The ACNH Rant Thread

[Finnian]

Personal gripe, but ROD IS IN MY CAMPSITE. I initially joined this site to figure out how to get rid of him. Now my options when I talk to him is "you should live here!" or "move here!" I closed the game so fast. Never again. Are you kidding me????

 

[Beehaw]

Boo you can't give your animal villagers furniture customized with designs on it. I thought the default flower pattern as a bedspread on the natural bed would look great as a replacement for Shari's sleeping bag >:/

 

[starlightsong]

1. i wish there was more purple furniture and especially pastel purple!! and light blue too! purple is my favorite color and i've been seeing people on twitter go "ugh why is everyone making their rooms pink, there are more colors, you know " and i would LOVE to but there's not enough options!! at least for me at the moment, i know i haven't seen everything, but often when i can customize something it comes in pastel pink, dark blue, and no purple of any variety. i got so sad when i found out that yes the cute set comes in sky blue like i was hoping, but apparently not in any type of purple.

2. god i wish that when you're placing a plot down and you choose "let me imagine it" you could move the camera around freely to look at all the stuff around it, it can sometimes be SO hard to tell if i've got it placed just right with just the little segment of the map that it lets me see.

 

[Romaki]

This has probably been posted many times, but it literally no sense for the box at Nook's Cranny to buy items for less if we can't even get the bells instantly. Like, make us lose profit for selling outside business hours, but what's the point in selling at night if we don't get the money before the next day starts? It botheres me every night, I hope we get a night owl ordinance.

 

[jiojiop]

This has probably been posted many times, but it literally no sense for the box at Nook's Cranny to buy items for less if we can't even get the bells instantly. Like, make us lose profit for selling outside business hours, but what's the point in selling at night if we don't get the money before the next day starts? It botheres me every night, I hope we get a night owl ordinance.

Yeah since we can place furni outside now, I just stack all my fish and bugs outside the shop's door and wait to sell them the next day lol

 

[mocha.]

I know this has probably been mentioned a thousand times but it's so annoying not being able to craft multiple fish bait lmao. it would save so much time if that was an option!

 

[Kuroh]

It takes too long for a villager to get the one thought bubble... After a week of playing the game constantly, only one of my villagers has asked to play a game (a treasure hunt) and even then, it took me only 30 seconds to find the treasure...

I've also only had 1 villager ask to move out this entire time!! I know you can use amiibo cards, but that doesn't work if you just want an empty lot available to go to the Nook Mile Islands. I have 45k Nook Miles that I can't even use until a villager asks to move out.

 

[Harbour]

Be honest, do you guys ACTUALLY think they'll update the game? Or are you just hoping this whole thing isn't a mess. I'm already pretty disappointed.

in the nintendo direct mini (march 26), they stated that besides from the bunny day update, another update will happen towards the end of april. since bunny day lasts from april 1-12, there'd be no event to happen during the end of april, which leaves us with hopes that they'd update the game with more furniture and shops. there's no way that nintendo would leave the game this bland.
it's worth discussing, though.

I know this has probably been mentioned a thousand times but it's so annoying not being able to craft multiple fish bait lmao. it would save so much time if that was an option!

the fact that manila clams don't stack up as well is agitating.

 

[axaniao]

Personal gripe, but ROD IS IN MY CAMPSITE. I initially joined this site to figure out how to get rid of him. Now my options when I talk to him is "you should live here!" or "move here!" I closed the game so fast. Never again. Are you kidding me????

Can I have him

 

[Irelia]

WHY 5 CATALOG ITEMS MAN ???

NINTENDO

U COULDNT HAVE MADE IT 10!?

 

[danielvdell]

Be honest, do you guys ACTUALLY think they'll update the game? Or are you just hoping this whole thing isn't a mess. I'm already pretty disappointed.

I do! This trickling of content has been an approach Nintendo has taken with a lot of their games on Switch, especially Splatoon 2 (and Splatoon 1)—which was also developed by the same team that did New Horizons. ARMS, Kirby Star Allies, Mario Tennis Aces, Tetris 99, and, of course, Splatoon 2 have all had free content update support for quite a while after release. ARMS, Kirby Star Allies, and Mario Tennis Aces gained a TON of new characters after launch along with new modes and features. To a lesser extent, Super Smash Bros. Ultimate does this, as well, and third-party titles like Crash Team Racing had the majority of its content released after launch.

I could definitely be wrong, but I think the “barebones” nature of New Horizons was a deliberate tactic by the developers to keep players invested for longer periods of time as we receive periodic content updates. Sure, yearly events always have us coming back, but the promise of, say, bushes being added to the game with Leif in April and (hypothetically) the Roost or a post office being available to be built will provide refreshed gameplay for players who may have nothing left to do after “finishing” the main gameplay loop. The narrative of the story is kind of positioned to support this, with Tom Nook “recruiting” people from his past to help out with the island. With each update, I can also see batches of new or returning furniture being added, too.

