What made Valheim so successful?

[@TheSpoxez]

For me, what really captured me was the mysticism. Going in blind, I had no idea what monsters I would meet, what dangers were lurking in the new biome I found or how new items would work. It's a similar experience to when I first played minecraft as a small kid. An endless expansive world to explore, freely!

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Totally agree. Valheim captures that sense of adventure so well. My friends and I shrieked the first time we faced some of the enemies in game.

[@mantella284]

My buddy and I sailed for a good solid 30 minutes and we pulled up to the plaines biome. A goblin approached and my buddy got to the edge of the boat to look at him and got sniped 1 shot by his spear. I then got merked by a mosquito. It was absolutely hilarious how OP they were. Had no idea what to expect from this biome. I love it

[@DustyyBoi]

@@mantella284 the wonders me and my friend had walking around in the newly discovered black forest (which we later found out was right next to a goblin outpost) seeing a small goblin walk up to him, and then proceed to explode him in a single hit. screaming to my friends to get the "boat" ready as i sprint towards them in a panic (unbeknownst to me, bringing a mosquito) as we sail away, the captain gets fucking one-shot by it. we find out the only person with any arrows was her, the dead captain.. then in the absolute chaos of it all, it kills me and my last friend. we are all scream laughing at the absurdity as we suddenly find ourselves standing in the middle of our base, 10 min away from our boat, and all of our loot. we then decided to call it a night

[@tarron3237]

Great music, simple but beautiful graphics, intuitive controls and a sense of adventure. Valheim is both easy enough and hard enough.

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Couldn't agree more! Thanks for commenting.

[@aurenian8247]

For me the meadows in Valheim is the number one spot to just hang out and chill out of all the games I own. I spend 90% of my time building cosy homes in the meadows. The selection of nice looking building pieces as well as the lighting sound design just makes a well built viking home one of the most inviting places to be in the digital space.

[@stopit825]

What I love about this game and what i don't get in every other survival game besides a little bit of Rain World is that it's just simply fun to exist in the game. I don't need to be fighting constantly to have fun in this game, it's fun to sit down by a campfire and watch the sky on a long voyage, or to sail a boat to another continent. It's just fun to exist within the world.

[@DigitalVirusX2]

It's absolutely insane to me that this gigantic game is only one gigabyte (almost 2 I know shush), especially nowadays where most games are between 50-100gb.

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Yeah It's crazy that 90% of a games file size can just be all the textures.

[@kazumablackwing4270]

If you play modded, your mod folder probably will end up bigger than the base game

[@LordRenegrade]

I have to admit I didn't notice how small it was until you guys pointed it out... it's 1.39 gigabytes on my machine. That's pretty damn small for such great entertainment!

[@Justin_Leone]

Not just smaller textures, but also procedurally generated maps saves a lot of space.

[@pizzapositive]

i think on release it was half a gig or something

[@GeraltofRivia22]

The thing I like most about Valheim is the sense of adventure, especially with friends. Nothing quite like sailing around the world blasting sea shanties with the boys.

[@LaplacianFourier]

You couldn’t overlook the physics. It’s awesome to have a troll chop down trees and smash ores!

[@rastapopoulos7870]

Cheers dude these are some great observations. "It's a difficulty that can be planned and mitigated for." Thats the exact way how games should be hard. Absolute gem of a game!

[@pastortroy4life]

This was the only true adventure game. I've never felt like I was actually discovering and uncovering something quite like this, except perhaps minecraft. But the graphics were amazing yet so simple.

[@amazingchestahead4602]

YES! So glad you talked about the whole comfort system, it feels so great to be rewarded for decorating a building and having to build around smoke just creates these really immersive and pretty builds that just adds so much to the feel of the game.

[@locust7186]

Perfect description of the game. I felt the same kind of wonder as when I played Subnautica for the first time. Going in blind and just discovering and exploring what a well made game has to offer is amazing.

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Thanks for the comment kind stranger!

