New World - Catch All

I ended up joining NA East Frislandia, which is part of the Arkadia Theta world set. It looks like we can have multiple characters, but only one per world set.

I'm enjoying what I see so far. I made it to the Everfall Hamlet settlement a little while ago, and I'm learning about how towns work. Combat is engaging, even with only a sword-and-board, and the game UI is surprisingly clean and well thought-out. To be a bit reductionist, the game feels almost like a combination of Skyrim (or ESO) and Guild Wars 2, at least so far.

For US West server, going with "Kshira Sagara"

I have been glamping in a yurt the last few nights. Dahc/Wyser messaged me and said that since his guild does have a few high profile streamers they were not going to announce their decision until the actual launch time of their server, and unfortunately Wyser is going to be at work until later today and won't be able to tell us their decision until then.

I'm going to reserve my names now and reroll to the server that Wyser announces later today.

I hopped on at 8AM ET and got in after not too long a queue on Orun (I started at about 1000, was logged in within a half hour or so). I played through level 9--long enough to get into the starting town and get my faction (Syndicate) and spend too much time gathering and mining and crafting. I'm doing a hatchet/life staff build. Pretty fun so far! Eventually I couldn't ignore work anymore and so had to log out.

I'm a little surprised to see the game is just a tick off of the #1 spot on Steam, with just under 700k concurrents. I wasn't sure if people were interested in this game or not. I guess at least for today they are.

Badferret wrote:

I have been glamping in a yurt the last few nights. Dahc/Wyser messaged me and said that since his guild does have a few high profile streamers they were not going to announce their decision until the actual launch time of their server, and unfortunately Wyser is going to be at work until later today and won't be able to tell us their decision until then.

I'm going to reserve my names now and reroll to the server that Wyser announces later today.

Looks like we will be on Server: Krocylea
Faction: Marauders

JMnITup wrote:

For US West server, going with "Kshira Sagara"

We went Nidavellir

Edit: final change.

Riallaro

wyser wrote:
Badferret wrote:

I have been glamping in a yurt the last few nights. Dahc/Wyser messaged me and said that since his guild does have a few high profile streamers they were not going to announce their decision until the actual launch time of their server, and unfortunately Wyser is going to be at work until later today and won't be able to tell us their decision until then.

I'm going to reserve my names now and reroll to the server that Wyser announces later today.

Looks like we will be on Server: Krocylea
Faction: Marauders

I'm Akunin Darkthorn on Krocylea. New player queue is brutal on heavy servers. Hopefully quicker for established characters.

Glad to see a lot of players, sad to see the review score (42% atm). Seems like the main issue is annoyance with queue times. That's fair, but it's day 1. At least the servers are stable and some estimated 700k concurrents can play (if they're not in a queue)

Badferret wrote:
wyser wrote:
Badferret wrote:

I have been glamping in a yurt the last few nights. Dahc/Wyser messaged me and said that since his guild does have a few high profile streamers they were not going to announce their decision until the actual launch time of their server, and unfortunately Wyser is going to be at work until later today and won't be able to tell us their decision until then.

I'm going to reserve my names now and reroll to the server that Wyser announces later today.

Looks like we will be on Server: Krocylea
Faction: Marauders

I'm Akunin Darkthorn on Krocylea. New player queue is brutal on heavy servers. Hopefully quicker for established characters.

Que is brutal, took me 3 hours to log in

I tried to run in place to have dinner, but got kicked. Looks like it is going to take 90 minutes to get back in.

(First) New World problems.

Hopefully better in the next few days.

Hate to ask it, but any reports of destroyed video cards?

Robear wrote:

Hate to ask it, but any reports of destroyed video cards?

No, that was a one day story that was a combination of the beta New World menu screen not having a frame limit, which effected primarily EVGA 3090s. Source.

A combination of that and shoddy video cards.

I'm on Vidblain. It sounded cool and it was one of the new servers they brought up. I know the queues will die down but waiting over an hour to hopefully play was too much.

Installed last night and played for a couple hours up to level 8. Controls are good, though took a little bit to get used to. Game looks nice. Looking forward to digging in deeper on this one.

Here is an interactive map which may help to find resources, waypoint and other things.

Interactive Map Clicky

I’ve avoided spoilers. I was going to wait for reviews. I’ve seen the complaints about server queues.

I couldn’t help myself; downloading now.

vypre wrote:

I’ve avoided spoilers. I was going to wait for reviews. I’ve seen the complaints about server queues.

I couldn’t help myself; downloading now.

Poor fellow. Like a moth to a flame. (I am the same way)

I had leveled up my "main" (?) to 9 and server jumped to a low pop one after my queue said I was number ~1200 in line. I log in immediately now. I will make friends there.

Also, Prime Gaming has a "Pirate Pack" for free.

Link to Prime Gaming Pirate Pack

You also get 5000 store credits which you can't do a lot with, but if all of these drops give that, then we'll get another 5k in 2 weeks and continue on for the rest of the year

ranalin wrote:

We went Riallaro

What are the Riallaro plans for joining a Company?

staygold wrote:
ranalin wrote:

We went Riallaro

What are the Riallaro plans for joining a Company?

I'll send an invite out when server is back up

I joined Ryollo and if you try to log in after 4pm est good luck.

Hockosi wrote:

I joined Ryollo and if you try to log in after 4pm est good luck.

If you mean Riallaro It's actually one of the better ones. They're all slammed starting at 6pm est. Although right now there's only a 10min wait which is good. The closer to 12am it gets the lighter the load Plus today the server along with some others were down for maintenance starting at 3:45 till around 6:30pm

I'm level 9 and I haven't invested any attribute points yet because I'm scared to commit! I usually like tanky dps melee classes. I'm thinking about going hammer or hatchet right now.

NathanialG wrote:

I'm level 9 and I haven't invested any attribute points yet because I'm scared to commit! I usually like tanky dps melee classes. I'm thinking about going hammer or hatchet right now.

Attributes are fully refundable and able to respec for free until level 20, so play around. I've swapped from tank to healer back to dps now back to healer and only level 15

Yep, respecs are free up to level 20 for attributes, and up to level 10 on weapons.

One of my major frustrations is just leveling the gathering professions. Just soooo grindy

I don't find the professions grindy at all. I find them to be in a good place able to make steady progress casually gathering as you quest. I find it to be no slower than other like games I have played.