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TLDR at the bottom.
As the title states before the game had a playable version I choose to be a Founder. For those of you who don't know, being a founder means you pay X amount of money to support the game. You do receive benefits such as a title and banner placement emoji, etc. After seeing the trailer for dauntless, I fell in love with the art, game play, and concept of the game.
I participated in the tech alpha, closed beta, beta, and then played the game on release. After playing for a bit I got distracted with other games and life. I've always looked back at this game and wondered what its current state was, how it was doing, and If I should play again.
Randomly one of my friends told me he downloaded it to try, since hes a huge monster hunter fan. I decided to join him to help him out.
Let me start out with I'm not disappointed in anyway. I'm actually really impressed. The new weapons are unique in their own right and adds a different kind of gameplay. The core gameplay hasn't changed which is fantastic to see. What I mean by core gameplay is that any time you land a hit, combo, slay a behemoth, get the drop you needed, it feels so satisfying when you accomplish it. I remember the devs mentioning it was something they wanted to focus on and I can say from the very beginning of the game that hasn't changed.
Overall not much has changed in the core of the game. What has changed is the quality of life features. The Hud, ui, how you see things has all been improved and is amazing. Being able to see what you break on a behemoth is fantastic. Seeing the health of the behemoth is a cool feature, I don't think is necessary but a cool feature. The indication of the behemoth is the same as the health one to me as well, if you are paying attention you should easily be able to tell if its enraged or aether charged but its still not a bad thing. The biggest improvement to the quality of life features is the damage numbers, it allows you to have very valuable knowledge. What you do with that knowledge will change how good of a slayer you are.
Seeing the new behemoths and the old ones have been amazing. Why the old ones? Because some of them have been updated and their fights are different. Skreav is an example or moonreaver, overall they are the same but there's more about them that's unique in my opinion.
Currently I've played escalations and they are the most addicting thing in the game...so far. Back when I played there wasn't anything besides facing 2 behemoths at once. I'm aware that there are trials and other things in the game I haven't experienced since returning which makes me even more excited to continue playing.
Honestly my only complaint is that every time I comeback to ramsgate I get the notification for a sale in the shop or the Hunter pass. I get it, its free to play and they need to make money but come on. After every hunt?
I just wanted to share my experience and opinion on the game. This game has come a long way and its great to see. I'm actually terrible at English so sorry if any of my grammer is terrible.
Tldr: Founder returns to game after at least a year to see that Dauntless is amazing.
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