Further exacerbating the issue is by now players have figured out how to trigger the bug, or at least know the general circumstances, and then actively try to inflict it on people theyre fighting in wars. The void/ice meta also makes the bug more frequent organically from normal engagements.
Bugs are frustrating and prolonged inaction by devs can make people leave the game. People exploiting bugs and tipping the scales in pvp can make people rapidly leave the game, particularly when amazon is so reluctant to take action against exploiters.
This bug has been in the game for over a month now and there is no fix in sight. This movement bug is both in OPR and wars, and is the most important PvP bug right now. All we hear is, “We’re working on it” while releasing awful grindfest PvE content NO ONE asked for. Congratulations!
I guess they’ll fix it when most of this population leaves for other games like Lost Ark next month.
Ive seen a couple variations on this bug lately in wars, and I noticed the same initial circumstances each time.
Someone got a speed related buff or debuff applied, then died before it expired while being stunned.
1: One guy had a beacon on him, I whacked him with WH and burst him down with GA and he died in a second, came back and hes that much faster forever. He proceeded to sprint around the war pestering us by poking at points and fleeing faster than anyone could chase.
2: I was rooted by VG, stunlocked with hammers until dead, and spent the next 15 minutes of war running in place if I hit W. I was still able to dodge directionally to get to the points and put up about 700,000 damage with GA/WH but it was horrible to deal with on a defense war.
I noticed that taking a haste potion actually enabled me to run while affected by this “debuff/buff not removing bug” but it was the running animation in super slow motion.
This makes me think the “root” is also just a -100% movement speed buff in the way it works. Adding a bit of speed let me move, but only that tiny bit more than nothing.
It definitely comes down to CC/Stun chains interrupting the queuing of the removal of a buff from your player, and what you get is a variety of effects from the same issue.
fast movement/slow movement and the wonderful diseased forever bug all caused by the same core problem with how the server is handling queued buff related events on your player.
Something is stopping that “remove buff” phase from occuring.
Had another war today where almost 1/3 of our attacking team got this bug. Im really happy the grind fest garbage PvE content is being worked on though.
This bug won’t be fixed soon i guess… Sadly it’s now over 11 weeks in the game. Kay and other Devs told us multiple times, it would be on the radar and they have a fix. But nothing happened yet. All the major game-breaking bugs like movement, Desync and weapon switch are already killing the game right now. 11 weeks and not one real statement about this bug, just a few dev posts like from Kay here above. Rlly sad. Worst communication ever
They have no idea how to fix it, it must be something bigger. Same as weapon swap bug they wrote there is a problem with whole game code. Otherwise they would make it fixed long time ago. Game is just broken, they released this game too soon and that was a big mistake which killed game. Imagine going through alpha, beta, offical realse in 4 months I knew that will be suicide.
I think there’s some truth to that. But the problem is, without a detailed statement on the current state of the fix progress, without detailed information on exactly these game-breaking bugs, I can no longer keep our people in the game. Even players with more than 1200 hours of playtime who don’t care about new content are leaving the game every day because nothing is moving in the direction of bug fixing. Since weeks/months…
My whole server has ended up switching to VG/IG to try and defend their territories from people that know how to create this bug on someone. It is starting to be Exploiters vs Exploited. I have played this game for over 1000 hours and have 2 level 60 characters… But seeing the people I play with having to switch to a weapon they do not like to have a chance at winning a DEFENSE is ridiculous. The defense should be easier when you have everything upgraded, but for people on offense to use this movement bug exploit on others to win is by far the worst bug I have even had to deal with on a game. I can take all the bs bugs like the musket fire damage when crouching and the sacred ground spam crouch healing. But for a game to have an exploit so a player can make another unable to fight in a 30-minute war is unacceptable. If there isn’t a fix to this bug yet then I beg for a removal of the ability that is causing this until it can be reapplied to the game safely. As an active competitive player, I will have to say I will not play until either they remove the ability or they fix the issue. I love this game and the PVP however, I can not play a game where players can make you unable to enjoy the game.
Last two wars I have gotten the movement bug after my first couple deaths. This makes the game unplayable because wars are so important. Very frustrating. Use WH/GA and if you are melee and can’t move without hopping around, you are useless at tracking down any ranged opponent. Please make priority. Please please please.
Personal update here. Logged in at 4:30 did my refining cooldowns and gypsum content because I’m obligated to. Did 1 OPR. Got in a 50-400 losing match. Team was all PVEing to get their 500 points for their gypsum because that’s why people queue OPR. So I went mid solo and died to 6 ice gauntlets and got movement bugged. I hopped around annoyed that my non movement bugged teammates were just afk in the woods while I WANT to play competitive pvp and can’t because it doesn’t exist. It’s 5:30 now and I’m going to play anything else the rest of the night because there’s nothing to do in New World.
This bug more than any other has sapped my will to pvp, and done the same for most that I know in game. The ice shower/scream root meta on its face just isn’t fun, it’s not engaging combat. Slap on this movement bug that is made more frequent by the root meta and it’s just a perfect storm for making people want to throw in the towel.
You’re not going to get a reply. I’ve been pinging Kay for over a week and not a single response. The last 3 of our wars have had about 20 people with the movement bug. Companies have figured out how to do it and it appears the devs just don’t give a shit. They are focusing their time on raising the GS cap and adding stupid grindy PvE content. People on our server are quitting in mass because they have ruined melee PvP. After seeing the latest dev info I’ve also lost all hope in them fixing anything.
Agreed. Melee never felt so buggy and useless until the past month or so. Its like you are either forced to range or have a completely bad time. So messed up…
Hello? NEW WORLD? DOES ANYONE WORK HERE? I logged in to do a war today and that’s it. Felt good not spending any extra time in this game. I think I’m getting over it.
it’s now over 11 weeks in the game. Kay and other Devs told us multiple times, it would be on the radar and they have a fix. But nothing happened yet. All the major game-breaking bugs like movement, Desync and weapon switch are already killing the game right now. 11 weeks and not one real statement about this bug, just a few dev posts like from Kay here above. Rlly sad. Worst communication ever