thanks for watching, hope you enjoyed! Some clarifications: I am aware the devs have said a lot of the issues mentioned in the video will be fixed in the future on dev streams and such. However, I still chose to review the content as-is (as it currently appears in game) otherwise the review wouldn't be consistent nor fair. It wouldn't feel right to just say that every issue will be fixed after some time, because even though that may be true, it doesn't correctly put how the content currently feels to experience in-game. as always, I'd love to hear your thoughts on the video and this update - leave them down below ▷ SOCIAL MEDIA: freddofilms.xyz/contact ▷ STORE: freddofilms.xyz/store ▷ TWITCH: twitch.tv/freddofilms
Boulders can no longer fall near or on structures. Update: They now do but you can now reinforce the ceiling to prevent that from happening in an area using new pillars that you get the blueprint for from the Ancient Guardian.
These updates give me major terraria vibes, almost like they’re making cc and ancient fuelweaver a sort of wall of flesh, a way to put tons of very difficult content behind a skill and gear barrier. I mean, the same can even be said for the nightmare werepig, where you need ruins-tier gear to even fight the guy.
Yap I instantly made that comparation too I do hope they don't stop there though cause it won't feel like as crazy as terraria Like the portals are cool but if they do that and like 1 or 2 new bosses and that's it it won't feel as a proper big endgame and it won't all that new gear won't get proper use Don't get me wrong I'll still be happy with it it's still great but I just hope they really expand on this "hardmode" concept
feels a lot like 'hardmode' for sure. honestly not a bad place to take inspiration from, aside from terraria being wiki reading simulator (which dst is too past a certain point)
As long as they don't add power creep and keep items as sidegrades so that we don't become completely dependent on them, and stuff like the dark sword and ham bat don't become obsolete I'm happy.
Klei has said that they want to get all of the “From Beyond” updates before they start changing things, so don’t expect the full potential of the update to be reach for about a month or 2 after the 3rd and final update releases (also rebrand good)
The shadow alignment also just needs more stuff to craft. The brightshade loadout consists of a shovel and hoe combo, a pickaxe and hammer combo, an actual friggin ranged weapon that's very unique, and a bomb that deals massive amounts of damage. Meanwhile the void gear contains an upgrade to the umbrella and a scythe that's admittedly extremely cool, one of these things is definitely not like the other
5:44 Just a reminder that in that post, JoeW was talking about why they removed cannibalism. For those who didn't know, if you died in DST you used to drop human meat called long pig or something.
Oh wow, I assumed it was talking about how they decided to move away from the more grotesque lunar mutant designs. Honestly them removing long pig is such a silly thing to be that upset about
@@paxtonl1330 Hello! Very late, but the 2 reasons why long pig were removed were because it didn't fit the angle the game was going for and it promoted people killing eachother, which was a major issue at the Time
Like the fact that the game is slowly mutating into a multiplayer survival Dark Souls game, used to be simple but now we are being thrown all of this stuff and it’s either use the fabeled wiki or charge blind and see what happens
I think that the ancient gateway in the atrium will bring them back. Based on all the blacks and reds with these new horrors, them is probably a higher form of the ancient herald. I mean herald literally means ‘a sign that something new is coming’, so like, yeah.
I hope the permanent skill tree should be wilson's gimmick and everyone else has to start from scrach since most of his skills are not very powerfull but very usefull none the less i hope that there will be unique tree for each of the survivors like with there powers and then a alingment and torch catagory.
Hear me out: The maths isn't too bad, and the main problem is all of the introduced planar mechanics having basically identical names (As an example, using the code, Planar Defense and the planardefense component are actually completely different things)
While I haven’t played much of the update content yet, I feel like the problems presented in this video could be solved by allowing you to enhance armor and weapons with planar damage instead of making new ones. A method to turn some of an armor or weapon’s damage or protection into their planar variants. This will allow players to use whatever items they want. They could also buff the special armor’s set bonuses to make them more desirable from converted weapons, but the player will always be able to use what they want and still be effective.
