Genshin Impact

[BinaricHate]

Anyone else getting weird lag in the new nod krai region? My PC ain't all that strong (gtx1050+g3260) but I can go around every other region with a smooth FPS but in the new NK island it's like capped to 30FPS or something.

Also, lichurrly unplayable 0/10

Spoiler: if you haven't figured it out

"apert"

Finished the AQ, good shit Mihoyo give me more of this please, although I'd made the save points a bit more obvious and plentiful because the normies that can't fucking read are bitching again. Also the new island is kinda on the small side, like it feels like it needs at least 20-30% more space because everything is squished together.

Finally, Sandrone better come back more tsundere and smugger than ever or unlike that CN dude I'll actually succeed in stabbing Dawei.

If the leaks to to be believed she won't be tsundere anymore. In all honesty I just hope they give her an actual personality and don't turn her into vapid UwU waifubait. Assuming she stays in the fatui this won't be an issue but I'm really worried how they'll develop her character if she does leave the fatui. A few Scara like story quests, would be my guess? It would also be silly if they remake her to be an exact replica of her prior self because then her fucking sacrifice would have been for literally nothing.

 

[Troon Whisperer]

If the leaks to to be believed she won't be tsundere anymore. In all honesty I just hope they give her an actual personality and don't turn her into vapid UwU waifubait. Assuming she stays in the fatui this won't be an issue but I'm really worried how they'll develop her character if she does leave the fatui. A few Scara like story quests, would be my guess? It would also be silly if they remake her to be an exact replica of her prior self because then her fucking sacrifice would have been for literally nothing.

I'll wait and see, leakers have been known to be wrong before. But if it is true, then Dawei has lost the mandate of heaven and must be punished.

Edit: actually on a second thought, is it just me or did Lumine really get shafted for the alt costume? Hers is really unimpressive compared to Aether

I kinda prefer the new outfit, although it did delete her shoulder blades for some weird reason and is a little too yellow but otherwise is fine. Aether did get the better outfit, but when his default was so shit it's not hard.

 

[The Lawgiver]

I got seemingly cucked on 50/50 for new character but then a few rolls later for the first time in a while I got an early 5 star drop so I have the new character. Surprised how the fucking SPEED from the story segments that seemed like it was just a "for those alone" things. It's not even mentioned anywhere in the character skills as far as I noticed skimming over them but columbina is incredibly floaty speed fast running wise it's insane how fast this robotic voiced autist god can haul ass across the plains. Due to not requiring a special attack trigger it's a bit more convenient even if slightly slower than varessa's super speed sanic hedgehog sprinting because her walk-run speed seems even faster than the normal run speed of a lot of characters.

Gonna try and level em up as grindy as it may be.

Regarding genshin I just finished the new World quests and I'm quite pleased, I enjoyed quite a bit how involved Illuga was on the quest, same with the length as I felt it was really to the point without dragging on endlessly, the way it slowly changed part of the zones was right down my alley too, now I just need to explore a bit more and I'll be pretty much done with the new update lol.

It was surreal witnessing the long world quest not only be a character quest basically but also not voiced at all like most intense world quests tend to be.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Did the Apocalypse world quest and what the fuck that shit was super good. I didn't mind the lack of combat so much. Only thing to bitch about was that it wasn't a little harder. Felt like the two boss fights were over way too soon. But eveything is is fantastic. Really atmospheric and creepy and fucked up story.

I am not a lore fag but the world quests are fantastic and I will adore them.

I don't think I've encountered one I disliked. Interesting

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Silver and Blood done fucked up. US servers to be taken down for a couple of days. Why? No idea. They don't say in the announcement.

Temporary Service Suspension for Silver and Blood (US Region)

Attention Lords:

Thank you for your continued support of Silver and Blood. We will soon be undertaking infrastructure updates that may temporarily affect your ability to log in to the game. During the maintenance period, Silver and Blood may be temporarily unavailable for some users, including login and payment functions.

We deeply apologize for the inconvenience this may cause. The resumption time depends on the progress of the maintenance. Specific times will be announced later, and relevant compensation plans will be formulated and announced based on the actual duration of the maintenance. Please stay tuned for official updates.

[Adjustment Schedule]
Suspension Time: 01/21/2026 02:00 (UTC-
Maintenance Time: Maintenance adjustments officially begin on 01/21/2026 04:30 (UTC- and are expected to last 3-5 business days.
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[Adjustment Details]
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[Important Notes]
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[Service Resumption Details]
We are making every effort to complete these adjustments as soon as possible, and the actual reopening time will depend on the progress of adjustments. Any updates will be shared promptly through our official social media channels.

[Compensation Details]
We understand that this maintenance may cause trouble and inconvenience, and we apologize once again. As a gesture of apology, we will issue compensation to all affected Lords based on the actual number of maintenance days.

