Hello Gamers™,
Summer is here - time to go outside! By outside I mean Citadel. What kind of person goes to the real outside? Certainly not Gamers.
No one has listened to enough ‘80s music to figure out what’s going on yet? I feel like I've been stabbed in the back.
Although this is my last blog for NWI, something I’ve been working on for a while is in here, and I think it’s pretty exciting. Read on!
SURVEY
Our Spring 2021 Player Survey has come to a close and we had nearly 10,000 players give us their feedback. As Tim alluded to in the SoP I wanted to dive a little deeper into what we’ve seen.
First and foremost: we have heard what you all think about the updated AI. The fixes to snapshotting have reduced the difficulty to a point where a lot of you feel it is too easy. We are tweaking and testing changes as we speak. While we are super happy with the reduction in snapshots, we will continue to monitor how you all feel about their difficulty overall.
New weapons are far and away considered the most exciting new content we add - luckily we had already planned on continuing to add more weapons with each major update! Even when I asked for specifics, ‘gun’ and ‘weapon’ were still some of the most common requests. You're all great 😂
Here’s a quick glance at what your requests looked like:
Shotguns and Machine Guns won the request-war for the type of weapons you’d most like to see, with Breacher and Gunner being the classes you feel need the most love. Here, I will only say that we’ve seen this. Subtle wink. Keep in mind that 1.11 and 1.12 were already in development or production before this survey was released.
When it comes to modes, Survival was one of the most common requests, which is good as that has already been added! Also the word 'mode'! Here's the word cloud for mode requests:
We’ve analyzed the rest of the answers from the survey and are using that to help guide our future decisions as well. Thank you all for taking the time to fill out this survey, it goes a long way.
COSMETIC CONTEST
Ok, here’s what I’ve been dying to share with all of you - similar to our map contest, we will be holding a Community Cosmetic Contest!
Whether you’re creating assets directly in Unreal or are a skilled concept artist, we will be accepting submissions for Insurgent Cosmetics, Security Cosmetics, and Weapon skins for each faction. Even if you're not skilled, we will still accept the submission, but you may not win.
From these submissions, our team here at New World will select four finalists from each category (one set of cosmetics for each faction, and a weapon skin set for each faction).
Those 16 finalists will then go to a public vote, with the winner from each category being added to the game in a future update - you will all decide the cosmetics that are included in an upcoming Operation.
Exact details including prizes and rules will be announced soon, but there will be cash prizes along with the bragging rights of having your idea added to the game.
There will be no specific theme, but anything that doesn’t fit the aesthetics of Sandstorm will not be considered. Your creation must also be original, anything found to not be original or taken from copyrighted material will be immediately disqualified.
We are incredibly excited to see what you all come up with, and equally excited to see what you all decide should be added to the game.
There are some other big announcements coming up, including the 1.11 reveal, and the date of its CTE.
I will be watching these announcements from your side of the internet this time, and I’m pumped to see it all from your point of view.
Also, we are 50% off right now! Go grab some friends and get 'em playing, it's the perfect time.
A very efficient rocket (YHL6965 on Reddit).
I guess you could say [REALLY CLEVER PUN GOES HERE] 😎 (TheSmallBrainEnergy on Reddit).
WintorOperator has cursed us with the most ambitious crossover of 2021.
Finally, for those who need to be reminded; the most helpful in-game tip available (GRRRNADE on Reddit).
Well, that’s that; this is the last Community Blog I will write for NWI, in a couple short weeks I am hopping on a plane and moving overseas.
As is my prerogative, I wanted to film a quick video to say one thing.
If you want to keep in touch, just hit me up on Twitter @fatherHank, I’m going to miss all you rapscallions.
It’s been a blast working as your Community Manager for the last 16 months and I’m very excited for you all to see what NWI has coming.
Bye for now Gamers™
fatherHank