Genshin Impact

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Luocha is just a heal bot and not even a great one and fu xuan straight up can't keep up with modern bosses who have a fuckton of dmg+cc+dots.

I had to switch Loucha and Fu Xuan for Aventurine in AS because they were having issues. Like, he's E1 and couldn't keep up, and Fu Xuan was always on the brink of death. They even have issues in MoC. My E6 Gallagher does better and that's because the meta favors him. Some DPS also feel the pain, like who uses Seele?

 

[Keine]

I had to switch Loucha and Fu Xuan for Aventurine in AS because they were having issues. Like, he's E1 and couldn't keep up, and Fu Xuan was always on the brink of death. They even have issues in MoC. My E6 Gallagher does better and that's because the meta favors him. Some DPS also feel the pain, like who uses Seele?

At this point I think even 4* DPS have higher damage potential than Seele, like Moze and March 7th both do crazy amounts of damage that my Seele can't manage.

 

[LucasSomething]

I had to switch Loucha and Fu Xuan for Aventurine in AS because they were having issues. Like, he's E1 and couldn't keep up, and Fu Xuan was always on the brink of death. They even have issues in MoC. My E6 Gallagher does better and that's because the meta favors him. Some DPS also feel the pain, like who uses Seele?

I barely use luocha nowadays and havent used fu xuan in months, galagher and aventurine simply trivialize both of them.

Galagher E6 is bizarrely strong for a 4*. Super SP positive, can use 3* lc or craftable 4* lc, good fire break+break dmg, 3 turn "life steal" with good heals and two debuffs for acheron and Ratio. He also gets 78% free effect Res because fuck Luocha i guess, my galagher has over 100% res.

With the way powercreep is going, by the time we get a 5* Quantum Erudition they will probably do more single target damage than Seele. Even Sparkle was already powercrept by Sunday who is basically Bronya 3.0 and will be mandatory for the incoming summon/servant meta.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

5* Quantum Erudition

We have one. Jade.

 

[LucasSomething]

We have one. Jade.

Oh god i completely forgot she exists. I'd say she's "balanced" cause her kit requires a second erudition and a lot of enemies to really pop off. We'll see if the first 5* quantum destruction is stronger than seele tho cause i really doubt they will be weaker at this point.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Both GI and HSR are getting closer to 100GB in file size.

About that, Genshin's 107 GB on my PC though I have no idea if that's the standard installation size or just because I've had it installed since 1.0.

I guess I've been super lucky because HSR is about 45GB on my laptop. On the other hand, Genshin started at 80 and has since reached 100 and I installed that shit in August.

I hear tell it's old game files such as quests and cutscenes and expired events and shit. Stuff you evidently don't need, which is why you can just delete the old resources on the mobile version to free up more space.

Which just makes it all the more weirder why they haven't implemented that for the PC version.

I do believe when they announced free 5-star, they implied it would be a yearly thing from now on, and they will expand the selection next time.

That would be very nice. And they should extend that courtesy to Star Rail.

With the number of five-stars we get often, it's kinda unavoidable that so many get left to the wayside and never get reruns or just forgotten or they were flops so MHY doesn't want to waste time on them. Okay, just dump them on the standard banner for all the out-of-season whales.

I realize I sound super spoiled. Pardon me.

Moze and March 7th

Indeed. They do insane amount of damage. It is not without reason that they, alongside my busted-ass Feixiao are part of my main team. It's follow-up attack bonanza plus Feixiao can be beefed up to abuse CRIT.

Spoiler: Long WuWa things

Anyway
Played the Black Shores main quest in WuWa and I am probably gonna get called a faggot for this but I thought the story kinda sucked ass. Shorekeeper herself is an interesting character and I love her gameplay and design but the story turned her into our desperate puppy piano-playing pseudo sex slave simp. And all her anime waifu uwu moments kinda made me laugh.

Granted, they made a point of mentioning that she and Rover had a close relationship before s/he fucked off to find a better solution for the evil supercomputer but idk, the quest itself is rather short and it felt really badly fast-paced and kinda rushed.

It was very quick that Rover was all over Shorekeeper despite the fact that s/he doesn't actually remember her or know her. They really tried to push this beta romance and deep connection but all we ever hear for that is Shorekeeper talking about what she and Rover used to do and cutscenes of piano playing.

Everyone was also ready to kiss our ass super quickly.

It was mentioned to me before that WuWas story had a massive rewrite after the closed beta, hence the very weird moments as well the Black Shores suddenly being our allies despite the fact that the quest before that established a tense relationship with them. But suddenly, we're besties. Huh....

