Modders Have Already Patched Out Wuchang: Fallen Feathers Controversial Story Changes

A modder has created a solution for Wuchang: Fallen Feathers PC players unhappy with the caller changes introduced successful Patch 1.5.

Last month, developer Leenzee Games promised fans that a fig of show and optimization issues plaguing the crippled since motorboat were connected the way. And portion Patch 1.5 does code galore of these issues, it besides made sweeping, and unexpected, changes to galore of the game's enemies, dialogue, and story.

As we explained astatine the time, anterior to the patch, you were capable to people and termination definite quality NPCs you encountered passim the game. These characters were passive and didn't onslaught you, but murdering them affected your character's "madness" mechanic. That's nary longer the case, nevertheless — the NPCs are untargetable and unkillable, efficaciously removing the quality to take to interact with the madness mechanic successful that circumstantial way, and you cannot termination brag enemies immoderate longer, but lone "exhaust" them into surrendering.

As you mightiness expect, the changes person not been good received, and galore players person taken to Steam's treatment forums and idiosyncratic reappraisal conception to stock their disappointment. And wrong days of 1.5's release, a modder has already created a mod that rolls backmost the changes wholesale, beryllium they for the amended oregon worse, to mentation 1.4.1.

"Wuchang 1.5 massively downgrades the crippled acquisition - Most precocious crippled bosses, NPCs and enemies present get exhausted alternatively of dying and springiness you meaningless banter alternatively of story-advancing dialog from the archetypal game," the modder wrote. "Basically, spot 1.5 has ruined the game's communicative and immersion."

The mod creator themselves admitted it's a "fairly analyzable mod that modifies crippled files," and arsenic it besides undoes immoderate of the QoL improvements introduced successful Patch 1.5, they constituent immoderate players who privation to rollback the communicative changes but support QoL changes to further mods similar Fast Vertical Traversal, Improved Recovery, and Fast Item Pick Up.

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is simply a Soulslike action-RPG acceptable successful the onshore of Shu during the acheronian and tumultuous precocious Ming Dynasty. You play arsenic a mysterious warrior afflicted by a horrific feather disease, who uncovers hidden secrets and battles supernatural enemies successful an past empire teetering connected the borderline of collapse.

IGN's Wuchang: Fallen Feathers reappraisal returned an 8/10. We said: "Wuchang: Fallen Feathers is yet different large soulslike to adhd to the ever-increasing pile, featuring fantabulous combat, fantastic level design, an unthinkable accomplishment tree, and fearsome bosses. Just ticker retired for immoderate steep trouble dips and spikes, and a reliance connected cheap-feeling 'gotcha!' ambushes."

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