
It’s a transformation that takes place at different times of the summer depending on factors like elevation and location, but if gorgeous blooms are what you’re looking for, we’re here to help you find them.Ĭolorado Wildflowers: A Brief Field Guideįirst thing’s first: when you’re checking out wildflowers in Colorado, you’ll need to know what to look for. Trees and lawns are green, vegetable and flower gardens are blooming with life, and all around the state, wildflowers are beginning to peek their heads up from the ground. There’s so much content on offer here for anyone who decides to dip in, and the drip-feed nature of it just keeps you coming back for more.Summer is finally here, and that means Colorado is exploding into color. Overall, Durango: Wild Lands is an absolutely enormous game in terms of depth and we’ve thoroughly enjoyed our time with it so far. You’ll unlock stances, weapon and martial attack skills, passive bonuses, and more as you build your character from person hitting a dinosaur with a stick to murderous machine mowing down everything in its path with a home made greatsword. There’s as much depth to the combat system in terms of unlockable perks as there is with the crafting, which is no mean feat. Intriguingly, these skills can either hurt the stamina, making it easier to tame the creature, or the health, resulting in a kill. You can order your character to auto-attack, dodge the next attack – which requires exquisite timing –, and use a variety of attack skills. You’ll have various skills at your disposal. This cues an almost Baldur’s Gate-esque battle system that feels turn-based, but plays out in real time. You initiate combat by tapping on a dinosaur and hitting ‘Attack’. Speaking of combat, that’s also a particularly strong element of Durango, which is surprising given that the game primarily consists of crafting. You might then need to further refine each individual material, levelling up yet another skill. For a single recipe, you might need to gather wood and rock from the trees and ground respectively, then kill dinosaurs for their bones. You don’t have to worry about over levelling a particular skill and ignoring the others either, as they generally overlap. Everything just feels attainable in just a short span of time that you’ll be hooked on progressing. More perks unlock as you level up each individual skill, which will just keep you pursuing the next level relentlessly. Combat is somehow as deep and rewarding as the crafting system Level up your character and you’ll earn skill points to spend on various crafting and combat perks. Each time you craft, you gain experience for that particular skill and for your character. That’s because they’re just your generic fetch and kill quests, and you’ll almost certainly be far too busy working on your next crafting project.ĭurango drip-feeds you with stuff to build, unlockable every few levels. There are quests but you might just end up ignoring them for the most part. You’ll build a nice place to rest your head, crafting stations, places to keep your dinosaurs, and all of the storage you can fit there. Once claimed, you can build anything you want though. Rather, you’ve got to claim territory for your own. Given that this is a persistent MMO, you can’t just build anywhere you want. Then there’s your base of operation, which you build on one of the few safe islands in Durango’s world. Durango: Wild Lands has an absolute ton of crafting optionsĮventually, you’ll tame dinosaurs and make them your pets that you can ride into and fight alongside in battle.
