In New World, the biggest endgame PvP system is easily its territory control feature. Players are able to declare War to take over territories controlled by Companies within opposing factions. This results in a massive 50v50 PvP battle for control over the territory, where players sign up to attack or defend. Imagine, going into one of these battles, if New World players could use an exploit to greatly diminish their opponent’s forces. It would make War and territory control broken and trivial, which is exactly what’s happening.
Around five days ago a Reddit user named KollotheCoinMan posted details about how they and their company were using an exploit in New World to gain new territory. The Reddit user explained that he and his company “tested” reporting opponents for spurious reasons. It took only a relatively small number of these reports for the opponent to be suspended via what appeared to be an automated system. KollotheCoinMan then said his New World Company used this “mass-reporting exploit” to ban Company leaders controlling territories multiple times, and then claimed the territories for themselves.
On Saturday, a new post on the New World subreddit captured how serious the exploit has gotten. User grayson1478 posted that 50 different players within his Company had been banned via this reporting exploit. “We have to give up our hard-fought territory because everyone can press report a couple of times?” Companies are left without territories, have bans on their record so future New World bans are even longer, and know their opponents will continue using this exploit in the future.
New World is available now on PC.
