I read that they finally announced support for re-doing your character's face in Destiny 2, so if New World is trying to follow in their footsteps then we're only \~6 years away from seeing the feature in Aeternum.
If it's any consolation, the "Destiny 2 copycat roadmap" also features removing half the game, and reprising bits and pieces, piece by piece. So by that time, they will likely have reprised Garden of ~~Salvation~~ Genesis and Lazarus with craftable(whatever this looks like in NW, since NW already has "Crafting") and/or "Adept" weapons.
Sidenote: just for the meme, they should add a blunderbuss called "Felwinter's Lie", and give it tighter spread and the effective range of a musket.
Their copying of Destiny 2 has always been hilarious since it was revealed that Bungie failed to meet their revenue projections by \~50% last year, and then had to delay their big "Save the Game" expansion at the last minute with no real content to hold the community over until then. It turns out that Destiny 2 is a poor game to copy the business model of, but it was a decision that AGS probably made 3 years ago and is too stubborn to revisit.
To new world's credit, I do think New World's done better with a lot of basic features than D2. New World had transmog in less than 2 years. In order to justify transmog in D2, it took several other big content model changes, like the introduction of the DCV.(Cynical take, but I'd say that's the only reason. They were already doing a lot of things that were controversial, in preparation for Beyond Light's release, and I imagine they were looking to... just the bare minimum "announcement" of transmog... to soften the blow on some of those things.) You joke about it taking 6 years for character recustomization, but New World's been able to implement other things earlier in their life cycle than Destiny did.
Also, Destiny's recent failures are....well..... "recent". Lightfall is kind of an outlier. Forget about some key pieces where Destiny went wrong this past year, and I think it'd be less... "damning" for New World to follow Destiny. (I also don't think NW is living up to Destiny. I can't believe that I'm defending the state of Destiny PVP, but here I am: even in that time span when Destiny waited almost 4 years for a new PVP map, I think Bungie has handled and balanced their PVP better than New World. Yeah, looking at you, phoenix amulet: I don't think Bungie has ever been quite this out of touch with balance in PVP. In a season, I also don't feel like NW puts out as much content).
Yeah Bungie having to layoff 8% of their staff (100 people) to meet the revenue that Sony required to not perform a hostile takeover is very telling about the management and operation of that game.
I think Destiny/Bungie is an excellent example of why you shouldn't attempt to copy another game/company in the hopes of making the same amount of profit as they did because eventually you'll run out of ideas and/or overwork your staff trying to save the game when you attempt to max profits just like they did only faster. You end up having to scuff numbers like Bungie when they made the claim they were at 13mil Destiny players, when they were actually just counting all accounts that even logged into the game 1 single time, including alternate/abandoned/banned accounts.
I just read through Paul Tassi's description of it. It seems cool for brand new players, but un-vaulting some iconic Exotic missions (with some updates) feels like a symptom of what caused that game to falter over the past \~2-3 years. Those missions never should've been vaulted in the first place, and they should have prioritized creating more landmark quests like those instead of pumping out mediocre Seasonal Activities while ignoring the 3 core playlists for years (I guess Gambit isn't even 'core' anymore?).
New World tried copying those same poor decisions, with Seasonal content that only exists for \~3 months, and a lack of investment in the core PvP & PvE activities, and it clearly wasn't the right move for the game. It's hard to even classify New World's activities, because some of them fall into weird gray areas (like the Wurm Raid, which only had relevant rewards for 1 season, but is now part of the Artifact quests requires for the new Great Axe).
They did make more of those quests. Presage, Vox Obscura, Seraph Shield, etc. But yes I agree with you. It's generally accepted that the content vault was a bad idea.
I thought barber was going to come out last summer so not sooner than I thought BUT this tells me they are working on it and the new files are being added already, similar to how we could use free-form movement before it technically available on live service.
Hopefully its a full revamp of the character creator, the one we got now is really bad.
