DST Gameplay progression needs to be looked at urgently.

[Bumber64]

12 hours ago, Mike23Ua said:

[...] and then of course there’s the Deerclops/Iceclops itself which targets and destroys the literal hours of progress Wurts put into building up their Merm Kingdom.

Not letting deerclops spawn in your base is a lesson that usually only needs to be taught once.

If you led deerclops to the shacks to get merms to aggro on it rather than actually recruiting (+merm king), then that's your personal choices catching up with you.

[Frosty_Mentos]

I feel like going back to making this game feel like Solo experience is a partial mistake, while enemies are hard the skilltrees make them kinda a lot more meager as well as some reworks that followed to make them so. Old designs don't match new whacky powers to fight back against, Wanda syndrome infected all enemies with hit stun removal which is mildly annoying but acceptable I guess for sake of chasing and giving enemies a chance to fight back perhaps, and all the old weapon systems and designs are most primitive with a lot of lack of use. Bees are overpowered against single target attackers or those that can't, making them a hell to balance. Blowdarts are basically a joke, which community doesn't really know what to do with them besides "remove them" instead of retuning costs or returns.

I don't know what direction the game is supposed to go, but toning down on immediate skillpoints is a good first step.

[Steorra]

I shared most feelings with yours, though I think the Thule crown is ok if only comparing with dreadstone crown. Thule armor is a bit... Meaningless, whether for what part of the game. It's more like a specific recipe designed for deconstruction staff.

On 1/5/2025 at 8:22 AM, Swiyss said:

The problem with that is that the window between entering cave rifts content and aquiring void gear is basically 5 days in-game lol. You have actual 5 days of the Dreadstone gear being used as it is supposed to.

And this seems only happened for public server. When you play with your friends there are about two scenarios, 1. Rift opened from the beginning, 2. AFW might be rushed, but CC/Rift would be delay for casual reason.

I know public server is a thing for general balance, but other scenario should be considered as I think.

On 1/5/2025 at 8:59 AM, Swiyss said:

Before Webber skill tree, we gotta adress the world enviroment of lunacy and sanity affecting the monsters as well, not only us. This is perfect opportunity to make a followers update and remake some mechanics like bunnymen and pigmen following you and having curses linked with the full moon (werepigs) and low sanity (beardlords). Spiders and merms could actually get little lunar and shadow linking features OUTSIDE of webber and wurt skill tree, like we currently have with spiders in the lunar island. Unfortunately they currently do nothing, they're just a repeated mob with no use outside of being just another den of spiders.

Have to clarify that Webber was OP in DS from the very beginning. For DST, before the rework of Wendy, he is still a strong character. (Free labyrinth rush, and CC haven't patched out at that moment. I mean, at that moment DST is more like a survival/sandbox game but not like what we have now. The current DST seems more like focusing on bosses rushing (for pushing the game into post-rift part).

Ah I'm sorry this seems a bit off topic, I just want to say that Webber is boring and broken from the very beginning of DST... EZ mode for daily survival but a reversed Wilson character for experienced players before his rework.