BLACK SHORES UPDATE Is BIGGER Than You Think In Wuthering Waves

The Black Shores update for Version 1.3 is BIGGER than you think for Wuthering Waves.

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Wuthering Waves CBT1 Special Preview:

WuWa Dev Talk Ep. 2 - Combat:

WuWa Dev Talk Ep. 3 - Art Design:

WuWa CBT1 Concept Trailer:

WuWa TGS Exhibition 2022:

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Timestamps:
00:00 Black Shores
00:27 Wuthering Waves Timeline
01:14 CBT1 Features
02:17 Elemental Reactions
03:52 Narwhal Weekly Boss

[SidneymarZA]

To clarify on the difference between Genshin and WuWa elemental reactions.

In Genshin, you apply the elemental aura to the enemy with your attacks and they have internal cooldowns, etc. And for some reactions the order in which you react the elements would affect it as well.

In WuWa, your reaction took place when switching (resonating between) characters. It never applied an aura. So whatever effect the reaction has is applied to the battle, rather than an aura from attacks. I don’t think they will go the route of applying auras to enemies like Genshin does if they were to bring reactions back, but they might reintroduce specific buffs for resonating between two different elements. Which means you cannot continuously react because enemies like the Glacio Prism won’t have an aura that you react with using elemental attacks.

[vigor]

Elemental reactions only limit team compositions. Sure you could ignore them, but people intrinsically don’t enjoy knowing they’re playing suboptimally.

[kport]

I see a lot of people complaining that elemental reactions will make the game similar to Genshin. This kinda feels off, because these aren't "reactions", they are more like synergies, a different type of stat change rather than full on mechanic. I don't see this as copying genshin. That being said if they do include elemental synergies, balancing characters would become more of a nightmare.

[MKIS_]

hopefully this never happens. the freedom to pair any characters together without worrying about reaction stuff losing out on debuffs is way more fun. the intro outro skills are enough and they should focus on that to make it even better.

[pramanakumalaputra]

Cap, they already said that Intro/Outro is the replacement for Elemental Reaction.

[annemarieangue]

I dont want the elemental reactions back
I want Wuwa to be himself not some kind of Genshin at home.

[ArsevensX]

Nah, nah, nahhh I like single elemental team. I don't like being forced to combine certain character with other certain character because the elemental reaction is the current meta. It is on surface giving "lots of variety" but in practice, it is just alienating certain elements.

[lekoknightgaming]

Tbh we don’t really need elemental reactions. Just being able to enjoy the buffs and combat mechanics are better than adding elemental reactions and now being similar to Genshin all over again

[liyan]

It kind of just looks like "elemental reactions" are an alternative way to buff characters if you don't want to use certain characters for their specific outro buff (Sanhua) or when they don't have one at all (Jiyan).

[PY]

Man I don't want elemental reactions like the combat in the game already have enough depth to it and that's not the best way to make it better.

Besides, this will NOT give us more possible and different teams, if anything it's gonna limit our options even more cause everyone will rock the team with the strongest reactions anyway


How I can see this work however is that instead of the reactions making the team do significantly more damage, it just cause more effects in the battle- how do I explain this

—Like Aero reactions will pull enemies like in the description so you would only want to use it when you're fighting many small mobs like this reaction becomes your mini Jiyan ult
—But then when you're fighting enemies that can't fucking stop moving like Aix and Inferno you wanna take the opportunity to use Ice reactions if you can to stop them and so on
—And some reactions could just fill your forte and outro fatser like the ones in the video

Something cool is if they make the reactions do-able through echos as well

But if you don't want those extra effects just stick to the classic way no need for reactions

That's some real team diversity depending on the enemy, but if it's just oh higher damage anyone will use it regardless which will cause nothing but more restrictions on the team

[Zorahime]

Nonono not elemental reaction bs again😭😭😭😭

[charlescarnegie]

i hope they never add the reaction system back. i like the element resistance better

[재현]

Ew no. What players don't understand is that Elements in Wuthering waves are just photon manipulations, that's why it doesn't react or doesn't burn plants. This is why you shouldn't skip dialogue, this make someone looking like stvpid.

[mister_misfortune]

Uh oh…

I really dislike the whole “elemental reaction” system in a action game, since that’s more of a Turn-Based System more or less. Not to mention it’s basically just a big elemental team check, so if you don’t have the “correct” elements for certain fights, then you’re screwed essentially and get rids of the entire accessibility of using a bunch of characters without needing to worry about an enemy/boss being completely immune or having your attacks doing little damage because you don’t have a certain elemental in your party.

From what I’m seeing in this video, it looks like it is merely buffs (potentially small buffs) for having certain elementals in your team. That’s it, unless if I’m mistaken. Seems like a decent compromise to me.

Mind you, this is only IF they do add it similarly from the previous CBT 1. I generally hope they don’t. I like the system here already and I don’t want to be forced to pick characters.

[Jugement]

Don't want elemental reaction. It restricts gameplay by forcing a specific team flow. For instance, with the one displayed, it would mean that my support would've to outro to my main DPS every time for the resistance shred or face a DPS loss

[ShiroYuu_]

as cbt 1 player, just hopping dev not add element reaction again

[Adsik-Slake]

I remembered when I covered the missing elemental reaction system. Hopefully they do add it back.

[johnk]

Instead of elemental reactions in combat, resonance with the same element in a team building like genshin looks more subtle and suits wuwa. Elemental reaction is very restrictive in wuwa because it has 3 party system rather than 4 party system like genshin.

Maybe something like 2 same element in a one team get increased concerto energy regen, and 3 same element in a team grants special utility gets added to their intro that is unique to them?

[CalcharoSupremacy]

no, players didnt like the elemental reactions in cbt. i doubt they will add it.

[jtg]

Elemental Reactions sound cool, but then you get the Genshin problem of forced teams, limiting the scope of the game. Wuwa benefits more by not having that system, so you can play more openly with what characters you have.