This will be a long list so I'll have to work on it first, but for a quick start; it would be GW3 and be based heavily on GW1 and 2, but with some of the BfN aspects that worked well. It would keep all the characters and add some more. We'd get all the old maps back, with any tweaks needed to the GW1 for the larger characters. Variants would be worked in so for example, instead of electric slide being the main character, it's be disco slide or something like that and electric slide would be a variant. Free roam regions would exist but have reasons to return so PopCap would get more value from the huge amount of work it must take to make them. We'd use BfN's upgrade system but we'd make sure none felt required like rapid fire for the foot soldier. The economy would function more like GW or GW2 as the 2 worst things about BfN are functionality of the core engine (moving, shooting, lag issues, etc.), and the economy.
There would be a lot of things that I would want in a new shooter, I am going to make a list here of what I would like implemented from GW2 and BfN, and my list assumes that another shooter is coming in the future, however it will be the final one we ever got:
From GW2: Variants, Damage drop-off, Ops content, Similar Weekly Modes In the Mystery Portal, Community Challenges, Torchwood, Hovergoat, Infinity Time, The way Rux operated in this game, Alternate abilities, Sticker Shop, BOSS HUNTS (just saying).
From BfN: The Upgrade System, the new characters, Legendary Upgrades, Prize Maps, Daily/Weekly/Character Challenges, Rux (reworked), Free-roam regions and content, Gnomes and Gnome Activities (expanded), Shields, Rando Ops, Battle Arena (ranked?), Hunts (like the pie hunt back from last November).
Obviously there is more I would like than that, and there is stuff I would like added, but this is what I have so far.
Thanks for all of your replies!
copy gw1/gw2 play style, axe story mode completely in favor of multiplayer, copy fortnite free with paid seasons. Make a solo vanquish mode so I can kill everyone and plants can kill plants, zombies can kill zombies.
They need free at launch and make money from customs and season pass so they maintain an operational budget for updating content and fixing bugs...most games doing this now so you don't have that front heavy influx of money where they leave a skeleton crew for updates across 50 random games...it doesn't work. EA still operating on bleed em dry up front and watch the game whither.
New updates and content keep players around otherwise they all die quickly.
