New World group reveals new Blunderbuss weapon for Heart of Madness update

After briefly teasing the Blunderbuss weapon on social media, New World formally unveiled it in a preview for the upcoming Heart of Madness update. The new weapon will arrive alongside a swathe of bug fixes and gameplay enhancements, in addition to extra endgame content material and open-world encounters.

As its title would counsel, the Blunderbuss is a shotgun-type ranged weapon, albeit with a a lot shorter efficient vary than the Musket, and a drastically completely different skillset. It comes with two ability timber: Containment and Chaos. Containment’s talents and perks would permit gamers to shut in with enemies quicker as a way to benefit from the Blunderbuss’ close-quarters firepower. The Chaos ability tree is the polar reverse, providing gamers methods to pester and harm enemies from vary with out ever coming in shut contact. Naturally, New World gamers can even get a brand new quest chain to play by as a way to unlock Legendary Blunderbuss variants.

The Heart of Madness update is predicted to reach in New World later in March and can proceed the optimistic development of including extra playable content material to the game. That contains extra endgame actions within the type of Dungeon Mutators, and extra enemy encounters within the open world for the gamers nonetheless working towards reaching the endgame.