New World 1.2.1 fixes botting issues with the Winter event, and pushes out Faction cooldown reset to help people settle in their new worlds!
Patch 1.2.1 Overview
With it being a very small patch, there’s not a whole not to talk about, so let’s just quickly highlight the couple important things:
“Restricted Coin Lockboxes earned from the Tree of Light to players level 15 and above to coincide with when Event Quests are enabled for players. This change was implemented to discourage bad actors from repeatedly creating new characters in an attempt to exploit the availability of coin.
Reduced the amount of characters that can be created per day per account.”
Both of these changes help reduce the number of botters trying to profit off the Winter Convergence event, making it harder for them to also make new characters in general. By placing a low level requirement, it significantly slows down the rate as which botters can collect Trees of Light.
“To enable a level playing field for players, we reset the faction cooldown time for all players. Once players choose or change a faction the duration of the cooldown will be set to 60 days.”
This helps people settle into their newly merged worlds and gives them a shorter time frame before they can swap factions again. This will be interesting to see how they play out with them recently mentioning in their Developer Update about possibly adding in ways to oust tyrants and such within a guild or factions.
Full Patch Notes
Below are the full and exact patch notes if you would like to check them out.
Greetings Adventurers!
This week’s update is focused on resolving some of the issues that have arisen from our December Update. Our development team is continually working on improving the New World experience and they thank you all for your patience and reports that you continue to make on the official forums.
- Restricted Coin Lockboxes earned from the Tree of Light to players level 15 and above to coincide with when Event Quests are enabled for players. This change was implemented to discourage bad actors from repeatedly creating new characters in an attempt to exploit the availability of coin.
- Reduced the amount of characters that can be created per day per account.
- Fixed an issue causing Azoth balances to not update after fast traveling or crafting. Azoth balances should now adjust to show the amount spent when traveling or crafting.
- Fixed an issue that caused potions to drop at multiple gear scores resulting in inventory stacking issues.
- To enable a level playing field for players, we reset the faction cooldown time for all players. Once players choose or change a faction the duration of the cooldown will be set to 60 days.
- Fixed an issue that occasionally caused the “Weavers Needed” Town Project mission for the Winter Convergence to not be completed if attempting to craft in Everfall.
Thanks for your support! We’ll see you in Aeternum.
Patch Notes are sourced directly from New World’s official website.
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