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Black Desert Online continues getting new player experience improvements. In this week's update, you can start gathering anywhere and without the use of tools. The update also adds some new rewards and events, balance and class changes, adjustments to guilds, and a number of other tweaks.
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So to clarify the article; this is what the Family gathering update did in respect to lifeskill tools: Essentially, you just have to have lifeskill tools in the characters possession. This is basically like have Liana's tool bag, but without having to equip anything.
Also the handy Family tool window was added.
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Depending on that being made easier it may be a positive.
That depends on why things are harder. It is a matter of actual difficulty or just additional bother for the sake of. There is nothing negative in reducing the latter and that is what these changes are about.
Which makes things ever easier, yes.
Well one mans "bother" is another man's "difficulty". So if you go through a MMO looking for anything that can "bother" someone you will remove all the difficulty in the game.
As much about specific examples as we have talked about it is about design philosophy; maintaining difficulty let alone increasing it is not part of any games philosophy in the long run.
The minimap is actually a huge issue along with exclamation marks over heads and so on. Players pointed out that before you had to use your head, the quest giver would tell you where to go and you had to work it out. Not so once the minimap arrived. What about a big arrow that points the way you have to go, is that going too far?
Again we will all draw the line differently here, I would say no arrow to quest, no exclamation marks. The main map would show the local region you need to go to for a quest, the minimap would show you when you are in the exact area but not point to it. Thats a good balance.