I Interviewed One Of The Owners of Deepwoken! 

As a Deepwoken content creator, I agree with a lot of what you're saying for missing small details, exploration being secondary, and progression being impossible for new players. That type of weakness in Deepwoken is hard to ignore and I instead found myself mostly excited about the build diversity and capability open to all players. The range of ability you can have with different characters and builds is vast compared to most games in general, but getting to that point through progression is a difficult thing they could probably improve upon for the inexperienced player.

eclipse as a deepwoken player it seems to me like the devs are actually taking your input seriously, and that is a great thing. it would be amazing if you were to make a video about the voidwalker problem, it has been plaguing this game for such a long time and it really needs to be addressed at some point

Thank you. I have been a semi long player of deepwoken and I'm not a very good teacher, so I end up making my friends even more confused and throwing random information toward them mid combat isn't very good for a new player. But essentially making trial of one easy to access for new players is a godsend and makes it much easier.

The "forge of sin" quest is a simple quest from an important npc you get after fulfilling requirements which has you enter a dungeon server to fight some minions and a boss which has great benefits and I feel quest like this fit well with the game and has fun lore

This truly was our deepwoken

The whole hunting down content creators isnt really a thing anymore, the ganking culture of deepwoken is more directed to guild ganking so if your a small guild that hasnt done anything or said anything people would usally leave you alone

About the third question. I've been playing Deepwoken since release and at the beginning, when everything was a mystery, it was amazing. I was finding new things every corner. The best time was when people first time started finding out bells. I remember seeing a video on discord of someone using a kamui bell and I was wondering "What the hell is that? Is that a modspec? Is that fanmade?" I took more than 2 weeks to realize what the bells are, and then people were wondering how to get them for quite a long time

Little tip if you want the pvp benefits of a guild without being in one, make a vow of alliegence with the guild leader of said guild

You've probably already been told this but if you click on the quest you can remove it. While it's more of a band-aid on the problem it does get rid of the quest.

voidwalker forced pvp killed the experience for me mostly also there are a lot of systems in the game which are very cool but they have supposedly been forgotten by the developers and now they collect dust (I'm talking potions, cooking, fishing, crafting etc...) I WANT POTION AND COOKING TALENTS AND ANYTHING RELATED TO AN ACTIVITY TO WORK LIKE FISHING DOES WHERE YOU GET TALENTS FOR FISHING AND NOT FROM A HAND OF CARDS WHICH WASTES A TALENT SLOT. Also merging a lot of talents is needed to some degree. Also all mantra altering talent cards should be turned into sparks.............. (also monthly updates please)

The deep... Truly has called to eclipse

I've had Deepwoken since Christmas of last year, but I really started getting into it once I finally made it past power 1. Me and one of my friends figured out a method to prevent being hunted by voidwalkers. You don't even have to PVP! (Note: Voidwalkers can ONLY hunt you if you are enemies or lower than that.) 1. If you use the castaway origin (and maybe lone warrior too, I would need someone to check.) You start with low reputation with The Ministry, Knives of Eylis, and The Hundred Legions. You can't pay off your Knives rep, but in both Luminants, an event will spawn where it's Knives VS. Etrea. It's two ships beside each other, one's burning, the other has red sails. If you do enough of those events, your rep with the Knives will become neutral. 2. For The Ministry, you have some options. You could kill a player on Lower Erisia, a quest given by a man on the island with 4 statues. Or do the same thing in Songseeker Wilds, this time by another man on one of the smaller islands near Summer Isle. You could also take the easier way of farming Children Of Navae (Navae for short.) VS. Ministry events. 3. Getting rep for the Legion is a little bit riskier, since your only choices are (to my knowledge...) Authority VS. Legions in Starswept Valley, or rarely, you could find an Authority VS. Legion event in Towerstruck Lands, and Upper Erisia. I found my 2nd one at the Temple of Forgotten Flame, which is above the bandit camp in Lower Erisia. And once you do all of those 3, voidwalkers can't get a bounty on you since you have no enemies, and that means killing you isn't worth their time since they can't teleport to you, have X-Ray vision of you for a short time, and they won't get a massive chest just from killing you. Your only threat from players are now gankers. Specifically, Dawnwalkers are most likely to jump you, atleast from what I know. Hope this helps anyone who reads it!

