Fun game but after 20 hours the missions are very boring and no incentive to do anything.

How little wildlife there is? What? I would argue there’s too much wildlife at times, and the variety is better than most games that have wildlife. Sure, the animal AI could be better, but there certainly isn’t a shortage.

Building past wood is great if you’re going to be away from your base for extended periods of time while searching for and mining exotics. I also feel like we haven’t seen the worst of the storms yet, so I’m sure there will be plenty of reason to build past wood soon.

They’ll add a respec option, just chill.

XP loss on death sucks, sure, but just go to the desert and kill some of the abundant wildlife to level up fast. After all, it’s a survival game. It’s supposed to be hard and you’re supposed to be risking death every time you step outside.

If you watch the videos that came out while they were making the game, you’ll see how much more content there will be in the future.

Workshop items are unbelievably valuable. I don’t really know what you’re gauging their worth on, so I can’t speak for your experience. However, having a full tool and weapon loadout the moment you land saves valuable time and hassle. Landing with workshop items also alleviates your concern about losing XP on death because you’ll be better equipped to defend yourself. There’s a pretty creative jousting method on here for fighting bears when you’re not near water. The missions could have a bigger variety, yeah, but I’m not worried about them releasing more stuff in the future.

IMO, the game is incredible. How often do you have a dev team that is this involved in fixing issues and communicating with the gamers? Everyone wants the game to be exactly what they want, and that’s just not how reality works. It’ll be an attractive game to those who enjoy the mechanics and idea, and it’ll be lackluster to those who don’t. No big deal.

The game works. Most of the time. "Full release!" There are more ways to engage with Valheim, and it's, wait, what do they call it? Early Access? That's right.

If they would just slap the Early Access label back on this clear Alpha, it would help explain away 90% of the complaints people have about it. It would also make it less ridiculous when other people say, "But there's so much more coming! Just look at what the devs have planned!" Yeah bud, that's called an Early Access title. The game isn't nearly finished.

I like the direction it's headed. It just needs to go through about ten revisions before it starts to resemble a "full release" product. They can start by using proc gen maps. I don't care how big (or not) this map is. Rust stopped using a handcrafted map and the game improved drastically for it. Deep Rock Galactic? Wouldn't work if the maps weren't proc gen. After all, are we exploring the planet Icarus? Or are we exploring one specific region of Icarus?

Seeing as this is designed by the same guys that did DayZ, I feel like this one is pretty forgiving. Also, I get a feel that both games are about the different experiences you get in these short windows that you're alive or are doing a mission.

The tricky part with Icarus is that instead of having to come to terms that you WILL die, they changed to the short mission model. Unfortunately that makes people focus on the mission. When we do that then the game turns into a quest to get it done as quickly as possible which makes us stick to the same patterns of execution.

All in all, I like the game so far but I'm nervous that it won't develop enough variety for the type of game it is.

Yup this is just the training portion of the game. Like at the second to last mission they say that you “graduated” There is a lot more to come soon! Just hang tight, game isn’t even two weeks old yet lol.

capping level/talents makes the game not worth the time. workshop items being broken and or having no real description, makes grinding the longer missions feel pointless. no respec feature means devs dont value your time spent in game. I was happy playing beta weekends waiting for a full release. Id say they shot themselves in the foot but the fact is, they already got our money so our feedback means zero

The real issue is the way you’re playing it, calm down take the 6 days per mission. Have fun don’t try and grind it, it will change the game. There is not a lot of content atm so if you want to speed run it and ruin what it has to offer that’s fine just don’t complain. Also if you’re that bored of it all ready try Valhiem it’s also a great game kinda similar.

There are some parts which I totally agree with, some which I disagree.

Wood is pretty much all I've needed in the first 20ish missions I've done so far. Most of the time, iron isn't needed so I don't even bother. Long bow, bone arrows, movement speed upgrades and minimal shelter seems to get me through everything so far. Perhaps later on that will change.

I have about 16 blueprint points just sitting there. Don't know what to spend them on since on most missions I just don't need to because there isn't enough added value to build any upgraded materials and the difference between building and reward is just not there.

The respec... I disagree on that one a bit. It forces you to be thoughtful about your build and keeps some value in early building schematics so you don't just skip all earlier invested points. There should however be separate points gained that you can dedicate JUST for solo play.

Would also strongly disagree on wildlife. There is a never ending amount. Variety could be a touch better (wolfs, bears, boars, deer and rabbits are definitely the predominant returning ones) but it is better than in many games I've seen. I was quite surprised at elephants, zebras, lions, etc. My biggest beef with all of them, is that there is no variety in the materials you gain from them. No quality differences etc. So there's no point in wasting 20 arrows killing an elephant when I get the same resources from smacking a rabbit with my axe. And if I carry said rabbit to the skinning bench, I get nearly the same amount of resources out of it.

All in all, after 40 hours, I'm starting to lose interest a bit as it certainly is rinse/repeat and no incentive for long term building. The caves for mining are just frustrating because of lighting and cave effect.

I disagree with you.
I'm playing with 3/4 more friends. As soon as we start a mission we build wood and then upgrade to stone before even looking at the objective. Maybe one of us gets the beacon or whatever while the rest builds.
The tranquility of knowing no storm will torch our warehouse to the ground is worth the time. And us having workshop suits and tools makes building pretty fast. You really think workshop stuff has no value? Have you tried some of it? ever?

Missions could be longer, of course if you are rushing YOLO with just a bow and some arrows maybe it's you making it shorter than it should be. IDK.

No talent respec. Im in favor and against this one. I'd love to be able to respec just to try diferent builds. But i'm in favor because it makes you think about what you pick. You wouldn't have any unspent point if you could respec easy. You would be changing from hunter to miner to cook whenever you need. That is game breaking.
Maybe they could let us respec while on orbit...

Im in favor of XP loss on death. You can craft your stuff again in no time and then go get whatever you lost. Be happy you can not delevel because of it.

I don't think I understand what / how you played this game

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