Summary

• New World frustrates players with glitches, gold-duplicating hacks, and lack of balance changes to end-game content.
• Swimming is nonexistent in New World, adding a strange limitation to a fantasy MMORPG.
• Fast travel in New World is expensive, using precious resources and limiting players' ability to explore efficiently.

The anticipation for 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:New World was a massive moment within the MMORPG community, and its beta and initial release were met with a colossal amount of hype. In the months following, however, the blossoming New World community has become increasingly frustrated with the lack of developments from 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:Amazon Game Studios.

Some glitches remain prevalent, gold-duplicating hacks are still being combated, and this is not even to mention the balance changes to end-🌌game content players have been pleading for. More than this, many of New World's key features flat-out just do not make sen🔯se.

Updated February 15, 2024, by Sean Murray: New World is a bit different compared to most MMORPGs. You can more easily read this refreshed list thanks to the updated formatting and better understand just why this game is so different. Or you could navigate to one of the helpful links that have been added.

6 🀅 You Fall While Walking Downstairs 🧔

New World has made us realize that we have been taking other games' walking mechanics for granted. Like most MMORPGs, New World has fall damage. Taking this one step further, however, New World also has "stagger" physics, where you as a player might not have𒊎 technically fallen far enough to take any physical damage, but just enough to halt you for a moment.

Undoubtedly, this physics feature was created with realism and immersion in mind. Nothing could be less immersive than walking down a particularly steep set of stairs, only to go careening forward like a toddler with no center of gravity. It seems that on steep inclines, if you do not position your mouse so that your perspective is parallel with the angle of your descent, you simply start tumbling forward, with such a dramatic outcry every time that you would think your character had been ❀gut-punched.

5 🎀 You Cannot𒀰 Swim In Water

With any MMORPG featuring a fantasy world surrounded by massive spans of ocean, there always comes the same dilemma. What to do with all that water? Other MMORPGs have solved the problem of having so much ocean by creating a barrier that adds a fatal debuff to the player once they've crossed that ocean limit. New World has decided to avoid granting you access to the deep ocean altogether, by straight-up not even allowing you to swim. If it can be called a decision.

Rather than beginning a swimming animation once you are neck-deep in any body of water, your head simply dips beneath the surface, and a breathing timer begins ticking down how many seconds you have left to live. In a game that carries so much focus on encumbrance, you could argue that being "weighed down" in the water was an intentional choice. On the other hand, in a story where you and every other soul who was not born on Aeternum undoubtedly had to sail in order to get here, you would think at least one of these sailors would know how to swim.

4 The Cost Of Fast Travel Is Too High 🦩

It is quite a bold move to completely break away from the inclusion of "mounts", a feature that is a staple in any other MMORPG. New World has built this decision into the game's lore, justifying the choice with texts detailing how any animal who sets foot in Aeternum "goes feral," forgetting their domestication.

This would contradict the fact that you can find dogs on the porches of settlement houses, their tongues lolling happily, but we digress.

Instead, travel 💜in New World is dependent on walking and Fast Travel. The catch is, the cost of Fast Travel just so happens to use one of your most precious resources: Azoth. You only receive Azoth in small doses throughout New World, namely from completing quests and clearing Corrupted Breaches. With so little Azoth to go around, and more important uses for the resource like crafting buffs, spending Azoth to Fast Travel to even nearby locations is an absolute waste.

3 Deco꧑ration Scores Punish You For Decorati♛ng

No, this isn't 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:The Sims 4 but in New World. Owning a House in any settlement has more benefits than just "free" Fast Travel. Once you own a house, you can start to collect trophies, which are items to be placed inside your home that grant you buffs as you play throughout Aeternum. For the sake of your own vanity, you can also increase your house's ranking in your settlement by boosting your Decoration Score. Players with the highest score receive the honor of their house exteriors being viewabꦺle by others entering the settlement.

But while Decoration Scores encourage utilizing your space with the maximum amount of trophies and furniture, it also punishes you for the very same thing. Furniture items that clip into each other or the environment take a ding at your score, which might seem simple enough, but this oftentimes includes placing chairs under tables and even✤ wall sconces on walls.

2 Town🌸 Economies Are Not Only Unstable But Cheata🥃ble

The Trading Posts have been shut down multiple times since New World's release, due to game-breaking exploits that allowed players to duplicate high-tier items to sell, among other exploits. This might seem like no biggie to outsiders unfamiliar with New World, and it would be, except for the fact that New World has no NPC merchants.

Without Trading Posts or coin transfers between players, there are no feasible means of making money in New World. Because New World's economy is so dependent on its players, who are often searching for ways to exploit the market, even when the Trading Post is live, many are beginning to find🃏 that they are losing more money on taxes than they are making in the grind. Feels a little too real, Jeff.

1 We Are Objectively The "Bad Guys"🦹

It is frustrating enough that so many of the core mechanics in New World feel broken, but when the lore itself forces you to take a step back, your immersion is completely broken. Amazon Games tries its best to avoid overtones of colonization or imperialism, but it is inevitable. This is a story, after all, of men and women in European garb traveling to an "undiscovered" island that promises ♒the boon of eternal life, only to discover that the land is in fact already settled.

In New World, they try to gloss over any depictions of "conquerors" versus "natives" by depicting the inhabitants of Aeternum as the "Lost" or "Withered". Zombies who have been granted eternal life by the island and "gone mad". Yet the Lost seem to be pretty peaceful among themselves whenever we are not slaying them for quest objectives. They do n♑ot harm the land itself or the wildlife, onﷺly attacking when provoked. Despite all the game's sanitization of the core conflict, it would seem that we are the evil invaders here.