Amazon Game Studios has launched a developer roundtable video alongside a 2022 roadmap for its colonial fantasy MMO, New World.
New World’s Coronary heart of Insanity replace coming later this month will carry the Energy/Intelligence-scaling Blunderbuss weapon, in addition to the Tempest Coronary heart expedition, 3v3 PvP arenas, and expanded PvP rewards.
The video principally covers the Coronary heart of Insanity replace, with a particular concentrate on the expedition’s concentrate on the character Isabella, beforehand encountered within the Dynasty Shipyard Expedition. The video was lighter on element concerning the PvP adjustments, and we should see how these pan out within the game itself.
Summer season will see one other new expedition, the pirate-themed Barnacles and Black Powder, alongside the introduction of an LFG device for Expeditions and an as-of-yet undisclosed Summer season occasion.
The most important additions are coming in Autumn, round New World’s one-year anniversary. The world map shall be expanded with the Brimstone Sands area, and gamers could have entry to a different new weapon with its personal moveset and skill timber: the Greatsword. The Autumn replace may even add one other new Expedition, the Ennead, in addition to leaderboards and two occasions: Nightvale Hallow and Turkulon 2022.
These all look like welcome additions to New World, however they do not strike me as more likely to deal with the underlying points recognized by PC {Gamer}’s resident New World skilled, Fraser Brown, in his overview and 2022 state of the game piece like declining server populations and instability within the in-game financial system.
Some standard posts on the game’s subreddit proceed to name for extra server mergers to maximise the game’s contracted participant base. Moreover, the concentrate on PvE Expeditions within the 2022 updates doesn’t appear to be enjoying into New World’s strengths in its PvP or the player-driven financial system that, whereas flawed, stays a singular draw. Following a formidable launch (the most important by way of concurrent gamers for a game on Steam in 2021) and equally huge decline in participant rely, New World should be struggling to seek out the rhythm that some long-running mid-tier MMOs like Guild Wars 2 or Star Wars: the Outdated Republic have managed to hit.