batya_v_zdanyy's Watcher Playthrough

[foggy yoke]

I've been mainly mapping out new regions while avoiding ||SpinningTops encounters||. Because of frequent game-breaking bugs had to restart the campain thrice, so I'm very far behind most other players. Unfortunately because of falling behind I've got large chunks of the DLC spoiled to myself, but whatever. I'm content with where I am now, at last.

gotta love how half the rooms in regions are bare devoid of any creatures whatsoever

at last ||Turbulent Pump|| begins to make some sense geometrically

why tis so dark

oh nvm this leads to a rift

||Verdant Waterways||...

name sounds familiar

[worthy saffron]

It’s either the game is marking you for death with spawns, or nothing happens and you walk uninterrupted.

[foggy yoke]

[worthy saffron]

That’s one of my main gripes with this DLC.

[foggy yoke]

eh

I mean somewhat this applies to vanilla too

[worthy saffron]

Hunter spawns are sometimes skin shearing yeah

[foggy yoke]

also this is getting complicated

[worthy saffron]

It will get worse, I’m sorry.

But I noticed something. ||Do you need help with some guidance?||

||Saying this because you have low karma yet have seen a lot regions already||

[foggy yoke]

no, I was intentionally stalling my progress in order to get to see cool regions before getting into the lore relevant stuff

e.g. meeting the echo

[worthy saffron]

Ah k

[foggy yoke]

besides I like exploring the regions

[worthy saffron]

I would’ve explored regions in my original playthrough, but since I was so intrigued by what was happening in the early game that I wanted to progress the story to figure that out. Anddddd so I tried just going through region after region…

[foggy yoke]

aah

got teleported to rottened vanilla?

[worthy saffron]

My dumbass looked at the message for teleporting and so I never attempted to use it without a karma flower

Or I didn’t see any messages about that because the game likes skipping that VERY IMPORTANT information.

[foggy yoke]

ambiguity or smth /hj

[worthy saffron]

The progression is really not clear at all at times, I think they should’ve tried going for something like iggy in base game to nudge you in the right direction, other than aimlessly wandering and looking throughout every nook and cranny

[foggy yoke]

true

but even so it's not particularly hard to miss echoes now, is it?

[worthy saffron]

Also like no arena unlocks? No lore for the regions you explore? Made this DLC really terrible for me.

[worthy saffron]

I straight up missed 4 of them because I was looking for ways to get of regions that appeared to be very dangerous or looked very linear, and I just had to find the next region transition to progress.

[foggy yoke]

great.

[worthy saffron]

Plus I was not expecting to be playing basically Saint again

[foggy yoke]

probably going to appear at a later point

not all hope is lost

[worthy saffron]

Yikes. So I paid for unfinished product, as they are just adding post launch content. I thought this was a finished product…

[foggy yoke]

I expected them to have a finished product too

but honestly it was to be expected

devs spent two years on Downpour, and one year on a DLC that eclipses Downpour

quality drop was likely

[worthy saffron]

Imagine you are a normal, causal player who doesn’t interact with the community and you buy this DLC expecting a finished product. You are not gonna know this unless you kinda get into this games community.

[sand adder]

devs spent two years on Downpour
Factually incorrect

[foggy yoke]

I know it was being developed as a mod prior

so were many of the Watcher's regions

[worthy saffron]

Besides, why not let it cook in the oven a bit more then just quickly throwing it out there?

[foggy yoke]

frankly I'd rather wait another year to get a DLC with greater quality than this

they could've let it boil a bit more before throwing it out into the public

[worthy saffron]

Yes please. I want things to be the best it can be.

[worthy saffron]

What’s the facts then?

[sand adder]

More SlugCats as a mod was being developed since like, 1.0 or 1.01

Which was 8 years ago

[worthy saffron]

Hm. Then like 2 years ago was when some of the actual devs got involved?

[sand adder]

2 years ago was when it was announced as a dlc
The original devs couldnt do anything cause of legal issues

I think the only real input they gave was some dialogue

[worthy saffron]

I see.

Still, watcher needed more time in ze oven.

[foggy yoke]

well

devs said there'll be updates at a later point

and knowing how much they care about the game I'm certain they'll do their best

wai-

echo?

just heard them

[worthy saffron]

The Giggler

[foggy yoke]

fire looks sick

also I expected to be able to finish Inv before this releases, but seems like I was wrong

anyway going to beat Inv once I'll clear up some of the projects I have ongoing

[worthy saffron]

Inv in some aspects is better than the watcher lmao

At least there are some actually kinda cool and interesting things there

For a joke campaign no less

[foggy yoke]

gotta love getting hit by a lightning strike

they really done invent new ways to die /j

[worthy saffron]

What?

[foggy yoke]

you heard me

lightning strike

[worthy saffron]

Ok then I guess.

[foggy yoke]

Stormy Coast stuff

[worthy saffron]

Right… the modded regions are another gripe I have with this DLC, but stormy coast is fine

At times…

[foggy yoke]

#watcher-spoilers message saving this for later

anyway how do I get to the upper pipe?

I've mapped out everything below, need to go up

[foggy yoke]

@sand adder, may I ask for a little bit of assistance?

stuck at Shattered Terrace, can't progress because of insufficient karma

[sand adder]

I dont think theres much there to help increase it

[foggy yoke]

then I'm going back the rift I guess

as if Salination's any better

wait what the

since when did I learn to levitate

[foggy yoke]

what the hell did I just do

huh

how did I leap that high

also what's the purple aura

[foggy yoke]

wait wait wait wait wait wait wait wait

is this fungi hellhole preinfected?