Trying to craft some bullets in Amazon’s New World sent me over the edge

Shipwrecked and damp, I arrive in Amazon’s New World with a clear goal: acquire a nifty hat, and then put that hat on my head. Some MMOs like to force you into fashion crimes before they let you get to the good stuff, but New World is pretty liberal with its stylish threads. With my hideous face covered by a wide-brimmed hat, I find myself scrambling for a new raison d’etre, my next Everest—or really any kind of activity that doesn’t involve stabbing an endless parade of zombies and wolves.

Happening across a waterlogged chest, I find my inspiration. Inside, I come across a musket—my first gun. The moment I pick up this oversized and incredibly slow firearm I know I’ll be a musket guy forever—or at least until the end of the closed beta. If I have to kill nothing but bottom-of-the-barrel RPG enemies, I might as well do it from a safe distance. But a problem immediately rears its head: guns require ammo, and my meagre supply only lasts for a few fights.

“It’s OK,” I think to myself. “This is a crafting MMO, so I’ll just make some bullets.” I’m a genius. Lamentably, I find no bullets at all as I browse my crafting options by the campfire. I find arrows, but even they’re out of reach, as I’ll first need to murder some turkeys for their precious feathers. Besides, I don’t want to use a bow; I want to use the big gun. I do kill some turkeys anyway—I’m peckish—but I don’t turn their feathers into arrows, out of respect for my currently useless musket.

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After some faffing around in the wilderness, I hit my first town, where New World tells me to continue a main quest filled with busywork, forgettable characters and one offensively bad Scottish accent. The quests are a real who’s who of bad MMO tropes, featuring old favourites like travelling massive distances to talk to some arsehole only to be told to come right back, and hoofing it all over the map to check off crap on someone’s shopping list.

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