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Animal Crossing Direct Discussion Thread

I think one thing I haven’t really noticed being mentioned a lot, is the new ability to customise Nook Mile items finally. Now I got the ability to get lamposts and lighthouses in the colour I actually want without paying NMT’s for them. I also seen that there was items such as the grand piano being customisable, so maybe every furniture that couldn’t previously be altered now can? No longer needing to catalog and hunt down each item variant :) A very exciting part of the Direct for me.
 
DaviddivaD said:
So you can decorate villager homes on your own island? I would pay the $25 for that feature alone. Mine have clothing thrown about in their houses. lol


My biggest worry if that I won't have enough NMTs for everything. I traded A LOT recently and went from having 250,000 NMTs to just about 58,000. Yikes.

The best thing in this update is Harriet's plaza on Harv's Island. The fact that you can now have Cyrus customize furniture is a dream come true.
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Yes! But they said that you don't unlock the feature to decorate your own villagers' homes until you get so far into the HHP DLC.
 
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Oh gosh this new Arch and Bonzai.... I love it!

edit: oh and the fence... It's orange now!
 
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Bluebellie said:
I’m glad I’m able to build new homes for villagers outside of my island. I kind of have a few that didn’t quite make it to my island because they had houses that didn’t match. Now I get to bring them back.

I wonder if these houses other people can see. Like how out towns are seen through dream address.
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Assuming it’s like HHD, you can. Plus they did show that there is a “tour” feature where you can see the houses like through dream addresses :)
 
Does anyone know a website that has a list of all the new content that was shown/announced during the direct (incl. the stuff for HHP)?

I feel like I keep missing things and would like a consolidated list lol
 
This might sound a little farfetched, but I think that every single npc character that's been available since New Leaf, including Gracie, Pelly, Phyllis, Pete, Digby, Kapp'n's family, etc. will be returning through the HHP dlc. At first I thought it might have been a stretch, but when I went back and rewatched the HHP portion of the direct, it hit me: there were no caveats. She straight up says to use figures and cards, and didn't list any exceptions. Additionally, as the narrator is talking, nowhere on the screen does it list or describe any limitations to the amiibo feature, meaning that as long as they have an AC card, they'll be included. With the exception of Wisp and Harvey(who are now in series 5) every single npc character that appeared in New Leaf had an amiibo card in 1-4, even Porter...

We may not see them doing much, especially in the base game(tbh, I think the only role they'll play is being able to come to the cafe if you scan their card), but it looks like every single card and figure, as long as its in the AC amiibo series, will be compatible with HHP.
 
(Sorry for the wall of text. There's just so much to digest and talk about with this huge update.) So I've been rewatching the direct and they've pretty much added all the furniture/items that I wanted to see return from NL! The windmill (!!!!), trellises (!!!!!), topiaries, flower beds, rococo furniture (assuming it's still called that), and much of the missing sets from previous AC games are back. I'm going to totally decorate the heck out of my island with all the cool new stuff! There's a bunch of items in that list that I can't wait to see. I've already started making room on my island. I'm especially happy for the windmills return because my island is based on Amsterdam! The only other thing I really miss is the Creepy series, but I could see that being released in a future autumn/Halloween update (assuming they didn't already add it to this update).

The added cooking mechanic is amazing. I've been dying for more food items other than the limited items you can buy from Nook Shopping. I'm glad we can just prepare whatever food we want should we have enough ingredients instead of having to buy everything. Had to clear out a corner of my island to make room for the new veggies and combine it with my small orchard. That took forever, but I'm pleased with the results and how open it feels.

Love that Harv's island is getting an update with the NPCs. Relying on the RNG for getting the NPC you want to show up on your island is a real pain, so having the option to visit them whenever is awesome! I'll probably unlock Reese and Cyrus first so that they can customize furniture, then probably followed by Redd and Saharah, and then the rest.

Kapp'n at last returns! I cannot wait to start exploring other islands with his new feature! I saw that we got a new bush type, along with vines and fungi! I hope one of the islands you can visit is the hybrid flower island. I hate that they took it out of the NMT islands, so seeing it return would be a blessing as I am struggling to get purple windflowers.

Nintendo pretty much inserting HHD into the game was the greatest surprise out of all of this! I know some aren't too keen on the paid dlc idea, but I think it's fair given that you're pretty much playing HDD for the Switch. I don't mind the $25 amount (it could be worse knowing this *is* Nintendo we're talking about here). I love how much they expanded on it with added partitions/columns/etc. And on top of that, we'll be able to customize our villagers' homes!! No more weird furniture/clothing that doesn't fit their aesthetic sitting out! Accidentally gave your villager an uggo gigantic sea bass to display in their home? Not a problem anymore! Plus with all the new items, our villagers' homes can have their personality back!!!

I also like some of the new villagers added via amiibo. Ione looks like she has a starry tail. I'd add her to my island, but she looks like she might be a snooty villager, which I already have. Cephalobot is automatically one of my favorites because they're an octopus. IDK if I'll add them since we don't know their personality (guessing by its top, I'm assuming that they're female so maybe they're normal or something. If they're uchi, I'll definitely add). The other villager I really like and *will* probably add is Shino. I can see her being snooty or normal too, but part of me is holding out for uchi. I would honestly like an uchi villager for my island because I haven't had one since the beginning of the game.

