i have one more CBT2 access to give out on stream if you want a chance to get in twitch.tv/braxophone edit: apparently you fight scar either way so it is the illusion of choice 🥲

He figured out Kuro's back fetish in just a few hours of gameplay lmao

One small thing, when picking up items, you can hold "f" and they'll all automatically be added to the inventory, rather than having to press it multiple times.

"Kuro may have a bit of a back fetish or something" I mean, they do know that we'd be staring at any of the characters backs for a large majority of the time so of course they had to give a little eye candy for the players. Besides, this ain't their first rodeo with back designs.

He may not be pregnant, but he always delivers!

I like the idea of the echoes. Very unique aspect to the game.

It's crazy how much effort Braxaphone puts inside of us

PGR global player here. They have given us 2 or 3(?) S-rank selectors (5 star equivalents) over 3 years. Can’t really compare that to 3 wishes after 3 years 😂

Honestly after clearing Genshin for 100% everywhere I don't see exploration as a content anymore it's just a task that you need to do. Atleast in WW your movement is way faster and cooler, combat is complex and you can hunt pokemons, so I won't get bored while exploring

I'm so happy Wuthering Waves is getting so much attention cuz that means hopefully we'll get more people looking into PGR and joining the team 💖💖💖

Kuro is so cultured we wake up in the game with a glorious mountain in front of us

I don’t want it to be a genshin competitor, I just want it to be interesting and have endgame. Love your HSR guides dude

I just hope the game at least does well enough to be around long term. Just so we have an actual competitor to Genshin in some degree

I don't try to be mean to some people but I somehow found myself laughing when you mentioned that "If your first games were Fortnite and Genshin, the colors would not be as appealing." Because NGL, I feel a lot of people are falling into this "category" nowadays 😂

Thank you for this video man!! You're my favourite source for learning about games because your explanations are so clear and easy to understand🙏 stay cool!

Love the complex combat system but just like brax said, i hope they add more npcs and things to do in exploration since a large part of the audience likes exploring, not saying that the open world isn't good but it feels kind of empty as of now I hope the devs work out this. Great vid as always brax

14:28 the plot thickens 😂 the disco turtle piqued my interest...

what i also loved about PGR when you get 5 star unit, you can farm their chips to awaken them afterwards with weekly challenge/s really made game far more free to play friendly looks like they doing the same, there's probably way to farm that corro like item in the future

did not get into cbt2 sadly but im excited to see more WuWa content from u brax

finally a good CC video, your videos make my day, super funny and knowledgeable at the same time♥

As long as it's not like tower of fantasy, for me this game can be said to be quite good

I love games that are different enough but similar to other games I loved to play. Keep it up! This looks refreshing, since I only typically play these games for about a year before I jump into another game for something fresh and new. 😊

Really excited with the showcase of endgame/lategame content. Hoping that WuWa have some endgame content from PGR. Babel Tower (fighting bosses with some condition and you can select options on how difficult it is), Warzone (endless enemies but time limited, competition about how many enemies you defeated under the time limit), and Pain Cage (5 stage boss fight, as the stage progresses, the boss have more skillset and become more aggressive, still competitive since there's a score system on how fast you can defeat the boss).

If i remember, back in CBT 1 alot of player were complaining about the game having too many exploration and they want Kuro to tone it down and focus more on combat, maybe this the reason why the exploration feels empty

The spellbreak call out was hype.... I miss it a lot

Ironic how genshin players’ desperate desire for a genshin substitute is actually the killer of all genshin killers.

king is back with another video LETS GAURRRRRR

Excited, thanks!

For the farming aspect, it's true that it would be a little taxing to fight difficult bosses to farm everytime but at least they mentioned that the more you challenge them, the easier it is to get better rewards which is a great start to the repetition system of a gacha game. Unlike Genshin though, this will mean that you could stop farming Bosses/Domains/Dungeons/ other stuff, faster than in Genshin sisnce you will have higher and higher chances to get what you want, IDK if that will affect the late game aspect of WW or not but it's something to consider I guess.

i love it when mr brax fills me up with his juicy content

so essentially the issue with there being less interest in exploration from lack of rewards is still there. This was a complaint that came back in cbt1 too. But im glad there had been lots of improvements, hopefully they'll dial up the puzzles and chests more. Also i believe soft pity was stated to be 65, not explicitly but a lot of ppl claims it to be, CMIIW too tho but does genshin state the soft pity being 75? cuz i really dont think they do

I agree with you on both pro and cons hopefully they can take this great feedback to maybe see a better outcome

I cant wait to play this game!!! Ive been keeping an eye on it looking forward to release!

