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It added at least 2 inconsistencies, both related to two bosses that now survive instead of dying when you defeat them.
The first one is with the spear dude Zhao Yun.
In this game is a general that should have died a long time ago but was kept alive buy the power of one of the game's mcguffins. Previously you killed him retrieved the chisel and he died as he didnt have the chisel that somehow prevented him from dying any longer. Now he instead remains alive and tells you that it was all a prank and a test teeheehee. How he remains alive now is a mystery, for all we know he might be on the process of disappearing now or w/e. But it doesn't make sense.
The other is a bit weirder as its not only the in game events but is also tied to the "themes" of the game.
Basically during the game we learn that our father tried to ress out brother with a chisel and failed, we also find out that the loyalists to Ming tried to resurrect Chongzhen with a chisel and only got that grotesque demon dragon monster at the end of act 4.
This feeds into the lore of the game that Wuchang needs to find the 5 chisels to actually try to resurrect her sister. We later find out that we can't ress her even with the 5 chisels, more on that later.
Now with the patch it shows that the loyalist did ress the emperor with a single chisel and purged him of his obsession (as thats the boss we face now in act 4) and the emperor gets to leave with his concubine. All with one chisel.
So why the fuck were we looking for more chisels? Again for all we know they might have had other tools, more advanced rituals who the fuck knows, but on the info the game gives us it seems like a flat out retcon with no regards for continuity.
Now about the theme, Wuchang's whole trip is to make her realize that she needs to let go of the idea of ressing her sister, that is reinforced because every time you see anybody trying to ress somebody or achieve immortality with the chisels it goes awry.
Fuck 2k characters.