Something that might be good to add would be some type of guide in-game, like an entity encyclopedia where you can read about things such as mantras, progression etc. basically an in-game wiki lmao Things could be in there such as: Controls Progression tutorial (in a text format, duh) Explaining mantras etc.

Im really glad someone like you is covering this game, because for big changes to happen to the overall health of the game, people need to step out of the echo chamber and see the game from an objective angle. Unfortunately a lot of deepwoken content creators are inside of this echo chamber and while they do criticize the game , it’s pretty clear that they are mostly “Yes-Men” to the developers, being used to poor decisions from all the way back in rogue lineage and just think it’s normal, or just don’t really have enough influence.

The mystery aspect of the game worked for about half a year and it was the most fun ive had in deepwoken also not everyone wqnts to get all the information spoon fed to them they want to ho explore and enjoy the mystery

Good Video. I love the DK64 music background, it brings me good ol' memories back 🥲

I’m not sure if you ever noticed, however the only way to actually get the quest to go to Erisea ( at least for castaway ) is to ask the beginning guy who loosely explains what to do before heading to Erisea. So, this quest is entirely optional, and if you choose to not ask him for money. YOU WILL NOT GET THE QUEST.

Im coming at this late, but after your first wipe, instead of going to fragments, imagine just waking up in trial of one. If you beat it, you still get wiped, possibly by something taking you back down to the depths, and if you die same thing, but it'd unlock the origin and it'd be super cool.

Deepwoken got 50k players when verse 2 dropped and they are working on something called conquest and I am 90% sure even with the paywall it's gonna reach really high numbers atleast 40 - 60k

10:12, they've been tryna balance void walker for a year now, one of the most recent changes is making it where void walkers are the anti void walkers, because now they can hunt each other for XP, and killing a void walker who's on a hunt rewards the person who killed them XP too, making it worth trying to hunt a hunting void walker if you really wanted. 11:56 reminded me of the pain I went through tryna find shadow cast back when nobody really knew about the wiki yet + most of the things in game being unknown. the most consistent route I found to obtain it back then was "get to the non-sloped gate, then look for a ton of urchins then the place under a house" And yes i'm editing this comment as I watch the video, but about the island progression, it defiantly exist, its why people find deepbound a pain for some reason, because the mobs are far more powerful than you and you're surrounded by them sometimes 22:16, you don't gotta worry about that for the most part if the guild has at least 10-20 members and the only time you REALLY have to worry is if you're character's in game name ends up basically being know, for example Deepwoken content creator "Supaa" who could possible sniped for beaing the leader of "Vaktus" and one of their builds which were pretty well known being "River Vendra" on the same topic, don't try to play one of the lightborn things, having Spellhardt as a in-game last name is basically a easy way to get followed. 25:12. the weekly updates have changed A LOT, for example, what used to be the rarest item, Justicar armor's schematic, you needed to kill a thunder squbbio, squibbo being the nickname for the mob that looks like a squid human thing, with the thunder one being a rare harder to fight variant, anyways, the only other way for the Justicar armor schematic was to have THE RAREST EVENT PEOPLE THINK IS DELETED HALF THE TIME HAPPEN AND FIND IT IN THE CHEST LOOT, but recently they added it to the "crypt of the undead" lootpool, and mob AI has changed almost completely.

i feel like the way deepwoken does it's secrets and such just don't work toooo much in a pvp game tbh lol. i'd be completly fine with all the things being pretty hard to get if the game was pve only, i would 100% make an effort to not look at the wiki AT ALL.