Compensation Scope: All Lords who have registered an account in the US region of Silver and Blood before the maintenance (01/21/26 04:30 UTC- .

Compensation Plan:
Issued daily during suspension: [Soothing Embrace x10, Moon Tear x300, Nameless Pact x10, Time Log (24h) x2, Blackened Smelting Ore x50, Rich Knowledge x5]
If you have purchased Privilege Cards, Passes, or similar content that was active during the suspension, you will receive the following compensation:
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Monthly Boon, Blissful Boon: We will reissue all unclaimed rewards after operations resume
Extra Compensation: After operations resume, we will send a unified compensation reward of [Moon Tear x3000, Vestige of Love x10, Large Antiquated Reliquary x1, Soulstrike x10, Soulstrike Bellows (Headgear) x10, Soulstrike Bellows (Ring) x10]

Specific compensation methods and issuance times will be announced separately after operations resume. Please stay tuned for official announcements.

If you encounter any issues, please contact official customer service. We are dedicated to assisting you and look forward to seeing you again!
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Silver and Blood looks forward to reuniting with our Lords soon to continue the adventure in Minexus! We sincerely thank you for your trust and support!

The Silver and Blood Team

According to other people, all of the games under the same company that run SaB (Skytone, Moonton) are going through this, with some games shitting themselves.


By the looks of it, it seems to be related to US relations with China. Guess I got a little bit of free time.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

Did the Apocalypse world quest and what the fuck that shit was super good. I didn't mind the lack of combat so much. Only thing to bitch about was that it wasn't a little harder. Felt like the two boss fights were over way too soon. But eveything is is fantastic. Really atmospheric and creepy and fucked up story.

I am not a lore fag but the world quests are fantastic and I will adore them.

I don't think I've encountered one I disliked. Interesting

It honestly feels like, because the World Quests are generally far more self contained than the Archon Quests, the writers for them are more willing to explore things and stretch their proverbial legs. Even if the stakes for them can be either really stupid or "how does this feel like a bigger threat than the Archon Quest?"

Probably helps that most World Quests are tied to a specific Region rather than having to mesh with the Main Story.

 

[LucasSomething]

I know most here don't care about mecarashi but here are some stuff i'll say

Spoiler: asuka and eva2

>asuka and eva 2

At high investment,, 3+ dupes, 5 bionics (extremely rare, think crowns but much stronger) and rainbow mech, she really lives to the hype. Her kit sounds balanced on paper but it isn't due to her exploiting many flaws in the game's system. Command skills are cutscene attacks that can't be countered by any chance and asuka has 2 very strong ones, 4 range jump that hits the head and a line spear throw with high dmg on first target and is aimable.


(You usually kill a thrash mob while doing damage to the boss, letting asuka move again)

This mean she has completely absurd mobility and range, effectively being able to yolo chain jump across the whole map and do consistent double and triple kills. Her throw gets more expensive the more you use it yes, but at very high investment it doesn't matter if the enemy dies first. We also have a SS craftable spear that gives AP after 6 targets hits and helps her immensely. After asuke i managed to shave my weapon farms from 6 and 7 to 3 and 4 turns, only improvising and not using guides.



The eva pilots also get a "fury meter" that increases based on performance and raises your stats and asuka is the best user as she will be spamming safe attacks (shinji requires some babying and rei is tank so gets hit often). At 100% her stats increase significantly and she gets there fast.

And if that wasn't enough, Asuka has a different playstyle with double SMG. Her skills are only decent (stronger shot with focus on low hp part and shot without counter) and she has a passive to do follow up attacks after friends. You'd think this is better for bosses but sadly she's a fighter (melee class) so she doesn't get extra attacks unless she is kills or breaks something. You're probably better just spear throwing once at the boss' head.

Her mech, eva-2 or "Rev-2" is a bit overrated but also not because it's just a damn solid flex mech. It has the highest firepower in the game and good accuracy and each part gives different effects. Head and legs will double the mods you equip and arms give more dmg and acc for each AP you spend. It's rainbow effect gives more power and -1 AP cost on first move when the turn starts 2 squares away from allies. This makes it argueably the most flexible light dps in the game as you get more mod customization and any weapon type can use it, even if the effects aren't "best in slot".

The only downsides is that it has one of the lowest hps for an S mech and the rainbow passive can be hard to play around. When i messed around asuka would lose an arm and shit and i was surprised, then i realized the other mechs i use have better survivability (glasya has 15% dodge and twilight has much higher hp). Passing Rev-2 to other pilots also broke my muscle memory cause i'm not used to letting they stay away from allies so i wasted the passive.

