Want them or not I think we all know that at some point Mounts will come to New World. So I have some thoughts about how I’d like to see them handled. This is just fun speculation and a thought exercise because the servers are down and I’m too lazy to go outside.
To start with I’d like to see Mounts as a permanent fixture. What I mean by this is they don’t just spawn when a player want’s to ride. I’d like my mount to be an extension of me. Meaning when I unmount, my hoarse won’t just vanish in a poof of smoke as if it were a genie from a magical lamp, ready to poof back into existence when I need it. I’d like it to stay where I leave it unless spooked. In which case it will run away and I will have to call it back or run after it. This could be mitigated by skills which I will come too.
The type of things I’d like to see it spooked by is if it’s directly attacked by a player or mob, if it’s too close to battle or if I’m killed. This would give me some planning to avoid, and would work well in PVP.
So obviously this would lead to people losing there mounts, fear not. Return to the Stable and there it is. Similar to the camp mechanics if you wander too far from it.
The stable would be an instance where you can enjoy some grooming and what not similar to the housing. The mount will have it’s own skill tree, with passives and attacks similar to a weapon. I’ve not really thought this through, but bringing mounts into combat would be pretty cool. After all, that’s what they were used for.
Anyway, that’s my thoughts about mounts. Personally I think most mmo’s trivialise what a mount is and treat them like a simple speed buff, when in reality they could be so much more.
It also surprised people how fast Horses spread all over America when they were introduced in the wild with few natural predators, including humans.
I’m cool with not be able to swim, but it needs an animation, and the ability to jump walk. Which is what people tend to do in water. My first two deaths were by drowning and the top of my head was out of the water. I literally could just jump to breath, even in full plate armor. But nope, and there was no way out where I fell in. I could and should have been able to pull myself out using the ledge I fell off.
The Group finder crying is already happening, there is few threads about ppl crying about “need” to find other players and how they are forced to play with ppl in MMO…
