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New World has had some troubles lately. Between the swarm of fishing bots and gilt duplication exploits, the player numbers have dwindled to around half of the initial base of operations. Unfortunately, a new Expertise system might keep the trend.

Amazon Games detailed its plans for the December one.two patch in a web log post. This includes replacing the High Watermark system, which currently dictates detail drops, with Expertise. The new Expertise system will also govern how items are dropped, but information technology volition besides change how effective they are when wielded by the player. For case, the blog says that "if your State of war Hammer Expertise is 520, and you equip a 550 Gear Score State of war Hammer, the weapon's constructive Gear Score will be reduced to 520." Essentially, the force of a weapon is now tied to how efficiently you tin can use it, rather than a base score. Amazon clarified in a response on the forums that any High Watermarks you've already earned volition be converted to Expertise when the update arrives.

Regardless, many fans are not happy about the change. As of the time of this writing, several of the superlative posts on the New World subreddit complain about downscaling, prompting some to claim they'll never log in once more. Other threads are rather aggressive in their complaints. Amazon may yet change its plans for the MMO, simply for now, the news has folks upset.

More patches are of class coming to New Globe in the future, including ones that will improve quest multifariousness and character customization. The previous big content update, Into the Void, added an enemy faction and a shiny new weapon, the Void Gauntlet.