Fun Fact: Shadow Reaper speaks to a player with Shadow Affinity, which only Wilson can get, and has dialogue for when the player has Lucy in their inventory, something only Woodie can do... Does this means... WILSON WILL BE ABLE TO PICK LUCY IN THE FUTURE!?
Great video as always. I already know pretty much everything about these updates by the time You make a video about them, but I still value highly your opinion. Just a quick question, if I may : Does your neck hurt from carrying that TV on your head? (It looks a little titled to the front) It looks good and unique. I just don't want you hurting yourself if you're gonna be ending every video with neck problems.
the scythe seems like the coolest item to me just for it being able to harvest multiple things at once, yet its locked behind killing fuelweaver. a boss that 80% of the playerbase havent defeated or seen. i wish qol changes would come to the base game instead of it being locked behind endgame content. people that play for thousands of days on a world just find their own fun and usually end up just megabasing, so i dont quite understand this direction of endgame content. prehaps this whole update is inspired by terraria's hard mode but i cant say for sure.
I feel like planar damage should apply to far more weapons, except for Ham Bat because it's a piece of meat on a stick. Because right now it just kinda feels like you are forced to waste 3 slots just in case a random rift opens.
Hi Freddo! I was actually someone who contributed a lot of information to the Planar Damage wiki and I'm really happy you were able to use some of my information in your video. I hope it helped you out and I'm glad to have made a small mark on a big channel :)
As the developers themselves said, I can't really critique this last two updates, as they are CLEARLY a mere preparation for what's to come in this arc finale. I just wish we get a bossfight as good as the Celestial Champion and the Fuelweaver (yes I love the Fuelweaver fight).
My friends find the plants annoying but I like them enough, though sometimes it feels like the weapons that ONLY deal planar damage don't function and just refuse to damage normal enemies or critters like butterfly's (though perhaps that was fixed). I am admittedly not as well versed on the balancing of don't starve so I can't comment on armor protection and durability (even less so when it comes to the planar effects) but for what is supposed to be post game armor I am surprised that it doesn't reduce total damage by 90%? like, I get that its much easier to make compared to something like thulicite or marble but I feel like it should still reduce damage by at least a little more than a football helmet, maybe allow an increased damage reduction if you're using an alignment weapon (or something like a dark sword or moonglass tool). also on a side note, I think it would be interesting if they made the armors and tools opposites, like, the lunar armor looks more tough and durable so its more defensive, while the void armor looks' more sneaky and lethal so its more offensive, I dunno something like that to me would be cool. additionally If they are going to add alignments to each character, I hope they add uniqe effects that match each each faction, going with my offensive vs defensive ideas: shadow Wolfgang, or Wigfrid could deal much more damage but maybe are more vulnerable when insane or illuminated, while lunar Wendy or webber, might get defensive bonuses from using lunar spiders or fighting at night, something like that. I definitely hope that Wilsons abilities are so lukewarm because he is meant to be the "default" character and as such you mostly choose a side for the crafting recipe's (I am also 90% sure walter is ONLY going to get new ammo and nothing else because he is an unfinished character). I additionally curious what will happen to completely neutral characters like Wortox, how will them choosing a side be rationalized, or, will it just be a gameplay thing? how will the gorge and forge events matter to the greater story now that we HAVE a newly fixed portal? I'm honestly excited to see what will come of all this, I kind of hope we get some more creepy designs, maybe a mouth that bites you or something like that. also one last thing, how do you modify the texture on the void cowl for modded characters? Not that I plan to develop my own mod soon but since I had not seen anyone do it yet I was wondering what needed to be changed to enable that.
I don't think these updates will affect me much personally since I never fight Ancient Fuelweaver or the Celestial Champion, and I don't feel the need to turn on the rifts in my settings. It'll be cool to watch people who are good at the game do stuff with it though.
