Hey, I've taken the time to go through hundreds of posts by players, for players, hoping it will reduce re-posting and the Devs will actually take notice. Many suggestions are my own after 200+ hours of gameplay, and many are from other players. Again not all of these suggestions are mine, nor do I necessarily agree with all of them. Some suggestions have been removed or merged with others for clarity or if they've already been added to the game! Also it's hard to tell if there's a forum moderator or Devs paying attention. Just an occasional "we're here", "We'll look into it", or "Thanks for the feedback/ideas." would go a long way. Also, sorry about the length.
Crafting:
- Consumables:
One less menu screen. Make it so we don't have to go back and forth screens to select each consumable slot. When you select the slot it should just bring up the consumable menu, then you can press down to the next slot, not having to escape or back out, select the next one, and go into the consumable screen. Maybe make a link to the 3 consumable slot graphic so we can just select slot 1-2-3 from the graphic and open the consumable menu. - Add an option to batch craft consumables. (Ex: Craft 10 Melee damage consumables at once)
- Add an option to upgrade embers. (Ex: 10 common embers to an uncommon ember, etc)
- Add Masterwork/Legendary consumables.
- Add Ultimate charge speed consumables.
- Add Sprint Speed increase consumables.
- Add Flight Speed Increase consumables.
- Add Dash distance increase consumables.
- Make it possible to craft javelin parts and/or entire future javelins.
UI:
- -Game Mode/Mission Select-
[F]Ready,[R]Forge <- WHY!?!? Swap these for genius sake. - Place all Free Play locations, Stronghold locations, and Contract locations on one map instead of individual menus! (Add a map Legend for new players)
- Add an option to swap between Javelin Presets in the mission select screen so we don't make the party wait going in/out of forge (Has improved with forge loading screen gone, but still valid) {Javelin ICONS with Default/Primary loadout options}
- Option to skip cutscenes!
- Add a solo gameplay option.
- Add an invite only gameplay option.
- Add a friends only gameplay option.
- Add a last man standing/endless enemy waves gameplay option with increasing difficulty per wave.
- Add an option to go straight to a mission launch screen after completing a mission/contract/stronghold instead of having to go to fort tarsis each time.
- Add an option to change the party leader.
- Show tracked challenges/feats on the UI. (limit 3-5?)
- Show other player's gear score. Useful to know who may need help, who to hide behind, or who to watch and learn from.
- Option to view recently played with players to add as friends/report.
- Show other player's Javelin type by their name when in a party.
- Add interactive items/weapons. Make cannons you can shoot, stationary guns you can borrow, turrets you can activate.
- Add an option to view Health/Shield as a number.
- Add clouds we can fly through/between.
- Ability to preview items in the Featured Store.
- Ability to join on friends without invite. (Join request?)
- Add more music!
- Dynamic weather around activating shaper relics.
- Falling to cool thrusters - Falling through air should cool thrusters at least as fast as flying straight down.
- Destructable environments.
Forts:
- Add Radio dramas as audio logs that we could say, play as we walk around Tarsis or in freeplay.
- Add Music/radio options in the fort or freeplay.
- Show all 4 Javelins being worked on in the fort so that you play as whichever one you walk up to instead of having to go into the forge to change javelins.
3rd person option when walking around fort. - Add a combat testing area, so we can see how skills/abilities/loadouts affect how you play or how much damage you do.
- Add a showcase/office room where you can see all 4 of your javelins, see each one of your quests and/or challenges as a piece of paper with a completed or fulfilled stamp on it to show off how far you've actually come from the start of the game! A shelf with each weapon on it, or empty shelf for weapons you haven't found yet, showing the look of the highest rarity you've found of that weapon! (We really barely see weapons right now).
- Add an upgrade fort option! You become a legendary freelancer, get contract after contract, get famous between forts, yet can't reinvest any of that fame or fortune into your home? We should be able to become benefactors to the shops (for a discount), create new areas or open up minigames.
- Create a RESEARCH/ENGINEERING AREA that allows us to unlock new blueprints, sigils, consumables..
- Add a day/night cycle, different NPCs in different areas, working or not working. Add life!
- Have talking to NPCs unlock quests or challenges to do. Give NPCs a purpose.
- Having some random events happening in the fort, like a band playing in the bar, or a guy giving a monologue.
- Add a smuggler/black market area.
- Place and unlock Haluk's Strider.
