Yes it is an RPG but this is a sandbox rpg,. not a 'grindy' rpg, leveling is not the most important thing here (nor does actual "XP" leveling exist), it's the experience and sorry f you disagree with me but having everything either be UNDERPOWERED (In the case of bosses and land animals), and everything else be overpoweered (In the case of the birds) Is ruining it. Right now the birds are the ONLY thing keeping the game challenging. Challenge IS A Good Thing! They need to fix it. This patch was not very good. My god please don't take the challenge away from me and if they nerf birds they should make the other things more powerful.
v. Indignant Koala patch note : Our prayers have been answered. Alelujah! Btw, this post was about birds being OP, if you want to make another post to claim terrestrial mobs and bosses are UP, I'll follow you but here was not the subject. Those birds were not challenging at all, they were utterly unforgiving. You know there is a spot between "underpowered/not challenging" and "overpowered/it OS you". And overpowered is not challenging.
Another unintended problem with the birds..They will wipe planets clean of NPCs. I found a settled planet with a village and several little houses outside of that. after playing on it a while everyone is dead. Just a ghost planet. They're just too strong.
That's true. Especially with the Avian airship. I saw the entire crew being decimated by birds because when one guy dies, the rest of them come to avenge him. And since birds respawn and NPC's don't, you can guess who won Maybe making NPC's respawn would be one way to fix this.
Anectdote: Exploring planet with buddy, when three birds dive-bomb me from nowhere, scourging the land in wreathes of fire from their flame-thrower armed beaks. Luckily, I was wearing armor at the time, so my blazing carcass lasted long enough to made a neat thud as it slammed into the bottom of the cliffface I was scaling. 0.6 seconds later. I've taken up the habit of just pushing hostile NPCs into the open where the birds will savage them instead of me.
I like building, and my town is very bland without NPCs. But the birds just kept murdering everyone! I've resorted to a full glass backdrop and a glass roof overhead... :I
