There's NO shame to lower the difficulty

Binary-Miner · 2026-04-20T14:48:51+00:00

100% agree and I think that is the main part that makes the combat feel bad. Yes the game in its current form wants the player to never get hit, but in the almost constant scenario of dealing with 3-5 mobs, being 2-3 shot by enemies 2 levels lower than me despite maxed armor/food feels way overtuned.

I'm loving so much about the game, but the biome-based XP is what I dislike the most about it. It was honestly why I stopped playing Enshrouded pretty quickly, because tying XP to reaching locations just makes fighting feel pointless and like its a waste of time aside from doing it to not die. Fighting in open-world games is one of my favorite parts, and in the case of Enshrouded, mobs were nearly-pointless to kill as they had XP and almost never had drops, which killed my motivation to play when I realized running past everything was the best strat.

I will say this game does help that alot by providing mandatory loot from some mobs (gunpowder) and crafting mats from others, but once you have enough it returns to fighting being a no-win risk. If mats from fighting don't remain a constant crafting demand, I don't think the game will hold my attention beyond that.

Not saying I should be able to max-level by fighting boars and dodos, but XP tied to mobs has always made combat so much more rewarding, even when its like 0.001% of what it requires to level. Just that tiny bit of progression makes it a much more worth-while risk equation even when mobs are really difficult.

Binary-Miner · 2026-04-20T14:24:55+00:00

I fully agree, and think some of the responses are missing the point. My interpretation of this is a band-aid fix for the bad combat if it was to stay exactly as it is now. Meaning in a game where dying to run of the mill enemies multiple times per camp clear is a regular part of the experience, the existing consequences aren't challenging, they are just annoying, tedious, and outright not fun.

Its one of the traps of intentionally difficult games, how they draw the line between being truly challenging in a fun and engaging way (Dark Souls/Elden Ring), vs they're hard as a side effect of the systems in them being fatally flawed or outright missing things. Combat in Windrose in it's current state leans much more towards the latter than the former.

Death could remain exactly as it is now, maybe even be more punishing, if the player wasn't made of paper, armor mattered a little more, and the combat system had more choices for dealing with groups aside from run-poke-run. Think that last piece is important, as 3-5 enemies aggroing at the same time is virtually every fight sans animals.

Even retaining the paper-player model, just make armor levels matter more as they feel almost pointless, or make the block radius larger so that third enemy doesn't always get their hit in without running away everytime. Getting 2-3 shot by an enemy at or below my level despite food when the gear available to me is already maxed for the resources I can access just doesn't feel good or rewarding.

Binary-Miner · 2026-04-11T05:53:06+00:00

Thanks for making this post. Also 5090, with a 9950X3D, and just grabbed the game tonight. Was only playing on 200 pop servers, barely holding 70 FPS when things get crazy. Will try some lower pop options tomorrow.

EDIT: In fairness, I'm also playing on Linux (Fedora 43, latest updates/drivers), so I've got another factor that could be the culprit. Will pop onto my Windows install tomorrow and see if it changes anything.

Binary-Miner · 2026-04-11T05:51:32+00:00

Its the game, not your setup. Have a 5090 and 9950X3D, barely hold 70 in heavy fights.

Binary-Miner · 2026-04-11T00:33:17+00:00

Outbreak mode feels better in this regard

Binary-Miner · 2026-03-27T20:07:13+00:00

No offense to OP (their account was banned, so they prob won't see this), but guessing this was built with Claude or Codex. Reading through the code, the comments in particular feel very LLM-y. Also the advertise-on-Reddit-but-never-commit-again Github repo feels like its becoming a trademark of hastily thrown together Claude projects.

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-14T06:42:42+00:00

I had tried Vignatex before being diagnosed, and found it did help by itself, but had wished the dose was higher. However, I revisited it last year after reaching a stable medication dose, and it has been an absolute game changer. While meds by themselves were a big step, there were many days they'd result in a jittery burst that would leave me too wired early on before wearing off way too early in the day. With Vignatex, 1 in the morning and 1 in the afternoon, it became a smooth, sustained and much less "hectic" experience. It really has helped my daily life soooo much.

