Recent reviews by Ankey

I have played New World for couple weeks. Got my 60 level, got best faction gear I could get, leveled up some crafting and gathering, finally had some pvp but at this moment of time I can't recommend this game for buying.

At first you really enjoy locations, gathering and crafting system looks also interesting. But suddenly you understand that almost all mobs in every location are almost exactly same. Almost all quest you have to do are also exactly the same. And gathering with crafting are also same as at start of game with only difference in T1-T5 resources.

Leveling is absolutely broken. First 60 level of game was reached in about 3 days after start, by running in between of 3-4 towns gathering resources and using them on town board quests. That make everything else XP farming method in the game irrelevant.

You can get best set of faction gear with both weapons in about 8 hours, maybe even faster. And that brings question up, what to do next?

Of course you can farm legendary items or level up crafting to get best gear at the game, but there is actually no reason for doing that. Best gear of the game gives you only about 5-10% of additional combat power, but it's not needed at all.

Only your skill and class matters in PVP in New World. And by "skill" I mean how well you can abuse bugs of the game like: sometimes ranged weapons hits go through the target without damage, skills can be used for 2 times, weapons does not change some time, its impossible to land some skills on different levels of the terrain, animation cancellation but sometimes you can also accidentally cancel your used skill and auto attack with skill going on the cooldown.

There is no balance in PVP. Heavy armor is absolutely broken. You can also make yourself uncatchable with some weapon combinations.

But all that is listed above doesn't actually matters, because there is no reason to do any of PVP in this game, at all.

This game seems to be more like gathering simulator and there is actually no reason to participate in any of other in-game activity. I don't think they will bring any new content in the game in near future because there is already a lot of bugs to fix.

They are actually fixing some bugs every weak, but updates takes for 6-10 hours. And they actually get EU servers up at last when it is evening in EU region, COMMON...!

I've played this game almost for 6 years since CBT 1.

You know, in other games when some people start to abuse some in-game system, they get banned. But not in Albion. There is few 5000-15000 people alliances, which are split into 10 mini alliances so they could abuse cluster queue system and close main objective and all clusters around it from enemy guilds.

It has been already going on for months and still no solution and no bans... Seems like they don't care.

Zone locks killing only one thing in this game which make Albion better than other MMO's, its mass pvp battles