How To Play After The Flash Wintertide

After The Flash Wintertide is an immersive RPG, where players create characters, interact with others, and engage in stories.

After The Flash Wintertide is a multiplayer, open-world role-playing game (Image via After The Flash Advisory Board | Roblox)

If you like immersive role-playing and simulator games with extensive lore and story-based gameplay, then After The Flash Wintertide is a good match for you. Wintertide is the eighth main installment in the After The Flash series. The game is set in a post-apocalyptic world, requiring you to engage in a story-building world. Let’s learn how to play.

Complete After The Flash Wintertide Guide

Let’s first learn about the lore: In 2071, a nuclear war sparked by a San Francisco dirty bomb devastated the world. By 2164, the Sunrise Islands – North (USCPF, bandits) and South (Alumni, mutants) – host diverse factions. Bargetown, a mobile scrap town, bridges them. Pre-war advancements like AI and space elevators collapsed into chaos post-Flash.

How to Play

Create a Character: Design a character with a name, lore-appropriate backstory, appearance, and cosmetic gear. Avoid unrealistic elements.
Follow Role-Play Rules: Use “IC” for in-character dialogue and “OOC” for out-of-character chat. Employ quotation marks for speech and plain text for actions. Respect lore and avoid disruptive behavior.
Engage in Role-Play: Explore locations like Southpoint Village or Black Mountain Complex. Join existing stories or start interactions, e.g., “IC: ‘Seen any traders?’” Seek factions after gaining experience (around level 10).
Handle Combat: Use dice for fair combat outcomes, agreed upon by players. Describe actions narratively and avoid random attacks.

Locations

Sunrise City: Ruined space engineering hub with crumbling towers, now roamed by scavengers, bandits, and mutants.
Alumni Fortress: Sprawling settlement in the Erie Institute ruins, housing the Alumni’s tech research, open to neutral visitors.
Sunrise Maker Factory: Disarrayed 3D-printing factory and port with a fishermen’s settlement among abandoned tech.
Bargetown: Mobile, cramped Coalition safe zone known for food, stores, and crime, formerly Winthrop-controlled.
USRF Outpost: Abandoned pre-Flash monorail station, fortified but deserted after USRF claimed Black Mountain.
The Quarry: Abandoned terraforming site with a rusted machine, used for prison mining by factions.
Southpoint Village: Mutant and outcast hub in Southpoint State, at war with Bargetown.
Sunrise Omniport: Decayed pre-war transport hub, once serving air travel across the Lakes.
Westside Farmhouse: Usable farm estate with an abandoned home for shelter.
Erie Station Power Plant: Safe, abandoned nuclear reactor, threatened by bandits and wasteland dangers.
Black Mountain Complex (BMC): Pre-war US Space Force base, later a wastelander refuge, now shared with Lakeside Division.
Mudlands: Eroded, muddy bog of an unfinished city expansion project.

Controls

Here are the controls for After The Flash Wintertide (PC):

Move: WASD keys.
Camera: Mouse; right-click to free-look.
Interact: F key for objects/props.
Chat: “/” to open; use “IC:” for role-play, “OOC:” for out-of-character.
Prop Placer: Sidebar (spanner/hammer), select prop, place with F, and edit in Edit Mode.
Toggle Controls: Use if controls fail.
Combat: Narrative via chat; dice by agreement.
Customize: Use the left-side arrow for character/shop.