Buried Below update freedback

[viral kiln]

The update feels pretty good overall, definitely freshening things up. Feedback after one cycle in solo play.

• Upgrading equipment at hub vendors feel less useful now that equipment is easier to lose and doesn't persist between cycles; maybe make doing so cheaper/free.

• I didn't see any of the new tunnels/mines; maybe make them stand out more.

• Leveling up in a run feels a bit too slow; maybe cheaper level ups or more blood drops.

• Framerate has noticeable drops in the more detailed areas; This is with a fairly high-end GPU.

• I like that purple weapons seem to drop more often now.

• For as useful as it is, armor should be more common.

• It feels unclear what exactly I should be doing in the new boss fight. I beat it, but I don't know what I did right or wrong. Being in the thick of dodging attacks gave little time to figure things out.

• The removal of the radiation zones is nice.

• The night sky as you're extracting after beating the last crown is very pretty.

[wise egret]

Had the frame drops thing as well (I have a 3060) and it mostly happens in the hub and forest area

[viral kiln]

After several more cycles, the only other thing that immediately stands out is how superfluous the last possible level up is, which ties into leveling feeling slow. I would need to make several laps of grinding mobs after I've already gone to every point of interest to get the last level.

You don't get to keep those levels past the cycle end anyway, so keeping it behind a lot of boring play feels out of place.