Gacha Chat

[versed pawn]

If chen could read she would be really be really upset about this

[timber sigil]

finally going through Lainie's story

feels so weird seeing Leva in her GFL1 outfit again ngl

[versed pawn]

Threw my remaining 80 pulls into nangong banner and got 2 more

Have M4 now tho got greedy when that happened threw anither 100 and got Rina

M6 on Rerun angle I guess

[summer hornet]

LETS

FUCKING

GOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

THIS IS WHY IM STILL HERE

MY TICKETS AND GEMS ARE READY AND WAITING

I HAVE MORE THAN ENOUGH IN STOCK

[old galleon]

got a horny bunny agent maid in ordinary recruitment

and while she's good, unfortunately she's not the horny bunny agent maid i would have liked to see first : ^)

(got velvet, would have loved to see ade)

will still absolutely take her, though

[old galleon]

this ended up being easier than i expected

using flamme dps

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/bisexualheathcl/status/2044176521242521658

Bisexual Himedanshi Heathcliff (@bisexualheathcl)

what, did you not hear the news?

QRT: AboutNodKrai
All characters from the preview got their drip marketing, except one...

#GenshinImpact

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 14, 2026, 10:10 PM

[wispy goblet]

https://youtu.be/84nSzOQc4RQ

[slow raft]

https://x.com/tidalelegies/status/2044095481937011111

jay (@tidalelegies)

this might actually be the prettiest skin rotation i've seen in my life oh my god

X · Apr 14, 2026, 4:48 PM

[silver osprey]

And in the center lies the virtue

[pastel bear]

I hate how hard currency is to get in this game

I just want silverash and/or lappland

[rapid bough]

gacha moment

[runic ether]

pyro powercreep is crazy

[maiden veldt]

and done.

[runic ether]

https://vxtwitter.com/myotaron/status/2044026839266427313?s=20

myotaron (@myotaron)

https://t.co/ZAL2sXdUgn

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 14, 2026, 12:15 PM

[pastel bear]

who is this cutie

IS THIS A GENSHIN CHARACTER

[slow raft]

yea

[runic ether]

lohen yeah

[pastel bear]

https://tenor.com/view/fma-roy-mustang-mustang-roy-sad-gif-12080741

[slow raft]

its ok, it happens to the best of us

[runic ether]

thinking of redownloading on anniv just to get him cus hes gonna be standard and free then

https://tenor.com/view/ellie-loves-lohen-elysia-loves-lohen-ellie-will-get-c6-lohen-elysia-will-get-c6-lohen-nod-krai-gif-2933828909706996261

his burst goes so hard for no reason

[pastel bear]

instead of that weapon he should kiss me

[pastel bear]

FREE?

[runic ether]

genshin gives a standard free a year

[pastel bear]

I'll log back in to the account I made for my free diluc

[runic ether]

yeah lol

[slow raft]

https://x.com/ThistleToPain/status/2044136812931887314

🫀✦ Thistle, Albina's Wife (@ThistleToPain)

An old WIP I forgot about teeehee

X · Apr 14, 2026, 7:32 PM

[glossy latch]

Unfortunately sometimes Genshin designs cook

I'm still mad that the geo 4* is a Genshin design, he's cute

(I forgot his name)

[runic ether]

illuga

[runic ether]

still goated of a design

[glossy latch]

Yeah him

He's cute

[runic ether]

nod krai as a whole had p solid designs

unfort, most of the story was pure unfettered ass

genshin story would vastly improve if they dropped the pretense of a deep and extended plot and focused on the characters individually. even that may be jarring

[late canopy]

Deeply personal stories will always win over large ones for the sake of being large

Large stories can also of course magnify the strengths of a personal story but that hinges on the personal touch still being there and being quality

[glossy latch]

WuWa has been good at that lately tbh

[rapid bough]

not to beat a dead horse that's been beaten well beyond death already in this chat but also the gacha format is just way better for character focus than overarching plot

[late canopy]

Ive been trying my best to not display my bias out in the open but I can't hold it in any more

[glossy latch]

Also cleared WhiWa real quick, god Sigrika clears so fast

[late canopy]

Uma is a god at this

[rapid bough]

wuwa has been overall good at finding a balance between character and overarching plot, especially recently with where they're going with rover

that said, everything involving the fractsidus makes me want to strangle the life out of the writers

[late canopy]

One of the main reasons I think its stories are so good and enduring

[glossy latch]

Smh kreek hears the word "horse" and is activated like a sleeper agent

[late canopy]

That wasn't even the sleeper word this time

It was "characters individual stories"

I saw that and neuron owo

[glossy latch]

Nyaruhodo

[glossy latch]

I havent done 3.2 yet so I cant comment on the Fractsidus there

Fwiw I dont think Gachas are necessarily bad as a medium for overarching plots by virtue of their release schedule as much as they are by virtue of how they want to push new characters

[rapid bough]

i mean i've been vocal about being fed up with them basically since starting the game

[rapid bough]

i don't think you can have one without the other, new characters drive the release schedule

[glossy latch]

Im aware yeah

Even if I dont fully agree on everything re Fractsidus

[rapid bough]

3.2 isn't bad mind you, just kinda there so far

[glossy latch]

I mean hypothetically you could

[rapid bough]

hard to follow up aemeath tho

[glossy latch]

But yeah

... actually thinking about it

There is one way you could make it work and Im a little surprised its not done, though I also kinda get why

Which would be to have each X.Y patch cycle focus on a party that is built up across that cycle, with each new character joining, and once that story is finished, you move on to a new party being gradually built up, with old characters occasionally showing up

I.e. you do it like Trails does with its games

I guess the issue is that the protagonist would be a rotating role, rather than being the same throughout

[rapid bough]

take a shot everybody, ovven brought up trails unprompted

[late canopy]

Isn't that basically what genshin does?

[glossy latch]

Its relevant to the point!!!!

[glossy latch]

Not quite because Genshin has the traveler being the lynchpin

[rapid bough]

you have literally described like every high profile gacha game including wuwa???

[late canopy]

I think Genshin has the right idea, at its core at least

[glossy latch]

No no, the key part is that the main protagonist, i.e. rover, traveler, etc, also change

[late canopy]

Tell whatever main story you want

With interesting new characters included

And then spotlight those characters throughout the rest of the region

[rapid bough]

this is not at all implied by what you said lol

[glossy latch]

Let me rephrase then

[rapid bough]

what you said is what every game with world regions does

[glossy latch]

The idea is that each individual storyline starts with your protagonist, a new free unit for typical gacha plot sakes, and then the plot becomes them gathering up their own party, having the party dynamic be the key thing (i.e. all the characters actually interact with each other), and once the cycle finishes, you go for a new protagonist alltogether

[late canopy]

Yugioh generations style

Although

[glossy latch]

That way you have a driving character in each region without suffering from the "why didnt XYZ show up?" effect

[late canopy]

That no longer becomes an overarching story

[glossy latch]

It can be

[late canopy]

Which probably opens up another can of worms for the games as a service forever ever model

[glossy latch]

Each individual plot can be part of a grander plot

... again I point at Trails

The Crossbell duology and the Sky trilogy don't really intersect, but they are part of an overarching plot

[rapid bough]

i've said this before but trails has the advantage of being literal separate games

unless you want genshin 2: the quest for more money, idt this would really work for gacha

[glossy latch]

That is the risk yeah

[late canopy]

Although I don't think the "why didnt XYZ show up?" thing is really a problem

Parties and stories can move on to the next chapter

[glossy latch]

Hi3 sorta did it with their part 2

[late canopy]

And suspension of disbelief means ones left in the past are not needed any more

[glossy latch]

And from what I understand that choice was ... controversial

[late canopy]

Even if they would be helpful

I actually have no qualms with how Genshin tells its stories at all

Last I checked anyways

The stories being told being good stories is the deciding factor

Which is a good sign to me

Meaning their way of doing things isn't fundementally broken

[runic ether]

genshin has a big case of nounitis

[late canopy]

Yes

This goes into

The stories being good thing

I agree

Genshin can be really far up its ass a lot of the times

Especially for world quests

[runic ether]

main quests too

[late canopy]

Main archon quests I think is far less severe

It is much more straightforward with less lore bloat

[glossy latch]

With Genshin my impression is that they upped the scale way too much way too quickly

Plus the shift in writing team

[runic ether]

its also super unfocused

[late canopy]

My main issue with genshin stories usually tracks back to whenever it makes me feel a certain way which can be for a variety of reasons:

Whenever it tries shoving a ton of stuff at me that it has not successfully made me care about

Whenever it doesn't do that everything is fine

[runic ether]

nod krai wanted to have both a more small scale focus on the fight with rerir the wild hunt and the people of nod krai
to then suddenly we are dropping the moon on dottore while columbina rewrites reality

there was no need for all that

[glossy latch]

I feel like the sinners being fleshed out ironically has made Genshins story worse

[slow raft]

I thought you didnt play limbus

[runic ether]

no yeah cus then the sinners being fleshed out would be peak

[glossy latch]

I briefly considered adding "Khaen'rhian" before it

But I figured "Nah, Guy wouldnt make a joke even I wouldnt make"

Clearly I was wrong

[slow raft]

Many such cases!

