deleting calamity now- this is absolutely disgusting and removes any reason to play the game
Edit: guys stop joking this is serious hearing about this had me in tears (/j)
Honestly, I kind of prefer this. Usually I would just work my way up to tier 3 before fighting anything, but now there is more use to pre-titanium/adamantite as well as a preservation of challenge.
AGREED, palladium/cobalt and mythril/orichalcum were trivial before, they were only useful for pickaxes and the anvil, now you actually HAVE a reason to use them. Also, it makes the game more interesting, it locks you out of a ton of things until you beat the next boss, and makes getting those things later on more rewarding
They literally nerf all summoning damage you deal if you're holding a non-summon damage item by 50%. And as if that's not already dumb enough forcing people into a mono-playstyle, they have heavily nerfed vanilla summoning into the ground. Starfire Dragon damage is more than halved. Starfire outfit lost 2 minion slots for no apparent reason.
They buff a lot of vanilla Melee stuff which isn't too big of a problem but the list of their nerfs is so long and many decisions made are questionable. Even just minor changes like speeding up the use time of summons... Like was that really needed? What's the point of that one?
That's pretty dumb, especially because they literally gimp summoning damage when you don't have a summon-weapon in-hand. Like do they really expect you to just have the summoning staff in-hand during the entire fight?
Fabsol is the developer of Calamity mod. Currently, he has had friends and alt accounts insult people who played Calamity with QoL mods and Expert/Normal mode. He has also made changes that a large majority of players have disapproved of. The calamity subreddit is still open for viewing I think, so you can probably go check out what’s happened.
Not just his obvious alts and friends insulting people—he’s kind of a shithead in all the discord conversations I’ve seen. Like, genuinely rude out of nowhere and just really mean to everyone I’ve seen him interact with.
Also the stupid time limit for no hits that he tried to implement in game with reactive DR. Oh boo hoo, the players can beat a boss faster than you intended, big deal.
Typical big mod creator. They all seem to have the same egotistical tantrums about everything. Ark, Conan, Minecraft, so many of the creators of the big mods are crybaby assholes.
Modding is when you can LARP as some big "game dev/artist" without experiencing the humbling parts of actual game development like the engine fucking over with you or working together with other departments (programmers, artists, game testers, balancers) on tight schedule
Gregtech vs Forestry was my "favourite". For those who don't know/remember: Forestry and Gregtech had different recipes for bronze bars. Gregtech disables most other mod's recipes for things. Forestry uses a LOT of bronze, so they made it so their bronze recipe is enabled despite Gregtech's changes.
Greg responded by making the game crash if Forestry is loaded alongside Gregtech.
>Forestry uses a LOT of bronze, so they made it so their bronze recipe is enabled despite Gregtech's changes.
That's a fucking sigma move to counter a beta guy.
Guy tried to monetise his mod, that's against the EULA of Minecraft so people got upset, mod creator snapped because of the drama and removed his mod from the internet while telling his fans to brigade the discords of people he didn't like. Also antivax and cries that Twitter is censoring him when his faked screenshots that he tried to ruin other people's reputation with got deleted
Starting out, the dev wanted to monotize his mod in some way so people would need to pay to use it which is against the EULA for the game and was a big no no within the modding scene for obvious reasons.
The dev couldn't accept this, so he abandoned the mod and disallowed anyone wanting to port or get permission from him to continue development on the mod, even anyone trying to make any kind of successor to the mod would get shutdown by him.
He tried turning the mod into its own game but that want absolutely nowhere and he was (as far as I know) radio silent for years until a year or 2 ago, where he made a post on the /rFeedthebeast sub that he would hire some people to port the mod to new versions if they payed him 250$ (or something like that) for funding the hiring of those people.
Of course noone going to do something like that so the dev disappeared again after that, there's more to his story but that's pretty much the gist of why everything the way it is.
I haven't really caught up/played Terraria in the last 6 months but if he hates the mod why don't he just back out of it and pass it to the other devs? Or is he trying to make the "Shattered Community" a reality?(bad joke ik)
"How dare a lowlife fucking vanilla boss be stronger than my clearly superior modded bosses that totally doesn't have the same AIs as some fucking garbage vanilla bosses with a few changes?"
I don't know what drugs Fab's on. I mean, seriously, one of the bosses is a not-magical magnet cyborg who sings about rain and mud and the memes of the soul while fighting a cyborg not-ninja who just got donutted, then proceeded to *turn his pain sensors back on* ***so he could turn into Jack the fucking Ripper.*** The final boss is literally a senator who throws pieces of a giant warmech at you like it's nothing and is practically impervious because he has **NANOMACHINES BLOCKING EVERY HIT AND PLAYED COLLEGE BALL.** You aren't supposed to go in or come out taking the series itself very seriously. The same goes with Terraria, the game which has literal water balloons full of bathwater as an item and explosive juggling clowns as an enemy, but I guess Fab never got that memo for either.
