New World

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5.6

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  1. electric555
    Dec 26, 2021
    3
    Худшая ММОРПГ в которую я играл! Столько хайпа было а игре буквально все плохо. Оптимизация стала чуть лучше но на релизе было отвратительно! Я мучался от синих экранов и 30 фпс с учетом того что у меня хороший компьютер! Скучные квесты (убей 10, открой 5, собери 5) и это все квесты в игре! Сюжета нет вообще! Лор где-то там в записках, я что в соулсы играю?? Геймплей 3 кнопки в ММО!Худшая ММОРПГ в которую я играл! Столько хайпа было а игре буквально все плохо. Оптимизация стала чуть лучше но на релизе было отвратительно! Я мучался от синих экранов и 30 фпс с учетом того что у меня хороший компьютер! Скучные квесты (убей 10, открой 5, собери 5) и это все квесты в игре! Сюжета нет вообще! Лор где-то там в записках, я что в соулсы играю?? Геймплей 3 кнопки в ММО! серьезно? Нет хайэнда! Но это еще все припудрено кучей багов, эксплоитов и дюперов! Разрабы вообще не понимают как развивать игру и как ее починить! Профы просто забей, не ведитесь на ревью тех кто хвалит профы... Они бесполезны. Я закрыл весь контент без проф… Expand
  2. Thorgon
    Jun 11, 2022
    0
    Game in on death bed, bugs, lag, desync, item and money duplication, weapon balance keeps getting worse with every patch, they say they fixed thousands of bugs but with each patch, thousands more are added... I have uninstalled and the game and will never touch it again.
  3. JaredRex
    Oct 22, 2022
    0
    It's Oct 2022. The game still has server queue issues DAILY.
    I now have to wait 3-4 hours just to play it.
    And they don't provide you with a free token to move your character to a less populated server.
    So if you buy this you might not be able to enjoy it
  4. urieaal
    Dec 30, 2021
    3
    game is alright till you want to craft or really do end game.

    the time sinks are just too many and too much. crafting is my biggest gripe and the lack of end game pvp and pve.

    i dont like how they did crafting. need t1 to make t2 and t1 and t2 to make t3 stuff f-ing lazy and stupid.
    its like a farming sim instead of an actual mmo.
  5. ClarkKunt
    Dec 1, 2022
    5
    In short: this game is **** don't waste your time with it. But there are some positives about the game I would like to mention. World of New World (lol) is beautiful and it's really fun to explore. Sandbox MMO is a cool idea, vaulting and movement are great overall. NW is also very social game and has proximity chat which I just love, that's how the MMOs should be designed in the firstIn short: this game is **** don't waste your time with it. But there are some positives about the game I would like to mention. World of New World (lol) is beautiful and it's really fun to explore. Sandbox MMO is a cool idea, vaulting and movement are great overall. NW is also very social game and has proximity chat which I just love, that's how the MMOs should be designed in the first place, as massive multiplayer games, not single player. Another amazing thing about this game is the music system, it's basically a guitar hero minigame. Also graphics are overall really impressive for an MMO. And that's about it. Now the negatives. Leveling system is repetetive boring mess, gear progression is tedious RNG grind, combat system is terrible clunky garbage and that's a big problem because this game was supposed to be heavily PvP focused. Speaking about PvP, it's insanely gear focused and progression is terribly designed so you will be a punching bag for geared players until you'll get your own gear after countless hours of boring grind (no ELO or skill based matchmaking). Instanced PvE content is garbage and it's not on par with other MMOS, etc., etc. I could go on an on, but let's be real no one cares. Bottom line is: This game is popping right now on Steam because of the fresh servers but when new players realize what kind of game this is, they will just leave. This game has no future, don't waste your time with it boys.… Expand
  6. Dubeau
    Dec 11, 2022
    6
    New World should be considered as an average MMORPG. The story seems ok, but it surrounded by a lot of fetching quests that gets boring really fast. It's also very hard to get invested in them, apart from the pirate girl. I played solo and wasn't excessively attracted by the online features. I look at Expeditions and Factions, but I couldn't get anyone into them. It's dull to have aNew World should be considered as an average MMORPG. The story seems ok, but it surrounded by a lot of fetching quests that gets boring really fast. It's also very hard to get invested in them, apart from the pirate girl. I played solo and wasn't excessively attracted by the online features. I look at Expeditions and Factions, but I couldn't get anyone into them. It's dull to have a minimum of 5 peoples, and only get two. The fighting is pretty decent with special moves and good upgrades.

