Talk:Guides/How I Don't Starve/@comment-5.12.199.180-20151118085639

I think this is a guide on how to die on day 3. In fact I don't really have a solution for how to stay alive past day 3... or something like that. Maybe 5. I starve asap, and if I don't starve I'm being murdered before I have a chance to learn anything about this game. I didn't even get to be murdered by some wolves or anything fancy, I get murdered by spiders, because there's just.. no combat mechanic in this game, you hit, they hit you, there's no dodge or parry or evade or kiting or anything, you have extremely small amount of health and you're hitting with an insignificant stick.. they are many, you are 1, you die. I don't even know if I get to hit them, it's impossible to tell the depth, am I aligned with them on the Z axis?? Am I hitting thin air? It's just wrong.

So I tried what you said, cuz it made sense. I got to see a bit of the map, it was great exploration... But the problem is by not setting camp anywhere I don't have armor, food, nothing. So I die. I think I should set some temporary camp somewhere before adventuring. In any case, this piece of **** is starving so fast and the days go by so fast.. it's just mind numbing. I don't have time to think, to plan or anything.

And the UI and the interaction with the game is so difficult, I die because of the UI more than anything. Like I need 5 minutes to find anything in those menus, while 5 minutes is the difference between life and death. And I can't select things on the map, he keeps going the wrong direction. Because I'm trying to select some charcoal behind a tree, and of course it selects the tree instead. And no, I won't press Q and E and get turned around and not understand the map anymore. And the inventory keeps moving stuff around, I never know where my stuff is, and when I need something quickly, all those drawings just look the same, and where is my spear?? No spear. By the time I find it, I'm dead. I even reloaded the game a few times by reloading my saves. I still get in some **** trouble that no game-save can solve... Nothing I do helps with the fact that the game is simply moving fwd at a ridiculous speed and I'm starving faster than I can think of what to do next. : [