New World Update 1.5.1 Patch Notes & Maintenance Time (May 31)

New World Update 1.5.1 will be out later tonight, and according to the patch notes, it will fix even more bugs as the developers at Amazon Game Studios try to create a fair and smooth experience for players.

New World experienced an incredible launch back in 2021, which turned it into one of the most successful titles by Amazon Game Studios in years. However, the number of active players dropped when Smilegate’s free-to-play MMO, Lost Ark, hit Steam earlier this year.

That being said, the developers at Amazon Game Studios still strongly support the game with new hotfix patches, though the game has not received any significant content update for months now.

The latest weekly update for New World brings fixes to some weapons as well as the PvP experience. Moreover, the new patch fixes some UI issues and improves the audio performance on low-spec PCs.

You can check out the full patch notes for the new update here:

New World Update 1.5.1 Patch Notes

General Updates & Fixes

• Umbral Shards, Gems, and Repair Kits can no longer be dragged directly from Storage onto equipped items. This should prevent instances where upgrading shows you the wrong amount of available shards.
• Faction control point crafting yield bonuses will now compound additively — instead of multiplicatively — with yield bonuses from tradeskill armor/levels.
• Improved tier 3 aptitude rewards for the furnishing tradeskill.
• Fixed an issue causing certain moving or homing attacks to become stuck in place (for example, Isabella’s Corruption Fissures, Caretaker’s Swarm, Plague Ghost’s Disease Cloud).
• Improved audio performance on min spec devices.
• Weapons
  • Blunderbuss – Claw Shot: Fixed an issue that could cause normal shots to deal no damage for a short time after using this ability.
  • Ice Gauntlet – Entombed: Fixed an issue where this ability did not receive the correct healing reduction in Arenas.
  • Bow: Fixed an issue that caused charged bow shots to have reduced accuracy.
• PvP
  • We are increasing the arena Salt and XP rewards to be more generous, given the time most players will spend in the mode. We are adjusting the daily cap at 40 matches per day or approximately 3 hours of daily PvP Arena matches. After 40 matches in 24 hours, we will reward players 25% of the original PvP Salt and PvP XP rewards. This keeps it possible to play for as long as you want while more optimally rewarding for the first 3 hours daily.
  • Increased the amount of coin in each of the coin packs received from the PvP Rewards Track.
  • Fixed an issue that allowed players to circumvent damage from the Arena’s Ring of Fire by using certain abilities.
  • Fixed an issue where opening the Scoreboard (default: N key) during a PvP Game Mode would kick the player out of the match which would also result in a Leaver Penalty.

New World Maintenance Schedule

Before New World players receive access to the latest version of the game with Update 1.5.1, the servers will go down for maintenance for around 2 hours. The downtime is supposed to begin on May 31 at 11 pm PT or June 1 at 2 am ET/6 am UTC/7 am BST/8 am CEST/5 pm AEST.

New World is now available on PC via Steam.