In my oppinion i think void armor is bad because to get it you need to kill the Ancient FuelWeaver a really hard boss that also has really good lot and the bone armor he drops lets you tank a hit every 5 seconds and by the time you are good enough to fight him you most likely are good enough to dodge attacks so if you avoid an attack after tanking a hit with the bone armor you will be basicly inmortal and this is BEFORE getting the portal repaired and fighting those new enemys.
that's a really good point, bone armour is still my preferred too the only practical use for the armour is to complete the set with scythe, kinda lame tbh
@@paxtonl1330 Yeah but that will not make me and many other people want to drop off there backpack for something that cannot expand the very limited inventory . In games like Terraria you do not need a backpack because your inventory is massive were in DST a backpack is mandatory
Once they rebalance the gear they better also do that for acid rain which is very ignorable right now and either remove the boulders altogether or make so they actually damage the player a lot and shatter on impact so you dont need to clean up hundreds of them every year if you live in the caves
I think Don't Starve has kinda turned obsolete? Like I feel it's in the same spot as Minecraft where they're just updating it just because there's not much else to do and there's enough of a fanbase who will play more. Unless they kill Walter and add Wheeler into Don't Starve Together, I think I'm just going to leave this game be and player a better brutally challenging survival game with a mysterious story. Like Rain World. I'm going to go download Downpour.
I cant say i like a lot of this update. I know a lot of it will be changed/tweaked to be less inconvenient and assnine but, as it stands, its just annoying. Besides the constant griefing and plain unfair damage of the mobs, it just doesnt make any sense for the characters to have am option to pick their own alignment. Woodie is a lycanthrope of sorts, he transforms during the full moon, so shouldnt he be locked to lunar affinity? how about wanda and maxwell, clear shadowmancers in their own regard, what do they have to do with the moon again? (besides maxwell's connection with charlie, that is). All character getting their own skill trees sounds absolutely awesome and it makes so that 2 players who picked the same character can enjoy having different perks (like WX in a way), but i really hope they add something more to wilson, because even if no one can recreate what he does, i still would feel like it would take his coolest perk and make it not-so-special.
to be fair in defense of Wanda she ONLY uses shadow magic because it was what was available to her, and she does show interest in moon gear and items, even wishing that she could merge the two sides for her own gain.
They should add mobs with planar damage in the early game because it's way too easy to craft one or two football helmets and basically become invincible
Feedback: the new outro music absolutely rules. I like the RGB gone into rainbow. I wonder, does filming in cam feel like it restricts your creative process? Maybe make editing easier with less animation?
glad you like it! the editing isn't really easier or harder, there's less keyframing involved but I have to do a lot of rotobrushing (ai assisted rotoscoping) for the greenscreen sections which takes a decent bit of time
No Freddo, they never stated that every characters will have skill trees for the love of god and this does not prove it. On the contrary, Klei already stated that characters will NOT have skill trees but will bee aligned in other terms. So suck it, approvers of terrible design :P
@@iguessthisismyworkaccountl8437 Freddo says literally the same thing on the video, what are you on lol. I literally cited him in a playful way, jeez. You didn't noticed the " :P " ???
I think very simply, planar damage is just a second damage type. its not that confusing (at least from what I can understand. Maybe people are leaving things out, idk)
I'm not sure the other characters will get full skill trees, I really wouldn't put it past Klei to add them but it's just the alignment and nothing else. As for characters like Wanda and Walter, I really do think they will get planar damage options later on, locked behind alignment. It would also be interesting if certain alignments were just objectively better on certain characters, with the shadows possibly being stronger on characters who are a bit more malicious or in search of strength while the lunar forces focus on more curious characters who have more to gain from enlightenment.
I have a feeling some kind of new big boss(es) will be coming soon that require or at least seriously incentivize the use of these new armor and weapon sets. It's the whole light vs. dark chess game playing out. Some kind of Charlie vs. Them endgame, I imagine.
