Where Winds Meet is bursting at the seams with gameplay systems. Some are core to the game, helping you define the perfect build for your playstyle. Others seem to exist only for single encounters, never to be seen again. And plenty more fall somewhere in the middle.
Disguises are one such gameplay system. Though unlike how the name may make it sound, disguises are really more of an outright transformation, turning your character into someone else for a brief period. This is more than just a visual change, though, and has a surprising amount of depth.
What Are Disguises?
While called disguises, this gameplay system is more equivalent to a full skin, changing your character entirely into someone else. This is a visual change, but also comes with some unique contextual gameplay, too.
Every disguise you can get serves some unique purpose. Maybe it will allow you to talk with characters you couldn’t otherwise, or sneak past the guards of a protected outpost. Disguises are created for a reason, not just for looks. Sometimes it will even make it easier to ask for items off NPCs.
Many of your actions are also restricted while wearing a disguise, so you can’t jump around and use Lightness skills like normal.
Disguises also only last for a limited time, and cost Commerce Coins to equip, which are much harder to come by than your typical currency, so only equip them when you have the funds to spare and the time to actually reach your intended objective.
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How To Unlock New Disguises
Disguises are not given as you need them. Rather, you must help create them. This involves creating a sketch of the character you want a disguise of. You can do this for every single character in the game by interacting with Rattan Paper in your inventory, though characters with unique disguises will have a prompt on them to sketch them.
If the character you’re disguised as sees you, they will call the guards and have you arrested.
The act of sketching is simple. Once you hover the cursor over them, it will tell you their name and the difficulty of creating the disguise. All you have to do to create the sketch is press a button and you can return it to the disguise shop of your choice.
You do need Rattan Paper to be able to create portraits for disguises, though you can purchase this from any Wood Craftsman, one of which can be found south of the Kaifeng City disguise shop.
After completing the Veil of Love quest and unlocking the disguises system, other opportunities to create disguises will be shown on the world map with a mask icon.
Makeup Levels
You might have noticed while sketching out portraits that a difficulty level is assigned to every person you can make a disguise of. This is the general difficulty of actually creating the disguise at the disguise shop, and is linked to your Makeup Level.
Every time you commission a new disguise, you gain experience towards your next Makeup level. Once that level increases, you can then equip disguises of that difficulty level or below. So a Makeup level three, you can equip disguises of difficulty level three and below.
Since disguises are hard enough to come by, the best way of finding new ones and boosting your Makeup level is by taking on commissions from the disguise shop. These are basically missions that have you get new disguises and perform tasks in them. You get some fun stories, and your Makeup level increases. Win-win.
Where To Equip Disguises
There are only two disguise shops in the game at present, both in Kaifeng. The first is in Kaifeng City, and is in the south-east of the city, to the right of the Fair Grounds area.
The second is beneath Kaifeng City, in the Ghostlight market. There’s a whole Lost Chapter dedicated to getting here, and the time of day it is open is limited, but it is an option. Makeup levels are shared across both locations, too, so you can go to whichever is the most convenient for you.
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