Wuchang: Fallen Feathers - Stellar Blade - chink edition

[Asian tech support]

I'm going to have to play more to see how much of a soulslike it really is but people were calling Stellar Blade a soulslike which is just a wrong opinion.

It took a lot of self control not to yell at the Stellar Blade thread and derail it for several pages.

 

[Samuel Fuller]

when I first heard of this I was confused because the name made me think it was a Wo Long Fallen Dynasty sequel/spinoff

I thought it was a sequel to Wu-Tang: Shaolin Style.

 

[X Prime]

I must ask:

It would have been fine if Wuchang had treated this story with the gravity it deserved, but you can then find the clothing of these women and read about how horribly they’ve suffered, only for the game to giggle as your character breasts boobily in those same clothes.

Is this actually accurate? That kind of sounds like misery porn, which is just not my cup of tea.

 

[Bonedome]

Is this actually accurate? That kind of sounds like misery porn, which is just not my cup of tea.

I have no clue what they're talking about but I'm only ~4 hours into the game so far. I just read all the descriptions of the clothes and didn't get that vibe about anything. There are some jiggle physics but you have to be paying attention considering most of the time the camera is aimed at your back or you're focused on something besides your chest (which isn't gigantic to begin with.) I have picked up some armor off of enemies or out of chests, which is par for the course for this genre.

Anyways, more first impressions (GAMEPLAY SPOILERS AHEAD):

I like the skill tree. It's gigantic and basically a Nioh/Final Fantasy sphere grid. You can reset it at any shrine and it costs nothing, which allows you to redistribute points as you see fit if you pick up new weapons or would rather use a different skill for a particular fight.

I'm enjoying the exploration. So far the environments and enemies are at the right difficulty. I don't (yet) feel fatigued by them where I want to run through and it's been fun to explore. One of my main critiques of Dark Souls games is just running past enemies once you reach a boss and so far this game hasn't had that.

I'm enjoying the bosses, so far they're aggressive and punishing but they're also sort of glass cannons, I'm sure this can change the further in the game I get but I like not having to focus on a boss for multiple minutes while I do chip damage. This feeling was further cemented by the boss I just killed. I was dodging like a professional while stringing together special weapon skills and magic. It feels more like a Bloodborne or a Nioh than a standard souls game.

I like the side quests, because the game actually gives you a small heads up in the menu if there's something where you're going.

The death system is interesting, I'm not sure if I like it yet, but basically the more you die the more damage you start to do and take. Die too much and a demonic invader appears, killing that resets you back to zero demonic energy. Certain skills enhance you based on how much demonic energy you have. You can also start fudging these numbers yourself and you're incentivized to do so.

Lastly, I'm enjoying my current weapon, a long sword that is held together by a whip/chain and can split apart to increase reach/AoE. On said latest boss fight I used two long swords and swapped between them to do their own unique skills. My long sword whip skill is going to be different than others, but I have yet to figure out how extra skills that I unlock will affect the system.

 

[Asian tech support]

The death system is interesting, I'm not sure if I like it yet, but basically the more you die the more damage you start to do and take. Die too much and a demonic invader appears, killing that resets you back to zero demonic energy. Certain skills enhance you based on how much demonic energy you have. You can also start fudging these numbers yourself and you're incentivized to do so.

Neat, that's kind of like world tendency.

 

[Warai Otoko]

I honestly wanted to try out this game, but because a lot of people reported bad performance, even on top of the line hardware, I thought I'll wait until a patch fix.
A patch came, guess what the devs thought what optimization was.

Essentially, even if you put your rendering resolution to what you prefer (1080,1440), the game will always render at a lower resolution than what you set it up in the settings, without enabling upscaling methods (DLSS,FSR). And they said chink games would be the future of gaming.

 

[Jace on ice]

Unreal Engine 5 has to be destroyed to save gaming.

 

[Warai Otoko]

Unreal Engine 5 has to be destroyed to save gaming.

UE5 seems more like a crutch for hack developers, trying to get the best possible graphics, without the needed time and effort that usually goes in to creating them.
It can be a decent engine in the hands of competent devs, Expedition 33 is a good example. In the end, no matter what you think about ue5, games made in that engine look the same, which makes me miss the unique artsyles that came with the inhouse engines over the years.

 

[The Doom Slayer]

Something about the combat feels really off to me. It feels like too floaty and too stiff at the same time. Really hard to explain. Also feel like healing takes too long to pull off, or is unresponsive or something.

The invader that appears when you die is completely brutal and just steamrolls me every time. Also the enemies that grab you and corrupt you are CANCER.

The axe seems to be the only weapon that stuns enemies which again is strange.

I didn't really like the skill tree at first but it's growing on me.

The devs seem to have a hard on for making things tiny. Text is small, soul retrieval puddle after death is small, pickups are small etc.

Still don't have many technical problems on PS5 aside from some stuttering here and there.

I feel like the game has potential but needed like 6 more months or a year to polish and balance it more.

