new world is an absolute disaster and
it's getting worse every single day
whether you put a thumbs up or a thumbs
down it means nothing because engagement
does the exact same thing no matter what
type it is so thanks for that this video
is going to be completely one-sided and
very critical i'll be talking about the
largest problems with new world because
there are too many of them right now and
they are far too massive to be ignored
some of these problems are well known
some aren't some have top voted reddit
posts and some don't some of them will
get fixed and some ignored but
ultimately this will be half catharsis
and half awareness campaign if you will
because i'm at the end of my rope with
this game having waited for it patiently
through multiple delays tested and
submitted as much feedback as i possibly
could during pre-release phases most of
which was obviously either ignored or
not prioritized and got lost in the
crowd and rallied a community behind the
title for the sake of social gameplay i
find myself using the channel for
something less common but much more
inflammatory which is simply put me
venting about something that i care for
that is utterly and completely [ __ ]
right now new world is a botched game
will it stay that way i have absolutely
no idea but what it is right now is a
failed product and a horrible experience
this might seem completely out of touch
when compared to how many other creators
are discussing the title right now and
it might even seem like a sharp turn
from my own thoughts on the game during
preview phases and even the closed beta
and it might seem that way because in
essence it's kind of true this game as i
discussed in my official review which is
up on the channel by the way has two
distinct faces but i wasn't even aware
at that point in time while i made that
review just how bad it really was
on the one hand there is a great
experience that will probably last a
hundred or more hours if the game clicks
for you and you can have it for no
monthly fee whatsoever and a simple 40
box price that's a good deal if you get
even i don't know 80 hours of fun
because pound for pound the earlier
parts of this game and the progression
up until maybe a little over halfway
through various different crafting
professions and basic level 60 content
pound for pound it's very fun but i'm
not here to talk about the fun parts and
try to soothe the honeymoon phase
doe-eyed casuals who still haven't made
it past level 20. you are probably the
most important demographic in gaming
right now and that level of
self-discipline will actually help your
overall experience in this game by
slowing down the ticking time bomb but
when that thing goes off you will
realize that this game is falling off a
cliff and was completely unfit to be
released let's start with what was a
problem and still is before moving to
the new and exponentially worst things
that have started to crop up for
starters the drop rates are completely
botched this has been an issue since
long before release day and it wasn't
changed drop rates for certain rare
resources that are needed in many
different crafting recipes either have a
misplaced decimal point or they're
sadistic there are specific resources
that simply don't show up on the global
market can be farmed for dozens of hours
without getting a single one at all and
that's perfectly fine if scarcity is the
actual goal but these are tier 3 and
tier 4 resources while the tier 5
versions hypothetically even more rare
or should be are dropping at a frequency
that is orders of magnitude greater
thereby totally undermining the entire
economic curve of certain professions
want to craft tier 4 legendary items you
probably just can't do it not because
you aren't skilled enough not because
you don't know where to look for those
components but because those components
just don't exist on your server i've
heard rumors that some of these items
are starting to drop that people have
one or two here and there but when
recipes require 5 10 even 20 of those
items and you only see one on the entire
server every few days that's a broken
system and it's going to get worse as
more players level into a bracket where
they become affected by it next up is
expeditions this requires me to explain
how they work for those that have not
progressed far enough yet expeditions
are an integral part of the pde
experience i would actually assert that
they are a massive chunk of what you
will be doing both mid and end game
because they have unique bosses
mechanics and locations while also
dropping good gear and helping break up
the monotony of open world boss farming
trust me i'll cover that one soon
because it's an absolute joke
expeditions require tuning orbs which
are sort of key to the dungeon the
problem tuning orbs are bind on pickup
items that require high crafting skills
to make that means you need to have
someone physically in your group in
order to do them who has trained those
particular skills like stone cutting for
example seems fine so far but wait until
you learn that some of the components
for those tuning orbs come from
corrupted breaches well corrupted
breaches are another large chunk of the
endgame so that makes sense and you need
the corrupted chunks or fragments or
whatever they are the top tier ones
which are also bind on pickup well wait
a second because the corruption portals
are broken right now and can't be closed
because nearly every single player in
the game has an azoth staff glitch that
locks them out of both the 55 and 65
level variant types well uh-oh that's
not good because the corruption breaches
and pve expeditions are one of the main
sources of end-game gear combined i
would argue they're actually the
majority of end-game content and they
don't work leading to a complete
stagnation in available activities post
level 60. keep in mind like or dislike
