Dauntless is receiving an update in 2024. If you're looking to try out or return to dauntless there's definitely still people playing. If you've never experienced escalation content, perhaps try that game mode and craft some legendaries, formulate an opinion there. Escalation in my opinion, is the most fun game mode the game has to offer. Decent replayability, while also offering substantial player power rewards. Overall I've enjoyed my return to dauntless thus far, will continue playing for awhile and shelf it when something else comes around.
@@KDoodleNoodle99 if ur just starting the esca without amps its gonna be hard a little.. you should always have a good teammate to help you get started on any types of esca.. after a while you can just solo any esca except for the Heroic esca..
Tbh you aren't wrong. It's Phoenix labs fault they listened to people who want the game to be more competitive. If they stuck to what they were doing at first the game wouldn't be dead.
I mean no game lasts forever and dountless needs like a daountless 2 or something massive to being life and idk how the devs are i have not engaged in taht
Short answer: Yes Long answer: If you're new, it's worth trying, there's lots of content, even the repetitive ones like getting all 25 Escalations, it's still technically content, something that you feel like you are actively farming for, makes you feel some sort of reward or progress for every hunt that you do. If you're an old player like me, there's literally no thrill or fun left in it anymore, none of it feels rewarding anymore. But you can enjoy the game for at least maybe 4-6 months if you're into those kinds of games, so don't let it discourage you. Have fun out there
Honestly, Dauntless always was, and always will be a good game.. free to play, great time.. there's just the fact that we, old crew, got burned out on it... Luvs brotha
Here’s my (pretty salty) experience with dauntless so far, as a kinda old dauntless player (just ~1000hours back in 2018-2021) and an opinion on wether the game is dead or not. Keep in mind, I’ll mostly be mentioning negatives, but there’s a reason I kept playing for 1000hours. It is very fun and addictive to play as a whole.(especially with friends. Please play the game with friends. It’s a very different experience.) Edit note : Now a very outdated review, don’t expect my experience to be like yours. The game has always had great and fun base mechanics around behemoths, weapons and dodging but as the game progressed, they got less and less relevant, being slowly overshadowed by stitched-on modifiers and other things. The first issue is that the kill time for the behemoths has reduced sinificantly over time. Remember when getting sub 3’s for mastery was a real challenge ? When you couldn’t even with meta builds with the warpike? Now they die in seconds. That means they don’t get to attack you as much, you don’t get to experience their moves, you don’t get to practice as much as you could and as such you get tilted when you get hit. Now one solution for a better challenge has been to stitch heroic plus modifiers onto beefed up behemoths with more hp and damage. That’s trials. (and old H+ patrols) The issue is that the beefing up feels very artificial and the modifiers don’t completely fit the behemoth. (especially in trials) That last issue had been really amplified in the escalations era (when they were being added), to the point that they later toned down the trials, further reducing the kill times for casuals. Speaking of the escalation era, the addition of the gamemode was absolutely one of the best highlights of my time in the game and still is, to this day, my favourite mode. Unfortunately, after other elements were added and the hype came down, peope started to realize how annoying/unfair/downright stupid dual behemoths fights could be. The behemoths were not, in fact, coded to be fought together. The mechanics mentioned earlier often fell behing very inpredictable and often undodgeable combined attacks, wich can be unfun. As what I can only guess was a quick fix, the developers decided to make the behemoths quicker to kill by giving us amps to try and compensate for the BS, further devalueing the combat mechanics. It was indeed very fun to deal insane damage with the virulent impact amp, but then you also don’t get to fight the behemoths much... Later realizing this as well the devs decided, again probably as a quick fix, to make the powerful amps much rarer. This sadly meant the modifiers-dual behemoths BS went with much less of a fun counter and also angered the playerbase wich by then had already gotten very used to the strong amps. Then came various reworks of all kind, (and I still think the initial reforging update was the worst handled, as only 30-40% of my +10 gear got translated to aether heart. That’s A LOT of lost time upgrading everything (like really I think I had everything at the time at +10 except some armour) only to get like 20 hearts) The change was nice honestly with hunting grounds, sword rework (GOAT rework btw) etc., putting more emphasis on the combat mechanics again. I believe pursuits should have stayed though, as sometimes hunting grounds can be very annoying to farm in. Also for some reason the devs decided on including even more dual fights and modifiers in island events. Whatever. (It took away from the uniqueness of escalation IMO) The omnicells are fun, very fun but you can feel how they’re added ONTO the base weapons. It doesn’t work with them, it works on top of them with some of them completely redefining your playstyle. A few of them (all that’s used, with the dps meta) also deal very large amounts of damage, reducing EVEN FURTHER the kill times. (kind of a recurring theme of later dauntless) Then came the gauntlet, with the return of old ramsgate, and that was really cool, but was also just more repetitive endgame content. (Did not get very deep into it, it was introduced to emphasize guilds, wich I had none to speak of, and for nostalgia, wich I had a lot of.) Then the content drought. By this time I had completely moved on from dauntless, as had all of my friends.. All I’ve hear from this period so far is that players are exhausted from the game, wanting it to be something it just isn’t anymore. (outdated, no clue on the current state of things.) Then chainblades rework. How controversial. Basically for me it was my second favourite weapon (after hammer) downgrading to last place. I guess I was a sucker for spin-to-win content. Also throughout all of this I haven’t even mentioned any of the numerous bugs. Yeah, I keep on saying behemoths weren’t meant to do all this ? Well not just behemoths. You can feel it when you play. With behemoths AI especially. (Funny how the first thing that happens to me when I reinstall the game fresh after years is immediate successive UI bugs and game crashes) Also the UI bugs. So many UI bugs and latency. TL:DR : The already frustrated playerbase is being starved of new content and is actively leaving. What the game needs to stay alive is just a constant influx of new players to experience the game from the start. Edits : corrected some wonky grammar and typos, as well as adding precisions in parentheses. Oh and also, since I didn’t clearly answer the question : No, I don’t think the game is dead. But it has come a long way from it’s ”Golden age”, as all things do. Wether it can pick up again is up to the devs to listen to the community and keep the game as healthy as it can be, as well as up to players like us to recommend it to new players. Dauntless has been an unforgettable experience, defining a whole period of my youth. For that I will always be grateful and I hope it can be as fun for others as it was for me and my friends.
in your opinion what do you should be the average ttk for a behemoth cause sometimes behemoth like ember variants and rezakiris tend to be a hard to hit behemoth and them being more beefy just makes it not fun
En resumen: que los tryhards se están aburriendo de Dauntless por que no meten contenido ni nada nuevo que resulte desafiante, y que lo único que puede mantener vivo al juego es la entrada constante de nuevos jugadores
@@danielfast5506 basically 2 minutes at least for a freestyle speedrun on a higher-hp behemoth (eg : hellion). If you’re going all optimized prolly like 20secs. For casual play though ? Get the 3minutes to be a challenge again. Take this with a grain of salt though, because I’ve by now spent more time on monster hunter than dauntless, so I’m biased.
at this point I'd like to just see a dauntless 2. It's hard to bounce back from this long of a drought. Expectations will be high and I'm skeptical if they'll deliver what needs to be done in time.
@RevvyRad for real, my expectations are HIGH and I hope they deliver. I still remember the good old days, upcoming new isles, teases for behemoths for escalations, and sky fishing. Oh Sky Fishing how I'm missing ya!!!!
