Earlier this week, Amazon announced that it was considering major changes to New World’s large-scale wars. On the test server was a revision that would’ve seen those wars cap out at 40 players to a side, which the studio called an “experiment” to improve war gameplay over the 50v50 mode. Vocal RvR players… didn’t love it. And now Amazon is calling the whole thing off, at least for now.
“Based on the feedback we received, we’re going to hold off on the 40v40 change,” Amazon told players on its forums.
“We were hoping to get it tested in PTR to validate our view that it plays better. But that hasn’t happened yet, and we underestimated how important losing 20 people in war is. Even if it is slightly better for the 80 people, those 20 missing out are really hurt. This will also allow us to focus on spawning change and see the results that has on war independent of any other changes. Thanks for your feedback and clear reasoning, we may test this again in the future when there are more ways for people to participate in war.”
