New World PTR Patch Notes For Season 5 (Feb 2024)

Amazon Games has revealed the complete details about New World Season 5 Season of the Guardian, and before it releases globally in March, players can try it in the Public Test Realm to give feedback to the developers. The PTR for Season 5 will go live on February 14, and players who own the game can install it to try out everything that it has to offer and you can find the complete details in its patch notes listed below.

New World Season 5 PTR Patch Notes

Winter Rune Forge

Join up to 10 max-level players in a bone-chilling gauntlet of increasingly difficult enemies. This Seasonal Trial requires teamwork to overcome Rune puzzles, slay an Icey Construct, and fell an Ancient Ice Guardian for unique rewards.

Season 5 Artifacts

Grab 8 new Artifacts that excel through unique playstyles. Here are some of their key traits:

• Sin - Hatchet
  • Corruption: Debuffs last 25% longer. (Works on both weapons)
  • Defile: Deals 2% more damage per debuff on target. (5 stacks max)
• Venom - Spear
  • Poison Tipped: Heavy attacks with either weapon cause poison dealing 20% weapon damage for 5s.
• Tempest Fury - Great Axe
  • Momentum: Successful attacks gain 3% movement speed for 3s. (Works on both weapons and stacks 10 times).
• Nature’s Wrath - Medium Chestwear
  • Nature’s Blessing: Empower expires 200% faster but you deal 20% more damage.
• Gilli’s Gravity Gauntlets - Heavy Glove
  • Whenever you take damage, gain a charge that increases the damage of your next attack by 3% (max 10 charges).
• Ironheart - Heavy Legwear
  • When not in heavy loadout, gain 20% more max health.
• Creed Boots - Light Footwear
  • Ambush: Deal 15% more damage and 25% critical chance as long as you haven’t hit the target within 20s.
• Phoenix - Amulet
  • Phoenix Revival: When you receive lethal damage, avoid death and become invulnerable for 2s (180s cooldown)

Main Story Quest Update

The entire New World main story quest is now fully updated based on player feedback and improvements made to the revamped starting experience. Experience fresh narratives, more quest variety, and a few new surprises as you put an end to Isabella’s campaign of corruption.

Controller Support

Controller support is coming to New World! Select from two pre-set controller layouts to make your New World experience even more immersive. As part of optimizing the game to play well with controller, we've introduced the following new features and settings:

• Aim Assist: Helps with aiming ranged attacks. (Controller only, AI only)
• Target Friction: Slower reticle speed on roll over of a valid target (Controller only)
• Enemy Target Lock: Allows you to lock the camera onto an enemy (AI only). Move the right stick to swap between multiple targets. (Works on both controller and mouse & keyboard with middle mouse button and mouse wheel up/down)
• Freeform Movement: Allows running in all directions including towards the camera. Holding block or activating target lock will revert to normal strafe navigation. (Defaults to ON with controller, OFF with mouse & keyboard)
• Use Camera Direction for Melee Attacks: If this is off it allows melee attacks and blocking in the direction of your input/character facing instead of your camera facing. (Defaults to OFF with controller, ON with mouse & keyboard)
• Improved feature accessibility:
  • Radial wheel for quick access to features like player emotes, issuing commands and setting up camp.
  • Shift modifiers to allow for quick access to all combat abilities.
  • Improved UX navigation with gamepad for faster actions.

Upgraded Combat & Animation System

We’ve upgraded our old combat and animation system to improve performance in high traffic areas with many players like Wars and OPR. This new system will also make it easier to improve on our combat going forward. We’ve done our best to keep the feel of the game the same or better, but would definitely like to hear about things that don’t feel right after the upgrade.

Weapon Balance Updates

These have not been announced yet.

Mounts in Outpost Rush

Ride your favorite mount into battle, gain control of fortifications and resources, and strike down foes in this 20v20 game mode for Level 60+ players.

Season 5 Rewards Track

Season of the Guardian introduces a new Season Journey, new Activity Card, new Challenges, and new rewards including cosmetics and consumables.

Cooking Trade Skill changes

Look forward to ingredient updates, revamped Cooking progression, Legendary Fish recipe tweaks, the removal of split attribute food, and more. We’ll have additional details to share in a future Deep Dive article.

Springtide Bloom

The Time of Awakening has arrived. Springtide Bloom calls its children to share an ancient secret capable of granting true freedom. Help the enigmatic Bloom Herald unravel the mysteries of the ethereal Wispybloom and collect Springtide's fertile bounty of event-specific rewards. Harvest with caution, as swarms of vile Wispy Wasps guard the blooms with fury!

This content will be tested in rolling waves. Amazon Games will release the complete schedule soon and we will update this page accordingly.