Deepwoken Retrospective: Verse 1

[@jxstasyko]

The amount of freshies running around etris and vigils on release was amazing, good times

[@testedmrcool]

day 1 i got jumped by 6 of em 😭

[@ohakol7128]

Nowdays u barely see anyone in etris 😔

[@drawfru]

Dan be eating idols so much his ass became a Deepwoken himself 😭😭😭

[@Cakels]

Draw don’t think you’re safe

[@evereq8970]

Language..

[@DogGaming506]

Hello mate

[@TheAquer773]

grrrr….

[@FuroskiGoRawr]

wtfffLOLLL

[@Hunter-jf4ld]

The game had like 60-70k players on release, it was actually crashing the page for a bit too. If yknow yknow (day 1 deep player type info)

[@_1despair]

I remember having some issues to join the game on the first minutes when it released, i miss these times so much

[@zakidefix]

fake!!!!

[@virtuallylightblue]

@@_1despairi remember me and my boys getting jumped by lord regent's guards 5 minutes after release

[@WoodStocko]

I’m week 1 lol

[@beanzu8996]

The fact it has 20k daily to this day as a pay to play game, it’s crazy

[@gasoqua]

oh men the good old day 10 men go to the depth only two come up alive 😭

[@Stonechimp24820]

How it should be tbh. Way to easy to escape

[@elijahh4848]

seeing old ice eruption really hits hard (i miss planetary ice eruption)

[@NewAccount-w9b]

as someone who didn't have the chance to experience verse 1, thank you dan. i now know what was happening back in the "good ol days"

[@DanVR1]

it was fun in a way I cannot describe and also miserable the entire time

[@sagehanson190]

@@DanVR1Hah, that's exactly how I'd describe Rogue, too. Monad makes the best bad games ever.

[@JumperBloX]

As a day 1 Verse 1 player, Luck was so atrocious. 😂

[@somerandomtouhouenjoyer4879]

I deadass have etris ptsd from verse 1 bro I haven't spawned there in almost two and a half years

[@laviniajable]

it was fun

[@mugidara]

luck was amazing you were just horrible

[@JumperBloX]

@@mugidara Go plays sols rng cus im getting those vibes from u rn.

[@somerandomtouhouenjoyer4879]

@@mugidara fuck luck bro it was actually dogshit, it was literally just freshie grinding every single power 5

[@skeletoninatuxedo7147]

I loved verse 1, I'm not a day 1 player or anything, but I have been playing on and off for a few years now, since about 2021~ish, it was a nightmare, but it was fun actually interacting with other players and exploring with randoms you knew you'd never see again, dying at bandit camp because you couldn't parry the dagger, and getting punted into the depths by a sharko because you didn't know what the Q key did, ong all my randoms and homies hated luck 🔥

[@congregationn]

game released in 2021 though???

[@footballfusionpro2]

bro was playing deep in 2020..?

[@skeletoninatuxedo7147]

@@congregationn srry meant 2021 i just got home from school

[@skeletoninatuxedo7147]

@@footballfusionpro2 to clarify i bought deep like right after flamingo (the yter) made a vid on it, shoulda checked the dates first mb y'all

[@Chris-gv8wf]

I remember playing on day 1; and chopping trees at Vigils for 30 mins

[@seinnenn]

ong, I used to get my ass beat by the trainer

[@MollyAtTheRave]

On bro cause I didn’t know how else to get money😭

[@Absolutebott]

everytime I see any video with Danvr's name sculpted right under the boldened title, a smile overcomes my face, and my day is made. Thank you, virtual reality daniel.

