#Gacha Chat
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it also means that dain may just
never get his comeuppance on them
especially cus surtalogi isnt even in teyvat
so idk what the fuck dain will do
and spoilers for 5.6
||we now know rhinedottir has merged with the shade of life. so she may be extra unkillable||
also in the weapon skin lore
we now know the sinners are the basis for each artifact piece
so their scaling just giga outpaces teyvat
alice probably does too but we kinda already knew that
whole hexenzirkel might
which, okay it has been almost 6 years. so like
Idk that just
maybe it is time
Feels out of place in Genshin?
but its still just weird
yeah
verse got too powerful too quick is what it feels like
I generally tend to not put too much stock into statements that haven't explicitly been backed up doubly so if you can find alternative meanings and it pushes the bar for whats normal for the verse insanely high
they literally say hes him
Like crushing galaxies either means hes doing broly shit or hes like going planet to planet and just fucking shit up
If hes doing broly shit though for reals then idk how genshin is gonna keep up with that scale
one civilization brought their entire star system together to fight him and he beat them easily
another civilization manifested a god united by their belief
he ate them all the same
Okay destroying a galaxies army and destroying the actual galaxy are very different things, but that second one is insane
and he has yet to find an opponent that he finds challenging
Bro beat up god tf
he hasnt gone all out yet
trillions of lives manifested a god to beat him and he won without flexing
hes still out there looking for a challenge to his full power
Traveler witnessing this man when they lost to someone who's best feat is carving a country side canyon into their own country
the reason he took skirk in is bc she has the potential to surpass him in the future
and the reason skirk took in childe is bc she sees in him the same potential that surtalogi has
Is she hoping the more times she throws him into big threats the more real that'll be
If so based
she's taught him like how surtalogi taught her
which yeah basically is trial by fire
though not without reason
childe is equally battle hungry and inately talented
fwiw too arlecchino may have the same potential as childe since they have a lot of parallels including some lore parallels
and its looking like a lot of this is seeming like a set up of the "new 5 sinners" more or less
Another 3 years of traveler getting ragdolled to push the new 5 star

Actually tbf that didn't happen much in natlan iirc
Escoffier propaganda
im undefeated when it comes to gambling
I'm caught up on genshin rn as far as main quests go
||wow I really don't like the other travelers motives at all||
damn, rodya fucking loves you
and you even got two good units!
||you want a salty run back on a decision you made so badly you'd actively disregard the well being of every other person on the planet?||
what else is gonna be good for a burn team?
genuinely might be in flux with the units that dropped today but
up til now you do ardor blossom faust and then cinq east don, liu yi sang, dawn office sinclair, magic bullet outis, firefist gregor and your choice of liu rodya/ishmael((generally people prefer rodya)
ardor blossom faust is sorta optional since her main goal is to blow up, which doesnt work as well if you go to mirror dungeon but its good in high difficulty content
the problem with this team is that a solid third of it is walpurgis locked and to have full power outis you need a walpurgis ego in addition
walpurgis should come about eventually and who knows, maybe the thumb ids are actually optimal
I legit think genshin plot has lost me after this point to where I am considering just dropping it harder than I usually do (ie full on quiting rather than popping in for characters I like)
5 years spent doing a run around of being passed from person to person getting a big fat "idk not my problem cant help you anyways, btw save us pls" and this is what it was building up to?
ahh they do look cool but i'd need to swipe to get them with how spent i am on resources rn
just no way even i cant push my luck
i do advise you to save resources with walpurgis on the horizon
i did get the bp + a monthly
you can always just shard them if it turns out theyre good for a team you like
true thats what i plan for mao ryoshu and princess rodya
also when uptying ego, same rule as ids. just go for max when possible. no reason to leave some un-upgraded given time?
in due time you want to max them all out yes but there are again large gaps between how much ut4 is
i noticed. it is asking for quite a lot.
like fluidsack for example benefits massively from it and theres a bunch that gain attack weight
i was thinking of biting the bullet on fluidsack when i can next
im not afraid to admit that i was hard carried by fluidsack for atleast a year
fluidsack has come in omegaclutch in all content especially as things pick up in difficulty
honestly anything that regens sanity is already good
sunshower, blind obsession, even gregors bygone days
and then i can leave the big damage egos for later since the clash matters but a lot less
i mean most egos dont even do that much damage
only at waw level do you really start to actually contest with newer units skill 3s
ah okay
the egos are clash monsters at least if i need to win a clash (ricardo exception)
yeah clashing or utility is mostly what i use them for
also when youre fighting mutiple targets, as high attack weight isnt as common in base skills
huh i never really noticed that most egos have like 3x the weight
sometimes when you look at an ego uptie 4 and yourself "wow this changes literally nothing" the change is actually to the attack weight

