Genshin Impact

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Also speaking of dying games.

I was wondering what was happening to it. I'm not surprised in the slightest.

still nothing to do but grind

Which is why I quit after just a week. It turns into a grindfest extremely early.

Also, what happened to the other gane that was extremely shitty, Rememento or whatever?

Edit: I'm surprised Silver and Blood is doing OK. Reverse 1999 has fallen off, but I think it'll bounce back with the upcoming AC collab.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Also, what happened to the other gane that was extremely shitty, Rememento or whatever?

Rememento: White Shadow.

Yeah, it has completely fallen out of the public zeitgeist, so I have to go to Korean sites to get any info. Reddit is still coping. I should check later when the new patch drops.

TLDR: It's a shit show.

Spoiler: Shitting on Rememento part whatever.

So the revenue.

There's zero data on the Korean servers. Telling.

New content for the new patch is....

• A limited 4* character. Not even 5*, a 4*. Okay lol.
  
  
• Lots of bikini skins.
  
  
• THEY ADDED A FILTER TO THE INVENTORY. Lol only now??????
  
  
• You can watch PV videos for banner characters on said character's banner. Didn't Star Rail do this? Hmm sus.
  
  
• There's literally zero content aside from the character and 10 chests you can find in the overworld. That's actually like the absolute fucking worst. I almost wanna say sorry to Black Beacon.

They had a roadmap for upcoming content and just gaslit everyone by pretending nothing is wrong and has mentioned no news regarding the promised content except update cycles. The roadmap promised a bunch of stuff, including a new area, which was supposed to coexist with the bikinis.
It's been delayed, apparently, and they are pretending they never said it. Apparently, they are claiming that everything is going according to plan.

Sure, Jan.

They promised SEA servers. It too is delayed, and there's no news on that one. It's like Black Beacon and that elusive PC Port.

Rememento still has the promised content as a newspost on their site. Oops. All of this was meant for 1.5. SEA servers were meant for 1.4. We are getting 1.6 now.

How do you fuck up this badly?

They announced a new update schedule.

Basically:

Yikes.

The Nemonic are what your characters are called. Oof.

So, from what I can gather, the company itself is a dumpster fire.

• They are bleeding employees, so they try to manage it with a reduced workforce, either by people leaving or getting fired. But now the reduced workforce is leaving too, and no one is getting paid. There are rumors of people leaving all the way back in February, not getting paid.
  
  
• They are in desperate need of new employees. Former employees are warning newbies not to apply. They apparently only have 55 people left.
  
  
• Poor management. Which is a no-brainer. People expect the company to go under before the end of the year, and the game, probably three months. I'll give it one.
  • The abundance of bikini skins feels like extreme desperation instead of offering anything of substance. Considering Black Beacon is going down that route too, it's always a sign of a healthy game when you're so desperate for cash that you throw a bunch of bikini skins out there to cover for lackluster content.
• Koreans are memeing on the death of this game hard when not gooning to the bikinis. BTW I came across a forum post where someone claimed Yuzuha's bikini skin in ZZZ was "too censored".

....Right.

Edit: Actually, the limited 4* character (she won't be added to the standard pool) is really....baffling to me.
Like, I get event weapons and skins and stuff, but a character who's not even a collab character? She's literally one of the major NPCs.

Worse, she has nothing to do with the supposed summer content. It's just fanservice evidently. According to K players, her kit is shit.

E2:

Edit: I'm surprised Silver and Blood is doing OK. Reverse 1999 has fallen off, but I think it'll bounce back with the upcoming AC collab.

Silver and Blood is probably due to the Honeymoon phase. People are loving it evidently, but I dropped it because I couldn't vibe with it. Are you still playing?

People are also in shock and awe because of WuWa.

 

[LucasSomething]

I'd like to thank this guy, who i probably friended years ago and never talked to again, for letting me borrow their c6 wriothesley 4 theaters in a row so i can shatter the annoying water cat boss.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Are you still playing?

Yeah. I'm currently stuck but I like it. There's a new Ancestral unit coming next week.

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

After refusing to the volcano from 5.6, I decided to autism my way through the entire region. I collected all of the pyroculus from the last two regions and 100%'d the maps. I can not overstate enough how little the story of Natlan interested me and that stamina needs to no longer exist outside of combat.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I can not overstate enough how little the story of Natlan interested me and that stamina needs to no longer exist outside of combat.

I know I'm beating a dead horse, but this is where WuWa shines. Unlimited sprinting, wall running, plus flying in Rinascita makes exploration much, much bearable. You use stamina, but you can go places so much faster.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

I know I'm beating a dead horse, but this is where WuWa shines. Unlimited sprinting, wall running, plus flying in Rinascita makes exploration much, much bearable. You use stamina, but you can go places so much faster.

WuWa has 100% spoiled me. I hate climbing in Genshin so much. It's so slow and blergh.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Umm, is Bennett getting groomed?

