[UPDATE] Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Dev Admits Performance Issues ‘Ought to Never Have Occurred’ 

UPDATE: Earlier at this time, July 28, Wuchang: Fallen Feathers developer Leenzee issued an updated statement via Steam, to additional apologize for the sport’s launch points and promise a “complete rationalization” of what went flawed is on the best way.

Within the meantime, Leenzee stated it was “carefully monitoring all group channels” and “each voice — from criticism to recommendations — has been obtained, fastidiously listened to, and actively mentioned to seek out options.”

Following up on points with pre-order rewards — in addition to the compensation Leenzee has initially provided — Steam Deluxe Version house owners will now get three further units of deluxe costumes and 4 new weapons. Commonplace and Deluxe version house owners will get three extra headgear objects.

As for efficiency and optimization points?

“We’ll proceed to optimize efficiency points and can preserve adjusting the sport primarily based in your recommendations — reminiscent of issue ranges and boss encounters — in upcoming patches,” Leenzee added, itemizing the next “optimization efforts”:

• Repair crashes throughout completely different units
• Enhance body charges and scale back lag on sure graphics playing cards
• Optimize default settings for some graphics playing cards
• Appropriate the pace of getting up after being knocked down
• Scale back harm and the variety of some traps
• Decrease impression resistance of sure low-level monsters
• Scale back exploration strain in some areas
• Repair points attributable to lacking objects resulting in quest interruptions
• Enhance AI logic for monsters and managers
• Improve texture high quality in low-resolution areas
• Enhance asset element and precision in some areas

“We deeply worth each participant’s help and encouragement. We’re actively reflecting on our workflows and striving to enhance our capabilities to ship higher-quality providers extra effectively,” Leenzee concluded. “We ask on your persistence as we deal with these optimizations step-by-step. We hope that at some point, each our work and our crew will show worthy of your expectations.”

On the time of writing, the sport’s Steam consumer ranking stays “Largely Destructive.”

ORIGINAL STORY: Final week, we reported that Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has opened to 114,000+ concurrent gamers on Steam, making it one of many largest launches on Steam for a non-FromSoftware Soulslike recreation but.

This milestone comes regardless of ‘largely destructive’ on Steam as gamers report points with “extremely awful performance,” a “completely lifeless” foremost character, and “clunky” fight and gameplay. On the time of writing, simply 22% of the 9,300+ critiques left are constructive.

Developer Leenzee has now issued an update concerning the points, admitting “these issues ought to by no means have occurred,” including “we deeply remorse the inconvenience and destructive expertise some gamers are at present dealing with.”

“We’re assured within the recreation’s efficiency inside our advisable spec, however we’re engaged on optimization,” the event crew stated. “We need to challenge a patch as quickly as we will.” Gamers with persistent issues are inspired to submit a ticket to publisher 505 Games or readjust their settings.

That is not the one challenge the developer is responding to, both.

“We’re conscious of some pricing anomalies in some areas. We’re at present working with Steam to revive the right pricing,” the crew stated, after which addressed a pre-order reward error.

“The basis trigger is a bug within the reward distribution for the Commonplace and Deluxe editions, which prevented gamers from receiving the right objects. We’re fixing this challenge within the upcoming patch,” Leenzee stated. “As a token of our appreciation, we’ll give all gamers who buy the sport on Steam a free digital copy of the unique soundtrack. We’ll look to course of refunds of all those that have already bought the soundtrack by way of Steam.”

Any gamers who purchased the deluxe version sooner or later will even obtain “a brand-new unique costume,” though be affected person — “perceive that this will take a while.”

“We’re absolutely dedicated to investigating and resolving these points as rapidly as attainable. Our crew is prioritizing these issues on the highest degree, striving to repair and deal with every thing promptly to make sure you have the very best gaming expertise,” the assertion concluded.

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a Soulslike action-RPG set within the land of Shu through the darkish and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty. You play as a mysterious warrior by a horrific feather illness, who uncovers hidden secrets and techniques and battles supernatural enemies in an historical empire teetering on the sting of collapse. We thought it was ‘Nice,’ awarding it 8/10, writing: “Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is yet one more nice soulslike so as to add to the ever-increasing pile, that includes wonderful fight, fantastic degree design, an unbelievable ability tree, and fearsome bosses. Simply be careful for some steep issue dips and spikes, and a reliance on cheap-feeling “gotcha!” ambushes.”

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers was launched earlier at this time, July 24, 2025, for PS5, Xbox Sequence X and S, and PC by way of Steam and Epic Video games Retailer. Microsoft has additionally introduced it to Sport Go day one for these subscribed to the Final tier.

Vikki Blake is a reporter for IGN, in addition to a critic, columnist, and guide with 15+ years expertise working with among the world’s largest gaming websites and publications. She’s additionally a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually Excessive Chaos. Discover her at BlueSky.