Greetings Adventurers!

The PTR will be down starting 2023-03-16T17:00:00Z and will be unavailable for approximately 60 minutes.

Thank you and see you in the PTR!

We hear you on the trophy pain & friction - I feel it every week. Unfortunately, there have been other priorities for our UX team, which have prevented us from tackling this already.

But we are looking into some non-UX solutions that should help this pain. They won’t make it for S1, but in the next season or two we should have solution which will help remove some friction, until we get a permanent solution.

Hey all, love the passionate conversation on BB. A lot of varied opinions here, so I want to give a little more detail and context on our thinking.

We don’t think the BB is very over tuned, or in need of major changes. We are mostly concerned with its burst damage in extreme scenarios. The weapon is designed to be bursty, and we have no desire that change that. But with the damage mitigation changes we want to ensure its 1-shot potential isn’t too strong. The changes we are planning for S1 release, are really targeting that and some “extreme” combos.

Great news here @Deeward , yes we are planning some pretty big improvements to the PvP reward track. These changes in combination with cross world OPR and some other PvP suprises we have planned for S2 should make it a great PvP release.

We currently don’t have plans to allow players to run unlimited Mutations without rewards as suggested, but appreciate the feedback and the interest in playing more!

If you’re seeking to test your mettle against a single other player, you can always duel! I can understand the desire for this game mode, but we have other content planned that’s higher priority for us than 1v1 Arena mode at this time.

As Properso mentioned, we’ve done a rather deep pass on which enemies can stagger and on what attacks. Our vision moving forward is that attacks that can stagger are well telegraphed, with ample time for the player to respond. If there’s particular AI that you feel are specifically problematic, feel free to call them out and we can investigate if they’re up to our standards, but in the last few patches we have significantly reduced the overall quantity of AI staggers in the game.

Hi folks,

The lighting during the Brimstone Sands patch was the result of a bug with the arena level. We fixed that bug and brought the lighting back to its intended state after that patch. At this time we don’t have plans to revert that change.

Those numbers are for what we call our passive Season XP gain. This passively rewards you with season XP for participating in content within the game. It’s not intended to be the primary driver of progression through the pass, that comes from your Season Journey and Season Activities which give meatier progression and significantly more XP. So in practice, your Outpost Rush example would also include the activity cards asking you to get a Killing Blow or participate in an Outpost Rush, which can give you a good bit more Season XP, the passive XP is just an additional bonus on top of those gains.

That said, we are adding in a few additional passive XP vectors with the next PTR update, and are looking into additional enhancements on top of those. We’ll be looking at data and feedback closely!

Greetings Adventurers,

Today we are introducing our new New World specific Discord server! Here you will find up to date information, make new friends, and talk about anything New World!

There, you’ll find official updates and events hosted by your Community Managers as well as a more centralized location to find groups to complete content to your hearts’ desires.

Join the New World Discord Server today.

We tend to agree that with all the other changes introduced in the PTR and how the Blunderbuss was untouched, it was a bit too strong in some aspects. Because of that we are going to make some changes before the S1 launch:
• Fixing a bug on claw shot cancel windows that was allowing some combos we didn’t want
• Reducing the stamina damage on ASB
• Reducing damage of consecutive pellets for ASB

We’ll also be keeping an eye on the Blunderbuss after release, and make sure these changes are sufficient.

In episode 18 of Forged in Aeternum, host Charles Bradbury (Art Director) is joined by Sojin Hwang (Associate Art Director) and Gabriela Escamilla (Outsource Art Lead) to talk about the process of designing outfits and skins.

From brainstorms, themes, and moodboards, to the final product the team takes you through the art of Aeternum fashion. Sojin dives into how historical accuracy plays into the evolution of attire, while Gabriela reveals her favorite theme so far.

Thanks for the feedback! We like the idea of the Seasonal category as pointing at content that’s unique to that season, however we agree that more activities can fall into that category. We’ll take a look at this and see what can be added here to make this category stronger.

Thanks for the call out, this was an oversight on our end and we’ll work to make sure Flame Cores are tradeable like other resources.

PTR: Seasons - March 9th, 2023

Spotlight

Springtide Bloom Event

The Time of Awakening has arrived! Springtide Bloom calls its children to share an ancient secret capable of granting true freedom. Help the enigmatic Bloom Herald unravel the mysteries of the ethereal Wi...

Greetings!
The PTR should be back online now. Notes for today’s update can be found here. Thank you for your patience and see you there!

Greetings Adventurers!

The PTR will be down starting 2023-03-09T18:00:00Z and will be unavailable for approximately 60 minutes.

Thank you and see you in the PTR!

The goal of the stagger changes was two-fold:

1. To identify a move as either a CC move or a damage move. And if it’s a CC move to make sure damage is low/moderate, and if it’s a damage move to remove the the CC.

2. More clearly differentiate which weapons had CC/staggers to differentiate weapons better.

In reviewing our decisions, I do think the removal of the stagger on all FnF was overly aggressive because it hurt the ability as a whole. We are reviewing this and will likely add the stagger back to first part (with a slight reduction in damage to that part) before S1 goes live.

The musket is a hard weapon to balance in a game like New World. But we do believe we can find a role for it in PvP - where its not dominate, but also not useless.

As a few posters have noted in this thread, the accuracy perk does make a pretty big difference at long range. That’s an intentional design decision where you have to forgo another potentially useful perk, to gain the distance advantage.

The changes in PTR are pretty drastic, but we want to make sure we move the meta here. We are reviewing the changes and considering making some minor adjustments, mostly to the inaccuracy caused by aiming, before it goes live in S1.

Sorry for delay, we were finalizing some changes and I was waiting on results of that. Here’s an update.

Currently in live, only weapons in OPR get a 3rd perk on upgrading to 600. Armor does not.

When S1 launches, we will add armor from OPR, so it will now get a 3rd perk as well as weapons. In addition, we will add upgrading both weapons and armor from War and Invasion with S1.

Unfortunately, we are not going to get upgrading for gypsum casts or breaches in S1. We hit some technical difficulties there. No plans yet on when or if that will happen.