does he like to get naked
he's currently giving out triple disks, put some respect on his name
he shares a name with noted exihibitionist roland from fgo, i'm obligated to joke about it
(The joke her is about a different guy named roland)
i'm not to the end yet, but man i've gotta say shift up has really cooked for this collab story
this feels like it could've been a real event or side story in the nikke universe and has actual lore and character development
it's waaaaaaay better than the other collab stories
correct, at least of the ones i've read
I have had a (small) realisation about WuWa
The implied lore in the environments is kinda more interesting than the lore we actually get to see
Like why is every regions moon different and wrong
i think ZZZ does this too, and honestly i think it very well could be a gacha issue in general
the worldbuilding outpaces the medium's actual storytelling capability
Genshin at least actually incorporates its worldbuilding into the story
Even if its not always done well
genshin-
beat me to it
lol
eah
genshin has flaws sometimes, but it really heavily incorporates its worldbuilding and lore together
But in WuWa its like, the entire world is kind of a fucked up eldritch location, but the plots we get are usually local and much lower stakes
zzz does it too but its not nearly as integrated as it is in genshin
I guess its because you want the story to be character focused since thats what youre selling
And eldritch stuff doesnt really lend itself as well for that
every last aspect from mora (money), to artifacts has lore reasonings and explanations and tie ins
limbus company fans when they see a human being (possible limbus reference)
Ruminating over things again in Genshin and I love the passive aggressive drama flair from Lyney here
||Furina called him a fraud of a magician to his face and tried to put him in jail, so he made an even BETTER magic trick using her as the basis||
At this point I feel like I could actually make a video essay on gacha storytelling and its downfalls (though Id be limited by the ones Ive played sooo)
Not limbus this time
as a medium, its pretty bad for a lot of stories. still, the fact that plenty of stories are pretty good despite the games is pretty impressive
potato potahto (?)
Idt its a medium thing at all and more relegated to a specific style of it
At most the "story starts out lackluster" thing is something you can say is universal
i feel like there's some give-and-take to trying to tell a story in a gacha setting. there are benefits from needing to maintain constant updates and new character releases; at least when executed well, that structure necessitates a roadmap and proper planning and worldbuilding so the new content releases hit the right notes
i'd argue that's why the worldbuilding in most relevant games is actually quite good
to maintain a steady content cycle, you actually need a fleshed out world to put it in
of course, the drawback of constantly needing to move on to The Next Big Thing is that it often leaves characters or plot points in the dust and forgotten
Yeah
really appreciate that off zzz where no character so far really gets left behind too badly
This hasnt hit any of m favourite (story wise) gachas yet tbh
genshin def got caught in that cycle in natlan
but natlan was handled like a shounen and it just didnt work
I cant really talk much bout genshin i dropped it midway through inazuma
of the five gachas i play, i only pay attention to the story in 3 of them and i think gfl2 is the only one that's sorta becoming guilty of this
but i think that's actually more a casualty of its many story rewrites than any weakness of the medium itself
Has Corrin even reappeared?
wasn't it the new year's patch when we got some strong allusions to what corin's past was
Id hope so, the best i could say of the story up til that point was that it didnt stay as bad as it begann
yep
tbh i feel like the most abandoned character so far is zhu yuan lol
they've really done her dirty in the post-bringer plot
she'll be back as we get more bringer stuff
This is why I find horse such a breath of fresh air a lot of times, instead of a grand on-going story, it's mainly just a huge number of standalone good self contained stories
we still have to deal with her response to it later
jane has also largely been forgotten but given her job it's kinda hard to work her into the current plotlines
gotta imagine she pops up as an undercover agent in some exaltist cell eventually
okay heres my theory
damian
and jane
are working together
its pure cope
but
damian gives me jane vibes
idk if u see it
i don't
Realistically standalone stories would be the way to go
But you lose the draw of a big new region
they both feel like actors for their faction(s)
damian gives me smarmy corporate shitter vibes
perhaps not a bad person but forced to toe the company line
and yet we saw him in hia gear with the bunny thiren
and likely in a hollow
hes for sure more important and im betting hes a double agent
feels like if that's the reveal they're going for, it's a bit late in the game ||and implies some gross negligence as he fumbled about helplessly while the exaltists nearly fucking merced all of failume heights||
yeah i dont expect him and bunny to be playable soon
it'll be like
2.3 we see hints of him being playable
Granted WuWa kinda is doing standalone stories with its new region (sort of) sooo
Idk
Horse also differs itself by having its stories be relatively personal and low stakes
well what i'm saying is that him being revealed as a double agent later necessarily reflects poorly on him being MIA for one of the most consequential events that could've ever happened to the people he "supervises"
oh for sure
i do think that he might actually be slightly incompetent and the bunny is like the main mastermind
i have a feeling they'll be a double agent
like gameplay involves both of them at the same time
"incompetent double agent" isn't the best playable character pitch lol
Me when i roll a 74 with my unbreakable coin skill(still not as broken as mao faust somehow)
(subtle spoiler protection for story relevant bosses)
mao faust is just another tier is my understanding
as for this, i can see it like a good cop bad cop but damian is the good cop
For reference there are 3 characters that were ever considered to be nerfed
Mao faust is the latest released of them
Idt shes as universal as ringsang or as limiting for the archetype as talisman but shes just too good at what she does and does too much
the nerf didnt even seem that crazy too
It was just a consistency nerf
The frequency with which she can go sicko mode and faust all over the enemies was too high
Honestly a perfectly reasonable nerf but ah well
my so got this and i rolled it and ughhhh if it was any other character besides hyacine
this would be a god piece
i may reroll it. if it landed most into cdmg, this would be goated as hell
geez
it feels weird to give her a skin considering how she is going to be Sam in battle eitherway
