New World Update 5.0.1
Greetings, Adventurers!
New World Update 5.0.1 downtime will begin at 11:00PM PT (6:00AM UTC) on April 16 and last approximately 1.5 hours. Springtide Bloom is back! Craft Wispy Spritz, lure Wispy Wasps into their blast radius, and reap Wispy Wasp Goo in exchange for Springtide Tokens. Additional rewards can be earned through Springtide Centerpieces, Party Bags, Prismabloom Harvests, and the Event Shop. Explore the full release notes, including a variety of combat fixes, below.
Fixed an issue that could cause patch deltas to sometimes be larger than necessary, resulting in longer client downloads. Patches going forward should be a more reasonable download size.
Fixed a common client crash introduced with the initial release of Season 5.
Fixed a common server crash introduced with the initial release of Season 5.
Fixed an issue where the player could be stuck in a falling state.
Fixed an issue that caused player characters to stop animating when falling off ledges while already in the middle of an upper-body animation, such as spell casting.
Fixed a rare issue that could cause the runes in the Winter Rune Forge puzzle to not show up.
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Fixed an exploit for the Spear weapon that required weapon-swapping and dodging to gain extra damage.
Fixed several exploits for the Bow weapon that required the use of third-party software to gain extra damage.
Fixed an exploit for the Bow weapon that required action-cancelling to gain extra damage.
Fixed an exploit where character movement velocity was incorrectly inherited during certain ranged attacks, allowing the player to reposition while crouched at a higher movement speed.
Fixed an issue that caused a forced delay after casting the Ice Gauntlet’s “Ice Storm” mastery ability, preventing blocking actions.
Fixed an issue that caused the Hatchet’s “Berserking Purge” ability to not cleanse Crowd Control effects on the player, such as stuns.
Fixed an issue that caused the “Sword & Shield” weapon to allow an uncharged
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