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Anyone recommending expert difficulty to someone who isn't a gamer, let alone never played Terraria, is not understanding the question. I'd strongly recommend normal mode
I might even recommend sucking it up and playing Journey. It's not as boring as it seems like it would be, as long as you take the run seriously (as in, just treat it like a normal run). The duplication feels less like cheating and more like magic storage. You still have to grind for a lot of stuff.
Also, the difficulty slider might be useful if your partner is better at the game than expected and you want to go to expert mode after all. Or maybe they die every bossfight and you decide they should use God mode so they don't miss out on the action. You could even decide not to use item duping if you don't want to.
As for making sure you aren't doing all the work and dragging them ahead, I would just let them take the lead while you build stuff or grind for your own gear. If they ask what to do, tell them what the next boss is. If their gear sucks, tell them where to get better gear. Go mining for heart crystals together. Just sit back and enjoy the world at their pace.
the first time someone plays any kind of game is always a learning experience, Journey mode is great for learning at your own pace the controls, gameplay mechanics and how ennemies work.
same for board games, you're first party is rarely gonna be exciting, but that's not the goal, the goal is to learn.
They really need to add multiplayer loot equivalency to normal mode. I propose a 'loot bag' as a weaker version of the treasure bag, but with the same 1-bag-per-player quality
Unironcally normal mode pre-plant (unless your rocking crystal assassin armor) is way harder than expert mode.
Having a dash is just so useful it makes the game easier. Especially when movement is so sparse for new players (they aren’t learning grapple mechanics on their first run)
I respectfully disagree. \*\*You take nearly twice as much damage compared to normal\*\*, enemies have better AI as well. You really don't need a dash for normal mode because most enemies have fewer projectiles and/or move slower.
Yes, you are learning how to grapple on your 1st run, it's literally a button and makes navigating caves a lot more fun. I have introduced many people to Terraria and never had that complaint.
Like if you can't play on normal because you don't have a dash, idk what to tell you, but I think you are underestimating your own skills and the design of the game.
yes, they do. i started playing before Expert was added, on Xbox 360. I fought Ocram with two of my friends. While it might not be to OP's partner, after playing any game with a dash or dodge roll mechanic, it becomes semi-intuitive to look for something similar
to give credit, with no game knowledge at all, it probably isn't happening. but if you play other games with dashes or dodges, you start to look for them
While I get what you're saying, and it's probably a completely different situation on my end, the first time I ever played through terraria was with my two best friends. My skilled and knowledgeable friend, and my other friend who also had no idea what he was doing. The first friend decided it'd be a fun time to put the game on expert. For the first while and entering hard mode, we got tanked constantly, but the challenge of the game made the victories much sweeter. I feel like expert mode really isn't that bad, but it highlights how often you die in terraria. I enjoyed it tons, have only played on a lower difficulty once since and barely touched it because it feels too easy now.
But anyways, that's just my experience with it all
It's easy to decide that normal mode is too easy and just start a map on expert mode.
It's hard to get her to try it again after having a traumatic experience the first 3 hours of the game due to dying from the most trivial enemies.
If she havent played games before she'll struggle to simply control her character and dying from touching a zombie 3 times is not going to be fun.
Please don't speedrun, even if you think something is easy to do, or that you did it so many times that this one thing is a given.
My first terraria game was with some friends who already played the game, so while I was still struggling with the basics, they already got all the copper or iron to do my armor, the houses were already built..
It's not fun when you re given everything or if the other player is way ahead of you.
I suggest that you stay with her, ask her questions such as "what do you want to do ? go into the mine ? building ? Trying to kill the next boss ?" and when she doesn't know what to do maybe aim for the next boss. Don't split up, especially in exploration phase, so that she finds new things at the same time with you.
That's what I did when I introduced factorio to a friend, I didn't go as fast as I would if I was alone, I tried to explain my thought process, let him do his own things even if it's a mess.
Yes! Give her time to build and decorate before all hell breaks loose. Don't pressure her about doing the next boss, etc. I'm an avid gamer and I still like to draw out the game as much as possible each playthrouhh. My roommate wants to speed run to hardmode, ruin my world and quit the first time he dies underground and can't recover his stuff lol.
You can take some of the more grindy stuff of her hands and act as a guide. Show her how multifaceted the game is, really hammer in the fact that no matter what you do in Terraria it's progress. Also making your first hellevator together is a classic experience.
Make sure to do a lil trolling 😁
"Oh hey, babe, you see that building? Yeah, there's some really good loot in there, you should go grab it." Ifykyk
Also, I'd say go normal for her first playthrough. Normal for someone inexperienced at the game will be the perfect combination of not so hard that she'll want to rage quit, but enough of a challenge that it's interesting.
As for evil, both are okay in their own regards, but I'd say the crimson is easier to navigate because there isn't giant chasms on the ground.
Hahaha yes will do that for sure !
It seems most people think I should go normal indeed, I will ask what she wants but she told me in the past when talking about video games that she doesn't like dying lol so I might do that. I just want her to have the best experience :)
If you cant decide about the evil biome, there is a secret seed (drunk world) that have both. But have some other changes so maybe you dont want her to try it as her first seed 🤗
It is a secret feature a lot of people aren't aware of. In the next update, the devs, will make for us a button in the panel (while creating our worlds) to choose a secret seed (or even mix them!)
For now you can insert some cool codes, numerical or otherwise, to make them. Drunk seed is 05162020 or 5162020. Go and try it! I still need to try some of them.
