I still remember sitting in front of my monitor when Wuthering Waves went down for Version 1.1: Thaw of Eons on June 28, 2024. I was waiting like a kid watching a pot of water refuse to boil, except the pot was my PC and the boiling point was 13:00 UTC+8. The maintenance window stretched from 06:00 to 13:00, and seven hours somehow felt longer than a lunar eclipse. The devs warned us to update over Wi-Fi because the patch was massive, and honestly, trying to pull a major update through mobile data would have been like threading a camel through a needle made of phone signal.

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The compensation for our patience was simple but welcome: Astrite x300 and Crystal Solvent x2. To be eligible, you had to have created a character and unlocked the Mails feature before maintenance started on June 28, 2024 at 06:00 UTC+8. The in-game mail carrying the compensation was expected to arrive within six hours after the servers came back online, and it stayed valid for 30 days. That mail felt like a life raft tossed to us after the maintenance tide finally receded — not enormous, but enough to keep you afloat while the new patch unfolded.

Maintenance Time & Compensation Details

  • Maintenance Time: June 28, 2024, 06:00 to 13:00 (UTC+8)

  • Compensation: Astrite x300, Crystal Solvent x2

  • Eligibility: Create a character and unlock the Mails feature before 2024-06-28 06:00 (UTC+8)

  • Claim Window: Before the Version 1.2 update

  • Delivery: Sent via in-game mail within 6 hours after maintenance ends

  • Mail Validity: 30 days

If the maintenance had been extended, the dev team promised a follow-up notice and adjusted compensation. As a regular player, I appreciated that kind of transparency — it is like a dungeon master telling you the boss fight will run long but the loot will scale accordingly.

How to Update

Once maintenance began, updating was straightforward depending on your platform:

  • Android: Launch the game and follow the update pop-up window.

  • iOS: Update directly in the App Store.

  • PC: Close the game, restart the launcher, and click Update.

Version 1.1 Content Deep Dive

The star of the show was Mt. Firmament, a secluded haven to the southeast sea of Jinzhou. Legend says this was the ancestral land of Jinzhou's early settlers, where the Sentinel Jué once descended. But the area stayed hidden behind perpetual mist, and rumors claimed time itself moved strangely there. That description hit me like a pocket watch whose gears had been dipped in honey — the hands still ticked, but with a sleepy drag that made every minute feel questionable.

On the character front, two 5-Star Resonators arrived: Jinhsi and Changli. They came alongside two 5-Star weapons, Ages of Harvest and Blazing Brilliance, which immediately made my old loadout feel like a butter knife at a steakhouse.

The new Echoes were a strange and wonderful list: Sentinel Jué, Lumiscale Construct, Lightcrusher, Glacio Dreadmane, Dwarf Cassowary, Lava Larva, and Clang Bang. New story content included Main Quest Chapter 1 Act 7: Thaw of Eons and Changli's Companion Story: Immortal Blaze. Other additions included Phantom Appearances Altered: Lightcrusher and Altered: Clang Bang, plus the Tactical Hologram: Crownless.

Device Requirements

Back then, I remember checking my specs like a hypochondriac reading a medical encyclopedia. Here is the breakdown:

Platform Minimum Recommended
Android Android 7.0+, Snapdragon 835 / MediaTek G71/72, 4 GB RAM Snapdragon Gen1+/Gen2/Gen3 or equivalent, 6 GB RAM
iOS iOS 14, iPhone 11 or newer, iPad A13, 4 GB RAM iOS 15, iPhone 13 or newer, iPad A15, 6 GB RAM
PC Windows 10 64-bit, Intel I5 9th Gen / Ryzen 2700, GTX 1060 / RX570 / Intel ARC A380, 16 GB RAM Windows 10 64-bit, Intel I7 9th Gen / Ryzen 3700, RTX 2060 / RX 5700 XT / Intel ARC A750, 16 GB RAM

Storage space mattered too: 15 GB for Android/iOS and 25 GB for PC, with the strong recommendation to install the PC version on an SSD. If you did not have enough room, the update felt like trying to park a whale in a bathtub.

Controller Support

On PC, Wuthering Waves supported a decent lineup of controllers:

  • Wired/Wireless: Xbox series, Xbox Elite series

  • Wireless: DualSense®, DualSense Edge™

  • Wired: DUALSHOCK®4

Final Thoughts

Looking back from 2026, Version 1.1 still feels like the moment Wuthering Waves really started flexing its world design and content density. The downtime was a minor sting, but stepping into Mt. Firmament was like peeling back a curtain that had been stitched shut for centuries. If you are diving into that patch's history now, just remember: download over Wi-Fi, claim your compensation before the Version 1.2 update, and do not stare too long at the mist — it might stare back.