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filc
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Hi devs,
I was thinking to give you feedback on M6 so here we go. I think that M6 is the worst module released so far.
When I saw that there is new max lvl 70, I hoped for cool content to play and enjoy. And what did I get?
You pretty much removed almost all lvl 60 content (it's 70 lvl now) and replaced that with few repeatable quests, which we have to do over and over and over to lvl to 70. No story, just "picking up mushrooms in cave" sort of quests mixed with kill X of mob Y.
I'm really disappointed by the way how you implemented new content. You actually completely ruined lvl 60+ content with this module.
I was thinking to give you feedback on M6 so here we go. I think that M6 is the worst module released so far.
When I saw that there is new max lvl 70, I hoped for cool content to play and enjoy. And what did I get?
You pretty much removed almost all lvl 60 content (it's 70 lvl now) and replaced that with few repeatable quests, which we have to do over and over and over to lvl to 70. No story, just "picking up mushrooms in cave" sort of quests mixed with kill X of mob Y.
I'm really disappointed by the way how you implemented new content. You actually completely ruined lvl 60+ content with this module.
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they spent months making those map so u could at least make an effort and play thme
regards
Have the gear and skills, but lack the friends to play with? Come and apply for Essence of Aggression. We have been here and strong since beta. (Immature, rude, and arrogant people will not be accepted)
thats the spirit mate, lag is a pain but just patience, itll get fixed soon
regards
yea the servers seem to be $@%# themselves
and the paladin is unable to do anything resembling damage i feel like running around with a foam weapon, though it feels like that might have smth to do with servers - i think it registers only 1/2 of attacks
but mod6 is the best mod so far
yeah after every new mod, I always have lag and rubberbanding issues for a while, so I have good faith it'll be fixed soon
the lag is actually not as bad as after mod 5, where I couldn't even run around talking to the npc's in WoD coz I'd get rubberbanded back to map's entrance or something
As with the new content, a lot of the heroic encounters are quite fun and different. I've been taking my sweet *** time to level, and I haven't even hit 70 yet, so plenty more to do before I get bored.
Have the gear and skills, but lack the friends to play with? Come and apply for Essence of Aggression. We have been here and strong since beta. (Immature, rude, and arrogant people will not be accepted)
I like the new storyline and the villains are cool.
I don't like that I have to grind the same quests over and over for XP.
The grind is a big downer, but seemingly the only way they could think of to pad content and gate progression to some extent. They have some interesting quests, some quests so bad they should never have made it into the game and some where the number of items or iterations killed any sense of fun. Many times the hard/longer quests do not provide an appropriate reward/xp for the extra trouble. Many of them are competitive and griefable which REALLY drowns the fun. Preview feedback should have helped the team sort through these things but somehow that didn't happen and some bad quests were actually made worse.
Level Scaling is backwards with you being scaled instead of the monsters meaning your non scaled gear will severely hamper your survivability and damage dealing in many situations.
Champion level monsters not labeled as such randomly mixed in with the regular mobs makes for some very frustrating deaths.
The game was not stress tested properly so the maximum number of players in some areas is set too high resulting in severe lag.
The potion bug that causes your potions to misfire and go on cooldown was never addressed which should have been the first thing fixed when they started talking about lifesteal nerfs and the extremely tough battles in mod6.
These are my main issues which should have been addressed while still on preview but for whatever reason are in the final product. I still hold out hope that this rush job can still be fixed as Neverwinter is still a fun place to spend time.
blah blah blah blah ...
Here is a solid review from gamespot
There is a bare minimum of developer-provided content, layered into a network of overworld areas and winding dungeons that never coalesce into an enticing world. If you have played Cryptic's previous games, such as Star Trek Online or Champions Online, then you will recognize Neverwinter's segmented design.
It's not that a highly directed theme park-style MMOG is inherently bad--it's that Neverwinter's quests don't benefit from diversity of action, great writing, or any element of surprise. You do all or many of the quests in a zone, get your rewards, and then move on to the next area to do the same basic things all over again. This is a familiar trope, of course, but most similar games make valiant efforts to overcome it, mixing up the rhythm with interactive weaponry, puzzle elements, explorable landscapes, and so forth. In Neverwinter, there is no disguising the monotony.
To be short, the PvE in the game is GARBAGE.
The PvP is imbalanced total rubbish and even the developers know it. There isn't one module where they haven't developed 2 OP classes. Why ? Because the developers don't understand the game
Every time you put a proper list of feedback such as piercing or getting one shot - it is outlined as "dev bashing" by the cry babies who develop this **** game. And instead of fixing the problem, they push the problems under the rug ... and they know it ^^.
They are probably working on a new license and title from another popular name .. like Star Trek , D&D ... this is how they make money. This tactic will die soon, as players learn to realize this game was made by "PWE" and Cryptic"
So many 21k + GS players have left ... from last mod. Honestly I don't even feel like logging into D&D , Neverwinter. After all .. why would I spend time grinding on a shtty MMO for a new mod, where I can use the same tim to play a much better designed MMO compared to this one. Huh ?
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Quoted for truth. Could not have said it better.
quoted again for truth you need to read this.. all of you...
some foundry quest that made by people like us re better than mod 6 blue quest. thats interesting.
regards
As for gameplay, i think a lot of people have had a serious jolt to the system because now they actually have to do some work to level xD I mean i come from games where getting 1 level at end game took weeks! Neverwinter has been, in comparison to many other games, very easy to level in.