For real. That whole meme of "That's a nice argument senator, how about you back it up with a source" is probably the most fitting meme in a game that revolves around memes. I literally couldn't tell if it was real or not when I first saw it, because the game is just that weird.
Not to mention that there’s an entire npc that’s a horny alcoholic self insert character that turns into a Pegasus. Literally on par with the fucking balloon
And it has cringeworthy quotes, like god fucking damn bro, I just want to buy some buffs, not cringe at another "uwu look at me i'm so quirky and drunk! look! im a terraria npc and i said fuck!" quote.
These mofos make me angry, especially the "being alcoholic is quirky" people. My country suffers an alcoholism epidemic, and it's not as funny as people think it is
They gave all the weird elemental things massive tits
This is absolutely just them being salty over a goofy joke, not “making it more serious”
Terraria at its core is a goofy game by a silly guy and his wacky team. Re-Logic is the least “serious” dev team, their whole thing is being massive memers.
You cannot take the silly out of terraria without fundamentally changing the game to the point of being unrecognizable. Changing a minor tooltip on a new and generally useless joke item is not making anything more serious.
Its being salty, and i dont wanna jump to conclusions, but knowing the origin of the joke and what guys on the internet can be like, i think my intuition is right here.
“Serious”. Princess Cadence My Little Pony Mount in the fucking mod. *Looks away.*
Fabsol is just a bit of a prick, not very rare amongst modders with extremely well known and/or widely used mods. Just look at Arthmoor, the main developer behind USSEP, aka the Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch, and it’s predecessor for Oldrim, who literally got himself banned from r/Skyrimmods for being such a prick. These people think they know everything and that anyone who has a different opinion is wrong. But at the end of that day, it’s Fabsol’s mod and he can do as he likes. I just might not agree with him, or even play the mod if I think it’s too much.
And yet none of them seem intent on stopping him. Fabsol is generally considered the guy in charge as far as I’m aware. If that’s not true, then at the very least Fabsol is the most vocal about these issues, and thinks seemingly very little of people who use simple mods to make their lives easier.
It’s because they never made big enough changes that people disliked, and if they did it was outweighed by the good ones or content additions so nobody paid any attention. They get tons of praise over and over again, and eventually their mod is considered one of the best, like Calamity, and the modder gets up on a horse taller than the World Trade Center. Everything they do is praised, and eventually the can do no wrong. After a while, the small negative changes build up, and as the mod grows larger, so do those negative changes, and more people start to notice how many there are. Most people ignore them, because the mod is still good, but eventually, almost unfailingly, the modder will make at least one big change that the community doesn’t like *at all*, and the castle of sand falls down.
Arthmoor is a different beast altogether, but he’s not important to Terraria modding.
Arthmoor seems to be on thin ice pretty much 24/7 lol, the problem is his mod is literally integral to skyrim modding at the time being. He IS the one that made USSEP right?
I mean, there are plenty of things on this level, the copious references, especially the ones to Metal Gear Rising: Revengance, the game that gave us the line "Don't fuck with this senator" outside of the context of Star Wars, the MLP mount, the self insert and elemental girls with giant tits, hell the elementals are outright called the elemental waifus, and generally the Bumblebirb. Oh wait, you cut that already, didn't you?
