Announcing Neverwinter: The Heart of Fire featuring Acquisitions Incorporated

nitocris83

Greetings Adventurers!

Today we announced the upcoming new module release: The Heart of Fire featuring Acquisitions Incorporated! Over the next couple months we will be releasing Developer blogs and Dev forum posts with detailed info!

https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/10991183

qexotic

@nitocris83 any chance you could ask someone to check the news post and insert the link for the trailer for the new Mod ? Currently, all you can see is:

[TRAILER]

It's available on Twitter

nitocris83

> @qexotic said:
> @nitocris83 any chance you could ask someone to check the news post and insert the link for the trailer for the new Mod ? Currently, all you can see is:
>
> [TRAILER]
>
> It's available on Twitter

Working on making arrangements remotely to update stuff

Pro tip: Don’t announce something big on the same day you have to travel and can’t access publishing tools!

vortican

Hmmm... "professions system overhaul" sounds like it might interfere in my pants-making empire.

I'm suspicious of anything that may impact my ability to generate riches from crafting many, many pairs of pants.

gromovnipljesak

i hope to heck that we're getting lvl80

fester69troll

vortican said:

Hmmm... "professions system overhaul" sounds like it might interfere in my pants-making empire.

I'm suspicious of anything that may impact my ability to generate riches from crafting many, many pairs of pants.

http://www.reactiongifs.com/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/oops-pants-off.gif

artifleur

So obviously no new class, otherwise you'd be advertising it like crazy.

I hope you'll at least fix Careful Attack, otherwise it's gonna be a total let-down for me.

pegasus782

Is this the whole mod or a sneak peak? Or is this a general overview?

malignantmind

I know it's still too early to really judge...but this is incredibly disappointing. It looks more like it should be an event, not really a full mod. Especially when mod 15 was supposed to be a "huge content" mod.

jappethebread

> @malignantmind#3340 said:
> I know it's still too early to really judge...but this is incredibly disappointing. It looks more like it should be an event, not really a full mod. Especially when mod 15 was supposed to be a "huge content" mod.

Well like you said it's too early to judge

empalas

I haven't really followed much of the D&D con stuff so I'm guessing those that do have a better idea about what this will be about. Guess we will have to wait for preview to know what its all about. Judging from the trailer its going to be kind of like tyranny of dragons adding new areas to some of the places we already have on the map?...just a guess

malignantmind

jappethebread said:

> @malignantmind#3340 said:

> I know it's still too early to really judge...but this is incredibly disappointing. It looks more like it should be an event, not really a full mod. Especially when mod 15 was supposed to be a "huge content" mod.



Well like you said it's too early to judge

The initial look at it is very disappointing... I'm hoping there's more to it once we get it on preview.

bluthbanana

It's more of a teaser than an announcement for me. I have absolutely no clue what the video was about.

It looks a bit like we can expect crazy and dark humour, which is to my likings.

theguiido

malignantmind#3340 said:

I know it's still too early to really judge...but this is incredibly disappointing. It looks more like it should be an event, not really a full mod. Especially when mod 15 was supposed to be a "huge content" mod.

EXACTLY THIS

kreatyve

malignantmind#3340 said:

I know it's still too early to really judge...but this is incredibly disappointing. It looks more like it should be an event, not really a full mod. Especially when mod 15 was supposed to be a "huge content" mod.

Who said that mod 15 would be a "huge content" mod?

malignantmind

kreatyve said:

malignantmind#3340 said:

I know it's still too early to really judge...but this is incredibly disappointing. It looks more like it should be an event, not really a full mod. Especially when mod 15 was supposed to be a "huge content" mod.

Who said that mod 15 would be a "huge content" mod?

From my understanding, it was the devs themselves in a meeting/interview thing with some streamers (and I'm sure some other people) a little while back.

pterias

I've been rather unexcited about going to Waterdeep (in tabletop or NWO) for the last couple months, so I'm glad that's not happening (yet?). However, on the surface this seems like it may be arguably even worse. Acquisitions Incorporated Is really just a comedic parody of D&D, and having to spend months living in a comedic parody of D&D doesn't suit me at all. Day of the Dungeon Master is ok, it's just an event, and light-hearted events are fine. Worst case scenario they can be skipped. This is going to be a core part of the game for quite some time (along with being a permanent fixture for alts). I dunno, maybe it'll be better than I think, but the promo leaves me cold.

The fact of there being profession changes sounds intriguing, but implementation is everything. I guess they can't make it much worse than it already is, but that may just be a lack of imagination on my part.

dupeks

kreatyve said:

malignantmind#3340 said:

I know it's still too early to really judge...but this is incredibly disappointing. It looks more like it should be an event, not really a full mod. Especially when mod 15 was supposed to be a "huge content" mod.

Who said that mod 15 would be a "huge content" mod?

At some point Foss mentioned that they weren't doing to be going "B" modules anymore. It's easy to see how based on that folks would expect each module now to introduce more content than we'd expect from a "B" module.

But all of this is early speculation. We don't even know the extent of what they added. And based on the silly spoilers, they put at least some effort into teasing this out.

empalas

What they call content and what we call content can be two different things...so it may be big from one standpoint but not in another. But I do remember that being said somewhere about it being a large content update.

pegasus782

It does look fun, but sadly I don't follow any of the other things like Penny Arcade. Can someone enlighten me or give an idea of where to start? I'm interested to see where they're going to take this.

