After a shaky launch, the new ARPG hungry for Genshin Impact's lunch is making its lengthy cutscenes skippable and giving away a 5-star character of your choice
May. 24, 2024Wuthering Waves plans to make all story content skippable eventually
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Wuthering Waves, the new action-RPG clearly gunning for Genshin Impact’s crown, is making story content skippable and giving away a couple of prized gifts to all players.
Kuro Games' brand spankin' new ARPG Wuthering Waves launched this week to a familiar din of protest related to performance issues like extreme lag, frame-rate dips, crashes, and in some cases, overheated devices. Kuro was quick to issue a statement as well as an “emergency patch” aimed at the worst of these issues, but now it’s gone a step further and is straight-up offering some pretty rare gifts as compensation.
But first and foremost, Kuro says an upcoming update will let you skip “most of the story content,” and ultimately, the plan is make all story content skippable. This is in effort to give players “more control of your gameplay,” and it’s also undoubtedly in response tocomplaints from playerssaying the cutsceneswere giving Metal Gear Solid 4 a run for its money. It’s worth noting that Genshin Impact didn’t and still doesn’t have skippable cutscenes.
As for the peace offerings, Kuro is giving all Wuthering Waves players 10 Radiant Tides and one free 5-star Standard Resonator voucher “as a token of gratitude for your support.” In case it wasn’t already clear, 5-star Resonators are the rarest characters in the game, meaning players can start straight away with a character that should stay viable for a very long time.
That’s not all! Kuro also says it’s adding the Companion Story for Resonator Yinlin “soon,” presumably becauseplayers were able to use an exploit to unlock her ahead of her June launch, so why the hell not? Finally, Kuro promises further enhancements to combat “for more satisfying gameplay.”
Wuthering Waves is just one of manygames like Genshin Impactworthy of your attention.
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