{"id":9677,"date":"2022-11-07T02:17:55","date_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:17:55","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/07\/new-world-opens-some-fresh-servers-to-celebrate-its-reworked-game-start\/"},"modified":"2022-11-07T02:17:55","modified_gmt":"2022-11-07T02:17:55","slug":"new-world-opens-some-fresh-servers-to-celebrate-its-reworked-game-start","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/2022\/11\/07\/new-world-opens-some-fresh-servers-to-celebrate-its-reworked-game-start\/","title":{"rendered":"New World opens some fresh servers to celebrate its reworked game start"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"youtube-video\">\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Amazon games&#8217; MMO New World has opened up a suite of &#8220;Fresh Start&#8221; servers, letting you kick off a new character on an untapped server where there&#8217;re no long-established players from the game&#8217;s first year. The new servers come alongside an entirely reworked early game experience for the game, requiring less travel and grouping quests closer together along with requiring far less grinding.<\/p>\n<p>The rework also has a &#8220;huge improvement to the overall pacing,&#8221; says the Amazon Games team. New World also recently released Brimstone Sands, a big expansion update with lots of Egyptian and Ancient Roman-themed action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a great opportunity for new and lapsed players to experience all that has changed over the game&#8217;s first year,&#8221; said Amazon Games. Amazon games has also posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4HrZQJC7C1A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> to YouTube\u2014embedded above\u2014highlighting what&#8217;s new in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>That new content includes a boatload of new expedition dungeons: Tempest&#8217;s Heart, Barnacles &amp; Black Powder, and the Ennead, alongside mutator versions of old expeditions and a group finder for them. That&#8217;s also not really including the new weapons, which are a bit like New World&#8217;s classes: the Greatsword, Void Gauntlet, and Blunderbuss weapons are all new, and have new abilities to go with.<\/p>\n<p>New World has plenty of lapsed players, who may or may not remember that their one-time purchase of the game lets them go back whenever they please. It was a massive success at launch, selling a ton of copies and hitting a high of nearly a million players on Steam, but that high collapsed over time into a steady daily top concurrent count of about 15-25 thousand. Since the release of the Brimstone Sands in October that number has popped back up to 50-60 thousand, and a recent Twitch drop campaign saw peak concurrent numbers return to over 100 thousand.<\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1063730\/New_World\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New World on Steam<\/a>, where it&#8217;s 50% off until November 8th. You can also go find their official website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newworld.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newworld.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good spot, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/new-worlds-fresh-start-servers-offer-old-and-new-players-a-chance-to-completely-restart-their-experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurogamer.<\/a><\/p>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>[#item_image]New World opens some fresh servers to celebrate its reworked game start<!-- wp:html --><\/p>\n<div class=\"youtube-video\">\n<div class=\"video-aspect-box\"><\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p>Amazon games&#8217; MMO New World has opened up a suite of &#8220;Fresh Start&#8221; servers, letting you kick off a new character on an untapped server where there&#8217;re no long-established players from the game&#8217;s first year. The new servers come alongside an entirely reworked early game experience for the game, requiring less travel and grouping quests closer together along with requiring far less grinding.<\/p>\n<p>The rework also has a &#8220;huge improvement to the overall pacing,&#8221; says the Amazon Games team. New World also recently released Brimstone Sands, a big expansion update with lots of Egyptian and Ancient Roman-themed action.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;It\u2019s a great opportunity for new and lapsed players to experience all that has changed over the game&#8217;s first year,&#8221; said Amazon Games. Amazon games has also posted a <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/4HrZQJC7C1A\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">video<\/a> to YouTube\u2014embedded above\u2014highlighting what&#8217;s new in the past year.<\/p>\n<p>That new content includes a boatload of new expedition dungeons: Tempest&#8217;s Heart, Barnacles &amp; Black Powder, and the Ennead, alongside mutator versions of old expeditions and a group finder for them. That&#8217;s also not really including the new weapons, which are a bit like New World&#8217;s classes: the Greatsword, Void Gauntlet, and Blunderbuss weapons are all new, and have new abilities to go with.<\/p>\n<p>New World has plenty of lapsed players, who may or may not remember that their one-time purchase of the game lets them go back whenever they please. It was a massive success at launch, selling a ton of copies and hitting a high of nearly a million players on Steam, but that high collapsed over time into a steady daily top concurrent count of about 15-25 thousand. Since the release of the Brimstone Sands in October that number has popped back up to 50-60 thousand, and a recent Twitch drop campaign saw peak concurrent numbers return to over 100 thousand.<\/p>\n<p>You can find <a href=\"https:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/1063730\/New_World\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">New World on Steam<\/a>, where it&#8217;s 50% off until November 8th. You can also go find their official website, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newworld.com\/en-us\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">newworld.com.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Good spot, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/new-worlds-fresh-start-servers-offer-old-and-new-players-a-chance-to-completely-restart-their-experience\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Eurogamer.<\/a><\/p>\n<p><!-- \/wp:html --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":0,"featured_media":9678,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[20],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9677"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9677\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/9678"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9677"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9677"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blog.bwgamespot.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9677"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}