
MAJOR UPDATES
The Winter Rune Forge, new Artifacts, Mounts in Outpost Rush, some Journey tasks, and a few of the Challenges will all require Rise of the Angry Earth to experience.NEW SEASONAL TRIAL: WINTER RUNE FORGE

NEW ARTIFACTS

- Corruption: Debuffs last 25% longer. (Works on both weapons)
- Defile: Deals 2% more damage per debuff on target. (5 stacks max)
- Poison Tipped: Heavy attacks with either weapon cause poison dealing 20% weapon damage for 5s.
- Momentum: Successful attacks gain 3% movement speed for 3s. (Works on both weapons and stacks 10 times).
- Nature’s Blessing: Empower expires 200% faster but you deal 20% more damage.
- Whenever you take damage, gain a charge that increases the damage of your next attack by 3% (max 10 charges).
- When not in heavy loadout, gain 20% more max health.
- Ambush: Deal 15% more damage and 25% critical chance as long as you haven’t hit the target within 20s.
- Phoenix Revival: When you receive lethal damage, avoid death and become invulnerable for 2s (180s cooldown)
NEW SEASON PASS

COOKING AND OTHER TRADE SKILL CHANGES

UPGRADED COMBAT & ANIMATION SYSTEM

CONTROLLER SUPPORT
Controller support is coming to New World! Select from two pre-set controller layouts to make your New World experience even more immersive. As part of optimizing the game to play well with controller, we've introduced the following new features and settings:- Aim Assist: Helps with aiming ranged attacks. (Controller only, AI only)
- Target Friction: Slower reticle speed on roll over of a valid target (Controller only)
- Enemy Target Lock: Allows you to lock the camera onto an enemy (AI only). Move the right stick to swap between multiple targets. (Works on both controller and mouse & keyboard with middle mouse button and mouse wheel up/down)
- Freeform Movement: Allows running in all directions including towards the camera. Holding block or activating target lock will revert to normal strafe navigation. (Defaults to ON with controller, OFF with mouse & keyboard)
- Use Camera Direction for Melee Attacks: If this is off it allows melee attacks and blocking in the direction of your input/character facing instead of your camera facing. (Defaults to OFF with controller, ON with mouse & keyboard)
- Improved feature accessibility:
- Radial wheel for quick access to features like player emotes, issuing commands and setting up camp.
- Shift modifiers to allow for quick access to all combat abilities.
- Improved UX navigation with gamepad for faster actions.
MAIN STORY QUEST FULLY UPDATED

MOUNTS IN OUTPOST RUSH

SEASONAL EVENTS
RABBIT’S REVENGE

SPRINGTIDE BLOOM

PTR
The Public Test Realm (PTR) is a limited-availability server-set that grants an early look at upcoming features. These preview builds are snapshots of upcoming major releases and are not final versions — you may encounter bugs, crashes, missing text, or other issues. Between our internal testing efforts and your reports, we hope to catch and resolve all serious issues before they reach the live servers. Hundreds of changes have already been made — with more to come — and the full release notes will be shared on release day. However, not every bug or feedback piece will be actioned on before release — some changes need time to be investigated further, and may arrive in a subsequent patch or two. To help with the feedback process, all newly created PTR characters will have the opportunity to instantly level to select level-ranges outfitted with appropriate gear and items. The PTR will officially open on February 14. If you encounter a bug, exploit, or have suggestions to improve a feature or piece of content, we’d love to hear your feedback on our Discord (you can also utilize our in-game feedback tool). We will do our best to address as much of your feedback as possible before the content update makes its way to our live servers. Your participation will help us to deliver awesome content and updates in the future! During this iteration of the PTR, we look forward to hearing your playtest feedback on the following changes:- Winter Rune Forge
- Season 5 Artifacts
- Main Story Quest Update
- Controller Support
- Upgraded Combat & Animation System
- Weapon Balance Updates
- Mounts in Outpost Rush
- Season 5 Rewards Track
- Cooking Trade Skill changes
- Springtide Bloom