Wishlist of Changes for New World

[Lover_Luisant]

Very good and well presented wish list.
But then…

@Blackxp

Things I Just Want:

• Free 500k, Goldensteel schematic. Rustic Scrollcase schematic. BIS gear.
• Blunderbuss to be Str/Dex
• Brimstone Sands to have BIS housing options.

This is a conclusion that is singularly lacking in ambition !

[Blackxp]

Haha I should definitely consider increasing my ambition a bit.

[ThexCatmanx]

@Blackxp

Goldensteel schematic. Rustic Scrollcase schematic

I am down to like 40 schematics before I have learned every learnable thing in the game outside of pages from the books.

I need both of these too lol.

[Blackxp]

Yeah, since they changed furnishing aptitude chests it’s gone from seeing those schematics once every month to about 1/day. In fact saw someone selling two the other day, so hoping… Soon. Until then I’ll be waiting…

[Blackxp]

Made a wishlist of what I would like to see in terms of endgame content on another thread. This wishlist contains most of it but thought that I would repost it here.

@Blackxp

• Significantly increase the difficulty of the mutation system. Perhaps an M+ system that includes increasing the difficulty of the bosses. Make it insanely difficult instead of just locking it behind GS. I think the core of the mutation system is really cool and eventually we will have thousands of combinations. We just need to crank up the difficulty a bit. Apply it to boss fights or just increase the difficulty of the fights at higher levels.
• PVE coliseum that let’s you fight difficult bosses, similar to PVE arenas now but with weekly mutation options. Give us 50+ different bosses to cycle through each week. Give us wave survival modes as well. The Lost would make for a simple zombie survival mode. Have us fight beasts. Include traps.
• World Bosses with some that are announced server wide and take 100? 200? People to kill.
• 10-12 person raids.
• Jump puzzles. Maybe a few. Let us try for record times to earn cosmetic housing items, titles, achievements, song pages. Give us places with Starstone lasers we need to time itself going through, the swinging axes, the admiral’s exploding floor mechanic and have us move from one point to another and if you fall it’s an instant kill. Stuff like that. As random components so it’s not too simply solved.
• Hidden areas in the open world that if you find them you get an achievement. Have it so if you play a specific 5 person song in a specific area it opens a door. Other cool things. Easter eggs. Maybe teach a rare song.
• Casual Invasions. Could be done as the coliseum waves as per above.
• Casual War mode/Challenge other companies to instanced version. Ability to do scrimmages.
• Achievements. Add a shit ton of them with some rare chase titles, cosmetics/housing items, and songs.
• Provide a housing item that is given from each expedition if you complete it. Another for M10 Gold. Finally another for M10+ Gold.
• Create a dynamic and rewarding open world experience. Dynamic weather eventually. Random spawns that can be found by wandering around the open world. Orichalcum meteors, treasure maps, rare single loot chests (disappear when found), random nodes (in addition to static ones), abandoned caravans, rare mobs, rare animal mobs (white stag, bioluminescent moth at night, very rarely spawn), thieves attacking you on the roads, trade caravans just moving between territories, random groups of bards you can play with, etc. When you have 50? 100? Different things built up over time it starts to become a really cool dynamic world and if it’s based on randomized spawns then it can’t be farmed and rewards exploration. Create new exploration skill that gives xp when interacting with dynamic events and randomly generated spawns. Static spawns will remain but won’t give any xp towards exploration skill. As skill levels up, your compass picks up on more random spawns.
• Extremely difficult areas designed for zergs or massive coordinated runs. Kinda like a Myrkgard on steroids. Don’t think AGS thought zergs would ever become a thing, but would be cool if they designed some areas that essentially need zergs. I can currently run through the area without too many issues. Would be cool if there was a place that was literally impossible to do that. Hyper dangerous areas.
• Open World PVP hotspot system. Provide significantly increased PVP rewards at specific locations for a set period of time. Have this rotate. Essentially create GC again but don’t confine it strictly to GC.
• Increase gathering skill cap to 300 but scale it so that the xp required from 200-300 is insane and exponential. Give a grind to people that want it. Keep refining and crafting the same for now.
• Add a shit ton of new housing items. Add new T5 houses that are essentially mansions but require 300k gold to purchase. Housing upkeep system changed to be static and not based on cost of house. Add some cool houses outside of settlements and in the open world.
• Farming skill.
• Leaderboards for gathering skills, PVP rankings, fastest expedition times, etc. Ways for players to complete. Highscore system.
• Make it so xp continues to be relevant but in a non-forced non-obligatory way. Create a system where you can level up past 60, but it’s similar to aptitude and eventually unlock titles, achievements, songs, and perhaps cosmetics/housing items. It would NOT provide any additional non-cosmetic benefits to players. Just an outlet for hardcore players. People wanting to PVP immediately after getting max level, can ignore it completely. Ideally non open world PVP would be an normalized as well.

