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Apparently you need a third party program or similar because how in the hell am I supposed to figure out coordinates in this game when there is no built in functionality?
So I get a quest and it says "go to X.xx, Y.yy" and do such and such. Well, like, where in the world is that? Could you at least say, its like outside of CityZ or such? How am I IN GAME without add ons supposed to know about where these coordinates are?
What am I missing? Did they add some feature in the last six years to make coordinate locating easier?
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I believe coords are under the radar by default now. If not, you can enable it in the options.
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Yeah they let you display coords in the game in the user interface about 5-6 years ago now?
Profanity yea on playing AC without third party programs though! woop  I play on Darktide without anything.
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OK. This must be the slow crowd.
The coordinates under the radar tell me nothing much about where my contract wants me to go. Sometimes if your lucky you get to talk to a nearby NPC who simply gives me some lore and them I am off to the new coordinates. Its the new coordinates that I have a problem with. They could have at least told us through the contracts where the nearest city is or such. I cannot use the game map to find those coordinates as it only shows where I am.
Sev gave me a nice hyperbole loaded reply on their official forums. I guess I should not have expected more. He even did the ever famous designer reply of "we don't want to be like that other game (dumbed down/etc)" to which I can only reply, well if your aiming to not have the success of that other game, DAMN YOUR DOING IT PERFECTLY!
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Then yes you need an addon to do that.
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Zero_Washu posted:
OK. This must be the slow crowd.
The coordinates under the radar tell me nothing much about where my contract wants me to go. Sometimes if your lucky you get to talk to a nearby NPC who simply gives me some lore and them I am off to the new coordinates. Its the new coordinates that I have a problem with. They could have at least told us through the contracts where the nearest city is or such. I cannot use the game map to find those coordinates as it only shows where I am.
Sev gave me a nice hyperbole loaded reply on their official forums. I guess I should not have expected more. He even did the ever famous designer reply of "we don't want to be like that other game (dumbed down/etc)" to which I can only reply, well if your aiming to not have the success of that other game, DAMN YOUR DOING IT PERFECTLY!
Um, you can't guesstimate where on the map the coordinates would be relative to your current position? How do you ever find your corpse? Slow crowd indeed......
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EDIT: Trolling thru 'quote shifting'
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You do realize that the map is set up so that the top, bottom, and sides are 100.0N, S, E, and W, and any coordinate within those can be eyeballed, yes>?
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Um, you can't guesstimate where on the map the coordinates would be relative to your current position? How do you ever find your corpse? Slow crowd indeed......
Usually because I know where I was hunting?
Want to try your luck again? This is like shooting fish in a barrel.
LOL - Sev banned one of my accounts from the forums, their hubris lives on. So damn intent on not being compared to a successful game they will purposely leave out player friendly features. No wonder why a premier title in their hands had to become free to play to maintain a decent player base.
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Daernwyn posted:
Um, you can't guesstimate where on the map the coordinates would be relative to your current position? How do you ever find your corpse? Slow crowd indeed......
Usually because I know where I was hunting?
Want to try your luck again? This is like shooting fish in a barrel.
LOL - Sev banned one of my accounts from the forums, their hubris lives on. So damn intent on not being compared to a successful game they will purposely leave out player friendly features. No wonder why a premier title in their hands had to become free to play to maintain a decent player base.
Uhh????.....and yet you can't figure out coordinates?? Usually Spacelord is the one trolling people, now I see why he hates everyone.
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They're improving/adding to AC all the time, they are just making sure to do it in an AC way.
AC is a niche game. There is no point in them changing the entire game to be like WoW or LotRO and compete in a very crowded MMO type (not to mention compete with themselves).
Essentially you are mad because you are one of those modern type of MMO players that don't want to think or to explore or to figure things out. You want a WoW style quest system where you just click accept quest and it highlights on the map where to go and then highlights what to kill and puts giant exclamation points over all of the quest NPC heads.
Well there are plenty of boring MMOs where you can find that.
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AC4LifeXxX posted:
They're improving/adding to AC all the time, they are just making sure to do it in an AC way.
AC is a niche game. There is no point in them changing the entire game to be like WoW or LotRO and compete in a very crowded MMO type (not to mention compete with themselves).
Essentially you are mad because you are one of those modern type of MMO players that don't want to think or to explore or to figure things out. You want a WoW style quest system where you just click accept quest and it highlights on the map where to go and then highlights what to kill and puts giant exclamation points over all of the quest NPC heads.
Well there are plenty of boring MMOs where you can find that.
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As far as I'm concerned, them giving you coordinates at all is too much information (and don't even get me started on the 1-50 quest hub).
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If the OP can't even figure out that the North coordinates means the top half of the map and that the West coordinate means the left half, then how are we supposed to accept anything at all that the OP thinks (s)he has figured out about games?
Seriously, just hit the middle of the map for coordinates of (0,0) and increase them as you go outwards.
It is incredibly easy with the Town Network portals to find the nearest place on a trial and error basis.
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