Grounded: The Sad Reality of the Fully Yoked Update

People over here crying over new content 😂😂😂

The one question I do have.

For the achievements, I wonder how many people did the stuff but were playing in a custom game?
My friend and I were playing in a custom game because the only thing we change were turning off friendly fire. We just didn’t wanna deal with it. We’re almost done with pre 1.4 content, and don’t have any achievements.

But I think the achievements are still something to go for. I know a lot of friends who started the game but didn’t play much. So it makes sense that not many have gotten big

I lost interest in the game when they kept releasing sandbox stuff instead of more content put into the map. And now I'm just seeing that they finally released tier 4 weapons gear as well as levels beyond 9. Sadly I just don't care now.

Havent played grounded since, that awful duper update. Went back to see what yoked added amd im enjoying the game for the most part. Though ive encountered a problem where bugs on the raid are invincible and i jave to reload my game. But over all, id say its solid so far. I might update that opinion once i get past the undershed

Looks like it’s time to load up creative and just give myself all the weapons and stuff for ng plus and play regularly

Nobody asked for a NG+ mode, we want new areas.
Recycling games like this has been a trend in recent years, seems to be a cheap way to provide something "new", without making truely new content.

Looking for the achievements on Xbox is a bad comparison point, because this game is on GamePass. The statistics are scewed so much.

I completely agree that most of this new update will never be seen. Which is a weird decision in my view, but I can probably see where the devs are coming from. Now that the development of Grounded is concluded the devs are ok with not getting a lot of new players. This is the final sendoff for new content in the game and it caters heavily torwards players who stuck around all this time. It gives a lot to do after you've beaten the game and has built all of the ziplines you can Imagine.
I would've liked all of the new shiny stuff in the base game as well, but lets be honest - the base game is a great experience on its own.
The new player will probably be content with what's been given to them and maybe even enjoy some playgrounds. And devs also showed a lot of consideration will veteran bored players, congratulating them on sticking around and giving so much more stuff to do

The bugs are just too strong in NG+. I actually used a trainer to get me through the default NG+ and get the pressure off me to get the achievements. Now I can simply jump back to the world use custom settings.

I wish the ant queens would allow you to feed them again and they would respawn because having to start a new game+ is just terrible

Im Never going to ever get the killing the ant queen items because im not planning on doing any new game+

I wish there was like a custom game configuration that allows them to respawn and give them more food

Is this worth it on Ps5?

i think you also have to realize that a lot. and i mean a LOT of people will buy the game play 10 minutes, and never toich it again and that can really mess with the achievements percentage

I have just beaten the undershed and I'm hesitant on ng plus because I'm ok with it being a little harder but I heard the infused are ruthless and id rather it not be.

The achievements isn't a fair comparison or judge when they can only be earned on standard story mode. Anyone using custom/creative or adjusted game settings are locked out of them.

I agree that most stuff should be available in base game and then all the NG+ stuff should be available in the first NG+ (not NG+2,3 or 4), because like you said, many people won't get to experience the stuff that has been added in later NG+'s... and that's due to multiple reasons: just to name a few bigger one's - majority of player base isn't that good at this game to go past NG+1 and those who are, might not be willing to grind as hard as it's required right now just to get a new weapon or two... at the end of the day most people want to enjoy the game, not be forced to repeat it multiple times just to unlock a few things here or there and make the game even harder, which their skill level might not be a match to...

Haha this totally the type of dude to get elden ring then cry there's no easy mode lol what a pleb. This shit just came out on PS4 and I'm personally happy I have something different with better frames and more discovery. But yea I find the forest hardest difficulty too easy Soo maybe you're just a bitch?

If you love it you love it if you hate it you hate it

Personally, just by the sounds of it, all new game + really needs to be quite good would be new bosses, like for example at ng+1 a hole in the fence appears, that has a new type of enemy and a new boss, similar to the brawny boy bin, just so that you actually have an objective to strive to, like don't get me wrong ng+ seems like great end game content,but when you're getting better gear to kill the same bosses its obvious that it would get boring after a while

Eh. To be honest I agree 100% but what I think hurts even more is the missed opportunity with the weapons. The variety in style and execution of these weapons could have been amazing. They fumbled the ball with that completely. If I wanted three different sour battleaxes, I would’ve said so.

Really glad u don't have to beat the infected brood mother for new game plus. This video is very informative and I am actually more excited to keep playing the game

All new content locked behind new game + is a big no from me. Basically nothing new added then for base game.

In this game when you do a new game+ your progress is transfer? Like all your stuff, etc.

What lol. 99% of people wont see endgame of any game. Thats the point. Games wouldn’t exist if they just gave people endgame gear essentially just for logging in. That’s the whole “playing the game” part of playing a game.

I started playing Grounded with two of my buddies a couple of weeks before the Pond update, and since then I've obtained every milk molar, explored every nook and cranny of the map, upgraded all of the equipment I care about to rank 9, and built a magnificent base and a complex zipline network across the yard. My friends got tired of playing over a year ago but I love the game enough to keep playing. Grounded really does feel special to me and I have a lot of positive memories tired to it.

So, while New Game+ sounds fun, the idea of grinding for all the things I've already done all over again is more than enough to convince me to just stick with my completed playthrough, and just go back from time to time. Then again, this is the reason I've never enjoyed New Game+ for any game in the past.

Regardless, I appreciate your takes.

The thing I hate with ng+ in such games is that all the work I've spent on my builds disappear. Wish you could carry more stuff over, namely your builds - somehow lol.