[glossy latch]

:[

[slow raft]

https://x.com/fibonyancci/status/2044341858080563286

roy (@fibonyancci)

the goddess gives her toughest trials to her fluffiest children

X · Apr 15, 2026, 9:07 AM

[rapid bough]

i'd also like to say that nikke does overarching plot very well... for a gacha. it mostly manages to avoid the major pitfalls of the gacha formula as they affect building a world and coherent plot with a throughline across character releases and story arcs

far from perfect ofc, and characters are still left by the wayside from time to time... though nikke also has a cast several times larger than most other gacha atp lol

it even goes to the opposite extreme where they keep characters around too long... it's a meme in the nikke community that no character seems to ever actually die despite many on-screen (temporary) deaths

girls frontline also has an insanely in-depth world and characters and crazy good peak storytelling, but it gets a bit high on its own supply from time to time and definitely got lost in the sauce and fell prey to a bunch of side events to promote characters while keeping the main plot in stasis for the better part of a year

we'll never truly know the damage that early gfl2 story rewrites did to its pacing and content schedule but it was no doubt quite significant

[timber sigil]

Can vouch for GFL1 having a really in depth story + very well written characters

Which is also free to play on steam and the gacha system doesn't even take any paid currency to roll for units just ingame resources

[rapid bough]

nudge nudge wink wink huh

i'm once again on the fence between dropping and continuing gfl2 tbh

the story and characters are great and what keep me playing, corposant was peak and i know we're getting more peak soon as we accelerate to catch up to CN

but it's easily got the worst daily cycle + gameplay combination of the games i play and logging in feels more like a chore

i gotta snag helen when she releases but i might call it there

[timber sigil]

Understandable though

I'm personally just waiting to see what the new gunsmoke mode is like tbh

If it's good enough gameplay then I'll keep going

[rapid bough]

i'm still undecided fwiw, i go back and forth on this all the time

i was on the fence before corposant and then it was fire and i once again went back to being sure i'd stick with it lol

it hooks me when it's doing story and loses me when that's done for now and i'm just on the daily grind

i realized i was steadily growing more cooked when i went out of my way to get klukai v6 and voymastina v3

not because i super like the characters or anything

but because their AoE got so ridiculous it instaclears stages

i basically invested in them so i could play the game less lmao

[old galleon]

after about a million years they finally returned chichiri's mat to the shenxian drop tables for this iteration of rise of the beasts

so i finally got zhuque to 5* uncap

took way, way longer than it needed to

all of the rotb characters are done for the foreseeable future, their yupei and longxin are done, and their summons are done

oh also next gw is fire favored

so i guess that implies a run of exo ifrit before then

i'll have to pick up the bow and do the usual process

[old galleon]

what not having modern earth characters does to a mf

[runic ether]

with daze coming to timeless on arena, hows this deck

[silver osprey]

Why's Sirius here

[old galleon]

got a nayuta dupe out of ordinary pulls so she's one off of mlb now

also did that earlier

i feel like i butchered the execution, but i still destroyed the point threshold, so i'll tkae it

[summer hornet]

Quency dupe

And Signal

[old galleon]

unfortunately, unless you're lacking options, signal is pretty unplayable in the current state of the game

qeq is solid tho

at least signal gets you more gems

[wispy goblet]

60 pulls into Cissia banner
nothing yet
gonna be farming through the rest of the patch

[idle grove]

LETS FUCKING GOOOOO

[pastel bear]

.

[slow raft]

now, limbus company
kidding aside, i do want to mention that the model of having a limited amount of main characters + the whole "no new characters that we have to push every few weeks" feels really good

[pastel bear]

.

.

[slow raft]

i should probably do a few 10ers in the banner aswell

i think ill wait for the free pulls tho

[summer hornet]

Did 12 rolls yesterday, nothing notable

[slow raft]

Knowing my luck, ill have to go to pity atleast thrice so im mentally preparing for that

[rapid bough]

nikke good world hard mode spoilers ||so turns out the supreme commander is dead/dying and just a husk in a coffin? safe to say he is being harvested or used for something, though it doesn't seem to be against his will, as snow crane seems to understand and accept this state of affairs||

[wispy goblet]

Nikke Good World Hard Mode
||Since VTC were the ones to breach the contract and got "reprimanded," it makes me wonder more if the CG sent Andersen to do the dirty work. Maybe they even woke him up.||

[rapid bough]

@timber sigil @idle grove expected but next gfl2 event is antiparallel (helen + phaetusa)

finally helen will come home

[wispy goblet]

looks like the ZZZ event that started today has some story in it

[old galleon]

new gfl2 codes for teh people who are still playing that

(i'm still in the gfl2 server so i get those notifications)

LT2TW2MZK5

SBRDDYTTKQ

they pinged for both servers so it shouldn't matter which one you're on

anyway, i've decided to try out mongil bc it looked kinda cute and potentially interesting

it's more or less a genshin clone but with a focus on monsters

also kinda annoying to play on tablet ngl

i'm having some fun with it for now but i probably won't be sticking with it for too long

[runic ether]

limbus up

fuck

intervallo spoiler ||they got me tearing up immediately on node 1 what the fuckkk||

[runic ether]

holy the fauvists and their ost is so fucking sick???

rodya....

lmfao. intervallo spoilers

[runic ether]

daaaaaaaaaaaaamn im so glad pjm never misses on character designs im barking
intervallo spoilers for final node

[runic ether]

intervallo done

one word
peak

||its such a great tie in to canto 9. just picked up right where it left off and kept answering more questions that the main canto may have, not lacked in, rather, didnt waste time on to get to its needed moments.||

||gave us some good plot hooks and honestly was super endearing seeing kira sticking up and bonding with ryoshu and the sinners.||

[silver osprey]

[silver osprey]

||Weird that she has like, almost no tattoos||

[runic ether]

||just keep on reading but yeah oof matthias was really a bum for the middle and it affected her too||

[silver osprey]

||Ah, they removed them||

[silver osprey]

[silver osprey]

Aaaand event done

[toxic cloud]

@silver osprey im playing the story again. maybe viceroy likes the endmin

Then again, everyone likes the endmin

[silver osprey]

Just a little

[long tree]

Endmin has that gender fluid rizz

[silver osprey]

Endmin has too much glazing everywhere

I miss W

[runic ether]

twining thread final node spoiler
but also
||https://vxtwitter.com/misg1111/status/2044815278929015245||

제육볶음 (@misg1111)

분명 쉬려고 했는데....

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 16, 2026, 4:28 PM

[rapid bough]

is that... neko idol rapi? i'm on my knees

[summer hornet]

I am going to limit break Anis or brick my account trying

[rapid bough]

https://tenor.com/view/dante-dante-devil-may-cry-devil-may-cry5-hello-hello-based-department-gif-26042779

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/shitpost_2049/status/2044229268847116664

Shitpost 2049 (@shitpost_2049)

https://t.co/ZoyXWPVyvr

▶ Play video

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 15, 2026, 1:40 AM

[silver osprey]

Slight twining thread spoiler ||https://fxtwitter.com/ralsboo/status/2044666861653303462||

rails (@ralsboo)

Because "Alan" is the localized name of both Wayware teamleader and Allen, The Night Awls capitano
︀︀
︀︀The sprite of Allen was swapped with Alen in Canto 8 due to files in the code being messed up as they both have "Alan" in their sprite files

**💬 31 🔁 438 ❤️ 4.4K 👁️ 149.6K **

FxTwitter · Apr 16, 2026, 6:39 AM

😭

[old galleon]

khaios already applauded rapi so i'll show neon some love

cute idol neon

[wispy goblet]

It's too far away

I need it now

[rapid bough]

true!

[wispy goblet]

local man resists urge to spend money now when he still have time to farm free pulls

[rapid bough]

be strong comrade

cissia will come home

leave some snacks out

[long tree]

Soon, soon I can stop being an annoying chud about fangyis banner

7 hours

[pastel bear]

https://x.com/minato_versus/status/2044759836441956631

🇲 🇮 🇳 🇦 🇹 🇴 (@minato_versus)

#Starward is breaking its player count on Steam, thanks to Black Rock Shooter Collab and 3.0 update!
We are not counting...
- English and JP launcher
- Epic Game Launcher
- Mobile players
- PS5/Xbox players
This is amazing!

X · Apr 16, 2026, 12:48 PM

[lusty egret]

YAY GOT EVERYTHING ON 10TH ROLL

And more

[maiden veldt]

https://tenor.com/view/zenless-gif-11054740280016523820

[summer hornet]

HECK YEAH!!! Congrats, Ray!

[glossy latch]

Kinda crazy Nekomata doesn't have a potential yet

[maiden veldt]

rina and koleda neither...
Not to mention all the bloody A rank 1.0 agents...

like this is just sad...

[rapid bough]

their choices for potentials seem very much like they're throwing darts at a board

i doubt any A ranks will get potentials (more likely to get S retrains like anby and billy), but rina/koleda/neko have definitely been left in the dust

can't wait for when my m5p6 neko outdamages my YSG

[maiden veldt]

i would definitely have a lot more respect for the zzz devs if they did work on A rank agents but who knows...

it did seem like they were testing things at one time with billy and corin getting stuff in hollow zero.

[rapid bough]

i mean half of the A rank agent cast is still quite good: nicole is evergreen; komano and piper are competent DPSes; pan, lucy, and soukaku are all very viable f2p supports in their particular niches

[maiden veldt]

a lot of things definitely felt half finished for a while now.

[rapid bough]

but ultimately i think expecting any gacha game to focus any significant amount of attention on their welfare/filler units is fighting a losing battle

that's why they're more likely to get S rank retrains than buffs for their A rank variants

gravy train has to keep moving

[maiden veldt]

the main issue is a new player experience is gonna fell horrible if all their agents do jack shit, so i'm not sure what they are thinking there.

