Amazon Games has just released update 1.8.3 for New World, which marks the start of the Legacy of Crassus world boss event, along with a handful of general fixes and improvements to be expected from an MMO update. New World will be seeing some updates to its world AI, resource harvesting, and outpost rush gameplay, among several other noteworthy fixes and quality-of-life improvements.

Amazon's New World has made a lot of progress after a little over a year since it was released at the end of 2021. Though the game has continued to struggle to retain its players after New World's player count fell sharply shortly after its release. Amazon Games doesn't appear to have been discouraged by this, however, and has remained committed to improving the game with a steady pace of major and minor updates along with various seasonal and other limited-time events to spice up the world of Aeternum. These updates have brought entirely new weapons, regions, and dungeons for players to explore, along with major improvements to gameplay, balance, and the economy.

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The latest update for New World introduces the Legacy of Crassus limited-time event, in which the Roman general Crassus' level 66 cyclops captains have invaded the southern lands and are wreaking havoc. Players can find portals in Brightwood, Weavers Fen, Mourningdale, Ebonscale Reach, and Edengrove where Lucanus and Decimus may be challenged for unique rewards once a day. Additionally, players are guaranteed to receive every possible reward after defeating Lucanus and Decimus eight times, so it should be fairly easy for players to get their hands on every item between now and the event's March 7 cutoff. Some standard rewards remain available regardless of how many times the bosses are defeated each day.

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As expected of any New World update, a variety of bug fixes, quality-of-life improvements, and balance changes have made it into the patch accompanying the Legacy of Crassus event. Some non-interactable resources are once again harvestable, certain overly-common expedition mutations have been made less frequent, and some Dryad Soldiers that couldn't damage players have been fixed. Some quality-of-life improvements are included, such as locked items no longer being droppable from the inventory and the "transfer all" storage button no longer transferring away locked items.

This is only the start of the year, and the New World 2023 roadmap looks very promising especially later in the year. A highly-requested transmog system is in the works, while raid groups, quest improvements, and cross-world outpost rush are set to arrive this spring and summer.

New World Update 1.8.3 Full Patch Notes

WORLD EXPERIENCE

GENERAL

  • Fixed an issue that made harvestable resources non-interactable in certain situations.

EXPEDITIONS

  • Fixed a bug that caused Mutated Expeditions to receive the same elemental Mutations more often than intended.

QUESTS

  • Fixed an issue with Tamra Ayad in the quest "Dishonorable Daughter." She now appears in the proper location at the appropriate time.

AI UPDATES

WORLD AI

  • Fixed an issue that caused some Dryad Soldier attacks to not damage or interact with players.
  • Removed cat bobble heads from the game. Cats are less awkwardly enthusiastic when attacking.

GAME MODES

OUTPOST RUSH

  • Increased the amount of personal scoring gained from capturing and contesting points and using resources.
  • Added brief invulnerability to players that spawn in their home fort to help prevent spawn camping.

PVP ARENAS

  • Fixed an issue that allowed players to change equipment while in the Spectator Box.

ECONOMY, PROGRESSION, & GEAR

TRADE SKILLS

  • Fixed an issue that caused the text for Basic and Major Fishing Trophies to display the incorrect Luck values.

UX/UI/SOCIAL

FACTION SWAPS

  • Fixed a bug that allowed players to join the Faction that controlled the most territories.

LEADERBOARDS

  • Filtering friends or Company members on Leaderboards now properly sorts the results by rank. Unranked players are listed at the end.
  • Fixed an issue that prevented some players from receiving rewards. Affected players will receive their rewards in a future update.

NOTABLE FIXES

  • Fixed an issue that caused the Brimstone Sands Outpost Storage to incorrectly default to the Brimstone Sands Settlement Storage.
  • Fixed an icon error with the Baal Hoop ring.
  • Fixed an issue where the Storage Shed UI would not show up when interacting with a Storage Shed.

QUALITY OF LIFE IMPROVEMENTS

  • Locked items can no longer be dropped.
  • When using the "Transfer All" button to transfer inventory items to storage, locked items will now stay in the player's inventory.

New World is available on PC.

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