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Alpha Two testing is currently taking place five days each week. More information about Phase II and Phase III 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.
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Alpha P2.5 Thoughts and feelings
KrystalKitten
Member, Leader of Men, Kickstarter, Alpha One, Alpha Two, Early Alpha Two
Well here I am casually gaming and losing my interest for this phase, guess it's time to write up a report.
This Phase Intreped said they were gonna focus on the Server Meshing technology and not much else, and i hope so.
This phase I took a more casual approach, Left my large PVPRaid guild for a more casual Gathering/Crafting guild and while it did help me IRL I accomplished less then I wanted.
Because of the changes to Apprentice crafting needing 2 things instead of 1 Apprentice Cooking/Farming became next to impossible as 1 recipe went from needing 2....which doesn't sound like alot but when you need to go through 7 processes to make 1 item and if the most efficient way to do something is in batches of 250 this recipe went from needing 250 Willows (which is hard when Willows spawn inside of Braidwood) and 300 cows to needing 16,000 Willows and 4,440 Cows to make the same 250 things....well....at that point why test because I'm not gonna spend a month finding willows for a 4 hour process time.
This is also the phase I didn't get a Freehold because again why bother, yes we can farm...but the only thing we can farm is Trees. You can't place Cows,Chickens,Pigs,Sheep on them (I have access to the PTR and check every time, and my friends who have a Freehold said that it's the same on the Test Server) so I really have no reason to take Farming seriously in this phase.
BUT
I have been just casually running round Verra, the quests that I can complete have been fun (the hunting bag quest was particularly fun!) And I would like to see Quests go from not worth the Glint to Rare Items or....well more glint (honestly 4x Glint might be worth it)
But there are some problems I would like to see addressed. Steven said "go out into the world"....but again...why? Every Recipe worth anything including Tools and Bags and Cloths only take the Riverlands mats...so why gather anything not in the Riverlands? There are a few...and i mean FEW recipes that call for other things but again...why? the surrounding enemies are all easily L25+ the farther you go the harder the enemies. I understand this from Alphas I have played, the farther you go from the starting zone the harder things are....but this world is supposed to be dynamic and changing and why bother if only the Top1% op players can clear content in these areas? I'm not talking about spawning dungeons, I love the idea of that...im talking outside of the nodes or just in general. There is no incentive for low level players to leave...In fact the best way to gather poop is still make a new character, play outside Lionhold for a few hours and then delete the character. Where is the longevity with that? where is the "Explore the world" feeling? I am Someone that on the LAUNCH of Valhim took 4 hours to sail to the Volcano at the bottom of the world....NOTHING WAS THERE BUT I STILL EXPLORED IT. Hell a small guild and I made the Teleporters all round the biomes within a month (from the artic north to the volcanic south.. This was when only the Deer boss was in the game) I had fun exploring the world, but if the content of just exploring the world is locked to L30+ well we are not going to explore.
UNDERWATER MINING WAS FUN!!!! but there were too far between nodes, I went to the Open Ocean near Vinebranch and Hecribba, honestly THROW TONS OF VEINS OUT THERE, COPPER, TIN, ALL THE FUN STUFF AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE JUST MAKE HUGE VEINS OUT THERE if ya gonna double the resources needed for things then double the resource gathering.
Anyway, like many others I think I'm just gonna chill for P3 from no on. Might log in to help people but not really gonna stress it...and this is the problem, the world is bigger but there are less places and just the same content...well less cause crafting is borked....and all i can think is the lack of responses from Intreped isn't a "they don't care" I hope they are all working on that Dynamic Gridding and get that hashed out...like 100% done and working so they can get back to making the game better.
Overall I love the progress, things don't crash as much, there have been less Unreal crashes while running caravans/boats. so overall it has been better.
Kala Silverheart
Chef/Owner of the Legendary Two Tailed Fox Inn
KalaMoonheart
Farmer of the Legendary Two Tailed Fox Inn
This Phase Intreped said they were gonna focus on the Server Meshing technology and not much else, and i hope so.
This phase I took a more casual approach, Left my large PVPRaid guild for a more casual Gathering/Crafting guild and while it did help me IRL I accomplished less then I wanted.
Because of the changes to Apprentice crafting needing 2 things instead of 1 Apprentice Cooking/Farming became next to impossible as 1 recipe went from needing 2....which doesn't sound like alot but when you need to go through 7 processes to make 1 item and if the most efficient way to do something is in batches of 250 this recipe went from needing 250 Willows (which is hard when Willows spawn inside of Braidwood) and 300 cows to needing 16,000 Willows and 4,440 Cows to make the same 250 things....well....at that point why test because I'm not gonna spend a month finding willows for a 4 hour process time.
This is also the phase I didn't get a Freehold because again why bother, yes we can farm...but the only thing we can farm is Trees. You can't place Cows,Chickens,Pigs,Sheep on them (I have access to the PTR and check every time, and my friends who have a Freehold said that it's the same on the Test Server) so I really have no reason to take Farming seriously in this phase.
BUT
I have been just casually running round Verra, the quests that I can complete have been fun (the hunting bag quest was particularly fun!) And I would like to see Quests go from not worth the Glint to Rare Items or....well more glint (honestly 4x Glint might be worth it)
But there are some problems I would like to see addressed. Steven said "go out into the world"....but again...why? Every Recipe worth anything including Tools and Bags and Cloths only take the Riverlands mats...so why gather anything not in the Riverlands? There are a few...and i mean FEW recipes that call for other things but again...why? the surrounding enemies are all easily L25+ the farther you go the harder the enemies. I understand this from Alphas I have played, the farther you go from the starting zone the harder things are....but this world is supposed to be dynamic and changing and why bother if only the Top1% op players can clear content in these areas? I'm not talking about spawning dungeons, I love the idea of that...im talking outside of the nodes or just in general. There is no incentive for low level players to leave...In fact the best way to gather poop is still make a new character, play outside Lionhold for a few hours and then delete the character. Where is the longevity with that? where is the "Explore the world" feeling? I am Someone that on the LAUNCH of Valhim took 4 hours to sail to the Volcano at the bottom of the world....NOTHING WAS THERE BUT I STILL EXPLORED IT. Hell a small guild and I made the Teleporters all round the biomes within a month (from the artic north to the volcanic south.. This was when only the Deer boss was in the game) I had fun exploring the world, but if the content of just exploring the world is locked to L30+ well we are not going to explore.
UNDERWATER MINING WAS FUN!!!! but there were too far between nodes, I went to the Open Ocean near Vinebranch and Hecribba, honestly THROW TONS OF VEINS OUT THERE, COPPER, TIN, ALL THE FUN STUFF AS FAR AS THE EYE CAN SEE JUST MAKE HUGE VEINS OUT THERE if ya gonna double the resources needed for things then double the resource gathering.
Anyway, like many others I think I'm just gonna chill for P3 from no on. Might log in to help people but not really gonna stress it...and this is the problem, the world is bigger but there are less places and just the same content...well less cause crafting is borked....and all i can think is the lack of responses from Intreped isn't a "they don't care" I hope they are all working on that Dynamic Gridding and get that hashed out...like 100% done and working so they can get back to making the game better.
Overall I love the progress, things don't crash as much, there have been less Unreal crashes while running caravans/boats. so overall it has been better.
Kala Silverheart
Chef/Owner of the Legendary Two Tailed Fox Inn
KalaMoonheart
Farmer of the Legendary Two Tailed Fox Inn
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