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I just started playing New World myself after a friend from RS3 convinced me to give it a try. Just hit level 60 last night, but been taking my time leveling and enjoying skilling + expeditions. Really loving it so far

i just found you yesterday, literally binging all your videos now. Love this content man

I absolutely love storage system and you do not have to travel to get items from another sheds as you said in video, just open storage in one of the villages and it is centrelized you can open another storages from any village and pick any item you want and to make it easy to remember just put armors on top, then gathering materials after and in bottom put gems etc and it will be so simple to find everything 👍🏽

i needed this video thank you for your work

Great video man! seems like you’re enjoying the game a lot. All this game needed was some time and it became a really solid mmo with tons of potential. The dev team is super active and responds to player feedback way more than any game I’ve played.

Really well done video! Subbed

man ive been looking for a video like this but havent been able to find one. every new world beginner video on youtube is so esoteric and meant more for returning players than actual new ones. this vid might have convinced me to give it a shot

This video is goated, I’m glad that you experienced what we all experienced at launch when it comes to movement. Walking from town to town was the biggest drag, so for this video to include the fact that you walked/ran from town to town until lvl50 - makes me feel like you have experienced everything that new world is

Couple of corrections that i noticed... Storage from any settlement can be accessed from any other settlements storage to deposit or withdraw. However, when crafting or refining, it only pulls from your inventory or current location's storage. Regarding faction missions, you can do as many as you want. The first 3 give increased rep, but they're not the only 3 you can access. All in all, I recently came back a few weeks ago after not playing since launch. The game has changed drastically. Gone are the days of spamming mission boards to reach level cap. You can hit cap doing MSQ and the side quests within the same area. There's significantly more fast travel points and you dont have to spend 100+ azoth per fast travel. The highest ive seen is 20 azoth. In general, it's significantly more streamlined and smoother with a lot more QoL.

It keeps improving. The recent changes have been amazing.

Great video, i played it for about 500h and i think u nailed it with ur opinion!

I wasn't sure about this game but after this video you've sold me on trying it haha, cheers for a the great video.

As a veteran New World player, it's nice to hear an honest review from a fresh perspective. 5khrs in and I still love the game and the friends I've made in the community

Great video, I enjoyed how you described your experience and I hope the devs watch this as well.

for the storage system, you can actually access all of your settlement storages from 1 storage unit. its a pretty neat design which allows me to have certain storages for certain types of items

I got selected for the test, i’m so hyped

I felt in love with this game since day 1, 6 months ago. The story and the combat feel just so good and entertaining. I used to be a huge WoW vet and honestly, I don’t think I’ll be able to go back to a tab targeting mmo again. I agree with all of your cons points tho. Fortunately, the game is getting better and better after each season. It has so much potential to be one of the best mmo on the market in a couple of years.

A small clarification on storage, you can take objects that are in another storage in another city, and put them in your inventory and then in the storage of the city you are in, it is no longer necessary to go storage by storage in person. In S4 there will be many more changes to the storage, and it will be improved even more.

I've been playing this over the last month. Really enjoying my stay.

I was one of the people who absolutely no-lifed New World when it came out. One thing not highlighted here that absolutely wrecked the community was the number of bugs and exploits that came about in the first month or so of the games life. They had to disable trading for multiple days (over a week at one point i believe) due to an exploit. Their inability to put out fixes without breaking other things was just tragic. I'm glad to see the game still doing okay given how much AGS really shot themselves in the foot over and over the first few months. Maybe someday i'll give it another go (after osrs leagues maybe lol). Awesome video though! It really is a beautiful game

Nice vid bro keep it up

Can not wait for next video, you must try chest runs and portal raids

Not sure if anyone has commented on the storage yet but you can access the storage in all the other towns you've visited by simply going through the list when you open up your inventory in the storage you're currenly using. No need to travel to other towns! Nice video btw!

Probably my favorite game I've ever gathered Wc, Mining, Skinning in so satisfying sounds n all.

Very good video, you captured most of the thing good and bad in NW.

I loved new worlds monetization compared to a lot of other modern games. I can only remember like three times in 700ish hours that they poped a store notification up on me. Compared to most games where going into and being forced to use the stores as part of many games tutorials was like black and white.

