You Won’t Believe What’s Coming in New World Season 8

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Summary

  • New World: Aeternum Season 8 begins on May 13 and features new PvP modes, a Barbershop feature, and various limited-time events.
  • Hardcore Seasonal World debuts in early June with more difficult activities and enemies, but players have access to faster level ups and gear acquisition.
  • The Season 8 update will introduce a new Season Pass and various quality of life improvements.

Amazon Games has unveiled fresh information about the upcoming season, Season 8 – Season of the Divide, in their game New World: Aeternum. This new season commences on Tuesday, May 13th. In Season 8 of New World: Aeternum, players can expect a challenging Hardcore Seasonal World, innovative Player versus Player (PvP) modes, a brand-new Barbershop, and many other exciting discoveries.

Back in September 2021, I was thrilled when Amazon Games unveiled their MMORPG masterpiece, New World, exclusively on PC. Fast forward to October 15, 2024, and the game had expanded its horizons to PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X|S as New World: Aeternum. Just like other beloved PC MMORPGs, this game has seen numerous transformations and welcomed a wealth of fresh content with each seasonal update.

Season 8 of New World: Aeternum seems to be all about the thrill of high-stakes, high-reward adventures with the debut of Hardcore worlds. But fear not, players of every skill level can still reap rewards and immerse themselves in the new content this season offers.

In early June, following Season 8 – Season of the Divide which starts on May 13, the game New World: Aeternum will introduce the challenging Hardcore Seasonal World. New characters in this mode start in a pristine state, level up and acquire gear more swiftly, follow a streamlined main quest, and can access elite rewards if they manage to survive without dying. However, one death will result in forfeiting the chance to unlock rewards for that specific character. On the bright side, characters continue to be accessible after their first demise, and players have numerous other rewards to work towards for their account and main characters. Amazon Games has announced that they will reveal more details about Hardcore at a later time, as stated in the Season 8 blog post for the game.

New World: Aeternum Reveals New Season 8 Content

  • Season 8 begins May 13
  • Hardcore Seasonal World arrives in early June.
  • Coral Divide Outpost Rush map
  • Capture the Flag and Outpost Rush: Barebones PvP modes
  • New map for 3v3 Arenas
  • World bosses in Expeditions
  • Barbershop
  • New Season Pass
    • Free Track
      • 2 Artifacts: Lich Gloves & Vampire Vestments
      • 6 Tool Skins: Sinner’s Set
      • 2 Helm Skins: Oblivion’s Herald & Corruption’s Witness
      • 5 Sets of Dyes
      • Emotes: Brush Off Shoulder, Touch Grass
    • Premium Track (20,000 Marks of Fortune)
      • 9 Weapon Skins: Fallen Set
      • 5 Armor Skins: Blackguard Set
      • 5 Additional Dye Sets
  • Springtide Bloom, Faction Fest: Expeditions, and Fury of the Spriggan seasonal events
  • New Artifacts and quality of life changes

During Season 8 of the game New World: Aeternum, several new maps and battle modes will be introduced. These include the Coral Divide Outpost Rush map, the Outpost Rush: Barebones mode, a limited-time PvP 10v10 Capture the Flag mode, and a fresh 3v3 Arena map. Additionally, players can join forces to challenge powerful level 70 bosses from Expeditions during special open-world events taking place over the season. Defeating bosses such as Mammoth Mahantaram, Scarab Boss Khepri, and Fire Naga Ifrit will grant upgraded loot and provide an advantage in endgame content.

In Season 8, The Barbershop will be accessible at every Stylemancer. Players in New World: Aeternum can obtain Barbershop Tokens either by playing the game or purchasing them from the in-game store to modify their characters’ looks. Every player receives a free token as part of the Season Pass for New World: Aeternum, which comes with both a Free Track and a Premium Track. The Free Track offers new Lich Gloves and Vampire Vestments Artifacts, Sinner’s Set tool skins, Oblivion’s Herald and Corruption’s Witness helm skins, and more. For 20,000 Marks of Fortune, players can access the Premium Track, which includes nine Fallen Set weapon skins, five Blackguard Set armor skins, new dye sets, and additional Artifacts.

Just like how I jumped into new adventures during Season 7 of New World: Aeternum, I’m pumped for an equally thrilling ride in Season 8! There’ll be a series of seasonal events to keep things fresh, plus Weapon and Gathering XP Boost events to level up faster. Springtide Bloom is bringing back refreshed rewards and some snazzy spring-inspired cosmetics. Faction Fest: Expeditions will have us go head-to-head in faction-based activities for extra loot. And, the Fury of the Spriggan event has been tweaked to offer even better rewards! To top it off, Season 8 is rolling out a bunch of quality of life improvements and gameplay adjustments to make my time in New World: Aeternum even more enjoyable!

Season 8 Combat and Quality of Life Updates and Changes

  • PVP Camps – Open world PvP is getting an upgrade! Players flagged for PvP will now be able to place or bind to faction-only destructible camps. Hunt down and destroy enemy faction camps to remove your enemy’s ability to respawn close to the fight, creating a more strategic experience in Influence Races and open world PvP combat.
  • Ready Up – Start PvP matches faster when enough players opt in.
  • Spectator Cam – Watch the battle after death in select game modes.
  • Survival Potions – 5 new potions to choose between to modify different aspects of survivability in combat:
    • Burst Regen Potion – A small burst of healing followed by a passive regen for a duration (Combination of Health and Regen potions)
    • Health Shot Potion – Similar to a health potion but provides with less healing, but can be used more often
    • Shield Potion – Grants damage reduction for 3 hits taken, lasts until timer runs out or until the hits are taken
    • Grit Potion – Grants the uninterruptible effect for the duration
    • Lifesteal Potion – Increases the power of all lifesteal effects for the duration.
  • Target Lock Updates – Target lock and aim assist were added primarily to assist controller players to compete with mouse and keyboard aiming, but when combined they made aiming almost completely unnecessary. In retrospect, we feel that removing aiming as a necessity on controller harmed the skilled nature of our combat so we’ve made some changes to target lock to bring back the skill.
    • We’ve reduced the amount of aim assist you receive when locked onto enemy players on controller, making it harder to hit moving targets, but have also tuned aim assist to work better with controller outside of target lock. The goal was for target lock to still be useful in certain situations, but players must now manage it more actively since it isn’t as simple as just locking on a target and expecting everything to hit.
    • Target lock now breaks when your target moves behind the camera. This was changed to add more counter-play to target lock as you can dodge through someone to break their lock and it’s now more difficult to track a target that is actively trying to disengage your lock.
    • Target lock also now breaks when entering aim down sights.
  • Tech Enhancements
    • Improved performance and visuals for Nvidia GPUs.
    • DirectX 12 – Enabled by default on Steam for better stability and graphics.

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2025-04-23 04:05