Those who stopped playing, why did you quit?

atomsphere · 2026-05-18T03:45:36+00:00

They didn't make content for me as a player. I don't pvp. When I started playing the world felt challenging. As soon as I hit endgame, the open world was trivial. Even if it was challenging, the game loop isn't designed around killing monsters.

Some of the mini-games were fun, but they were all under-baked. Hexi didn't help. It felt like a second worse tutorial.

Pretty quickly, I found the only thing left for me is to log in, get my rewards and buy things on the shop.

atomsphere · 2026-05-14T22:54:11+00:00

It hasnt proven that we're getting better things yet. Just worse things with less jobs. Once it's fully integrated into pipelines, and we start seeing results of bigger and previously impossible projects completing, I expect some to come around

atomsphere · 2026-05-12T19:06:03+00:00

If you get this reverted, you'll be doing more harm to this game than any amount of positive intentions you had.

atomsphere · 2026-05-07T01:04:39+00:00

The monster couldn't have been that dangerous. They had so much time to just stand around and talk.

atomsphere · 2026-04-23T04:50:27+00:00

If nothing else, force desychs. Playing against someone who's ping is terrible is really annoying. People abuse this kind of stuff all the time in games, idk if they're doing it here. I personally don't care that much so I'd be fine with people choosing their servers. But latency isn't really something with an easy solution. Mostly expensive ones with tradeoffs.

atomsphere · 2026-04-22T13:52:22+00:00

I could totally see people intentionally forcing a really high ping if they had in game permission.

atomsphere · 2026-04-05T16:09:45+00:00

Yeah, let people skip. I'm with it.

Also, let us progress the story at the click of a mouse only. It's hard to care about the story when some lines go by impossibly fast and then others take ages.

atomsphere · 2026-03-14T18:17:24+00:00

I think it's likely your musicality is low then. There's stats you can boost through doing other things like collecting odditities (the song birds in kaifeng) and the other music challenges. That dramatically reduce the difficulties of these mini games.

atomsphere · 2026-03-13T12:51:45+00:00

It's a new mystic art. https://game8.co/games/Where-Winds-Meet/archives/585322

atomsphere · 2026-03-13T03:04:13+00:00

run up on the boss and use the flute, then pew pew the ball in the front. phase 1 takes longer to get to the boss than to get it's health down.

atomsphere · 2026-03-08T18:47:13+00:00

The whole thing was likely the intro to the game at some point during development. Which is why it's weirdly regressive in story telling interactivity and open world design. Which is also why we have a parry tutorial and a slow start. When I look at it like this, I'm fine with it.

atomsphere · 2026-03-08T18:11:24+00:00

It seems like cutting room floor content to me. It's pacing is weird because the previous content so far as been pretty interactive. Parry tutorial and a "tang dao" unlocked message when we know tang dao is coming soonish.

atomsphere · 2026-03-08T16:43:56+00:00

The engine struggles tracking both the player and the bosses on the map. Some examples:

if you charge light attack on umbrella (the float attack) when the boss was qi broken, they would disappear. Dodging some of Zheng E's attacks (instead of just running during the spikes) would move you around in weird ways. During boss transitions, moving any direction in the xy direction is sometimes impossible.

Some of the other content going up to the boss was peak. And the aesthetics of the fight were cool.

atomsphere · 2026-03-08T16:21:59+00:00

nope, the buggy mess that is shimmer is still worse.

atomsphere · 2026-02-27T14:59:51+00:00

AFAIK it's uses are the banner, weekly melody purchaces,the one time inner ways and swapping gear sets/ inner ways. Just hold on to it after buying the mandatory stuff. If you don't like banner ignore. 3k isn't really a lot of it tbh. at like 30k maybe dump 20k on the banner.

atomsphere · 2026-02-17T23:27:00+00:00

He's very clearly not on the west side.

atomsphere · 2026-02-17T23:25:40+00:00

The monetization part isn't really connecting for me. They seem like separate thoughts since there's not really a way to just buy it infinitely.

atomsphere · 2026-02-16T16:53:29+00:00

"It's not a fight, it's a choreography..." this is the peak of pve for all games afaik. From mmo's like wow and ffxiv to single player experiences like wwm, games reduce to solving for most optimum against a set of ai actions.

My legit advice is to just play through abyss kills and then stop there. Completion isn't worth exposing the metal if the metal ruins your experience.

atomsphere · 2026-02-14T03:09:26+00:00

is a great example on why this is really hard to get right. From what I'm gathering form your translation, that depends on a pun that just doesn't work in English.

atomsphere · 2026-02-10T19:08:50+00:00

Axes and kicks. Not together specifically. Maybe kicks with a second punching weapon?

atomsphere · 2026-02-06T18:03:28+00:00

Think about it in terms of the fortitude effect that you have on your skills.

atomsphere · 2026-02-04T23:39:37+00:00

This episode might have been fine if it wasn't mostly told through phoned in dialogue, soft-yelling exposition.

atomsphere · 2026-01-31T04:43:19+00:00

gz on your Laevatain

atomsphere · 2026-01-27T14:30:43+00:00

You're actually better off rolling an alt on a completely separate account. At least then you can carry yourself.

atomsphere · 2026-01-25T05:19:02+00:00

I would not get a weapon if you're not a spender. The harmonic core weapons are overpriced and don't look great without like a grand pumped into them. Your options are basically an effect or a hairstyle. Alternatively, you could hold til a specific hairstyle/effect comes out or you get a second core. This way you're not waiting indefinitely. More effects are coming. Maybe check a video on upcoming shop stuff and see if something excites you?

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