as the title said, what are your thoughts on deepwoken?
I personally believe it is a game made for masochists who love powertripping like a reddit mod in 203 subreddits by murdering freshies at erisia while also saying to anyone who wants perhaps a way to NOT have your experience in a PERMADEATH game be ruined by people who played longer than you, such as a level limit to people fighting you, with “a level limit to pvp breaks immersion” and “skill issue”.
Like, SURE! I CAN DEFINITLY BEAT TWO LEVEL 60 PLAYERS WITH ENCHANTS/BELLS AT LEVEL 7 WITH AN APPRENTICE RAPIER THAT ALSO TOOK HOURS TO GRIND OUT ON THE LAST SAVE THAT GOT WIPED BY OTHER SIMILAIRY HIGH LEVELS, IT WAS TOTALLY MY FAULT!
AND DON’T GET ME STARTED ON BALANCING. We got:
light weapons that do more than heavy weapons
talents that punish you for the opponent doing something
enchant that punishes you for the opponent doing something
enchants that win the fight easily
resonances that are absolutely broken but are definitely not getting nerfed anytime soon, and exist only for people to bossraid with and make the game seem fun
thundercall
way of navae
storm enchant making thundercall more homosexual than people in WoM using shadow
and a lot more bs.
oh, and then there’s the map!
it’s very bad, and feels empty.
so much was cut, and it just doesn’t feel like exploration, because it’s just trying to find the best place to grind exp to power up to then wipe because your build got shit talents.
and honestly, why is there even a fucking ocean in the game? it serves NO purpose, other than to make the game take forever to play. yeah, I know it’s lore and all in a shit game that has no fucking story to make me even care much at all about the lore, but it does literally nothing. there is NOTHING that happens apart from:
two ships randomly spawning on top of you out of nowhere that completely ignore you that you usually just sail away from unless it spawns on your ship
a lionfish (literally adds nothing to game)
a brainsucker or two (literally adds nothing to game)
oh, and remember me talking about the story? well, it’s impossible to criticize! BECAUSE IT DOESN’T EXIST! THIS GAME FULL OF RANDOM LORE HAS LITERALLY NO REASON TO EVEN TRY TO LEARN ABOUT BECAUSE THERE’S NO STORY OR PLOT! you’re just a random hobo who washed up on a shore! you contribute NOTHING to the world (much like the moderation team) and mean NOTHING at all! The whole world could be the exact same without you and noone would miss you!.
This game could have been something so so great, but then the permadeath aspect comes along and makes it very shit because in deepwoken, it’s not skill vs skill, it’s numbers vs numbers.
now, what are
Your thoughts on Deepwoken (sort of a rant as well)