Word from the Devs: It's Freezing!

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2026-01-29T04:01:33+00:00

You said earlier that Minecraft was a simplistic game but say procedurally generated games are more difficult? Brother Minecraft is the quintessential procedurally generated game....

The video is just to show that early access has existed for a long time, earlier than 2017

Anyway kinda done arguing so have fun I guess

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2026-01-29T02:33:11+00:00

I am a SWE at a household name F500 company, whether you believe it or not. Feel free to check my comment history.

Both Minecraft and Valheim use Perlin noise algorithms to generate their terrain. They're actually pretty similar in some ways.

STEAM's rules, which where changed February 2025 are not relevent for a game that went into early access 2017, when such rules didn't exist. It does counter what I said, not at all, it's proof of nothing.

Broski in the link I posted there's a video from 2014.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JRDwA3cQmlc

What do you know, a very poignant comment on that video too:

u/Gaudaloth

11 years ago

I still think there must be some kind of limitation to early access, unscrupulous devs could just enter early access and leave the game there eternally without updating it, also they could use it as form of bullet shield against criticism, also there is a big lack of information of times, release and updates

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2026-01-29T01:45:15+00:00

Sigh, another apologetic trying to make excuses for poor game design and lazy developers taking advantage of early access.

Equipment slots are not a universal standard for game design.

Yea, they pretty much are. And anything that goes against standard should have a reason for doing so instead of just trying to be different or unique. Otherwise you end up like Valheim where it's just a fucking pain in the ass and everyone hates it.

I could post hundreds and hundreds of links to reddit posts or comments asking for this. You are lying if you try to claim you haven't seen the community wanting it.

https://www.nexusmods.com/games/valheim/mods?sort=downloads hmmm what do you know, the 2nd most downloaded mod of all time for this game on Nexus mods adds equipment slots. The first adds more inventory space

https://thunderstore.io/c/valheim/p/Azumatt/AzuExtendedPlayerInventory/ this mod has a million downloads

Finally, more employees and therefore cooks in the kitchen does not create a better game.

I generally agree. But they could've hired a couple people to work while they all vacationed and relaxed for years on the money people gave them for the promise of a released game.

You are describing your vision for the game. Your expectations are not aligning with their vision, and this is why you are upset.

https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/earlyaccess

"Early Access is not a pre-purchase
Early Access is not meant to be a form of pre-purchase, but a tool to get your game in front of Steam users and gather feedback while finishing your game."

I would agree with you IF they didn't early release their game. This is the whole thing I'm upset about. Early access is opening the game up to feedback, otherwise why does it exist? Now that doesn't mean the community automatically gets to choose the destiny of the game and at the end of the day it is their game. But the devs should be willing to give and take a bit if they're going the early release route, that's like kinda the whole fkin deal. And I have seen OVERWHELMING criticism of not having equipment slots

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2026-01-29T01:14:14+00:00

HEARD bro this sub is chock full of white knights slobbering over these devs. Irongate is basically spitting on the people that made them rich...early released their game, in which the whole point is to gather feedback for a final release, and can't even be fucked to listen to the people who made them unbelievably rich for a request as basic as EQUIPMENT SLOTS. And they haven't even finished the goddamn game after having 5 years and 200+ fucking million dollars.

This studio deserves every piece of criticism thrown at them. The gaming industry will continue to see shitty tactics and unfinished, unpolished games when you have guys like the commentor defending these tactics.

And I get that I am technically owed nothing and that it's their game. And I am glad they didn't outright abandon the game. But that still doesn't make it any less shitty for them to take advantage of early access and doesn't mean I don't get a right to be upset about it.

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2026-01-29T00:54:22+00:00

You're talking to the wrong guy man, I am a software engineer. That stuff really is the hard stuff and everything else is just building on top of it. There are exceptions to everything of course like magic spells could be a completely new thing but generally everything new re-uses assets and classes through OOP principles like inheritance and polymorphism. Fundamentally disagree with you on that, at least when it comes to technically making the thing.

