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New World Launches New Series Detailing NPC 'Families' Players Will Encounter | MMORPG.com
Do you wish to know more of the Angry Earth? Maybe you want to prepare yourself by learning more about the foes of Aeternum? Lucky for you, New World's YouTube channel has released a new series, Tales of Aeternum, where players will learn more about the lore and roles of the enemies spread throughout the world.
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There's no leaderboard in PvP. There's nothing worth even struggling to control--owning a settlement offers very marginal rewards that honestly don't matter that much. Crafting recipes are garbage--everything you can make will largely be salvaged for repair parts b/c nobody needs to buy gear. It literally drops everywhere. There's basically no economy outside of consumables. After a few months nobody will need to buy anything because gear never breaks--it can be repaired forever. Meaning: everything you loot, craft, or gather will be junk.
I could go on, and on, about how unpolished this game is--but let me just stop and admit this is the most shallow MMO I've EVER SEEN.
Whew....Glad I'm not you.
Oh, welcome to the Forums.
Crap, almost forgot.....It IS Amazons FIRST MMO so I will say they did a great job for their first attempt. I am sure they will improve on the game as time goes on since you know...It's their FIRST MMO.
/sarcasm on
But then again I could expect a perfect polished Game out of the gate with perfect Content right?
/sarcasm off
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Gah..already said that.
Have a great day.
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One Cooking and One Cleaning!"
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"A good man can make you feel sexy,
strong and able to take on the whole world...
oh sorry...that's wine...wine does that..."
I have not played the game, but I have already noted from what has been said before that the lore is "paper thin", which is typical of todays MMO's. You can find hardly anything written down, maybe enough to cobble together a page of lore and then lore is drip fed to us like we were staving prisoners in a dungeon, which I guess role-players are these days.
Why this bodes ill is the same for every MMO that does this, it shows a "make it up as you go along" approach to lore and story which is never good. We got an idea of the theme of this world when we first heard about it, but they do not seem to have fleshed it out lore wise since then, though creatures and peoples and places have no doubt been added without much thought to lore. What I saw in the video for example seemed first designed to look good and be varied and then have an explanation tacked onto it.
But this is how MMOs are now, unless they have a book/game/film IP behind them the lore is threadbare.
* not aggressive wildlife: pigs, cows, sheep, boar, turkeys, bison, deer / elk
* aggressive wildlife: wolves, few wild cats (lynx, cougar) bears, alligators
* Lost faction (basically zombies): melee zombie, ranged zombie, a pretty cool bat like creature
* Ancients: melee skeleton, skeleton archer, skeleton spear man, skeleton with a 2 h axe, skeleton crawler
* Corrupted: two or three melee varieties, crawler, hell hound, cultists
* Angry Earth: I haven't seen these guys, but again from what I know you have 4 varieties?
* Undead creatures: 2-3 variates around commentaries: ghost, a guy with a coffin on his back, some other ghost
* Few more demon like things and boss creatures
* Pirates: 4-? different enemy types: some with shield, pistols, swords
* I think there is one more faction with a Chinese theme. Most aggressive wild animals follow a similar pattern, uninterruptible charge ability and basic attacks. Humanoids: few berserker types who spam attacks, big stick dudes, few range attackers with pistols and javelin attacks, few guys with a shield / stamina mechanic to break their blocks. Then there are ghosts with their stuns and AoE attacks. Ah yeah and a pirate with throw-able bombs.
Have I missed any?
Don't get me wrong I actually really enjoyed New World beta. However mob variety and lore are ankles deep. You learn about lore from few quests and mainly journal pages left out in the world. Mobs? Let me think, I'm sure I missed / misrepresented a few, but here you go:
* not aggressive wildlife: pigs, cows, sheep, boar, turkeys, bison, deer / elk
* aggressive wildlife: wolves, few wild cats (lynx, cougar) bears, alligators
* Lost faction (basically zombies): melee zombie, ranged zombie, a pretty cool bat like creature
* Ancients: melee skeleton, skeleton archer, skeleton spear man, skeleton with a 2 h axe, skeleton crawler
* Corrupted: two or three melee varieties, crawler, hell hound, cultists
* Angry Earth: I haven't seen these guys, but again from what I know you have 4 varieties?
* Undead creatures: 2-3 variates around commentaries: ghost, a guy with a coffin on his back, some other ghost
* Few more demon like things and boss creatures
* Pirates: 4-? different enemy types: some with shield, pistols, swords
* I think there is one more faction with a Chinese theme
Most aggressive wild animals follow a similar pattern, uninterruptible charge ability and basic attacks. Humanoids: few berserker types who spam attacks, big stick dudes, few range attackers with pistols and javelin attacks, few guys with a shield / stamina mechanic to break their blocks. Then there are ghosts with their stuns and AoE attacks. Ah yeah and a pirate with throw-able bombs.
Have I missed any?
EDIT: This forum has THE WORST text editor I have ever seen on any forums. Whats the point of HTML options? This should be a simple text editor, not this mess. I hope you haven't paid for this.
What game was a gourd-breaking mmo, that was super polished at launch with no bugs, lag or any other issues? Give it time.
Oh yes, I would often just explore and enjoy the scenery.
Not so sure about that, I definitely played MMOs where mob variety was far higher and more creative. The Native American theme is almost totally missing. They could have utilised Native American mythologies for creative purposes. This is one of the reasons why games like Witcher have such amazing game worlds.
Mob variety didn't bother me much, but was noticeable. Players are picky these days, especially those who enjoy PvE content.