Alllllso, it's cross SAVE... you can still use your same account across all platforms. It's a very nice feature that made me play it way more than I normally would, because it allowed me to be on the go with Switch, or on the PS4 in bed, or at my desktop doing the harder fights with my mates. It was a great time. I don't play it much anymore, because other games have come out that took my attention, but it is still one of my favourite monster hunter type games.
I actually Started these games with Monster hunter 4 on DS. And migrated to Dauntless the Quality of life and gameplay Dauntless is way better... just picking plants and mushrooms is mostly optional in Dauntless while gathering was a requirement in monster hunter... you have to eat meals before each hunt and occasionally trap monsters in MH if you kill it you fail. Dauntless has none of that... also kill times in Dauntless is sooo much better.. I tried MH worlds and you bash on the same Monster for like 20mins before it runs away and you have to track it down deliver a few killing blows and you win. Behemoths in Dauntless used to run away but they don't now and it was never as annoying as MH. IDK I think each game has strengths and areas where they outshine the other, but its crazy that MH fans bash on Dauntless a lot and Dauntless being FREE, and cross platform, it is a great Game and I found it hard to go back the the MH franchise... it sucks to slash a dragon 100,000+times and is not die...you feel like come on the hunts should have ended 10+ minutes ago.
If you are taking 20 minutes in Monster Hunter, the problem it's on your end. The only thing Dauntless has over MH is being free to play and having crossplay like you said.
the time to kill monsters is WAY longer then in Dauntless, and they run aeay and have capture missions... also gathering and eating food get super old super fast. Luckily you can skip eating food, still it gets old having to do it. @@nekrumzero8117
I just can't understand the devs. They had a perfect foundation to do anything they wanted with the game, and instead they did absolutely nothing with the game for past 3 years. They could've added so many different game modes, content, behemoths, weapons, armors, maybe reworked some old modes instead of straight up deleting them. By now, the game should've been filled with content, but instead they will just rework combat for like 10th time now... The 2 "unique" weapons they added are a complete pain to farm, and the whole process of grinding them is so uninspired, lazy, and just not worth it, not to mention it's limited time event that they randomly decide when to bring back... Game is pretty dead, and that is without looking at the playerbase, the devs themselves pretty much killed the game, they just neglected the content for so long. They could've definitely put few devs to work on few new behemoths in the meantime, they are really crazy if they think the game won't completely die with 0 new content for another whole year. By the time they release their another disaster of an update next year, the game will need a full re-release, release on steam and alot of advertising to become somewhat relevant.
I stuck with public hunts and... well, back when I was playing more regularly earlier this year, anyway, I generally saw a healthy mix of fresh and multi-prestige'd players; sometimes as high as like lvl300+. That being said, it looks like your experience was fairly similar, so that's nice to see. :> Unfortunately, I just feel like I'm to the point where I'd need new weapon classes and/or new behemoths (and of course, their respective weapons and armors) to seriously draw me back in. .-.
Four things; 1 = you are switchist. I am a switch player with legendary weapons and do not struggle with the game at all 2 = I think i speak for all switch players when i say that we dont claim him 3 = I honestly dont think i have been to iron falls since before my first reforge (prestige), I even started playing on chain blades for the first time on my account and went straight to the blaseworks to speed level. And there is no good drops there 4 = I put my vote on dauntless not being dead. Whenever i play there is always so many people at high level events
I played way back when it first came out. Remember having to q up for hunts and squad up with randoms. Played for a few weeks. I actually had some cosmetics, maybe founder pack if they had that, don't remember but when i started up again a few days ago, I decided to reset my progress as I probably wasnt very far anyway. Long story short, im enjoying it a lot. Never was able to get into monster hunter but maybe once im done with this ill try that out again with a new perspective on things.
This is almost exactly what I experienced with Monster hunter growing up. I thought Monster Hunter was awful when I tried it at first. Fast forward few years later, friend told me to give it another go, fell in love, rest is history.
Many people saying Reforge killed the game. I can somewhat agree, as hunts got much faster, which "changed" the gameplay experience, but this is just the surface level. 1 month later Garena bought the studio. Just like everyone, i also tho "PL getting 150$m for free? How can that go wrong?" Oh... Before Reforged, devs released behemoths, escalation, trials WHILE working on Reforged. After that, i cant name anything as meaningful what was released in the next 3 years after that. The worst thing is, devs were working on the game, just didnt release anything. Theres at least 2 years worth of content ready to be released, devs just not releasing them for... reasons? While I was Partner, i had to remind them to use some of the unreleased assets (gold trial lantern, terra weapon rumours) because the devs have no clue about their own game and instead working with was they have, they just starting new projects without delivering first what they promised (over the past 4 years they cancelled at least 15 content updates, which most of them are in a playable state)
Wow so they sold the parent company made 150million and well game over the OG dev team won cashed out and then content drought and nothing after....I guess dauntless is truly dead after all then.
Honestly a good number of the OGs were heading out before the reforge update. I’d hardly say that’s what killed the game. I honestly loved most of the things the reforge update did for the game. The removal of specific hunts torpedoed the speed run community and the power creep/speed at which hunts were able to completed really changed the vibe of the game. What was a more dark souls style combat was becoming a button smasher for 99% of combat. At least that’s how it felt to me and ultimately what pushed me away from the game. I can honestly say one of my most fun gaming time periods was the Dauntless Sharpen your skills update in 2017. Great game play and some of the best people I’ve ever had the privilege to game with. It’s sad to see the developers are on auto pilot. Dauntless has had the most potential of any game I think I’ve ever played.
@@TheCoromaru I wondered why a monster hunter-esk style game company would change gears and make a Stardew Valley type game... really didnt understand the want to make Fey Farm... is it bad I want it to flop as (Selfishly I hate those type of games and it is recieving attention and Well Dauntless needs that attention?) Sigh... I really loved you Dauntless... let's hope maybe you return, but I doubt it.
I stopped playing after taking 20 minutes to find ecalations every time, it was last year or 2 years ago i think. Also the prestige system is just painfull.
Oh, the horror of people circling around you like sharks, just to know what level you are... It was actually one of the reasons why i stopped playing. I know you're doing that for 'science', but watching that is still painful. I love the game, and i've been thinking of coming back, but this video was a good reminder of why it's better to stay away until things change. ^^ Fingers crossed for the next summer!
I have a question: will dauntless like ever release new behemouths again because I play the game but I mainly find it boring because I have all the amour an weapons and there's nothing new to fight so are they adding anymore behemouths in 2024?
I played this game on console for years. It's a fantastic game. I just ran out of stuff to do. Before the prestige system I leveled up all the weapon classes. Maxed out most of the armor. After the prestige system I came back and the game play is still fun. It just ran its course for me. There were rumors of a new weapon years ago but it never got added. If they did I would come back to try that. The game play is still fun I just played it a lot. Still a great game.
I dont think its dead as of now, I think it might die if they dont get more devs, and/or if the next update isnt a damn near banger tbh. I still enjoy dauntless but I dont really see experienced players as much anymore (this is just a side note though, doesnt mean the game is dying)
I played during beta and spent money on the largest founder's pack available as well as several other mtx. The game died for me whenever they struck that exclusivity deal with Epic Games. Such a shame, I recall having so much fun.
If you think I'm petty for that, you're welcome to believe so. I'm against exclusivity in the gaming industry in general. If I downloaded the Epic Games launcher, it would be only for Dauntless. I don't need any more launchers, least of all one rumored to be spyware. While it may be true that Epic has helped expose the game to a wider audience, I believe the game had the merits to do so on its own. I'm sure being beholden to such a large corporate entity had negative effects on development. I do miss the game as it was from time to time, but I won't be downloading Epic.
