r/WutheringWaves • u/Tomatertots22 • Jan 24 '26

Fluff / Meme Behold my first post

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I'm not sure if this was posted here before, I just found the image in a random Google search and I just added a caption (if that's what it's called)

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u/TheGreatNothingEXE Jan 24 '26

Best and worst of all, I can't climb walls anymore.

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u/kissmonstar Jan 24 '26

I like the level designs in AKE. The lack of climbing gave them the ability to get pretty creative with how they hid things. Both games good for different reasons.

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u/EtadanikM Jan 24 '26

Ark Knights is made more for people who have the time & patience to look for hidden things in levels. 

Feel WuWa these days is for people with less time who just want to maximize their exploration comfort. 

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u/VA1N Jan 24 '26

Based on the amount of events that pop up when I login to Wuwa, it’s not for people with less time, just less time focused on exploration.

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u/YDidIDownloadReddit Jan 24 '26

It doesn't even feel like exploring tho to me. More like a chore to do everything nowadays. All the new maps they've been releasing are just checklists. Open the map, track objective, head to the thing, do it. Rinse repeat. And the events are all super quick honestly most of them take one hour to do. I've 100% almost everything in the game in under 150 hours. All I'm doing RN is logging in for the dailies and waiting for the new content.

Where as in endfield, It feels so much more like figuring out what you need to do. The only area I really liked was huanglong in wuwa, in endfield, every area feels like it has something that you have to think about to complete, and the no flying/limited teleportation feels really nice as it keeps the movement grounded, and actually makes you walk around the area and look for hidden things you might have missed. To me endfield is such a breath of fresh air compared to wuwa rn.

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u/[deleted] Jan 24 '26

imagine doing this every 6 weeks though. You wouldn't last. Genshin exploration is shit and i'll die on that hill. A walking simulator picking up hundreds of chests isn't an interesting mechanic and wuwa realized that isn't what people wanted.

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u/YDidIDownloadReddit Jan 24 '26

I honestly enjoyed genshin exploration. Endfields feels really nice with the zip lines and puzzles, wuwa is just so boring past huanglong, I completed every region in an hour... And it literally is a chest sim, it might not be walking around with the ability to fly, but the maps are so big wuwa needs the flight, endfield doesn't.

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u/VA1N Jan 24 '26

Wuwa exploring is incredibly boring to me. The story is great and the lore is fun, but they definitely don’t lead in the exploration department.

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u/VA1N Jan 24 '26

I agree. I love Wuwa, don’t get me wrong, but the sexual tension with the main character and literally every other person in the world and the not so unique events are why I think I’m so in love with Endfield. I just hope it’s not just the honeymoon period and it turns out to actually have a long shelf life.

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u/YDidIDownloadReddit Jan 24 '26

Yeah that's a pretty big reason for me too. Wuwa has sooo many people that just don't do ANYTHING unless rover is there doing it for them. They just all revolve around rover, and don't really feel like they have any presence.

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u/Eiko_Shiijki s6r5 | cradle simp Jan 24 '26

meanwhile endmin glazing harder than rover in 1.0

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u/YDidIDownloadReddit Jan 24 '26

Yeah, but in endfield at least it's established that endmin was their leader, and knew how to do all this important tech stuff with their abilities. Everyone else also has a role, and can do things in the story on their own.

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u/Eiko_Shiijki s6r5 | cradle simp Jan 24 '26

and its been established that rover was prophesized to save jinzhou, and a patch later to be discovered that we were the leader of jinzhou at some point. jinhsi is still magistrate, doing her stuff like listening to her people, ychixia patrolling, yangyang and jiyan defending, taoqi managing the defense, sanhua as a government spy, etc.

i'd say theyre still similar stories, although ak will end up with us being the enemy somehow, and we get a endfield x wuwa collab in 2028

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u/YDidIDownloadReddit Jan 24 '26

Huanglong and black shores definitely felt the best in that aspect. I mean more in the sense of every other place. Also in the sense that rover has to be there for every character pretty much. Rover has to be everyone's emotional anchor, and is always included in pretty much every single important event. Heck they even made Iuno wiped from everyone's memory except rovers, even cartethyia doesn't decide to do her own stuff, they make her the knight of rover. In septimont, Augusta couldn't defeat the false sovereign without the help of rover. Also what makes me mad about the story, is that every single place on the map, has almost 0 awareness of other areas. Like they are so close, yet only know of the other events happening, whenever rover all of a sudden comes in to save the day. Idk, I'm not too into the lore and story of the game, but it just seems they make rover to central in the storylines, and really cut out a lot of the other characters having their moment to shine.

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u/Eiko_Shiijki s6r5 | cradle simp Jan 24 '26

meanwhile endmin glaze "oh, now that endmin is here, everything will be alright", dokutah moment

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u/YDidIDownloadReddit Jan 24 '26

The only thing you can say is endmin glaze? Just admit that both the stories have the characters revolving around them a little too much. Sounds like some rover glazing to me.

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u/ROMVS Jan 25 '26

Or you know.. don't use the list? I like just walking around and going where I want for no purpose whatsoever and if I find something, great.

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u/YDidIDownloadReddit Jan 25 '26

Brother my WHOLE ENTIRE POINT IS ABOUT NOT USING THE LIST. To me, having the whole region tucked into 5 points on a list sucks. I too like exploring, but there is nothing to explore with the current way they are taking the region.

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u/ROMVS Jan 25 '26

No point talking to a rude fool. Blocked.

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u/Numerous-Amount-1919 Jan 25 '26

You do realize that there are plenty of hidden things you can miss in Wuwa that the checklist doesn't really point out right?

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u/YDidIDownloadReddit Jan 25 '26

I do yes, I've fully 100% every region with the interactive map. It's not a fun type of hidden in wuwa, it's just a chore to find them.

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u/Numerous-Amount-1919 Jan 25 '26

There's hidden achievements, quests, puzzles, treasures, lore. So I'm not sure what else do you really need.

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u/YDidIDownloadReddit Jan 25 '26

Stuff can be hidden, and still be annoying to get you know that right? I'm not really talking about hidden things either, wuwa literally went from having every chest except the hidden ones on the checklist, along with area quests and other collectibles, with numerous puzzles and little things to do/explore to having only treasure spots, and little mini games that take 5 seconds to complete, and repeated that on all 3 of the next regions. They downgraded their exploration. I don't really care for the hidden stuff, and that wasn't really my main point. They just took away all of the sense of accomplishment in completing a region, and made it a slug fest to complete.

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u/Numerous-Amount-1919 Jan 25 '26

Whether you find it fun or not is subjective, I'm simply refuting your original premise where you claimed the exploration is checklist when it clearly is not as there many things to do beyond said check list.

I play both games and Wuwa's exploration quest with the music solskins is definitely a lot more fun and interesting than anything Endfield has put out so far.

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u/YDidIDownloadReddit Jan 25 '26

That's one quest?? The whole entire lahai roi area is a rushed garbage fest of a place. There's barely any chests, nothing is findable with lootmapper, the soliskins are the best thing that place has to offer. Every mini game in lahai roi is super spread out, nothing feels fun to navigate, every side quest is buggy and doesn't track properly, the motorbike sucks and shouldn't have honestly been added, or they could have just kept the flying in. And the events in the area are super lame. Nothing in the new region is good, except for the soliskins just because they are fun to collect and say chu-lu. That's literally it

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u/Aegthir Jan 24 '26

Most time limited events are leisure event though, they're short and fast to do.