The game is empty, hollow, boring, tedious, clunky.
The graphics blow.
Tremendous ghosting issues.
It kind of looks like extreme motion blur when things move.
They leave a blurry trail.
The game has a slight unnatural wobble to the camera when moving, it's extremely unnatural when you're 1st person, and it's slight but still affecting when in 3rd person.
(it can be seen if you jump and look at the readjustment of the camera.)
It is absolutely not properly supporting Ultrawide-screen resolutions, and when trying to use a lower difficulty, it does not support just adding black bars on the sides rather it simply stretches the image very unnaturally.
(The black bars thing is something I'd highly want for Borderless mode, as it allows you to game and have browsers up on the same screen very easily.
Why is there a lengthy introduction with a ton of walking from NPC to NPC in an open world survival crafter?
The trailer looks GREAT but 30 minutes in I was falling asleep.
This game is nothing but frustration.
Go here, go there, then go back. Walk, walk, walk.
This is all too common nowadays in RPG's.
Devs think it's fun to send you everywhere on the map without any convenient way to get there.
It's just tedious and frustrating.
If you played Grounded or Enshrouded you would not enjoy this, the items decay so fast, the story is hard to understand, and where things are is even worse, its not very welcoming.
Used to enjoy the game even with all the quirks, my favorite part was having a decent grapple system, but now, your grapple breaks after like 20 grapples and you have to stop and repair it.
I just wish devs would STOP MAKING YOUR GEAR AS DURABLE AS PAPER.
It's not fun, it's just a massive pain in the ass, when you make everything break after a few minutes of playing it's miserable, make the game fun to play not burdensome.
It's been well over 2 years since I last played and unfortunately the game leaves a lot to be wanted.
From being able to have a farm to get resources at home to areas when unlocked should stop birds from diving you when crossing the bridge.
It's tedious to have to go through a tunnel every time to get to the other side when it's something you have to do repeatedly for new items/progression.
I was hopeful when I saw a small new content drop but when I returned I realized it was only just that.
1. Whats the point of seasons? They don't affect anything. cool idea but not integrated well.
2. Animations don't exist for most things or are almost indistinguishable.
3. Crafting takes a million resources.
4. Aggro is now your every moment. Congrats. Every bug on the planet wants you dead and boy are there a lot of them.
5. Durability is just small enough to be constantly annoying.
6. Every UI is broken, I'm not going to take the time to list them. its every single one.
7. Multiplayer is not really co-op so if you want to share story progression or unlocks, don't bother.
8. Pet system is buggy.
9. Enemy animations are buggy.
10. Leveling up health or stamina gives you a 1:1 upgrade which is insanely bad.
11. The glider is amazing, but otherwise getting anywhere is a chore.
12. All crafting has timers. This is fine sometimes but it just drags on and on when a single piece of armor takes 3 minutes to build.
13. Whats the point of storms? they last 3 seconds and don't do much besides annoying you or killing you unless you can build a shelter in 30 seconds.
Combat & its animations feel very stiff and clunky in a very inconsistent/unreliable attack + parry system that can't seem to figure out where it wants hit boxes to be. Added bonus of a plethora of bugs constantly teleporting/falling through the floor & enacting the ever wonderful "I can hit you but you can't hit me".
The entirety of the bug pet/tame system is gamebreaking levels of imbalanced, even at level 1. Smalland feels comfortably difficult when you start, before plummeting to an absolute breeze the moment you unlock the ability to tame bugs. I.E: The scorpion starts with 2k health and has base damage of 50-60 for its fast melee + 60-70 w/ a 30-40 poison heavy attack. At level 1. For context, my level 70ish character with 100 STR & Legendary weapons was doing far less than it was.
Pets can and will consistently yeet you off of Great Tree elevators (the only way to get up or down them) thanks to the endless clipping issues this game suffers from.
Pets can and will decide their defense post on top of the Great Tree is actually along its sides, usually on the very tip of small branches, and do not go back to their original location even when they slide all the way down to the base of the tree over the course of in-game weeks to months.
The option to turn off Pets permanently kicking the bucket and not attacking each other/turning off Friendly Fire is Multiplayer only. Unfortunately, this also means stopping Pets from permanently dying every time they waddle into or fall off something into a river, is Multiplayer only.
A bug where pets can still permanently die despite every setting to prevent it being on both exists, and is not uncommon.
Pets will always be infinitely better than you no matter how much you sink into damage stats/gear.
Pets will damage near-by buildings even with Friendly Fire off, as well as damaging & eventually destroying any traps they stand on top of (without taking any personal damage, at least). They will also hit each other and randomly begin fighting amongst both themselves & other players pets during combat.
Game doesn't like to explain its own mechanics, and relies on third-party websites to do that instead.
You NEED Intelligence to make (and repair, for even the smallest sliver of a repair) better gear, but you also don't need that gear. The % increase is nowhere near enough to make a difference when being compared to the wildly overpowered pets at your disposal. This only changes with the last weapon in the game, but that's solely because it's a 225-550ish (350-500ish Legendary) vs the 32-37 ballpark of its competitors.
Player attributes do not scale equally to the rest of the game, making Constitution worthless and Dexterity a dump stat.
Game disrespects your time overall; crafting takes too long, building takes too long, you need far too much wood to simply exist (that also takes too long to gather), repairing both buildings and equipment takes too many mats, events take too long for far too little reward, Great Tree lift you have to take every single time you go up or down takes too long, certain quests force you down very unnecessarily long paths... everything to do with time is bloated.
Despite not having an overall lifeless world, exploration is boring and unrewarding. Points of interest are nothing more than reskins and barely unique arrangements of standard assets, every piece of lore is abandoned as quickly as its presented. Really doesn't help that you start paying attention to the copy+pasta assets everywhere, as there's not much to distract you from noticing.
World settings are pretty bare bones, giving very limited control to the host over their experience, while also making the monster damage/health scale also apply to player pets.
Cooking remains an entirely wasted mechanic that has no real benefits, outside of "woo I fulfilled my survival game nom nom quota".
There's very little to no guide on quests, to the extent of where it wouldn't be uncommon or even a difficult ask to completely miss the fact that there's a main story quest line. While I'm certainly not saying to add something over the top like a golden path, being unaware you're even on a quest to begin with is a testament to how weak the UI overall is. My group thought it was just part of the tutorial.
The game is done and dead.
