I mean, sortof. Great vid. although, theres a reason massively multiplayer online games don't usually use time sensitive combat... fighting games capped at 5v5 in like for honor can get away with it. but 50, 100+ man battles, and latency, lag and just everyone clusterfucking on top of each other with aoe, tends to throw all that skill and timing out the window. So, good luck new world.
I havent seen any raid gear to compare to the orange/purple tier crafted. I dont think NW is going to be a raid heavy game, so probably a mix and match system? But tbh, the mats for that crafted gear dont exactly look like theyre coming from just happening upon a node in a lvl 60 zone, either. The corrupted/defiler gear is pretty awesome if you can find the stats/perks you're looking for. Plus it looks a hell of a lot better imo.
This is my biggest worry right now. If a side starts underpopulated it'll struggle which will just end up making more people quit or reroll to the 2nd least populated faction. I imagine at best most servers are going to end up with 2 factions, unless companies get much more significant personal bonuses for owning a settlement so rerolling to try to capture would be worth it.
If it's anything like DAoC, the 2 "smaller" factions usually team up all the time to fuck the top faction. It worked well enough for DAoC and that was in a time before things like limiting character creation, EXP bonuses for rolling certain factions, etc. Now that games have all those tools as well, I imagine it will be even better.
Tech is kind of getting pretty close to the possibility of a game like this tho so it's kind of cool that it's at least being attempted. Probably won't work well enough on the large scale side but small scale PvP should still be solid enough it seems.
Again, only if the devs don't employ the myriad of tools at their disposal now to limit "bandwagoning" - stopping character creation for a certain faction, exp/loot bonuses for underpopulated factions, etc. And if they don't, that's on the devs.
That video was really interesting. Been watching Shroud play this today, and he just finished the first dungeon. Enjoyed watching, given that he's just really good at games in general, has a brain, and has some genuinely interesting discussions about the game while playing. Colour me intrigued. Definitely going to give this a crack when it comes out.
According to the comments, they scrapped that system entirely and that's not what New World is anymore. I don't have enough experience or understand really what he was saying to dispute that though (and maybe it's because I haven't PVP'd yet).
