Recent content by Ralathar44

Imagine trying to explain Dark Souls to a new player.  Yet Elden Ring is a smash hit.  Same story with Terraria or even Valheim.  Those chew new players up and kill them until they learn.  We went through 10 years of coddling gamers and pretending they are idiots.  The average gamer is 30+ years...

I totally get that, but as mentioned it does mean that focusing vs being a generalist makes a difference and I also really like that.  So I guess you could say I like the fact that it really makes choices matter more than I dislike the fact I have to play around it.  Making choices always comes...

Ironically that variability is good.  As long as the bottom bound is high enough to ensure decent progression or the player is given some sort of agency or safeguard allowing them to keep progression at a decent level.  People play alot longer when things are highly variable vs when they are...

You're the first person I've ever heard complain about any of this so its clearly not a common issue.  I don't see anything egregiously out of place in the gunplay and not only do I not expect this to be Call of Duty or Battlefield or Destiny but I also think its not only fine but healthy for...

Look,  while im all for adding a little magazine progression outside of looting and trader to soften things a little, (my own suggestion earlier being that 1 magazine knowledge point be given per perk level and to all underlying skills per attribute level) but end of the day the scavenging is...

Then IMO its a bad introduction area because its so easy to wander into the higher danger zones which new players will totally not be ready for lol.

With intellect build and daring adventurer I had the trader offer a Q4 steel pic at Teir 2 quests.  Ironically this is before the capstone for T2 that gives a workbench.  So the trader rewards were way ahead of even the other trader rewards lol.   On a completely separate note I'm not sure I...

Anecdotally I was finding magazines at good pace with an intellect/perception build, Had Quality 5 stun baton shortly after day 20.  Iron tools 3.  Almost to chemistry station, good foods, etc.  Only thing lagging behind really was vehicles with mini bike a couple magazines from unlocking.  ...

I think I agree with what a friend of mine said and maybe we need a bigger % of POIs that are not dungeons.  Just for variety.  I love the dungeons, but I can understand some people feeling like its a little overkill atm.  The non-dungeon POIs would prolly need lesser loot rewards because...

It's definitively not the best armor though.  If you measure it by the job of being armor its the worst armor in the game hands down.  Even if you're concerned about mobility and stamina and sneaking with mods leather and military are just as good.   Now cloth armor may be best at a particular...

Aye,  I get your intent, I'm just saying that it definitely is a large impacting global balance change and it could have larger ramifications than you may realize, often to specific weapons or tools.  These would be difficult to identify without alot of testing or just letting the individual...

This is now like 3 separate conversations.  Choose 1 at a time and we can do this.  Otherwise its just going to be huge walls of text :D.  Qaulity upgrades have been covered.  So I'd say either choose mods or cloth armor.  Though with hyperbole like "Cloth shouldn't be the best armor in the...

Nope, I actually did think of that.  You're not thinking of this with balance brain.  First of all it is a global balance change, you're changing the balance of literally every weapon and tool lol.  Q5 stone gets nerfed by 8% globally, which might not sound like much but if you cross any hit...

I didn't think someone would be able to make a suggestion that would actually bother me.  I have opinions and preferences ofc but im normally ok with rolling with whatever even if I argue for one thing or another.  But congratulations, you've suggested something I would actively hate.  This...

Then either we have to nerf down everything below steel 3 to make room for that additional power gap between each tool or we have to make the character even more overpowered at high end.  You cant just manifest the power ranges that don't overlap out of nowhere.   As mentioned above, this is...