Unfortunately after 2050 hours of playthrough after the game's official release and about 300+ in Preview and closed beta, I find myself after being one of the warmest supporters of the game throughout all the bugs, all the misdoings of the devs and all the broken and not working stuff like the eternally non working perks, to be one step before my personal farewell.

BY ALL MEANS MAKE YOURSELF A FAVOR AND DON'T BUY THE GAME!
DON'T GET LURED IN IT WITH EMPTY PROMISES AND FUTURE "CONTENT"

Unfortunately this dev team has proven to be "lesser" in all fronts with their greatest inability is their inability to address code/server and network related issues within the game which is also what plagues the game at its current state.
So let me help you understand why I am one step before saying farewell once and for all.

let me start by emphasizing that I am not a casual player and I find myself with all tradeskills maxed out & aptitudes up to 111+ lvls, all dungeon mutations on LvL 10 all gold, 625 on more than one sets, all quests done, 65% of overall completion, owner of virtually every single weapon and armor in the game & long story short, I am a person with full clarity on anything related to the PvE aspect of the game.

As far as PvP goes now, you name it and I ve been there done that, after leading a guild for the first 4 months I have been consul and officer ever after, in a series of guilds, preparing wars, strats, builds, leading flanking teams and helping people learn how to pvp. I am pretty darn aware of every single detail related to pvp and thank god my skills also up to that lvl too.

So, I am who I am and if a person like me who is that invested into a game ends up eventually saying that you should not buy this game, then you better consider it!

THE CURRENT STATE OF THE GAME IS UNPLAYABLE ON ALL FRONTS

(and every next patch they come up with makes it even worse because instead of them actually addressing the issues, they just stick with manipulating the game's client to address major issues and hide the actual issues under the carpet until they resurface soon, after every next patch with even more new frustrating bugs and issues on top of the old ones, as a result, of them never solving issues to the core)

The tombstone of the game's fluidity was the big February patch

- Currently you can't even DPS with light attacks a mob standing still in front of you doing literally nothing
as the character will never start applying light attacks due to a bug keeping you from actually starting a light attacks sequence. Just consider the level at which this is present on PvP to understand what I am talking about here.

- Servers behavior/performance are at least a bad crafted joke.
Stuttering and desyncing even just by walking into the world doing literally nothing else.
You will find yourself playing in wars with 150ms server response time (ADD that to your actual ping and try to play with that) and especially due to the server client design, the childish netcode and the actual server tik rate which matches that of an online Chess game, you will find yourself unable even to register damage on opponents with way better or way worse ping than yours!
And all that on top of the constant rubber banding, desync, stuttering, inability to dps due to the light attacks bugs, skills getting consumed without ever going out, skills triggering on their own whenever they like and the list goes on with numerous of issues!

- PERKS STILL NOT FUNCTIONING SO MANY MONTHS AFTER THE RELEASE

- LOOT/GATHERING LUCK UTTERLY BROKEN with devs unable to actually understand as to why this is and they keep on repeating intellectually how luck works on paper but they never put out a transparent proof of luck functioning as intended, which is not.

- EVERY NEXT SERVER MERGE OR BIG UPDATE MAKES THINGS VANISH OUT OF YOUR STORAGE and they never give a dime of returning these items(I am still waiting 2 months later to get back or even get an acknowledging response, for 3 legendary weapons I lost from within my storage and these are just 3 I did manage to spot missing

So long story short,

the PvE of the game is repetitive AF and even that is bugged as hell where fighting a single 30 lvl wolf can become frustrating because of the eternal desyncs (wolves are squishy mobs which are constantly on the move triggering that behavior). On top of that there are still items listed but missing from the world and the games descriptions are all over the place.

UI IS A JOKE! You can't even tell how much critical % you have and even the tracking of your progress is not working properly, not even that will register your progress right!
(and then you have a Devs team celebrating that they will deliver the ability to be able to open your inventory on the move and they state accomplished because of that when the game suffers MAJOR ISSUES!)
Just consider their level of professionalism and their ability to relate with the actual game's issues!

PvP IS THE BIGGEST JOKE OF ALL!
YOU CAN'T DPS with light attacks, they bug out and you can't even start a light attack sequence in order to DPS even when you have GRIT
YOU CAN'T REGISTER DAMAGE OR SKILL EFFECTS
YOU CONSTANTLY DEAL WITH RUBBER BANDING (like playing an FPS game with 400ms PING!)
MOST CRUCIAL PERKS DON'T WORK and those that do ... they do it in a speculative way having you lost in translation when you try to apply a build or even grind for it through crafting or any other means

BALANCE IS NOWHERE TO BE FOUND! I don't believe that this dev team even knows what PvP means! I honestly believe that nowadays!
it is like if you took Indie game devs to work for a project like New World and you expect them to know how to do, how to fix and how to approach plus calibrate certain stuff.
You will play a game in which
* in order to kill a healer you need 10 guys on him for 3 mins doing nothing else than trying to kill that healer
* the heal is actually Immunity to death as long as you stand inside a sacred ground.
* an Ice shower is enough to trigger the desync/stutter/rubber banding fest.
* the meta never changed from the beginning of the game. Everyone walks with a GA and a Hammer on their back.

WEAPON SWAPPING IS A JOKE, even after all they did to guarantee that, with their last patch, which literally "F-ed" up the game's client overall behavior, is still broken where if you find yourself swinging a GA, good luck with swapping it.

SKILLS QUEUE IS A JOKE! As they will never do based on your strokes order but based on how they feel like behaving due to all the cool stuff mentioned above. You will also have skills triggering simply by swapping your weapon if you eventually manage to do it.

WARS AND OPR ARE BEYOND UNPLAYABLE BECAUSE OF ALL THE PREVIOUSLY MENTIONED ISSUES COMBINED and especially if you play from eastern Europe, good luck with that! 150ms server response FFS! Leading to a 6 fps behavior on the client on an OCed 3090 with 5Ghz on the CPU on a DX11 game! NETCODE? TIK RATE? ARE YOU THERE? oh sorry! I forgot! Unless you play with minus 50 ms ping, forget about playing this game! AMAZON SERVERS? That is the biggest joke of all! Their greed is the only constant thing here and the servers are set to deal with a card game like HS!

TL;DR

I loved this game and I was all in for it up until now! I did support this game in any given way from its Alpha days until their last patch landed and revealed their ABSOLUTE INABILITY to make this game function the very basics properly!

So you don't need to realize yourselves all I say above after 2K hours of playing it and these are just the tip of the iceberg, because the issues list is virtually endless and you have devs celebrating that they managed to make the inventory to open while you walk or run - F F S!

JUST STAY AWAY AND DON'T BUY THIS GAME!

THERE IS ONLY FRUSTRATION - DISAPPOINTMENT - RAILLERY and a carrot stick waiting for you!
NEW WORLD WAS A GEM PROJECT PROMISE WHICH TURNED TO TOTAL $HIT!