I guess many people know the DLC came out of early acess, but there's still a big feeling of emptiness while playing it, like:
- It's missing the adventure mode, RoG didn't add anything new to it, but the changes are easily noticeable, shipwrecked doenst change anything, and I guess there isn't even a Maxwells door or counterpart in this one
- The volcano...Rocks.....Cactus....coffee.......... So, there's also BURNT ash trees, which would always mean there's an 'living' counterpart, but no, kinda missing. Also, besides of Dragoons and the volcano altar, there's nothing that makes the volcano better or even near as good as it's vanilla counterpart, The caves, which of course it's disappointing. DLCs were made to increase the size of the "experience", but this one kind of bites of a chunk of the game (ahem...the ruins). We should at least be able to explore INSIDE the volcano, with lava floods and all that...hot stuff
- The whole concept of sailing. When it was a new thing, it made my jaw drop, but then....updates and more updates later, still the same thing. Home > Island > Island > Home. Of course there are some star moments, like the Quacken battles or the Whale hunt, but overall, it's just an limit to the free running exploration of the Vanilla/Rog worlds
- The characters. We have a surfer, a chef, a monkey and a pirate...... The chef and the pirate are a good addition to the game, but the other two.....
Walani isnt bad at all, but there DEFINITELY no reason to play with her. doubt it? Webber in Rog, he is friendly with spiders, well, this is not the best abilitie of the world, but consider that the game(RoG) is FILLED with spiders, mainly in the caves. even wilson, who doens't have any really important perk(lost this importance when beardlings were added), at least has no drawbacks, which makes him great for begginners of the Vanilla game. Walani "surfs on big waves and gets sanity", great....but gets often wet, which makes her insane again in a infinite loop of insanity... "but dries of quick", yeah....the food don't, oh, food...you mean the one she needs because of the extra hunger modifier? yeah
Wilbur is just a monkey....It makes poop.....friendly with monkeys.......Webber?.......Runs fast
Overall, I felt a bit disappointed. There are great things on this addon, but these are the ones that really felt incomplete.I guess klei set the spectance too high with Reign of Giants and DST, but there's still place for more DLCs like this in my library