As a Deepwoken content creator, I agree with a lot of what you're saying for missing small details, exploration being secondary, and progression being impossible for new players. That type of weakness in Deepwoken is hard to ignore and I instead found myself mostly excited about the build diversity and capability open to all players. The range of ability you can have with different characters and builds is vast compared to most games in general, but getting to that point through progression is a difficult thing they could probably improve upon for the inexperienced player.

As someone who has played since release, the mystery was very prevalent and fun in the first months of game. You'd go to a new island you'd never seen before, and go about it like a stealth mission and be scared of like 10 new monsters. You'd see somebody had a magical weapon they just stumbled upon and was showing to everyone. People found murmurs and oaths and bells and kept them secret and were sort of elite. Plus, you had multiple guilds dedicated to secrethunting and then keeping those secrets! It was a ton of fun, and we've had a few updates that sort of brought that back, but that aspect was certainly what allured me to the game.

Im so glad that someone outside of the deepwoken community is looking in on deepwoken, and actually had an opportunity to talk with the devs because right now the deepwoken community is a massive echo chamber, so ideas like escaping the depths needing to be reworked never gets addressed. I have played deepwoken since its release and i have never rung one of the bells for opening the gates, or seen where they are, because its just easier, safer, and faster to climb the walls. at the same time its hard to complain about voidwalkers in the community because everyone's answer for dealing with voidwalkers is to just "git gud".

I would like to see more deepwoken content from eclipse like review to some oaths or attuments or a simple guide

Thank you. I have been a semi long player of deepwoken and I'm not a very good teacher, so I end up making my friends even more confused and throwing random information toward them mid combat isn't very good for a new player. But essentially making trial of one easy to access for new players is a godsend and makes it much easier.

eclipse as a deepwoken player it seems to me like the devs are actually taking your input seriously, and that is a great thing. it would be amazing if you were to make a video about the voidwalker problem, it has been plaguing this game for such a long time and it really needs to be addressed at some point

im so happy u finnaly decided to give deepwoken a try both the videos were very fun and insightful to watch, i think the community would welcome a new face thats not just endlessly showing 14 year olds things theyve seen a billions of times

I think something along the lines of the guiding light from elden ring would make it easier for newer player to traverse from island to island or not miss important details. Seeing as there are a couple of aspects taken from the soul series and sekiro they could probably implement this "guiding light" as well but with their own twist to it. There wouldn't need to be a written quest for it. The light could also lead to a small note/carving on the walls left by the devs that could give more insight on the island history or purpose. Just and idea. It's up to them how they interpret it of implement it.

watching eclipse talking about deepwoken feels almost surreal, i wasn't watching many videos cuz you never played games that I played, even though i always found your content stupidly entertaining, i'm hoping for more deepwoken videos maybe, if you end up truly enjoying the game :)

A follow up video? This is awesome. Thanks for doing this Eclipse! (You should 100% make a voidwalker video)

one of the most fun part of the game is finding info on the game and sharing it with others. theres a whole discord dedicated to niche info in the game including lore, tech, bugs, and about everything else in the game. in the past when verse 2 released, there was an oath that nobody knew about until one person found it. he didnt share the method to get it but the oath being in the game caused a ton of players to talk to other npcs and do specific things to find the oath. the hunt for it was fun and i hope more content in the future is like it. it sucks that new players have to learn most things from the wiki instead of word of mouth but the experience of looking and finding new content that has no info on it is very fun.

The "forge of sin" quest is a simple quest from an important npc you get after fulfilling requirements which has you enter a dungeon server to fight some minions and a boss which has great benefits and I feel quest like this fit well with the game and has fun lore

Loved the video! Really hope you'll do more videos on Deepwoken; and I'm interested on how you'll tackle Voidwalkers

Something to fix things is easily the spawn area NPC, he should explain certain things to you when you die, like what a voidwalker is, or warning you “if you lose a fight here I’m afraid you’ll likely be Depthsent, like the lot of your crew”

Im so happy that you started making deepwoken content. My fav roblox youtuber doing content on my fav roblox game. It is good to see you making content on something you actually like while also getting views cuz deepwoken content is popular. Also i realized you are very good at game balancing so it might be healthy for the game's balancing too.

