Fallen Feathers Accused Of Censorship In Controversial Update

Wuchang: Fallen Feathers has been referred to as quite a lot of issues: Souls-slop, gooner-bait, a surprisingly good game. Now you can add “censored” to the checklist after a latest 1.5 replace made controversial modifications to the sport, seemingly to quell a backlash from some followers in China. Just a few diehard followers at the moment are relieved they purchased the sport on disc realizing they will all the time entry the unique model of the motion recreation that launched final month.

The latest patch arrived earlier this week and made a bunch of modifications, most of which appeared innocuous sufficient. Some had been enthusiastically welcomed, like a sped-up therapeutic animation, the power to cancel out of a restoration animation by dodging, and improved i-frames when recovering from getting knocked down. Different modifications had been extra ominous than they first appeared. “Added dialogs for some NPCs to finish some plots,” learn one bullet level. “We are going to additional optimize the exhaustion animations sooner or later to enhance the plot efficiency.”

What was developer Leenzee speaking about? It quickly turned clear. As shared on social media by Souls aficionado and early advocate for Wuchang Lance McDonald, “what they imply is that they made it so you’ll be able to not kill any traditionally vital bosses or NPCs, and as a substitute they simply get ‘exhausted’ and chill out after the combat and speak to you LMAO.” Historic figures that beforehand died inside the fiction of the sport like Liu Wenxiu, Liu Cheng’en, and Emperor Chongzhen now stay on.

Individuals acquired mad you’ll be able to kill the late stage Ming Dynasty “Dragon Emperor” ingame however he was actually lifeless by this level in historical past and also you kill a horrific zombie model of him to cease his resurrection. Anybody “offended” by that’s wild, and having him survive now ruins the plot

— Lance McDonald (@manfightdragon) August 14, 2025

McDonald continued, “Like precise censorship attributable to stress from Chinese language gamers who had been upset about with the ability to kill traditionally vital characters from the top of the Ming Dynasty. Loopy to see it. Gamers are reporting that the ‘pray’ gesture has been eliminated that you just beforehand realized from the Portuguese Christian character within the recreation.” A collection of Ming troopers in Chapter 4 have additionally been modified to not combat the participant, making a beforehand difficult part now a breeze to get by.

Mixed with some extra normal nerfs to enemy armor and varied boss fights, gamers have been revolting towards patch 1.5 on Steam and Reddit, the place some have accused the Wuchang subreddit mods of deleting complaints. “After 80 hours on Steam, I pulled the set off for console,” one fan wrote. “Lengthy Reside Wuchang 1.0.” Some gamers are presently making an attempt to roll again updates on Steam by modifying recordsdata.

Not everybody’s raging towards the newest replace, as efficiency continues slowly however absolutely to enhance on PC. Does that imply Wuchang‘s Steam overview ranking is lastly recovering? Not fairly. Complaints of framerate crashes have been changed by review-bombing over the alleged censorship. For its half, Leenzee hasn’t stated why it modified Wuchang‘s story. Replace 1.5 went stay on PS5 and Xbox Collection X/S earlier today.