced to use magic or ranged weapons. This is my main gripe with ashlands. Other than that ,I really enjoyed the update, the journey to ashlands, the number and the relentlessness of the enemies was very fun and challenging, i hope they don't nerf it too much.
I didn't claim they would replace them but they are however new dps weapons which overall is good. I agree with what you're saying for the most part however specifically fighting the new mini boss the green axes were insanely good so I think they have their uses and overall it's good they're expanding the arsenal for other play styles. Thanks for watching.
Another great video Nick, both this and the last had top notch narration and narrative content. Concise, informative, pertinent.....so good! Thanks for being you!
This game was so fun, but the updates were so far between, I moved on to enshrouded and Palworld and i dont think ill be coming back to this anytime soon. Still a good game though
they should have made a separate armor section, the inventory is too small belt upgrade you can select number on how many time u want to craft and cook instead of just standing there doing it manually
I enjoyed Mistlands. In fact, i had about 400 hours playing Valheim before Mistlands, after Mistlands it went to 1300 hours . So maybe you just suk 😂🤷🏻♂️ What i CAN say is that they could have made the mist itself a little less thick and more transparent.
The entire beauty of the biome is covered by ugly mist everywhere unless you build wisp lights everywhere which is a pain and also not as appealing as untouched landscapes
@@GDD1231 The Terrain is an absolut horrible design. Having to nonstop jump climb that horrible landscape to get anywhere, with the stamina system they have, is such a bad experience. Then there's the mist. Making visibility a difficult level is so bad. Would'nt mind the mist as much, if it was like the rain, arriving once in a while. But as a permenant thing it's just terrible. At least thats what everyone i know have to say about it. Always comes down to the bad terrain and too heavy permenant mist, thats the turnoff.
Hey! I have been watching your videos and streams for a bit now and I am still amazed on how good you are at this. Really love your content, thanks for keeping it up
This is actually the first biome that made me sweat before I've ever entered into it.... The only gripe I have is how many enemies are in this biome! Feels like every inch is hard fought for
Exact same thoughts, really enjoying the Ashlands but on reddit etc. there are too many negative comments about balance which could end up nerfing many aspects. Hopefully not, thanks for the great video.
yeah i dont want the ashland to change but i gotta admit that sometime yes the amount of mob is ludicrously high, but with the new 14 august update in beta they adjusted correctly the mob while keeping the difficulty high!
That's something no one really talks about that still makes me feel unsatisfied : the berserker axes dmg and stamina usage are based on your axe level, but majority of player don't rank up this skill in early game, as they are better weapons, and axe is used more as a tool. So we can't take appreciation on how good the axes are if you don't have skill on them.
A question I wish you would have answered in the video would be do you recommender people to play this now or wait for 1.0 release? Since you also played Mislands while it was in beta it would be great to hear your opinion on this. Thanks.
First steps in Ashlands are harder than last boss... scaling from Mistlands to Ashlands is kinda whack imho. At least the shore should have been a little bit more chill with spawn rate of mobs.
The boiling mechanic IS a big deal. Try to recover a floating tombstone without getting into the water. Can't be done if there is no land (no - spire won't work) right next to it. Going into the water, recovering your tombstone, and back into the boat without dieing again can become impossible due to obstacles. Irongate should fix this by allowing you to set your spawn point to the new boat.
People are sleeping on magic? First off, every staff is great, especially the new Ashland ones. The Fireball staff from Mistlands still works on these Fire guys, you'd assume it doesn't, but it does, it can aoe kill those regular Charred guys and Archers in 2 Fireballs. Dead Raiser + Protection staff combo, so you can summon the skels, put an AoE shield on them then just let them be a distraction for you while you go full offense. I won't spoil the Ashland ones but the new Blood Magic one makes a hilariously great distraction and all the Elemental ones are amazing.
How is progression inside the Ashlands? This was my biggest issue with mistlands. Essentially throughout 90% of mistlands you used plains/mountain gear. You cleared everything with it and only at the very, very, very end, by the time you had already 20 sealbreakers, you finally had enough cores to build the crafting structures of mistlands. This was in my opinion by far the biggest problem of mistlands. By the time you get the feather cape which makes travel through the mistlands actually enjoiyable, you already completed the whole of mistlands and now it is even useless in the ashlands. This is kinda a huge flaw in progression. I hope this isn't the case with ashlands item progression.