As someone who has 4.5k hours in New world this was really nice to watch. My first 500 hours was the great so addicting.

I was curious if I am bothered to give it a go and this vid answered all my questions. Cheers bro

On point review of the game. I honestly backed in and out of it multiple times but man do I enjoy it lately!!!

I’m really thinking about getting this

Great video

There is no requirement for the interaction with water during the gameplay. That is why you can't swim. As you could circumvent intended exploration/progression if you could swim.

As a New World fan who had about 500 hours and then stopped for a year and is back now for Angry Earth I totally agree with your positives. If I could add on to your negatives though and maybe clarify. 1. Absolutely diversify mobs. New enemies are just reskinned old enemies 100%. My biggest complaint. 2. Swimming. I would like to be able to swim but they have water in the game almost as a deterrent to certain areas. If you look at the map the shaded water areas are crossable on foot. Non shaded can’t be crossed on foot, so they are aware of what they did. The only way I could see it working is if swimming used stamina maybe? So you could swim short distances but not around the whole map. 3. The stunlock issue. I don’t think this needs to be fixed at all. The stunlock is there for a reason. It forces players to block attacks or tank with 300 CON. With max con you will have grit on every attack. If you always had grit that would take out an integral portion of combat and also be too easy for DPS builds. As a DPS I can’t just pull a million mobs and have to be methodical about pulling enemies one at a time which I like anyway. Just my thoughts but love the review! It might get some of my friends to play it now!

good video bro !

It's true the foundation of this game is actually amazing, I have 54 hrs so far and I completely agree with getting stun locked by mobs is annoying but I think an easy fix for Amazon!! Honestly it is a great game don't understand hate for the game it's got some issues but honestly solid MMORPG in my opinion!!

As a fan of Runescape I *really* love this game. I get the same dopamine hits of crafting in gathering from New World as I do from OSRS and RS3. I love watching numbers go up lol. Now I just gotta get a PC that can run it better and I'll be golden

Had no idea you played, I started about a month ago and loving it so far. Which server you on?

Amazing video! It stands out. This made me return to New Worlds and give it another try. I like the clean commentary and honesty of the content provided. Like and sub from me.

Awesome video! This convinced me to give it a shot it’s on sale right now on Steam, thank you! One thing though I feel like adding swimming wouldn’t be the best idea. I personally hate the fact that you can swim is all of these MMOs. These games are supposed to depict realistic movement you shouldn’t be able to swim while wearing armor.

I've played New World since launch off and on. your review is spot on. When it launched it was much more difficult think vanilla WoW than it is now. My biggest issue in the beginning was I got bored as the story was nonexistent and was too repetitive as it felt everything was cut and pasted the towns are the exact same only flipped in some areas I've never got a character to max level as I either quit then came back and started a new one. The expansion was great mounts are a game changer also there are more fast travel shrines now than at launch. Travel was much more daunting at launch and costed much more Azoth to travel. I give credit to Amazon's development team as they have addressed almost all of the issues. Lack of swimming is one of the top issues that everyone mentions. I'm currently working on getting to max level now.

Very good and fair assessment.

awsome video bro im also trying new world out for the first time and I'm having a lot of fun despite all the negative things others say . an if it keeps fixing and improving this game should turn out pretty solid , an coming from a dark souls people need to keep that pvp on the game is 100x better especially with friends.

2200+ hour veteran here. For the most part you got the whole picture. Things are alittle cut and paste, the devs know this and are slowly getting that taken care of. They are going to redo some more towns like they did with monarchs bluff, and they have already changed some map areas. The mobs are indeed repetitive in fact it was way worse when The game came out. The storage though is centralized they are just in different ‘tabs’ if you will, for me it makes it easier to store things. For example i store all my cloth making resourses in weavers fen, hides in ebonscale, ores and bars in windsward, and wood in brightwood. In late game you will have enough of the stuff to take up more than a single towns storage. As for the constant stun locking i’ll be honest i’ve never had a problem with that. I usually dodge into a crowd and use a skill with grit (like shockwave on a warhammer) to cc the mob pile so that i can then take them out easier. But over all a good review. I love that the game is still getting new people. And i believe that in the future it will be an even better game.

