New World Aeternum 7 Reasons to Play & 3 Reasons to Avoid

Loved your message of hope! You're a good guy.

reasons to play: Great combat (probably the best action combat in an mmorpg), and it has a very pretty world.
Reasons to skip: Player models look bad even on highest video settings. The crafting/gathering grind is far too big a requirement on the adventuring treadmill. I spent much more time trying to level up gathering skills than following a storyline/enjoying the combat.

Notes: I was a day one player and put 2-300 hours into it. I put it down and came back again after they fixed the cut-and-paste cities, but got stuck on a bugged quest (I couldn't get the tier 2 camp because I had already done something that needed to be done before something else that needed to be done (I don't remember the details)) and quit again. So my experiences are very dated.

18k hours in BDO and feels almost the same as day 1 :D Just to clarify, I really enjoyed my first day :D

Literally had a guy today on BELLATRIX server US West ranting about how trash the game is, that it’s a dead game and that the end game is terrible. Turns out dude had 4K+ hours. His argument for me was therefore invalid. He’s not the only one either. So many people (all on PC) bitching.

1. Reason to avoid, for myself....im not dropping $40CAD just to get mounts.

I thought this was a good video until you laid down some stoic wisdom and urged self care, and then I thought it was a great video and I subscribed.
I'd love to try New World but I'm newish to ESO amd enjoying it, so maybe not right now

I felt like fallout 76 was awesome , even hundreds of hour in…!

Great video you've earned my sub sir

Awesome video, great review and great life advice 😊

OSRS is a game that after a thousand hours you are arguably having more fun then you ever did before.

Amazing content man. I’ve been trying to find an action rpg mmo that resonates with me for a long time and this video pretty much convinced me this is it. Definitely going to give it a shot. Also, did you seriously bring up Marcus Aurelius in a non pushy way? You earned my sub man, keep up the good work!

Just found your channel and I really enjoyed your content…..new sub 😊

Are new servers coming specifically for Aeternum that you should jump on?

LOL you got to be gaslighting right? This half built game is not worth any ones time.. the whole point of this game is to see just how much frustration you can take till you quit for real.. If that is your style of game i say more power to ya..

Great video bro. Looking forward to playing this when it drops on PS5.

currently trying Thrones and Liberty, not pleased by the loot boxes and slow progression after main story. If not getting more interesting, I'll return to FF14 soon. NW Aeternum was considered by a friend who do not like FF14, seeking something to enjoy together. Looks kind of old and clunky but will give it a shot on a testing account. Full price just to try it is not an option for me.

11th reason to play: you can harvest w33d

Real ALL the reviews: So the game is VERY “buggy”, caters to new/low level players, end game content is rarely refreshed… Overall is just “meh”!

Thank you!!!

Cant be wait. Played for about 8months on my comp when it came out. Awesome i get to try it on my xbox.

1000 hrs.......FF7.....WARCRAFT......CALL OF DUTY

The only things I would like to see added to New World aside from a few combat tweaks. When you are grinding out your harvesting skills, they need to add some client side materials. AKA all the mining, harvesting, etc. There needs to be a nice chunk that will always be there and only go on cooldown per player. When New World first came out, I personally chose to play on an empty server to grind out my trade skills. I was lucky to basically max them all out before the server I was on gained a ton of players. But then when the servers downsized and I had a few friends that wanted to start playing it I made a new character with them and I gotta say... fighting for resources without the "fighting" part was really rough.
The other thing I'd like to see in New World is less BS with end game grinding. Example being IF I wanted to make the best armor possible I need to have 3 Major Trophies for Armorsmithing for example. Then I need to have a house to put them in. Then I also need to have specific armorsmithing skill increase gear and jewelry and food. The specific gear, jewelry, and food are easy enough to get just time consuming in some cases. But getting a house and the trophies is a nightmare. Furthermore they keep on raising or changing how the Gear Score works and completely invalidating anything and everything you try to make.
Overall making money in the game is annoying because the only things of value have an absurdly low drop chance from the random crates you find on the ground in certain places. And aside from bots and cheaters that either spawn in items or just have an AFK bot running around 24/7, you as a normal player will pretty much never get these items.

Last, going into the crafting system. There NEEDS to be branching paths to crafting. I shouldn't need THOUSANDS of Iron Ingots to make the highest grade Ingots. This is just using the Ore as an example but the same issue is prevalent with leather and plants. You need a ludicrous amount of the starting materials to go up the chain of materials to make the better materials. That just isn't how things work. No matter how much Iron I have, I should not be required to have iron in order to make something out of starmetal. It is "STAR"metal from Christ sake. Should have literally nothing to do with iron. So if there were branching crafting paths that use other materials to make the ingots instead of simply using the previous materials in ever increasing amounts the crafting system would be vastly improved.

wtf was that ending ? i love you?

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do not give any more money to this team

Missed the beta but as an Xbox player I’m looking forward to the launch of aeternum. It’ll be my first time playing the game ever. I’m excited. If I can get my $60 worth, so like 40 or more hours, I will be very happy.

The dollar per hour of joy was exactly what I needed to hear. Thank you, gona try it when it comes out on ps5

I been playing on my ROG Ally X and I am having fun. It's chill.