Oh boy I cannot wait for that a voidwalker video. There’s also the issue of the fact the Dephts trial should take place in a separate instance, instead of the same server, because that just opened up the opportunity for lag to kill you. Meanwhile, if the depths trial was in its own separate instance, like the Duke fight it would be so much less frustrating to go through

These are all really good suggestions if I'm being honest, new players are always fun to run in to in-game and I always try to teach them something or give them an item of some sort, that being said the end-game content is also really dry and experienced players currently have nothing to do except progress new builds with oaths and attunements and weapons they've already used before over and over, none of the current bosses are challenging once you've beaten them once or twice.

Pretty cool to see I really would’ve liked a question to be “what is the process for deciding what to add ingame how do you decide balance changes etc) because the balancing is pretty notorious for being 90% nerfs and 10% buffs

I'm glad you did an interview your questions are really good and this vid may enlighten and help new players who's procrastinating on buying the game, love how the interview go wish that you'll get to arch mage in a voice call love the vids mann

Good Video. I love the DK64 music background, it brings me good ol' memories back 🥲

As somebody that is very passionate about this game (despite not playing it much anymore) seeing somebody from outside the community with actual brains talk about this game in a critical manner like this is extremely refreshing. I agree with basically every point you made in this video The point you made about the games obscure content and design is especially interesting because the game originally when it came out was even more so obscure than it is now. The tutorial didn’t even exist, nor did trial of one, and the order you were supposed to do islands in was even more confusing. Monad Studios has a history of games where the experience is basically locked behind knowledge and the wiki, mostly just Rogue Lineage. Post launch of Deepwoken they seemed to have attempted to remedy this with trial of one and the tutorial (both very needed additions) but the game is still left in this weird middle ground of lack of information, and attempting to give the player information. While I (personally) love wiki warrior games with obscure systems, I know that isn’t for everyone and I’m all for changes to improve Deepwokens experience. Thanks if you actually took the time to read my comment, and I’d love to see more content from you on the game (Also if you could make that voidwalker video that would be great, maybe the devs would finally listen and something would get done about them)

more deepwoken content from eclipse would be an absolute treat

just an idea if anyone wants to put it in suggestions A guide book that all castaway origin players spawn in with. It’s kinda like the journal suggestion from Redcappedshroom/thattoddlimey, but instead parts of the book are filled in as a sort of basic guide to new players. The other sections are all washed out and faint, since the player has been in a shipwreck (first guy at the inn you talk to could just say “we also found this on you”). The destroyed sections are where the player “writes on top”, basically the game fills in info as you encounter. It’s mainly just for new players since they need a starting point as I feel like the beginning tutorial isn’t often enough (but i mean dumping more info that they likely wont use for a while is a bit too much for a hardcore game like deepwoken) so the book is a kind of a way to keep that sense of mystery and exploration without relying on guides. The text could be written from the perspective of a traveller, maybe vague directions to etris (like “a port-side turn from the statue” (from etris) or smth with the sun’s direction) and recounting his experiences on this “strange land”. Probably should hint at areas like the sharko cave or temple of forgotten flame in the faint text, like some encounter with an “unknown beast”. There’s just so a lot more content that new players likely dont know without guides, it’s good to tease how much, and the map design on etris kinda hides them too. TLDR it basically turns deepwoken into a mystery so players know where to search to get the next bit of info. It’s kinda meant to inspire that same sense of awe and exploration of deepwoken day 1 but on a more individual scale without guides.

Regarding the word of mouth thing, while I agree for some things should be less gatekept, like trial of one, word of mouth is still important, as it is often not feasible to use the wiki, especially when you don't even know what to look up. You yourself said that in your review video, that even after using the wiki ya'll still got mauled, and only after being with ppl who knew stuff were you able to advance more(though admittedly this may not be a good thing), in general learning the ins and outs can't be done well just though the wiki for a lot of stuff.

i highly agree with your take on question 3, the fact you cant even see how much damage mantras do is actually so tedious, to check mantra damage and compare it to non upgraded/before and after talents etc, you have to get a friend and do some maths for like 10 minutes every single time, it frustrates the hell out of me.

