Everyone has a fighting chance
Brimstone Sands is live today in New World, adding the anticipated huge new desert zone, a new expedition, new story content, overhauled early game experience, the Greatsword, and some new servers too.
With Brimstone Sands going live tomorrow, New World will add even more new servers, as well as queue mitigation plans that include standby servers ready to open. There are also free server transfers to the new servers for some returning players.
Brimstone Sands is coming to New World next week on October 18th, and Amazon Game Studios is previewing one new aspect of the content coming in the update: The Greatsword.
Amazon shared a New World server population chart showing which are at risk of queues or even being temporarily locked once the Brimstone Sands update is live.
Amazon has announced some details on an upcoming territory management revamp planned for New World. This part focuses on rewards and making them both reflect how people play now, but also make other territories more appealing too.
After community requests, New World will open Fresh Start servers on November 2nd.
With Brimstone Sands coming October 18th, New World has a housekeeping patch and a major XP bonus progression event arriving tomorrow.
Brimstone Sands will arrive in New World on October 18th. Amazon Games also has a new behind the scenes feature on the creation of the upcoming update, lore, and inspirations.
Amazon has announced another round of server openings for New World. One server will open in Central Europe, US West, US East, and South America to continue to support increased demand.
Amazon is marking the first year of New World with a brand new infographic celebrating all kinds of player milestones, community development, events, and a number of happenings throughout the first year of the game.