Really curious to see how this is going to impact crafting and fights.
Especially the melee part. You usually don’t really wanna be in melee with a wildstock or a hopper because of how much damage they can deal in one blow, so dem shields better be gud. I hope they’ll actually revise how much life creatures have (like, give them more if you have to) and how much damage they can do (less, please). I hate going in a hunt and getting one-shot by a mob. I would hope the risk of going in melee would be rewarded with more damage-dealing than the ranged weapons, at the cost of taking more hits.
But I would find it funny to be able to dual-wield shields and go in as a tank. XD
I’m imagining shields working like an atlas, when you use it, it move more to the center of the screen. Gotta make it feel good too, when you block, to hear a good ol’ chunky “CLONK” sound.
Also, we NEED to be able to stick these weapons and shields on racks on walls. These would be awesome decorations.
As for the crafting stations… I don’t rightly know how they’ll handle that. Are they gonna temporarily keep the current crafting stations working as legacy to give us the time to move to the new ones?
I would imagine the new crafting stations to be more modular. Maybe we won’t rely as much on skill points to craft things, and instead, we’ll be able to make crafting stations with only what we need. Like, on your 4 block machine, you plug only the parts you want, so you have a workbench with mixer capabilities?
Or maybe these are just visual updates to the current machines to make them look more different from one-another? Wouldn’t feel right, though : IMHO, we also gotta get rid of the need to make workshop setups where machine-blocks are stacked in a line and surrounded by power-coils. If they’re making these cool-looking new crafting stations, I hope we’ll have a way to power them up remotely, make a power-coil setup with tesla machines separately and connect them with some sort of spark-link. I’ve been an advocate of something like that for almost two years now.