First off thank you for listening to the community and making the changes you have. The game is much, much better now. Removing orbs was what brought me back
I remember how embarrasingly bad PvP missions used to be (go here hunt 10 turkeys), they are not much better now.
Example:
The other night I witnessed about 30 of us on Fae (Cov) run a train of players back and forth in Restless Shore, down the beach on the same PvP mission to âretrieve and deliver ancient textsâ.
This should of been awesome, that many players, but it just looked so lame. No immersion what so ever. Iâm like âwhy do they need these ancient texts so many times, did they lose the first lot I delivered?â
Also, no-one is talking, no-one is fighting, we saw one red Marauder who stumbled in and got wrecked. 30 players doing PvP missions and it was a non-immersive snooze-fest.
please put some actual thought into PvP missions and open world.
No one bothered to run the other missions as this was faster. Plus ârun all the way here and run back againâ is a lame mechanic, especially with nothing interesting along the way.
Open world pvp lives off of new players joining the game and older players creating alternate characters. New World of course doesnât let you create alts and due to itâs constantly respec design decision, there wouldnât be a reason to create an alt anyways. You might be able to counter that with proper pvp scaling to even the playing field with max level players but they threw that out the window. Then the game isnât popular enough to draw in new players. Thus open world pvp is dead unless you are max level and even then itâs still dead if your server is unbalanced. Zergs are garbage pvp and nobody cares enough to waste their time just to have a zerg vs zerg shitty pvp experience. Youâll need to just delete your character and start over on the fresh start servers if you want some pvp again.
Iâm not sure that the missions themselves are such a bad idea, but the incentives sometimes seem to ruin any potential to generate PvP.
For instance, if youâre 30 people pushing a territory, no small groups are gonna go out and attempt to fight you because theyâll just get run over, but the owners of that territory might not even want to get a defense going because theyâd rather fight the resulting war than run missions anyway, so the company that should have the most motivation to get large enough numbers out is still not interested in doing so.
Iâve also noticed problems when itâs just random people running missions for something to do. The problem in these cases is that, once a mission is complete and just needs to be turned in, people seem very uninterested in engaging in combat because they donât wanna risk dying and having to redo the mission, so if you try to engage someone, you just end up chasing them forever because itâs incredibly easy to run from a fight if youâre really not interested in fighting in NW.
Iâd be happy to see something change, but the actual mechanics of PvP missions donât seem like the thing that needs to be changed. If rewards and incentives were reworked in some way, I think that would be much more impactful for making PvP missions fun, although I really have no suggestions at all for what that would look like.
You are right that having missions to do in PvP mode is not inherently a bad idea, but they have been executred very badly, they are what I would consider a barely viable MVP for PvP gameplay loop, itâs very low effort thinking in my humble opinion.
You are also right that there is little incentive to engage, for fear of death and losing those tokens.
Rewards and incentives are the key you are right, also the way the encourage people to engage. hmmm
Imagine if they brought back the meteor idea⌠It drops out of the sky, shows up on the map, and the first person to loot it is âitâ ⌠And they are now flagged for PvP. When youâre killed, the person who killed you is âitâ ⌠Canât fast travel, canât leave the zone. The longer you are it, the better the reward. Stuff like this would be cool.
Context for the mission:
You are delivering âwar chestsâ to the war camp as the attacking faction. (Supplies for the front-line).
Objective (while PvP flagged):
Take your âchestâ which is an item in your inventory, which you cannot open to the war camp.
On successful delivery of your chest, you can open it (the key is at the war camp), you then get a random set of drops, weapons, coins etc.
Engagement:
These war chests can be intercepted by the enemy, they drop on death. Defenders can pick them up and in turn return them at their fort, stealing the loot.
Encouragement for group play and comms:
You can chose 3 types of chest to deliver.
Small : You can do this solo, average-to-good loot drops. Small faction XP gain, small faction influence gain.
Medium: Requires a party of 2-3 people to deliver. Excellent loot drops and influence/XP gains.
Large: Requires a party of 5 people to deliver. Amazing drops etc.
Encouragement for enemy faction:
If you chose to deliver a medium or a large war chest, the enemy is alerted to your activities. And you show up on the map when in range.
Medium chests require you to be quite close to pop up on the map.
Large chests and you are very visible on the map (basically you just need to be in the same zone).
I feel this would be something I wouldnât remind repeating, it makes sense that War supplies need constant deliveries and the rewards make it worth it, a bit like repeating a dungeon and the size of the chests / parties works a little like a mutation.
@Luxendra - can we please get some input as to weather updating and improving PvP missions is on the current dev agenda? Do they even consider this an issue?
I am going to bump this every single day until someone from AGS acknowledges that they are at least aware that the current iteration of PvP missions are not up to standard, and they are doing something about it.
Open World PvP is currently rubbish. Just because people are engaging with it doesnât mean they enjoy it, it is the fastest way to influence territory, it is the pre-cursor to the most important feature of the game, Wars.