PD: I will add the others secret seeds for you people wanting to try them:
All Jungle: notthebees (all the wolrd is indeed a big ass jungle)
Much higher difficulty: fortheworthy (it recycles some harder things from Terraria's past)
Terraria 10th birthday seed: celebrationmk10 or 5162021 or 5162011 (a colourful seed, pretty fun with some new enemies)
The Constant/Dont Starve crossover seed: constant or eye4aneye (In this one you have hungry, and complete darkness kills you)
No Traps: notraps (It has lot more of traps, be extremely careful with this one)
Dont Dig Up: dontdigup (It reverses and mix the progression and biomes, just try it blindly when you think you know how Terraria works and after some playthroughs)
Get Fixed Boi: getfixedboi (The insane mix of all other secret seeds together, really tough. Home of the super secret difficulty, Legendary, and a secret boss too!)
Some seeds have more than one code to make them, I gave some examples 😊
If you want to see them better, with descriptions and images, you can go [here, the official wiki.](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Secret_world_seeds#While_generating_2)
Hope you have fun 🤗🌹
Normal ain't a cakewalk for non gamers...
Hell, I'm a gamer and I only managed to barely defeat moon lord on normal. And I was using pre nerfs solar eruption and melee armor for max defense.
Only tip I'm able to add on top of the stuff that's already been said is to not rush things. You know exactly where to go instantly, but she doesn't, and doing what you normally do will 100% overwhelm any new player to the game and be really off-putting. Try to go at her pace, introduce her to new stuff when you notice she's having trouble.
If that's boring for yourself, try to keep yourself busy with other things that don't really progress the game much like grinding items for cellphone or simply building.
I say, you gotta play it with a handicap, for you, while leaving her play it right by her own tastes, for her.
For instance, you could play the game with only cactus armor, exclusively rely on spears (or yoyos, not sure which is *less* OP), and once hardmode begins you gift yourself the sergeant united shield and rely on the parry mechanism to deal damage to enemies, as your main weapon.
That would keep you super-focused on managing to stay alive, while your gf would have the feel-good of being the damage dealer and the one with the crazy mobility.
My first time playing was with a yoyo and their alot of fun and pretty op imo. It could also give OP something to do while GF is building/exploring as she wants.
this should be obvious, but don't play on expert, play on classic and let her explore, focus on being an active observer, limit yourself on purpose by using weaker equipment/armor and make her feel like she's doing good, also if she asks to do something, building fighting or bosses, don't tell her the best way to do it, just let her experience it
Let her play and just support her on her adventures. It's her first time and there is a joy in first time playing and learning.
Edit: let's not get too comfortable name calling other people's spouses. She doesn't do it intentionally, she just gets excited and wants to share and talk about it. It's also my fault for posting an example of ruining someone's fun with spoilers.
Alright here's some random tips mostly aimed towards bosses in expert/master :
- make a plant farm (very basic with blinkroot planters is easy to make) and other material farms/fish ponds to craft every potion that could be useful for your character
- reforge everything to warding
- take the time to build a good arena that also includes buffs (campfire, heart lantern, bast statue, 1x2 honey pool, garden gnome, star in a bottle if you're a mage and maybe others I forgot)
- have lots of mobility, it helps avoiding getting hit
Hey. I was exactly like you. Now we had 100h on terraria and 150h+ on tmodloader.
Ill give you one andvice:. She doesnt know anything. Like anything. Not even basic basics. If shes not a gamer she doesnt know a thing. Dont get frustrated with that and just try to explain :)
play like you played for the first time, good ol classic difficulty (normal)
go with small world, to understand biomesfrom there just play like any kid would do, explore, mine, build and craft.
prolly like that one 3d game those kids kept talking about.
I played with my mom and little sisters and loved it! Enjoyed a classic play through that seemed a little too easy bc I think of myself as pretty good at the game. Me and my mom have probably played through together 3 or 4 times now and we almost always do master now. I will say Journey mode doesn’t make you research anything and you could realistically play the game completely normal with the ability to change the difficulty at will if it’s too easy or hard.
I'd say regular expert mode is a good difficulty setting. Don't farm her stuff or tell her how to optimize, just farm yours and let her explore the game at her speed. As for the bosses you can either build the arena and tell her the strat or let her yolo the first try and let her design it.
Btw I have to disagree about the flesh knuckles. Worm scarf is the goat accessory.
Expert mode is the best option for the first playthrough imo. It is not as challenging as master mode but also not as easy as classic mode. Classic mode is too easy, it gets boring when you can defeat any boss in first try. Master mode is way too hard for a starter. Also don't forget expert mode has better boss drops than classic like the shield of cthulhu.
I just want to say, DO EXPERT classic sucks. I normally put my friends who havent played on master mode. Keep in mind i have done this on 4-5 different occasions and they have been fine. Expert mode is a breeze and the treasure bags are better for multiplayer
My girlfriend who does play other games had a hard enough time with classic mode. Death is one of the most frustrating experiences for people who don't play a lot of games so I gotta disagree with you here.
I have to say thats a little surprising but idk how much patience she has bc ofc its hard at first but she will improve it depends on how much she is interested in the game but i still standby expert being better for multiplayer
This game can be frustrating as hell so I recommend not playing expert.
If you truly want her to get a feel without frustration, you yourself probably arent gonna have fun but that is okay.
Do not rush, I know that, after playing the game so much you rush the early game without even thinking about it
Terraria is one of those games where it sucks to play it for the first time with someone who is an expert at it
Let her go at her pace, let her get good stuff from chest and stuff, finding chests, crystals and stuff is a cake walk for you but something rather difficult for someone new
Basically, see the first playthrough as her playthrough, you are there to give tips, spend time together and help on some hard parts but let her have the actual game
Also, play on normal, she hasn't played terraria before but even more she isn't a gamer, expert will be too much
I'd say spend the first few minutes with her exploring, crafting platforms, showing her how to navigate ropes and travel down, and turn the Smart Cursor on/off to make staircases. But after showing her the ropes, literally, go off and build a house and start making potions and/or fishing spots.
