Daggers of Depression

 New World Aeternum released a minor patch last night and with it they pulled back the curtain on multiple pending updates to the game that were in the hopper before Amazon rug pulled the entire studio and canceled the game's development.  Chief among the surprises waiting us was the reveal of daggers as the next weapon that would have been in New World.

 Daggers show up as a weapon skill tree option and their skill trees are available.  They cannot be unlocked yet and no daggers exist in the game yet (that we've found anyways; could be a drop hiding out there).  Update: daggers can be obtained from Reekwater's new vendor but they cannot be equipped.

 

Update: you can get daggers from the Reekwater Soulwarden vendor that was added in the patch.  Do the new Reekwater questline to learn more.

 The assumption is there is a quest or some other gating element not yet in the game to be able to equip the daggers. Update 2: And we can actually equip daggers!  Holy f'ing sh!t.

Dagger skill trees

 The Well of Fortune in Cutlass Keys was updated to include a dagger cache which goes to show that they were not forgetting about the FFA PvP zone and that they had plans to update to be relevant again in the new end game system.  Unfortunately no information on how to learn the dagger cache recipe (or the recipe for the new perk charms also pictured).

Dagger cache and unreleased perk charms in Well of Fortune

 Reekwater also received a zone update and a new node of the main story quest was added to the zone. We knew a zone rework was underway for Reekwater so its good to see some of that making it live into the game. 

 This all adds up to bring us into the depression stage of our grief journey since the end of development announcement.  Daggers were a much desired weapon within the community and knowing that areas like the FFA PvP zone were getting some love for the new end game was very promising.  Everything was headed in the right direction for this game.  Thank you to the few remaining devs who are letting this stuff leak out in the update files.