I refunded the Acid Spitter DLC don't worry

Permanently locking characters behind temporary campaigns (e.g. Kickstarter, Twitch) has to be one of the worst ideas that have been brought into the gaming industry.

just got banned from the isle discord for criticizing the dogshit camera changes lol. This tendency to ban criticism runs strong in animal sims.

I've never seen a community more in denial than this one. It's honestly sad

>the more you play a single dragon, the better it's genetics become >groups will abuse this to hatch super dragons by staying alive for longer >solo players are factually weaker then groups >no lifing is thusly encouraged by the game Did they learn nothing from BoB??????? What the fuck????

The biggest problem is their clan issue. New players can’t even try to enjoy the game without being obliterated by Clans who practically run the servers that are pvp and guard every area of the map, going as far as slaying hatchlings when they spawn and kosing anyone they see that isn’t affiliated with their clan or clan partners. It’s highly upsetting

The game went from "12k is all I need to get started" to "I need to sell DLCs because making video games is expensive!" Right after it got 530k from KS backers.

The two things that deterred me the most about this game was how tedious the breeding system is and the clans. The breeding system seems about as complex as getting mutations in Ark, and as someone who just wants to fly around and be a dragon, why on earth would I spend hundreds of hours breeding and just hoping I get good genes? That, and the clans in this game are virtually gangs. If you're not in a clan, you die. If you're in a clan, you die. If you are in a rival clan, you guess it. You get wiped out of existence, and there goes 6 hours of growing your dragon. Even the Isle is much more forgiving than this game.

Pre ordering Dragons is CRAZY

The biggest issue I have with games in this genre are the people you encounter when playing, I dont know what it is about this genre but it attracts some of the just...weirdest people I have ever had the displeasure of interacting with, weather its the spiteful petty type or just flat out toxic and sometimes unhinged type.

Like how the map update is literally the same map with enhanced trees 💀

Oh boy I thought it got better, man I just want a dragon survival game

'The first animal sim to be shown as a full release' WolfQuest begs to DIFFER

This game has been given way too many chances. My last straw was their latest announcement in their discord server, talking not only about another delay, but how they’re no longer giving release dates. “It puts stress/pressure on the team, and the community gets upset when we don’t make it, which in turn adds more stress”. No shit it puts some stress on a person, that’s the whole point of a deadline, to encourage you to finish it, and obviously players are going to be upset at releases rates slower than what The Isle has done

i'm over people going " its amazing update" newest update is a joke and terrible, never had hope for this game

The amount of people copeing tryna convince me its good and the moment i critisise the game for haveing stuff behind a paywall and people dismising that by just saying "you can just get nested in no big deal" like yeah that is a big deal especially if i just wanna go solo.

I love how the 1.03 update egg on the bottom right is just an ark fire wyvern egg

0:54 As much as I don’t like Anthomnia, the fact that some asshole threatened to hurt his dog is sickening.

Anthomnia now supports DoD btw. The dev Jao is constantly banning people still. All kickstarter promises were revoked, shuffled to Patreon, and then given out for free. Patreons now get even more exclusive content because I quote: "They continue to pay me" as opposed to Kickstarter who never got what they were promised in the first place lol His new game is a disgrace and still a scam. It's been worked on for 5yrs now. What he's done could be done (and people have done it) in a matter of a few weeks at MOST with a basic unreal engine tutorial from youtube. Don't support a corrupt dev and corrupt scam from the beginning. We warned you as those who were mass banned the first time jao lost his mind (it wasn't youtube propaganda as he so often says lol) and continue to warn you as those who join our ranks that are being banned for asking questions (not even being negative or breaking the rules of his discord- JUST ASKING QUESTIONS) from the discord. Jao's a joke, and finally more people are seeing this. Someone give us the dragon game we deserve.

Day of Dragons being bad is why I'm so excited for The Wings of Dawn. as of right now, they're doing everything that DoD did poorly or just hasn't bothered even doing and doing it better. I am so excited to be able to either test or play the full release of TWoD!

Elder is unlocked with passive growth. For every TWELVE hours, you get ONE tick of growth. So that means, they want you to spend roughly 100+ hours(correct me if I'm wrong, I kinda suck at math) on ONE dragon, AFTER reaching full adult just to play as a red and orange glowing lump of rocks. Very interesting indeed.

fact that day of dragons gets $21,490 monthly from their Patreon supports and still bare bones is sick. bought the kickstarter just to see all the promises I paid for completely changed and the backer skins given away for free. after 5 years is still the same as when they first released it with their store-bought assets. ngl the game looked better with those store-bought assets lol

I actually was apart of the discoed a few weeks back, and during their update of “soft releases” after postponing the big update AGAIN, I was openly critiquing in the discord about it, and had like 20+ reactions on my messages supporting my thoughts and people hyping my voice, due to this- I got punished by staff for being disrespectful to the staff team, so I said f all of yall and left. I think Im banned lol.

