The exploit allowed players to creatively manipulate game mechanics for the purpose of duplicating (or duping) hard-to-craft items to sell on the game’s trading post for exorbitant prices, and in this case in specific, dupers have used it to duplicate trophies.
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In Aeternum, the fictional colonial-era setting of New World, trophies are furnishing items tied to the game’s housing system that provide the player with powerful passive bonuses that remain active in every zone of the game. Players can have up to five different trophies displayed in each of their houses and they are generally considered to be an expensive and valuable boon to have.
New World is available now on PC.
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