So what are people predictions toward expansion ?
My takes:
- expansion development is too long to be small expansion. Which means it will be big, probably "bigger" than Blood and Wine for TW3, it will introduce that blocked part of pacifica + shitload of interiors but no new landmass.
- obviously they are following trajectory of NMS so I expect major reworks of some things that people found off putting. 3rd person view, introduction of cutscenes TW3 style for whole game not just expansion, car combat was confirmed or something similar this type of things. Also it's not the first time something like that happened(gta5 1st person mode). Cost of introduction of 3rd person mode for gameplay is low, rest of scenes will need player animations + camera work.
- new ending, possibly going into different direction completely from pick your ending from list of c77
- some major gameplay feature. They did something like this with TW3 where first expansion introduced runecrafting while second mutations and some other stuff. reworked auguments ?
- obviously expanded weaponry + new outfits.
- considering they are targeting GTA crowd as always, probably some kind of miningames like stealing car, buying cars, tuning cars etc.
- probably expanded RP options, maybe new origin story which probably starts with has expansion as starting point.
- one of key criticism they received was initial introduction to game where cutscene shown interaction between jacky her mother and how quickly they hit off. I expect they replace that cinematic with actual linear gameplay with few quests before you get to same point. IT will be very linear though.
Obviously this is out of my ass. Weirdly none of those items are very expensive in terms of hours/$ to implement