[@govnolep]

when mentioning the old crypt, how come everyone forgets to say that it had 0.72 SWING SPEED AS WELL? (for new gens 0.72 is like 0.98 today)

[@Derk6799]

Legendary weapons used to be so wicked

[@thatonearanara]

Duelling my friends in the summer arena (remember that?) was nostalgic, the feeling of danger was thrilling, it was a good time

[@__grimmkind__]

I am a day 1 player, heres the most comical detail of that day: - if pvp it would be endless parry trade - nobody with guilds day 2 - we found out vigils - everyone has a guild

[@pauloandrey2107]

Back then if you went to depths power 50+ it was a certain death as no one knew how to kill enforcer

[@maxserrano9875]

i remeber old deepwoken someone once teleported to me usng hacks and thats when i decided to get 1300 elo in chime so not even a hacker could kill me thank god they have good anticheat

[@moteglebus5377]

Somehow still loved verse 1 more than verse 2

[@dilardo]

aw man i just miss the first few days of exploring everything and seeing people with enchants or a bell was like a crazy sight and information was being spread around by word of mouth

[@fabriciosantiago566]

Seeing people on these clips farming at places that players don't usually farm anymore is kinda nostalgic

[@mao38]

I remember accidentally discovering that crystallization round spark ice stomp would proc the explosions a crap ton to the point of one shotting people

[@iamraginghard4486]

ice stomp??? is that ice eruption?

[@mao38]

@@iamraginghard4486 I just call it ice stomp but yeah its ice eruption

[@CupOfOoze]

ill never forget the early days. enchants were actually rare, and i was given an alchemist or maybe herbalist hat i believe with entanglement. it was ass, and the guy who gave it to me didnt see the point of having an enchant if its stats were bad. old deep had a sense of broken whimsy to every mantra and ability.

[@Kirk-qg1jr]

i remeber when i thought i had a crypt just for it to be a normal darksteel greatsword 😭 and got mad when i lost it (i just saw the model and thought i had it)

[@trr4284]

I loved this nostalgia vid, I love to see the game getting better each update

[@user-cr6jy1md1b]

ah the good old memory I getting by pathfinder at erisia.

[@cvcorvus]

wonderful times, i miss them a lil bit.. great video.

[@GeraldTheTree]

Bro verse 1 was kinda crazy ngl but that’s probably nostalgia talking but nonetheless I loved exploring everything with friends (but I still despise luck ngl)

[@Witherald]

0:16 it got about 50k on its opening day but aight

[@CR7xs1z]

it was like 30k i was there

[@snake7z]

Witherald your a NERD!

[@kendu3037]

@@CR7xs1z50k i still got pic i think

[@jakuzure6405]

deepwoken peaked in highschool

[@snake7z]

Witherald, Im being silenced, But you smell...

[@The_RealCheff]

If the chef oath released on verse 1 it would have saved deepwoken

[@Benson-d9g]

I played deepwoken since release… my life is now ruined

[@Oofstellar]

This one's sanity must’ve already crumbled...

[@poof9843]

Yall remember back when you'd get an enchant on like a messer or regular katana and now you were obliged to make a build around it

[@no-en4if]

This truly takes me back to verse 1.. an incredible and wonderful game full of adventures... Ah yes when I first joined.. I immediately got kidnapped and got treated as a slave. I guess being a Felinor in Deepwoken verse 1 wasn't the best experience tbh. 💀

[@wiztrash9530]

Who remembers staying under the cathedral for 7 hours to unlock bell

[@ragegaze3482]

lol truee

[@coyotito2916]

verse 1 definitely felt a lot more like deepwoken had a theme and stuck to it, now it feels like its half jjk references with obnoxious effects and solely power creeping.

[@waffleiron5]

dont forget that exploiters could spoof their name and appearance to someone else so people were getting framed and false banned for almost a month straight

[@Rogue_smh]

deepwoken art is so fire bro

[@asherbeck4001]

danvr just murdered verse 1 nostalgia with a gun

[@garlicbreahd]

MoTLW My Beloved, I never forgot about you 💖

[@Chris-n8b4y]

RIP verse one you will and will not be missed

[@ragegaze3482]

I played day one and eventually quit a few weeks in only recently coming back to the game. I quit during that time period where literally everyone was kos and I just didn't enjoy that gameplay experience especially since knowledge of strong builds and things like bells was gate kept pretty hard making these fights impossible. The only thing everyone knew at the time was what you mentioned, kill people = more luck which means better cards. I still have one of my first characters alive from that time, definitely not a day one character but probably within the first month of the game , a power 16 279 year old slot.