I just started playing 5 days ago! I’m in love with the game and in love with the chainblades. I’m usually a first person shooter kinda guy so this is a beautiful change of pace! I can see how people who have been playing for years can get tired of it but not a guy like me. I’m actually addicted 🤣
Dauntless is in limbo. The game is dead for so many of us old veterans. People like me just have nothing to do. It's sad really because I think Phoenix labs had their priorities wrong. Thir worst mistake was catering the game to the trials players. It sort of makes sense that they made that mistake. I just wish they would have the foresight to see that trials is the worst end game ever. There are many things I wish they did. But they didn't. In the end, yes the game has new players. But for anyone with a conscious. They can see that there is no long term enjoyment in dauntless. And it's really sad, the cosmetic system is fantastic and the game play ca be fun at times. But the dev team just doesn't, and never really did, seem to know what they or the players wanted. So in my eyes. Yes the game is dead, very dead. But if others want to play the game. That's ok too.
The only way to save it is to along with this huge update. Launch the game on steam. Tons of people see dauntless not being on steam as a huge turnoff so the game will get s boost in players
I'm reforge 80+ on my Sword and I still play every now and then, mostly joining public hunts to help out on the more *interesting* islands (Blazeworks, I'm lookin at you). Actually got a few of my friends I met on MHW to play Dauntless and they're enjoying it so far, one even did the full Silver Sword questline (chad move for a relatively new player imo) Edit: So no, I don't think it's dead per se, but the number of active players has certainly been higher.
The answer is yes, lack of any content for 1+ years and cycling the same pass cosmetics shows 0 improvements on any of the game 1million bugs especially on console
I played this game as a monster hunter analog until monster hunter rise came out. I enjoyed the time I had with it back then, but I don't really feel the need to come back since I play monster hunter now(not the mobile game...though that too). 😅 Maybe I'll check out the new update next year or on a day I'm just bored and not feeling Monster hunter or some other game. I was a striker and sword main, since there was no bow. 😂 I also ran a vampiric shield build I never saw anyone else do.
the nail in the coffin for me was the chainblades rework, after they did it the weapon just felt worse to me and didn't feel like it got anywhere near the same amount of love as some other weapons got, on top of that the general lack of affection given to chainblades (was by far the most simple weapon, fairly under powered in all but very niche builds -spin to win-, and the lack of any uniques) came off as phxlabs saying they don't like the weapon and wish they hadn't made it.
I think what did a ton of damage to the player base was reforge. So many Content creators left the scene because of the stupid reforge update that killed a huge influx of hype for the game. It also made no sense from the type of game Dauntless is. Its supposed to be a gather behemoth parts to make better weapons. (How it was before Reforge) but now you need relatively few parts to make the weapon armor and a one time upgrade to max it out so each weapon and armor has 2 stages to upgrade as compared to i believe 15 levels for each in the past. Once the reforge update happened everyone felt nerfed and a mass exodus of players left. I want to see Dauntless return stronger then ever, but they hold onto the dumb leveling up of weapons a pointless system past 10 reforge. And now some players that 100+ reforge level will feel betrayed if they get rid of the system. But if anything killed Dauntless its the reforge aspect that really made no sense in a game like dauntless... a weapon level makes sense in a shooter, (for bragging rights) but in a game to hunt monsters it feels so off... like what is armor for except cell slot types? Lol you feel armor is useless its all about weapon level. Now with recent level bank I personally stay at level 20 so i can just do gauntlet mode with friends and that is getting old.. yep leveling system alienated friends and groups of friends as one guy might be level 16 or so and one is like 3... they have to somehow play together.... easy fix was to use xp bank everyone stay 20 forever till you maxed xp bank and stay 20...this killed any reason to play hunting grounds except blazeworks, and gauntlet mode...crazy how a Mechanic alienates its own content, and playerbase...lmao Reforge was the Unforging of Dauntless.
Great the play if you’re new, not so much when you have 2k+ hours and have everything done. I had my fun and wouldn’t change a thing. Made some great friends and made even better memories. (JigglyComet)
I just got back into the game on ps4 a few days ago. I’m not sure how many years ago I played but it was right before or right at the start of the pandemic. A lot changed, slayers path was pretty much new, I felt like I hadn’t done a lot in the game but could instantly buy almost all the slayers path and got the “Veteran Slayer” achievement essentially just after logging in. I went to check my skills, I had level 20 in repeaters and level 12 in axes, everything else was level 1. Reforging didn’t exist back then so I went ahead and reforged repeaters just to see that I had no weapons anymore for some reason, made some charred pistols because that was the highest on the list I had materials for. So far I have had fun, joining hunts is nearly instant and I always have 2-4 other slayers on the island. I got essentially power ran through cape fury for 2 hours because I was trying to make Iceborne, Omnicells are new to me too and it seemed the easiest to make. Realized I had 0 +3 cells so now I’m just trying to make a functional build lol. I’m having fun though, if you are on the fence I recommend trying it.
I’ve picked it up again after a year or two off, and I’ve been having a good bit of fun. I was surprised that it seems like they are having a big update planned next year but it sounds like it could be fun! I’m still hoping for some sort of new weapon to drop but ehh we’ll see
dauntless was fun ..........as in using the fun stupid builds full attack speed, hammer stun chain,axe 40k -114kcrits, perma slowed with frosty repeaters or mega bleed with fire repeaters .....chainblade just spinn than slam f boring , striker "time to go further and beyooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddddd".
Is Dauntless dead? If you look at it in terms of playability and variability, then it is quite enough. The beginner will go through the initial tasks, meet almost all the usual monsters and will be able to gradually move on to more difficult tests in the form of escalations and challenges. The game allows you to create quite a lot of different and alternative builds, which will allow players to choose a more suitable style. However, in terms of development, I think something stalled sometime last year. Among the latest innovations, in addition to events, there was something like Flameworks. The developers also reported that they were going to change the gene system by creating 6 sections, introducing some restrictions, and thereby making the system more balanced. However, over the past year no such changes have occurred. I didn’t notice any new locations, challenges, monsters, exotic items or side quests In general, you can spend a sufficient amount of time in the game with interest until you study all the weapons, collect and upgrade all the equipment But in the end, apart from some seasonal rewards for old players, there is little that can arouse serious interest (someone is already completing the legendary escalations without much difficulty)
I just started the game about a week ago, because of my friends constantly inviting me and I gave in, only for me to realize how free to play the game is, (like how you can get the hunt pass infinitely if you grind for 4 seasons, around 800 platinum, 25 per 25 chapter of the free hunt pass). And when I realized the game has nothing else to offer since prestiging your weapon doesn't make it any stronger rather it just gives you aetherhearts for 50% cheaper than crafting them, I do find grinding for the slayer path something to do, or doing the rumour quest. For me personally I can grind these stuff since I have a lot of time in my hands. And it really depends on the player on how their play style is like. So if there's a lot of players like me the game would be really alive, but since most players are looking forward for something new, I doubt they'd come back unless they're is a good new update .
January 2024, the game is thriving, my dudes. Hades Reach, I had a full party of randos and we all died together, side by side, like real men. There are also players who focus on trials, high-ass level players tho, but there are still a ton of people playing the game and a lot of new players as well. If you're thinking of trying the game, definitely do it. There's also an upcoming summer update, and this is a MAJOR update, my guys.
The game is dead, plain and simple. Is there a small group of players compared to before still playing? Yes, but to everyone else this game is dead. No new content in awhile (finally new content coming in summer 2024). Unless the content is mind changing and incredibly good in the 2024 update, this game will not comeback and will stay in the grave.
