The ACNH Rant Thread

[Nenya]

To be fair the barreleye is a small shadow size and the sea bass is a large shadow. So if you're getting sea bass you are way off in your search

Yep, absolutely right! I should resist those bigger shadows while searching for a barreleye. I have this belief in my mind, though, that if I catch all of the available fish, the RNG for a barreleye appearing will be higher. Is this true?

Actually, I'll add horse mackerels to this complaint, also. The barreleye is supposed to be about the same size shadow as the hm, but I catch horse macks that have varying size shadows. Adding that to this rant!

 

[satine]

Finding myself harshly disappointed in the apparent lack of an anniversary update this year. I don't know why I got it in my head there would be one. But it seems they've neglected the opportunity, and it won't happen and I'm disappointed. I shouldn't be, but I am. I'm getting a little impatient for Brewster or gyroids. I just really want them to be present and it feels like such a ripoff that they're doing these other updates but neglecting to add staples of the game back in first. It's just my opinion, you can disagree of course. But I'm disappointed.

 

[Jam86]

i get we have to pick flowers to make flower crowns/wreaths
but why can't we just pick up flowers with Y and use a different button to pick the tops??
using a shovel is so annoying because it feels like they break every 2 minutes, plus picking them up like in old games is so much quicker

also terraforming is the slowest thing ever, it takes 3 seconds to build/demolish 1 cliff!
this game is great and all but it takes ages to do literally anything

 

[tajikey]

I want to be able to pick my garden of Lily of the Valleys so that I can craft a wreath or crown. Why isn't that a thing?

 

[angelcat621]

Totally agree. It's weird enough that every single female kangaroo automatically has a baby. Like, not one of them had something else they wanted to do with their life?

*Gets Kanghaskhan vibes.*

It annoys me there aren't any female lions in this game, but there are bears and cubs? Also I dislike the male lions. Their head shape feels a bit off to me.

 

[nightglow]

i get we have to pick flowers to make flower crowns/wreaths
but why can't we just pick up flowers with Y and use a different button to pick the tops??
using a shovel is so annoying because it feels like they break every 2 minutes, plus picking them up like in old games is so much quicker

also terraforming is the slowest thing ever, it takes 3 seconds to build/demolish 1 cliff!
this game is great and all but it takes ages to do literally anything

aww jeez! YES! Like I just did a remodel of my island. (It is my absolute last, if I hate it later I'm done with the game). I only have to move buildings to their places and place the bridges and inclines now. Nintendo literally made the game to the slowest possible way to do anything in the game. Likely to make it look longer, or to keep people playing. But honestly, they have made so much of it extremely unnecessarily slowed that I have seen alot of people post on social media that they are done playing the game because they have been trying to get things to how they want or imagine them to be, just to get frustrated at the way this game has you terraform. (not to mention the catalog ordering limit). Any other building game I have every played gave options later in game for abilities to build faster or tool upgrades to get more done in the same amount of time. Like multiple block building, or a sky view with selecting modes. Or even TEMPLATES. Do you know how helpful it would be for people to have Cliff Templates or Water Templates to follow? What if players could create blueprints and share them through Nintendo online, to help other players out?
And why is there no option for a longer lasting tool (unbreakable... I mean we have magic wands, why not have tools made from star dust).
Why not have Leif provide gardening services.. I mean, we can sell weeds to him, when honestly, they are more valuable for crafting...
sorry,... there are alot of Whys. I personally just find it frustrating. I was hoping to hear some sort of announcement from Nintendo vaguely letting us know what to look for in New Horizons for 2021.

 

[-Blue-]

Yeah I mean its 2021 you would think by now Nintendo would improve on this but they really haven't this is the reason why many of my friends quit playing the game because of the constant loading screens. Seriously the idea of waiting for someone to arrive, forcing you to stop what you're doing and watch who is coming is not only the worst idea but its such a painful process when inviting people.

Why can't it just be like every other online game where someone joins it should say "(whatever name) has arrived on the island" and "(whatever name) has left the island" that doesn't take as much as time and people can still do things on the island and not have to be interrupted when someone is leaving or joining. Its by far the worst online I've ever seen in a Nintendo game. This is worse than the horrible lag in Mario Maker 2 when playing multiplayer online.

