I waited so long for this game. When it finally came out on console, I bought it. It was fun. I did one play through. But it was nothing like what I was hoping for. Grounded is still king.

@koengeerlings2147

Ай бұрын

This has in my opinion a more “realistic” touch to the overall design and feel of the two. Grounded is too cartoony and don’t get me started on the dialogue.. 😝. Grounded was the most fun when it was in beta. The op mint mace was to much fun!

@user-ph6ll1gm3u

Ай бұрын

@@koengeerlings2147 yeah I get that. That’s part of what I love about it too tho🤣🤘🏻

There were players asking for this I saw them in the forums, but it was a vocal minority. Unfortunately they listened to those squeaky wheels. What devs need to do more is make the games more customizable. Turn timed based crafting on and off with a toggle, etc. Which they said they are going to do but it should have been done from the start. They made the mistake that these vocal few players represented the majority so just assumed it would be loved, I guess. They also need to work on turning the fuel need on and off or up and down as well. I'll play it again after the June tames update as that's when 1.0 should have been and give it a fair try.

@AirBizkit

Ай бұрын

Yes!

Time-based crafting is a useless time gate. If I want that, I will play real life and watch grass grow. Fun.

@roughtakes7271

Ай бұрын

Time based stuff CAN be good if its really intuitive and makes sense and perhaps even be toggleable to suit all players. Whilst I love Valheim, the stone oven time thing does my swede in...and makes time based stuff the most unpleasant thing with the game especially as you are penalised if you leave what's cooking for too long....

@StiffAftermath

Ай бұрын

@@roughtakes7271 case in point. No one has done time-gating right for a reason: in a video game, it just wastes the player's resource of patience.

@raplexp

Ай бұрын

Just played after the update. The timed crafting needs tuning asap this is a nightmare. I dont mind timed crafting in the sense something higher leveled or crafted in bulk might take a few seconds - couple minutes depending on what it is but these times are totally rediculous. Like 5 mins each per pyrite tools and high level armour. Pretty sure nobody wants to wait the better part of an hour or need half dozen forges to kit themselves out with decent gear and all the fuel requirements OMG! The fule has made it horrendous to craft anything in bulk. Litterally not enough fuel to make more fuel in bulk. Its made the whole experience unnecessarily grindy and fidley. I was under the impression that time based cafting and fuel requirements were going to be akin to minecraft or arks crafting/fuel system.

@StiffAftermath

Ай бұрын

@@raplexp yeah too bad. Not sure what they were thinking there.

@StuckTrippin

28 күн бұрын

So turn it off, complaint solved

As a console player and following your video updates on smalland I couldn't wait to jump in, love survival games. I played for a good while but never went back. It has everything I love yet it didn't hit the mark for me

@AirBizkit

Ай бұрын

I was so excited for this. I spent months messing around with grounded but this one just didn't hook me the way I expected it to. 😢

I'll have to go back and look at my transaction receipt to be accurate about when I bought it but after day one I put it in my library and I've just been following it watching the updates watching your videos like this right here

Its supposed to be coming to Quest VR "this Spring" also

Oh, can totems overlap? Or be placed REALLY close so players can respawn closer together?

Not only is the time based crafting annoying, Soo is the amount of wood or charcoal or any other resources you need to use as fuel in order to craft. Example, you need about 100 wood to make 50 charcoal, but in order to make the charcoal, you need another 100 to 150 more wood to use as fuel to make 50 charcoal. That’s a lot of chopping and very time consuming.

@roughtakes7271

Ай бұрын

Its a LOT quicker than Valheim BUT my god your right with the consumables needed. 50 wood wouldn't even cook me 10 items. Thats horrendous!!

@BeniMaru484

Ай бұрын

@roughtakes7271 I agree, much faster than Valheim but it was enough of a grind to beat the game and get end game gear. But this new fuel and time crafting system just slows you down waaay too much. After I beat the game, I was logging onto others people game and helping with anything I can. Loot, boss fights or crafting. This has slowed me down to the point I don't even feel like playing anymore. We already have other games with timed crafting systems and that are waaay toooo much of a grind, nobody wanted this to be another one.

@roughtakes7271

Ай бұрын

@@BeniMaru484 Oh god I agree - I thought the time was a fixed 8 seconds per recipe but it's not - it's dependant on the amount - hell I finished like you doing final boss but this makes it unplayable

@BeniMaru484

Ай бұрын

@@roughtakes7271 I just pray they fix and add more level with the update, I was already at level 100 by day 4 of playing the game. I'm just working on maxing out my bird and other mounts.

@koengeerlings2147

Ай бұрын

Indeed annoying!! It was good the way it was. The crafting system is very good and simple but now it’s over complicated and time robbing. Get the time based crafting out and fix the glitch where I cannot buy money to get my op bird 🤪

How long will take them to fix the Trading options? I cant trade piryte for hoots, i cant get the scorpion tame treat, defore i cant get the gun... nice work developers.....