 

[Dumpster dived waifu]

OH, I forgot that in 100%'ing, I had to do the archon quest. Why did they retcon my boy Bennett to be a filthy Natlan native?

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

Phase IX of A Series of Dusks done. Man, they really just decided Lorelei can't have anything useful outside of Series. 2 more Phases until Ms. New Babel outfit finally

 

[Staphylococcus aureus]

Umm, is Bennett getting groomed?
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He was raised by the old Adventurer's Guild men (it's a long story that you'll learn more about, or you can read his character stories), so he calls all of them "dad". He has about 6 or 7 "dads" right now if I remember correctly. lol

 

[LucasSomething]

After refusing to the volcano from 5.6, I decided to autism my way through the entire region. I collected all of the pyroculus from the last two regions and 100%'d the maps. I can not overstate enough how little the story of Natlan interested me and that stamina needs to no longer exist outside of combat.

Natlan was fairly underwhelming in general. I didnt even play the second half of fontaine to say it was better but natlan had a lot of stuff that i'll say made the game and it's online reputation worse, regardless if hoyo is (probably) still making billions . I wrote some long ramblings but i'll reduce to focus on stuff that actually made Natlan add almost nothing to overall game.

Spoiler: stuff i didn't like that added nothing

-Completely waste of craftable weapons.
-NO FISHING WEAPON. Not even a bad one. Nodkrai has none too. They fucking gave up on fishing.
-The nation of pyro = 1 pyro unit that is the archon. One 5* male and it's a medium boy with janky playstyle and screaming pet.
-Gigantic wastelands of maps that are a pain to explore on foot and now have to be the standard genshin map design because we have these units with too much mobility.
-Wack ass designs and technology and culture and gooners allegations.
-They buffed every non dendro transformative reaction and no one noticed cause they're still garbage. Now they're making nodkrai characters that buff them into new usable reaction (or not even that).
-Only 4 artifact sets, 2 are overpowered but racist, one for skirk and one for varesa and both can ignore it (old units got nothing)
->>>capitano
-Star rail level unit and abyss powercreep, 1.5x hp increase and breaking records every patch.
-Hyper cancerous bosses and local legends that force hard team checks
-We lost an event slot for stygian onslaught. Let that sink.
-Then again, we kept getting the arena events for whales even in the anniversary so maybe it's the same thing...
-Story was spread out over too many patches then hoyo admits they were so slow they have to split scheznaya.
-4+ years of time gated lore events leading to rushed yet plot dump main quests and now focus to space tech/lore.

The good side? Well, we got elixir to craft artifacts and dust feather to reroll. I guess that's nice. Not worth the powercreep but nice.

Umm, is Bennett getting groomed?
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Bennet is an orphan raised by a team of male adventurers from the so he calls them "dads". It's funny to see people play genshin and always freak out when he mentions DADS.

OH, I forgot that in 100%'ing, I had to do the archon quest. Why did they retcon my boy Bennett to be a filthy Natlan native?

Bennet was theorized to be from pyro nation for years due to his prifle story saying he was found in a "sea of flames" and the first windbloom festival having him namedrop Mare Jivari which was theorized to be the name of the place. There was one contradiction that kept people arguing about this for years tho.

The funny part is that Hoyo isn't even bullshitting it because Bennet's burst has a very curious design choice.


The mad lads foreshadowed it since the start.

edit: new genshin code i spotted 4BWU6FCNYUSH 30 gems

 

[Golfing on the Moon 1971]

-Gigantic wastelands of maps that are a pain to explore on foot and now have to be the standard genshin map design because we have these units with too much mobility.
-Wack ass designs and technology and culture and gooners allegations.

I really liked the Natlan environments, both visually and in their scale. The other regions look boring and feel too small to feel like a "nation". Then again, Natlan has no populated central "city", so that helps it look bigger. Whereas the "city" of Mondstadt being surrounded by not that much more countryside always makes it feel comical.

I thought that the Natlan character designs were quite unique for what is ultimately a zany fantasy game. The roller skating and the motorcycles grew on me after a while. The girls look great. It is indeed a shame about the guys, though. Only Ifa looked good.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

Whereas the "city" of Mondstadt being surrounded by not that much more countryside always makes it feel comical.

Mondstadt is a region in dire need of an upgrade. It’s only expansion was Dragonspine, and that doesn’t even count as Mondstadt for any progression. And worse, was Dragonspine and had that stupid Cold mechanic, meaning unless you really wanted to farm the Craftable weapons from the region, you had literal negative reasons to go there. Hell, just off the top of my head I think it’s Boss Material was only ever used by what, Rosaria and Aloy?

The fact new Regions start out bigger than Mond is both funny and sad.

 

[LucasSomething]

I really liked the Natlan environments, both visually and in their scale. The other regions look boring and feel too small to feel like a "nation". Then again, Natlan has no populated central "city", so that helps it look bigger. Whereas the "city" of Mondstadt being surrounded by not that much more countryside always makes it feel comical.

