This is unexpected, since the musket just seems like a more iconic weapon than a wee axe. Muskets, meanwhile, get less love, with only 0.4% of players managing to finish levelling them up. When it comes to weapon mastery, it looks like most high-level players favour hatchets, with 4.5% of players reaching level 20. I apologise to all the digital critters I slaughtered to get my achievement. 20.5% of players have reached level 200, which is even more significant when you compare it to the other tradeskills, where only 1-2% of players have reached the mastery milestone. With so many animals being killed, it should come as no surprise that tracking and skinning is the most popular tradeskill. You can't go five seconds without a wolf attack in Aeternum. There's no achievement for killing wolves, though, and there's no way people have hunted more boars than wolves. 25.2% of players have killed at least 100 of them. Pick a side!īoars are apparently the most popular animal, at least to kill. You need to be level 10 to join a faction, and 5% of that factionless group have hit that milestone but still decided to go it alone. That means nearly 20% of players haven't picked a faction yet. Purple for life! The Marauders aren't far behind, at 30.7%, and the Covenant is the least popular, with only 15.6% of players joining its ranks. This makes sense because the Syndicate is obviously the best faction with the best colour.

Despite being the underdogs of my server, the Syndicate is the most popular faction, with 35% of players joining it. There's a bit more we can glean from New World's achievements. ' I'm tired of waiting for the next big MMO', I said. Back in February, I wrote about my own desperation for something new. We used to have so many to choose from, but these days they've been pushed aside for other live service games, particularly battle royales. More than that, though, I think it reveals just how starved people were for a big MMO. 28.6% of them have already put at least 80 hours into the game, for instance, and while that includes time spent in the main menu and queues, it still speaks to its power to keep people in the giant forest of Aeternum. Like SWTOR, Runescape is free, which makes it a lot easier to just dip in and see if it's your cup of tea, and then peace out if you don't enjoy your first hour.Īll of these games have their own quirks and unique situations contributing to the stats, but it still seems like New World has a particularly dedicated playerbase. Only 61.3% of Steam players have unlocked the lodestone (for fast travel) on the tutorial island, and a mere 29.7% of them have unlocked the lodestone in the first town of Lumbridge. Runescape, which has been around forever but only launched on Steam in 2020, has particularly interesting stats.

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