Terraria salt
Reading into the Terraria 1.4 changes (and I don't mean the patch notes, I mean the actual changes)... wow the dev is kind of petulant???
A hidden and significant modifier to your rare item drop rate if you don't use the correct color torch to light your area when exploring biomes? And it was completely undisclosed in the patch notes??
Every method of progression outside of the dev-intended path has been made significantly harder or impossible. Alternate gameplay approaches (like bootstrapping with fishing) have been completely invalidated on purpose.
Speedrunners got sniped, hard. Yeah okay that happens.
If you don't enjoy building and just throw up a bunch of rooms for NPCs, you now get punished by being locked out of an entire method of fast travel and prices in shops inflated by up to 200%, for the crime of not carefully building a house for every NPC to their specifications.
Initially I thought these penalties were small and didn't think much of it, but they can seriously make the difference between 50% and 200% prices and drop rates. And half of them weren't even disclosed.
What???
A hidden and significant modifier to your rare item drop rate if you don't use the correct color torch to light your area when exploring biomes? And it was completely undisclosed in the patch notes??
Every method of progression outside of the dev-intended path has been made significantly harder or impossible. Alternate gameplay approaches (like bootstrapping with fishing) have been completely invalidated on purpose.
Speedrunners got sniped, hard. Yeah okay that happens.
If you don't enjoy building and just throw up a bunch of rooms for NPCs, you now get punished by being locked out of an entire method of fast travel and prices in shops inflated by up to 200%, for the crime of not carefully building a house for every NPC to their specifications.
Initially I thought these penalties were small and didn't think much of it, but they can seriously make the difference between 50% and 200% prices and drop rates. And half of them weren't even disclosed.
What???
Terraria salt
Worse yet, they've completely gutted the idea of just picking up the game and playing. It has hard before, but you could discover recipes and such by just throwing a bunch of junk in your inventory and seeing what comes up in the crafting menu.
With this, you now HAVE to crack open the wiki and understand the secret and undisclosed mechanics altering drop rate, crit chance, and shop prices or you'll be at a marked disadvantage and entirely miss systems not disclosed to you in any other way that are gated behind "Playing the game the way the devs intended"
And the devs went on record saying at least the secret luck rules are because they want to penalize players for not playing the way they intended.
This is.... gross.
With this, you now HAVE to crack open the wiki and understand the secret and undisclosed mechanics altering drop rate, crit chance, and shop prices or you'll be at a marked disadvantage and entirely miss systems not disclosed to you in any other way that are gated behind "Playing the game the way the devs intended"
And the devs went on record saying at least the secret luck rules are because they want to penalize players for not playing the way they intended.
This is.... gross.
