Amazon’s New World MMO is still in Steam’s top 5 most-played games, but the way it places players in servers is leading to the AI winning many of its faction battles.
New World may need some tweaks in order to compete with MMO mainstays like World of Warcraft or Final Fantasy 14, but the game clearly has an audience. According to Steam Charts, it remains the fifth most popular game on Valve’s platform – over a month on from launch.
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Sadly, though, it’s not all rosy. While the game still has an impressive 114,805 players online at present, it’s struggling to keep its servers up to the 2,000 player limit. That limit was intended to ensure that there would always be a healthy number of players to partake in the game’s faction system, but it now appears that the game’s AI is taking over its servers due to players leaving.
New World AI enemies are winning the game after players leave the game
While larger servers are likely to maintain enough players between the three factions in the game, smaller servers are now being overrun by AI demons that are gaining a foothold in territories and can’t be ousted without a considerable jump in player count.
The trouble is that faction control in New World is highly important, tying into crafting, trading, and leveling. If the enemy has taken a majority of an area, that can make the traditional MMO grind even more tedious.
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The obvious solution appears to be to merge multiple servers together if they have low enough player populations, or players need to try to band together – something that’s tricky because certain activities aren’t possible with other players in other factions.
While server transfers are possible, these cost money after your first swap, making it a risk – do you jump ship to an alternate server and risk going to one where one faction is dominating, or do you stick to where you are and attempt to organize a coup of sorts.
It’s a tricky position to be in for a New World player, but there is good news – Amazon has promised a new Public Test Realm is on its way, as well as an overhaul to combat.
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