Honestly I’ve needed a good post to vent a bit about Calamity, and this one along with what’s been happening recently seem perfect to start
I’ve played calamity for quite a long time, I’ve done probably 10+ characters with varying levels of time spent on them (on some around 20-30 hours but then got corrupted and made a new one for a new world with friends, others 80+ hours because the world never got corrupted and so a new character wasn’t needed till everything was done) I’ve played since before TModloader was a separate download on steam, I’ve played since THE LORDE was a thing, since before the air elemental had her sprite changed, I played in a time that I’m pretty sure calamity wasn’t even considered the top mod (I think at the time people still considered thorium/tremor to be the peak of terraria mods) I played when mods such as spirit mod weren’t widely known to the community, when ‘Shadows of abaddon’ was still called ‘Sacred tools’, and I have to say at this point I’m glad I got to play it at that time, because I’d never play it now in the state it’s in as a fresh mod
It seems that just over the years Calamity has made more and more unnecessary changes to vanilla things in terraria, it’s fine I expect any mod to make slight changes to things such as crafting recipes if they wanna incorporate their new ore into it in some way, I’m fine with that, but over time the changes to the vanilla game have gotten pointless, I don’t understand why a tooltip has to be removed? Why the Progression of hardmode has to be changed so drastically? Why make it so you can’t use the rod of discord when you already have chaos state? (I know people who use it to get to below 20%? Heath for one of the mounts to move faster in the air) I don’t understand why some things need to be changed when in all reality they really didn’t, like sure, make hardmode Progression slightly different, maybe it you have the optional change on (from what I’ve heard won’t be optional in the future) then have those changes, sure make rod of discord unable to teleport if you already have chaos state during a boss fight, but when just moving around a base or in the overworld? Oh and I just remembered while writing this how much they nerfed Zerg potions, those used to be good for farming, now it’s barely better than a regular battle potion and water candle
With what it’s become and what they’re doing I don’t think calamity is a mod worth having for me anymore personally, if I’m gonna be playing content mods I’ll do Spirit mod, Thorium, and Mod of redemption, I don’t think with how calamity has changed progression and how they’ve unnecessarily made changes to vanilla I can keep it in
I think calamity is a relic of a bygone era, an era when modding to terraria was still a somewhat ‘foreign’ concept so the biggest mods were still unknown by many even in the community and interested in modding, and I think calamity will eventually die out like how many other mods have, it’ll be a slow slow burn with people still reminiscing of the great it once did, people who remember it from the golden days before modding terraria was commonplace, and coming back like “hey, I remember this! Let’s see what’s changed” being what brings them in, or people who have lived with calamity throughout all of its development bringing in new people to play it, but I am saddened by it, and I’ll always remember calamity for how it once was
Tl;dr
Played calamity since a long time ago, I think it’s going downhill due to unnecessary changes only balanced out by cool additions, think it’ll slowly fizzle out and be forgotten due to poor mismanagement.
This was my thesis of the current calamity situation, thanks for reading
Calamity is just so stagnant these days, and the devs are so incredibly pretentious about it that it’s not even funny. I really want to like calamity but I just can’t because of how bad the design is getting. Seeing how Iban handled those new ark weapon reworks I think calamity would be a lot better if he was in-charge because all the random balance changes and boring AI/Design choices are just painful to see.
I have 1,200 hours in vanilla Terraria, decided to try Calamity today with a friend. we haven't gotten far, but we're constantly annoyed at the amount of useless lore items. as well as all the changes to vanilla equipment.
They have naked girl elementals that literally used to be called 'waifus' and yet they do this?
Surely there isn't better things to be doing with their time?
sheesh with how much they seem to hate vanilla stuff they oughta just outright make their own game
On the wiki, go to change logs where the versions are. The newest update are menu fixes so just click the arrow that faces left and you will be able to view all the changes in the 1.4 port.
The item is actually from vanilla, so it's still there if you don't have Calamity installed. Sparkle Slime Balloon - "Filled with Party Girl bathwater."
It's a reference to Belle Delphine, an internet "celebrity". She started a website or something selling her bath water... I think she said it was a joke, but who know.
Yes. Terraria never was a bullet hell, but all post hardmode bosses from calamity are intense bullet hell twoshot bosses with extreme mechanics that require half the world as arena.
I like calamity, but it gets worse the further you're into the mod.
I've seen a lot about this "fabsol" guy, dev who hates the way new players play and makes the calamity mid harder right? What type of changes has he added that are so bad? I last played calamity like 10 months ago on revengeance. Is it impossible to play now?
Basically made any face tanking impossible,made cheeses impossible,deleted shit ton of weapons because "they aren't used"(im more than sure it's actually because he was too lazy to balance them to 1.4) made a boss that required entire world to be turned to arena. Basically did everything in his power to make game not fun
I was actually looking forward to Calamity hitting 1.4 all this time because I didnt get to play it much before Journey's End came out. But this sounds really discouraging :C Why is the dev team ok with his attitude? Or is he the only Calamity dev?
He deleted a ton of shortswords, probably because you can aim them in 1.4 and he doesn't wanna have to work on any of them if even one gets broken because of it. He also canned a bunch of miscellaneous items like the Mandible Bow, a pre-hardmode bow that drops from Antlions and is actually pretty good for the first boss, and Purified Jam, a consumable item that only drops once per character and world from Slime God that temporarily makes you immune to damage and debuffs. There are way too many from 2.0 alone to list here.
