This game needs an option to not choose a faction, or to leave factions completely. I’ve tried to level a character without picking one but you get virtually no quests aside from townboards, cannot participate in wars, etc.
I think this game would really benefit from the option to just be factionless. Companies without a faction would NOT be able to own territory, but would be able to fight for any side in any war. This would create an interesting third party (or fourth party, really) in the battle for power in war for territories. Players could actually function as mercenaries.
Plus, personally, I’m kind of sick of my own faction on my server. We have the option to swap factions, but the other options aren’t a lot better. I’d like to help manipulate the balance of power on my server without having to be stuck within one faction for months.
Faction is pretty useless in the game anyway. Not only that you can change it, when you met you faction opponents on the battlefield, you can drink, party and team up with them the minute the war ended. First we hit each other in a war, than we both change factions to the exact opposite and after that, we visit an expedition as team, yeah!
Worst faction approach in any MMO I have played so far. DAoC is 20 years old but did it way better. It was worth something then to select a faction. When you RvR in GW2 you fight for YOUR server. It means something to be part of it. In New World you just share a color and pay more or less for services -Yay!
As long as we are able to change our not so immersive faction, you could very well offer us to avoid it as well.
Idk, I personally like the camaraderie between factions outside of war and pvp in this game. Makes it more fun for me rather than being confined to the same few hundred people in your own faction. I always hated games with language barriers between factions, and half the time you end up working with people outside your own faction in PvP zones anyways. Plus adds an element of uncertainty within factions since you or your entire company could potentially switch (with great difficulty, of course)
I am going to reroll my alt and play factionless but it is real challenge with so many missions, income sources and gear locked behind factions. And sadly the story quite opposes the faction conflict and it is weird to see all three faction representatives in all towns yet factions are supposed to be enemies…
Factions should be removed completely from the game. This game should’ve been company versus company from the start.
Games like Lineage 2(released in 2003) is proof that a system around company vs company works really well even to this date.
Even in a first Witcher I was always neutral lol. If it would be an option I would be factionless too. Even so I need one factionless town where stations won’t get degraded. On less populated servers you are left with tier 2 stations after several downgrades with no hope to craft something higher tier. It may be more expensive than faction stations I don’t mind. Just let us craft somewhere. Or let us have mini station at home. It may be expensive to make but it would give us some options.