Braxophone really said it's Wuthering Waving time.

crazy that everyone thinks "50/50 and 80 pity, but guarantee on weapon at same pity" is generous. true, it's not bad at all. but weapon is usually what f2p skip. so putting the 50/50 on characters is not that generous. PGR has guaranteed character at 60 pity and 30 pity on weapon with 80/20 chance (however, they are permanent!). Not saying WuWa should have the same gacha system, but if they want to be actually generous while still keeping the 50/50, then at least lower the weapon pity...

What I like about QTE in PGR is that, our DPS can stay on field 100% of the time doing damage ans still receive buff from the other team mate using QTE. I really hope it stay like that in WuWa too.

THE FUCKING PARTY TURTLE! I'M SOLD!

In pgr over the years they made farming so so so much easier, so I hope they will do that in ww also

*Genshin Impact* was _(and is)_ "big" because of it's sheer quality - and not because everyone was at home during Covid. See the drop in *Palworld* users? Genshin also went through that on it's first month, but player retention over the years was more than enough to keep it more than relevant in the scene. Most good content creators only joined the game on it's 2nd year, after the Inazuma release - by which point most other gachas are already dying (and the most toxic Genshin players and CCs had already quit). *Wuthering Waves* really needs to succeed in this space for the benefit of everyone, but it's gonna be hard with such small-headed character models.

Im so excited for this ☺️ I love their combat

Hi, can i ask your input about the difference between Wuthering Wave(WW) and Tower of Fantasy(ToF)? I get the same vibe from it, so i get pessimistic about the WW because i dropped ToF in the first 3 months. Does the gameplay and the story get "nauseating", for lack better words?

That’s some really nice plot. Ahhhh yes, PERSONALITY.

This was a refreshing first impress of a game that has me hyped as a sweaty gamer 😁 It’s interesting to hear that Genshin is just doing something better but idk what that is. I’ve enjoyed the feel of the game as a spectator but I hope there more to do when global drops.

Thanks for this.

It just makes sense to give easier access to weapons and even characters, when the difficulty of the game is higher and there is a higher necessity to have them. If peoples progression is paywalled because they cant beat something with their f2p stuff or having to put in hundreds of hours they just leave. Hoyoverse games for example have a similar logic behind them. Difficulty wise Honkai Impact is the hardest in terms of end game, hence why you get a lot of characters for free and easy access to weapons. Star Rail is moderately difficult and mildly generous. And then there is Genshin. Although tbh, as long as you have 2 hands you can clear anything in there, so characters and weapons are at the end of the day just cosmetics

From what I see I agree the ,ap feels a bit barren. Furthermore I dislike how jumping seems to completely halt your momentum. Idk how the 50/50 is, but I would kinda wish for there to not be a pool of "standard characters" but if you lose the 50/50 you just get any random 5 star. Also idk if it's the case in WuWa, but I would like to have a 3rd tier of characters (3*, 4* and 5* basically)

Sad I didn’t get in but I also enjoy playing these once released and not replaying quests I did in betas. Here’s hoping for a near release!

Another thing that makes this game pretty interesting for me is the special interaction with enemy/bosses. I saw that you can use a pokemon to perform special counter against crownless, or you can knock the inferno rider off his bike so he will fight with another move set, ...

Please give Kuro all that juicy feedback Brax. I'm sure they'll need plenty before launch so they can further refine the experience.

we want more

Waited for this

I can't wait to play this.

I can’t wait to play Wuthering Waves it looks fun! As a gamer I play a variety of games, Baldurs Gate 3, God of War, Horizon, Genshin, HSR, Zelda games, Helldiver 2, Stardew Valley, ACNH, and the list goes on and on. I think what a lot of people are forgetting is that new fun games come out all the time. Just because something is similar to another game, does not mean the two can’t coexist in the same gaming sphere. I will continue to play Genshin and start Wuthering Waves when it comes out. Games are hobbies and meant to enjoy so be glad there’s more fun ones out there to play. And stop using the phrase “killer of (whatever game)”. Because it’s really unnecessary, competition is always good for games, and often people play more than one game anyway.

About empty world, not many know, but before launch Genshin didn't have respawn system for monsters in open world. So when testers killed all mobs on the map the world became empty and you could only fight mobs in domains for resin. So hopefully WuWa's amount of enemies is just for beta to not overload the system and on release we will see much richer world.

What are the quick time events in this game? I may misunderstand things, can you give an example?

does the gear have lots of dead stats that will make you to spend a lot of time farming to build a character?

bro I never knew this game was so freaking cool. Now I'm sad i didn't get in to the CBT. The game must release end of the year or early 2025!