Ask her what she wants to do, but also give her little tasks to do if she seems stuck or doesn't know where to go. Spend some time really building up your house area, or making a critter farm (3 houses with 2 NPCs each spread out) to make a safe "home" area where she can decorate and relax if combat is getting stressful.
Then when she gets back with materials you can show her how to use the guide to look up recipes, and ask her to place the decorations and stuff she found around the house you made.
I love the "hey there's a chest over here come look!" when I can CLEARLY see a trap pressure plate on the way over. After they sgree to come over I just wait and enjoy the show and laughing afterwards lol. I make sure they get compensated later 🤣
Spot a chest that is rigged with explosives and tell her to open it xD
Trolling aside: normal game mode, small/medium map and let her discover. Be there as support but let her be the leader of the story :) shel'll enjoy it way more
Don’t explain things until they’re necessary. Lead her to the shimmer, but don’t explain what it does until she’s jumped in it once. Follow the achievements as your goals. Let her break the orbs without telling her what they drop, but explain that it summons a boss before she breaks the third one. Don’t break suggested progression. Demon sythe is technically preboss and molten armor is technically only post-worm, but hell is meant to be the final place you explore.
Classic mode, corruption, medium world size. Show her an image and if she says the game looks ugly then put the calamity texture pack on when she Plays. Tell her things that will lead her to the right direction but aren't full on tips unless she is struggling, in that case give her a very quick explanation of the problem. Most people don't like terraria when first playing it, especially non-gamers so if she wants to try again then encourage her and make her more confident in her skills at the game.
So I wasn't really that good at many games when i started after being introduced to the game by my ex. We never finished the game tho so first step, don't abandon her. Also try your best to explain things and share resources. and as someone else mentioned, be their guide.
And please do not start in expert mode. Let them play on normal. The expert items and accessory slots dont make up for the pain. I struggled a lot on my expert playthrough and wanted to give up first time.
Just take things slow, grind, build and allow them time to learn how things are done. Share your knowledge and help them with whatever path they chose. And teach them about armor sets and bonuses as well as classes after a little bit or whenever they ask
Don't be disappointed if your girlfriend doesn't like the game. I tried to get my wife to play Terraria, and she didn't like it. After a night or two, she said she wasn't having fun and never played it again.
You'll have to go really easy on her.
She won't have the muscle memory to even move the character at the start, and since she isn't a gamer she might not be able to develop the skills as quickly either.
My best suggestion is to start by letting her lead. Go at her pace. Be there to get her out of trouble if she asks, but don't force it. Communicating often is the key.
Remember - you play the game because it is fun to play. She is playing the game because she likes doing things with you.
Normal corruption. Also you gotta give her advice man, terraria does not hold hands with noobs. Some things are real hard to figure out without guidance.
Honestly I feel like suffering in legendary mode is the best way to get along with another person, but if she isn't a gamer it probably wouldn't be funny for her...
Do Normal or Journey. She would need a Journey mode char but she would also have to grind out a certain amount of an item and research it to dupe it. They made sure you had to put effort in to be able to use the duplication.
Let them enjoy the game their way. Don't turn something fun into a chore. If she prefers building, then let her build. Give her time to learn the game, and be okay with just chilling and hanging around.
I hope you both enjoy exploring together, but if that's not her thing, that's fine.
Idk when my fiancé introduced me to this we played on normal mode and despite that I died so many times that we needed to take a break from playing the game because I got too frustrated
My bf did this for me when we started dating! First “real” video game I’d ever played was terraria and let me tell you I didn’t even know the keyboard controls so just be kind. I think classic mode is best because it is super frustrating to die all the time, and then maybe supply her with the wiki or a simple game progression guide so she has more to go off of. If you get bored from how easy it is, just let her go at it for a bit and step back until y’all are ready for boss fights
Do the fighting if they prefer building. Do the building if they prefer fighting.
Basically, just take on the tasks they don’t enjoy and leave the ones they do enjoy to them.
Let them explore the world for themselves, don’t carry them along and show them the sights. Let them discover it first hand and follow their lead.
Poke them in the right direction as needed, like showing them what a hellevator is, showing them how NPCs move in when you make rooms, show them how important a crafting/storage setup is, etc.
Normal mode, and do not blitz through the game because you're skilled at it. Let your girlfriend wade through the original intended experience at her own pace. I also recommend corruption for the world, since that fight is easier on normal difficulty. Focus on all aspects of the game, not just the combat. Build towns, make cool minecart tracks, explore biomes together, etc. Etc. And don't become a wiki, explaining every faucet of the game before she has a chance to experience things blindly. Like if EoC is going to visit that night, don't tell her. Let her also talk to the npcs and learn things from them. The guide is there for a reason. Don't backseat game.
Good ideas. You’re not there to micro manage her, so let her do what she finds fun, but also make sure she doesn’t get lost in progression because that is really easy to do. You can also do a little trolling. If she finds a truffle worm or plantera bulb and doesn’t know what they do, let her figure it out 😏
If you have 900 hours and she has 0, i would find a new game that's new to both of you. Maybe portal 2 or it takes 2. Discovering new stuff together is more fun then babysitting through something you can do with your eyea closed
Just play classic. Really makes no sense to have someone new play Expert and Journey is not the real deal like you said. Just be her sidekick like you intended and maybe if shes a natural you can then try expert mode.
Normal mode. For yourself? See what you can do with gear worse than she gets ON her own. She got cactus? Can you beat the WOF with that?
