While the update doesn’t come with new content, it does fix several known issues in the open world MMORPG including incorrect fast travel costs, incompatible Winter Convergence Life Staff perks, and Outpost Rush crashing, among others. However, it will be interesting to see how others react to the update and whether or not it gives the game the legs to be sustainable.New World’s Winter Convergence Festival has officially come to an end following the release of Update 1.8.1 earlier this week. Our group is not currently tempted, but we’re just getting into Wrath of the Lich King Classic and will probably remain there into the new year. There are long queues and, while they have handed out free server transfers, that always requires coordination with friends and guilds and what not and most people just try to stick where they are unless they have no attachment to anybody on the server. I know some people have gone back… enough that the collapse of servers down to the bare minimum has come back to bite Amazon. Now the question is whether or not any of this makes the game worth returning to. There is also a huge list of things marked as “fixed” for this release in the patch notes. That is actually a pretty common feature of MMO expansions, reducing the requirements needed to get to the new content. Corruption Portals: XP rewards have been increased by 150%. Gathering Trade Skills: XP rewards have been increased by 125%.POI Discoveries: XP rewards have been increased by 200%.Gathering: XP rewards have been increased by 200%.Lore Notes: XP rewards have been increased by 200%.Faction Missions: XP rewards have been increased by 125%. Town Projects: XP rewards have been reduced by 75%.140% reduction through Level 45, then 160% reduction through Level 60.Character Leveling: Greatly reduced character XP required after level 20.Adjusted XP curves for multiple gameplay aspects:.The are also a pile of quality of life fixes:
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