Another small thing I'm happy about is the return of villagers asking you to visit your home or visit their home. That was one of my favorite things to do in previous AC games.

Gawd bless this update.
 
OK... totally late to the party but I finally saw the Direct video last night. Was literally crying like a child, I am SOOOOO excited! Gonna have to read this thread from page 1 now.

(In the US, does anyone know where we will be able to buy the cards?)
 
I hope some of the lag gets addressed, especially if they're adding more items. My island isn't even that full of items in my opinion and the screen skips when I run through my island. Idk if this is a major issue for anyone else but so much new content is being added, I can't see them not fixing the lag even a little bit. Maybe I just need to decorate less outside? idk
 
kemdi said:
This might sound a little farfetched, but I think that every single npc character that's been available since New Leaf, including Gracie, Pelly, Phyllis, Pete, Digby, Kapp'n's family, etc. will be returning through the HHP dlc. At first I thought it might have been a stretch, but when I went back and rewatched the HHP portion of the direct, it hit me: there were no caveats. She straight up says to use figures and cards, and didn't list any exceptions. Additionally, as the narrator is talking, nowhere on the screen does it list or describe any limitations to the amiibo feature, meaning that as long as they have an AC card, they'll be included. With the exception of Wisp and Harvey(who are now in series 5) every single npc character that appeared in New Leaf had an amiibo card in 1-4, even Porter...

We may not see them doing much, especially in the base game(tbh, I think the only role they'll play is being able to come to the cafe if you scan their card), but it looks like every single card and figure, as long as its in the AC amiibo series, will be compatible with HHP.
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I don't know if it's farfetched. I genuinely believe that we will be able to design houses in HHP for all NPCs that have an amiibo card/figure. That's how it worked with HHD anyways. They did show designing houses for Isabelle and Timmy&Tommy, so I don't see why there wouldn't be more.

The only question is if these NPCs will have a role in the main game at all. I was looking through Nintendo's official site that shows the amiibo cards yesterday, and there's still a lot of NPCs that haven't made an appearance in NH yet even if you remove the ones we saw in the Direct. That would be a lot of work giving them stuff to do. It'd be easy to put their character model in the game generically though. So we may be able to make them houses with HHP (probably would require amiibo for most or all to do this), and summon them with amiibo to show up at The Roost and Harv's photo studio. But I'm unsure if we'll see most of them other than that, unfortunately.
 
DJStarstryker said:
I don't know if it's farfetched. I genuinely believe that we will be able to design houses in HHP for all NPCs that have an amiibo card/figure. That's how it worked with HHD anyways. They did show designing houses for Isabelle and Timmy&Tommy, so I don't see why there wouldn't be more.

The only question is if these NPCs will have a role in the main game at all. I was looking through Nintendo's official site that shows the amiibo cards yesterday, and there's still a lot of NPCs that haven't made an appearance in NH yet even if you remove the ones we saw in the Direct. That would be a lot of work giving them stuff to do. It'd be easy to put their character model in the game generically though. So we may be able to make them houses with HHP (probably would require amiibo for most or all to do this), and summon them with amiibo to show up at The Roost and Harv's photo studio. But I'm unsure if we'll see most of them other than that, unfortunately.
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Oh great! Glad to know I'm not the only one! Usually when something makes sense to me, it looks unlikely to other people, so I always try to be aware of that, lol. And, yeah tbh, I don't see most of the missing npcs taking up any roles, even added ones in the post 2.0 game. I think they'll mostly just be for 'guest star' purposes, kind of like Rover in NL. The only exceptions I could maybe see having a role would be Gracie or Wendell, and this is because the other npcs like Saharah, Redd, etc. can or will eventually have a permanent shop off island, from my understanding. Since that could be the case, I think there's a chance that they may no longer visit the island and could be replaced by other visiting npcs.
 
I wonder if anyone, in the last year and a half, sold their Animal Crossing game because they didn't think it was going to get any updates.
I wonder if they are kicking themselves now. Like I said on another thread: Patience is a virtue and good things come to those who wait.

Also, in these reaction videos, almost every person said they thought Tortimer is dead. First off, that's dark as heck, second off, he's a turtle, turtles live for a very long time.
 
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HappyTails said:
Also, in these reaction videos, almost every person said they thought Tortimer is dead. First off, that's dark as heck, second off, he's a turtle, turtles live for a very long time.
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From my understanding that was pretty much just a meme that came from a decor gravestone appearing in one of the pre-release trailers or footage and Tortimer not being in the game. I agree it was absurd, but fandoms run wild with stuff like this. lol
 
Cosmic-chan said:
I heard the online membership gone up in price. Is that true?
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i think there is an online services expansion pack, which is much more expensive than the standard price, but includes the acnh dlc and a couple other ‘bonuses’. But as far as I know you can keep your normal subscription and just buy the dlc separately, which is what I will be doing.

as far as I know the normal online services have not gone up in price.
 
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