New World Rolls Out Fixes, Announces Weapon Balance Pass, And Merges Servers
New World’s Winter Convergence Festival has officially come to an end following the release of Update 1.8.1 earlier this week. While the update doesn’t come with new content, it does fix several known issues in the open world MMORPG including incorrect fast travel costs, incompatible Winter Convergence Life Staff perks, and Outpost Rush crashing, among others.
The team is also preparing to shake up the current weapon meta with a big balance pass for some of the more popular weapon choices, including the bow, musket, fire staff, hatchet, and greatsword. The changes are currently in internal testing and will be rolling out on the public test realm soon.
“The initial weapon and perk updates will be coming to the PTR in the very near future with the aim to improve the viability of magical weapons in PvE and some PvP scenarios and ranged weapons in PvE scenarios,” said Amazon. “On the other side of the coin we are testing changes to reduce the power of some melee weapons and ranged weapons in PvP. In addition to weapons, we are also reviewing equip loads to ensure a good balance between survivability and utility.”
Amazon has also merged another batch of servers in multiple regions prior to the update’s release. You’ll find the list of merged servers here and the Update 1.8.1 release notes here.