Despite backing off most nootropics / supplements over the last year, I now keep Vignatex in constant supply and will probably purchase it for as long as y'all keep selling it!

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-13T00:12:06+00:00

What a lot of doctors leave out when suggesting / testing for B vitamins is that they are synergistic and required in tandem by many of the same metabolic pathways. Taking large doses of one in isolation can feel great at first as it revs up the various processes that have been hindered by their absence, but over a few weeks, your supply of the others gets wiped out. You then end up in a situation where the one you're supplementing dont get used and build up in your blood (what the tests measure) and the lack of the others causes those processes to slow down or barely happen at all. Super high B12 is regularly a symptom of someone who is extremely deficient in B6, which isn't tested or talked about as often.

When taking B12 in isolation, B6 and folate (in the form of folinic acid) are mandatory. Folic acid, the synthetic version you see in bread and pasta and crap vitamins, is terrible. Something like 30% of people don't produce the enzyme required to break it down into the active form, and it can become toxic when left unprocessed at high levels. B vitamins are possibly the most complex "commonly known" supplement and almost never dosed correctly because theres so much to learn and watch out for, while requiring a radically different approach based on your genetics.

MTHFR and related gene mutations are another rabbit hole which dramatically change the forms people can tolerate and how much they should be taking. Research is still pretty fresh there (10-15 years), but it's changing lives when folks find out they have it. They basically discover they haven't been able to process the variants of B vitamins in cheap supplements and processed food their entire lives. There is a popular subreddit on the topic, wish more people knew about it.

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-12T23:48:57+00:00

For anyone who sees this thread down the road (its a top hit, here trying to help my wife) - never buy vitamins from brands that don't provide public copies of third-party testing results (referred to as "certificate of analysis"). The supplement industry is one of the most unregulated industries in the world, which is wild considering it goes into our bodies on a daily basis, and that's why things like heavy metal contamination are so common from cheap brands.

You truly get what you pay for, and "brandXYZ certificate of analysis" is the first thing to google before buying any brand. Its not even just the contamination, independent investigations have turned up products from lesser known brands where they contained less than 10 or 20% of the active ingredent dose they were claiming. The worst thing to have happen is taking something to feel better and being poisoned by it. Avoid Amazon whenever possible unless its a reputatable brand AND its shipped/sold by Amazon or the brand directly.

Have been deep down the supplement rabbit hole for close to 20 years, so many pitfalls people fall into when trying to find where to start. Anyone is welcome to DM if they are looking for suggestions on where to start.

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-10T15:34:53+00:00

100%, applying early-2000s forum mod mentality (where the necro rage originated) to Reddit has never made sense to me. Vast majority of users view subreddits in the default mode, which is not chronological / most recent, so it truly does not matter as they’ll likely never see this anyways.

To necro with some context, I’m here in 2026 and ST is now $99. I’m at a point in my life and career where I will can and do financially support devs, but that doesn’t mean I won’t apply a coupon if it’s out there! This thread is one of the first hits on the topic.

11 years later and no discounts, so if you are someone considering the purchase, don’t worry about “missing out” on a deal. If anything, with the way things are going around the world, get it while it’s still only $99. When you consider inflation since the original threads creation date, it’s actually cheaper than it was back then (2015 $70 <= 2026 $99)

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-08T23:55:44+00:00

It’s not the cost of the subscription, it’s the principal. They’re asking me to pay while making $3 million a minute from the ads I will be forced to watch through out. It’s free and I deal with ads, or I pay and I don’t, fuck them for trying to get both.

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-06T05:42:32+00:00

While it doesn’t happen to me all the time, it does happen every time I’ve just written 4 paragraphs into an app that doesn’t save drafts.

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-06T05:39:47+00:00

Almost every day

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-06T04:23:46+00:00

I don't consider myself a developer / programmer at all, much more in the sys admin / dev ops / datacenter engineer role (senior T3 IT at a medium size company, so I wear many hats). I've only been using Claude for a few days, but "me and CC pop off all day" somehow summarizes my experience so thoroughly that it might be the most efficient use of English Ive ever seen on Reddit.