[@locust7186]

@@admiraltygaming3756 Whoah, you have the same name as the channel. That's crazy, what are the odds???

[@chloekaftan]

another thing i think helped a lot for valheim is that among the many base building survival games one game with a very similar style already existed and cultivated a large community around it before valheim even existed. that game is known as "Medieval Engineers", it was a game with many of the same features (but with less focus on graphics or lighting and far more focus on planetary scale voxels, structural integrity, and mechanical movement (ie. carts, catapults, trebuchets, etc.)) but unfortunately by the time valheim came out medieval engineers had been abandoned by the developers in order to focus their efforts on space engineers. the community fought to keep the game alive through modding until eventually the company (keensoftwarehouse) decided to give the players what they asked for and released the source code for the game in what is now known as the community-edition branch of the game. despite that a lot of the old playerbase never returned (likely either bc the game had no hope of transcending itself anymore, or bc they simply didn't know about the community edition. most of these players ended up in valheim instead.

[@Bosston62]

For me this game is absolutely therapeutic. If I’m ever stressed out from work I crank on my server and just build. With all the updates and all the resources there are now there’s so much cool designs to build.

[@aquilaFUN]

The Building is what connects all the Dots in this Game. They masterfully incorporated it into the Gameplay loop. In Minecraft for example (not dunking on it btw, its still OG, but a completely different experience) you just dig a hole, put your Chests in it and thats about it. Valheim highly encourages you to build a large home base, but not by throwing random stuff together, because structural integrity is a thing, you need a fire to sleep/cook, but for the Fire you need a chimney, you need to upgrade your workbenches quite heavily to craft better stuff, to the point where it becomes basically impossible to just whip out the best workbench on the go. Same thing with comfort, you are rewarded for building a very comfy bedroom with all the extras, because the rested buff is possibly the most important thing in the game. And as you progress, more and more stuff gets added to your base, so you are always encouraged to come back after a long adventure and refine all your items right in the home base. Not allowing Ores through portals was also brilliant, it allows you to cut the repetetive back and forth short, but still requires you to make a few long hauls with a boat full of precious metals across the Map. You can of course refine it right on site, but then you need smelters and advanced work benches and all the upgrades and so on, which in turn encourages you to build a bigger outpost, and so on.. The stuff you fill your base with is actually functional, thats what makes it so rewarding. Building stuff because it looks pretty is nice, but building stuff you need anyway AND make it pretty is just amazing. I could go on for hours about every single detail that amazes me in this game, but building is my favourite aspect. and jesus, its not even finished. 2 more biomes + several minor updates to go, can not wait.

[@LynarMatal]

This was really well done, I have been long pulled into Valheim as a viewer and eventually a player for its dynamic simplicities.

[@cs_calzone]

Me and my friend did a whole playthrough not too long ago however we modded in quality of life features like taking metal through portals, and in general we enjoyed it more than we were before. but that didn't discourage us from building bases or expanding into new lands, in fact it made it more fun. we wanted to make a single major base in each biome and we did! (minus the swamp that area sucks) like out house that later expanded in the meadow, a tower in the black forest, a grand castle in the mountains and a huge mead hall in the plains. the game kept us inspired and let us keep enjoying it even when we made the experience much easier. Its truly a fantastic and beautiful game.

[@ncisawesome]

I remember when i first started playing valhiem the only way i could describe it was it made me calm and anxious at the same time. The games beautiful and so is the music but the threats can be VERY serious at times

[@admiraltygaming3756]

I remember taking on all the biomes and bosses for the first time. It was such an adventure!