Great to see some positivity. Good video

It's on sale with the expansion for $45 on Steam starting from today for a week! Now is as good a time as ever for me to pick this up.

Is it vertical or horizontal progression? Hows the fashion wars in this game do they all look same in endgame or you can customize?

You can get 3 houses and you forgot the Trophy System so you can craft and upgrade or buy Tropys and put them into your house to get dmg, craft and gather buffs. All and all a very good Video

Recently-added Transmog system makes New World a contender, as "ENDGAME = Fashion" for any MMO, eh? Nice summary. SUBBED

As a new player the game is awesomely fun. If it came out as it is today in the first place i think it would be the number 1 mmo played right now. Its still not perfect but they are open to making major changes to improve it. Its one of the few mmorpgs ive played in the last 20 years that is actually fun to fight, kill, gather, explore, quest.

awesome video

I remember playing NW in CBT and I was so happy to see wolfs having their own attack pattern. Wish all mobs had it in MMO's. NW like many other MMO's had so much potential.

So weird that I was thinking about New world like 10 mins before I saw your video lol. I wanted to try it. Also was already gonna try out guild wars 2, but then saw ur vid and made me try it quicker after haha. I'm having fun on guild wars 2, and gonna buy the expansion soon once I get some money. You should please please try out elder scrolls online.

love these first impression videos could watch a whole series on games ive never even heard before

Dude you're going to go a long way. You've earned a subscriber. Quality content and wishing you all the best.

If the devs made expeditions scale with players and soloable, that would make it better instantly.

I'm thinking about getting into this one. I've been searching for a new MMO since the TERA servers shut down a few years back. Nothing has been able to capture the same combat feeling for me, but the gameplay and everything about this has me excited. I'm a total sucker for a good RPG so if this is worth the $40 I can definitely see it being a favorite

15:24 Yes Please! One of the things that NW stand out is map veritcality. There are some serious mountains you can walk on and then jump off. I always wanted a way to utilize those(tbh there is some weapons skills that sends your flying from the ledges, sword leap strike for example). We need AT LEAST gliding mounts, and flying can be next!

I returned to the game for The Angry Earth expansion. Before that I played the first month or so after NW initial launch. I do really love the mounts, it made the levelling process much less tedious. But my main gripes with the game is the fact that you can't save more than one weapon tree build. I had certain abilities I liked to use say with the Spear in PvE, but other abilities I preferred in PvP. The fact that you have to respec every time to fit the game mode you're playing just felt totally inconvenient. Also, the crafting as simple as it seems at first, actually doesn't explain how you get to end game items. I was overwhelmed by the sheer amount I had to craft in order to get to late game items, which was the only way I could upgrade my Artifact. And then there's the water/no swimming. And although it doesn't come up often, the times where you do find yourself in water, is just so stupid to me. Having to trudge your way through like your bodyweight just tripled, along the sea/river-bed just seemed like such a lazy thing that ruined immersion. There are hardly any tutorials out there that are up to date with Angry Earth, and the ones that are expect you to have existing knowledge on the base game/end game in the first place. I felt totally lost when I got to max level in the end game. Tried looking up guides but there were no clear-cut beginner guides out there that I found helpful. I just felt left overwhelmed in a world, where everyone else was getting stuck in and grinding end game content.

For stunlocks : Grit through strength, blocking more helps a bunch. You're being punished for being too offensive and not paying enough attention to enemy actions :)

I played NW at launch, loved it, haven't played it much since since it was in rough state at endgame. I also played GW2 at launch and loved it, also haven't played since. Of the two you tested recently what would you recommend more in their current states?

if you wanna get deep into this game, id recommend joining a guild. They're always looking to pass on knowledge to new players, and willing to help out with leveling you up so you can participate with late game pvp.

they haven't fixed swimming yet because i think they said they want to integrate it into a bigger mechanic, probably make it its own skill and center an update around it, similar to riding and how it was one of the selling points for the most recent expansion.

