Ended up buying SE, i'd say its worth a purchase in terms of being different enough to justify returning to the game, its nice having a completely new setting, i much prefer the island as its nicer on the eye, but a new location with different complications to overcome is really nice, and more importantly it doesnt feel like exactly the same game, which is how it was feeling after about 10hrs on the most popular community made maps - cos obviously thats all it changed.
It feels rather nicely balanced, too. Not had any issues with the new dinos, they all have their place and something like the golum is a PITA but easy to avoid or get away from - we did have an incident with 2 right next to where we built our base, and a wild Argent agro'd our high lvl one toward the golum as i was taming a spikey and ofc a sandstorm was happening so was basically crawling back and got there seconds too late, but nasty 'dino' is meant to do nasty things.
Unfortunately the server config is still set for instant gratification, within about 8hrs the others had gone and got Wyverns, i dont want 1x grind, but our old ~3x was nice IMO, but the others dont want the hassle of taking 1mo to get to a medium size stone house and basic electricity setup etc (although we havent needed power yet), but the problem IMO is we'll have nothing to do in a weeks time, and i can easily spend 3x more than them playing and doing the boring stuff, and would rather go at a slower pace... but its pointless playing with others and not participate in the stuff they're doing.
It feels rather nicely balanced, too. Not had any issues with the new dinos, they all have their place and something like the golum is a PITA but easy to avoid or get away from - we did have an incident with 2 right next to where we built our base, and a wild Argent agro'd our high lvl one toward the golum as i was taming a spikey and ofc a sandstorm was happening so was basically crawling back and got there seconds too late, but nasty 'dino' is meant to do nasty things.
Unfortunately the server config is still set for instant gratification, within about 8hrs the others had gone and got Wyverns, i dont want 1x grind, but our old ~3x was nice IMO, but the others dont want the hassle of taking 1mo to get to a medium size stone house and basic electricity setup etc (although we havent needed power yet), but the problem IMO is we'll have nothing to do in a weeks time, and i can easily spend 3x more than them playing and doing the boring stuff, and would rather go at a slower pace... but its pointless playing with others and not participate in the stuff they're doing.
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