During the Open Beta, not only server issues occurred in New World, but also some bugs and exploits that players believe should be fixed. One of the exploits allowed jumping to max level and completely leveling all weapons within a few hours.
What was this exploit? Through PvP in the open world, players in New World gain quite a lot of experience points. However, during the Beta, this was exploited to level up particularly quickly and effectively, thus reach level 60 in just a few hours and even completely level all weapons.
To do this, a player from one faction gathered many players from one of the other two factions. The player can now repeatedly kill them to gain XP and progress with the weapons.
Players from the opposing faction simply respawn over and over and can then be killed again. This exploit was pointed out by reddit user Goatlike1337.
How long does it take to reach max level? The user did not specify a concrete timeframe. However, in one video, it took less than a minute to go from level 24 to 25. Additionally, weapon leveling is very efficient, which means players sometimes had every weapon at the highest level.
We’ve embedded the video of the exploit here:
Free Faction Change Further Benefits the Strategy
Why does this work so well? There are 3 main reasons:
- There is always a good amount of experience points, no matter how often you defeat the same player and regardless of the level they are. It is recommended to complete 9 PvP quests beforehand to increase the “XP bounty.”
- The respawn timer of the “enemies” rises to a maximum of one minute.
- The more players gather, the faster you level up.
What is particularly “insidious” is that you receive a “gifted” switch between factions at the start of the Open Beta and – as of now – also at release. Normally, one must wait 120 days to join another faction.
A company can start leveling as Syndicate, and each player then gradually changes factions, after which they can hit the remaining teammates in the Syndicate. After a certain tipping point, the Syndicate players can then hit the other members of the company who have now joined the new faction. Thus, the whole group benefits from the exploit.
Will the exploit be fixed? So far, Amazon has not commented on the bug in the forum or on reddit. It is considered one of the “Game Breaking Bugs” that some players are afraid of and which is why some doubt the release of New World in September.
User Agitated_Entity even states that such an exploit would “destroy the game for many.” Their comment received over 60 upvotes and further approval from other users.
Users on reddit suggest that players should receive less and eventually no XP for killing the same players repeatedly. From their perspective, this would be a rather simple fix.
What do you think about this exploit? Would it bother you if some players quickly reach level 60 with such a trick and experience activities that you only see in a few days or weeks?