The "they don't want to create or inspire" is so real. Monster Hunter probably is the only game what really shows how much simple concept of dragon or dragon-like creatures can be creative, colorful and fascinating at the same time. And its a shame to see how game CENTERED purely around dragons just blatantly rips-off already existing designs and somehow makes them even more boring. Draconia shares same problem. Century: ages of ashes does much better, but still. HTTYD is top tier though

This is the most controversial game and rightfully so. It’s got some dirty laundry within its own staff and it’s not something I’d willingly support.. not to mention the game permanently banned me from playing via a hardwire ban because they mistook me for an “alt account” of a banned user lol

I have no earthly idea why anyone would play this while Path of Titans exists.

I really wanted to be able to say DoD was a good game when it was announced & stuff, i got it the second it was playable, and i've played it every once in a while, but honestly there's just nothing to root for. Rocky start, and the surface just keeps getting bumpier. I had such high hopes for a "unique" game (to some degree obviously, i play TI BoB and PoT), and theres SO MUCH creative freedom with DRAGONS. The fact that they're only giving us a fire furry, a banshee, cloudjumper, a spicy dog, and blue toothless is ridiculous. Oh, sorry, don't get me started on the skrill. The designs are so upsetting. There's absolutely no care, just slight adjustments so they can't be bit in the ass by copyright. It's so saddening. With how much money they raised too? are you serious? and the amount of DLCs so early was the biggest red flag i have ever seen in a game. ever. period. the fact that it was a DRAKE was even more hilarious, it's a dragon game, the selling point is flying. My theory, on the drake.. did they make flying intolerable intentionally so people would buy the drake DLC? Worked on me if so, because Jesus Christ how do you make a dragon game and mess up the flying so badly. Aerial combat is even worse.

This is why games like these won't ever get popular. Because they surrond themselves too much with DLCs and people don't want to spend more money on a game unless it adds something meaningful. One example of a game that works well with DLCs are the two Frontier Sandbox Games, Planet Zoo and Jurassic World Evoultion 2. Not only do they give you a couple of animals for you to play with, but they also give new Structures and Items for you to place down and decorate your parks. This is only one issue it has that I decided to describe. This isn't counting the problems it shares with countless other games in this same genre.

The amount of regret I have for being dumb enough to support this game during the Kickstarter campaign.. What they advertised in the KS was intriguing, what they ended up making is pure shit. I hate it.

Not to beat a dead horse, but it's genuenly funny how uninspired the desogns are when you take one second to look at the internet for any dragon design, for example, the dragons from thr dragonslayer codex, each have defining details that make them unique while being incredibly cool, so it's a shame that DoD just has httyd dravon Number 78

It's amazing to me how a free to play Roblox game with Dragons, Creatures of Sonaria, is better than DoD. On the topic of these types of games, I never understood why Devs don't develop something in the game for players to do that isn't going into battle with other players. Path of Titans kind of does it with the whole quest system but, it's still largely boring and repetitive. I don't see how so many developers can be so ignorant on this issue, for me it's a fairly simple concept of keeping your creature healthy and fit by performing certain acts that will either boost your stats or ensure they don't lower. Things like scraping claws on trees or rocks to keep them strong whilst also leaving behind markings on the environment for other players to find, eating minerals in a specific place that is required for your diet less you develop some deficiency, illnesses that can be cured with either time or resources so you aren't just sitting around as a max adult with nothing to do but kill younger creatures, etc. I doubt these mechanics would be hard to develop compared to anything else and it would give players a lot more to do and further submerge the players in the life of their creature.

I tried launching it up after the new update, and it caused my graphics card to completely shut down and it made my monitor disconnect so my only option was to restart my pc lol. I've never seen that happen with anything before but at least it saved me 4 hours of my time sitting and doing nothing.

