April PTR

newworld.com:

Greetings, Adventurers!

With the Heart of Madness content update now live and providing our players with tons of new and exciting challenges in Aeterum, the development team has taken the opportunity to provide some further quality-of-life changes. We understand that annoying bugs and issues with certain skills can negatively impact your enjoyment of New World, so we’ve put together a number of changes to make life in Aeternum a little more enjoyable while vanquishing enemy factions or simply crafting your next health potion.

For this quality of life patch (QoL), we’ll be hosting a brief stability test on the Public Test Realm. Once this update has been thoroughly vetted by players & our internal testing teams, and we’ve gained confidence in its stability, we’ll conclude this time-limited test and bring these collective changes to your characters on the main New World game. Please keep in mind that due to the smaller size of this patch and the focus of direct QoL changes (instead of large new features), this stability test will run significantly shorter than our traditional early-access PTR testing for more substantial updates.

For those interested in participating, the new PTR client will be available for preload on April 11 with the server “US East PTR 1” opening on April 12 at 10AM PT (7PM UTC). At this time, our PTR sub-forum will re-open as well, where you can provide us with feedback and reports of any new bugs or performance issues encountered throughout the test period (alternative, you may instead utilize our in-game feedback tool accessible from the main navigational menu).

Check out the April PTR Release Notes on the forums for our full list of changes included within this update!

This special preview client will