The feather cape looked important in the Ashlands play I have seen, not for falling large distances but so you can glide over lava without needing tons of platforms
They really need to chill the fuck out with the hyper aggressive swarms of mobs. And the grand majority of the mobs just tank most melee forms of damage. It feels like shit honestly especially when the return attacks can take most of your health in one swipe.
The silly little knowledge raven hasnt visited you? I’d say check the logs, or maybe just build new things and explore more? I haven’t done ashlands yet so I can’t quite say.
That magic is better than everything else is a PROBLEM but a feature. It's the OPPOSITE of what you said; fewer playstyles are viable than ever before.
Really with the mist complaints again from mistland?? I guess I don't get it, they tried something unique to make progress difficult in a different way instead of more enemies. Terrain and weather was a good way to do that. I guess some people would rather just smash a ton of enemies
Problem is it isn't fun traversing. Jumping between rocks being wet constantly need to regen stamina all the time. You get crafting way too late if you are unlucky with finding dungeons, meaning the cape doesn't help soon enough. There are a lot of issues with the biome and it just isnt fun to play sometimes.
It's just a bit too annoying, if the terrain was a little less aggressive, the wisp cleared a bit more, and infested mines stood out a bit more it would be fine. As it is you can wander for hours and not find anything you're looking for. I usually end up using a map to find skulls and mines and get on with it.
They took the most gorgeous biome in the game and then made it so you can't see most of it 90% of the time. A complete waste of the aesthetic design that they put into it.
I think you were being far to optimistic here. Valheim is shockingly low on build shape options and the number of new build shapes are ABYSMAL. Please, how can you seriously say with a straight face that the building options are good? 1x1 nonexistent, 2x2x1 nonexistent, 2x2x2 nonexistent, 4x floor piece nonexistent, no large pillars no small pillars. The only floor tiles are only half they thickness meaning you have to stack PILES of tiles to achieve things close to marble. You said you didn't build much and it kind of shows. The wall pieces don't help because they are thin so stacking them does no good as attacks against them are AoE. Watch it fall like dominoes to the massive overpowered, flying, magic casting, troll called a fallen Valkyrie. Take a troll with all the damage of a tree and a caster, make it all magic, make it aoe, make it do huge damage against structures and give it wings. Did we have to go from hard to fing dark souls? Oh and it's pretty good with mobs? It's like charging the beaches of Normandy as you try to maneuver a massive ship through spikes as a new leviathan tears into you and expect the ship to be a complete throw away and a one way trip. The beach is masses of skeletons, diving vultures, fire blobs and ranged characters. By sheer luck I established a beach head but then on out it's not fun. It's an endless slog of never ending spawning monsters and even being careful it's mob after mob. Getting ore is an absolute headache. I reiterate my point. Why does everyone that wants to make a game hard feel it has to be balls to the walls dark souls? A new zone with new monsters offers a challenge already without the need to escalate it to extreme proportions. If you like a hardcore game then be like other devs and make it a setting but stop pandering to the small demographic of people that don't feel a game is worth it unless it's extreme. Ashlands is barely playable and I think they are going to pretty much break the game in the last zone because it's all about escalation.
Progression itself isn't incredibly fun, there's a massive passover that needs to happen with the balance and many of the biomes - Bosses need to be reworked as well I feel, and we're still missing tons of quality of life.
The good news is that a number of mods work. The ones I know work and use are: TargetPortal, PlantEasily, CraftFromContainers, InfiniteTorches, and VNEI.
As a solo player, I set "no build cost" in order to make the barges (yes plural and i refuse to call it a boat). My first attempt i died to vultures fairly quickly. I set "passive mode" to get to the tombstone and died to the hot water swimming back to the barge's ladder. Third attempt I got back to the barge (there were 3 and I had to hop between them because they blocked each other). I was able to get to shore and put up a portal (thanks to "passive" mode). It takes about 10 minutes to maneuver the barge through the maze and get to a shore with "passive" on (it will be a little faster if you know where the shore is). Hint: only use the paddle except when initially getting the barge to move; don't go too fast.
I agree that the mist is a bad mechanic! It's supposed to be a video game, not an audio game. I have to turn the sound on for that, and I don't like it.
