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@@xhanth interesting tidbit about UO! There's still more to the LOA saga but im waiting for the release of pr1( that was promised months ago) before i release an updated look. Suffice to say, my steam review still sits on the most helpful list...

@@wiglord Im playing again too for a few weeks now hard to not go thru it all again as a backer of shards.

@@xhanth before i do another video id like to get some info on the shards era as i wasnt there for that. If you're in the new loa discord i'll reach out

@@pubgtraining9624 hi, sorry i haven't worked on anything invector in a long time. I don't believe i have seen the parachute addon so definitely haven't got a tute on it

@@wiglord It's ok now I got it working at last. Thanks for the response, I enjoy your videos!

Sort of par for course when you find a tip video that's 3 years old for a system that's updated many times since then :)

thanks! currently though i've paused development on this one, I am working on a far more scaled down co-op rpg experience in the same lore. I'm powering through the prototype and will take it to a kickstarter where i'll look to include devlogs as a bonus tier.

I wouldn't use Invector for multiplayer unless I had enough money to pay someone to modify it. I think there is already a modified version out there you can grab though. Because it has built up it's system over the years, everything has been closed into itself and extending or re-writing it is difficult because some features you need to be structured in a way that replicates over the network. It becomes very difficult to the point where I moved on to making my own controllers. As for fusion/fishnet, What I used of fusion it is fairly similar in structure to fn and mirror, but I don't like photon's closed server service. FN and mirror both let you control the servers, which is good when you want to scale and not lock yourself into a contract with a third party hosting service.

@@wiglord Thank you so much for your quick and complete answer, that was exactly my concern regarding Invector, glad you made it clear for me! As for Photon I will consider what you've said, since I'm not a big fan of having to take care of all that, but the idea of being locked in is not pleasing...:-)

Not yet! Working on a prototype for a less grand version for a kickstarter midyear. Still using fishnet and steam!

I dont use the inbuilt jigglebone physics they have for the cloth, i could never get it to work right. I use dynamic bone and have replaced the jiggle bone stuff. I think it's got something to do with the amount of cycles it uses and it throws the calculations out of whack

​@@wiglord ah okay thank you man

NICE! well not for the struggling part :P This is based on old fishnet though, i'm working with it again on a new project and there is a lot changed in version 4.x!

​@@wiglordI finally did it. Everything works fine. Thanks for saying a thing about Nested NetworkObjects in the part 2, it really helped me :D

I am glad you've found something you can enjoy! that's always good news for you. I've kept an eye on the steam stats though, the players whom have reached level 5 has jumped only 10 percent to 57%, though just today the devs announced they have reached 2 million sales. Whilst that's just over a million people who have reached level 5, that's also almost a whole million people who haven't played for the 2 hrs it takes to get to level 5. (and 500k that haven't crafted a glider or grapple) EDIT: Further look onto steam and there are a fair few negative reviews on the page left over the past few days, people that ARE playing past level 5 are complaining about the same things I have been. I think I might have to relegate this one to a nice house building sim because that's about all it has going for it at the moment.

i'm a hobbyist so i work a full time job outside of game dev, and yeah I wouldn't want to work in gamedev as a reliable source of income, especially not indy dev.

I haven't tried modifying the terrain outside of my base much but it's an interesting point. I like valheim's build anywhere approach, so you can craft bridges across water or gaps etc, but it has a decay when you don't place down the benches, so similar could be done in this but it doesn't look like something they are aiming for. And you're correct in that it's still EA and they are changing it, but we need these reviews that actually point out things to change, otherwise they won't know what needs to be changed or added.

on that i agree 100% we need to point it out and make feedbacks on what we like and not some changes will happen some not the devs have the final word i readf somewehere for that reset thing that MAYBE they will add a toggle off buton for those who want it off we will see

what about my "an idiot"?

thanks for the reply! I respect your argument, and you do raise some good points. But I would point out that I got the ghost glider, and you can do this from level 1, there is a YT tutorial out there that shows you how and it's pretty easy to follow, I did it at level 7. I do agree there is a better way to do the materials by tier for progression, I just don't think that the method in which enshrouded handles it is a way that works well, and despite the comments here I think I am not alone in this! You can make it less of a chore by modifying it a bit, perhaps they can add NPCs you can recruit from villages that you clear out, and they perhaps generate these materials for you over time. Instead you have people cheesing the game by making farms for chest items at these locations....

@@wiglord I actually didn't know you could get the ghost glider level 1 but I don't think it's intended. It makes sense if you try hard enough you could get to it. That kind of stuff happens in every game people go out of their way to break it but I doubt someone would randomly figure that out without a tutorial cuz it would be so ridiculous. The chest farming is pretty op I don't like it either actually. I didn't even know it was a thing until one of my buddies told me but I never abused it. That would be easily fixed with an internal world timer that's built into the world instead of resetting every time you reload. They should do something about that it really is too op.

in the same boat. like I feel like this should be great, but its not. I think ii just need a bit more complexity

haha i am building my tps game with a controller in mind, it's much easier, but I am playing mouse and keyboard for enshrouded!