[rapid bough]

like i said though, at least half of them are quite good and definitely viable for f2p or to fill out new rosters that don't have a huge variety of options

[digital marlin]

^

[runic ether]

i think it can only be a problem if ur trying to clear da and shiyu 5 at full rewards

if you just aim for the chromes... probs fine

[rapid bough]

which tbh i'd be surprised if any new player can do in a hurry anyway lol

[digital marlin]

^

i feel like by time your suited to do full endgame modes you would have a few months into the game and have some more preminum teams or at least decent close to one

[rapid bough]

it took me like 2.5 months in wuwa to be able to clear whimpering wastes, and that was with a fair bit of luck on character pulls. and i still can't full clear their shiyu equivalent

and wuwa A ranks are significantly worse on average than ZZZ's

so i actually needed full 5 star teams to do that

[digital marlin]

yeah WuWa 4*

[rapid bough]

ZZZ's barrier is probably lower, or at least it was before they made shiyu harder

[rapid bough]

sanhua and mortefi are good but the rest is yikes

tbf though it's nice that rover is a competent free 5* everyone gets

[digital marlin]

i feel like your forgetting someone

[rapid bough]

am i

[runic ether]

better than limbus where they outright said 00 ids (4 star equivalent) are just not being made anymore last year lol
fwiw at least some are okay/good but this is just the nature of gacha even among what can be seen as a generous one

zzz and genshin still with enough regularity relesse 4 stars/a ranks and they are far from bad

[digital marlin]

Ah Danjini i suppose

[runic ether]

usually

[rapid bough]

the last several A ranks we've gotten in ZZZ have actually been quite good tbh

komano, pan, pulchra

pulchra is annoying though since she really needs m6 to be splashable

[digital marlin]

as someone who plays both ZZZ and HSR i have to say the difference on how much gets releeased is so jarring

[sharp swan]

https://www.youtube.com/live/jox1snNlTp0?si=gwjpsjKJW_nL18bI

[runic ether]

hsr has been horribly mismanaged

[slow raft]

I mran with this atleast we are literally not losing anything
Since welfares just got changed to be the 5 star equivalent

[runic ether]

true

tho 000 ids still cost more as a whole all over

which is okay...? but it does come up

[slow raft]

Arknights welfares are quite good and regularly get updated, and they also fo still make new 4 stars that are getting better and better. Though the whole system is different from hoyo games so idk how comparable it is

[slow raft]

Sometimes i forget that im essentially limbus upperclass cause of generational wealth (playing from day one)
Issues with lack of thread/shards/exp never come up for me lol

[toxic cloud]

I'm not ready

yolo @mental acorn @silver osprey

[mental acorn]

gl kiddo

her banner lasts 3 weeks or smth right

[toxic cloud]

Oh thats a good amount of time

rossi was only 2 right

[mental acorn]

last patch it was 2 2 yeah

[toxic cloud]

Maybe this will be the banner that gives me gilberta

if its a 4th yvonne im strangling the endmin

https://tenor.com/view/endmin-endministrator-pengmin-shocked-surprised-gif-8860803684743085838

[wispy goblet]

https://x.com/nikke_en/status/2044975591531909273

GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE (@NIKKE_en)

【3.5th Anniversary Special Livestream – Host Special Look Reveal】

#NIKKEAnniversary #NIKKETTStar

Ta-da~
The hosts and special look for the 3.5th Anniversary broadcast are here!
Neon and Rapi have changed into their cheer outfits! Commander, are you ready to cheer as well?

X · Apr 17, 2026, 3:05 AM

https://x.com/NIKKE_en/status/2044975604752388233

GODDESS OF VICTORY: NIKKE (@NIKKE_en)

The 3.5th Anniversary program list is here!
See you tomorrow, Commander! We’re waiting for your cheers!

X · Apr 17, 2026, 3:05 AM

[runic ether]

well... in my fangyi pulls... i got rossi

honestly may just call it here lol idk if i like her gameplay enough to want to guarantee her

[rapid bough]

pretty star spoilers ||this mustang warm-up intro is gonna hit way different after seeing past mustang huh||

[toxic cloud]

Got a second lifeng and fangyi but it was pretty rough

weapon is rly taking me all the way to pity holy

@mental acorn I guess this went better than the rossincident

[mental acorn]

gg

[summer hornet]

Up to stage 10 of the Arknights event, gonna give that another try in the morning

I will be dropping relevant images with spoiler tags, but this event has been GOING places

[glossy latch]

Smh forgetting Danjin

[summer hornet]

I honestly thought it was gonna stop at stage 8; there's been enough twists and turns to have justified it (||though if it had I'd have been VEXED, because waiting another year for a cliffhanger like that would make anyone livid. Enya quite literally got moved out of the temple so that all the priests could start being shady and corrupt without tainting her image... And if the event had ended at stage 8, she wouldn't have gotten to actually show off at all. It worked out for Maria Nearl, but I'm glad they didn't do it here||)

Like, all of these EXTREMELY SPOILERY images were just from stage 8 onwards

||the whole angle of religion and the definition of faith for a nation is something I'm too tired to talk about in depth but it's not the first time Arknights has gone there. Some similarities with the Exusiai New Covenant event, honestly- in more ways than one. Returning fan faves, discovering the true history of a nation, religion impeding the search for the truth, extraterrestrial miracles||

[old galleon]

||did they ever give kjera an alt||

[summer hornet]

||not this time, afaik, but I think she and Gnosis are surefire candidates if/when there's another Kjerag event. The whole driving plot of this event (not quite, but in a way it all boils down to it) is that Kjarr is missing lol||

||so it'd have been a little awkward to undercut that tension with an alt||

I'm stuck on the boss stage so I haven't read the conclusion yet

But honestly it'd take an insane left turn to keep me from calling this a premium banger of an event

Kjerag has always had deceptively good events, when I look back on it

[sharp swan]

https://www.polygon.com/steam-map-genshin-impact-similarities-cozy-indie-game/

[runic ether]

uploaded 22 hours ago
was the update even live 22 hours ago?? 😭
https://youtu.be/brBqW5O913c?si=9TLErJrr5pOAUPtZ

[long tree]

All the way to hard pity

Got a soupsoup dupe along the way but man just once id like to win a 50/50

Also looking at the material requirements for the new gear

https://tenor.com/view/no-camel-family-guy-brian-griffin-shocked-gif-15721983

Why does that crafting recipe have 4 branches

[silver osprey]

[toxic cloud]

Shes eepy

@silver osprey I think I love wuling

[silver osprey]

It is very pretty, yeah

https://x.com/AK_CN_Shitpost/status/2044943103417872565

AK_CN_InfoDump (@AK_CN_Shitpost)

Arknights and Arknights: Endfield are going to have a collab soon based on datamine

X · Apr 17, 2026, 12:56 AM

[long tree]

If they put silver ash in endfield it is genuinely so over for me

He is one of the very few non twink guys I go feral for

[toxic cloud]

oh it was because of the viceroy

But yeah the city is great

[silver osprey]

I didn't specify what was pretty

[toxic cloud]

Perlica is gonna kill me

https://tenor.com/view/perlica-arknights-endfield-endfield-arknights-beat-up-gif-9166203778869899533

[slow raft]

https://x.com/Resenri/status/2040053595576697252

Resenri (@Resenri)

ermmm actually guys, ermm like er

X · Apr 3, 2026, 1:07 PM

[slow raft]

alright, time to pull for the wife

Actual mandate of heaven ig

This feels wrong, but im not complaining

[toxic cloud]

Whoa, good job

https://tenor.com/view/i-ask-i-care-good-job-based-zhuang-fangyi-gif-559538520077201640

The potential 1 pic is very good

She's pretty

I'm liking the gameplay so far

[slow raft]

truth nuke

[silver osprey]

Wao

Good run

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/aelen_altria/status/2044952898665316742

Aelen (@aelen_altria)

https://t.co/QMX6CEoDnX

QRT: turboghosto
for the last time, i didnt "murder" your village. their souls are still very much intact and are being used to fuel the phylactory city keeping the dark lord immortal. not to mention their bodies have been reanimated to serve in the undead army!

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 17, 2026, 1:35 AM

[silver osprey]

https://tenor.com/view/eblana-banana-arknights-eblana-arknights-gif-13033263792088285743

[sharp swan]

https://youtube.com/live/viOkAhoa0k8?feature=share

[slow raft]

https://x.com/FamGuyMoments77/status/2044856701053178032

Max (@FamGuyMoments77)

you good kromer?

