The ACNH Rant Thread

A few weeks ago I realised yet another one of NL's features were cut (surprise surprise).

I saw two snowballs on the ground. "How convenient" - I told myself. I felt I was lucky that two of my snowballs spawned so close to each other! Typically they would spawn anywhere on the map - or so I thought. I rolled my snowman to be the largest size, hoping to get the SnowMAN for the bingo card. The Snowman bingo made winters fun for me in New Leaf.

So I roll my ball to to the largest size and I get.... a Snowboy... I must have done something wrong, I thought. So the next day I rolled my ball to the largest size and... snowboy... I did a google search and all the various Snowmen were cut. This is such a shame.

But "this isn't New Leaf 2" - the loyalists will shout.
The different snowmen and Toy Day prep kept me coming back to ACNL most winters, even when I hadn't played in a while, to at least try it out a bit. But boy did they get the short end of the stick in NH ^^'

I loved the different interactions with the snowpeople (esp the bingo card).
 
I was just thinking about what a shame it is our progress in game isn’t logged in a format accessible to us. New Leaf had the town tree, which, if you sat down next to it, it would reel every major event since you became mayor. It was so neat to see how far you’ve come and I wish ACNH had a similar thing.

You’d think it would be one of those features that once added to a game, its in every game after, too, but.. guess not. Whats worse is ACNH is about building a community completely from the ground up, so something like this where you can see how far you’ve come should be a thing. make it make sense nintendo
 
I was looking forward to Noon Miles achievements but I feel like they're a step down from the badges. In order to keep you getting them early on they made them so easy ^^' Whereas in NL I'm still working towards gold on almost all of them. And I liked being able to see other people's.
 
I wish there was a second way to get our hands on customization kits apart from Nook's!
 
Making you pay to visit other people's islands/have other people visit yours or visiting dream towns is absolutely ridiculous. It's something we've had for free for years and it's really annoying. I know it's not that much per much but it's still annoying

And the multiplayer experience hasn't improved at all aside from jumping from 4 to 8 players. The loading times themselves are longer because they force everyone to wait for the incoming player to watch a cutscene from the plane. If they removed that cutscene, it could save a lot of time.
 
Making you pay to visit other people's islands/have other people visit yours or visiting dream towns is absolutely ridiculous. It's something we've had for free for years and it's really annoying. I know it's not that much per much but it's still annoying
It's even worse that they make you pay to get all the fruit and most of the furniture colours in the game. So many variations just look weird and there's basically no chance you'll get all the ones you like via balloons or Redd, unless you want to wait years or decades. The game doesn't use servers for hosting your town for trades so we're not actually supporting anything either. It's an icky practice because it's not like Nintendo is on the cusp of bankruptcy or anything. Plus they should let solo players be solo players like in the old games. Imo this all makes them look like they're taking advantage of us.
 
Snowmen are so hard to make! Iike that there is only one “type” of snowman instead of the three different types that used to exist in New Leaf, but I’ve found the snowmen are actually pretty mean when you don’t build them right in New Horizon. Also, if you accidentally break a snowball (making it hit a tree or something like that) it takes FOREVER for a new snowball to appear, even after going inside the buildings. In New Leaf, snowballs reappeared quickly after they got destroyed.
 
And the multiplayer experience hasn't improved at all aside from jumping from 4 to 8 players. The loading times themselves are longer because they force everyone to wait for the incoming player to watch a cutscene from the plane. If they removed that cutscene, it could save a lot of time.
Once I was playing local with my friend and we were sharing items and DIYs, and suddenly the connection just fails out of nowhere and I lost everything I got. Then we kept trying and that kept happening until it finally worked, but I had become super anxious and we were rushing. We were right next to each other so it was really annoying. Maybe it was the room or something but it was just dumb.

Also I like the game but picking up things for ages then going home then going back to pick up more things is just not that fun to me, I hate that I have no choice to get the things I like.
 
This has probably been mentioned numerous times, but the user interface desperately needs an update. The older Animal Crossing titles aren't any better in this regard, however it feels much more apparent in NH to me. For example, there was never an option to buy items in bulk (or only for buying turnips) and e.g. Leif only ever sold you like two bushes a day. Now, you can buy as many as you want, which is actually a much better design choice. However, for me, this means that I spend much more time in the menu to buy as many bushes as I can and I feel obligated to do so since he doesn't have a shop on the island.
Same for crafting or buying multiple Nook Miles. They did add quality-of-life improvements by allowing you to buy as many items as you want, but ironically, they just far enough to be either exactly as or even more annoying.
 