    There was the items creation that was kind of fun. Getting a house is something, but you feel like it was an after though. The items for the house are difficult to create. So the Trade options serve has the main store. You can basically buy everything in it. So, what's the point of grinding ? Also the salvage option is ridiculous. It gives you repair parts and money, but no resources. So any jewel you put on salvage gear, is permanently lost. Graphically the game suffers from drawing distance being way too short. You have tons of clipping errors (try turning the camera very fast. Some UI glitches too. They did a winter update and manage to broke their own game. There is a lot of voice overs. They are pretty good. The music is quite good too. Some caverns and towns are extremely confusing to navigate. I wasn't sold on the idea of the fast travel. the way it is done and why some large areas are completely devoted of it, while some smaller ones are full of them. Why isn't there any means of transportation in this game, is a poor decision. The AI is really strange. I don't know if it bad or not, but you will nerve see an enemy flee when you are way stronger. I give it 65%. I got really bored after 36 hours, at level 40.    … Expand
  7. Samfortal14
    Nov 18, 2022
    1
    Game is good but the game is suffering with hacks and bots since release and they keep ignoring the issues. They have money but they don't hire a security Dev to fix the game.
  8. Bbdr
    Jul 5, 2022
    6
    not as fun as most have expected and the game need to have a lot more players in the game
  9. Atew
    Aug 3, 2022
    6
    the combat needs work and hopefully the next time they can improve on these more
  10. R3volTzZ
    Sep 5, 2022
    0
    Filas enormes na America do Sul....
    COMO QUE A AMAZON NÃO TEM IDEIA DO TAMANHO DA AMERICA DO SUL?????
    Crash, Falhas de conexão e dentre outros são comuns durante o jogo... Você entra no game e tem que esperar na fila ai quando finalmente esta no jogo ele da algum problema e te desloga, ai tu volta pra fila novamente e CADA VEZ MAIS LONGA.... É um ótimo jogo, pena estar nas mãos da    Filas enormes na America do Sul....
    COMO QUE A AMAZON NÃO TEM IDEIA DO TAMANHO DA AMERICA DO SUL?????
    Crash, Falhas de conexão e dentre outros são comuns durante o jogo...
    Você entra no game e tem que esperar na fila ai quando finalmente esta no jogo ele da algum problema e te desloga, ai tu volta pra fila novamente e CADA VEZ MAIS LONGA....
    É um ótimo jogo, pena estar nas mãos da Amazon....    … Expand
  11. brokencinho
    Dec 21, 2022
    0
    Literalmente el peor MMORPG que probe mas de 50hs jugando, aclanzas el max lv, fue monotono los pesonajes no pueden "nadar" wtf? No lo recomiendo.
  12. Crazygame
    Jan 16, 2023
    7
    - If you play meele build, the game hit feeling is so so but if you preffer caster build the game is so weak to play as caster.
    - The story of game is so weak
    - I liked crafting system in game. - the game has the best fishing I've ever played - Graphics are not bad but creative visual is weak. Everywhere looks similiar also creatures too. -Quests are not bad but you usually make same    - If you play meele build, the game hit feeling is so so but if you preffer caster build the game is so weak to play as caster.
    - The story of game is so weak
    - I liked crafting system in game.
    - the game has the best fishing I've ever played
    - Graphics are not bad but creative visual is weak. Everywhere looks similiar also creatures too.
    -Quests are not bad but you usually make same things after a while
    -The game hasnt mount.
    I believe it will get better with time...    … Expand
  13. Doomka
    Oct 21, 2021
    0
    Game has auto ban system. If you think people get banned for bad behavior in chat, you are compelely wrong. You will get banned just for passing by someone who is from opposite fraction, or gathering a resource before someone else. Anyone can report you without any avidence and you will receive a ban for days. Please throw away your 40$ and get banned after 2 days of playing.

