New World: Aeternum—Amazon's rebranded MMO—is out now, welcoming a host of new players from the realm of consoles to the shores of this heavily-forested fantasy land. These new players are getting to see New World in the best light, after three years of tweaks and improvements, but what about returning players? Well, it's a bit better now, but the Aeternum update doesn't even feel like New World's most dramatic shake up.
This is, despite the questionable marketing, a patch. A pretty big patch, to be clear, but not the "spiritual successor" or separate game that Amazon initially pitched it as. It feels like the kind of update that might accompany an expansion, but without an expansion's main hooks—there aren't any new weapons, meaningful mechanics or zones.
