Progress Notes: New World

Busy time... Christmas...Work... Obligations... blah blah blah...

All I've got is an update on how things are going in New World. 

Good. 

Yeah, really good.

Playing every day. Only an hour or two. Trying to level, mostly. Just short of 64 now. Well, maybe halfway through 63.

Moved up to at-level content yesterday after several sessions back-capping old quests and doing faction missions thirty or twenty levels below. 

Already finished MSQ from launch. Well, might have. Not actually sure. Seem to remember getting stuck on some dungeon stage but no sign of it in the Journal. Maybe the revamp fixed it. One of the revamps.

Latest MSQ flags as Brimstone Sands. Good with me. Story never made sense anyway.

Cleared a bunch of side quests. Took some more. Not great. XP poor. Stories not very interesting. 

Saw some advice to skip side quests. Seems solid. 

Pity. Usually enjoy them in MMOs. Not so much here.

On the subject, writing in New World always seems stiff. Nothing really wrong with it but it seldom comes alive. Reminds me of ESO. Too... I dunno... worthy? 

Might have to give it a good think. Writing in anime/imported games so much more relatable, satisfying, just more interesting. Even with the bad translations, sometimes. Why is that?

Faction missions much better. No plodding plots, just go kill this, loot that. Collect big XP. Double, treble story quests, at least. And takes half as long. Which would you do?

Also, fun when you get sent to kill named mobs. Lots of loot then. No idea what to do with it. All just stashed. Huge storage space and all in one place now. Just shove it all in a chest under the stairs in the Mourningdale house.

Oh, speaking of...  

There's me, stuck under the stairs to my house. Logged out lying in bed. Well, on bed. Logged in next day, rent due. Kicked me out. Got stuck under stairs. Trapped!. 

Even after I paid the rent. Couldn't even Return Home. Already there, I guess!

Had to Fast Travel to some shrine. Thought it wasn't going to work. No room to crouch. Animation didn't play. Did, though. Work, I mean. Then had to Fast Travel back to get into my own house. Rude!

New World always had a rep for bugs. First I've seen since I got back but game is laggy as hell, first thing. Log in, always have to wait two, three minutes for scenery to load. Stand there, dropping through the floor, rubber-banding back, over and over. 

Given up trying to move until it settles. Nothing to do about it. Tab out and web browse while I wait. 

After that, usually pretty good. Occasional lag spikes. Mostly smooth enough. Don't remember it being like this before and I was always on East Coast servers. Looked at switching. No dice. You can move server but not region so stuck with it.

Killed the big turkey. Not done it before. Three of us. Took twenty minutes. Fuckton of hit points. Easy otherwise although someone got killed. Rezzed him. Good I remembered how!

Turkey died. Didn't get anything much.

Got a good gathering thing off a little turkey, though. Random drop. And plenty of coin off some others. Kinda wish I'd gotten onto event before it was almost over. Not exactly hard to make money here, though.

Starting to think I should get back to crafting. Did a lot of it before. Haven't touched it this time. Everything gives XP in this game, doesn't it? Maybe craft a level for a change. Sure got the mats for it.

Dinged 63 last night and thought it was probably time to get back to the desert. Had a couple of quests to finish. Did those. Mobs a lot tougher. Fights a lot harder. Obviously. Hella fun, all the same. Always liked the fighting in this game. More than I can say for some.

After that, saw I had an MSQ close by. Started on it and got a lot further than I expected. Went into this huge pyramid. Killed a big beetle. Looted a load of chests. Took so long doing that, beetle respawned. Attacked me so I had to kill him again. Fun times!

Climbed a bunch of stairs to top of the pyramid. Killed some guards. Went through a door. Expecting a big fight with a boss. There was one but all she did was monologue for like five minutes then leave. Turned some glyph on and that was it: MSQ stage done.

Ported back, handed it in, on to the next. If only they were all like that, eh?

Guess I'll carry on this way to 65. Shouldn't take too long. Then on to Nighthaven. Really want to check that place out. Sounds cool but no point going if everything's too tough. 

Or is there? Guess I could just go explore. Open up the travel points. Fill out the map. Take some pictures.

Why not?

That's a plan, then.

Of I go. Maybe a proper post about it tomorrow. 

Or about something, anyway. 

Don't count on it...