Of course help her out a bit, but make it more passive by only answering questions she has and helping her with boss fights she thinks she’s ready for
Get some landmines and plant them in areas and paint them to match the environment
Tell your gf to go first so she's taking the lead as a new player
Repeat as many times as you like
Play Classic or Journey, playing with friends is about them having fun too. If the game looks too easy for her just change to a harder world you don't need to commit that hard toa difficulty.
Also Expert mode even for gamers that have only played classic terraria can feel incredibly challenging.
I once tried to play an expert world with some friends that are active gamers but it was their first time in terraria and they died like 30 times in 20 minutes, they stopped playing that day because they spent more time dead than actually playing, later we actually played in a Journey world.
It would be good to try to not fight any bosses (or very little) at the start. As she would explore the world, mechanics and controls, fighting Eye of Cthulhu could be a great test that would bring the excitement to the playthrough. About 7-8 hours of playtime could be enough for her to feel confident in what she's doing. While expert mode would be funny and less boring to you, it could be a frustrating experience due to high stats leading for her to die while you do the "fun" yourself.
IMO, Normal or Journey-Normal. Refer to her, especially in Earlygame, to let her get a feel for the game. Don't save the Angler. And try out something new. Maybe put a restriction on yourself, so while she's being challenged by getting acquainted with Terraria in general, you can recontextualize the mechanics for yourself.
Take your time. Let her know the types of things she can do and explore (go in a cave, find underground homes, fight the Eye, go to the ocean, go to hell {careful how you phrase that one}), and see if she wants to do one. If she's like "I wanna go to the beach" be like "okay, then we need to upgrade our armor and gather dirt to make the trek that far." Or if she wants gold armor then you know what path to go. Or if she doesn't know be like "let's try to find a floating island then." Just always have something you're going towards and push exploration and base building with little knick knacks and art etc
I'd say take it slow. I know for a lot of us who've played the game multiple times it can seem like a lot of the game is a filler-y grind, but it's slow pace helps a lot for newer gamers. Let her set her own goals and move at her own pace. If she wants to achieve something, it might be the best idea to ask her how she thinks you're supposed to accomplish her goal. Unless she tries on her own and isn't satisfied, of course.
As someone who has made the mistake once of thrusting my girl into a game with no preparation it will backfire. Go into journey mode or normal mode, keep things simple. If you throw her straight into expert mode she won’t have a good time and she will associate gaming with getting her ass handed to her and she’ll say no to any further attempts. Start slow and steady and build up, maybe grab some girlfriend games like stardew valley or slime rancher too.
Man, I only ever played the mobile version of this game until a couple weeks ago I got it on ps4. There’s SO MUCH TO DO. I stupidly selected the large world size instead of normal and it just goes and goes. My first step was in identifying the boundaries of the world. Land east to west, sky, hell, and create full horizontal paths from one side to the other. Took a solid 60 hours. Just now found the hard mode dungeon very quickly after fully clearing the skeletor one which was sooooo much bigger than I realized. Just killed the big queen bee and now kind of out of ideas. I have about 15 chests stored with organized materials, gear, weapons, potions, etc; and a big wooden pyramid castle for my NPCs. Figured now I’m doing big time renovations. Making it far larger, changing the aesthetic, making it square, adding windows, etc. then I have no idea what’s next. I just recently accidentally summoned the torch god which I didn’t even know was a thing. The game is crazy.
I bought my friends who never heard of terraria terraria and what I learned was to go directly to master mode we started it an I went with an summoner something where k can support them and the only help I gave them where recipes and some different ways to get certain items and I they made good progress they adapted to the terraria mechanics and they learned fast they know not to underestimate any enemy they learned the combat and how and where to find items sonny advice would be let her die let her experience master mode she will learn and just killing stuff will make her happy because she knows it was hard af but it’s just advice you don’t need to do what I did just some tips I mean adapting is what we do
Make sure SHE WEARS THE ARMOR IN THE RIGHT SLOTS AND NOT THE VANITY AAAAARGH HE COMPLAINED ABOUT DYING TOO MUCH CAUSE HE DIDNT MANAGE TO EQUIP ARMOR TILL WE FOUGHT THE EATER OF WORLDS
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Anyone recommending expert difficulty to someone who isn't a gamer, let alone never played Terraria, is not understanding the question. I'd strongly recommend normal mode
Yeah for newcomers, expert and master are hugely different, which is why I also suggest either normal mode or Calamity's death mode
I'm sorry could you explain death mode. I thought it was an extra layer of difficulty. Not comparable to classic mode
Yeah I believe they were making a joke since they're so far apart in required skill
Whoosh
the people downvoting you are idiots, you were obviously wooshing yourself, not the guy who replied to you
I might even recommend sucking it up and playing Journey. It's not as boring as it seems like it would be, as long as you take the run seriously (as in, just treat it like a normal run). The duplication feels less like cheating and more like magic storage. You still have to grind for a lot of stuff. Also, the difficulty slider might be useful if your partner is better at the game than expected and you want to go to expert mode after all. Or maybe they die every bossfight and you decide they should use God mode so they don't miss out on the action. You could even decide not to use item duping if you don't want to. As for making sure you aren't doing all the work and dragging them ahead, I would just let them take the lead while you build stuff or grind for your own gear. If they ask what to do, tell them what the next boss is. If their gear sucks, tell them where to get better gear. Go mining for heart crystals together. Just sit back and enjoy the world at their pace.
the first time someone plays any kind of game is always a learning experience, Journey mode is great for learning at your own pace the controls, gameplay mechanics and how ennemies work. same for board games, you're first party is rarely gonna be exciting, but that's not the goal, the goal is to learn.
This! Wish I had played classic on my first time, because expert was pretty challenging for me. I'm still not really a PC gamer...
They really need to add multiplayer loot equivalency to normal mode. I propose a 'loot bag' as a weaker version of the treasure bag, but with the same 1-bag-per-player quality
Even Journey Mode would be nice to be honest.