While watching several streams trying the ashlands for their first time my hot take was, "ok so that's it? Thats all there is to explore here? Where are the rest of the dungeon varieties?" Combine that with the severely limited amount of ashlands land mass, compared to the square meters of plains and mistlands landmass respectively, well the new update doesn't inspire much replayability once you've seen it all. So perhaps give much more square meters of landmass to the ashlands to warrant desolate exploration, while ramping up the number of cave dungeons. I love building and grinding for raw resources. That's my play style. I foresee a lack of raw resources in the ashlands to be blunt.
also, what has this game to do with viking anymore, steampunk/magic??? dual wielding axes? very disappointed since mistlands on what direction this game has gone style and lorewise.
Hey brother, time for me to get back into the fray I think :) I havnt even properly done mistlands yet! Appreciate your hard work on your videos and opinions on Ashlands :)
The first day ashalnds released was bad and it was die to bugs and glitches enemies spawing everywhere they patched some stuff but that first day I was seeing things spwan infront of me.
ashlands introduction and the expectations placed on the player is just wrong, this is valheim not elden ring. introducing monsters that are so high defence and can kill you so easily is not really fun gameplay, having to enter the biome over 6 times, each time building a new boat is not fun, how the hell is the average player coming out of the mistlands supposed to fight or survive in ashlands? each time i teleport over, theres a different 1-3 monsters attacking my base, in the boiling hot water, skeleletons that are flaming are straight up walking thru water no problem, yet the only defence protection i get the dverger get damaged in the water, hell even the vultures do, the defences on the boat is high yes, but when u run into a bone maw every 10 feet and have 3 on you by the time u get to shore, yeah i kinda wanna say things can seem impossible. this ashlands patch is just piss poor. im not enjoying myself and i feel forced af to play becuase i got my friends into it. overall 2/10 expierence, gameplay and fun. i spend alot of time fighting off monsters or going to save teammates, its not fun. theres so many monster spawns, so many, its kinda of a joke how many can spawn in and attack u when u start trying to fight back. also dont get hit, youll lose over half of the hp bar, when the enemy can drop that much dps, we need food items that can heal that much just as fast, not implementing enough resources or counters to all the monsters u added in ashlands, the demolisher is litterally a death sentence in ashlands, its so damn loud whenever i attack it calls every single enemy to my location in a mile radius around my attack, also the fact the 2 handed weapon, designed to be extremely heavy and slow and punishes u for weilding it while running uses so much stamina to swing, i get that its a big2 handed hammer, but the fact is im a viking, im designed to be able to weild this sort of thing, way too much unthought of piss poor mechanics too, why the morgen doesnt die in the boiling hot water idk , but if u build offshore on a spire watch out, cuz the morgen can destroy pillars. everything about ashlands is a huge waste of time
Mistlands were terrible. I hate that biome. Ive gone over a shit ton of ashlands and i hate it as well. Both ascetically are nice. But its crap. This game got worse the closer to the end.
No, I think they have a direct direction; they just have ideas about the game that differ from the fan base the enjoys the game. They think this is actually a brutal combat game, and it's not. Trying to make it so, makes it tedious
Meh, it's a shame they went from a viking game, to any generic RPG with glowing weapons and magic! This is not what the game suggest in its Steam description!
Ashlands feels bland and flat, no elevation, no mountains, just a depressing greyish colour palette.. a lot of similar mobs with a few out standers here and there. It just feels like a filler biome as a preparation for the Deep North - the real end-game. I expected so much more after such a long time in development. New weapons do not feel unique to me, new magic weapons seem almost useless. Ember and Frost staves are still the way to go. Ashlands isnt difficult at all if you dont run around like mad pulling everything. Fortresses are far away from what I thought they were describing... just ram the door, kill the spam of monsters, loot the chest, nothing really that interesting... I dont know, I am sad it went this way and only hope the MODs will make up for this by keeping the game alive for the next 2 years... tbh, I feel like Mistlands felt more dangerous and mysterious and at the end of the day more fun to play than Ashlands where everything just looks and feels the same.
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Thanks for watching guys, let me know what you think about the update in the comments. I'm curious.
I heard they removed freeze resistance from the feather cape and made it weak against fire too. They could at least increase inventory space and carry weight.
