Other than the data-mined ones like Brewster and vegetable farming, are there any specific updates you are most hoping for? Personally I really want to be able to customize the exterior of buildings like we could in NL. I'd also love to be able to place rugs outdoors, some new paths, and to be able to customize fences to be different colors like the white simple wooden fence in the trailer!
I'm really expecting more upgrades for the shop! Just one is so little, we used to have a lot more in WW and NL. I also wants Gracie's set back, since I loved the gorgeos and sweet ones. Other than that, any new improvement or thing we used to have in NL and no longer have is welcome here.
I would like more furniture like the sweet set. Also more storage and a way to store flowers and bushes. Would love another nooks cranny upgrade.
Edit I want this candy house from new leaf. It would look great outside. I have it on display in the second floor museum since it’s looks to big in the house.
New and returning furniture as others have mentioned is my biggest wish but number two would be an April Fools event update.
It felt so empty not having Blanca show up. I guess maybe they were working on bunny day this year so they didn't have the time to implement another event so close to it.
Katie returning would be a neat update too since I feel NH has a much more stable and active online.
furniture update bringing back all the old sets and items from NL. there are so many good ones missing and i know a lot of people have pointed out the lack of food items in particular.
returning NPCs. they can all be brought back in one way or another, let's face it, whether it's with the same/similar mechanics or entirely new ones. doesn't mean they all have to be, of course, but most can.
rugs outside. ceiling furniture. cliff decoration. i'd low-key love to see the indoor ambiance feature from HHD return.
nook's cranny upgrade(s). i don't know how or why we're still only on one. i've seen the excuse that they want us to see all the seasonal outdoor decor but, with both hemispheres combined, we've now seen them all so-
tortimor's island with the mini-games and the tropical shop/kapp'n's family.
But instead of camper vans they are selling sail boats which you can decorate the interior of.
Your sail boat would be moored on the pier
Take your sail boat out on the high seas and get more fish / diving for deep sea creatures / and find sunken treasures in shipwrecks
Able Sisters Upgrade
Kicks moves into the Able Sisters in the basement selling an extended range of Footwear and accessories
We can now customise our footwear and certain types of accessories with custom patterns, more pattern slots are added.
Able sisters upstairs stops selling footwear and instead sells more clothing types
Nooks Cranny Upgrade
Two more floors are added to nooks in separate updates but Nooks still keeps the island aesthetic
Leif has a green house and sells extended plants and bush, new trees are added
Gracie Grace has a new furniture floor and sells new furniture sets
More items are added to the nook cupboard including a bunch of balloons you can release and play a balloon popping mini game on your island
Dodo Airlines Upgrade
Pete, Pelly and Phyllis return
Dodo airlines is upgraded to include a new gift shop where you can buy special gifts from your travels
Send special presents / messages to players, such as arrange for a special guest character to visit a friends island.
Happy Home Academy Island
Lyle And Lottie, Digby all return.
Fly to the happy home academy island and do daily tasks of decorating villagers dream houses, you could even decorate villagers that are not you island residents.
As an extension you can compete against other players online to vote for the best designs.
Win prizes like new furniture sets and maybe a top prize is a villager will come to your island with the dream house you've designed.
Copper and Brooker's Detective Agency
Copper and Brooker return
Maybe a new island or extension to resident services
Solve a daily mystery such as a lost item or who dunnit, by finding clues
Pave Dance festival
Dancing is added to the game via Festivale
Collecting feathers has Pave teach you new dance moves, which can be linked together
A new mini game is added, where you have to dance to the beat in a dance off against you residents or other players
Tortimers Island Appears
Cap'n and Tortimer are back,
Travel via dodo airlines to a new island for minigames and prizes
Once on the island you can invite groups of players directly to play online
The Roost (Upgrade)
So left the roost off here, but a future upgrade could have a basement added with a music / comedy venue
Dr. Shrunk And Frillard Return
New Plaza Visitors (to account for those moving into ables and nooks)
New Mystery Tent Appears
Katrina is added as a new daily visitor,
Having a mystery tent in the plaza the player can enter and pick a card or have their fortune read
The card who put a special condition on the player for the rest of the day, increasing luck for more bells, or causing other residents to give more gifts
New Mobile Saloon Appears in the plaza
Harriet returns,
Offering new hair styles you can have done on specific days
Once you've had a new hair style you can style it yourself in the mirror
Phineas Scout Club Returns
Phineas returns as a special plaza visitor
Earn badges with Phineas by completing daily tasks
Badges can be shown off to villagers and other players causing a special reaction
At the risk of sounding like a broken record: Furniture!!
And something substantial that isn't just catching up to where New Leaf was years ago. Growing pumpkins is a great start, I just hope they do more with that system than a once a year event.
Eh... nothing major really comes to mind. It seems like Nintendo is slowly bring back all the usual things we're use to slowly over the coarse of the year, considering we're getting both the Thanksgiving and Christmas update late next month. Anything I would like already appears it will be added, namely farming veggies. The datamine and the pumpkins being added with the Halloween update, it kinda just confirms that they'll be used in some form or another.
I suppose furniture sets returning and some small quality of life updates would be nice. I'm not gonna fuss over it, though. I just don't really want the game to get too overwhelming.
In the end, wanting something creates expectations and having expectations not getting met can cause disappointment and such.
It's small, but in addition to everyone else's thoughts, I want to see igloos return for winter campers. I always thought that was a cute touch and it's been in every installment of the game.
For the late November update, I really hope they add the ability to decorate our houses with Christmas lights, and also have the villagers do the same, along with Nook's and Town Hall.
Besides old stuff returning, which is to be expected, I can't think of any other features or mechanics they could add that are new and greatly impacts the series.
Pre-release all I could think was if they added farming, which they actually did, surprised the heck out of me when it was first datamined. From other life simulator games, I think all they are missing is a "dating" mechanic (Likely dubbed "Best Friend" here), but they would have to revamp villager dialogue and interaction to make it at the very least decent.
I would actually like a Pocket Camp update where they add furniture items from Pocket Camp. Other than that, I would also like fi they added some NL features back (or at least the furniture as well) but since NH is meant to be a new take ono the game, I doubt that'll happen unfortunately.