X · Apr 16, 2026, 7:13 PM

[silver osprey]

I even got closing time off

[wispy goblet]

first runthrough
a little rough
will need to do quite a bit of stretching
might run Zhao/Yixuan/Ju Fufu Stage 1
and Astra/Ye Shunguang/Dialyn Stage 2

[long tree]

"Surely the new components in endfield aren't as hard as they look to mak-" THEYRE WORSE HOW ARE THEY WORSE, IVE USED ALL OF THE NEW SUB AIC TO MAKE THEM AT LESS THAN 1 A MINUTE

EVERYTHING BOTTLENECKS

[slow raft]

Issue of the skill variety methinks

https://tenor.com/view/arknights-endfield-endfield-factory-zhuang-fangyi-gif-9927183039768355764

[rapid bough]

apparently nikke KR leaked/posted the nikke anni patch notes early lol

only read if you don't care to spoil the contents of the stream tomorrow
||new units:

• tt star anis (RL electric defender)
• neo-neon (RL electric attacker)
• avistar (free SSR, MG electric support)
  new skins:
• liberalio gacha
• tt star anis gacha x2 (???, MTL says both are from "costume pickup" which i assume is gacha, but only one has a new burst ani so the other must not be gacha? maybe both are part of the same costume and you can switch modes?
• dorothy pass skin
• RRH pass skin||

[pastel bear]

I've given up on gachas

[slow raft]

Thats great, i wish i had that power

[pastel bear]

not getting characters has had such a negative impact on my emotional health for years at this point I think I'm just gonna stick to my gundam exvs clone

[rapid bough]

wuwa 3.3 + 2nd anni rewards

i know their anni was considered mid last time and it looks like it's even more mid this time

but i won't argue with a few dozen free pulls

lord knows i'll probably need them for hiyuki that patch and lucilla the following one

basically guaranteed i skip the collab now lol

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/tidalelegies/status/2045120579364073844

jay (@tidalelegies)

Project Moon™ announces Canto X delay in favor of SECOND Arknights Collab;

"Honestly? I've plunged the company into debt after these two banners and I need to print more money. This Silverash Alter and Wang shit got me fucked up" - Kim Ji-hoon

(source - @cso_qx)

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 17, 2026, 12:41 PM

[wispy goblet]

crossed the finish line

[runic ether]

after enough time with limbus and its systems, it also skewed my perspective on what is acceptable for gachas.
being able to just get an id or ego at will and never needing to go through a relics/artifact/disc grind
story as well... idk if i quit genshin and hsr if i dont get into limbus cus it def made me really hate how their gacha-isms made their game as a whole feel when compared to limbus

[wispy goblet]

[slow raft]

https://vxtwitter.com/onion_holic/status/2045030725079199785

OnionHolic @CF22 (F26-27) (@onion_holic)

omg got her

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 17, 2026, 6:44 AM

[rapid bough]

it's that easy

[mental acorn]

strong mayors return

[slow raft]

All i want is to fight the last knight again, please

[long tree]

Very tempted to screen shot the production tree for the material

Which also doesnt include managing the byproducts

[slow raft]

You forget that im german, methinks

This sort of work is engraved into my dna

[pastel bear]

do you like sauerkraut

[slow raft]

Nah

I also dont drink beer

[pastel bear]

THEY TOLD ME I WAS CRAZY

BUT I CAN MAKE NON-WOKE SAUERKRAUT

[slow raft]

No such thing as non woke sauerkraut, youll never make it

[slow raft]

https://x.com/iloveiorisamura/status/2044982203654820150

John Kagurabachi | #TENOÍ (@iloveiorisamura)

an enchanted WHAT????

X · Apr 17, 2026, 3:32 AM

[runic ether]

john kagurabachi

[slow raft]

https://x.com/Ripnoob_/status/2045108391488454948

Rip (ACT 1 EP 6 | AK Spoilers = Block) (@Ripnoob_)

I am not a clown lappland

X · Apr 17, 2026, 11:53 AM

[rapid bough]

tbh they should do what ZZZ did with a limited choice banner where the first character you pull is guaranteed (so no initial 50/50)

i wasn't playing wuwa during the first anni so idk why people were mad about a bunch of rerun banners, i guess maybe due to the sheer volume? but like if you don't want em don't pull

but a choice banner that lets you dodge one 50/50 feels like the best of both worlds, you get reruns that are discounted in some sense and don't clutter the fuck out of the gacha screen

still, no reruns is probably for the best. i don't know if i'd be able to resist pulling on a changli banner

[glossy latch]

People had strangely high expectations tbh

[rapid bough]

i figure how high your expectations are kinda depends what game(s) you came from before playing wuwa

and i imagine a lot of people came from hoyo games which... correct me if i'm wrong, generally had better rewards?

meanwhile me coming from nikke which has two anni events per year that give 100+ free pulls each + insane new units

took me a bit to adjust to the fact that most games are not nearly as generous as that for annis lol

[glossy latch]

Kinda yeah

People were expecting a 5* selector at least

Lack of reruns is slightly annoying though

Im still looking for Brants weapon 😔

[rapid bough]

the existing reruns are already torture for me, qiuyuan bankrupted me and resisting phrolova next patch will be tough

if they said "here's every 2.x character" i'd be cooked

i'd especially want to pull for cantarella to pair with phrolova

as if i have the pulls to do that lmao

[glossy latch]

There is always a way~ 💳

[maiden veldt]

something feels quite wrong...

[rapid bough]

i will resist swiping specifically for pulls for as long as i can across all the gachas i play

so far i've only ever done it once (bought $10 of ZZZ monos) and in hindsight i don't even understand why i did it

[slow raft]

i once bought currency for limbus of all things

idk why to this day

[rapid bough]

was back in astra/eve patch and i bought it with like 2 weeks left on astra's banner to secure her... probably could've just saved normally lmao

[slow raft]

the kicker is: the id was ass and still is

[glossy latch]

Evelyn Latex Suit got you acting unwise

[rapid bough]

she's basically already in a latex suit for the parts that matter lol

what would kill me is a party dress or something similar

[glossy latch]

Yeah thats why you bought pull currency is what I'm saying smh

[rapid bough]

it wasn't even for eve, it was for astra

again, dumb decision since i could've just accumulated the polys over the next few weeks and had her anyway

i probably would've spent for eve if i hadn't pulled her before the last day of her banner tho

my feelings toward eve are quite similar to qiuyuan in wuwa

i don't pull on pure vibes very often but if a character scratches my brain in the right way i will not be stopped until i get them

[glossy latch]

🏳️‍🌈 ❓ 🤨

[rapid bough]

i mean qiuyuan can get it, tell me i'm wrong

but no that's not what i meant lol

[glossy latch]

I know lmao

[rapid bough]

anyway, with 30 free limited pulls for wuwa anni that we wouldn't have had otherwise, i'm feeling pretty good about my chances of getting hiyuki

if she takes me to double soft pity again though i may be cooked tho

i can't fund that 3 times in a row lol

[runic ether]

which id lmao

was it potential man

[slow raft]

think of the worst id possible close to release

god i wish discord actually told you what it notified you for when you get a reaction on a post instead of just showing that you got one
related: hello regi, how are you

[glossy latch]

Also Im back to farming nameless explorer 💀

[slow raft]

https://limbuscompany.wiki.gg/images/N_Corp._Großhammer_Meursault_Full.png

[silver osprey]

God

[glossy latch]

The things I do for maginal improvement on already well-performing characters

[silver osprey]

I remember when I played N corp on release

It was basically just GripFaust and Nclair with 3 other jobbers

[slow raft]

i soloed the most powerful boss with him at release: Aida

[slow raft]

its crazy that that faction got huge buffs and is still basically trash

[silver osprey]

And ironically NDon is holding blemor on her back

[slow raft]

seeing as i have barely ever used her in tremor, i dont think thats true

[runic ether]

dw canto 10 will save them

[slow raft]

robo kromer will probell the team to new heights

honestly, if the nagel and hammer passives included "n corp" isntead of just "n corp fanatic", itd be alot more competent

[runic ether]

fr

[glossy latch]

Actually I think I'll stop farming for Sigrikas echoes

[old galleon]

supposedly some patch notes for half anni were leaked?

[runic ether]

even if they are just fodder for fell bullet

[glossy latch]

I did some math and a full improvement is not that likely 😔

[runic ether]

that'd still help

[old galleon]

not gonna post them here tho

[slow raft]

i mean they do have tremor and bleed synergy and you could get rid of the... less competent ids

[old galleon]

oh i see they were already posted anyway

so uh

half anni patch spoilers ||both anis and neon being electric in a world where cindy exists||

||if they save tetra and missilis tower respectively, i'll be glad for that alone||

||not sure if i'll use them in pilgrim/overspec tower tho, that one's already super loaded but we'll see||

[silver osprey]

Not tremor, blemor

Bleed + tremor

[slow raft]

oh, in havent played that team enough to say

so ill trust your judgement

very interesting tho that shes better than the units that do the bleed tremor conversion

[old galleon]

fgo da vinci summer event rerun is soon lol

didn't realize it was already that time

da vinci herself is a good welfare, and ocean flier is one of the better welfare ce's

so both are good if you're missing any of them

[slow raft]

I could go for a few more ocean fliers

[old galleon]

tbh i almost never use it, tho part of that is simply bc i haven't been able to get it to 100 yet

but usually when i'm using an arts attacker i can get away with bg

[slow raft]

Well some of us dont have mlb bg

[old galleon]

yes, which is why i'm saying ocean flier is one of the better welfare ce's

i'm aware my situation isn't exactly normal

but even outside of that there are times where it's easier to start from 50-70% than from 0-20%, for one reason or another

[summer hornet]

😏

Played 5 games of GCG against red-white Neo Zeon with two decks (BW Riddhe and RG CB) and lost in painfully consistent fashion

One particularly distinctive game, the opponent brought out 3 8Qux to ping my board away and clear my entire life in one fell swoop

I am understanding the issue with building to face rush aggro

As far as gacha, I've not done much besides dailies so far

Gonna save my OS-10 rematch for a time when my brain is less sleep-logged

[runic ether]

where'd u leave off in canto 9

[summer hornet]

||Flaming butterfly||

||Come to think, I don’t think I ever said it outright. Borrowed a friend Nursefather Yi Sang, and combined with a more refined strategy I was able to break through the apprentice duo without a problem||