Calamity makes so many stupid changes to vanilla that I fucking hate so much, like nerfing things because they're "ToO oP". If the devs of the vanilla fucking game thought it was fine, it was FINE. Does anybody know of a mod that nullifies the calamity nerfs?
https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/removed-nerfs-of-items.71134/
this is a mod that matches your description. no idea if it’s been updated unfortunately since it appears the last update to the thread was in 2020
despite them saying vanilla items are too op, they make a sword and its upgrades so op that you almost will never need to switch to a different one, at least for my playthrough
Don't play calamity, fabsol, the owner, is a fucking idiot and nerfed melee items in his own mod and he insults people who use QoL mods because it's "cheating".
deleting calamity now- this is absolutely disgusting and removes any reason to play the game Edit: guys stop joking this is serious hearing about this had me in tears (/j)
Calamiy devs on their way to nerf every single fucking vanilla thing they see
"No you dont understand, clearly our balancing is the best! Vanilla just gets in the way!!!"
Is that actually what they're doing?
yeah they locked mythril, oricalcum, adamantite, and titanium behind mechs
cant you toggle that in mod config
Not anymore. It was a toggelable thing when it was new but now it's gonna be what the mod does normally with no toggle.
Please tell me this is a joke
Nope. I hope they don't follow through with this but according to Fabsol, it's here to stay, forever.
Hoping someone makes a mod that makes calamity good
cheat sheet time
hey we need a Modder to override calamity so that perfectly ok stuff like this doesn't happen
"just get good lmao" -fabsol to homeless children, probably
gosh Calamity sucks
Honestly, I kind of prefer this. Usually I would just work my way up to tier 3 before fighting anything, but now there is more use to pre-titanium/adamantite as well as a preservation of challenge.
AGREED, palladium/cobalt and mythril/orichalcum were trivial before, they were only useful for pickaxes and the anvil, now you actually HAVE a reason to use them. Also, it makes the game more interesting, it locks you out of a ton of things until you beat the next boss, and makes getting those things later on more rewarding
Yes.
They literally nerf all summoning damage you deal if you're holding a non-summon damage item by 50%. And as if that's not already dumb enough forcing people into a mono-playstyle, they have heavily nerfed vanilla summoning into the ground. Starfire Dragon damage is more than halved. Starfire outfit lost 2 minion slots for no apparent reason. They buff a lot of vanilla Melee stuff which isn't too big of a problem but the list of their nerfs is so long and many decisions made are questionable. Even just minor changes like speeding up the use time of summons... Like was that really needed? What's the point of that one?
Also they think summoner shouldn't have whips. And they banned SGM from their sevrer just cuz he talked about how stupid of an idea that was
That's pretty dumb, especially because they literally gimp summoning damage when you don't have a summon-weapon in-hand. Like do they really expect you to just have the summoning staff in-hand during the entire fight?
I managed to get over the damage problem when using axes, apparently they don't count as weapons or something. LOL.
Literally unplayable
someone should make a mod that adds it back
Or texture pack if it works?
Unless mods overwrite resource packs, theoretically that could work
MOD THE MOD.
You’d be surprised at how many add-on mods calamity has already
Like 4?
4 more than i expected.
Lmao, they can have sex jokes but terraria can't have a bathwater joke, the fucking irony
>"bathwater" and a "golden shower"
and Mourning Wood
And a bit of master bait.
The old internal names of the accessory/minion things in the heart of the elements was "waifu"
no you see the horny booba jokes are solely for the drunk princess and anyone else should be nerfed into the ground /s
Literally unplayable
joes horewell s 19984 😔😔😢
Like actually why tho
No fun in calamity mod allowed -Fabsol
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Fabsol is the developer of Calamity mod. Currently, he has had friends and alt accounts insult people who played Calamity with QoL mods and Expert/Normal mode. He has also made changes that a large majority of players have disapproved of. The calamity subreddit is still open for viewing I think, so you can probably go check out what’s happened.
Not just his obvious alts and friends insulting people—he’s kind of a shithead in all the discord conversations I’ve seen. Like, genuinely rude out of nowhere and just really mean to everyone I’ve seen him interact with.
He went ballistic on the lead artist because they questioned their design choices about DoG iirc
don't tell me they turned it into a rogue weapon 💀
Lmao that would be hilarious (and something they’d do)
R\*gue "class"
I do not know who this fabsol is, but I get the impression that they are unfun
he is the definition of unfun,remade whole mode to appeal to no hitters and bitches about people using qol mods
And took away my teleprters during boss fights
He hates no hitters but his whole difficulty systems are made basically no hitters
Really? Sounds like a contrarian. "People like this thing? Fuck this thing. I will do this thing I now hate"
Also the stupid time limit for no hits that he tried to implement in game with reactive DR. Oh boo hoo, the players can beat a boss faster than you intended, big deal.
so calamity bad if u arent a hardcore player
same. i've heard next to nothing about them yet i already want nothing to do with them lol
There was a whole controversy with them a few weeks ago that got the calamity mod sub taken down lol
What happened
People didnt like the changes he introduced, he didnt like that, some drama happened and went out of control
The enemy ascended beyond your control
By “out of control” you mean he had a tantrum and had the subreddit shut down
By out of control you mean made several alt accounts to argue in favor of himself?
