Here’s my opinion on the Dynamic Events found in Brisban Wildlans
- Defend the Seraph camp until reinforcements arrive: this is an event that happens at the Hidden Lake, in the Seraph observatory. I’m not sure if it’s bugged or if it’s just an odd design, but I have often used the waypoint to reach the camp, only to find it lost to bandits; said bandits are also endless, as killing one of them makes another respawn. I guess this is part of the dynamic event, with people failing to defend the Seraph camp, but it feels weird – in other maps, when a camp is taken, the waypoint becomes contested and the friendly NPCs vanish. In this case, the waypoint continues to work normally, and the dead NPCs remain there. I have also never seen the dynamic event to retake the camp from those bandits.
- Defeat the sinister triad (Group Event): this is rather underwhelming. This event is one of the few Group Events in the entire map, but it has little to no impact in the area. Comparing after the event is done to before it has been completed, I have seen no change in the map – no new NPC, no new anything. A group event being completed should have some impact on the world, from a new vendor to maybe that fort nearby actually opening and allowing players to in there.
- The event with Tekki tinkering with an Asura Gate: this event is great, and a lot of fun. I loved some of the enemies we fight in this event, the dialogue is great, and the event conclusion is amazing. The only odd thing is how it does not count for the local heart, “Assist Ulta Metamagicals with their Asura gate research”. The event consists basically in doing one of the tasks listed in the heart description, so it should count for the heart completition.
As a whole, the events in Brisban Wildlands feel a bit underwhelming; they appear to have little to no impact in the world as a whole, despite how there are some extremely cool looking areas in that map (the Inquest laboratories come to mind). I wished there were some deeper events about dealing with the alliance between the Inquest, the bandits and the Nightmare Court.
“I think that players are starting to mature past the point of wanting to be on that
treadmill, of being in that obvious pattern of every time I catch up you are going to
put another carrot in front of me” – Mike O’Brien right before Ascended weapons
Are you judging all the events on these three?
Nope. The meta events are more interesting, but they are meta events, so I would expect them to be better anyway. What annoys me is how the other events are less interesting: they have little impact on the world, and most are simply not as cool as the event about the Asura gates. There was a lot of potential in the area due to how it’s filled with multiple factions, but it doesn’t feel like the events actually change the world. IMO, Kessex Hills was more interesting…
“I think that players are starting to mature past the point of wanting to be on that
treadmill, of being in that obvious pattern of every time I catch up you are going to
put another carrot in front of me” – Mike O’Brien right before Ascended weapons