Coffee with Zeo #25 - PSO2 NGS - 2023 in Review
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- Опубліковано 14 гру 2023
- Welcome once again to another Coffee With Zeo! Here's where we discuss the current state of PSO2NGS as well as let you know what else I've been up to! Today, we're taking a look back at NGS over this past year.
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It was a rough year for PSO2 no matter how you slice it. The majority of PSO2 content creators I followed either quit this year or decided to "branch out". I think it was a fatal mistake to go an entire year without a new region and focus so much on "creative spaces" (which in normal gamedev is something the B team would do). Sounds like next year will be better though
Definitely with you about the story. I need something to actually pull me in.
People want to feel invested in the world they're inhabiting, especially for an RPG, and NGS hasn't delivered on that.
@Zeomantic exactly I was excited with Zeph only to immediately dread doing story updates
this was a crazy year , i have the huge speculation that HMZK has been out since Stia release , im 95% sure of it .
whoever its the new director , im sure he/she right now its like : how im going to solve the mess this fool left? .
translated to : Starless (which some folks speculate they werent part of the original plan) , the fact that chapter 6 gave Aina and Manon the development they should had back in the 1st season.
i mean devs had 6 months per chapter in the main story and they cant plan that aspect ? also im sure the mini episodes was the 1st step to fix that .
another thing to consider its before Stia , from gameplay perspective NGS wasnt giving the 8th marvel like its doing now .
when did i saw a pattern like that? oh yeah!! it was back in EP5, started empty , repetitive and the Dragon EQ was boring as hell to me, then Omega Loser was released , up to that point the quality went up . coincidence ? definitely
NGS: Stia release = quality increase
Classic PSO2 EP5 : Omega Loser release = quality increase
well my point its : these 6 months has been a transition period im sure of it.
I wish that this game could have all it's problems fix, on pretty much every single level, there are still a whole bunch of basic missing mechanics, that are just missing, broken, or haven't been updated to the modern standard yet, and I don't really want them to move on to the next piece of story content, until they have fixed the current problem throughout the game, because if new players see it they'll come, see how bad it is and just leave and that's not a good look to have, Because all the current players will be doing the new stuff, And there will be no one to help them to do the old stuff.
I want the current contact we already have to be the utmost best experience possible for new and veteran players alike.
I would like NGS to have more darker themes, base game along with a diverse and lovable/hateable cast of characters im not asking for anything like off WH40k, but just for it to be a bit more darker because it is set in a time of war, and it's good to acknowledge conflict like Glen had but that was pretty much all washed away.
I want them to add truly impactful and meaningful moments, that we actually care about not something that is introduced then quickly discarded like Aina PDST or manon hp to 0, look at how they handled Theodore in base game for example he was a complete wreck, aina had like 1 mission And then she's fine.
People may think I hate the game, no I want it to improve I want it to be better that's why I'm still here that's why I still play it.
Having so little story is just never a good idea for a game that's trying to retain attention long term. Story provides a lot more for people to get attached to, regardless of whether people think it's the best or not. It's hard to take much interest in a world the game doesn't even seem interested in exploring. It makes it hard to imagine them coming up with something cool in the future. Being able to imagine things like that, and actually believe they're likely to happen is what keeps people checking in with the game.
Story developments that actually DON'T get tied off immediately after a problem arises would be nice too. The biggest problem with Manon's arc is that she has a problem, and then you go solve it, and now we're all done with that. Back to normal yet again. It doesn't leave any tension in the story between updates. We also never get sent on any proper 'missions'. We get asked to knock off 10 of the 1000 or so Starless aimlessly wandering around a combat zone. Nobody gets sent in with us, or has any goal they want to achieve. We know some ARKS are investigating Leciel, but despite doing a TON of fun runs of Leciel, nobody ever asks us to go there for story reasons.
Also yeah, I was surprised Solus somehow had less of a story than Ams Kvaris pre-encounter. XD
I almost got banned on official ds-cord for joking about Manon... and seems some people do get banned, considering how instantly mods entered hound-mode on me. Very "nice" of them, considering the state of the game.
The joke was about when she gets a new costume to better "reflect" her late personality. That was it.
And my frustration from this situation is not about the joke itself (I'm a pretty compliant person when mods ask not to do things as they SHOULD ask normally), but how they handle this kinds of situations - absolutely unacceptable.
TL;DR better stay away from official d-cord as far as possible.
P.S.: I hate autocorrection on the phone.
What do you mean by "almost", did you get a warning and if so what did they say?
That I must shut up and that's a last warning. In short.
Also they was stealth deleting all my comments before I demanded explanations for such behavior and it was all I got.
@FollowTheFaceless I long dropped the discord becuse I was afraid of that I hang with my alliance only