Just realized blox fruits made their equivalent to the dark sea better than AO
Sailing from point a to point B is a NOT FUN, especially when it’s in the dark sea
Blox fruits had me more invested when I was going somewhere to find Kitsune island or whatever it is, because I had to actually defend my ship, unlike with AO where every sea monster just runs away due to a bug, even if they don’t run away it’s simply
Along with that, the simple lack of treasure there is on a DS island, why are we finding normal ahh shit in a place humans never have went to for more than a century? The islands and treasure betray the ‘rank’ (idk a better word yet) that they have been given. i do not want an Atlantean Amplified Blue Scarf
And the lack of optimization makes it awful to do a long run of the DS (which makes traveling from point æ to point b way worse and even slower)
The only reasons anybody would go to the DS is chests, gems (these islands that give them), reagents, epicenter, which is not enough by a long shot, hell, there isn’t even a single item that is purely exclusive to an island in the DS
Vetex should atleast increase the max dist. Visibility to the islands size, and atleast give dmg immunity when we use 1, along with that making islands smaller, 30 of these DS islands could make an entire magius atp
Today i spent 4 hours searching for hecate essence and eventually i found it in few islands but i died due to water poisoning (unplanned) and i continue my search but am very tired while typing this message
Wasting 10 hours looking for something isn’t difficult it’s stupid if I make a game and add something really rare that’s entirely rng based that massively effects your character but you could find it at any time that’s not a difficult game it’s just a game with a poor design I also don’t understand how rng = difficulty u can’t compare this to Elden ring because the fights in that game are entirely under your control and whether or not you loose is your fault. You cannot control rng so whether or not you find it is not based on skill or difficulty but rather dumb luck
here’s a way to put it:
In those other difficult games you mentioned, when you lose you think
“aight, I screwed that up, lets use what I’ve learned”
You’re still having fun despite losing!
This is good game design.
When looking for hecate essence and realizing it isn’t on the island
“ugh, there goes another 30 minutes”
This wasn’t fun to begin with!
That is bad game design.
vetex owes none of us, but it’ll benefit everyone in the game if vetex does something about it, such as doubling or tripling the chance, or making a potion that can change your magics too, the biggest problem with the ehcate essence is that you can’t store it for when you want to use it if you stumble across it in the wild, and it is just way too far out where islands are too where for it to be like that
All Hecate essence need is indication that it on that island
There no need to increase it chance
The Increase chance proposal made by Metapoly for hecate essence chance from 1/12 to 1/10 got veto’ed by vetex but other proposal such as show an indicator that it on island with message and give immunity when using it is not backfired or Veto’ed
this is someone who works closely with vetex, both are in agreement it should be difficult to find, and even though I completely disagree with the game design at play, this is the final answer, we may get one at full release and thats probably whats gonna happen
