I did it and still full grey
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Aeternum map doesn’t appear to be the same addon a lot of people were using. New World MiniMap does the same things though.
Although the statement “we have time until Tuesday to remove all forbidden features” may indicate they had a more specific communication from developers than the ambiguous posts that we got on the forums.
Reading it as a player, it makes absolutely no sense to try to police static map markers on a map, so I could interpret their blog post to only refer to live data (IE: is the node actually currently up or not, not just a static image of where a spawn point might be on a map that anyone can freely view on a website).
If the minimap authors were given a communication that they had to remove “forbidden features,” they may as well just delete the addons entirely if they’re not allowed to show icons of static node spawn points on the map since that is their only meaningful feature.
edit: also if anyone was looking for that, it actually appears to be from a discord and someone posted a screenshot of the discord on reddit: https://www.reddit.com/r/newworldgame/comments/qxcrjt/amazon_contacted_overwolf_to_nerf_minimaps/
edit2: also while looking for a discord specifically from new world minimap, I think I discovered there are multiple addons using that same name. There’s the overwolf one, but then there’s another one that’s a standalone that has a github that is I guess made by yet another person and is a separate project. I think the Overwolf NWMM one is the most popular though since it has over 170k downloads. I couldn’t find an official discord for that one or an official message from that author.
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The compass is garbage.
Half of the time it does not work for tracking things unlocked and the other half of the time when it does work you have to stare vigilantly into the compass to try to figure out what are all the icons stacked on top of each other.
The reason AGS didn’t want to implement a 2D mini map is because the UI would distract players from the game play and people would be playing a 2D game instead of the 3D game that it is.
As it is right now I am playing a 1D game (compass) instead — so it does not solve the problem. In-fact many players are actually playing a 2D web browser instead, where they are pulling up a 2nd monitor with the 2D map. The 1D compass is the worst possible type of implementation, there is a complete lack of UI/UX expertise at AGS.
If AGS really wants to avoid breaking immersion here or keep people focused on the game instead of the UI (2D or 1D), then they could have in-game integration in a 3D space of where the resources are.
For example, instead of showing them in the radar, they could highlight resources directly in 3D space and outline/silhouette them when they are occluded but in tracking range. The game already has shaders to show occluded models:
Other prominent games have chosen to use silhouette to show tracking in 3D space as well:
I believe LoL and either a zombie online game or AvP had tracking of bleeding targets or low health targets and they would show up as silhouettes through walls in 3D space. Plenty of examples of how this can be done right.
Summary: The compass falls significantly short to provide any use, it undermines “tracking” unlocked through progression. Sometimes I will be literally sitting on top of nuts and I still can’t find them, how bad of a tracker is that when I cant even find the nuts right beneath me? The purpose of tracking is to make it easier to find resources based on how much of an expert you are at that tradeskill, but some things are really hard to find regardless. Think iron ore during the night time. I think tracking needs to provide higher value than it does today (compass) and also go up in range based on the user’s proficiency. Until that is done, third-party 2D maps (on browser or otherwise) are way more useful.
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I heard people saying that it works if you reinstall overwolf… didnt care to try it yet… i lost any desire to do anything in game
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It will be the same for all minimap mods using overwolf since overwolf will enforce on their app store the rules set by amazon to stay whitelisted.
Like if you go to an other minimap discord (CptWeslay) you can see that :
Agreed. Compass should not fail to track resources 95% of the time, I will have to relog 3833883473 times a day to get it to show them and idk when it stops showing them until I run up on something as I HAVE NOT MEMORIZED EVER NODE LOCATION IN THE GAME. For one, if you’ve been somewhere you should be able to go to the main map and add markers so you can remember how to get back and gather later, you should not have to just memorize or try to write a description on paper etc where the hell you were at a given time. Lol
You shouldnt need to add marks it should do it for you. Like often when you go near mote nodes, they actually do appear on map temporarliy.
They need to fix the compass tracker big time and increase the range.
I hope it’s down, fo-evah! Play the raw game, peeps.
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Worrying about a mini-map when your game is in the final stages of tanking. Typical AGS prioritizing right there. 
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when u just starting playing NW map is bad no sht but when u play since start and they remove it… idk its just about to make life harder when noone wants to play at all… not a deliberate decision
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Well, so if map is not working any more there is any point to play that broken buggy game. It was last one thing which worked fine. No than k you amazon you dont know what dies mean to hear players or do good games
close the game, close overwolf and curseforge completely, run overwolf, open game, map will work again. had the issue myself and found the solution somewhere on there page i dont remember where but it worked for me
Nah, play by yourself
…Why? They have bigger things to deal with than making a mini-map, dude…
So…you want to force people to play the game the way you want…? No thanks, it’s working again and thank god.
No. The game was updated, updates cause things to not work…
Don’t go bringing dead posts back to life like this.
I couldn’t care less about your minimap.
If you can’t play with the regular compass find an alternative way. If you get banned for it. Well, sucks.
If not, have fun
Forcing? Don’t think so. I want folks to play the game the way the Devs designed it. If an overlay map is the way to go, they should include it. We either all use it or we all don’t. I don’t care either way.
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