New World: Aeternum Update Reveals Changes Coming To Hated PvP Target Lock

New World: Aeternum Update Reveals Changes Coming To Hated PvP Target Lock

From TheGamer (Written by Joshua Robertson) on | OpenCritic

New World: Aeternum is out now, and while it was supposed to be an exciting time for longtime PC players and for the new influx of fans coming from consoles, a backlash over changes to the game's PvP combat was dominating the run-up to launch. New World had slowly been losing players since launch, but Amazon managed to anger those that were left by adding tab-lock targeting to PvP, reducing the complexity of the system.

New World's remaining players on PC are pretty much all invested in PvP at this point, and Amazon's switch up to seemingly make combat a little easier for the game's incoming console player base rankled more than a few players. Thankfully, it seems as though someone at Amazon has taken the massive amount of negative feedback to heart, as PvP target lock has been heavily nerfed in New World: Aeternum's launch update.

Announced via a news post on the New World website, Amazon has thanked fans for all the "extremely detailed, constructive feedback" that it has received, and has now outlined all the changes being made to PvP target locking. For starters, Amazon has made it so killing an opponent while target lock...

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