@@SiriusSphynxit is still resistant to frost but weak to fire. However you get a +20% jump height buff and -20% jump stamina usage
i love this game i really do i just find it hard to keep excited for it when they pump out updates at a snails pace, i have put the game on a shelf an will play it when its done in a few years....
I'm glad you're enjoying it - I disagree with almost every point you made 😂
An improvable Wisplight would do wonders to make Mistlands more enjoyable overall, even if it were just a single tier that doubled the clear effect.
I literally had the same thought, I agree. I love the biome but some improvements like that would be great.
Yeah I agree I like the mistlands overall but QoL improvements like this example are always welcome
Speaking of miniboss and quest rewards, I would have liked to have seen something like an extra row in my inventory for completing Hildr's Request...
That's a very cool idea.
Really want to see expandable backpack storage already in the game. Also why is armor taking spots of backpack space when IM WEARING IT!!!!!!!
Yea they really should put some of the most used mods into the base game already. The backpack expander, the bigger workbench radius (just make it a vanilla adjustable option) and the ability for the furnaces, windmills and kilns to pull from nearby chests. Restocking those is just so tedious in the base game.
Maybe the next biom, the Deepnorth will have a magic item effect where you could either increase your food consumption by 1 more food item to 4 total.... OR.... somthing different that would allow for more storage slots but not weight increase..... HOWever they could be mutually exclusive so.... you'd "wear" one for exploring and fighting and another for resource gathering......!!!??? thoughts?
Ditto. I'd also like to see a new slot for "base armor" (basically exchangable undershirts) they'd give no armor points but instead they'd give extra pierce or blunt protection. Maybe have 5 or 6 different ones ( one for pierce, eitr regen, blunt, slash, etc)
My problem is still the same; If you start a new playthrough, a lot of play styles, weapon types and armor types are very late game. We really need low level crafting magic, two handed swords, crossbows and so on, ashlands is just one biome before the last one.
Beat the game and take the weapon through the game with a new character. I did this with the staffs and had my best and most fun playthrough yet
My experience has been terrible so far, evertime I make it to shore I'm overwhelmed by like 10+ mobs in literal seconds and if I can find a safe place it only seems to last for a second before 4-5 mobs seem to appear out of no where.
Same. They just come out of nowhere. Its bullshit and yes i did take out the spawners which need a cap
Same man.. really small steps when you play alone
I manage to explore but no flamme metal yet
The only biome that made me turn cheats on to get my stuff back
@@ricoooooooo same. its still public test so hopefully it wont be jank n gank for the full release of ashlands
To be honest that’s kind of every biome except the meadow
I've found Mistwalker works wonders in the Ashlands, being able to slow things down with the Frost damage and some enemies being weak to Spirit damage.
I'm sometimes lucky enough to lock a Morgen on the spot by running around it and constantly attacking.
I went blind into the miniboss not even knowing he was there, trolled him with 7x poison arrows and some ice arrows, never got hit
Lol nice
I'm actually surprised you didn't mention anything about the speed runs of Valheim, with Mistlands it was already insanely hard to speed run, but with the Ashlands I don't know about speed runs anymore, I just wanted to know your thoughts on it because I came here for the speed runs but stayed here for the incredibly in depth and well put together guides that helped me grow as a player of this game
It’s too early to say honestly. I will talk about it at some point.
@@NickRawcliffe no worries, just keep the content coming, it's all good and I'm excited for the potential "oops it's all Ashlands run" lol
Most of the deep/good content is locked in the endgame :( both good and bad
i wish they reduced the zerg of mobs but made all of them have +5% hp. specially if im already busy and sudenly some LIZARDS join in on the fun. Those lizards are unmanageable
I've had an awful experience in the ashlands, cant seem to go anywhere without 10+ mobs showing up.
Maybe use the skeleton summoner magic item to divert aggro?
Nice with tons of feedback as always Nick :)
Can't wait for the next videos and guides to see if we made some big or small things we can adjust ;)
Thanks for the breakdown man.
Tried Mistlands launch with the local guys and we havnt played since.
After its changes and how great Ashlands looks, will definitely check it out.
Hell yeh, you're welcome bud
Thank you for your insights on the Ashlands Nick. I’m happy that so far it’s getting positive reviews from content creators such as yourself. I value your opinion on the updates and I’m excited to jump in and see it for myself. Keep up the great Valheim videos
If heard that the difficulty is a bit over tuned and almost too tough. But sounds like you enjoy it. Which gives me hope for when it comes to the base game. Can't wait!
