A modder has created an answer for Wuchang: Fallen Feathers PC gamers sad with the latest modifications launched in Patch 1.5.
Final month, developer Leenzee Video games promised followers that a lot of efficiency and optimization points plaguing the sport since launch have been on the way in which. And whereas Patch 1.5 does handle many of those points, it additionally made sweeping, and sudden, modifications to most of the sport’s enemies, dialogue, and story.
As we defined on the time, previous to the patch, you have been in a position to goal and kill sure human NPCs you encountered all through the sport. These characters have been passive and did not assault you, however murdering them affected your character’s “insanity” mechanic. That is now not the case, nevertheless — the NPCs are untargetable and unkillable, successfully eradicating the flexibility to decide on to work together with the insanity mechanic in that particular method, and you can not kill boss enemies any longer, however solely “exhaust” them into surrendering.
As you may count on, the modifications haven’t been nicely obtained, and lots of gamers have taken to Steam’s dialogue boards and consumer evaluation part to share their disappointment. And inside days of 1.5’s launch, a modder has already created a mod that rolls again the modifications wholesale, be they for the higher or worse, to model 1.4.1.
“Wuchang 1.5 massively downgrades the sport expertise – Most late sport bosses, NPCs and enemies now get exhausted as an alternative of dying and offer you meaningless banter as an alternative of story-advancing dialog from the unique sport,” the modder wrote. “Mainly, patch 1.5 has ruined the sport’s story and immersion.”
The mod creator themselves admitted it is a “pretty advanced mod that modifies sport information,” and because it additionally undoes among the QoL enhancements launched in Patch 1.5, they level some gamers who wish to rollback the story modifications however maintain QoL modifications to extra mods like Fast Vertical Traversal, Improved Recovery, and Fast Item Pick Up.
Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is a Soulslike action-RPG set within the land of Shu in the course of the darkish and tumultuous late Ming Dynasty. You play as a mysterious warrior troubled by a horrific feather illness, who uncovers hidden secrets and techniques and battles supernatural enemies in an historic empire teetering on the sting of collapse.
IGN’s Wuchang: Fallen Feathers evaluation returned an 8/10. We mentioned: “Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is 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.”
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