Also, the fez hatted beholders look hilarious.

heraldfayez

nitocris83 said:

> @qexotic said:

> @nitocris83 any chance you could ask someone to check the news post and insert the link for the trailer for the new Mod ? Currently, all you can see is:

>

> [TRAILER]

>

> It's available on Twitter



Working on making arrangements remotely to update stuff



Pro tip: Don’t announce something big on the same day you have to travel and can’t access publishing tools!

WTF srsly 6 of novembre for this thing 1 skirmish ? are you guys really aware of the state of the game we had mod 14 for too long and it has 0 content barovia was boring the new castle ravenloft people aren't even playing or farming because it's not a dungeon but rather a monologue and once u get ur seals ur out of there
the game is really thin on players right now and Module 15 is only way to save it so i don't get how a comedy parody should be a module with 1 skirmish that's not even end game
people are getting bored of no content to play TONG FBI MSP are all boring now and they give you no incencitive to run them or any dungeon for that matter
please reconsider the content for this module otherwise we really are going downhill because mod 14 was not a Module that is praise worthy or provided anything new to the game

malignantmind

heraldfayez#8520 said:

nitocris83 said:

> @qexotic said:

> @nitocris83 any chance you could ask someone to check the news post and insert the link for the trailer for the new Mod ? Currently, all you can see is:

>

> [TRAILER]

>

> It's available on Twitter



Working on making arrangements remotely to update stuff



Pro tip: Don’t announce something big on the same day you have to travel and can’t access publishing tools!

WTF srsly 6 of novembre for this thing 1 skirmish ? are you guys really aware of the state of the game we had mod 14 for too long and it has 0 content barovia was boring the new castle ravenloft people aren't even playing or farming because it's not a dungeon but rather a monologue and once u get ur seals ur out of there
the game is really thin on players right now and Module 15 is only way to save it so i don't get how a comedy parody should be a module with 1 skirmish that's not even end game
people are getting bored of no content to play TONG FBI MSP are all boring now and they give you no incencitive to run them or any dungeon for that matter
please reconsider the content for this module otherwise we really are going downhill because mod 14 was not a Module that is praise worthy or provided anything new to the game

While I agree they really need to rethink the material they're putting out, it's far too late to drastically change whatever is coming in Mod 15. Unless they plan on sneaking in the rumored return of some of the old dungeons, which would honestly please the majority of players even if the rest of Mod 15 is lackluster.

wizardlvl80

@kreatyve

Actually it was Thomas Foss who said that m15 will be huge. He said it during one of the streams (mod13 or mod12 previewing ones). He said that mod14 is going to be small, cause mod15 is going to be huge.

thevampinator

I really do hope they add bard and druid classes into the game soon. We are long overdo and those are core classes.

caldochaud

With all of the serious "save the world from dire evil" mods its nice to see something with humor added to it. All war and no play makes for a... well... a dead Adventurer. Unless you're Minsc.

zerappus

Mod title is an inside joke right?

Guild Wars 2: Heart of Thorns and Path of Fire.
Heart of Thorns + Path of Fire

What's left is Path of Thorns....

tom

It would really suck if its just 1 Skirmish...

sailaz

kreatyve said:

malignantmind#3340 said:

I know it's still too early to really judge...but this is incredibly disappointing. It looks more like it should be an event, not really a full mod. Especially when mod 15 was supposed to be a "huge content" mod.

Who said that mod 15 would be a "huge content" mod?

The developers, when they said that we give up half (B) modules and will do 3M full per year. But I can see by the video(which is not up to 3, max 2иВ). 3 module, it can only be called an event, another month as Portobello once a year, no more! That for you module a host? For me it's a new story, okay it is, a new location, but where are all the old Loki redone. And whatnot that throws a simple glance, but not under close scrutiny.

kemnimtarkas

nitocris83 said:

Greetings Adventurers!



Today we announced the upcoming new module release: The Heart of Fire featuring Acquisitions Incorporated! Over the next couple months we will be releasing Developer blogs and Dev forum posts with detailed info!



https://www.arcgames.com/en/games/neverwinter/news/detail/10991183

Excited about the Professions overhaul. Maybe this will make MW professions more worthwhile for Guilds? And maybe even make non-Stronghold professions (outside of Leadership/Alchemy) worthwhile again?

If it's just a simplification of the current clickfest Professions interface - that's still a win for me.

I will hold judgment on the story or zone in M15 - whatever it is - until more detail is provided.

Thank you for the heads up. Something to look forward to other than the brooms, Black Friday sale and Winter Festival.

peregr1nus

No new dungeon so we are getting the old ones back? fingers crossed

kemnimtarkas

heraldfayez#8520 said:

WTF srsly 6 of novembre for this thing 1 skirmish ? are you guys really aware of the state of the game we had mod 14 for too long and it has 0 content barovia was boring the new castle ravenloft people aren't even playing or farming because it's not a dungeon but rather a monologue and once u get ur seals ur out of there
the game is really thin on players right now and Module 15 is only way to save it so i don't get how a comedy parody should be a module with 1 skirmish that's not even end game
people are getting bored of no content to play TONG FBI MSP are all boring now and they give you no incencitive to run them or any dungeon for that matter
please reconsider the content for this module otherwise we really are going downhill because mod 14 was not a Module that is praise worthy or provided anything new to the game

Jaded much?

M14 was only released 2 months ago on PC. It came out on console just this week. I can't speak for "the game" - I don't pretend to have access to server data - but in the OG areas and level 70 zones I've visited, there is no shortage of players. In the random leveling and intermediate queues I've joined, it is consistently taking less than 60 seconds to start.

To say that CR and TONG offers no incentive implies you've earned all you want/need from them. This is not the case for many, many other players.