very good video, I think it brought up a lot of good questions and concerns for the game but there are some things I felt were a little iffy to me. like the thing about the wiki, this could just be because I started deepwoken a week after release but I've only gone on the wiki for making builds to see talent requirements or stats for items. The rest was pretty much word of mouth or KZfaq which is expected as who doesn't watch videos on the game they play? the game NEEDS a more of a structed walk through on the earlier stages of the game and maybe not getting stained your first couple of deaths but beyond that I think the difficulty and cryptic / hidden areas add to the charm of the game, this sort of idea were every location you go to could have some little secret that you didn't even know existed that could unlock or elevate you gameplay. And ofc the void walk situation is a mess for new players and even veteran players when you are just trying to progress, 100% needs changed or out right removed. Oh and last thing but maybe most important, it's way better to go into deepwoken bearing in mind that it's a pvp game with pve progression.

Something that might be good to add would be some type of guide in-game, like an entity encyclopedia where you can read about things such as mantras, progression etc. basically an in-game wiki lmao Things could be in there such as: Controls Progression tutorial (in a text format, duh) Explaining mantras etc.

i have never thought about some of these stuff in my time playing deepwoken like the bells to open the gate, everyone just climb on top of the walls. also inaccessibility to new players is something i rarely think about since i already know what i want to do and how to do it before i even start playing i never realize how big the game actually is and how hard it is to grasp for someone completely new and fresh.

Yo, thanks for bringing the TO1 changes to arch’s mind… they just added your suggestion and freshies from now on will be able to pick up the game faster thanks to you

Loved the vid eclipse, I'd really enjoy a video about voidwalkers.

There couldnt be a vid that would suprise me more, great video and suprise

Gigachad eclipse strikes again with a banger interview video

Starting out in deepwoken almost a year and a half ago now ive watched the game grow and overcome alot of changes. I know basically everything but at the time, it was just me and my friend sailing around and exploring blindly trying to put together whatever we overcame and found, upon finding the hive (Starswept) we just started there now knowing where to go.

I 100% agree with trial of one. I have kinda bad ping but also just suck, so I was never able to get the to1 origin. I eventually just stopped playing the game because I felt like I hit a skill wall. Getting the origin way quicker would certainly help with that.

You mad lad you actually did it. The latest deepwoken patch just addressed lot of the things you brought up including making the trial of one available after u wipe and voidwalker now only needing 5 kills.

Thank you for talking to the devs are start making changes and putting new ideas in the devs head

it's a small thing, but imo they should change what your "default" spawn is. atm most people will go to etris even though it's the very obviously worse option. isle of vigils is just a better islands for beginners (and in general) because of the trainig guy you can fight without worry of dying, and also the smith having cloth near him to buy so you can more easily get your first armor.

Thank you for shining the spotlight on the voidwalker issue, im okay with fighting back against voidwalkers, but my issue is that they can interupt you when you are doing anything at all, fighting another guy or even fighting mobs

Maybe what they should do is if you die in lower by a mob if you are a cast away you are not stained or depths sent but sent to the isle of vigils and a new quest pops up and says “find where you are” and then you get sent into the vigils trainers

For now I have played Deepwoken for about 2 years now, and honestly Its still pretty hard for me to deal with Voidwalkers, Strong monsters ( Deep owls, Threshers, Layer 2 etc) but it is really fun to defeat something that you have been stuck on for a long time. All i have to say is that i hope deepwoken gets easier for the new players joining this dark souls of a game.

I think they definitely should make waypoints or maps or smthing for the beginner to get to know the game better

something i find funny is that before the game released there was this stranger system. you could see peoples names on tab-list unless they said their characters name to you. neat feature, sad it didnt see the light of day

Little tip if you want the pvp benefits of a guild without being in one, make a vow of alliegence with the guild leader of said guild

