For anyone who may be wondering the reason why this happened to the game: From what I've heard Phoenix Labs (Dauntless' dev studio) got bought out by a blockchain company called Forte, and subsequently suffered massive layoffs. What you're seeing here with this new update is, more likely than not, Forte trying to milk the game and it's playerbase for every meager penny they're worth before shuttering the game once these obviously detrimental choices made in the name of maximized short term prodit take their toll.
That would explain a lot for why they changed the update . The update when they first announced it , was suppose to go where we still had all the old weapons but could only level them so much but we also would have new weapons to get that could be leveled up higher . Than they changed it to what we have now practically last minute
Sounds slightly similar to when vainglory died bought by a company called rogue that went rogue and straight up shut down the game now it's entirely player ran and a shell of its former self
I mean yea... it needed a rework to combat maybe or at least to behemoths to make them less a battle of attrition 90% of the time... making everyone start over was a TERRIBLE idea... tokens or boosters be damned I'm not restarting a several hundred hour grind just to relearn a game I'd nearly "beaten"....
Man. Dauntless was my gateway to Monster Hunter and it’s sad to see how far it has fallen. This update was the make it or break it update and looks as if they went the “break it” path
Its been literal years since I've played Dauntless as well, and now the urge to give it another go is brewing. Actually- now I know why the title is called Hunting Is Ruined, HOLY SHIT!?!?
Just got into the game after a break last month because i saw a huge update was coming and everyone was excited Not only did the update take more than it added, it also made the game run worse than it did the entire month before the update Oh and it also broke half of the behemoths
In my opinion, Dauntless Awakening is the best advertisement for Monster Hunter: Wilds that I've seen yet XD Seriously though. The reason why I say that, is because to me, Dauntless has lost the feeling one gets while they played it. It started out as a simple, easy to pick-up and play monster hunting game, that was also fun to play. The Cell system, was simple and easy to look at and understand, and we could create very strong builds that were effective and felt good to use. Now? The game feels like it was changed to make the grind all that matters. To increase playtime as well as incentizive the player to pay money to play effectively. Pristine Aetherite for example, the best resource where leveling weapons is concerned, becomes increasingly less effective the higer level your weapon is. Meaning, it won't give as much exp at level 49, as it did back at level 10. And said Pristine Aetherite can be bought in the marketplace, for $15 dollars. 1 Pristine Aetherite, for 15$ per, and it takes 30 or more to level up one's chosen weapon to max. If anyone wants to do the math, feel free. Not to mention, now we only have One Weapon Type, per element, and they can ONLY be obtained via the store for Weapon Tokens. Said Weapon Tokens are obtainable in game, slowly, but also through the store for real life money. Now to the cell system. It feels like all of our past builds were either nerfed to the ground, or are broken entirely. Any cell can be put into any cell slot now on any armor, BUT, armor perks don't immediately activate anymore. Before the update, you equip a helm that had Knockout King x2 or any other perk, and it's effects would activate just by wearing it, allowing you to deal that much more stagger damage or whatever. Now, you have to full fil the perk count requirement for that perk, which for the better perks require a 6-8 point investment. And most armor pieces will only have one cell slot. Meaning, you will have to juggle armor perk points, and cells to fulfill the full required perks to max just to use them, and you have to keep in mind you have TWO weapons. Two weapons that if you want to play effectively, need to be different weapon damage types. Blunt and slash for example, so you can stagger, break parts, and sever tails. But in order to make those feel good to use later on, you need to to increase their effectiveness via armor perk points and cell slots you would need to evenly split between the two weapons, and make sure you max out whatever perks you do have. Which all this to say, we end up with less active perks, leading to less effective builds, leading to me feeling like I've gotten significantly weaker. OR, just forgo the second weapon and only make one your main. It would allow you to better build into that weapon entirely, allowing you to give it every perk it needs to be effective and feel good to use, but then why bother running a second weapon at all? At that point, it's just there to pick up exp, instead of being a valued part of your arenal allowing you to stagger, and slash, or pierce, or burn, or whatever. Now again, this is my opinion. I don't want to discourage people to play it if they still find the game enjoyable. I'm just here, stating my OPINION, in that I don't think it's fun anymore. Which, after waiting for this update and being told we need to be hyped up for it, just makes me feel disappointment now that we actually have it. Because all in all, they removed more content than they added, and it just feels bad.
I appreciate your take on this its very accurate i feel similar to this i played before the update and then i tried to get on again and i just couldnt play it its not fun not what we were expecting
Cell system is arguably more simple than it used to be since there are no longer levels to the perks What helps this further is every armor set now has the same perks when leveled in a set, which makes it easier to find the perks you need It’s 100x more garbage tho because there’s only 1 level to the perks and because it takes more than 200 behemoths worth of parts in order to unlock a few weapon talents and weapons no longer have any customization outside of transmogrification
I hate this update 😢 Seems like you have to pay to max out a weapon unless you want to dump 100 hours on a single weapon. You do have to pay if you want to get different weapon elements within the same weapon type. The worst part is cells are now single use and destroyed on removal from gear, while you can only make a single set of each monster's gear. They just reset the entire game for everyone and made it more grindy. The worst part is my game crashes constantly and sometimes I cant even get past the sign in screen.