This latest expansion feels like it was written with that closed beta story in mind.

I hope that when we eventually get the New Federation, the writing team will actually pace this shit better.

Anyway the saving graces of the Black Shores expansion is Aalto, he's the silliest, and the music. Oh and the environment. The design is beautiful.

And did the Encore quest as well and that shit was fun. Encore herself is fun.

 

[Clancee]

Which just makes it all the more weirder why they haven't implemented that for the PC version.

It's so they can add that feature on a later update to make it seem like they're listening to player feedback. They've been doing that ever since people noticed features requested for Genshin were added to Star Rail first. Maybe even before that.

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

Decided to speedrun Floor it! To the Golden City a couple days ago. That was a neat side story(for some reason, Matilda just works better when anyone from Team Timekeeper isn't around). Final boss was fun with the way she fucks up your character positions(Unintentional Avgus counter for sure, though). Got a few hours before Mane's Bulletin and Crisis Mode starts

 

[Hammr2]

About that, Genshin's 107 GB on my PC though I have no idea if that's the standard installation size

I can guarantee if you remove one of audio languages, you can free up 15-20 something GB of space, JP is 17GB right now.
Also, find game folder -> GenshinImpact Data -> webCaches, delete whatever number folder at the top except the latest one (date). Can free up some more.
Right now the latest one should be 2.30.00. WebCaches are the whatever showing on Launcher screen at that time, banner, events, etc...

It was mentioned to me before that WuWas story had a massive rewrite after the closed beta, hence the very weird moments as well the Black Shores suddenly being our allies despite the fact that the quest before that established a tense relationship with them. But suddenly, we're besties. Huh..

Don't bother hanging on whatever close beta story when it isn't the current reality or the real story right now.


In game archives



The last two pic were right after Scar got captured, you can even watch the whole thing here to remind yourself (EN audio, yes the horror).
Nobody really actually knows about Black Shores beside Black Shores themselves. Rover meets Camellya first thinking she was on the bad side. Only a bit after that, the whole first time meeting Alto and Encore.
Much much mucho texto and gameplay later, during or after the mechanical boss and the rain having Alto explaining what is Black Shores to Rover. Also first time learning about Savantae, which is being part of story in Mt.Firmament.

About Shorekeeper herself, I'm just gonna say. Her part was kinda copy-paste with Changli about revealing and involving with Rover past. Except Rover had way more influence to Shorekeeper than Changli.
Few other things, devs are hammering her feelings to Rover not only in game but outside game with free Astrite codes before the patch launch. Her caring for Rover again, again and again is foreshadowing of what she was gonna do with fixing Tethys. But as I said in Wuwa bad thing. I don't like how it was done vaguely with the fixing.

From what I've seen waifu-husbando gacha games characters pandering to Players is the norm. MHY games beside Tears of Themis are actually more of being the exception.
Even Genshin friendship system, voice lines, lots of early characters are teasing to be really really really close and personal to Traveler. MHY writing relies on gacha characters built up to each others way more or with some side NPCs. Main characters are most of the time stand by or being helper. This fits comfortably with more active (no life) and vocal side of EN fandoms, because of shipping aspect. Also, these people latch onto anything popular thing and somehow deem how the fandom should be.
I say most, because there are few other teasing personal moments between Traveler and Genshin characters too.
Ayaka (story quest and her alt outfit limited time events), Xiao (story quest, last year poetry limited time events). Yoimiya both story quests. Coincidentally both Geo girls, Chiori and Xilonen story quests have that.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

About that, Genshin's 107 GB on my PC though I have no idea if that's the standard installation size or just because I've had it installed since 1.0.

A thing I’ve noticed in my autistic game of “how can I maximize console memory” - Genshin’s file size, at least for the PS5 version, bounces around sporadically. I don’t know what those fuckers are doing, but I was well over 100GB by the end of Fontaine, only for it to drop to around 70-80 when Natlan was added.

I don’t know if they’re just scrubbing outdated files from Events, but it’s amusing to keep an eye on. It’s not like I’m using all that storage space anyway - that’d require the PS5 have games to buy…

 

[Fae Supremacist]

Some DPS also feel the pain, like who uses Seele?

Forget about Seele, remember Jingliu? Genuinely unusable less than a year in, the churn rate of characters is ridiculous.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Don't bother hanging on whatever close beta story when it isn't the current reality or the real story right now.

I can't tell if you hate all of my posts regarding the lore sometimes or if I'm just too autistic to pick up tone through text.

