Where Winds Meet Version 1.2 Update Out Later This Week, Includes 'Most Formidable Challenge Yet'

NetEase and developer Everstone Studio person outlined its January roadmap for the open-world action-RPG, Where Winds Meet, which includes caller modes, run missions, quests, puzzles, and bosses.

The developer is acceptable to propulsion retired the newly-announced Version 1.2 update connected January 9. We tin expect updates each week of the month, including the last section successful the Kaifeng run — described arsenic "the astir formidable situation yet" — and a competitory Guild Battle Pre-Season (more connected that below).

You tin besides partake successful limited-time festivities via the Jianghu Martial Games, and sojourn the Nine Mortal Ways Camp and mysterious puzzle cave, Mistveil Prison. "Hidden successful the Ghost Market beneath Kaifeng, the Nine Mortal Ways Camp Serves arsenic a gathering spot for sect members with divers personalities, afloat of intrigging encounters, concealed treasures, and bustling amusive — but beware of the scams!" the squad teases.

Version 1.2 besides ushers successful "large-scale, coordinated multiplayer combat" with the accomplishment of the Guild Battle Pre-Season. You'll beryllium capable to trial guild strategies crossed six "intense" matches, which volition beryllium allocated to chiseled Guild Regions based connected country/region to "ensure broader accessibility for guild members worldwide." Crucially, this means each Guild Region volition motorboat matches "simultaneously according to its section time."

"This pre-season is important for america to stitchery subordinate feedback and refine the halfway Guild Battle mechanics," the improvement squad explained. "We promote each guilds to rally their members, hone their tactics, and hole for the adjacent much expansive guild contented planned successful upcoming updates."

Here's the afloat roadmap of what other to expect:

IMAGE CREDIT: EVERSTONE STUDIOS.

IGN's Where Winds Meet reappraisal returned a 6/10. We said: "Where Winds Meet has a large knowing of what makes wuxia specified a compelling genre, but its effort to shove truthful galore antithetic things into 1 crippled lone ensures that nary of those elements scope their afloat potential."

The Wuxia open-world action-adventure RPG acceptable successful past China lone debuted connected PC and PlayStation 5 connected November 14, yet it had topped 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.

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