[@Kolopaper]

That music calms your soul

[@ncisawesome]

@@Kolopaper calms your soul while a fuling beserker is slowly walking towards you in the background 🤣🤣🤣

[@Draxis32]

Every good game has this three characteristics: A good sense of progression Impeccable thematic music Innovative graphics/mechanics Valheim has all these elements and managed to be an incredible game

[@ScarryHarry93]

I hate how so many people hate on it simply because the roadmap changed and updates weren't released as quick as they originally planned and hoped for. I mean, we knew the size of the dev team and that they weren't expending just because they went 'viral' in a week. Even so, they continued to meticulously work on the updates we've gotten so for and in some cases put out a bit more than we were planning, and really expanded the world. And even if they didn't - assuming the unfinished biomes were polished or non-existent - they already had an excellent casual adventure game that many people put 100's of hours into. And yet some of those people still hated on it for not polishing and finishing within the last year even they they got 100's or even 1,000's of hours of fun gameplay out of a $20 game that didn't think it would gain so much popularity.

[@fastfiddler1625]

I love the building style. With the exception of trying to build poles down into water, it is one of the best. The support mechanic adds a lot of thought to it. You can't just create an infinite span of unsupported platforms. So what you build actually ends up looking like a building. And the homes you send up building give you this sense of safety and warmth, away from the bleak, deadly landscape. You know... Until the forest moves. Ps... 11k views and 700 likes? Come on, folks.

[@jxun4l3ht10]

20 years ago Peter Molyneux made a wild claim that in his future game (Fable) you could plant a tree, watch it grow over time, chop it down and plant a new one. Of course that was an outlandish claim, he was famous for those and of course it did not come true. Valheim really reminded me of that I'm living in that future right now that game developers were dreaming 20 years ago

[@primisto7530]

While I love that I have to build outposts and plan my routes and it adds to the immersion and difficulty, not being able to teleport ore does cause some rather annoying issues when it comes to buildings. Considering supports are the fundamental part in building something large(er) than a normal house and a lot of decorative furniture is locked behind iron, having to sail across the sea (with wind usually being unfavorable) for it every time I run out (which is quite quick) is kind of annoying. By this point I usually just find myself world hopping to farm my iron, it is much less time consuming. But Valheim definitely is an adventure of your own making and encouraged by this system. I still remember making a little overhang for my workbench, then a little shack just large enough for a bed, then building a house on top of a hill and eventually transforming the overhang into a large hall with stone walls, the rest of my encampment, including 2 seperate fields for plants, surrounded by spiked walls. As you progress your base is forced and encouraged to grow with the progress. Not to mention all the comfy outposts for mining/access to swamp (etc.). In other games base-building is just a secondary aspect

[@mynameismiketest770]

6:12 , It looks like the Banaue Rice Terraces as well as our Rice Paddy in the mountains ^_^ Very nice.

[@liivaton]

It was the building, the simple graphics, the content and the fact that your imagination is the limit in that game

[@vonborgah]

The theme. Viking stuff works great for gamers. The genre. Survival, crafting, building, progression is cream that just works best as a game, apex we call it. Sadly no skill tree etc yet. The atmosphere. The lighting and the tone of the game just makes it so pleasurable. Plus it looks like my backyard forest. Finn here. Doesnt hold your hand but doesnt try to make it too serious or hard either, also it does one thing that most games dont get. Fun over everything, over realism and challenge but not too much.

[@LiamTheOne]

not every day you see a high quality content creator with under 1k subs good job

[@kitfo18]

Another thing about it that makes it so good is the hardware requirement being so low for it to still look so good. IT allows a lot more people to not only play it but to experience it's beauty with out having a very powerful system.

[@Jan-hu1hk]

great vid, currently addicted to valheim. the building is super addictive, and also the sense of wander because u have no idea what else u can unlock/discover or what enemies you might find. really great to play with friends also!

[@logic9436]

I hate to say it as a Norwegian, but this is Swedish pragmatical, logical and effective beauty into a game. They really can produce anything.......

[@roqsteady5290]

Hopefully they avoided the rotten fish!?

[@gangweed3244]

I'm danish, and 6 of my top 10 most played games on Steam are Swedish games. It hurts, but I have to admit that those Svenske djævle knows how to make games.

