I do expect then to do something short term when there is game breaking exploits that are being abused left and right without any conserves.
I’m no Game dev but would it be impossible to disable that hatchet passive to they get it fixed? One example.
Getting 1-2 shotted by a hatchet player over and over is getting old really fast in pvp. I have never had a worse pvp experience then i had in my first outpost rush. and i never going to do it again at this state of the game.
Or i can do like other mates, join and put on a movie and be afk for money and loot.
Not sure how things run around here but from my experience I can only guess it’s like this:
A bug is being reported. If it’s an actual bug report with proof and not just a rant, it gets picked up by moderators and compiled on a list with other bugs. This list gets to someone in power to aprove what gets fixed in a week and what gets fixed 2 weeks later, what bugs need a hotfix in 24h and so on
Then, after a bug has been aproved for fixing, it gets passed on to an senior architect or lead designer who can establish the time it takes to fix it based on it’s complexity and how to fix it.
If the list of bugs has dupe exploits, server instability, transfer errors on it, there is a chance that the hatchet passive will get post poned.
I personally avoid fort rush until issues are fixed with the hatchet, resilient perk and the afk players. I want to enjoy a good PvP. Playing Outpost Rush now will only give me a negative experience of the whole thing and burn me out. However, I did play only 2 matches, found the issues and saw on the forums that other users already reported them. I’m focusing more on leveling my armoring skill and finishing my side quests until they fix it.
I wish I could still refund my game. I like New World in its essence and all, but the game is so riddled with bugs and exploits that it outright kills my enjoyment of it.
I seriously believe that AGS should just offer refunds and try and relaunch the game. It’s more than clear that it just wasn’t ready for launch and needs a good extra 6 months of serious work at least.
There are specific perks on gear, like Resilience that should just be disabled until they have a fix. The hatchet buff stacking that is making OPR almost unplayable is another armor perk. Fortify stacking that’s not intended, for lifestaff, again another armor perk.
With this newest patch also introducing perma bloodlust and other items that weren’t even part of the intended fixes.
AGS has continued to just allow abuse of exploits and bugs, with only gold dupe being addressed as ban-able.
I hate to agree with people, but core features of the game simply don’t work properly which is indicative of an Alpha.
What’s annoying is some have stretched back since alpha.
It’s not a timeline or expectation, but as others have said, an issue of inaction, to stop or discourage exploiting.
Again, why am I AVOIDING the best gold option for end game, why do I have to compete with bots or limited resources on extremely rare drop rates?
I don’t mind “fighting” the game to an extent, but when its 80%+ of what I’m doing, that’s when its pretty unacceptable.
Cause they were instructed to play on a placeholder server when every original one was full. “play solo for now, then transfer with your friends later”. Thats exactly the plan of many people.
We expect from the game which have been 2 years in beta phase to be better at the start.
We are not beta testers any more. so stop defending them so much.
Also remember, that they are a big big company, not a small studio with 2 people. So yea, we expect more.
I have a suspicion. Last time I saw a game so filled with bugs, was Runes Of Magic, acquired by Lameforge, I sense they might have something to do with all this. I also not playing so often as I wanted to, when I log in, I spend like 20 minutes blocking the 128787 gold sellers every single day, I’m not even near endgame content, decided not to rush and take a slow pace until the major issues are fixed.
sadly i’m feeling pretty much the same… i’ve been playing NMS, which was my filler while waiting between the betas and launch, because i’m so frustrated with the state of the game. it has a lot of potential, the core is there, but… every day it’s another broken bit or exploit, plus i’m pissed about the female characters. asking for a refund would be silly, but, just not logging in is a more appealing option daily.
if you think that 5 bug fixed that can be made in a few hours will fix duping gold, balance issues and pretty much dead factionso n dominated servers then good luck with 10k ppl in a few months
Relaunching did wonders for FFXIV, so I’m basing it off that. I don’t mean they should just issue refunds and be done with it (like close the game), but offer them in good faith. I like the game, but it just doesn’t excuse the poor state it’s in right now from a development standpoint and it’s not like we could see all these issues the game is plagued with in the first few hours (hell, even days) of gameplay.
I honestly don’t know how they could go about this, but what I re-emphasize is that it’s clear the game just wasn’t ready. It’s normal for a new game, specially one of this scale to launch with issues and a few bugs, but those in New World are nothing short of game-breaking. For example the gold and item dupe exploits are just impossible to completely solve without a rollback because the already bad economy is beyond salvaging at this point.
I don’t think it’s absurd to be asking for the Cyberpunk 2077 treatment with all that in mind. I’ve been taking a break for a week now and am waiting for them to fix their game or reimburse their players.
Many of the issues in the game, they have proven they can’t solve with any real urgency. Most of their issues are going to take at least a month to fix unless they pull some magic out.
Honestly, at this point they are having us test their game, the very least they could do is over everyone 20$ in in-game prem currency and ask us to patiently wait for them to fix all the game breaking exploits/bugs.
The reality is they probably aren’t going to fully ban anyone and just outside of the current rampant dupe exploit, so many other people are exploiting a bug or two, as they are the majority of the current player base. I honestly feel like I’m losing out not soloing some 65 ePOIs with hatchet exploit. There are YouTube videos out there with 50k+ views on how to do some of these exploits, that’s more than the # of players actually playing in NA East.
Even if they mange to fix an acceptable amount of issues over the next month, what and how are they going to handle the players who abused the exploits or benefited from others abusing them? The reality is, they won’t and if they did, they would need to do basically semi-full sever wipes.
Like it’s so frustrating that I have to agree with you, some kind of a soft-relaunch is needed at this point.
Ah, that. Well, nothing much I can say about that. The game is just unfinished and still needs a lot of work. A LOT. Can’t have a title from a major corporation break even harder every time they try patching things up. The quality of the product we’re receiving is grounds for reimbursement in most other places if this were to be a physical product, no matter how many hours of playtime invested.
On Xibalba, there’s a running joke about a bot named Iron8888. It sits on the same iron node near Armine and has been there 24/7 for the last month. Never moving, never logging off. It’s gotten from level 8 to 27 farming that singular iron node.
Every single player, each and every one reports Iron8888 every single time they go to windsward. It has to have been reported thousands of times. It’s still there as I write this.
