|OT| Xuan-Yuan Sword VII - One Night in China

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there is a demo going live oct7th with full release end of october. game has english subtitles and translation at release but no english audio


Xuan-Yuan Sword VII is an action RPG presented in the third-person perspective. The plot is rooted in Chinese history and mythology. Players take on the role of Taishi Zhao, a calm and reliable swordsman who was accidentally involved in a tragic fate. For protecting his beloved family, he starts a journey in this chaotic realm to uncover the truth.



Synopsis

In the last of Western Han Dynasty, the powerful prime minister of China superseded his emperor and build a new dynasty called Xin. In this year, words appeared on the boulders, stone cattles appeared in fields, and ancient tombs cracked, tremendous signs appeared, told a time of peace and prosperity will come. A peculiar bamboo slip in the crypt of Marquis of Liu was delivered to Court Astrologer’s hand.Unexpectedly, Taishi Mansion was badly damaged by a bizarre fire that night, and all his family was killed in the fire and the bamboo slip disappeared.

Ten years later, the prosperity mentioned in the prophecy has never come. A decade of war and famine, the people were miserable, and the chaos had spread among the country.

At this time, the bamboo slip which had disappeared for 10 years emerged again, it caused an uproar…





combo-based combat
  • Xuan-Yuan Sword VII is an Action RPG with a real-time combat system.
  • A smooth combo-based combat system contains elements such as Active Skills, Dodge, Block, Riposte.




Elysium Scroll
Elysium Scroll is a bamboo scroll that can be used as a key to Elysium, capable of absorbing monsters, creating items, and more. It can provide several techniques and mechanics during the adventure.
  • Elysium Rift: Taishi Zhao's ultimate technique; slows down the time around him. In this state, he can alter the physical properties of nearby objects.
  • Imprison and Fusion Lab: Players can absorb monsters into the Elysium as refining materials for Fusion Lab. Fusion Lab can not only produce new monsters with different shapes and abilities, but also spin Passive Skills out sometimes, which are used to improve Taishi Zhao’s ability.
  • Various facilities set in Elysium for improving armors and weapons, as well as developing passive Skills.


The Mohists and their “Mechanics”
  • Mohism, an ancient Chinese philosophy of logic, rational thought, and science, was once as popular as Confucianism in China 2200 years ago.
  • In this game, the Mohists are known for their high level “Mechanic“ technology far beyond the times. However, civil disagreements are challenging their faith, making them fall apart in decades.
  • Can the Mohists revive to their former glory or fade in the pages of history? In Xuan-Yuan Sword VII, you will witness the final destiny of the Mohists.


A journey in the oriental realm
  • The game takes place in China 2000 years ago. The development team will bring back the ancient China environments, props, humanities, and cultural studies into gameplay.
  • Take a new journey into the chaotic era and roam around the oriental realm.
  • For PC, Xuan-Yuan Sword VII supports Nvidia RTX, makes a realistic game world.




ill be doing a giveaway one its up for sale
 

texhnolyze

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Omg, I totally forgot that it's coming so soon.

Any clue on the price? If it's like most of other Chinese games, the regional pricing should be good. :coffee-blob:
 

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Looks like the Demo is available for download in Aus. Will give it a try when I get home from work. The combat has me interested.
 

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I'll give the demo a try because I'm thinking my pc probably won't run it too well, if it runs decent enough I'll grab it day 1 (well as long as it's not $60 USD :p)
 

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Thanks Queen!
Currently downloading it. How is it for everyone?
 

Valdien

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Well, just completed the Demo. Very short and there's also a heavy focus on the story during the beginning, so the combat encounters lasted roughly 10 mins for me. And this was on hard. The graphics menu is also pretty bare-bones.

My rig: 9900k Stock, RTX 2080 @ 1890 MHz, 32 GB Ram @ 3200 MHz.
  • Game is running on UE4.
  • DX11 & DX 12 APIs with support for RTX & DLSS.
  • RTX is bundled as a single option, on or off, but from my own observation, it has RTX indirect diffused lighting (noisy artifacts) & RTX Reflections.
  • DLSS 2.1 with 4 presets. Ultra Performance, Performance, Balanced & Quality.

I was able to run the game at 120/117 (G-Sync) FPS for the most part (lots of stutters) at 1440p with DLSS set to quality mode, however, turning on RTX completely destroyed the performance. Between 40-50 FPS both indoor & outdoors. In order to get above 60 FPS with RTX, I had to switch DLSS to either Performance or Ultra Performance mode.

The translation is rough, but decent enough to at least make sense of the plot and dialogue. There are also a few choices you can make. It has some Shenmue like QTEs, LOL. The Audio is all right, but nothing great. Poor mixing and some odd sound effects.

Hard to judge the combat since there was so little of it in the demo, but:
  • You have a stamina bar. (Not a fan of this)
  • Light & Heavy Attacks. You can cancel out of some attack animations.
  • You have multiple stances (two in the demo). Each stance comes with a special attack that is on a cooldown.
  • You can Evade, Guard & Parry attacks. The parry window is extremely generous even on hard.
  • Enemies have an HP and a Stun bar. Fill the with stun bar completely and you can execute them instantly. Bosses, however, are immune to stun so they don't even get a stun bar.
  • Two other special abilities that are on a cooldown. One is a trap that ensnares enemies in a circle, the other slows down time for a few seconds.
So yeah, that's pretty much it. Enjoyed the combat for what it is, but honestly, very hard to give a proper opinion since there's only 10 minutes of it. Depending on the regional pricing, I might get the game.
 
