Legend

✔️ success ❌needs improvement 💡notes

• ✔️ reputation progression and unlock of tougher targets
• ❌ gear progression.
  • 💡too slow, but should be fine with the recent change where regular contracts give schematics as well
• ✔️ exploration while hunting. Map is diverse, traversing it requires planning
• ❌ long distances during hunts.
  • reaching far areas can be difficult during hunts, either a closer target was found or a feint happened first
  • uncertainty of finding target in distant POI makes it difficult to find the motivation to explore the whole map each hunt
    • 💡clues system is too unreliable, they're too hard to find
    • 💡portable camp the player can deploy in the next hunt? Craftable, consumed on deploy, requires crowns on use based on distance?
• ❌ loot quantity
  • too much loot, too many containers are active in each hunt
    • 💡reduce chances for a container to have loot, while making sure hidden chests with multiple items have greater chances
  • too much of high quality loot like gold jewels or relic swords
    • 💡use a PRNG roller to lower the chances of higher items
• ❌ camp upgrades
  • buffs feel insignificant
    • 💡scaling the duration with the level is a poor idea, make them last 1 hour or the whole hunt, scale only their power
    • 💡add a fireplace to meditate that grants all of the unlocked buffs at once
  • gardens & such are great but could be better
    • 💡shupe interactions with the distillery & the small garden plots in the map should solve this
• ✔️ gameplay loop. It's intuitive, it's fun to discover the next target when completing a contract, it's fun to learn & exploit the spawn conditions of the species.
• ❌ traps
  • too costly
  • not great gameplay to lure a target near them
  • too difficult to trigger
    • 💡should explode automatically when monster approaches it
• ✔️ lures. Cinematics are great, they're cheaper now, give access to spawn points on demand at the cost of preparation
  • 💡the randomness on the first try isn't 100% perfect either, needs improvement