Which skin should I use my costume voucher ticket on btw

[runic ether]

||ah yeah that final fight of part 1 can end up being tricky without a good plan at dealing with ren's evades and albina's constant bleed.||

[old galleon]

holy shit, a bagpipe skin where she has clothes : ^)

anyway, i see that kjera maid skin lurking in the corner

[summer hornet]

Lmfao I’m not surprised your eyes went there

[old galleon]

between the two, i'd take neither of them bc i actually don't have either bagpipe or mountain

if i had both, i'd take bagpipe

but if you prefer mountain, go grab his

[summer hornet]

Honestly I’ve been using Bagpipe more lately

But Mountain’s skin is crisp

And he’s always a solid laneholding option

[summer hornet]

Funny that firefist Gregor is Sukuna in this analogy

Instead of the disaster curse of volcanoes

[runic ether]

the bloodfiends became outmoded by the ring on the bleed team because of firefist gregor soloing them

[summer hornet]

https://tenor.com/view/the-simpsons-he-is-already-dead-stop-gif-5552043

[runic ether]

now we just need don to change teams... even rodya and meursault have left her for greener pastures

[slow raft]

Shell get the dong-hwan id next walpurgis, trust

Disgorge innards will be the new highest damage skill in the game for sure

[glossy latch]

Ok maybe Ill just level any ATK% 3-costs I get for Sigrika in case they roll with an ATK% substat

[slow raft]

honestly i dont think either of these skins are particularly good but for just these two its bagpipe > mountain unless you freuqnetly use mountains skill 3

sure, i got 23 minutes to spare

[runic ether]

man

tsunul said this on stream but

he really does talk like kira does

kjh added tsunul to limbus

[slow raft]

decent video

mostly agree with his opinions

[runic ether]

yea

[slow raft]

saw the first bluejay L in a while relating to this

https://x.com/them_failure/status/2044945442455073268?s=20

BlueJay, Tianqiao Star of #pinkytwt (@them_failure)

I like Kira as a character in 9.5, but I hate her dialogue. It’ll be dated by the time the BokGak drops, and it wasn’t even that funny now. It was written for people to post it on social media and get five thousand likes for going “isn’t that quirky?” which I know is true

X · Apr 17, 2026, 1:06 AM

[runic ether]

it cant all be hits from the pinky ig

also missing the point that

kira's dialogue (9.5 and ending spoilers) ||is written in such a way that we can get hohenheim a daughter and ryoshu a sister that the writers can rip away from them and cause further character development ||

post 9.5 theorizing ||we get to watch kira redeem herself in hohenheim and the lce's eye as she joins them, she spends good time bonding, and she even starts getting better speaking habits due to having a proper parental figure in hohenheim.||

[old galleon]

did two social banner pulls and also got enough high quality records to do a pull on that

the first social pull got me milk c1, the second social pull got me d mlb, the high quality records got me crow mlb

lol

[rapid bough]

i was gonna say blessed but can anything be blessed when it involves crow

[old galleon]

i will accept mlb crow insofar as she still increases my synchro level cap (not that i'll ever get there)

any core dupes will be cursed

[runic ether]

9.5 spoilers
||https://vxtwitter.com/tatinami2_666/status/2044834846816829494||

tatinami🐙イベお疲れ様でした (@tatinami2_666)

https://t.co/1z8bXpGsOp

vxTwitter / fixvx · Apr 16, 2026, 5:46 PM

[rapid bough]

i tried with sanby team on middle and dialyn on bottom first and was unsatisfied so i went YSG/dialyn mid and lycaon bottom and did better

lycaon definitely feels much smoother with yidhari than dialyn does

helps that i have lighter wengine for lycaon too

though i can't always count on that since i'm sure a day will come when i want to use both of them for the same reset

has me tempted to try thrall with lycaon instead of dialyn tbh but i think lycaon was favored for shiyu here because it's only ice weak, whereas thrall is ice+phys weak so dialyn and lycaon both have advantage

[wispy goblet]

Have you maxed out Lycaon's potential?

[rapid bough]

ya

wouldn't be using him otherwise, bro's clunky af before his potential imo

[rapid bough]

yeah i'm maxing out at like 31k w/ yidhari+lycaon on thrall

got like 37k with dialyn

multiple ults for every stun phase is just too good in DA

lycaon's faster stun is good for shiyu tho

[wispy goblet]

https://interknot.space/

new character/disc comparison website
in beta rn
looks kinda like a mix of enka (which they also link to actually)
and Riv's IK

interesting feature
lets you compare your substats against their recorded top 1%

not for every character though

[rapid bough]

wait cissia's best f2p wengine is anton's sig? that is extremely funny

and the gap between it and her sig isn't even that large, wild

does that make her the first attack agent for whom the best f2p option is actually an A rank engine

it's true of a lot of anomaly/stun/support agents but i feel like brimstone has been automatic best f2p for every attack agent since release lol

[wispy goblet]

Yeah
She has an ER scaling

So you want Anton sig if you're not getting her sig

If you're running Cissia as the main DPS, her sig is more important
But as a sub-DPS it's not that pressing

[turbid olive]

I got an Alice doll for my home. uwu

[toxic cloud]

Good morning Zhuang fans

[slow raft]

Gm

[sharp swan]

EN community are like loud

[toxic cloud]

@silver osprey read the team name

Anyway this is very bad but im gonna roll w it bc it's the idiot trio + best girl
I have a separate electric team

[toxic cloud]

zhuang fangyi mutilated my oroberyls holy

[glossy latch]

They nerfed the Luuk Lynae Denia team >:[

Now you need Mornye for Denia to be good for Luuk

[silver osprey]

https://x.com/KaitZitt/status/2045125124891050387

KaitZitt (@KaitZitt)

Ms. Zhuang wanted us to see her at her very best... 🤲

#ArknightsEndfield #SpringWake

X · Apr 17, 2026, 1:00 PM

[toxic cloud]

Pog

[wispy goblet]

holy

two hour long 3.5 anni stream

[silver osprey]

https://x.com/AK_CN_Shitpost/status/2045427846928327159

AK_CN_InfoDump (@AK_CN_Shitpost)

Arknights CN 7th anniversary livestream announced

April 25, 19:30 (UTC +8)

X · Apr 18, 2026, 9:02 AM

[mental acorn]

it's that time of the year again

break out the talulah copium

[long tree]

Thoughts on zhuang fangyi: she's got really really good damage but her team comps right now are missing a sustain

[slow raft]

Gilbertas sustain is goated wdym

[silver osprey]

Kalter + Skalter2 instead

[runic ether]

whats gilberta sustaining? the rest of the team's will to live?

[silver osprey]

Just dodge 4head

[long tree]

Shes not even on the team

Fangyi needs those electrocution stacks and while gibbys succ groups them all, she doesnt help build stacks so she's useless

[silver osprey]

1.3 will have the Suibling be an electric healer so that Perli kills Ren gets replaced for her

[long tree]

One can hope

[rapid bough]

https://tenor.com/vyOaqOvU2dH.gif

[wispy goblet]

have you watched it yet

[rapid bough]

yeah i finished it before coming here

don't have too terribly much to say because the leaks from the other day were just 100% correct lol

[wispy goblet]

I hope the total price for ||the double skin gacha|| remains $60

[rapid bough]

basically guaranteed i fold to the anis gacha costume lol

[wispy goblet]

I could easily see it taking more rolls to get everything from it

[rapid bough]

i'd like to believe it will but i can never expect anything except increassingly predatory behavior from gacha mechanics, especially nikke's costume gacha which is a scam to begin with

honestly the thing i want most out of that livestream is ||neo-neon's theme song, that shit went extremely hard||

[wispy goblet]

Are you going for ||Liberalio's gacha skin||?

[rapid bough]

nope

[wispy goblet]

we are hoping and praying out here

[slow raft]

Are you running antal over gibby? That seems way less eficcient outside of singe target scenarios.
And also he has sustain in his kit as well so

[rapid bough]

remember to redeem the CD keys, nice haul

[long tree]

He does but he got wet noodles sustain

[wispy goblet]

lock da cake

[rapid bough]

always

so with the 3.5 anni costumes known, only the main anis gacha one really interests me

[slow raft]

Just rralized that the umbral monument boni are no longer available oops

Ig i can still get the mefals tho

[rapid bough]

the rapi one is very cute + blessed but i wouldn't use it over her poll skin, and idrc about the doro or liberalio ones

which means... i may go for racist drake

[wispy goblet]

I have RRH gacha skin
and I'm not very moved by the Doro skin

thinking about if I want Racist Drake or Goth Jellycat

wild speculation
who will be the third neo-Heretic
||a Snow White-Harran fusion, or a Nihilister-Indivilia fusion||

[slow raft]

Missing out on that 1.2k oroberyl is a shame tho

[rapid bough]

3.5 anni livestream ||btw i was basically right about this, same basic design but anis got her own color||

[rapid bough]

||nihilister seems likely since she was absorbed... indivilia and harran got atomized so idk how you fuse them with anything||

[wispy goblet]

story trailer spoiler ||are they hinting Anis and Pretty are gonna have a center-of-the-mind conversation like Rapi and Red Hood had||

[wispy goblet]

||not a literal fusion, but we got a Rapunzel-Noah fusion with Altaria, and now Scarlet-Isabel with Egovista||

[rapid bough]

||i assume you mean noah, and altruia. but yes i know, i'm just saying harran got atomized lol

though i did realize after sending that i'm misremembering what happened to indivilia. she got eaten by nihilister who was absorbed, so a future hybrid of her is far more likely||

