Despite how successful Amazon Game Studios’New Worldhas been on launch and for the month since release, players have also been encountering many issues while doing all sorts of different activities within the game. Not allglitches inNew Worldare game-breaking, and not all of them make the experience inherently much worse, but there is a common sentiment that Amazon Game Studios has been rather silent about it. This stems from the fact that there haven’t been many comments on the developer’s part about what is going on and what will be done to fix things moving forward.
Every so often, players engage in discussions on the officialNew Worldforum or other platforms about what it is that they want to see in the game, or what they think should change. Most of the time, these debates remain internal to the community, but devs can show up and actually talk to the players, explaining things. This is precisely what happened on a forum post about what it means to have a client authoritative game, with an AGS developer chiming in to state that it’s actually the exact opposite of that.
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In fact, the developer explained thatNew Worlddoes not register information based on each player’s client, but rather it does that server-side, predicting what players will do and how they will move - then adjust. This explains why at times players might experience what is commonly referred to as rubberbanding when in truth, the effect and the scale of it depend on what the server simulates and how it communicates with the client. When lag occurs, it happens because players are reset to the position they were in as far as the server is concerned, whereas on-screen it might look like they were located somewhere else and reverted to another point in space.
The developer also believes that AoE within the game needs to be adjusted for two reasons. The first is that too many AoE effects stacking together could create invisible objects that overloaded the game and could cause many problems. The second is that too many AoE skills will end up being the sole play inWars, whereas it is Amazon’s wish to create an environment that rewards skillful players and positioning well.
Some players also mentioned theinvincibility glitch with windowed modeand how they could use the bug to be suspended in the air as an argument to further sustain the point that there must be some authority toNew World’s client. Still, the developer corrected the assumption once again and stated that it can happen when the server is waiting on the client’s input to complete the actions.