Ngl I've played since release, never knew that gate in the depths was meant to be opened

for the voidwalker situation, they do have a system in place where you can't be hunted by them if you haven't reached level 10 before. it's pretty sluggish but still pretty decent for newbies

If you are looking into buying Deepwoken but dont have 5 bucks then wait for a holiday or something ali because during those times the game is fully discounted. An example of this would be black friday, all purchases were 50% off.

Wild how no mods said anything besides that one guy, props to lulu

Arch being unavailable for vc is straight cap, you CAN NOT get him to do it

Your video made me wanna give the game a try. Do you think you would ever do a beginners thing on deepwoken?

Deepwoken has a lot of potential and game content. I feel like if they just make the game more beginner friendly they could bring in a lot more players.

There should be a destroy man 2 who introduces you to the game with tips

YE, WE WANT THAT VOIDWALKER VID

What they need to do is to make more varying attacks, so that mobs dont have to do so much damage to new players, but isnt an absolute pushover for experienced players

i played 750 hours and havent rang a single depths bell, cause i still yet dont know where they are.

imagine if eclipse gets the name in deepwoken called eclipse the moon that would be silly

eclipse can you please make a deepwoken beginners guide for those that dont have friends that can teach them

Kitty meow meow deserves the shoutout, GIVE IT NOW

Eclipse voidwalkers are players who're trying to progress too

Video idea for yba because i want more yba content. Video name: arrivederci. And just use any spec you want with sticky fingers.

Arch_Mage is also the creator of Tales from the Valley, a really cool (old) game used to play (not permadeath, but rogue). Somehow very few people have heard of the game (despite it making it into one of the egg hunt events later down the line), so I wanted to mention it here because I liked it.

Og players: bruh what Is this!!! Beginner Island my ass!!!

seeing eclipse in the deepwoken scene is exciting

"the way the game is set up makes it very easy to add stuff to" WHERES THE CONTENT THEN!!!!

i really do want that voidwalker video

Make more deepwoken vids man they so good

For a long time there wasn't even a tutorial.

Half a year ago there was no tutorial

... I just wish DeepWoken were its own game outside of Roblocks. Because... I just cant bring myself to get or open Roblocks. :/

you sure look like a guy who would enjoy some custom minigames mate

honestly 5 dollars is still alot for most third world countries , me personally i live in one and i work a 9-5 job which only pays me 10 bucks a day and that 5 bucks might just not be worth it sometimes

As someone who has played since release, the mystery was very prevalent and fun in the first months of game. You'd go to a new island you'd never seen before, and go about it like a stealth mission and be scared of like 10 new monsters. You'd see somebody had a magical weapon they just stumbled upon and was showing to everyone. People found murmurs and oaths and bells and kept them secret and were sort of elite. Plus, you had multiple guilds dedicated to secrethunting and then keeping those secrets! It was a ton of fun, and we've had a few updates that sort of brought that back, but that aspect was certainly what allured me to the game.

I would like to see more deepwoken content from eclipse like review to some oaths or attuments or a simple guide

Im so glad that someone outside of the deepwoken community is looking in on deepwoken, and actually had an opportunity to talk with the devs because right now the deepwoken community is a massive echo chamber, so ideas like escaping the depths needing to be reworked never gets addressed. I have played deepwoken since its release and i have never rung one of the bells for opening the gates, or seen where they are, because its just easier, safer, and faster to climb the walls. at the same time its hard to complain about voidwalkers in the community because everyone's answer for dealing with voidwalkers is to just "git gud".

No way you just didn't

When I started deepwoken I went to lower Erisia as power 1. A Sharko obliterated me. Then a voidwalker came and killed me, back then I didnt know it was a voidwalker. Then I went to the depths and a group of people jumped me, I suppose contractors. I quit and never played the game again for about a month.

A follow up video? This is awesome. Thanks for doing this Eclipse! (You should 100% make a voidwalker video)

if deepwoken had a good tutorial it would be a 10/10

As a deepwoken player, I loved it when opera took 90% of my RAM from all the wiki tabs

I have been playing deepwoken for about a year now and i always thought that the gate just spawns opened sometimes

What you should have asked him is "WHEN IS THE IGNITION UNION ORIGIN COMING ARCH"

These are all really good suggestions if I'm being honest, new players are always fun to run in to in-game and I always try to teach them something or give them an item of some sort, that being said the end-game content is also really dry and experienced players currently have nothing to do except progress new builds with oaths and attunements and weapons they've already used before over and over, none of the current bosses are challenging once you've beaten them once or twice.

