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Wuthering Waves |OT| - Devil May Impact

Thick Thighs Save Lives

NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Nice, that's a great Rover weapon for both current elements too, if you ever get Camellya's signature.

So a recent Korean interview about the game was just released. There are a lot of people interested in spreading misinformation with it for some unknown fucking reason. I looked at a few sources and most people that know Korean are saying that this is the most accurate translation. Quoting because it's long, but it's worth a read.


*edit*

2nd interview from the same guy.


Some Interesting stuff by Solan there! As long as the quality in their big content updates is there I'll for sure check them out. About the misinfo stuff, I've haven't followed the discussion in the community that closely, but I did notice this thread on the WuWa subreddit where people were calling out the OP for posting wrong translation / interpreting what Solan's said in the wrong way.

 

Pejo

Gold Member
Some Interesting stuff by Solan there! As long as the quality in their big content updates is there I'll for sure check them out. About the misinfo stuff, I've haven't followed the discussion in the community that closely, but I did notice this thread on the WuWa subreddit where people were calling out the OP for posting wrong translation / interpreting what Solan's said in the wrong way.


Yea this stuff was happening on twitter, too. People misinterpreting the answers and making up their own headcanon for what he was saying. I'm sure this happens naturally on the internet but I saw 3 separate sources all doing it for some reason this time (and getting called out on it). Maybe Google Translate is the culprit or something. Just thought it was weird.
 

Pejo

Gold Member
Damn I know it's my own fault for waiting, but grinding out these battle events with 2 days left is pretty painful. I don't like iterative modes in gachas where you fight the same things over and over but marginally tougher, so basically every event right now is pure hell for me. They're not particularly hard, but time consuming and grindy. Illusive Realms I'm mainly done with, just need 2 more of the "invisible" weapon skins and then I don't care about the misc mats or whatever.

The hologram and Pincer Maneuver (my least favorite event type in the entire game) are fucking torturous though. "You know these bosses you fought 500 times? Here they are again, but like 3-5 of them in a row!" I think they probably expected people to do a few each day and not all at once at the end, but fuck me. I hope 2.0 has lots of events that aren't grindfest battle events.
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Carlotta PV (damn they put some production value into this).

They're going all in with the marketing for version 2.0. 😳 Can't fucking wait for Jan 2nd!

Edit: Here's the 3 days remaining to v2.0 countdown illustration

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Pejo

Gold Member
Whew, and done. Got most of the current patch events asterite rewards. Missed a few misc rewards like echos and shell credits on the Pincer Maneuvers one, but I really hate that mode so I'm not gonna try it again. Also don't have my Mortefi or Verina build enough to do an Illusive realm run with them, but for 15 asterite a piece, I won't lose any sleep about it. I might do another run or two of Illusive Realm tomorrow to buy out the Shell Credits from the shop. I got all the unique rewards and echo/resonator xp items. Hologram event was pretty easy this time, I got all rewards on a single playthrough of each stage.

I spent some time this week building out Lumi, and I really like her. She's not very strong (well at a single copy at least), but she's got a very unique kit that's fun to play and is great for covering a lot of ground quickly with her run skill. I'd really like to get more copies of both her and Youhu someday.

Anyways, good stuff, bring on 2.0. I'll probably grab a copy of Carlotta, maybe her weapon. I didn't like most of the characters revealed already, so no harm in spending some asterites until a design clicks with me more than the announced ones.
 
Whew, and done. Got most of the current patch events asterite rewards. Missed a few misc rewards like echos and shell credits on the Pincer Maneuvers one, but I really hate that mode so I'm not gonna try it again. Also don't have my Mortefi or Verina build enough to do an Illusive realm run with them, but for 15 asterite a piece, I won't lose any sleep about it. I might do another run or two of Illusive Realm tomorrow to buy out the Shell Credits from the shop. I got all the unique rewards and echo/resonator xp items. Hologram event was pretty easy this time, I got all rewards on a single playthrough of each stage.

I spent some time this week building out Lumi, and I really like her. She's not very strong (well at a single copy at least), but she's got a very unique kit that's fun to play and is great for covering a lot of ground quickly with her run skill. I'd really like to get more copies of both her and Youhu someday.

Anyways, good stuff, bring on 2.0. I'll probably grab a copy of Carlotta, maybe her weapon. I didn't like most of the characters revealed already, so no harm in spending some asterites until a design clicks with me more than the announced ones.
You don't need to have them built. They are scaled up to 80 so just run the lowest level with them. Just give them a decent leveled up weapon.
 

T4keD0wN

Member
How important are weapons here? Must have? Or can i skip them for limited characters?
If youre not willing to go Pay 2 Win id suggest skipping them until you have enough 5* characters to make 2 teams (with synergy between the characters) for the tower.

If youre having to ask then you should skip them, if you get to a point where its worth it to get them youll definitely know it yourself and even then youre probably better off rolling for a new limited character (due to possible power creep)
 

Pejo

Gold Member
Looks like Pre-load is up for PS5/pro for you Playstation guys.

