In news unlikely to surprise you, modders have already rolled back the “downgraded game experience” introduced with Wuchang: Fallen Feathers’ latest patch, 1.5, for PC players.
While the Steam rating was already ‘mixed’, players have wasted no time sharing their dismay, complaining in Steam reviews that the developers “sacrificed the original game’s vision to appeal to a loud, nationalist minority” and made “plot change[s that make] the story completely different, and even make some of the characters motivation pointless”.
These changes include revising boss fights so that you no longer kill them, but merely “exhaust” them, which some say “breaks the whole plot of the game”.
For its part, developer Leenzee didn’t note any significant changes were coming with the latest patch, only detailed some balancing and bug fixes, saying the patch “added some ‘Wuchang’ voice to complete the story, and added some NPC dialogues”.
Now, as noted by TheGamer, a mod for Wuchang: Fallen Feathers entitled “Rollback censorship patch – STEAM” seeks to undo those very changes.
“Wuchang 1.5 massively downgrades the game experience,” the mod developer wrote. “Most late game bosses, NPCs and enemies now get exhausted instead of dying and give you meaningless banter instead of story advancing dialogue from the original game. Basically patch 1.5 has ruined the game’s story and immersion.”
Uploaded on Friday, 15th August, the mod is already fast approaching 1000 downloads, with one user writing: “Thank you. Hate seeing artistic integrity being sacrificed on the altar of politics again”.
Ed thought Wuchang: Fallen Feathers’ new PC patch offered “improved performance and much-needed balance adjustments to tweak some of its infuriatingly cheap difficulty”.