[Suggestion] Add random tips / hints

[Shilai]

I would like to suggest to add random, short tips in a loading screen or on the character select page.

It would be an additional, small, and possibly positive communication channel for AGS to the players, where mechanics could be highlighted, hidden features mentioned or general tips be given. I’ve started a collection of tips myself, which I currently write at random times in the servers /help channel.

Tip / Hint Collection

• Try to keep your graphic drivers updated, to prevent lags and having game client crashes less frequently. If you are constantly getting graphic errors, try to find a solution in our forums.
• Press the middle mouse button, to create a ping. Keep pressing it, to get even more options (Danger, Careful, …). You can also mark enemies this way.
• The color of your floating damage numbers is showing the effectiveness. Orange = crit, Yellow = efficient, Blue = inefficient, White = normal. Most Enemies are vulnerable to at least one damage type (±15% up to 40%).
• Split your teleports to far away locations, to save on Azoth costs. First, teleport to the outer area of your faction territory and only then to your final destination.
• You can “watch” the “Official News” sub forum, to be notified automatically, for example via email, whenever there are notices, downtime or announcements. forums.newworld.com
• You can “lock” gear that is important to you with “L + Leftclick” to prevent inadvertently salvaging it. For example for harvesting gear or additional weapons.
• In order to salvage gear without having to confirm each time, you need to press “STRG” in addition to “S + Leftclick”.
• Type in /stuck in case you are stuck, in order to be teleported to a previously visited close location after 10 seconds.
• In order to swap gear, for example luck or harvesting gear, you don’t need to drag it, but a double click on the gear in the inventory is enough to equip it.
• If you have multiple gear sets with you (Mining, Woodworking, etc.) then you can “colorcode” them, by inserting cheap gems of the same color.
• Fishing hotspots appear in fixed order, also on your map, with increasing fishing skill. Before, you don’t see them.
• During daylight, you will find “Nightcrawler Bait” when collecting flint, but during night you find the slightly better “Glowworm Bait”.
• Water can become pretty heavy, but if you put it in one of your action slots 3-6, it does not weight anything anymore, which lets you carry up to 10k water. By the way, water also heals you for a tiny bit, when you drink it.
• You can easily and quickly change the language of the game, by pressing “ESC”, then go to “Settings” and in “Preferences” you can select the language in the top right corner.
• When opening the chat window with “ENTER”, you can press “TAB” to swap between the different chat channels. This even works, when you already started typing.
• You can see the effect of your equipment load, by hovering over the load display right of your helmet. For example, you are dealing 20% more base damage with light gear.
• A day-night-cycle approximately takes 90 to 95 minutes. 70 minutes of daylight and 25 minutes night.
• The first three finished daily faction quests will give you 10x more gold and 200 to 300% more experience. You can see the number of open daily quests in the top left corner of your faction board.
• Your “High Watermark” determines the gear score of dropped items starting at level 60. The watermark of each slot and weapon type is independent. You don’t need to pick up the item, in order for the watermark to increase.
• After being on a road for at least three seconds and your are not engaged in combat (evade, block, attack, debuff), then you get a 10% movement speed bonus.
• When you activate PvP mode (press “U” in a settlement) then you will get 10% more item luck and 30% more harvesting luck.
• All trade posts are linked. Taxes depend on the settlement, where you publish it. Transaction tax apply in the settlement, where you are buying the item.
• You will be getting a guaranteed critical hit only with melee and non-magical ranged weapons. As a melee, whenever you attack from behind and as a ranged by headshots.
• When keeping “ALT” pressed, you can freely look around moving your mouse without changing your running direction.
• Sometimes you can earn easily earn a bit of gold buying the items needed for a town quest directly from the trading post, when they are cheaper there.
• As a faction member, that is not dominating the world, you get a bonus when handing in faction PvP quests. Also, it is not possible to change faction to the dominating faction.