So I am 26 now and I have been doing the mainstory quest and the side quests and one thing stands out and honestly its starting to be come kinda boring, but every single side story quest is the exact same thing.
Is this because the game was intended as purely a PvP game and they didnt have time to add quests or is this their vision for the PvE side of the game?
Should and or could we expect better PvE content later on?
Are there even any unique side quests? At least the main story has some unique stuff happening but man, questing in this game is awful and its only tolerable because as you run from place to place you gather pretty much anything you see.
PvE is lackluster because, yes, this game’s original vision was supposed to be mainly PvP. Developers added PvE last second to please the PvE’rs in the game, and added the option to flag or unflag for pvp. PvP was also full loot (meaning you dropped materials in your inventory but not your gear) making resource nodes a site to contest/pvp for. Right now, PvE is what you get, I am not sure if they’ll be rewriting/revamping the lore or changing PvE dungeons for the better lol. The side quests and main quest is pretty generic overall, so… kind of a bummer. I wish PvP combat and mechanics was like that of alpha testing. PvE is just smacked onto New World
Not sure about your experience, but if you’re reading the side quest (story) for each town they are unique and varied. I did Everfall along with the Main Story and Faction Quest-line. that took me out to Windsward, Brightwood, Cutless and Weaver-Fen and the characters are unique along with the story. Granted it’s still kill X collect X, but that is to be expected in the MMO world of side quest.
I am now 51 and I can confirm. If you think the first 30 levels of side missions were horrible, the next 20 wont improve at all. It gets even worse with the same 2 or 3 quest concepts.
At least the world pvp is somewhat enjoyable, albeit the spear animations could def use some attention.
Huge yikes. If the endgame PvE content is of this quality I can see the queues vanish real quick.
I agree with OP, and to be honest I’m disappointed with the game as a whole. The PVE is extremely lackluster and boring. There is no variation. To the person who mentioned that you will find enjoyment out of reading the quests… wtf? I don’t play games to read and frankly I don’t care about lore either. If I wanted lore I would watch LOTR, Star Wars or read a book. I bring this up ingame asking if there is any content in the game besides the “quests” and I get absolutely flamed by people telling me to quit the game because thats just how it is. It really just shows how easily amused they really are.
Amazon postponed this game multiple times, and I wasn’t mad at all. I figured it was for the better of the game and so that they can really give us a complete game full of content. Boy were we wrong. There is NOTHING to do in the game.
And god forbid you use another MMO for the sake of comparison. If you bring up other games like SWTOR, WOW, ESO, FF, GW etc… you get flamed with excuses like “well this isn’t supposed to be a X, Y, Z clone”, “we don’t need mounts because thats what every other MMO does” “they don’t need quest sharing because thats what every other MMO does” and the list goes on. BUT THEN I REPLY - tell me what is unique about New World then. Amazon offers NOTHING new worth noting. Action combat? Great… but only 3 ability slots? Copy and paste quests? Also a joke. And the fanbois want to say “well every other MMO is just like that” but its not. In any other MMO you have specific quest givers, with much more varied quests. And when you start nearing the end of a zone, you begin to get bored. Luckily in those games you are done and get to move onto a new landscape. That is not the case with this game. Its running from point A to B to A to B to A to B to A to Z (Z being an un-ascetically fresh zone). Other MMOs - A to B to A to C to D to E to A to F to B to Z (Z being an ascetically fresh zone). I haven’t tried a war yet but doing the faction PVP quests is just another running simulator with a little bit of PvP thrown in. For being a 2021 game its kind of a joke.
So think about this. If New World is supposed to be fresh, different, and unique to other MMORPGS, what does it have that others don’t? Other MMORPGS have everything this game has and much much much more.
In the end I think Amazon fumbled but has a chance to change things. Its just going to take time to figure out what they think is important and what is not. Hopefully they will listen to their player base. I think the fanbois will min max while a majority of the player base will wise up to the repetitiveness and take a break.
Thank you for telling us that. I think its good for the public to know how little content Amazon actually put into the game before spending their hard earned money or spending several hours leveling up excepting a change of pace later in the game. Its not well thought out. They spent more time working on the wind effects on the bushes (which looks great) than they did on actual things to do in the game.
Its okay to whiteknight, but saying all MMOs use the same 3 quests designs and just relocate the area with the exact same mobs too, thats just being silly.
Kill 8 skeletons. Click supply crates. Click blue lore pages Thats New world.
Other mmos also have: Kill various mobs, Click Stuff, Click more stuff, Interactive quests, vehicle quests, escort quests, puzzle quests, different mobs, different objectives.
I mean you’re not wrong but at the same time all those kinda quests are equally as boring after a while anyway. I wouldn’t even mind the quests being the same over and over but I’ve also noticed that environments have been copied exactly too… Every quarry looks identical with no variation, every small village in bright wood every homestead… they all look identical. I think if I’d noticed this is beta I probably would have cancelled my pre-order.
Don’t get me wrong I do enjoy the combat of the game but it’s going to need more than that long term to keep me playing.
I’m not sure if you understood my post Lynexia but that’s exactly what I am saying. New World has not created anything…new. Its the same old crap. What I was saying is that at least in other MMOs they DON’T copy and paste the environment. ThaiTanic had it right - other MMOs might have the same quests but they we’re much more elaborate and varied. And when you get done with quests in a certain area you move on to a new environment unique from the last one.
Guild Wars, WoW and ESO - you move between lush jungles, to desolate deserts, to snowy mountains to grassy meadows and everything in between. SWTOR you move from planet to planet that I cannot describe.
While other MMOs might be a master of something or jack of all trades… New World is just kinda meh, a jokester.