[IDarkStar]

@Blackxp

Farming skill.

[Blackxp]

I need this! AHHH how you find this?!

[IDarkStar]

It’s in the code. This game was initially supposed to be a freeform builder survival. This is literally in the coding of the live game. It’s just not accessible on the playable side.

This is a file from the .Json files.

[Semi_Shot]

Man, I’d love to buy a farmhouse out in the world.
Doubt the engine could handle it.

Imagine having a farm and a corrupted portal opens up. So much easy gameplay.

[Blackxp]

portal opens up

“Debra get my musket…”

[Blackxp]

Feel like I’ve had other ideas or seen some that need to be added to this list. I’ll try and find some time to update this.

[Knighthonor]

I want Dynamic Events in PvE open World.

For PvP, I want a Faction vs Faction vs Faction mode like Guild Wars 2 WvW. No Guild Controlled play, just all Faction battles

[Blackxp]

@Knighthonor

I want Dynamic Events in PvE open World.

Dynamic Events, I have so much need for them. Sigh. Was running corrupted portals just to try and do it for fun but eventually went back to fishing. It’s really cool the first few times but unfortunately that’s really it. They would feel much cooler if they were not guaranteed static spawns and instead felt more random and the rewards were increased to balance with them being less present. Then adding more similar events that can also be added to the rotation and placed in the open world. So you can maybe stumble upon 1 of 5 different dynamic events.

Right now you can literally go to the same x spot on the map and they will always be there. Make it less farmable and more a true random feeling dynamic encounter in the open world.

Also fix storage so we can store all of our gathered items without an weight restrictions in our global storage. Right now there just isn’t space to gather and stockpile resources. I want to wander and explore the open world more but this game restricts us so much.

[MrMonolitas]

I couldnt be bothered to read everything. But i like the idea about text to speech the lore pages. Holy crap i would be delighted to hear some lore. But i really cant be bothered to read it…

[Blackxp]

Haha totally understand. It’s a ton to read but thanks! Yeah I really think it would significantly help with engaging players with the lore if they hired some voice actors to read the pages. Then when you walking around and pick one up, it starts reading them aloud to you. Then you can keep doing what you are doing while soaking in the lore.

[jc972.999]

Sadly all of these things would be great. However until the @Developer team rework town ownership and take the ability for companies to loot and destroy servers, New World is going to continue dying.

I say sadly because it’s a great game with some some very bad design features that has, and continues to, drive away its player base. What’s also sad is the team was told it was going to drive people away and kill the game since Alpha.

[Blackxp]

Yeah unfortunately the design maybe in theory sounds great but definitely a ton of issues coming from it that inherently drives players away. I know there want to fix this but we don’t really have any idea what their plans are unfortunately.

[Oblack]

Majorities of PvP Issues would be resolved with PK system and Open PVP.

Simple. They don’t do it because they don’t want to.

[Lover_Luisant]

It’s not that they don’t want to do it, it’s that I FORBID them to do it.

[jc972.999]

@Shadow_Fox i wanted to include you to see this, that said. It would be an easy fix. Give town owners a buff that teirs with how well they build the towns and make money generated by taxes ONLY APPLY to building the town. That takes the real world money trading out of the mix. It also gives pve players a reason to want to help towns/ own them. This will be important since once there isn’t a rw money incentive to own towns, the big companies will leave. It also incentivizes community building versus jacking taxes to max and letting the towns go.

The only question @Blackxp is if they will do it, or if they are just going to let the game die.