oh man its worse than i thought
at least sam is supposed to change too
this being the 2nd skin for hsr is such a letdown
man this is funny in horrendous way
first skin was only for OG march when everyone is using her hunt form and now the second skin is for firefly
for such a popular character, the skin should have been good
this isnt gonna help the ppl who dislike her
i dont think a Skin would help them either way
it can go a long way
It could have
Concert fits or the Glamoth Iron Calvary uniform
Even the outfit from the Battle Pass (that would have been extra good, since Sam has a variation there too)
I really wonder just what the hangup is with HSR in that regard
I might be reaching, but it feels like mechanical limitations with the way they design battle animations has been a huge hangup in several areas- costumes, Memosprites, and (my personal unsupported opinion) extra 4-stars
I'd like to stop winning in that case
At this point I probably don't need Panda but he's futureproofing
u556 off my third D3 clear, 8k currency saved that ez
also got regensburg off my 10 pull today, so that's one banner ship crossed off
damn i didn't realize the 5 rainbow tickets in that insane value bd2 bundle i posted the other day were these selection tickets
some of these options are nutty to just be able to choose outright
(specifically h.lathel, diana, and helena, all BIS supports in various types of content/teams)
unfortunately i already had those at +5 so i have to choose other options, but several of the other costumes are good too
also used the 100 selective draw tickets to finally - FINALLY - get wedding refi
she had avoided me for long enough
Bro wearing his entire closet
Penaconian Holy Grail War
#honkaistarrail
Because the official HSR upload isn't properly English subbed yet lmao
collab characters did not get a dub in english
Yeah, apparently Archers English VA has a history of turning down CN voice work :/
I don't mind tbh, Suwabe is great, but they still gotta subtitle stuff lol
Well that thumbnail is incredible
Sums up Fate perfectly lmao
fate is a story not about mages in general but necromancers in specific : ^)
https://fixupx.com/honkaistarrail/status/1936030147540324376?t=jhjQwdEzElGNPT3YS0FbUQ&s=19
https://fixupx.com/honkaistarrail/status/1936030067701768251?t=jhjQwdEzElGNPT3YS0FbUQ&s=19
https://fixupx.com/honkaistarrail/status/1936035939123384637?t=jhjQwdEzElGNPT3YS0FbUQ&s=19
In Version 3.4's second-half Warp Event, #Firefly, #Jingliu, and #Blade will have rerun banners.
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In Version 3.4's first-half Warp Event, limited 5-star character #Phainon will be on rate-up, and #Tribbie, #Sunday, and #Sparkle will have rerun banners.
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Once the collab starts on July 11th, Trailblazers can use Star Rail Special Passes in the Character Collaboration Warps to obtain limited 5-star characters Saber and Archer.
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WHAT THE FUCK ARE THESE RERUNS
Phainon was bad enough what do you mean tribbie as well
sparkle for archer
not to mention Yukong and Tingyun in the 4-stars lol
sunday for saber
They want you to be able to run any DPS you get this patch with full damage output lmao
she does share a pity pool with Archer
you may even get lucky and get archer e1 over saber
Archers free i don't think anyone is pulling for him except for people who witnessed a high jump bar incident
Don't call me out like that Jot
archer atm is the best dps in this patch
This adds fuel to the biblical greed allegations
still not as greedy as the top up event for spending in anniversary
Ehh idm those cause like... it was kinda a nothing reward for me anyway
Did find a post about this btw- they do plan to let players swap languages for individual characters... But it'll be in 3.5, not 3.4. AND afaik it won't be for anyone aside from the Collab characters lmao
https://x.com/honkaistarrail/status/1936031281218732459?t=t2hPqw9oX2QYY_iAhu7a9g&s=19
🎁Event With Rewards
Version 3.4 Trailer — "For the Sun is Set to Die" | Honkai: Star Rail
Watch Now: https://t.co/mmioYX53oo
Let me tell a tale of a swarm of nymphs that chase the scorching dawn. The Paean of Era Nova... For they rose from the gate and reached the throne, for
Had the choice between e0 luocha and e1 Ruan mei and by God did I yeet that blonde bitch in the bin
How could I not you were there
You were the bar
surprising absolutely no one
apparently the AL community is malding over the design of the recently revealed KMS admiral zekner for *checks notes* showing too much skin
like i'm not gonna post it here but it's no better or worse than like any shipgirl design in the last 2 years
is that the actual critique?
imo yes, though it's buried in the "but muh ironbloods should be military coded and not fanservicey" rationale
they really released fritz rumey and people thought she wasn't the exception
did they say this back in like 2021 when heinric was released
almost certainly not
or hell even a more recent ironblood event had like
alvitr
double hell, even fritz's own event had z52
okay tbf i don't like z52's default design that much
it's not terrible but it doesn't do it for me
(her skin is good)
i mean i agree, her default design is kinda whatever but it's definitely very fanservicey lol
many such cases
i'd say that playing AL and complaining about designs being too lewd means you're playing the wrong game
anyway, if you're referring to a specific post, i think i know which one it is, and there's notable pushback in the comments
but zekner isn't even too lewd by normal AL standards
so i wouldn't say it's universal criticism by any means
i wouldn't post zekner's art in here without spoilering it, but that's true of way more than just her
i mean yeah but it's top of the subreddit right now
it's certainly generating no small amount of discussion, much more than any ship design discourse i've seen recently
also u-552 looks kinda like mash from fgo if mash had white hair
any warp event
so u can pull phainon and get archer's lc
orr any character really
u can pull standard banner it seems too if u really want
he only wants a third of your liver
it says specifically special passes tho, no?
oh it does
Nvm bro wants the kidney, hes very firm about it
though i guess if u could spend special passes on the standard banner but i digress
special passes is the gold tickets
Actually mightve been better to use the arm allegory
plus why would u be pulling standard banner nowdays?
Considering
You joke, but
I have 170 pulls saved up already
Unconverted Stellar Jade
I mean like the 90 a day thing
Yeah, that's the one - I haven't done it lol
I just avoided rolling aside from ~50 pulls for Anaxa
Hording? In this economy?
Not enough, i want a guaranteed featured unit sent to my house every week
its what dragalia lost would've wanted
Do you remember who I am
play limbus company
2036? rookie numbers
Oh no
This is biblical greed regi
Give them to me now

