Wetness - Probably too easy?

[userr3]

Some time ago the wetness mechanisms were broken and in winter you were wet all the time. People (including myself) were raging all over the forum. Since they fixed it the situation clearly calmed down, in my opinion it is too calm.

The threat of wetness: I never managed to raise my wetness meter up to the level at which I start to freeze or things just slip out of my hand, i wasn't even wearing wetness proved cloth, except a top hat. Drying is so easy that it is possible to just fill the wetness meter up a bit and dry down after the rain ends (for me this also works fine in spring).

Also when starting a new world in spring WX-78, who is very vulnerable to rain everything is easy (probably too easy?) from the time on you have some protection (he might be the only one needing full protection).

Heat and cold are capable of killing you if you don't ever manage you body temerature. What if heat and cold would only last for half a day? - People would only build a heatstone thermal stone to keep their body temperature normal for that short time. Upon the end of heat/cold the would laugh and walk around gayly, having a great time without getting much touble because their heat/cold level decreases naturally.

I hope I am not the only one who thinks that the wetness mechanisms need some tweaking (yes i know its early beta and the devs will take a closer look at it soon).

Please share your opinions/critizism below.

Yours,

userr3

P.S.: I never was a good writer. Most stuff I produce is unstructured und not logical. English also isn't my mother's tongue, tell me if something isn't understandable.

[The_Woj]

Was just about to post this, I loved having to worry about wearing wet clothes or using wet tools in the first build. I think the pretty parasol is way too powerful, considering that you can always make one as flowers regrow constantly in spring. Maybe reduce its effectiveness, or make it more expensive to make?

[WillPwn4Food]

Wetness isn't intended to carry the same threat as heat and cold, but I do agree that it needs to be more dangerous.

 

Sorry that we just can't be pleased, Klei!

[Skwisgaar]

I think the same, it's really too easy to counter the wetness meter : umbrella + straw hat.

 

I never crafted the rain hat. So for me this item missed its purpose. Normal hats shouldn't have a high wetness resistance like they do, if it was reduced maybe the wetness mechanic could be more of a threat than it is actually.

 

While we talk about wetness, I killed Deerclops and got the Eyebrella. Well... I find it pretty useless, in fact. Having 100% protection against wetness with an item that you have to carry don't allow you to fight, mine, chop, while the rain coat allows you to do everything you want. The Eyebrella allows you carrying a backpack. But you can too if you have the umbrella + a hat. So I don't really understand why this item is there. And its durability goes down too fast.

[Skorp]

A solution could be to increment the time needed to lose wetness and make freezing more difficult, the only times that I realize I'm wet is when I start to take damage from the cold since I never reached the point of having wet items or tools before that.

[Boar Head]

Yes, I agree, The wetness mechanic needs to be bumped up a bit because it's just not as much of a threat, especially compared to heat and cold. But right now I can't really think of many new ways to make it better without either making it op again so for now I'll just leave my opinion.

[userr3]

It is fact that wetness is not intended to be as deadly as heat and cold. But as mentioned before by @Skwisgaar making waterproofed items hardly makes any sense. Also the eyebrella deerclops drops seems to be pretty useless, because who needs 100% waterproof (except WX-78 ofc).

I dont want those items to be "optional". It's the same with caves. I completely hyped for caves (watched first alpha gameplay on twitch, early access...). Played them for likethree hours. Decided they were pretty cool. Never went back because I did not had to. (Damn I actually should go down there again, just to slap the guardians horny face).

What could possibly done to increase the threat of wetness?

-Increase the amount of the wetness meter filling up

-Reduce the amount of the wetness meter going down

Those two points need to be taken care of (grammar?)

[talmatityaho]

no i like the wetness how it is pleas don't change it!

[userr3]

no i like the wetness how it is pleas don't change it!

So you think wetness I enough of a threat? Be honest to yourself and to us...

[Hudxesonael]

It's probably not as threatening as it should be. Sometimes you can just ignore the rain. The ways of dealing with it are straightforward. Pretty Parasol is easy to make and Cat Caps are just too common. After encountering 2 Hollow Stump next to each other for the first time I was playing the DLC I instantly found one lying on the ground. I didn't even know what drops it and yet I was already wearing decent rain protecting gear.

[_Q_]

Wetness dosen't do anything, lowering sanity is not a big deal with hundreds of flowers around, and all that rain protecting items, and you can just dry in 10 seconds near fire.