I've been watching a couple of videos trying to figure out what happened to this game. I could be misremembering this, but I thought this game was built like monster hunter in the sense that your weapons and armor could be upgraded and that your stats came from said weapons and armor. Coming back to the game I find that it's now tied to mastery levels and if you reset a weapon that affects your armor too? Was this always the case? I have not played since they initially added escalations, but I don't remember this being the case. Is creative very frustrating scenario as only one of my weapons was able to be reforged when I started playing again and I did not knowing the consequences of it. I figured I would just have less damage, but now I am in a situation where anything I have is either too strong or too weak to use with my friends.
dauntless should be more like Monster Hunter, less like mmorpg bc offline mode is a must for Dauntless, having p2p connection for lobby would be amazing for hunt.
The reason I stopped was cause my friends refuse to play it. They ratter play MHW. We've been playing MHR but nevet managed to convince them to play Dauntless xD
Been reforge 10 on pike now on Xbox for years I might as well be reforge 1000 at this point.. got a bud who’s 500 on all weapons other than the hammer.. that’s reforge 1000 not 500.. and by now I’d say he’s almost 2k reforge on hammer it’s been months since we played last
Dauntless re-forged killed the game for me. I have been playing Monster Hunter since 2005 though so for me it was originally only something "different" to play on console while waiting for the Iceborne expansion. I had some fun with it but Dauntless was never that great to me and only got worse as time went on imo. Whatever they're doing in 2024 will be too late. More MH games will release etc.
I played the game since release till 2 years ago. Now I logged in after 2 years and I must say. The game was much better back then. Back then you couldnt see the behemoth on the compass when you enter a map. You had to look around and had find it and then you had to tell your teammates with the flare otherwise they wouldnt know. Back then when you played an open game you got matchmaked with 3 other people and started together and you were not thrown in a game where everybody is already killing behemoth before you can do something. Back then you had to grind behemoth for materials to lvl up your weapons and armor. There wasnt something like "upgrading through using". They made the game way to easy and repetitive. sadly.
I mean i jsut started to days ago and i just went 1 hour and a halve farming shrouds B2B with a random group of people, not mentioning that every island i go are mostly populated. As i need player it doesn't feel dead and i'm enjoying the coop experience a lot. Thumbs up this comment so people see a positive comment on this game and decide to try it out!
True, after litteral years I came back to dauntless for a quick session an I immediatly got extremely irritating UI bugs and got timed out multiple times. Really NOT a pleasant thing to come back to. It may be bias, but I really miss the old days, before the reforge.
Dauntless is definitely not dead. It is however in a Limbo state. The game is realistically losing around the same players weekly as they are gaining which of course is not ideal BUT it's better than having a rapidly diminishing player base with no influx of newer players to fill that void. If you have some friends to play with, Dauntless is an absolute blast. That isn't to say though that the solo experience is bad in anyway. I find myself just zoning out and slaying behemoths some days with no goal and just relaxing. Then when my team is on, we run Heroic Escalations and Gauntlets. There's really something here for everyone but I do also understand a lot of the Veteran player's complaints about the lack of content for awhile. Dauntless is a fantastic Free to Play game with loads of potential. The next big update will be the "make it or break it" for the game and I am optimistic our buggy little game may flourish in a year's time
Short answer is yes. Long term for newer players they'll enjoy it. Dauntless isn't in its prime anymore, I don't have anything to do in Dauntless except help people with hesca and trials that's it. Trials and hesca is repititive and gets hella boring after 2k hours. With the new changes it can be good but also bad espeally the fact that time gating still exist and that people will be more competitive using 2 weapons there in trials, it'll be very difficult for a new/casual player to ever achieve top 100 unless if they get carried hard. There's so much potential in Dauntless, the game isn't getting as much views on Twitch which breaks my heart.
dunno if I'll come back to Dauntless, unless theres more content and stuff to grind. I already got 10+ prestige and got all legendaries. Game is boring now, there isnt much to do anymore
I don't know if it's anything to really say about Dauntless, but while watching someone stream Fae Farm, they had to bitch out several people who complained that Fae Farm "killed Dauntless" so.. who knows
They nerf everything that was “overpowered” and it killed the game. They even destroyed the game by adding “lore” they changed the hunting grounds, killed Ramsgate, and added prestige which made it feel like a grind even more than it was. I rest my case
Also you’re forgetting you can reset your account. My account kept resetting and I reported the bug over 20 times and they never fixed it as I am aware.
i think Dauntless is a super fun game i have 1500 hours and have every armour and weapon but still its super fun i just play diffrent weapon and builds and help newer player , also the comunity is super nice i not remember 1 tocix person, today this is realy rare in a game, if u consider to start dauntless just try it for urself
The funny thing is I'm watching this as the game downloads! I have switched to PC and don't feel like rebuying monster hunter so I want to try this game instead lol
The biggest problem with this game is there are now 2 great monster hunter games available for western audiences on pc. Imo Dauntless was always 5 years too late to ever really be popular.
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Tbh i felt that the game had potential but they failed miserably idk if the game is buggy and please correct me if im wrong all they do is release behemoths without gear sets or something which tells us that the devs are that lazy im sorry if it offended them.also please tell me if there's anything mistaken
Dauntless is not dead it free to play and it will always have new players but as soon as the new player reach the point where the older player reach they will find out why people left the game and the cycle continues
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Dauntless is receiving an update in 2024.
If you're looking to try out or return to dauntless there's definitely still people playing. If you've never experienced escalation content, perhaps try that game mode and craft some legendaries, formulate an opinion there. Escalation in my opinion, is the most fun game mode the game has to offer. Decent replayability, while also offering substantial player power rewards.
Overall I've enjoyed my return to dauntless thus far, will continue playing for awhile and shelf it when something else comes around.
What level weapons would you recommend trying escalation at? I’m level 10 again on repeaters, my first reforge, I power surged my stalkers cries.
mate mind If I can play with you?
@@KDoodleNoodle99 if ur just starting the esca without amps its gonna be hard a little.. you should always have a good teammate to help you get started on any types of esca.. after a while you can just solo any esca except for the Heroic esca..
If the game is dead, then its pheonix labs fault.
Tbh you aren't wrong. It's Phoenix labs fault they listened to people who want the game to be more competitive. If they stuck to what they were doing at first the game wouldn't be dead.
I mean no game lasts forever and dountless needs like a daountless 2 or something massive to being life and idk how the devs are i have not engaged in taht
@@empty4927for me competitive is more fun tho
@@darthjarjarbinks2480you mean like blizzard did overwatch 2😂
@@empty4927it could had been a more enjoyable and casual experience in the monster hunter genre
The game is definitely not dead with regards to people still playing. It's still a lot of fun.
The high content creators aren't playing this game that's their definition of a game being dead and such a lame excuse for some people to not play
Short answer: Yes
Long answer: If you're new, it's worth trying, there's lots of content, even the repetitive ones like getting all 25 Escalations, it's still technically content, something that you feel like you are actively farming for, makes you feel some sort of reward or progress for every hunt that you do. If you're an old player like me, there's literally no thrill or fun left in it anymore, none of it feels rewarding anymore. But you can enjoy the game for at least maybe 4-6 months if you're into those kinds of games, so don't let it discourage you. Have fun out there
Honestly, Dauntless always was, and always will be a good game.. free to play, great time.. there's just the fact that we, old crew, got burned out on it... Luvs brotha
Dead? No. Hibernation? Yes
Here’s my (pretty salty) experience with dauntless so far, as a kinda old dauntless player (just ~1000hours back in 2018-2021) and an opinion on wether the game is dead or not. Keep in mind, I’ll mostly be mentioning negatives, but there’s a reason I kept playing for 1000hours. It is very fun and addictive to play as a whole.(especially with friends. Please play the game with friends. It’s a very different experience.)
