Thoughts about the latest balance update

Last night I came home from work and was pretty bummed about all the negativity on the forums that I was reading all day.
I expected that it would be impossible to play or at least very hard or not fun.

Boy was I wrong! It was amazing in my opinion, it really feels like your surviving at the start, dodging birds and ground monsters, being really careful what and when to engage and steadily improving your character until you can handle yourself in the world.

I decided to build my base in the ship for now to be able to do crafting etc. safely. I beamed back and forth and I slowly progressed to a Copper pick and some Copper gear. all the while gathering coal wherever I saw it.

After that I decided to find myself the next planet and I was lucky enough to have a few in my system so the coal costs was low. I went to a forest biome and started exploring and finally went and mined all the way down to the core, I found all kinds of ores and was able to make myself the iron tier armor and a gold pickaxe, I even found a nice uncommon 11dps axe with an electricity buff in a chest halfway through the spelunking session.

After I found out the silver tier of armor comes available after you kill the first boss I decided to go ahead and craft the item and start the first boss up. I terraformed a flat piece of land to be able to easily run back and forth for kiting the boss and was pleasantly surprised about his healthpool VS my Iron hunting bow. It took about 3-5 shots for 1 bar of health and I think the tuning is done very well.

Concluding I can say it all was a very satisfying experience, I feel that the devs did a great job with the balance update and think that this was very much the way forward for this game.

A few small things I want to point out is that I found Diamonds and Platinum on my second planet and it felt a bit out of place, I know it was mentioned that there are very high amounts of ore but just want to emphasize on that. And yes the birds are a tad to aggressive, with some timing and a little agility you can get around that but admittedly they killed me a few times as well.

 

I am loving the current difficulty curve so far, and am glad that they removed the fuel from the ship in the patch. I think it adds more challenge to have to depend on the first planet you orbit over to get going rather than being able to cherry pick it. And the new weapon dps system is much more understandable now IMO.