New World Aeternum: List of Known Issues – UI, Xbox, Quests, Status -321 and more

List of known issues – Part 3

Gamepad

• The Steam virtual keyboard may overlay the chat field when players attempt to communicate. This also occurs when using an Xbox or PS5 controller.
• Steam input remappings may lead to input registration issues after connecting an Xbox controller.
• When using a gamepad, inadvertently opening the decoration menu while navigating through the menus in a player’s house may prevent players from changing their character skin or accessing emotes and augments.
• When players attempt to queue for another PvP mode (3v3 or OPR) after leaving the queue for the other mode with the gamepad button, they may mistakenly queue for the previously left mode instead of the intended new mode. Using the virtual cursor to join the new queue resolves this issue.

Some of the mounts from New World in trailer form:

Character

• The character will no longer teleport to the next shrine when removed from an overcrowded faction control point.

VFX & SFX

• During the quest “From the Ashes of Caer Dun”, lip-sync and facial animations for the NPC Samira Katari may be absent even though her voice-over lines play correctly.
• On consoles, global illumination may not be rendered correctly in closed environments like caves when the video mode is set to performance.
• During the introductory sequence for the Oxboro settlement in Everfall, flickering textures may occur, leading to blurriness.
• Various characters and scenarios in the game may sometimes lack voiceover or play incorrectly.
• The NPC Han Fang is missing textures on his gloves in the area of the Inishglory camp in and out of dialogue.
• The NPC Han Liu has a white placeholder texture on one of his hands in the Spriggan swamp area.
• During the mission “Walking Wyrds” in EdenGrove, several NPCs, including Agnes Cubert, the cultist Ylva, and Han Liu, sometimes have white, untextured hands.
• During the quest “The Gates of Great Cleave”, Yonas may not animate.
• During the introductory film for the “The Sole Survivor” beach, Aelstrom’s complete NPC model is mistakenly shown instead of just his character model in the film.
• During the introductory cutscene for the quest “City Talk” which shows Everfall, objects may pop in and out, and the camera stutters at both low and high graphic settings.
• The flags reused in several areas in the Ebonscale Reach may appear discolored or show negative colors when HDR is enabled.
• When an elemental gem is applied to the skin “Gold-Cursed Great Axe”, one side of the visual effects may be misaligned and float away from the weapon model instead of properly outlining it.
• The skin “Red Mountain Shield” from the Aeternum trials is missing the red coloring.
• When using the German voiceover, Nessa Harrower’s lip sync during conversations does not work properly, with no lip movement occurring.

Gameplay

• The basic ranged attacks of the Skeleton Mage enemies sometimes do not hit the player, even though the projectiles visually make contact.
• Multiple hemp nodes can be collected at a single node point in the Windsward area.
• In the area of the Iron Rose garrison, the respawn rate of enemies may be longer.
• The platform achievement “Houses for All My Stuff” may only be unlocked when the player opens the achievement window in-game, even if they have met the requirement of owning 3 houses. Moreover, the achievement progress may not display correctly in the player’s profile until the achievement window is opened.
• In the area of the Hornhold Labyrinth, players can fall through a specific rock that lacks collision detection, allowing them to walk through it.
• The projectile attack “Flame Event” of the Ifrit boss causes extremely high damage in the normal difficulty of the story mode as it does not properly scale based on the mutation level.

Accessibility

• Speech-to-Text has a known bug for cross-platform or Xbox to Xbox.
• This fix is in progress and will be addressed in the next version.

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What do I need to know about New World Aeternum? To receive the overhaul and associated content, you need the base game of New World and the first expansion “Rise of the Angry Earth”. Players who already own both on Steam will receive a free upgrade to the Aeternum version.

Players on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S can simply purchase the new version in the shop. The same goes if you do not yet own New World and/or the expansion “Rise of the Angry Earth” on PC – then you can either purchase the complete package or secure the expansion later if you have at least purchased the base game. You can find all further info about the release, the map, new content, the PC version, and more in our overview of New World Aeternum.