[@TheStraightestWhitest]

It's a shame the Swedes will cease to exist soon. Replaced by a bunch of barbarians. Then again, that counts for most of Scandinavia.

[@y3lkc33kul]

You really hit the iron nail on the head with this video!

[@dreamdealer]

100% agree, great video. One last thing I'd add: they are still adding stuff to the game and more will come in the future. Replayability is huge here.

[@pneuma1449]

Great video man! Love the approach on this one. I thought I always wanted convenience in my games but valheim taught me to stop and smell the flowers.

[@relarin952]

Such a perfect blend of innovation and callbacks to classics from the genre

[@petergriffen437]

Excellent video admirialty! Your video quality is very high and I like your style of content, keep up the good videos!

[@ChelloveckCog]

For everybody complaining that the game doesn't update enough: you're clearly a Nostalgia/Novelty player. I think this game isn't made for those of you who are, because as a *mastery* player, I have yet to get bored of the vanilla game and I've been playing it off and on since mid 2021. I've spent more time collecting up components to make my bases bigger, I've spent more time trying to exploit building mechanics and game loops, I have literally never run out of good times to be had on this game. And the additional option to bring in friends on occasion or to open a server and work on the off hours to progress one another has been everything I've needed in a game that anything in the last decade hasn't even come close to. The fact that they've optimized with the lighting and textures to provide access to a wider range of machines (on top of just looking better overall) and have spent an inordinate amount of time locking in their gaming loops but have given us options to tease them open has been an absolute delight for me.

[@kokorochacarero8003]

For me, the game excels at three things: 1) The thrill of embarking on an adventure to get resources foreign to your home biome 2) The creative challenge that comes with the development of infrastructure to transport, process and store those resources 3) The feeling of returning home from a long, dificcult journey and getting all cozy at the base you store all your treasures in A game doesn't need bombastic mechanics, a AAA budget pixel count and endless and overcomplicated progression systems. All it needs is to present the player with a couple simple problems and give the players the tools AND the freedom to solve them creatively. Valheim is a clear example of developers doing more with less, and giving the player the right tools to create their own fun. I've considered a full game since even before Heart and Home came out, but Mistlands has been amazing so far and I can't wait to see what else the devs have planned. I'm a big advocate of adding more mechanics that are not necesarily game changing or power focused but help create community and intrinsic motivation to play the game; like adding musical instruments you can play, or simple objects players can create their own minigames with like a ball.

[@iambakuhatsu]

I was surprised at the quality of the analysis here for such a small channel. Subscribed!

[@iambakuhatsu]

congrats on your new highest view count!

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Thanks :)

[@smattz1907]

Waw very good video ! You did a great job, you explained well , there wasnt spoilers, it was understandable. Good job !

[@badjer4328]

You forgot to mention the food system. It's not required to have to focus on food like other survival games, but you are still punished with a smaller health pool for ignoring it. You are encouraged to attain bigger, better, more complex food and diffrent combinations of it to either have a tankier health pool, or more stamina.

[@followingtheroe1952]

I just got this game a couple days ago, and I gotta say this shit fills me with the same sense of wonder I had exploring the overworld in Minecraft way back in 2011

[@pateriocus]

Great video - you definitely have yourself a new subscriber! I fell in love with Valheim because of its polished mechanics, visuals, and fantastic building system. After having played it to death in Early Access, I'm now patiently waiting for the full release (and trying my darndest to not be tempted by Mistlands). Valheim has the potential to become a mainstay in the Steam top 100, but IMO Iron Gate have dropped the ball somewhat with their slow development cycles. Here's hoping they still pull off a great 1.0 launch!

[@defenstrator4660]

It has a great blend of exploration, creativity, and fear.

[@gamingshowerthoughts9723]

I think the trick is that it manages the impossible task of making us forget its a procedurally generated map. The rest of the game is good, but if it was just a stock map and a fraction of the size, or if it was difficult to ignore that it was procgen, it would not stand out.

