With the arrival of the Crassus event, we had high hopes to see something different. By logging in this morning and looking at the map, I understood. Another event similar to Halloween and the winter boss. The principle is exactly the same:
look at the map and find a landmark
Go as fast as possible on the mark
Hit the boss with 50 people
Collect the rewards
Repeat the thing in a loop
I’m really, really disappointed, frankly. I love New World, but I don’t understand the point of throwing an event like that, without flavor, there are not even NPCs or affiliate lore in game for immersion. The event items have completely inconsistent stats (like most named ones…), the special mod isn’t one, etc…
Your event strategy is not good. I don’t know, it looks like you don’t think before you put it online. How do you think it will appeal to players? There are lots of solutions to make your events enjoyable, but you prefer to choose laziness and disappoint your players. We really feel like a no brain player when we do your events…
Example to improve them:
Take us through the map more, going to key places to unlock this or that objective
Limit the number of players (instance which will require a certain number of groups to participate)
Set a series of repeatable quests for immersion
Make the World bosses more difficult (no brain side)
Think about rewards (put items with consistent stats)
When the boss dies, create a special animation
Do not create XX respawn point on the map
Avoid making us bash an event (limit it to 1 per day)
I rarely post on the forum, but seeing this this morning I had to.
I love your AGS game, but you are losing all your last players doing this… Please wake up, the game has so much potential, it really hurts my heart to see this .
Agreed and some good suggestions. Mainly, limiting the number of players so the event is actually balanced to be challenging but fun. A good template for this is the existing arenas (balanced for 5 players).
I think being able to run these as often as you like is fine, so I am not sure it’s necessary to limit to one daily run (that would also be annoying if you didn’t have a good run for example). I think once a day for some rewards is OK but honestly I didn’t mind the idea that you could get more for doing more at Christmas or Halloween.
If the event is fun and challenging, I don’t think that matters as much. I think that the zerg nature of this (and, let’s face it, all of the game’s open world content) is the major problem.
I do think expecting a full on quest line for all of these events might be asking too much. I think it’s ok for events like this one to be limited to a single event. But sure, the major events could be spiced up with some actual content rather than just one world boss.
I actually think there’s some misguided concept that “world bosses” are fabled best content. If they can be zerged, they’re pointless. And this game has no system to prevent zergs so… I just don’t think world bosses are as good as the devs seem to think they are. I love the concept of Rafflebones for a good example of what I’d consider a “world boss”. A neat random encounter in the world.
But this stuff? Map icon chasing with a zerg is fun for about one or two runs and even then it’s not that fun. Baal with the pumkin mechanic was the strongest so far, I think. Still zerged though. So just mindless. But easily the least mindless so far (because you still had to do the thing even if you had a zerg and dying was easy if you didn’t play well and learn his attacks).
You’re lucky even to get to engage the boss. They are all dead seconds after a handful of players get to them leaving the rest of us out of luck. I was planning to play a lot this week but after 4 fruitless chases I’m out. At least previous bosses survived long enough for us to actually engage.
Came here to post about what I KNEW the event would be after it dropped, but you beat me to it in a much better capacity.
The moment I saw the patch was under 200mb, it was clear what this was. A hopeless attempt for player retention. You have to put in the effort if you want to get players back.
PVP balance seems the be the big one players are waiting on.
Your world is lifeless and static. Look to games like GW2 how to make it more lively.
Events have all been the same SLOP with different paintcoats.
Lack to no form of story immersion. I have no f’ing clue what the story is or whats going on because I refuse to read those blue notes placed around the world. They should be A) read to me through a narrator or B) given context in cutscenes
Territories and the money companies reap is an absurd concept and should have never made it into the game.
I’m not sure this game is repairable. Even the core, the combat, is janky and needs a LOT of work.
ECR is a bane on this game I have been stating for many months now. It is necessary for watermark and the rarest loot drops but it’s NOT FUN.
All elite PoI NEED to be instanced and used as “endgame” or “end-of-quest” (for zones below lvl60) content for zones. I liked running Forecastle Drift, I like running Myrk (before they buffed the hell out of it in a stupid attempt to compensate for zerg that was becoming relevant). There is more “endgame” content AGS, you just fail to capitalize on it and instead allow and condone the zerg with ECR.
It’s not cool, it’s not fun, it’s not players creating emergent content in a sandbox, it’s players ALWAYS taking the path of least resistance to get what they want/need.
Think how much more 5m groups would form if elite PoI and events were instanced…
Whilst you at at it how about some attempt at least at parity in the rewards between classes?
I know most of us were very underwhelmed with the whole thing this time but just on the off chance the next one is better please try and make sure there is an equal point to making the effort to do it for all classes. Missing out 1 or 2 of us from the top tier rewards is not good.