I am a pvp player and I will tell you what pvp is lacking in New World. I see that PvP is still the issue to be resolved these days.
1º Open world fort battles and pvp missions: Currently players have to take the fort to increase their influence, meanwhile a bunch of poor people do the most boring missions I’ve ever seen in my life, back and forth until the bar is full influence.
The solution is simple. Players have to break the fort’s gate to invade. Pvp missions have to conquer something. The AGS needs to place outposts scattered throughout each region for the PvP missions to make sense.
PvP zones are important and the area around the fort should be forced pvp to lessen the lag of unmarked ones in the region.
2º Forced pvp zones: For the game to be balanced in the zones with higher quality resources, there must be a zone that the player enters the pvp is automatically opened. This avoids farm “bots”, as well as increasing competitiveness for better resources and valuing items.
It is not difficult to create a pvp system. Simply put ZONES so that pvp is forced in some rare item regions.
For now forget about PvE, AGS. PvE has to be epic and fun. Things have to make sense. Where’s the spirit of Souls Like pve? No, that’s what’s missing. PvE players want CHALLENGE.
Mostly, what are the long term plans for the game.
Where they want to take it. What they want the game to be. What are their priorities.
As for more specific stuff, I want to know:
Is there any hopes for swimming? World bosses? More sidequests and interesting NPC’s? Map update with more unique places and less copy pasted stuff?
do you plan to spend some money on advertising, sponsoring twich streams to boost NW expansion reveal ? how do you plan to win back those milions of players that left?
Is company specific social tools such as guild banks, guild mail, granular rank permissions and the likes common in most MMORPGs something that is on the list of things to implement and how soon does AGS plan to tackle these needs?
My biggest question are what are the devs planning for more build diversity?
Are we going to get more scaling gems, more armor perks, new weapon trees, a seperate upgrade tree like the one that is unlocked later in path of exiles.
The last couple months they were hiring for media content creators, paid media managers. I know scot said in his interview that they took 15 new hires to lunch. I put two and two together and assume that they have a team of media producers getting ready to spit out content.
Not gonna lie. One thing this game is missing is cinematics.
True, beautiful cinematics.
As long as it doesn’t pull from the progression of development, budget and time wise, it would be amazing to add in full blown cinematics for key main storyline plot climax’s.
Intro cinematics and outro cinematics would be amazing.
we have 2 cinematics for now. and the beginning, and at the end of the storyline.
i wish we had a few more in between, for important story moments so it would make the story more important.
maybe when meeting the fisherman, when the fort is destroyed, and when we blow up the well.
as an artist i usually prefer them more in a comic form than in a full cgi form. specially because they’re easier to do. which means we could get more of them (just potentially of course.)
No insult intended to the video, I would’ve just loved to see a glorious cinematic of the Well Guardian and what not. Maybe even one of Thorpe being a badass.
If I refuse to join any of the existing 3 factions I feel like I could at least make my own company with likeminded people.
I should be able to create company without joining the faction.
i dont think most faction based games let you do that.
can you not be horde or alliance in wow? I know in ESO you must belong to one of the 3 factions too.
why would you like to not belong to any? is it a lore thing?
faction based game? in a game that factions have non sense? factions are a placeholder. I think we all prefer factions to be removed, because free for all PvP and alliances are lot more fun that a forced faction system that didnt give nothing to players.
Everyone here has such wonderful questions, this thread really has some great discussion keep it up everyone. Really hoping we get something separate but even this next dev blog they can really focus in on this kinda stuff a ton