Over 1k hours of my life down to drain just to farm more, yeah, I'll just go to MH Wilds. The update has a minimal amount of potential, but overall, it is terrible.
I literally started playing this game again last week after cottons video, got really into it, got to the point where I was doing escalations and was grinding my builds out, and then this update happened and just pulled the rug out from under me. They just ruined what was becoming one of my favorite games.
I spent almost $100 on this game back in the day (I have no regrets, my drip was FIRE), and it's so sad to see how far a game can fall. Dauntless was already in the worst state it was ever in, I never even imagined it could get worse.
@elpacho1451 i bought the hunt pass last week having no idea about this update happening.. no warning that I'm spending money on something that's going away in 4 days, no compensation for that happening, nothing.
@Silver-tb7hf i played it in the beta and didn't like it, but when I just got into it last week I actually loved where it was at. It felt good to play and the gameplay loop was solid. I even felt good enough that I bought the hunt pass. I wouldn't have had I known there was only a week left but still lol.
@@luigiongaming3959 A lot of the stuff that was wrong with the game was about the endgame systems (especially reforging), the game was still a pretty good time up until then.
I remember when Dauntless' twitter account laughed at Monster Hunter for not having cross-play or cross-save. Didn't age well with what this game has done.
Every collectible exp currency in every Soulsborne and Souls like game will always be Souls forever, and nothing will ever change my mind. Runes? Souls. Blood Echoes? Souls. Amrita? You'll never believe it, but also Souls.
Man I remember when this game was getting out there and making a name for itself. And now this? Heartbreaking to see one of my old favorites being burnt down.
The weapons themselves, the two slots, the ultimate ability on every weapon, is fun. The problem is there's no weight to the weapons or combat, no sense of accomplishment when you make a new weapon. All the weapon finding quests are gone too. You don't discover the godhand, you buy it from a street vendor.
Gotta love corporate greed. They didn’t even try to hide their blatant scam. How does someone remove weapon crafting in a game revolving around fking weapon crafting. Are they gonna remove Behemoths next?
I dropped dauntless once i learned sunbreak was coming out. This update has finally killed all interest i had left in dauntless, which is a crying shame because it was the perfect game to scratch that mh itch between releases if i didnt feel like just playing mh
@@Jayden-m8f I believe there’s still a grind in levelling up each weapon to max! They say that most players will never max out a weapon because of the work involved! I’ll be playing in a few days! Can’t wait.
@@westnerrs2084Leveling up weapons is more work than before since they increased the limit and how much you earn, besides if you want the maximum XP, you have to pay 1k for 1 high lvl crystal, also behemoths got stats doubled so they made to be difficult on purpose
it is sad a bit that what dauntless was vs the now, like i played when it first game to consoles sticking with the journey for so long, but seeing this, im just sad with the backward steps they took it feeling absolutely foreign. its the game ik i loved to play the skeleton is there but now all the stuff that was there is just gone and only the skeleton remained. it was when i unlocked everything as level 50 slayer ye oldin days but this rip old dauntless ill miss you
I saw 1 of the devs state they changed cells and armor so people werent using the same 8 damage cells every build to have more variety... which is cool except my axe throw damage on a level 20 axe with a build went from like 25k per throw consistently at 4 determination to the highest ive seen being 8k with a level 51 axe 3 determination. Soo like... can we revert the update
I'm honestly severely disappointed by Awakening. Figured I'd log in to check it out and found a lot of things I wasn't exactly hapy with... I had the hunger and molten edict before the update so it's cool I got to start with them. The problem though is that the devs seem to have done a complete 180 on their monitization structures and the level of grind required to make progress for new players is going to be insane. I decided to check out a progression reset just because what I came back to the game with left me feeling like WTF am I supposed to do with all this junk when I don't even know what I'm doing now. Overall I might get back in and regrind again to see what end game feels like, provided I have the drive to get there.
Thrax power is on Hunger, Banestorm is Malkarion, Bane scythe is Agarus, Cronovore and Torgatoro weapon died, Urska died too, So basically they want to make a new game and killed the soul of the game and for the beginning, they became mercenaries, if you want to be stronger more fast, pay to win
I haven’t played Dauntless in many years. I actually like this current iteration more than I remember playing before. Just feels more streamlined. Having two weapons at once feels nice too.