As someone who has played since release (and was a rogue player before that God rest it's soul). I can see some of the qualms you have with the game but some of those (at least for me) a lot of people see as a pro. For example in rogue, knowing how to get ANYWHERE is 10x worse than deepwoken and pretty much required a wiki. People enjoy this, people enjoy learning how to play the game slowly. Even as someone who has played since release, i still use the wiki a lot and there is stuff i still havent discovered just because no one mentioned it to me. I personally think this is a great addition and something you only find in monad games or monad style games. The main quest part of the game is something that most deepwoken players wanted on release. That is what rogue players thought deepwoken would have on release. This was one of the most disappointing parts about deepwoken on release as we felt it was false advertised. The lore is flushed out and could really be supported by a main quest where you play through based on your origin. (For Example as a castaway you slowly learn the secrets of who lord regent really is and in the end fight him). This is a double edged sword though, i like the idea of some newbie trying out the game and making their way to void sea and getting ambushed by kaido (dread serpent). The game is meant to be hard, and it isn't really meant to be like other games. This is something seen in all monad games even arch mage's personal game tales from the valley. Also arch mage, the person you were dming, is not a content dev rather a backend dev working on systems and balancing. A good person to talk to instead would have been ragoozer as he is the person who has the directive control over the game (arch mage obviously has some too) but in the end ragoozer is the owner. This is kinda a ramble so TLDR; Wikiwoken (i think) is a good thing. Main quest missing is something sad, game meant to be hard, try pressing f.

It’d be cool if their were beastiary that you could buy pages to in Lower Erisa near the gate for like 5 notes each mob

This truly was our deepwoken

I've had Deepwoken since Christmas of last year, but I really started getting into it once I finally made it past power 1. Me and one of my friends figured out a method to prevent being hunted by voidwalkers. You don't even have to PVP! (Note: Voidwalkers can ONLY hunt you if you are enemies or lower than that.) 1. If you use the castaway origin (and maybe lone warrior too, I would need someone to check.) You start with low reputation with The Ministry, Knives of Eylis, and The Hundred Legions. You can't pay off your Knives rep, but in both Luminants, an event will spawn where it's Knives VS. Etrea. It's two ships beside each other, one's burning, the other has red sails. If you do enough of those events, your rep with the Knives will become neutral. 2. For The Ministry, you have some options. You could kill a player on Lower Erisia, a quest given by a man on the island with 4 statues. Or do the same thing in Songseeker Wilds, this time by another man on one of the smaller islands near Summer Isle. You could also take the easier way of farming Children Of Navae (Navae for short.) VS. Ministry events. 3. Getting rep for the Legion is a little bit riskier, since your only choices are (to my knowledge...) Authority VS. Legions in Starswept Valley, or rarely, you could find an Authority VS. Legion event in Towerstruck Lands, and Upper Erisia. I found my 2nd one at the Temple of Forgotten Flame, which is above the bandit camp in Lower Erisia. And once you do all of those 3, voidwalkers can't get a bounty on you since you have no enemies, and that means killing you isn't worth their time since they can't teleport to you, have X-Ray vision of you for a short time, and they won't get a massive chest just from killing you. Your only threat from players are now gankers. Specifically, Dawnwalkers are most likely to jump you, atleast from what I know. Hope this helps anyone who reads it!

I love deepwoken a lot, however I agree with some of the flaws you say the game has, because I've tried introducing new players and I don't know how to let them learn the game at all, I have to explain everything because the game doesn't tell you much at the start, so I have to basically carry them trough it.

The deep... Truly has called to eclipse

Im coming at this late, but after your first wipe, instead of going to fragments, imagine just waking up in trial of one. If you beat it, you still get wiped, possibly by something taking you back down to the depths, and if you die same thing, but it'd unlock the origin and it'd be super cool.

hey tip you whould only know if it was told to you but you can get rip of voidwalkers if you get neutrul or posotive knives of eylis reputation it makes it so they cant hunt you anymore and dont get rewards for killing you

As a deepwoken player, I loved it when opera took 90% of my RAM from all the wiki tabs

Such an easy solution to the games issue with a lack of direction would be to have NPCs who can give you hints or some vague guidance. Say that in every town there is an Attunement master or Attunement merchant in every mantra shop. You can speak to them and ask them about different attunements, and they will give you hints as to where the trainers can be found. Maybe when asking about Shadowcast they'll say something about how "It can be found in a basement, hidden in the military district of the city of Celtor, down in the Depths below." It's enough direction that not all players will immediately default to the wiki, and the info itself is in places that players who've been paying attention to the towns and the game will logically find. Hell they could even link NPCs and have them reference each other. It would make the world feel more alive and again improve on the lacking sense of direction. Say you see someone use some crazy attack you've never seen before. You speak to the Attunement master and at the bottom there's a dialogue option that asks "What about other magics?" for when none of the attunements they describe fit the description of what you saw. Upon selecting this option the Attunement master will inform you about Oath Magic and perhaps monster mantras. They could direct you to an NPC that knows about Oaths, or inform you about Dr. Carrion in the second layer.

