r/wuchanggame

To preface, this is my first playthrough of this game (I love it), I generally don't do ng+ so I strive to do as much as possible in my first run i.e getting all chests, completing all quests, fighting all bosses etc.

With that being said Ive done all the relevant quests needed to reach BBFT. Im currently infront the riddle gate in bo capital but after reading through some guides and forums im a little confused on some things. Some guides say you don't need to fuse the samsara rings some say you do. Some people say you don't need to go back and fight the old guy in avain forest and some say you do. I just want a definitive confirmation on the process.

Just smashed Bo Magus after 98% of Bo capital.

Mashed Demon of Obsession with the Axe.

Saw the storyteller give his speech.

Combined the two rings.

Locked out of a few NPC questlines cos I went through the tunnel before going to the ferry but....

Other than pushing on with the last boss and into new game plus am I done?

I really dont want to mostly be done. I freaking love this game. Coming as a relatively new souls player; done Ds1&2, Bloodborne, Elden ring, Khazan & lies of P the past year.

Wuchang is up there with the best of Fromsoft in my opinion, I just.... Don't want it to be over

I'm probably not the only person coming in here to tell everyone how great of a game this is. 30 hours in and already hoping for a sequel!

Absolutely F loving it. The intense and fluent combat system with top TOP viscerality just gets me every single time. Once blocking/deflection is unlocked this game becomes sooooo satisfying!

Add to this the feathering and inner demon mechanics and skyborn might system, this game oozes quality.

I feel they nailed it beautifully. Nioh wasn't really my thing, too complex with too many variations. Sekiro is great and I loved it, but it's very very "strict" as in it has to be played within very limited parameters. Wuchang lands in between these two which for me personally allows for perfect balance between freedom of builds and combat execution.

Good old DS1 level design never hurts. The scenery and visual aesthetics are beautiful. The bosses so far have been satisfying.

Loving it!

Oke, bye for now!

Probably one of my favourite games at the moment and probably my favourite soulslike (neck and neck with Bloodborne) but some of the boss fights make me want to stop at times. The worst sin a game can be is boring and the Reborn Dragon Emperor is that boss. The fight just drags as he takes little damage before teleporting around the arena. Only to steal life again.

I am struggling to get through even half of his life in the second phase though his first phase is easy enough. How do you beat him?

Edit: Done it. Thanks for the help.

Thank you all! Here is a list of all the tips I received to help others like me in the future.

Thank you all for the tips, you have been very helpful! Reading your comments made me understand that to not miss something, or someone, in one playthrough, I would have to use a guide. So I've decided that I'll use all those good tips that you've given me so far (as far as I understand they will help me to not miss/skip a bigger part of the game) and other than that I'll go in blind. Using a guide would spoil the game and obsessing over obtaining every single item in one run would take away a bit of the joy of experiencing the game for the first time.

If someone in the future is afraid that they will miss something when starting to play this game, I will here list the tips that I received in a, kind of, spoiler free way (I hope everyones ok with me copying their tips, otherwise let me know). May it help you like it will probably help me!

Remember that I have not played the game so the information may not be correct. If you have played the game and notice that something here is wrong, tell me and I'll edit the list. Here we go:

General tips

Check Shrine Portraits: Look at the fast-travel list at any shrine; if you see a character portrait next to a location name, it means an NPC has new dialogue or an active update waiting for you.

Talk to everybody. Exhaust all dialogue.

If you see an old guy in white robes, talk to him immediately. He’s one of the few NPCs who disappears when you walk too far away.

If there’s a small old dude in grey robes, talk to him, but be warned that he generally advances the story. Read his dialogue options carefully because there is a point of no return many people trigger with him. (The storyteller?)

There is some kind of a storyteller character that might advance the story when speaking to him, so be sure to have completed what you want to do before doing so.

Selling your essence flowers instead of redeeming them every time you want to level up. Selling your essence is a much quicker process than trying to break it down inside your menu. (I have no idea yet what this means)

Don’t give your chisels away.

There will be 3 doors with riddles on them, I suggest looking up the answers. The wrong (or right) answer can either teleport you (makes it harder to track your progress because you don’t know where you are) or potentially lock you out of content.

Before finishing the game, make sure you have collected all the Stone Needles as you will be getting upgraded versions of them in your next playthrough. If you have missed any Stone Needles, your NG+ playthrough will only give the base forms of the ones you have missed and you will need to do another NG+ to get their enhanced versions.