I don’t think the game is “unfinished” by any means (which I’ve seen some people describe it as)—I just think Nintendo is adopting the same approach they’ve taken with a lot of their recent games. New Horizons as a whole will probably look remarkably different a year from now. Again, I may be wrong, but that’s just my perception based on recent Nintendo gaming trends!

 

[GalacticGhost]

Why can't I put my turnips in storage? I'd really rather not have them sitting in my pockets taking up space, or ruining my house by having them all over the floor.

 

[Madotsuki]

Having netcode that looks ripped from ACNL is a flaw. It was acceptable in 2012 maybe, but not 2020...
They advertise 8 player multi, but don't tell you the game is going to be unplayable for like 20 minutes while everyone is trapped in cutscene hell.

Really hope we aren`t stuck with such a dated online mp but it's probably too big of an overhaul at this point for the devs.

 

[Lavulin98]

Having netcode that looks ripped from ACNL is a flaw. It was acceptable in 2012 maybe, but not 2020...
They advertise 8 player multi, but don't tell you the game is going to be unplayable for like 20 minutes while everyone is trapped in cutscene hell.

Really hope we aren`t stuck with such a dated online mp but it's probably too big of an overhaul at this point for the devs.

omg tell me about it! I wish we could at least close the gates temporarly like in new leaf.

 

[Campy]

Why can't I put my turnips in storage? I'd really rather not have them sitting in my pockets taking up space, or ruining my house by having them all over the floor.

I was unpleasantly surprised by this, as well! I now use my backroom as a turnip storage.

 

[Jacob4]

Having netcode that looks ripped from ACNL is a flaw. It was acceptable in 2012 maybe, but not 2020...
They advertise 8 player multi, but don't tell you the game is going to be unplayable for like 20 minutes while everyone is trapped in cutscene hell.

Really hope we aren`t stuck with such a dated online mp but it's probably too big of an overhaul at this point for the devs.

Yeah honestly the netcode in this game is atrocious

 

[jiojiop]

Having netcode that looks ripped from ACNL is a flaw. It was acceptable in 2012 maybe, but not 2020...
They advertise 8 player multi, but don't tell you the game is going to be unplayable for like 20 minutes while everyone is trapped in cutscene hell.

Really hope we aren`t stuck with such a dated online mp but it's probably too big of an overhaul at this point for the devs.

I was just whining about this to a friend yesterday and showing him my screen as I was trapped in endless loading hell lol. "Look! I can't do anything!" He couldn't believe that every time someone dropped in for coop, it froze everyone else's game in loading screens. What's the point of drop-in/drop-out coop if it makes the game unplayable for the others? Do they realize how this works in other games? You just spawn on top of the other players or close by and run up to them.

Frankly, the whole implementation of multiplayer is outdated, and it was outdated even when it debuted in CF. Why can't I just look at a list of open towns and choose one from the menu, rather than going thru dialog trees? Literally every other game lists rooms/servers/sessions/matches in a menu and you select. You know why they don't use dialog trees for that? Cuz it's inefficient and sucks. It makes me hate the NPCs with the mp dialog trees every game cuz they're just slowin me down with repetitive worthless dialog.

This has always been my #1 annoyance and I'm pretty surprised they haven't modernized yet. And while I'm at it, seriously with the short character limit for typing? Who enjoys that?

 

[Jacob4]

So would someone PLEASE tell me where y'all are getting that they are going to add in all the missing items, features, and things to do? I'm just not so sure of how everyone here is so "certain" that this is going to happen. Like, I very much would like for that to happen, but we've been given absolutely no evidence that they are going to do so, and thus, we cannot act like we know it to be the truth.

A few missing things have been confirmed to be in the game's code already, which is why there is a good amount of certainty in saying that at least some of the missing features/items will eventually be returning

 

[Merunari]

i went on a huge rant about acnh earlier and literally everything i had an issue with was covered in this thread except for the lack of inclusion of hha npcs -- by which i mean the lack of npcs was covered but we get hha ratings again (which i've never really liked or disliked, i don't usually keep the 'rewards' from them personally so it's just another thing for me to sell) and i feel like not even signing the hha assessment letters with one of the names of the npcs as an easter egg type thing is a missed opportunity. seeing the letters signed 'happy home academy' without having a name like... lyle, lottie, or even digby attached to it is kind of disheartening. it feels like all the personality that hhd put into the hha has been stripped right back out of it for nh and it's back to just being a faceless organization.

 

[Alolan_Apples]

I got stung by wasps for the first time in days. Since I started shaking trees while carrying a net, it became easy as pie. But I shook a tree without carrying a net, not realizing that it’s a tree wasps can live in. And it’s all because of that balloon I was trying to shoot down. What’s even worse is that the gift the balloon gave me wasn’t worth it.

I’m also bothered by how turnips can’t be put into storage, yet you can put them in storage in ACNL. Nintendo, what were you thinking?