you benefit me and this video but what's
even more important is realizing that
this criticism is not a function of me
complaining that the content doesn't
exist it's me claiming that the content
does exist and is there
but it just doesn't [ __ ] work the pve
and crafting is broken and when added to
an economy that has no actual basis in
financial reason or logic it creates a
gameplay environment that is incredibly
frustrating speaking of economic balance
here having heard from an ex-member of
mine who now runs with a different
company on the same server the taxation
framework in new world is bleeding
companies dry the taxation frequency and
values are contributing to a downward
spiral where companies can't afford to
participate in certain systems because
the goal just isn't there and this
problem was nowhere to be seen at launch
and was impossible to really gather
feedback on pre-release because it takes
time to understand how those values will
interact oh also the other aspect of mid
slash endgame pve which is invasions
that's gate kept by companies to such an
extreme degree using the systems amazon
has deliberately designed it's unlikely
that most people will ever even get to
participate i say this as someone who
has and can participate in many
different invasions which are a fun
aspect of the game with decent rewards
and i also say it as someone who enjoys
that activity and wants more people to
get to play it one of the best parts of
endgame the last pillar standing that
isn't unplayable and broken like
expeditions and corruption breaches
literally is gate kept away from most
players so pve is completely botched in
the end game because two of the main
systems the biggest systems in their
entirety just don't work and the third
is denied for most players but it gets
exponentially worse because that's only
pve for pvp i find it hard to even
express just how dysfunctional and
broken the game really is but i'll do my
best here in the background right now is
a clip of the pvp experience when teams
decide to exploit i've talked about it
before and it's still a thing well what
about amazon's response to this their
response i don't
i don't know how the hell this ended up
being a thing but their response was to
stealth nerf all aoe abilities which
completely gutted their ability to heal
or do damage but didn't solve the lag
problem instead of having aoe abilities
stack they now conflict that means
multiple healers are just overriding
each other and ice content users are
just cancelling each other's abilities
and it's not the strongest instance of
the ability or the greatest value or
damage number it's just whatever most
recent ability was cast which means in a
50 vs 50 war you are probably never
going to get reasonable damage again
with most aoe abilities but the lag
exploit the thing this was designed to
apparently cure there are still ways to
do it
absolutely genius however that's nothing
compared to what comes next it turns out
if you shrink your game down to a window
and then click on it while dragging it
around the screen you become
invulnerable you literally cannot die
while you drag the window around footage
in the background right now on video
and that might be hilarious and stupid
but the problem is rooted so much deeper
it should be immediately alarming to
everyone you don't just become
invincible you actually physically lock
in place no matter what for instance if
you are falling you just stop and float
there mid-air this can go on
indefinitely and the reason it's so
ridiculous is because it indicates that
client-side authority is absolute the
initially discovered lag exploit that
was client-side too because you can
actually still do things on your own
screen but actions aren't executing for
other people that kind of client-side
control is horrifying because it means
there is an immeasurable amount of
influence that can be exerted over the
game by individual players a million
separate ways the invincibility that's
just the start there's more to come mark
my words people will if they haven't
already discovered duping glitches which
absolutely existed pre-release and
probably still exist right now and are
happening we'll see they'll blow up
eventually further pvp exploitation
speed hacks and more because changing
values or manipulating the interface
client side is extremely easy to do
whenever a territory flips whenever a
war is won or lost you have no idea if
it was legitimate or not it probably
wasn't to be real and that is a central
pillar of the game territory control
affects taxation economy potential as
off prices in a world where azoth is
already a frustrating mechanic by itself
and more when the pvp system is totally
and completely undermined to a degree
where it cannot be considered even
functional and needs to be immediately
disabled how can we rightly sit here and
say anything other than the game isn't
ready because that's all i can really
say i didn't even go deeper on dozens of
other problems like how numerical values
are almost all universally wrong we're
in anthem territory here no joke at all
we actually are in anthem territory the
light armor twenty percent damage boost
it's not twenty percent it's between
seven and thirteen percent the fire
staff abilities like rune of helios they
aren't thirty percent they're twenty two
percent as per one users testing on
reddit and critical hits only do thirty
percent increased damage instead of 60
with light armor as opposed to heavy
because it's completely broken and
nonsensical having 300 intelligence for
a fire staff broken doesn't provide what
it should having over 250 strength
broken slows down animation time instead
of speeding up stamina regen and some
servers are jumping forward in their own
internal clock time leading to like 15
downgrades for territories all at once
then the server crashes and i don't even
have the long capacity to describe just
