New World’s devs shared the inspiration behind the hodge-podge holiday event in the game, saying, “Our Audio and Narrative Teams took inspiration from various holiday festivities to make the event feel like a natural extension of what you love about New World. Enjoy the ambience of Winter Villages, confront the Winter Warrior’s brutality in an open-world boss fight, and immerse yourself in nostalgic sounds as you complete quests for event-specific rewards. Here’s how we brought the holiday season to life in Aeternum.”
And this is just the beginning of the rest of the news! Read on for a roundup of other smaller MMO news stories and videos from this past week in this edition of The MOP Up (and if you don’t see a news story that we should have covered, drop us a tip)!
World War II Online’s December update arrived: “Bombs are more explosive, SpeedTree ‘wind’ has been reactivated to bring the world to life, infantry control and aiming have been enhanced, the Fishbowl effect is gone, Mobile Spawn deployments are now more accessible, satchels no longer clip into tanks, and a host of other improvements have been introduced by our outstanding team here at CRS.”
Diablo Immortal shared a new short story, “The Chains of Verathiel.”
Path of Exile 2 pumped out a much-needed early access patch with lots of fixes and adjustments, including some to trigger gems.
Prosperous Universe explained how its storage mechanics work and how companies exchange materials.
Tree of Savior is celebrating a big milestone: “During the event season, players will be able to obtain special login rewards, and various gifts handed out by the NPC, Santa Teliavelis. Players will be able to obtain exclusive cosmetic items, such as a mount, hair style, armband, and emotes specially made for 9th Anniversary.”
Astroneer brought its Glitchwalkers DLC to the Nintendo Switch with its “biggest planet ever” and new biomes.
Ubisoft modified its loyalty program so that you can buy more stuff with it.
Warframe’s audio lead and director shared how they created music for the new Warframe 1999 release, saying, “We often create sound scapes for a world that is in the future—so going back to the year 1999 allowed us to explore new ideas.”
Star Trek Online fixed a pair of bugs for its console version on December 11th.
Anvil Empires posted a new dev blog talking about the homestead keystone and interior workshops. “The next step was to integrate the Keystone structure into the modular system itself. The Keystone is the structure that the player interacts with to manage the Homestead’s family and to store key supplies for the critical function of the Homestead.”
Black Desert Mobile is celebrating its 5th anniversary and has a code for freebies that you should totally grab!
The studio behind looter shooter Outriders laid off 120 staff members this month and canceled one of its projects.
Space spreadsheet nerds, go flock to EVE Online’s November economy report!
The MMO industry pumps out more and more news every year – no site could possibly cover everything. That’s why we gather together all the extras every week in The MOP Up, our a weekly compilation of MMO info we don’t want lost in the cracks of time. Send us your news bits through our tips line!
