Which I am currently enduring right now. Truly, it's dragging as shit. But at least the opening was super interesting and Wrio was there at first and more Wrio makes me more happy.
Capitano requested he be discharged from acquiring Natlan's. Iirc, the Tsaritsa herself approved it and would be sending a different harbinger to take over Capitano's work
I have not reached Natlan, as evident as what I said above, but I hope that's presented a lot better than what it sounds like because it sounds kinda lame.
Especially since Mauvika (as mentioned in this thread) is like "Lol okay, sure. I'll be waiting for Hard Mode. I'll be waiting!"
Man you can tell I have zero interest or expectations for Natlan when I can gleefully engage in spoilers and not give a shit.
As someone who started last August, I've sort of given up on engrossing myself on the deep lore and details unless it's with characters I like or ZZZ until the latest story chapters which are ass. Mainly I care about the current happenings.
This is not always good as evident with HSR 3.0 which is the most story of all time yet I understand it.
Back before natlan started some "leakers" kept insisting columbina (number 4) would appear (she didn't) and when the quest ended some said columbina was gonna appear in 5.6-5.8 and steal the gnosis lol. This lead to the common theory that "surely another harbinger will appear and steal it somehow".
But at this point they might have forgot this plot point or changed plans due to nodkrai coming before scheznaya so they'll figure it out there.
I have a theory that they rewrote a good chunk of Natlan's story after the reception to Fontaine's. The leakers were pretty accurate until Natlan. The Dragon stuff gets pushed back into the World quest and they made a bigger point to focus on Mavuika. She has more screen time in the trailers, her backstory is given to you in the first patch (rather than at the end of the archon quest after everyone would have rolled for her) and the Harbinger gets taken out of the picture for her. Not to mention Iansan is a 4* and is one of the few designs thats not over the top.
I played varesa's quest and someone here was right, if genshin was a good videogame it would have a button mashing minigame during the eating contest, but it doesn't. Oldschool jrpgs would never.
The quest was low stakes but it was ok. varesa is wholesome and watching her sonic spindash away is funny. The mushrooms were funny losers and tighnari was not voiced (oh no). It has significant lore as this quest involves a sumeru god and the Chasm giant talking mushroom of all things. I like how there isn't a shitty twist villain like these quests usually do (escoffier quest).
I wouldn't mind getting varesa on her rerun (and hopefully iansan c6) but hoyo really aint beating the allegations with the whole buttslam thing...
I did abyss and found the first chamber the harder, tulpa felt immortal and i didnt have enough cryo second half. I looked online and apparently natlan upgraded floor 12 hp multipler to 375% from 250% (half more) and ever since 5.0 every abyss had more hp than previous one... we really are the star rail impact.
Did theater with 18 units too and god bless my one random friend with a stacked c6r5 itto for saving me again, whales are really playing a different game. Only 6 flowers cause i played overly safe but whatever. Escoffier is great on theater as i expected.
In other news, these are the banners for 5.7. Emilie is most likely rerunning because abyss will feature the lava golem boss, mavuika is mavuika and shenhe is skirk's support.
(good weapon banners too, they want money).
The current state of skirk beta is a bit divisive (severe doomposting) as skirk "doesnt powercreep ayaka enough" (lol star rail brainrot) for how limited her team building is. Another thing is how marachuse hunter (36% crit) is better than her own set and since furina is her best hydro support, you can put MH on skirk, making people who farmed her set for over a month feel backstabbed. Her r1 weapon and c1 are big upgrades for her too.
And "reliable leakers" are saying that 5.8 will feature a new 5* hydro girl who will be skirks dedicated support. With shenhe rerunning, Skirk is pretty much sandwiched between all her supports.
If this is true (i believe it since this girl would come out of nowhere) then it truly means kinich was the only 5* male in ALL of natlan and only two 4* males. Jeez, i havent rolled a new 5* male since neuvilete back in 4.1... i have c6 gaming now so i'll train him cause he's apparently genuinely good. Back to the MH mines...