I spent some time cave basing in the Terrors Below beta, and I can say that it wasn't that bad. I was able to consistently run during an earthquake so that all the boulders landed pretty close together. Free rocks! The acid rain didn't really give me much trouble either. I just slapped a raincoat on and called it a day. Plus, taking some chip damage from it wasn't the end of the world, either. Easy enough to slam pierogi and be fine. It Did end up costing me my life when it started acid raining during combat, so there's still that. All in all, the new challenges weren't too bad to handle, still preferable to wildfires imo.
Future updates would be awsome with a creepy atlantis underwater biome , and maybe something in the sky layer thqys creepy lovecraftian angelic, imagine all those visitable place with there own look ad feel and loot
i wonder if something would change about the character depending on what side they choose or at least a different skin for them like shadow weapon or moon wormwood
I doubt there will be any physical changes since they otherwise can't make skins based off that (like they already have) but I do hope that Mechanically they are distinct.
@@iguessthisismyworkaccountl8437 ya like a moon side webber could have the shattered spiders spike attack thing or a shadow willow could have shadow fire or something
the new direction dst has been heading really smells of terraria-like progression... defeat boss, get stronger armor and weapon to defeat next boss with, repeat til the end. Its not necessarily bad, i love terraria, but its not don't starve-like either. All of the old gear we ever got has felt unconventional and had certain charms, in example, the weather pain does use boss drops, but its not just a generic magic staff or a sword, its a freaking wind wane made from goat horns and other stuff, or the hambat, iconic, powerful, versatile, made from a leg of ham. IMO we really didnt have the need for 2 MORE crafting stations for the magic and celestial tabs respectively, we literally coulve used shadow manipulator/pseudoscience for the shadow crafts or the celestial tab for the *celestial* crafts. The armor does look cool (aside form the dreadstone one, seriously who'd use that) but it doesnt feel like the style of dont starve either, its just generic fantasy shadow/light armor. I think this kind of content really is just bloating the game without any real substance. The acid rain is cool, needlessly annoying, but it atleast FEELS like dont starve.
Ill be fully honest despite all the new content being added I haven't really felt a need to touch the game again since the Woodie update. Every update focusing on bringing characters up to snuff with custom crafting recipes mostly just meant a lot of updates would up not being very relevant to me unless it somehow affected my own character and playstyle. Hearing in the future every character might get some sort of skill tree does make me hopeful, it would make me pick up the game again and try different builds with Woodie. But as is, in terms of survival games, Don't Starve becoming a lil more complex and less static in terms of how its meant to be played is nice. I've been playing a lot of Project Zomboid lately as my new go-to survival game, and it honestly does a way better job of focusing on hunger and survival than Don't Starve while still having some unique complexities to it that make it way more replayable. It also has a way more varied character building system, so if Don't Starve can bring some of that in to its base characters, that would really get me invested to play again!
