DST has lost it's edge. [RANT!]

[h2mk]

8 hours ago, minespatch said:

Guilty, I usually have discord off during the day and only get on at night cause I need a recharge. I'm unemployed but it's nice when I find other mods on to help me with a second opinion.

dw about it haha

to be fair these complaints aren't genuine, though I have been on the Klei discord before, I was just playing bingo

5 hours ago, yourAnty said:

Was it? I always thought they removed it because it wouldn't really make sense for you to have an incentive to kill your teammates?

Let's just say it was not added to the game itself because it didn't fit the developers artistic vision

[Mike23Ua]

9 hours ago, yourAnty said:

You're one interesting fellow to say that the game is easier when you say yourself you never go out in the ocean because it's too hard with xbox controls or don't fight raid bosses because you can't bother or sth, idk chief, kinda strange

Was it? I always thought they removed it because it wouldn't really make sense for you to have an incentive to kill your teammates?

I finally have time to reply to this-

#1- I never said I don’t go out on the ocean I have no idea where you got that information from, but I actually like to build fully decked out boats and sail the ocean plenty- Unfortunately the ocean is still pretty empty and a boring slog of traveling through what feels like a not so cleverly disguised loading screen until you reach a point of interest with something to actually do in it.

#2- no you can not use the fact that I do not like raid bosses and therefore do not ever bother fighting them as an example of my lack of knowledge or will to ask for more difficult SURVIVAL Content as being Invalidated. I barely touched Bosses even in SOLO Dont Starve: but what I did do and do often in DS, Shipwrecked, Hamlet & DST was run around the map fighting mobs, surviving weather challenges, overcoming puzzle obstacles, gathering resources etc.. That is how “I” play the DS/DST franchise.

#3- When I say the game is getting easier and easier that only applies to the content and areas of the game I actually enjoyed being challenged by (so don’t Storm in here and say dude go fight celestial champion because that ISN’T & HAS NEVER been my point) My point is actually that Crafting Recipe costs have been cheapened, Beefalo are easier to tame, Cobblestone roads are now easy to craft and place around, Crops now grow in Winter, Resources that used to burn away or go extinct if you weren’t careful now Auto-Renew themselves. They removed features like Disease teased they might bring it back someday revamped as sort of a Disease 2.0 (and nothing ever came of that) They added things like Big Tree Canopy’s that make surviving Summer & Wildfires even more of a joke, And Any type of survival content gets Nerfed into being largely avoidable. Which brings me to #4.

#4- My biggest problem with DST is the largest majority of its game content is completely OPTIONAL, A good bit of the mobs in the game are passive or Neutral to the player until YOU attack them. These so called “Raid Bosses” only spawn once YOU summon them.

I mean I’m just going to be brutally honest here- when Klei announced a Cross-Over with Terraria I figured they would’ve added sandstorms that can impact the whole game world not just one or two biomes, and I figured they would add huge ground worms that cause Craters as they burst out of and descend back into the ground (as this is a pretty huge part of terraria..)

I expected we would get some new weather seasons or at least port over the ones from Shipwrecked & Hamlet.. 

I don’t want nor do I care about a stupid high health sponge boss.

What I cared about was chopping wood for my dying campfire from a palm tree in shipwrecked and having a coconut crack me in the head for my troubles, or gathering resources in hamlet only to be confronted by a hostile snake or scorpion that spawns from what I’m trying to chop/gather and then it bites me and inflicts me with poison then I have to drop everything I’m currently doing and seek out a venom cure or watch my health slowly bleed out over time.

What I cared about were things like THESE-

The first image is hostile mobs spawning from trees I chop for firewood capable of inflicting poison damage. Second Image is of Pog a cute little dog like critter who goes through your storage boxes throwing all your loot out on the floor (they also get particularly ugly and hostile later in the game) the 3rd image is an entire Island walled off by needing to raise or lower your sanity to get to this location. And finally the last image is an entire biome full of hazardous gases that require building a gas mask to travel through safely.

Now rather you choose to see it or not- DST has been being catered more and more towards casuals, most content has been optional, most mobs that have been added are passive or neutral unless attacked by you first.

Does any of my rant mean DST is a bad game? Absolutely not… but I would prefer that before I die Klei would add some of the content and challenge I miss & enjoyed that their single player & its expansions offered.

TL:DR- stop with the optional bosses, where are the mobs that quote “hate you and want you to die?” Add some new weather seasons, block content off requiring protective gear to traverse through or the raising and lowering of Sanity, And if you going to add a new cool Monkey Curse, don’t make it completely forgettable by nerfing it into oblivion.

Thank You that is the end of my Rant. 

[TemporarySolutn]

I guarantee this is rage bait

[Bumber64]

15 hours ago, . . . said:

The game lost its edge because Edgy Rick stopped playing it. 

Misread comment; lost The Game.

[MondayNight]

OP in a nutshell:

[minespatch]

1 minute ago, x0-VERSUS-1y said:

OP in a nutshell:

How long did it take you to make this?

[MondayNight]

1 minute ago, minespatch said:

How long did it take you to make this?

Around 3h, via Photoshop - well, it took more to get game resources from web. Am not into .gifs, but was fun. OP gave good inspiration.