[@ito2789]

Absolutely agree on the points you made regarding the core feature of this game. The graphics are definitely beautiful and simple, at times, more beautiful than the ultra realistic graphics we have in most games nowadays. True artistry by the simplification and focus on the main aspects that made this game such a banger!

[@rebelnz7837]

Great video. I'm 1200+ hours into the game, and love it. Agree with everything you said. Skal!

[@DeadyD0right]

came out at the perfect time during lockdowns everyone was home, the 8 of us looking for a new game to play, i bought a gportal server for a month and had a blast. had more fun building than i did progressing through the game.

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Hmmm that's a good point. Maybe lockdown played a big part in Valheim's success? But yeah, its a blast with a big group of friends!

[@vigil3273]

Amazing video and ideas! Thnx for video, good luck to your channel)

[@jjkthebest]

3:45 Troll raids be like: I'm gonna end this man's whole career

[@MorneBooysen]

Was the game that kept me sane in lockdown since I could go on adventures to relax with my mate

[@ciervoray]

Valheim dont have a "bad grafic" ... its a spezial grafic. In the world of gamers exist 2 kinds of players. The one who wanna have grafic and the obe who wanna play good things. New Games are just grafic and 60hours play... Valheim ist 300-2000 hours fun alone or with friends. We like Valheim because its a world where we can get everything without annoying things like Time, pvp or the need of fast progress... we play this game since 400 hours and never killed the 5. boss, nobody is higher then iron equip because we have so much other things to do ;-) this is valheim

[@MorneBooysen]

Also the insane audio and timing and raptor initial play streaming made it popular

[@derschnuff8819]

One big point was Valheims randomly generated worldcontent. You cannot go to some website and read out the coordinates where to find something exactly...you have to find out yourself. you travel into the unknown.

[@WonderlandOfMalice]

100% agree with all points made. I have my grumbles with the game that will hopefully be addressed once they get to 1.0,, but the adventure, the challenge and graphics all make for an amazing experience.

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Thanks for commenting. :) I'm sure the game will be a lot different once it's finished!

[@AngelArm1110]

Games never needed atomic scale graphics (I love that descriptor though), they just need enough to make it believable, and then a well crafted core gameplay loop.

[@KanedaSyndrome]

What makes the game good is that it isn't easy mode, not bull shit engagement mechanics, pure focus on gameplay and a clear feeling of progression that is earned and not just given.

[@sirzorg5728]

The problem I had was that gathering iron in the swamps was just plain grindy. The swamp dungeons don't individually contain a meaningful amount of iron (this was many updates ago, maybe it's different now), and there aren't enough dungeons per swamp biome.

[@testval]

Amazing video, the information was simple and yet so in depth. Fitting for a valheim video :)

[@undeafwolf179]

1.) it get you addicted real fast when you figure things out how to play. 2.) lag performances aren’t so bad not the best not the worse just about right but at that point you pretty much don’t care too much about it. 3.) it’s challenging 4.) best open world survival crafting games 5.) development ran a couple hiccup bugs bugs but In progress fixing it ASP! 6.) it’s Vikings AGES!!!!

[@mickymouse7717]

i found that you can dig a cave out in the Mistlands.. under ground living

[@Bratzernnjr]

3:27 You display a picture of Château which its only function is to be aesthetically pleasing, it has limited defensive values. But castles themselves are beautiful in their own rights.

[@robinshelton2132]

Great analysis! Soo true about games focusing on amazing textures along with other very resource heavy visuals which bog the game down and limit the gameplay reaching its true potential

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Thanks. It always bugged me how big game files are getting (100gigs plus) because they want the biggest and bestest textures, meanwhile the lighting sucks.

[@derpderpin1568]

Then why are there so many games in this genre that have better looking textures and assets but ALSO have more features, content, and polish than Valheim? It's not leading the genre in anything despite the graphics. I don't mind them at all I'm just saying your point makes no logical or factual sense.