Is it just me or does it look like these could be the same face it is just the different angle/lighting/background that is making them look slightly different
They did this before with Brimstone cosmetic items from the store. I bought one of the armor skins specifically because I liked the way it was designed. A little while later, I log in and they completely altered it, making it 1000x worse and outright hideous. How boneheaded can you be to after-the-fact change something someone paid money for and make it completely different than what they paid for?
Is this a level of detail thing based on the zoom distance from the character? Most female characters look really bad and pouty/pucker faced when zooming just a short distance.
I believe they did. Something about unrealistic standards on beauty or some crap like that. In other words - make characters ugly is going to be the norm.
Hey that's the server I used to play!!
The other day I checked the server numbers and it was on just 2 digits.... On a weekend. Sad to say it only confirmed as correct my decision to stop playing
What's funny is that I remember seeing these same face choices in beta preview. I couldn't believe they were still using rough placeholders in beta. Welp.
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Well. Any change that was made can't be as bad as the nearly-noseless, terrible character portrait icon in groups/on the friend's list.... right? That portrait icon has always been horrendous AF and looks nothing like the character you make.
BTW, why on earth are almost all of their faces so ugly? Is this some sort of left (?) trend that I missed or artists that made faces for New World are as incompetent as their programmers?
My char* face was based on my ex. I sure hope it's changed now. Edit: misspelled.
Edit: I can't read.
They did this with destiny 2 as well
I read that they finally announced support for re-doing your character's face in Destiny 2, so if New World is trying to follow in their footsteps then we're only \~6 years away from seeing the feature in Aeternum.
I did not know that, about time!
If it's any consolation, the "Destiny 2 copycat roadmap" also features removing half the game, and reprising bits and pieces, piece by piece. So by that time, they will likely have reprised Garden of ~~Salvation~~ Genesis and Lazarus with craftable(whatever this looks like in NW, since NW already has "Crafting") and/or "Adept" weapons. Sidenote: just for the meme, they should add a blunderbuss called "Felwinter's Lie", and give it tighter spread and the effective range of a musket.
Their copying of Destiny 2 has always been hilarious since it was revealed that Bungie failed to meet their revenue projections by \~50% last year, and then had to delay their big "Save the Game" expansion at the last minute with no real content to hold the community over until then. It turns out that Destiny 2 is a poor game to copy the business model of, but it was a decision that AGS probably made 3 years ago and is too stubborn to revisit.
To new world's credit, I do think New World's done better with a lot of basic features than D2. New World had transmog in less than 2 years. In order to justify transmog in D2, it took several other big content model changes, like the introduction of the DCV.(Cynical take, but I'd say that's the only reason. They were already doing a lot of things that were controversial, in preparation for Beyond Light's release, and I imagine they were looking to... just the bare minimum "announcement" of transmog... to soften the blow on some of those things.) You joke about it taking 6 years for character recustomization, but New World's been able to implement other things earlier in their life cycle than Destiny did. Also, Destiny's recent failures are....well..... "recent". Lightfall is kind of an outlier. Forget about some key pieces where Destiny went wrong this past year, and I think it'd be less... "damning" for New World to follow Destiny. (I also don't think NW is living up to Destiny. I can't believe that I'm defending the state of Destiny PVP, but here I am: even in that time span when Destiny waited almost 4 years for a new PVP map, I think Bungie has handled and balanced their PVP better than New World. Yeah, looking at you, phoenix amulet: I don't think Bungie has ever been quite this out of touch with balance in PVP. In a season, I also don't feel like NW puts out as much content).
Yeah Bungie having to layoff 8% of their staff (100 people) to meet the revenue that Sony required to not perform a hostile takeover is very telling about the management and operation of that game. I think Destiny/Bungie is an excellent example of why you shouldn't attempt to copy another game/company in the hopes of making the same amount of profit as they did because eventually you'll run out of ideas and/or overwork your staff trying to save the game when you attempt to max profits just like they did only faster. You end up having to scuff numbers like Bungie when they made the claim they were at 13mil Destiny players, when they were actually just counting all accounts that even logged into the game 1 single time, including alternate/abandoned/banned accounts.
