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New World’s first patch does more to stop AFK players hogging serversIt comes with a bunch of important and amusing bug fixes too
It comes with a bunch of important and amusing bug fixes too
A week after launchNew Worldcontinues to see hundreds of thousands of players logging on to get a piece of that sweet new MMORPG action. Just this weekend, the gamenearly hit a million concurrent playerson Steam. But with that popularity has come long queues, and some players are going AFK once they get in so they don’t lose their spots if they can’t play immediately. It should be harder for them to hog server space now though, because Amazon Games released New Worlds' first post-launch patch last night, changing some AFK rules.
In the1.0.1 patch notes, Amazon say they’ve added “additional AFK prevention to ensure players cannot fool the existing system with simulated mouse movement”. They’ve also shortened the AFK warning message from 20 minutes to 15, and players will now be disconnected from the game after 20 minutes, rather than 25.
New World Gameplay - playing Amazon’s new MMO from the beginningWatch on YouTube
New World Gameplay - playing Amazon’s new MMO from the beginning
Look, I understand that once you get into the game you don’t wanna leave because you’ll have to wait ages again, but if lots of people are AFK that only makes the queue worse! Be the change you want to see in New World.
From what I’ve seen, things are starting to ease up though, with queues are mostly at their worst during peak times in the evenings and at the weekend now.
Amazon have previouslyadded more servers,disabled character creation on full servers, andplan on offering players server transfersto improve queue times. While there’s no exact date yet on those transfers, they should be available in the next week or so.
This patch comes with a whole host of bug fixes too. Here’s a selection of the more important-sounding and slightly amusing ones, including frozen legs and aggressive pastors:
If you need a little help with the game, we’ve put together some guides to thebest New World character buildsand thefastest New World levelling methods.
