New World Reveals 2023 Development Roadmap And Winter Covergence Event Changes

Amazon Game Studio has a plethora of new content in the pipeline for New World next year including a new Expedition, raid groups, transmogrification, and more. The studio’s development roadmap for the first half of 2023 reveals the launch window for some of the new things coming to the 17th century sandbox MMORPG.

Based on the 2023 roadmap, players can expect the arrival of the new Empyrean Forge Expedition, gear set storage, and various improvements to the main story quests in spring 2023, along with the return of the Springtide Bloom event, while Summer 2023 will see the addition of a transmogrification system, raid groups, the Sandworm Elite Trial, cross-world Outpost Rush, and the Summer Medleyfaire event.

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But before all that goes down, Amazon will also be making improvements to the Winter Convergence event which will include a fight against a new event boss called the Winter Warrior. Territory Control mechanics will also be adjusted to prevent player abuse including the addition of a cooldown when switching companies.

Amazon has dropped a new developer update video that offers more details on this month’s update and what’s coming to the game next year. You can check that out right down below.

New World: Dev Update - December 2022