    Yes, you    Game has auto ban system. If you think people get banned for bad behavior in chat, you are compelely wrong. You will get banned just for passing by someone who is from opposite fraction, or gathering a resource before someone else. Anyone can report you without any avidence and you will receive a ban for days. Please throw away your 40$ and get banned after 2 days of playing.

    Yes, you can try to appeal your ban, to which you will receive an asnwer: "We understand that you realize your mistake and will not repeat it in future". When you have given all details for doing nothing wrong.    … Expand
  14. Maou6
    Oct 24, 2021
    3
    - TL;DR - New World (right now) is like living with a girlfriend that looks very hot (great graphic) but cheats on you and even tells you sometimes (broken, buggy, exploitable) not to see your reaction but just because it's too obvious for her to try to hide anymore.

    Been putting in more than a 100hrs, not gonna say I didn't had fun for a while but MMOs are about constant progression,    - TL;DR - New World (right now) is like living with a girlfriend that looks very hot (great graphic) but cheats on you and even tells you sometimes (broken, buggy, exploitable) not to see your reaction but just because it's too obvious for her to try to hide anymore.

    Been putting in more than a 100hrs, not gonna say I didn't had fun for a while but MMOs are about constant progression, sense of purpose and growth in a digital world, but right now there's none of those things.

    Economy (and with it all that concerns gathering because all materials are procured by the players) in itself should be at the basis of New World, as well as gathering, doesn't matter tho when there's a Gold exploit that makes it irrelevant.
    PvP would be another pillar of New World if it wasn't for another exploits that Everyone that wants to win uses (not gonna go into details you can pick that up for yourself) and I'm not talking about duels and stuff, altho you could use it there too, but mainly the big guild vs guild wars in the endgame. And I believe up till now AGS haven't even addressed it.

    This is just the tip of the iceberg btw, not gonna bother list all the problems this game has right now, and besides 5k characters would probably not be enough.

    Before I said I had fun, where was the fun had you ask? When you put some music or podcast in the background and go gathering and questing and you're none the wiser to these problems, but what would that make people? Mindless drones that AGS is all too happy to squeeze dry to boost the game popularity and their wallets. I've been there and I regret it. And I genuinely wanted this game to be good and to have fun but this is insulting.

    If you want to turn your brain off and go up to Lv 60 be it via questing, gathering or whatever it's perfectly fine, get back your moneys worth, but Right Now, it would be pointless. Because the economy and the game itself is so broken that only a rollback to the servers would fix things But, there's a lot of servers and a loot of people playing in all of them right now and I don't think they'd ever bother with it, they made their money already.

    Maybe changes will come, maybe not, maybe the game will survive, maybe not, but RN, maybe just get to Lv 60 as I did and uninstall and Hopefully, one day it'll make sense to play it.    … Expand
  15. McFlanders
    Oct 18, 2021
    3
    Fried a perfectly good Radon RX5700. have always been able to play graphic intense games on my pc. however after playing this game for 144 hrs. started with periodically crashs once every 2-4 hrs. then gaps tightened. reduced all settings. no over clocks no enhancements. only undervolting the gup. Due to New worlds insane power spikes 30-60 volt +. card can no longer run any games nowFried a perfectly good Radon RX5700. have always been able to play graphic intense games on my pc. however after playing this game for 144 hrs. started with periodically crashs once every 2-4 hrs. then gaps tightened. reduced all settings. no over clocks no enhancements. only undervolting the gup. Due to New worlds insane power spikes 30-60 volt +. card can no longer run any games now PERIOD. have plenty of pictures of the main board of the GPU.

    Now I Don't want everything in this review to be me just bashing the game, Because the time i did get in the game was really good. Really liked the game play, the grinding,combat system, graphics, as well as the over all the feel of the game. Made it to level 45 with a loads of skills. and nothing but excitement for high level expeditions, skull zones, and areas.
    i obviously liked the game or else i wouldn't have had 144hrs into the game..

