RuneScape: Dragonwilds

I have played for just under 40 hours and the game has crashed probably 50-60 times. back to back crashes with a restart. I get kicked out of dungeons or set back with tasks ive completed. Theres ranged weapon bugs and watering can bugs.i do like it hence the 40 hours, but the bugs and crashing are starting to affect gameplay. i wish there was a middle of the road rather good or bad

its fun once you figure it out

Man... I just can't with how freaking long it takes to get around the map in this game. Fast travel costs magic runes and fast travel points must be built using a rare item that I also need to build critical stuff for my base. Getting that resource requires going into a "dungeon", and there are 2 per dungeon. Dungeons do reset, but they're pretty boring to go through since they're mostly a bunch of hallways. They really should have gone with a fast travel POI system. Go up to a teleporter, activate it, and I can go back for free, but no. I've gotta build the teleporters with an extremely limited resource. Then inevitably I realize it's in an awful spot, so I walk back, disassemble it, and move it to a better position. I see there are some more convenience options later, but early game is a terrible grind with a tiny inventory that is seemingly always full. The game is grindy enough with gathering resources and the 100 crafting stations I have to build. I just expanded my base because I was running out of room, and now I've literally got like 8 new stations to fit. Some of them, like the furnace and kiln, are massive, too. Like farming? Well, can't go away from base for too long or my crops will die from disease. There's like a 20-30% chance that a crop will get diseased and have to be treated. And seed drops are already [i]super[/i] low. Combat is [i]fine[/i]. Not much to it, really. It's pretty slow, but not the worst combat system ever. Except there's a very limited stamina bar. It's pretty comparable to Dark Souls with how it works, but even slower than DS1 and with boring enemies. Oh, and there's a dragon who flies by every now and then shooting poison at me along with occasional "base raids" by enemies. These events suck and give no special rewards. Want to turn them off? Start over in a custom game and disable achievements. Cool, thanks. Oh, audio... yeah, it's all messed up. I'll be fighting a wolf and hear the growls come from the right. It's impossible to tell where an enemy is based on audio cues. There's an attempt there, since I can tell the audio changes direction, but right now it's broken. I feel like this game just keeps kicking me in the ♥♥♥♥ with how it likes wasting my time. It's a shame, too, since it's got some cool mechanics. It just feels a lot like a mobile game with how it seems to waste the player's time whenever possible.

Really liked this game, but for some reason recently they changed the controller scheme and made it so much worse with no way of switching back. You used to be able to use the left and right dpad to switch between items and hit up to select them. Now it's a terrible radial menu having you hold left-bumper. I was frustrated enough after having played for nearly 100 hours that I'm just going to find a new game to play. Sad. It's probably fine if you're used to keyboards, but I was playing on a couch with a controller and just don't want to anymore due to the change in controller scheme that's not able to be reverted.

boring

This game is more frustrating than it is fun. - You can build a village from a large variety of materials - but your chests connect only a very short distance, so that you end up cramming everything into a tiny spot afterall. - You can advance in a number of different weapons of your choice - but you end up having to use multiple weapons, because ranged combat is not strong enough to kill multiple enmies without them running you down. - You can decide to adventure or build - but you will constantly get attacked by enemies that either hunt you, or raid you or a dragon appears every X minutes to blast you with poison keeping you from base building I understand that the game is in EA and I am more than happy to change my review at a later point. But at this point the game frustrates me more than it is enjoyable. Half my materials for crafting are greyed out because I lack something that I don't know how to get. The mechanisms in-game that are supposed to "keep me busy" are very obvious and very immersion-breaking. There is ALWAYS an enemy on you. Go ahead and go afk and just watch how out of no where an enemy will spawn and attack you. I went down a large empty cave in the storm zone and got hit by lighting and attacked by an enemy that spawned on me. I ran out only to be jumped by another one - despite the fact that I have cleared everything around me. Enemies spawn somewhere and just randomly traverse the entire zone like a vaccuum robot that is trying to not miss a single area. That is neither fun, nor challenging. It is very very annoying. The raids on my camp...I completely refuse to even participate. The loot is terrible and the exp is next to nothing. So while I am in camp, trying to build my base, I just sacrifice myself, letting them kill me right away. Much quicker, I don't waste arrows on them and the loot only yields items that fills up my chests pointlessly, anway. The combat is montonous, unless you play with all the weapons. Which is fine, but don't sell me a variety of weapon choices, if I have to end up using them all. There is a ranged armor set and ranged weapons - do you think I will be able to defend myself when going grinding for resources as a ranged player? Sure, a single mob is no issue - but the way you're constantly being attacked by random NPCs spawning around you, there is almost never just a single enemy. So I end up dying constantly. Which is part of the game, I get it. And I can always teleport back. If I have enough law runes. If there is no vent nearby and you cannot craft them yet, you need to run all the way back to your tombstone. And no, you do NOT carry your weapons with you, when you die. You run all the way back without weapons. Which makes the whole "enemies randomly spawning and attacking you" even more annoying. The game has potential and it might be great at a later point. But currently, my joy is wiped away by the annoying issues that seem to be dev choices rather than bugs.

Game runs like ass.