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texhnolyze

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Is the sound broken for anyone else? 90% of the time, the dialogue won't be voiced at all. Some dialogues do, but the next one would get randomly not voiced. I've tried restarting the game and it still didn't work. Also, the demo is basically the new game in which you have to sit through 30 minutes full of cutscenes, dialogues, and basic tutorials like walking and talking to people. They definitely picked a bad starting point for a demo. These things combined were such a major turn off for me.

I hope they'll at least fix the sound issue. The demo received a 50mb-ish patch before I started it earlier.
 

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Is the sound broken for anyone else? 90% of the time, the dialogue won't be voiced at all. Some dialogues do, but the next one would get randomly not voiced. I've tried restarting the game and it still didn't work. Also, the demo is basically the new game in which you have to sit through 30 minutes full of cutscenes, dialogues, and basic tutorials like walking and talking to people. They definitely picked a bad starting point for a demo. These things combined were such a major turn off for me.

I hope they'll at least fix the sound issue. The demo received a 50mb-ish patch before I started it earlier.
I had a few issues with the audio skipping, but voices played out fine on my end. I changed the output from 5.1 to Stereo in the menu before playing, though. Give that a try? [UWSL]:thinking-face:[/UWSL]
 

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Performance is kinda a mess on my old i5-3570k, 1060 gtx, cpu is below requirements so I wasn't expecting it to run well but it has a lot of stuttering, it's basically unplayable even if I lock it at 30fps, performance got worse the more I mess with whatever settings there are. I don't want to sit through the prologue with all the slow walking either.
 

texhnolyze

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I had a few issues with the audio skipping, but voices played out fine on my end. I changed the output from 5.1 to Stereo in the menu before playing, though. Give that a try? [UWSL]:thinking-face:[/UWSL]
That was the first thing I tried when noticing something's wrong with the audio. Still no luck.

But after restarting my PC not tinkering with the settings anymore, it suddenly worked.
 

Stone Ocean

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demo has potential and pretty good production values, but it's sloooooooooow and I didn't bother finishing it. prologues don't make good vertical slices, as a general rule
Yeah, I loved what I played but as a demo I really wish it wouldn't focus so much on something that I'd rather experience in the full thing.

Will surely grab it once I upgrade my PC.
 

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So yeah, that's pretty much it. Enjoyed the combat for what it is, but honestly, very hard to give a proper opinion since there's only 10 minutes of it. Depending on the regional pricing, I might get the game.
Just want to say thanks for this write up. I will most likely get this as I loved Gujian 3,Genshin Impact and Faith of Danschant. I seem to like their style of game.
 

texhnolyze

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That scene in the hut where the MC telling a story (which you can choose the parts) to her sister was pretty nice though. Character faces look great, but the hairs are kinda rough. Animation is okay, leaning towards janky in some parts.

The game certainly has the potential.
 
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Yaska

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Currently downloading the game and the artbook/soundtrack. Let's see what's the quality of the soundtrack.

Soundtrack comes both as mp3 320 and wav version. Artbook is 55 pages pdf of spreads, so 110 pages.
 
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Started playing yesterday night for a short bit, but the beginning is identical to the demo, so nothing new yet. Gonna continue later today. Good to see first reviews/impressions are good, I was looking forward to this and hope this will be one of those games that I actually finish ;)
 

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bought it, seems to run better than the demo on my old i5 3570k, but i only literally played it for a minute
 

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Anything I could craft with the souls you capture? I combined 2 items and got something but I couldn't find it in my inventory
 

Alextended

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Does this have any weird online save drm thing like Guijan 3? Just making sure.
 

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It's like Final Fantasy I believe as in each game is self contained, don't know if there's any link in the timeline or anything like that though.

The old games were made in like the 90s

don't think there's online drm, at least i haven't seen anyone complain about it in steam forums :p
 
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texhnolyze

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Yeah, it looks like this is Chinese Final Fantasy, self contained story but they all have the same references. And no, no online drm. This is from a totally different studio and publisher after all.

Anyway, I've spend more time into it. The game is almost entirely linear with some small detours for chests and stuff so far. The story is getting more interesting.
 
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Anteater

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Can you capture bosses?

edit: just tried it on the fire wolf guess I can't
 
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I read that the game is on the short side, hope it's not too short because I'm enjoying it. I like to take my time with my games so I'll probably get several more hours out of it than most do :p
 

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Reached final boss at aroun 15 hours of gametime, quite liked it so far, tho hate the "boss can suddenly kill you in one-shot" -mechanic.
 

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yeah bosses hit kinda hard so far, I don't mind it, just the load time is a little long even on a ssd :p
 

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  1. Add quality setting function
  2. Add Zhoulu Chess reward in DOMO
  3. Add skip option to Qiming ruin puzzle
  4. Adjust Imprison capture success rate
  5. Adjust damage of debuff for some boss battle
  6. Fix "~" input issue. Switch Imprison key to "4"
  7. Fix opening animation issue
  8. Fix SE of the Talent page
  9. Fix the flashing subtitles
  10. Fix the playtime of save file
  11. Fix the new item indication
  12. Fix the Buff display issue
  13. Ingredient of the recipes no longer show in the store
  14. Fix the cloth physics
  15. Fix the NPC hair issue
  16. Fix the NPC axis tilting issue
  17. Fix the environment collision
  18. Fix the environment render issue
  19. Fix the level loading issue
  20. Fix the AI navigation issue
  21. Optimize performance
  22. Optimize cutscene performance
  23. Optimize QTE
  24. Optimize companion AI
  25. Optimize RTX lighting setting
  26. Optimize Zhoulu Chess UX
  27. Optimize puzzle interaction
  28. Optimize animation blending
  29. Optimize Clockwork workshop UX