Great video easy. You really hit the mark on this “game” 😂

Geez even collecting flowers is far more interesting than it

I have played this game for way too long. Simply going online to spend time with the friends I made there. But the state of the game in honestly beyond horrible. And the only way to describe jaos aditude is delusional. Mind you, I have 270+ hours in this game and I regret almost all of them, except the ones where I made new friends. I'm sorry for my language and wording in advance. He won't even hire a new coder because he would "need to train them in their coding", "test their code" and "correct their mistakes". From what I've seen jao uses blueprint a lot. Which doesn't require really require coding. Also if he hires someone who uses the same programming language there won't be an issue, but his spagghetti code is probably just indeciverable. 1.0 came out and its as janky as it as always been. Basically everything that was supposed to come out at that time has been delayed. Everyone and their mother starved for the first few hours, because there was not enough food to feed the void stomach of InfernoRavager or Flamestalker. With those 2 you are eating 24/7. They take more food than a starved pack of wolves. Blitzstriker was supposed to come out 3 days ago. Guess what delayed. Now there is people saying, that jao was injured, etc. That was ages ago and I'm not one to criticise on a note like that, but its just being used as a lame excuse at this point. Things that were promised to kickstarters are now given out to patreons, while kickstarters never even received parts of it and keys for sucks exclusive things are given out for free, despite multiple times having been mentioned to not be given out to people anymore. Even 300$ kickstarters, yes you heared me right, 300$, get their promises invalidated and given to others simply, because they only paid that one time for kickstarter and ain't shoving up money jaos ass every month or so. On the note of the fireclaw drake DLC already being in the shop. This guy isn't supposed to be added until MUCH later (1.2, which will take eons seeing as to how slow progress is). There isn't even really a model for the guy yet, as far as I'm aware. The ONLY reason why its in the shop already is simply to be a fucking cashgrab for jao. Period. There is no other logical reason for it to be there. The mega map we were promised isn't even finished and the map we have now is just an updated version of the old one and its mediocre at best, if I'm being REALLY damn generous. There are like 3 spots with enough food, to supstain a group, that is bigger than idk 3 people?, the water looks down right atrocious, there are multiple places with just nothing in them. Just an open field. There is even a part of the map, which is just a grey mesh and totally untouched by jao, god and the world. Places on the map receive special names, but there is nothing special to them. Just another bit of forest or another pond somewhere. There are some good looking place, mostly to the center of the map. But they get over shadowed by lack of food, texture quality and despite things, looking really empty and loveless. To play elemental you have to sacrifice and elderdragon. You get 1 eldertick every 12 hours of IRL time when logging in. So fully eldering with only ticks still takes months. Back in legacy you'd elder by eating elder mushrooms, which mostly spawned at random intervals, some not and usually got camped by people. Timed mushrooms often having 10+ people trying to eat them when it popped. And those mushrooms still only gave one tick. Eldering was tedious, took ages, was hella annoying and could get toxic real quick. And I'm only talking about PvE. In PvP there was basically no time to elder. Now we don't even know what to do except to get ticks and the tips we received were as helpful as "If you kill someone, they're die.". The Inferno Ravager, the fire wyvern, can set itself on fire, which for all who have seen HTTYD could be really cool..... ahahhaha.... haaa... no. It looks like someone took a campfire prefab or just a fireeffects in this area one and just placed it all over the guy. It looks horrendous. The flying has always been horrible and bugs that keep you from getting off of the ground properly are still there despite having been claimed to be fixed multiple times. Flying itself feels clunky, slow and like you're trying to drive 3 fucking buses attacked to one another. There are no things you'd hope of flying in these games, like doing loops in the air or barrelrolls or god knows what. It's just for getting from A to B. As Shiftyvee already mentioned there is nothing to do. Not just for hatchies but also for grown dragons. We were supposed to get a questing system with 1.0. ahahahaha.... no. You can grow and die. Thats it. You can try nesting. But nesting is pain in the ass, especially the new nesting system. We people on PvE/DvE Servers have tried to get better stats since 1.0 came out and despite tireless nesting still haven't managed to get E stats (the worst stat) entirely out of bloodlines. There are some people with 0 Es, but even then nests will still give babys with plenty Es and we've been at this for a while. I am not gonna adress that clan situation in this post, as I have never played PvP. But it's really as bad as people say. And don't even get me started on the communtiy and the teams additude towards criticism and their general community management. I am sorry for my wording in advance. I'll try to keep it civil, but I'm really fed up with this especially. Most of the development news ONLY get shared with the kickstarters and patreons. The normal playerbase doesn't even get them after like 2 weeks. Those news stay exclusive to those. There are people who are licking jaos boots and will descend on you like vultures if you say anything that might hurt their god jao. I'm not gonna go too much into detail, but yes there have been threats to people, you will get insulted, belittled and dragged through the mud. There are people defending jao and this game at all cost, like a delusional patient protects its rubberducky, sayin' its a real duck and its family (there is only one duck). People will get warned and more than often even banned for voicing their opinions and giving criticism. Criticism and improvement suggestions will get completly ignored and if not will get invalidated by jaos fangirls and sometimes even moderators. Jao himself will ignore it completly and then acts surprised when he actually HAS to acknowledge it. Jao has also often stated that the community isn't toxic, which is a blatant lie. He's just really good at ignoring the problems right infront of his nose. I could probably keep this comment going for a lot longer, but I feel like I have given enough context already for people to know to not support this game (it's just not worth your money, time and sanity) and call jao out on his absolut shitshow. Thank you to everyone for reading my little rant.