I actually LOVE the idea of a faction/origin thats tasked with defending players against voidwalkers. that is such a cool idea.

Yo Eclips do some video collaboration with Agamatsu, THE guy for Deepwoken. He would be trhilled to help u out and it could be some cool content to see from both of you.

Something to fix things is easily the spawn area NPC, he should explain certain things to you when you die, like what a voidwalker is, or warning you “if you lose a fight here I’m afraid you’ll likely be Depthsent, like the lot of your crew”

The entire premise deepwoken originally had was finding out everything on ur own but now to game is too big for it yo be this way

11:00 i would like to expressly and outright deny this point. i have 1.6k hours on this game, and i have played and met a TONNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNN of people. SO MUCH is learned through word of mouth, playing with others. just the other day i played with a guy and he showed me some tricks regarding guild bases that werent on the wiki or youtube video. deepwoken has such a tight knit and active community, it leads to so much stuff being spread around. shit there's almost ALWAYS someone in the deepwoken discord vc, where even bigger games dont have that. Yes, a ton of stuff is also learned through the wiki and youtube (not that i think it's a bad thing, i actually love it), but the devs were right on the money with people learning things themselves, and not just going on youtube for it. a ton of the things i learned were from just playing and asking others, and obviously since the devs really dont say much, then that allows for player experimentation and innovation, and spreading that information to your friends. edit: regarding voidwalkers. i myself play ONLY voidwalker, but that's simply because it's much more engaging for me. us voiidwalkers can still hunt each other, so i also know what it's like being hunted. and i'll say this in the most deepwoken way possible; if you get mad at voidwalkers, that's the biggest skill issue i've ever heard. if you cant handle players teleporting onto you, then get off the game. it makes a really loud noise, and you wouldnt know this since you dont voidwalk i assume, but players escaping from us happens more often than you think. you dying to a voidwalker is litereally just a skill issue. we cant hunt anyone that is very low level, and the maximum we can hunt is someone 5 levels below us. voidwalkers get heavily scrutinized by players who seem to think this is meant to be an easy game without death. voidwalking can only be done in certain areas, tp spots are often disadvantagous for us, and it limits pve exp gain. with all these debuffs i dont know what else you could want aside from removing it, which is insanly dumb considering how many people actually like it. learn how to fight other players, because you'll get into a fight with someone AT SOME POINT while playing deep. 11:54 voidwalkers cant hunt in the depths, and there's a shadowcast npc in songseeker (i learned this by myself by just exploring btw, this is something you CAN do if you havent noticed) 13:46 yeah, it does. old progression was, trial of one -> mini/song -> hive/depths -> depths/duke/whatever else floats your boat. this is how most players played, but some just went straight to depths after trial. this is done by plenty of games, most notably Hallow knight. i dont really see your point here. this is an open world game in every way possible, and the lack of direct storyline makes it feel so much more free and like you're really doing your own thing. if you're not sure where to go, ask someone. pretty simple. of course they'd direct you to lower since that's where the low hp easy mobs are. i hadnt been to lower when i wasnt a voidwalker for a while before voidwalking came out since i was good enough to go straight to hive. only times i went there was for duke and i'd just tp the temple and parkour my way on upper erisia. worse players will be directed there for a reason, and that's really all you need to get going honestly. also past lower erisia you can literally go anywhere and be fine if you dont suck ass. hive, song, mini, whatever. if you go to thunderstruck lands and get jumped by a sharko or golem, then hows about you stick to lower.