Edit note : Now a very outdated review, don’t expect my experience to be like yours.
The game has always had great and fun base mechanics around behemoths, weapons and dodging but as the game progressed, they got less and less relevant, being slowly overshadowed by stitched-on modifiers and other things.
The first issue is that the kill time for the behemoths has reduced sinificantly over time.
Remember when getting sub 3’s for mastery was a real challenge ? When you couldn’t even with meta builds with the warpike? Now they die in seconds.
That means they don’t get to attack you as much, you don’t get to experience their moves, you don’t get to practice as much as you could and as such you get tilted when you get hit.
Now one solution for a better challenge has been to stitch heroic plus modifiers onto beefed up behemoths with more hp and damage. That’s trials. (and old H+ patrols) The issue is that the beefing up feels very artificial and the modifiers don’t completely fit the behemoth. (especially in trials) That last issue had been really amplified in the escalations era (when they were being added), to the point that they later toned down the trials, further reducing the kill times for casuals.
Speaking of the escalation era, the addition of the gamemode was absolutely one of the best highlights of my time in the game and still is, to this day, my favourite mode. Unfortunately, after other elements were added and the hype came down, peope started to realize how annoying/unfair/downright stupid dual behemoths fights could be. The behemoths were not, in fact, coded to be fought together. The mechanics mentioned earlier often fell behing very inpredictable and often undodgeable combined attacks, wich can be unfun.
As what I can only guess was a quick fix, the developers decided to make the behemoths quicker to kill by giving us amps to try and compensate for the BS, further devalueing the combat mechanics. It was indeed very fun to deal insane damage with the virulent impact amp, but then you also don’t get to fight the behemoths much...
Later realizing this as well the devs decided, again probably as a quick fix, to make the powerful amps much rarer.
This sadly meant the modifiers-dual behemoths BS went with much less of a fun counter and also angered the playerbase wich by then had already gotten very used to the strong amps.
Then came various reworks of all kind, (and I still think the initial reforging update was the worst handled, as only 30-40% of my +10 gear got translated to aether heart. That’s A LOT of lost time upgrading everything (like really I think I had everything at the time at +10 except some armour) only to get like 20 hearts)
The change was nice honestly with hunting grounds, sword rework (GOAT rework btw) etc., putting more emphasis on the combat mechanics again. I believe pursuits should have stayed though, as sometimes hunting grounds can be very annoying to farm in.
Also for some reason the devs decided on including even more dual fights and modifiers in island events. Whatever. (It took away from the uniqueness of escalation IMO)
The omnicells are fun, very fun but you can feel how they’re added ONTO the base weapons. It doesn’t work with them, it works on top of them with some of them completely redefining your playstyle. A few of them (all that’s used, with the dps meta) also deal very large amounts of damage, reducing EVEN FURTHER the kill times. (kind of a recurring theme of later dauntless)
Then came the gauntlet, with the return of old ramsgate, and that was really cool, but was also just more repetitive endgame content. (Did not get very deep into it, it was introduced to emphasize guilds, wich I had none to speak of, and for nostalgia, wich I had a lot of.)
Then the content drought. By this time I had completely moved on from dauntless, as had all of my friends.. All I’ve hear from this period so far is that players are exhausted from the game, wanting it to be something it just isn’t anymore. (outdated, no clue on the current state of things.)
Then chainblades rework. How controversial. Basically for me it was my second favourite weapon (after hammer) downgrading to last place. I guess I was a sucker for spin-to-win content.
Also throughout all of this I haven’t even mentioned any of the numerous bugs. Yeah, I keep on saying behemoths weren’t meant to do all this ? Well not just behemoths. You can feel it when you play. With behemoths AI especially. (Funny how the first thing that happens to me when I reinstall the game fresh after years is immediate successive UI bugs and game crashes)
Also the UI bugs. So many UI bugs and latency.
TL:DR : The already frustrated playerbase is being starved of new content and is actively leaving.
What the game needs to stay alive is just a constant influx of new players to experience the game from the start.
Edits : corrected some wonky grammar and typos, as well as adding precisions in parentheses.
Oh and also, since I didn’t clearly answer the question :
No, I don’t think the game is dead. But it has come a long way from it’s ”Golden age”, as all things do. Wether it can pick up again is up to the devs to listen to the community and keep the game as healthy as it can be, as well as up to players like us to recommend it to new players.
Dauntless has been an unforgettable experience, defining a whole period of my youth. For that I will always be grateful and I hope it can be as fun for others as it was for me and my friends.
in your opinion what do you should be the average ttk for a behemoth cause sometimes behemoth like ember variants and rezakiris tend to be a hard to hit behemoth and them being more beefy just makes it not fun
En resumen: que los tryhards se están aburriendo de Dauntless por que no meten contenido ni nada nuevo que resulte desafiante, y que lo único que puede mantener vivo al juego es la entrada constante de nuevos jugadores
@@danielfast5506 basically 2 minutes at least for a freestyle speedrun on a higher-hp behemoth (eg : hellion). If you’re going all optimized prolly like 20secs.
For casual play though ? Get the 3minutes to be a challenge again.
Take this with a grain of salt though, because I’ve by now spent more time on monster hunter than dauntless, so I’m biased.
It sucks we have to wait till next summer 2024 for a HUGE update instead releasing mini updates every month or 2 months
at this point I'd like to just see a dauntless 2. It's hard to bounce back from this long of a drought.
Expectations will be high and I'm skeptical if they'll deliver what needs to be done in time.
@RevvyRad for real, my expectations are HIGH and I hope they deliver. I still remember the good old days, upcoming new isles, teases for behemoths for escalations, and sky fishing. Oh Sky Fishing how I'm missing ya!!!!
They were "supposed to" do mini updates. That's what they originally said
Alllllso, it's cross SAVE...
you can still use your same account across all platforms. It's a very nice feature that made me play it way more than I normally would, because it allowed me to be on the go with Switch, or on the PS4 in bed, or at my desktop doing the harder fights with my mates.
It was a great time.
I don't play it much anymore, because other games have come out that took my attention, but it is still one of my favourite monster hunter type games.
Youre kinda making me want to play this again
Its a good time in moderation!
I actually Started these games with Monster hunter 4 on DS. And migrated to Dauntless the Quality of life and gameplay Dauntless is way better... just picking plants and mushrooms is mostly optional in Dauntless while gathering was a requirement in monster hunter... you have to eat meals before each hunt and occasionally trap monsters in MH if you kill it you fail. Dauntless has none of that... also kill times in Dauntless is sooo much better.. I tried MH worlds and you bash on the same Monster for like 20mins before it runs away and you have to track it down deliver a few killing blows and you win. Behemoths in Dauntless used to run away but they don't now and it was never as annoying as MH. IDK I think each game has strengths and areas where they outshine the other, but its crazy that MH fans bash on Dauntless a lot and Dauntless being FREE, and cross platform, it is a great Game and I found it hard to go back the the MH franchise... it sucks to slash a dragon 100,000+times and is not die...you feel like come on the hunts should have ended 10+ minutes ago.
If you are taking 20 minutes in Monster Hunter, the problem it's on your end.
