New World Won't See New Content In February, Devs Focusing On Bug Fixes Instead
Amazon Games' MMORPG New World won't see any major content releases in February, with the team instead looking to focus on delivering as many bug fixes as possible.
The news comes via a New World developer update video, in which different members of the development team discuss a variety of topics, ranging from soon-to-be-added systems like mutators to various technical issues the team is looking to address.
Bug fixes are currently a big priority for Amazon, which is why the game's February update won't include any new content.
«February is just a bug fix month,» senior producer Katy Kaszynski said. «There's no major content that is coming with the February release. We have some things that we are focusing on for that to make sure we get a good amount of fixes in and we make a real difference for the players that have been asking for things for a long time.»
New World has been crippled on multiple occasions due to various bugs, including multiple instances of gold and item duplication exploits that led to Amazon temporarily disabling the game's entire economy. While most of those issues have been fixed quickly once discovered, there are still a number of issues that are priorities for the team. In addition to fixes for various bugged quests, missing ingredients, and other issues, the team is also looking to improve server desync issues and making weapon swapping more reliable.
Part of ironing out many of the game's technical issues means giving players more time on the game's public test realm--at least two and a half weeks--to test out potential bug fixes and new features, which in turn gives the team more time to react to player feedback.
«We learned the first PTR, when we gave ourselves like seven days, we were like
Read more on gamespot.com