How important are weapons here? Must have? Or can i skip them for limited characters?
They're more "bring out the full potential" than must haves. They are usually heavily catered to the stats required by the limited 5* characters, but (so far at least) they don't lock specific character traits or passives behind signature weapons.

Nice thing about WuWa, unlike most of these types of games, the weapon banner doesn't have a "50/50" mechanic, so you're guaranteed to get the weapon you want when you get a 5*.
 
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Pejo

Gold Member
Interesting, they're giving Phrolova the same promo art that the playable characters usually have. Could be a good sign. I like her design better than the Rinascita characters revealed so far.

Plus I like evil women.
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Pejo

Gold Member
Is this only for people who pay 9.99 for the pre-order bundle? Because it seems that's the case, unless I'm missing something.
Don't know, just saw a post where a guy was preloading the data on a PS5, but maybe? Sounds like something Sony would do honestly.

You don't need to have them built. They are scaled up to 80 so just run the lowest level with them. Just give them a decent leveled up weapon.
I had some free time so I did what you said and was easily able to clear the lv70 one. Now the only asterite I'm missing is Calcharo since I don't have him and he's not a trial character.

I also have to admit that Lingyang was super busted in that mode. I don't know if he's that good outside or not since I refuse to level/play him usually, but I think he was my quickest clear by far.
 

SSfox

Member
It's finally coming to PS5, gonna give it a try dunno how I'll feel about it

My ssd storage reached it's limit, hope I will have enough space for that
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
It's finally coming to PS5, gonna give it a try dunno how I'll feel about it

My ssd storage reached it's limit, hope I will have enough space for that
I haven't pre-loaded WuWa on PS5 yet, but on PC the install size is rather small for a 2024 game, sitting at just 30GB.

Edit: It's 37GB on PS5.

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Interesting, they're giving Phrolova the same promo art that the playable characters usually have. Could be a good sign. I like her design better than the Rinascita characters revealed so far.

Plus I like evil women.
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One of my most anticipated characters; hopefully she'll be added some time later so I can save up some Astrites, lol.

Edit: Here's the animated version they've uploaded as a short on their YT channel.

 
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Reminder of downtime today until the release of the update

12 pm to 7 pm PST
3 pm EST to 10 pm EST

Preload for 2.0 is currently up on PC

Also, don't do your weekly 3 bosses until the update, because of the new one you will want to do.
 
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Pejo

Gold Member
It's kinda funny, this is the first time in a gacha I've been more hyped for the content than the new banners/characters. I hope the main story knocks it out of the park in Rinascita. They really need that with the PS5 launch to bring in and keep new players. No reason to think it won't be good, but here's hoping anyways.
 

Nankatsu

Gold Member
Kind of want to see how the game performs on PS5.

Not sure if I'll sync accounts right away thought. Does anyone know if Kuro has some solid protection in that regard?

Also 2.0 around the corner and they don't update CPU/GPU list yet again.

The Rock Eye Roll GIF by WWE
 
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Pejo

Gold Member
Interesting image I saw earlier with the recently released promo images, regarding a theory between characters' relationships.

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Not sure if I'll sync accounts right away thought. Does anyone know if Kuro has some solid protection in that regard?
You mean account protection? I don't think there'd be any way for someone to access your PSN account if your Kuro account got hacked, it's just a simple authentication call each time you log in. But I've been playing Kuro's older game PGR for years now and they never (at least announced) any sort of breach or issue.
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

NeoGAF's Physical Games Advocate Extraordinaire
Carlotta's weapon is so stylish, lol! Really hope I'll win my 50/50 for Carlotta so I can then go for her weapon!

Anyway, here are the character and weapon banners that will go live with version 2.0:

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Oh and I almost forgot, here's the day 1 rover illustrations (both male and female versions):

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Spyxos

Gold Member
I've been playing it for a few hours now and it's fun but my god can't these characters shut up. I thought zzz's story was bad, but this is even worse. They have to completely rework the beginning, otherwise the mass of players will drop out.

and it is 9.99 on ps5?
 
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Aenima

Member
I've been playing it for a few hours now and it's fun but my god can't these characters shut up. I thought zzz's story was bad, but this is even worse. They have to completely rework the beginning, otherwise the mass of players will drop out.

and it is 9.99 on ps5?
Its free on PS5, the 9.99 is for a Bundle with ingame currencies and stuff. They do this for all F2P games, thers always a 10$ bundle for pre-order but the game is free as soon the servers are up for the PS5 version. And yes, the general consensus about WuWa story is that its pretty bad at the beginning, but it gets better later.
 
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Rikku-X

Member
Does this mean new players will get to pick one free 5 star from the standard banner? Thats good, if so what seems to be best to choose?
They really need to get this running good on the ps5. miHoYo games all run really well. Anyone remember Tower of Fantasy when it came :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
Does this mean new players will get to pick one free 5 star from the standard banner? Thats good, if so what seems to be best to choose?
They really need to get this running good on the ps5. miHoYo games all run really well. Anyone remember Tower of Fantasy when it came :messenger_tears_of_joy:

Go with Verina if you don't get her from the other free pulls.
 

