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I've played a couple of times with a group & I think it starts off super well but I absolutely cannot stand the sailing. It's well executed looks nice and is slow, painfully boring after you've done it once and the wind/current is fidly enough that you can't just afk or split screen to help pass the time. Also the food mechanic, while initially very cool and well thought out, turns into a colossal pain in the ass. Used to log on and farm (because stuff grows in "real" time over a couple days to get enough food that the group could explore/adventure and we'd just burn through it all in a night. Felt like a part time job.

This is kind of where I'm at with that game. I get the Black Forest boss down just fine, but the swamp is usually where I give up. This time, I made sure to upgrade all my bronze-tier equipment to hell and back again, and it's less bad, aside from getting ganked by the occasional wraith. I've also made sure to keep a portal network going, and extra portal mats in my inventory more or less at all times so I can escape in a big damn hurry if I start getting overwhelmed. I'm also trying not to let myself get hyperfixated on taming and breeding two-star wolves before I even have iron gear. Now, finding onion seeds before I even have iron gear, on the other hand...