Where Winds Meet

Tried pvp, I am dominating. Probably bots or something but mo sword and healing umbrella is putting dudes down. Just need to be a little methodical about blocking etc.

For those who haven't seen the whale boat



Also the game keeps growing

I went on that boat last night - there were at least 2 people who had that outfit from that video on the boat. You basically sit on it until the boat finishes the route (you can leave early if you want), but if you play the minigames on the boat (wrestling, shooting birds with bow, mahjong), you get points that give a reward at the end (xp and some jade coins or w/e). I knocked out a couple sect dailies on it, so i guess that was cool lol

Wait some people actually bought that boat? Maybe was just devs or something in game trying to show it off?

Whales gonna whale.

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So is this actually decent? Like to run around and smash bosses if I like Dark Souls/Wukong/Khazan etc.

It’s a solid game - it’s an open world combat / rpg game, but it has online social and combat elements if you do choose (can keep it solo if you want). Most of the monetization is cosmetic

Some of the online shit if funny, though. If your character commits crimes they can get sent to jail, but other players can act as a lawyer and try to get the charges dropped if they have a high enough scholar skill. Other players can also show up and toss rotten eggs and vegetables at prisoners being transported to jail

It’s like GTA meets Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon

anyone 'completed' the game yet? any end game to speak off?

Time gates on a single player game, wow.

Well it is a hybrid - there are a lot of multiplayer elements as well.

Dropped six hours straight into it and would have kept going if I didn't have travel coming up.

It's definitely has jank and the 200 menus are dogshit, but pretty solid gameplay and exploration. Could have done well as a single player RPG with an entry price though obviously nothing beats milking whales instead.

I spent the last few hours backtracking oddities and exploring. strangely I opted for auto parry just for easy time but I didnt mind the easy progression. Got my monies worth by buying a skanky custom, no complaints really

I need to build constitution to equip a new weapon I got. Tooltip says wrestling can build it, but I won like 6 matches vs other players last night and the number didn’t seem to budge.

I've played about 40 hours since release and I think this game lands right in the middle of the over-hype and under-valuation that pretty much dominates online.

I enjoy the combat and it has a compelling game loop with a ton of activities and exploration. The UI and menus are an abomination and there is fair amount of jankiness and fuckery that I wouldn't normally accept; but that for a free game I can put up with.

Some of the scenery and bosses look amazing. The first chapter story I found interesting; but Kaifeng so far has bored me to tears. I'm playing with CN language because the VO for English was terrible. It is often hard to understand really what is happening, but I don't care that much and I generally get the gist of things.

I wish they made it clearer how and what you can upgrade. It is sometimes mystifying. Even now I'll be casually exploring some sub--sub-sub menu and find I can claim a bunch of resources for...something. Don't care really since I'm only playing this game for PvE and it is basically not difficult (although I'm not doing the coop shit and haven't really hunted around to find the hardest content possible). I'm upgrading all the obvious stuff when I can.

The RMT stuff makes me shake my head. I'd actually be inclined to purchase some of the cool outfits if they weren't absurdly over-priced. I don't play the RMT gatcha shit in these games because I learned my lesson from Genshin Impact. Once you start chasing that stuff they have you. I think they would drive more revenue if they added in a lower-tier cost of some outfit upgrades. The whale stuff people will buy regardless and they may as well charge 50K for a boat for suckers.

I give the first zone an 8/10 and the second a 7/10. Maybe a bit generous but somewhere in that ballpark.

Bottom line is: if you are (for example) an alcoholic who is trying to cut down on your drinking, this will give you something fairly endless and engaging to occupy your evenings instead of drinking.

Cybsled said:

I need to build constitution to equip a new weapon I got. Tooltip says wrestling can build it, but I won like 6 matches vs other players last night and the number didn’t seem to budge.

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Don't know if PVP wrestling counts but the PVE wrestling will give you like 5 Con per win regardless of the difficulty level of the npc. Doesn't take long to pump the stat to where you need it.