What got you good at DST?

[ArubaroBeefalo]

i just realized that the topic is about being good at the game xDDD

then it was watching the 1st gameplay i watch from this game, only ruins playthrow by joeshmocoolstuff, later i get adicted to his boss rush (bosses that i didnt even know that existed (i should have watch klei trailers by that time to know stuff of the game without spoilers) and motivated me to improve into the game

[ImTheGherkin]

James Bucket's videos, I learned a lot from gameplay alone

then i watched helicalpuma's maxwell playthrough recently, and am making my own pig farms and am preparing to kill more bosses without getting scared off

[HojMcFoj]

2 hours ago, CaptainChaotica said:

--YEARS later, like, I have no idea why it took me this long, I was like, "Wait.  I watch Let's Plays all the time.  Why don't I look up one of THOSE, for that 'Don't Starve' thing I remember hearing about?"  And so I ran into first Jacksepticeye's old old playthrough

Hah yes! I loved watching Sean play, it made me so happy to see a youtuber I loved playing a game I loved.

[Bluegeist]

I'm not good at it yet! Maybe someday.

[Marcin86]

I'm a veteran gamer (first PC was too weak to run wolfenstein 3d and didnt display colors ... ) and i consider myself as a pc player. I did buy PS4 which was not used (tbh at alll) for the first 2-3 years maybe, and then pandemic showed up and I stayed home with my gf - as most people did - and we got bored. Before pandemic my gf didnt like games at all so her approach to ps4 was "Can we sell it? You don't use it". But one  day i showed her DST and split screen. Man, that was a blast. She started playing with many doubts regarding controller and how to handle it, so in the game she picked wendy and played very passively avoiding every single danger. TBH I was bad as well. I still remember celebration after surviving first winter. Now things are different. She plays Wigfriend hunting most of the mobs, she even started tanking and uses deerclops or bearger as a wood farming tools cause they do not show any thread any more. We have still much things to acomplish but I'm really greatfull for this game and for the experiance we could share together. It is amazing for how long this game stays fresh and brings us new chalanges. Yes - there are many things to fix (some exlusive to ps4 & memberships limitations) but overall for me its a great adventure .... together

[Pine G]

I also watched a lot of tutorial videos made by different creators. I especially really liked Don Giani's guides and boss speedrun series. They helped me come a long way from where I started.

[valcross07]

My friends got me into DST. What got me into specific characters are some content creators. Helicalpuma for Maxwell, Don Giani for Wendy and Wigfrid, Demon Rebuilt for WX. Wortox I just liked due to mobility. Mobility is pretty much king in this game.

 

What got me good was my thirst for vengeance for everything that killed me when I was new. Also some guides.

[NeLeeO]

RTGame's videos on Don't Starve Together, more specifically the one where he tried out Willow after her rework, it all went spiraling down from there, and now i'm here.

[Souper]

Others have probably already said it, but Helicalpuma was what got me good.

As for what got me into it, I think it was Sips. I was a young lil minecraft boy at that age and was watching all the YouTubers. Sips was my favorite, and I think he started playing Don't Starve at one point which sparked my love for the game from then on

[CaptainChaotica]

Yes!  I'm not the only one here who started from watching Sips' old videos.  (And yes, he definitely did play Don't Starve...for over a hundred episodes.)  RTGame's videos after Willow's rework didn't introduce me to DS/T, but they did introduce me to RTGamer... 

(I first came across RT's edited videos, but then found out that the full streams were available on YouTube as well.  Which is great for those of us who don't get to see a Twitch video before it disappears into the void.)

And then there's that one where "all the lads" got together to play DST, which was named as "Trying to Avoid Another Famine in Don't Starve Together", by Jacksepticeye. Since he's the OTHER one who first introduced me to the game properly, it was fun to see him back in that world too.  

Anyway.

...Notorious

[Souper]

4 hours ago, CaptainChaotica said:

Yes!  I'm not the only one here who started from watching Sips' old videos.  (And yes, he definitely did play Don't Starve...for over a hundred episodes.)  RTGame's videos after Willow's rework didn't introduce me to DS/T, but they did introduce me to RTGamer... 

(I first came across RT's edited videos, but then found out that the full streams were available on YouTube as well.  Which is great for those of us who don't get to see a Twitch video before it disappears into the void.)