and while youre at it, hand over the bazett too
If it means saving Miyu guaranteeing pity, I'll gladly be a villain
I know im gonna walk out of this next fgo anniversary with 0 feature 5 stars and np5 bao
You should have saved 
Weakness
i only have 1 k sq and 150 tickets saved, im finished
One does not step into the arena sure of their victory unless one is a coward. (And other copes you can tell yourself to enable your gambling addiction)
I have questions
then ask
150 tickets???
Nah but fr im gonna be fighting to try to last until melusines banner so I can get barghest
150 tickets is teh equivalent of 450 quartz, you have more total saved up than him lol
this is not unusual
That's our word of the day, Tom play 21 whats new pussy cats with 1 its not unusual mixed in
np5 bob is a win
S-ranked Shiyu with an incomplete Yixuan team (... though barely)
HAPPY BIRTHDAY OLGA!!!!
My goals are... bigger
i thought ehr birthday was on the 21
He looks so gooooooooood
np10 

np8 bond 15 : ^)
i've decided i'm gonna pull for her and see what the 50 holds, if i lose i'm saving the guarantee for yuzu
but my eyes have been opened to the fact that her trial modes really sold her short
yeah shes not too bad
she sucks in lemnian hollow exploration since it starts you with 0 energy, and she sucks in the currently running VR event because her trial loadout sucks
once you can consistently get energy she actually kinda slaps
i'd say if no pulchra m6 or trigger, she's pretty nice to have
me without m6 pulchra or trigger:
another angle is that i think she's better than trigger if neither have sig, but worse than trigger if both have sigs (i.e., trigger's sig is cracked, but fufu is better at base)
and while i love trigger, having to lock in for both her and her sig as a support is kinda big lame
part of me just wants to optimize yixuan tho because she's so fun (and hot), similar to evelyn
and i'm pretty sure fufu is yixuan's BIS stunner
also she is very cute and that is blessed
unrelated, https://www.vxreddit.com/r/ZenlessZoneZero/comments/1lg4dua/m0_evelyn_m6_anomaly_piper_no_astramiyabitrigger/ bro absolutely cooked with this triple intro
hoyo should make that baseline (along with making entrance animations more common please) tbh
embed please you piece of shit app

they whitewashed archer
they also cut his chant by like 90%
which is understandable
Its hard to call it white washing for Archer because Archer isnt actually black, it could just be Archer semi burnt rather than fully
FGO does the same thing
alright but
Just focused the burning to his hair ig
we're still in agreement that this is bullshit right
THEY SHOULD'VE JUST MADE UBW SHIROU INSTEAD
THE COLLAB WAS LITERALLY BRANDED AS UBW
(gif is from the hf movies but you get the idea)
now that i've actually finished the collab story, i can comfortably say that this is not only far and away the best nikke collab event i've played (it's the fourth, with the other three being both eva collabs and the re:zero collab), i'd honestly put it at or near the top tier of nikke events as a whole
shift up definitely cooked with this one, shame about the tech difficulties that have accompanied it
story is good, yes
it did the impossible and made me actually like privaty
truly monumental for that reason alone
it's up there with another eden's collabs in terms of the effort put into making the story more than just a cheap tie-in between two disparate properties
(in general anyway; kof story sucked ass)
biggest W is that the map relic that opens up at the end of the story finally unlocks the main collab theme (on the login screen) for the jukebox
been wanting that for my lobby ever since the collab launched
only real downside to this one is it being pre-rrh; woudl have been funny to see new rapi interact
(it is post-chapter 26 at least)
||rrh derails the mission by going on a rampage after privaty says she likes the commander||
and that's why it would have been funny
biggest jobber in the world except he willingly is one
so which of these are good to buy
you buy the gifts? L
You didn't like Privaty?!
i haven't decided which of the new currency items to buy yet, but i always buy the gems, battle data, and core dust packs with the old currency
her introduction to the main story is basically as an antagonist and that hasn't really been expanded upon until, funnily enough, this event
she hasn't really been confronted or forced to reflect on her actions during the marian saga and so i haven't forgiven her
main story kinda fumbled that aspect of her character imo
it's Christmas out here
level 45 temple acquired
i'm beginning to see where vivian is coming from fr fr
both the proxies can absolutely get it
https://www.reddit.com/r/Zenlesszonezeroleaks_/comments/1lgn4al/213_alice_kit_overhaul_summary/ also this is wild, they basically completely reworked alice
does she no longer need you to destroy your mouse to properly play
seems to no longer be physical miyabi, now seems more comparable to vivian or yanagi with piling special assaults/disorders onto other anomaly triggers
dread it, run from it, alice spam clicking arrives all the same
I was away on vacation, so I held off on doing my Raven pulls until I got home
ONE TEN PULL BAYBEE


immense currency savings
Apparently it was a translation issue for the kits in one of the other languages

Or wait
Has it gone down again?
she actually became a much better pull target
physical miyabi was always going to be worse than miyabi
on-fielder in jane's role would have had her killed if the jane buffs are real
going to the off field role may actually just make her way more of a pull value character
jane/alice/yuzuha
yeah thats gonna slap i thin
The ring: we got magical corridors and shit
The middle: we got magical tattoos and shit
The index: we got magical papers and shit
The thumb: https://t.co/mrQ3Mctt0p
went for Yixuans W-Engine
lost the 50/50 to
Lycans W-Engine
this feels personal at this point


