{"id":1397912,"date":"2025-11-19T21:36:23","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:36:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/DQZcYoiadZGpyqUpWbhyEZ"},"modified":"2025-11-19T21:36:23","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T21:36:23","slug":"keep-dying-to-goose-pls-help-where-winds-meet-players-are-being-chased-around-by-demonic-geese","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/arcader.org\/news\/keep-dying-to-goose-pls-help-where-winds-meet-players-are-being-chased-around-by-demonic-geese\/","title":{"rendered":"‘Keep dying to goose pls help’: Where Winds Meet players are being chased around by demonic geese"},"content":{"rendered":"
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There are a lot of tough bosses in the recently released wuxia MMO Where Winds Meet, but none of them can match the sheer power of the goose.<\/p>\n

Check the subreddit or the Steam forums and you’ll see threads of befuddled players with titles like “Goose??”<\/a> and “please be careful around geese”<\/a> and “throw every goose you see.”<\/a> Where Winds Meet isn’t really a game about killing wildlife, but like the chickens in Zelda games, these geese pack a punch.<\/p>\n

Most players run into a quest early on where you need to heal a goose, but failing it causes the goose to transform into a demon known as Maniacal Goose. Not to excuse the goose or anything, but it does<\/em> turn red, gain a boss health bar, and start chasing you, so you’d think people would realize what they’re getting into. But there’s an achievement involved for killing it and we all know that’s gamer kryptonite.<\/p>\n

As players of the new game wrestled with the demon goose and the other geese you can find hanging out in the open world, a strategy formed: throw them<\/a> into the water and let nature take care of it. For whatever reason, geese can drown in the world of Where Winds Meet. They won’t even attempt to escape as they slowly take damage and fade away.<\/p>\n

Where Winds Meet had over 10 million pre-registrations<\/a> on the leadup to its release and is now hovering around 160,000 concurrent players<\/a> on Steam every day. It appears that knowledge of this special goose-slaying tactic hasn’t spread fast enough to save all the new players who keep running into them.<\/p>\n

Meet the greatest boss<\/a> from r\/WhereWindsMeet<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n