I'd be curious to have your opinion about "The Wings of Dawn" game currently being developped. The dev teams seems pretty transparent, and from what I've seen it looks like it's going to be everything DoD promised and even more... But I've only learned about this game recently, and since you seem a better informed on these kind of games than I am I'd appreciate if you could share your impressions on this one. (and If you had absolutely no idea this game even existed, no issue ^^)

Shiftyvee uploading video in middle of the day of Australia Life good

4:14 "mushrooms poison you without any warning" *eats fly agaric with the green toxic fumes coming from it* comedic timing

Bro imagine a game like this developed by a AAA company like Rockstar

Oh don't forget they haven't released the eldering system as well. While saying "its in the game, go find it" its been over two weeks with a decent chunk of the community constantly searching for it with nothing to show for it. Many are starting to suspect its not actually implemented or has been disabled.

so i backed this game during the kickstarter because dragon game and i love dragons, i ended up joining a large clan on an official server and we managed to breed up our bloodlines to near perfect but this was 2-3 years ago, jumping to now we wanna see if this game is worth playing again and continuing our bl's (bloodlines) but after the 1.0 update they deleted almost all the legacy servers and we lost all of our dragons... so the many MANY hours we put into breeding is now gone -_- and now breeding A stat dragons is gonna be harder without the nurse dragon. they really f'ed up this game and there lack of giving a f is making me want to abandon this game for good, i keep trying to hold out hope that it will turn into something good but considering it has been 4 f'ing years im honestly done with DoD

The isle legacy community servers: Dragon edition

Shiftyvee good to see yah! From the Kickstarter alone I was very skeptical of the game as a whole, besides the constant Kickstarter goals. It was the fact they played the most iconic track in the How To Train Your Dragon OST "Test Drive". Way back when Jao was giving KZfaqrs early access to the game I had joined the discord, immediately witnessed the lead developer witch-hunt someone for expressing concern, and dipped the discord practically right then and there. I hate-watched this game's developers commit mistake after mistake including breaking steams TOS which is still absurd to think about to this day. Although I hate the sheer unprofessional behavior of the developers, what I hate more is the dragons. I am an avid creature designer and dragons are probably by far the most fun! This game however just uses existing versions in the most uninspired manner. For a game that earned half a million dollars, I expect actual original concepts. This game is simply bland and uninspired. They copy the abilities and appearances of iconic dragons and fantasy creatures in media. One or two here and there are fine eno The Shadow Scale is a bootleg Night Fury, it contains a plasma blast, and it can turn invisible, even more suspicious is how little we see what inspired the animations for it compared to other dragons in the game, because it is painfully obvious they just reanimated clips of toothless moving around. On the topic of uninspired dragons here's the full list and why they are pretty much to a T knock-off versions of existing properties and then I will give my own example of a dragon I made up on the spot. Hybrid dragon: Stormcutter from HTTYD, Blitz Striker: just an amputated Skrill from HTTYD, Inferno Ravager: Monstrous Nightmare from HTTYD, Ice Wyvern: Just a wyvern version of an Icewing from the book series Wings Of Fire, Singe Crest: The love child of a Leonopteryx and Banshee from James Camerons Avatar. You could play a drinking game with how blatantly they copy these designs from popular media. Sadly the dragons and fauna that are the most unique are the ones made by Hoa who I followed and was inspired by long before he was even involved and hired on the DOD's developer team. He was by far the only reason I had any interest in the game and practically all the other creatures were brought off of him, There is proof of this from his Art Station account @Hao where you can see them not credited by DOD. Now for a bonus, I am gonna show you just how easy it can be to make a fun dragon concept. A dragon with a large crest on its snout is capable of amplifying the scream it produces. This ability disorientates other creatures inverting their controls temporarily to mimic a creature in distress. It's equipped with a long whip-like tail to slash at its prey or potential threats as they are stunned. Its tail is also barbed and can be used to coil around surfaces to hang upside down or climb about in the canopy above.

