Wuthering Waves, while a fun game to play, continue on their path of anti-consuner practices. In the latest Cyberpunk update, they made it so that players have to buy an entirely new type of currency in order to get the limited time characters and weapons. This disheartens people who have been saving pulls for what looked like a good event, and takes advantage of players fomo in the hopes of squeezing some extra cash out of them. Not worth it.

Phrolova ♡

yah it's good. fun game, open world is fun and not tiring, visuals and combat is very good. 9/10 maybe even 9.5/10. i recommend and highly rate playing this game. can be played for free too and you will still have a very good experience and wont miss out on much, choosing to pay for stuff is worth it but theres absolutely no need to if you dont want. i chose to pay for some stuff, just outfits and the battle pass thing, but you do not need these to enjoy the game at all. very very good game.

I got a ♥♥♥♥ ton of time on my phone, too, so I got a lot of hours in this game. Please, for your sake, do not play this game. It's not worth your time, just play something else for God's sake. I'm already in deep and always come back, but please don't start this. Even if you like it at first, like me, you'll eventually get sick of it and play with straight hate in your heart.

Story is complete ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ and you're forced to sit through it just to upgrade new characters. Thankfully there's a skip button, so it's not too bad, but the story is just so bad. All quests are just some ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ fetch quests. Every time I'm forced to play story, I spam tf out of that skip button. When I'm forced to watch a cutscene or do some slow walking or investigation ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥, I do it with pure hate in my heart. Maybe I'd actually follow along to the story and pay attention if I wasn't being forced to play it just so I can get the resources to make the new character I got ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ playable.

Endgame is just a DPS check in the tower and whatever the ♥♥♥♥ the other thing is called where the enemies have a billion HP and you can't really max out rewards at a moderate difficulty without specific characters and their signature weapons. I'm max level and have a ♥♥♥♥ ton of high level characters and can't for the life of me get 3 stars in the middle tower ever. Only time I did it was when Zani came out and I got both her and her weapon and dedicated team. She was lowkey OP at the time so it was actually doable. Haven't been able to do it since because of HP inflation. The tower is the worst offender of this, the other one isn't too bad yet, but still pretty bad.

Optimization is ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ in the cities after 2.0. Looks like it's CPU bound, so if you got a weaker PC than me, expect under 60 fps in cities. Events are also terrible, like why tf am I playing cards or ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ slots or whatever the hell in an event where the main gameplay loop is the combat. ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ annoying because the pulls are always locked behind those events. They also take way too long for the rewards you get. Just let me play the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ game. Dedicated character weapons are also basically mandatory, otherwise the character lowkey sucks and loses out like 20% of their damage. The 4 star weapons suck and the ones you get for free also suck, so ♥♥♥♥ all the people saying it's generous. Community also ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ sucks because they praise these ♥♥♥♥♥♥ like it's the second coming of Christ himself. Just because it's better and more player friendly than Genshit, doesn't mean this doesn't have it's own issues.

Only good things about the game are the graphics, character designs, combat, and exploration. I hope to god this review saves someone's time. Play a real game instead of this ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ or any other gacha out there for that matter.

David Martinez is dead

I genuinely enjoy Wuthering Waves. The combat, exploration, and overall experience on Linux via Proton was on par with Windows for me: smooth performance, no meaningful differences in gameplay. It worked, and it worked well.

That changed with the 3.4 update.

ACE (AntiCheat Expert) now actively blocks Linux environments, including desktop distros that previously ran the game without issues. Environment variables like STEAMDECK=1 or STEAMOS=1, which served as a workaround, no longer have any effect. The anticheat kicks the player out seconds after loading into the game.

To be clear, this is not a Proton regression or a hardware issue. The game ran flawlessly before this update on the same system. The block is a deliberate policy decision on ACE's side, and Kuro Games has the ability to whitelist Linux/SteamOS in the anticheat configuration.

Kuro has acknowledged Steam Deck compatibility as something they're working on, which is appreciated. But desktop Linux users who played without issues for months are now locked out with no timeline or communication.

Changing to positive the moment Linux support is restored. The game itself deserves it.

Edit: DWProton 11.0-3 (via ProtonPlus) works as a workaround.
Still a regression from pre-3.4 behavior.

The collab with Edgerunners brought me to the game and the storyline with Shorekeeper hooked me.

WuWa is a good game but new Cyberpunk collab is amazing

best gacha OAT
incredible storyline, goated resonators
cried to Aemeath's questline

What do you mean it has a separate currency for collabs? This is a ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ predatory behavior.