    HOWEVER: Now if you asked if i would recommend this game i would have to say NO. Due to the fact that i cant guarantee anyone is safe to play this game without the risk of compromising/breaking their hardware. In a time that computer components are near impossible to come by and if you do find parts you are forced to pay double if not triple msrp. Due to scalpers.

    IN CONCLUSION: YES i enjoyed the game. just super frustrated to be forced to stop playing cold turkey. with no chance to even play other games on my computer anymore now.. so no i cant i clear conscience recommend a game that has claimed many number of cards. be it software from the game, or caused by the hardware. wherever the fingers get pointed. Unless we get a hook up on another GPU or find one at msrp. My time in NEW WORLD has come to an unfortunate abrupt close.

    Hardware Specs: Msi B450 tomahawk, Ryzen 5 3600x , Radeon Rx 5700, 32Gigs corsair Dominator platinum Ram 3600MHz, RMx Series™ RM750x 80 PLUS Gold Certified PSU,    … Expand
  16. Jrdp
    Oct 29, 2021
    0
    Broken mmo with cheatable client mechanics (invulnerability cheat im looking to you), almost zero working end game content and horrendous development team that broke 5x more things on path that they solve.
  17. WandererTheLost
    Nov 10, 2021
    2
    In this PvP game, you will find that you have to sink about 100 hours in to try their unbalanced PvP. You can't really play it in any meaningful way until level 60 (the max level) and even then unless you want to sign up with a company plan on only doing half of it as the wars are only for them. Enjoy a game that they say is not client side but up until recently allowed duping andIn this PvP game, you will find that you have to sink about 100 hours in to try their unbalanced PvP. You can't really play it in any meaningful way until level 60 (the max level) and even then unless you want to sign up with a company plan on only doing half of it as the wars are only for them. Enjoy a game that they say is not client side but up until recently allowed duping and invulnerability by putting the game into windowed mode and just slightly moving the screen. Have fun cutting down literally tens of thousands of trees to level your lumber jacking skill to have a crafting system that is only important end game. There is no reasonable way to make any gear as you level up as the materials are so rare the the skills level so slowly in comparison to your rate of growth that you will just buy gear or find it off mobs. Take a look through all the different armors and builds you can choose from and then only use heavy armor because the damage buff you get from light armor doesn't scale faster then the armor growth. The healing buff from light armor actually just doesn't work either. Play through the story with any character you want but know if you choose anything but the high DPS weapons you will do it way slower. Still not a problem till you get to a story mission that is a boss locked behind a wall that no one but people with the quest can pass. Once again not a problem except that he constantly heals. I hope you are not playing solo healer as you physically can't deal enough damage to kill him.

    TLDR: So if a game where you can't play the unbalanced PvP until you get to max level, there is no armors viable except heavy, and you want to spend literally hundreds of hours doing menial gathering to get to the point it is usable, then this is the game for you.    … Expand
  18. GrosBof
    Nov 8, 2021
    2
    Alright gameplay at first and solid graphics. Advanced gameplay is broken.
    Pvp is broken. Quests are broken. Cities are broken. Story is broken. Groups are broken. Weapons are broken. Skills are broken. Interactions with the world are broken. Areas are broken. Dungeons are broken. The economy is broken. Crafting is broken. Housing is broken. Stuffing is broken. Gathering is broken.    Alright gameplay at first and solid graphics. Advanced gameplay is broken.
    Pvp is broken. Quests are broken. Cities are broken. Story is broken. Groups are broken. Weapons are broken. Skills are broken. Interactions with the world are broken. Areas are broken. Dungeons are broken. The economy is broken. Crafting is broken. Housing is broken. Stuffing is broken. Gathering is broken. Playing with friends is broken.    … Expand
  19. tacsensei
    Nov 20, 2021
    1
    As of 11/20/2021 a couple of days in the wake after 1.1 game is literally been nerfed and dev's have pushed progression straight out the window. I have never seen a more desperate push for content to try and stabilize the overwhelming bleed-out of players - losing about 10% of player base day-over-day since patch. They have skin schedule already marked out for Black Friday and the 100%As of 11/20/2021 a couple of days in the wake after 1.1 game is literally been nerfed and dev's have pushed progression straight out the window. I have never seen a more desperate push for content to try and stabilize the overwhelming bleed-out of players - losing about 10% of player base day-over-day since patch. They have skin schedule already marked out for Black Friday and the 100% have skins already lined up for Christmas. This game is becoming the biggest cash grab I have seen yet. They do not have any customer support- it's like talking to a wall. My friend got banned for no reason, he was casual only lvl 42, he's falled into depression and a lot of us have decided to quit the game until we can get justice for him.

