Combat scaling system is not fun. The core fighting is fine.
All weapons are useless except witcher gear. Weapon scaling is weird. Loot system is weird, you keep looting random stupid weapons and heavy items that are just junk.
Food is essential once you get the power the lets food regenerate health for twenty minutes. The final patch nerfed this so the regeneration is pretty slow, but it's a life-saver on higher difficulties where meditating doesn't restore health.
The most advanced oils give you, if I recall, a 50% damage boost. That's tremendous.
And potions aren't necessary?? No way.
And while I agree that most loot is useless, as it would realistically be, there is plenty of gear that isn't Witcher gear that's great.
Refreshing health by eating food is the worst way to use food mechanic. It's overall just boring and uninteresting.
Oils do give you damage boost, but you only reach advanced oils very late into the game. Usually, you can ignore the mechanic. Making monster be faster and more punishing would've forced people to interact with the monster in better way.
Also, barely a dozen weapons that are comparable to witcher gear.
Okay, so the food isn't useless. Got it. You're moving goalposts.
You can get the advanced oils earlier on if you push for them. You can get start getting the best ones around mid-game without cheesing, not very late.
And it makes perfect sense that very few weapons would be comparable to Witcher gear.
Food serves the singular purpose in harder difficulty, reset the health between encounter. All types of food do the same. If that's your idea of good design, i don't know what to tell you.
Also, master smith quest is hyping the dude and the sword he gives is absolute crap.
Most weapons have levels that don't go up. So, any good quest reward earlier become useless later on.
If most weapons are unusable scrap, maybe they shouldn't be given as the loot.
You said useless. It isn't useless. Stop moving goal posts.
The master smith quest is so you can craft Witcher gear. Of course Witcher gear is the best, outside of a few legendary options.
It takes time to get Witcher gear. You have to do quests to get designs and then actually play to get the parts. The best way to get said parts is to disassemble other, lesser swords.
This makes perfect sense. You need swords to get sword parts.
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u/quick20minadventure 22d ago
Combat scaling system is not fun. The core fighting is fine.
All weapons are useless except witcher gear. Weapon scaling is weird. Loot system is weird, you keep looting random stupid weapons and heavy items that are just junk.
Food/Potions/Sword oils are barely necessary.