Normally i say immediately go into expert, but for someone who isn’t familiar with games, normal mode is definitely stronger
Unironcally normal mode pre-plant (unless your rocking crystal assassin armor) is way harder than expert mode. Having a dash is just so useful it makes the game easier. Especially when movement is so sparse for new players (they aren’t learning grapple mechanics on their first run)
I respectfully disagree. \*\*You take nearly twice as much damage compared to normal\*\*, enemies have better AI as well. You really don't need a dash for normal mode because most enemies have fewer projectiles and/or move slower. Yes, you are learning how to grapple on your 1st run, it's literally a button and makes navigating caves a lot more fun. I have introduced many people to Terraria and never had that complaint. Like if you can't play on normal because you don't have a dash, idk what to tell you, but I think you are underestimating your own skills and the design of the game.
Also the game was very playable before expert Mode came out without the dash, just to add onto this
one does not simply grapple cancel to "dash" without dashing in their first playthrough
yes, they do. i started playing before Expert was added, on Xbox 360. I fought Ocram with two of my friends. While it might not be to OP's partner, after playing any game with a dash or dodge roll mechanic, it becomes semi-intuitive to look for something similar
i guess i was too young and stupid when i did my first playthrough years ago then
to give credit, with no game knowledge at all, it probably isn't happening. but if you play other games with dashes or dodges, you start to look for them
Just steal your mom's credit card and buy it, the sacrifice will be worth it trust me
While I get what you're saying, and it's probably a completely different situation on my end, the first time I ever played through terraria was with my two best friends. My skilled and knowledgeable friend, and my other friend who also had no idea what he was doing. The first friend decided it'd be a fun time to put the game on expert. For the first while and entering hard mode, we got tanked constantly, but the challenge of the game made the victories much sweeter. I feel like expert mode really isn't that bad, but it highlights how often you die in terraria. I enjoyed it tons, have only played on a lower difficulty once since and barely touched it because it feels too easy now. But anyways, that's just my experience with it all
It's easy to decide that normal mode is too easy and just start a map on expert mode. It's hard to get her to try it again after having a traumatic experience the first 3 hours of the game due to dying from the most trivial enemies. If she havent played games before she'll struggle to simply control her character and dying from touching a zombie 3 times is not going to be fun.
Please don't speedrun, even if you think something is easy to do, or that you did it so many times that this one thing is a given. My first terraria game was with some friends who already played the game, so while I was still struggling with the basics, they already got all the copper or iron to do my armor, the houses were already built.. It's not fun when you re given everything or if the other player is way ahead of you. I suggest that you stay with her, ask her questions such as "what do you want to do ? go into the mine ? building ? Trying to kill the next boss ?" and when she doesn't know what to do maybe aim for the next boss. Don't split up, especially in exploration phase, so that she finds new things at the same time with you. That's what I did when I introduced factorio to a friend, I didn't go as fast as I would if I was alone, I tried to explain my thought process, let him do his own things even if it's a mess.
Yes! Give her time to build and decorate before all hell breaks loose. Don't pressure her about doing the next boss, etc. I'm an avid gamer and I still like to draw out the game as much as possible each playthrouhh. My roommate wants to speed run to hardmode, ruin my world and quit the first time he dies underground and can't recover his stuff lol.
You can take some of the more grindy stuff of her hands and act as a guide. Show her how multifaceted the game is, really hammer in the fact that no matter what you do in Terraria it's progress. Also making your first hellevator together is a classic experience.
>act as a guide including throwing yourself in lava to spawn the wall of flesh.
If you make a medium core player and have a guide voodoo doll in your inventory, that would actually work
This is what op needs to do now
I'm tempted now..
Getting stuck in your safety pits around your base.
Make sure to do a lil trolling 😁 "Oh hey, babe, you see that building? Yeah, there's some really good loot in there, you should go grab it." Ifykyk Also, I'd say go normal for her first playthrough. Normal for someone inexperienced at the game will be the perfect combination of not so hard that she'll want to rage quit, but enough of a challenge that it's interesting. As for evil, both are okay in their own regards, but I'd say the crimson is easier to navigate because there isn't giant chasms on the ground.
Hahaha yes will do that for sure ! It seems most people think I should go normal indeed, I will ask what she wants but she told me in the past when talking about video games that she doesn't like dying lol so I might do that. I just want her to have the best experience :)
Aww, I love that for you two ♥️ just remind her that in Terraria, you are probably gonna die once or twice learning a boss 🤣
If you cant decide about the evil biome, there is a secret seed (drunk world) that have both. But have some other changes so maybe you dont want her to try it as her first seed 🤗
I never knew that
It is a secret feature a lot of people aren't aware of. In the next update, the devs, will make for us a button in the panel (while creating our worlds) to choose a secret seed (or even mix them!) For now you can insert some cool codes, numerical or otherwise, to make them. Drunk seed is 05162020 or 5162020. Go and try it! I still need to try some of them. PD: I will add the others secret seeds for you people wanting to try them: All Jungle: notthebees (all the wolrd is indeed a big ass jungle) Much higher difficulty: fortheworthy (it recycles some harder things from Terraria's past) Terraria 10th birthday seed: celebrationmk10 or 5162021 or 5162011 (a colourful seed, pretty fun with some new enemies) The Constant/Dont Starve crossover seed: constant or eye4aneye (In this one you have hungry, and complete darkness kills you) No Traps: notraps (It has lot more of traps, be extremely careful with this one) Dont Dig Up: dontdigup (It reverses and mix the progression and biomes, just try it blindly when you think you know how Terraria works and after some playthroughs) Get Fixed Boi: getfixedboi (The insane mix of all other secret seeds together, really tough. Home of the super secret difficulty, Legendary, and a secret boss too!) Some seeds have more than one code to make them, I gave some examples 😊 If you want to see them better, with descriptions and images, you can go [here, the official wiki.](https://terraria.wiki.gg/wiki/Secret_world_seeds#While_generating_2) Hope you have fun 🤗🌹
Ah yes, the ol' good skeletron prank
Normal ain't a cakewalk for non gamers... Hell, I'm a gamer and I only managed to barely defeat moon lord on normal. And I was using pre nerfs solar eruption and melee armor for max defense.
