Dawn of the Hunt - What We’re Working On

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TaintedVisage#8240 wrote:

Do you even play your game?

Areas are still way too big. Have been since the beginning. Players don't wanna slog through a field for an hour. More content will not fix this problem, it will make it WORSE. Smaller, shorter, snappier experiences are needed. Right now every map is a drain and there's no "just one more" feeling. Instead it's "ugh do I really wanna do another one?"

Another problem is monster NUMBERS. Not health. Quantity. You want to slow down the game, make it like Souls. Tell me, when in a Souls game do you regularly fight entire packs of a dozen enemies at a time over and over? In a Souls game, 4 enemies at a time is overwhelming. You made Players slower, weaker, and worse, but you kept packs of full speed monsters sprinting you down. This is bad game design. Decide if you want packs of enemies getting slaughtered or if you want slow, methodical combat. You can't have both.

You also seem to have no idea what makes combat "methodical" in Souls games. It's not hacking away at the same enemy 30 times. Even strong enemies die in 3 or 4 hits in Souls games. The methodical nature comes from both you and the enemy being slow, having long recovery windows after missed attacks, and being equally easy to kill. Which of your enemies have slow animations with long recovery times that leave them vulnerable to one shot kills? None? You have failed to make methodical combat. You have made SLOW combat. There is no method, there is only wasting our time.

There are dozens of other complaints, but this post is already getting too long. You have failed with this update to fix any of a long list of issues with the game, and managed to make existing issues worse. I wish I could get a refund. I don't see myself coming back to this game without a complete overhaul of the entire combat system at this point.

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Large Area Sizes
Many players are reporting that areas feel like they are too large. Normally when this is the case, the main reason is due to other concerns such as monster life or player damage being incorrect, or just a lack of entertaining content in the area. However, we are checking to see if there are any outliers that players are spending too long in to see if any changes to area size need to happen.

In the meantime, we did notice that there are some areas that don't have sufficient checkpoints, so we are doing a pass of adding some more of these.

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Cihondar#3042 wrote:

This post doesn't cover the most important problem with the game which is:

=The Monster Speed=

My character moves in slow motion even though I have all skill speed nods. It takes my skills 4 seconds to land a hit. Monsters on the other hand, hit me 4 times in 1 second.

Slow gameplay doesn't only mean slow characters. You should also balance monster speed.

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Many players are reporting that areas feel like they are too large. Normally when this is the case, the main reason is due to other concerns such as monster life or player damage being incorrect, or just a lack of entertaining content in the area. However, we are checking to see if there are any outliers that players are spending too long in to see if any changes to area size need to happen.