New World Rolls Out Time-Jump Fix, Lowers Housing Taxes, And Permabans Dupers

Over the weekend, Amazon Games has been trying to sort out a time warp bug in New World that caused several servers to leap forward a few months into the future, wreaking havoc on territory control due to unpaid territory upkeeps. An initial hotfix apparently wasn’t enough to fix the issue but today’s patch might just do the trick.

After a three-hour downtime, the servers came back online with a small patch that should reduce instances of time-skipping in the game. The patch also fixed a rare server crash issue and a bug that caused players to become frozen when engaging in combat involving a large number of players.

The team has also reduced housing taxes by 90% and increased company income from homeowners temporarily as compensation for the series of duping exploits that plagued the game over the past few weeks.

“We want to say thank you and we are sorry to our players who have been impacted by the recent issues,” said Amazon. “This is a portion of additional compensation we will be rolling out in future patches.”

As for the offenders, Amazon says they’ve permanently banned over 1600 players that have been caught using the resource duplication and housing exploits. The team also reports that they’ve removed 98% of the duplicated items and currency in the game while the remaining 2% were from players who accidentally stumbled upon the exploit.

“We’ve also investigated how these duped items have impacted the end game progression,” the studio said. “Our investigation has not shown a significant uptick of max level gear. [. . .] We did a specific deep dive into Voidbent Armor, and while some of the armor was duped, much of it was removed from the game through bans and it is still a very rare item. We are still examining the narrower list of items involved in the housing exploit and there will be further permanent bans there as appropriate.”

Details can be found on the New World official forums.