There is excitement around a Twitch streamer in New World: He showed his guild of 50 people how to exploit a bug that brings significant advantages in PvP. The accusation is: The players have significantly strengthened themselves before a war. The streamer has poorly hidden what he is doing.
Which streamer is it about? The Twitch streamer is named “Gigameister”, he is a small streamer with 400 followers. When he streams, he has an average of 9 viewers. Gigameister streams in Portuguese and English.
Exploit provides 5% healing every 2.5 seconds
What are the accusations against him?
- There is a bug in New World that allows players to stack a passive healing bonus. The exploit has been detailed in the New World public forum for over two weeks: The bug causes you to use 5 specific foods that regenerate 1 % health every 2.5 seconds. Because the effects can stack, you achieve 5 % healing every 2.5 seconds (forum.newworld).
- The streamer has explained this bug to his entire guild, as seen in YouTube videos (via youtube). He then asked the members before the war to use the food.
- The streamer also allegedly tried to cover up this fraud. He did not handle it well.
There are still certain details about the cheat that we do not reveal on MeinMMO so that no one replicates it. The problem: In New World, all details on how to cheat are visible as bug reports in the official forum and visible to everyone:
What did the streamer do to cover up the exploit? As a user on reddit points out, Gigameister placed a Discord link in his stream in such a way that it lies above the bar with the buff icons (via reddit).
He allegedly banned everyone in the Twitch chat who pointed out what was going on.
Furthermore, members of his guild are said to have also streamed while exploiting the bug, and he himself allegedly got caught fiddling with his hotbar.
Streamer claims to be defamed
Update 18.11.: This is what the streamer says about the accusations:
In a statement forwarded to us on MeinMMO by a German acquaintance of Gigameister, it says: The streamer does not admit to using the exploit. All presented evidence is contested and defamatory.
One should wait until Amazon decides who from both sides is involved in the war and has exploited the “so-called exploit”.
The acquaintance also stated that Gigameister is not involved in using the exploit. The explanations on how the exploit works exactly were given to the guild by the acquaintance.
“Creative exploitation of game mechanics”
What is the problem? The problem is that such “exploits” in New World are apparently so widespread that they genuinely disturb the integrity of the game.
It creates the feeling: “The honest one is the stupid one”.
When people publicly show on Twitch how they cheat, further lines are crossed and shifted. Exploiting bugs becomes normal, and many have a problem with it.
In discussions, other users say they have experienced opponents using such exploits and addressed them. However, they have said: It’s not an exploit, it’s a “creative exploitation of gameplay mechanics.”
We recently reported on a Twitch streamer in New World who had trouble:
New World: Twitch streamer robs server, gets banned – “Endangers my livelihood”