I bought and played it a little bit. its not too bad but i stopped when palworld came out. im too busy with grounded and lego fortnite nowadays. I wish lego would do the same with crafting from storage tho.

24th year of online games for me and every developer that added grind to extend content has gone bankrupt.

When the game went to 1.0 and they set out the 2024 roadmap it clearly showed this would be the April update so I’m not sure why everyone is now saying this is a strange weird update we have all known about it for 2 months

@JadePGCrafted

Ай бұрын

well it sout now? camt be critical of something till you know exactly what it entails, i fteh crafting timer didny us eup so much wood, or ha dteh custominse option people might not have been so negative? they just added it today which is great but yet another example of a game rushed

I saw someone else make this comment on a forum I think. What do you mean you now get to build off the treehouse? As far as I know that's been a thing for a while. At least since 1.0 at least.

@JadePGCrafted

Ай бұрын

You can akways build but the bases were not as safe from storms or other players, people could steal your stuff and the bases wouldn't transfer to other people's worlds when you visited

@zzycon6708

Ай бұрын

@JadePGCrafted @JadePGCrafted oh that's what you meant. Never had problems with the various ground bases we built with storms. Did you not check to see what you built was sheltered? And never had to deal with people stealing stuff. Just set world to private and invite only those you play with.

Not the same Devs as Grounded...

Bugs and weird feedback could have been prevented if they actualy playtested the updates but it feels like they did not playtested it. that was not a good move from them. it could have prefented a lot of bugs that console players are now stuck with for a longer time then pc. the roadmap was already there for a long time saying what the update brings. so it did not come from out of the blue, and people where asking for things that would slow down the game progression as you can fly trough the game content in no time. if you have beter idea's on how to make the game play feel longer and stil enjoyable, everyone is free to put a suggestion on the smalland discord. Note: they are adding world settings for the new crafting timer as suggested by players.

I don’t mind it 🤷🏽‍♂️

I like this game. I’m on PS5. Haven’t played in a while tho.

I was just about to buy this game, 30 quid, think I'll wait for sale 😓

Over 22 minutes to make Icarus armor. And I can't buy scorpion armor because priestess is glitched

@koengeerlings2147

Ай бұрын

Same goes for the merchants .. pyrite -> hoots

Good point. They need to remove it. Waste of other resources in my opinion, what I also don’t like is the fact that merchants don’t trade the pyrite .. also had it with the Scorpion npc, disappointed but I think it’s a bug. Unfortunate because the game feels very smooth and I enjoy the hell out of it but unnecessary updates like this ruins the experience for me. I loved the way that it was, quick so I could go out there again to gather some more.. make progress and let the flow of the game do the rest. Sometimes change isn’t always good. Would be great if the devs watched your videos + other people including the comments that go with it. “Devs it’s helpful trust me, at the end of the day it’s “us” the players that make you, the developers.”

imagine having to farm to reset attributions too, i reset mine just to hv legendary gears and reset it again.....guess what??? hope someone bring this matter

I like almost every aspect of this game better then grounded, however they need more content, a bigger map, more quests, and most importantly an open system where players can mod and add content. I would like to see this turn into a game where players bring their existing bases and characters into a multi player duel faction world that actually corresponds to the conflict.

@JadePGCrafted

Ай бұрын

DONT WANT MUCH NO?

I just paid £30 for this game. Disappointed is an understatement :(

I'm playing on PS5. I hate the new crafting system. As we say in French "pourquoi faire simple quand on peut faire compliqué" (why make things simple when you can make them complicated). I was thinking of improving my base but the time it takes to make materials has put me off. However, there's nothing for the fire (which I used to use to decorate my fireplaces) and my rooms, nothing for the horrible design of the 'new' tannery... And above all, nothing (apart from the shapes of the totems) for the decoration. A huge disappointment.

the time crafting is for pvp. This game wants to thrive and last very long. Only way to do that is with pvp

@JadePGCrafted

21 күн бұрын

loool no dude no

Grounded time based crafting takes WAY longer than this crafting...

@JadePGCrafted

27 күн бұрын

Not to opposed to it, but not when you have had a year in early access, that was the time to try it not months after full release. Also there is only time based crafting for oven stuff nothing else in grounded

Time based crafting is good . Gives me time to go do something else . I can micro manage and be more efficient. Yes I got time to spend in games unlike others so that does play a factor in it still what I said is honest time based crafting does benefit me when playing a game where I enjoy being in the world. Hard to find the middle line for people who don’t have time to spend in games compared to people that do . For now it comes down to how much you appreciate the game until a solution for both players is made .

@JadePGCrafted

10 күн бұрын

tiem based can work when yes you have other stuff to do but as you saw the game is very bare bones and just didnt grab me, they need to improve the demo massivly

@thehokage7642

10 күн бұрын

@@JadePGCrafted oh definitely I agree. My friend attacks time based crafting a lot and just thought to generally defend it. Just starting to play Smallands again and am rebuilding rn

Anyone having problems buying from the merchant, for some reasons I can’t trade my chess pieces 😅😫

@darknessprince6

Ай бұрын

Yeah game has been bugged since update. Can’t buy/sell/craft literally anything from NPCs since update which is pretty ridiculous. Someone on Reddit said the devs are supposedly aware of it and working on a fix but God knows how long that might take…

@michaelalonso8852

Ай бұрын

@@darknessprince6yeah it’s fuçked 😂 But apparently there is already a fix just need to be approved by Sony and Microsoft

I waited for this game and then they didn’t bring it out on PS4 really disappointed me.