Eclipse thinking his questions are stupid and negative has clearly yet to see the average fan artists' question towards Archus Magus and Ragoober

Deepwoken build or bust coming?

eclipse on the whole cryptic thing, the wiki is fully fleshed out right now but on release there was no info the wiki even if its the "official wiki" its not created or managed by the deepwoken dev team its maintained by the community, even if right now as a new player you check the wiki to find out stuff when the wiki was first created the players found the information from within the game, discord and lore and posted the information online for people to use freely, this is why they said that it's intended for stuff to be cryptic within the game if you played this game on release during the first few months when we didn't know anything about the game and had to interact with the community as a whole to figure stuff out you may not dislike it as much as you do now although in the current state the game is right now it makes no sense why the stuff is still cryptic within the game

His head being slightly to the left of the W in deepwoken is lowkey annoying xd

I think something along the lines of the guiding light from elden ring would make it easier for newer player to traverse from island to island or not miss important details. Seeing as there are a couple of aspects taken from the soul series and sekiro they could probably implement this "guiding light" as well but with their own twist to it. There wouldn't need to be a written quest for it. The light could also lead to a small note/carving on the walls left by the devs that could give more insight on the island history or purpose. Just and idea. It's up to them how they interpret it of implement it.

Personally I never had the issue of "wikiwoken". I played my first probably 200 hours without wikis, because I personally HATE wiki-metas and such. Sure, a lot of the starting bit of the game were really difficult, however, i found myself enjoying the game a lot even without a wiki. And tbh, I do tell my friends "hey, there is this cool thing in deepwoken that happens if you do this and this" and sure, if my friend have a follow up question, my anwser will probably be "idk, I havent tested that" etc etc

How, just how? The dude barely speaks to even his devs, let alone youtubers... is eclipse a sorcerer? Is this sorcery????

As somebody that is very passionate about this game (despite not playing it much anymore) seeing somebody from outside the community with actual brains talk about this game in a critical manner like this is extremely refreshing. I agree with basically every point you made in this video The point you made about the games obscure content and design is especially interesting because the game originally when it came out was even more so obscure than it is now. The tutorial didn’t even exist, nor did trial of one, and the order you were supposed to do islands in was even more confusing. Monad Studios has a history of games where the experience is basically locked behind knowledge and the wiki, mostly just Rogue Lineage. Post launch of Deepwoken they seemed to have attempted to remedy this with trial of one and the tutorial (both very needed additions) but the game is still left in this weird middle ground of lack of information, and attempting to give the player information. While I (personally) love wiki warrior games with obscure systems, I know that isn’t for everyone and I’m all for changes to improve Deepwokens experience. Thanks if you actually took the time to read my comment, and I’d love to see more content from you on the game (Also if you could make that voidwalker video that would be great, maybe the devs would finally listen and something would get done about them)

I like void walkers but I can't deny that they ruin the experience for newer or more pve focused players. Void walkers GENERALLY are below your level or weaker than you, they cant take bounties roughly 3 or 5 levels below them. I think they would be good and cool if everyone was a sweat with 700+ hours, but thats just not how it is.

this ones sanity mustve already crumbled

hey tip you whould only know if it was told to you but you can get rip of voidwalkers if you get neutrul or posotive knives of eylis reputation it makes it so they cant hunt you anymore and dont get rewards for killing you

Looking things up on the internet or asking people really isn’t a problem. I like that the game doesn’t feed you everything, it just doesn’t feel like the atmosphere and variety options are all that open world. It would feel more like a simulator where you can just follow a simple quest line where everything is somehow shown to you. It also wouldn’t work for deepwoken because theres so much variety and little things that I cant even imagine how youre supposed to implement ways to tell about all of these attunements, oaths, weapons, bosses, bells, enchants, etc through ingame. It would just ruin the open world aspect, at that point you would HAVE TO be following some kind of main quest storyline that everybody has to go through. It’s like this with games like YBA and Arcane Odyssey, and it ends up ruining the open world mmo rpg aspect of it, it just feels so stale no matter how you try to just “present” these options without imposing them. I like deepwoken because you can do everything how you want to do it, progress and make your build how you want to with almost no influence. If you want to learn something, you can ask in the discord or wiki pages, I find that more immersive in finding things out rather than just being shown all the options and the game telling you to pick. Like even the lone warrior origin which a lot of people prefer, it’s not forced. Some people like the deepbound or voidwalker origins better.