lycaons haunting both my character and w-engine pulll is too wild
yeah but then you'd have to play wuwa
hes here to serve
the return of the creamer jokes
https://vxtwitter.com/aspd_ishmael/status/1935664226170986653
lol
QRT: aspd_ishmael
I am a mature and grown man. I am a mature and grown man. I am a mature and grown man. I am a matur
Got more sauce then genshin and now I can say the main story writing is on par too
i see limbus company is also a horny gacha : ^)
Wetsuit controversy was the beginning
project moon fans got literally horny over metal boxes, the horny was always there
knowing some people get horny over a satellite, i can't say i'm surprised
outside of zani i really cant agree on wuwa designs having any sauce
story is... still whatever
I'm not talking design sauce im talking gameplay sauce
even if its improved
oh ehhh thats also p subjective
wuwa fails to hit some of the same nuance that genshin's elemental system does tho this is mostly player preference
I'm mainly just memeing because the main story of genshin really feels like it jumped the shark to me this last chapter and im coping with 5 years down the toilet
i cant really agree with that overall. latest chapter is solid and if its the worst of nod krai it'll only get better again
plus fontaine and sumeru's story are still just really damn good
Idk I like WuWas designs mostly
"I fucked up and im about to make it everyone's problem" type shit
Morally questionable is one thing
But we've actively seen the harm theyre doing and the ends do not justify the means
At all
You'd have to assume that the kingdom had a population in the thousands to justify it even doing life for life trade
This is just wanting a salty run back because they fucked up
And people are dying for it
we say this from the perspective of the smaller scope we are viewing right now in the story even though out of it the net benefit would be massive if possible. of course the whole, end of the rest of the world would be good to avoid
i've never played wuwa but if i ever do i think the character designs and general aesthetic will be what make me do so
top of the fact that it also again, really makes a more compelling villain since the motivation is clearly emotional rather than logical
Its just makes me see them as just a complete ass
thats literally a good thing
we dont need to humanize a faction/leaders for every single group
having an actual proper antagonist is good
Not for me though, because it makes me feel like ive wasted my time, I wanted more out of it than just "i want my salty run back"
None of which I found particularly compelling
It was all in how they characterised the sibling for me
And they blew it imo
wha
i mean like
sure
but the sibling was never going to be the bigger immediate focus so not sure why the focus on it
and having a motivation like that driving them is pretty good parallel to the traveler so far
One of my favourite villains of all time is kefka, who is just a genocidal power hungry asshole
I don't mind this being the route theyre taking
out of curiosity, what's the base rate on wuwa weapon banners
But to frame it as this big moral dilemma throught it all of the abyss vs dain vs the archon is just
right though this feels like you may want to touch up on the current enemy groups in genshin again
bc it feels like ur missing a lot of context
hoyo game weapons are 1% rate with a 75/25 on no guarantee pulls
im already there
Same rates
Just not 50/50
based
And earlier pity
I probably am I have missed a fair few (read as most) events but I think if youre relying on events to tell story for you you need to have them accessible at all times.
its not events
events can give better context for characters like raiden and hu tao recently
but this is just more or less reading the actual story context for as to whats going on since ur painting it as more simple (this is also a fault of genshin overall the overarching story is getting complicated in and of itself)
I think the only bits of the story i liked of genshin were sumeru and Fontaine. I found the rest just very mediocre. Sumeru was in spite of wanderer. I just don't like characters who make their issues everyone else's problem.
Which is funny given a lot of genshin is just "here's my problem, deal with it for me"
Like arlecchino I liked a lot she had a very clear reason for doing what she does
Somewhat the same with childe
wanderer was really not that at all
he pretty explicitly wants his problems to not be anyone else's problems
I mightve just forgotten enough about him over time that its gotten to my reductionist disliking of him
we butt in despite it
When i say problems I also mean like "im dealing with it myself despite the obvious harm im doing to everyone else"
Ie by not processing problems and harming others you make your problems other people's to solve
he still didnt do that
he went out of his way to remove his existence from the world to prevent that from even being a thing too
the only reason it didnt work was because the traveler butts in and makes it their problem
Was this before or after the god mecha thing
I legit don't remember
and his initial motivation was literally just to usurp the world and become a new god
thats just a pretty standard villain motivation
after
thats the whole reason for the second half of sumeru's storyline
Im strange because I either like my villains insanely basic like there is no attempt to justify (kefka) or insanely complex (renoir from expedition 33) to the point where I don't like it when something tries to play both sides.
I think it is just a personal thing
first half is dealing with an egomaniac (who technically has all rights to being this way)
second is then making his problems our problem
I think it is just I wasn't getting the depth out of the antagonists I was hoping for out of other villains in genshin quite enough and was hoping the sibling would be there to offer some sort of actual understandable logical reasoning with some light emotional backing
you're looking at the fatui for that
Yeah i liked arlecchino and childe
which should be 2 whole patch cycles fleshing them out between nod krai and the next region
like yeah absolutely that genshin is very flawed and its story has some overarching flaws but this last chapter was definitely not that flawed from the overarching narrative
the only thing i really judge this latest chapter over
||is that skirk feels close to the traveler. the reasoning makes sense but i dont like it. i also hate how they have basically just ruined citlali as a character by having her be the jealous type but she was doomed when she became a traveler love interest anyways||
It probably is just me being reductionist but I initially joined with the story thread of "i need to find my sibling" and the pay off to that being "they left without even a damn note because they wanted a salty run back and no they aren't coming back till they get it" just kinda hurt me. That compiled with the literal years being passed around as everyone's personal problem solver without getting much back
i do like that contrast between siblings
one is willing to doom a world for a runback
the other is running ragged trying to help everyone
it shows why only one has the will to challenge the world
and the other needs the loom
I liked it when the traveler was starting to throw sass at people because he always had to help but it didn't really mean much to me without him going "nah fuck this", there's a difference between being a good guy and being an absolute doormat of a person
Sorry using gendered language because of my character choice
thats definitely a fault with "we need the game to progress."
just kind of a video game issue as a whole tho
cant really just have them write a "well i guess this quest is not happening so game over"
even though hsr does that sometimes
Its more of a live service game issue, but its just i feel such frustration for the main traveler that it makes me not want to play the game
its still not really "good"
nah if anything its an rpg issue
removing the actual choice from a decision/railroading because you need to progress the story just is rather normal
Ehh I'd disagree mainly because a lot of the main rpgs i like that are universally considered good do just have "fuck this" options that are extremely valid
right but think of how many there are that actually have those meaningful changes and how many of those same games have railroad moments anyways
cant really apply that to gacha games for certain reasons
at that point, its not really railroading its just the story they want to tell
neither the traveler nor the trailblazer nor belle or wise are self-inserts. they are their own characters atp
if anything, i'd like them to remove more of the dialogue boxes
I suppose, but my point is that because of it i just feel its lost me
just across the board
Illusion of choice is another big thing in this and I actually do like the choice they gave you at the end of the quest this genshin patch despite it ending about the same
Like that felt like it actually mattered to some degree even if it kinda sorta doesn't in the long run and the "right" answer is spoonfed to you
downside is tho while guranteed 4 star options are really bad overall but it allows to prepare spending i guess
monthly make it usually so u can get a character + weapon guranteed every 2 patches i guess
Are u good
ye
the only hard one was the fleurdelis one tbh
make sure u take the easier to deal with shield modul
alright i got qingyi and lighter to minimum 50% crit rate for the new set
just pulchra left
and then lycaon
Please tell me you don't mean Voyager
fine, i won't
☠️
you should always assume someone gets horny for even the most innocuous of character designs
that is the nature of the beast
in fact, lemme do some research
||in the r-18 section of pixiv, there are 84 entries in the "voyager (fate)" search||
||That's less than I was afraid of but more than I hoped||
||as a percentage of total entries, it's about 3%||
||and obviously this doesn't count anything on twitter||
well dam
dustloop noway
is it just me or is hong lu lacking in 000 ids
atm each sinner has either 6 or 7 000 ids
and hong lu has 6 and is guaranteed to get at least one more in this canto because
well its his
i was planning out ids to obtain for each sinner and hong lu's list looked kinda empty but that makes sense i guess i forgot hes getting one
fwiw 2 of his ids dont really fit into a status archetype and one has a role that is
basically useless
wait until you get to mersault's lineup
curious to know what the useless one is
you dont actually need a tank if youre playing correctly, so even though k corp is probably the best tank in the game he doesnt really have a home
a passive, fraud, cope, GOATED, ive never even read his kit, solid, GOATED
meursault's newest id looks really strong as does blade lineage meursault so it feels like its not like
lacking
vs hong lu it looks like his ids are fine as a whole but some are just... niche
also yeah tanks dont feel like they are super necessary though i can see the value in them for mirror dungeon runs
k corp hong lu is one of the characters that can more easily solo a mirror dungeon
i wasnt thinking about solos necessarily but that is interesting
And now GENSHIN has TFT!!
the damian playable agenda strengthens
i hope g eternal will be the reasons why we will get obscure gundams into kits
like striker custom and the le cygne
Magia exedra getting personal 
……..wait a minute
O.o
It's finally over
blessed snek
is this about that comp that uses him to support lilith
Just the funny name and note
Thank you duo