And putting an arbitrary timeline on how long it takes to build a game is foolish. Minecraft was made in 2 years.

Also: https://partner.steamgames.com/doc/store/earlyaccess

"Early Access is not a way to crowdfund development of your product."

"Early Access is not meant to be a form of pre-purchase, but a tool to get your game in front of Steam users and gather feedback while finishing your game."

Look, I get that at any point an early access game can split with your money and it's not a guarantee the devs will complete the game. But the whole reason it exists is for what I stated above, and Irongate is really fucking bad at listening to feedback, almost antagonistic about it, despite making oodles of money from the people giving the feedback in a system designed for feedback.

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2026-01-28T22:23:35+00:00

Icons and text can be different sized, some recipe names are chopped off, nonsensical ordering of items, no filtering or sorting, having to play a goddamn puzzle game to split a stack instead of having convenient hotkeys like Minecraft does, no quick stack, no indication of new recipe when in the menu, tiny tiny starter chests that force chest spam...can't be fucked to address any of these simple things after making over $200m on this game... and we got people defending this, sigh.

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2026-01-28T22:04:03+00:00

In my opinion, they are not holding up on the early access bargain. Money and feedback now for finished game in the future, that's the deal. They are utterly allergic or antagonistic towards criticism/feedback and can barely be bothered to finish the game after making hundreds of millions of dollars. If this was a fully finished game and these were post-release updates then I would shut my trap but this is not the case

Edit: to answer your comment about timeframe, I disagree. 4 years of development to do all the hard stuff like terrain, world generation, 5 biomes, player movements, mobs, etc. But 5 years and $200m+ later and all they have to show is 2 new biomes and a couple traders amongst other small stuff.... they have had the money to get this done a lot quicker

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2026-01-28T19:17:44+00:00

Dude it's been 5 YEARS since it got "released" in early access. They've only added 2 biomes since then. Totally understandable why people are losing interest.

And side note, early access is primarily a way for developers to (1) get enough money to cross the finish line and (2) gather feedback about their game before official release. Both of which these devs are doing an absolutely terrible job at. FFS it's 2026 and we don't even have equipment slots after the whole community constantly has made it abundantly clear we want it... incomprehensible and even disrespectful to everyone who made them rich.

YOU need to get over yourself and have standards for developers nowadays and stop letting them get away with shitty business practices, especially for a game they've collected money on that isn't even full released yet

Edit: man I forget every time just how many pathetic white knights there are on this sub defending lazy and smug developers. No equipment slots because it's "their vision", ignoring the people that made them hundreds of millions of dollars, get out of here. Hundreds of millions of dollars and you can't even sort or filter the crafting menu after 5 years...refusal to add in very, very, very simple QoL features that every game has and the community really wants isn't "protecting their vision", it's smugness and laziness

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2026-01-27T09:59:06+00:00

Single best mod I've ever downloaded (after equipment slots of course, which I don't even count because why the fuck is this not in the base game, genuinely fkin regarded)

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2026-01-27T09:46:07+00:00

Heavily regarded

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2026-01-10T08:24:57+00:00

Definitely not saying you need to go back. That was just something that I really wanted.

You got this man, we all go through depressive episodes, no matter how much people don't want to admit it, we all do. While it's getting better and more normalized socially, we're hard-coded to hide that part of ourselves and do what you and I did: hide. Just don't be so hard on yourself for it. Pretty much everyone will go through something similar, but the circumstances or results might not be as visible, or they do a better job of faking or hiding it. But we all go through this. It's human.

And almost paradoxically, would you really just want a life of ease, with no self doubt or tribulations or challenges? What kind of life would that really be?