Voidwalkers cant spawn till u reach level 10 for the first time and reach level 5 on the rest of the characters you make Voidwalkers can only have up to a 5 level difference Voidwalkers can be removed by getting neutral rep with Etrea, Hive, Knives etc. (the rest that matter will be Neutral or good) depending on ur origin

All I want in the game is more PVE content, I don't know about others, but after 10+ builds it becomes uninteresting to play, I don't believe that it is difficult to add some things that will complement the lore of the game (new plants, new recipes, more events), or even new locations every six months instead of adding a new mantra every week. You literally have a game connected to the sea! Add customization for ships. Another big problem with the game is optimization, it's not the developers' problem, it's the roblox's problem, it's a pity that roblox can't optimize its engine and servers.

im so happy u finnaly decided to give deepwoken a try both the videos were very fun and insightful to watch, i think the community would welcome a new face thats not just endlessly showing 14 year olds things theyve seen a billions of times

When I played it might have just been my ping, but I found parrying impossible, there’s such an incredibly small window for blocking/parrying, that it was almost impossible for me to do it, even on 1v1s

This really was a DEEPWOKEN

5 dollars ? Robux costs way more than 5 dollars now , I know that it’s a small amount and not what you talked about but for an unknown reason robux rates are crazy here in EU 7 euros which is like 3 $ more than what I paid for…

more deepwoken content from eclipse would be an absolute treat

Cool, I haven’t even watched the video yet since commented the moment it released. HOW DOES THIS HAVE MORE LIKES THAN VIEWS RIGHT NOW?

one of the most fun part of the game is finding info on the game and sharing it with others. theres a whole discord dedicated to niche info in the game including lore, tech, bugs, and about everything else in the game. in the past when verse 2 released, there was an oath that nobody knew about until one person found it. he didnt share the method to get it but the oath being in the game caused a ton of players to talk to other npcs and do specific things to find the oath. the hunt for it was fun and i hope more content in the future is like it. it sucks that new players have to learn most things from the wiki instead of word of mouth but the experience of looking and finding new content that has no info on it is very fun.

Imo you play and find out, you dont know anything u search it up, you are missing that there are actual players in the game that you could possibly find and join their guild make friends with and they will take you on and show you the more content.. Thats how I found my group of friends now, we all learnt together.

eclipse should have told archmage to free key 😔

The video is great and all, but the cat interference was absolute 💯💯💯

lets go eclipse slowly becoming a deeptuber !!

the forge of sin quest is like you go on a mission and find a big boss guy that gives you a bunch of loot and levels and its a very enjoyable quest that takes a hour at most ive dont i probably over 9 times and its never boring and it permently unlocks the boss fight until you wipe

just so you know the anti void walkers are the void walkers. they can take bountys up on each other. bit of a flawed system

I feel like Voidwalkers would be fine if there was another group that opposed them and specialised in saving bounties from getting gripped. It would be a nice contrast and allow people to choose whether they want to be good or bad, and allow for more interations.

honestly, question 3 is poorly worded and i can see why arch responded the way he did, you could have been more specific with your complaints there

f2p deepwoken is a bad idea, imo. as arch mentioned, paid access keeps exploiters out as if they get banned they're forced to spend more money to go back. i mean, look at YBA, a free to play game, and its problem with exploiters. at most, they spend a couple hours leveling a new account and that's it, they're right back to what they were doing about kids with no money to spend, 5 bucks isn't that much to ask your parents for i imagine. up to debate i guess

Is your cat called "Kitty Meow Meow"??? Or does it prefer to remain anonymous?