Looking things up on the internet or asking people really isn’t a problem. I like that the game doesn’t feed you everything, it just doesn’t feel like the atmosphere and variety options are all that open world. It would feel more like a simulator where you can just follow a simple quest line where everything is somehow shown to you. It also wouldn’t work for deepwoken because theres so much variety and little things that I cant even imagine how youre supposed to implement ways to tell about all of these attunements, oaths, weapons, bosses, bells, enchants, etc through ingame. It would just ruin the open world aspect, at that point you would HAVE TO be following some kind of main quest storyline that everybody has to go through. It’s like this with games like YBA and Arcane Odyssey, and it ends up ruining the open world mmo rpg aspect of it, it just feels so stale no matter how you try to just “present” these options without imposing them. I like deepwoken because you can do everything how you want to do it, progress and make your build how you want to with almost no influence. If you want to learn something, you can ask in the discord or wiki pages, I find that more immersive in finding things out rather than just being shown all the options and the game telling you to pick. Like even the lone warrior origin which a lot of people prefer, it’s not forced. Some people like the deepbound or voidwalker origins better.

I've been playing deep since release and I've gotten pretty much everything in the game except for a crypt blade (it's haunted me for ages) I've even hacked in the game before (not proud of this) my look a lot of the things you said is true voidwalkers do need a counter and it would also add more content to game having a origin where you hunt voidwalkers and now that deepwoken is pretty much explored I do think deepwoken should have a better tutorial but the aspect of the game throwing you into wilderness with no help was genuinely fun I remember thr first time me and my friends fought a deep owl we all died but we weren't mad we were laughing I think this aspect helped deepwoken pop off for the first few months and to add on to that resonances were such a mystery for at least a month or 2 because no one could generally figure out how it worked. A lot of the aspects deep had from rogue was really good for the game and process of dying to something cool or seeing something you wanted really drived people to play more I think they shouldn't stray away from the mystery word of mouth thing but just make it more fun and reasonable like proper quests that explain what your about to get into

hey eclipse maygbe you can make a short guide on this game with some starter tips i believe it would be a nice video and could keep the deepwoken train going

Hey Eclipse I love the video especially this deepwoken content when ever there is a next time do you think you could ask arch will he ever add console support I don’t just mean with controller because I don’t think it would be realistic for a game like deepwoken to have controller support but me getting a ps5 and it significantly outperforming my old desktop could you see if they are eventually looking into adding it as long as you have a keyboard and mouse to hook into your console

Honestly i'd like to see deepwoken videos of you, you genuienly looko at the game in a diffrent way then most people

I agree with this on a "most people experience it" like that as most people do use google to search for things like that But as a player that likes to play deepwoken without a guide to experience the actual world that they wanted me to experience, it actually feels great

I actually LOVE the idea of a faction/origin thats tasked with defending players against voidwalkers. that is such a cool idea.

i think deepwoken needs npc dialouge that actually helps. in every game i play i talk to every npc incase they have useful info, in deepwoken i just get random gibberish lore or a quest for a magic i cant use. it gets annoying because there is like no npc that tells you like "Do you know about those shark monsters? I heard that they live in damp caves" or something like that. i had to look up wiki to figure out where the shark monster is so i can kill them for the umbral obsidian.

