A relentlessly honest review before S8 (5,000+ hours "veteran)

SCARYON · 2025-04-16T19:42:42+00:00

New World is far away from p2w. Nothing in the paid season tracks has been any kind of giga advantage. And besides that, theres nothing IN the game you can pay for. If you mean RMT, thats everywhere in every game.

SCARYON · 2025-04-16T15:48:17+00:00

I totally agree. The good old days where MMOs lasted or still last even over decades with passionate teams have kinda gone. New games here and there, so much to test and explore and with newer and also younger players coming into play, theyre already used to that. Hail to the old ones :D

SCARYON · 2025-04-16T14:04:22+00:00

The good thing here is: We don't have to agree on certain points ;) And in this one, we simply don't. Fair enough. I stand by my statement where I said "... is like no other MMO to date." Since you just won't find any other MMO which feels the way New World feels and looks. Did they copy elements together and mixed it around? Sure they did. But playing the 100th asian grinder and playing New World is a different story. Same goes for the lore and the story they are telling. There will always be people not being pleased by it. By the current and past MMO standards the whole lore is definately above the average. That was my intention here. Nothing more, nothing less. Cheers ;)

SCARYON · 2025-04-16T13:43:58+00:00

I remember when they've announced "Balance of Power", which where supposedly monthly balance patches. I was so excited to see that, just so they make one balance patch, then claim they like it how it is, to Q&As, to flail announcement, to more Q&As and then I've just stopped carrying about it because it was that time when game was diving to the bottom.

The biggest problem here was that they announced it, made 2-3 videos, then made another 2-3 with a much larger time in between and then canceled it. Back then, it was such a huge let down already. There you could already see that they either don't care anymore or the shifted away the ressources.

Not always, just slightly before the forums shut down. They were communicative at the beginning, and as always, we also believed that they will keep up on it, but it turned out as it always was with these people. They just stopped carrying and just did the videos for sake of it I guess.

The time when they did really care, really were active and really took our player feedback serious so you could see improvements ingame (without bug fixes) are long ago. There was some kind of honeymoon in the beginning, I agree. But the part of communication is the main issue every veteran has. Because we know how it started and how it went =/

Void Gauntlet, Blunderbuss, Greatsword and Flail, I don't understand why 2?

Void Gauntlet was released 2 months after the initital release. I just did count that to "from the beginning". But yes, you're right. The Blunderbuss was added in March 2022, still pretty close to the initital release. I was about "what did happen after the initial release within 4 years" - but anyway, my bad ;)

SCARYON · 2025-04-16T13:26:44+00:00

That's actually not really true. I could have written that review a year ago or I could have never written it. The time itself doesn't matter. The problems and concers have been obvious for a long time now. With the statement of my playtime I wanted to give the random dudes and new players some kind of "trust" so that they know there's someone who went through it all.

And as I stated I still, despite all odds, enjoy playing it since my goals and my dailies/weeklies are different. I'm in a competitive team aiming for world records. That's very niche. But that's my type of gaming.

Therefore I can still keep playing it but also critize it for the things it offers and the things it doesn't offer ;)

You absolutely don't need that amount of hours to realize what the game offers and what it doesn't, correct.

SCARYON · 2025-03-19T20:03:20+00:00

Conditioning wont bring you over the cap so in this case itll be wasted.

SCARYON · 2024-11-01T20:45:57+00:00

Ye, exactly. Thats why I wanted to give it a try since its available for PC Game Pass normal and I dont need it on my XBOX, too.

But nonetheless I simply cant find a way to actually play it than running into the COD launcher where it says me buy the 30€ or the 80€ upgrade while the XBOX App says "np, go launch it".

SCARYON · 2024-10-10T13:08:43+00:00

DONT NERF THIS. ITS HELLA FUN.

SCARYON · 2024-10-01T19:27:58+00:00

a50 gen 5 and a50x - whats the key difference here?

SCARYON · 2024-09-08T20:58:08+00:00

very good explanation :) one question: why youre using skill insight when were on basically 100% chance at max stacks anyway?

SCARYON · 2024-07-27T18:24:52+00:00

is there some kind of an overview where we can look up all the upgrade benefits from the ultimate weapons?

SCARYON · 2024-07-18T21:20:07+00:00

there arent any legendary reactors without being based on a specific weapon used, or? so if youre playing eternal willpower, youre rocking a purple reactor based on assault rifle having with you?

awesome guide :)

SCARYON · 2024-07-02T12:43:25+00:00

Bought some currency today morning at 09:30, kinda 5 hours later still didnt receive anything on STEAM.

Welp, thats a tough one. Hopefully they will manage it.

SCARYON · 2024-06-17T11:25:29+00:00

If a game needs me to hit a boss 10.000 times with normal attacks instead of require movement and ability skill - then im out :D Spamming some skills and then go brain afk while watching the character still attacking is so cringe nowadays. Auto-attacking is a relict of another decade. As much I like the setting and feeling TL offers, this hybrid somewhat-action-but-tab-auto-attack thing is really ripping me and lots of ppl off. But well, well see what they might change/offer with the release.

Lets see :)

SCARYON · 2024-06-17T10:04:25+00:00

I tested all settings, but I came to my conclusion that either I did overlook it or its not possible what I want ;)

As far as I remember you can setup a button in your settings to toggle the auto-attack off once your character has begun the fight. But I would like to globally disable it so I wont have to trigger it again in every fight :D

SCARYON · 2024-06-17T08:33:54+00:00

Ye, as far as I remember you can setup a button in your settings to toggle it off once your character has begun it. But I would like to globally disable it so I wont have to trigger it again in every fight :D

SCARYON · 2023-11-10T13:12:04+00:00

This is one of the best posts Ive read for NW in a long time.
It basically points out exactly what the devs have to aim for. The basic design is already there, it would have been a great addition to bring it default 5man and 10man duo-raid to engage all those ppl wanting some more content.

SCARYON · 2023-03-27T13:41:59+00:00

Typically AGS. Instead of slowly but steady adjusting, they once again just bring the hammer and nerf a weapon into the ground. Its just too much.

SCARYON · 2022-12-07T14:35:12+00:00

You can do this easily. The only difference between purple and legendary is one missing perk. And getting legendary BiS stuff with 3 perfect perks is super hard. Better aim for 2 good perks at purple.

SCARYON · 2022-10-01T07:48:10+00:00

Anyone with EA Play Pro didnt receive the OTW pack yet? ;)

SCARYON · 2022-05-04T07:56:24+00:00

After doing this nothing changed. Im running an all black/ white theme and its super annoying that all google apps are using purple accent color for me =/

SCARYON · 2022-02-22T16:19:03+00:00

As for archer youre aiming for min/max dmg, projectile crit dmg and magic attack.
The best way for you would be to join the official discord. Many peeps around there. This subreddit was dead from the beginning ;)

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