Honestly, thank you for this video. I've been a DoD kickstarter since the beginning and personally still have hope for the game, but I was an ADAMANT defender of it for many many years. Yours is the FIRST video I've seen with genuine criticisms that doesn't just lean into shitting on the game, the players and taking small details and running for miles with them. I was hesitant to click at first, but I'm really glad I did. You validated all of my criticisms about the game and more without making it personal or spending time rehashing old drama that was sorted years ago. This video lowkey genuinely helped me rethink the way I feel about the game, and while personally I'm still hopeful to one day see it come to fruition, I'll also happily admit I've played like 6 hours of it since "1.0" release... and most of that was afk growing. Cheers :)

I never liked Day of Dragons ever since I saw Anthomnias video on it. I'm 99% sure that I heard somewhere along the shittrain that DoD had stolen assets, copied designs of other dragons, or just full on bought dragon models that were not in the same style as the game. As someone who aspires to be a game developer, I personally find it super disappointing when other game devs do this, since I find my work to be exclusive and one of a kind. It's really nice to know your work is being used, so when devs buy models from other people, it kind of ruins the whole point of being a developer. Ever since School of Dragons was shut down, I've never had anything to look forward to that related dragon gameplay besides an old roblox game that stop getting game changing updates back in at least 2014-2016. DoD could definitely be doing way better than they are.

As a Kickstarter in 2019 with a PvE (was supposed to be DvE) server that's been around for 3-4 years, we managed to survive the long awaited 'update' period, because our community is wonderful. But it feels like we waited 2 years for broken skins, broken overlays, a cryptic undiscoverable Eldering system, a rehashed and very unfinished map, borked stats, less food, no new AI, and a Bio Dragon that can't be restored if it dies, because it crashes you to blue screen. As much as I want Jao to read this comment and go "you're right, let's crack on, do better, make a game worth playing, stick to deadlines, hire more people, keep promises, and admit mistakes" with this Dev team facts are treated as criticism, and punished as so, and I'll probably just get banned. He said he didn't understand why reviews were bombing on Steam yet everyone he met ingame was happy. The simple answer is banning everyone who voices a negative opinion regardless how much truth it holds, so you're left with yes-men and members too afraid to say anything at all. If you're watching the Trailer, buying the game, finding out 90% of the Trailer isn't in the game, isn't it logical to assume you're going to feel ripped off. And what's worse is you used to be able to talk to him, he was a happy guy with big ideas. The whole thing just depresses me honestly.

Hate to say it, I was one of their backers on Kickstarter years ago and I regret doing that. This whole game is just a tech demo with DLC. This game makes the same mistakes many other "Animal simulators" do There is very little to do, barebones content. Pretty much all the reasons you listed. The dragon designs are just absolutely bland. They feel out of place. The fact that they are locking dragons that were already planned for the game behind paid DLC is incredibly scummy and is disingenuous. Not only that but the way Jao is in regards to criticism and banning people outright (much like how Dondi is about the The Isle) is not good either. Whilst I hope things change, I don't see that happening with what has been promoted thus far. It's a very sad sight to see. Don't support this product folks, Jao is scamming you of your money. Give that money to other projects actually worth a damn.

Path of titans does the whole paying for dinos thing better, because the only time you'd have to pay for playable dino PACKs is if your using the FREE starter pack, and even then I believe you can upgrade to the full game by just paying for it if you don't want to pay for dino packs individually and they take into account how many dino packs you bought and give you a discount based on that.

Good video with lots of information! Straight to the point and not sugarcoating things like many other KZfaqrs do when creating videos about DoD. Do you have a Discord server or other social media where to follow you from?

thank you for making this, it's so cathartic to watch and see how many people are still (rightfully) annoyed about this game and its developer

Ngl- I’d say at least it looks good- but those goofy ahh graphics ain’t got nothing on BoB- the game with like three devs 💀💀💀

It genuinely still shocks me at how most of these creature sims just fail to succeed one after another. Which may be a strategy by some like DoD as "where else would they go but here?" sort of way, as they have no reason to improve since there is no competition or their competition is terrible but still succeeds anyways. Not necessarily a conspiracy, but its more like just arriving all at the same answer.