Act 1 (Worships)

After defeating the Act 1 boss you get the chance to talk to the storyteller character. Don't decide to "continue forward" if you have stuff left to do or places to explore in Act 1. Maybe a cave that you haven't explored beside the storyteller?

Act 2 (Cloudspire)

After the first shrine found in act 2 you may find a cave. Do not enter this cave because it leads you directly to Act 3 (Zhenwu) and will break questlines. If you are stupid (like me), forget this, and go through the cave anyway, use the first shrine you see at the other side of the cave to go back to Cloudspire. This will not destroy your playthrough and your questlines will be safe. Proceed further than the first shrine and you may have messed up. I dont know, I haven't played the game.

During this act you will get to a palace. This palace will have a basement with an elevator (rose petals leads the way to the basement). Do not go down the basement before exploring the rest of the palace first. If you go to the basement first it will block some dialogue for a questline.

Act 3 (Zhenwu)

Do not talk to the storyteller (if you see this character in the end of the act) before making sure that you've finished exploring and have completed the quests.

Thank you once again for all the tips!

Just download and open in any browser - that's what I did in my mobile when I was playing the game.

I'm attaching this chronological checklist for Wuchang. Because there's so much stuff you can easily miss or break in Wuchang and most guides I saw online were area based, and not based on a player's natural progression.

In case anyone finds it useful.

I’ve been using this weapon since the start and I feel like nothing has come even close in damage compared to it. Buffed with tempering and with its three stat scalings I feel like it has to be at least a top 3 weapon. What are your guys opinions? Is anything better?

This is a video of me beating the final boss of the game on my first try! I didn't look up anything about this game, total blind playthrough, I was so proud when I beat this boss on my first try.

If I'm being completely honest he is definitely not the hardest boss in this game.

Hello everyone,

at this point, I'm honestly at my wit's end with this game's performance.

When I started playing, the performance was decent enough and aside from the occasional saving and shader compilation stutter when entering a new area, the game ran relatively smooth. Definitely didn't feel as smooth as other games, but it was ok.

Over time, performance has gotten worse and worse and now that I've reached the snowy area of the game, the game is almost unplayable.

I still typically get FPS around 75-90, but everything feels choppy, hitching like crazy, it's an awful experience. 1% Lows are pretty noticable, but even when they are high enough, the game stutters like crazy.

I noticed some errors with my LED in the Windows history and uninstalled MSI Center and SDK because of that, but the performance is still ass.

HAGS, ReBAR, Game Mode and all that shit is turned on.

Ingame V-Sync is disabled, ingame FPS cap set to 90, Reflex on.

In Nvidia App, G-Sync is set to fullscreen only (that Windows option for borderless windowed is turned on), global cap of 141 and V-Sync activated. Playing at 1080p.

I'm playing on medium settings with TSR at 58 on a 3060Ti, Ryzen 5 5600X and 32GB RAM (4x8GB, XMP1 is activated, 3000 mHz), Samsung SATA (I think 870 sth).

I went back and forth with different FPS caps, V-Sync turned off and on, lower settings, higher settings, DLSS Balanced, Quality. The game remains choppy.

I also noticed some audio crackling when talking to some NPCs.

VRAM usage typically shows something between 5.4 and 5.4 GB of 7.8, so there should be enough left. GPU usage is typically around 80 or higher I believe.

I understand that my rig isn't the strongest, but it certainly isn't the weakest either?

What's weird is that when I played Stellar Blade before, I also noticed some nasty 1% lows, but the overall game felt much, much smoother than this one.

Is this just a typical UE5 issue? Is my SATA causing this?

Seriously, I want to keep playing, but this ruins the experience for me.

TL,DR: Game performance deteriorates, game feels choppy despite relatively solid average FPS and enough VRAM.

Edit: I tried to monitor my performance with Afterburner & RTSS this time (used Steam overlay before) and now that I'm in the snowy rebel camp, the performance seems much better again.

What I did notice though is that the frametime graph is surprisingly stable, but at some points starts to jitter like crazy for a while, without any noticable stuff going on ingame. I also noticed some frametime spikes when facing certain enemies, but the most noticable thing really is that short amount of jitter that seems to cause the weird choppiness. Which makes me believe it's either the lack of optimization or there's something going on in the background that causes this.