The Echo Ability in the Gearing System is unique for this type of game but they should've done it as to where the Transforming into a boss Ability should instead be Summoning the boss along side the character for a short period of time to aid them in battle Edit: I've been seeing a lot of replies about a Combo mechanic in WW. I'll still stick with the proposition mentioned above with a little addition. [New: Summoning the boss for a short period of to perform a combo technique(different for every boss) with the active character.]

Regarding your concern about echo farming, I believe there are tacet fields which are basically domains where you can use stamina to obtain enhancement/leveling materials as well as echos. I dont know if boss echos also drop there or how random the echo drops there though so perhaps someone can further elaborate on it. Still, you can do the grindy way of farming which is going around the map which also doubles as an incentive to explore the map and to do once yo're done with daillies.

Glad you enjoy the game ❤☺

what I care is the combat, exploration, npc I like the npc to be lively like they actually people not like making the same movement every single day like clapping hands for the entire day and then they just disappear they faded away like they got thrown to the backrooms

i have to say, i 100% rather have a smaller map with more details and stuff to do per area, then having a giant map with things way to spread out, like it was with genshins dessert, this is why i loved breath of the wild, it is a small map, but it doesnt feel like it, because there is so much to do everywhere.

It is just cbt2 and already looks amazing. Can’t wait to play the final product

Bosses are not hard. They might be hard when they are at much higher lvl than characters (like 50 vs 80-120 lvl), especially when it is many high level enemies vs low level character (hard to dodge against the crowd). Lvl 50 characters against lvl 45 boss - easy, against lvl 80 "local legend" - doable only if dodging constantly and making huge damage with counterattack.

That effort required for farming segment is literally why - as someone that's been playing Genshin impact daily since day 1 - I used about 230 resin last week, and do that frequently. I just find it incredibly hard to farm in Genshin if i'm not in the mood for it now after experiencing how easy it is to do in HSR. This is what i thought would be a problem when I remember ol' Tenten singing WuWa's praises for more intricate combat than Genshin, like you can tell Hoyo intentionally made Genshin's combat a lot simpler and have over time been making artifact domains easier and easier with less and less Time To Beat over the years. I think Fontaine domains take around 30-60 seconds for me now, but I still can't push myself to go farm them unless there's a brand new toy for me to build, because the amount of button pressing, running around, etc etc is infinitely higher than the lazyness I can have with HSR. Plus when there's not a new character out or new story, I want to be on these games as little as possible so I can get back to a "Real game" like Monster Hunter etc. That said, I'd probably be willing to try this game if it comes out on console (console player personally). And I'm sure this game won't have the same motivation killing issues Tower of Fantasy had pushing way too much content on the EN playerbase way too fast in an effort to catch up to the CN version.

I really doubt its gonna be as successful as genshin. Two reasons. One, genshin had the perfect storm of conditions when it launched. It was easy to play and easy to pick up and it was launched during COVID. And two, WW seems to have a more complex controls and mechanics like PGR which considering how well thats doing is not a good sign if they wanna reel in the casual players. Add the fact that the bosses/daily grind feel like way too much effort and its not looking good for the long term. Here's to hoping they can optimise this before launch so that they don't end up like ToF.

I heard great things about this game. I will be looking forward to play this game out of curiousity and seeing the potential on how great this game can be.

Anyone knows the locations of those unmarked lv60+ bosses in overworld???

Watched the CBT 2 for hours and man it's already a huge improvement not just from the CBT 1 but also from the competition. The facial expressions are far, far better more expressive. The NPC designs are miles better as well. The camera movements are better during cutscenes and dialogues. They have more assets and textures not just a pasted image on a 3d model. The echo system incentives exploration and doesn't render explored areas stale. The writing and pacing is better, no more stupid reiteration from a third party (talking about paimon). It's a huge sigh of relief to know that the writing and story improved. The weapon gacha is 100% guaranteed as well. Share ssytem in character banners. Also, the dialogue replies actually has different responses! Like holy damn, Genshin, a billion dollar game, still doesn't implement different replies with different outcomes. They literally put 2 options just to fit a single dialogue sentence. How lazy is that specially for Hoyo who earns billions compared to Kuro which often earns less than a million in global. The overwoeld interaction are also fun, hilarious even. Just like in Star Rail. 😂 These are just to name a few. What I see that can be improved are the crowd density. More aggressive enemies overworld. More overworld events from NPCs. Just more interesting occurences on the world. There are elite bosses but I feel like we need more than that. Maybe NPCs walking in a route and not just standing. Keep the WW content coming brax! Maybe even from a different channel. Would love to support to you!

honestly, one thing i deslike about genshin being a veteran player is that the combat is not too complex and you can kill everything in seconds; years like that tends to get very boring. so, i’m happy that WW have a more complex play style. i love to fight mobs so having complex dynamics for me equals more fun.