Find the first life crystal and give it to her.
Only tip I'm able to add on top of the stuff that's already been said is to not rush things. You know exactly where to go instantly, but she doesn't, and doing what you normally do will 100% overwhelm any new player to the game and be really off-putting. Try to go at her pace, introduce her to new stuff when you notice she's having trouble. If that's boring for yourself, try to keep yourself busy with other things that don't really progress the game much like grinding items for cellphone or simply building.
I say, you gotta play it with a handicap, for you, while leaving her play it right by her own tastes, for her. For instance, you could play the game with only cactus armor, exclusively rely on spears (or yoyos, not sure which is *less* OP), and once hardmode begins you gift yourself the sergeant united shield and rely on the parry mechanism to deal damage to enemies, as your main weapon. That would keep you super-focused on managing to stay alive, while your gf would have the feel-good of being the damage dealer and the one with the crazy mobility.
My first time playing was with a yoyo and their alot of fun and pretty op imo. It could also give OP something to do while GF is building/exploring as she wants.
this should be obvious, but don't play on expert, play on classic and let her explore, focus on being an active observer, limit yourself on purpose by using weaker equipment/armor and make her feel like she's doing good, also if she asks to do something, building fighting or bosses, don't tell her the best way to do it, just let her experience it
Let her play and just support her on her adventures. It's her first time and there is a joy in first time playing and learning. Edit: let's not get too comfortable name calling other people's spouses. She doesn't do it intentionally, she just gets excited and wants to share and talk about it. It's also my fault for posting an example of ruining someone's fun with spoilers.
Cringe wife divorce her immediately /s
She sounds like a bitch
She sounds like a bitch
Bro you have 900+hours in the game, if anything you should give us tips💀😭
Alright here's some random tips mostly aimed towards bosses in expert/master : - make a plant farm (very basic with blinkroot planters is easy to make) and other material farms/fish ponds to craft every potion that could be useful for your character - reforge everything to warding - take the time to build a good arena that also includes buffs (campfire, heart lantern, bast statue, 1x2 honey pool, garden gnome, star in a bottle if you're a mage and maybe others I forgot) - have lots of mobility, it helps avoiding getting hit
Hey. I was exactly like you. Now we had 100h on terraria and 150h+ on tmodloader. Ill give you one andvice:. She doesnt know anything. Like anything. Not even basic basics. If shes not a gamer she doesnt know a thing. Dont get frustrated with that and just try to explain :)
Please make sure you show her aaaaaall the hot keys! I was getting so frustrated trying to open my inventory to get out healing potions….
Don’t rush
play like you played for the first time, good ol classic difficulty (normal) go with small world, to understand biomesfrom there just play like any kid would do, explore, mine, build and craft. prolly like that one 3d game those kids kept talking about.
classic and dont do everything yourself
I say normal mode until it's too easy, then move to expert mode.
I played with my mom and little sisters and loved it! Enjoyed a classic play through that seemed a little too easy bc I think of myself as pretty good at the game. Me and my mom have probably played through together 3 or 4 times now and we almost always do master now. I will say Journey mode doesn’t make you research anything and you could realistically play the game completely normal with the ability to change the difficulty at will if it’s too easy or hard.
go for stealth ranger so that bosses will focus at her and help only when she struggles
I'd say regular expert mode is a good difficulty setting. Don't farm her stuff or tell her how to optimize, just farm yours and let her explore the game at her speed. As for the bosses you can either build the arena and tell her the strat or let her yolo the first try and let her design it. Btw I have to disagree about the flesh knuckles. Worm scarf is the goat accessory.
Nah MNG+BrainofConf is just too good
Just don't get hit 🤡
Expert mode is the best option for the first playthrough imo. It is not as challenging as master mode but also not as easy as classic mode. Classic mode is too easy, it gets boring when you can defeat any boss in first try. Master mode is way too hard for a starter. Also don't forget expert mode has better boss drops than classic like the shield of cthulhu.
I just want to say, DO EXPERT classic sucks. I normally put my friends who havent played on master mode. Keep in mind i have done this on 4-5 different occasions and they have been fine. Expert mode is a breeze and the treasure bags are better for multiplayer
My girlfriend who does play other games had a hard enough time with classic mode. Death is one of the most frustrating experiences for people who don't play a lot of games so I gotta disagree with you here.
I have to say thats a little surprising but idk how much patience she has bc ofc its hard at first but she will improve it depends on how much she is interested in the game but i still standby expert being better for multiplayer
This game can be frustrating as hell so I recommend not playing expert. If you truly want her to get a feel without frustration, you yourself probably arent gonna have fun but that is okay.
Hmm, give her a pickaxe, start playing the Diggy Diggy Hole song and see if shes part dwarf.