Thank you! I was going to say that. I love Valheim, but the raids are by far its worst feature! They encourage building ugly, enclosed stone cubes instead of beautiful open bases. There's a reason they added a game option to disable raids altogether. I'm obviously not alone with my mindset.

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yes one of the main drawcards for my mate was the building system, and we have the same issue, progression locks for the build system. Personally though I would play through the story to unlock the fancy blocks and then focus on master builds after i've done the content. But that is when the game doesn't have functional base use for the quest line, if I have to create stuff for game functionality i'll put effort in along the way. Thanks for the reply btw, I like your take.

FYI quick update, I have managed to get the stamina bonus to 1:10 @@wiglord

Thanks for the polite disagreement! I am glad you're getting enjoyment out of the game, I too am enjoying aspects of it, but I am certainly not feeling the same about the materials as I explore. Doing the quest lines to upgrade the benches, i've returned to put them to use, only to find that I now need more materials that I hadn't discovered, or couldn't craft until I unlocked another bench's upgrade. Perhaps I'm just not exploring the right areas? I am not sure, but I am not pleased with this design overall, compared to a similar PvE exploration/quest game like conan exiles, the progression tree still requires explored materials, but unlocks are on exp instead, which means I can target what I want to craft. It was more fun progressing there than here.

I'm about 90 hours in and level 24 I agree with the CC here. Have I had fun thus far? For sure, but it's clear to me that this game suffers from some poor fundamental design choices that will likely greatly diminish my desire to play more. Without a procedurally generated map which is perhaps the most glaring example one such poorly thought out fundamental design choice, all of the work put into mechanics is null and void after a few playthroughs. Even Valheim which is probably the gold standard at the moment with it's random maps suffers from similar problems, but has a crap-ton more replay value. I feel I've gotten a ton of entertainment from Valheim, but I digress. Sons of the Forest is another example of a static game. Once you've played it, what is there to do? You know where everything is. You know the win conditions. There is no sense of adventure other than the moments leading up to re-remembering how to do something you've already done. For some I suppose this is fine. You pay for your ticket to ride, ride, and then call it a day. What I'm interested in, however, is game designs that keep a player engaged far beyond a playthrough or two. Perhaps even a game that doesn't end with the last boss, but rather provides an much larger arc of progression. I've always thought, going back to EQ, wouldn't it be great if at the "end" you went into a portal and everything suddenly scaled up in difficulty? Rats would start hitting like the (previous to portalling) end level filler mobs, and so on until you did it again, and again. Progress would continue, houses and storage would all remain, and new further enhancements would be introduced to continue progress. They could change the environment to indicate one's world progress, ie different hues to things and naming enhancements. Hell, even going back to Wizardry, Bards Tale, etc the idea that mobs would go from rats, to nasty rats, to big nasty rats, to horrifying rats existed. In the case of Enshrouded with it's static map, new resource tiers could be added in new locations and in higher scarcity, guarded by the higher level mob unleashed by finishing world 1, etc. I mean, let's face it, we all want adventure and I just feel like Enshrouded is way too awesome to be 100 hours and then just put away. "Why put it away then?" you might ask. Well cool as it looks and feels for awhile, there's no adventure when you know what's over the next hill. At least I'd like to go over the next hill and find the silly scavenger mobs that previously just stood there taking a rain of blows until they died start lobbing acid, or parrying my hits, or hitting harder, or all of the above. I'd like to enter an area where I had to re-spec to complete it with saved templates, perhaps requiring a stealth build. Perhaps you'd have to lock in your previous skill choices at end game 1 and then earn more points moving forward, with subsequent skill point resets only wiping you back to the previous endgame lock. Why lock at all? Just to allow one to continue the playstyle while also experimenting with new skills without having to re-click a zillon skills. Hence you could eventually fill out the whole damn tree. But wait, you'd be OP af wouldn't you? No, because the more points you spent the harder the game difficulty would scale and you'd need to be more godlike. Perhaps the base, which at this point is just a rested buff recharge could become more significant. It's already your source of shroud protection to get into new areas that were previously insta-death with the "deadly shroud" mechanic, perhaps in world 2, world 3 etc. this would continue to be the case. They could easily tag on new maps, too, and even add in procedural maps. There's just a lot they could do to keep the game feeling adventurous and fresh that's sorely missing now. Is this all unreasonable? I don't see how. It's just a matter of design that gets around extending playtime through mechanics other than the preset step ladder grinds we're accustomed to. If nothing else we can dream. I think it definitely, absolutely bears discussion as we all want games to evolve.

