Hytale's Insane Spawn Rates made me do something I'll never forgive myself for

I was never really big Minecraft fan. Call me a heretic, I guess, but every time I tried to get into it, I just couldn't. Yet somehow, Hytal it has its hooks in me. Even without Adventure Mode available during Early Access, it still feels like it has more structure than Minecraftand I feel like I have a stronger sense of purpose. I also enjoy the combat and the different weapons available – especially the bow. And maybe that's it Hytal reminds me Portal knightsanother sandbox RPG that I have a weakness for. In any case, I can't stop playing it, even though its early access status and the bugs that come with it annoy me from time to time.

Speaking of bugs, Hytal currently has some crazy spawn mechanics that I'm sure will be fixed eventually, but for now they frustrate me to the core. In my experience, they mostly occur when I'm underground, although they might be more noticeable when I'm underground due to the closer quarters. I can basically kill the few enemies I see in the area, just turn around for a brief moment and five or six more enemies that weren't there before will spawn right above me. Hytal it's not a difficult game by any means, but such mechanics can make it unnecessarily demoralizing at times. In fact, after one of the last encounters with the game's strange spawning mechanics, I was so outraged by the outcome that I committed what I would consider the unforgivable sin.

Difficulty in games matters to me

When I was a kid, I played every game on Easy difficulty if the difficulty options were available. I didn't care to know at the end of the day that I had completed the game on its hardest difficulty. Bragging didn't really appeal to me either. I'm not a competitive person, so being better than someone else means very little to me. All I really wanted was to be able to play the game without getting frustrated with it, see its story if it had one, and feel like an overpowered hero all the way through.

However, as I got older, being better than the me I was yesterday became one of my core values – as cheesy as that sounds. I don't necessarily want to be better than anyone else, but if I can improve myself in any way and walk away with the sense of accomplishment that comes with it, I'll go down that road in no time. I have the same philosophy when it comes to games. I'm tired of playing games on the easiest difficulty because I know that if I'm patient I can handle the harder difficulties and I've put in the practice necessary to succeed. In fact, I refuse to play Fate 2 campaigns on anything but legendary difficulty because it helps me grow as a player and the rewards that come with it are definitely a bonus as well.

Hence what I just did Hytal is something I will never forgive myself for.

Funky Spawn Hytale's mechanics made me do what I call cheating

I played solo on my own world, ironically named “Hyrule”, clearly in honor of my undying love for The Legend of Zelda. For the most part, it was a relaxing experience because I could play at my own pace, do my own thing, and no one was looking over my shoulder with critical eyes. Every time I start playing, I venture into the wilderness of my world in search of new locations and better resources to advance my base production. Mostly my adventures in Hytal they are fulfilling, rewarding and, at best, memorable. Other times, little pre-access knots get in my way and back me into a corner.

I'm tired of playing games on the easiest difficulty because I know that if I'm patient I can handle the harder difficulties and I've put in the practice necessary to succeed.

While adventuring underground during the recent Hytal session, I found a number of resources that I searched high and low. Needless to say, I did whatever it took to fit everything I absolutely needed into my inventory, even if it meant leaving some things behind. Unfortunately, all that work trying to get back to my base with what I needed most was lost in the end HytalIt's a weird spawn mechanic – well, most of the work anyway.

After clearing the area of a few enemies and then naturally assuming I could farm more resources, what seemed like only a few seconds passed before a whole new wave of different enemies appeared above me, seemingly out of nowhere. I had no choice but to run away after being overpowered, but that sent me straight into a new batch of monsters and it was over. To be honest, it was one of those frog monsters (they call them “Bams” now). Hytal community) that ultimately brought me. They just won't let you get away, no matter how hard you try.

See, the thing about dying in a survival game Hytal with the default world setting on, you will suffer an inventory penalty. With this inventory penalty in my world (because, remember, I don't play games on the easiest difficulty), I threw away most of what I had just spent a significant amount of time farming. To top it off, I was far from home with no teleporter and it was late enough to quit the computer immediately.

I was totally demoralized. I didn't feel like playing anymore. In fact, I was so upset that I thought I needed to take some sort of more permanent break Hytal. Of course, I didn't, and instead decided that I didn't care about playing on the easiest difficulty in this game – at least until Adventure Mode came out. So I went into my world settings and turned off Inventory Penalties on death, which would make me hold on to these rare resources the next time I die with them in hand. I also went ahead and turned off fall damage as well, just so I could go back to the death spot on the map and then just kick the ground until I fell on all the items I dropped.

Mostly my adventures in Hytal they are fulfilling, rewarding and, at best, memorable. Other times, little pre-access knots get in my way and back me into a corner.

What made me change them Hytal the setting ended up not only being that I wanted to make the game easier, but also that I felt betrayed by the game's spawning mechanics, which gave my enemies an unfair advantage against me. Once the spawn rates are fixed (assuming it's a bug) I'll turn on the inventory penalty and knockback damage, but until then I'm perfectly fine with “cheating” on it.

I know I'm not alone in my experience either, as I had to go online to see if other players were experiencing the same problem, if only to make sure I wasn't going crazy. One Reddit post by Nickers1501533 seemed to echo my sentiment, asking the community if HytalThe spawn mechanic is an intended feature or if it's a bug that will eventually be fixed. Another post by dreyken974 shamelessly referred to the game's spawning mechanics as annoying, which is true, if a bit of an understatement.

It could be a “git gud” scenario from a certain perspective, but if you've been playing Hytal and you've experienced its strange spawn mechanics firsthand, then you'll understand. And maybe I'm being a bit dramatic when I say that I've committed a sin I'll never forgive myself for, but that's how seriously I take difficulty in games. I'm not the type to enjoy smooth sailing unless I've had to deal with how smooth it is. However, in HytalAs it stands, I'm fine with doing this as a default until I have more control over my destiny.