New World recently added a new Russian Roulette game mode! It’s called the musket weapon class. Very easy to access, just buy a musket off the market and you’ll instantly unlock this brand new feature 
Looking to get absolutely slaughtered? Fear no more. Just equip the musket! You’ll do no AOE, no shots will land, and get absolutely stampeded in every game mode possible!
Ya…I have mained a musket since launch. Now, its not even a good turkey shooter (which is all it was ever really goof for).
I have an accuracy, attunement, enchanted musket and it is astonishing how often it misses in PVE when a mob is sitting still with cross hairs on forehead.
The truth of the matter is musket was fine the way it was. People using exploits for damage burst and cheats were the real problem. Melee being over tuned pushing people to play ranged weaoons was the real problem. The issue is that frankly, most of the community is to biased to do any real research into why some people performed like god mode with the musket and others tickled. Because I can tell you as an absolute, based on how many “pro” musket players there are in game, one could only deduce that New World has the best players on the entire planet, beyond pro-league. But we know that is not the case.
I knew there was an exploit when I had a musket player crit me for 7k with some nasty dots (I think they were like ticking at 640ish if I remember correctly). I had 5x resilience and I was the first death in the game at the start of the match. He had no kills, no NCP kills, so it was not a mortal empowerment stack.
Then, doing research I saw the stacking stats from back bar weapon to main bar…not even a cheat, a very easy to produce bug in game and I can guarantee you entire companies were using that exploit.
Sadly, AGS caved to the whiners and now the musket is a joke. Not fun to play with, not balanced enough to play with in PVP nor PVE.
Came back to try the new season out and heard the musket got some balancing, thought its become a projectile weapon or something and made me kinda excited… but holy sht…
It is completely worthless, they made it so inaccurate even if you are standing still its still has like an 50% hit chance under 30m, you can forget to walk between shots, or even move the mouse you have to wait for them to walk into your crosshair, actual joke tier.
And then the biggest and funniest thing, now it has ANOTHER MUST HAVE thing, the accuracy perk to have an atleast have a chance to hit something when you are completely stationary for a couple seconds. But who cares, bows still running that sweet 100% accuracy while moving with 3 times the rate of fire and 2x the damage, magical weapons also have 100% accuracy while moving and out damaged the musket even before the nerf.
So now the musket required to play 10-50 con to have some meaningful(1k-2k on lights) damage and on the top of that also has to give up a perk slot and from now on only have 2 perk rifles which is another flat -10% dmg nerf to that strong 1-2k damage.
I thought the nerf will be:
The will make it a projectile weapon, and maybe make the accuracy perk into a velocity increase perk, and thats it. The damage was already low to maybe average and the only thing the musket were better than other ranged weapons were the accuracy, not anymore.
Honestly I was kinda excited that I may come back to play again, but this “rebalance” reassured me that this game is still dont deserve any love and not even worth the time to download it.
yep…and the sad REAL TRUTH is that the musket was never broken, the people whining about it were.
The real issue that plagued the musket was people using aimbots (which still work even with the nerfed gun) and people using the back bar weapon exploit, doubling up on damage.
The fact that you can’t even see name plates beyond about 40m is suspicious of some musket players were picking people off in bushes at 100 yards (wall hacks allow them to see this).
But the second you mention cheating/exploiting the cheaters/exploiters come in and character assassinate you.
The thing that kills me is how the musket is uselss in PVE now. It’s not fun anymore. Part of the fun I had was perching myself and picking off ancient guardians in windsward as fast as I could. Sometimes the fun in a game is the fun we create, and now that has been taken away.
ohh well. I guess Ill play firestaff until it gets nerfed into oblivion, maybe I should play bow as well knowing it will get nerfed if I play it.
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