Wuchang: Fallen Feathers gamers have reacted negatively to a brand new replace which prevents gamers from killing lots of its historic figures, altering the plot within the course of.
The Soulslike, which was launched final month, is about in the course of the late Ming Dynasty and tells an alternate historical past of the interval, with the participant controlling pirate Bai Wuchang as she makes an attempt to tackle the Feathering Illness which is affecting the land.
The sport acquired its model 1.5 patch earlier this week, which mounted quite a few bugs and made some gameplay tweaks. Nonetheless, gamers had been considerably confused by one patch be aware, which reads: “Made changes to animations, values, and degree design for sure NPCs and AI. Added dialogs for some NPCs to finish some plots. We are going to additional optimize the exhaustion animations sooner or later to enhance the plot efficiency.”
Gamers who downloaded the brand new replace have discovered that the patch be aware refers to an important change within the sport, which now not makes it potential to kill sure bosses and different NPCs who’re primarily based on real-life historic figures.
Now, as a substitute of dying, these characters collapse in exhaustion. A few of them additionally communicate new dialogue to the participant, primarily altering the story, to make sure the plot nonetheless is sensible now they’re now not useless.
In a thread on X, sport modder Lance McDonald closely criticised the brand new modifications, calling it “precise censorship because of strain from Chinese language gamers who had been upset about with the ability to kill traditionally vital characters from the top of the Ming Dynasty”.
Citing some examples of the modifications made, McDonald identified that the sport’s fourth chapter “is now insanely simple as a result of 50% of the enemies at the moment are non-hostile to the participant and you may’t assault them in the course of the revolt outbreak”.
“They even added new voiceover dialogue for the protagonist so after you kill (oh sorry, I imply ‘exhaust’) sure historic bosses, she says ‘I’ll proceed your legacy’,” he added.
McDonald said that these modifications don’t simply change the story, additionally they “wreck your complete level of the sport’s plot about impermanence”, including: “Your complete plot of the sport is concerning the Ming Dynasty coming to an finish, and the folly of refusing to let it finish, and the protag’s sister dying and the folly of refusing to just accept her dying. Then they do that mess and now I don’t even know what.”
One instance given is the struggle towards Zhao Yun. Now, somewhat than dealing with Zhao Yun himself, gamers look like combating his spirit as a substitute. Beforehand, when he was defeated he died, saying: “The mortal dream fades, my story concludes, I perceive now, all is accurately.” Now, nonetheless, he laughs and says: “Ha, nonetheless set on this path? Good! That was the trial’s goal all alongside! Hahaha!”
After you defeat the Dragon Emperor they added an interplay immediate with him and his consort to say “its okay they’re solely sleeping” wonderful pic.twitter.com/quhW6SDBZk
— Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) August 14, 2025
McDonald isn’t the one participant aggravated by the modifications. The sport has been getting quite a few unfavorable critiques on Steam prior to now day or two, most of which criticise the modified story.
“Bettering sport efficiency is welcoming,” mentioned one reviewer with 58 hours of play time logged. “However this should be the primary time I’ve heard of story / plot change post-release, so far as I’m conscious. Plot change made the story utterly totally different, and even makes a number of the characters’ motivations pointless.”
“Liked the sport all the way in which till patch 1.5,” added one other gamers with 28 hours logged. “Recreation undoubtedly has its flaws, however ultimately very satisfying. The story was good, fight was nice(ish). Dev single-handed butchered the entire theme of the story by altering plotlines and catering to the idiotic nationalist, who would by no means contact the sport. Wouldn’t suggest till dev repair this or give world gamers a solution to revert this themselves.”