Your right dollar per hour for value was great, the console players will enjoy it and have a blast... up to the end game. It was fun while it lasted and well worth the money. However, I won't be participating. I stopped at the base game after maxing out several characters. Since I would have to buy two DLC"s just to experience Aeternum, well that just turns me off, as it will others I suspect. Plus the fact that the dev's never keep their promises. Nope, not coming back... New players and console players should have a good time.

I'm stoked to play this

I’ve been so on and off with this game since January of 2022, and I’ve been let down so many times with these developers but I never lost hope. The exploration was phenomenal but solo play slowed me massively in End Game and then coming back after the first paid DLC and never wanted to go back.
The new Re Launch and Update was a breath of fresh air. I’m excited to grind this game again. One of my favorite MMOs.
Fucking Subbed 🤌🏻🫡

Here's some things you should know before p. laying this game:
- developers lied to their players for MONTHS. First they had a roadmap, then they threw that out of the window to reboot the game and we only found out about it in June, after they held livestream after livestream promising updates just around the corner.

- Every big update they do (seasonal) comes with NEW game breaking bugs that they take weeks to fix. Additionally, there are still a bunch of old bugs they still have not managed to fix.

- In 3 years+ of New World they have not managed to produce 1 additional OPR map despite a considerable size of the community constantly asking for it. I'm not a huge PVP player but I mention this because the PVP community has been the most die-hard, keeping the game alive for years when nothing else was happening.

- This team of devs is absolutely incompetent at designing PVE fights and dungeons. In mutated expeditions they claim 50% of the damage of each monster is transmuted to whatever element that mutation has but that's a lie, you run around in a void mutation and get 1-shot by a 100% ice archer or mages that do 100% damage in the element associated with their spells. Players have asked for less bs items needed to do high level mutations and still you need the dungeon's appropriate set of gems, anti-monster potions, weapon coatings, whetstones, attribute boosting food, anti-DoT potion, (some of whose effects turn off when you swap between weapons or put on another set of gear) trophies to boost damage against particular types of monsters, usually multiple sets of gear and weapons appropriate for fighting different types of monsters.

Then there's soul trials which are solo instanced fights with multiple phases whose transition is shockingly bad and unimmersive, a couple of 10-player challenges which are meh with terrible rewards and the sandworm boss fight which is annoying and buggy as hell.

I could go on about the untelegraphed 360 AoE some bosses do that looks identical to normal attacks but you get the point.

I have about 1k hours in new world.

Honestly i want to try the beta for the re release, but i really dont want to level all my crafting again.

I have everything close to maxed out but rune glass and furniture 😅


That took forever..... and all the faction rep for storage.

1 reason to avoid new world
AGS
they delete peoples accounts
there is much proof of that
started at 1 million players
game now has a mere 3000 players average
servers can take 2000 people so if there is 3000 players..then there is only 2 servers running in the whole world
also the new beta as you would call it has left many in tears because everyones hard work was deleted by AGS
people lost all there hart work and hard grind
it was all wiped
that is how they treat their players

its failure to begin with

Don't be scared to say World Of Warcraft lolz . I know it has a lot of buttons for you to understand just give it a try lol.

Wait for a sale

How is the Multiplayer?

PUBG for me is a game I have fun if not more now after hitting 1000+ hours.

I played about two hours & I like it. Also agree with you. However I’m cautious with these new age games coming along 3rd quarter 2024 & all of 2025. They are going to push them out. Got to be selective. 🎉

There isn’t 1 reason to play this trash ass game. Every server is dead, and will be filled with console noobs for a few months then die off again.

Glad to have found you, look forward to trying new world on ps5.

1 hr like 1k or 2k hr is Satisfactory,Nightingale Anno 1700!!!!

I am actually pretty impressed with all the changes they have made. I played on PC at launch and just couldn't stay interested. I didn't know anything about the beta until I logged into my Xbox over the weekend. Decided to give it a try and I had a great time with it. Looking forward to the relaunch. Also great video you earned my Subscription.

I played at lunch for about six months or so, left the game. Reinstalled today on my steam deck and wow portalable new world is what I’m playing now!

Looks better than eso or wow

Took 3 days off for launch in October. I played the original launch and absolutely loved this game but got driven off because the state of the game. Played the beta and realized how amazing it is.

You talk Addison a video and then we played comments, but there’s no discussion surrounding anything discussions or things that happen in person in real time. It’s nothing but argue.

Before you use their name in your video to promote, I don’t really see that that true permission that you give just by donating a little money to somebody who doesn’t have a job

Compton that you’ve already played so maybe you’re looking forward to starting over and playing through it all again but there’s not gonna be any new content there simply adopting all the contents from the original cash grab my friend just a cash grab from us there and you know from unaware console users that never really got to look at it before

For paying for it again, right because the name you buy again

I've played BDO over 17k hours and sometimes it really feels as exiting as it was on day one :)

I played New World first time back late 2022 and Summer of 2023 for Elysian Wilds, I loved it, the leveling, made each build, (DMG, Tank and Healer each time and found fun in those roles) However, the part that made me stop is the endgame PVE, I couldn't play expeditions consistently and was difficult to find a group to build that gamer group to look forward to playing with and feeling accomplished. I hope this game comes back and some old friends return.