New World

It's good for consoles, but the existing PC players aren't too happy about this. A guy in our company decided to quit the game after the announcement by shouting some "gamer words" into global chat and got banned lol

Wait so basically this is no longer an MMORPG if you could call it that, and it’s now a 3 player group action rpg live service game.

so it’s destiny?

On one hand, I feel like it would be great to work at AGS as a developer at this point. The benefits and the pay are supposed to be on point. But on the other hand, I cant imagine pouring my life and soul into fixing a game that has basically fallen on its own sword. Every time Ive reinstalled, I'd play it for at most a few days and quit again. Theres just something about it that gives me this apathetic feeling of boredom, when I play it. But it is interesting to see what updates it gets and how theyre changing some of their most disastrous and player unfriendly past decisions. Or maybe Im just passively hoping they release a miracle patch that instantly gives me and all the other people that quit, a big enough shot of dopamine that we all want to log in and check it out.

Breakdown said:

Wait so basically this is no longer an MMORPG if you could call it that, and it’s now a 3 player group action rpg live service game.

so it’s destiny?

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The game is still the same game

So this is worth a little fun for someone that hasn't played it? Not expecting a longterm gaming experience, just something fresh.

Need something to chill with alongside EQ/Teek, cause I ain't getting anything done outside of raids the way the server is with all the box armies running around.

Cynical said:

So this is worth a little fun for someone that hasn't played it? Not expecting a longterm gaming experience, just something fresh.

Need something to chill with alongside EQ/Teek, cause I ain't getting anything done outside of raids the way the server is with all the box armies running around.

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If you're at least a small bit interested in playing it - its not a bad game to be casual in and take in all the sights. Your first experience is wonderful until the "grinds" set in for a lot of things, and then you start to ask yourself why you're doing them.

Have they figured out how to swim or is everyone as good as Samwise Gamgee

Wynt said:

Have they figured out how to swim or is everyone as good as Samwise Gamgee

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An update like a month ago said they were putting it in this Summer, finally.

I pretty much recognize that there is something else going on in the background of this game at the moment. There is just no need to put the extensive amounts of work they are into a game that has a 6200 player peak. I think its fucking pants on head retarded to use this games engine and its horrible code structure to make another game, but thats literally the only thing that would describe why they continue to put so much effort into it.

Speaking of code, I don't know what the fuck they did, but as of a few patches ago the game runs like absolute dogshit on my computer. Massive latency/stuttering and lost frames.

I know the problem is with the game because I don't have issues with any other game, just New World

Cynical said:

So this is worth a little fun for someone that hasn't played it? Not expecting a longterm gaming experience, just something fresh.

Need something to chill with alongside EQ/Teek, cause I ain't getting anything done outside of raids the way the server is with all the box armies running around.

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I started NW about a year ago and loved it. The game took forever to load on my decent PC but once I was logged in, I rarely had performance issues (I did have to drop the settings a bit).

Once you reach max level and hit the grind as someone mentioned above, the shine really starts to lose its luster and quick too. For example, maxxing out crafting skills is an absolutely massive timesink and costly, but what makes it even worse is that there really is very little reason to even do it.

They've spent a lot of time recently working on the leveling game again, which is odd because most of its playerbase is max level. And unlike most other MMOs, there's little reason to create alts due to the way character progression, skills, etc are designed. The only reason to have any is if you want to play on multiple servers.

I mentioned MMO because in a strange turn of events, the dev team has decided to re-invent the game as more of an ARPG instead of a MMO. This was the basis of their announcement in June as that games convention. Take what you will of that and what it means but my instinct says it's because they feel ARPGs are more in demand by gamers these days instead of the latter, which makes sense given their other recent announcements for controller support and console launches.

All that being said, I haven't logged in even once in at least 2 months and don't see myself doing so any time soon. The community is also pretty shitty and toxic but I'm guessing many of them aren't logging in much anymore either.

Daidraco said:

I think its fucking pants on head retarded to use this games engine and its horrible code structure to make another game, but thats literally the only thing that would describe why they continue to put so much effort into it.

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The word was that this same dev team was supposedly going to be entrusted to create a new LOTR MMO that Amazon has the rights to make. No real details on it have been released yet to my knowledge but given the way those guys were developing and managing New World, I have very low expectations for it if true.

That swimming animation going hard after all these years

Xerge said:

That swimming animation going hard after all these years

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If the game would have stayed in development for another year, I dont think we would have seen things like Swimming fixed. I know now that as much as that team flip flops on decisions, that the game would have stayed in perpetual development hell regardless. But the team having a focused delivery goal, like bringing the game to consoles - thats the kind of goal post they needed all along. Which there are probably team members assigned to fixing all the long standing problems, like swimming, for the new player base that will be coming to the game now.

Personally, I hope that if they are truly developing another MMO in the shadows - that they take all of this as a learning experience and really knock it out of the park. I'd love to play a LOTR's game that isnt some fucking travesty of a game like the current one is.

Open beta for the new client starts tomorrow if anyone cares enough; capped at level 30 and there's skin rewards for participating.

I watched Baggins talk about it. The new gear score stuff is locked behind a time-gated item. Meh.

Time gated raids and the like and it is BOP

Not sure that is the best option - NW raids have been pretty frustrating in their design thus far

So they removed trading in the game for high-end gear?

Maybe for this 725 GS stuff anyways

The game feels good different thats for sure. This might turn it around for new world

Biggest problem for me with new world is it didn't really follow through on the player driven economy. Auction house took all the crafting and threw it in the trash.

After x days, the Auction house just turns into a vendor that sells everything. Why even have crafting. Sure someone had to make all this shit but there's so much of it and any effort is obscured.

Remake new world into ultima online and it would do it for me. Scarce resources, open world pvp with item loot and player housing organicly placed in the world and it changes everything so much.