But what actually matters is that i got lucky in tribe nine and droped my favourite epic skin for free from one of the endgame lootboxes! It was praying for it while opening, this game is clearly absorbing all my luck.
Did you change your limited banner 50/50 loss pool? I removed gepard, bailu and yanqing (these 3 got powercrept hard) for fuxuan, blade and seele so when i lose it's at least to some unique units with better eidolon.
Did you change your limited banner 50/50 loss pool? I removed gepard, bailu and yanqing (these 3 got powercrept hard) for fuxuan, blade and seele so when i lose it's at least to some unique units with better eidolon.
Apparently there was a chinese holiday meaning rome recent gacha games were revealed and they somewhat related to genshin/hsr/wuwa so here is that:
Persona 5 X has been stuck in china for almost 2 years, but it will probably receive a western release soon, more news at may 15.
I heard it's mediocre and characters are lame but alas, it's a well animated turn based rpg gacha like star rail (that was inspired by persona 5 and inspired persona 5X). I heard it only released 2 limited 5* males to this day.
Duel night abyss will start its second beta.
(i only saw 1 male character rip)
duel night abyss is a warframe inspired action rpg. It looks pretty but is accused of being unoriginal and ripping off warframe and other gachas. At 1:20 you can see a girl literally does castorice's ult (cuts a rift that brings a dragon that fires a beam from the same angle) which i admit is impressive considering how recent castorice is. Apparently they stole Encore's ult from WuWa too.
This is a screenshot of star rail stream showing belobog. Except I LIED! This is belobog from temu!
And this the girl from wuwa, but lolified and holding a gun (that is allegedly plagirized from warframe too).
Next we have a new game reveal: Another GTA style open world gacha, but this one is set in victorian europe with advanced tech where you kill werewolves and shit. So it's kinda like reverse 1999 (or not, i have no idea what reverse 1999 looks like).
>there are no men in this trailer
You can pilot mech horses that drift and the enviroment looks cool, but there is some uncanny valleyness in the constrast between hyper anime characters and the setting.
11 minutes of gameplay and unfortunate framerate drops
I think you can attack, parry, dodge, use skill, burst and you swap between 4 units. Seems everyone has their own second meter like WuWa. The main character skill is pulling a gun and shooting while you aim. Looks like enemies have a break bar where you can do a bloodborne-esque riposte after they're broken and everyone has their own animation and is probably going to be important. I assume you need the right element to break an enemy and you switch to unit specialized in ripostes. The boss has cinematic quick time events. Gameplay can change since it's the reveal and this might not release until years later.
There is a male protagonist option and he's surprisignyl drippy, argueably too good looking and not bland enough. I only saw one other male who is a butler.
Unrelated to this but i tested melt gaming with bennet+citlali and the boy is doing 83k melt plunges with a mid build level 70 jeezus. I can see him being a monster with high invesment.
Next we have a new game reveal: Another GTA style open world gacha, but this one is set in victorian europe with advanced tech where you kill werewolves and shit. So it's kinda like reverse 1999 (or not, i have no idea what reverse 1999 looks like).
I think the reason people compare it to Reverse is because of the art style and maaaaybe the time in which the game takes place. This is how Reverse looks during the story:
However, comparing the time periods in which the games takes place is unfair since Reverse takes places across different time periods. You start in 1960s London, then Storm happens, and we're in Chicago 1929.
It's a tad better than it sounds. You'd need context.
Nata's worst part is that floating white shitball demon. I forget which quest has her appear as an animated smiley to glaze the Traveller. Cringe
That and a few challenge bosses. Trio Fatui really hurt on max WL.
Bit of a bummer if you've missed some of the banners. The new characters are adept at movement in different ways, which makes exploration a lot of fun. Story was fine for the most part, but exploration was the highlight to me. Land, sea and sky. Valleys, fields, Aztec-style ruins, underground caverns, islets, coastal jungles, volcanic rockyscape and sky ruins. There's a fair bit of variety.
