New World’s Winter Convergence Festival is back for the season, bringing holiday cheer to Aeternum with brightly decorated settlements, holiday quests, a world boss, and unique rewards for the duration. Accompanying the event is an update forNew Worldthat overhauls the crafting tiers to be much more accessible, introduces a new mutated expedition, and makes various changes to improve server balance and faction play.
Amazon Games' debut MMORPG has been online for over a year now, and despite some growing pains during its early days, has come a long way thanks to continued work from its developers.New World’s many updates in the past year have revamped mechanics, added new weapons, and reworked the entire starting experience, along with tons of changes to progression and crafting to make the process much smoother. Compared to the game at release, the grind has been substantially reduced and gameplay is more fluid and interesting thanks to many small improvements that have added up.
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This update sees the return ofNew World’s Winter Convergence Festivalfrom last year, which brings snowfall, northern lights, festive decorations, and seasonal activities to Aeternum. The Winter Wanderer can be visited in Everfall, Monarch’s Bluffs, Weaver’s Fen, Brightwood, and the new Brimstone Sands for some holiday quests. Winter Tokens can be earned which reward limited-time goodies like emotes, housing items, and festive skins, while presents can be collected under various Trees of Light that can be found in settlements. The new Winter Warrior world boss is also waiting to be challenged, yielding special rewards and giving players a chance to try out the new 20-person party system.
As promised during the recentNew Worldroadmap reveal, a new mutated expedition has been added that is a mashup between Starstone Barrows and Amrine. Endgame players will be able to revisit the Amrine Expedition with new challenges and paths to take. Additionally, crafting tiers have been reworked so that many recipes are no longer gated behind tiers and can be crafted at any tier station. Stat potions, health and mana food, and procedural gear are no longer gated, while named gear and more specialized items still require higher-tier stations.
Amazon Games is also cracking down on various server balance issues, particularly “shell companies” which are large companies that form smaller companies to game the territory control system. With limits to War participation, War Roster restrictions, along with company and server transfer cooldowns, these measures should hopefully mitigate some of the issues that have cropped up even onNew World’s fresh start servers.
New Worldis available on PC.
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