[@dankmanOSU]

I wish we could have another time like verse 1 but we all collectively do things too fast

[@zeehaw6595]

dude the fucking luck factor was killing us

[@veles8023]

old deep was fun but luck was horrid so much so i got hunted so much i had became a perma freshie cause i kept getting gripped cause it was the only way to stay save

[@SFafnir]

as a hawaii boy not actually this song at the end hits hard

[@thefloopyguy1296]

maybe deepwoken was just the friends we made along the journey after all..

[@casualrobingamer535]

Man looking at this video i am glad at verse 2.

[@exmangx3899]

Shattered katana shadow hit so different back then

[@rayless89]

i remember hitting guards just before they aggro to imcrease my weapon stat

[@saeko2212]

i remember having a white adventures cloak at like lvl 5 in lower erisia and some dude with enforcer axe struggled to kill me and gripped me because he said I was lying and i had an assassin's cloak on

[@Bushables]

Op music hitting harder than a black parents belt

[@sapo__]

The progression feels like Warframe

[@Qeroo]

For me prime deepwoken is pre to1 update. With old loot system, old luck (not v2), almost no restrictions on some game mechanics(tp to lord regent for insta kill), mantra stacking combat 😢

[@swordlegend3256]

people act like verse 1 is the golden age of deepwoken but verse 2 is really the true golden age

[@fillrob653]

Absolutely not

[@ТагирК-и8т]

Absolutely yes, knowledge and vents is much better than verse 1 stuff. ​@@fillrob653

[@cyberman0321]

Honestly I think the new combat kinda sucks, venting was a terrible addition, I get why it was added but it wasn’t worth the sacrifice, it doesn’t feel as raw and gritty as old deep

[@JumboliciousJoshua]

There was never a golden age

[@swordlegend3256]

@@cyberman0321 venting is just there to escape combos dont use it wrong

[@pokohoko9575]

I could SENSE when dam uploaded

[@loony2470]

verse 1 was a ride to be sure, sadly I can't miss it with the improved system of knowledge and less exploiters being capable of trying to gain the lead via cheating. I especially am glad they got rid of black markets, that's just a red flag.

[@slimeknight6726]

I remember like a couple months after release i quit because of obvious reasons. But yeah now i might start again because lot of new stuff and definitely seems more mellowed out. God i remember i had an int build before that just kept rolling rare talents sadly that shit ran out quick after getting overflowing dam

[@neonboyo]

honestly ur right but i dont think the direction the game is going in rn is any better anyway. instead of fixing what the issues were they just made the issues the norm so everyone would stop complaining. and when the community wants content they just drop another legendary weapon they need to farm for so the devs get playtime rewards

[@nightwolfsmilkers4679]

although i agree current deepwoken is definitely better and more balanced than verse 1, i preferred verse 1. now yeah, its probably just nostalgia glasses, but i think the reason i enjoyed it so much more is because of how much more hardcore it was than current deepwoken, just like how dan explains it in the video. it was more like rogue lineage, dying was quick if you didnt pay attention, items were rare, builds were fun, and everything just seemed more clunky, which reminds me of rogue lineages difficult combat. although i prefer current deepwoken to old, there are certain things that i believe were better about it, and i think it would be cool to have a legacy deepwoken version of early verse 1, and maybe even open up a version from wave 0 testing, to let players experience what they originally saw in the earlier days of development, and instead of having other people tell them it was terrible, let them experience it for themselves.

[@snaaap]

bro I remember when having at least 3 legendary's was a flex 😭😭 then having like 6+ was godly

[@orangut4ng]

12:17 i agree, we just gotta wait for verse 3 now

[@sssaaaiiikkkuuu]

I just hope they guy a lot of stuff and make it more m1 focused again

[@degeneration6493]

@@sssaaaiiikkkuuuthey got*

[@sssaaaiiikkkuuu]

@@degeneration6493 🙁

[@mifuel]

Peak verse 1 trust

[@0kayArt]

ah.. back when everyone thought you had to stay in depths for 7 hours to get bell😭

[@PackRodent7]

I just hope they release like, old pre verse 1 deepwoken for shits and giggles and let people play it. probably wont be good but theres still so many areas and things I want to see in more detail. Like old venting, Isle of crows, blue lightning, white galebreath, the combat system, the old depths map, the old map as a whole. I think it'd be nice to look back in the first stuff we ever saw from deepwoken. also old deepwoken had an asthetic I think modern and even verse 1 deepwoken lost which I find sad