I have an on and off relationship with new world, but for the mean time l, i like her a lot.

i live your vidio ive been slowly leveling up to 30 now game dosent seem that great yet being hopeful tho i havent played a great game sinve final fantasy 11 with the protect the outpost was cool anyway great video gonna keep on going

loved playing the beta/launch, but haven't touched it since. Burnt out on the beta, tbh, since I hit level 50 or so (not even spamming missions like others did). glad to see azoth costs are down and I have mixed feelings about mounts. I remember a bunch of conversations in the beta where people complained about the lack of them, while others like me were happy without them. I think the devs even said at the time they had no plans to add mounts. That shotgun also looks sick. I loved playing as a sniper, but I might have to look into that if I get back into it.

Honestly I put in about 250 hours when it was released. It was a full game on release, but lacked some of the QoL things that many players feel like they should have: things like mounts and swimming. The PvP was definitely stressful on the servers and there was a lot of freezing especially in large PvP. Combat is good in New World on the whole. It's a beautiful game and provides a lot of content for the price tag.

When it comes to concerns about enemy staggering and player mobility. I feel like you were in heavy armor a majority of the time, running light really changes thing's with mobility and even using weapon abilities that have mobility aspects to them helps. Dodging in this game is super important so you do not get staggered and others things like grit for a tank if you have 300 con are super important and you basically become a brick wall that cant be moved. Spend some time doing more high level PVE mutations and this will become more clear to you and make the combat system make more sense and become even more enjoyable.

The water depth is to prevent shortcutting and to contain players and while wearing 100 lbs of armor, it makes sense that you couldnt swim and ya just sink.

This version of the game is after they already reworked mobs/locations to be more unique :D Imagine how it was at launch. But they could for sure do a lot more on this topic.

20:44 Oh yeah, there's ways to get around the staggering that the enemies do. Its all in combat style, perks, and weapon with weapon skills your using. Utilizing "Grit," "Fortification," and "Uninterruptible," abilities and perks helps offset and and in most cases completely nullify the stagger issue u were having. Read into the skills and perks to find a way around this issue u were having.

I'm going to give a try soon too. Still can't believe they haven't added swimming though. What is this 2001?

Loved new world when it released but the lack of end game content towards the beginning of the release killed me... might revisit soon tho

Wait at the first place can you really swim when you're heavily plated with metal around you're body

yoo new game lets goo

I think they should add swimming, but only for light armor. It really does make more sense to not be able to swim or float in medium or heavy armor. I know we're used to swimming in plate armor in games, but I actually like the way water breaks up the landscape here. I just do wish I could swim in light armor.

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What's funny is that they have been re designing some of the towns already 😂

I came back recently and bought the expansion to get mount did all the story quests I needed to do. I wanted to do dungeons but I havent been able to do a regular dungeon, theres never people doing dungeons using the dungeon finder. The end game seems to be hard to get into, the only dungeons that some people are doing are the really hard versions of regular ones, I wanted to do the regulars first to learn the mechanics but theres never anyone doing them...

I haven't played since way back when the devs said they were never going to add mounts. If I can get it running on Linux I am going to buy that DLC!

oh boi :D bodyblocks are good thing in pvp. if u wana mobility - u can try light load not hvy )) about stulocking from mobs : theres always window for shift. so once u surrounded do shift + grit skill \ heavy attack )

I'm not even able to get my heart rune due to the quest not showing up. This is a known bug. Imagine not even being able to have such an imperative aspect of a build.

Try not to filter the shop by tier but by price and search for the specific item. This might save you some money. You spent a lot on them potions :D