Bit of a bummer if you've missed some of the banners. The new characters are adept at movement in different ways, which makes exploration a lot of fun. Story was fine for the most part, but exploration was the highlight to me. Land, sea and sky. Valleys, fields, Aztec-style ruins, underground caverns, islets, coastal jungles, volcanic rockyscape and sky ruins. There's a fair bit of variety.
On the complete opposite side of the spectrum from someone that didn't pull any Natlan character because they were not fun, traversing Natlan on foot or by local wildlife fucking sucks. This shit is awful. Hoyo, just give us unlimited run stamina outside of combat, I'm tired of jogging for 20 seconds every minute.
On the complete opposite side of the spectrum from someone that didn't pull any Natlan character because they were not fun, traversing Natlan on foot or by local wildlife fucking sucks. This shit is awful. Hoyo, just give us unlimited run stamina outside of combat, I'm tired of jogging for 20 seconds every minute.
Late, but finally had time to do Escoffier's story quest and I've got many questions. Make it make sense, Hoyo.
Did we really need to see the animation of her completing the flavor balance that many times?
If we did, why couldn't they allow us to skip it like we can skip the animations for the banners? (Skip button would have gone a long way for the filler dialogue in this quest also)
Why does she have a tail. Is that even explained? Reminds me of characters from HI3 but at least in that game it's explained why they have the tail.
On the complete opposite side of the spectrum from someone that didn't pull any Natlan character because they were not fun, traversing Natlan on foot or by local wildlife fucking sucks. This shit is awful. Hoyo, just give us unlimited run stamina outside of combat, I'm tired of jogging for 20 seconds every minute.
If it helps they gave ororon last patch and ifa is on this patch if you want navia or escof. Ifa might not be great but he's a very good for exploration, especially natlan. I don't think he's as fuel efficient as chasca but being a 4* that F L I E S makes him valuable to have. I'm considering using him in my artifact spot farming team.
And this is a good opportunity to spread the Sayu propaganda. At c6 with ok investment she heals good, vv makes her useful on most teams, only needs fav and some crit to self battery, claymore breaks rocks and spindash goes the longest distance of any unit except probably varesa. I only stopped exploring with sayu once i got xianyun.
One of her friendship stories explains. She asked the fontaine institute for a portable oven and something to help her hold more stuff while cooking. So they made her cooking mek thing and a fully functional prosthetic fork tail. That's it.
This is kind of a shitty explanation as her fork tail is retarded and would never be this useful on practice. Even in her attack animations you can see her tail doesn't "hold" the spear, it's kinda glued to it.
The real reason is that the designers wanted a chef waifu with sexy succubbus asthetics (her hat even has fake devil horns) and they picked escoffier for some reason, despite not fitting her personality at all.
Okay, that makes sense. Unfortunately lost my 5050 to Diluc so I wasn't able to get her. IMO using a catalyst would have made more sense, because chefs and cookbooks and all that. Could have had their succubus waifu and not make her look weird when using her weapon. Or raising questions about how useful is the tail for actually holding things.
Okay, that makes sense. Unfortunately lost my 5050 to Diluc so I wasn't able to get her. IMO using a catalyst would have made more sense, because chefs and cookbooks and all that. Could have had their succubus waifu and not make her look weird when using her weapon. Or raising questions about how useful is the tail for actually holding things.
The spear has to be there because it's a pun on her two themes. Did you know devils hold pitchforks and chefs hold forks?
Escoffier is a girl who is a devil themed (skirt, horns, tail) and a chef so her weapon is... a giant fork/pitchfork. It even has bat wings on it.
Except i think the devs forgot to make the devil/succubus thing part of her personality so it's just there for asthethics. Like xiangling looking like a red panda.
Fun fact, dahlia used to have a similar idea back in concept art. His concept art was very clearly vampire coded, probably to match Rosaria's who is his friend. He even had heterochromia too. It's very possible the eyes and his bat theme was given to Ororon who is a literal bat boy.
I'll admit, I almost NEVER pay attention to the signature weapons. Mostly because the weapon banner is a scam and I only ever bothered to try for one signature weapon.
