Here’s an excerpt from the studio’s pitch that specifically marks this mode as a level 20+ training ground for level 50 and 60 endgame PvP, with an eye toward removing barriers to entry.
You also didn’t need to be at any specific place to queue up, either. Scaling was reintroduced to normalize the damage players would receive. Players would be able to queue up once they’ve reached level 20 and would be paired with others around their level. In addition, the arenas were developed specifically as a means to address the gap in PvP accessibility. Now admittedly, I don’t know whether these balance decisions played out at all, but I do appreciate the thought that was put into this design. On top of that, a shrinking arena (similar to what you get in a battle royale) was implemented to prevent matches from running too long. So, the team reduced the size and added pillars that players could use to break line of sight. Originally the size was the arena was twice as big, which gave a huge advantage to ranged play. The arenas were also designed with a size that didn’t over emphasize ranged combat. To address this, Amazon implemented a healing debuff, as well as provided players with some consumables that would appear for a match and be removed afterwards. A team with a healer would have a huge advantage over one without, to the point that players would be queuing up not with just their preferred playstyle in mind but with a specific meta in mind. As we reported originally, Amazon realized that with small teams and without any default heal skills – a la Guild Wars 2 – the Life Staff became a requirement to winning a match. They didn’t simply throw this format out into the world without thinking about how the balance and team compositions would play. While the arenas are 3v3 “best of five” format, there are many aspects the developers at Amazon Games took into consideration. If we do that, maybe we’ll be able to suss out what could possibly have gone wrong. The actual, deep down, hammer on nail, boots on the ground, rolling in the weeds deets. This time let’s talk about the actual details. I know I gave a real quick overview of the arenas in my last column, so I won’t retread that road. Well, I guess we’ll be discussing what seems to have gone wrong with New World… again.Īrenas on paper sound like they’re for everyone So, another week of New World gaming without any meaningful PvP and the continued slog through PvE leveling quests. The fact is, after a week of playing and trying to get into a match (at prime time US too), I haven’t had a single queue pop for me. Maybe I could even talk about where the meta was headed. I was ready to take some of the finer points of the arena to task. Honestly, leading up to the release, I had all kinds of plans for this column. Finally, I was going to get my hands on the arena update. So, I was pretty tied up until this past week. It’s not my fault schools let out that same week and everything got busy as all get out. I haven’t had the sort of success in finding activities to keep me occupied as I leveled as I had hoped, but arenas really should be the key to giving me that action.ĭespite my best intentions, though, I wasn’t able to log in and play when the arenas released. This was a feature I was extremely hyped for as New World has been my nightly go-to for the past month or so. We’re only about two and half weeks removed from the launch of 3v3 arenas in New World.
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