![]() The whole experience took almost two hours, which seemed too long, given the limited enemy variety. The party worked its way through a surprisingly dull series of gray-brown caverns, stopping to fight enemies in almost every new room. If you’ve played an MMO dungeon before, you can probably guess how the rest of the Amrine Excavation went. Each player has only three active skills, with varying cooldowns, and finding the right time to use them is part of the challenge. Instead, it plays more like an action game, where players have to target and attack foes in real time. What sets New World apart from most other MMOs is that the combat doesn’t use tab-targeting and skill rotations. Hopefully, that will get ironed out before August 31.įrom there, it’s simply a matter of players using their skills to complement each other, and learning each enemy’s attack pattern. The ice gauntlet sounded especially cool, although the players in our demo couldn’t use it, because its freezing effects slowed down the game too much. Your skills, and your subsequent role in the party, is determined entirely by what weapon you equip: rapier, staff, ice gauntlet, etc. I say “skills” and not “class,” because New World is a classless game. According to the developers, New World employs the typical DPS/tank/healer philosophy from other MMOs, but players can mix and match some of the roles, depending on their skills. Parties consist of five players, and ideally, everyone’s skills will complement each other’s. There are also some light puzzles to solve and bosses to overcome. There, you fight three different kinds of foes: hulking Ravagers, ethereal Ghosts and batlike Grunts. Pick up my sci-fi novels the Herokiller series and its audiobook, and The Earthborn Trilogy, also on audiobook. ![]() Subscribe to my free weekly content round-up newsletter, God Rolls. You might as well give it a shot.įollow me on Twitter, YouTube, Facebook and Instagram. Simply put, you can do whatever you want, and you can do 98% of it solo. Now, my goal is to get my zone rep up to buy the best house in my home base region, and start furnishing it. Then my goal was to clear out all quests in my zones, which I did (minus a few elite ones). Earlier in this week, my goal was to hit 100 mining and woodcutting, which I did. You can set your own objectives, move at your own pace through the sandbox MMO. That said, I have been pretty surprised with how comfortable solo play has been in New World. You don’t have to know them, and you don’t have to be on voice comms, but you do need a lot of backup. You can be a solo PvP player, taking on players or even groups in the wild if you’re strong enough, but larger scale PvP wars, a decently fun and chaotic aspect of the game, is a mass-scale group activity, so this is one thing you can’t really do without one. I really have no interaction with my company other than people occasionally asking each other questions in chat. I did this mission with my company, the first and only time I actually grouped up with them for any reason, since they recruited me near launch. But there are dozens of people sitting outside the area at all times looking for groups, so if you want to find one, you can. ![]() The first one, a level 25 expedition, is indeed part of the main quest and could be a roadblock. There are expeditions and dungeons that require a group that won’t even let you in without one. Or, you can dramatically over-level these zones and simply come back later. The good news is that given the population of these servers, you will usually find a good amount of people roaming around these zones you can team up with. There are certain “Elite” areas in the game where enemies have 5x their normal health and bosses are best taken down in groups. Nearly everything you “need” a group for, either is pretty optional, or the game will make it relatively easy to acquire one. If you join a company they will be aligned with a specific faction, but you don’t need to join a company (a clan) to be in a faction and gain benefits from it. You can level up through your respective faction through an endless amount of quests, and this doesn’t require a group. Everyone will have to join one of three factions in the game, but again, this does not have group play as a requirement.
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