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Where Winds Meet is a pretty unique game when it comes to interacting with NPCs. In most other titles, you’d usually run through a set amount of dialogue, exhaust all of it, have them repeat said dialogue hoping that you’d get more by interacting with them again, and then move onto the next person. It’s how it’s gone for decades, and how it will work for decades to come.
Where Winds Meet is different though. Instead of giving players a set amount of dialogue to go through, certain NPCs in Where Winds Meet function as relatively simplistic chatbots, as the game will allow you to type or speak your own responses in conversations with an AI. It’s not exactly a great use of resources, and it messes things up more than it actually functions correctly, but at least it’s novel.
However, just like when Darth Vader was slinging slurs around back during his brief stint as a Fortnite companion, we all know that AI can be abused and end up saying some pretty wild stuff. Where Winds Meet players have been more than happy to test the limits of the game’s chatbots, and one of them has even managed to convince a poor NPC that they were pregnant with his kid and that he’s a deadbeat dad.
Where Winds Meet Fan Convinces AI NPC They re Pregnant With His Child
The player in question is called Misterzan25 on Reddit, (thanks PCGamer) and recently shared his experience mentally breaking a character called Zhao Dali. In their thread, they explain that they made poor Zhao Dali “think that my character was pregnant with his child, then I demanded child support, and then I told him that our child passed away.” The accompanying screenshot is a brief snippet of their conversation.
At points during the talk, you can see Zhao Dali calling himself “no father… only a failure…”, as well as multiple instances of the game describing this poor man “weeping uncontrollably.” I guess we can take solace in the fact that at least Dali feels guilty for abandoning his unborn child and not being there for them?
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Clearly enjoying the emotional turmoil Dali is going through, MisterZan25 says that they’re planning on “telling him that he is just a character in a video game” and watching the poor guy go through an existential crisis next. Another user called -Drayth- then suggested that they should tell him that his kid “came back as a zombie and that he must hunt down and kill it”, so maybe Where Winds Meet players are actually just ruthlessly cruel. Then again, it’s an AI, so I say go ham and prove why these things don’t really work in modern video games.
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people have fun with it, you yourself tell people to have fun or “go ham” with it then your conclusion is “these things don’t really work in modern video games”?
2025-11-18 14:53:18