didn’t get snek sadge happy fro you lol
well i guess it makes sense after getting bhima and summer salter on tickets
Cemn0 fired from arknights for plagiarism
if we're behind by 6 billion years im quitting early
From what I hear they will do a half measure schedule
It will still be from day 1 AKA behind by 4 years
im fine if it takes like a year or two to catch up
But they'll trim down dead weeks to speed up a little
I don't think it'll be that fast
i just dont want to constantly be behind by a huge margin
dang
theyre doing project moon gender discourse again 
https://vxtwitter.com/ErlkingThePride/status/1936190339120849119
nikke's gonna have a maintenance tomorrow
i assume it's something to do with raven or solo raid or co-op or all of those
funny thing is that apparently due to some weird programming decisions, buffing raven woudl apparently require nerfing mihara
so that's fun
timing on this is at 11 am utc+9 so it'll actually drop tonight for western people
wat? how
honestly it looks kinda complicated how it'd require nerfing mihara specifically, idek if i understand it fully
but in terms of their performance, mihara seems to be a special snowflake who has unique behavior with regards to how her dots work
rather than fixing whatever issues existed with the core mechanic, their mihara fix seems to have been something that made her just work differently
the result is that raven gets to suffer : ^)
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Twitte...
if you can decipher wtf he's saying in the mihara section of this video, do let me know
oh and as a side note, peopel are also mentioning nihilister of all nikkes as someone else negatively affected
Finally got the damn panda
Oh hey, standard S-rank and ...
Another Nekomata W-engine?
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i can barely decipher what he's saying in the raven section of the video, let alone the mihara section lmao
my interpretation is basically
the way things currently work, applying a new stack of a DoT resets the amount of time until its next tick. for raven this is effectively doubling the amount of time between her DoT ticks while she's actively attacking
"This is the best design that Hoyo cooked"
Then they show Lucius from GBF
lucius could never

to avoid this affecting mihara they did something special for her where her DoT ticks 0.5 sec after a stack is applied, because her stack application happens more than once per second. this, in effect, is making her DoT tick slightly faster than it otherwise would, so she actually is benefitting from the jank
i mean, lucius is definitely not lucilius : ^)
Auto correct
sky's point is that if they fix the "DoT application resets tick time" for raven, they might fix it for mihara too and revert her to basic non-special case behavior, and she'd lose the pseudo-fast DoT tick she currently benefits from
that is my likely mistaken understanding
my takeaway is that shift up cannot catch a fuckin break
there's so many layers of jank happening here that i'm struggling to separate it from my picture of a basic fucking DoT implementation
feels like this entire year has been one weird problem after another
i question whether they have a QA team lol

we do have the livestream roadmap tomorrow
so maybe
we already have nu and sazabi EX
interesting timing eh
Depending on the schedule I may do another 100 pulls on the Reiji banner, to get an extra uncap (extra damage, extra GBF rep)
I'm primarily curious what the next main story chapter will be after Destiny
yeah after getting duo i can save my gems for later banners
reiji is in the UR pool for limited banners so that's like not super soul crushing i could get him in later banners
losing zeta to scirroco was tho
Learning that Atroria Lancer is shorter than Ritsuka was heartbreaking…💔
QRT: The8thSphynx
So many Fate women have the energy that they should be 6’4” and above and yet so very few of them are even over 5’8”.
Mfw i found out thaz fairy knight gawain with her limiter on is only 190 cm
Oh I didn't know that either
Inb4 Lion King is taller than Lartoria because ✨shenanigans✨
No, apparenrly goddess rhongomyniad is also smoll
So we're practically guaranteed to be getting some kind of CCA content then
yea
i think it would be cool if
CCA is the main story mode
but they do BC CCA as an event
man
unrelated to gacha ig but i heavily low-balled my pf2e fighter's height i thought 162 was more average but being shorter than gacha protags is rough
162 cm is shorter than me
wow by how much
5 cm

