Lot of Ideas for the Future 💡

WhereisHeath

Hello DECA, I'm an old player (since 2015), big fan of the show and advertising student (finishing this year). I've always brought new ideas to NML and some of them have been considered.
The show is over and I know that there are new spin offs that you probably take with new content but lately I've been worried about the future of our game and DECA's direction. The only new content offered are weapons but what about outfits, heroes and missions? So I'm here with some ideas that I hope you can check and consider to keep this game alive because there's still a lot of potential @Jeroen

1. Skins/Outfits: I don't know DECA's plans about new outfits but I hope you will continue adding this content to the game. So I bring new suggestions to this topic:

• How to get them: Previously we have to buy the season pass to get an exclusive outfit like Commonwealth Rosita and Daryl, Sargent Abraham or Hooded Michonne. But this is not accessible for everyone and sometimes is not worth it to invest. I suggest other ways to obtain new skins or outfits:

- Buying with gold (2000-3000).
- Seasonal Campaign as a final reward (Just collecting tokens + 400 gold for distance restart).
- Seasonal missions as a final reward (Example: In a season 9A restart you can unlock a new Tara skin from that moment in the show).
- Upgrading heroes to X stars (Example: You can unlock a new Jesus skin upgrading him to 4 pink stars).

• New look for outdated characters: Heroes usually looks how they were introduced in the show. So many of them looks outdated considering how long they've survived and how much they've changed, especially characters like Eugene (his model it's from Season 4) or Aaron (from Season 5).

- Outdated heroes skin ideas:

Eugene, Season 10 - Aaron, Season 11 - Ezekiel Season 11

Negan, Season 11 - Gabriel, Season 11 - Huntsman Daryl (Scout), Season 11

- Other skin ideas from iconic character moments:

Manbun Jesus, Season 9 (His last season) - Tara, Season 9 (Her last season) - Jerry, Season 10

Masked Alpha - Whisperer Negan - Shane (Season 1)

Survivalist Rick (Scout), Season 5 - Michonne, Season 5 - Terminus Carol, Season 5

Sasha, Season 3 - Carl, Season 7 - Hershel, Season 4

• New Outfits for Normal Characters: This would add more customization and interest in normals characters. My suggestions: Commonwealth armor, CRM uniform, Reapers outfit and Kingdom armor.

2. New seasonal missions (Season 5 & 6): This game started with Season 7 missions and added Origin missions until Season 4. So two of the best seasons are not in the game yet.

- Season 5: There are epic episodes like "No Sanctuary", the church massacre in "Four Walls and a Roof", "Coda" or season finale "Conquer" to recreate. Also, many iconic moments like Carol blowing up Terminus, Beth and Noah's deaths, Alexandria introduction or Morgan comeback.
There would be new outfits from this Season like Terminus Carol, Bearded Rick before Alexandria or Officer Michonne.


- Season 6: Best season ever with historical episodes like "No Way out", "JSS", "Not Tomorrow Yet" or "Last Day on Earth" to be playable. Also iconic moments like Carol killer mode, Glenn's fake death and great character introductions like Jesus, Dwight and Negan.
There would be new outfits like Wolf Carol, Carl before losing his eye and Heath as a new hero.

3. New Heroes and Seasonal missions Restart: There are many important and loved characters from the main cast that didn't make it into the game. I think there is an opportunity to add some of them gradually as the Seasonal missions are restarted. And now that the show is over, we have long periods without new missions so it would be nice to restart them from time to time to feel that the game is alive.

- Origins 1: Dale (Hunter).

- Origins 2: Andrea (Hunter).

- Season 6 (New): Heath (Shooter).

- Season 7A: Simon (Assault) - Season 7B: Jadis (Shooter).

- Season 8A: Alden (Scout) - Season 8B: Siddiq (Scout). 

- Season 9A: Magna (Warrior) - Season 9B: Luke (Bruiser).
 
- Season 10A: Lydia (Bruiser) - Season 10B: Elijah (Scout) - Season 10C: Leah (Assault).

- Season 11A: Lance (Shooter) - Season 11B: Pamela Milton (Hunter) - Season 11C: Judith (Warrior).

