New PvP Lobby looks.
I think the color is just too washed out, there’s nowhere really cool to stand and look out over the lobby’s occupants, you can’t watch people fight the trainer NPCs, and it’s all compressed and claustrophobic. Most of the cool areas deny gliders on top of everything to justify a jumping puzzle, which everyone circumvents anyway because of all the free portals. And a jumping puzzle in the pvp lobby is a dumb concept anyway because it almost entirely lacks the navmesh or whatever the game’s logic dictates, which means getting a queue pop will generally reset your progress in the puzzle.
Basically it lacks everything that the old lobby had to stay somewhat interesting between games, in exchange for some elitist section that everyone keeps asking about how to reach, a dumb one-time llama collection questchievement(because LLAMAS ARE SO IMPORTANT…..), and the dubious ability for the devs to say “of course we care about PvPers, look at this huge update!”
The old lobby needed an overhaul to make all the blank space a little more interesting and main area to be more central rather than a little section in the south, but it didn’t need a total overwrite.
Things I’d like to see:
-everything listed above
-some simple (SIMPLE) activities just to kill time, maybe from other areas of the game (golem chess? some simplified adventures like the shooting gallery? access to the Four Winds movement crystals? sanctum sprint but around the lobby? plenty of options available…)
-and heck, maybe spruce the place up just a bit to look like more than the run down ruins we have (which comes off as an apt metaphor most of the time). Keep some ruins for jumping puzzles – I rather liked the old walls that used to have the glory vendors -, but… we’ve been playing pvp for five years, I feel like someone should have built a better structure by now.
The nuclear option never should have felt like the right way to do things.
there is no room by the practice bots.. trying to do simple test on the practice bots is a pain when u agro the other bots 2 feet away … or roll off a cliff messing around with evade skills —the map is dark and gloomy —for some reason it is divided up in to islands so u end up using WP’s every ten seconds —honestly the only thing I like about it is the death pit
they should have just made a few floating islands above the old pvp lobby with some up drafts leading up there