Even back in early 2000s I played Phantasy Star Online for the Gamecube. You could join someone's lobby/game or they could join yours. A message would pop up and say 'Blank is coming' and it'd take maybe 5 seconds to load them in. And if they left, you didn't have to load it. Their tag just dropped off of your menu.

Sure it's not super new, and a bit outdated, but even back then they were doing it better than Nintendo. SEGA. Of all people. And if someone lost connection or they couldn't load into the game, guess what? No one got kicked. Only the person with the bad connection got kicked.

This is coming from a game that's 20 years old and New Horizon is a year old and somehow worst then PSO's loading times? They're using the same methods from back in New Leaf and that was outdated even then.

 

[Moritz]

aww jeez! YES! Like I just did a remodel of my island. (It is my absolute last, if I hate it later I'm done with the game). I only have to move buildings to their places and place the bridges and inclines now. Nintendo literally made the game to the slowest possible way to do anything in the game. Likely to make it look longer, or to keep people playing. But honestly, they have made so much of it extremely unnecessarily slowed that I have seen alot of people post on social media that they are done playing the game because they have been trying to get things to how they want or imagine them to be, just to get frustrated at the way this game has you terraform. (not to mention the catalog ordering limit). Any other building game I have every played gave options later in game for abilities to build faster or tool upgrades to get more done in the same amount of time. Like multiple block building, or a sky view with selecting modes. Or even TEMPLATES. Do you know how helpful it would be for people to have Cliff Templates or Water Templates to follow? What if players could create blueprints and share them through Nintendo online, to help other players out?
And why is there no option for a longer lasting tool (unbreakable... I mean we have magic wands, why not have tools made from star dust).
Why not have Leif provide gardening services.. I mean, we can sell weeds to him, when honestly, they are more valuable for crafting...
sorry,... there are alot of Whys. I personally just find it frustrating. I was hoping to hear some sort of announcement from Nintendo vaguely letting us know what to look for in New Horizons for 2021.

I think there certainly are improvements they could make when it comes to terraforming.
Such as it should show what square you are facing when using the tool. Would save a lot of building/smashing the wrong bit by mistake.
Maybe you could cycle between or press a different button for rounding an edge and smashing it.
And waterscaping I have no idea how it works out what you want to do, all I know is I fight with it a lot lol

But I do think the templates/ blueprints go too far. I dont think nintendo should be making it possible to basically copy and paste someone else's island. I know its subjective but it's my personal belief that people should, where possible, make their own ideas.

I also think it should be a slow process. Animal crossing has never been about instant gratification. The whole game is around progress over long periods of time. I think if terraforming was quick and easy it goes against the very core of the series.

I do kinda think gold tools should not be breakable. Or at least not as easy to break as they are. Gold net dies on me all the time.
I've stopped making gold tools now because it's not worth the gold I put into it.

What do you mean by gardening services from leif? Sorry just having a hard time imagining that other than weeding which isn't really that big of a task in this game.

 

[nightglow]

I think there certainly are improvements they could make when it comes to terraforming.
Such as it should show what square you are facing when using the tool. Would save a lot of building/smashing the wrong bit by mistake.
Maybe you could cycle between or press a different button for rounding an edge and smashing it.
And waterscaping I have no idea how it works out what you want to do, all I know is I fight with it a lot lol

But I do think the templates/ blueprints go too far. I dont think nintendo should be making it possible to basically copy and paste someone else's island. I know its subjective but it's my personal belief that people should, where possible, make their own ideas.

I also think it should be a slow process. Animal crossing has never been about instant gratification. The whole game is around progress over long periods of time. I think if terraforming was quick and easy it goes against the very core of the series.

I do kinda think gold tools should not be breakable. Or at least not as easy to break as they are. Gold net dies on me all the time.
I've stopped making gold tools now because it's not worth the gold I put into it.

What do you mean by gardening services from leif? Sorry just having a hard time imagining that other than weeding which isn't really that big of a task in this game.

Blue prints and templates doesn't make it to where you can copy and paste an entire island. And it doesn't do the work for you. It just gives you direction. Like a map overlay as you do your terraforming... I mean, it could be your own template and blueprint you set up in a select mode. They have an island map that lacks a real tile by tile grid so you can't even count. They template/blueprint idea helps that issue if they are that against tile counting on a map for planning and building.