I thought that the Natlan character designs were quite unique for what is ultimately a zany fantasy game. The roller skating and the motorcycles grew on me after a while. The girls look great. It is indeed a shame about the guys, though. Only Ifa looked good.

That's fair, but monstat aged badly because genshin map design philosophy changed. I liked when genshin felt "short and dense" in a way that was different from modern open world games. You would get a chest in monstat or inazuma and if you looked around you had another thing to becl within eye distance. It was a mobile game so it made sense, if you'd play 30 minutes per day you'd get some stuff done.

Now it's on consoles and it's too popular so it became your usual open world game where it needs CONTENT and the next map has to be bigger than the previous one. You also need to sell these units with big mobility so everything is much more spread out so genshin pratically added "vehicles" in natlan (literal in mavuika's case).

The shift is obvious when you look at how the treasure compass got buffed multiple times. It used to only point general direction, then it marks chest on the map and resets so you can use it again right after. Then in natlan it shows not only treasure but challenges, seelies, etc. Then it also shows mora boxes.

It encourages this retarded exploration style where i'm in the new summer island and instead of looking at the screen for stuff that interests me, i press compass, stare at the minimap and use bike/asha to fly there at max speed, do a paint puzzle for a chest and press compass again.

It burns me out and makes me feel like i got tiktok brainrot...

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Well then!

See you next patch!

 

[Hammr2]

Well then!

See you next patch!

Pure gambling addiction.

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Despite I've been back in Genshin maybe like for more than a month now, I still haven't touched Varessa and Escoffier quest nor even doing exploration in Volcano. Natlan Summer island exploration is only 85% something just for primos.
Asha is pretty much the best Natlan movement because it has all Saurian perks without any of their lame downsides in each Saurian. Also, big reason why exploration (travel and puzzle) Natlan feels bad overall because of each Saurian limitation beside Phlog energy.
I actually smashing next button all the ways during story though. Nice Bennett end a bit right there despite Idk somehow Abyss "must kill B" because they missed years ago, kinda contrived to me how Abyss remembers exactly Bennett. Good Natlan crew picture at the end, missing Granny because she's a neet and drunkyard.

Imagining 5 years and still not increasing maximum stamina at least. Oh no, but that will hurt combat balance. Sure, totally.

Ineffa quest is somewhat decent maybe like three fourths in the quest. Before that the whole rambling missing memory and forced "maid-duty" section is typical Hoyo writing to extend playtime. Don't even get me the maid-duty part if you somehow accidentally walk outside of cleaning area, have fun reading non-skippable 3-4 minutes dialogue again.

One neat part is whatever old fake leak Electro sovereign girl is "re-written" into Ineffa. And much older fake one.


The great part, all Natlan dragon sovereigns were just actually AI. Which is why Ajaw being a pixelated dragon.


Overall good enough for me to decide gambling on Ineffa. At least with 3 years-ish of reserved resource, I can easily build her in one day.
More team comp for my Neuvillette so that's alright. I get to test against overworld SSA Overseer Device with a few team comps.
Barbara - Ineffa - C6 Fischl - Furina can finish the boss before its beam - resistance goes up. Swapping out Barb for Siggy, it's faster but then might be because my Siggy uses Ocean set, my Barb doesn't. Barb has better heal uptime. Same comparison result against Papilla, Siggy is faster than Barb.

Swapping out Fischl for Raiden C0. Fail horribly, unironically using C6 Beidou I have better result than Raiden but still not able to finish Overseer before its beam phase. Wanna know what else bad about Raiden, her coordinate attack doesn't trigger on Natlan enemies with Nightsoul shield if their shield is up.
I don't have Miko, so no comparison but at this point I accept will never ever get her. Same as Yelan.

 

[Noebel]

all Natlan dragon sovereigns were just actually AI

I think they were normal, but decided to turn themselves(and everyone else) into pure energy after Abyss attacked. Then they planned to turn the entire Teyvat into phlogiston, but they got stuck for quite some time because somebody had to click OK. That's what the volcano quest is about. And being stuck in phlogiston their minds decomposed into mold and linden honey. Ajaw somehow got a soliary confinement and did not degrade much.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Pure gambling addiction.

Hah! Jokes on you, she came after five pulls!

Imagining 5 years and still not increasing maximum stamina at least. Oh no, but that will hurt combat balance.

Is this more dumb masochistic reddit-tier nonsense normies say like their weird hate boner for a skip button?

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

Girls Frontline 2 has hit a shitshow with Skin Gatcha with a 100 hard pity and no guarantee. F2P have to hold out for a year to almost get enough Passes. They also released gift boxes that give 90 pulls for $110. Add in the fact the boss fights for events just spin in place instead of moving and are all recycled content means I'm jumping ship before sunk cost factors in.