Amazon Video games is pushing patch 1.0.3 on New World live servers this morning, activating the extremely anticipated character server transfers within the course of. As a result of excessive demand (the sport peaked at nearly a million concurrent customers on Steam seventeen days in the past) at launch, gamers skilled extraordinarily lengthy queues in most servers and due to this fact some had been compelled to create their characters on low inhabitants servers in order that they might play in any respect. This, nevertheless, fractured guilds and participant teams, now stranded on totally different servers and unable to play collectively. The character server switch characteristic is supposed to convey everybody again the place they need to be.
The rollout will not be instant all over the place, although. There will likely be a stay check within the Asian Pacific Southeast area first.
We’ve been onerous at work on the characteristic and testing it for the previous two weeks, however as a result of this characteristic is model new we’ve determined to take a protected, incremental strategy to rolling out transfers to all New World gamers.
When all worlds are again on-line from downtime, our plan is to observe the framework we created with out turning transfers on instantly. As soon as we’ve confirmed that the framework holds up at scale, we are going to activate character server transfers within the Utopia world first, within the AP Southeast area. We’ll carefully monitor transfers on this world, and if something out of the extraordinary happens our group might want to make handbook interventions. If all goes properly, we are going to flip it on for the remainder of the AP Southeast area, and proceed monitoring. If after 8 hours our group hasn’t found any points, we are going to totally deploy character server transfers to the opposite areas.
All New World accounts will obtain just one complimentary server switch token, so you may need to select rigorously the place you are going subsequent. Amazon mentioned it’s going to consider the state of affairs to examine for the potential want for an additional wave of free server tokens.
As a reminder, you will not have the ability to switch your character to a full world, or to a world set the place you have already got one other character. Earlier than activating the switch, be sure that to take away any energetic Buying and selling Put up promote or purchase orders,
As a thank-you gesture to all New World gamers, Amazon is granting everybody the ‘Stoic’ in-game title, along with a free ‘Ready’ emote that may be grabbed by way of the in-game retailer.
The most recent New World patch additionally fixes quite a few bugs and points, in fact, as outlined under.
GENERAL
Applied ultimate items of the server switch framework.
Added enhancements to the World choice UI.
Added clearer messaging when a participant is kicked as a consequence of going AFK or violating the EAC.
Added clearer messaging when stacked reductions are current, resembling territory standing and faction reductions on property taxes.
Applied back-end adjustments to assist our group examine issues across the shopper efficiency in Conflict.
Adjusted the respawn timer on Boatswain Ambrose and numerous different elite enemies all through the world.
In The Depths, Gamers should now be within the area to break Thorpe.
An error message now seems when gamers try to purchase their very own objects within the Buying and selling Put up.
Reverted a chest/loot change from replace 1.0.2 that was inflicting too many refining reagents to roll from chests.
Adjusted the quantity on the Amazon Video games splash display screen.
Armor is proscribed to 1 talent perk per piece.
Added basic efficiency enhancements for visible artifacts and graphics settings.
Dyes are actually faraway from objects upon commerce with a warning message current.
The Time to Declare Conflict” timer now visually pauses to make it clear when an Invasion is imminent however not but scheduled. Territory stays in a Battle state after Invasions, and Conflict could be declared.
GENERAL BUG FIXES
Mounted points with the T4 and T5 azoth staffs— go shut these excessive degree portals!
Mounted a difficulty inflicting the abandoning occasion notification to persist.
Mounted a housing UI subject. The UI will now accurately reveals that property taxes are topic to the total value of the house, and never impacted by the primary time residence purchaser low cost.
Mounted points with early sport spawning. The watchtower respawn level is changed by the Settlement after it has been found. Gamers not incorrectly respawn at a Watchtower after choosing to respawn at a Settlement.
Mounted numerous localization points all through the sport.
Mounted a difficulty the place not all objects for City Initiatives had been consumed when finishing the mission.
Resolved login errors that prevented gamers from accessing their character.
Mounted a difficulty that brought about Enviornment keys to not drop as meant.
Mounted a difficulty that brought about the Runic Bear armor to not be appropriately dyed throughout Wars.
Mounted a pet placement subject. Pets positioned in an in any other case empty home now stay within the residence after the participant logs out, as a substitute of returning the pet to the participant’s stock.
AP Southeast servers now show the right time zone in-game.
Mounted a difficulty that brought about Firm invitations to persist after decline/settle for.
Mounted a difficulty that brought about Rajah spawns to stack ceaselessly – one massive cat at a time, please!
Replace: Our New World group was in a position to embrace a couple of different pressing fixes into this week’s replace. The next points have been mounted.
Mounted a difficulty that brought about holding and dragging across the shopper whereas in windowed mode to continually retrigger invincibility.
Mounted a difficulty that brought about taxes to not go into the controlling firm’s treasury.
Mounted a difficulty that brought about penalty size for suspensions and bans to say “Over a yr”.
Mounted points with corporations not receiving some territory taxes.