And then there's that one where "all the lads" got together to play DST, which was named as "Trying to Avoid Another Famine in Don't Starve Together", by Jacksepticeye. Since he's the OTHER one who first introduced me to the game properly, it was fun to see him back in that world too.  

Anyway.

...Notorious

Yeah Sip's personality was very infectious, and I was easily influenced looking for survival games to scratch that itch. Don't Starve stood out with its unique art style and eerie, mysterious theme.

[CaptainChaotica]

For me, it's that I...I don't know if I was _looking_ for anything in particular, but when I saw that Don't Starve was a game that was challenging, but _progressable_, it scratched some kind of itch I didn't know I had.  I was just in the mood for something at just that _right_ level of difficulty for me.

Some Sips quotes from his very first episode that got me watching the rest of it:

"I like to gather things...you know, in a previous life I think I was a Neanderthal and I was part of the gathering team?  Team Gather?  2013?...B.C.?"  
(XD  As someone who is also a proud member of Team Gather, this speaks to me.  Although, 2013 B.C. Neanderthal.  Um...)

"I'm gonna chop the ('CRAP') outta these trees. Down you go, ('beeyotch')!"

"Oh what's this?  Oh there's a road here!  That means there must be some civilization close by--maybe there's like--is this like 'Harvest Moon'?  Holy (crap), can I get married in this??"

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(dies laughing because THAT'S ALMOST EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT WHEN I FIRST SAW A ROAD IN DS!  Well, not the getting married part.  But "Holy crap, civilization?!")
(this...may or may not be part of why I sometimes refer to the game as "H.P. Lovecraft's 'Harvest Moon'")
(shifty eyes)
(but seriously I also call it that 'cos it involves both creepiness and cute domestic farming.  For those of you young'ns:  Harvest Moon = Stardew Valley, only like 20 years earlier.)

Between "Team Gather" and road = Harvest Moon, I already knew I was gonna like this guy from halfway through the intro video. 

So that's part of what got me _into_ Don't Starve.  As for what got me GOOD...well, I'm _still_ not all that good. I'm good enough for my own purposes, but there's a lot of stuff I don't mess with 'cos I know it'll end my run, or because I don't know it well enough and don't want to go after it by myself.  Kinda in a way Sips and Jacksepticeye helped me get _part_ of as "good" as I am, because I learned about red butts, refertilizing bushes after you plant them, WHY darkness is dangerous, crock pots, yes, winter _is_ dangerously cold, why you care about your sanity, why the lightning rod is important...etc. by watching them make _mistakes_ re: all those things and then learn the next time.

...Notorious

[HojMcFoj]

2 hours ago, CaptainChaotica said:

For me, it's that I...I don't know if I was _looking_ for anything in particular, but when I saw that Don't Starve was a game that was challenging, but _progressable_, it scratched some kind of itch I didn't know I had.  I was just in the mood for something at just that _right_ level of difficulty for me.

Some Sips quotes from his very first episode that got me watching the rest of it:

"I like to gather things...you know, in a previous life I think I was a Neanderthal and I was part of the gathering team?  Team Gather?  2013?...B.C.?"  
(XD  As someone who is also a proud member of Team Gather, this speaks to me.  Although, 2013 B.C. Neanderthal.  Um...)

"I'm gonna chop the ('CRAP') outta these trees. Down you go, ('beeyotch')!"

"Oh what's this?  Oh there's a road here!  That means there must be some civilization close by--maybe there's like--is this like 'Harvest Moon'?  Holy (crap), can I get married in this??"

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(dies laughing because THAT'S ALMOST EXACTLY WHAT I THOUGHT WHEN I FIRST SAW A ROAD IN DS!  Well, not the getting married part.  But "Holy crap, civilization?!")
(this...may or may not be part of why I sometimes refer to the game as "H.P. Lovecraft's 'Harvest Moon'")
(shifty eyes)
(but seriously I also call it that 'cos it involves both creepiness and cute domestic farming.  For those of you young'ns:  Harvest Moon = Stardew Valley, only like 20 years earlier.)

Between "Team Gather" and road = Harvest Moon, I already knew I was gonna like this guy from halfway through the intro video. 