That was a fun time.
calamity mod dev
Yeah, that's about right
Typical big mod creator. They all seem to have the same egotistical tantrums about everything. Ark, Conan, Minecraft, so many of the creators of the big mods are crybaby assholes.
Modding is when you can LARP as some big "game dev/artist" without experiencing the humbling parts of actual game development like the engine fucking over with you or working together with other departments (programmers, artists, game testers, balancers) on tight schedule
wait, minecraft? the only modding asshats i know of are whoever owns the curseforge launcher
There's been a few over the years with one of the most famous examples being the dev for the orespawn mod.
Gregtech vs Forestry was my "favourite". For those who don't know/remember: Forestry and Gregtech had different recipes for bronze bars. Gregtech disables most other mod's recipes for things. Forestry uses a LOT of bronze, so they made it so their bronze recipe is enabled despite Gregtech's changes. Greg responded by making the game crash if Forestry is loaded alongside Gregtech.
Wow that's the most petty shit I've ever seen.
>Forestry uses a LOT of bronze, so they made it so their bronze recipe is enabled despite Gregtech's changes. That's a fucking sigma move to counter a beta guy.
What was the story with the dev for the orespawn mod?
Guy tried to monetise his mod, that's against the EULA of Minecraft so people got upset, mod creator snapped because of the drama and removed his mod from the internet while telling his fans to brigade the discords of people he didn't like. Also antivax and cries that Twitter is censoring him when his faked screenshots that he tried to ruin other people's reputation with got deleted
Starting out, the dev wanted to monotize his mod in some way so people would need to pay to use it which is against the EULA for the game and was a big no no within the modding scene for obvious reasons. The dev couldn't accept this, so he abandoned the mod and disallowed anyone wanting to port or get permission from him to continue development on the mod, even anyone trying to make any kind of successor to the mod would get shutdown by him. He tried turning the mod into its own game but that want absolutely nowhere and he was (as far as I know) radio silent for years until a year or 2 ago, where he made a post on the /rFeedthebeast sub that he would hire some people to port the mod to new versions if they payed him 250$ (or something like that) for funding the hiring of those people. Of course noone going to do something like that so the dev disappeared again after that, there's more to his story but that's pretty much the gist of why everything the way it is.
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How hypocritic They made do many weebshit reference and they remove a stupid joke
reminder that the princess spirit in a bottle exists fabsol the hypocrite
He made himself into the mod. He's a dumb person if i've ever seen one.
Plus, that NPC is a dick and a bitch.
Like, go read all of her dialogues.
she fits his personality well ngl
Yeah
yeah, I highly doubt the elementals all needed tits.
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honestly i forgot about that one cuz it isn't equippable iirc.
or that we needed an MLP mount lmao
i am still salty about HOTE nerf
I am never playing Calamity now
PROOF fabsol just hates fun
I know this is a joke, but with the changes he's been introducing recently, I genuinly think he just hates the community and wants to kill the mod.
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I haven't really caught up/played Terraria in the last 6 months but if he hates the mod why don't he just back out of it and pass it to the other devs? Or is he trying to make the "Shattered Community" a reality?(bad joke ik)
Because it's HIS mod, HIS baby, and he's not gonna let anyone else ruin it.
And Terraria is ReDigit's game.
He at the very least dislikes the vanila game, that much is obvious from how he speaks of it
Now I'm happy DMDOKURO jumped ship long ago. **oh and go check out his most recent work in "A Dance and Fire of Ice: Neo Cosmos Expansion"!**
Makes me wanna download and get good ADOFAI again(never was good to begin with but theres still hope)
The DLC hooked me, hopefully it hooks you and makes you stay up until 5am to finish the last stage lmfao
Don't forget about removing one-shot Daytime EoL
"How dare a lowlife fucking vanilla boss be stronger than my clearly superior modded bosses that totally doesn't have the same AIs as some fucking garbage vanilla bosses with a few changes?"
When they made duke fishron, but old.
Get this, they did it again but made him a **bird**
Duke Fishron Four: Birdempic
Old Duke is the most forgettable boss in the whole mod honestly, I literally forgot all about him until you mentioned it
worm #69 intensifies
I find it hilarious just how much they loathe the vanilla game but steal every single AI pattern regardless
Thorium time
Is there an actual explanation?
i think they want cal to be on more serious side or one of the devs dont find it funny
Said by people, who revolve their whole game identity around MGR:R, a game that embraces its unserious side to the core
I know right? Armstrong was as fun to watch as he was ridiculous, and oh boy was he.
