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Alpha Two Phase II testing is currently taking place 5+ days each week. More information about testing schedule can be found here
If you have Alpha Two, you can download the game launcher here, and we encourage you to join us on our Official Discord Server for the most up to date testing news.
Fist time player artisan feedback
Syraleaf
Member, Alpha Two
in Artisanship
I've been playing for 2 days and no doubt a lot of this has already been discussed in the past. That being said: New player perspective are always useful to devs so here we are. Hopefully this is the right subforum!
I'm currently level 9 and almost all my gathering skills are around that level too (give or take 2 levels)
- Gathering is pretty fast but doesn't take effort.
- Gathering is too samey at the moment.
Cutting down a tree is as fun as cutting down some dandelions. I wish there was more character to each profession.
For instance. I'd love to see things like:
Cut trees have fall dmg like in valheim,
Herbalism has to cut down the entire field (flowers disappear with each cut) so they have to slow-move while they gather
Fishing has a minigame
Mining requires you to hit the key at the right moment
etc.
- It's really hard to make new tools! Getting copper is extremely challenging
- Getting Rubies, Copper, etc. all seem really hard and block my entire progress in almost all artisan skills. It feels silly how much of a blocker this skill is while it's my second highest level!
- The feedback on pressing the gather button is lacking. I spent my first few hours spamming the button thinking that I couldn't let go because there is no visual feedback.
- It's really annoying to have to bring those outfits with me everywhere I go.
- - They take up a ton of inventory space
- - And they all look the same, making properly swapping a pain!
- Pylons just generate an error and it's unclear if they even work
- I'm constantly out of inventory space everywhere! As a new player I want to first explore how the system works and then start crafting. This is encouraged by the crafting input only allowing specific amounts of resources at a time. I wish there was a more generous storage available somewhere OR for the early game crafting recipes to be much easier to make so that I can get rid of my high rarity resources!
- I also wish it was easier to see where items go in the system (I ended up using external sites to click through resources)
- I wish it was easier to see if I should sell the item now or later to a vendor.
- Taming seems incredibly expensive which feels unfortunate for a skill that will no doubt be popular. I wish crafting, just like gathering, would be more labor intensive instead of timer/money intensive.
I understand that everything is still in alpha and will no doubt massively improve / change. I'm looking forward to seeing the improvements over time!
I'm currently level 9 and almost all my gathering skills are around that level too (give or take 2 levels)
- Gathering is pretty fast but doesn't take effort.
- Gathering is too samey at the moment.
Cutting down a tree is as fun as cutting down some dandelions. I wish there was more character to each profession.
For instance. I'd love to see things like:
Cut trees have fall dmg like in valheim,
Herbalism has to cut down the entire field (flowers disappear with each cut) so they have to slow-move while they gather
Fishing has a minigame
Mining requires you to hit the key at the right moment
etc.
- It's really hard to make new tools! Getting copper is extremely challenging
- Getting Rubies, Copper, etc. all seem really hard and block my entire progress in almost all artisan skills. It feels silly how much of a blocker this skill is while it's my second highest level!
- The feedback on pressing the gather button is lacking. I spent my first few hours spamming the button thinking that I couldn't let go because there is no visual feedback.
- It's really annoying to have to bring those outfits with me everywhere I go.
- - They take up a ton of inventory space
- - And they all look the same, making properly swapping a pain!
- Pylons just generate an error and it's unclear if they even work
- I'm constantly out of inventory space everywhere! As a new player I want to first explore how the system works and then start crafting. This is encouraged by the crafting input only allowing specific amounts of resources at a time. I wish there was a more generous storage available somewhere OR for the early game crafting recipes to be much easier to make so that I can get rid of my high rarity resources!
- I also wish it was easier to see where items go in the system (I ended up using external sites to click through resources)
- I wish it was easier to see if I should sell the item now or later to a vendor.
- Taming seems incredibly expensive which feels unfortunate for a skill that will no doubt be popular. I wish crafting, just like gathering, would be more labor intensive instead of timer/money intensive.
I understand that everything is still in alpha and will no doubt massively improve / change. I'm looking forward to seeing the improvements over time!
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