I ain't gonna like about your idea of a "testing arena" I really want to see a sort of hall of legends once you get like, C rank after dying its unlocked and it grows each time u get a new rank And once you kill a monster or die to it or whatever you unlock a wooden doll kinda thing that attacks you like the monster Same with unlocking talents and using them, once you've got a talent or weapon ONCE you can get a "wooden" version in the hall of legends that allows you to try out new builds with new weapons and enchants Maybe lore for W rank players [aka maxed hall of legends]

Your opinion on the third question is honestly wild IMO. Just because someone can search something up doesn’t mean it should be put right in front of their face. Plenty of games that are successful have done the same as deepwoken more importantly triple A games not just indi devs. Examples that come to mind are resident evil games, souls like games, or any type of game that rewards players for exploring. Deepwoken just takes it up a notch and with it being a multiplayer game allows the community to spread things through word of mouth. Deepwoken still being a relatively small game seeing as how it is on Roblox means that not much of the game is actually on the wiki, and you be surprised at how much stuff is still word of mouth. I could on and on about how you made sense with your rant at all. Also I feel you are fairly unfamiliar with the rogue like genre.

I have been playing deepwoken for about a year now and i always thought that the gate just spawns opened sometimes

seeing how much arch mage said he should add and what is added now is absurd, so many things from this conversation has been put into the game

Ngl I've played since release, never knew that gate in the depths was meant to be opened

i was woken from a deep sleep went on youtube and started watching this this video

honestly i think there IS merit and enjoyment to be found in the mystery and difficulty behind progression and practice always having risk, but gatekeeping content in a rebirth game like this simply doesn’t work well when, as you’ve said, people kill each other, and then you just… look it up 😢

I belive the best way to make new player experience is by simply just putting a text book in game whit everything you need to know to get started

8:28 it has reached pretty big numbers before even reaching 50k+ concurrent players when layer 2 release

What you should have asked him is "WHEN IS THE IGNITION UNION ORIGIN COMING ARCH"

The tutorial could be really cool the ship your on gets attacked you fight some people and then you get overpowered and sent to the depths where it shows you how to escape

if deepwoken had a good tutorial it would be a 10/10

Yo if eclipse starts making mainly deepwoken videos that be the most funny thing ever

The whole hunting down content creators isnt really a thing anymore, the ganking culture of deepwoken is more directed to guild ganking so if your a small guild that hasnt done anything or said anything people would usally leave you alone

this ones sanity mustve already crumbled

The way eclipse is so nice with his cat

I wish for gameplay (Bosses), you probably have to youtube how to encounter the bosses ngl aswell

I just started playing the game a couple days ago, and literally once I started I looked up “best boons and flaws in deepwoken” and “ isle of vigils or etrea”. I’ve actually played the game a year and a half ago I believe and I was immediately turned off once I got killed once because nothing was explained and I had no idea what to do and I was too lazy to look everything up. I do think the game is easier than it was before, but it is definitely not inviting to new players. I got all the way to power 14 and went to the hive and got killed by a blue megalodaunt (wouldn’t you know I looked up what that was too). Regarding the trial of one, before doing the trial of one (I didn’t even know it existed until my friend was telling me tips about the game and randomly mentioned it) I looked up videos on how defeating certain mobs (such as sharko and golem) and I still had a very troubling experience. Then I randomly got the minityrsa origin and I don’t even know how I got it, so I chose it and had no idea where I was then couple seconds later I was in the trial of one. It took me a couple days to beat the trial of one (I literally just beat it today as well) and the difference from before the trial of one and after is astonishing. I feel like the trial of one should be made more obvious because minityrsa is confusing and people might hold off on it because they are used to etrea or isle of vigils. Another thing is how builds and stats are explained in game (which are not explained very well in my opinion) and I am still struggling on making builds, and yt videos and the wiki have not really helped me so I turned to my friends for help and it was actually explained better. Overall if the game had a little more guidance I think it would be a much better game and I would be enjoying it more (not saying I’m not enjoying it). Deepwoken is definitely one of the better if not the best game I’ve played on roblox and I can’t wait to play more.

Eclipse thinking his questions are stupid and negative has clearly yet to see the average fan artists' question towards Archus Magus and Ragoober

When I played it might have just been my ping, but I found parrying impossible, there’s such an incredibly small window for blocking/parrying, that it was almost impossible for me to do it, even on 1v1s

You've probably already been told this but if you click on the quest you can remove it. While it's more of a band-aid on the problem it does get rid of the quest.

