Hecate essence is horrible game design ngl

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-Small fart cloud that has a 1/12 chance to spawn on islands larger than fucking Othyrs

-Doesn’t render in until you’re basically next to it

-I heard it doesn’t even give iframes so atlanteans can kill you while you’re busy

-Spawns only after i3 of the dark sea, which at that point the game is literally physically falling apart as roblox’s floating point glitch begins to kick in, not to mention how it takes like 15 or so minutes to even get that far

How the fuck was this considered even remotely okay???

Man remember when testers actually did their job and tested things like this, yea me neither pal.

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we know

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I don’t count the seconds but it takes like half an hour on a VERY fast boat

pretty much everyone dislikes the feature as it is, but I don’t think vetex will improve it before release (assuming it gets improved)

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Also, WHY THE FUCK do golden pots have that purple glow that look exactly like a hecate essence

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you know this whole feature could be fixed via 2 things

-remove dark sea jank, not sure how this would be done but I assume it’s because the DS is way too big for its own good, making it smaller or figuring out ways to lose the floating point error would be seriously nice and it would hopefully help fix the lag problem

-make it so an island with hecate’s essence on it triggers a little dialogue blurb that’s like “yo there’s something cool here” when you sail near the island and you can then easily tell which islands are good and which ones are time wasters

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Wtf bro?? Ts is so ass :sob::sob::sob:

Me and a guy did find a hecate essence in i3 on the 2nd island (i was lvl 1 so i didn’t need it)

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The 2nd one was an actual suggestion (that got through), but vetoed by vetex

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:fr:

people be like “dude quit having a doomer mentality it’s early release” but when I hear or see shit like this I don’t think my pessimism for this game’s future is irrational by any means.

how many more terrible game choices are going to be made until a breaking point happens?

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I could maybe go hecate essence searching w/ u if ur down for it

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idk man maybe later I could DM you

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He should at least make it so the essence spawns in an altar with glowing magics runes or something like that, that way we can at least use clearsight and not waste 20 minutes trying to get within the render distance of the cloud effects on a sameria sized island (this could also fix the issue where the essence spawns right in the face of an atlantean)

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I think essences should have a purple beam effect that shoots to the sky so you can see it from far away.

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I think it’s fair to say that literally anything would be better than the current system we have

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tis why I never wanna go hecate essence hunting
make file and be sure it’s what you wanna stick with

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only reason I wanna reset is because I need a magic that fits the color of my eyeballs since I got the sinister gaze :fr:

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This would be an awesome addon

I remember the dark sea even before they had those small structures atlanteans spawn on, only these destroyed homes

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Coping that once sensing gets added we can use it to find hectate essences easily

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I was lucky enough to get on in the matter of minutes of my first go around… Tried searching again today, as I had ideas with other magics… I realized how colossal the islands are and kinda lost hope real quickly! I think ill just wait till endgame vimir or chimera

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Trust me, many people have brought this up to Vet, even in the tester circle. Hecate essence is really unfun to get, and punishes people who don’t have multiple hours to burn on the game in one sitting.

Acrimonies and sunkens, while rare, are obtainable thanks to the marketplace. An ‘eventuality’ if you save up and grind up.

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If only there were was a way to make the player invisible to NPCs for a set amount of time, or to make the NPCs unable to attack the player for a short while, huh?
Stares angrily at Vetex