I always get so excited when I see an actual dragon game coming out as it's all I ever wanted, but then it's like a trauma response where I immediately remember all the past games that have flopped spectacularly, and the few that were actually good dropped support because of being ancient. There's barely any standards set because there's simply so few games out there like this, yet, they manage to fall below the bar that was forgotten in the concrete floor under the basement, kept like a dirty secret. Like I remember pre purchasing games like I of The Dragon and it not delivering what it promised, and my game never arrived because it was delayed far beyond what was promised, I eventually demanded a refund and moved on, just to see it finally releasing and then feeling a wave of relief that I got a refund because of the garbage that came out. This has been the usual outcome and is far from unique to the game I mentioned. There's also a fair amount of censorship of constructive criticism, which is a major concern of mine, I've seen several people getting the boot from chats who are trying to help the devs improve their game because it has the potential to become something great. When you silence people who actually have a point while pushing paywalled content before the game is even close to being finished, it's a major red flag. I used to be a paid beta tester, and I've seen some absolutely scumbaggy moves from developers, and one of my biggest pet peeves is pre purchase of unfinished alpha state games, or even just a barren tech demo, in order to skip paying the beta testers for what they're good at doing all while micro transaction shops is the most fleshed out part of the entire game, because then you end up with rushed BS that then gets all the profits dunked into a new project before it's even finished, because why finish the game if already profiting as it is, just rinse and repeat until you have to make a new company because your reputation as a developer is re-enacting The Titanic. Not all developers come equal, and people should absolutely not throw their money at DLC before the game feels 95% complete, especially when they prey on FOMO, by permanently locking characters behind having to get it right here and now or forever go without it, that's a very bad and predatory tactic.

Wings of Dawn looks promising.

The community is basically a bunch of roblox kids, because on roblox you have the same games like that, sometimes a little better but all of them are overmonetized walk and eat simulators. Baby stage being unfair? check. expensive monsters bein OP that they can just come to you and kill you without giving you a chance to defense yourself? check. Toxic playerbase full of trolls that will kill you just because? check. All those kids needs are a sandbox to roleplay, no matter how bat the game itself is, they will throw money at it.

my jaw actually dropped when I heard "free dragons" implying there were dragons u had to pay for, like wtf normally I would ask what kind of idiot would pay for a dlc for a clearly very unfinished game, but I remember the exact type of people this genre has in it's communities..

Its a real shame that this game is the way that is. Like I get the whole deal about Dino and other animal sims is a bit boring for some people, but to get to play as a dragon is sth that I always wanted and I was looking forward to this game, even wanted to fund the kickstarter (glad I didnt), its just.....Disapointed ya know. Oh well guess I'll just sustain on Path Of Titans mod till someone actually makes a good dragon sim.

coming back to your vids after your isle vid. I didn't know you were continuing similar content! I hope you surpass your previous numbers!

I was really hoping it would be good, but it got worse as time went on. I enjoyed how friendly people were at the start. Then griefers grew and clans and painful growth times with no flight, confusing food locations and death as soon as you took flight to groups of people. And the most interesting dragons are behind a paywall

I'm so glad someone said it all out on YT. Pretty much every donater in the discord is a huge bootlicker too. I bought the game when it still had the desert map and redwood map portal that they just shoved in. They keep making the same mistakes and keep making the same empty promises. Im so fucking tired. There is literally nothing to do unless you're a tryhard saltrock who gets off on hardcore PvP in mega all A+ clans.

Day of dragons is literally a gooner game

Shadowscale is invisible until a flamestalker uses thermal vision to see you 😂

Not to mention that the game itself is so poorly optimized even with the recommended specs i dont get anything above 40 frames and i had to go into my nividia graphics setting (which i didnt even know how to then) just to play the fucking game 💀 Theres almost nothing to do but fly around and be half starved, its so god damn boring

Thank You.. I was going to buy this game.. now I know I need to wait and watch from the side!!

3 months later since launch... content is still missing and/or broken.

I love dragons and would love a survival game like this that's actually, you know, good. Not greedy, not horrid upon release, nor in early access for eternity, not cancelled after receiving their kickstarter money.

Don’t forget the DLC emotes! $5 for 4 more emotes, but those are per-dragon payments as well!! 😂 (genuinely, wholeheartedly, wtf)

Its a shame Pvp is so terrible, its not good having giant clans but its worse when you realise they guard all the best growing spots and show absolutly no mercy for the solo players. I only play on Pve as a result which is enjoyable to me although a little slow by comparison. Atleast until more dragons are added,