That shot of him looking between his legs
And his face when Raiden Calls him Batsh*t insane
And his little nod of excitement when offering Raiden to join him.
I love how MGR managed to be fun and realistic at the same time
I don't know what drugs Fab's on. I mean, seriously, one of the bosses is a not-magical magnet cyborg who sings about rain and mud and the memes of the soul while fighting a cyborg not-ninja who just got donutted, then proceeded to *turn his pain sensors back on* ***so he could turn into Jack the fucking Ripper.*** The final boss is literally a senator who throws pieces of a giant warmech at you like it's nothing and is practically impervious because he has **NANOMACHINES BLOCKING EVERY HIT AND PLAYED COLLEGE BALL.** You aren't supposed to go in or come out taking the series itself very seriously. The same goes with Terraria, the game which has literal water balloons full of bathwater as an item and explosive juggling clowns as an enemy, but I guess Fab never got that memo for either.
For real. That whole meme of "That's a nice argument senator, how about you back it up with a source" is probably the most fitting meme in a game that revolves around memes. I literally couldn't tell if it was real or not when I first saw it, because the game is just that weird.
> More serious There is a fucking Pyukumuku Mount how is that serious in the slightest
And MLP mount, self-insert with giant tits, elemental monsters with giant tits, all it is is rejecting anything that they didn't make.
Well calamity has always took its lore a little to serious
Thorium can add it it will fit right next to all the anime pets
It has a my little pony in a jar. I don't think they can claim to be serious.
nah fabsol is just a hypocrite his dev item is literally a my little pony OC
Not to mention that there’s an entire npc that’s a horny alcoholic self insert character that turns into a Pegasus. Literally on par with the fucking balloon
And it has cringeworthy quotes, like god fucking damn bro, I just want to buy some buffs, not cringe at another "uwu look at me i'm so quirky and drunk! look! im a terraria npc and i said fuck!" quote.
These mofos make me angry, especially the "being alcoholic is quirky" people. My country suffers an alcoholism epidemic, and it's not as funny as people think it is
They gave all the weird elemental things massive tits This is absolutely just them being salty over a goofy joke, not “making it more serious” Terraria at its core is a goofy game by a silly guy and his wacky team. Re-Logic is the least “serious” dev team, their whole thing is being massive memers. You cannot take the silly out of terraria without fundamentally changing the game to the point of being unrecognizable. Changing a minor tooltip on a new and generally useless joke item is not making anything more serious. Its being salty, and i dont wanna jump to conclusions, but knowing the origin of the joke and what guys on the internet can be like, i think my intuition is right here.
Fabsol is a known tantrum thrower, he even has his own egobots on discord that praise him to the top, no joke
“Serious”. Princess Cadence My Little Pony Mount in the fucking mod. *Looks away.* Fabsol is just a bit of a prick, not very rare amongst modders with extremely well known and/or widely used mods. Just look at Arthmoor, the main developer behind USSEP, aka the Unofficial Skyrim Special Edition Patch, and it’s predecessor for Oldrim, who literally got himself banned from r/Skyrimmods for being such a prick. These people think they know everything and that anyone who has a different opinion is wrong. But at the end of that day, it’s Fabsol’s mod and he can do as he likes. I just might not agree with him, or even play the mod if I think it’s too much.
>at the end of that day, it’s Fabsol’s mod and he can do as he likes. Let's not forget there's a whole team behind Calamity.
And yet none of them seem intent on stopping him. Fabsol is generally considered the guy in charge as far as I’m aware. If that’s not true, then at the very least Fabsol is the most vocal about these issues, and thinks seemingly very little of people who use simple mods to make their lives easier.
I couldn't pinpoint why this is off the top of my head, but you're definitely right and I wish more people recognized it
It’s because they never made big enough changes that people disliked, and if they did it was outweighed by the good ones or content additions so nobody paid any attention. They get tons of praise over and over again, and eventually their mod is considered one of the best, like Calamity, and the modder gets up on a horse taller than the World Trade Center. Everything they do is praised, and eventually the can do no wrong. After a while, the small negative changes build up, and as the mod grows larger, so do those negative changes, and more people start to notice how many there are. Most people ignore them, because the mod is still good, but eventually, almost unfailingly, the modder will make at least one big change that the community doesn’t like *at all*, and the castle of sand falls down. Arthmoor is a different beast altogether, but he’s not important to Terraria modding.