how many things are broken in this game
final point the community in new world
is absolute garbage that's a broad
stroke's generalization so let me
elaborate a bit while i farm those
dislikes not every company is made up of
awful people or exploit driven losers
but the game intrinsically rewards
incentivizes and caters to those who are
the bottom of the social barrel most
companies are fine but unless you want
to drag their window around right all
around the screen for 30 minutes to win
a war unless that's your preferred
tactic or spam aoe abilities to glitch
out the entire battle and fight statues
with client-side lag they are going to
lose against whatever company decides to
do it in my review i anecdotally
discussed how one company on our
particular server the enclave was doing
this exact type of thing and little did
i know they are actually very well known
in other games for similar reasons their
leader buzz cut psycho also known as
horrigan previously has a bit of a track
record in world of warcraft their group
was actually banned i believe for
attracting the attention of a u.s
congressman because of their propensity
to do things like role play as kkk
members their group goes all the way
back to planetside and planetside 2
where they trolled an in-game funeral
for a developer i think it was saying
things like we're glad he's dead and
even my simple mention of them in a
review resulted in their members joining
our discord server to spam images of
minorities being hanged and videos that
contained a similar material i didn't
even watch those videos we filed proper
reports to discord the whole nine yards
and we got rid of them banned them from
the server but i say this with the
utmost sincerity the enclave supported
by youtubers like swol benji and led by
people like buzz cut psycho are the
exact type of disgusting person that
makes it possible for gaming media to
demonize gamers at large people like
them make it feasible to brand massive
chunks of the gaming community as nazis
and alt-right bigots because the things
that they say and do the actions they
take the morals they hold it's
incredibly hard to look at the full
picture in context and say anything
other than yeah they are pretty [ __ ]
awful people the rest of it i've said
before companies are still mass
reporting to get key players banned
before wars but in true new world
community fashion they are also
expanding that tactic because why not
get someone banned for stealing your
resource node you can mass report for
chat abuse and it works so why not do it
people are getting banned for anything
really because all it takes is a group
of coordinated [ __ ] to mass report
and you're gone for 24 hours and the
appeal takes more than 24 hours so you
just get temporarily banned for whatever
the bigger group of [ __ ] thinks you
should be banned for it's a disaster the
game is a disaster the balancing is a
disaster the pve is half broken and by
broken i mean it literally doesn't
function blocking out huge swaths of the
content that actually does exist so it's
kind of even worse when you think about
it the pvp is botched completely
destroyed by exploits and bugs
client-side control makes it
unbelievably easy to cheat people are
getting each other banned for anything
under the sun and it's almost none of it
is legitimate the calculations are
broken and if you need one more example
of what this game is right now it's in
the background that is the state of new
world you can't do portals or
expeditions i mean you can very
infrequently but it's really incredibly
hard to actually get someone who has one
of those orbs and then do it like they
can't actually be done in the way
they're intended to be done the wars are
broken the economy is [ __ ] up so what
do people do they spam farm world bosses
where you just frantically try to get
kill credit or snag a hit on the boss as
you zerg the content with no skill no
actual satisfaction and you do all of it
to participate in secondary systems that
are you guessed it
broken new world is a botched game at
this particular point in time it's fun
for a while and if you plan to play it
in the most casual sense sure but i
decided that today i was going to use
the channel to vent and make myself feel
better because i truly wanted this game
to be great i truly wanted to enjoy this
game as my main title for weeks months
even years hopefully and what it is
right now sucks it sucks really bad how
do they fix it disable pvp immediately
and until it can be completely
overhauled do something to get the
corrupted portals functional again as
soon as possible that is the only
priority at this point in time and
either tie the economies together or
stop the ability for them to be viewed
from everywhere all it is right now is a
tedious broken fiscally idiotic puzzle
board where you try to get around and do
things at separate locations while half
the end game isn't even playable and
every single war is inherently a joke i
have no idea how people are defending
this [ __ ] i consider this the end of my
new world coverage i had initially
planned to do a series of guides but all
i see now is the best dps guide or the
best crafting methods from other
youtubers but these youtubers are basing
it all on numbers and bonuses that don't
even compute correctly thereby
invalidating all of their content what
is the actual point here i'll still play
on my own a bit i will certainly check
out the patches that much is definitely
true because who knows maybe they can
pull off a miracle but i'm done covering
it because i have nothing positive to
say anymore about this game and i could
have just shut my mouth and moved on
without this video as well that's true
but somehow i just kept getting annoyed
like holding in a sneeze
this was my sneeze i'm done have a nice
night
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