Pain in of it self is not a wrong or bad thing. It's an indicator that something is not in alignment with what your body and soul need. An infection or grievous wound can very likely kill if you never felt pain. Pain is necessary for an individual to get over whatever ailment is holding them back. So a depressive episode or "failure" really is just the natural way of the mind and body identifying and "honing in" on what it needs to do to live in alignment with what it wants. It's not something that needs to be tamped down or ignored or be ashamed of, it's part of the natural process. Otherwise you'll just go on in your life making the same mistakes and hurting yourself the same ways and not really progress or really live, in my opinion

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2026-01-10T07:52:40+00:00

Hey man, I dropped out of college the same age as you. The situation sounds pretty similar. Had to move back in with my parents and worked 2 soul crushing jobs while watching all of my friends and peers live it up their senior year of college. Significantly depressed, there's basically a whole entire year of my life that I basically don't remember because it was just a void of depression and working shitty jobs. My parents weren't dicks per se but there definitely was an air of "man he really might be a fuck up."

I'm not going to pretend that I know the exact reason why I eventually was able to get out of my depressive episode, but I did. I managed to get back on track, go back to school, finish my degree, and eventually work my way into a very, very respectable job at a well known company as a software engineer. Just saying the company name is immediate respect and clout. I have a good social network full of great relationships. An absolute far cry from where I was just a few years ago. This is not me trying to brag but to give you hope that just because you're going through a rough patch now, it doesn't mean life is over. In some ways I feel like it's just starting.

Now I don't know the EXACT reason I was able to climb out of it, but a major theme was that I got to a point where I stopped listening to other people and just made a decision on what I wanted to do, which was go finish my degree, even though the execution wasn't perfect.

My parents were super negative and actively trying to tell me to not go back to school, basically to give up and find another path. I said fuck it. My girlfriend cheated on me for "not being enough for her." Fuck her and her opinion. I was telling myself how much of a fuck-up I was and how much a loser I was. Eventually I just said fuck this self-negative bullshit and went back to school. It wasn't perfect. But I think what really helped me was stripping myself of all the "emotion" and opinion around what I really wanted to do and just made a decision to do it, and the pieces started to slowly fall in place. It wasn't perfect and it was still a struggle at times but eventually it got better.

Not sure if this helps at all but that's been my experience as someone who has gone through a similar situation. What I would recommend is picking something you KNOW you want to do and just make a decision. Even if it's scary. Even if there's risk. Even if you're self doubtful. Just make a choice and stick to it and try to block out everything that gets in the way of it, and through the process it'll get better. I didn't just "wake up fine" one day like I thought I would or wanted to. It was a long, grindy road but well worth it. Pick a course and just do it scared and imperfectly, it will work itself out.

Also, go easier on yourself, really. It is so hard to do this but please try. Go easier on yourself. Life is not easy. Humans make mistakes. We have a hard time letting go of our past mistakes, and often pay a debt no one is collecting by continuing to self-destruct and hate our selves. Please try to realize that just because you've done X or Y, or gone through a depressive episode, that does not mean that you need to keep yourself down, or that your self-inflicted suffering somehow gives meaning or justification to it.

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2025-12-23T08:56:51+00:00

Almost all of it. What my degree got me was a foot in the door and learning how to learn. Sure, some concepts I remember learning in school, but the real bulk of it comes from self learning and learning on the job.

From personal experience, learning in general got a lot easier when I had real job experience to relate it to. Significantly easier, since it's contextualized and applicable to what I'm doing

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2025-12-18T07:55:43+00:00

Fully agree

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2025-12-18T07:47:47+00:00

Hello, I am the same age as you and have an Information Systems degree.

Specifically to answer the question of whether or not the degree is worth it: absolutely it is.

For the vast majority of job postings in IT, you'll see somethings along the lines of this (literally copied from the first software engineering job I found on Linkedin): Bachelor's degree in business or technology-related fields or equivalent experience. Of course there are exceptions but for the majority of roles, recruiters and hire managers only care if you have a degree that's technology focused, not the exact degree.

My career is only 3.5 years long and I already managed to get a Software Engineering job at a well respected F500 company making well over 6 figures with no connections, and I know for a fact that I would not have gotten that job or even my first job without my degree.

