Something i have noticed in relation to being unfortunate enough to have to be outside the safety of your claimed walls is this.
travelling around is dangerous granted, and we all take whatever precautions we feel we need to ensure we can run from titanic barbarians.
such as riding what one would consider a decently levelled horse. or having teleport to hearth on hotkey.
In the situation where you stumble upon one of these said barbarians in the wilds whilst on horseback, and they happen to be slightly more sweaty for the hotkeys than yourself, what can possibly be done about it when they decide to not only attack you but to rear your horse from underneath you and proceed to try and kill you on the spot, without so much as a second inbetween thoughts to react.
im unsure whether it is my lack of having a fast pc or whether it is simply because i have not yet gained enough experience to know how to run away from such things but surely there should be some way of stopping your horse from kicking you off when faced with almost certain death.
some of these guys knocking around have the ability to do in excess of 1.2k damage to me in 2 shots.
i dont understand how one can possibly compete against such titanic stats.
especially since hiding is not an option, and since running is clearly not an option.
Am i supposed to try to get higher quality resources by imagining them into existence or am i supposed to just die trying.
thing is. it all happened so quickly, one moment im travelling along looking for things to pick up and enjoying the countryside
the next thing i know, im under attack from a guy with a giant axe and my horse wont move.
the best thing i could advise is some sort of counter to the horse rearing mechanic. quell the beast didn't work, which by the description of it makes no sense at all. and attempting to run from the guy didn't work as he did so much damage in his attack.
staying in my village forever is not what i consider to be a fun way to spend my time on this game, its grindy enough without having to be confined to the inside of a village for fear of being killed if i do so much as step foot outside.
so in a nutshell guys.
what can someone who doesn't have bots, mods, and sweaty fingers actually do in this game anymore?
without a competing stat base to actually remove openings from these guys there is simply nothing i can do to prevent them from ending me on sight.
i know the death thing has been introduced. for which i am eternally grateful, i didn't die, which is a blessing in and of itself.
but once again i am brought back to the fact that without competing stats i will be downed on sight if i don't have the reaction speed to run the hell away.
this is not fun at all. and instead of making meeting others in game a fun and interesting experience. it makes my heart pound, my adrenaline pump, and my time spent collecting worthless..
this cannot continue if we ever hope to have a large playerbase.
open floor.