They have made some tweaks, that combined with people just getting used to it, I think it will be ok. But yeh I like what I've played.
I have to mention that Staff of Embers is probably the best damage staff. I know it's counter-intuitive to use it, but it does perform better than frost staff or the new one.
shows how much thought has gone into the game, when a fire staff is good vs lava-immune skeletons.
Haven't had a chance to venture into the ashlands yet myself, but visually it looks amazing. Great video!
If you look for base in ashlands, bring a lot of stone and wood with you and suffer going araund its coast (you gona kill a lot of seperents). You gota find dweger village as you can get early flamemetal to upgrade your gear and when you land you can use dwarf help to kill them. Then start raising ground in circle near the dwermer base and place portal in middle and add the beacon to protect from fire damage.
After this raise ground again in circle so your portal will not get koed by fire slimes. This is bare minimum defense.
I play with no portal allowed mode and its fucking hell.
I miss the plains...
The new axes can not replace knives. I tried to make them work but as soon as you run into some high level mobs they become useless. You can't parry, you can't dodge because you get stuck in the attack animation for too long, and you can't stagger especially after the nerf. I feel like you are forced to use magic or ranged weapons. This is my main gripe with ashlands.
Other than that ,I really enjoyed the update, the journey to ashlands, the number and the relentlessness of the enemies was very fun and challenging, i hope they don't nerf it too much.
I didn't claim they would replace them but they are however new dps weapons which overall is good. I agree with what you're saying for the most part however specifically fighting the new mini boss the green axes were insanely good so I think they have their uses and overall it's good they're expanding the arsenal for other play styles. Thanks for watching.
Can't wait to jump into this. I still have to fight the queen. Maybe I'll do that today
5:00 try the arbalest (the ripper) mate . you will love it
I've played Valheim 300+ hours and was really excited to play Ashlands. I really want to like Ashlands. But it's not fun.
Another great video Nick, both this and the last had top notch narration and narrative content. Concise, informative, pertinent.....so good! Thanks for being you!
Aw thanks bud, that's very nice. Likewise.
i wish there were a way to perma boost the minimum health by upgrade your character somehow.
This game was so fun, but the updates were so far between, I moved on to enshrouded and Palworld and i dont think ill be coming back to this anytime soon. Still a good game though
i know exactly what you mean. this was supposed to be a viking-themed game. now its steampunk and magic >_
I'm just waiting to start my hc run once per is done
they should have made a separate armor section, the inventory is too small
belt upgrade
you can select number on how many time u want to craft and cook instead of just standing there doing it manually
Playing through Ashlands further deepens my belief that Mistlands suck balls and need a complete overhaul.
haha what's wrong with mistlands? I enjoyed it
I enjoyed Mistlands.
In fact, i had about 400 hours playing Valheim before Mistlands, after Mistlands it went to 1300 hours .
So maybe you just suk 😂🤷🏻♂️
What i CAN say is that they could have made the mist itself a little less thick and more transparent.
I really dont undestand why people hate mistlands, can you explain what makes it bad? Ill be open minded to read your thouths
The entire beauty of the biome is covered by ugly mist everywhere unless you build wisp lights everywhere which is a pain and also not as appealing as untouched landscapes
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The Terrain is an absolut horrible design.
Having to nonstop jump climb that horrible landscape to get anywhere, with the stamina system they have, is such a bad experience.
Then there's the mist. Making visibility a difficult level is so bad. Would'nt mind the mist as much, if it was like the rain, arriving once in a while. But as a permenant thing it's just terrible.
At least thats what everyone i know have to say about it. Always comes down to the bad terrain and too heavy permenant mist, thats the turnoff.
Hey! I have been watching your videos and streams for a bit now and I am still amazed on how good you are at this. Really love your content, thanks for keeping it up
hardest part is getting there tbh
This is actually the first biome that made me sweat before I've ever entered into it.... The only gripe I have is how many enemies are in this biome! Feels like every inch is hard fought for
GJ Nick! Speed run this too???!!!??? I think Dyrwyn sword will be a badass for the final Deepnorth biom. Anyone?
