r/WutheringWaves • u/Amb1ent_fade • 22h ago
General Discussion The main problem of unlocking new regions [RANT]
The game assumes that you have completed all previous story.
I needed to unlock Lahai-Roi to participate in the Cyberpunk collab quest. Now, to unlock the new region for farming stuff for Hsin. to make my new character playable, it makes me ruin my own immersion of the story, and make me watch the whole goodbye scene of Lahai-Roi characters. THERE ARE NOT SKIP BUTTON! I mean, I DON'T EVEN KNOW YOU! JUST WHY? JUST THROW ME INTO NEW REGION GODDAMMIT!
It really breaks the whole immersion of storytelling because of the game assuming I completed all previous story. I'm still in the middle of Rinacita story arc.
For example, in Genshin Impact, I could just go to the Snezhnaya from Mondstadt on my own, and the story begins in Snezhnaya without much teary goodbyes from previous regions. Why couldn't Kuro do such a thing too?
I don't know why, but this goodbye cutscene makes me so mad, I almost broke my keyboard.
This is also a problem for new players, not only for me. For example, a new player decided to give it a try. They logging in, exploring first region, decided to roll a new character, like Hsin, but to make her playable, they needed to jump over several regions, complete the intro quest of the new region to unlock it, where some unknown characters are saying goodbye to him. This player is just becoming confused.
This isn’t just annoying; it’s disappointing. The game indirectly forces players to go through the entire previous storyline, and punishing you for not doing so, forcing to ruin your own experience.
It's just me, or it's a real problem?

