New World Update 1.4.2 Kicks Off Easter Event

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Since Amazon Games' flagship MMORPG New World wasreleased last September, it has received continued support in the form of larger monthly content updates as well as weekly patches. Fitting the theme of the season, this weekly update brings New World players a festive mini-event along with the expected minor fixes that come with a weekly patch.

Like most MMORPGs, New World's island of Aeternumcelebrates its own seasonal events. Most notably, players were recently tasked with exploring icy caves, visiting holiday villages, and collecting winter tokens during the Winter Convergence Festival that ran from December 16th through January 25th. Christmas, Halloween, Thanksgiving, New Year's Eve, and Valentine's Day are some of the most common MMORPG holiday themes celebrated everywhere from World of Warcraft's Azeroth to Final Fantasy XIV's Eorzea.

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This week's Easter-themed seasonal event in New World is called Rabbits' Revenge. Corruption has spread to Aeternum's rabbit population, and adventurers are tasked with hunting them down in return for special rewards. These rewards include Defiled Rabbit's foot, a consumable that increases luck, Diamond Gypsum, which increases expertise for a chosen gear type, and the Defiled Storage Chest of the Hare, a rare drop that provides extra storage capacity along with a unique Corruption atmosphere for New World's player housing. These consumable items can only be collected a few times a day, so adventurers won't be caught up hunting corrupted rabbits all day long. Rabbits' Revenge will run for two weeks.

Alongside the mini-event, a few fixes have been implemented in this weekly update. Previous versions of the «Saboteur» and «Master of the Tempest» quests have