Great thoughts on the topic of the 2 updates, but I would disagree on some of them. Here are some of mine. Perhaps I will edit the comment if something else didn't cross my mind. - the most stupid aspect of the update is the brightshades. They are good enemies but nevertheless you can't escape nor prevent them once the rifts are open. - as you already pointed it out the new armors are really wack. Giving up your head and bodyslot for the effects doesn't cut it. Although I like the idea of the shadow reaper being a real kitingweapon, if it weren't for the armor you have to wear - the price for the new gear is also a mixed bag. Some of the stuff (especially the shadowside) is dirt-cheap and the lunarcontent extremely expensive. You can craft 9 Shadowreapers from 1 Outcrop, but in some cases with the lunar-gestalt-waves just 1 Brightshadesword. - I really like the hybridtools: the idea of more efficient tools with more uses while just occupying 1 inventoryslot is genius. Except for the shoevel. It doesn't have any good use. If you are shoveling or tilting something, you always do it in great numbers. The cost doesn't justify the uses, especially that these actions can't be more efficient, because it is a 1-use-action. It just pales in comparison to the new hammer wich does the job in less swings, you don't need it that often and therefore justifies the increased durability. - then there is also the unbalanced sides of the new craftingtables. The shadowside just has 4 new gear, but the lunar content basically twice the amount - everything else in the update like the acid rain was actually something I really enjoy. Especially the rain isn't as aggressive as you point it out to be (well in the beta it was, don't know when your research started on the topic). Having a way to farm nitre was a wish that now came true. - the scrapbook is kinda a step in the right direction. Still like you said, it is really annoying with the pop-up and there is information missing. - the planar fighting is something to wrap your mind about it but I do think it has potential. Making new mobs that are more robust to a ordinary weapon like the dark sword is a really good idea. If not the enemy's would just have more health and therefore more tanky. And with the new weapons the devs don't have to make something that outclasses the dark sword and would shred basic mobs +++ sitting in-game 10/10 would recommend
I miss the days of solo don't starve being like "fuck you git gud and learn how to survive yourself" and how death was part of the learning process, I'm so glad dst and ds are separate, for some reason the more the game gets updated the more settings I have to turn off when creating a world
So like im never touching stuff in this update in particular, super late game which is hard for a semi-noob like me, and also this is the most confusing shit ever.
I like the update and the direction that game's taking. got it? taking. like TAKING ROOT! ahahahahaha. whatever, game's going to be bigger, and Klei're going to add new much more powerful enemys and bosses. so, we'll have to see how it's gonna go
Wtf a 10% change in damage isnt a big deal?? An additional 10% PERMANENT damage lol Add that to something that's wet while you're using a morning star, that's then 60% more damage in total. Then throw in Warly's Chili flakes, which gives you another 20%. All for a grand total of 80% additional damage
Yeah, obviously...lumpy shadow beasts are so cool! I have no idea why you even have to ask if anyone would want to be a evil shadow wizard, they are so boring.
I don’t have much interest in added content that’s wholly concerned with combat, bosses, and armor or weapons. I liked the monkey update because what I want are new environments to explore and conditions to exploit. I haven’t even bothered to go after some of the late game bosses that have been added. It just seems very boring to go to all that trouble, and for what? Just to say that you killed a boss? That holds zero appeal for me. The only thing that interests me about bosses is their loot or the ways you can use them to accomplish your ends, like using Bearger to harvest wood. Some long, complicated fight that requires you spend all your time gathering the resources to fight it is just so tedious.
Ok so 1. You are the third guy who complains about boulders falling on stuff, but the first two at least apoligized right after in the video because they fixed that in the beta. 2. Dreadstone shadow fissures now despawn and can respawn so you don't have to relocate the one you summoned. And if you can't find a fissure in the wilds, god help you. 3. Planar damage isn't made to be calculated. Things heal, reduce damage, there's no need to calculate damage because you always carry more gear than needed. You simply don't have to do the math. All you need to know is that lunar weapons deal higher damage to shadow enemies, lunar armor resists more against lunar enemies and vice versa and postgame weapins deal more damage against postgame enemies. In terraria you also don't do the "ahh skeletron prime has 35 defence, with 5+5+10 armor piercing and 10% higher damage with a 37% crit chance with an average of 3 bullets per second minus 1 if I miss I should have a xy dps. Better weapon=higher damage. 4. You said that you need the new equipment against the new enemies, then you said that the nes equipment isn't worth it. Well lemme tell you is is. The reaper makes farming much easier, possibly the thing you will do until you forget about your world because megabasing is fun amd farming is less fun. The brightshade bombs can instakill the new shadow pieces if placed well enough, the staff can obliterate fuelweaver (because tell me what you want farming moose and goats is a much bigger pain in the ass) and I personally like the umbralla because I just can't disconnect from my celestial crown but that's just my opinion.
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