[wispy goblet]

||ye mis-typed||

||they better not kill off any of the Four Beasts before they become playable at the least||

[rapid bough]

||0% chance of that happening||

[wispy goblet]

also interesting that ||looks like the B-plot squad is gonna be Snow White, Nayuta, Mirror, and Rose||

[rapid bough]

||seems like we'll get two b-plot squads (four beasts as well)||

[wispy goblet]

also shit dawg
the base ||Star Anis|| burst
I wanna MLB lamo

it's not gonna happen

I'll have to do it the long hard way through wishlist

[rapid bough]

i'm kinda whatever about all of the bursts shown, ||but i can see myself MLBing neo-neon because her theme song sounds fucking awesome and it will probably go very well with her burst ani||

[wispy goblet]

more wild speculation
||Neo-Marian will be a B2 to complete the squad||

[old galleon]

initial thoughts

skins are good

haven't gotten to check theme songs or anything like that

anis b1 in a moran economy

it's not like she had to be b3 but directly competing with moran is uhhh annoying

also little mermaid in pilgrim tower

skyjlv is speculating she might be a re-enter b1

until proven i'm calling that cope

[wispy goblet]

apparently something was said to that effect in the JP stream

it's clear one of Star Anis or Avistar is a re-enter

allegedly Anis checks for another B1 on the team
if there is one, she's re-eneter
if not, she's a normal B1

it's interesting they didn't go 1-2-3 for Counters

we're at 1-3-3

Neo Marian will be B2
I see the vision

[old galleon]

if she does end up being re-enter (flexible), then she becomes a lot better

[rapid bough]

i mean it's not confirmed yet but i would be extremely surprised if avistar is not a re-enter, she's clearly meant to be just like chime

if anis can be re-enter or normal depending on other b1 presence, then i'd be curious how she handles CDR

[old galleon]

cecil won favorite npc again

lol

[rapid bough]

i have to imagine she has her own CDR since not giving that to her risks fundamentally limiting her squad options in a way i wouldn't expect of an anni unit (especially with the popularity of anis, there's no way they aren't making her broken)

but maybe she'll only have it if she's operating as a normal b1 and not if she's in re-enter mode, idk

[wispy goblet]

Neo Neon has Missilis x Elysion on her weapon
I wonder if they'll let you use her in Elysion tower

[rapid bough]

doubt it

[old galleon]

think i'm gonna have to add "chat morons spam 'fire kayli mills'" to my future anni stream bingo cards

shit seemingly happens every time

[rapid bough]

yeah i saw a ton of that around halfway through and it made me close the stream chat

god damn neo neon's theme is gonna live rent free in my head until it releases officially

it's honestly got me more hyped to MLB neon than anis lol

[old galleon]

do you have a link to the stream?

i want to check some things on the video proper

[rapid bough]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nAeWLb62Wig

[old galleon]

thanks

damn, 2 hour stream

i'm glad i chose to go to bed

[rapid bough]

really only 1.5 hours or so

first 30 mins and change are just a countdown

[old galleon]

changes nothing lol

[wispy goblet]

There's also the JP stream
I didn't watch the whole thing but they did a fight against the new boss with the new units

[rapid bough]

oh something i meant to comment on: not only did cindy win the nikke popularity poll, her theme (unbreakable) won best song lol

wonder if old tales would've won best event again if it had been eligible

cindy sweep

also predicted this one

SBS gacha is just too peak

didn't anticipate cecil winning best NPC again though, not that i'm arguing since she is great

ark guardian + chapter 43 made andersen agenda stronger than ever so it makes sense he only narrowly lost to cecil (literally like a 200 vote difference)

and osgoat coming in at third is of course well deserved, esp with pretty star fresh in everyone's minds

all told, the only popularity poll result that really caught me by surprise is liberalio at #2 in the nikke rankings

said it before and i'll say it again, i was unfamiliar with her game (how popular she is in JP)

wonder if she'll hold that ranking next year since ain't no way she's beating anis lol

guess it depends on who we get for 4th anni + NY

i'll call my shot right now that 4th anni will be hansel + gretel

[old galleon]

i don't think anyone currently in the game has a realistic shot of beating anis next year

they'd have to add like

a new version of modernia

[rapid bough]

agreed

[old galleon]

to even have a shot

[rapid bough]

also god help me the anni minigame is another fucking rhythm game

[wispy goblet]

and allegedly it's at least semi-permanent
if they intend to keep adding songs

[old galleon]

based

[rapid bough]

i play four gacha games and all four of them will have had rhythm minigames in the last month or two

[old galleon]

isn't zzz a rhythm game in disguise

[rapid bough]

how do you mean

[old galleon]

from what little i remember of the combat it reminded me of rhythm games

[silver osprey]

Oh, the 7th anni livestream post shows a spinal chord in the background

It really is going to be Kalter

[old galleon]

did they hide any wells in teh post too?

[rapid bough]

idk i definitely wouldn't describe the combat as rhythm-based

pretty standard action RPG with perfect parries/dodges and stuff

[silver osprey]

Sadly not

[rapid bough]

random thought that if anis is a weird re-enter/regular CDR b1 hybrid, there's a high chance she loses the CDR while she's in re-enter mode which means she wouldn't compete with moran, you'd be able to run them together 👀

[wispy goblet]

There's three possible scenarios

• Anis by herself
• Anis with a normal B1
• Anis with a re-enter B1
  Hoping she works in all three

[runic ether]

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[rapid bough]

seeing a lot of people saying they think anis's main gacha costume sucks and is worse than the secondary costume (idek what to call it they're both from the gacha track dammit)

crazy talk imo

the secondary skin's idle pose doing a little dance is hella cute tho

the one tragedy of both skins is that they have significantly inferio/covered gyatt compared to base, why live

[old galleon]

||anis asked herself this same question and found her answer; so can you||

anyway, as always, i don't intend to spend on the gacha skins

(or the other skins, but idol rapi is cute)

[rapid bough]

||the khaios idol arc begins now||

[old galleon]

||hopefully your idol arc doesn't include an abusive ceo who gives less than zero fucks about you||

already seeing some people be disappointed anis is a b1

this feels like silverash all over again

where you have the braindead take that "this popular character is "only" a vanguard/b1" so it sucks

i do have my own issues with anis being b1, but it's mainly the potential moran or little mermaid conflict, not this idea that "she needs to be b3" or whatever

[rapid bough]

she's set up to be probably the most unique b1 yet so gotta withold judgment anyway imo

[summer hornet]

You already know my stance

https://tenor.com/view/gigachad-chad-gif-20773266

||regardless of her kit, Anis is Anis||

[rapid bough]

she's all but guaranteed to be meta defining so i don't think there's much to worry about

no way shift up would accept her being weak or niche, if necessary they'd buff her post-release (not a coincidence that the only other time they've done that was red hood)

[old galleon]

ye, if anis is bad, people would riot

[wispy goblet]

I'm more surprised they didn't do 1-2-3 for the Counters trio

[rapid bough]

RRH already wouldn't really fit in given she has different elemental advantages

so a theoretical 1-2-3 burst ladder would just be a gimmick more than anything

[old galleon]

you can still run them in the same team too at least in theory

depends on how anis's b1 shenanigans work but rapi and neon will probably be a competent b3 core

them not hitting same elemental weakness only really matters for efficiency in boss fights and such; if neon is even halfway competent in mob fights you can just run the two in standard campaign or tower

tho in tower neon would have to compete with the already huge horde of insane pilgrims

[wispy goblet]

I'm sure the devs remembered they put Neon in the same role as Cinderella

[summer hornet]

Beat stage OS-10 in Arknights; the gimmick was actually laughably easy once I understood how it worked. No wonder it only costs 10 sanity to run, and only has first-time-clear rewards. It’s not meant for farming

Picture related to the story; ||ending the event with that kind of cliffhanger is cruel but all in all it was truly peak. Fantastic work all around, on music and art and everything inbetween||

[summer hornet]

I still haven’t even started chapter 15 but ||I assume that this is going to bring Kalt’sit back in time for A Walk In The Dust or something like that?||

[old galleon]

they put her in the same element as cindy, not necessarily the same role (on a team)

cindy is a great boss nuke but has limitations in regular mobbing; remains to be seen if neon is similar or stands out

[silver osprey]

Uhhh nah it's related to something different that happens in that chapter

[old galleon]

if nothing else, i fully expect her to be the savior of missilis

[silver osprey]

Crazy that you managed to avoid all the spoilers that came with it though lmao

[summer hornet]

A miracle lol

Part of it is also me actively trying to ignore stuff, but that’s besides the point

||Do any other Arknights events talk about Elves? I think I remember a vague mention in the DunMeshi collab but idr||

[silver osprey]

||Lone Trail and Mumu ig||

Her skin talks more about them

[summer hornet]

[wispy goblet]

spitball
will Eyeri buff all versions of Anis

[old galleon]

better question is if eyeri will ever be playable

[wispy goblet]

Oh right
We're getting Avistar

Got them mixed up

[silver osprey]

[rapid bough]

since i only one want one of the 3.5 anni skins... i caved

guess i am a racist

[old galleon]