Here's my idea to partially fix the mistlands. Give the players a way to wipe the mist away permanently
Awesome video! Do we know when Ashland will drop?
It's dropped already
Exact same thoughts, really enjoying the Ashlands but on reddit etc. there are too many negative comments about balance which could end up nerfing many aspects. Hopefully not, thanks for the great video.
yeah i dont want the ashland to change but i gotta admit that sometime yes the amount of mob is ludicrously high, but with the new 14 august update in beta they adjusted correctly the mob while keeping the difficulty high!
That's something no one really talks about that still makes me feel unsatisfied : the berserker axes dmg and stamina usage are based on your axe level, but majority of player don't rank up this skill in early game, as they are better weapons, and axe is used more as a tool. So we can't take appreciation on how good the axes are if you don't have skill on them.
A question I wish you would have answered in the video would be do you recommender people to play this now or wait for 1.0 release? Since you also played Mislands while it was in beta it would be great to hear your opinion on this. Thanks.
When youre talking about light armour with fast weapons, I think what you ment to say is high APS instead of high DPS :D
First steps in Ashlands are harder than last boss... scaling from Mistlands to Ashlands is kinda whack imho. At least the shore should have been a little bit more chill with spawn rate of mobs.
Was that some Metroid Prime music I heard in the background? :O
The boiling mechanic IS a big deal. Try to recover a floating tombstone without getting into the water. Can't be done if there is no land (no - spire won't work) right next to it. Going into the water, recovering your tombstone, and back into the boat without dieing again can become impossible due to obstacles. Irongate should fix this by allowing you to set your spawn point to the new boat.
First thing i got when vent into a Ashland was 6 2* enemies... So... Yeah, balansed, right...
People are sleeping on magic? First off, every staff is great, especially the new Ashland ones. The Fireball staff from Mistlands still works on these Fire guys, you'd assume it doesn't, but it does, it can aoe kill those regular Charred guys and Archers in 2 Fireballs. Dead Raiser + Protection staff combo, so you can summon the skels, put an AoE shield on them then just let them be a distraction for you while you go full offense. I won't spoil the Ashland ones but the new Blood Magic one makes a hilariously great distraction and all the Elemental ones are amazing.
I hate to see how spongy the enemies are. Hope they will fix that
They can stay spongy imho. There's no way a solo can deal with the number of mobs I encounter if they get a buff to hp.
How is progression inside the Ashlands? This was my biggest issue with mistlands. Essentially throughout 90% of mistlands you used plains/mountain gear. You cleared everything with it and only at the very, very, very end, by the time you had already 20 sealbreakers, you finally had enough cores to build the crafting structures of mistlands. This was in my opinion by far the biggest problem of mistlands. By the time you get the feather cape which makes travel through the mistlands actually enjoiyable, you already completed the whole of mistlands and now it is even useless in the ashlands. This is kinda a huge flaw in progression. I hope this isn't the case with ashlands item progression.
The feather cape looked important in the Ashlands play I have seen, not for falling large distances but so you can glide over lava without needing tons of platforms
They really need to chill the fuck out with the hyper aggressive swarms of mobs. And the grand majority of the mobs just tank most melee forms of damage. It feels like shit honestly especially when the return attacks can take most of your health in one swipe.
I would like it if they upgraded combat at some point, is so basic.
I still don't know what charcoal resin is for and I've defeated several forts and can't get a charred cog wheel to make the catapult.
The silly little knowledge raven hasnt visited you? I’d say check the logs, or maybe just build new things and explore more? I haven’t done ashlands yet so I can’t quite say.
That magic is better than everything else is a PROBLEM but a feature.
It's the OPPOSITE of what you said; fewer playstyles are viable than ever before.
Really with the mist complaints again from mistland?? I guess I don't get it, they tried something unique to make progress difficult in a different way instead of more enemies. Terrain and weather was a good way to do that. I guess some people would rather just smash a ton of enemies
Problem is it isn't fun traversing. Jumping between rocks being wet constantly need to regen stamina all the time. You get crafting way too late if you are unlucky with finding dungeons, meaning the cape doesn't help soon enough. There are a lot of issues with the biome and it just isnt fun to play sometimes.
It's just a bit too annoying, if the terrain was a little less aggressive, the wisp cleared a bit more, and infested mines stood out a bit more it would be fine. As it is you can wander for hours and not find anything you're looking for. I usually end up using a map to find skulls and mines and get on with it.
