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I Can't Stop Playing Valheim | MMORPG.com

So Bradford might be a tad addicted to Valheim, the new Viking Survival game that is taking Steam by storm right now. Bradford recounts his weekend in the 10th World and how its progressed.

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slowz2secret

so, this is a single player game right? i mean, if i want to play it alone, i can do it without annoying people stealing everything?

TwistedSister77

Sounds cool.

Does the difficulty increase with # of players? 

 Does established settlements really ever face serious danger once you clear an area?

ShankTheTank

slowz2secret said:

so, this is a single player game right? i mean, if i want to play it alone, i can do it without annoying people stealing everything?

You can play solo, but it’s meant for small groups. We usually play with 4-5 on at any given time. It shines with co-op. Also, there is PvP, but you have to opt-in. You’re not playing on massive servers like Rust. You’re playing on small private servers with up to 9 other friends. It is way more PvE than PvP

lotrlore

TwistedSister77 said:

Sounds cool.

Does the difficulty increase with # of players? 

 Does established settlements really ever face serious danger once you clear an area?

As far as difficulty creeping with other players, I'm not 100% sure.

There are infrequent attacks on settlements - sometimes on other islands - and we've had to defend out main settlement quite a few times from Trolls, Draugr and other enemies that come at us with little to no warning. It isn't just your main plot of land either - Vinland and our Tawdry Beach settlements have all been attacked multiple times by creatures. It's rather fun trying to snuff them out. Hence the fighting platforms circling the walls in the screenshot above - easy to rain arrows down on Greydwarves and Skeletons from there.

lotrlore

slowz2secret said:

so, this is a single player game right? i mean, if i want to play it alone, i can do it without annoying people stealing everything?

You can! Also, if you do play on a server, you can built Warding totems to essentially lock down your stuff from other players. We're all on a server together playing so it's mostly communal, but I do like there are some ways to protect your gear.

Also, flagging for PVP is as easy as a toggle in your inventory menu, so you don't have to worry about being killed by another player if you are flagged for PVE only.

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Wellspring

Game is certainly getting a lot of hype.

Can someone elaborate on how the servers work? Is it all Peer to Peer or is there dedicated server hosting? Can I play locally and never have people join my private server?

Kyleran

Torval said:

Good story Bradford. It sucked up my weekend as well. We're not as far along as you are but I'm enjoying the experience immensely.

We huh,?  I knew there was.a reason you weren't seen much in Appalachia this weekend.

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xDjevik

TwistedSister77 said:

Sounds cool.

Does the difficulty increase with # of players? 

 Does established settlements really ever face serious danger once you clear an area?

The scaling works as like this from our experience.. The more people around you the more hp and mobs hit.. The game is built around a Heat map... so if you have 10 people all building in the same place your base will get hit more often.. If you go solo to a boss it will be 100% easier than taking 5-10.. Scaling with the number of players in the map doesnt seem to scale the world difficulty up but when you are close to others than it gets harder.

xDjevik

blueturtle13 said:

Wellspring said:

Game is certainly getting a lot of hype.

Can someone elaborate on how the servers work? Is it all Peer to Peer or is there dedicated server hosting? Can I play locally and never have people join my private server?

You can just play the game solo with no one ever joining your server
Or you can play on your server and allow others to join you
Or you can join a community server
Or you can rent a private server (on a site like G-Portal) that runs 24/7 so everyone can play whenever they want like we do


  

What blueturtle mention.. You can also see some hidden information.. Pressing f2 will allow you to see your fps and data you are sending and receiving.. Along with steamid's so if you are hosting a server and you do get a bad egg and you set up admins you can kick/ban/whitelist your server.

On top of that you have f5 which is like a console... you can type help in there and see a couple options but you cant use most unless you are admin.. but you can ping the server to check your ping..

Scot

Yeah, I am not sure this was quite what Tolkien had in mind for Amon Sul, but your keenness makes up for that.

Slapshot1188

Absolutely having a blast. Found my first buried treasure last night totally by accident...

I'm going to cry when we finish the available content but its easily been the best $20 I have spent in a long time.

TwistedSister77

I haven't seen so many positive post by forums members before... not any negatives... aside from some wtf face person.  

Scorchien

The AI is really dragging this game down for me .. Every Mob bosses included are really fuggin stupid .. Even the deer are stupid .. Starting to bore me with how little challenge there is at all to any combat

Signex

slowz2secret said:

so, this is a single player game right? i mean, if i want to play it alone, i can do it without annoying people stealing everything?

Wouldn't recommend it for solo play, i refunded it as it got boring very fast playing alone.

Asheram

TwistedSister77 said:

Sounds cool.

Does the difficulty increase with # of players? 

 Does established settlements really ever face serious danger once you clear an area?

Yes, more players in an area the more mobs and the harder they are. There are mini invasions on your settlements too.

It is also fun watching different mobs fight each other, as an example I was sneaking up to a fuling camp when out of the blue 3 lox's ran in and started fighting the fulings. One lox lived, poor little green goblins all dead. Me easy loot pick up.

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slowz2secret said:

so, this is a single player game right? i mean, if i want to play it alone, i can do it without annoying people stealing everything?

Wouldn't recommend it for solo play, i refunded it as it got boring very fast playing alone.

I have only played the game as single player since I got into its beta last august. It all depends on the person I think. I really enjoyed it and for me it was well worth the $20, I fully expected the price to be more.

Elvoc

I started playing this solo and got about 30 hours in, so if you like to build, craft and just explore alone this game has all it solo, when you group with friends there is much more to do but either way the game is definitely worth the money..

Wizardry

I feel Valheim has been grossly over rated,a very sub par game with ugly rectangle huts repeated everywhere.

All that aside,the thing that would really make my day is if thousands of Valheim players went into Atlas Discord and spammed photos of Valheim gameplay.
I would love to see their reaction and attempts to slow it down lol.

Slapshot1188

Wizardry said:

I feel Valheim has been grossly over rated,a very sub par game with ugly rectangle huts repeated everywhere.

All that aside,the thing that would really make my day is if thousands of Valheim players went into Atlas Discord and spammed photos of Valheim gameplay.
I would love to see their reaction and attempts to slow it down lol.

Why would anyone playing one game (Valheim) want to go into a Discord for another game (Atlas) and do anything at all?  Let alone "spam" it with photos.

Your posts make less and less sense each day.

kjempff

Tedious, unforgiving and frustrating ... And freaking awesome game.
You need to slow down and get into the flow; if you try to power play this game you are not going to enjoy it.
Also nice to see an early access game at this high quality.

TwistedSister77

Slapshot1188 said:

Wizardry said:

I feel Valheim has been grossly over rated,a very sub par game with ugly rectangle huts repeated everywhere.

All that aside,the thing that would really make my day is if thousands of Valheim players went into Atlas Discord and spammed photos of Valheim gameplay.
I would love to see their reaction and attempts to slow it down lol.

Why would anyone playing one game (Valheim) want to go into a Discord for another game (Atlas) and do anything at all?  Let alone "spam" it with photos.

Your posts make less and less sense each day.

My memory of posts my be deceiving me, but I thought Wizardy wasn't even happy at (recent  - past year) Atlas direction?

GreenSage39

I tried Rust, Tree of Life, and Conan Exiles. I had loads and loads of fun for a month on each. Then the fun for whatever reason literally fell to 0% on each game after about a month and a half or so. Just became no fun.

enesisxlr8

10/10 best game this year by far.. just want to play more