New World

[Dark Drakan]

Amazons new MMO finally launched worldwide yesterday for most territories and servers were buckling across the board and in typical fashion with every new online game the systems struggled to cope with demand. Some players have been in queues for longer than they have managed to play so far.

Its peak concurrent player count sits at 707,230 (at time of writing) leaving it in 5th spot of the highest concurrent player count of all time on Steam, which for a game at launch is quite impressive. It was also boasting a peak concurrent viewership on Twitch of just under 1 million viewers on 28th September.

Queue times to get into some servers were many (sometimes ridiculous) hours long and the developers released a statement about the issue offering free server transfers to all players over the next two weeks. This means that if players want to queue for a lower population server (and subsequently get into games faster), they can then change over to their preferred server once the queue times die down.

This has hit its overall Steam score rating due to the server problems so time will tell what gamers actually think of the title once those launch issues are ironed out.

Personally I havent played an MMO since Guild Wars 2, 9 years ago but I am watching this with intrigue to see how it ends up. Has anyone tried it out yet or played the Beta?​

 

[Dark Drakan]

Announcing the Public Test Realm​

Despite many issues since launch in regards to the major server queue issues, exploits, GPU deaths and lack of endgame content the game is still sitting pretty with a 74% rating on Steam and a healthy player base (despite a big drop off).

Amazons development studio have now been giving some details on their latest update and some well needed new features and fixes that are coming to the game over the next few days.

The Public Test Realm (PTR)

The Public Test Realm, which is a limited-availability server-set that will give players an early look at upcoming features and test changes before being applied to live servers.
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• New Weapon (The Void Gauntlet)​
• New Enemy Types (Varangian Hewers, Varangian Scouts, Varangian Knights, and Varangian Archers (level range: 16-20)​
• Enemy Variety (Withered Swarmancer, Beetle, the Lost Shaman, Pirate Alligator, Ancient Guardian Pyromancer, and enhanced Corrupted Laborers)​
• New Enemy Quests​
• New Legendary Weapon Quests​
• Improved Main Storyline Quests ​
• PvP Faction Missions​
• New Trading Post Experience​

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