Pejo

Gold Member
I have no idea what to expect, but I will be giving it a try on PS5. I hope the combat is a little more complex than Genshin.
I'd argue the combat is better than most games released in 2024, certainly the best out of the open world gacha game genre. It's extremely high skill ceiling too, so you can really get creative with it, with stuff like Quickswap play styles. (Basically stuff like you start a move with one character, switch to another and use a move while that 1st charcter's animation plays on field, then switch back to them to continue a combo)

I've been playing it for a few hours now and it's fun but my god can't these characters shut up. I thought zzz's story was bad, but this is even worse. They have to completely rework the beginning, otherwise the mass of players will drop out.

and it is 9.99 on ps5?
Totally agree with you. I am dumbfounded that they didn't improve the 1.0 storyline before launching on PS5/ the big new 2.0 version. The first 10 hours of the game is hogwash bad (story wise), but it improves dramatically after that. Sadly I don't see a lot of people sticking it out to get to the good stuff. It's a shame, because the last 2-3 patches have had excellent cinematography, writing, etc. Also much less yappy in general.
 

Arsic

Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Tried about 15 minutes on ps5 and noped out. Felt like every single other game in this genre since genshin released.

I’m also not a fan of games dumping 9000 things at me at once in tutorial sections and some without proper explanations. Filling my inventory with loads and loads of shit I don’t know when I should use or not.

Not for me.
 
Tried about 15 minutes on ps5 and noped out. Felt like every single other game in this genre since genshin released.

I’m also not a fan of games dumping 9000 things at me at once in tutorial sections and some without proper explanations. Filling my inventory with loads and loads of shit I don’t know when I should use or not.

Not for me.

I understand. It is a bit overwhelming.
 
Tried about 15 minutes on ps5 and noped out. Felt like every single other game in this genre since genshin released.

I’m also not a fan of games dumping 9000 things at me at once in tutorial sections and some without proper explanations. Filling my inventory with loads and loads of shit I don’t know when I should use or not.

Not for me.

I too felt WW was terrible in 1.0 expecially with its story, due to Kuro having to quickly remake the game after the Beta, but it gets much better. Kuro listened to the players and made a lot of changes that you'd see if you progressed the game.
 
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Mayar

Member
I played the first few hours in the PS5 version.
I took a fairly long break, and was specifically waiting for this version. I must say they did not disappoint, it looks very good, plays very smoothly. And, oddly enough, the controls turned out to be convenient (I was most worried about this).
Visually it looks very nice, filters and anti-aliasing are clearly used - I would like to see a technical analysis of this port.

My luck after returning - the first 10 on the banner and the first 10 on the weapon ... I understand this is a hint from Kuro... :messenger_tears_of_joy:
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Mayar

Member
Why the fuck did they enable immersion mode (no UI/HUD) but then permanently keep this icon in the top left corner???? So annoying...
Don't you see there's a salt shaker drawn on the icon? Everything is fine and that's how it should be. :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 

Spyxos

Gold Member
Connected with my pc account on ps5 but there is no save and i am at the beginning again. Great
 
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Mayar

Member
Connected with my pc account on ps5 but there is no save and i am at the beginning again. Great
Are you absolutely sure that you connected the right email and, most importantly, chose the right server? If so, I recommend contacting tech support, all my friends connected their accounts from PC to PS5 and no one had any problems.
You can check your PC account through the game website, log in to your PC account, go to the Top UP - Center section in the top menu. A window will pop up asking you to select a server, and there they will write the UID and LVL of your Account, this is the account and server you need to connect.
 

Spyxos

Gold Member
Are you absolutely sure that you connected the right email and, most importantly, chose the right server? If so, I recommend contacting tech support, all my friends connected their accounts from PC to PS5 and no one had any problems.
You can check your PC account through the game website, log in to your PC account, go to the Top UP - Center section in the top menu. A window will pop up asking you to select a server, and there they will write the UID and LVL of your Account, this is the account and server you need to connect.
Huch there are more than one eu server? I didnt check. But email was the same one.
 

Pejo

Gold Member

Spyxos

Gold Member

Neolombax

Member
Tried for maybe half an hour, can't decide yet which has better combat, ZZZ or this. Collecting monster souls to use them is nothing new but its always a feature I like in games. Seems to be more combat focused with depth compared to Genshin, I'll stick around for a while.
 

Pejo

Gold Member
Tried for maybe half an hour, can't decide yet which has better combat, ZZZ or this. Collecting monster souls to use them is nothing new but its always a feature I like in games. Seems to be more combat focused with depth compared to Genshin, I'll stick around for a while.
Just my 2c, ZZZ is more spectacle and WuWa is more technical. Not saying one is better than the other, but that's how I see it as somebody that plays both.
 
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