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I had a brown bear camp at my base, not fun

How is that even possible lol

This one is really nice

Exactly, it's different from person to person. For me personally seeing YouTube videos on how to do stuff in games just spoils the game for me. Yep, every person is different. For me reading instructions and then doing them gives me more sense of accomplishment than watching a YouTube video.

This, I haven't even realized there is a popup tutorial until hours after.

Nobody said you don't need to research, it's just the difference of how you research it. YouTube tutorials is the easy mode of researching.

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The difference is that you don't need any thought process or any usage of mind when watching a youtube video and following it. You can practically play any game and finish it without using your actual thought process by just following a YouTube video. Whilst reading a guide, keyword on reading actually makes you understand everything and lets you figure out everything without knowing how the end product would look like since it's just words, and following it and finishing the instructions give you the sense of pride and accomplishment. In the other hand I can just boot up a YouTube video, follow it step by step without even listening to it, nor making sure I'm actually taking in why I should do this and that, and you would still get the final end product.

For me it's just the fact that I won't enjoy the game to the fullest, I realized that I will just get bored of any game quite easily if I just consume all the content about it, unless it's a game I really love for many years. I fell into that trap and I end up being bored from the game quite easily, but watching minimal amount of content, or sticking to the content of the early game just to see how others did stuff that you already did and managed to do basically prevents that feeling of "Well I already know what and how to do the next thing" and that just takes away from the experience. To put it simply for @CastIronFabric, for certain people, watching videos and tutorials beforehand for everything about the game would give the exact same feeling of getting spoiled of future events of a TV show or movie. If you already know exactly what's going to happen, are you really going to watch it? For certain people, it's almost the same thing, but for games.

For me going in blind is not watching any YouTube content about the game at all (except for when seeing if it's a game you would enjoy/if it's worth buying) Not watching any tutorials that just show you exactly how to do stuff easily and following it word for word. Going in blind means that you figure things out by yourself, whether that is through searching and reading the wiki or ingame handbook and following the instructions on how to do it. I could just watch a youtube tutorial and just copy everything which would save me time, but the reward and immersion you get from actually trying to figure things out yourself without having an idea how the end product looks like is quite nice. That's going in blind, no video guides, no tips and tricks. Just you and the game (with everything it provides to help).

Any update? How are you finding it?

For this game it's actually really friendly with the ingame handbook and wiki. I would understand if the game provides absolutely nothing, but the ingame handbook provides a great deal of information, and once you're actually stuck with something you can look it up in the wiki for more information or just a youtube tutorial. Here is the thing, you don't understand the going in blind stuff but I'm starting to lean into that mentality, not because it makes things challenging, rather that it makes things more interesting and more fun for certain people. Ever since I started looking up guides and how to do stuff even on the simplest games, gaming for me has started becoming boring and for the last couple of years it reached an all time low to the point I could go months without touching a single game and I wouldn't even miss it. I did a little bit of thought process and realized as a kid (when gaming was peak) I used to go in blind in any game. And so I started slowly incorporating that back in and gaming has started becoming fun again.

It's normal, smaller builds are easier and can add more detail to them whilst bigger builds take more planning before even putting down the first block lol

I also died immediately to a grizzly bear right after posting this lmao

I am about 5 hours into my world and I'm genuinely surprised and having tons of fun with the game, the grind doesn't actually feel like grind, I'm currently almost at the copper age. To put it into perspective, Valheim, I like the game but going through the bronze age was more tedious than fun for me, because you had to do the same thing all the time, spend the day at the Black Forest digging copper and transporting it back, rinse and repeat. Then at the same time you need to worry about tin. While here doing everything feels the exact opposite, it feels fun progressing even when it's very slow paced. I'd love to here what makes you guys play and come back to this game every day.

I remember using that mod on Skyrim as well, made the first person animations too clunky lol

As a new player, I don’t think it’s about combat, it fits with the game while Hytale’s is more fast paced so it won’t fit with VS style. I think the issue is more about the animations, they do feel a little bit clunky, and whenever you’re chopping a tree the sound effects are faster than the whole movement. While it’s not a negative for me and quite frankly I don’t care at all, better animations would improve the feel of the game.

At that time maybe, but now it's very different. I mean you do get the Minecraft feeling because it's a voxel game but the gameplay and mechanics feel like Terraria/Valheim. It's very nice, but you can complete it really fast at the moment.

You are wrong, the only thing similar to Minecraft is that they're both voxel games. The game feels more like 3D Terraria/ Valheim hybrid. Issue with it at the moment for me at least is that there is no meaningful progression, the progression is basically getting better tools and gear, but it's way too fast, while in Minecraft it takes quite some time to reach Diamond level gear, it didn't take me that long to reach the equivalent in Hytale. But hey, it's early access, it's to be expected. Game is amazing nonetheless, but I came to VS for the slow pace progression. Hytale, Minecraft or any other game that might come out will never be a threat to VS imo, it's too niche of a game and it will retain it's position and bring new players. Also we need to stop labeling any voxel game that comes out as a Minecraft clone or something that is competing with Minecraft, in all honestly "voxel games" might become a genre now, and introduce games that are voxel based but with completely different ideas and concepts.

I just bought the game and this is one of the first topics I see. Honestly I don't get the people who just come into forums like that to just bash the game especially since the devs were clear about a refund policy I haven't seen anywhere else. The fact you can refund the game if you really don't like even if you passed the 10 hours or 2 weeks time limit is amazing and I'd rather do that than create a post here saying stuff like that lol.