[@Iced___]

FOR REAL THOUGH!!!! I see a lot of testers like agamatsu or nanoprodigy talking about it and it seems so interesting, more so than the current game right now

[@NRVNQSRR]

@@Iced___ It was riddled with bugs, and holy shit you do not wanna see people Bhopping with Konga's. It got so bad to the point where even jetstriker nowadays when it comes to horizontal mobility get outclassed by someone with 0 agility IF they had konga's clutch ring. You could literally slide from one side of the map to the other in a matter of seconds because that's how stupid that ring was. There was also flourish movestacking, and old mace being one of the best weapon type in the game just because the animation literally had like 3 keyframes LOL

[@Iced___]

@@NRVNQSRR goddamn.. that would be fun bhopping with konga's ngl.. verse 1 konga's was okay but defo not jetstriker level

[@lIasagna]

5:51 watching this clip happen literally had me dieng inside

[@desiredjambe1085]

where did it all go wrong...

[@Some_guy0-]

Bro didn't watch the vid and assumes verse 1 was peak :skull emoji:

[@Some_guy0-]

Also have hope for deepwoken. Chime skulls were removed so that means conquest is coming this weekly trust.

[@meraldwaves]

silent heart

[@btheflyingxbox]

@@Some_guy0- The way things are going, conquest will probably be coming in December. Since layer 2 came out in December, and it was a big update. Conquest is probably a big update too, so it'll probably release on December.

[@add2926]

Glazing at the beginning

[@mao38]

You forgot about when people could crash servers with a third party software

[@DeadlyFortato]

I dont enjoy verse 2 nearly as much as verse 1. I had way more fun then. I feel like some of the biggest reasons were removing flourishing, making everything rare super easy to get (killing trading), changing parrying, making the game more brightly colored and less grim, along with many other random things. It could also be because i have 2000 hours in the game but these changes definitely had an effect

[@rusticmalard]

Surprised I got the noti this soon

[@limeofc1233]

I feel like im being yelled at 💀

[@vivalus]

you didnt talk about how exoskeleton was "get hit and you lose 5% hp"?

[@RetroCoil]

i'm pretty sure that crypt and curved were not the strongest weapons prior to their nerfs, when gran got its new crit you could reasonably kill someone in a single crit using movestacks for a solid 2 weeks before the nerfs

[@smhismyinitials]

those bandit leaders…………

[@Kyuutarin]

My goat

[@Jamas9981]

Still miss talents that had interesting ideas like old exoskeleton or original bloodshadow. Wish they tried to balance them more instead of scrapping them and continuing to add boring flat stat increase talents

[@retrospective7021]

old exo wouldnt work in verse 2 and pre nerf bloodshadow was the most op shit there was it had like 50 shadow requirement u pop bloodshadow and u constantly drain hp and heal yourself for like 1-2 bars without hitting anyone

[@Jamas9981]

@@retrospective7021 If it was only 10 hits like it originally was it could have been done with some tweaks. Original bloodshadow healing wasn't as crazy and could be disabled by just blocking. I'm not saying these talents were perfect but if more talents were made that actually change how you play with your build instead of being flat buffs that don't impact your playstyle at all would've bee nice.

[@retrospective7021]

@@Jamas9981 theyre adding flat stat increases cus its way easier to balance for that reason both of the talents u deemed cool got completly reworked cus they were simply too op and had no place in current game

[@laviniajable]

@@retrospective7021 attunementless in the corner laughing

[@Jamas9981]

​@@retrospective7021The flat stat increases are completely boring and have no depth. Exo was removed because it was overbuffed to have 20 hits and s to make it stronger against multihits, plus it was the meta where you'd use chime exclusively to progress so everyone went it to basically have a full build amount of hp. Talents that actually change how you play are fun and dynamic, getting a slight speed boost when I enter combat is garbage and lazy

[@AirConditioningFr]

I dont care what people say old deep was NOT as good as they make it out to be it was a buggy time and ontop of it the amount of exploiters running rampant was insane

[@food2103]

Hear me out verse 1 was good because it was hard. first week who actually got max level hell took me months to get my first max level and it was hard no mantra pve scaling no chain right now deep is make builds to play chime whereas old deep it was make builds over a week long time and finally get to max and then gank pve help freinds progress it was fun and it did have issues but some of that was fun

[@than4792]

10k??? it had 100k players day one

[@kehylp]

They should bring back old crypt but only for me

[@thatguy-yn4lf]

DanVr the god of reusing background footage

[@TheDarkDawner]

Hey who made that thimbnail?.. I really like it!