    Would highly advise against spending money or trying this game at its current state.    … Expand
  20. NiteKnight
    Nov 20, 2021
    0
    Last patch killed the game, added a new weapon we didn’t want and a ton of bugs but they made sure to update their cash shop with new skins
  21. Ryonin
    Nov 21, 2021
    0
    Everything to be perfect, with a competent staff, which it does not have. I really love it but there are so many bugs and exploits and whenever 1 is fixed 2 new ones are created. AGS is more focused in creating future content than it is in fixing content that already exists but doesnt work. If you like crafting turn around and run cuz that is especialy bugged
  22. JohnMm
    Nov 25, 2021
    0
    One of the worst games I’ve played. Filled with so many bugs and has very bad optimization. Exploiters and cheaters everywhere. Executive decisions are terrible and has made more than half of the player base quit. I’ve never been so disappointed in any product. I feel scammed.
  23. crankerogami
    Dec 11, 2021
    1
    So I try to translate into English, I have 245 hours in New World and I am Lvl 60. In the end, I came to the conclusion that it is just a farm simulator and has very little to do with PVP. The worst comes now because there were bugs in the game and may have been used unintentionally, such as the Bug Action House for gold. I can go online one day and was banned with the reason that I wouldSo I try to translate into English, I have 245 hours in New World and I am Lvl 60. In the end, I came to the conclusion that it is just a farm simulator and has very little to do with PVP. The worst comes now because there were bugs in the game and may have been used unintentionally, such as the Bug Action House for gold. I can go online one day and was banned with the reason that I would have used glitches and I'm not an isolated incident either.… Expand
  24. pjnt
    Dec 16, 2021
    5
    Really good fun to start, but then the grind grinds you. Much of the stuff happens client side, so there are game hacks and bugs that really kill the joy once you venture out into the meta-verse of gameplay.

    Not worth it.
  25. 2425
    Oct 21, 2021
    1
    This game has absolutely no direction.
    People still playing this must be on copium.
  26. Manstrik
    Oct 20, 2021
    0
    If you ask me how to release a game which is gonna be worse I'll tell you that it's impossible because New world can't beat anyone. I'm 60 level and I tried kind of everything and I got 60 within 4 days due to a lot of time I had during my vacation. Lets move to my review. Everything you can imagine is broken and it isn't just combat system in general but each weapon and each stat likeIf you ask me how to release a game which is gonna be worse I'll tell you that it's impossible because New world can't beat anyone. I'm 60 level and I tried kind of everything and I got 60 within 4 days due to a lot of time I had during my vacation. Lets move to my review. Everything you can imagine is broken and it isn't just combat system in general but each weapon and each stat like strength that breaks your animations and you just can't play the game.. Same thing goes to anything(crafting, gathering). Immortal players on sieges, broken timers on sieges that prevent anyone to declare war on your city, interface that just lives on its own. I don't know.. this list of bugs is endless but you get the idea I assume. And moreover developers don't communicate with their community at all! They secretly fix some bugs and you just don't know which exactly were fixed. Europeans just over and over again ask amazon to not launch their maintenance during daytime but they don't listen to us and even don't give any respond!… Expand
  27. Decawliss
    Oct 24, 2021
    0
    This game is soooo boring. You have 3 skills which you unlock at level 3, fight the same monsters over and over, the grinding is horrible (coming from someone who played wow for years and used to have fun mining and gathering mats) The fighting is clunky. When you die your item break even the items that are in your inventory, unequipped, and even in PVP. Save your money don't buy thisThis game is soooo boring. You have 3 skills which you unlock at level 3, fight the same monsters over and over, the grinding is horrible (coming from someone who played wow for years and used to have fun mining and gathering mats) The fighting is clunky. When you die your item break even the items that are in your inventory, unequipped, and even in PVP. Save your money don't buy this garbage. It will be fun for 5 hours then you realize you just wasted your time and money. Screw Amazon Games. They should keep to selling cheap made in china products, Oh wait that's exactly what this game feels like.… Expand
  28. Lavick
    Nov 1, 2021
    0
    This game has so many bugs and exploits. AGS fixes one bug and 3 more pop up. Right now all trading, including the market place is closed down due to ANOTHER gold duping bug.
  29. DeeTee
    Nov 18, 2021
    0
    I have logged 360+ Hours into the game and I can honestly say that this game is a mess.
    I have defended the game as much as I could and after the 3rd duping exploit I have had enough.
    Economy is a mess Bad weapon Balancing Bugs everywhere Bots everywhere Lots of reports of innocents people getting banned without notice or a reason. Amazon needs to pick themselves up to fix this    I have logged 360+ Hours into the game and I can honestly say that this game is a mess.
    I have defended the game as much as I could and after the 3rd duping exploit I have had enough.