Didn't realise the content was so gated, could understand it being behind one ng+ playthrough like most other games but to have to go through it 4 times to get it all O_o; It would have to get easier rather than grindier and currently I'm seeing a lot of grind comments. Friends and I loved the base game, we struggled with the infectred broodmother and a large shout of joy went out when we defeated her finally... but this... yeah dunno lol.

I have played almost 1k hours solo in grounded i enjoyed it so much as a game preview but was highly upset when the final update came out and to see it was only about 10 hrs of gameplay and this update took so long the game didn’t have the replay value to keep up with;fornite, the finals etc. i think this update made the game to my opinion worse it is interesting however i don’t want to play the story mode 5 more times before i get the lvl 4 armor they have teased for almost a year

I played on xbox but now that it's on ps4 me and my friend are going to get to ng+

I take a break and this comes…. I found out how to kill the infected broodmother with ease and when I do I take a break as… cmon that fight takes so much out of me 😂😂

Now I’m stoked to see what this all has to offer, my grounded is updating. Gonna hopefully get back into the grind.

the game is dead because the devs didn't add servers where anyone can join not just your friends and add more then 4 players plus the map needs to be bigger we don't want to play this game until this gets added.

the achievements are not 100% accurate of how many people did what a lot of people play on custom worlds which disables achievements

This update isn’t for everyone it’s for the real fans that did everything completed it 100% it’s such a good update that gives longevity to ur games

While I agree that it is a shame most of the content is locked behind ng+ cycles that only that small 2-4% of players will likely see; I would say that small group of players is who they were targeting with this update. With this being the last update to the game (unless they pull a terraria) you can’t really blame them for focusing on adding content and replayability for the diehard fans of the game as opposed to trying to attract new players to a game that won’t be receiving any more updates. Might be odd from a marketing standpoint, but I like that they threw the long time fans a bone on the way out and still made some nice changes/additions for newer or more casual players.

so i dont know what happened but i may have accidentally glitched the handy gnat in my survival i went on creative mode made a new world then loaded into my survival save then bam i had the handy gnat i dont know if they added this feature but i now have access to the handy gnat and it says on custom settings its off so i think there is a working glitch to get the handy gnat in everyones survival worlds

Still no crossplay. Waiting on that because my homie has the game finally on his PS5 but yesterday we found out its all bugged.

All i wanted was a BOSS so i can get new weapons and amour something related to beetles

of course the numbers are better on steam, grounded is on game pass, even core! realize theres more people installing the game, giving it a try for 15 minutes and then never touching it again than people who actually played the game.Those count towards the achievements.

Imagine growing a channel with tons of grounded gameplay and tips and never doing NG+ .

I agree with you 100% why put soo much time and effort into something that a lot of people won’t even get to see? They should keep adding to the base game honestly.

a lot of people like me havent completed t he game trying to get all the dumb gold cards .ive done everything but gone big and a few gold cards. really wish they had a mutation to get gold cards easier .

So many of us would have paid money for a DLC that takes you into the house, but they never went that direction.

Every raid since the update the last bug is invincible and you have to just block it till it times out

Bro just stop criticizing the game and enjoy what you like about it, if not then maybe this just isn’t your thing.

The update is fine itself...but the update broke raids in multiplayer for me, sometimes in solo. Bugs would become invisible, or straight up invincible, or even both.

Perfect blocking became extremely delayed when it worked fine in the previous update.

However they finally buffed the widow dagger back to what it was which is a welcome relief.

However I'm scared of saying the problems I have with the update because many creators have a holier than thou attitude towards this game and act like any criticism is blind hate. Like JadePG Crafted.

to be fair, i think most of the people that never got big (like me) were trying to 100% when all gold cards were necessary for the better ending. i plan to go back into the game and go into NG+ once i have time to devote to it.

I think you're overthinking it a bit. The update is being hyped and shown to everyone, so there will be encouragement to play it. I agree that the devs could do a better job at trying to sell you on new game plus, with weaving it more into the story, using mission markers to take players to the Remixr etc, but ultimately NG+ (at least NG+ 1) will become a part of the base game experience itself when players realise that there is new content that's still left to do.

Cdinky just got to new game plus x today and he has speed run the whole thing it’s quite amazing

I have reached new game plus 2 and I have to say… infused creatures need balances just like you said, then all the new game plus weapons you can buy from Burg.L NEED balances. Because almost all of those weapons are just reskins of other weapons, but the rest of the update is pretty good I have to say

Just finished Grounded last night working towards the achievements. I’m glad I’m done with the game to be honest. Too many hours were put in before they had some good content. The infused bugs just on NG 1 were way overpowered especially for the JavaOMatic. I did find myself enjoying the game again running around looking at all the cool stuff I wanted to built, but stopped due to the amount of resources you needed. I had to wall up the upper yard just for the Java battle. Getting the Crystals to upgrade the weapons is a joke in my opinion.

Back after 1.0 when they said they'd not add another update I made my world a custom instead of normal survival. This makes it so I can't get achievements on my day 300 world. They then added the wasp update. I've killed the wasp queen over 10 times but I never got the achievement as my world is now in custom. Same with the infected broodmother and everything new. I can't get any of the achievements and I feel lied to as I would NEVER have did that to my save if I knew they'd add more things. But rant over. My point is that a lot of people have thier world in custom and might not be getting achievements and more people will make it to new game plus. However it's still only top 3% max and your completely right. NG+ is kinda pointless on a game where non of the players have finished the story. And pointless to play on my side. I why would I grind away my life. I won't ever get the achievements. I'm not gonna make a new save just for some achievements. It's just all messed up and I think almost everything could have been delivered and done better.