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New World Preview - Waging War In Aeternum
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New World Preview - Waging War In Aeternum
Bradford had a chance to take on a War in Amazon Games' upcoming MMO New World ahead of the preview event starting later today. Check out his thoughts on combat and the performance in the build leading up to the peview event.
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We need to support anyone that's trying to make good games, especially if it's high quality and polished. It's in a much better state from what I've seen than most other in-development games out there. The only game that looks to be in the same sphere as this is Ashes of Creation which I haven't played yet myself.
I gave them some credit for trying hard to make pve and pvp work,gave them credit for doing the right thing and ASSUMING they were trying to add more pve which is what THEY stated.
Know what i have been seeing since that "put her on hold day?"a bunch of marketing pitches.
So what it looks like is Amazon rather than take heat for a poorly released game is pulling a magic act here.Instead of releasing the game they simply sell pre orders and by doing that they don't have to release and therefor take no heat.
This is basically putting on a veil and pretending to be Star Citizen 2.0
Now my hunch is they are not doing a dam thing but going to market the hell out of this until Christmas then expect a ton of sales because everyone spends at Christmas time.Maybe a mid January release but i am thinking DEC 15th or so.
So until i see a difference maker,i am going to go back to thinking this Amazon studio is a weak sauce studio that just plays head games like the rest of them.
Never forget 3 mile Island and never trust a government official or company spokesman.
"I'll never grow up, never grow up, never grow up! Not me!"
SC is showing how to make money on games w/o actually putting one out.
What someone else said. If you preorder from amazon they get nothing until the actual game comes out.
No jump is one of the things I really hate in a game
They pushed it back 9 months? I didn't realize that. It's not really on my radar to be honest, but I have checked out a couple of streams suggested by Twitch. But not enough to have an opinion.
Joined 2004 - I can't believe I've been a MMORPG.com member for 20 years! Get off my lawn!
I love this for pvp....so tired of the jumping trolls in literally every MMO pvp.
They should take a lesson from BDO. Visually you can make you character as boring or as stunning as you wish; and before the local racists bemoan "hurhur Asian style" you can make said characters look like any ethnicity you want. And before the war-on-woman waging shamers lament the revealing outfits: you can cover the chars up as much as you want.
Not quite sure how the game all hangs together as yet and the "lore" reminds me of Eastern MMOs. In other words there is hardly any, which is very poor but now part of the modern MMO template. Don't think, just press buttons.
That aside, it looks good and I will now start to keep an eye on it.
Also, ranged combat is not even close something like ESO. In ESO the hit boxes are large and it's actually hard to miss. Here it's very easy to waste ammunition on small hit boxes and when lag comes into play. Bunny hoping would be a nightmare in PvP. I wasted over 5 arrows on a turkey that was running around in circles. AND I actually need to kill the turkey for it's feathers to make more arrows, kind of a catch-22 there.