New World

All over the place, we are waiting for the transfers to come together i think.

Personally i'm on Hydras which is right on the border of capacity. Generally few queues but at peak times it can (rarely) reach 300.

Highlight from the 1.0.1 patch notes:

Added additional AFK prevention to ensure players cannot fool the existing system with simulated mouse movement.

Shortened the AFK warning message from 20mins to 15mins.

Shortened the AFK disconnect from 25mins to 20mins.

Haven't been able to log in since the weekend. Hopefully this will help!

Friends roped me into playing this, and it's... kinda dull? The combat doesn't feel great, and it feels like there's just a lot of busywork.

I've never really played an MMO before, because I feared getting addicted. But I'm not feeling any particular draw to keep playing this, aside from just hanging with friends during our endless lockdown. Maybe that's enough!

To each their own and all that, but I couldn't imagine playing this kind of game solo. I don't mind a bit of grind if there's some kind of social aspect to it, but if I really wanted to go solo I'd just... play a single-player game. The crafting, hunting and combat are miles better in solo-dedicated games like RDR2. Whereas here you're just watching numbers go up.

Having friends to play with can make almost any MMO, no matter how dull, at least ok, in my experience. Especially if there's some leadership or direction on what to do from some of them.

On the flip side unless an MMO is pretty compelling that means that as soon as RL takes a couple of people out (even temporarily) it's likely others will stop.

Kind of intrigued to see how long New World lasts with the current high population. Historically this kind of MMO, which is PvP-centric but not as wild as UO or EVE has done well for a couple of months then seen massive drop-off, but perhaps the 2021 audience is different?

The queues caused me to basically drop it for a bit, dont think i have logged in for a week. Which is quite something for a new MMO i normally go all in for the first month.

Away next week, if when i get back on 23rd there are queues i will probably lose all interest. No issue with rocky launchs but their is a line, the line being if i have to wait an hour to play then i will do something else.

Yeah I haven't had to queue for over a week now. On Saba server.

Sounds now is the time to start playing.

I was stuck for ages in the high 20s low 30s because the MSQ was locked behind a level cap, the town board missions were the same 3 things for next to no XP and I had no idea what to do next. I'd imagine it's the same problem all the way up.

Ha! I do like Josh's stuff. Totally off topic, but if you like MMOs and are at all interested in abandoned online games that still exist to be played through on Steam, check out his extended series on Otherland.


Genuinely fascinating look at the game and its troubled development, half-way through which he even gets contacted by one of the original devs to discuss.

I'm playing it, but I don't think I'd bother if it weren't for my friends playing it too. It's not terrible or anything, just a bit bland.

You guys seen the windowed mode exploit? Lol deary me. Damage invulnerability and gold/item duping ahoy!

youtu.be/hFbv-o7pa38

youtu.be/lLtLxTahSjo

Crazy stuff.

It is pretty amazing that Amazon, with enough cash to hire any devs in the world, managed to hire ones who replicated basic-ass network/client authority issues which were literally solved over 20 years ago. I mean, like, I literally, me, an individual random idiot, could have told them this would be something to avoid. And yet dozens of programmers, and probably at least a dozen management types went "Yup, uh-huh, sounds good!". I mean what the heck?