"Sail to Lower Erisia" does go away, but idk how it happened to me.

i see a lot of people saying that the perma-death system is useless and just hurts the game and i kind of agree cuz it doesn’t really add that much but if they did remove it what would happen with the depths? what if you just die in the depths or layer 2 just jump in the void and stuff or die to ethiron or after u kill ethiron you fail to escape in time? what would happen at the times where you would get wiped if they removed the perma death because i feel like just respawning would be kinda bad.

That is such a cute cat man. I love it

Dude Yes! Guilds need to be togglable. I've been hunted multiple times because people wanted me to call a guild war because they were bored and its just so frustrating.

eclipse on the whole cryptic thing, the wiki is fully fleshed out right now but on release there was no info the wiki even if its the "official wiki" its not created or managed by the deepwoken dev team its maintained by the community, even if right now as a new player you check the wiki to find out stuff when the wiki was first created the players found the information from within the game, discord and lore and posted the information online for people to use freely, this is why they said that it's intended for stuff to be cryptic within the game if you played this game on release during the first few months when we didn't know anything about the game and had to interact with the community as a whole to figure stuff out you may not dislike it as much as you do now although in the current state the game is right now it makes no sense why the stuff is still cryptic within the game

I would love that voidwalker video.

Quick note on voidwalkers while they seem annoying trust me they have it a lot worse because they only way they can level up once you hit around power 14 is PvP and with Roblox jank it makes higher lvl voidwalker bounties a pain but it is the most active progression path

My Deepwoken new player experience was pretty hard, my friend and i got robbed and gripped and he decided to help me in the depths but ended up wiping. My pc was also not very good and i struggled alot with enemies, but the thing that got me through and helped me was the same as for you,the trial of one. Now as a pretty decent player i enjoy deepwokens huge world and diversity. I also wanted to address the voidwalker question, as a new player i used to just log whenever i saw one, but as a voidwalker right now its really boring, like when you are tryna get a bounty it logs, or you can go " oh a good bounty" but the ping is terrible. "Oh good ping" but no good bounties available . "Oh good ping AND good bounties?" but they have the whole guild in the server. But there needs to be like a timer in which new players get enough experience before they are able to face a voidwalker, since most of the time they are A LOT better at the game. And as a voidwalker i often tend to hunt bounties 1 star higher than me for more fun and experience, but also because 1 star bounties are usually new players who won't parry any single one of your attacks and just die, so i don't hunt them because i was like them once, and want them to progress without any stress

I’m not sure if you ever noticed, however the only way to actually get the quest to go to Erisea ( at least for castaway ) is to ask the beginning guy who loosely explains what to do before heading to Erisea. So, this quest is entirely optional, and if you choose to not ask him for money. YOU WILL NOT GET THE QUEST.

just so you know the anti void walkers are the void walkers. they can take bountys up on each other. bit of a flawed system

Honestly ive been playing deepwoken since it came out and yeah i had a freind to help me get started but he told me to watch a video. And there are groups that specifically hunt voidwalkers

When I started deepwoken I went to lower Erisia as power 1. A Sharko obliterated me. Then a voidwalker came and killed me, back then I didnt know it was a voidwalker. Then I went to the depths and a group of people jumped me, I suppose contractors. I quit and never played the game again for about a month.

i really do want that voidwalker video

I think what Eclipse forgets id that when Deepwoken released, just like Elden Ring or Dark Souls is that when those games first came out, there wasn't a wiki, there wasn't hundreds of videos detailing the game and it's intricacies. Back then, it truly was through word of mouth where things were and how to get to them, things being hidden and hard to find was a character for the game itself, exploration being rewarded for charting into the unknown and hostile environment. However the reality is, what mystery existed back then, doesn't magically keep existing years later. So the early philosophy for the game doesn't work anymore, which is why updating the game to help exploration makes more sense now than back in the early days. That's my opinion.

Love if you actually made a video on voidwalkers, i also reccomend you unlock it and try a lil bit yourself as well before you talk about it fully spoiler its flawed on both sides.

Bro i remember when you were doing yba content and now deepwoken? This is crazy

The video is great and all, but the cat interference was absolute 💯💯💯

i agree with him on 3, i love games like that. while its true you need a wiki i like to only search up important things on the wiki