Hatchet Changes in New World Patch 1.1

Overall, the Hatchet got some bug fixes and some buffs for several abilities in New World's Patch 1.1. Most importantly, the Hatchet received a fix to some of issues that stemmed from odd attack homing.

Infected Throw also got a nice buff to help make this an even more powerful anti-healing ability. There have also been a variety of balance changes to several of the abilities and perks, for which you can read the details below.

For a full guide on the Hatchet, please refer to our dedicate page.

Listed below are the official patch notes for changes to the Hatchet abilities, perks, and masteries.

• Fixed an issue where Aimed Throw could be used to cancel basic attacks at any time.
• Fixed an issue causing heavy attacks to not buffer properly, resulting in some attack transitions not functioning.
• Fixed an issue with player basic attacking homing that would cause some attacks to miss.

• Fixed an issue where activating Berserk would consume the Relentless Fury and Accumulated Power empower buffs.

• Fixed an issue where Feral Rush could be triggered without a cooldown in settlements.

• Fixed an issue where some attacks could miss.

• Increased disease and weakness duration from 5 to 10 seconds.
• Mortal Power — Increased bonus duration on low health targets from 8 to 15 seconds.
• Aerial Transmission — Increased the duration of the AoE cloud from 3 to 6 seconds.

• Reduced cooldown from 15s to 8s.

• Fixed an issue where the Defy Death ultimate cooldown timer was removed when a player died.