- Create a Grabbit farm.
- Increase in-fort run speed.
Forge:
Be able to pull out the colossus shield in the forge during customization to see what color combinations make up the shield when choosing your paints
Add a stats screen, make players able to see how weapons or gear actually affect their output.
Communication:
- Add waypoints
- Add enemy markers
- Add limited sayings in the freelancer's voice (Ex: Hold on! Attack! Regroup! Ignore them! Retreat! Etc..)
- Add text chat
- Add LFG option for players wanting to play a certain way. (etc stronghold chest farming, power level limits, helping weaker players, etc)
Lore:
- Add lore/stories to legendary weapons/items or add unique items with stories behind them (Like the legionary shield)
- Add more story about helping new freelancers, or assisting a single new freelancer that has joined Fort Tarsis! Can't tell if there is more than one freelancer left in the world by the story (except other players).
- Add more info on smugglers/black markets.
- Add a purpose for Outlaws, are they just criminals, or do they have a common cause?
- Explain more on why Dominion wants to conquer the world. Do they hate freelancers & General Tarsis, or are they just power hungry?
- What the heck are Scars? Add Background/history/purpose, etc..
Missions:
- Make Relic fragments disappear and respawn if held too long like Echoes do.
- Upon completion have a Player ranking system. (Either automated or let players choose who was most helpful)
- Show kills, deaths, revives and boss damage on mission completion.
- Add solo challenge missions/quests.
Freeplay:
-Events-
- Allow players to launch a flare into the sky or set a waypoint so other players in the map know where an event is happening.
Or once one player finds an event, have it show up on every player's map.
-Striders-
Make striders useful! - Allow players to sell/salvage items they have picked up at the strider so they don't have to leave a mission with friends if they hit the loot limit. (Forge)
- Refill all ammo at visiting a strider.
- Allow players to change javelins/equipment at a strider (Forge)
- Add Fast travel points to other players.
- Add some moving striders.
- Add exploration missions.
- Add traveling/racing missions.
- Add timed missions.
- Allow freeplay to have more than 4 players.
- Place and unlock Haluk's Strider.
- More freeplay spawn locations.
Strongholds:
There are 3 points of loot, chest #1, chest #2, Boss.
- Option 1: Lower the reward for chest #1 and raise the reward for the boss kill. This will help ensure people fight to completion!
- Option 2: Move all rewards into a new chest that spawns after the boss is killed, let it rain loot!
- Add (a small) coin reward to stronghold completion!
- Add unique loot per boss! This will ensure players want to farm each boss. Find the item from the tyrant in 5-10 runs, then Escari, then Monitor, etc!
- Gear score lock- Make it so players with all epic equipment can't join GM3.
- Tethering - Give all players that are behind, a movement/flight speed boost to help them catch up and prevent being tethered into a loading screen. Tethering is useful, but terrible to experience.
Combat:
- Remove elemental immunities!
- Being unable to do damage, start a combo, freeze, burn, or electricute titans or outlaw/dominion storms is EXTREMELY vexing.
Playing as a Storm with a Frost Shard primer and Lightning Strike detonator against an enemy Storm that is immune to being frozen or electricuted means we can do what, switch to weapons that take 200+ bullets to kill one of these, specially if they jump back up into the air and immediately restore their shield to 100%? - Stop enemy Storms from instantly recharging their shield to 100%! My God they can be harder than a Titan to kill! The fact they keep hovering makes it hard enough for an interceptor to hit them, or a colossus to use melee or half its abilities on them. Only true opponent is the ranger.
- Ultimate - If you press X to cancel your ultimate, give us back a portion of our ultimate bar according to how much ultimate timer we used! (This way if you accidentaly cancel your ultimate, you still have 30-90% of your charge bar back and can get it back in no time!)
- Add ability to combo/prime enemies that have shields on.
- Make enemy storms have thrusters that can overheat so they have to touch down into melee range.
- Allow fire damage on enemy storms to force their thrusters to overheat so they can't fly/hover.
- Add items or inscriptions with +Combo damage (Besides consumables)
- Option to duck/crouch/lay down behind shelter to avoid incoming attacks.
- Add a "Javelin Down!" Audio effect.
- Allow Interceptor to do mid-air melee damage.
- Give a downed javelin the option to open Map.
- Interceptor ultimate to teleport from one enemy to the next. Much of the ultimate is wasted trying to run/dash from enemy to enemy since we can't fly during the ultimate.
