I took an extended vacation from Orbus to give the Devs a chance to add a bunch of content, making my return feel like entering a new game. I love the additions I’ve seen so far. I haven’t made it very far but these are the things I’ve run into so far that may need some tweaking before opening it up to early access.
May have been just a glitch for me but when I first loaded into the starting area there was nobody to speak to until I went into the village. Once there there were all kinds of NPCs with exclamation points over their heads but I had no clue how to talk to them. Somebody informed me to just wave my hands at them. When going back to the first guy I saw leaving the starting area and spoke to him, he sent me back up the stairs. When reentering that area, then the guy had a message telling me to wave my hands at him to speak to him. After completing the beginner tutorial and reentering the village the first guy still had an exclamation point sending me back up to talk to my trainer who had nothing more to teach me. His exclamation point never goes away. You may want to make sure we don’t miss that bit of instruction about hand waving upon entering for the first time.
Vendors Had exclamation points above their heads but no quest. Very confusing. Perhaps instead of exclamation points you just have (Vendor) next to their names and save the exclamation points for quest givers only.
After finishing the training he sent me to the chef with stag meat but, I had a lot of trouble finding him since there was no ? above the head of his apprentice standing out side his house. There was an ! but I wasn’t interested in picking up new quest until I turned in my current one. So it took some wandering around until I found the right person to talk to.
I wouldn’t mind having a different color exclamation point over the heads of the NPCs that have main story quests and another for the side quests.
Perhaps include in the journal a section with some type of legend explaining the symbols above enemy mobs so we know what we can and can’t handle at our current level.
I will post again after i get a little more time in. Keep up the great work guys it’s shaping up to be a great game!