The only thing Dauntless has over MH is being free to play and having crossplay like you said.
the time to kill monsters is WAY longer then in Dauntless, and they run aeay and have capture missions... also gathering and eating food get super old super fast. Luckily you can skip eating food, still it gets old having to do it. @@nekrumzero8117
I just can't understand the devs.
They had a perfect foundation to do anything they wanted with the game, and instead they did absolutely nothing with the game for past 3 years.
They could've added so many different game modes, content, behemoths, weapons, armors, maybe reworked some old modes instead of straight up deleting them.
By now, the game should've been filled with content, but instead they will just rework combat for like 10th time now...
The 2 "unique" weapons they added are a complete pain to farm, and the whole process of grinding them is so uninspired, lazy, and just not worth it, not to mention it's limited time event that they randomly decide when to bring back...
Game is pretty dead, and that is without looking at the playerbase, the devs themselves pretty much killed the game, they just neglected the content for so long.
They could've definitely put few devs to work on few new behemoths in the meantime, they are really crazy if they think the game won't completely die with 0 new content for another whole year.
By the time they release their another disaster of an update next year, the game will need a full re-release, release on steam and alot of advertising to become somewhat relevant.
I stuck with public hunts and... well, back when I was playing more regularly earlier this year, anyway, I generally saw a healthy mix of fresh and multi-prestige'd players; sometimes as high as like lvl300+. That being said, it looks like your experience was fairly similar, so that's nice to see. :>
Unfortunately, I just feel like I'm to the point where I'd need new weapon classes and/or new behemoths (and of course, their respective weapons and armors) to seriously draw me back in. .-.
Four things;
1 = you are switchist. I am a switch player with legendary weapons and do not struggle with the game at all
2 = I think i speak for all switch players when i say that we dont claim him
3 = I honestly dont think i have been to iron falls since before my first reforge (prestige), I even started playing on chain blades for the first time on my account and went straight to the blaseworks to speed level. And there is no good drops there
4 = I put my vote on dauntless not being dead. Whenever i play there is always so many people at high level events
I played way back when it first came out. Remember having to q up for hunts and squad up with randoms. Played for a few weeks. I actually had some cosmetics, maybe founder pack if they had that, don't remember but when i started up again a few days ago, I decided to reset my progress as I probably wasnt very far anyway.
Long story short, im enjoying it a lot. Never was able to get into monster hunter but maybe once im done with this ill try that out again with a new perspective on things.
This is almost exactly what I experienced with Monster hunter growing up. I thought Monster Hunter was awful when I tried it at first.
Fast forward few years later, friend told me to give it another go, fell in love, rest is history.
Try MH rise or wait for MH6. World is good too, but Rise is much more fluid.
Many people saying Reforge killed the game. I can somewhat agree, as hunts got much faster, which "changed" the gameplay experience, but this is just the surface level.
1 month later Garena bought the studio. Just like everyone, i also tho "PL getting 150$m for free? How can that go wrong?" Oh...
Before Reforged, devs released behemoths, escalation, trials WHILE working on Reforged. After that, i cant name anything as meaningful what was released in the next 3 years after that.
The worst thing is, devs were working on the game, just didnt release anything. Theres at least 2 years worth of content ready to be released, devs just not releasing them for... reasons? While I was Partner, i had to remind them to use some of the unreleased assets (gold trial lantern, terra weapon rumours) because the devs have no clue about their own game and instead working with was they have, they just starting new projects without delivering first what they promised (over the past 4 years they cancelled at least 15 content updates, which most of them are in a playable state)
Wow so they sold the parent company made 150million and well game over the OG dev team won cashed out and then content drought and nothing after....I guess dauntless is truly dead after all then.
Honestly a good number of the OGs were heading out before the reforge update. I’d hardly say that’s what killed the game. I honestly loved most of the things the reforge update did for the game.
The removal of specific hunts torpedoed the speed run community and the power creep/speed at which hunts were able to completed really changed the vibe of the game. What was a more dark souls style combat was becoming a button smasher for 99% of combat. At least that’s how it felt to me and ultimately what pushed me away from the game.
I can honestly say one of my most fun gaming time periods was the Dauntless Sharpen your skills update in 2017. Great game play and some of the best people I’ve ever had the privilege to game with.
It’s sad to see the developers are on auto pilot. Dauntless has had the most potential of any game I think I’ve ever played.
@@TheCoromaru I wondered why a monster hunter-esk style game company would change gears and make a Stardew Valley type game... really didnt understand the want to make Fey Farm... is it bad I want it to flop as (Selfishly I hate those type of games and it is recieving attention and Well Dauntless needs that attention?) Sigh... I really loved you Dauntless... let's hope maybe you return, but I doubt it.
I stopped playing after taking 20 minutes to find ecalations every time, it was last year or 2 years ago i think.
Also the prestige system is just painfull.
Oh, the horror of people circling around you like sharks, just to know what level you are... It was actually one of the reasons why i stopped playing. I know you're doing that for 'science', but watching that is still painful. I love the game, and i've been thinking of coming back, but this video was a good reminder of why it's better to stay away until things change. ^^ Fingers crossed for the next summer!
I have a question: will dauntless like ever release new behemouths again because I play the game but I mainly find it boring because I have all the amour an weapons and there's nothing new to fight so are they adding anymore behemouths in 2024?
Im playinh right now back after year
I played this game on console for years. It's a fantastic game. I just ran out of stuff to do. Before the prestige system I leveled up all the weapon classes. Maxed out most of the armor. After the prestige system I came back and the game play is still fun. It just ran its course for me. There were rumors of a new weapon years ago but it never got added. If they did I would come back to try that. The game play is still fun I just played it a lot. Still a great game.
I literaly just quit dauntless 4 good a few minutes ago.
Unberable game im very sorry.
Its so broken,bugged and made on a very amateur level.
Yes , no interesting updates and after a while you can beat anything with shit weapon.
too many games to be playing dauntless right now, BG3, starfield etc etc etc
Look I just got dauntless and It just released on switch so that's why I like it it's a good game
It's dead over at my end, NOBODY does escalations, Trials etc etc.
I stared about a week ago an I’ve been playing it non stop such a good game imo
I dont think its dead as of now, I think it might die if they dont get more devs, and/or if the next update isnt a damn near banger tbh. I still enjoy dauntless but I dont really see experienced players as much anymore (this is just a side note though, doesnt mean the game is dying)
THE GAME IS DEAD AND MONSTER HUNTER KILLED IT. MOVE ON
There isnt much to say but *as a game* its fun imo
I played during beta and spent money on the largest founder's pack available as well as several other mtx. The game died for me whenever they struck that exclusivity deal with Epic Games. Such a shame, I recall having so much fun.
If you think I'm petty for that, you're welcome to believe so. I'm against exclusivity in the gaming industry in general. If I downloaded the Epic Games launcher, it would be only for Dauntless. I don't need any more launchers, least of all one rumored to be spyware. While it may be true that Epic has helped expose the game to a wider audience, I believe the game had the merits to do so on its own. I'm sure being beholden to such a large corporate entity had negative effects on development.
I do miss the game as it was from time to time, but I won't be downloading Epic.
I just started playing 5 days ago! I’m in love with the game and in love with the chainblades. I’m usually a first person shooter kinda guy so this is a beautiful change of pace! I can see how people who have been playing for years can get tired of it but not a guy like me. I’m actually addicted 🤣
havent played/ grinded this game since the early days like 2018 I believe and was a strikers main im updating it now on pc lets see if i still got it
Dauntless should never die , so much fun
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Is it really rare to find hammer and striker players? Cus both of them are my favorite weapons to play as 😭
Nope its not dead picked it up again still loving it
Not a hammer in sight. :(
Dauntless is in limbo.