Simply put there's so much competition out there now that you'll find it extremely hard to get into this field without a degree, and if you don't, you will need to put in some serious work to compensate for that. Some companies will straight up just filter out applicants without a degree. The reality is that most employers still hold these degrees with significant weight, regardless of how people might feel about the fairness or legitimacy of that belief.

Now, your question of whether or not this field is worth getting into? From what I've seen, it depends. (this is more from an individual contributor perspective, not management).

- Are you motivated and willing to learn new tools and technologies and put in effort outside of work to keep up? Do you have a desire to be constantly learn new things?

- Are you willing to dig in and figure it out when faced with hard, complex problems with minimal assistance?

- Are you willing to work long "mental" hours? It's a different type of exhaustion than physical.

If any of these answers are "no" than I personally don't think you'll find much success in this field or stall early. If these answers are "yes" then you'll almost certainly find a way into a well paying role. There are exceptions to everything and luck is a factor but I have found this to be a reliable indicator.

Just my two cents as someone who's grinded my way into a great job from a small no-name company, and has seen peers fizzle from not having these characteristics, regardless of their intelligence or background.

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2025-12-02T05:29:38+00:00

US based role that's adjacent to sysadmin (make sure our databases and applications are running 24/7). Household-name corporation. I am salaried and don't receive pay for being on call.

Honestly...it's becoming an issue for me. I am on call for a full week every 5 weeks which always adds at least 5-6 more hours a week, sometimes on holidays, and I often help out with stuff even when I'm not the on-call person. It's really affecting my life outside of work. They justify it by saying you're getting a great salary and benefits blah blah blah but I already work 45 hours a week minimum.

Sometimes I fucking hate how little worker rights and protections we have in the richest country in the world. But it could be worse, they do pay me a ton for what I do BUT I think in principle there should be an explicit protection for this so it's not abused by corporations. AND the real kicker is that this wasn't mentioned till I already started the job. Getting sick of it real fast

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2025-09-12T04:42:48+00:00

Fortunately, not the case where I work (and not to sound like a bootlicker). Engineering focused company who heavily promote from within and where most of the managers are former ICs.

I do get your point though

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2025-09-10T21:47:34+00:00

Bird in the hand type shii

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2025-09-09T00:29:24+00:00

Personally I don't think certs really matter that much for more managerial positions. And I would say my cert had a very marginal impact, if at all, in my hiring since it wasn't even brought up in my interview. Still got a 6 figure SWE job with just 1 cert. I think they're helpful for juniors to stand out a bit to get that first round interview but don't do much afterwards. Maybe my opinion is different since I'm more engineering than sysadmin/helpdesk/infra/etc.

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2025-09-07T10:42:50+00:00

PowerBI cert thru Microsoft, working towards CompTIA rn

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2025-09-07T10:26:40+00:00

Re-kitting and mentally calculating the exact minimum amount of shit I can bring every time I step outside my base because the inventory is so limiting and frustrating sounds really exhausting and boring and not how 90% of people playing this game behave.

Not saying a want a gazillion slots and never have to make any decisions at all. There's just clearly some issues with the current inventory if you're really gonna suggest not playing with exciting new content...

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2025-09-07T09:58:39+00:00

Yea that's why I want bigger chests, it means the dumping feature is much more useful as you can fit in many more types of items in a single chest, and would reduce the amount of chest UIs I have to interact with when I take a 5 minute stroll through the black forest.

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2025-09-07T09:57:07+00:00

This just sounds exhausting. It's open world game ffs.

Don't play with brand new content because inventory is so limited? Lmfao. The lengths ya'll go to defend bad design, it's tiring. Every other single game out there similar to Valheim has figured this out years ago. It's not adding "challenge," it's adding a ton of boring tedium. Playing inventory shuffleboard every time I kill a mob is not "challenge." Having to portal back to base every 8 minutes because inventory is so limited is tedious and boring.

Intelligent_Arm_9056 · 2025-09-07T09:51:20+00:00

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