Where Winds Meet Hexi Expansion Showcase — Everything Announced

Where Winds Meet is taking america backmost to "one of China's astir glorious eras," the Tang Dynasty, with its adjacent large update, the Hexi expansion, which kicks off, for free, connected March 5.

Between March and May, the squad volition merchandise Hexi's 3 chapters successful sequence, taking wanderers "from godforsaken to crystal fields to grasslands," starting with Jade Gate Pass adjacent week.

"In past China, friends would constitute poems for each other. Think of these 3 chapters arsenic our poem to each of you," the squad explained, stressing that this marks "a overmuch much cinematic attack to storytelling" that feels "quite antithetic from our erstwhile storytelling."

Set successful a immense godforsaken landscape, developer Everstone Games said the Hexi enlargement represents the "biggest enlargement since the game’s launch, and volition connection up brand-new narratives, caller bosses, caller gameplay features, and martial creation styles." We tin expect 3 large maps, which, combined, boast astir 20 sub-regions, 11 unsocial bosses, 7 Jianghu Legacies, "dozens" of broadside quests, and "so overmuch more." There's besides a caller way called Bamboocut-Dust, with 2 caller martial arts for Umbrella and Roped Dart. Umbrella's Spring Dreamscape is "all astir agility," portion Rope Dart's Fleeting Clouds is "all astir big, sweeping AOE attacks."

The watercourse showed disconnected immoderate of those aforementioned brag fights successful detail;, including Jade Gate Pass' run boss, Guo Xin, the aging wide and past expansive protector who "remains astatine his station defending the onshore to the precise end." He'll travel astatine you with "sweeping combos and summon veterans to combat alongside him," truthful you'll request to usage your deflects wisely to support against his attacks. His 2nd phase, connected the different hand, boasts "sands swirl and clip reverses" arsenic the telephone of his service "jostles him backmost to his prime," enabling him to unleash his afloat power.

We besides get a sneak peek astatine Wandering Ark, which, I'm delighted to say, is precisely what it sounds similar — a immense ship. Once a messenger, it's present obsessed with uncovering its mode location done the desert. If you bent connected aft the main presumption finishes, there's besides a bully chunk of the conflict against Hexi's Moongazing Maiden brag fight, too, wherever each the skills and weapons are related to the moon.

While the watercourse focused chiefly connected the desert, we besides paid fleeting visits to the upcoming Liangzhou and Qingchuan maps, too. The erstwhile is simply a metropolis known for its good vino and precious jade successful our archetypal snowfall upland region, and the latter, your last destination, wherever you'll rhythm done each 4 seasons connected 1 representation and find warring factions everyplace you turn.

Best of all, though, Everstone stressed that each your advancement carries implicit from play to season, including quality levels, talents, and arsenals, truthful there's "no request to commencement from scratch."

As for goodies? Here's conscionable immoderate of what you tin expect:

• 30+ Lingering Melody
• 90+ Resonating Melody (includes pulls obtained via escaped Echo Jade earned done exploration)
• 100+ Appearances and items
• Win exclusive Whirl of Radiance outfit (obtained done exploration)
• 100+ Exquisite Rewards, including Appearances similar Burlap Sack, Bride's Bloom, War Drum and more, the White-Headed General Avatar, the Radiant Horizons Nameplate, and the Who Else? And Pluck Stars Emotes

That's not all! Everstone besides revealed a slew of caller quality-of-life updates, too, which we've summarized below:

Cross-platform optimization and improved stability

• Performance and stableness optimizations:
  • Performance and representation usage person been optimized crossed each platforms. This efficaciously reduces crashes, ensuring a much unchangeable and reliable wide experience.
• Dynamic country enhancements:
  • Optimized entity question successful dynamic scenes to marque surface transitions and question processes smoother and much natural.
• Unified cross-platform experience:
  • Through broad adjustments crossed each platforms, we person improved the consistency of the gameplay acquisition connected antithetic devices.
  • Optimized notifications for Compendium, Achievements, Events, Martial Arts, and Guilds. We anticipation to guarantee timely and wide accusation transportation for each players portion minimizing distractions and repetitive alerts.

Console power upgrades and smoother interactions

• PS5 controller optimization:
  • Adjusted controller inputs for the Taiping Mausoleum and prime events to heighten intutitiveness and handling.
• Focus and cursor show optimization:
  • Optimized the logic for controller absorption show and fixed cursor issues, making UI navigation clearer and much stable.
• Polished console experience:
  • Further improved enactment details connected consoles to minimize power interference and amended wide gameplay experience.

Inventory absorption upgrades

• Recycling and sorting improvements:
  • Optimized the enactment of the recycling interface to enactment the speedy recycling of aggregate point types, improving sorting efficiency.
• Fast recycle present available:
  • Added a Fast Recycle relation to rapidly process expired, discarded, and recyclable items successful bulk.
• Item categorization and stacking optimization:
  • Introduced caller point categorization methods and accrued the stack bounds for definite Life Materials, keeping your inventory cleanable and organized.

Gameplay and societal updates

• Guild gameplay updates:
  • Added assorted Guild-related gameplay modes and challenges to enrich combat styles and play choices.
• Guild War optimization:
  • Adjusted league and bid mechanisms to trim interference, ensuring smoother combat flow.
• Social diagnostic upgrades:
  • Added aggregate chat channels and radical chat functions to facilitate enactment among players and let sharing of Jianghu stories.

Where Winds Meet's Hexi enlargement tin beryllium pre-downloaded from contiguous (February 27). "To wrapper up, Hexi is simply a cinematic unfastened satellite experience. Three chapters, tons of originative storytelling. We truly anticipation this passionateness task brings thing caller to each of you," the squad said.

The Wuxia open-world action-adventure RPG acceptable successful past China debuted connected PC and PlayStation 5 connected November 14, topping 9 cardinal players successful conscionable 2 weeks. The mobile mentation released connected December 12.

It didn't instrumentality agelong for players to find originative — and highly amusing — ways to marque usage of the game's chatbot NPCs, including taking a caller attack to solving riddles by… simply telling the game's AI-powered chatbot NPCs that they person solved the game's riddles.

Vikki Blake is simply a newsman for IGN, arsenic good arsenic a critic, columnist, and advisor with 15+ years acquisition moving with immoderate of the world's biggest gaming sites and publications. She's besides a Guardian, Spartan, Silent Hillian, Legend, and perpetually High Chaos. Find her astatine BlueSky.