Earlier this month, Amazon launched a public test realm for New World. Alongside that PTR launch, Amazon began testing a massive patch for New World that, among other things, added a new weapon, new enemies, and new quests to the game. Fast forward a week later and now that patch is ready for prime time, with Amazon launching it on live servers today.
New World is getting a massive update later this month, and the update is adding so much that Amazon is launching a Public Test Realm (PTR) to put the new content through its paces first. A number of video games have PTRs to test updates before they go live for everyone, including some MMOs. New World's PTR is going live later today and will give players a chance to test out these upcoming features - which include a new weapon, new quests, and new enemies - for themselves.
Overnight, New World received its weekly update, and there were some big changes contained in this one. While we received the usual round of bug fixes, Amazon also implemented some changes concerning the gold cost of attribute respecs and the Azoth cost of weapon skill tree respecs, meaning that players should be able to change their builds much more frequently. In addition, Amazon detailed some measures it's implementing to combat all of the gold sellers players have undoubtedly seen in chat.
It's been a rough 24 hours for New World. The Amazon-crafted MMO has had its share of problems since launch, but over the last day or so, we've seen Amazon grappling with a rather severe gold duplication issue. Amazon's response to the gold duping exploit was swift but questionable, as it brought New World's economy to a screeching halt.
New World players have been waiting weeks for server transfers to go live, and now it looks like Amazon is finally ready to roll them out. A new update has gone live in New World, and with it, Amazon has put the final pieces necessary for server transfers in place. In addition, this new update also fixes some issues and bugs while giving players a couple of freebies as a thank you for their patience over the past couple of weeks.
New World received a new update overnight, and while this update serves up another round of bug fixes, it might not sit well with New World's player base. That's because the update is arriving without server transfers, which were originally expected to go live last week. It also seems that the update misses one big bug in particular that is putting a damper on endgame progress.
2021 really feels like it's been Final Fantasy XIV Online's year. The game has enjoyed an uptick in popularity and visibility, both as a place for World of Warcraft refugees who are either disappointed in Shadowlands or sick of Blizzard, but also as a game that can stand on its own as an excellent MMO. Square Enix is set to cap off a good year with the release of Final Fantasy XIV's fourth expansion, Endwalker, in November, and I recently had the chance to sit down with the expansion to test it out.
New World, being an online game with competitive PvP, requires anti-cheat software. Anti-cheat software is nothing new, but in New World's case, it's actually causing issues for some players. Apparently, Easy Anti-Cheat - New World's anti-cheat software of choice - is having some connection issues that are preventing people from even launching the game.
After going silent for a few days, the developers behind New World have announced a new update for the game. While this update doesn't bring the server transfers we were promised last week, Amazon does say that it lays the groundwork for them. Instead, what we're getting in this update are a bunch of fixes, a couple of quality of life changes, and some changes to New World's AFK detection system.
Like many MMO fans, I've been spending a lot of time with New World lately. While I'll need to play a lot more before I can review the game, I've played more than enough to know that I have a problem on my hands: I still have no idea which weapons I want to use. I've cycled through many different weapons, and I'm not much closer to the answer now than I was when I first started playing.
If you're a New World player, you've undoubtedly encountered many players in town who were doing nothing but autorunning into a wall. Of course, anyone who has played a popular MMO before knows that these players are attempting to defy New World's AFK timer, which kicks players from the game after a certain period of inactivity. Autorunning into a wall may not help players bypass AFK detection anymore, as Amazon has implemented new tools to help it determine when players are trying to sidestep the AFK timer.
Earlier in the year, Blizzard said it was plotting something for those who wanted a fresh start in World of Warcraft Classic, and now we've learned what that thing is. Blizzard has announced WoW Classic Season of Mastery servers, new realms that will give players a fresh start in WoW Classic with some significant changes to the vanilla WoW formula. If you're looking for a more challenging WoW Classic, it sounds like this is where you'll find it.