They took the most gorgeous biome in the game and then made it so you can't see most of it 90% of the time. A complete waste of the aesthetic design that they put into it.
I think you were being far to optimistic here. Valheim is shockingly low on build shape options and the number of new build shapes are ABYSMAL.
Please, how can you seriously say with a straight face that the building options are good? 1x1 nonexistent, 2x2x1 nonexistent, 2x2x2 nonexistent, 4x floor piece nonexistent,
no large pillars no small pillars. The only floor tiles are only half they thickness meaning you have to stack PILES of tiles to achieve things close to marble. You said you didn't
build much and it kind of shows. The wall pieces don't help because they are thin so stacking them does no good as attacks against them are AoE. Watch it fall like dominoes
to the massive overpowered, flying, magic casting, troll called a fallen Valkyrie.
Take a troll with all the damage of a tree and a caster, make it all magic, make it aoe, make it do huge damage against structures and give it wings. Did we have to go from
hard to fing dark souls?
Oh and it's pretty good with mobs? It's like charging the beaches of Normandy as you try to maneuver a massive ship through spikes as a new leviathan tears into you and
expect the ship to be a complete throw away and a one way trip. The beach is masses of skeletons, diving vultures, fire blobs and ranged characters. By sheer luck I established
a beach head but then on out it's not fun. It's an endless slog of never ending spawning monsters and even being careful it's mob after mob. Getting ore is an absolute headache.
I reiterate my point. Why does everyone that wants to make a game hard feel it has to be balls to the walls dark souls? A new zone with new monsters offers a challenge already
without the need to escalate it to extreme proportions. If you like a hardcore game then be like other devs and make it a setting but stop pandering to the small demographic
of people that don't feel a game is worth it unless it's extreme. Ashlands is barely playable and I think they are going to pretty much break the game in the last zone because it's all
about escalation.
I love Ashlands, it just need a little more balancing. Mistlands is playable and fun and very pretty with "Mist gone Mods!^^
Progression itself isn't incredibly fun, there's a massive passover that needs to happen with the balance and many of the biomes - Bosses need to be reworked as well I feel, and we're still missing tons of quality of life.
The good news is that a number of mods work. The ones I know work and use are: TargetPortal, PlantEasily, CraftFromContainers, InfiniteTorches, and VNEI.
As a solo player, I set "no build cost" in order to make the barges (yes plural and i refuse to call it a boat). My first attempt i died to vultures fairly quickly. I set "passive mode" to get to the tombstone and died to the hot water swimming back to the barge's ladder. Third attempt I got back to the barge (there were 3 and I had to hop between them because they blocked each other). I was able to get to shore and put up a portal (thanks to "passive" mode). It takes about 10 minutes to maneuver the barge through the maze and get to a shore with "passive" on (it will be a little faster if you know where the shore is). Hint: only use the paddle except when initially getting the barge to move; don't go too fast.
So you cheated lol
Anybody know when Ashlands will be out of PTB??
It is now!
I agree that the mist is a bad mechanic! It's supposed to be a video game, not an audio game. I have to turn the sound on for that, and I don't like it.
I play through Game Pass, how do I update my game to Ashlands?
Xbox insiders has a game preview for valhiem with the ashlands hope this helps
the ashlands is amazing.
While watching several streams trying the ashlands for their first time my hot take was, "ok so that's it? Thats all there is to explore here? Where are the rest of the dungeon varieties?" Combine that with the severely limited amount of ashlands land mass, compared to the square meters of plains and mistlands landmass respectively, well the new update doesn't inspire much replayability once you've seen it all.
So perhaps give much more square meters of landmass to the ashlands to warrant desolate exploration, while ramping up the number of cave dungeons.
I love building and grinding for raw resources. That's my play style.
I foresee a lack of raw resources in the ashlands to be blunt.
100% agree it rewards different styles of gameplay .. so many options in ashlands! (team frostner represent)
Best Valheim creator
Aw thank you. That's very sweet. Glad you like the content bud.
also, what has this game to do with viking anymore, steampunk/magic??? dual wielding axes? very disappointed since mistlands on what direction this game has gone style and lorewise.
Hey brother, time for me to get back into the fray I think :) I havnt even properly done mistlands yet!
