Thanks to a band of New World is already plagued with cheaters, many of whom use bots to farm valuable resources.
Fishing bots have proven among the most popular cheats in the Until Amazon can resolve New World's cheating issues, s feel the need to take matters into their own hands.
Fishing bots aren't New World's only menaces, hemp farm bots also tend to spoil the ecosystem. As such, Reddit RammarasFTW and a few friends were quick to act once one of them spotted a player behaving strangely. Upon realizing the named "joetaku" was actually a hemp-snatching bot, the group trapped it in several campsite tents. New World is inundated with all kinds of bots that farm various materials, but Rammaras told PC Gamer the hemp bot their company trapped is "a special one." The player explained, "It can path around the map to the specific coordinates where hemp spawns, farm it, and move on."
While this seems a clever way of obstructing a cheater's set path, there's only so much players can do on their own. And some worry the overwhelming number of bots may negatively impact New World's in-game economy, which Amazon recently insisted will not be an issue.
After a protracted development cycle and a couple of delays, New World hit PC last month on September 28. It quickly climbed the sales charts, too, managing to amass over half a million players on its launch day alone. Needless to say, the MMORPG is off to a strong start. Hopefully, the online title can maintain this level of momentum for a long time to come.
New World is available to play now on PC.
Source: RammarasFTW/Reddit via PC Gamer
