In New World on April 4, the latest patch was released. This brought new story content, a new dungeon, and the first season pass. However, there is also a new critical bug that simply deleted the entire equipment of some players.
What happened there? Shortly after the release of the new update, a thread was published in the forum where players shared screenshots of their characters (via New World). In these pictures, the characters are naked, lacking armor, weapons, bags, potions, and buff food. Only the gathering tools and the general inventory remained intact.
The exact cause of the bug is still unclear. However, since the equipment slots affected are related to the new storage system of the update, the bug was likely triggered by this. It mainly affects players who had logged out while they were dead.
Interestingly, the update was already postponed from March 28 to April 4 due to a critical bug.
Is there already a solution – Update 11:50 AM? Sort of. The developers announced at 10:30 AM that there will be maintenance today at 2:00 PM which will partially fix the bug (via New World Forum). This means that players who died before the update and have not yet logged in will no longer lose their equipment from then on.
However, players who lost their items will still have to wait. A second patch is supposed to come eventually to restore the items. As compensation, the affected players will receive 50,000 luck tokens, which is about 42 euros in real money. This is enough for about two complete season passes.
Here you can find information about the new patch:
New World is notorious for bizarre bugs
Is this the first major bug that New World has experienced? No, quite the contrary. It has become a meme on the internet that new updates always come with a larger bug. Here is an overview of the biggest problems:
- Right after the release, the first hotfixes introduced some new bugs into the game, such as an initial gold dupe. This was meant to be fixed, but it resulted in another gold dupe.
- Shortly thereafter, players discovered a bug with giant sausages and found a way to move the client and thereby become invulnerable.
- In November, players accidentally received 300,000 gold as a gift. During a related rollback, unrelated players had items “stolen” because these were traded by the previous players at some point.
- In February, after 6 hours new Valentine’s skins were deleted, which caused technical problems.
- A patch introduced a new item to boost the economy, but players found a way to exploit it.
- In an October bug, players could accidentally crush others with an emote.
- In November, the fresh start took place. On the new servers, the economy was supposed to start from zero. But shortly after the start, there were again gold dupes.
In total, there have only been a handful of major updates that went completely smoothly.
How is the future looking for New World? Amazon is currently planning to release a major update every quarter. Additionally, the first expansion is planned for the fall, which fans are eagerly looking forward to. You can find all the details here:
MMORPG New World will bring new seasons, an expansion, and mounts in 2023 – Sounds absolutely great
