Enshrouded

Learning from Valheim, I would assume. Putting off a big update patch with all the little tiny decorations and fancy little doodads to draw back all the world builders that go on to show their mega vanity projects and garner them some attention. Now if they'll also learn from Valheim that that patch was also fucking annoying because it didnt add any actual content to the game.

I'm still waiting for the multiplayer progression change to play. I keep checking to see if it's gone through, but all I see is several dev posts saying they are "currently working on a fix". At this point I don't know if I want it done sooner or in a month or so after these other like 5 games shit out in the next two weeks.

from my testing it seems to tick at about 1.8s. just under 2seconds per tick. I tried to use a stopwatch to test, and consistant 1.8-1.9. so pretty sure its not 2s. 1.75 is possible. 1.8s seems like an odd value.

I never actually tested it before to see if its listed 1s tick rate, was correct.

Healing potions have no cooldown and are trivial to craft hundreds of, so their combat/healing system in general needs a lot of work.

The healing aura was pretty egregious, but just the most obvious problem out of a host of other system problems really.

Yeah I think I'll hold off until more area is opened up and the server progression thing is changed for individuals. I'm kind of glad I didn't play if there's still only a small portion of the game available. Now the hard part is just ignoring anything about the game so I can go in fresh.

has anyone played this, and Scum or Icarus? looking for a survival game that's solo friendly. I might have a duo that jumps in occasionally. looking for something i can play, progress, and not have it wiped out if I log out for a while.

Yeah in the open beta it was the opposite and it was kind of a pain in the dick. We'd have people go "exploring" while we worked on the base and then when we went out all the chests were looted and there was no reward to really exploring nooks/crannies/hard to find places.

I put a pretty good amount of time into this one, not scum or icarus though. decent amount of time into conan while it was in EA, not sure on where it endedup. tiny amount into ark.
7days to die, palword, valhiem, etc. a good number of others various amounts in..

Ok, so enshrouded. This one stands out for 2 things. 1. its mostly handcrafted voxel world. 2. its voxel base building.

1. handcrafted voxel world.
so, they used a.i. proc gen to generate the world in the first place, then went in after and refined it to build specific elements. theres times you can tell, other times when its pretty finely handcrafted. The preset hand crafted world absolutely plays better as a single player game. Theres lots of hidden treasure you'd miss out on playing party running off in every direction at once. its 1000% more enjoyable to explore and uncover at your own pace here.
The voxel world, you can dig anywhere. you can read amusing reviews complaining about being locked in the tutorial area by the grapple hook gateway. people who never thought to just dig a tunnel up the cliff. (or noticed the obvious path across) Theres entire ass dungeons HIDDEN behind collapsed tunnels, under rubble, etc, you need to keep your eyes open notice a tell, or whatever and DIG. This is largely why the world reseting is a thing. its not minecraft where, when hollowed out, you can expand spawn more progen world. if the world didnt reset, mining it out, would create a dead server eventually.
loot... is pathetic atm. there are so many hidden chests, and dungeons.. but way, way too little loot to fill them. a huge part of the game atm is finding some super cool secret dungeon, chest, opening it... and getting the same level 10 green wand you already got and salvaged 20 times. This is by far one of the biggest flaws with the game atm.

2. voxel base building. lots of visual pieces. massively simplifies actually placing blocks, so actually building things is easy and effective. something landmark failed at for example. it was so powerful and complex.. that it was a chore to just build a simple 4 walls and a roof... The things people are building in this are incredible.
your bases, up to 8, are permanent with no decay mechanic. Everywhere outside of them is a 30min timer.

limited, repetitive enemies are the other big flaw here.

Theres also Nightengale coming out in a couple days. didnt try that one myself.