    Economy is a mess
    Bad weapon Balancing
    Bugs everywhere
    Bots everywhere
    Lots of reports of innocents people getting banned without notice or a reason.

    Amazon needs to pick themselves up to fix this mess of a game.

    Would not recommend if you are a serious player.    … Expand
  30. Volmen
    Nov 19, 2021
    1
    Horrible, game! i play for about 60hrs and get on after 4 day vacation and find out im in one of their mass ban. bs. They wont even bother to reply to why they did it, they just have a bot auto reply this.

    Hello, We reviewed the information you provided on appeal and have confirmed that the original disciplinary action was merited in your case. We take such instances seriously as it    Horrible, game! i play for about 60hrs and get on after 4 day vacation and find out im in one of their mass ban. bs. They wont even bother to reply to why they did it, they just have a bot auto reply this.

    Hello,

    We reviewed the information you provided on appeal and have confirmed that the original disciplinary action was merited in your case. We take such instances seriously as it is harmful to the community and violates the following section of our Code of Conduct (https://www.amazon.com/help/ags/coc):

    Play fair

    Do: play within the rules of the game.

    Do not: exploit bugs or other unintended uses of game features.

    Do not cheat, bot, hack, or use other software or services that give you an unfair advantage through, for example, unattended gameplay or game modifications.

    Do not engage in real-money trading of in-game items and in-game currencies.

    We reserve the right to determine what constitutes unfair play and to take corrective action we deem appropriate.

    As a result, your New World account remains permanently banned.

    We can’t share any further information about our decision, and we won’t reply to further emails about this issue.

    Best regards,
    Amazon Game Studios    … Expand
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#10 Most Discussed PC Game of 2021

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Metascore
70

Mixed or average reviews - based on 35 Critic Reviews

Critic score distribution:
  1. Positive: 15 out of 35
  2. Mixed: 20 out of 35
  3. Negative: 0 out of 35
  1. Games.cz
    Nov 30, 2021
    60
    An MMORPG with great potential - but there’s so much work to be done. It is, however, already highly addictive for those who are patient and forgiving.
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  2. Gamer.nl
    Nov 22, 2021
    65
    New World is an mmo that could be straight out of 2010. It hardly adds any new ideas to the genre and therefore feels dated in content. The faction system offers interesting possibilities for wars between players, but is not yet balanced. New World demands a lot of time from its players, but does not actually give anything in return that we have not seen before. Graphically, everything is fine, and although the game has microtransactions, they are only of a cosmetic nature. There is no subscription: for the entrance fee, the entire base game is open to you.
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  3. MGG Spain
    Nov 22, 2021
    80
    New World is such a large MMO that we will have to spend our time in the vast world of Aethernum. While some mechanics or functionalities don't have much of a place nowadays, it has other things that seem to me to be genuine and cutting edge in terms of massively multiplayer online development.
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