:[
you dont even have foot-long horns to make up for it (i dont think)
This is because fgo are cowards
I will simply head canon them taller
It's weird considering the GTS fetish
At least they make large males
This is the opposite of what i desire
I want my men 5ft nothing and my women 6ft something

it all makes sense now, you want to be reenacting the weeknd meme with your women
unfathomably based
me when i learned new jersey was 148 cm
Thats a very small state
indeed
Kazuha in Natlan (from the last round of antecdotes), Thoma in Mondstadt, Charlotte in Nod-Krai… are these likely to come up later?
Its funny seeing people from inazuma in other countries cause its like you have one port and a fuck ton of people who want to leave you know they booked that shit months in advance
To be fair, don't all regions sans Fontaine have one port?
They're also all mostly landlocked though
Granted the sumeru desert but like
You can realistically go from Natlan to monstat as a citizen in under a day random acts of God or banditry not withstanding
Is it really that short? I assumed it normally took days to travel from region to region, like ~1 day for Mondstadt to Liyue alone
Depends how much you want to scale the game map to the actual map
Like traveler can do it in 40 minutes or less
I knew i was forgetting something
I let my fucking 6 star selector expire in arknights
was it paid
Yup
my condolences
The free one doesnt expire 
Ill just get ines and swire alter when they are in the shop rotation
biszwei acquired, 92 pulls later
when i first started azur lane, there were 3 ships i really wanted
new jersey, musashi, and biszwei
finally, i have them all

i've gotten 2 biszwei dupes within like 25 shipbuild tickets and a u-557 meta dupe on top of that
i'd say i'm lucky but i don't need any of these dupes when they're already mlb
game could have given me this luck for lion or raffaello or both

You buffoon, you fell for the silly facade hiding deep unending trauma! (We all did dw)
Master League Tag is UC & Tough as Nail
OH I'M SO SO READY
Have been building this team for awhile now
The only con are Scirocco is here
how long until server goes down for maintenance
2 and a half hours from now iirc
i'll double check
should be 1 and a half hours from now
starts at 11 am utc+9, so that'd translate to 10 pm utc-4
hmm
if I speedrun dailies....
now that i've adjusted somewhat to the nikke mingigame i think it's actually kinda fun
definitely clunky regardless but it is acceptable
i still really don't like it
i HATED it to start
it's my least favorite minigame i've played so far
maybe the key is that i just found a strat lol
spam perfect parries + beta attacks since they give iframes
profit
so... we finally meet.
even the summoning screen wants crow to burn
it's funny because i stared at my wishlist before doing this 10-pull and said "do i really want crow on here just because i don't have her yet?" and decided yes
someone in my pvp server put level 1 crow as their only nikke on defense
if you wanted to do something funny
based but no
Luckily I think you only need 150k points for master league to get max gems and ticket rewards
The rewards above that are just name card titles that are essentially worthless coz name cards are like "who cares"