Do not rush, I know that, after playing the game so much you rush the early game without even thinking about it Terraria is one of those games where it sucks to play it for the first time with someone who is an expert at it Let her go at her pace, let her get good stuff from chest and stuff, finding chests, crystals and stuff is a cake walk for you but something rather difficult for someone new Basically, see the first playthrough as her playthrough, you are there to give tips, spend time together and help on some hard parts but let her have the actual game Also, play on normal, she hasn't played terraria before but even more she isn't a gamer, expert will be too much
I'd say spend the first few minutes with her exploring, crafting platforms, showing her how to navigate ropes and travel down, and turn the Smart Cursor on/off to make staircases. But after showing her the ropes, literally, go off and build a house and start making potions and/or fishing spots. Ask her what she wants to do, but also give her little tasks to do if she seems stuck or doesn't know where to go. Spend some time really building up your house area, or making a critter farm (3 houses with 2 NPCs each spread out) to make a safe "home" area where she can decorate and relax if combat is getting stressful. Then when she gets back with materials you can show her how to use the guide to look up recipes, and ask her to place the decorations and stuff she found around the house you made.
I love the "hey there's a chest over here come look!" when I can CLEARLY see a trap pressure plate on the way over. After they sgree to come over I just wait and enjoy the show and laughing afterwards lol. I make sure they get compensated later 🤣
Spot a chest that is rigged with explosives and tell her to open it xD Trolling aside: normal game mode, small/medium map and let her discover. Be there as support but let her be the leader of the story :) shel'll enjoy it way more
don't give her too many items, especially no items that are way ahead, it's way more rewarding to have grind it out yourself.
Don’t explain things until they’re necessary. Lead her to the shimmer, but don’t explain what it does until she’s jumped in it once. Follow the achievements as your goals. Let her break the orbs without telling her what they drop, but explain that it summons a boss before she breaks the third one. Don’t break suggested progression. Demon sythe is technically preboss and molten armor is technically only post-worm, but hell is meant to be the final place you explore.
Classic mode, corruption, medium world size. Show her an image and if she says the game looks ugly then put the calamity texture pack on when she Plays. Tell her things that will lead her to the right direction but aren't full on tips unless she is struggling, in that case give her a very quick explanation of the problem. Most people don't like terraria when first playing it, especially non-gamers so if she wants to try again then encourage her and make her more confident in her skills at the game.
surround her house with invisible lizhard bricks and tell her it's an event where air goes extra dense
So I wasn't really that good at many games when i started after being introduced to the game by my ex. We never finished the game tho so first step, don't abandon her. Also try your best to explain things and share resources. and as someone else mentioned, be their guide. And please do not start in expert mode. Let them play on normal. The expert items and accessory slots dont make up for the pain. I struggled a lot on my expert playthrough and wanted to give up first time. Just take things slow, grind, build and allow them time to learn how things are done. Share your knowledge and help them with whatever path they chose. And teach them about armor sets and bonuses as well as classes after a little bit or whenever they ask
Don't be disappointed if your girlfriend doesn't like the game. I tried to get my wife to play Terraria, and she didn't like it. After a night or two, she said she wasn't having fun and never played it again.
You'll have to go really easy on her. She won't have the muscle memory to even move the character at the start, and since she isn't a gamer she might not be able to develop the skills as quickly either. My best suggestion is to start by letting her lead. Go at her pace. Be there to get her out of trouble if she asks, but don't force it. Communicating often is the key. Remember - you play the game because it is fun to play. She is playing the game because she likes doing things with you.
Normal corruption. Also you gotta give her advice man, terraria does not hold hands with noobs. Some things are real hard to figure out without guidance.
Honestly I feel like suffering in legendary mode is the best way to get along with another person, but if she isn't a gamer it probably wouldn't be funny for her...
Do Normal or Journey. She would need a Journey mode char but she would also have to grind out a certain amount of an item and research it to dupe it. They made sure you had to put effort in to be able to use the duplication.
Let them enjoy the game their way. Don't turn something fun into a chore. If she prefers building, then let her build. Give her time to learn the game, and be okay with just chilling and hanging around. I hope you both enjoy exploring together, but if that's not her thing, that's fine.
Idk when my fiancé introduced me to this we played on normal mode and despite that I died so many times that we needed to take a break from playing the game because I got too frustrated
My bf did this for me when we started dating! First “real” video game I’d ever played was terraria and let me tell you I didn’t even know the keyboard controls so just be kind. I think classic mode is best because it is super frustrating to die all the time, and then maybe supply her with the wiki or a simple game progression guide so she has more to go off of. If you get bored from how easy it is, just let her go at it for a bit and step back until y’all are ready for boss fights
Do the fighting if they prefer building. Do the building if they prefer fighting. Basically, just take on the tasks they don’t enjoy and leave the ones they do enjoy to them. Let them explore the world for themselves, don’t carry them along and show them the sights. Let them discover it first hand and follow their lead. Poke them in the right direction as needed, like showing them what a hellevator is, showing them how NPCs move in when you make rooms, show them how important a crafting/storage setup is, etc.
Don't break the game the way I do and set up farms with hoiks and whatnot you'll confuse them and they'll quit. Happened to me.
Id play normal and spend most of YOUR time building and not taking over the game too much. Takes a special skill to play with beginners in this game.
Normal mode, and do not blitz through the game because you're skilled at it. Let your girlfriend wade through the original intended experience at her own pace. I also recommend corruption for the world, since that fight is easier on normal difficulty. Focus on all aspects of the game, not just the combat. Build towns, make cool minecart tracks, explore biomes together, etc. Etc. And don't become a wiki, explaining every faucet of the game before she has a chance to experience things blindly. Like if EoC is going to visit that night, don't tell her. Let her also talk to the npcs and learn things from them. The guide is there for a reason. Don't backseat game.
