Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty Tops 75,000 Concurrent Players on Steam on Launch Day - News
by William D'Angelo , posted on 03 March 2023 / 6,269 Views
Publisher Koei Tecmo and developer Team Ninja released Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty today and the game has already set a record for a Soulslike game for Team Ninja on Steam.
The action RPG surpassed 75,000 concurrent players on Steam on launch day, according to SteamDB. Earlier today the game peaked at 75,906 players on at the same time.
This number is much higher that two other similar games from Team Ninja did. Nioh: Complete Edition peaked at 10,649 concurrent players, while Nioh 2 peaked at 41,325 concurrent players. It should be noted Nioh released for PC nine months after it launched on the PlayStation 4 and Nioh 2 nearly a year after its PS4 launch.
Wo Long: Fallen Dynasty is available for the PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X|S, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC via Steam and Microsoft Store, and Xbox Game Pass.
A life-long and avid gamer, William D'Angelo was first introduced to VGChartz in 2007. After years of supporting the site, he was brought on in 2010 as a junior analyst, working his way up to lead analyst in 2012 and taking over the hardware estimates in 2017. He has expanded his involvement in the gaming community by producing content on his own YouTube channel and Twitch channel. You can contact the author on Twitter @TrunksWD.
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So far looking like a rough port though. Currently sitting at 35% Mostly Negative after over 4,000 reviews. Pretty much all referencing bad optimization. Looks like player count has already dropped to less than 20,000.
Hopefully Team Ninja is on top of it!
Team ninja nails console releases but that multiplatform and last gen consoles release won't help optimization for pc
Having a good time with it on gamepass, although it seems the pc port has a lot of issues based on steam reviews. Hopefully this gets fixed and they get it optimised for the deck as well!
I can't even trust PC port reviews anymore it's so hit and miss these days. I have a buddy on PC playing through Gamepass and the game runs fine. I also see a ton of reviews complaining about M&KB being bad. PC gamers need to get over M&KB not every game (especially these kinds of games) are going to support it.
That's a really bad take. Should we expect PC games ported to consoles to be terrible for controller and basically force the user to use a mouse+kb? I was trying to create my character on mouse+kb and I couldn't even select certain options. The cursor was off. There were also other bugs apparent from the start. I went into it neutral, but it's a bit of a mess. If they're charging full price then there should be a fully playable mouse+kb experience for PC.
I kind of agree with this. However, we do often talk about how some games that come to console from PC do not work very well with a controller. So I think it is reasonable that some games that are console first might not do so well with keyboard and mouse.
That said, if they're going to say that a game supports keyboard and mouse, then those input devices do need to work. So I'm not excusing this case where it appears that some of it is just downright non-functional. Just generally speaking though, I think it is fine for some games to focus more on controller inputs versus keyboard and mouse
Is the combat heavily reliant on Parrying ? If yes that’s a dealbreaker for me.
Small timing Windows should never overwhelm the rest of the combat system involved.
I'll cheer for good numbers and continuous improvement.
Graphics are disappointing. It looked better in the trailers. I tried it on gamepass and deleted it after less than an hour.
For him maybe yes. But the game design feels to me lazy. Ai is one of the dumbest ai in a video game. They just spam same moves over again. And enemies like the bosses have alot of exploits given to man kind and ur mission is to memorise the time to beat them. For me that's a good reason to delete the game. No skill there. It's just artificially created difficulty
