New gacha hotness Wuthering Waves is suffering from some catastrophic launch issues, despite making a big splash on Twitch
Wuthering Waves just crashed into the cliff that is the gaming public, and reactions are, well, a little mixed. In case you're unfamiliar, the game's a Genshin Impact-styled gacha from developer Kuro Games, set in a post-apocalyptic world where you follow the journey of amnesiac pretty boy/girl Rover.
It's been generating quite a bit of buzz: At the time of writing, Wuthering Waves currently has a whopping 91,000 viewers on Twitch—but from a player perspective? Things aren't going so great.
Taking a jaunt over to the game's subreddit, there's a deluge of players complaining about a vast range of technical difficulties. First up, the game's performance isn't stellar. On the technical issues megathread, many would-be Rovers are reporting stuttering even on considerably powerful hardware for the game's PC version.
Bugs have also been popping up like whack-a-moles, such as unimplemented NPCs with placeholder dialogue, tails made out of stretched polygons, and this accidental PSA for sunscreen (thanks, VG247). Remember to lather up before you go outside this summer, folks, or you too might turn into a walking Zalgo.
In a separate thread, players are also pointing out two major issues with the English dub, with one being far more solvable than the other. The game's subtitles often run out of space, simply vanishing into the ether mid-exposition dump—otherwise, players are reporting that the game's voice lines are both flatly delivered or just poorly recorded: «I'm constantly hearing popping (missing pop filter?) and breaths,» writes one player, «most glaringly from Yangyang. They sound like they're trying and failing to do ASMR.»
As other players have noted, however, this seems to be more of an issue of direction. Several of the game's voice actors have had notable roles in other titles and have done just fine. Yangyang's English voice actor, Rebecca Yeo, has starred in Cyberpunk 2077 for example—whereas other characters have had roles in the dub for the Xenoblade
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