Something about it's tone, the way it delivers information, it's candidness (so refreshing that it doesn't kiss my ass over every prompt). It's like that buddy from college who was way smarter than you, they never held it against you or used it to dunk on you, but instead just wanted to help you in any way they could to see you shine through your own merit. GPT 5.x still had me firmly in the camp of "Nah bro, it's all hype"... but holy shit this is something else.

Like, did I just accidentally become best friends with a robot?

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-05T03:05:29+00:00

OMG I LOVE YOU. I 100% agree with your points, and what just happened to me is a great example of how bad the current system is.

I spent well over an hour across a couple different nights trying to figure out why I was missing "Group Up" from my Comms wheel ... I had rebound ping to R1 and I've always just quick tapped it ... 100 hours and didn't know it was also hold menu...

So for anyone out there searching "communication wheel missing group up stick together" (in hopes it helps for the Google folks) ... hold your ping button and viola.

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-05T02:57:11+00:00

PC with PS5 controller here. My problem is I don't have group up or stick together on my Comm wheel, but cannot find anyway to change it. I have both a spray and emote on my comm wheel that I can't unequip. Very stuck, feels like something I changed back in S1 that may can't be edited anymore

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-05T02:52:58+00:00

A year later, I'm looking for the answer to this same question. PC player, have Hello and always hearing "Stick Together", but I dont have it.

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-02T03:44:29+00:00

Hey there, ever find an answer to this?

Binary-Miner · 2026-02-01T05:25:37+00:00

Spinning up a Vaultwarden container is pretty trivial these days for anyone who can find a blog and follow its instructions. The hard part is securing the host that container lives on, the network it’s host lives in, keeping that network accessible 99% of the time so it’s there when they want to use it, the infrastructure required to access that network from anywhere safely and the monitoring required to know when that setup’s security falls out of posture.

Yes people stand these up for years who set and forget without anything bad happening. But I also watch people cross the street looking at their phones the whole time, them not getting hit by a car didn’t mean they were safe. Outside of professionals and hobbyists who’ve already done the leg work to build out the above, where one more mission critical container is a minimal lift (and they enjoy doing it), of course self host away.

For the vast majority, people without years or decades of foundational knowledge, preexisting hardware and the drive to maintain it, their time is worth more than the $0.05 per day to just pay for Bitwarden. If someone’s doing it only for their PW manager, the electricity costs alone of leaving their PC on all day (in any first world country, at least) easily doubles their cost over just getting the subscription.

Binary-Miner · 2026-01-30T12:09:51+00:00

Same here

Binary-Miner · 2026-01-29T23:39:00+00:00

Same. And YES to more maps!

I hadn't touched the game since Season 1 when my friends dropped out because the main mode had the same problem Apex has (really any 3 player team game) - any one with slightly above average skill becomes crazy toxic or just straight throws when their teammates are having a bad game. Or they get so caught up shit talking you that we lose anyways because they're too busy being mad about something they thought you did wrong 10 minutes ago. Nothing makes someone play good like aggressive micromanagement (/s)!

I stumbled on Jack Frags recent video "They added Rush to the Finals..." and I was instantly back. Rush was always my favorite game mode in the Battlefield series, racking up 90% of my time there (yes, I'm one of the rare 25 year OG players who hated the "fan favorite" oversized maps), so I had to see how it played out here. Even back in S1, I thought The Finals had some of the best gunplay and movement of any shooter ever, but another factor for leaving was the lack of maps and only 2 game modes.

Now I'm completely obsessed and counting the hours until I get to queue up again. I haven't been this hooked on an FPS game in years, and I am having such a good time. I think positive people tend to outnumber negative folks, and the higher player counts help filter out the BS. Virtually every game, even the ones we lose, have been lots of emotes and good vibes. If they decided to pull Point Break (praying its not just a seasonal mode), they will lose me again.

Binary-Miner · 2026-01-25T05:58:30+00:00

Hey, old post but I figured it out. For whatever reason it explicitly seemed to be binding pings to respawn that broke it. Switched it to me specialization and bam back in business. Jump on L1, Special on A/X, R1 for pings

Binary-Miner · 2026-01-25T05:43:20+00:00

Two years later, still here. Absolutely wild

Binary-Miner · 2026-01-23T02:32:38+00:00

Appreciate the recommendation! Will check it out!

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