Appreciate your hard work on your videos and opinions on Ashlands :)
Yo dude, hope you're good. Thank you, appreciate you taking the time to tune in. It's certainly a good time to dive into Valheim.
The first day ashalnds released was bad and it was die to bugs and glitches enemies spawing everywhere they patched some stuff but that first day I was seeing things spwan infront of me.
Lol yeh same, definitely seems better now. Also there is another patch coming very soon so they are on it.
Ashlands... "Its shit" almost 2 year of work for shit.
ashlands introduction and the expectations placed on the player is just wrong, this is valheim not elden ring. introducing monsters that are so high defence and can kill you so easily is not really fun gameplay, having to enter the biome over 6 times, each time building a new boat is not fun, how the hell is the average player coming out of the mistlands supposed to fight or survive in ashlands? each time i teleport over, theres a different 1-3 monsters attacking my base, in the boiling hot water, skeleletons that are flaming are straight up walking thru water no problem, yet the only defence protection i get the dverger get damaged in the water, hell even the vultures do,
the defences on the boat is high yes, but when u run into a bone maw every 10 feet and have 3 on you by the time u get to shore, yeah i kinda wanna say things can seem impossible.
this ashlands patch is just piss poor. im not enjoying myself and i feel forced af to play becuase i got my friends into it. overall 2/10 expierence, gameplay and fun.
i spend alot of time fighting off monsters or going to save teammates, its not fun. theres so many monster spawns, so many, its kinda of a joke how many can spawn in and attack u when u start trying to fight back. also dont get hit, youll lose over half of the hp bar, when the enemy can drop that much dps, we need food items that can heal that much just as fast, not implementing enough resources or counters to all the monsters u added in ashlands, the demolisher is litterally a death sentence in ashlands, its so damn loud whenever i attack it calls every single enemy to my location in a mile radius around my attack, also the fact the 2 handed weapon, designed to be extremely heavy and slow and punishes u for weilding it while running uses so much stamina to swing, i get that its a big2 handed hammer, but the fact is im a viking, im designed to be able to weild this sort of thing,
way too much unthought of piss poor mechanics too, why the morgen doesnt die in the boiling hot water idk , but if u build offshore on a spire watch out, cuz the morgen can destroy pillars.
everything about ashlands is a huge waste of time
They make the game just more annoying and more tedious to play every patch. Kinda sad how its going.
gameflow is terrible in ashlands, feels like an amateur private game project imo.
Mistlands were terrible. I hate that biome. Ive gone over a shit ton of ashlands and i hate it as well. Both ascetically are nice. But its crap. This game got worse the closer to the end.
ye it seems like people dont want to admit it, and find things to defend this pile of shit.
Ashlands sucks so hard. Just hyperspawn of enemies, it's absolute crap.
The game gets worse every new BIOME . . . the devs have clearly no idea were to go . . .
No, I think they have a direct direction; they just have ideas about the game that differ from the fan base the enjoys the game.
They think this is actually a brutal combat game, and it's not. Trying to make it so, makes it tedious
Meh, it's a shame they went from a viking game, to any generic RPG with glowing weapons and magic!
This is not what the game suggest in its Steam description!
Womp womp
man it would be boring if we just had better ore >>> better weapon without any diversity. I don't see anything non-viking here.
@@deatharsenal2981 How deep, was that all your 2 remaining brain cells could perform?
@@cloke3076 Guess you know nothing about Viking history and Norse mythology then!
@@ChePennyDKit’s a video game it’s not that deep
Ashlands feels bland and flat, no elevation, no mountains, just a depressing greyish colour palette.. a lot of similar mobs with a few out standers here and there. It just feels like a filler biome as a preparation for the Deep North - the real end-game. I expected so much more after such a long time in development. New weapons do not feel unique to me, new magic weapons seem almost useless. Ember and Frost staves are still the way to go. Ashlands isnt difficult at all if you dont run around like mad pulling everything. Fortresses are far away from what I thought they were describing... just ram the door, kill the spam of monsters, loot the chest, nothing really that interesting... I dont know, I am sad it went this way and only hope the MODs will make up for this by keeping the game alive for the next 2 years... tbh, I feel like Mistlands felt more dangerous and mysterious and at the end of the day more fun to play than Ashlands where everything just looks and feels the same.