Valheim: Ashlands Gameplay Trailer

I can't believe the devs are still alive

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I figured the game was abandoned, to be honest. Their updates have been unreasonably slow and what little they did release was insultingly barebones. With how much money they made during their unexpected COVID success, you'd think your first order of business would be hiring a top notch PM and experienced devs to keep your development on track.
Edit: I want to add that Enshrouded, in my opinion, seems like what I had hoped Valheim would develop into with more time.
- 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
  
  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.
  
  For the price, what was there was fine, but it was sold as early access and the later areas were basically empty.
  
  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.
- I think the devs have a pretty healthy attitude, really. Sure, they take their sweet time, but I prefer that over half-assed rush jobs and selling out. The last updates were also absolutely great and the game gets better and better. It’s in early access since forever, but it is more balanced, polished and refined than 90% of fully released games out there. And it doesn’t feel hollow after twenty hours either. It will keep fucking you up, even after hundreds of hours. It’s an absolute gem and I don’t really care if it takes them three more years to finish it…
  
  If you consider taking 4+ years for 1 biome expansion and a few other smaller content updates to be a reasonable development cadence, you are definitely welcome to have that opinion.
- I love valheim but there are things that keep me from putting serious time into it that i just cant figure out. Its probably a bunch of little nitpicky things. Mods help for sure with that. Saying that i have about 70 hours in enshrouded and am about 2/3 “complete”. And am loving every minute. Its gets out of its own way and pretty much lets you do what you want. Im an old fart gamer and prefer a slower casual pace in this genre. Enshrouded ticks that for me
  
  It’s a matter of taste. I got bored of Enshrouded after 20 hours (which is decent, and worth its money), but Valheim is easily one of my all time favourites. I find it a lot more rewarding.
  I played solo deep into mistlands and now I’m rediscovering it together with a friend.
- and what little they did release was insultingly barebones
  I mean OTOH for those who bought it, the content there at the time was worth the money asked. Sure it was somewhat barebones but the game is also cheap-ish and if you get a bunch of cool hours out of it with friends, well worth.
- Yeah enshrouded rocks. If you like valheim you'll love enshrouded.
  
  I tried enshrouded beta and performance issues didn’t allow me to leave the starting area into the shroud so was basically softlocked
- I am interested in enshrouded but tbh, it feels nowhere close to valheim from what I've seen. It's a custom engine so no modding, combat seems much worse and resources progression is nowhere near as satisfying as in vh. World is both fixed and keeps resetting so there won't be that feeling of exploration and getting lost either.
  The only thing that it has better is building and mobility (gliders and grappling hooks) but then again, there's no sailing or carting either.
  Maybe in a few years it overtakes vh but for now I'm not completely sold on enshrouded yet, it seems very flawed and uninspired just like nightingale.

Oh damn those mobs look awesome can't wait to setup my volcano lair

I been waiting for my friends to want to play so I can get to my corpse pile... for months.
- Need some help? I know of some body snatcher groups that exist out there but I'll offer my own help. I can't promise it'll go swimmingly, but I've at least beat the queen (in a group of 5)
  
  Nah. I'd have to set the server back up, and cure social anxiety.

Hope difficulty scaling isn’t as crazy as mistlands. Many painful corpse runs. Had to cheese a lot of the area which just felt cheap and I put the game down without even fighting that boss. Just didn’t sound fun if it was like the rest of mistlands

Really looking forward to getting this on the stable branch, despite some questionable aspects valheim remains one of my favorite gaming experiences and nothing else has lived up to it in recent years.

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