u/Khalifah96

Was thinking of new story ideas that would develop upon the base narrative given to us players and expand upon it in interesting ways.

Fellow poster on this forum mentioned factions which gave me some ideas.

The Rogue Hunter Update.

Ever since the portals opened on Earth Luna, Manny and Jax were far from the only ones who organised teams and created weapons and tech to combat the portals. Other more morally ambiguous and shadowy factions of hunters arose who have more selfish goals as it relates to choas energy and cores. They're referred to as the Rogue Hunters. Powerful but secretive factions of Hunters that operate and play by their own rules answering to no one but themselves.

(Real world inspiration KGB of Russia, CIA / FBI of America etc.)

They've created their own more sophisticated weapons and tech using the same core / chaos energy Manny has used and begin to Appear in the Expeditions and events We the Players frequent.

They'll act as antagonists who at first Hunt Monsters (far more effectively and visibly) in the same expeditions as us then slowly turn against our faction (Luna, Manny and Jax) as a conflict of interests develops.

"Conflict of interests" ideas

They torture and abuse non combative monsters and creatures to get information out of them and understand their language using their own communication devices. So they're understanding of the Portals, Monsters and chaos energy is far more developed and advanced then our Factions but only via immoral practices.

Manny someway into the story hacks one of their databases giving him access to a wealth of their data on the weapons and tech they use and their info on chaos energy and portals. Which causes him to replicate some of their tech giving us new weapons and abilities.

GAMEPLAY

We get new more long form 4 to 8 players rifts based around this developing story where end bosses will be a mixture of

1. Key members of these corrupt factions with advanced weaponry and tech

2. Choas Monsters who have mutated due to heavy experimental practices from the corrupt factions.

3. Lower level corrupt faction members who may or may not defect and join our side after battle.

This Update would be a perfect opportunity to introduce Skill Trees for Our Weapons as Manny's knowledge and understanding of tech and chaos cores develops his understanding of the weapons do also Causing our weapons to unlock skill trees where we can upgrade the effectiveness of abilities in our current loadout for each weapon, Add new abilities to our loadout by switching them out with older existing ones and Lastly minor stat boosts that are only in effect when using the specific weapon that has been upgraded.

Apologies this idea / concept is very bare bones and mainly focuses in on adding an interesting and engaging narrative to the story alongside developing gameplay mechanics and power progression.