353k gems? rookie numbers

[rapid bough]

i have quite a haul of molds and standard recruits to spend when anni drops

[wispy goblet]

did you go the distance

[rapid bough]

of course lol

the odds are such that there's like an 80% chance you'll need all 60

and most of the odds that you get it early are concentrated in the second-to-last pull, so still $50

of all the scams gacha skins i've bought, i've only ever gotten one of them early, and it was mermaid's during 2.5 anni where i spent $20 (so $30 equivalent since annis give $10 of free progress)

which was hella lucky and i'll be chasing that high probably for the rest of my days

[old galleon]

good skin on good unit

don't blame you

(but still a scam)

[rapid bough]

no argument here

[wispy goblet]

gonna have to balance my upcoming ZZZ spending with my 3.5 anni spending

speaking of spending

[rapid bough]

still on the fence about getting that one

it's a good skin on such a bad unit

she might get a favorite item in the future but that's no guarantee she'll end up good either

[old galleon]

sora event wallpaper is enough to hold me over on her

[rapid bough]

not me reopening the nikke stream and just playing the overspec neon showcase on repeat since the theme goes so hard

i thought they did her dirty by making her the secondary unit in anis's event and not even giving her a release skin

but they gave her a certified banger theme so it evens out somewhat

[wispy goblet]

it will be a little funny if she gets a pass skin the following month
either no one gets it because everyone is spent
or people spring for it because the competition is less stiff

[rapid bough]

my assumption is that one of the 4th anni skins will be for her

they seem to like a half-year delay for new skins on anni units

liberalio just now, mermaid 3rd anni (beautiful bubble), both cindy and grave (beautiful me+you) last 2.5 anni

[wispy goblet]

hmm

[old galleon]

tbf little mermaid was introduced with her gacha skin last half anni (and so was mihara)

when did crown get naked king?

[rapid bough]

release on 1.5 anni

took until 3rd anni to get her regular skin

[old galleon]

and doro's gacha skin?

[rapid bough]

uhhhh

idk but probably for 1st anni? idt they were doing gacha skins yet when doro released

[old galleon]

aight

so i think it's inevitable that neon will get a gacha skin, we just don't know when yet

the regular anni skins seem to have been a bit more of a mixed bag tho

did red hood even have a skin before her poll winner?

[wispy goblet]

I don't think so

[rapid bough]

no

[wispy goblet]

her only skins are the free skin and gacha skin

[old galleon]

how'd red hood go so long without a gacha skin? you'd figure they would have milked the shit out of that cash cow sooner

[toxic cloud]

Don't uh, tell Yvonne

stay quiet khaios

[rapid bough]

if we were to plot out anni unit skin releases we get something like

1. dorothy: release -> 0.5 years -> gacha skin for 1st anni
2. red hood: release -> 1 year -> popularity poll skin right before 2nd anni
3. crown: release gacha skin immediately -> 1.5 years -> regular skin for 3rd anni
4. cindy: release gacha skin immediately -> 0.5 years -> regular skin for 2.5 anni
5. grave: release -> 0.5 years -> regular skin for 2.5 anni
6. mermaid: release gacha skin immediately -> 0.5 years -> regular skin for 3rd anni
7. mihara: release gacha skin immediately -> 1 year no skin
8. nayuta: release gacha skin immediately -> 0.5 years so far, no skin
9. liberalio: release -> 0.5 years -> gacha skin for 3.5 anni

so 5/9 of the anni units have received skins (either their first or a second) within half a year of release

of those, 3 were released without skins (doro, grave, liberalio) and 2 of those got gacha skins at the next anni

given that trend and the fact that neon is neon, i'd say odds are she gets a gacha skin for 4th anni

[old galleon]

also just realized that, assuming next year's popularity poll works as we expect it to, anis will be the first half anni winner

modernia (new year)
red hood (anni)
rapi red hood (new year)
cindy (anni)

[rapid bough]

the full anni events have historically been their biggest ones with overzone as a half-anni being a major exception (tbf that was close to release so it's understandable they wanted to put their best foot forward early)

this 3.5 anni is shaping up to be probably the strongest half-anni since overzone

i really wonder where they're planning to go with 4th anni that might top this

[wispy goblet]

apparently they're looking to remove a feature by or during 4th anni

and apparently that will make us pop

[rapid bough]

huh

did they say that in the dev panel on stream since i didn't watch that

[wispy goblet]

I think most people are predicting Hansel & Gretel
but I've got at least a penny bet it could be two of the Four Beasts

[wispy goblet]

ye

[old galleon]

the gatekeeper has introduced a necromancer to the world of nikke, who has successfully incorporated liliweiss into their army of the dead

the gatekeeper has also introduced a holy priest (maiden), who successfully purifies the undead liliweiss

and this cacophony of bullshit is how they make playable lilith

[wispy goblet]

specifically used the language of "remove a feature"

[rapid bough]

...what feature could they remove that would "make us pop" and potentially ship as a major anni change

[wispy goblet]

I dunno
rock rerolling?

[rapid bough]

RNG gear is here to stay

[old galleon]

make all rolls black line? that'd be nice

unfrotunately that's never happening

[rapid bough]

dread it, run from it, RNG endgame arrives all the same

[wispy goblet]

okay they didn't say specifically it would make us pop
but it was said in a way that would make it sound positive

it was pretty offhand, too

[rapid bough]

as much as i love nikke it's not exactly the most feature-dense game, it's popular mostly on the strength of its story and music with a healthy dose of fanservice

[old galleon]

i wouldn't expect anything actually useful to come out of that

[rapid bough]

if anything it probably needs more features, not fewer

[old galleon]

and if it does, then i'll be pleasantly surprised

[wispy goblet]

okay lemme type out a pull quote

it'll be easier to read than taking a bunch of single-line screenshots

[rapid bough]

this is also a good shout, especially given the upcoming story seems to involve them

[old galleon]

the ones who immediately come to mind are hansel, gretel, and pinocchio (whatever the fuck they are)

[rapid bough]

the reason i think hansel+gretel are likely though is because cindy, grave, and mermaid set out to find them and i doubt they'll be sidelined for long

granted, we do sort of need an initial major confrontation with the post-goddess fall queen, and something of that magnitude is ripe for an anni event, and the four beasts B plot seems to be set up for that

that said, that does seem a bit too similar as an overarching plot to goddess fall so idk

[old galleon]

i think four beasts for anni is cope, esp since they only do 2 at a time (unless they want to do even more per anni now)

but if they do do any of them, i'd predict behemoth for popularity or leviathan for little mermaid connection

[wispy goblet]

pull quote from the official translation provided in subtitles

Recently, there's been a lot of power creep, and I wanted to bring things closer to the original feel. So we explored some new ideas. These days, it takes quite a while to use a skill, which can be beneficial for Commanders, but it can also feel a bit boring. So this time, we aimed for a slightly faster-paced style. I think this will make for a more dynamic experience that feels more exciting for players. And as a hint for future characters, we're working on ones that are getting faster and faster.
Getting excited? You should be! There's also a feature we removed, but you'll have to wait until the 4th anniversary for that reveal.
(Different guy) Thankfully, those are things that haven't been discussed with me yet. We'll make sure everything is as perfect as can beso you can enjoy the game fully.

[rapid bough]

levi will definitely be the first of the four beasts to release

maybe alongside behemoth, maybe not

but it'll go levi -> behemoth -> ziz -> bahamut almost certainly

[toxic cloud]

Perhaps

[old galleon]

ren do you play nikke

[rapid bough]

no he's just a doro enjoyer

[old galleon]

speaking of doro

||how do we think she's gonna kick doban's shit in||

[toxic cloud]

I like doro yeah

[wispy goblet]

||not if Andersen talks her down||

[toxic cloud]

And not just the meme but actual Dorothy

and her evilness and all that

https://tenor.com/view/doro-dorothy-nikke-nikke-goddess-of-victory-doro-nikke-gif-1552655716944116119

[rapid bough]

Recently, there's been a lot of power creep, and I wanted to bring things closer to the original feel. So we explored some new ideas. These days, it takes quite a while to use a skill, which can be beneficial for Commanders, but it can also feel a bit boring. So this time, we aimed for a slightly faster-paced style. I think this will make for a more dynamic experience that feels more exciting for players. And as a hint for future characters, we're working on ones that are getting faster and faster.
Getting excited? You should be! There's also a feature we removed, but you'll have to wait until the 4th anniversary for that reveal.
that first statement about taking a while to use skills and making a "faster-paced style" is... idek what to think of that, are they talking about bursting more often?

and it's impossible to tell whether the feature removal is tied in to the previous statement or just offhandedly mentioned as a teaser

[old galleon]

so the way i read that, the commentary (implied to be about burst skills) and the "removed feature" don't have to be connected

[wispy goblet]

they don't have to be

but they were said by the same guy in kinda the same section so I grabbed them both

[old galleon]

no that's fine, i'm just saying they could be completely unrelated

inb4 we start getting 20s b3

[rapid bough]

my mind immediately goes to potentially removing burst generation as a concept but that would turn PvP on its head and honestly remove one of the few interesting teambuilding considerations

[old galleon]

but wouldnt' that go against the idea of a "faster-paced style"

burst gen is how people go fast

[rapid bough]

well what i mean is just being able to burst on CD, no generation in between required

[old galleon]

removing it without replacing it with something else would slow the game down

hm

[rapid bough]

to be clear i don't think that will happen for aforementioned reasons

[old galleon]

i think that could happen, but i don't see a world where it'd apply to arena

[rapid bough]

but that's the only thing i can think of off the dome that fits what the first statement seems to be trying to say

[wispy goblet]

wacky idea

[toxic cloud]

Thoughts on this argor

[rapid bough]

what else even affects play speed

[wispy goblet]

what if they change how the B1-2-3 structure works

[old galleon]

my thoughts are that it's really hard to boil doro down to just being "evil"

her character arc is...interesting

[wispy goblet]

if Anis really does have this increased B1 flexibility, working in both re-burst and normal compositions

[toxic cloud]

Yeah there's definitely more to it

[rapid bough]

i feel like it'd be really hard to do this without a major character rebalancing pass because a lot of teams and characters are balanced around where they are in the burst chain

[wispy goblet]

then she could be the first fruits of a new paradigm of how the burst system works

[toxic cloud]

I only know a hasty tldr from what the others have said here

[old galleon]

so to put it in fgo terms (this is probably stupid but work with me here)

doro is very much an avenger

[toxic cloud]

Pog

[wispy goblet]

well, if we see the full scope in 4th anni....

