Game Development: World 16.2

[Halbertz]

What the point of reseting world if you have nothing prepared? At least cook some excuse idk.

[SnuggleSnail]

I would very much like to run into 2 people hunting bears on a snekkja

unfortunately I have run into 0 people hunting bears on a snekkja

[Halbertz]

I would very much like to run into 2 people hunting bears on a snekkja

unfortunately I have run into 0 people hunting bears on a snekkja

People were buying bear stuff. The future is here old man.

[losexd]

where weekly patch

[Vladichka]

I would very much like to run into 2 people hunting bears on a snekkja

unfortunately I have run into 0 people hunting bears on a snekkja

"Harder" animal logic actually made hunting safer? Good change I guess.
Doesn't affect me since I wasn't using boat cheese anyway.

[WowGain]

if you or audiosmurf or whoever else really think bow-hunting-only is more fun than one of the few potentially diagetic ways to learn the combat system by kiting a boar around and building openings on it while managing your own thats your prerogative but i do not agree in the slightest

My post had nothing to do with that I was actually pointing out that the implementation is poor because in some circumstances it's obviously failing to properly check for and find an appropriate path even though a path is available while in my example the previous iteration prior to the update would have accomplished that pathing to the player character successfully.

fair enough, i have noticed that the pathing has gotten pretty shit around obstacles like that too. amazing how they find new things to break

[Massa]

if i was lorb i would feel immense power with how you guys go in circles over my basilisk

[Glewk]

The most concerning thing about this world is how barely anyone wants to play it. It feels totally dead. Those few people I saw at world start have quit already, I don't see anyone when I'm exploring or hunting, and the number of players is awful compared to previous worlds.

The whole 'experimental worlds' thing is such a weird step when there is no experimentation.

You should stop agonising over minor tweaks and spend your devtime creating interesting new content that players can get excited about.

I'd rather wait a year or two for a big update including a bunch of new buildings, an interesting new biome, pve and pvp features like dungeons or arenas. Just something more substantive than these half assed worlds and overhyped nothingburgers.

Also it's kind of embarrassing how the base client for haven is so awful and unusable. People talk about the new player experience... if I were a dev I'd be really frustrated that people can't even play my game effectively without deferring to custom clients.

I don't keep up with the forums and stuff so I dunno if this is just a hobby for the devs or their fulltime job. If it's just a hobby that explains a lot and I should lower my expectations. But charging a sub in that case is a bit beyond the pale. People sub to MMO's based on the expectation that the game will be updated and maintained.

[_Scipio]

The most concerning thing about this world is how barely anyone wants to play it. It feels totally dead. Those few people I saw at world start have quit already, I don't see anyone when I'm exploring or hunting, and the number of players is awful compared to previous worlds.

The whole 'experimental worlds' thing is such a weird step when there is no experimentation.

You should stop agonising over minor tweaks and spend your devtime creating interesting new content that players can get excited about.

I agree to an extent. What added content we got is great; but the biggest changes have been the 'rulesets' of the worlds rather than the content itself. From my point of view these worlds should be called seasonal and aimed at really cranking the knob for some interesting or unique experiences, see what happens, keep the good things, forget the rest. I think some of the frustration from players who chose not to participate goes beyond whether a singular change is good or bad. The perception of where the game is heading based on the change being made to these worlds, and that perceived direction may be what is turning people away.

Crank the knob, Jorb. Make the world weird and interesting. Keep the good, forget the rest.

[reqvaa]

Where is aiming next week?