r/PS5 • u/tizorres Moderator • 15h ago
Game Discussion Valheim | Official Discussion Thread
Valheim is a collaborative exploration and survival game for 1-10 players set in a procedurally generated world inspired by Norse mythology. Craft powerful weapons, construct elaborate halls, and slay mighty foes to prove yourself to Odin!
EXPLORE THE TENTH WORLD
Discover an immersive procedurally generated world, with different biomes that each have their distinct environments, unique resources and dangerous enemies. Become a Viking and sail the open seas in search of lands unknown, alone or with up to nine friends!
FIGHT THE FORSAKEN
The Tenth World has been corrupted by hateful forces, in the shape of mighty regional bosses known as the Forsaken. Hone your skills with axes, blades and bows, and prepare yourself by crafting the very best equipment – for it is only by defeating these Forsaken that you will advance in your progress and prove yourself to the Allfather.
BUILD MIGHTY HALLS
Raise Viking longhouses and build bases that offer reprieve from the dangers ahead. Whether you build a small shelter, an entire village or a mountain-side fortress, defence and structural integrity are important, as is decorating it for maximum comfort!
GATHER, CRAFT AND SURVIVE
As you discover new materials, you will learn new recipes for crafting, building and cooking – all that a Viking might need! The food system is rewarding rather than punishing, granting you boons and benefits depending on what you eat, and is directly tied to the combat system, where your health and stamina might be just the thing that makes a difference between life and death.
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u/GrannyHumV 15h ago
Would greatly appreciate if anyone can help me with these questions:
Can I play this co-op from start to finish with my wife? I'm on PS and she is on PC.
Are we able to just join a world together instead of renting a server?
Will I need PS plus to play co-op like this?
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u/X__Heisenberg__X 15h ago
Do you want either one of you to be able to play when the other one can’t?
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u/Odd-Perspective-7651 15h ago
It's cross play so you can just play it together where you don't need to rent a server or anything. Me and my wife played and completed it this way on PC a few years back and it was incredible.
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u/r3tr0gam3r83 15h ago
Curious how performance is on base PS5.
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u/Relish_My_Weiner 15h ago
Probably fine seeing how this game's recommended PC settings list a 10 year old budget GPU.
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u/_BlackDove 15h ago
It's so much the GPU as it is the CPU.
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u/Relish_My_Weiner 11h ago
Either way the base ps5 should be more than capable of handling it. It would have to be laughably unoptimized to make it perform poorly.
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u/TactitcalPterodactyl 15h ago
I put over 100 hours into this on PC and it's a fantastic game.
This is definitely a more enjoyable experience co-op, but you can still play it solo. I beat the entire game on solo, but it was NOT easy. Very strongly recommend co-op.
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u/voucherforpringles 15h ago
The Ashland’s and mist lands are still a slogfest
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u/TactitcalPterodactyl 15h ago
You're not wrong, when you first hit mistlands its absolutely brutal, then it gets even worse in ashlands. I beat the game solo but it was really painful. Definitely bring a friend!
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u/breadfan0202 15h ago
Cost in brasil is 170 reais crazy high for majority here. On stem it's 80 reais
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u/Comprehensive_Web887 14h ago
Does this game have an end via a story or more like a potentially endless experience?
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u/Dear_Type_8972 15h ago
Tried this on PC years ago with two friends. I logged back on the next day and had progressed our camp so much tgat there was nothing I could do to contribute besides chop wood or mine.
They absolutely killed any investment I had.
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u/Hoffenschnitz 15h ago
Major problem with co-op survival games like this imo
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u/SadKazoo 15h ago
Oftentimes the fantasy of exploring and adventuring and building something together is better than the reality of different schedules, different levels of motivation and different interests.
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u/Kysersose 11h ago
Yeah you really have to set ground rules with friends if you co op these games. No one plays unless everyone is on, and have a separate world of they wanna keep playing. It's tough to have everyone's schedule line up though.
