New World Update Makes Endgame Changes
For years now, the world of MMORPGs has been dominated by long-lasting giants like World of Warcraft, Guild Wars, and Elder Scrolls. Amazon's recent release New World aimed to change that, but despite a successful launch, the title has since become notorious for all the wrong reasons. Now, New World appears to be trying to salvage the situation with a patch full of endgame tweaks and weapon upgrades.
A series of gold duplication glitches and related exploits have led to a lot of trouble in New World throughout 2021. The developers eventually resorted to disabling server transfers and wealth trading in an attempt to clamp down on the issue. Unfortunately, this decision appears to have led to a lot of frustration in the game's player base.
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The most recent New World patch is adding some small but important changes to the MMORPG's endgame portion. Specifically, the developers have fixed an issue that was causing unclear communication on how players could unlock higher Mutator difficulties. Now, although difficulties 1 — 5 still state Silver rank is required, difficulty 6 — 10 will now inform players that Gold rank is required. The team also fixed an issue that prevented players who had umbral shards in storage from upgrading any equipment while storage was open.
This week's patch also comes with a number of more general fixes and updates. One of New World's many weapons, the Absolute Terror Legendary gauntlet item, has had its second Keen perk replaced with a Refreshing perk. Next, the developers report fixing an issue that could cause players in PvP to enter a state where movement speed could be adjusted wrongly for long periods of time. They also addressed a second
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