Good video... fair criticism from a new player. Welcome to Covenant Isabella!! I would say the combat with the staggers and body blocking and stuff is just part of the design. Your loadout was far from optimized for the way you were playing. Blocking is rarely the way to go unless you're using a shield. You should try dropping the shield and change your loadout to take advantage of the better dodges on lower weight builds. In general with combat, you need to pick your fights carefully, change your fighting style to match your armor loadout and weapons, and take advantage of skills that both cc the enemy and prevent the CC on you. The shield does nothing but add weight unless you are using a weapon that uses the shield, and you want to avoid being blocked in by mobs and the terrain.. when I fight corrupted (what you died to in the clip of getting body blocked in) I often use a spear and run light armor...they take more damage to "thrust" or piercing damage, the spear rewards a high mobility playstyle, big attacks and cooldown decreases on dodges so it plays together to be agile. Skewer, Perforate, and Sweep are my go-to abilities on spear... I usually run Greataxe mostly in group content to help group up mobs together for the team to dps them down in clumps. If you wanna just facetank all the damage, you need to look for things that provide grit, while you have grit you won't be staggered so much. My typical role when playing with my friends in dungeons (Mutations) is the tank. I always run 300 con as the tank so all my light/heavy attacks provide grit. Then if I'm getting some level of heals, I can just spam my attacks and I rarely get knocked back because the only time I don't have grit are very limited spaces right in between attacks... when I solo I usually don't run heavy.. only for tanking. Also, if you want some ranged and a greataxe... give the throwing hatchet a try, it's a lot of fun right now imo. The new tier of gear "artifacts" are not just a new tier. They are basically like Destiny Exotic items (unique items with a special unique trait). The whole game is kind of like a fantasy based destiny game. I'm surprised more people don't see the comparison. Destiny has several different races with a certain number of varieties of mobs and new world also has several different mob types with certain varieties (Lost, Angry Earth, Ancient, Corrupted, Beast). I think New World has done a good job of adding quite a bit more mob variety within the 2 years its been out compared to Destiny, which has barely added any new mob types and only one new race in nearly a decade.

!!curse!! WATER/SWIMING is a lore thing, every body talks about but dont understand, the island is cursed, every one that get is canot get out and canot forever die, thats why you cant swim, if anything try to get off the island will sunk and die and go back to the island

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I only played a few days during a free weekend but I thought it was okay during the short time I played.

One thing new world did well for new players was if you think something works in a certain way. It probably does.

I've been playing since 2 months after release... amd let me tell you, your experience was much better than ours. At that time, you couldn't even trade between storages, meaning you had to travel... and traveling was ass. There was only 2 fast travel shrines per territory... and it used to cost up to 500 azoth. I can say that NW definitely should've definitely released at $70 now with all the content and QoL updates and it would've done way better than releasing a $40 beta

I been trying to force myself out of my guild wars 2 addction and this is the only other MMO I can sit and play for hours

I started playing the game as soon as it was released. Back then, I was using a 5700 XT, and it took me days and days to find the configuration that allowed me to enjoy the game under... acceptable conditions. Roughly 60 fps in solo, and 40 in open PvP. But the laggy aspect turned me off. I picked it up again a few days ago with a 4080, now averaging 120 fps and the game looks beautiful, but it's still just as laggy, especially in massive PvP and particularly in cities where the fps can drop to 30-40. And the clunky movement mechanics are really unpleasant. But it remains an excellent MMO.

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I think the walking under water is intended to be like that. You are no longer human. You are probably closer to undead. Think Davy Jones' crew walking on the sea floor in Pirate of the Caribbean. I don't really think this game needs a swimming system anyway. Also .. regarding the stun lock from multiple enemies. Get grit on your skills (you are uninterruptible). This is also intended to work this way.

6:53 Yes please...

With a new MMO, I sometimes have a realization that I feel I'm wasting my time on it. A few of those feelings in a row and I move on. I played hard on release, and when those constant dupe bugs (and lack of holding people accountable) was my first one. 2nd was the blatant copy paste of a lot of assets, the biggest being 5 forts right next to each other in the higher level zone. Finally (and this one is on me lol), I maxxed my faction in like 2 hours by easily taking advantage of the run speed bug with my greater axe. I saw plenty of people doing it, nobody could catch me, and I knew nobody would get banned for it. It was so quick I would finish the 3 repeatable quests before the 5 minute quest giver timer would reset lol. Maybe it IS better now, are there even fresh servers? Those duped items are still out there

Between this and Black Desert, which one would people go for? Can only get one of them, and they both have discounts on starting packages.

I too love NW I like the mobs blocking u cuz irl u wouldn't phase through someone I enjoy a lot of the realism factors of NW and I think it has a good balance of what's realistic and what's more game logic like the fall dmg I enjoy being able to leap off a cliff or tower lol

well with the weight of all that armour and heavy weapons i think its realistic in the fact that you wouldnt be able to swim

It's not about hating the game, I used to love this game so much but you can just deduce a conclusion about the game looking at the player chart since it released.

Think swimming only should Work with No Armour equipped since ud sink with IT irl