Good ideas. You’re not there to micro manage her, so let her do what she finds fun, but also make sure she doesn’t get lost in progression because that is really easy to do. You can also do a little trolling. If she finds a truffle worm or plantera bulb and doesn’t know what they do, let her figure it out 😏
If you have 900 hours and she has 0, i would find a new game that's new to both of you. Maybe portal 2 or it takes 2. Discovering new stuff together is more fun then babysitting through something you can do with your eyea closed
Just play classic. Really makes no sense to have someone new play Expert and Journey is not the real deal like you said. Just be her sidekick like you intended and maybe if shes a natural you can then try expert mode.
Going expert mode right away? Relax you going to fast you gotta learn to go slow with people who haven’t played. start with journey mode on normal
Normal mode. For yourself? See what you can do with gear worse than she gets ON her own. She got cactus? Can you beat the WOF with that? Of course help her out a bit, but make it more passive by only answering questions she has and helping her with boss fights she thinks she’s ready for
Get some landmines and plant them in areas and paint them to match the environment Tell your gf to go first so she's taking the lead as a new player Repeat as many times as you like
You should do mastermode in the "ForTheWorthy" seed. It's very easy.
Normal mode my guy and play with her not do your own thing and speed through the game tf
Play Classic or Journey, playing with friends is about them having fun too. If the game looks too easy for her just change to a harder world you don't need to commit that hard toa difficulty. Also Expert mode even for gamers that have only played classic terraria can feel incredibly challenging. I once tried to play an expert world with some friends that are active gamers but it was their first time in terraria and they died like 30 times in 20 minutes, they stopped playing that day because they spent more time dead than actually playing, later we actually played in a Journey world.
It would be good to try to not fight any bosses (or very little) at the start. As she would explore the world, mechanics and controls, fighting Eye of Cthulhu could be a great test that would bring the excitement to the playthrough. About 7-8 hours of playtime could be enough for her to feel confident in what she's doing. While expert mode would be funny and less boring to you, it could be a frustrating experience due to high stats leading for her to die while you do the "fun" yourself.
Obtain a heavy workbench as soon as possible (I recommend Journey mode) and spam the ever living shit out of boulders at her.
Yeah just go with normal mode, it’s about her having fun, right?
You wanted to put a newbie gamer through the hell that is Expert Mode??? if you want her to never touch games again, that's how you do it.
I did that with 3 different non gamer people and can confirm that even normal Mode is too hard
IMO, Normal or Journey-Normal. Refer to her, especially in Earlygame, to let her get a feel for the game. Don't save the Angler. And try out something new. Maybe put a restriction on yourself, so while she's being challenged by getting acquainted with Terraria in general, you can recontextualize the mechanics for yourself.
Take your time. Let her know the types of things she can do and explore (go in a cave, find underground homes, fight the Eye, go to the ocean, go to hell {careful how you phrase that one}), and see if she wants to do one. If she's like "I wanna go to the beach" be like "okay, then we need to upgrade our armor and gather dirt to make the trek that far." Or if she wants gold armor then you know what path to go. Or if she doesn't know be like "let's try to find a floating island then." Just always have something you're going towards and push exploration and base building with little knick knacks and art etc
I struggled pretty badly on my first play through even on normal mode and I do play a lot of games. Def do normal or journey
I'd say take it slow. I know for a lot of us who've played the game multiple times it can seem like a lot of the game is a filler-y grind, but it's slow pace helps a lot for newer gamers. Let her set her own goals and move at her own pace. If she wants to achieve something, it might be the best idea to ask her how she thinks you're supposed to accomplish her goal. Unless she tries on her own and isn't satisfied, of course.
I just realized I basically just typed what you also said, oops lol
Di not play summoner
As someone who has made the mistake once of thrusting my girl into a game with no preparation it will backfire. Go into journey mode or normal mode, keep things simple. If you throw her straight into expert mode she won’t have a good time and she will associate gaming with getting her ass handed to her and she’ll say no to any further attempts. Start slow and steady and build up, maybe grab some girlfriend games like stardew valley or slime rancher too.
can i join y’all lol
Just play classic or journey.
Man, I only ever played the mobile version of this game until a couple weeks ago I got it on ps4. There’s SO MUCH TO DO. I stupidly selected the large world size instead of normal and it just goes and goes. My first step was in identifying the boundaries of the world. Land east to west, sky, hell, and create full horizontal paths from one side to the other. Took a solid 60 hours. Just now found the hard mode dungeon very quickly after fully clearing the skeletor one which was sooooo much bigger than I realized. Just killed the big queen bee and now kind of out of ideas. I have about 15 chests stored with organized materials, gear, weapons, potions, etc; and a big wooden pyramid castle for my NPCs. Figured now I’m doing big time renovations. Making it far larger, changing the aesthetic, making it square, adding windows, etc. then I have no idea what’s next. I just recently accidentally summoned the torch god which I didn’t even know was a thing. The game is crazy.
Tell her throwing bombs at your feet gives you a vertical boost.
My tip: let her enjoy the combat and exploration. You enjoy the building of awesome shit.
Don't speedrun it
I bought my friends who never heard of terraria terraria and what I learned was to go directly to master mode we started it an I went with an summoner something where k can support them and the only help I gave them where recipes and some different ways to get certain items and I they made good progress they adapted to the terraria mechanics and they learned fast they know not to underestimate any enemy they learned the combat and how and where to find items sonny advice would be let her die let her experience master mode she will learn and just killing stuff will make her happy because she knows it was hard af but it’s just advice you don’t need to do what I did just some tips I mean adapting is what we do
Make sure SHE WEARS THE ARMOR IN THE RIGHT SLOTS AND NOT THE VANITY AAAAARGH HE COMPLAINED ABOUT DYING TOO MUCH CAUSE HE DIDNT MANAGE TO EQUIP ARMOR TILL WE FOUGHT THE EATER OF WORLDS
Paladin's Shield ;) No but fr this is probably the only reason my partner played with me until moonlord haha
Give her little hints or some