Hi developers! As far as I understood from the interview with Thomas and Zizaran, it’s need to limit the fast travel ability to all open Whispers, because the world is beauty, has a complex level design and is constantly updated and alive.
I have an interesting suggestion - to add a system for remembering/forgetting a Whisper point.
How it works - being on any Whisper (excluding the hub), you can remember it, and it will be saved and available for teleportation and will not disappear after several teleportations (approximately like a save slot in old games).
When you need to remember a new fast travel point at another Whisper, you can overwrite it, erasing the old one.
For balance, their number will be limited - from one at the beginning of the game they can be increased by the Watcher (for Plague Ichor) to conditional three or five slots (approximately, you always can smoothly increase quanity with a new content in the game). Thus, the player himself will regulate the fast travel points, and there will not be too many of them.
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Best solution would be greater/lesser whispers for me. That’s just it.
I really don’t understand the
because the world is beauty, has a complex level design and is constantly updated and alive.
This is not a valid argument against fast travel. Even if I teleport to a whisper I can admire the beauty of the level while I look for enemies or bounties or other quests inside that area.
I am still encouraged to explore to find more chests, items, enemies and so on.
The only part that is cut out it’s the walking/running/ dash spamming to get there.
The complex level design is okay, but once the shortcuts are enabled it’s done, like a puzzle with a solution. I can’t do it twice. It meant I explored almost all of the area.
Sometimes there are significant changes that requires to find another route to reach the objective but as far as I’ve seen these are rare and still do not encompass all the zone and most of the time it’s still just rush to the target objective.
I am not against the option of a greater/lesser Whisper, but there is a question of how best to place them. It is clear that you can make the Great Whispers to the Crucible and Marin Village. But where to place the rest fast travel points, which are between the hubs? In each location there are several Whispers, and they can be important at a particular moment, for example, farming items for crafting equipment, daily quests or mining ore, wood, etc.
I made a post about this, the greater whispers are in the middle of each zone to limit the amount of time spent walking to a point.
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