Also, the common talk is that this is only part of the release, that we're getting another big patch toward the end of the month? So why throw hats in now when we dont see it all for what it is.
Its been a few days, at least give it a bit more time before deciding its the worse thing ever?
They could have lifted any of the maps from mine and it would have been infinitely more interesting than the rehashed stuff in this mod.
Blood Magic (RELEASED) - NW-DUU2P7HCO
Children of the Fey (RELEASED) - NW-DKSSAPFPF
Buried Under Blacklake (WIP) - NW-DEDV2PAEP
The Redcap Rebels (WIP) - NW-DO23AFHFH
My Foundry playthrough channel: https://www.youtube.com/user/Ruskaga/featured
if thats the case then congrats ure really talented and this dev team shold have an addition like u to the already great team
regards
They spent months reusing old areas? I'm afraid not princess. There is some original content in there but precious little. Half the things that are broken now were broken on the test server but instead of testing till fixed, they just moved the problems over. Old problems dont get fixed, new problems just get piled on top of them. I mean how hard is it to fix the Singularity bug? It's not major but it's indicative of their lack of overall care. I have an Xvim amulet that just randomly became char bound but the customer support team just cannot understand why that is wrong and no one has bothered to fix it over the last year, despite my monthly reports about it. The push is for large content steamrolling over existing problems. "Hurry, distract them from our f&*kups with more content, as long as we profit, it's cool" should be the Neverwinter tagline.
Name a community request they have honored? More PVP maps? Nope. New challenging dungeons for a "DUNGEONS and dragons" game? Nope. Instead they add a new mod that recycled old content, break half of it by neglect and the other half with poor server config.
So why do I play? I dont know. lol I still like the combat and nothing else has really grabbed me yet. Saying I need to just accept cr4p service isnt really doing the problem justice. We need to start finding the Cryptic office information and start complaining at the source. Complaining here does nothing. No one who cares or who can change anything at all reads this forum. The neverwinter forum is the bottomless complaint bucket and leads to nowhere.
Go here: http://crypticstudios.com/contact
Find out how to contact these guys: http://www.crypticstudios.com/team
Complaining here is empty and useless. If you want things to actually change, step outside the forum, start posting about it on social media, write articles about it online, post reviews. That is what they will care about and will notice.
That is less effective, because they are now spread out over multiple platforms and are supported by an old, old franchise. Moving the community to not spend money is a losing proposition really. Its faster and easier to kick up dust by just telling the truth about their lack of service and how poorly they are addressing the problems.
I havent spent actual money on this game in a while. A few weeks ago I had a problem with an item I bought from Zen market. Customer support told me that because I bought my Zen with AD and not cash I was not entitled to a refund and just had to suck it up. I still have writer status at a few places online, I should start writing honestly and take my own advice. *sigh* Its probably the most effective thing to do right now as the game is currently unplayable for me due to rubberbanding.
I can't even grind it out cause I keep dying to mobs I can kill with 3 encounter powers, but the rubberbanding cancels each one of them in succession landing me inside a group of mobs standing still just waiting to be killed...90% of the time, there's no fun in that.
Not to mention the heroic encouters. 100% unplayable at the moment. You dodge an enemy red spot only to be pulled back and die again and again.
And what's with the OLD "new" maps ?! Do I really need to return to an old map and play it backwards ?!?!!
That doesn't even feel a new mod. Maps...Helms Hold ? and Gauntlgrym ?!!? That was there all along...so what ?
About 70% of the "new" mod is "old"
I really expected something more tbh, and unfortunately can't play it out at the current state.
The lag is killing 90% of the stuff one needs to do, especially the much needed major heroic encounters.
Peace
I can confirm a few of my buddies already quit the game
Makes me sad as $#$!@!
Game is done. Put a fork in it.
Lag was bad for mod 5 for the first few weeks too.
and
The Dragon Queen battle never cleared up completely
That said
I don't have a clue where to get the new gear
Can someone let me know?
I am not level 68 and still don't see the gear
Urlord
This is what bugs me the most. Having a few characters that were close to boons or just hit 60 and were ready to start their boons, now I need to wait until 70. Cut off mid campaign. And you can't still do them, even if they adjust your level to 70. Because without the new HP gear you get annihilated. So at level 60 where I used to have 3 campaigns to do, and a large amount of dungeons, I now have 3 dungeons and no campaign maps.
What the module did was a total gear reset. That needed to happen because pve was a joke and its not a pvp game. Not like real pvp ones. They choose not to delete all your gear but to give you higher level gear that made it redundant. They should have been fairer on the rp but they are who they are which isn't pretty and it was always going to go that way. Anyway doing this meant more levels. So they gave everyone a few days worth of busy work, maybe a week or two for the casuals in not hideous environments. Then the dungeons come back, hopefully better tuned than tos is now, and we get an actual endgame again. On top of that the rp prices are on the way back down with peridots from leadership boxes and all the rank 5s dropping. So they get the tinyest bit of slack on making the bis for one module oranges a thing of the past. In the next month or so I think the endgame is going to make way more sense.
Could it have been done better, sure but its perfect world and cryptic running Neverwinter not responsible adults and everyone who's been around long enough to earn their griping knows about their limitations.