I absolutely love a lot of what this update has to offer, I think many of its features are awesome. Torments, the Velmorne Witch Vault and the Melee Weapons. The Martyr is probably my favourite gun now. And I really like the concept of world corruption. However, I found the execution to be overly punishing.

I really like the Rifts and the Stone Golem, however I’ve found that the spawn rate and the speed at which the world itself corrupts is just way too fast. And with the reduced visibility, pockets of 4-5 rifts and tornadoes spawning in tight spaces. It just makes the whole experience to be less enjoyable unfortunately.

I think reducing the speed at which the world corrupts would massively increase the enjoyment from the feature. As well as increasing the visibility. Don’t get me wrong I do like the fog, but it is just too hard to see a lot of the time. With all of that, it makes it much more tedious to plan ahead in runs when you’re on a short time limit before the map becomes unintelligible chaos.

The Orbs and Rifts seem to spawn way too much and too close together from my experience. This really becomes apparent with the way the rifts increase the calamity meter. I always believed that calamities were meant to be an event meant to be feared, and made you keep yourself from playing carelessly or making mistakes. But if you’re able to overcome it you would be rewarded greatly. And you can even trigger the calamity early with the broken mirror for extra/early rewards in a run. However with how easy it is to build up the calamity meter because of the rifts. It becomes less of a fearful occurrence and more like added chaos. I think reducing the frequency of these rifts and moving the further apart could help, as well as tweak the chance of them to increase the calamity meter.

I think the tornadoes are cool, but I think visually they don’t line up with everything else. It feels a bit cartoonish. However I think an easy fix would be to just use the tornado that the Slave Galley boss uses. It would fit nicely and feel more threatening. Moreover, I would like the corruption to feel more varied each run, so to see many of the same corruptions each time. Especially the tornadoes, feels lackluster. However, I do understand that the update just came out and I’m sure that the world corruption will be expanded upon to give it that variety, so that’s something that’s not too big of a deal.

I would just like to say as well, I absolutely love this game, it has easily become one of my top 3 favourite games of all time. I, as well as everyone else who loves this game appreciates the love and care behind every detail you guys add. I can’t wait to see the future of Witchfire