[@Wasabiofip]

@@admiraltygaming3756 Ark as you mentioned is a huge offender. We tried it for like a week and then were like man... this game is just not fun, and kind of ugly on top of it. And went back to Valheim lol. Felt good to delete 164 GB of one game.

[@robinshelton2132]

@@derpderpin1568 I’m just saying to his point, in general i like it when games have a very good looking visual style that is captured with resource light textures and Geometry that make the game feel light and they can push the game play in other areas because it’s not being weighed down by memory bogging textures and assets. Never said valheim is the best at this but it does it well and it’s up there in the category

[@ogierthedane6025]

I love the exploration aspect and sailing in this game has a way of easing my stress after a long day :)

[@bob-bi4hv]

Great video man, I feel inclined to go and buy it and try it out now

[@lordhamster7324]

+1 sub, keep up the grind brother!

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Thanks for the sub!

[@Wienerbus]

It was made by a small group of passionate gamers that wanted to make a good game instead of a AAA studio that wanted to make money for shareholders. Seems to be the common thread.

[@DurpVonFronz]

1500+ hours in. one amazing game

[@hellfiresiayan]

my only thing with valheim is the grind. sure the first few long trips for iron i don't mind, but after the 4th or 5th time i kinda just stopped caring enough to go all the way to a swamp. They could def use some later game ways of speeding things up.

[@connor_phillipz5689]

It fills the same niche for me as Minecraft and Terraria. And we all know how popular those games are. I think Valheim will have some long legs and will only continue to get more popular.

[@Raionhardt]

I don't know how anyone could enjoy the forced traveling for metals after the first time. I just want to bring the metal back and craft stuff. Not spend 30minutes to an hour dealing with sailing and tailwind to go up and down the map every time I need more iron/silver/blackmetal/etc. It just feels like a waste of time. There isnt even a way to upgrade portals to allow metals. The only upside is you can work around it by world hopping. The only reason it has a long future ahead of it is because the millionare devs took 2 years to release mistlands without making any QoL improvements to the game

[@meunomeeeste1441]

I think its ALSO because it has a final objective - kill all bosses. So its still a sandbox but your not just "doing nothing"

[@eddlovesskiing]

Bought a steam deck and not stopped playing Valheim since

[@cHydrae]

for the grinding parts like finding iron its kinda just like going into a dungeon in dark souls just so you can get that really cool sword you always wanted to use.

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Yeah it kinda is like that. Thanks for the comment.

[@roqsteady5290]

Good video, I like this kind of analysis.

[@RenanLeao22]

excellent video! keep making them

[@josecorona8872]

You forgot to mention that it was 20 bucks which is fairly cheap and affordable for most people

[@Howler452]

I will say, as much as I love the game, it is a pain to go back and forth on a boat when the wind never wants to blow the direction you want 😂

[@locust7186]

*Spoiler* The dragon boss' buff makes the wind behind you when activated.

[@MikaHolic_Channel_OFFICIAL]

well said brother. you pointed all the good points perfectly.

[@untilisee]

Hi. I'am your subscriber №1000 =) Thanks for the video

[@jcozyyt]

Really well done video. Your voiceover is professional and easy to listen to. You earned a subscribe from me. Keep it up!

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Thanks for the comment and for the sub!

[@smattz1907]

i agree miner

[@grizzle273463]

Very good analysis and I could not agree more.

[@RadeonVector]

From someone who's got thousands of hours in survival games for PC I feel that after release and its success something happened to the devs and they lost whatever inspiration originally made this game great. Some stuff I've seen in mods would've been great additions, which leads me to believe my vision of what this game should've been wasn't so off, and then there's the Mistlands biome, big nail in the coffin, there was even a mod that populated the placeholder biome and it seemed like what was the right thing to expect, but then we got what the devs gave us... I've never seen something so annoying and out of place, so uninspired and just random, the placeholder gave out great vibes, dark and foggy/misty place with cobwebs and giant human skeletons? Sign me up! Spiders and spider caves, it all looked promising, but no, we got some made-up-out-of-nowhere place with magic Haldors and weird insects, and the place isn't even dark/misty, it's very colorful and bright, they added "the mist stuff" to justify its name, like WTF, you already had a great placeholder, why not just work on that? Anyways, I get passionate about these things, I'll go touch some grass now.