Yup see
150k, should feel doable before this event leaves
Ooh I see Isee
you ever just fiddle with your arena comp, lose a bunch of battles you used to win, and then realize your new comp doesn't have a burst 1
sometimes my genius is almost frightening
I think my biggest problem with the minigame is that it can feel really unresponsive at times
granted, this is a genre I don't play a lot
but I feel like I don't understand why my inputs sometimes work and sometimes don't
i haven't had problems with inputs not working, but it is very brutal with locking you in animation
fairly sure the real game either doesn't lock you in animation, or gives you iframes during long animations where you can't do anything
at least that's what other games of the genre always do
okay
switched my attack style to the faster one
beat a boss that took me legit like fifteen tries because the slow attack animations felt so bad
my strat has been to get the beta energy exospine + the 3 and 2 star beta energy gears
then fully upgrade the 3 hit beta attack (triplet i think?) + get whatever skill gives you a beta refund and the one that gives you a fourth hit at the end of the chain if you press the beta attack button again
then hit perfect parries for beta energy and spam triplet + the fourth attack
beta attacks give iframes so you can just button mash that shit
My new URs from my Reiji/Build Strike rolls are paying DIVIDENDS
Last time I could never break the 120k barrier, but this time I was just able to squeeze into the top bracket
My current team comp; positions are swapping based on the matchup
I didn't have Mika or Shiro this time last month
SDガンダム ジージェネレーション エターナルダウンロードはこちら! https://bnent.jp/gget_YouTubelive/ 『SDガンダム ジージェネレーション エターナル』の運営チームから、気になるゲームの新情報をお伝えする配信番組を実施いたします。是非ご覧ください。 <...
also, the link for the livestream
8 hours to go
there isnt a character in hsr that feels as good to pull off as aglaea imo
and sure this is a for fun game mode but whenever u get a chance to let her dance, she always pops the fuck off
the event going "hit 30k points to clear" or "60k points for the final min reward" and meanwhile im hitting 88k 
it occurs to me
is pan going to enter the standard banner A rank pool after yixuan's banner runs out
guess i'll save my standard pulls until 2.1 then
damn level 3 of belion reduces its yunkui summit character requirement from 2 to 1
that's pretty cool
correct, even with only one more 11 roll's worth of quartz, bc i got the fifth copy immediately afterward
at least it's a good ce
i prefer valentine witches, but this one's good for certain contexts
the score literally does not get higher than this in this stage
aglaea is good but lingsha is actually the best dps in the game?
evelyn/lighter/astra just absolutely dumpstered ether 12 lost void damn
ult/decibel boosts + evelyn's ability to give her 3 embers and a full gauge when she ults is so unfair lol
A prophecy known as the "Theory of Four Apocalypses" circulates among the Omen Vanguards — That four Paths will push the cosmos to an end of Finality.
Destruction is one of them — Nanook's flame shall devour all. In the heat death, the universe meets its first fate: an eternal end.
In their terror, mortals asked: from where does THEIR Primum...
No warning, as always
There’s a lot going on in this one, I’m not sure how much is hyperbole and how much is literal
But we got a clear glimpse at the Emanators of Destruction… and confirmation that ||Phainon is Irontomb||
||Does seem like another return to Belobog is in the books, one way or another||
Also, use closed captions if you can
Jiaoqiu and Feixiao’s lines are missing in the English dub
keeping up with leaks ||reveals that unfort||
Ah 
which
knowing the lore
||makes no sense for how phainon is themed around the sun. we know there is literally a lord ravager named sun devourer and hes... not phainon? despite the sun themes and all that its... irontomb???||
||I did see some comments on YT (Mina’s reaction lol) saying that Irontomb was apparently supposed to be mechanical||
yep
well
||not mechanical, but a lord ravager that exist within the digital space||
||which, kinda fits if amphoreus is a simulation (it almost certainly ist)||
||this whole trailer was depicting a doomsday scenario predicted by the Xianzhou’s calculation device, where some sort of Anti-Organic Equation variant destroyed every planet we’ve ever visited lol||
||Plus the ‘black tide’ and Screwllum’s comments about the Scepter and all that||
||I’d be more surprised if Amphoreus wasn’t a simulation||
||yeah which again, super scales rupert so hard lmao||
||he didnt even follow an aeon after his second iteration and now its likely his 3rd is going to fuck everything up again in some capacity||
||I mean Rupert was already crazy terrifying, no? Again, his first and second incarnations already nearly broke the universe||
||no yeah thats what i mean. hes been dead twice now and still destroying the universe or bringing it closer to yet again||
||also interesting to note: polka kakkamond is not an emanator and she killed him twice now too||
||hes not an emanator either and weilds more authority and power than them for most cases as well||
||Phainon will be an Emanator, if he emerges ‘properly’. And I think? That’s why Erudition would fall, because he’d supercharge the Anti-Organic Equation with Destruction power or something||
||But yeah it’s wild that the potential cyber apocalypse never warranted any direct Aeon intervention (unless Polka counts)||
||polka will solo this unfortunately. just like before.||
||and yes we knew. the thing we are trying to figure out though is phainon will actually be evil. even in hi3rd, kevin became an antagonist but for the side of good. giving mei, kiana, and bronya, 2/3 in this trailer btw, a test to see if humanity was truly able to surpass the honkai||
||and all signs are pointing, given his lc description, that this may not actually go the way the other lord ravagers would want it to go when irontomb breaks free||
||the intervention of the paths have introduced too much good/kindness into phainon for him to fall and it'd be interesting to see him emerge, and turn on them.||
||Phainon and Acheron, 2 for 2 with busted Emanators calling back to HI3 lol. And both on our side!||
||What the heck was up with Acheron’s part of the trailer, btw||
||Couldn’t fully parse it but it seemed like Destruction made some superweapon that eats at nihility? Like a white hole?||
||she's on her quest to kill the nihility so she was likely asking some sin thirsters about what they saw in the shadow of ix||
||and it likely involves something of the destruction probably one of the lord ravagers attacking the nihility||
Ahhh
Oh of course
||Phantyllia countered/used Abundance and Hunt, Phainon is clearly meant to target Erudition||
||they are setting themselves up (the lord ravagers) to fight a specific aeon to destroy everything is what i gleam||
||That’s… so funny lol. Mainly because Duke Inferno was trying to do that too lmao||
||Clearly he was inspired||
||and you know what, them being flamechasers, just like in hi3rd||
||who the 13 of them broke the path forward for humanity to have a good ending||
||yeah i just know where it will lead||
||We’re not gonna be able to interact with anyone from Amphoreus after this, are we||
||How the heck is Amphoreus ‘supposed to re-enter the universe’ after this lol||
||well in hi3rd, they actually just are gone forever||
saw a comment that they need to see surtalogi and zephyro duke it out
not for powerscaling or bickering but for sheer aura of the spectacle
surtalogi destroying galaxies vs zephyro destroying multiple planets and being a threat to the nihility
Oh my @summer hornet @mortal iron
The team did better than expected
Only received a single loss to get here (Then immediately crushed by the whales of Master League)
OSHIT HI NU
That makes sense
It was weird to like make another nu UR, so hi Nu makes alot of sense
So yeah we getting developable nu
Good to know we're getting Dadmuro
Im rolling
Also cool that impulse isnt gonna get milked to multiple units
It can transform to all 3 configurations
Yeah surprised it just collected in one
new muvluv mobile game, surely this will not also end in disaster 

Yeah very weird the developable is BC CCA
But the story mode is CCA because of chan
Also wow sd gundam in a sd game, the novelty
SD Gundam G Generation ETERNALDownload the game here! https://bnent.jp/gget_ww_live/ The SD Gundam G Generation ETERNAL Team will be presenting a livestream ...
Setting BGM huh? Noice
Livestream is here if anyone's curious
They showed off alot of new units attacks
partial suggesting it's not all cca
They are giving yi snag the "stupid fraud who does nothing right" id 
https://x.com/LimbusCompany_B/status/1937435532411224286
im guessing this will be region locked
because they have region locked codes once before
the SSR phoenix was the same kind of propmotion and it ended up in g-shop
Dang that's one hella elaborated EX attack
yeah so when we get CCA part 2 im guessing they would make the nightingale the UR limited
i think like the next road map we should finish a story mode like X or G
Man that's a LOT
CCA and Destiny in July, then the IBO side story before season 2 lol
Plus a mix of BC and movie version for CCA
yeah CCA and destiny in 30th of june is alot
Did they elaborate on the Impulse switching forms, btw? Because that's a crazy skill to incorporate with zero warning
it's how like wing or epyon transforms
you can just press a button and it transforms to whichever form you want
yeah like those but with 2 more configurations