I believe a fatal flaw within the game design actually stems from one of it's core systems which is perma-death. When it comes to making a specifically difficult game with constant dying as a learning experience, perma-death halts the progression from people learning from their mistakes and getting better, it dramatically slows down the experience. I believe this is why so many people, myself included love the Trial Of One so much because of the replay-ability of completing the trials. It's quick, it doesn't waste your time and it's not like you lose an insane amount of progress when failing. (Therefore not demoralizing to continue) There's no re-grinding just to fail again nor long walk of shame to that you need to have within the trials; you simply go in, attempt a run, then fail or succeed. And to be completely honest, with removing perma-death from being a staple this will allow the devs to actually increase the difficulty dramatically. Since death is essentially not *too* much of an issue, to compensate would be the difficulty with a different and more interesting drawback to death, instead of just losing all your progress to potential ROBLOX bullshit. To give an example of how bad perma-death can be, if fromsoft games added perma-death the amount of frustration would go from "fair but hard" to just downright infuriating that you need to go back to 1 each time you fuck up. Adding perma-death to a game doesn't instantly make it harder, it just makes a inconvenient obstacle that demoralizes when handled poorly, which I believe Deepwoken does. Now I already know there might be some questions like: 1."What happens with the depths?" 2."What other interesting ideas that *you* suggest to add more consequence to death?" etc. 1. To answer the first question I believe the depths can still exist as a place you can access to, but not somewhere you're forced to go to when dying, with the consequence of dying within the depths will result in a wipe of your character. Further more, the depths become a lot more valuable in terms of getting loot with the threat of loosing a character and the threat of added difficulty. 2. One of them can be dropping 85% of your money along with 70% of your inventory, with robber barron being more of a demand for players so you only drop 55% of money and 40% inventory by comparison. Compounding with this, an overall stat debuff. Everytime you die, you lose a bit of your soul, making you weaker and weaker with a cap. To regain remnants of your soul you have to either: Go back to where you have first died, level up, *or* going to some type of checkpoint (like a shrine) that each island has where you can rest at to recover your soul. (Could make food with rare, valuable ingredients that does this too lowkey) There's many more things the devs could cook up than just these, there's a lot that can be done. Also adding an Anti-Voidwalker faction would be cool, hunters that become the hunted. (Voidwalker players vs Void Hunter players)

Regarding the word of mouth thing, while I agree for some things should be less gatekept, like trial of one, word of mouth is still important, as it is often not feasible to use the wiki, especially when you don't even know what to look up. You yourself said that in your review video, that even after using the wiki ya'll still got mauled, and only after being with ppl who knew stuff were you able to advance more(though admittedly this may not be a good thing), in general learning the ins and outs can't be done well just though the wiki for a lot of stuff.

as someone who doesn't really look at wiki's when playing through games i had a blast discovering the secrets of the game and even after well over 200 hours of play time i was still discovering new things i had no idea exists. for me at least that was a big part of the charm of deepwoken and something i really enjoyed about the game. I do believe that a lot of the people who play deepwoken do agree that it is one of the best feelings when playing a deepwoken to discover a secret that you had no idea about.

honestly, for not wanting to ever review the game you're doing everything within your power to BETTER the game. it actually makes me really happy because deepwoken is a good game and i always say that if it weren't on roblox's engine and being limited by roblox and jank it'd be one of the best games to exist. it's fairly nuanced and it definitely rewards exploration and discovery. i can see where you're coming from with the whole "everything is a secret so how are you supposed to find it out other than google" but as you said the game is trial and error. you're supposed to slowly learn about the world around you and the whole "word of mouth" still applies when you're looking up that information because it had to be discovered by a different player who went through that process to uncover it and is now, within alignment of what the devs wanted, being spread and shared. this is what happened with bells/resonance just on a much larger scale where many players had different theories until the actual method was discovered. but i absolutely agree with everything else. the game needs to give you clearer instructions with some of it's mechanics (ie; escaping the depths. i've been playing since release and have never once gone out of my ways to ring the bells to open the gate and had never actually known about them for the longest time. i would always join a server with it open or use the walls.)

Now that Eclipse did a Deepwoken review, it’s only fitting that he does a Rogue Lineage review too