Gardening services I was thinking about is mass flower removal as well as storage for at least shrubs.

I understand Animal Crossing is suppose to be for the long haul, and I am not talking about making everything so much faster to where you can get it done in a day. Other building games just have better tools and options and they still take alot of time to do. My complaint isn't about impatience. It is about things being practical. I don't see why we can dismantle or build up 6 tiles at once if we earned the upgrade or ability to do so.

 

[Licorice]

I want to be able to pick my garden of Lily of the Valleys so that I can craft a wreath or crown. Why isn't that a thing?

I wish we could at least wear them as a hairpin like other flowers. We could in past games and it was so cute.

 

[Carrenmcflairen]

I hope this counts but how new leaf players basically can't post any content to the subreddits that has been for new leaf usage like villager adoptions and turnip prices. I just want to make a living and get my dreamies!

 

[Moritz]

Blue prints and templates doesn't make it to where you can copy and paste an entire island. And it doesn't do the work for you. It just gives you direction. Like a map overlay as you do your terraforming... I mean, it could be your own template and blueprint you set up in a select mode. They have an island map that lacks a real tile by tile grid so you can't even count. They template/blueprint idea helps that issue if they are that against tile counting on a map for planning and building.

Gardening services I was thinking about is mass flower removal as well as storage for at least shrubs.

I understand Animal Crossing is suppose to be for the long haul, and I am not talking about making everything so much faster to where you can get it done in a day. Other building games just have better tools and options and they still take alot of time to do. My complaint isn't about impatience. It is about things being practical. I don't see why we can dismantle or build up 6 tiles at once if we earned the upgrade or ability to do so.

I'm still not sold myself but that's okay because we all have our own visions of a perfect game.

Would love storage for greenery though.
Had to move around a lot of bushes while working on an area before and it was an awkward juggling act.

 

[Licorice]

I'm still not sold myself but that's okay because we all have our own visions of a perfect game.

Would love storage for greenery though.
Had to move around a lot of bushes while working on an area before and it was an awkward juggling act.

Yes!! I cannot count how many times I was landscaping, sold all the bushes/flowers, then realized that I need them again....

 

[Fey]

This is the silliest complaint, but I’m miffed that the game practically forces you into upgrading to a house after the first day.

I just wanted to enjoy camping in my tent for a while, but the features locked behind the upgrade are too important to put off IMO (I can understand not getting the storage space without a house, but I wish the Nook Miles+ unlocked after paying off your debt, rather than only after agreeing to take on a new loan)

 

[DaviddivaD]

It's been almost a year since this game came out and I still hate my tools breaking. I've never gotten used to it. Even the axe was bearable in the old games because you'd eventually get the gold one that was unbreakable. Give us titanium steel tools that never break.

 

[tiffanistarr]

Just let me place furniture in half spots. HHD was great for that reason a lone. It's so ridiculous how everything looks so far apart when if they could just let us move things into half spots everything would look so much better!

Also why do you gotta cap the amount of inclines just let me do what I want to do. It's annoying.

I know i'm probably preaching to the choir as they as say but dang if it's not annoying in the moment.

One more! You can't have a waterfall flowing into the ocean, I put a cliff on the peninsula and you can't have the waterfall going into the ocean? why????

 

[Aardbei]

Just let me place furniture in half spots. HHD was great for that reason a lone. It's so ridiculous how everything looks so far apart when if they could just let us move things into half spots everything would look so much better!

But can can place furniture in half spots

 

[tiffanistarr]

But can can place furniture in half spots

oh i meant outside! saying half spots does imply inside so that's my bad but i just assume everything is on the same format even when not lol sorry that's my mistake.

what i mean is when you have a furniture item outside and you can't put things right next to each other. I understand that it's not really half spots but in my mind that's what it is. Like you have a piece of fencing you can't place a stall directly next to it.

sorry, i know it doesn't make much sense but it all makes sense in my mind lol

 

[Boidoh]

I oddly found myself enjoying the game more since the grass turned green. Winter was awful post-Christmas.

 

[nordskjev]

I just hope that the easter event will be better this year... These eggs everywhere made me tired