Oh dont get me started. Those DLC dragons you talked about. Well jao releases the pre-orders YEARS before they get released. Like the flameclaw behemoth you showed, thats not going to be in the game until update 2.0 or 3.0 and the speed they going rn thats not going to be in the game until 2028 or more. The blitz striker dlc was pre-ordered 2 ish years before its actual release and now its gotten delayed again as it was suppose to come out 2 days ago. Its really a scam because all they want is your money and when 1.0 came out they hiked the price on the game. Currently ever since they delayed blitz striker and recieved a whole lot of backlash for it. The lead dev said he wasnt going to do release dates because its was "Stressful to him" so we aint going to know when anything is going to released all because this whiny man child couldn't take criticism or release the game on time. Its really disappointing that this is the only dragon game sim out there but i can tell ya for sure that once last sanctum or wings of dawn comes out DoD would be nothing more as a bad memory

this is the shiftyvee video of all time

As a avid PVP content creator for this game I agree on like 80% of the video. Some points are a little overdone, stretched if anything as well as some not true. I am upset with my love for the game going from playing everyday to almost never now. Between the horrible release and as you said the mods/admins/dev being unfair to some people's concerns in their discord & reddit now shows a lot about how they want people to perceive this game, and not expose it for what it is or them for that matter. Even with the updates rolling out the fact that what we got was a raw cookie instead of the whole bakery isn't even making me want to come back as well as others. Servers for PVP specifically went to all 4 full first day, to not even 20 players on 3 of them after its almost first month out. I hope that changes in the future, but who is to tell. They have done good work since the release, but I am afraid it might be too little too late.

Preach brother, preach.

BRO i shit u not growing is so fuckn painful. All i want to do is fly since unfortunately this is the only dragon survival game out there. I flew for not even 5 min before i starved to death since their was no food and the food i did find didnt matter since by the time i found more food i would be starving once again since u rapidly loose food at a constant rate. the flight isnt as good as ppl say it is cuz after 30 mins i realized just how clunky, slow and awful it feels. It feels like if a bus had wings and do even get me started on how stupid the genetics are omg that shit makes it so its impossible for a solo player to enjoy the game since they will ALWAYS be weaker then any clan out there

The fact this was recorded before the hotfix update stings a little. Ever since the fix theres been a series of fatal UE5 crashes.

I feel like if someone created Day of Dragons with an age selection screen for those who just wanted to play as the adult dragons (Like an RP mode) made the survival aspect better and possibly have a skill tree that unlocks new dragons over time it would be better. Using inspiration from Mythology and HTTYD for making starting dragons then branching out to new designs with various abilities would work hell a selection of up to 10 different starting dragons that work for many play styles and even aquatic dragons with a heavily diverse ecosystem of NPCs. Carcasses for baby dragons to scavenge from would help curb the fighting most of the time. For things to do for baby dragons, what about play fighting, stalking, skills that wild animals train up as babies that could help with survival. Although this is just me getting ideas out there for whoever wants to create a better dragon game or fantasy game

I really want to like this game. I have over 3000 hours in animal survival games. But I just cant enjoy DOD. I played for 40 hours, giving it a red hot go. Animations are stiff, the in game lighting is usually too dark to see, 2 of the dragons are HTTYD rip offs, 60% of the content is locked behind a pay wall, growth times are too long for the high tear dragons, there isn't enough food to feed a growing dragon, the echo's on calls is too much and updates seem to happen less often then Evrima... Now to hear they have been working on this since 2019 and raised over half a mil and still asking for money. Dragons are one of my favourite creatures, I design them all the time. There is so much potential here. They have had so much time and money for this. I really hope it works out, I want it to work so bad

Why do the Dragon models in this game have such varying quality/detail?? I can't tell if they gave up, rushed out certain models or if some dragons are store bought assets. The "Bioluminescent Dragon" is such a dramatic shift in style and detail compared to all the others...

wtf is wrong with all these animal/creature survival sims?? I swear there isn't a single one that can provide a satisfying, fun experience or isn't riddled with drama

As someone who for years thought dragon gaming was really lacking, I watched through the whole time as people fell into this and were in complete denial, its really sad

This really opened my eyes about the game, I'm currently a patreon of the game and had no idea of all this and now that I do its making me rethink paying $20 a month for this game. I'm glad I found this video. (great content!)

pvp modes are usually only enjoyable when in a clan, and then still most of these issues are effecting them as well.

That fucking Portal music at the start brought back dark memories

don’t let him cook

Ah, when I learned about all the drama and development of this game I started to call it "The Isle but with dragons", but DoD takes the cake when it comes to scumminess definitely.

is that thumbnail 3d rendered or drawn

At a point, I was on the same boat as the other people who defend this game with their life. And I was miserable waiting MONTHS for content I hoped would be released. I yearn so deeply for a free roaming game where you can be a dragon. I yearn to be able to fly and fight, or wander and explore as I wish. To be able to help new players, or nest as I please to be a parent for a bit. Day of Dragons promises that experience. But I have gotten none of it. The optimization is awful, the dragons are awful. It's toxic, boring, slow, and all around just an unfun experience. Makes me wish I had half the skill the people working on it did.