Also great that they somehow made all of the hitboxes worse??? I've been getting hit by things that I could just dodge through before (although that might be because of the skill that icreases i-frames). Not to mention the music not working sometimes, the new behemoth being exclusively locked behind an event that isn't guaranteed to happen (so I haven't even been able to fight it yet!), the broken aether vent animation, not fixing any previous bugs regarding other broken animations, clipping into things, the aforementioned hitboxes, removing the Middleman from the game (which is honestly the worst crime of all)... Atleast we get to do the *entire fucking tutorial* again to remind us of how abysmal this game is! On the flipside, your silly commentary and edits do still make this a worthwhile watch! And, credit where it's due: they did give Valomyr 2 new attacks! They probably have done it with a couple others, but it's the only one I've seen so far.
The humor isn't the only reason im laughing real real hard right now. Im sorry if youre a dauntless fan, but the downfall of this greedy garbage has been INCREDIBLY FUN
This game hasn’t had a good update since escalations. Reforge was bad, they added behemoths that were mediocre, and now they made it a cash grab and called it an update. If they actually wanted it to come back, they should’ve reversed it back to the original gameplay and kept the new behemoths
I been playing dauntless for 6 years since the first bete test all the way to the new update got to say even though the new updated has definitely changed everything a lot I still enjoy playing the game it’s a great stress relief game for me
(Technically) 225 Proobs in and there's still no Fish or Not Fish Documentaru 🐟🦀🌙🐌🐢 That, and for you to fight the latest Kemono, Tsukuyomi, is all we wait for
This game was good. It had its issues but it was good easy to learn a good leveling system and very little microtransactions. I genuinely don't even know how you can screw up a game this much. You can use dauntless in an example video of how to not kill a game
I was there when Dauntless transitioned to Reforge. All Exp on weapons gone and ABSOLUTELY NO ONE was properly compensated with the materials to level up the weapons. I thought that update was bad and I just quitted the game over it. However, this update...Wow! Yeah, I was planning to check it out but hell no. I'm not going back.
They didn’t actually change anything that needed to be changed and just, more or less, reset progress seemingly at random. I’ve been playing since the beta and I think I’m done.
I cannot believe they did this to the game.... I have nearly 1300 hours in dauntless...and I've been waiting for this update for years and it absolutely ruined the game wow! My disappointment is immeasurable I have not been this disappointed since the release of cyberpunk....what a joke.
It feels especially bad cause I rememebered dauntless existed and started having fun like a month back. Forgot the awakening update was scheduled for the 6th and logged in before immediately going "the fuck happened." Runs worse, plays worse-er. Remebering the chronovore event and all the hype around it just makes me sad to see what it became. Such a cool artstyle and so many assets tossed to the wayside for short term profit
I hate what they did to the game, but I do have some things I want to check out before I quit fully. I'll probably trudge through main quests at some point
Interesting o.o I haven't tried the rework but it seems way more simplified Let's be honest anyone who was playing dauntless past escalations really didn't have anything to do xD I'm excited to play this game again with fresh eyes
Its axtually good but unfortunately critisism is louder then praise. The irony is that most of the complaints are not accurate once you actually start playing. But surface gazer dont make it past the first load in and start screaming 😂
this game may die if they don't bring back the old things that have in the old update, bcuz weapon crafting using Behemoths materials is one of the key of the game
225 EPISODES SINCE THE FISH OR NOT FISH DOCUMENTARY PROMISE, NOW CONFIRMED FOR APRIL 2025! If it is not given to us by then, we shall remove Josh's ability to wield the axe and any and all Great Sword knowledge from his reflexes!
i noticed Josh was using the Silver Sword, and i made a relatively quick research on the Dauntless Wiki about it. for context, last i checked, the Silver Sword could be obtained by finding its pieces (i think it was 3) scattered throughout a specific island, then acquire a near-impossible-to-get item, and then finally reforge the weapon. but now, the Wiki says it's just *given* to you; in the Training Grounds - aka the *starting map* - when you *first arrive.* in other words - and because the Wiki doesn't specify - if i were to play Dauntless again, and i CAN (all i have to do is re-download it on my Switch, since i archived the game), then all i have to do is go to the Training Grounds, and this Legendary-tier Sword just given to me? if that's the case, then honestly, that's even better than finding the pieces and reforging it with a near-impossible-to-get item! and i LOVE the Silver Sword's design. 6:42 you're telling me it's THAT easy to get the Silver Sword!? just go to the Training Grounds, grab it, and you get to *KEEP it?!* because if it's the case, then that's fantastic! 18:00 heheheee, there he is; there's my boy! the Drask, with his lightning breath!
That's probably a transmog my guy. I use the same one for one of my sword sets. You just earn it buy doing weekly challenges to obtain a certain currency.
yeah, its one of the starter weapons. the other ones take weapon tokens that you get from the battle pass or from buying for cash. can't really farm for weapons anymore. you just buy them.
@@yeetus7449 hold on... you're telling me that now you can get the Silver Sword by simply going to the Training Grounds, and just take it? and you get to keep it?
