I love rifts and the new planar damage/defense mechanic, but...

[Chewabacca]

5 minutes ago, Well-met said:

you know 90% of the players despise portal turf and brightshades, right?

Now imagine if you forced this into a time limit race. It'd just be considered an expiration date to your world.

That would be why @DegenerateFurry suggested that it should be an option in world settings, not a universal thing.

[GimplyGoose]

4 hours ago, Chewabacca said:

Not a post-rifts thing but related to how some things have shifted in update tone: this is one of my big issues (among many) with the Rabbit King who pops out if you kill too many rabbits or bunnymen. Most other "punishment" monsters have different ways to defend yourself against them than just combat.

I actually like that it isn't simple to get away from the rabbit king. Besides dying to or killing him, you can escape by entering/exiting caves. Personally, I think it makes it a more interesting encounter. I do think it would be better if there was a better warning system. The rabbit king's appearance feels a bit abrupt to me.

[Primalflower]

5 hours ago, Maxil20 said:

I thought it was the opposite where they were originally supposed to start on their own, but the reception of taking root was extremely polarizing initially to the point they added the optimal quest/confirmation prompt to prevent the rifts starting on their own after the respective boss dies.

This sucks because it's klei stream lore and not stated anywhere in text but it was worded as like a temporary fix until they can address the problem people were having with it (they didnt like it)  and it just kind of stayed that way. It happened around taking root, so if anyone wants to dig around for word in streams around that time then be my guest

[lowercase skye]

5 hours ago, Well-met said:

you know 90% of the players despise portal turf and brightshades, right?

I didn't! I would be very interested to hear what those 58529 players have to say on brightshades.

[Echsrick]

13 minutes ago, lowercase skye said:

I didn't! I would be very interested to hear what those 58529 players have to say on brightshades.

i hate them....every 5 days gettin the base and plants gettin asaulted is not fun....and then there like 3 of them at once, alsol glass rain and it having aim bot and dealing alot of damage

[dst_lover]

 

21 hours ago, Anis5240 said:

look I've played tons in pubs and even within my group of friends who all are having over 3k+ hours, they still don't want such intrusions. "Oh just play Wormwood and go plant those dragonfruits near the lava ponds ahahaha" but no. you might as well call those who did the same thing (not turning rifts on after over hundreds or even thousands of days) as cowards. but is it cowardly when such things are legitimately annoying to deal on a regular basis, as seen with the ickers? or masqued mobs?

some people just want to have a good old regular run and chill with friends. gather grass and twigs without any intrusions. or getting tons of crops. giving players choices for turning such event on is in fact a good decision by Klei.

1 I played a lot of pubs too and I have over 5000+ hours in game  

2 if your friends doesn’t like it they can turn it off from setting I know some of the rifts content might be annoying if you face them multiple times but in a pub server you will not be there forever and you will probably not reach 300 days anyway and even so there is a lot of counters to them and just like summer yes it has some mechanics that are annoying but that doesn’t mean that summer should only appear if the player went it to , and if you have some problems with the rift content you can ask to Keli to fix those problems instead of making the rift only appear if the player chooses to 

and you don’t need to play wormwood just deal with them normally they aren’t that big of a problem 

3 i didn’t call anyone coward play as you like you can do whatever in your game settings but don’t act like if you are in a day 300 in a public server and the rift starts the world will end you will probably not even reach day 300 in a public server and if you are playing in a host server just turn it off

[Violet Desiree]

On 1/31/2025 at 4:37 PM, Well-met said:

you know 90% of the players despise portal turf and brightshades, right?

Now imagine if you forced this into a time limit race. It'd just be considered an expiration date to your world.

aint this the equivalent of disabling winter? tho we learned to live with it and do preparations