How to Make Overland Appealing To More People

AdmiralDigby · July 6

For many (myself included). Overland is just way too easy for me to enjoy. No matter how good it is, I can't immerse myself in "this big bad villian" when I can kill him in 2 secs easy with an optimized build.

Overland needs to have multiple difficulty levels. The problem is doing this (like Diablo 4 does) would split the player base and make overland feel like a ghost town. Worry not!! I have the perfect solution.

3 difficulty levels. Normal (current overland) - Vet (harder) - HM (or some cooler name whatever). When you select these difficulty levels in overland. It will place a set of debuffs & buffs on you. Making the content more challenging and more rewarding at same time. For example:

Overland: Exactly the same as it is now.
Vet: Damage done reduced by 50% - Damage Taken increase by 25% - XP gained increase by 100% - Gold increase by 200% - Drop rate increased by X%
HM: The above values just dialed up even more.

Don't get caught on my example %'s. They can be dialed to feel. However this would allow multiple difficulty options without dividing the player base up in multiple instances. Then maybe I could enjoy overland content.

Cooperharley · July 6

Don't know if you haven't heard yet, but they have confirmed that they are currently working on an optional increase to overland difficulty. We didn't hear any news of it this quarter or for U47, so we're expecting -possibly- some news about it in Q4 (U48) of this year

Solid ideas though! Biggest thing in this game that i've learned is everyone plays vastly differently, so as long as what they do is optional, it'll be great!

Islyn · July 6

AdmiralDigby wrote: »

For many (myself included). Overland is just way too easy for me to enjoy. No matter how good it is, I can't immerse myself in "this big bad villian" when I can kill him in 2 secs easy with an optimized build.

Overland needs to have multiple difficulty levels. The problem is doing this (like Diablo 4 does) would split the player base and make overland feel like a ghost town. Worry not!! I have the perfect solution.

3 difficulty levels. Normal (current overland) - Vet (harder) - HM (or some cooler name whatever). When you select these difficulty levels in overland. It will place a set of debuffs & buffs on you. Making the content more challenging and more rewarding at same time. For example:

Overland: Exactly the same as it is now.
Vet: Damage done reduced by 50% - Damage Taken increase by 25% - XP gained increase by 100% - Gold increase by 200% - Drop rate increased by X%
HM: The above values just dialed up even more.

Don't get caught on my example %'s. They can be dialed to feel. However this would allow multiple difficulty options without dividing the player base up in multiple instances. Then maybe I could enjoy overland content.

Before I even read this - just the title - I thought 'they need to ramp up difficulty by like 200% at least'. I don't think it needs to be original craglorn level (wasps hand u your a**) but yeah definitely!

AdmiralDigby · July 6

Cooperharley wrote: »

Don't know if you haven't heard yet, but they have confirmed that they are currently working on an optional increase to overland difficulty. We didn't hear any news of it this quarter or for U47, so we're expecting -possibly- some news about it in Q4 (U48) of this year

Solid ideas though! Biggest thing in this game that i've learned is everyone plays vastly differently, so as long as what they do is optional, it'll be great!

That's good. However I always worry about how they will implement these changes. I think what I proposed would be a great system.

ZOS_Icy · July 6

Greetings,

With there already being a thread opened on this subject here, we're going to go ahead and close this one down.

Thank you for understanding.