Amazon Game Studios is rolling out the public test realm (PTR) in its MMO New World today (November 10).Available for players to enlist in, the PTR “is a limited-availability server-set that will give players an early look at upcoming features.
22.10.2021 - 08:43 / nme.com
After weeks of delays, it seems if you ended up on a server without your friends, and thus can’t play in their company, the free server moves have now finally been enabled in Amazon’s MMORPG, ‘New World’.
Amazon Game Studios is rolling out the public test realm (PTR) in its MMO New World today (November 10).Available for players to enlist in, the PTR “is a limited-availability server-set that will give players an early look at upcoming features.
New World, according to an Amazon Game Studios developer.The main areas of change will be weapon swapping, dodge cancels, and attack input windows, as outlined in a developer post on the New World forums.
New World developer at Amazon Game Studios, world merges are something that the team is considering adding to the MMO.This comes via a New World forum thread from yesterday (November 6) that asks for world merges due to some content being gated behind server numbers, to which a developer responds: “World merges are on the horizon, but require additional scale testing before we are confident enough to use the tech on the live worlds.
Amazon Game Studio has released a detailed post that outlines New World changes and design choices that will come into effect soon.The post starts by discussing New World’s server transfers. Players were offered character migration to a new server after Amazon Game Studios encouraged people to create characters on quieter servers.
New World update 1.0.5 have been released, with the MMO’s next update taking aim at players who spam the chat to sell gold.Update 1.0.5 will launch later today (November 4), and the latest New World patch notes explain what will be changed when it goes live.First off, the New World patch is making headway against players who sell gold – and those who spam chat channels to advertise the services.Aside from banning and suspending “many of the reported accounts”, Amazon Game Studios has added
New World players have reportedly discovered ways to un-ban any Steam account that has received punishments from Amazon Game Studios, with a developer confirming that a fix is currently being worked on.As revealed on the New World forums, players can un-ban their account simply by using Steam Family Share.
New World players claim “luck” isn’t working in the game, one player has set out to prove that it’s actually working as intended.According to Reddit user SkyLineOW, the way New World calculates luck is a little different to how most players expect.“The thing that is inconsistent across sources is how [percentage] luck works,” they explained.
Amazon Game Studios recently removed all wealth transfers in MMO New World to combat a gold duplication cheat in the game, though it seems it’s just caused another one.Amazon recently removed all forms of gold trading due to a gold duplication glitch which is being investigated, with wealth transfers to be reinstated when the problem is solved.
Amazon Game Studios has disabled wealth transfers in New World to combat a gold duplication exploit in the MMO.The news came to the New World forums yesterday (November 1), as Amazon has said it is “temporarily disabling all forms of wealth transfer between players (ie. sending currency, guild treasury, trading post, player to player trading).”According to the post, there will be updates once the exploit has been investigated, and also when wealth transfers will be reinstated into the game.
Twitch streamer Shroud thinks that players will be waiting “years” for mounts to come to the massively multiplayer online game, New World.As of right now, Amazon Game Studios‘ New World doesn’t have any way of using mounts in the game.
Crucible – Amazon‘s earlier big hope before New World – has gone into detail about how the game should have been cancelled long before release.Software development engineer, Jorge Rodriguez, worked for Amazon on Crucible. He used his expertise and knowledge to discuss in-depth why New World has been facing technical issues lately.
New World has reportedly lost more than half of its player base merely a month after its launch.That’s based on figures first spotted by Forbes which noticed that the SteamCharts figures for New World have been rather rocky.While the game enjoyed an all-time peak of 913,027 when it first launched, it’s been losing around 135,000 players every week since then.
New World is client authoritative, Amazon Game Studios has set out to clarify the issue.Essentially, an authoritative client game means each player relies on their own engine’s computations in an online game instead of having the game send online dispatches to the game server to respond to the player’s actions.
New World, the colonial MMORPG from Amazon Game Studios features an oversight that allows players to send HTML code through the game’s chat box. Some have used this unintended feature to crash the game for players who hover their mouse over certain words or images.YouTuber Josh Strife Hayes discovered yesterday (October 29) that this was possible.
New World players are reporting a bug that is stopping them from gaining gold after selling their in-game items when they’re offline.A new post published to the New World forum today (October 28) finds numerous players of the MMO discussing a newly discovered bug that is stopping them from earning their gold from the in-game auction house after logging off.One player, Nunchaki, shared the issue stating that there is no issue when another player buys their item off the auction house when they’re
New World‘s patch 1.0.4 will fix “the top issues” of Amazon Game Studios‘ MMO, according to the patch notes.Posted yesterday (October 27), the New World patch notes say the update “is primarily focused on fixing the top issues our players have been hitting in recent weeks, especially those impacting wars”.Right off the bat, the patch notes mention “resolving the AoE magic effect War exploit, the issue preventing players from being able to appropriately increase their Faction token cap, and
Amazon Game Studios has said that the economy in New World is “performing within acceptable levels”, despite claims that the market is in the midst of tanking.As spotted by PC Gamer, the New World community believes the MMO is already suffering from deflation, where – according to Player Auctions – “more money is leaving circulation than can be replaced”.
Amazon-developed MMO New World are broken and overpowered as originally outlined by a user on Reddit.In a post to the subreddit r/newworldgame, a user by the name of u/Imaginary-Fun showed off the combination of perks and armour types that have caused themm to go 21-0 in the game’s Wars mode.The Resilient perk, which claims to reduce critical damage by under five per cent, in fact, reduces all damage done to the player.
New World players are literally catching bots in traps due to the game’s ongoing bot farming problem.As spotted by Dexerto, a group of New World players were successfully able to catch a bot in a trap they witnessed running back and forth in the same pattern, seemingly using the MMORPG’s farming exploit to earn fast money.On the New World Reddit, ‘TheCanabalisticBambi’ shared a video of them and their group trapping a bot by using the game’s camp mechanic.
New World has been temporarily put on hold as an exploit has been discovered that can duplicate gold in the process.Amazon Game Studios shared an update last night (October 21 – thanks, PCGamesN) informing players of the bug, explaining that a “small number” of characters moved servers and encountered a ‘Character_Persist_Failure’ error.Players who were affected by this would be able to transfer gold or items, but log back in with the same inventory as before.