Once you join a faction you get to see the faction-only chat, where there is always at least one member of your team complaining that not enough Syndicate players are doing PVP/on the discord/grumble grumble attack the fort, etc. There are also wars for the control of the different map areas, big 50v50 battles with the victorious faction getting to set taxes on trades and crafting. If you opt in on PVP, rival factions can attack you. Hopefully teething issues like this can be filed down over time. New World also saw some siginifcant issues over the past couple of days, accidentally locking out a lot of players. I did have problems with the game sometimes not responding, crafting menus bugging out, and achievements not loading. The queue times were legendary, although for what it's worth I never had any problems on that front. New World encountered the issue that all MMORPGs do on launch, which is too many players and not enough servers. You can join one of three teams, Syndicate, Covenant and Marauders, who all technically have their own backstories, but are really only different on a vibes and colour scheme basis (I picked Syndicate because I like purple, though you can change your faction every four months). Most notable is a Faction War system akin to the ongoing battle in Ubisoft's online fighty game For Honor. New World does make an effort to mix up the familiar pattern, though. There is a story, but you will not care about or pay attention to it.

NPCs are there to ease you in, and send you to kill drowned zombie sailors and corrupted farmhands who throw lumps of their own vomit at you. The setting sun glints off the water in swamps, or filters through waving blossoms in the wide grasslands. The colours are inescapably vibrant, with trees and palms and grassy grass shining in a bright artifical green. The character creation is cool, there are big weird vistas to look at, and towns where old tall ships have been made into buildings.

It's legitmately quite thrilling at the very start. if you die you res at your last designated inn or camp. You arrive as one of the crew on a ship that was lost in a storm, and learn that Aeternum grants a lot of its residents a kind of immortality, i.e. But still, New World's beginning is more compelling than your average dump in media res. This is always the funny bit of MMORPGs: an NPC with an English regional accent telling you that you're the only one who can help, while dozens of other versions of you solemnly crab-crawl up and down a flight of stairs two feet away. The world of Aeternum is a sort of pirate-themed, fantasy-adjacent place that you wouldn't be surprised to see as an area of a theme park, and straight away you discover that you're far from the first person to arrive. New World understands that formula well, and I am a simple creature, so attaching a button marked Endorphin Release to my brain and pressing it every five minutes or so works as well on me as it does on a lab rat. Despite bugs and queue times, Amazon Games' new MMORPG is good piratey fun (especially the Faction system), but the early game is very grindy and you will cut down a lot of trees.Д®ven the name New World feels like a brash statement of intent, doesn't it? Amazon are shouldering their way into the market with a brand new MMORPG, a fresh digital playground that is, the name implies, unlike any you've seen before! In practise, of course, it is a lot like MMOs you've seen before, albeit with its own twists on the formula to get you hooked.

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