I can’t unlock the gun but got everything else 🤷🏻‍♂️😑

kinda like Palworld. Tiny Dev team for a "Tiny" game... cant expect them to make more than what was expected...

@JadePGCrafted

Ай бұрын

Hmm maybe, but grounded is made by tiny team, valheim too, they rushed the 1.0 that's a fact

@yaboicrabmeat7356

Ай бұрын

@@JadePGCrafted You make a good point sir

I was pretty dissapointed 8n smalland when it came out on ps5. I feel like the first act was good, but then it just fell apart. Not even a good update would bring me back.

I personally love the update. I like the idea of timed based crafring for it enhances the immersion of survival in the game. I like the more survival/challenging aspect to these kind of games and the timed crafting and the need for fuel. I love the fuel aspect. It makes no sense that the fires in survival games do not require some sort of fuel to keep going. Plus while something is being crafted at a station, theres plenty more to take care of/do while you wait.

@JadePGCrafted

Ай бұрын

Time based crafting is all just to pad stuff out, it can be good when a game is interesting to grind resources, taje ark, you can use dinosaurs to get materials, smalland is extremely boring in getting resources with ta weapons being faster but not able to gather more and the creatures all but useless other then traversal

@roughtakes7271

Ай бұрын

As long as it doesn't "burn" as in Valheim lol. But the real issue is the amount of fuel needed. Thats even more a time drain to farm than the time taken to craft...

The time based crafting made me buy grounded 🤦🏽‍♂️

Other games have time based crafting, :30, 2:00, etc so what's the issue when this company does it too. Let me click this button and get the item instantly uhhh that's boring.

@JadePGCrafted

Ай бұрын

the issue is adding after 1.0 and teh fact ist padding out the game because the rest of it is kinda low on engaging content, all this stuff should have been in the game before you leave early access and launch on other platforms

@SwangoZone

Ай бұрын

@JadePGCrafted gotchaaa I was wondering. I saw they reversed the time based by adding a slider to pick the option of what you want. That was pretty cool

@SwangoZone

Ай бұрын

@@JadePGCrafted 6 more hours till smalland vr!!!!

It’s making people unhappy, because people are whiny little crybabies, and they like to complain about every little thing. Oh no, I have to wait a minute or two for something to craft.. oh no, I have to use fuel now.. so that means I have to farm for resources more.. in a game that is LITERALLY a SURVIVAL/CRAFTING game. Fuel is piss easy to make. And crafting times don’t take nearly as long as people make it out to be. Go gather more resources while you’re waiting for things to craft. Go kill some more enemies to max out that armor/weapon upgrade. Build up your base more. Plenty of things to do. If it’s an issue to do so, you should probably be playing a different genre of game. I didn’t hear anyone complaining about grounded’s timed crafting.. go figure. People are just soft. And they’re always gonna complain. I just hope the devs don’t give up on the game and any future updates because of the pathetic fan base this game has.

@JadePGCrafted

Ай бұрын

Grounded only has time based crafting for food and smelting. They also had that from day one, it your going to xhsnfe a system you do it before your gane supposedly releases in 1.0, and no nor every survival game has timed crafting, and yes when they do its to pad the experience because there's not a lot in the actual game to do, in this case very true, smalland grind for resources is not engaging, no cool ways to use creatures like ark, not even any cool tools that get you more. Not sure why you white knitting so much, it's common sence if you change something after release it won't please everyone. They've added the settings now just console has to wait for cert

@brandonallison2508

Ай бұрын

@@JadePGCrafted white knitting? What is white knitting? Grounded had time based crating on food, smelting, AND brick base building. Mushroom bricks had to be put in the oven, and that was TIMED. Food was TIMED. Smelting, which was how you upgraded your weapons and armor, not to mention was a MAJOR part of progressing through the game, was TIMED. Making jerky? Timed. Doing some gardening? I know planting muscle sprouts was something any serious grounded player did. Also timed. Plenty of things in grounded were timed. And yet Smalland gets all the hate because at first, it wasn’t. And now it is. So they took away the instant easy mode, and now you have a wait a few minutes. And it’s not engaging to wait a few minutes? Building onto your base, farming, killing things to upgrade your armor, the list goes on. You don’t even have time to do any of that before the timed crafting is done anyway, because it’s relatively quick. You’re gonna sit there and tell me that none of that is engaging? If that’s the case, then just play a different game. Because Smalland obviously isn’t for you. Grinding for resources and crafting is a MAJOR part of the game. If neither are “engaging” to you, just play a different game. Simple as that.

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Mediocre lol