Everstone StudiosWhere Winds Meet players are fooling AI-powered NPCs into handing out free rewards by simply replying to their questions with more questions. Before long, they give up out of confusion.
Where Winds Meet is the latest Wuxia open-world RPG taking the world by storm. Set in ancient China, the free-to-play title offers up an enormous sandbox full of activities to enjoy, bosses to tackle, and of course, weapons to find.
Along the way, you’ll encounter all sorts of characters. Some of the more detailed inhabitants are as you’d expect, scripted and voiced in an authentic manner. However, they’re not all like this.
Various NPCs of lesser importance instead make conversation through AI-powered chat logs which you can reply to. As it turns out, these chat logs are easy to trick, and players have already found easy ways to get free rewards without doing any of the busywork.
Getting easy rewards from AI NPCs in Where Winds Meet
In Where Winds Meet, these NPCs are explicitly powered by AI. You won’t find meaningful, pre-written dialogue here. Instead, their only purpose is to give you a single task at a time, thank you for completing said task, and then help your journey with weekly rewards.
Most of their tasks are simple fetch quests – go here, collect a thing, and come back. But as players have quickly discovered, their tasks can be skipped entirely.
Everstone StudiosThere are a few cheeky ways it can be done. Chief among them is by replying to the NPC by asking it a form of its own question. Say it asks to find an item, you reply by asking where the item might be found. Before long, the unscripted NPC is tangled in a web it can’t get out of and simply finishes the quest for you.
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One hilarious example on Reddit showed an NPC looking for a safe place to store food supplies. If you succeed, he would become your friend and deliver weekly gifts.
After nine replies from a player looking to skip the hard labor, the NPC gave up. “Thank you, Wanderer,” their final message read. “I’ll remember this when the time comes.”
In reality, the player hadn’t fulfilled their request, nor had they even made an attempt. But by repeating questions in the chat, they broke the NPC and still got the reward.
Weekly Gifts in Where Winds Meet aren’t hugely important, but they can be nice bonuses if you’re planning on playing for quite some time. They can be maxed out by having 100 of these NPCs as your friends.
Now that you know how to quickly blitz through their tasks, there’s nothing stopping you from befriending every NPC you come across. At least until this quirk is ironed out by Everstone Studios, if they take issue with it.