I stopped playing this when they rework ruined the whole play style of the chain sickles I liked how they where fast pace with good movement to get in and out, I could hold off other behemoths in escalation but that was ruined and I knew it was down hill from there
Jesus, the fall of this game has been PAINFUL to watch. Good hunting RPGs outside of monhun are hard to come by since Toukiden's probably a thing of the past, the Freedom Wars remaster is a way off yet and we haven't heard a peep out of God Eater for years, so it hurts to see something like this get almost assassinated by a godawful "haha now it's a stupid grindy mmo microtransaction simulator" update. For shame.
I'm not particularly convinced the devs had any say in the matter, not when they got bought by a blockchain company of all things. If I see a dauntless nft spinoff in the future I'm going to vomit.
I cant even watch this video. I feel so betrayed by these developers that just seeing this version of the game be played makes me upset. See yall on the next rage video.
@TonyJenn they've been on reddit and discord deleting posts talking negative about this update. They put out a letter to the community that just ignores the dumpster fire that is outside their door and pretends everything's fine. The parent company didn't do that.
This company don’t think this is the dumbest trashes update I ever played I hope they know there game dead now they finna loose majority of people except for the new players
I was interested in playing Dauntless again but from the comments (& video), it seems like Dauntless is now an another reason to hate "free2play" games.
And it's such a shame, because when i started, you could buy a single hunt pass and completing it gave enough to buy the next, as long as you didn't spend the pay currency elsewhere. And seasonal events and things could give you pay currency, so a completely f2p player could save up and ride the train. I was genuinely enjoying my recent return to the game... Until the stole all the stuff i worked for and _bought,_ so the could hardcore cash grab.
Another failed Monster Hunter like, I've been hoping for so long that it would be at least decent by the end but now, no longer interested. Glad I didn't put any money up for it.
For anyone who may be wondering the reason why this happened to the game: From what I've heard Phoenix Labs (Dauntless' dev studio) got bought out by a blockchain company called Forte, and subsequently suffered massive layoffs.
What you're seeing here with this new update is, more likely than not, Forte trying to milk the game and it's playerbase for every meager penny they're worth before shuttering the game once these obviously detrimental choices made in the name of maximized short term prodit take their toll.
Aah thank for the info Time to create a clone lol
That would explain a lot for why they changed the update . The update when they first announced it , was suppose to go where we still had all the old weapons but could only level them so much but we also would have new weapons to get that could be leveled up higher .
Than they changed it to what we have now practically last minute
...Welp that explains a lot.
Sounds slightly similar to when vainglory died bought by a company called rogue that went rogue and straight up shut down the game now it's entirely player ran and a shell of its former self
Worst part is that this doesn’t even work for short term earnings
At least your guys humor makes things sting a bit less..... dauntless is dead.
It really is, it's so sad
I mean yea... it needed a rework to combat maybe or at least to behemoths to make them less a battle of attrition 90% of the time... making everyone start over was a TERRIBLE idea... tokens or boosters be damned I'm not restarting a several hundred hour grind just to relearn a game I'd nearly "beaten"....
Man. Dauntless was my gateway to Monster Hunter and it’s sad to see how far it has fallen. This update was the make it or break it update and looks as if they went the “break it” path
break it? They took it and smashed it with a sledgehammer until it was nothing mush then set it on fire.
This coming out 2 months before Wilds is like....embarrassing.
This actually is causing me discomfort that Dauntless deleted everything I had😢
@@oderflafrredy2790 facts 💯
@@TripGod77 you are not alone friend
nothing like taking a decent game and shoving it in the blender
This is how I found out two things. 1. Oh yeah, Dauntless is a thing. 2. Wow, Dauntless is still a thing.
3. Oh... I guess dauntless doesn't plan to be a thing for much longer.
Its been literal years since I've played Dauntless as well, and now the urge to give it another go is brewing.
Actually- now I know why the title is called Hunting Is Ruined, HOLY SHIT!?!?
Just a tip don’t
I remembered it just recently, downloaded right with the update without even knowing about it. My dreams of happy huntinng were ruined as well.
Just got into the game after a break last month because i saw a huge update was coming and everyone was excited
Not only did the update take more than it added, it also made the game run worse than it did the entire month before the update
Oh and it also broke half of the behemoths
In my opinion, Dauntless Awakening is the best advertisement for Monster Hunter: Wilds that I've seen yet XD
Seriously though. The reason why I say that, is because to me, Dauntless has lost the feeling one gets while they played it. It started out as a simple, easy to pick-up and play monster hunting game, that was also fun to play. The Cell system, was simple and easy to look at and understand, and we could create very strong builds that were effective and felt good to use.
