Hi Klei and fellow Don't Starve Togethers!
In this topic I want to show you the Flaws of DST Balance.
A good game don't need to be balanced but imbalanced game really feels bad. Dear Klei, there is so much dumb things and I really wanted to show you an easy way how to fix them. Its basicaly in numbers. But when I tried to make full list of these things I needed 4 pages A4. All notes cannot be written there - sorry for that.
Begginers:
1. For begginers this game feels hard. I understand. Its because you dont know things. Klei is trying to fix this by making things you dont really know easyer. Like the Islands. This is not going to work.
2. The fun is in exploration. It would be nice to have some form of guide from terraria because othervise you can get information only from youtube videos and wikipedia.
Good Players:
1. This game is not about survival - Thats wrong
2. You can have as much food you can't even eat all - You can kill rabbit just with hand (Nothing more; Thats so imba). Foods from crockpot are so overpowered and you can create meatballs just with one monster meat and 3 ice!
3. You will figure out there is no goal. Only killing bosses - which is pretty much all about preparation.
4. You must cheese the game all the time (Ancient guardian; Crab king;). The game literaly wants you to cheese.
5. You have only one armor (Damage reduction is counted by the higher one). So you never need second armor. (you will have football hat or thulecite crown all the time). Why Klei? This is such a bad design (with DR instead of armor)
6. All enemies can be easily kitable. You just need to know how
7. Damage reduction is so imba (80%Football hat really?).
8. There is no reward in killing bosses - Scalemail from dragonfly have 70%DR but football hat 80%
9. Stun effects are sometimes ridiculous (crab king - permastun)
10. You dont need to extinguish fire. You just run out and the game stops the fire.
11. You acn heal by everything - butterflies gives 10 HP. Pierogi 40 HP and you need only egg and carrot and morsel. (or you can cook it with lichens)
12. Some characters are overall better than others - thats stupid. (Wickerbottom; WX; Wolfgang; Wortox are best)
13. You dont use most items - they are useless (boomerang; darts; rainometer; feather hat; napsack....)
14. And walls are completely useless (only for fire cheeses or Drygonfly)
15. Ancient Library gives you free 4 stacks of full thulecite
16. Lunar cave biome is broken
17. Moon Islands are completely useless. For now.
And I could show more and more broken things.
I don't want to say the game is trash but if you know exactly what to do then its so boring. You are just pressing F - auto attack key - and eat pierogi and thats all. Unfortunately.
Dear Klei, could you please balance the game once per month? Just by changing Health gained from food like pierogi or football hat Damage reduction? It would make better players make something and not just press F and tank the damage. Thank you
Be well.