The game is dead for so many of us old veterans.
People like me just have nothing to do.
It's sad really because I think Phoenix labs had their priorities wrong.
Thir worst mistake was catering the game to the trials players. It sort of makes sense that they made that mistake. I just wish they would have the foresight to see that trials is the worst end game ever.
There are many things I wish they did. But they didn't.
In the end, yes the game has new players. But for anyone with a conscious. They can see that there is no long term enjoyment in dauntless.
And it's really sad, the cosmetic system is fantastic and the game play ca be fun at times. But the dev team just doesn't, and never really did, seem to know what they or the players wanted.
So in my eyes. Yes the game is dead, very dead. But if others want to play the game. That's ok too.
The only way to save it is to along with this huge update. Launch the game on steam. Tons of people see dauntless not being on steam as a huge turnoff so the game will get s boost in players
I'm reforge 80+ on my Sword and I still play every now and then, mostly joining public hunts to help out on the more *interesting* islands (Blazeworks, I'm lookin at you). Actually got a few of my friends I met on MHW to play Dauntless and they're enjoying it so far, one even did the full Silver Sword questline (chad move for a relatively new player imo)
Edit: So no, I don't think it's dead per se, but the number of active players has certainly been higher.
The answer is yes, lack of any content for 1+ years and cycling the same pass cosmetics shows 0 improvements on any of the game 1million bugs especially on console
This poor game never had a chance. I thought it was fun.
Why did it never had a chance its a really good game that still people play
I played this game as a monster hunter analog until monster hunter rise came out. I enjoyed the time I had with it back then, but I don't really feel the need to come back since I play monster hunter now(not the mobile game...though that too). 😅 Maybe I'll check out the new update next year or on a day I'm just bored and not feeling Monster hunter or some other game. I was a striker and sword main, since there was no bow. 😂 I also ran a vampiric shield build I never saw anyone else do.
the nail in the coffin for me was the chainblades rework, after they did it the weapon just felt worse to me and didn't feel like it got anywhere near the same amount of love as some other weapons got, on top of that the general lack of affection given to chainblades (was by far the most simple weapon, fairly under powered in all but very niche builds -spin to win-, and the lack of any uniques) came off as phxlabs saying they don't like the weapon and wish they hadn't made it.
Still alive in my server. Still people playing, not escalations and trials though
I think what did a ton of damage to the player base was reforge. So many Content creators left the scene because of the stupid reforge update that killed a huge influx of hype for the game. It also made no sense from the type of game Dauntless is. Its supposed to be a gather behemoth parts to make better weapons. (How it was before Reforge) but now you need relatively few parts to make the weapon armor and a one time upgrade to max it out so each weapon and armor has 2 stages to upgrade as compared to i believe 15 levels for each in the past. Once the reforge update happened everyone felt nerfed and a mass exodus of players left. I want to see Dauntless return stronger then ever, but they hold onto the dumb leveling up of weapons a pointless system past 10 reforge. And now some players that 100+ reforge level will feel betrayed if they get rid of the system. But if anything killed Dauntless its the reforge aspect that really made no sense in a game like dauntless... a weapon level makes sense in a shooter, (for bragging rights) but in a game to hunt monsters it feels so off... like what is armor for except cell slot types? Lol you feel armor is useless its all about weapon level. Now with recent level bank I personally stay at level 20 so i can just do gauntlet mode with friends and that is getting old.. yep leveling system alienated friends and groups of friends as one guy might be level 16 or so and one is like 3... they have to somehow play together.... easy fix was to use xp bank everyone stay 20 forever till you maxed xp bank and stay 20...this killed any reason to play hunting grounds except blazeworks, and gauntlet mode...crazy how a Mechanic alienates its own content, and playerbase...lmao Reforge was the Unforging of Dauntless.
Great the play if you’re new, not so much when you have 2k+ hours and have everything done. I had my fun and wouldn’t change a thing. Made some great friends and made even better memories. (JigglyComet)
I just got back into the game on ps4 a few days ago. I’m not sure how many years ago I played but it was right before or right at the start of the pandemic. A lot changed, slayers path was pretty much new, I felt like I hadn’t done a lot in the game but could instantly buy almost all the slayers path and got the “Veteran Slayer” achievement essentially just after logging in.
I went to check my skills, I had level 20 in repeaters and level 12 in axes, everything else was level 1. Reforging didn’t exist back then so I went ahead and reforged repeaters just to see that I had no weapons anymore for some reason, made some charred pistols because that was the highest on the list I had materials for.
So far I have had fun, joining hunts is nearly instant and I always have 2-4 other slayers on the island. I got essentially power ran through cape fury for 2 hours because I was trying to make Iceborne, Omnicells are new to me too and it seemed the easiest to make. Realized I had 0 +3 cells so now I’m just trying to make a functional build lol. I’m having fun though, if you are on the fence I recommend trying it.
I’ve picked it up again after a year or two off, and I’ve been having a good bit of fun. I was surprised that it seems like they are having a big update planned next year but it sounds like it could be fun! I’m still hoping for some sort of new weapon to drop but ehh we’ll see
dauntless was fun ..........as in using the fun stupid builds full attack speed, hammer stun chain,axe 40k -114kcrits, perma slowed with frosty repeaters or mega bleed with fire repeaters .....chainblade just spinn than slam f boring , striker "time to go further and beyooooooooooooooooonnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnnddddddddddddddd".
Is Dauntless dead?
If you look at it in terms of playability and variability, then it is quite enough.
The beginner will go through the initial tasks, meet almost all the usual monsters and will be able to gradually move on to more difficult tests in the form of escalations and challenges.
The game allows you to create quite a lot of different and alternative builds, which will allow players to choose a more suitable style.
However, in terms of development, I think something stalled sometime last year.
Among the latest innovations, in addition to events, there was something like Flameworks. The developers also reported that they were going to change the gene system by creating 6 sections, introducing some restrictions, and thereby making the system more balanced. However, over the past year no such changes have occurred.
I didn’t notice any new locations, challenges, monsters, exotic items or side quests
In general, you can spend a sufficient amount of time in the game with interest until you study all the weapons, collect and upgrade all the equipment
But in the end, apart from some seasonal rewards for old players, there is little that can arouse serious interest (someone is already completing the legendary escalations without much difficulty)
I just started the game about a week ago, because of my friends constantly inviting me and I gave in, only for me to realize how free to play the game is, (like how you can get the hunt pass infinitely if you grind for 4 seasons, around 800 platinum, 25 per 25 chapter of the free hunt pass). And when I realized the game has nothing else to offer since prestiging your weapon doesn't make it any stronger rather it just gives you aetherhearts for 50% cheaper than crafting them, I do find grinding for the slayer path something to do, or doing the rumour quest. For me personally I can grind these stuff since I have a lot of time in my hands. And it really depends on the player on how their play style is like. So if there's a lot of players like me the game would be really alive, but since most players are looking forward for something new, I doubt they'd come back unless they're is a good new update .
January 2024, the game is thriving, my dudes. Hades Reach, I had a full party of randos and we all died together, side by side, like real men. There are also players who focus on trials, high-ass level players tho, but there are still a ton of people playing the game and a lot of new players as well. If you're thinking of trying the game, definitely do it. There's also an upcoming summer update, and this is a MAJOR update, my guys.
