Enshrouded

unwashed potato! said:
Have you played subnautica? That is the only game I can think of that goes base building bang on. As you advance you add to your existing Base, and it all matched. You didn't go from tacky thatch roof Base to cool stone base, but instead went from just windowless sleek structures, to adding on the side a walk way, and then adding an observatory, or a research room etc etc. It meant you never felt your old base was not redundant, and because of the way the game was designed, iteant you could feel to build mini bases or outposts near certain areas, but still that your main base was needed. Plus the end game was brilliant. An open world game that sends your off the world to clearly say "you are done!"

I love the idea of these games, valheim was fun for what it was and I'm sure enshrouded is also fun, but they just are missing having any point of base building other than for "that looks cool" and when you remove base building, the game is incredibly quick in comparison and rather empty. Being raided every x days would be nice, but even then just you standing in a base vs an army feels stupid. I think what these fames need is something like what medieval dynasty did, where you recruit and have workers in your Base out collecting materials, food etc. And then as you reach new areas and learn new buildings, you can add this to your existing base rather than essentially need to start all over again.
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I agree with this in regard of Subnautica, its one of the few games where the base building had purpose and it wasnt just a case of ooh look I built a base but now I've moved on further into the map and that base that I stuck my time into is pointless now. One of the criticisms I had of Breathedge (which is basically Subnautica in space) was that partway through the game you get to build this base and then after that point you never return to the base again and all the time you spent building it was purposeless
 
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I really need to play Enshrouded. Was one I bought but thought I’d hold off a bit on. Have time off for Chinese new year so might be the best time for it.
 
If you want to add DLSS 4 to Enshrouded then use the DLSS Swapper utility linked below. Install, open and Enshrouded should be in the found game list. Click on Enshrouded and in the DLSS drop down selection there should be v3.10.1 which is DLSS V4 though the DLL is not obvious. Just the basic upscaling features that were present before but with transformer based DLSS 4.

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Emlyn_Dewar said:
I really need to play Enshrouded. Was one I bought but thought I’d hold off a bit on. Have time off for Chinese new year so might be the best time for it.
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There's a lot of content now and should easily provide 100 hours or more of gameplay if you swap between building and questing.
 
I havent played since a few weeks after launch , i thought i would let it cook for a while as they say and now it has definitely cooked.
Utterly brilliant game , massive world and amount of content.
Im really not into building and crafting but you can get away without it to be fair.
 
bimbleuk said:
If you want to add DLSS 4 to Enshrouded then use the DLSS Swapper utility linked below. Install, open and Enshrouded should be in the found game list. Click on Enshrouded and in the DLSS drop down selection there should be v3.10.1 which is DLSS V4 though the DLL is not obvious. Just the basic upscaling features that were present before but with transformer based DLSS 4.

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GitHub - beeradmoore/dlss-swapper

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Thanks for this, it gave me 20fps increase while making the game look crisper.
 
Cully said:
Im really not into building and crafting but you can get away without it to be fair.
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You can build enough to house your resources and build benches and that's it. I'm not into pets but do find some farming necessary to get resources more easily later.

The helpers were annoying when set to wander as they kept getting stuck and then disappear until your use the wand again. Tried to tame a goat and it was impossible but recent updates seems to be addressing that.
 
Cully said:
Thanks for this, it gave me 20fps increase while making the game look crisper.
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Yes I was comparing some side by screen captures but I think it's stability in motion that benefits more. If you swap between DLSS versions with no changes then there is a ~5% hit on FPS.
 
This game is just incredible now, its literally an adventure game to end all adventure games.
Yes its a survival-crafting-building game too but its the open world questing and exploration that does it for me.
Not that the survival crafting and building are not excellent ,infact id argue it still has the very best building in any game.
The new update is excellent too.

 
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What makes it so good? I really really enjoy survival crafting games, but I always get the feeling some where along the way that it's all for nothing. And this is due to a lack of story/missions to complete.

For me the best survival crafting game ever was subnautica, due to the fact that the survival part almost felt like a secondary part of the game, though entirely required to progress, and needing certain rooms, larger storage, bigger bases closer to certain locations, adding in submarine building sections etc.

Base building had purpose, and the game had an ending.

I wish subnautica 2 would come out soon because nothing to me has come close to that.

The look of this game looks good, but what is the point? Why make a nice base? I hated that in games like velheim, you start making a nice wooden base, then due to gaining xp, you can now start a new base and make stone, and due to doing this you gain xp, and can now make mettle bases, and due to doing this and gaining xp etc etc.

In the end making a nice base was pointless because you're locked out of the nicest base. So you may as well make the most basic base until you're at end game to make the nicest, but then you're at end game. And there's no story. Just kill bosses when you can.
 
Cully said:
This game is just incredible now, its literally an adventure game to end all adventure games.
Yes its a survival-crafting-building game too but its the open world questing and exploration that does it for me.
Not that the survival crafting and building are not excellent ,infact id argue it still has the very best building in any game.
The new update is excellent too.

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It's my daily driver
 
unwashed potato! said:
What makes it so good? I really really enjoy survival crafting games, but I always get the feeling some where along the way that it's all for nothing. And this is due to a lack of story/missions to complete.

For me the best survival crafting game ever was subnautica, due to the fact that the survival part almost felt like a secondary part of the game, though entirely required to progress, and needing certain rooms, larger storage, bigger bases closer to certain locations, adding in submarine building sections etc.

Base building had purpose, and the game had an ending.

I wish subnautica 2 would come out soon because nothing to me has come close to that.

The look of this game looks good, but what is the point? Why make a nice base? I hated that in games like velheim, you start making a nice wooden base, then due to gaining xp, you can now start a new base and make stone, and due to doing this you gain xp, and can now make mettle bases, and due to doing this and gaining xp etc etc.

In the end making a nice base was pointless because you're locked out of the nicest base. So you may as well make the most basic base until you're at end game to make the nicest, but then you're at end game. And there's no story. Just kill bosses when you can.
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Enshrouded is so much more than just building, it has tonnes of quests that is a core part of your progression and upgrades.
As amazing as the building is its not essential. just do the basics if you wish and have a roof over your NPC`s heads basically and they will offer you many many quests to further progress.
 
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