That’s not quite right… (Lantern Rite Quest 1 minor spoiler)

Not only are they not miles apart, they aren’t even 1 mile away. (.95 miles)

Distances in this game feel so much larger than they actually are. The scale could easily triple and it would feel more realistic.

Edit: For clarification, I’m only suggesting changing the numerical scale of the game, so the 1500 meter on the overlay would instead be 4500 meters. I’m not suggesting making the physical world larger.

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SmithBall2026-01-31 03:34

the scale could triple and it would feel more realistic, yes

*easily* though? This game was initially designed as mobile friendly, and while it's obviously moved past that at this stage, it's kind of hard to retroactively scale everything up without straight up rewriting a lot of the games code.

AGoodFriend_2026-01-31 03:43

Rather than changing asset sizes, they could just rework the numbering system. That would preserve the memory usage whilst increasing realism. The distance measurements already work on a custom system, so it would likely be easy to rework. It would only require multiplying the distance by 3 before converting it to text for the displayed value.

D-S_122026-01-31 03:39

From a player POV, it's not miles away. But the game's NPCs by design frame these distances as being hours or days away. I mean yeah we can walk to Natlan in a few hours, but as you would see with other conversations regarding it, it's actually days away. The reason it's closer to us is for gameplay reasons, but for NPCs it remains far away.

AGoodFriend_2026-01-31 03:50

In that case, wouldn’t it make even more sense to increase the distance? It would more closely align the player’s POV with the NPC’s POV. Additionally, the day/night cycle is only 24 minutes long, and it makes more sense for a longer journey to fit that time. As you said, we can travel to Natlan in a few hours, which would be a week in-game, or even more, but the scale only makes it 5-10 kilometers, which feels incredibly small compared to the time taken, while 15-30 kilometers would feel a lot more appropriate.

D-S_122026-01-31 04:05

It makes more sense for realism but not gameplay and practicality. Scaling things up isn't as easy as increasing distance because it involves scaling literally everything in the game, including existing assets. Scaling things involves increasing the size of structures, entrances, windows, etc. Otherwise, the great and imposing Deshret pyramid in the dessert, for example, is going to look far less imposing from the same angles with far more land around it. And even if you want to go through with that, I'll refer you to how the Imperial 1 Star Destroyer was scaled up to be the Xyston Star Destroyer. Looks good on paper, but in terms of how practical it is, that would mean windows in human size would also be double the size for no reason at all.

Even if you want to go through all that trouble, rewriting size this late into the game essentially means rewriting the game's code and rebuilding it from the ground up. It's not worth it and you might as well make a new game at that point. Exploration-wise, it also makes it far more difficult for players to scale cliffs or terrain that is already somewhat challenging enough at existing scale.

And if that's difficult and the plan is to just change the numbers, you will address the distance issues relative to NPCs, but then you also introduce the issue of distance relative to what we know about human movement. Jogging in the game now is about 10 kph (at least on how fast the meter number decreases to an objective). Let's say you keep that pace but multiply the number, it's no longer realistic that a character starts jogging at 30 kph. At that point it no longer makes sense to the player.

pagerunner-j2026-01-31 03:46

Speaking here as someone who’s gotten dragged along on long, long, long road trips:

There is nothing fun about traversing empty geography. Nothing. This is why people start losing their damn minds in the American West and doing things like building giant fiberglass cows on the roadside or putting up hundreds of miles of signs for a drugstore.* It is the ONLY THING TO SEE.

You don’t want this kind of scale in games purely for the sake of “realism.” Trust me.

*Look up Wall Drug sometime. It’s an experience.

DevolayS2026-01-31 04:01

Are you discovering video games?