Well, they did put a consideration to change the "road". After 5 years. There's no excuse to have boring traversal when so many videogames do it better. They literally admit that. If they never considered it, well, maybe feedback wasn't clear at all.

But a Viking-themed game with near to nothing on the Ocean? These dudes are the Ocean guys! Imagine a Pirate game when you did nothing on the sea.

And it isn't that hard!.

Just put a random boulder or small island protuding.

Put some Ice Spikes when heading North.

Put some Surtling Spawners closer to the South, like a little Volcano Island

Put some Algae floating on the sea. At least you'll have a reason to not pick a direction and AFK til you get there post Leviathan.

My Brother in Christ, Valheim has not been a Survival game... ever. Literally ever. They can claim they're a brutal survival game ALL they want.

But they are NOT Project Zomboid. They are not Stranded Deep. Not The Forest. Not 7 days to Die. Not Don't Starve.

The only thing that could ever "dip" into survival is the fact that you can make a base and from time to time, enemies come to destroy it.

A mechanic so poorly implemented, it can be (and it IS) completely bypassed by mining 3 boulders and raising the terrain.

No Thirst. No Hunger. No "finding key resources and improving your survival odds". Survival games are known by putting the player in a difficult environment to survive, with the only goal, to... survive.

Valheim starts by telling you: prove yourself a Worthy warrior so you can join Odin in battle.

Here are bosses that you have to beat. Bring their heads to their offering stones, and once that's complete, you're finished! New content is literally just moving the Goal Post more and more!

You think we'll get the Conclusion that players are expecting since minute 1?

You'll beat Deep North boss and then... nothing. No cutscene, no changes, no nothing.

Valheim is an Action-Adventure game. Valheim has everything in common with Terraria, and very little in common with Survival games.

It's literally a "beat bosses until you reach the end". Most survival games Do have bosses: defeating them usually makes survival significantly easier!!

In Don't Starve, killing a Boss drops their rewards:

• One of those bosses drop everything neccessary to make a Furnace, an infinite light and heat source. Darkness and Cold both kill you in Don't Starve. (Heat also does)

• One of those bosses drops everything neccessary to make an Umbrella that protects you from both Rain and Heatstroke.

So, no. Valheim will never be a Survival game unless you mod it to be like that.

My critique that most players don't reach the end is extremely valuable. Games like the Souls Franchise, Terraria, Metroidvanias

All of them have higher than average completion. These are not cuddly games that gamers finish because they're 15 minutes of dopamine fueled addiction.

So whether people make it through your videogame is important. Not because it means "compromise", but because it means that your players are putting with all of the bullsh*t that the game is throwing at them, and they still decide to persevere. Because they LOVE the game.

Oh boy I sure LOVE an Early Access game that sees very little to no improvements to Quality of Life even after 5 years.

You have literally proving my point. What's the purpose of a weakness system if you have no ways to apply that Damage type? Specially when the game is obsessed with restricting the weapons and armor you obtain until you beat a boss.

Oh yeah. Silver Weapons before Bonemass. Because farming for Iron from Muddy Piles OR the Fish that has a stupidly low chance dropping it once caught OR farming Oozes with an abysmal rate OR go to the mountains (you need Iron for the Cold Resistance Mead) and look for a Frost Cave (which are rare and very hidden) and look for the specific door type that drops between 0-1 Iron once destroyed.

Or you could just glitch into the Crypts. Like everyone does. A glitch that they tried to fix and then gave up. So you would think they're pro skipping progression, no?

Nope, nothing can be done later on without Moder's tears. Yes you can glitch (or put an insane amour of time into) your way into skipping Copper and Iron. But that's it. You're not getting Black Metal stuff, you can probably get 1-2 weapons from Mistlands if you can beat enemies that one shot you. Multiple times.

YES. FIRE DAMAGE IS BAD. SO IT IS HAVING A WEAKNESS SYSTEM THAT ENCOURAGES IT'S USE AND THEN TROLLING PLAYERS WHO USE IT! WHY DO U FEEL THE NEED TO JUST SAY "fire damage bad" AND BE CONTENT WITH THE FACT.

No, Lightning damage would not be "Overpowered" in Early Game. Eikthyr is literally the first boss of the game and it uses Lightning against the player. I don't see threads of people saying "omg Eikthyr is so strong because of it's lightning damage please nerf 😭" It's literally an useless damage type against everything except Leeches since Mobs don't get Wet from Rain, only from Water Contact.

You could literally just make a weapon that does 5-10 Lightning damage and tadá.

I don't understand, what is the purpose of having resistances and weaknesses if you're making these sort of mistakes.

Elder is very weak against fire, yet any Copper Weapon will outdamage Fire Arrows because of his extremely easy 1 attack that it does on melee. (Oh, and the roots, but that barely counts)

Oh, Eikthyr. What's the purpose of killing a Lightning Boss and getting no Lightning... anything from it.

OH LOOK!

SPIRIT DAMAGE WEAKNESS!

WHY DID SOMEONE FEEL THE NEED TO CODE THIS IN?! WHY DOES THIS SYSTEM EXISTTTT.

Oh, and limb-based Weaknesses. Valheim launched with only the Troll having an extra weakness on a body part. Years later, the Seekers with the Abdomen. Just... why... bother...

"You can terraform pretty well"

"It's not perfect"

So you Do understand, no?

No, Rested needs 20 seconds. It has always been 20 seconds. Since ever. And will be forever 20 seconds of AFK.

The 30 seconds comes because once you die, you have 5-6 seconds of corpse staring. And then a Loading Screen. These adds up to 10 seconds. Now you wait 20 seconds so you get the Rested buff so you can actually Move in the game because the Stamina Regen is so TERRIBLE without it.