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| New World Open Beta on Steam by Rafiki 09/11/2021, 6:35pm PDT | ||||
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| If you go to the store page and request access you'll get it pretty much instantly. You don't need to create any kind of account when you start the game, at least not for the beta. I don't know what happens when it launches.
Immediate knee-jerk impressions: This is the most generic looking game ever. Everything about it has the least amount of imagination possible. The visuals, the setting, the dialog, the music. Maybe more advanced content is mind-blowing, but holy shit this is shockingly vanilla. It has 3rd-person action game combat. You have some skills that go on cooldown like a traditional MMO, but your standard attacks are controlled directly by you, unlike typical MMO auto-attacks. You can also block and dodge. So far it seems to be responsive, but the enemies aren't that complex and you can't PVP until level 10. No idea how that will hold up with network delay or more complicated mechanics. The combat feels like it's designed for a controller, but there's too many buttons to play without a keyboard I think. Speaking of network delay, it looks like chat and the game are hosted on different servers through different connections. The game itself was running fine, but (party) chat started lagging by MINUTES and became unusable. When you start the game, the server list is nice enough to tell you you have Steam friends on this or that server, but once you get in-game there's nothing to show you your Steam friends on the social tab. It looks like you change classes just by equipping a different weapon, and each weapon can skill up individually and has its own talent tree with different specs. Seems sort of like FF14's approach with the job system, only there's no cast bar to change classes. The UI is terrible, everything is unreadable. Like, text is clear, but everything just looks like a big blob of information. The genericness of the UI design doesn't help making interpreting things any easier. PRO-TIPS: open up the chat window and click the little gear in the bottom-right. That will allow you to mute everything. For some reason they announce in global chat when someone levels up near you. WHO THE FUCK WOULD EVER CARE? A party member is fine, some random asshole in the vicinity is just noise. There's no minimap, but there's a compass at the top of the screen that shows quest markers. It's so virtually invisible that me and a friend were in the game for about an hour before either of us noticed it even existed. |
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New World Open Beta on Steam by 09/11/2021, 6:35pm PDT  Re: New World Open Beta on Steam by 09/12/2021, 6:48pm PDT New World fucked up beyond belief by 10/31/2021, 10:38am PDT Re: New World fucked up beyond belief by 10/31/2021, 10:40am PDT Re: New World fucked up beyond belief by 10/31/2021, 8:18pm PDT |