[@randomguy2530]

Glad I wasn’t here during verse one I only joined like about two years ago

[@meraldwaves]

Missed the best time for pvp

[@randomguy2530]

@@meraldwaves bro did you not hear how Dan said it was a buggy mess 💀💀

[@TheJamal467]

@@randomguy2530 that doesn't matter cause there were no aoe mantras back then, everything had small ranges and u werent getting spammed by mages

[@meraldwaves]

@@randomguy2530 i do not give a shit about what dan says verse 1 pvp was infinitely better than verse 2 and nearly everybody who played pvp back then will say that 💀💀

[@randomguy2530]

Well I can’t argue with mage spam, I will never use a stormseye

[@milangpo8615]

istg having luck was better because everyone having the best possible build in like 4 hours of work is not fair to people who dont wanna metamence and want to play the game casually i miss seeing normal builds cus every day now i just see meta builds everywhere

[@graybarron7695]

anybody else just spam the vigils trainer for exp on release? i remember getting to like level 30 because of how much xp he gave lol

[@Bobby-_]

I prefer verse 1 because i didnt have to deal with taxes back then 😔

[@syazx3640]

real

[@anwarmoham-k8p]

Im sadly not a verse 1 (day 1) player I wish i was.

[@roninglenn3080]

Post Luck Verse one was better imo. After watching the video i still preferred the progression after luck was removed, but looking back it was a buggy mess.

[@Blue_7224]

DANVR MAKE A IVAN REBORN BUILD

[@flandera9965]

peak 1

[@justonebiglie.2983]

whats the music at the start of the video?

[@TroofXD]

peakvr idk I haven't watched the video yet

[@amonguscharacter7623]

yo bro if u got speech therapy it would be musch easchier to lischen to

[@hazbin7895]

W

[@enhancemance803]

while all of this may be true verse one was better because i liked the lighting and vfx more

[@argonicapple]

bro saying it like all his viewers didn't play verse 1 (they did)

[@DanVR1]

the stats show something like 60% of deeps current player base joined after the verse 2 update

[@argonicapple]

@@DanVR1 your content always used to appeal more to the skilled players, so naturally it would attract veteran players, which this video doesn't seem to be targeting

[@kylocooper]

Bro beat me too it 😢

[@kcwacw1]

Verse 1 deepwoken still a good step better than RL.

[@raitozx2156]

Game ran down a bad path the moment the devs decided to add a PVP-centralized origin, that being Voidwalker. Now, that is why the game's a huge mess of unbalanced mantras and PVE is as stale as ever; Deepwoken was supposed to be a game with a mysterious lore and world building around it, along with an "medieval history" feel as we saw in pre-verse 1 deepwoken with pirates and invasions. In current days, the game feels more like an anime sandbox with RPG elements to it, that's why it has a good amount of players every day.

[@Donlimbuscompanyfan]

When the game was actually enjoyable.... Wellll Except for some stupidd ahhh bug and mantra

[@DeanAndersonIson]

hellllllllllllllllllllllllllllllooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooooo i hope you hit 100 subs

[@Bitmanofwar]

Danny vr🌝

[@_1despair]

I still have my first week build, im never wiping it

[@ragegaze3482]

what is the age of the character im curious? I started day one and eventually quit, I made a character around sometime verse one that is still alive today but i'm not sure how old it actually is compared to day 1 characters. My character is age 279 atm

[@_1despair]

@@ragegaze3482 Born Summer, 1254 Age 279

[@_1despair]

@@ragegaze3482 Its Born Summer, 1254/ Age 279 too