Game Dev. My posts and comments are my own, and do not represent my employer.

Joined July 2008
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Before posting to the team I used to start with a ‘did you know’ little fact, that was sometimes (though not always) related to what I was communicating in the main message. Anyway, did you know March was originally the first month in the Roman calendar? The more you know.
📢Upcoming Maintenance Downtime will begin on 3/25 at 10AM PT (5PM UTC), and last approximately 2 hours. 📝Release Notes • Region Transfer will be enabled. ➔ To transfer, select the "Character Transfer" service under the Service tab in the Store. Once the transfer has been initiated, you will be booted back to the Main Menu. It may take several minutes for the transfer to complete, and for your character to show up in the Character Select list for its new home world. • Broken Steam Achievements will be granted. ➔ Faction Missions IV: Working Class Hero ➔ Faction Missions V: Don't Say I'm Not A Team Player ➔ Supplies Looted II: Aeternum Is Truly A Land Of Opportunities ➔ Repairs I: Handy With A Bit Of Tape ➔ War Wins II: Gets Tiring, All This Winning • All Transmog appearances will be unlocked. • Number of total Gear Sets a character can have will be increased to 30. • AFK timer will be increased to 24 hours. • Penetrating Backstab perk will be disabled. • Stifling Set effects will be disabled. • Minimum number of players required to start OPR and CTF will be reduced. ➔ OPR will be reduced to 8v8 ➔ CTF will be reduced to 5v5 • Unlimited consumables in OPR will be enabled. • Chromatic Seal will be dropped in Hive of Gorgons. • The following armor sets will be added to the Soulwarden Armory: ➔ Tenacity ➔ Elementally Overcharged ➔ Focused • Soulmark drop rates will be increased by 10x the current rate. • Mercenary limit for War will be increased. ➔ Increased to 35 Mercenary for Attackers ➔ Increased to 20 Mercenary for Defenders
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Merry Christmas, Happy Holidays and a Happy New Year to everyone 🎊 My team and I are taking a little break to spend time with our families, but will be back to it in January. Hoping to get region transfers out before the end of next month - stay tuned. ⚔️
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Hope you like them 🗡️ 🗡️
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See you in Aeternum 🫂
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It has been one of the greatest honors of my life to lead the New World dev team - the talent and creativity in that group is unmatched - and it has been a privilege to join you all in Nighthaven. I am here, pushing buttons - so I will still see you in Aeternum.
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Katy retweeted
Super proud of the Season 10 release of @playnewworld The team worked extremely hard to make this the best #dlc yet. I was able to update my portfolio with what I worked on for this release. #NewWorldAeternum #gamesev #videogames artstation.com/michaelshawnp…
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👏🏼👏🏼👏🏼 some more stats: in the final fight Med27 managed 556K in heals with Schmeck right on their tail at 544K, and total damage done to Thorpe in that last battle was over 24M 💪
Congratulations to the brave Adventurers who earned a world first completion of the Isle of Night raid ⚔️
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A bunch of New World stuff, including a piece from Nighthaven. artstation.com/mbeauanderson
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A fun behind the scenes thing: earlier this year we did a game jam for my team where they got to work on prototypes for new features and content that they were passionate about, with a chance to get that prototype greenlit. That’s where Catacombs and customizable HUD came from!
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There is an AWS service issue impacting New World logins. Amazon engineer are on it, and in the meantime we are going to put the worlds into maintenance until this is resolved. You can follow along on the updates for this issue here: health.aws.amazon.com/health…

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It all seems to be resolved now, including the knock on issue where players were getting kicked for sus software en masse. Everyone should be good now. Thanks for your patience!
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World’s first for the raid. Confirmation data incoming 👀
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Happy #PortfolioDay y'all. I'm a senior env artist that's had the pleasure of working on #NewWorldAeternum for the past 5yrs. Keep creating, everyone!
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Personally, I finished the MSQ late last night. I almost threw my mouse out during the Alecksi fight, but got it done. And now I’m like ‘that wasn’t bad at all’ 😅 ANYWAY. It’s time to head in to work. Later, wait in queue followed by mutations and catacombs. See you there! 🖖🏻
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Was 2400ish 20 mins ago, now 1175 - almost there…
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RotAE is now rolled into the base game as of this morning. More info to come on what this means for those that recently purchased the DLC. For everyone - go have fun. Working some kinks out with Steam atm, but everyone who had the game already should be g2g.
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If you logged in where the new quest starts in CK and you’re not seeing the MSQ pin, leave the area (specifically leave the POI bounds) and the pin will pop.
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Due to the verticality of the zone, there’s a number of premade camps and sanctuaries to bind to inside the structures but not a lot of places to make a camp along the MSQ, so being PvP flagged will be something akin to an Ironman mode ⚔️
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