Empty Apple Barrel: Suggestion

[Pontin_Finnberry]

If possible it would be nice and maybe epic, if could have option showing our character floating down stream from the Elf-kings Halls to the Dale Lands, instead of just a fast port! This has been done before in the Instance "Inn of the Forsaken" you float down a stream to the end boss, Made video showing what i mean just a suggestion

[Lady_Lethargy]

If possible it would be nice and maybe epic, if could have option showing our character floating down stream from the Elf-kings Halls to the Dale Lands, instead of just a fast port! This has been done before in the Instance "Inn of the Forsaken" you float down a stream to the end boss, Made video showing what i mean just a suggestion

Inn of the Forsaken waterslide is the best part of the game. Yes, please! /signedathousandtimes

[Phantion]

I agree with this- it would've been very fun to take a trip like that down the river...

[Thurinuor]

I agree with this- it would've been very fun to take a trip like that down the river...

Yes, this would be very nice!

[Herwegur]

Y.E.S. please!

And the mechanic is already in game.

[OldMadeOfLions]

And the mechanic is already in game.

It's true that we can impulse players in an instance. But to do it this much is only safe in an instance, which means to get this effect you'd need to teleport into an instance, and then out afterwards, which isn't really something we'd want to do for this.

MoL

[Lady_Lethargy]

It's true that we can impulse players in an instance. But to do it this much is only safe in an instance, which means to get this effect you'd need to teleport into an instance, and then out afterwards, which isn't really something we'd want to do for this.

MoL

Hey, I'd still love it.

But could we at least get a cutscene?

[Harkenheim]

Surely all you have to do is place a NPC next to the barrel to activate like you do a horse and its just a case of waypoints in the river instead of a path (like for horses) but replace the horse with a barrel a away you go down the river to laketown.

I would like to see this feature even if guided by waypoints (like slow horse is) and not free left to right movement as you progress down river.

I would take a slow barrel ride over fast travel horse any day of the week

[Lady_Lethargy]

Surely all you have to do is place a NPC next to the barrel to activate like you do a horse and its just a case of waypoints in the river instead of a path (like for horses) but replace the horse with a barrel a away you go down the river to laketown.

I would like to see this feature even if guided by waypoints (like slow horse is) and not free left to right movement as you progress down river.

I would take a slow barrel ride over fast travel horse any day of the week

Ooh, yes, another fantastic solution!

[Silmelin]

Fun idea! I hope it's something that would be possible to do in some way

[Harkenheim]

Also upon completion of the barrel ride - give us a title "Barrel Rider"

[Lady_Lethargy]

Also upon completion of the barrel ride - give us a title "Barrel Rider"

Yes! Yes! Yes!

[Dinara]

How about a constant stream of barrels going down river, and we as players have to jump onto them to get a ride to the Dale Lands?
Of course they have to be a little large and not moving very fast.

[Lady_Lethargy]

How about a constant stream of barrels going down river, and we as players have to jump onto them to get a ride to the Dale Lands?
Of course they have to be a little large and not moving very fast.

Likely very hard or impossible to implement, but hey, I wouldn't know. Another issue is that Felegoth is an interior, so there'd be a loading screen to get through before you're outside on the river. I think the best way to go is a "stable" barrel with waypoints like Harkenheim suggested. Click the barrel in Felegoth, load outside, and proceed to drift.

[Phantion]

Likely very hard or impossible to implement, but hey, I wouldn't know. Another issue is that Felegoth is an interior, so there'd be a loading screen to get through before you're outside on the river. I think the best way to go is a "stable" barrel with waypoints like Harkenheim suggested. Click the barrel in Felegoth, load outside, and proceed to drift.

Yes. My only caveat about this is that it hasn't been done with -water- quite yet- which is probably why those boats in Evendim are swift-travel rather than with an animation of a player in a boat crossing the Lake. Horses work because they are set directly on the pathed-terrain of a road or what have you- Water might be more tricky...


But, MoL, please hear us out further

How about -two- different barrels? One that's the current direct-click barrel-

and another Barrel that lets you enter the instance where you barrel-ride down the river, and come-out again once you click an already-landed barrel at the end of it?

So, if a Player A wants the experience of riding down the river rather than a swift-travel,

Player A right-click's the second Barrel (which will have a little warning note to differentiate the two- that way, if a Player makes a "mistake," that's the Player's fault for not reading anything). Accepts quest, enters-instance (this quest would not award exp or tokens- its just for fun). Rides down-river to the reeds. Lands- and "dismounts the Barrel"- which phases-out. Nearby by some reeds is another barrel, which we will assume had already landed there. Right-click grounded-barrel, exit instance in new location.

Meanwhile, Player B, who just wants to cross directly with 1 loading screen, can simply right-click the First Barrel- which we have currently on BR- and swift travel.

In short: please consider making options!!! It doesn't have to be an "Either / Or" situation!!! Consider "And / Both"!!!

[Boraxxe]

This would be a barrel of laughs.
Make this happen or I will not drink my milk.

[OldMadeOfLions]

In short: please consider making options!!! It doesn't have to be an "Either / Or" situation!!! Consider "And / Both"!!!

This is my shocked face.

Just kidding. One of the time-honored traditional tropes of MMO development is that the feedback on any specific issue will always, one hundred percent of the time, be this: 'Why not do both? Add a toggle, so everybody's happy!'

My preference would be a travel network barrel that acts like a horse, but is instead a barrel. Given the nature of where Felegoth is located, you wouldn't be able to ride the entire distance of the river, but a short ride via barrel in the style of a swift horse would probably have to be it. But that's an Art thing, and they're currently pretty full up, so it would need to be a stretch goal for the future.

MoL

[Lady_Lethargy]

This is my shocked face.

Just kidding. One of the time-honored traditional tropes of MMO development is that the feedback on any specific issue will always, one hundred percent of the time, be this: 'Why not do both? Add a toggle, so everybody's happy!'

My preference would be a travel network barrel that acts like a horse, but is instead a barrel. Given the nature of where Felegoth is located, you wouldn't be able to ride the entire distance of the river, but a short ride via barrel in the style of a swift horse would probably have to be it. But that's an Art thing, and they're currently pretty full up, so it would need to be a stretch goal for the future.

MoL

Art guys, please stretch for us <3

[Boraxxe]

Art guys, please stretch for us <3

Here ya go...

[Harkenheim]

MOL - If the art people can add this in that be great and 100% appreciated by the community

Also don't forget if they do this, please grant us the "Barrel Rider" Title when we get to the other end - it would be so awesome.