The apocalypse breaks out in New World – at least if you're not careful. Amazon Game Studios have launched a new event for the upcoming MMO in their developer blog: The Breaches of Corruption.
Former adventurers, who are greed for the mighty resource Azoth, are now only remotely reminiscent of humans and as Corrupted attack the lands of Aeternum. If you fail to close your portals in time, your corruption eats through the open world and transforms the otherwise fairytale fantasy environment into a real nightmare.
New powerful enemies & levels of difficulty
The depraved do not torch long, but strike where you settle comfortably: near your own homes in settlements or directly at fortresses they build portals and monolithsfrom which they flow in droves.
To stop them, you have to conquer the corrupt and seal the portals as part of the event. For the latter, you need a special staff that feeds its strength from the powerful mineral Azoth, which is responsible for everything supernatural on the island. According to the developer, defeating the opponents alone should be a proper challenge in itself.
In addition to the regular opponents, there are also stronger variants: The Acolytes of Corruption are powerful enemies with the ability to hover over the battlefield and fire lightning and explosive bullets at you from there. We already see these attacks in a new clip from the developers:
The Corrupted are at your doorstep. Breaches opening up, enemies crawling forth. How will you choose to engage? Sit behind your high walls until the Corrupted eventually invade? Or take the fight to them. Learn more here: https://t.co/GNDJa3g3UP pic.twitter.com/fLmA73yjdr
– New World (@playnewworld) March 19, 2020
The different levels of difficulty of the event are manifested in four variants of this so-called breach:
- The Corrupted Monolith is an easy stage where you compete against a group of the corrupted
- The corrupt portal brings the Acolytes into play as enemies that serve with a Corrupted force
- The infested grove hides a monstrosity of the Corrupted underground, which is slowly tearing open and brings more enemies to light
- The construction of the putrefaction is a high difficulty level with a huge structure that shoots out of the earth and not only sends Corrupted into the world, but also makes all enemies within the building stronger and stronger
If you successfully complete the breach of corruption, beckon valuable resourcesthat you can only get through this event.
You have to liberate the Open World together
While some events can still be mastered alone or in small groups, you need an entire company for the harder versions. We explain how they work in our PvP special. The association with other players in New World works quite simply: You do not have to be constantly in a group to do this. If you want, you can quickly ally yourself with strangers and then move on alone.
Even if you successfully close portals, can tear them open again over time. The map shows you which areas of the country have already been consumed by the corruption. Decide whether you want to avoid them or storm with flying flags.
But there is not much time left, the corruption is spreading, new portals are springing up and spitting out more depraved people. So it is up to you whether you fight for supremacy or allow the land to be swallowed up by darkness. This leads to, that it’s increasingly difficult to travel the world or collect resources.
New screenshots show the dark side of the otherwise fairytale Aeternum:
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If you ask yourself now: What? Aeternum? Azoth? Who is spoiled by what? Don't worry, we have summarized the story of the MMO New World for you.
You can learn more about gameplay in our preview of the MMO and in our video preview:
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And if you are still undecidedWhat you think of all this: colleague Elena shares with you her assessment of whether New World can become the new big MMO. Otherwise, take a look at it with your own eyes and find out everything about the New World Beta here.