Back from Spring Break and New World has a patch date for Season 5/Season of the Guardian: April 2nd!
I am off to spring break vacation! See y'all in a week!
A little AI fun as we go out the door:
AI: Microsoft co-pilot
Prompt: a gamer going on vacation
Result:
Certainly! Here's a playful depiction of a gamer embarking on a well-deserved vacation:
🎮🌴 Gamer's Vacation 🌴🎮
In the pixelated world of games,
Where quests and battles endlessly unfurl,
Our dedicated gamer, controller in hand,
Decides it's time to escape the digital whirl.
🌅 Destination: Sun-kissed shores,
Where palm trees sway and waves gently kiss,
No respawn points or save files here,
Just golden sands and ocean's bliss.
🕶️ Gamer dons shades, inventory intact,
Sunglasses as epic as legendary loot,
They trade their headset for a sun hat,
Ready to explore, adventure afoot.
🏖️ Beachside quests await:
1. **Sandcastle Construction**: Gather resources,
Build fortresses against the tide's assault.
2. **Seashell Collection**: Rare shells hidden,
Like legendary drops, waiting to be caught.
🌊 The gamer wades into azure waters,
Swims like a mermaid, no lag or latency,
The sun's rays level up their tan,
XP gained: Vitamin D proficiency.
🍹 At the Tiki Bar, they order a potion:
**Mango Mojito +10 Refreshment**,
Sip, recharge, and watch the sunset,
Pixels fade, reality's enchantment.
📸 Selfie time! Gamer strikes a pose,
Sand between toes, joy in their eyes,
Caption: "Logging off, embracing life,
Vacation mode: Activated. 🌴✨"
And so, our gamer finds balance,
Pixels and pixels of a different kind,
For even heroes need a break,
To recharge, reset, and unwind.
🎮🌴🌊🕶️🏖️🍹📸
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Bon voyage, gamer! May your vacation be legendary! 🌟🎒🌞
Some keen Reddit faithful caught a developer quote in the New World Discord. In the Discord message NW_Kay made a statement that there was no planned expansion for this year. This is a very odd way to make a very big announcement during a time when New World is losing player interest.
We don't have a road map for 2024 and the next road map update was delayed until June "for something big". If there is no expansion then what is "something big"? As mentioned in my recent posts the assumption is that console is the "something big".
I am honestly losing my patience here. I am the faithful defender of New World and the dev team. I think there is a lot of negativity that is unwarranted about the game and the developers. New World is a fun game even if it hasn't held player interest at a level I'd expect. It's biggest downfall is just being unable to pump out content to match player pace of consuming that content.
If the "something big" is just a console release that is going to break me. That would be the dumbest thing to be hyping up if there is no major content expansion to come with it. I really hope by "no expansion" they mean there won't be a paid expansion but we will get some major content updates this year.
Also how on earth did NW_Kay get in a position to haphazardly drop a reply like this in Discord? I never want to discourage developer interaction with the community but this isn't interaction... this is leadership level decisions being casually dropped in a community discord. Why even touch this comment... the user wasn't even asking a freaking question.
/sigh
Friendship ended with Wooting 60HE and friendship started with Wooting 80HE! Well not started yet, but the Wooting80HE is entering it's founders period today and I'm jumping on the buy button if I can snag one!
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| 80% layout!? WTF! |
As I've said before playing with my Wooting 60HE feels like cheating. I gave up my old Glorious GMMK to my teenager when I moved to the Wooting and the few times I go to use his PC I immediately miss my Wooting.
While I love my Wooting 60HE I have to admit I am not a fan of the 60% layout. I really liked the 75% layout of the GMMK. The good news is Wooting is bringing us a bigger layout with the 80HE with all of the other features I've come to enjoy and rely on to be the l33t gamer that I am (not really)!
In classic Wooting fashion they couldn't just be like the rest of the world and give us a standard 75% layout and instead landed at an 80%. It is hard to say what actually makes the up the 5% difference and there was a small uproar in the keyboard community about the placement of the arrow keys (too far to the left). The arrow keys will be moved to the right slightly in the final version.
For me I just want my F# keys back and arrow keys. As much as I've adapted to using customized key settings and the FN key on my 60HE I will be happy to be back to just using an F key or an actual arrow key. Also delete instead of FN + Backspace will be nice.
Of course all of the other Wooting goodness will be there and I'll still be legally cheating in all the games I play because of it :)