Now? The game feels like it was changed to make the grind all that matters. To increase playtime as well as incentizive the player to pay money to play effectively. Pristine Aetherite for example, the best resource where leveling weapons is concerned, becomes increasingly less effective the higer level your weapon is. Meaning, it won't give as much exp at level 49, as it did back at level 10. And said Pristine Aetherite can be bought in the marketplace, for $15 dollars. 1 Pristine Aetherite, for 15$ per, and it takes 30 or more to level up one's chosen weapon to max. If anyone wants to do the math, feel free. Not to mention, now we only have One Weapon Type, per element, and they can ONLY be obtained via the store for Weapon Tokens. Said Weapon Tokens are obtainable in game, slowly, but also through the store for real life money. Now to the cell system. It feels like all of our past builds were either nerfed to the ground, or are broken entirely. Any cell can be put into any cell slot now on any armor, BUT, armor perks don't immediately activate anymore. Before the update, you equip a helm that had Knockout King x2 or any other perk, and it's effects would activate just by wearing it, allowing you to deal that much more stagger damage or whatever. Now, you have to full fil the perk count requirement for that perk, which for the better perks require a 6-8 point investment. And most armor pieces will only have one cell slot. Meaning, you will have to juggle armor perk points, and cells to fulfill the full required perks to max just to use them, and you have to keep in mind you have TWO weapons. Two weapons that if you want to play effectively, need to be different weapon damage types. Blunt and slash for example, so you can stagger, break parts, and sever tails. But in order to make those feel good to use later on, you need to to increase their effectiveness via armor perk points and cell slots you would need to evenly split between the two weapons, and make sure you max out whatever perks you do have. Which all this to say, we end up with less active perks, leading to less effective builds, leading to me feeling like I've gotten significantly weaker. OR, just forgo the second weapon and only make one your main. It would allow you to better build into that weapon entirely, allowing you to give it every perk it needs to be effective and feel good to use, but then why bother running a second weapon at all? At that point, it's just there to pick up exp, instead of being a valued part of your arenal allowing you to stagger, and slash, or pierce, or burn, or whatever.
Now again, this is my opinion. I don't want to discourage people to play it if they still find the game enjoyable. I'm just here, stating my OPINION, in that I don't think it's fun anymore. Which, after waiting for this update and being told we need to be hyped up for it, just makes me feel disappointment now that we actually have it. Because all in all, they removed more content than they added, and it just feels bad.
Thank you, Dr. Paragraph.
@@silver_n_gold5 No problem, citizen!
I appreciate your take on this its very accurate i feel similar to this i played before the update and then i tried to get on again and i just couldnt play it its not fun not what we were expecting
Cell system is arguably more simple than it used to be since there are no longer levels to the perks
What helps this further is every armor set now has the same perks when leveled in a set, which makes it easier to find the perks you need
It’s 100x more garbage tho because there’s only 1 level to the perks and because it takes more than 200 behemoths worth of parts in order to unlock a few weapon talents and weapons no longer have any customization outside of transmogrification
I hate this update 😢
Seems like you have to pay to max out a weapon unless you want to dump 100 hours on a single weapon. You do have to pay if you want to get different weapon elements within the same weapon type. The worst part is cells are now single use and destroyed on removal from gear, while you can only make a single set of each monster's gear. They just reset the entire game for everyone and made it more grindy.
The worst part is my game crashes constantly and sometimes I cant even get past the sign in screen.
wah wah. your being a big baby. Pull up your big kids panites, suck it up and get good.
Over 1k hours of my life down to drain just to farm more, yeah, I'll just go to MH Wilds.
The update has a minimal amount of potential, but overall, it is terrible.
you do it's basically trying to milk the fanbase before the company goes under
8:53 Embermane: literally dead
“I don’t feel like this is going to be to difficult”
Space pirates are totally a thing. Don't you all remember treasure planet??
time for silver
I literally started playing this game again last week after cottons video, got really into it, got to the point where I was doing escalations and was grinding my builds out, and then this update happened and just pulled the rug out from under me. They just ruined what was becoming one of my favorite games.
The same here, thank God I haven't spend a penny on this game
I spent almost $100 on this game back in the day (I have no regrets, my drip was FIRE), and it's so sad to see how far a game can fall. Dauntless was already in the worst state it was ever in, I never even imagined it could get worse.
@elpacho1451 i bought the hunt pass last week having no idea about this update happening.. no warning that I'm spending money on something that's going away in 4 days, no compensation for that happening, nothing.
@Silver-tb7hf i played it in the beta and didn't like it, but when I just got into it last week I actually loved where it was at. It felt good to play and the gameplay loop was solid. I even felt good enough that I bought the hunt pass. I wouldn't have had I known there was only a week left but still lol.
@@luigiongaming3959 A lot of the stuff that was wrong with the game was about the endgame systems (especially reforging), the game was still a pretty good time up until then.
I remember when Dauntless' twitter account laughed at Monster Hunter for not having cross-play or cross-save. Didn't age well with what this game has done.
i remember the first time josh and cotton played dauntless ngl there able to make any game look fun asf
Calling the behemoths monsters is like calling Runes Souls. It may not be technically correct, but... I mean, come one we know it's true.