[old galleon]

||she and the rest of the goddess squad were effectively exiled from the arc despite being promised a hero's welcome after doing their mission||

||there are reasons behind that that make the whole thing a lot more complicated, but doro took it very personally (understandably imo)||

||then various other shit happens and she just never gives up on that grudge she has toward the ark||

||so she has her reasons, it's not like she's blatantly "evil"||

[rapid bough]

Recently, there's been a lot of power creep, and I wanted to bring things closer to the original feel. So we explored some new ideas. These days, it takes quite a while to use a skill, which can be beneficial for Commanders, but it can also feel a bit boring. So this time, we aimed for a slightly faster-paced style.
tbh this statement doesn't even make sense to me (aside from the power creep part)

if they're talking about burst gen, it's only gotten faster over time

it's basically mandatory for new meta units to have fast burst gen, or be made to fit in teams that have it

[old galleon]

meanwhile, in rapi land

[rapid bough]

i mean it obviously depends on the unit, but for a while now we've been getting units that basically wheelchair burst gen on their own

treasure helm, mermaid, SWHA, grave

[old galleon]

but in that mix are units who have not-so-great self-burst gen

cindy, rapi, favorite item moran, favorite item privaty

you just usually run them with one of the above mentioned to patch the burst gen issue

[rapid bough]

sure, but those end up going into teams that have nutty gen so it ends up balancing out

[old galleon]

point being that it's not strictly mandatory for meta units to have fast burst gen of their own

(hence your edit, presumably)

[rapid bough]

i did edit my initial statement

regardless, my point is that with these burst gen-focused units being plug and play into so many teams to solve any burst gen issues on their own, we end up with basically every team having lightning quick burst gen

which btw i think is fine, i think having slow burst gen in a team feels like shit

[wispy goblet]

also what does "closer to original feel" mean here

[rapid bough]

well that's kinda what i'm asking lol

[wispy goblet]

it doesn't sound like they're trying to reign in power creep and take us back to slower gameplay

[old galleon]

it means more ass physics : ^)

[rapid bough]

the statement seems to be about using burst skills

[wispy goblet]

TRUUUUU

[rapid bough]

which are being used faster than ever before

so idk where the "lately it takes quite a while to use a skill" comes from

[wispy goblet]

first I wondered if it was about farming up to level up a skill

but that wouldn't tie into more dynamic gameplay

[rapid bough]

this is also why i don't think removing burst gen as a concept (at least for PvE) is going to happen

a unit's burst gen is actually an important part of their kit

the efforts they've evidently gone through to make these "plug and play for max burst gen" units would go to waste if they just axe it as a concept

[wispy goblet]

on the other hand
if this is the direction they're going, making max burst gen easy
why not go all the way and simplify the matter by removing it as a mechanic

I do think that would be a shame
I hope the change is more like Anis' (alleged) B1 flexibility

[rapid bough]

i can see how that might lead to "more dynamic gameplay" in theory (by not pigeonholing you into needing the burst gen units)

issue is that the burst gen units aren't strong just because of their burst gen... they also happen to be a laundry list of the best units in the game for other entirely unrelated reasons

so you'd end up using them anyway and team comps wouldn't change lol

[wispy goblet]

requiring specific structures based on burst order requirements is an interesting part of the teambuilding
like Maid Mast-Anchor or Crown+Helm/Naga eating up two slots
but maybe opening up more options for re-enter bursters to not need another burst in the same slot opens up interesting options

would also solve the infamous Viper Favorite Item issue

[rapid bough]

i had a literal showerthought earlier today where it occurred to me there's no nikkes with multiple burst phases, which feels like an unexplored area of potential design

not in the red hood sense ofc where she just has 3 bursts

but think like yixuan or YSG with two ults

[wispy goblet]

hmmm

like
a B3 that has two different options to B3?

[rapid bough]

sure that's one way of doing it, or one that can basically operate as a solo b3 with two different phases that cycle every other burst

[wispy goblet]

that would be interesting
could be a hassle to set up Auto behavior if you have access to both options at the same time

[rapid bough]

still, there's no real complexity behind burst mechanics... you just build the bar and go up the ladder every time

YSG and yixuan have unique resources and mechanics tied to their second ults that make them more interesting than just pressing the button an extra time

i feel like you'd need something similar for a theoretical "double burst" nikke

[wispy goblet]

well there's been plenty of Nikkes with secondary resources

[rapid bough]

none that interact in particularly interesting ways with their burst tho

[wispy goblet]

wouldn't be too big of a leap

not yet

hopefully it happens at some point

[rapid bough]

i guess what i'm saying now is just... they could implement more interesting nikke-specific burst mechanics

anis might be a step in that direction, though she seems to be more about changing how the burst ladder works which is sort of a different thing

[wispy goblet]

you know

both Anis and Rapi have unique burst mechanics

I wonder if Neon will have one too

[rapid bough]

we've seen she has a bar she builds up that then gets expended during burst

but i'm not sure how much intrigue that really holds

i guess i can think of one way it could be interesting, though with how anis is looking i'm not sure this will apply to neon specifically since it'd require three b3s in a team to work

what if she can't burst when that bar is below 100, but once it hits 100 she always bursts (or is a re-enter b3), so you can effectively have two b3s bursting for a full burst every other cycle or something

that'd be neat

[wispy goblet]

Actually we have Neo Neon gameplay from the JP stream and I haven't heard anyone speculate anything about her
Would be a bummer though

[rapid bough]

multi-b3 is something they haven't explored literally at all

feels like an obvious area to expand into

i do think neon is just going to be a bog standard b3 and that bar is just gonna be an extra resource she expends to do Big Firepower damage during her burst

[old galleon]

multi-b3 sounds like a thing they'd need to make a 20s b3 to try

[old galleon]

hence

[rapid bough]

the most complexity i see that bar introducing is like an x.diesel use case, where you always want her to burst second (so she has time to fill her bar)

[rapid bough]

not necessarily, the way i proposed could do it as well

having a re-enter b3 on a 40sec CD works with two other 40sec B3s just fine

[wispy goblet]

Neo Marian will be B2
and then mystery girl from Commander's flashback is a wildcard

[rapid bough]

what are the odds they just dropped that mystery girl flashback storyline

[wispy goblet]

it's not zero
but Shift Up have been good at picking up seemingly dead storylines

[rapid bough]

lowkey the most interesting burst in the game has been x.maiden since she was released lol

you can use her as a normal burst, but if you don't then she builds damage over time and can just be used as a single nuke at the end of a fight

only case where you bring three b3s to a fight and use all 3 at least once

[old galleon]

s elegg?

[rapid bough]

honestly completely forgot about her

[wispy goblet]

oh
was listening to a streamer talk about that section
could they be truly removing pause strats

[rapid bough]

referring to pausing the game and moving the cursor into a particular position to instashoot something?

[wispy goblet]

yeah

are they reworking or removing the QTEs?

that would be crazy

[rapid bough]

i hope so since i'm too lazy to get good at that and think it's a degenerate gameplay pattern

it also only works for PC players so mobile gamers are left out to dry

[wispy goblet]

how do they do that without removing either pausing
or accuracy checks

[rapid bough]

i could see a rework but i highly doubt they remove it as a fight concept

[mental acorn]

i have been avoiding the leaks so i may be doomed to look the fool but ||i don't really want them to bring her back, it just makes her whole sacrifice pointless if everything goes back to the way it was||
||sure, they went straight for it right after RI regrouped. but reconvener nexus file implies that the data shards are at least somewhat aware, since all the ones we have were willing to live again (tbf, you could argue that this is just a quirk of talos ori being aether-corrupted, since hierda and the presence were resurrected unaware); kal has worked to improve terra for thousands of years, ensured the future is in good hands with RI, and gave us a fighting chance against priestess. if she decides that her part in this story has been played out, she's given all that she has to give, we don't need her anymore and we just get a proper goodbye scene i'd be more than happy enough||
||but if they really have to release a kalter then at least do something with priestess fucking with the unzipping process so the tables turn and now doc has to be the guide for an amnesiac kal||

[runic ether]

yoooo its guy

[mental acorn]

good ending: the spine is foreshadowing for a mon3tr skin

[rapid bough]

abrupt realization: with the upcoming anomaly intercept rewards update, i need to figure out teams and play patterns to get to stage 9 on all the bosses now

i can only consistently do stage 9 kraken and harvester atm

i'll wait on doing mirror container since it's very likely anis and/or neon end up making that boss way easier

but indivilia and ultra have gotta die

[old galleon]

meanwhile i'm still on stage 5 or 6

stage 4 mirror container too, haven't played it recnetly enough to log a stage 5

[summer hornet]

Okay, that was good