Hello Gamers™,
fatherHank here - 2020 is both the longest and shortest year of my life and I don’t even know what season it is anymore. I think it’s August though, so a blog post is due.
First and foremost, New World Interactive has joined the Embracer Group! If you’d like more details please click here. I was personally camping in the mountains when this happened and it was quite the news to come back to. We are excited about the future and the numerous opportunities this will generate.
Update 1.7.1, aka Clean Sweep, was released last week. With it came nearly 100 bug fixes and a few feature additions. Make a drink and head here to read the whole seven pages of patch notes. I think my personal favorite addition is the transparent G36K magazine, it’s just so clean.. and sexy. I mean really, look at this thing. Should I be having these feelings about a magazine? Probably not, but let’s move on.
Oh yeah, death animations have been put back in place and the suicide bombers will not crash your game anymore! Below is a video of our team trying to replicate the issue. I find it endlessly entertaining but I am a simple man. Bombers go boom.
New World will be closed for the week of 8/31 - 9/4 so you won’t hear too much from us. We have a few social media posts ready to go, but we need a week to prepare ourselves for 1.8. It’s going to be a T H I C C update with a lot of included community requests. This month’s State of Production will also be available next week, on August 31st.
We just finished our bi-weekly Developer Livestream and the VOD is available here. We wanted to go into our studio closure with a bang, so we may have revealed a couple breadcrumbs about 1.8! We are Hansel-and-Greteling you all into the next release.
If you’d like to join our next few streams we will be revealing 1.8 content live instead of through social channels for this release. This is our tentative schedule for those streams:
- Thursday, September 10th, 2:00pm MST
- Thursday, September 17th, 11:00am MST
- Tuesday, October 6th, 11:00am MST (LAUNCH DAY!)
You can visit our 1.8 update website here for those details, and make sure to bookmark it as we will be updating it as we reveal more information.
More details will be announced in two weeks with our next Developer Livestream but we have revealed the official name of 1.8, it’s release date, and some art that will help you envision what it’s theme is….
Are you ready for Operation: Breakaway?