@@mistercrankypants no game is meant to be played forever. You’ve spent 90 hours in the game for 30 bucks. Carry on

i read through all of that because i respect you have an opinion! :) Thanks for posting it. I don't quite agree though, as I am happy with a game having a start and a finish, though fair to add higher difficulty tiers so you can master it or discover new stuff maybe? But I'd be happy with a game that focuses on having a start and a finish, because in that you can craft an adventure and feel like you've done something. No game will really last forever, but it seems that these survival ones do sacrifice good adventure mechanics for the sake of long term playability, especially in the multiplayer space. And that doesn't really work out well, especially when you have 4-6 of them come out in a year and the playerbases just jump through to another.

@@UniqueTechnique29 Yet. And yes, honestly, I'm satisfied for the 30 bucks.

It's early access, I never understand these types of criticisms in a game that's very openly unfinished

@@hitthegoat True, you make a good point. I do however feel there's a difference between healthy criticism and pissing and moaning about how a game sucks because x y and z. This is how ideas become reality, fellow gamers talking about what they like and don't.

I agree

Wow, that's not what I got from this video at all. People act like it's a crime to discuss what they like and don't and why. I'll bet the better devs love this stuff. It's valuable feedback. Furthermore, I commend all content creators with actual thought out opinions no matter how misguided I might think they are. It takes a lot to put oneself out there, not just to stomach the ego attacks from a-holes and trolls, but to actually take the time to put it all together. Give the guy some props, don't tear him down. Tell him what you disagree with rather than sledge hammering him. I have a ton of opinions about games I'd love to share but don't because of the work and time it takes. Don't you want to live in a world where people help each other rather than crabs in a bucket? Nah, better to just tell him he's a whiner. I'm sure, like 100% sure, that this CC could put out videos just for views if that was his primary goal. Instead he's sharing his thoughts to promote discussion and improvements and hear what others think. He's clearly interested in game design and mentioned working on his own design. Be good to one another and I'm sorry if I came off as harsh. I just want people to learn that what they put out effects people, and ideally for the better. You thought his vid was whiny sounding, fair enough, you're definitely entitled to that and perhaps that will shape his future work. I'm just letting you know I didn't get that take. I heard a guy putting out feedback in the interest of game design improvements both in this and in future games.

haha thanks cranky, i'm ok with the criticism, in fact in my new video I show that it's fine and I pretty much say what you say, I want people to put out their concerns to encourage the game to improve. But yeah don't mind the negativity on YT comments, this one was certainly not the worst :)

C'mon man, anyone can see this game is absolutely brimming with potential but it's far from amazing and it's healthy to criticize games. Yes. Enshrouded is an exploration game, or involves exploration certainly. It's also a one trick pony once your done pickaxing your way through the forced static progression loop only to end with all the building materials you could never need because why build a fancy house in a dead game. It's great he shared his thoughts. How dare anyone point out weak points in a game they find otherwise compelling, that they'd love even more if not for x y and z. It's possible to enjoy a game and still want it to be better. I can see many of his points. This game as it is today is like a very bad tomb raider game (crap puzzles, easy mobs with bad AI) with great graphics sound and amazing building. It could be soo much more though. It really should be. It might yet be. But it certainly won't be if everyone just bends over and gushes over it. When I was about 30 hours in I was loving Enshrouded. I then watched a streamer on twitch complaining about how the map was just god awful with all the mountains and pickaxing and other criticisms and honestly, I was a bit surprised. I was like, "what the hell is this guy on? I love this game so far." But you know, he was having fun anyway. I was enjoying his stream. Now I can see his POV and even agree with some of what he said. It's all good. Lastly, I think the CC does want to explore, he just wants the game to be more open instead of a more forced exploration path. For example you can't go into red shroud areas until you gather the materials to upgrade your shrine. You do that by following the quests. Great maybe for one play-though, but It is rather shallow. I think what he's suggesting is being able to do more early on, not being as limited as "go to area x, get material y to get to area z, to get material xx to get to area yy, to get to area zz, to .. ooo it's done, thanks for playing. An exploration game would be more like, do whatever the hell you want and discover things that will somehow help you. This game is like the scooby doo kids version of Valheim with all the quests forcing you along a set path. I'm sorry to bring V into this, it just got so many things better right out of the gate. To each his own though. This book I've written isn't just focused on you, it's a response that was brewing reading all the other hater posts as well. I wish you well.

I hope Keen just reads the positive stuff and ignores all criticism and doesn't improve a GD thing, because money. Sigh. Nah, I'm thankful people want more and I'd just guess Keen cares about content like this. Not because it's negative and might impact their bottom line, but because it's helpful feedback or at the very least gives them ideas to consider.

i'd have to dig up the old project, but i'd probably just make a whole new one. I am currently trying to work in UE so it will be a while

Sorry mate, i dont have the new verison and i don't support ummorpg anymore