Why does the Moon Quay Update feel so off? Update Review | Don't Starve Together
2,480In which I discuss the new content added in the Curse of the Moon Quay update, and why it feels so off - as though it doesn't really fit into the rest of Don't Starve Together. Also, I briefly discuss the new Wickerbottom and Wortox refreshes.
Timestamps:
00:00 INTRO
01:21 BOATING BITS AND BOBS
05:21 THE MOON QUAY ISLAND
10:10 OTHER STUFF
13:10 WICKED BUTTOCKS AND WORTOX CHANGES
15:43 OUTRO
♫Music Used: ♫
♫Donkey Kong Country Returns: Jungle Hijinx♫
♫Com Truise - Silicon Surfactants♫
♫Night in the Woods Vol.1: Food Donkey♫
♫Night in the Woods Vol.1: Pierogi Toss♫
♫Alex Heflin - Don't Starve Shipwrecked Acoustic Cover♫
♫Donkey Kong Country Returns: Mast Blast♫
♫Sarin Sunday - Malachite (The Lonely Hike)♫
♫Donkey Kong Country Returns: Pinchin Pirates♫
♫Donkey Kong Country Returns: Beach Overworld♫
♫Donkey Kong Country Returns: Palm Tree Grove♫
I AM NOT CLAIMING OWNERSHIP TO THE MUSIC USED
Curse of the Moon Quay adds a number of boating upgrades to the game. I’m always eagerly anticipating these – anything to pad out the tediousness of sailing the world.
The first of these is the Grass Boat – a hastily thatched-together raft made of nothing more than plant fibers. This boat is smaller, and can’t be upgraded or built on in any way; oh, and it’s health is constantly draining. (although notably, it can’t spring leaks) {VERIFY} This tool might seem useless at the surface – why would I want to be constantly sinking on the open seas? Well, the grass boat is extremely cheap to make – 8 grass and 2 sticks is all you need. Meaning, if you’re a depraved resource hoarder like me, you’re always going to have the requisite ingredients on hand. So if you’re ever stranded on a distant isle – or, your main boat is about to sink – the grass boat makes an excellent panic button. It’s also quite handy if you see one of Pearl’s bottles near the shore in the early days, before you’ve obtained a wooden boat. If you’re particularly gutsy, and have lots of grass to repair the thing with, you can also use it to explore the ocean straight away – but this is pretty risky for obvious reasons. In this situation you’d probably be better off using Woodie’s goose transformation to search the seas.
Next on the list is the Cannon. Now, I won’t lie, I was pretty excited for a weaponised addition to your boat, but the Cannon, as it is right now, is kind of a letdown. It’s extremely pitiful when it comes to damage and range – feeling more like a glorified spud gun to fire. Especially considering that every single shot costs gunpowder and stone, you’d be better off just boarding your enemy and hitting them with swords, the old fashioned way.
There’s also the issue that there isn’t really anything to shoot with the cannons on the ocean – and although this update does add a new floating target to the game, it’s still much easier to deal with it using melee weapons.
Complimentary to the Cannon is the Rudder, a new boat upgrade which can be used to rotate your boat. Surprisingly enough, this was never a feature beforehand, and personally I don’t really see why this has to be it’s own structure, and can’t just be an inherent feature of the Steering Wheel. It doesn’t make sense in relation to how real boats work, and it’s also annoying having to account for yet another boat controlling item on your raft. That being said, it’s far from necessary, and is mostly needed for aiming cannons, which makes them extremely clunky to aim and fire, because by the time your boat has sluggishly turned around, your target has probably moved again.
The monkey curse is such a strange addition to the game, because as it serves, there’s not really any purpose to this. If you dislike your character choice so much that you’d rather play as a monkey, just- change character? The curse itself isn’t really punishing since you only need bananas to get rid of it, and guess what? Bananas literally grow in bushes right in front of the Monkey Queen, so calling it a punishment is a bit of an overdramatization. I’m going to assume that monkey-mode is going to get some other functionality in the future (perhaps to do with future updates), because I really can’t piece together why else it really exists right now.
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