[@betin731]

Great video!

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Thanks! I put a lot of time and effort into it!

[@Laiynnalaiynna]

One of the many things I found baffling is the wind. Not only does it serve a purpose when you go out sailing, but it can blow smoke into your house, rain onto your fire and above all, the wind direction plays an important role when hunting deer, as they can smell you when you are approaching from the wrong direction. I mean, has ANY game ever done that?

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Wow, I didn't even know about the advanced wind mechanics. Thanks for the comment :)

[@jexzir]

the wind carrying scent has been debunked numerous times through in game testing and decompiled code

[@KsanUwU]

i dont mind having to make long trips for resources. but not being able to bring back everything in 1 run feels needlessly tedious for me. other than that, easily the best survival crafting ive ever played.

[@speedoburrito2586]

Need to upgrade your boat game!

[@Modrimbles]

Great video on a great game!

[@viserion5631]

nice buildings bro

[@DrDanB]

This and Satisfactory are imo best games ever made.

[@kyrobyt]

Please make a world tour!

[@Galadonin]

Really great video ! Simple yet interesting. Idk if this kind of essay has already been done countless of time, but it poped up on my recommendation (I watch way to many guides) and I'm glad I watched ! Btw, is this your world ? Great buildings ! Random question but do you have a small friendly server ? I only play solo, but it may be fun to share in an adventure with someone like you 😅

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Thanks for taking the time to comment :) It's a friends world that he let me do some filming on, mixed with some footage from my own server that we haven't gotten very far on. Sorry, it is a private server though.

[@juliusgalik6885]

Short, has a point, good. I'm not like ... jumping from happiness, but ... I enjoyed this video enough to invest more time into making my comment than it took me to watch it. 😀 Cheers! ;-)

[@DarkLineSnes]

the "minecraft" building style, im pretty sure, you can do a bunch of stuff like BREAKING THE GROUND AND FORMATERRARING IT, a simply stuff you CANT do in any other game instead of minecraft. its literally minecraft but for adults. even the pvp in the game is kinda good when you add some rules to it on a server.

[@theashenverdict1629]

It could really benefit by having more updates even if they are minor fixes in between the major content updates. Mistlands took about a year and a half since it became popular to release and they only put in two thirds the amount of content it was suppose to have I.E the crafting stations required to upgrade items in the mistlands the full amount. A good recent example of this was when they did some balancing with the dead raiser (Necromancy) item and removed the super rare component to craft and just replaced it with 4 skull trophies. This wasn't because the devs wanted to change it, but because the players brought the issue to light. While I am not condoning complaining for updates in specific things it seems to be the only way to get through on certain issues. I won't say that the game isn't worth the purchase, but if you're expecting a major content update more than 1 time per year you are going to be disappointed. They simply lost the momentum when it got popular nearly 2 years ago because of the lack of updates to keep players interested in or more people buying into it because of the popularity from maintaining the players. Only a handful of people actually play valheim anymore and that's just to either have a nostalgia hit or because they wanna see what updates came to the game. Personally it was a really good game and still is, but overall I just wish it had more updates to keep the player base invested. Maybe this game will grab mainstream attention again in a few years, but until then i'll stick with what i've said.

[@admiraltygaming3756]

Thanks for the long comment. I can see you're passionate about the game. Yeah I guess that is the ish with small dev teams. Game development takes a lot of time especially with a small team. I'm sure they're working their hardest. We have to be reasonable with our expectations. In terms of the player count, it's kept a decent player base since it's release and it will see big spikes every major update. It's also not a game with a lot of replayability, its got a pretty fixed 'campaign' despite the randomized elements, so it makes sense that it doesn't have a huge player base all the time.

