New World - The newest flavor of the month.

[I'd abeeb bear]

I played the beta for this and it felt generic as every other MMO that's come out in the past 15 years except for ArcheAge which was good fun. If it wasn't for being ran by Amazon, I'd give this game maybe a year before it dies.

ArcheAge was so good at launch. I really enjoyed the housing and PVP in that game until they made it p2w within a few months. Great music and environments too.

 

[PaleTay]

I think what will kill this game is just the encouragement to no life it. I haven't played it so I thought it looked interesting but I was quickly proven wrong. It seems like it's forcing people to do aspects of the game they don't like, to be able to do the things they want to (you need raid drops for skilling recipes for example) and there's limited creativity in builds as you constantly need PL upgrades.

 

[Disc]

So the mass reporting system is now being weaponised in this PVP mmo. Because amazon are dumbasses.

‘New World’ players are banning each other to win wars

Mass reports are leading to unfair bans to help players win in-game wars easier.

www.nme.com

Players in New World are issuing mass reports, trying to get players banned to help them win in-game wars.

As spotted by PC Gamer, players have figured out that mass reports on accounts can result in a 24-hour ban, so they’ve been reporting opposing players right before a war, which happens over a limited time.

Posts across the New World subreddit and forums have been decrying the issue, with one post titled “50 people in my 100 person company are now banned,” with the user asking for a fix ASAP, saying it’s unfair that half their company was banned because “everyone can press report a couple of times”.
A lot of the replies to that post say a solution would be for the repeat reporters to receive a ban themselves, or to get in contact with Amazon Game Studios to resolve the issues as quickly as possible.

Another post on the game’s forums outlines a similar problem. “So my company has a war today and the company we are going to war against reported our top players so they would get a temporary 24-hour ban and not be able to participate in the war,” it reads. “This is beyond petty and it would be great if the admin team could really look into this. If this isn’t cheating by the other company through clear abuse of the system I don’t know what is.

“This needs to get looked at immediately please by the admin team. Mass reporting the night before a war really needs to get fixed and those who abuse the system should face repercussions.”

To make matters worse, moderators and admins behind the game are giving players mixed messages. One says that in-game reports all reviewed manually, and that “you will soon get an answer,” whilst another says that bots will automatically ban someone after a certain number of reports.

 

[gaystoner]

scrolled for a bit...found plenty of bitching about the report system and this gem. Turns out mixing light/heavy attacks between 3 skills/6 total with two weapons isnt that interesting.

 

[ZMOT]

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scrolled for a bit...found plenty of bitching about the report system and this gem. Turns out mixing light/heavy attacks between 3 skills/6 total with two weapons isnt that interesting.

combat sounds like a bad gw2 clone, which is already shit enough, just more "actiony".

 

[White Devil]

combat sounds like a bad gw2 clone, which is already shit enough, just more "actiony".

Pretty much that, and Neverwinter.

 

[Kotol]

combat sounds like a bad gw2 clone, which is already shit enough, just more "actiony".

You can always play full-kit Engineer with like 30 skills to satisfy your inner autistic spastic. Good times.

But yeah, in the end the whole combat system boils down to "stack might + other buffs to win" and stacking enemies by pulling them and running behind a wall to clump them together.

 

[Articles and Nudes]

I'm still bitter about GW2 engineer. I can use all my skills, timing, cool downs, kiting and juggle multiple kits to kill something...or just equip a flamethrower and murder everything in a sixth of the time.

Thrice the effort, a third of the reward. Sigh.

 

[Ruin]

Looks like ass. Korean p2w MMOs from ten years ago had better character models and animations.

 

[SBG]

Been a little surprised to see how people figured population imbalances between factions decided who would win territories when that gets decided by 'War' events that are a straight 50vs50 event. If Amazon wants to adjust things to make sure territories change hands it just means weakening the ability of people to defend.

 

[Dave.]

So someone who has played the game because I flat out refuse to pay 40 dollars for this has told me all about it and it sounds even fucking worse then what I saw in twitch streams and youtube videos:
-Housing prices in game are fucking expensive and just the act of getting one in general is a journey in of itself, but in case that's not bad enough, you have to pay in game taxes and rent to actually keep it or it'll get deleted. Yes, you have to pay in game fucking rent to have a house in game.
-Servers are flat out abysmal with pvp being almost unplayable due to terrible netcoding and rubberbanding and high pings making pvp encounters and combat utterly miserable.
-Game's lore and story is non-existent and the only variations of enemies you have are either undead pirates or animals.
-The game is not even a month old and already the community is a toxic shithole where people will fight over loot after helping each other with quests or cooperative content. Mass reporting is rampant over idpol politics or because pvp matches as described in an article mentioned earlier or because someone just doesn't like you.
-Guilds and guild members can donate money for war efforts... only for guild leaders to rage quit and pocket all the money and hop factions with no consequence and apparently this happens frequently unfortunately I know not a lot about what goes on there.
-There's no endgame to speak of.
-There's no LFG and the process to actually enter a dungeon is a nightmare because you have to collect a dungeon orb(?), find people who are willing to tag along and suffer, have them play theorycraft builds because you're not going to succeed if no one in your group is a tank or healer, then you have to walk all the way to the dungeon.
-Banking is a disaster. There's no global banking and you can only store things in town banks which are separate from one another then you have to grind reputation for more bank slots (btw the max cap is 200 slots) and if you want to transfer items, those towns have to be controlled by the same factions.
-Questing is miserable because every one of them is just kill this kill that with no context or story behind it not to mention you have a limited carry weight which means gathering is very limited when you're doing these quests.