Anyway the reason why I bring beta up is because of the attack on the main city with Yuanwu showing up, a character we have never interacted with or even shown up before. Evidently that was a result of the rewrite.

From what I've seen waifu-husbando gacha games characters pandering to Players is the norm

Indeed, that shit sells. I faintly recall Girls Frontline fans having a meltdown because it was implied some of the girls having relationships with other men.

Hell they don't even like it if the stand-in is implied to be female.

Ironically the western fan base hates the people who treat it like a harem scenario. It's rather amusing.

Forget about Seele, remember Jingliu? Genuinely unusable less than a year in, the churn rate of characters is ridiculous.

Which makes me curious enough to ask you if Yanqing is complete garbage then. Because when grinding for Dragon Heng, I lost my first 50/50 and got water boy instead. He's pretty Meh ngl.

Or more likely, I haven't put that many resources into him.

Side note and completely unrelated but I'm beginning to get slightly sick of Xianzhou. I guess it's the back to back trailblazer missions, the War Dance with Luka and the other quest with the wolves.

I suppose that was my fault because I just happened to reach the back half of the main quest around this time as well.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Forget about Seele, remember Jingliu? Genuinely unusable less than a year in, the churn rate of characters is ridiculous.

How about DoT teams?

 

[Fae Supremacist]

How about DoT teams?

Right now, the premium DOT team of four limited characters, all with synergy with each other (Kafka, Black Swan, Ruan Mei, Huohuo), even with limited cones on top, is considered very off meta and the HP bloat is so bad DoT procs barely tickle enemies. "Hardcore players" (ie. sunk cost victims) are begging for MORE shit to roll for to salvage the archetype that's only a few months old, something even more powercreeping like another support that makes DoT crit. Also, leaks say the Break archetype that is already raping the meta will get even MORE support, possibly to match the FUA archetype and the upcoming summoner meta, which means even more powercreep will be served.

And since this thread is already hoyoshit central, ZZZ's latest patch, completely barren as it was, made sure to add a ridiculous whalebait mode with 75 battles in a row without healing or resetting, no borrowing characters from friends, nothing.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

And since this thread is already hoyoshit central, ZZZ's latest patch, completely barren as it was, made sure to add a ridiculous whalebait mode with 75 battles in a row without healing or resetting, no borrowing characters from friends, nothing.

I did the first 10 floors of it, but I don't think I'd be able to finish it. I can't even do Shibyu(?) Defense. To be fair, I do need to level up my characters, but it's so costly.

 

[Leaded Gasoline]

And since this thread is already hoyoshit central, ZZZ's latest patch, completely barren as it was, made sure to add a ridiculous whalebait mode with 75 battles in a row without healing or resetting, no borrowing characters from friends, nothing.

The battle tower thing? Caesar makes it trivial to reach floor 25 even if you have her at c0 with a stun wengine

Used Soldier 11 with Lucy and Caesar all the way and only had some difficulty with Jane because she moves way too fucking fast

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Alas, I ask again; who wrote this?

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

The dialog in that game is pretty cringe. HSR is heading in the same direction. During the Sampo event, he kept calling us fam.

It feels so out of place.

 

[Stumbling9]

The dialog in that game is pretty cringe. HSR is heading in the same direction. During the Sampo event, he kept calling us fam.

It feels so out of place.

Honestly I didn't notice this dialogue, I mostly try to skip them for the rewards and fuck off, wish we could skip both dialog and cutscenes like in most games, I only care about gameplay and mechanics.

 

[ZMOT]

I realize I sound super spoiled. Pardon me.

nah, hoyo is known for being stingy. maybe with some actual competition they have put in some effort again.

A thing I’ve noticed in my autistic game of “how can I maximize console memory” - Genshin’s file size, at least for the PS5 version, bounces around sporadically. I don’t know what those fuckers are doing, but I was well over 100GB by the end of Fontaine, only for it to drop to around 70-80 when Natlan was added.

iirc they compressed some stuff for 4.8 or 5.0, and can't remember when they added you can deinstall extra voice audio from inside the game.

Anyway the reason why I bring beta up is because of the attack on the main city with Yuanwu showing up, a character we have never interacted with or even shown up before. Evidently that was a result of the rewrite.

not sure when black shores was written, but imo it was pretty self-contained either way. I think the bigger issue is playing the "story" out of order, because tbh when I did it I hardly remembered that much about 1.0 from months ago to spot any discrepancies.

I assume 2.0 is the big reboot, in what direction that goes has to be seen.