Hey, the winter festival is back! I may be feeling a bit meh about the game in general, but I always enjoy this event.
Unfortunately I immediately ran into another downer when I went to do some ice fishing and found that the ice on the lake had been smashed and you are now supposed to just fish there using the same mechanics as in Sea of Moving Ice and Chult.
Now, I like that fishing mini game, but I kind of liked ice fishing more. More importantly, the latter was just a completely different beast from "regular" fishing, a fairly fast-paced mini game that was more about racing across the ice effectively and beating other people to the good fishing holes than about anything else. Now you just stand around and fish for ten minutes.
Also, they trashed all the fishing poles that I crafted last year and are making us start over with a new and crappy pole, because for some reason these things are never allowed to carry over from one activity to the next. Not happy.
With this fishing pole I fail to get lvl 5 fish, just waste of time Fishing became abboying....pty
ReplyDeleteTo be honest the levels don't even make sense. I'll get a candlefish from a level 1 cast and then a light pod from level 5...
DeleteI actually really enjoy the fishing activity in Winter Festival this year. I confess this is my first Winter Festival so I have no experience of the previous event's activity to benchmark against. But it just makes sense to me that the fishing mechanics would be the same as in other areas (SOMI, Chult, etc). If you want to run around on ice there are other activities you can do during Winter Festival to scratch that itch.
ReplyDelete@Kabal, once you upgrade to the Elm fishing pole you will be able to catch the Level 5 fish.
There isn't anything like the old ice fishing game, so there isn't really anything else to scratch that itch, while there are other places to fish already.
DeleteAlso, with the new system the fishing contest has become a pure RNG fest. Using the same pole and bait I've both come first with more than twice as many points as the second, and I've come absolute last because it kept giving me nothing but currency catches which count for zero points. It's really not much of a contest anymore, just a lottery.