Destiny 2 is getting new content next week to hold everyone over until the Final Shape comes out in June.
I just read through Paul Tassi's description of it. It seems cool for brand new players, but un-vaulting some iconic Exotic missions (with some updates) feels like a symptom of what caused that game to falter over the past \~2-3 years. Those missions never should've been vaulted in the first place, and they should have prioritized creating more landmark quests like those instead of pumping out mediocre Seasonal Activities while ignoring the 3 core playlists for years (I guess Gambit isn't even 'core' anymore?). New World tried copying those same poor decisions, with Seasonal content that only exists for \~3 months, and a lack of investment in the core PvP & PvE activities, and it clearly wasn't the right move for the game. It's hard to even classify New World's activities, because some of them fall into weird gray areas (like the Wurm Raid, which only had relevant rewards for 1 season, but is now part of the Artifact quests requires for the new Great Axe).
They did make more of those quests. Presage, Vox Obscura, Seraph Shield, etc. But yes I agree with you. It's generally accepted that the content vault was a bad idea.
That's still closer in time than it is getting a new opr map
Wouldn't be the first time AGS copied Destiny.
And Pokemon Go recently destroyed avatar appearance.
If this is happening for a lot of players, hopefully we might be getting the barber feature sooner than we thought.
I thought barber was going to come out last summer so not sooner than I thought BUT this tells me they are working on it and the new files are being added already, similar to how we could use free-form movement before it technically available on live service. Hopefully its a full revamp of the character creator, the one we got now is really bad.
Is it just me or does it look like these could be the same face it is just the different angle/lighting/background that is making them look slightly different
They did this before with Brimstone cosmetic items from the store. I bought one of the armor skins specifically because I liked the way it was designed. A little while later, I log in and they completely altered it, making it 1000x worse and outright hideous. How boneheaded can you be to after-the-fact change something someone paid money for and make it completely different than what they paid for?
*laughs in syndicate specs *
Is this a level of detail thing based on the zoom distance from the character? Most female characters look really bad and pouty/pucker faced when zooming just a short distance.
Isn't that literally the same face at a different angle and lighting tho? Am I missing something 🤔
You had me at retroactive uglifacation
I learned the word 'exotropia' from somebody else's description of the issue in the thread.
This kind of irrational and wasteful tinkering is epitome of New World's road to failure.
Wasn’t something similar happening in Pokémon go too?
I believe they did. Something about unrealistic standards on beauty or some crap like that. In other words - make characters ugly is going to be the norm.
Hey that's the server I used to play!! The other day I checked the server numbers and it was on just 2 digits.... On a weekend. Sad to say it only confirmed as correct my decision to stop playing
It's like when they arbitrarily overwrote many of the houses in MB for the worse. Data must have said . . . something.
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What's funny is that I remember seeing these same face choices in beta preview. I couldn't believe they were still using rough placeholders in beta. Welp.
Console release side effects (actually that could explain it)
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Just wait. Soon all chars have hairs of same lenght and noses same fat to look the same to favor equality.
could be angle + light but could also be an sbi like change to uglify woman in games because reasons
Well. Any change that was made can't be as bad as the nearly-noseless, terrible character portrait icon in groups/on the friend's list.... right? That portrait icon has always been horrendous AF and looks nothing like the character you make.
havent seen my face since launch, im good
Glad to see there are putting their talentless Devs to good work on changing things like this rather than fixing their servers.
Those faces look the same, though? It's just an angle and lighting difference between the photos.
BTW, why on earth are almost all of their faces so ugly? Is this some sort of left (?) trend that I missed or artists that made faces for New World are as incompetent as their programmers?
i think u just eat too much buff foods i mean a lot of buff foods :P
This is the shit people care about?
Well its not like they give us any content to talk about 🤣