So is anyone playing New World? I was coerced into getting it by my old WOW/Rift Guild Thursday and have proceeded to grind my way up to almost lvl 20 over the weekend. Playing on the Vingolf server and will say its been a long time since I have seen a logon queue like that.

 

I should get levels for battling the queue boss if nothing else. Friday after work I logged in @ 5:10 PM to a queue of over 1000 watched an hour of TV then went and got dinner for the wife and I and ate. It was only 35 min after that I got in at around 8:45 and was on till around 2:30ish. The game having just released is pretty damned stable and relatively bug free so far. It's also pretty entertaining as well. I will say Im looking forward to the world PvP and faction wars but haven't gotten to that yet as my face would be melted immediately. They seem to be doing the PvP thing right as you have to flag to be PvP and unless flagged you cant be attacked or attack anyone.

 

I have always liked the world based PvP where you fight for control of the cities / regions of the world.

 

If you are into that kinda thing and can battle the queue boss without losing your mind I do suggest the game. You can get it on Steam or Amazon for a one time cost of 40 bucks with no monthly charge.

New World

Is that the game that was burning up Nvidia GPUs? Looks kinda cool

 

Check this article out over at Tom's Hardware.

 

https://www.tomsguide.com/news/amazons-new-world-is-bricking-rtx-gpu-what-you-need-to-know

Yeah thats pretty much due to the heat generated on those cards from what I've read. It causes a solder joint that is kind of weak to separate. Im running the game on medium, and it still looks great, on a 1650 low profile card that doesn't generate much heat at all and have had no issues at all. My specs are a HP SFF Desktop with an i5, 16 GB Ram, and the 1650 with SSD drives and its more than enough to handle it. Im between serious gaming rigs atm but have had no issues with this little beast.

I also want to give a big shout out to the devs. They said they were going to do something about AFK people and I gotta say damn they sure did. Friday the queue was over 1k when I logged in at 5:10 PM, yesterday when I logged in at 5:06PM the queue was 90ish. I was playing 20 min later and I walked the dog during that time.

Good Job there.

It continues to improve. Logged on yesterday at the same time as the previous nights... no queue. I had to get off and go deal with some stuff over at my folks house and got back home at 7:45. Logged in expecting hella queue, 54 took about 15 min to log in and start playing.

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Oh and this is on Vingolf the heaviest population server for the east coast.