Kind of annoying that load preset doesn't work. Is it the same situation for anybody else?
Gameplay wise, the open world nature of the game and the brutality of the mobs make it hard to know where progress can be made. I finished the Fisherman's quest chain and then roamed around the island but almost everything kills me in 1 hit. Are there any guides/walkthroughs on getting additional quests?
There really isn't a guide or walkthrough, but I can offer some of my random thoughts that hopefully will help some.
Personally, I would not worry too much about quests right now. They don't really give you anything special and they can bug out and just not work right now.
Focus your skill points on Might and Endurance to start with (you gain 1 skill point every level), there are a few skills that help you survive by boosting your armor, damage, and damage resist. Click the + sign by a stat to increase it, and click on the crossed swords, at the top of your character info, to access skills.
Edit: Skills have changed, in version 0.8.5.2, and you no longer gain points to put into skills. Skills are static and you level up those skills by 'doing things', such as mining ores or harvesting resources and each level of a skill adds a small bonus to your character.
My main recommendation is that you Grind, Grind, Grind, grind some more, and avoid fighting anything. Your character sucks when you start out and you don't really start feeling powerful/useful until you can get to steel gear.
Everything you can craft and everything you can harvest, will give you experience, so gathering stuff and making things isn't a total waste.
After you finish the fisherman's quest, try building a home for yourself. Do not build anything in or next to the fisherman hut, things will fall through the map and disappear. There is a flat area near that hut that people have built homes on and an area just down the hill, near the beach/desert area that works as well.
Try making a cauldron as soon as you can, the meat pie and meat sandwich give some very good buffs to HP and stamina. There is wheat that you can harvest right near the trees in the starting area. It looks similar to the grass, just a lighter color, you need it to make the pies or sandwiches.
Until you can make a cauldron, make grilled feral meat in the camp fire, it gives a decent HP buff to help you survive fights.
Crafting Bronze weapons and armor is nice, but don't let it fool you, it kinda sucks for combat, but it is better than nothing. The bronze tools are not that bad, though.
To craft armor, you need leather, which will drop from most monsters and occasionally from deer or boars, but starting out stick to just fighting werewolves and maybe bears.
I would recommend that you skip on making iron gear, it has the same stats as steel gear and if you can make iron, you should be able to make steel. I would, also, recommend skipping on Royal gear and just make Legendary gear (when you get to that point), they need the exact same resources and legendary gear has better stats.
Edit: With the new skill system, there is actually a use for Light (aka bronze) Armor.
The Light armor skill adds <evasion or Crit chance>, I can't remember which one offhand, which is a nice boost for combat. If you equip a piece of bronze armor in the arm or leg slot, along with your steel/legendary armor, you can gain experience for the light armor skill and not sacrifice much in the way of defenses.
The map I have attached, shows locations for where you can find things like iron and copper to make gear. You can find charcoal, for the forge, around the stone pillars scattered around the map. If you see bears around a stone pile, there is a very good chance you can find charcoal. Bears aren't that aggressive, so steer clear of them and you can usually sneak in and mine some charcoal and get out.
my small brain doesn't understand what's going on most of the time and cuz english is my 3rd language I'm not that fast to read everything so sometimes text just disappears before I finish reading everything.
Also I started the werebeast legacy quest but I don't even know how to actually get to breed with anything really
To have sex with monsters and NOT DIE, you need Grit points. The amount of Grit points you have are shown as small hearts above your health bar. All monsters have a 'Grit rating' that is equal to the number of skulls that they have. So, 1 skull, needs 1 grit point, 3 skulls needs 3 grit points, and so on.
You can stand around and let a monster beat you until you are at -100 HP and they will then start sex with your character, be warned though that having sex that way will reduce your Grit points, so you can easily die if something tries having sex with you again.
Your grit points will regenerate at about 1 point for every 10 minutes or so that pass.
Another way to have sex is to move close to the monster and then press the Y key, to start masturbating. The monster will move towards your character and start a sex scene. You still need Grit points for sex, but you don't lose any Grit points this way, so you can start masturbating again and entice them again or entice another monster and you won't die from having sex.
