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System · February 2021

Viking-Themed Survival Game Valheim Makes Its Way To Early Access | MMORPG.com

Viking-themed survival game Valheim has made its way to Early Access this week, bringing a bit of Norse flavor to the genre.

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Asheram · February 2021

It is an awesome game imho, think of it being more like viking themed minecraft rather than survival games like atlas or rust.

Slapshot1188 · February 2021

Playing this since Tues with a dedicated server. Having a ton of fun so far. I have fears that since it's early access we will run out of content quickly, but so far its a blast. Nothing quite like chopping a tree and then having that fall into 3 others which fall over and roll down the hillside, kill 2 of your friends and take out half your house.

Tokken · February 2021

I played during closed beta and found that there wasn't enough for me to do. I built a house and got harassed by trolls. I didn't see much else to the game. Hopefully it's a better game now that it is in early access.

Asheram · February 2021

Rhoklaw said:

Seems quite a few people have been getting trojan warnings while playing the game, both singleplayer and multiplayer. While I didn't have any issues when it first launched on STEAM, I remember all too well of what game publishers like My.com are capable of. If it was one or two people making this claim, we could chalk it up as a possible false positive, but it seems its more like a dozen or more people complaining the past couple days.

I played this game since last august never had such alerts, with either norton, or the bit defender I use now.
This company isnt out to "scam" you the beta was invite only and the pick was random.
I signed up for the beta when it was first announced on mmorpg.com and then totally forgot I even had when I finally got a key.

The publisher is https://www.coffeestainstudios.com/
they publish deeprock galactic and goat simulator and others

kitarad · February 2021

Tokken said:

I played during closed beta and found that there wasn't enough for me to do. I built a house and got harassed by trolls. I didn't see much else to the game. Hopefully it's a better game now that it is in early access.

Player trolls or monster trolls?

Sovrath · February 2021

Tokken said:

I played during closed beta and found that there wasn't enough for me to do. I built a house and got harassed by trolls. I didn't see much else to the game. Hopefully it's a better game now that it is in early access.

Harassed by trolls? You lucky Bastard! You lucky, lucky bastard!

Tokken · February 2021

kitarad said:

Tokken said:

I played during closed beta and found that there wasn't enough for me to do. I built a house and got harassed by trolls. I didn't see much else to the game. Hopefully it's a better game now that it is in early access.

Player trolls or monster trolls?

monster trolls

Asheram · February 2021

this is from 2018, they love their game these devs

Sovrath · February 2021

Asheram said:

this is from 2018, they love their game these devs

And this is why I say players ruin immersion.

Asheram · February 2021

This from alpha, stuff isnt the same now.

alancode · February 2021

Eh, graphics look like shit. I'll play honestly any other game. It's 2021. Can't do it anymore.

k61977 · February 2021

I love the concept of the game. You gain skill by actually doing the activities. The best way to have a survival game. In the end though I refunded the game.

Construction is still very rough and that was the part I look forward to in these games. Grass coming through the floor board for instance is a pet peeve of mine. You have to have the mouse in just the right angle to get stuff to snap together. Doing anything taller than two blocks becomes a pain. The menus for crafting are easy to navigate though on the plus side of things.

Maybe in a year or two they will work it out more. I will give it another look down the road. As or now though if you are into crafting buildings I wouldn't suggest it.

clmnt_gh · February 2021

i love the viking concept, it is fresh

Slapshot1188 · February 2021

alancode said:

Eh, graphics look like shit. I'll play honestly any other game. It's 2021. Can't do it anymore.

Some of the visuals are absolutely stunning...

Slapshot1188 · February 2021

k61977 said:

I love the concept of the game. You gain skill by actually doing the activities. The best way to have a survival game. In the end though I refunded the game.

Construction is still very rough and that was the part I look forward to in these games. Grass coming through the floor board for instance is a pet peeve of mine. You have to have the mouse in just the right angle to get stuff to snap together. Doing anything taller than two blocks becomes a pain. The menus for crafting are easy to navigate though on the plus side of things.

Maybe in a year or two they will work it out more. I will give it another look down the road. As or now though if you are into crafting buildings I wouldn't suggest it.

Did you use the tools to remove the grass and level the ground?
We have found the building mechanics to be really fun. I think a lot of things could be more intuitive but so far we have spent hours and hours building bases as we progress. Each one gets better. Our biggest problem is that we keep finding new stuff to build as we discover ingredients and recipes and we didn’t dedicate space for them.

