In Where Winds Meet there are a lot of menus, currencies, and rewards that players can collect along the way. For one player, a pop-up became a curse, and that happened right at the end of a boss fight.
This is what the difficulty level is about: Where Winds Meet is a new action RPG with MMORPG elements, where you can freely choose the difficulty level. The currently hardest mode is “Legend,” which can only be set at the start. Although you can usually change the difficulty outside of battles, this is not the case here. And once you lower it because an enemy hits too hard, you cannot return to “Legend.”
A player fought a boss on “Legend” and was almost winning the fight. The strong enemy had only a few hit points left, just like the player character. However, the game had other plans and lured with a reward in a pop-up window right in the middle of the fight.
What was that pop-up? A player shows in a clip on Reddit how he fights against the boss “The Void King” in Where Winds Meet. The boss is almost defeated, but the player character is also taking a lot of damage. After about 15 seconds, a large reward window suddenly opens across the entire screen. Although the player closes it, the boss continues to attack him, as the game does not pause in the meantime. There is no time to react, and the character meets their demise.
The player commented on his clip: “Pay to Win???!?! More like Pay-to-Lose with this damn Battle Pass.” Whether Where Winds Meet actually has Pay-to-Win elements is still unclear. Many shop contents are cosmetic, but individual items could otherwise be farmed in the game.
In this case, the feature definitely did not help in winning, on the contrary.
“That would have made me rage-quit”
This is what the community says about it: The menus and the UI are already criticized by many. In the comments, several players complain about the annoying notifications. User Legitimate_Log_1356 is reminded of annoying YouTube advertisements. And others write that they would have closed the game immediately after such an action.
In another Reddit post, Kain-rpg writes about the menus: “My only real problem is the ungodly amount of time you spend in menus just to ‘collect rewards.’ Just give them to me automatically, damn it! […] I want to experience Wuxia adventures, not spend 40% of my playtime hanging around in menus.” You can learn more about the Wuxia genre here on MeinMMO.
And CloudNimbus agrees: “I’ve been playing for 4 days and still don’t know where to find x, y, or z in the menus. I just click on random things and hope for the best.”
Where Winds Meet offers not only tough boss fights but also an incredible number of features, systems, mechanics, and even genre mixtures. If you are new to this open-world RPG and feel overwhelmed by the scope, we have helpful tips that we wish we had known a few weeks ago: Where Winds Meet: 15 tips that will significantly ease your entry
