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A few days ago, Amazon Game Studios announced their plans to scale down Territory Wars in New World from 50v50 to just 40 players per side. Additionally, the team also planned to make changes to defender spawn mechanics to give attackers a better chance to capture points and win the war. According to the studio, the changes should make wars [...]

Amazon Game Studios is scaling down Territory Wars in New World and making a few adjustments to the PvP encounter to make them more tactical and give attackers a better chance of winning. Participating Companies are now limited to 40 players per side instead of the original 50 players. The devs have also taken the defending Company’s ability to respawn [...]

With the bug squashing February update live in New World, Amazon Game Studios is now setting the stage for the game’s next major update called Heart of Madness. The update will wrap up the Isabella storyline and will come with a new endgame expedition – the Tempest’s Heart. “The main story quest line picks up as you pursue Isabella back [...]

As announced last week, New World’s big February update is now live with major changes to open-world content, fast travel, combat and weapon balance, and the Outpost Rush along with an exhaustive list of bug fixes and gameplay improvements. A large part of the update includes combat and weapon adjustments, including the ability to swap weapons during hit-reactions, traversal, dodges, [...]

Amazon Game Studios proudly reports that they’ve received “over a million in-game and forums feedback” since New World launched in September 2021. I’m not sure if that’s a good thing but the team encourages the community to keep the feedback coming. They also assured players that they will be addressing each one of their concerns, starting with friction between in-game [...]

It’s moving day in New World as Amazon Game Studios issues another round of free transfer tokens. All active players will receive the said tokens regardless of whether they just created an account yesterday. Note that transfer tokens are account-bound and can only be used on one character on the account. In preparation for the tokens’ release, the team has [...]

Amazon Game Studios continues to iron out the kinks in New World in the latest game update. Update 1.3.2 focuses on fixing bugs in the endgame systems including the recently-released Expedition Mutators. Higher Mutator difficulties should now show the correct unlock requirements. A bug that prevented equipment from being upgraded while the storage was opened and it contained Umbral Shards [...]

Amazon Game Studios has reopened the New World public test realm (PTR) to test out this month’s update. For the February update, the team has taken a breather from introducing new content to focus on ironing out the kinks in the game. If you’ve been following the game since launch, you’ll know that they have their work cut out for [...]

Amazon Game Studios has disabled character creation on all New World regions and servers due to unknown reasons. Earlier speculation pointed to the studio’s efforts to control botting, RMT, and multiple account exploits that have been a massive thorn on their side since the 17th century survival MMORPG launched last September. A more recent tweet, however, points to an actual [...]