That is an absolutely insane changelog that includes nearly everything I wanted changed or fixed in the game, to the point that I’m actually kind of upset how many desperately needed quality-of-life fixes they held back for 1.0.
Palworld v1.0 - Official Release Changelog
Submitted 7 hours ago by simple@piefed.social to games@lemmy.world
https://steamcommunity.com/games/1623730/announcements/detail/686383649529010624
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Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 7 hours ago
Zahille7@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Search definitely should have been there once it was good to go, but I didn’t mind the new sorting options from the last time I played about 6 months ago. Like favoriting pals with different tiers, sorting by type/favorites.
I’m excited for the 47 new pals, and the sky islands.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 6 hours ago
Yeah, boxes weren’t too bad with the filters (at least until late game when you had several hundred Pals), but the Palpedia was nearly unusable without search. You had to manually go down the entire list to know if you’d seen or caught a Pal before or wanted to check where it spawns.
THE_GR8_MIKE@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
This is one of the biggest changelogs I’ve ever seen. They added two new ingot types and two new spheres along with tons of other stuff. It seems like every aspect of the game was touched in some way. Played last night and it feels good.
mrfriki@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
So I’ve been intrigued about this game for a while. For someone who never has played any Pokemon or Monster hunter type of game what has always been curious about them, would you say that Pallworld would be a good entry point of would you recommend to play any ot those other games before?
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I wouldn’t call palworld similar to Pokemon or monster hunter in gameplay. It’s most similar to Ark Survival Evolved or other survival sandboxes
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
You hit the nail in the head. I’d describe Palworld as a shameless clone of ARK with Pokemon mechanics bolted on top, and a focus on automating your base vs ARK’s attitude of “do everything yourself”.
But the main thing Palworld gets right is copying all the good things about ARK that had people play it for thousands of hours, while reducing or eliminating all the bad things people hated about ARK (while still playing it for thousands of hours).
Mostly it improves the formula by reducing busywork and how long things take - in ARK, basic tasks could take hours and require the player’s constant attention that whole time, whereas in Palworld almost nothing takes more than a few minutes. Hatching eggs is the main exception, and that’s entirely passive outside of putting it in its preferred climate and coming back to hatch it later.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
Yeah people saying its similar to Pokemon probably never played it. Its nothing alike Pokemon. Only the art style looks similar to Pokemon. And that’s about it.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
I wouldn’t compare Palworld to Monster Hunter, but comparisons to Pokemon are fair for pretty obvious reasons, even if it’s by no means the same gameplay loop verbatim.
mrfriki@lemmy.world 5 hours ago
Thanks for the answer! I never got into survival genre precisely because of what you say that in kind of looks like a job and I certainly more on the casual side of gaming, love sinking hours in the games i love but don’t want to do research or have a side job. In order to enjoy them.
Kolanaki@pawb.social 5 hours ago
Palworld is more like Rust or Conan Exiles than Pokemon or Monster Hunter.
mrfriki@lemmy.world 1 hour ago
I see, thank you!! Is the combat and general gameplay genuinely good or just get the job done?
tacosanonymous@mander.xyz 5 hours ago
Someone already answered you about this not being an entry point to Pokémon like games. I wholeheartedly agree that this is survival crafting.
What kind of game are you looking for? There are a thousand creature collector games with various target audiences. Various ages, tones, narratives, and play styles are available.
danciestlobster@lemmy.zip 2 hours ago
So hyped for this. Started my dedicated server this morning. If anyone else needs some friends to play with let me know!
LemmyEntertainYou@piefed.social 5 hours ago
It would take an entire redesign to entice me back in. Refunded it after about an hour because it’s just another boring survival crafting game.
Quetzalcutlass@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
Reading the changelog, you may have gotten what you asked for.
Nelots@piefed.zip 2 hours ago
Yeah, if you don’t like the open world survival crafting genre then you’re probably not going to like the open world survival crafting game Palworld. What’s the point of your comment exactly? You know they’re not going to jump ship to a completely different genre right at full release.
Zahille7@lemmy.world 2 hours ago
When did you last play? It’s basically Ark with Pokemon, just slightly jankier.
thingsiplay@lemmy.ml 4 hours ago
And its only 29 Euros as base price. They don’t increase the price for v1.0 release. Man Indie games are the savior of the videogame industry. If this was a game by Nintendo or any other big company, it would be 70 Euros at its cheapest. And they wouldn’t have told you it being in Early Access when it first launched.
ampersandrew@lemmy.world 4 hours ago
I hope they’re good stewards of the success they’ve found rather than being the lottery winner that goes bankrupt.
BreakerSwitch@lemmy.world 3 hours ago
They have been so far, both in terms of fan goodwill and generally good business practices. Haven’t exploded their budget on a hiring spree as if the success will keep paying out forever, have supported the game well and taken in player criticism, especially for this 1.0 release, fought Nintendo’s patent troll strategy in court (and it looks like it’ll pay off), and expanded into a spinoff while continuing to work on the original. Haven’t seen any greed on display, either