Every collectible exp currency in every Soulsborne and Souls like game will always be Souls forever, and nothing will ever change my mind. Runes? Souls. Blood Echoes? Souls. Amrita? You'll never believe it, but also Souls.
it will forever be Bonfires, Estus, and Souls. no exception!
Man I remember when this game was getting out there and making a name for itself. And now this? Heartbreaking to see one of my old favorites being burnt down.
All we needed was a neutral escalation. Instead we get this. 🤦🏾♂️
The weapons themselves, the two slots, the ultimate ability on every weapon, is fun. The problem is there's no weight to the weapons or combat, no sense of accomplishment when you make a new weapon. All the weapon finding quests are gone too. You don't discover the godhand, you buy it from a street vendor.
Gotta love corporate greed. They didn’t even try to hide their blatant scam. How does someone remove weapon crafting in a game revolving around fking weapon crafting.
Are they gonna remove
Behemoths next?
I dropped dauntless once i learned sunbreak was coming out. This update has finally killed all interest i had left in dauntless, which is a crying shame because it was the perfect game to scratch that mh itch between releases if i didnt feel like just playing mh
They ruined the GAME.......
Give it time
They need to bring back reforged
@@Jayden-m8f I believe there’s still a grind in levelling up each weapon to max! They say that most players will never max out a weapon because of the work involved! I’ll be playing in a few days! Can’t wait.
@@westnerrs2084 no what I mean is the reforged update
@@westnerrs2084Leveling up weapons is more work than before since they increased the limit and how much you earn, besides if you want the maximum XP, you have to pay 1k for 1 high lvl crystal, also behemoths got stats doubled so they made to be difficult on purpose
it is sad a bit that what dauntless was vs the now, like i played when it first game to consoles sticking with the journey for so long, but seeing this, im just sad with the backward steps they took it feeling absolutely foreign. its the game ik i loved to play the skeleton is there but now all the stuff that was there is just gone and only the skeleton remained. it was when i unlocked everything as level 50 slayer ye oldin days but this rip old dauntless ill miss you
i didnt care for the game (the artstyle mostly) i could see the appeal
I saw 1 of the devs state they changed cells and armor so people werent using the same 8 damage cells every build to have more variety... which is cool except my axe throw damage on a level 20 axe with a build went from like 25k per throw consistently at 4 determination to the highest ive seen being 8k with a level 51 axe 3 determination. Soo like... can we revert the update
IF they did reverse it, could we get all our stuff back? Doubtful.
Jumping in and being confused while being slapped in the face with menus and shops is exactly my Dauntless experience.
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I'm honestly severely disappointed by Awakening. Figured I'd log in to check it out and found a lot of things I wasn't exactly hapy with... I had the hunger and molten edict before the update so it's cool I got to start with them. The problem though is that the devs seem to have done a complete 180 on their monitization structures and the level of grind required to make progress for new players is going to be insane. I decided to check out a progression reset just because what I came back to the game with left me feeling like WTF am I supposed to do with all this junk when I don't even know what I'm doing now. Overall I might get back in and regrind again to see what end game feels like, provided I have the drive to get there.
update: so it seems that if you had leveled any weapons before doing a reset, those levels are now kept but armor isn't? wtf?
16:53 He come from the land down Umbral
This genuinely feels like I'm watching "Good Omens" hunter edition.
Im glad ive got some stuff to grind for again sucks that we lost so many weapons and skins i probably paid for 😂
Thrax power is on Hunger, Banestorm is Malkarion, Bane scythe is Agarus, Cronovore and Torgatoro weapon died, Urska died too, So basically they want to make a new game and killed the soul of the game and for the beginning, they became mercenaries, if you want to be stronger more fast, pay to win
I haven’t played Dauntless in many years. I actually like this current iteration more than I remember playing before. Just feels more streamlined. Having two weapons at once feels nice too.
Quite frankly, I despise the new update. The customization is so much more limited now, and I don't enjoy it.
Also great that they somehow made all of the hitboxes worse??? I've been getting hit by things that I could just dodge through before (although that might be because of the skill that icreases i-frames). Not to mention the music not working sometimes, the new behemoth being exclusively locked behind an event that isn't guaranteed to happen (so I haven't even been able to fight it yet!), the broken aether vent animation, not fixing any previous bugs regarding other broken animations, clipping into things, the aforementioned hitboxes, removing the Middleman from the game (which is honestly the worst crime of all)... Atleast we get to do the *entire fucking tutorial* again to remind us of how abysmal this game is!
On the flipside, your silly commentary and edits do still make this a worthwhile watch! And, credit where it's due: they did give Valomyr 2 new attacks! They probably have done it with a couple others, but it's the only one I've seen so far.
