Devs Please give this idea a shot

One thing in MMO's that has always killed some of the fun in PVP for me is that you always have your name and such over your head. What would be ground breaking is if enemies didn't have any indicators over their heads until you click on them or attack them and it stays over their head until they get out of combat somehow. This way people could actually hide in bushes or behind trees and actually surprise other people in PVP without being seen because you have your giant name over your head like a EAT AT JOES sign showing everyone where you are.

Your friendlies would always have their names over their heads of course. It would just be a breath of fresh air to see something dynamic like this instead of enemies always having their names over their heads all the time giving away their position.

Side Note: if you put fishing in the game please do not make it a button pressing fiasco. At least make it is so we just hold down left mouse click to reel in the fish and have to stop reeling sometimes not to break the line or something of that matter. That would be awesome. Thanks!

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ESO has full rogue-like stealth for all classes. Being stealthed has a number of disadvantages (very slow, burns stam while moving, etc) unless you've built and/or geared for it. But at medium range, no one can reveal you even with no stealth setup.

New World has nameplate hiding for all classes that activates while prone, with the twist that if you are looking directly the person (ie, they are in the center of your screen for a second), your range to see the nameplate is longer. This is actually very good stealth mechanics, and there were plenty of videos of people losing the person they were chasing (no target lock in NW) because they went prone in a bush then wormed their way around a tree. There were plenty of times we saw nameplates in the distance, and went prone. A lot of times people would just not bother to look for you. But it was also an effective ambush tool.

AoC won't have prone, but don't discount the "hiding power" of not showing a nameplate and just standing still. The game world is visually a busy place, and Steven has said they won't allow an option to hide underbrush/grass.

Completely hiding a nameplate and showing less details on a nameplate should be two different discussions IMO. One is a stealth mechanic, and the other is target assessment. And I think the nameplate on your target is going to show no matter what, unless there are drop-target mechanics (ie full stealth)

people could tweak their GPU settings and remove foliage in nw. so while you were harder to see, they could just remove the foliage (or remove some textures) and you could see people prone hiding in bushes T_T not everybody did it though. also, sometimes the camera would bug (without doing anything to your GPU settings) and you would move it around and textures or even trees would disappear and you could see people hiding behind a tree or a rock haha.

i hope that cant be done in AoC. if you are in stealth hiding in a bush, your character should become completely transparent or something to prevent people catching you by messing up the textures and GPU settings

Ace1234

I think I like the idea of being able to obscure your info, with it being tied to gear or a utility/passive skill, but with potential counterplay to it by using the same methods.

Maybe there could be a cloak of some kind that is a "tool" or "artifact" that can be slotted in your adventurers gear rather than your combat gear, so it could be an epic form of vertical progression available late game for the players that earn it.

Sneakz

im praying this idea comes to life, i love being sneaky! (check name) its so much fun and I was able to do this in new world due to prone and crouch features but right now I wont be able to do it in AOC which sucks because i want to be able to hide and stalk people it adds an extra element to the game

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