- Increase ultimate damage.
- Melee to not lock onto scar mines!
Reloading:
Add a reload progress meter so we can tell if we have time to finish reloading before dodging, or if we have to dodge and cancel the reload animation to reload again when it's safer.
Gear/Abilities:
- If I have an ability with 2 charges, use one, let it charge back up 90% of the way then use the other, why does it cancel the recharge and put both charges back to 0%? This is awful for abilities that have a long reload like the Storm's lightning strike! Quit cancelling the recharge progress.
-New abilities- - Ranger - Repair drone: Deploys a repair drone to a specific Teammate with in 30 yards for 10 sec . Cast on downed teammate within 30 yards to revive with 50% health. Hold to Self target. 90 sec CD Drone reduce incoming damage by 15% and repairs 5% Health per sec.
- Storm - Thunderclap: Emits a Lighting discharge every seconds for 5 seconds that cause any enemy within 20 yards to be disorients for up to 10 Seconds. 60 Sec CD
- Interceptor - Contagion: Instant spread active aura to all enemies with in 20 yards increase aura effectiveness by 25% and refreshes current aura. 60 Sec CD
- Colossus - Riot Shield: Charges forward up to 15 yard slamming shield either to the ground or into first enemy you come in contact with. Stuns all enemies with in 10 yards of impact point, Colossus's health and resistance to all sources is increase for 20 sec by 50%. CD 90 Sec. CD starts when effect ends.
- Add abilities that can AoE Combo Prime multiple targets.
- Greatly increase the size/range of support abilities.
- Greatly increase support shield strength (Windwall is useless)
- Make all abilities either a primer or detonator. Combos are fun.
- Allow players to equip Both support skills.
Weapons:
Appearance-
- Make higher rarity more impressive looking, possibly an aura, glow, unique vinyl or unique color scheme.
- Add variety and craziness. Strap a shaper relic to a gun and watch beams shoot out, explode, self destruct, etc!
Variety suggestions: Anti-gravity gun, beam gun, wave gun, black hole gun, elemental guns, - Unique weapons beyond legendary. (Weapons with set inscriptions or items from each of the legionaries)
- Add weapons that can combo prime/detonate targets.
Inscriptions:
- Remove/buff all inscriptions to at least +5%. Anything below 5% is worthless.
- Buff all Legendary gear inscriptions to a noticeable difference between masterwork/lower. We've seen the table of how it should work on the website, but haven't seen it in game.
- Add a shield delay reduction inscription.
- Add a combo damage inscription.
- Ability to reroll inscriptions one at a time.
Loot General:
- Loot should vary by difficulty. Easy: Commons/uncommons, Normal: Uncommons/rare, Hard:Rare/Epic, GM1: Epic/MW, GM2:Epic/MW/Legend, GM3:MW/Legend
- Bring back commons & uncommons for easy/normal mode, remove epics from GM3. This will make fighting higher difficulty missions MUCH more rewarding.
- Add a Salvage All or multiselect salvage option!!
- Add loot filters, all items filtered out are automatically salvaged upon looting.
- Add Titan loot! Yes, more loot that drops from a killed titan, but also titan items giving you titan abilities.
- Add Shaper loot
Javelin Ideas:
Assassin Javelin
Mechanic/Constructor Javelin
Healer/Light Javelin
Vampire Javelin (Heals from damaging enemies)
Explosive Javelin (Can harm self from close explosions)
Mission Ideas:
- Stop the charging enemy from reaching their destination. Massive Ursis, Titan, Escari on the move to attack...(Fort Tarsis?) Stop them before they get there!
- Grabbit hunting.
- Catch the thief.
- More non-scorpion creature attack missions.
- Stop the malfunctioning machines.
- Side quests - Make completing certain quests/challenges able to unlock portions of the fort, shops, sections of the freeplay map, or entire new forts/cities.
- Add platformer challenges, where you have to jump, dash, and dodge your way around certain things, fly through hoops, race against time. Something besides endless killing and collecting objects.
- Stop a sea-monster attacking travelers/striders traveling across a straight.
- Save grabbits from an exploding volcano.
- Stop the dominion/Shaper relic from activating a volcano.
- Escape the danger! Hordes of turrets, scars, dominion, etc attacking and instead of fighting or rescuing you just have to get out alive (how is this not a thing yet?)
