Really excited to start another journey! A few things I quickly recognised:
Bug: If you have an SF char in your character list and move it up/down, the SF indicator icon isn’t moved a well. „Fixed“ after reloading the char list.
Annoying: Who asked to also add the Soul of Iron buff and make it unremovable? Now I got those purple ball flying around every minute! Quite immersion breaking for me. Can we just remove it?
Long term motivation: there is still no clear official statement afaik - will the system lift the restrictions once hitting level 60? Please let me decide when (or if) I want the restrictions to be lifted. I like to continue the journey also after level 60 and see how far I come.
On the US forum someone poster a screenshot of a level 60 player with the “Unbroken Self-Found Champion” buff. Looks like a bug or exploit.
I find the Soul of Iron buff also strange on a hardcore realm. The only thing I can think of they did this to prepare a merge with the normal classic era realms.
My theory on where this will go from here is that we will get just 1 server type per game version (classic era, classic, sod, retail), where all 4 of them get 3 options on character creation, hardcore, self found and solo. All 3 of these restriction options then get their own buff and you can opt-out whenever you want without changing server.