Every new game is inherently going to be exciting because its new and you're trying to learn this new world, characters and story. What im curious/worried about is the endgame. What do you do after youve collected all the monsters, built your characters, got all the character you wanted and up to date with story quests? I hope it does what genshin brought to the table and more because if it doesn't, nothings really changed and it wont be this "genshin killer" that people alway claim it's going to be.

someone that played PGR, i was expecting the combat to be same, yes you have to be more active with daily's and bosses, just how they made combat, one shotting things isn't fun to me, genshin I'm at point most small dungeons are joke, only challenge is abyss or events i actually "try"

5:41 bro is vibing

I can't wait to make poor financial decisions on this game.

Wow. Well done

the color tone of the environment changes drastically. CBT1 is like PGR. CBT2 is like an atmospheric Genshin. But I prefer the current one. The impression is not too dark like the atmosphere of the previous environment. I have much more hope for this game than the game also currently in development, Arknights: Endfield.

12:41 and everyone who says that u just ignore them, tell them to baco to pick sea shells on the beach with there no endgame content

it looks really promising maybe best Gacha Game of the Year but we will see

Thinking about the echo system, they should increase the exp drop from the domains or reduce the amount of "resin" used on it. In addition make the tune system a little bit different. Make the substats unlockable by leveling up the echos and the tuning itens reroll thebsubstats. That way they can maintain the rabge of possibilities from the substats...

Turning into the enemies in your combos reminds me of Nioh 2.

guys let the devs know in your cbt2 feedback that we love that rover has voiceover at certain points in the story but that we want them to be fully voiced. this means that even in those basic dialogue interactions where you pick a dialogue option we want them to be voiced.

People calling this game a genshin clone, while mihoyo literally copied and pasted botw ist hilarious

I hope they make dailies and grinding for materials way easier 🙏

PLEASE MORE!!!

W 🗣🗣

Looking at the plot

I am really looking forward to this game because the combat looks really cool... my only problem is i cannot fit a third game in my schedule as i am already playing genshin and hsr😅😅...btw does anyone knows when are they going to do a stable release

I love that there is less of a focus on exploration. I think instead of chests/puzzles, secret battles or quests would be much more enjoyable. The treasure hunting novelty just wears off on me after a few plays, starts to feel more like a chore than anything tbh.

it might beat genshin in generosity, features, and combat. but i doubt it will be able to beat genshin in character design and marketing. even if the game is a stinky pile of hot garbage, they will still play it for the characters alone. even players who quit genshin because they don't find it fun anymore will still consume contents and medias of genshin characters. if this game really wants to compete with genshin, just having better gameplay experience isn't enough, it needs to make people care about the characters and the world.

as silly as it sounds, I'm glad you mentioned the colors and ADHD because BIG SAME. genshin appeals to me because of its fantastic art direction; it's never about the graphics, it's about how vibrant and lived-in the world feels and all the little details about worldbuilding you can seek out on your own. WW looks... decent? Like you said might just be how Kuro likes their games to look, but I do find the washed-out look less appealing. But I do love the new character models and the combat looks very fun and much more engaging than genshin. I hope the story is as good too! Cant wait to play both games side by side tbh

It'd be so funny if someone used the shop to get a character to Sequence 6 before pulling for the base unit.

I would have to love to see more lore ingrained into the actual world similar to Genshin. Genshin and other games included the environment to tell what happened a long time ago. That is something that I haven't seen so far in Wuther Waves. (I do not have access for the cbt2)

Your concern about the game is that it’s hard….? Isn’t that what everyone is excited for? I hope they DON’T make it easy to farm echoes.

wuthering waves is amazing butt

11:17 You can get a 5* resonator in the gacha shop. It cost 360 Afterglow Coral for the limited and 270 for the standard.

the whole being able to buy the character in the shop is very common in rhythm games if you dont get the character after a certain amount of pulls, you can just buy the card from the shop. I dont know if this game is going in the same direction, (prob not) but i hope more rpg games adapt that if there isnt one already, ( i dont really play that many gacha rpg games)

Looks like TOF

you know some games have some sort of Extra Title right? like for example, "Dragon Age: Inquisition", or something like "Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty", or maybe "Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice"? Wuthering Waves also has one believe it or not, its "Wuthering Waves: Genshin Could Never".

loving the scruff!

u have no idea how fkn jeluos i am of u I WANNA ENTER THE CBT TOO MAAAN