The game is dead, plain and simple. Is there a small group of players compared to before still playing? Yes, but to everyone else this game is dead. No new content in awhile (finally new content coming in summer 2024). Unless the content is mind changing and incredibly good in the 2024 update, this game will not comeback and will stay in the grave.
I've been watching a couple of videos trying to figure out what happened to this game. I could be misremembering this, but I thought this game was built like monster hunter in the sense that your weapons and armor could be upgraded and that your stats came from said weapons and armor. Coming back to the game I find that it's now tied to mastery levels and if you reset a weapon that affects your armor too?
Was this always the case? I have not played since they initially added escalations, but I don't remember this being the case. Is creative very frustrating scenario as only one of my weapons was able to be reforged when I started playing again and I did not knowing the consequences of it. I figured I would just have less damage, but now I am in a situation where anything I have is either too strong or too weak to use with my friends.
dauntless should be more like Monster Hunter, less like mmorpg bc offline mode is a must for Dauntless, having p2p connection for lobby would be amazing for hunt.
The reason I stopped was cause my friends refuse to play it. They ratter play MHW. We've been playing MHR but nevet managed to convince them to play Dauntless xD
Been reforge 10 on pike now on Xbox for years I might as well be reforge 1000 at this point.. got a bud who’s 500 on all weapons other than the hammer.. that’s reforge 1000 not 500.. and by now I’d say he’s almost 2k reforge on hammer it’s been months since we played last
Dauntless re-forged killed the game for me. I have been playing Monster Hunter since 2005 though so for me it was originally only something "different" to play on console while waiting for the Iceborne expansion. I had some fun with it but Dauntless was never that great to me and only got worse as time went on imo. Whatever they're doing in 2024 will be too late. More MH games will release etc.
I played the game since release till 2 years ago. Now I logged in after 2 years and I must say. The game was much better back then.
Back then you couldnt see the behemoth on the compass when you enter a map. You had to look around and had find it and then you had to tell your teammates with the flare otherwise they wouldnt know. Back then when you played an open game you got matchmaked with 3 other people and started together and you were not thrown in a game where everybody is already killing behemoth before you can do something.
Back then you had to grind behemoth for materials to lvl up your weapons and armor. There wasnt something like "upgrading through using".
They made the game way to easy and repetitive. sadly.
I mean i jsut started to days ago and i just went 1 hour and a halve farming shrouds B2B with a random group of people, not mentioning that every island i go are mostly populated. As i need player it doesn't feel dead and i'm enjoying the coop experience a lot. Thumbs up this comment so people see a positive comment on this game and decide to try it out!
After the rework forge system,it killed the game for alot of players,i myself include.its a.slow dying game,just my opinion.
Just came back to the game played it before it went to the epic store really enjoing it sofar!
how dare you diss my boy lightbound koshai like this?
(jk but I genuinely love it)
this didn't wanna play w u bc you're STIMKY gottem
I had to stop because it was unplayable for me. Id try logging in and it would just keep timing out.
True, after litteral years I came back to dauntless for a quick session an I immediatly got extremely irritating UI bugs and got timed out multiple times.
Really NOT a pleasant thing to come back to.
It may be bias, but I really miss the old days, before the reforge.
They need to learn and ADD THE FUCKING BOW.
I played like a week on release, and I've just come back and having a blast playing. I also see a lot of other new players still
hell yeah, enjoy your time in game!
I hope it isnt. I havent played in a while but i will always have love for this game.
I just started last week, the game might be dead for vets but I’m having fun👌
You'll have a lot of content for a while, but after catching up, you'll notice the content drought.
Dauntless is definitely not dead. It is however in a Limbo state.
The game is realistically losing around the same players weekly as they are gaining which of course is not ideal BUT it's better than having a rapidly diminishing player base with no influx of newer players to fill that void.
If you have some friends to play with, Dauntless is an absolute blast. That isn't to say though that the solo experience is bad in anyway. I find myself just zoning out and slaying behemoths some days with no goal and just relaxing. Then when my team is on, we run Heroic Escalations and Gauntlets.
There's really something here for everyone but I do also understand a lot of the Veteran player's complaints about the lack of content for awhile.
Dauntless is a fantastic Free to Play game with loads of potential. The next big update will be the "make it or break it" for the game and I am optimistic our buggy little game may flourish in a year's time
Amen
i just started 2 days ago WHY DEAD!? :C
Critically acclaimed lol? Game was a joke from the start lol.
Love my dauntless content me personally I love repeating the content
I see new players every few hours in the hub
There should be a new game like dauntless
Short answer is yes.
Long term for newer players they'll enjoy it.
Dauntless isn't in its prime anymore, I don't have anything to do in Dauntless except help people with hesca and trials that's it.
Trials and hesca is repititive and gets hella boring after 2k hours. With the new changes it can be good but also bad espeally the fact that time gating still exist and that people will be more competitive using 2 weapons there in trials, it'll be very difficult for a new/casual player to ever achieve top 100 unless if they get carried hard.
There's so much potential in Dauntless, the game isn't getting as much views on Twitch which breaks my heart.
Nope it not dead I just started an it's fun
dunno if I'll come back to Dauntless, unless theres more content and stuff to grind. I already got 10+ prestige and got all legendaries. Game is boring now, there isnt much to do anymore
Yes it is probably won’t ever get better
I don't know if it's anything to really say about Dauntless, but while watching someone stream Fae Farm, they had to bitch out several people who complained that Fae Farm "killed Dauntless" so.. who knows
has striker changed a lot since 2021? I used to play a lot of striker back then but I stopped playing this game
nah not really.
I started the game last week and love it
They nerf everything that was “overpowered” and it killed the game. They even destroyed the game by adding “lore” they changed the hunting grounds, killed Ramsgate, and added prestige which made it feel like a grind even more than it was. I rest my case
Also you’re forgetting you can reset your account. My account kept resetting and I reported the bug over 20 times and they never fixed it as I am aware.
I forgot this game was a thing lol.
Dauntless isn’t dead it’s hibernating
Its dead. With the Bow weapon with it
i think Dauntless is a super fun game i have 1500 hours and have every armour and weapon but still its super fun i just play diffrent weapon and builds and help newer player , also the comunity is super nice i not remember 1 tocix person, today this is realy rare in a game, if u consider to start dauntless just try it for urself
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funny thing is I'm watching this as the game downloads! I have switched to PC and don't feel like rebuying monster hunter so I want to try this game instead lol
dountless has never been a "thing"
The biggest problem with this game is there are now 2 great monster hunter games available for western audiences on pc. Imo Dauntless was always 5 years too late to ever really be popular.
This game would make millions if it just put itself on steam. People literally don't know this games exists
agreed dauntless on steam would definitely help revitalize the playerbase.
Oyunun ölü olduğunu söyleyemem hala oynuyorum yaklaşık 4 yıl oldu. Ve şu zamana kadar hiç oyuncu sıkıntısı yaşamadım oyuncu sayısı gayet iyi. Ve yeni büyük güncellemeler yolda.
No end game content. That is all
Before you watch the vid... yea
Tbh i felt that the game had potential but they failed miserably idk if the game is buggy and please correct me if im wrong all they do is release behemoths without gear sets or something which tells us that the devs are that lazy im sorry if it offended them.also please tell me if there's anything mistaken
Dauntless is not dead it free to play and it will always have new players but as soon as the new player reach the point where the older player reach they will find out why people left the game and the cycle continues
I come back to dauntless every once in a while. Fun game
I got back into the game on a new account and got 2 of my friends on it and we see quite a few new players aswell