At this point I hate the residential service. You can't customize it, can't even change the paths, and it just got in the way when I'm designing my island. I miss when you can pick different themes for it, now it just sticks out like a sore thumb. At least let me change the ground, so it can at least some what match my towns aesthetic 🙄
 
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Shop upgrades seriously need a come back. I am so sick an tired of going into the same shop. In past games when you buy enough stuff in the shop day by day they will be closed for renovation. There is none of that in New Horizons. I'm sorry i just can't deal with the same shop for the past 6 months.
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And the multiplayer experience hasn't improved at all aside from jumping from 4 to 8 players. The loading times themselves are longer because they force everyone to wait for the incoming player to watch a cutscene from the plane. If they removed that cutscene, it could save a lot of time.
Thats the reason why I stopped going to islands. I mean this system they have is the WORST ever with the loading screens. I lost my sanity after seeing "Looks like someone's on their way here" and "Looks like someone's leaving" for like 500th time. Its so unbearable.
 
Okay seriously I need to get this off my chest. Why isn't there anything else going on in the game besides the holiday events. I mean seriously its like this game is just only been built off of just holiday events and we got nothing to keep us invested for a long time. No Shop Upgrades, No New Buildings To add, No way to expand Resident Services, and of course the rewards you get is nothing but nook miles and sometimes whenever you gift you villagers you always seem to get clothing and furniture. Thats it! I am so bored of this game its like I can't even enjoy it when I keep thinking about stuff in past AC games that were so great. I know its been talked about so many times but honestly its becoming so hard enjoy the game when there is barely anything to do after you terraform your island.
 
Breakable tools are the worst. I'm trying to move flowers and trees around and I've had to fill my pockets with shovels. Just kill me.
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Shop upgrades seriously need a come back. I am so sick an tired of going into the same shop. In past games when you buy enough stuff in the shop day by day they will be closed for renovation. There is none of that in New Horizons. I'm sorry i just can't deal with the same shop for the past 6 months.

It's gotten to the point where I don't even check Nooks anymore. I know there won't be anything worth buying.
 
Shop upgrades seriously need a come back. I am so sick an tired of going into the same shop. In past games when you buy enough stuff in the shop day by day they will be closed for renovation. There is none of that in New Horizons. I'm sorry i just can't deal with the same shop for the past 6 months.

i just got my second copy of new horizons and i cannot tell you how weirdly refreshing it is to go in nooks when it is smaller. it just looks different and im digging it rn and i remember saying to my gf last night "im going to be sad when they want to upgrade"
 
Breakable tools are the worst. I'm trying to move flowers and trees around and I've had to fill my pockets with shovels. Just kill me.

My exact feelings. Spreading flowers is the reason I haven't played the game the past week, after going 6 months with no break. It was annoying enough digging them up whenever it snowed but knowing it was quickly killing my shovel just made me angrier. It burnt me out. I'm tired of feeling bad every time I catch a dang snowflake because I know it's going to bring me closer to crafting another tool for the millionth time. It's just not fun and not charming. There's already so many things I do as part of my dailies, I don't want fixing tools (apparently made out of straw) to be one of them.

Why did they think this was a good idea?
 
My exact feelings. Spreading flowers is the reason I haven't played the game the past week, after going 6 months with no break. It was annoying enough digging them up whenever it snowed but knowing it was quickly killing my shovel just made me angrier. It burnt me out. I'm tired of feeling bad every time I catch a dang snowflake because I know it's going to bring me closer to crafting another tool for the millionth time. It's just not fun and not charming. There's already so many things I do as part of my dailies, I don't want fixing tools (apparently made out of straw) to be one of them.

Why did they think this was a good idea?
My thoughts exactly. Not sure if they thought making us need to craft more would "give us something to do" or what but it sucks. I don't even craft either. I just buy them. Way less effort than gathering the materials.
 
Snowmen are so hard to make! Iike that there is only one “type” of snowman instead of the three different types that used to exist in New Leaf, but I’ve found the snowmen are actually pretty mean when you don’t build them right in New Horizon. Also, if you accidentally break a snowball (making it hit a tree or something like that) it takes FOREVER for a new snowball to appear, even after going inside the buildings. In New Leaf, snowballs reappeared quickly after they got destroyed.

You can make a perfect snowman at multiple different sizes if that's what you mean. While they won't be different types, they are still in the different sizes. So you can make them smaller if you'd like.

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As per the snowballs taking forever to spawn, there is actually a bug in the game that makes them invisible. You need to go to the original area, then walk a short distance away, and then walk back.

 
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