Night Stalker

Great work - it'll be interesting to see how you are going to handle more urban areas - docks for instance.

I think that without any of the special modes on, you will see the threshold (whether a choice is going to "work" or not), but if you enable Expert mode, you won't see it (and a lot of other "helper" information). Depending on how moddable the game ends up being, that might be your only choice.

That's... a questmarker. So, no. I think that depends on your definition of "general location". If you mean right over the NPC/item no matter the situation, then yes, you are right it is a Quest marker in the way that you dislike, if it's over the forest where you have to find the lost cabin (and the NPC pointed out that it was in that forest) or the general market area where you are told the caravan master is resupplying his food stores, then I personally think it's fine. For me it depends on context: If there is someone knowns exactly where something is, then I have no problem with the location being precise, if they have a general idea, then the general area should be marked, and if they have no clue then I guess I will have to figure it out myself. Finding a lost trinket and then immediately knowing who owned it, and where they are, for instance, is not something I would like in this game. If you rail again the very idea that there should be any form of marker update on your map when you are given your next objective in a quest chain (even when it makes perfect sense for the NPC to mark it on your map or there is a perfectly clear description of where it is, so it would make sense the PC marked it on his map), then I guess we just have different tastes.

Yeah, give me a descriptive Journal entry (preferably in a Journal where quests are easy to sort and navigate) and a mark on our map that gives the general location where the next step in the quest should occur and I am happy.

I would rather not see a New Game+ in this kind of game unless there is a good reason why. I rarely use the New Game+ feature, and for these kinds of games I would rather roll a new character to experience the game from another perspective.

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Right, lets do this. I dub myself "Night Stalker - Cynic of the Obsidian Order".