FuriousMoldovan

Great outfits!

zbot

Great idea!  Just an FYI: the "skins" need to be individually drawn up so it takes a long time, that's why I think we are getting more alternate or new heroes vs. new "skins."  

WhereisHeath

zbot said:

Great idea!  Just an FYI: the "skins" need to be individually drawn up so it takes a long time, that's
why I think we are getting more alternate or new heroes vs. new "skins."  

Thanks.

You're right and I guess it must be difficult to add "skins" or new outfits but time to time you can work on that.. I mean we haven't seen anything new about heroes since Connie's announcement and Sargent Abraham outfit on November 2022 (5 months ago). So in 5 months, it's not possible to work on a couple of heroes to offer any content other than new weapons?

🤔

 

FuriousMoldovan

...I guess weapons sell better 😉 😂

JordanYuki

If they make a commonwealth armour skin for
regular survivors they need to include the helmet. I want to hide their ugly faces 🤣

MudMoccasin

EVERYTHING about thus post is AWESOME , much needed, and long overdue!!!! Only thing I would add differently would be to have Shane's Sheriff Department uniform like this complete with radio:


And possibly add 3 more characters:

Superhero

I don´t need outfits. And I don´t want them to be part of campaign rewards, as long as they have a benefit like extra traits included and are wearable for all heros.

At this point I also don´t need new heros. Rerolling traits is a expensive pain in the ass. Spent about 30 trys to make just Eze perfect and still counting. Not to talk about other heros to be need rerolled, to be useful.

New missions? Fine! Even the old missions in a harder way are welcomed.

What I like to see are new weekend events. Maybe an event, where we can find reroll tokens in crates. Or a fourth farming option with reroll tokens.

What I like to see is also, to thin out the pool of traits, as it gets bigger and bigger.

WhereisHeath

@MudMoccasin Right, that Shane outfit would be cool I forget about it.

@Superhero Fair, but I think adding heroes time to time it's necessary at this point, to keep the game alive and offer new mechanics to the game. Personally as a TV show fan I want to see more characters as playable heroes.
Maybe the reroll system is the problem, in general not just for heroes but also badges.. 

Jeroen

Great suggestions. I listed quite some on our internal document. Mainly from @WhereisHeath, but also the suggestion to add new weekend events like reroll farming

WhereisHeath

Jeroen said:

Great suggestions. I listed quite some on our internal document. Mainly from @WhereisHeath, but also the suggestion to add new weekend events like reroll farming

Awesome, thank you 😁

Superhero

WhereisHeath said:

@Superhero Fair, but I think adding heroes time to time it's necessary at this point, to keep the game alive and offer new mechanics to the game. Personally as a TV show fan I want to see more characters as playable heroes.
Maybe the reroll system is the problem, in general not just for heroes but also badges.. 

We have so many heros and many, if not most of them, are quite useless. But they all go into the pool of radio call dillution.

MudMoccasin

Noticed that the final prize weapons in Survival Pass are all repaints of current weapons with different traits, and the only totally unique Infused Guild War Shop weapon is the Alexandria pistol, any chance could there be a possibility other unique/one-of-a-kind weapons in the Guild Shop, Survival Pass, or future Campaign Events? 

My suggestions:
This ( Taurus Judge ):

https://nmlforum.decagames.com/walkingdead/discussion/47316/shooter-shotgun-idea

Definitely this ( Franchi SPAS 12 or Daryl's Benelli Shotgun ):

https://nmlforum.decagames.com/walkingdead/discussion/comment/464911/#Comment_464911

And this ( M60 Light Machine Gun ) :

https://nmlforum.decagames.com/walkingdead/discussion/comment/398012#Comment_398012

Maybe this ( Golden AK47 ):

https://nmlforum.decagames.com/walkingdead/discussion/35088/gold-assault-weapon-idea

Axe

Yo solo quiero que le demos uso a los tokens de refuerzo permitiendo ascender armas. Que pasen de épico a legendario por x cantidad de tokens ya que se acumulan cuando ya tienes todo al máximo y sobre los trajes de héroes o supervivientes no héroes deberían dar un bonus al tenerlo, por ejemplo obtener el traje de Abraham aumenta la salud de todos los supervivientes de clase asalto en x%

Mareliza

Amazing!