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Valheim: Ashlands Gameplay Trailer (www.youtube.com)

submitted 7 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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I can't believe the devs are still alive

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[–] [email protected] 37 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (3 children)

In an age where everyone rags on live service games that will inevitably lose support, a cheap, fun, well made, feature complete game (and was that way on release) that gets infrequent updates is "abandoned" and "insultingly barebones". Classic 2024 gamer moment right there

[–] [email protected] 14 points 7 months ago (1 children)

It's not feature complete, though? The store page literally says Early Access, and within that description the devs explain what is missing and their rough estimate for how much time is left before version 1.0...

But, classic 2024 gamer moment, sure.

[–] [email protected] 6 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago) (1 children)

Sorry, should say I mean feature complete in a relative sense. Ie, some EA games are essentially tech demos, and you're funding a theoretical game when you buy. If those games stopped getting updates, you're left with a mostly empty unreal engine project, not a full video game.

Valheim was a full video game on day one. A buddy and I played many hours when it first came out and thoroughly enjoyed it. If no updates came out, I might have felt like there was some unmet potential, but I certainly wouldn't have been insulted. Bottom line, take away the roadmap, I still see a great game with enough going for it to stand on its own.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 7 months ago

What is the current state of the Early Access version?

“Most planned core features of the game have been implemented. Single-player and multiplayer modes are fully functional and we have a separate dedicated server tool if you want a server running 24/7. There are currently six fully developed biomes out of a planned total of eight (plus the Ocean). There are hundreds of different items (weapons, materials, armor etc) in the game, to be found or crafted by the player. We have over 200 building pieces, and about 50 different types of creatures including monsters, animals and bosses.”

It sounds like the game's getting Ashlands plus one more biome, but not much for new features. So depending on your definition of feature complete it's at least pretty close anyways. From this point on it's theoretically more of the same.

I'm pretty much on the same page as you, although I started playing a couple months ago with a couple friends. The game is obviously not abandoned, and it's a pretty full game even with more to come. We finally built a hot tub on the weekend and I don't know how I'm supposed to expect more from this game than chilling in a tub with your naked viking bros.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 7 months ago

For the price, what was there was fine, but it was sold as early access and the later areas were basically empty.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 7 months ago* (last edited 7 months ago)

This is literally the first major update since Mistlands was on the docket at the time it blew up. To call the updates merely infrequent is an understatement. They were going fairly strong until they made an unexpected butt load of money and they themselves said they didn't know how to handle the success.