 

[UnknownUser]

Something about the combat feels really off to me. It feels like too floaty and too stiff at the same time. Really hard to explain. Also feel like healing takes too long to pull off, or is unresponsive or something.

The invader that appears when you die is completely brutal and just steamrolls me every time. Also the enemies that grab you and corrupt you are CANCER.

The axe seems to be the only weapon that stuns enemies which again is strange.

I didn't really like the skill tree at first but it's growing on me.

The devs seem to have a hard on for making things tiny. Text is small, soul retrieval puddle after death is small, pickups are small etc.

Still don't have many technical problems on PS5 aside from some stuttering here and there.

I feel like the game has potential but needed like 6 more months or a year to polish and balance it more.

Yeah as a PS5 player I can second this. Also the game seems to do odd things with hitboxes if your target is slightly elevated above you. I've missed massive bosses with attacks despite being right next to them because they were above me by a few inches on a hill.

 

[SmoothBore]

I just wanted to drop in this thread and say I don't buy chinkware out of principle, but I did not expect a full-on tard brawl.

It's somewhat annoying that there's so many cretins on this site and on the internet, that any disagreement gets you labeled the opposite extreme of whatever these faggots screech about, in this case, the choices being mega gooner to plastic chicks or mega tranny with a love for DEI and niggers.

You should include yourself as one of those cretins if you're the guy I'm remembering right

Something about the combat feels really off to me. It feels like too floaty and too stiff at the same time. Really hard to explain. Also feel like healing takes too long to pull off, or is unresponsive or something.

ive not played the game but looking at gameplay I can see what you mean. A lot of big attacks look like they're missing proper hitstop, quite a few of the animation also come across like the player's holding a plastic tube as opposed to a sword and it looks like the player is locked into animations longer than they should be (rule of thumb is to let the player interrupt the moment they look "stable"). Everyone underestimates game feel but there's a reason why people don't get tired of the souls games despite some playing the same build style from demons souls to elden ring. Hitting things feel good. I'm not being dismissive here. If this were easy to do those souls games would've been washed by competitors ages ago.

Anyway to fix it I;d say it would probably take more than a year just going over so many animations and then you find out that the enemies are too easy now that you changed some thing and it's a whole rabbithole

 

[Chapalapachapa]

Unreal Engine 5 has to be destroyed to save gam

or retarded devs should use it for its intended use: close world action games.
expedition 33 runs on a fucking 590 for fucks sake
i guess they were more worried about the tit sweat

 

[Estate]

You should include yourself as one of those cretins if you're the guy I'm remembering right

Maybe ...
But drop receipts or get the fuck out of my face, nigger.
I ain't got time for your drive by faggotry, we're here to discuss the ethics of plastic chinky tits and the billions that will be sacrificed to the Sock Gods.

 

[Left Ass Cheek]

You know those fake games that serve as background elements to put on a TV screen when a scene in a show or movie has characters chatting and playing video games on a couch? They're usually blurred and out of focus, and are often just a knock off of whatever gaming franchise is most popular at the time of the film's creation.

This game looks like something that should be playing in the background of Netflix slop. It somehow looks even cheaper than photoreal games that were made last generation.

 

[Jace on ice]

You know those fake games that serve as background elements to put on a TV screen when a scene in a show or movie has characters chatting and playing video games on a couch? They're usually blurred and out of focus, and are often just a knock off of whatever gaming franchise is most popular at the time of the film's creation.

This game looks like something that should be playing in the background of Netflix slop. It somehow looks even cheaper than photoreal games that were made last generation.

It looks like the devs watched ten minutes of Nioh 2 and ten minutes of Stellar Blade and then decided to mash those two games together without even the slightest understanding of why those games worked.

 

[SmoothBore]

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Maybe ...
But drop receipts or get the fuck out of my face, nigger.
I ain't got time for your drive by faggotry, we're here to discuss the ethics of plastic chinky tits and the billions that will be sacrificed to the Sock Gods.

I made it all up. I don't actually recognize you at all

I mean you only joined the thread to basically post nothing except "boy everybody sure is stupid except me (and people who agree with me amirite)" which was so insecure it was funny to rib you with the vaguest "no stalker child it is you who is the cretin" type shit

But if you want receipts you kinda just made them. fronting like you're contributing now when all you did back ten was glaze yourself and leave. Dare I say you did a..... drive by? Mayhap even a touch of faggotry with the auto-fellatio? you out here acting like you can't remember the first post you made in this thread

unless you're doing a 4D trolling bit where you accuse people of shit while doing it yourself because that's actually kinda funny. And if not hey maybe you'll remember Wuchang now as your receipt whenever you type some variant about how high your rick and mory iq is

You know those fake games that serve as background elements to put on a TV screen when a scene in a show or movie has characters chatting and playing video games on a couch? They're usually blurred and out of focus, and are often just a knock off of whatever gaming franchise is most popular at the time of the film's creation.

This game looks like something that should be playing in the background of Netflix slop. It somehow looks even cheaper than photoreal games that were made last generation.

Probably doesnt help that the named it like Dragon's Dog Mother. China never beating the slop ripoff allegations at this rate