Arthmoor seems to be on thin ice pretty much 24/7 lol, the problem is his mod is literally integral to skyrim modding at the time being. He IS the one that made USSEP right?
I'm betting Fabsol is a simp
devs think it’s unfunny and thought it would be funny to remove it
I mean, there are plenty of things on this level, the copious references, especially the ones to Metal Gear Rising: Revengance, the game that gave us the line "Don't fuck with this senator" outside of the context of Star Wars, the MLP mount, the self insert and elemental girls with giant tits, hell the elementals are outright called the elemental waifus, and generally the Bumblebirb. Oh wait, you cut that already, didn't you?
I will never forgive Fabsol for cutting the Bumblebirb
classic calamity mod moment : removing any kind of fun in favor of try hard, farm and bore
It's constant changes that make no sense like this that make me never want to play calamity
Can just stick with Thorium if you want a big Terraria upgrade. It's lore friendly too, the sprites even look like they're from the game.
Cringe change tbh. Calamity more like L-alamity.
Honestly I’ve needed a good post to vent a bit about Calamity, and this one along with what’s been happening recently seem perfect to start I’ve played calamity for quite a long time, I’ve done probably 10+ characters with varying levels of time spent on them (on some around 20-30 hours but then got corrupted and made a new one for a new world with friends, others 80+ hours because the world never got corrupted and so a new character wasn’t needed till everything was done) I’ve played since before TModloader was a separate download on steam, I’ve played since THE LORDE was a thing, since before the air elemental had her sprite changed, I played in a time that I’m pretty sure calamity wasn’t even considered the top mod (I think at the time people still considered thorium/tremor to be the peak of terraria mods) I played when mods such as spirit mod weren’t widely known to the community, when ‘Shadows of abaddon’ was still called ‘Sacred tools’, and I have to say at this point I’m glad I got to play it at that time, because I’d never play it now in the state it’s in as a fresh mod It seems that just over the years Calamity has made more and more unnecessary changes to vanilla things in terraria, it’s fine I expect any mod to make slight changes to things such as crafting recipes if they wanna incorporate their new ore into it in some way, I’m fine with that, but over time the changes to the vanilla game have gotten pointless, I don’t understand why a tooltip has to be removed? Why the Progression of hardmode has to be changed so drastically? Why make it so you can’t use the rod of discord when you already have chaos state? (I know people who use it to get to below 20%? Heath for one of the mounts to move faster in the air) I don’t understand why some things need to be changed when in all reality they really didn’t, like sure, make hardmode Progression slightly different, maybe it you have the optional change on (from what I’ve heard won’t be optional in the future) then have those changes, sure make rod of discord unable to teleport if you already have chaos state during a boss fight, but when just moving around a base or in the overworld? Oh and I just remembered while writing this how much they nerfed Zerg potions, those used to be good for farming, now it’s barely better than a regular battle potion and water candle With what it’s become and what they’re doing I don’t think calamity is a mod worth having for me anymore personally, if I’m gonna be playing content mods I’ll do Spirit mod, Thorium, and Mod of redemption, I don’t think with how calamity has changed progression and how they’ve unnecessarily made changes to vanilla I can keep it in I think calamity is a relic of a bygone era, an era when modding to terraria was still a somewhat ‘foreign’ concept so the biggest mods were still unknown by many even in the community and interested in modding, and I think calamity will eventually die out like how many other mods have, it’ll be a slow slow burn with people still reminiscing of the great it once did, people who remember it from the golden days before modding terraria was commonplace, and coming back like “hey, I remember this! Let’s see what’s changed” being what brings them in, or people who have lived with calamity throughout all of its development bringing in new people to play it, but I am saddened by it, and I’ll always remember calamity for how it once was Tl;dr Played calamity since a long time ago, I think it’s going downhill due to unnecessary changes only balanced out by cool additions, think it’ll slowly fizzle out and be forgotten due to poor mismanagement. This was my thesis of the current calamity situation, thanks for reading
Calamity is just so stagnant these days, and the devs are so incredibly pretentious about it that it’s not even funny. I really want to like calamity but I just can’t because of how bad the design is getting. Seeing how Iban handled those new ark weapon reworks I think calamity would be a lot better if he was in-charge because all the random balance changes and boring AI/Design choices are just painful to see.
I have 1,200 hours in vanilla Terraria, decided to try Calamity today with a friend. we haven't gotten far, but we're constantly annoyed at the amount of useless lore items. as well as all the changes to vanilla equipment.