Dauntless is starting to get insane now. Looking forward to see more of your NEW Dauntless Moments.
The humor isn't the only reason im laughing real real hard right now. Im sorry if youre a dauntless fan, but the downfall of this greedy garbage has been INCREDIBLY FUN
ight bro quit talking smack before i smack you
This game hasn’t had a good update since escalations. Reforge was bad, they added behemoths that were mediocre, and now they made it a cash grab and called it an update. If they actually wanted it to come back, they should’ve reversed it back to the original gameplay and kept the new behemoths
I was hoping to one day get back to playing Dauntless....I guess that day will never come now.
Dauntless : Downfall
I been playing dauntless for 6 years since the first bete test all the way to the new update got to say even though the new updated has definitely changed everything a lot I still enjoy playing the game it’s a great stress relief game for me
i still have no idea how to unlock new islands, im stuck with the lvl 20 ones and im almost lvl 50 with my weapon, where do we get them?
I was anticipating this happening eventually
(Technically) 225 Proobs in and there's still no Fish or Not Fish Documentaru 🐟🦀🌙🐌🐢
That, and for you to fight the latest Kemono, Tsukuyomi, is all we wait for
How often do l make jokes about chemistry? Periodically.
This game was good. It had its issues but it was good easy to learn a good leveling system and very little microtransactions. I genuinely don't even know how you can screw up a game this much. You can use dauntless in an example video of how to not kill a game
10:55 please Bungie dont sunset my weap... Oh different company.
I was there when Dauntless transitioned to Reforge. All Exp on weapons gone and ABSOLUTELY NO ONE was properly compensated with the materials to level up the weapons. I thought that update was bad and I just quitted the game over it. However, this update...Wow! Yeah, I was planning to check it out but hell no. I'm not going back.
0:30 they said there would be a bow in this update but that didn’t happen
They didn’t actually change anything that needed to be changed and just, more or less, reset progress seemingly at random. I’ve been playing since the beta and I think I’m done.
Give me my weapons back you bunch of bandits
We earned them, now we have to re- earn our stuff again?
i really wanna know what they were thinking XC
I cannot believe they did this to the game.... I have nearly 1300 hours in dauntless...and I've been waiting for this update for years and it absolutely ruined the game wow! My disappointment is immeasurable I have not been this disappointed since the release of cyberpunk....what a joke.
It feels especially bad cause I rememebered dauntless existed and started having fun like a month back. Forgot the awakening update was scheduled for the 6th and logged in before immediately going "the fuck happened." Runs worse, plays worse-er.
Remebering the chronovore event and all the hype around it just makes me sad to see what it became. Such a cool artstyle and so many assets tossed to the wayside for short term profit
DAUNTLESS. LETS GO!
Sad what happened.
I now demand alien games now that I, a human, know that now alien games are an option now.
Anything you put up is an option. That is why I, a possible Axe, keep suggesting Brütal Legend.
. . .
And Sunset Overdrive
As a long term 1 shot builder......no, you dont need stagger 🤣 18:32
After playing this game since release, this update actually killed the old dauntless i knew 2 days ago.
You guys should give wayfinder a try , it's way better right now
I hate what they did to the game, but I do have some things I want to check out before I quit fully. I'll probably trudge through main quests at some point
28:53 Huh, that made me think of a hero who can verify information by seeing if they can say it. If they can't, it's a lie.
. . .
TM🙃
Does anyone know if rage made a video on him creating his own character?
The game had potential but they let it die
Yep
I was excited to see it came to steam, then i saw the reveiws...
I tried Dauntless on the console and it would never really work with all the log in and registering things you had to do so I just gave up.
Dude, it was a long time.
At least monster hunter doesn’t have a rival 😼
Nostalgia kinda
All my AXES were gone 😡
I grinded to get all the legendary weapons, but i couldnt power surge them, SO I COULDNT BUY THEIR NEW VERSIONS
Yo let’s gooo
3:47 new players don’t get coins btw
Interesting o.o I haven't tried the rework but it seems way more simplified
Let's be honest anyone who was playing dauntless past escalations really didn't have anything to do xD
I'm excited to play this game again with fresh eyes
Its axtually good but unfortunately critisism is louder then praise. The irony is that most of the complaints are not accurate once you actually start playing. But surface gazer dont make it past the first load in and start screaming 😂
this game may die if they don't bring back the old things that have in the old update, bcuz weapon crafting using Behemoths materials is one of the key of the game
Ahhh Dauntless not grounded 😢
225 EPISODES SINCE THE FISH OR NOT FISH DOCUMENTARY PROMISE, NOW CONFIRMED FOR APRIL 2025! If it is not given to us by then, we shall remove Josh's ability to wield the axe and any and all Great Sword knowledge from his reflexes!
