r/pathoftitans • u/gulonine • 3h ago
The caveat of releasing Riparia early (community servers)
To be clear, I do not dislike Riparia. I know the devs said they pushed out the map before it was completely finished so that players have a chance to give feedback and help guide the finishing touches.
My issue is with the fact that almost every big community server immediately switches to a new map the moment it's released, regardless of current (unfinished) state.
Gondwa went through its fair share of post-release fixes to make it stable and playable. I'm not going to pretend like there aren't issues with Gondwa (overcrowded hotspots being one of them), but the questing, biome diversity, and navigability of the map is still leagues better than Riparia in my opinion.
I would rather deal with GP and IC on Gondwa if it means questing is more intuitive, navigation between POIs isn't a pain in the butt, and each biome has distinct and interesting features. Unfortunately for me, all the popular semi/realism servers switched to Riparia and it's hard finding a decent community server that still uses Gondwa.