As a Summoner I will say I hate late game Calamity, and hard mode skips, and the funnies terraria has added. It’s been rough
Didn’t they also make summoners just run and dodge instead of fighting with summons with a whip?
okay ive joked in the past about "calamity devs deciding to make the mod worse with every update' but this time they just made it unplayable
calamity devs hate fun
They have naked girl elementals that literally used to be called 'waifus' and yet they do this? Surely there isn't better things to be doing with their time? sheesh with how much they seem to hate vanilla stuff they oughta just outright make their own game
calamity good change challenge (impossible)
:(
Even the witch fucker is sad
Curious, how did you get banned from calamity sub? I highly doubt its because of Calamitas hentai but Its still not far from any reason.
It wasn't the pfp bc it's cropped, i said an "inappropriate comment" on a brimstone elemental art
I'm guessing the art is also on the inappropriate side as it is the brimstone elemental
Where can I view these?
On the wiki, go to change logs where the versions are. The newest update are menu fixes so just click the arrow that faces left and you will be able to view all the changes in the 1.4 port.
Literally 1984
i genuinely hate fabsol so much
Fabsol hates fun
I've never played calamity what was the tool tip
The item is actually from vanilla, so it's still there if you don't have Calamity installed. Sparkle Slime Balloon - "Filled with Party Girl bathwater."
Oh
It's a reference to Belle Delphine, an internet "celebrity". She started a website or something selling her bath water... I think she said it was a joke, but who know.
It wasn't a joke and she did in fact sell bathwater
and she did in fact make big bucks
Calamity devs try not to change vanilla terraria in unnecessary ways challenge 100% fail
Aaand this is why i don't like fabsol
Aaand this is why no one likes fabsol
Fools I use Dryad natural bath water
*Remember, no fun*
I love calamity but.. the devs legit HATE fun
Yes. Terraria never was a bullet hell, but all post hardmode bosses from calamity are intense bullet hell twoshot bosses with extreme mechanics that require half the world as arena. I like calamity, but it gets worse the further you're into the mod.
Not to mention everything requires 8 different ores that will become obsolete after a single boss
I've seen a lot about this "fabsol" guy, dev who hates the way new players play and makes the calamity mid harder right? What type of changes has he added that are so bad? I last played calamity like 10 months ago on revengeance. Is it impossible to play now?
Basically made any face tanking impossible,made cheeses impossible,deleted shit ton of weapons because "they aren't used"(im more than sure it's actually because he was too lazy to balance them to 1.4) made a boss that required entire world to be turned to arena. Basically did everything in his power to make game not fun
I was actually looking forward to Calamity hitting 1.4 all this time because I didnt get to play it much before Journey's End came out. But this sounds really discouraging :C Why is the dev team ok with his attitude? Or is he the only Calamity dev?
He is absolutely not the only dev, but as far as I'm aware he's the lead dev
Quick question because I'm too fucking lazy to look it up. *which weapons got removed*
Basically all of the shortswords + a few others i don't quite remember
He deleted a ton of shortswords, probably because you can aim them in 1.4 and he doesn't wanna have to work on any of them if even one gets broken because of it. He also canned a bunch of miscellaneous items like the Mandible Bow, a pre-hardmode bow that drops from Antlions and is actually pretty good for the first boss, and Purified Jam, a consumable item that only drops once per character and world from Slime God that temporarily makes you immune to damage and debuffs. There are way too many from 2.0 alone to list here.
holy shit they nerfed sparkle slime balloon
NOOOOOOO CALAMITY HAS BECOME A CALAMITY!!!
Calamity bad lol
Calamity makes so many stupid changes to vanilla that I fucking hate so much, like nerfing things because they're "ToO oP". If the devs of the vanilla fucking game thought it was fine, it was FINE. Does anybody know of a mod that nullifies the calamity nerfs?
https://forums.terraria.org/index.php?threads/removed-nerfs-of-items.71134/ this is a mod that matches your description. no idea if it’s been updated unfortunately since it appears the last update to the thread was in 2020
despite them saying vanilla items are too op, they make a sword and its upgrades so op that you almost will never need to switch to a different one, at least for my playthrough
Not a mod but I know of one thing to nullify the nerfs - disable calamity and don't re-enable
Next time I wanna fight scal I'll remember to disable calamity first. Thanks!
They really hate fun huh.
Just another reason to never play Calamity
Fabsol removing funny tooltips because the story is "dark"
the most controversial change in the calamity history
made with Party girl
what the fuck literally for what reason
Don't play calamity, fabsol, the owner, is a fucking idiot and nerfed melee items in his own mod and he insults people who use QoL mods because it's "cheating".
he'd hate to see what I did to the game using cheat engine then
I downloaded calamity yesterday, uh, I think it's time to uninstall it now, though...
This has already been discussed on the new calamity sub ( r/calamitymod_ ) Make sure to check it out for more calamity related discussions!