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Amazon Game Studios has launched a free weekend for New World, giving curious players a chance to try the MMO out ahead of its upcoming Rabbits Revenge event.New World‘s free weekend launched yesterday (April 7) at 6PM BST, and will remain free-to-play until 6PM on April 11.As noted in a Q&A blog shared by Amazon Game Studios, the free weekend will coincide with a sale that brings the game’s price down by 40 per cent until April 18.“Players who join in for the Steam Free Weekend will have their progress saved and will be able to pick up where they left off when the weekend ends if they elect to buy New World,” added the blog.Next week, New World will also celebrate the step into spring with an event called Rabbit’s Revenge.“During this event, players can help cull a plague of corrupted rabbits for a chance to earn up to three Diamond Gypsum in loot drops and five luck-increasing consumables daily,” detailed a press release, which also added that players will be able to earn a mystical storage chest for participating.Back in March, Amazon Game Studios also shared a 2022 roadmap for New World, which detailed new PvP content, another expedition, and much more.Since then, the Heart Of Madness update has been released – which concluded the MMO’s main storyline with a quest titled The Heart of the Tempest. The update also added the Blunderbuss, a new type of ranged weapon that scales off strength and intelligence stats.It also brought The Tempest’s Heart, an endgame expedition designed for five level 60 players with gear scores between 550 and 570.

New World will soon get a new weapon and the conclusion of the story of Isabella, according to Amazon Game Studios.In a statement, Amazon has explained the new additions to the New World Public Test Realm (PTR) in March. The big one is the addition of the blunderbuss. A ranged weapon, it promises “high mobility coupled with potent close-to-mid range damage”.That damage will be scaled based on the player’s strength and intelligence which means it’s well suited for “bruiser or age builds”.

New World developer Amazon Game Studios revealed that the mutations and expeditions would be expanded.It appears that New World is going to be getting more mutators. These affect special enemies in expedition and give them unique traits to increase the complexity and difficulty of a fight.Speaking to PCGamesN, world experience lead Mike Willette said, “There are a ton of different MMOs, roguelikes, and action-adventure games that inspired our first steps in developing Mutators. We wanted ways to challenge players and give them awesome rewards.

Twitch streamer Zack “Asmongold” has praised the New World developers for “doing their absolute best” to fix the game’s growing list of issues.In a stream first spotted by Dexerto, Asmongold explained that while he thinks the game is in a “terrible state”, that he thinks it has a “great foundation” too.Going further into detail, he explained that “I think the New World developers, throughout the course of the month or so the game’s been live, have actually improved a massive amount of things that the player base has wanted to see.” He added that “not only have they improved those things, but they’ve also addressed them in an honest and candid way”.He also praised the developers for communicating more with the player base than “every other

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. These preview builds are snapshots of upcoming major updates and are not final versions,” according to a New World news post.To get involved, players need to download the New World PTR stand-alone application from their Steam library, but servers are limited.

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.

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 restrictions that prevent sellers from simply using new accounts to trade currency.

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.

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. Currently, its 24-hour peak is 404,438 – a significant drop from its lofty figures at launch.Declining player numbers are unsurprising for many games.

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. “We caught a bot on our camps tonight,” the post read.

Amazon Game Studios‘ recently released MMO New World is clamping down on gold farmers and bots in the game, by revoking keys used for those accounts.New World players have been reporting bots for a while now, as most will gather at specific spots to fish and mine for gold, so it looks like Amazon is finally taking action. In a New World forum blog post from this week (October 14), a community manager outlined what the studio will be doing to take action.“We have seen your reports of gold farmers and bots in the game.

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

New World is seeing a gold scamming problem emerge just a couple of weeks after the Amazon Game Studios MMO launched.As reported by PC Gamer, the New World subreddit has been aflame with users talking about the issue, as companies (individual “guilds” under one of the game’s three factions) are struggling to keep the gold they are taking in.This has been happening for many reasons, as companies can tax players trading or using facilities in their owned territories, or in extreme cases, company leaders can scam players out of gold.Reddit user u/Paradoggs posted (October 6) asking the question, “did we just have the first huge drama in New World?” As the story goes, their company leader lost the first war “very badly” and failed to raise

New World, and it looks like they really love to fish. Reported by Icy Veins, players of the Amazon Game Studios title have been taking to Reddit to show videos of hoards of bots just standing around and constantly casting out their rods. If the crowds of in-game characters all standing completely still just to perform a menial task didn’t give it away, maybe this player coming across naked players named Iron 1-10 will.The problem has become so widespread that some bots seem to be programmed to only catch rare fish, as per the below reddit post.

Amazon Game Studios has updated the away from keyboard detection in New World to prevent players from staying in servers when they aren’t actually playing.New World has problems with server queue times being too long. While Amazon Game Studios work to fix the issue, some players have found a way to stay on servers when they need to take a break.

New World developers have released a statement, explaining how the team are working “around the clock” to reduce queue times.Following on from a message on launch day that acknowledged lengthy wait times and promised work was being done to fix that, the New World team has explained what work has been done since.“Since our launch on Tuesday, we have more than doubled the number of servers and we are working to increase the capacity of all available servers to support a higher population cap,” starts the statement on Twitter.

New World is set to release fully on September 28, fans will be able to try the game out with one last open beta ahead of launch.Anyone who is still unsure about buying New World will be able to give the MMO another shot, with a weekend-long open beta scheduled for September 9-12.As part of Gamescom Opening Night Live yesterday (August 26), New World also received a brand new trailer titled ‘Chart Your Fate’, which captures the atmosphere of the game as players will go “from shipwrecked castaway to legendary hero” according to the description.While New World was initially aimed to release at the end of the month, the game was pushed back to September 28 in order to address fan feedback following the last beta.

fried due to issues during the closed beta for New World.Speaking to PC Gamer, a spokesperson for EVGA said, “Yes, all failed 3090’s are being replaced.”After players reported their GPU woes when attempting to play the Amazon MMO at unlocked frame rates, it appeared that this was specifically affecting EVGA GPUs.Amazon Game Studios has since released a hotfix to address the issue by locking the frame rate settings.“We have implemented an update to reduce GPU load in menu screens by clamping FPS,” the developer wrote on the New World forum.

New World may be proving popular on Steam but it’s not been without issues.