[@Wasabiofip]

This is easy to say in retrospect and as an outsider, but I think the devs should have prioritized a steady stream of small updates, even if they are almost trivial. The seasonal crafting stuff is kind of like this, but it needs to be a bit more meaningful than a couple decorative items (I know, I know, I just said "trivial"). Even if they are working mainly on serious refactors or bugfixes in the background, just having small new things that players can look forward to every couple months I think makes a big difference. It might not get people playing continually or every time one of those small updates comes out, but I think it does encourage people to come back. One of the sad things in the last couple years was that every time I would check in to see if there was more content, the answer was "no". Now I know there was Hearth & Home and Ice Caves, but those are just so far between and just those 2 over 2 years is pretty slow. Maybe even just spreading the content in those out so it was more of a steady stream would have helped. I think it's hard for players to get invested in an unfinished game when it doesn't seem likely to get ANY new content in the 1-2 month window they pick it up and try it. It's an interesting case study of player base retention though I think. What could have they done differently, is what they have done going to be enough in the long run, it remains to be seen.

[@heavycritic9554]

Basically, the studio is made up of people who were fed up with certain tropes in survival games, so they tried to make one that didn't fall into those traps. That's my take on it at least. 🙂 And honestly, they succeeded beyond anything I would have expected.

[@Randych]

What made Valheim successful is devs that didn't make a game that was grindy, tedious, and have nothing in updates but nerfs and more nerfs... ...which sadly isn't the case nowadays

[@loneb2385]

I'm curious, most of the online videos about Valheim rave about how good co-op is, would you say the experience is worth it as a completely solo player? #nofriends

[@Springheel01]

I mostly played solo, and I think it's still completely worth it.

[@TheMesoria]

Ngl, they slowed it down, but hell, why did they made metal supports... Make them "Fine wood supports". Building massive structures in survival is pain. You use stone? Oh, so you want to spent 300 h to gather enough iron for walls? Agh, defensive wall is looking fine ,but now map is mined out of iron, gotta start new map and slowly transfer iron from there! Fine game loop.

[@kazumablackwing4270]

My only real complaints with Mistlands so far are that it feels unoptimized and causes a fairly sizeable fps dip especially where the fog is thickest, and that the devs seem focused on "fixing" things that aren't actually broken like seeker soldiers and gjall instead of addressing the things that *do* need fixing, like the ballistas targeting friendlies and the new gear not having full upgradability

[@roofie1695]

I fucking hate that you can only look 5 meters ahead in the mist. Everything else would have totally been fine for the most time. It sucks seeing nothing where you go

[@kazumablackwing4270]

@@roofie1695 imo, it'd be a lot better if the dvergr circlet worked in the mist, even if that meant having to upgrade it with silver and wisps, since the wisp light we've been given is so unreliable

[@roofie1695]

@@kazumablackwing4270 It honestly made me stop playing the game for now. It is nearly unplayable for me and my friends

[@kazumablackwing4270]

@@roofie1695 I still play on and off, but I also mostly play modded, which has tons of workarounds for most of the game's issues..haven't really messed with vanilla since Mistlands first dropped

[@roofie1695]

@@kazumablackwing4270 yeah, modded is the way rn :)

[@ryanwiese5280]

It's definitely up their with minecraft and skyrim.

[@wildguardian]

Awesome game.. but in the end.. satisfactory, minecraft, valheim.. if you have building elements it turns into a architect/lego show competition for most players It's the genes of competition for decorating your house for christmas on the neighbor I guess.. (Except if the building mechanics is bad like Fallout, of course)

[@flattheyounger1028]

I love this game but I will say it's just a bit too long winded and tough to play solo without wanting to pull your hair out. The game definitely benefits from multiplayer.