Hey Ubi, I'll keep this short and sweet.
The community clearly has more negative than positive feedback after playing the beta. A lot of the comments are speculative written in "undesirable language", but the points argued are still valid. Player hub, gear score AI and difficulty are, as far as I can tell, among the most mentioned concerns. My question is: will these concerns be addressed by the developers? I am not talking about bugs and minor issues, obviously, but major elements the game is founded on and heavily debated by the community. Is it too late to even consider making changes?
This is coming from a BIG fan of Ubi and the franchise; a Wildlands lover who hopes Breakpoint will deliver what was promised. I liked the beta a lot, but must admit I share a lot of the community's concerns.
I wish you the best of luck!
I agree with you both. I'd guess there is no time for major changes, and postponing release is too expensive. Too many moving parts, so to say. I'd love an answer from Ubi though, and see them live up to "listening to the community" as they themselves put it. If there ever was a time to listen to them, that time is now - when it really counts. There is no hate or ill will here, simply a wish for dialogue in light of the community's rather severe issues.
I think they are hoping the Division players will make up the the majority of WL players who will not be playing this game.
I think they are going to be disappointed. WL players are loyal. Division players are just playing another game. The fact that they dont seem to care at all about our franchise if they think they can make more money getting players from another one to come in shows where they are coming from. I hope it blows up in their face. Maybe they will learn something.
No. The answer is no. They aren't going to remove any of these features.
Right now what I would like changed that actually can be changed is
1. Loot that drops off of enemies needs to have the icon changed. The big rainbow needs to look like ammo/skell credit loot icons so it's less obstructive.
2. When receiving a new item UI element that takes up half of the right side of your screen needs to be moved to the lower middle portion of the screen and made smaller.
3. Enemies need to react to bullets when getting shot.
UI changes
https://youtu.be/JuwoFiuRxFk
Enemies need animating when being shot changes
https://youtu.be/AXjyo0taTUc
I'm not going to waste my time asking for things to be removed like tiered loot. That's not happening. So instead, I'd like more things done to the UI to prevent my screen from becoming a mess of colors and pop ups obstructing my field of view and I want to have the gun fights feel more real by making enemies react to being shot IE limping, staggering, stumbling, falling to the ground, using their side arm after being shot and dropping their weapon. When we get shot we go through some of these and they had some of these concepts in wildlands so I know it can be implemented.