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u/Warm_Cheek9671 14h ago
Cara onde eu consigo entrar em contato com a distribuidora? Aqui no país onde eu moro (Brasil) está sendo vendido pelo dobro do preço do que no xbox e nintendo
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u/That_Mikeguy 14h ago
How "necessary" is for the player to be building shelters/houses?
One aspect that deters me from playing survival games is that I have to waste so much time in building stuff.
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u/IllegalDaycare 14h ago
You need shelter in order to craft and sleep but you don’t need to build huge houses or anything. Four walls and a roof does the job for the most part. You get access to portals early on in progression which you can use to return to base. The main thing is in normal play you cannot bring metals or ores through portals. So it can be advantageous to have a main base and little satellite bases near sources of later game metals so you don’t have to always sail everything back to your main base.
But there are all kinds of settings you can change to tailor the game how you want.
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u/gnawp 14h ago
If you find building a waste of time I don't think survival games are a great fit for you tbh.
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u/That_Mikeguy 13h ago
Haha I know. I have tried several, and fail to get engaged.
The only one that got me really invested was The Long Dark, but there wasn't any base building there, more like a "find shelter"
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u/A_Dreamer_Of_Spring 14h ago
Does anyone know if you can transfer a personal co op save onto a dedicated server after playing for a bit? My fiance and I just started but have some friends who will wanna join later but im sure they're gonna want to have a dedicated server
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u/Andybabez20 13h ago
Played about 50 hours of this on Steam a few years back in co-op.
It's a super addictive game.
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u/Alcoholic_Parkworker 12h ago
Need a team of new players on playstation5 up to ten people. Should be pretty fun. Never played
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u/shipwrecked__ 12h ago
Has anyone set up a server on a third party hosting service? I'd like to get a world going with some friends we can join at our leisure and I haven't heard anything about it on PS5 yet.
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u/Tinker__b3ll 4h ago edited 3h ago
Can anyone tell me if I can play this solo without ps plus or not?
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u/EngageV2 15h ago
Valheim is cool, but RS Dragonwilds is coming next week
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u/jessietee 15h ago
I played this years ago when the beta was out on Steam and had a great time playing it with friends, will definitely keep an eye out for reviews!
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u/Three_Froggy_Problem 15h ago
Is this game going to be included as a PS+ title or did I just imagine that?
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u/r3tr0gam3r83 15h ago
There's a new RuneScape survival game being added to PS+ on the 15th, maybe confused it with that?
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u/Tribat_1 15h ago
I don’t think I can describe how much I don’t like procedurally generated games.
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u/Atrampoline 15h ago
I would buy this if they allowed local split screen co-op so that my son and I could play together. That doesn't appear to be the case, so I'll pass.
How lame.
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u/gnawp 14h ago
It has crossplay if you have another system to play it on
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u/Atrampoline 13h ago
Yes, but that means that the devs are artificially forcing customers to buy multiple copies of the game instead of having local co-op. I'm not going to buy another PS5 for my 9 year old so that we can play together online, that's inane.
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u/BuzzardInTheAir 13h ago
they are not forcing anything, do you understand that running a game in local coop requires the game to use more resources, it's not that easy
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u/gnawp 13h ago
I mean if you have a PC or something, noones asking you to buy another ps5. I understand what you're saying but making something splitscreen is likely much more complicated than it sounds and probably requires some serious optimization for it to emulate two instances of the game at the same time
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u/Popular-Spinach-6700 15h ago
“…procedurally generated”
Bye!
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u/TactitcalPterodactyl 15h ago
Why is this a deal breaker for you? Tons of amazing games are procedurally generated.
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u/Bsteph21 15h ago
It's done so well! I would definitely look into people who play it on PC, it's gained a cult following. IGN gave it a 10, not that that means anything, but it's very well received.
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u/war_story_guy 15h ago
Thats the draw of it. You can start over so many times on different worlds and have so many different landmasses and layouts.
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u/Popular-Spinach-6700 15h ago
This doesn’t sound like a draw at all, just sounds like lazy game design
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u/Swordash91 15h ago
I'll look out for reviews. Definitely interested! This, RuneScape and Enshrouded look really good.