While the environment and scenery are visually fairly indistinct from what we saw, they were interesting enough, with materials to gather, enemies to defeat, and puzzles to solve. We played through a brief logic puzzle that was just above the boss fight demo, Old Man and the Whale guide it was a Tetris block-style conundrum that was a fun distraction. Obviously, one puzzle isn’t enough to judge an entire game’s worth of open world content so it’s mostly speculation at this point, but based on other closed beta impressions/streams it **looks like the world of Wuthering Waves will have more than enough on offer to keep people interested in its early days
Taoqi is a Support who shields her team and buffs their Resonance Skill in Wuthering Waves . On paper, her kit is acceptable and can work with a couple of characters to enhance their power. However, on the battlefield, Taoqi suffers from taking so much time to set up her utility, and that doesn’t help anyone in a game that focuses on timed cont
The last innovation in combat is Wuthering Waves ‘ echo system, which is sort of a blend between traditional equipment-based abilities and a creature collecting game. Players can collect the Echoes of enemies they defeat in the game and then equip them to a character (one per unit), which in turn provides stat bonuses and the ability to transform into that echo during a battle to briefly call upon their abilities. We defeated a boss, equipped their Echo, and then used it in the next battle to great effect; it was also pretty cool to occupy the body of an enemy that was fun to fight just minutes bef
Consequently, this makes highly specialized characters like Mortefi – who is a Sub-DPS through and through – much more of a universally useful unit than someone like Jianxin or Taoqi. Mortefi is one of those characters players can chuck into any team composition, and he just works . However, there are a few compositions that take full advantage of his
Most gacha games have a special RNG-based system to get the best upgrades for your character, but these usually require you to just farm a domain. Wuthering Waves is quite unique in that aspect since you have to defeat overworld enemies to have a random chance at dropping their Echo , which is the RNG system of this g
You’ll be quite surprised by the sheer size of the world whenever you access your map for the first time in this game. There are numerous areas to explore, and each one has plenty of chests that are either guarded by enemies or require you to solve a puzzle for them. You’ll mostly find chests with blue light on t
When you enter the free-roam state in Wuthering Waves for the first time and open your map, you’ll already see a stamina-type mechanic called Waveplate on the top right. You’ll have the maximum amount at the start with nowhere to spend it on . However, after progressing the story a little, you’ll unlock Simulation Challen
Jiyan is the absolute best Wuthering Waves character to pair with Mortefi because of the way his Liberation (ultimate) works. When Jiyan enters the Teal Dragon state, his every single attack becomes a heavy attack, and unlike most heavy attacks, Jiyan’s HAs are incredibly fast. This, for Mortefi, is perfect since his kit revolves around taking advantage of fast attackers and heavy attacks. Jiyan does b
While attending the Game Developers Conference 2024, Screen Rant was able to participate in a hands-on demonstration of a newer build of Wuthering Waves . Following a brief demonstration of mechanics from a member of the Kuro Games team, we were able to play through a brief combat section against a boss, an open-world puzzle, and some exploration of one of the game’s settlements. Make no mistake: this game is unabashedly attempting to capitalize on the space Genshin Impact carved out for the genre years ago. But it does it well enough that it feels like it has its own identity,
Of these, Lampylumen Myriad is the strongest Main Echo , dealing high Glacio damage with its Echo Skill. For the rest of your Echoes, we recommend using two three-cost Echoes and two one-cost Echoes to fill out your total cost. This will also let you stack more Glacio DMG through substats, which we’ll take a look at be
Updated on January 17, 2025, by Nahda Nabiilah : Wuthering Waves has entered the 2.0 era where Rovers can explore Rinascita alongside the original area, Jinzhou. Of course, with a new area, there are new Resonators who hail from this region as well, like Carlotta. For that, this article is updated to include the new Resonators alongside reflecting the current state of the meta in a WuWa tier l
You’ll get access to your Guidebook quite early in Wuthering Waves, and you can find it either on the top right of your screen or the main menu. This book contains various pages, but if you’re looking for Astrite, the main pages you’d want to find are Milestones, Activity, and Path of Gro
Even during the brief hands-on – and during conversation with the Kuro Games representative present during the hands-on – it became clear that Wuthering Waves has big plans for launch. There’s a wide array of content immediately available, and when I asked about post-launch plans, there wasn’t a concrete answer but an obvious indication it’s something that’s already a consideration. There’s also the fact that the team has been so readily willing to listen to player feedback. A lot of the improved elements present in this hands-on and the second closed beta are a direct result of players’ complaints from the first round of testing, with some pretty drastic redesigns already made in respo