I also convinced several friends to biy and try the game because it was SUPPOSED to have a good amount of content dropped for the 1.0. Only to find out 2 weeks before launch that 90% of the promised content would be delayed for the 100th time. Needless to say they were very upset, especially because what they did release was a terrible, buggy mess of an update

staff will ban anyone for *anything* and i saw it for myself. One example are their shitdog server rules which are overly sensitive. My ingame friend got banned for going against an admin because of using caps?? Like i'm genuinely confused why would u ban for that and how could people get triggered by it bro not only that but the community itself is so ass aswell. ask any question and you won't get any reply, ask again and you'll start getting snarky replies such as "it's obvious" "you don't understand at all" "whatever we'll ignore you", ask too many or not understand something and you're getting literally teamed in chat. The sarcasm they have on them is beyond believable for some people who'll get triggered by caps lock their also need to gatekeep anything; restricted areas right? different in literally every server u go across. "you can't land there" or some case i also heard not even "fly above it" like, ??? what makes that place so special?? mushrooms aren't even that valuable they just don't want people to stay too long in their server and eat them for elder or something. fighting grounds either, people can just be told to leave if there's any fight but i don't find any reason for all that extra stuff like banning and stuff game overall is dogwater, everything you listed in the video and the community itself

I love this review. Thank you for calling them out. I had to subscribe and hit the bell!

Man I just wanna play as a dragon :(

I liked this game.. at first. The MOMENT they updated it, it basically became unplayable unless you have some kind of god teir pc, otherwise, you get lag. Yes I know there’s a legacy version, but literally the only reason I still wanted to play this was because of the blitz striker, WHICH STILL HASNT COME OUT.

I am SO glad someone pointed out the Bio dragon plastic look. I was a kickstarter and was so bothered that the ONE dragon we got (when we were promised all of them) looks so low quality. The art and model look WAY lower quality than everything else. He does not care about his kickstarters, just his patreon.

That’s the pathetic part, they choose to not fix things and get offended when people criticize their game.

I had one good experience with a clan, where we kind of got to roleplay (in the ‘I actually feel like im living the life of a dragon’ kind of way) by hiding away in the deep mountains to avoid being killed, but even that felt like a waste of time. We were learning the breeding system, but like, all those hours of effort just to get to C tier stats was somehow more demoralizing than dying as a full adult in the isle. Gunna be real, this game makes me feel like shit in a very special way.

Honestly, as much promise this game holds. To me it’s an ugly match of POT and Evrima gameplay. Slow growth times and tough hardships when you start out like in evrima, but with POTs unnecessarily toxic and sometimes unfair gameplay loop of large mega packs that leave solo players basically out of the question for the most part. The reason why evrima and pot are still playable, is because at least in pots officials you don’t lose more than 10 or 20 minutes worth of quests, and a couple hundred marks, and evrima does pretty well with the immersion and doesn’t have as large mega-mix packs you’d often see in pot, not to mention with cannibalism being punished in the game, you are more likely to find a group and have fun, (unless you play a cannabalistic species like cera and deino but at that point your asking for it). Day of dragons has all the negatives currently, and with the clan systems . . . Yeah . . . (I basically simplified the whole concept of the video, but meh I feel like a lot of people feel this way.)

man... It hurts that I backed this game XD

The thumbnail killed me lmao

Glad you talked me out of wanting this, I deal with enough shitty game staff in Roblox Creatures of Sonaria

10:17 i used to play this game on Roblox called "Creatures Of Sonaria" it's basically a monster or mythical beast version of games in this genre. A unique thing I found they did as a good counter for mix packing is a stress meter... If a player is within a certain range of a player from a different species or diet alignment the player will get a stress meter that slowly builds up overtime and how close in proximity you are. If it reaches 100% you get massive debuffs. (And im pretty sure if you ignore it long enough it starts to drain your health.)

The discourse of "banning players because of criticism" is actually true. I witnessed it whole. Right before I decided to leave their discord because the way the staff was acting was childish. Someone brought actually good concerning stuff about the game, never worded it in a way they seem to think is "inappropriate", and got insta banned, got called a "troll" and never to be seen again. There's an unofficial reddit group on the game as well, where you can state your concerns about the game freely without having to walk on eggshells. Say for example you're criticising the "Disney level of censorship" they have going on, and the people of that unofficial group will back you up by saying "I've had a similar situation happen to me" or "the censorship is so bad, you'd think it's 1984", if you were to state the same concerns on the official groups, you'd get people coming your way to harass you because "skill issue, learn how to properly speak [insert derogatory terms that makes anyone and everyone offended on purpose]". I've had 1 individual do it to me but I blocked and ignored instantly.