Amazon video games’ MMO New World has opened up a set of “Recent Begin” servers, letting you kick off a brand new character on an untapped server the place there’re no long-established gamers from the sport’s first yr. The brand new servers come alongside a completely reworked early sport expertise for the sport, requiring much less journey and grouping quests nearer collectively together with requiring far much less grinding.
The rework additionally has a “enormous enchancment to the general pacing,” says the Amazon Video games staff. New World additionally lately launched Brimstone Sands, a giant enlargement replace with a lot of Egyptian and Historic Roman-themed motion.
“It’s an important alternative for brand spanking new and lapsed gamers to expertise all that has modified over the sport’s first yr,” stated Amazon Video games. Amazon video games has additionally posted a video (opens in new tab) to YouTube—embedded above—highlighting what’s new up to now yr.
That new content material features a boatload of latest expedition dungeons: Tempest’s Coronary heart, Barnacles & Black Powder, and the Ennead, alongside mutator variations of outdated expeditions and a gaggle finder for them. That is additionally not likely together with the brand new weapons, that are a bit like New World’s courses: the Greatsword, Void Gauntlet, and Blunderbuss weapons are all new, and have new talents to go together with.
New World has loads of lapsed gamers, who could or could not do not forget that their one-time buy of the sport lets them return at any time when they please. It was an enormous success at launch, promoting a ton of copies and hitting a excessive of almost 1,000,000 gamers on Steam, however that prime collapsed over time into a gradual each day prime concurrent rely of about 15-25 thousand. Because the launch of the Brimstone Sands in October that quantity has popped again as much as 50-60 thousand, and a current Twitch drop marketing campaign noticed peak concurrent numbers return to over 100 thousand.
You’ll find New World on Steam (opens in new tab), the place it is 50% off till November eighth. You too can go discover their official web site, newworld.com. (opens in new tab)
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