That's what he told me, whether or not it's true I don't know, but this sounds brutal for an MMORPG.

 

[Takayuki Yagami]

Been a little surprised to see how people figured population imbalances between factions decided who would win territories when that gets decided by 'War' events that are a straight 50vs50 event. If Amazon wants to adjust things to make sure territories change hands it just means weakening the ability of people to defend.

So pretty much the exact problem that Guild Wars 2 and ESO mega-pvp has? That’s… not flattering.

 

[GenociderSyo]

Looks like a bunch of people who bought it off amazon.com had their steam keys revoked:
Steam Discussion Thread

Tried it out and I don't see the replay value of it. It seems once you hit max level there is no endgame as others have said.

 

[Just Some Other Guy]

I'd give it a shot if there was a trial or something. I'm not dropping $40 on some random ass MMO from Amazon.

 

[Gravityqueen4life]

it seems the game tried to take the runescape route of gathering recourses but the problem with that is those kind of games are just not fun to play anymore. gaming has evolved since runescape and people who like these kind of games are just gonna stick to runescape. perople have become so anti-social that you cant communicate without the fear of getting banned and would just gather in private discord servers. face it, MMO gene is dead. atleast in the west.

 

[Dr. Troon Lagoon]

I don't even remember LawBreakers being forgotten as quickly

Let‘s see if this NW game can beat that and Battleborn.

As for, I’d rather play a WoW remaster, rAids Shadowlegend, Rise of Cuckdoms or torcher myself with another Gearbox game before I touch this. Fuck back off into space permanently, Chromedome.

 

[White Devil]

Let‘s see if this NW game can beat that and Battleborn.

As for, I’d rather play a WoW remaster, rAids Shadowlegend, Rise of Cuckdoms or torcher myself with another Gearbox game before I touch this. Fuck back off into space permanently, Chromedome.

I'm still sad that WoW Classic wasn't a 1:1 vanilla but then again I knew that going in.

 

[ZMOT]

it seems the game tried to take the runescape route of gathering recourses but the problem with that is those kind of games are just not fun to play anymore. gaming has evolved since runescape and people who like these kind of games are just gonna stick to runescape. perople have become so anti-social that you cant communicate without the fear of getting banned and would just gather in private discord servers. face it, MMO gene is dead. atleast in the west.

it doesn't help that runescape is a game you can play on the side that requires much less attention while grinding. no one wants to actively grind shit like in runescape, hence transplanting it into other games 1:1 without (edit: I'm retarded) understanding why it works is doomed to fail.

and the genre is fine for the most part, the only one who has issues is a 17 year old game that has been stagnant for years run by a crew of retards coasting along on inertia and brand name. ff14 is doing fine, eso is doing more than fine and even gw2 still has enough troons to pay for pixie wings. and those are the biggest, there's still plenty of mmoprgs around that might be considered "dead" but are still playable depending what you're looking for.
the problem with the genre is that a lot of people are retards and only want to play the "top" mmo with millons of players because "muh massive" when that is not how it works, fuck most people don't even understand you'll only ever interact with a small subset of the playerbase anyway, so that number is fucking irrelevant unless it dips really low.

So pretty much the exact problem that Guild Wars 2 and ESO mega-pvp has? That’s… not flattering.

I think it's even worse because in those games pvp just exists as a side activity for the people who want to do it, so they can get away with a different progression and "flaws" that would never work in a game where pvp is more important.

 

[Thiletonomics]

There have been numerous reports of a lag switch-like exploit to the game, which some people have been intentionally abusing, during wars. Does Amazon not have a way to hotfix in fixes, like Blizzard does in World of Warcraft?

 

[gaystoner]

it doesn't help that runescape is a game you can play on the side that requires much less attention while grinding. no one wants to actively grind shit like in runescape, hence transplanting it into other games 1:1 with understanding why it works is doomed to fail.

and the genre is fine for the most part, the only one who has issues is a 17 year old game that has been stagnant for years run by a crew of retards coasting along on inertia and brand name. ff14 is doing fine, eso is doing more than fine and even gw2 still has enough troons to pay for pixie wings. and those are the biggest, there's still plenty of mmoprgs around that might be considered "dead" but are still playable depending what you're looking for.
the problem with the genre is that a lot of people are retards and only want to play the "top" mmo with millons of players because "muh massive" when that is not how it works, fuck most people don't even understand you'll only ever interact with a small subset of the playerbase anyway, so that number is fucking irrelevant unless it dips really low.


I think it's even worse because in those games pvp just exists as a side activity for the people who want to do it, so they can get away with a different progression and "flaws" that would never work in a game where pvp is more important.

Honestly i havent played in a bit..and the game suffers on the graphics stand point but Project Gorgon probably has the most unique MMO world to engage with that isnt immediately boring. Its a step above runescape click to battle with more active combat and a lot of character building/ customization.

TBH if Amazon were smart they would have bought the developers and pushed cash into fleshing out the game in a AAA manner.