Tuesday, June 30, 2015 "My Body is Ready for 1.3."

Tuesday, June 30, 2015
Week: 46
Songs to Remember: Soft Shock - Yeah Yeah Yeahs

        I woke up early today to play the newest update to Terraria, 1.3, early. I woke up at 9:30 AM, got ready and stared at my Steam Library screen, hoping to see it download. I was told to restart Steam and BAM, I see the download finish and my body was ready.

        After finding out that there would be exclusive items available only from bosses in Expert Mode worlds, I decided to jump right ahead and start off with Expert Mode. Started out, ehhhh, okay. Then it got rough. Then rougher. My survivability was going down, while my stress level went up.

        When I read through the changelog for 1.3, it did not say that enemies would have increased health and damage. None at all. But whadya know, I'm sitting here having to kite away from slimes and murdered by cave bats, CAVE BATS. Even some of the enemies were made so cheap on Expert Mode. Like when Medusas kept on petrifying me off-screen. I didn't know what to do, I didn't know what was happening. I had only 120 health and I was having my health halved 'till I was dead.

        And when I finally found out the problem (discovered that it was by a Medusa), I go to fight it, only to find out she has 400 health. What. The. F***. After countless attempts of trying to just, survive underground, hoping to find enough heart crystals to max out my health for now so I can at least not die in 2 hits, I had enough and Expert Mode wasn't letting me have any fun for my 1st Terraria 1.3 experience. So, I switched to normal mode.

        It was a 5 hour session, of me spending in Expert Mode. It then became another 5 hour session, except this time it was for normal mode. Much more progress, much more progress. I guess I'll familiarize myself with strategies and whatnot and get a feel of 1.3 before I take on Expert Mode. It's not really hard, it's just cheap. You just gotta get lucky, it's all luck really. Unfortunately my luck wasn't so great as I had only 140 health after spending much of my time underground. When I tried venturing off to either side, I was either gang-banged by Crimson mobs, or Jungle mobs.

        First impressions of 1.3? Expert mode is not Expert Mode, it's cheapo mode. It's like f***ing Warframe. Same enemies, just that they have more health and damage. The content that they added were much more than I expected. the whole experience feels very new. They even added weapons to support early-game Magic and Melee classes. And Yo-Yo's? I thought they were stupid at first since they didn't really fit in, and that they weren't all that special. I was wrong, it's actually my main weapon right now, heh. Ranged, no mana or ammo usage, knockback, control, all-around good weapon.

        Early-game still does feel kinda slow, just lots of farming for materials to make weapons to cheese the Eater of Worlds/ Brain of Cthulu. I wish there were alternatives to that, I don't know. Still can't wait for hardmode. Now that's when the fun starts. Anyways, I played around 10 hours of Terraria today, probably tomorrow too. Sooo, see you tomorrow.