Theocritus · February 2021

Slapshot1188 said:

Playing this since Tues with a dedicated server. Having a ton of fun so far. I have fears that since it's early access we will run out of content quickly, but so far its a blast. Nothing quite like chopping a tree and then having that fall into 3 others which fall over and roll down the hillside, kill 2 of your friends and take out half your house.

I watched a video on this the other day....The player was chopping wood that was already on the ground and he still got killed.......lol

Slapshot1188 · February 2021

Theocritus said:

Slapshot1188 said:

Playing this since Tues with a dedicated server. Having a ton of fun so far. I have fears that since it's early access we will run out of content quickly, but so far its a blast. Nothing quite like chopping a tree and then having that fall into 3 others which fall over and roll down the hillside, kill 2 of your friends and take out half your house.

I watched a video on this the other day....The player was chopping wood that was already on the ground and he still got killed.......lol

The physics in the game can be really fun. The other day I was trying to figure out how to get my raft back in the water. I had beached it so it wouldn't float away. I sat in it for 5 minutes trying to use the oar to move it back and forwards, turning left right. It would budge but not really make progress. Finally I got an idea. I hopped off the ship and pushed and lo and behold... the raft slipped easily back into the water and I hopped back on and unfurled the sail.

Another fun one was fighting a troll the first time. I jumped through a tight gap between 2 trees figuring the pathfinding would give me a second to rest. Nope. The troll swung his massive club and shattered both trees which crashed down and killed me. I was laughing so hard I didn't mind the corpse run.

Spiider · February 2021

20$ of fun. Waaaay better than rust or ark spasmic griefing craps.

Hatefull · February 2021

remsleep said:

At least this was developed by a Scandinavian studio so the Viking theme is fitting - unlike some other cough korean Viking game that is a damn joke - magic casters in high heels with stereotypical high pitched anime voices....ugh

If you are going to do a Viking game - don't use anime themes - it simply doesn't fit well

As far as me playing this there are 2 words that are a big no - early access.

Yeah no thanks - finish the game, launch it and then I'll take a look

You're not wrong early access is always a gamble however, I would recommend you do take a look when it releases it seems to be a well thought out fun game.

Tokken · February 2021

I'm not big on the character graphics. Sunsets are nice though.

Asheram · February 2021

k61977 said:

I love the concept of the game. You gain skill by actually doing the activities. The best way to have a survival game. In the end though I refunded the game.

Construction is still very rough and that was the part I look forward to in these games. Grass coming through the floor board for instance is a pet peeve of mine. You have to have the mouse in just the right angle to get stuff to snap together. Doing anything taller than two blocks becomes a pain. The menus for crafting are easy to navigate though on the plus side of things.

Maybe in a year or two they will work it out more. I will give it another look down the road. As or now though if you are into crafting buildings I wouldn't suggest it.

Here is an idea of what you can build in game

Image: https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/441573352197324801/806270589299458129/castle_2_11.png?width=1126&height=634

Celcius · February 2021

alancode said:

Eh, graphics look like shit. I'll play honestly any other game. It's 2021. Can't do it anymore.

Enjoy playing like 2 games a year while the rest of us enjoy the dozens of games that sometimes look like a snes game.

Ungood · February 2021

Looks cool.. might check it out.

ElonMusk · February 2021

Tried, turned up the graphics to max and couldn't get past the memories of playing Nintendo 64 again. Graphics look decent in every review but when you start the game, this is what you see https://i.imgur.com/aAwSINE.png

Do graphics make games good? No, but these are horrific.

Plus it's NO DIFFERENT than every other game. Pick up stone, wack a tree, build tools. Wack a stone, wack a tree get 5 more than you did by hand.

I wasn't expecting much from Russians. But damn, I kinda wanna get out my N64 and play some Turok now.

Asheram · February 2021

ElonMusk said:

Tried, turned up the graphics to max and couldn't get past the memories of playing Nintendo 64 again. Graphics look decent in every review but when you start the game, this is what you see https://i.imgur.com/aAwSINE.png

Do graphics make games good? No, but these are horrific.

Plus it's NO DIFFERENT than every other game. Pick up stone, wack a tree, build tools. Wack a stone, wack a tree get 5 more than you did by hand.

I wasn't expecting much from Russians. But damn, I kinda wanna get out my N64 and play some Turok now.

Its made by Swedes not russians. Kids these days.

But keep putting down small indie studios because we all know the cod clones is the real fun.

I really dont know what people expect from $20 anymore, its a missed movie and popcorn, or a missed meal and some expect the moon.

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