Idk if it’s only a steam thing but I got it on my ps5 so….. idk what it means for me 🤷🏾♂️
ive just been private hunting
I backed this game and was disappointed I did :/
54 secs and no views 😢
i noticed Josh was using the Silver Sword, and i made a relatively quick research on the Dauntless Wiki about it.
for context, last i checked, the Silver Sword could be obtained by finding its pieces (i think it was 3) scattered throughout a specific island, then acquire a near-impossible-to-get item, and then finally reforge the weapon.
but now, the Wiki says it's just *given* to you; in the Training Grounds - aka the *starting map* - when you *first arrive.*
in other words - and because the Wiki doesn't specify - if i were to play Dauntless again, and i CAN (all i have to do is re-download it on my Switch, since i archived the game), then all i have to do is go to the Training Grounds, and this Legendary-tier Sword just given to me?
if that's the case, then honestly, that's even better than finding the pieces and reforging it with a near-impossible-to-get item! and i LOVE the Silver Sword's design.
6:42 you're telling me it's THAT easy to get the Silver Sword!? just go to the Training Grounds, grab it, and you get to *KEEP it?!* because if it's the case, then that's fantastic!
18:00 heheheee, there he is; there's my boy! the Drask, with his lightning breath!
That's probably a transmog my guy. I use the same one for one of my sword sets. You just earn it buy doing weekly challenges to obtain a certain currency.
yeah, its one of the starter weapons. the other ones take weapon tokens that you get from the battle pass or from buying for cash. can't really farm for weapons anymore. you just buy them.
@@yeetus7449 hold on... you're telling me that now you can get the Silver Sword by simply going to the Training Grounds, and just take it? and you get to keep it?
Not a bad game, but I'd rather just play Wayfinder instead.
I stopped playing this when they rework ruined the whole play style of the chain sickles I liked how they where fast pace with good movement to get in and out, I could hold off other behemoths in escalation but that was ruined and I knew it was down hill from there
they removed the Hunting aspect of this game a long time ago, that's why I quit , even when I bought the founder's pack LOL
jokes on me
Can you PLEASE turn that motion blur down
Jesus, the fall of this game has been PAINFUL to watch. Good hunting RPGs outside of monhun are hard to come by since Toukiden's probably a thing of the past, the Freedom Wars remaster is a way off yet and we haven't heard a peep out of God Eater for years, so it hurts to see something like this get almost assassinated by a godawful "haha now it's a stupid grindy mmo microtransaction simulator" update. For shame.
this game no longer resemble Monster Hunter. devs said they're a fan of monster hunter but decided to choose free 2 play GaaS live service bullshit.
I'm not particularly convinced the devs had any say in the matter, not when they got bought by a blockchain company of all things.
If I see a dauntless nft spinoff in the future I'm going to vomit.
Overwatch died, this died.
Smite let us keep 1 while they polish up 2
AYO?! Why is Dauntless now partially Monster Hunter Wilds now? I'm not complaining but damn xD
What do you mean? Dauntless has always been one of the "not MH," kinda like how the guy from Parks and Recreations is "not Tom Selleck"
Or 10:38
What are you talking about?
...?
What I just said?
The moment i saw molten edict special attack i closed the game and went to bed.
Dissapointment.
Well OhDough was the reason why.
Yo first!
2 people ahead of you. Also, quality-less (not) first, so value negated
I cant even watch this video. I feel so betrayed by these developers that just seeing this version of the game be played makes me upset. See yall on the next rage video.
I wouldn’t exactly lay all the blame on the devs. Apparently a lot of them were dismissed by their new parent company according to some comments.
@TonyJenn they've been on reddit and discord deleting posts talking negative about this update. They put out a letter to the community that just ignores the dumpster fire that is outside their door and pretends everything's fine. The parent company didn't do that.
I've played this game for years and the current state of the game is the worst it has ever been
This company don’t think this is the dumbest trashes update I ever played I hope they know there game dead now they finna loose majority of people except for the new players
Everything was better last update and now it’s dead.
…all of my stuff… weapons… lanterns… CELLS… all gone just to “WALMART” COPY AND PASTE MONSTER HUNTER WILDS 😭
It's cooked I'm quiting
I was interested in playing Dauntless again but from the comments (& video), it seems like Dauntless is now an another reason to hate "free2play" games.
It was okay , but yeah it's now dead
And it's such a shame, because when i started, you could buy a single hunt pass and completing it gave enough to buy the next, as long as you didn't spend the pay currency elsewhere.
And seasonal events and things could give you pay currency, so a completely f2p player could save up and ride the train.
I was genuinely enjoying my recent return to the game... Until the stole all the stuff i worked for and _bought,_ so the could hardcore cash grab.
Another failed Monster Hunter like, I've been hoping for so long that it would be at least decent by the end but now, no longer interested. Glad I didn't put any money up for it.
Wow, I could tell you were straining to say anything positive there at the end. For once, I will politely request you not do any more of this game.
They ruined the game bruh.