So that's part of what got me _into_ Don't Starve.  As for what got me GOOD...well, I'm _still_ not all that good. I'm good enough for my own purposes, but there's a lot of stuff I don't mess with 'cos I know it'll end my run, or because I don't know it well enough and don't want to go after it by myself.  Kinda in a way Sips and Jacksepticeye helped me get _part_ of as "good" as I am, because I learned about red butts, refertilizing bushes after you plant them, WHY darkness is dangerous, crock pots, yes, winter _is_ dangerously cold, why you care about your sanity, why the lightning rod is important...etc. by watching them make _mistakes_ re: all those things and then learn the next time.

...Notorious

I have no idea why all this was so emotionally motivating but.. it was 

[hkhm]

I played Don't starve and made it a mission to go through Adventure mode over and over, with each character in turn to really learn the game, learn the characters and dominate the difficulty. Then I tweaked the settings for less and less food, more and more mobs, less forgiving starting worlds. I like the game extremely challenging.

Now, I routinely play games on the hardest difficulty setting (For example: I also play The Long Dark exclusively on Interloper difficulty, or I make a custom world with even harsher conditions) and I am always looking for greater challenges to the games I enjoy so anything I could think of in Don't Starve to make the game more challenging was what I chased.

Don't Starve Together, by comparison, is very easy. So I play with 0 mods, minimal food, only night, always winter, extra mobs, etc.

My few friends who play wonder how I survive with so easily in their default worlds, so I suppose I just kept making the game more difficult and now I'm "good" because I trained myself to be.

[GenomeSquirrel]

Am I the only one that primarily used the wiki? I’d see something like bee boxes, and dedicate myself to that one thing.

I’m not a fan of most YouTube videos, I want to make something like a fire farm, but they always skip the leg work of getting the massive volume of materials. I still think Edgy Rick’s kiting video is one of the best guides, although I need to account for latency.

[minespatch]

2 minutes ago, GenomeSquirrel said:

Am I the only one that primarily used the wiki?

I'm that demographic.

[Misa22]

I first started playing in RoG, and learned primarily reading the wiki. Checking what all those craftables i could do were for. 

Died 3 times in a row in my first three Winters. 

I thought the birdcage was a decoration, that monster meat was a kind of last resort useless food, didn't even know lanterns were a thing because caves scared me to death... Then I started reading, connecting the dots, and now I have a galaxy brain 

THEN I started watching videos (without taking in account the first videos i watched when i first saw the game). And I remember the first video I ever watched was from a guy called "Clarity in Lies", who played as Wigfrid in RoG. The channel is dead if I am not mistaken. 

[HojMcFoj]

9 hours ago, GenomeSquirrel said:

Am I the only one that primarily used the wiki? I’d see something like bee boxes, and dedicate myself to that one thing.

I like to look things up on the wiki and not tell my friends I had looked it up at some point, so they think I have this absolutely massive brain (they have no idea what they're doing, I had to explain to my friend what a deerclops was 3 times after we had already fought one). 

[Muzarello]

At first on console I was very bad, language barrier didn't help that much too, I am brazilian and didn't knew english not even a bit,  giving it a time skip to when I learned english, I watched every video I could find, every guide and all, I wanted to learn, It was pretty nuts for me how much was packed in this game beyond my knowledge, really everyone in this community helped a little, even those who quitted the game or who left us unfortunatelly. I gotta say, patience and hunger for knowledge got me good, funny how it ties to the game itself.
Also the forums, you guys rock!

[Warpspeed10]

I turned on this old radio, and now I'm stuck playing this game forever.

[Terra B Welch]

I played DST for a little while back during the beta then lost interest for a while. It was only after watching a couple people stream DST on twitch that it got me back into it again.

As for getting good. I don't really feel like I ever did, so I got nothing there.

[Guille6785]

joeshmocoolstuff

[OsiriCousland]

by playing the original DS and reading wiki at first actually. I generally don't like watching videos because reading to get information is quicker and more efficient to me, but lately I've found some channels whose content I really enjoy, like James Bucket and slasher342. My go-to lately is playing solo for the experience and trying out new things, while occasionally joining public servers for ideas (like tumbleweed farms and whatnots). I've played solo so much that I find certain bosses are much easier to fight solo than with a party lol.

[BeeClops]

Joeshmo and Puma for me.

[TemporarySolutn]

Playing with crutches so I only had to worry about a hand full of things, for example I was playing with Queen's Gathering set pieces so I didn't have to worry about food silk or health, and then once I got good with everything else I was able to play fine without it