Ahoy, mateys! 
How r ya’ll doing?
Recently i reached ~300h in New World and now i’m ready to share my thoughts on how the game feels to me and maybe some suggestions. I have played a lot of MMOs, some are good, some are bad, but still unique in one way or another. Though i’m not an MMO-seadog.
So, here we go:
1. The General State
Well, there are indeed some problems, i ll highlight them later on. Generally it feels like NW is a ‘smol’ heartie, that needs some time to become a fully grown bloodthirsty buccaneer. A lot of bugs, a lot of lags, bots, gold sellers and a lot of negative reviews on top of that. Smells like something or someone is going to feed the fish. BUT. All hand hoy! Look at ̶t̶h̶i̶s̶ ̶d̶u̶d̶e̶ that game, how it sounds, how it looks, savvy? Let’s face it, the game is Amazing and there is no better word. And, again, let’s face it, the game was made by the same guys, that are making somewhat bad decisions now. But they are not even close to the point of no return. The game still has a lot of potential ̶e̶v̶e̶n̶ ̶i̶f̶ ̶A̶G̶S̶ ̶i̶g̶n̶o̶r̶e̶ ̶m̶y̶ ̶s̶u̶g̶g̶e̶s̶t̶i̶o̶n̶s̶. 
2. In the Depth:
2.1. Booties
- Visual part of the game is awesome. Basically everything.
- Sounds are GODTIER. Почти как балалайка.
- The way you feel your character is great. You feel the weight of your armor, you hear the breathing when aiming with you musket, you feel that thurst with a spear, you feel that sudden bullet in your back, and that sticky bomb, shiver me timbers!
- Weapon mastery system is great as well as skill trees and the opportunity to mix them all together in the way you want, even if your build is a complete trash. We are having fun here, huh?
- Armor weight system is perfect. It’s so full of logic that you can wear 1-2 pieces of heavy and still not become heavy in the end. Though it would be nice to have something like transmog system.
- Gathering resourses is relaxing, when you have your route over the Aeternum observing those nice ̶l̶i̶t̶t̶l̶e̶ ̶b̶o̶t̶s̶ ̶m̶i̶n̶i̶n̶g̶ ̶y̶o̶u̶r̶ ̶o̶r̶i̶c̶h̶a̶l̶c̶u̶m̶ ̶v̶e̶i̶n̶ landscapes and gathering garlic from herbs and salt from provision crates.
- Trading is cool, making gold via trading feels nice, though we have some bots influencing the economy indeed. But overall, i had an experience which is mostly positive. But i will never quit plundering.
- PVP is OK. Yea, there is no reason to hunt down players for now, but…meh, should it be? It’s fun to be the scourge of the seven seas only by itself. Personally i would like to have an option to free PK, but i know you guys won’t do it and you guys playing the game won’t let it be done.
- Territory control system is a good beginning, but it still has a lot of issues.
There are a lot of other small good points as well, but i’m trying to be objective here, savvy, mateys?
2.2. Swab this deck!
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Bugs. There are a lot of them. January update brought an astronomical amount of bugs. Storage (that is fixed by now i guess), some trading post bugs with it saying “insuficcient items”, that funny bug, when you throw a sticky bomb and your arm gets stuck and the best thing about all this is that you become invisible to other players for the time your hand is stuck somewhere in the area of your bikini zone. (pls fix this, i love sticky bomb). I know you know a lot of bugs. As for the AGS. Have your time and fix them as soon as you can for i think it is a problem №1.
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Bots and gold sellers. I know, my hearties, you are trying to fight them. I know it and i believe it. I want to believe it. There is nothing else to say here.
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Somewhat unbalanced PvP. It’s not crucial though. Some nerfs there some buffs here and i believe you should be fine. I hope you read and filter all those player feedbacks, for there you can really find all the information on what is to be nerfed and what is to be buffed. At least the overall picture is there 100%.
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The statement that the game is 50/50 for PvP and for PvE players, accordingly. Obviously it is not. At least for now. It is more PvE-focused game. Simply because there is no way for PvP player to get and endgame gear without striking heavily into PvE content. The best gear you can get for your faction tokens is far from even 600 gs. And let’s be honest, no one uses it. Though it is probably cool to look like MARAUDER LEGATUS, but there is no reason to get those armor sets for now. Also, there is almost nothing to do as a PvP player. OPR is hard to find and it will take you ages to improve your expertise with the rewards you get. There are no arenas. No progression. And open world PvP bites the dust.
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Territory owning is good, but it needs rework. You should not be able to trade cities as a major company of the server. And the only way to achieve this is to remove the source of such motivation, which can be real money for instance. Well, God knows what should be done but something should be done with all this. Cause those big papa guilds are snowballing realy hard. Also because there is no free PK system it does not feel like your faction is owning a territory. It feels like your faction is something more like shadow government. I know it’s nearly impossible to implement free PK system, i ll say that again, yea. But all that territory owning feels unnatural, i guess.
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Expertise system. It is not like it is bad, but it has some really big downsides. It is because of expertise system the rewards for PvE range from “non-existing” to “best pirate booty you have every seen” for the same effort. It is bad. The reward should scale of difficulty and of the amount of effort player is making to get that 600 gs infamy musket. It should be reworked a bit or maybe removed at all or replaced with something else.
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Crafting. The final goal of any craftsmen is to craft a masterpiece. Should it be an elixir of life, an eight-barreled musket with best perks or anything else that may be considered as the best in slot. At this moment it is easier to spend your gold on those items itself than on leveling your crafting skill and buying those 3 houses with major trophies in each. Should i tell you how much armorer and weaponsmith sets will cost to you? You can easily buy at least 2-3 BIS items instead of crafting. Well, we should be OK with that. It is bad to be able to craft legendary in no time, i understand that. But it does not work when you can loot legendaries from PvE activities. I can’t describe the way i feel about crafting, but it is something like “issue based on another issue which is based on another issue” and while you look on them separately - you cannot see any issues at all. Something like this. Also those legendary patterns from aptitude crates. They are way too rare to be that bad. Timeless shards don’t work with them. And yea, i understand that the purpose of all these things working in the way they are is mainly “Legendaries should be legendaries in the end”. But obviously something went wrong. A lot of talking here, huh? >:-[
So, i may be wrong with some things, but it is the way i see them.
3. Shipshape!
Enough about the bad things and let’s speak about something positive. Here are my suggestions:
- We need arenas.
- We need PvP progression (which cannot be abused though by 2 mates from different factions)
- We need better faction gear for tokens available.
- We need transmog option.
- Consider adding some mounts. But actually personally i will be OK if there is no mounts in the game.
- Consider adding some form of free PK system for players to kill bots. It may be something based on time spent in same territory, saw this idea posted by another player on this forum.
- Try to focus more on bugs always. It is better if something bad works as intended than when something good does not work as intended.
- Please adress the expertise issue.
- Please adress the territory owning issue. It would be much more fun if declaring war had real consequenses making everybody from the rival factions flagged for a duration of the war. May be adding some options to plunder someone’s treasury. Or some global PvP missions, like real raids with nice rewards. It would be cool to feel that you belong to a specific faction and it has it’s influence on you. To avoid the exploiters and abusing of such kind of mechanics you have to adress the issue of major companies snowballing the whole server.
Huh, finally i guess i’m done. Yea, i didn’t suggest something concrete, but more likely gave you the general view on some things and issues.
I believe you will be able to handle it. I believe the game will be great. May the Adeptus Mechanicus help you and hopefully you will overcome all those bugs. In the name of the Emperor may the Feb update be as good for regular players as bad for exploiters and bot-users. AGS! Hoist the colours! You can do it!
