It's a neat idea in concept but in practice it's just going to the general area and pressing L2 looking for the blue indicator.
The hints are just too abstract to organically find these people.
"The person is in south-west Sakai"
Yeah okay?? Either commit to this system and make it 100 times more robust, or don't do it at all. But now it's so half-baked.
Would be neat if you had to actually talk to one of your scouts somewhere in the world, he gives a location, you go there. Talk to some people, they point you in a direction.
Yyyyyyyyep.
Let's put this into perspective. You know which game did it way better - TESIII: Morrowind 23 years ago (!!!!). How did it work there? Well, you literally talked to a person and he said something like (not word for word)- "Oh, so you need to find this town, eh? Well, follow this road, then move right, walk 10m until you see this thing, then go straight 50m and you'll be right there". So what we have here, a person who's giving you some visual information which will guide you to your objective and it was easy to follow cuz of the visual stuff. What do we have in Shadows? Oh, it's / he / she southwest of here, somewhere around stables etc. which sometimes works but 99% of the time simply doesn't cuz there's nothing in the game and on the actual map to guide you.
How would you know where the stables are? How would you know where the tea sellers are? How would you know where you can buy a dress for the tea party (no, you literally can't buy it, NO, YOU CAN'T). So what we have is a half working hint system which gets in your way and it should help you instead, which it does not do right now, unfortunately. So what you end up doing if you just don't want for it to literally show it on the map if you don't want to use scouts... you just press the left trigger and look for the fuckin' dots... which is stupid way of doing it, but the only way if you want to have some kind of field work and... ffs, some sense of discovery.
Yeah, I guess S, W, N, E directions can work, sure, and I literally found what I needed that way, but they seriously need to look at how people did it in an almost prehistoric game by today's standards which did it ways better. Just sayin'. Like, we know they'll be supporting the game for years to come and they literally changed how SW Outlaws worked, so I can't see how they can't fix some things that don't work in Shadows so well, especially considering that it already has NPSs that can share rumors and stuff with you, so let us help people that way too and learn visual directions, all you need is to write some dialogues for that.