Asuka hes a few flaws herself, not enough to make her bad but some you have to remember. Like any two hander, she loses an arm she's pretty much dead weight as she cant use skills. Since she uses polearm, the AI loves to shoot her outside range and focus fires her. Her strenght depends on high investment because if asuka is not fraging then she cant sustain herself or move.

tl;dr Asuka is that strong if you whale on her. She can jump over the map sniping fodder or throw a busted piercing spear and enemies cannot counter attack her. Once her special meter hits 100%, she becomes a monster. edit: Her double machinegun playstyle is not op (simple stronger attacks) but it's there if you want to try something different, i like the option. Her only weakness is being useless after breaking 1 arm as she loses all her skills.

edit: eva 2 is also a freak of nature. It's not best in slot for most but it simply has very high firepower and easy to get bonuses. Any good dps can use this if you give them space but it does have notably low hp, making it a glass cannon. Asuka exploits it greatly due to her mobility, range and safe moves.

Fun fact: Asuka has a TWO HUNDRED DOLLAR skin.


(you get it for "free" after spending 200 dollars. It used to be 250 but they lowered it after backlash).

>shinji and eva 1

Spoiler

I only got shinji at zero dupes and eva 1 + 1 kit, meaning he's not at full potential yet. I'll get the rest of him after more rolls and the event. That said, even here shinji is clearly not as busted as asuka and he's balanced. He has potential to do a lot of damage but it takes effort and setup and won't be as good.

Shinji has 2 main playstyles that are equally good, minigun and sniper. Shinji is the only raider in the game that can hold a sniper rifle well and while he's not a great sniper, he brings some unique advantages, like being able to fire twice while standing still and do link attacks after friends attack. Shinji's passive gives him an extra attack for FREE if he has 3 or more buffs. This is a VERY STRONG passive as any extra attack tends to be powerful and you really want to play around it. Sadly this game doesn't really have a buffer class so you can't just have someone cast a spell on him.

The easiest way to get buffs is to play with Mary, an A rank (think 4*) who can buff herself after follow up and then pass them to someone, so after one turn she can give him buffs. Weapon mods can be equipped for a small chance to get buffs too. At A3 (or c3) shinji will get a random buff if asuka or rei is on the map so that helps him a lot. You really want to this as without his passive, shinji is kinda meh.

His skills are not that great for their AP cost. With minigun he has a 3 quare line AoE skill that gives him buffs for each enemy hit, letting him self buff but 4AP for a fairly low range and not that strong skill. As a sniper he has 2 skills but they're simply aimed shots that ignore enemy resistance, one at 1.1x power for 3 ap and another at 1.5x por 5 AP. Unless the boss has DR, this is kinda mid.

Eva-1 on the other hand is a pretty good mech without many good users because there are more healers and tacticians than dps. The passives are kinda niche, with the arms having 50% regenation on break and CANNOT HOLD SHOULDER MISSILES, and head+legs giving more damage when not countered (why didnt asuka get this?). But it does have generally high hp/armor/acc and very high spare weight at 2100. This means it's not best in slot for anybody but it's a good stat stick and can be used by railgun dps. The rainbow effect gives +1 buff duration which is perfect for shinji.


(it looks very different from the original but it has to since this is a real metal robot with detachable parts)

Overall shinji is fine for a free unit. I guess he was never going to be OP but he has his own gimmick and a strong niche in some longer maps and immobile boss stages. edit: Eva-1 is also an ok mech that is nice to have but not broken. It's not notably strong offensively but it has high overall stats and arm regeneration so it's just a solid filler mech for medium weight gunners.

The main downside of them is that they have no english voice acting, only japanese and it sounds lower than other voices. If i had to guess it's because they have very anime AAAAAAAAAAAA battle cries on their moves.

BTW, arknights endfield releases in 2 days and the pre-download is avaiable. There has been no mentions of gacha system changing or currency improvements but the devs seem to be trying to soften backlash by announcing a lot of free stuff before release.

https://endfield.gg/arknights-endfield-launch-rewards/

This game has one more star than genshin so think 6* as 5* and 5* as 4*. If you login for 14 days you get a 6* unit and if you reach account level 45 in two weeks you get a 6* standard weapon selector. Pre-registering gets a free 5* unit and i think 20 standard rolls?

Either way, allegedly they're marketing really hard and plan content creators to shill the game very hard on release. If anyone here is planning to check out, keep that in mind and remember to roll on the banner that has guarantee but only after you saved enough to hit pity.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

Asuka is maxed out now, Waiting on enough feeder parts to finish my rainbow on 02.

Waiting on Rei's banner before I can get enough pulls to hopefully get Shinji to A3

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

Took all 140, but at least I'm done with this banner

 

[Twin Addler]

The new boss has a gimmick where it will charge and you have to break its shield before it finishes charging. If your name is Flins, Nefer or Zibai just attacking the boss is all you have to do to break the shield but if you dare to use a dps that isn't those three you have to kill three adds far away from each other simultaneously to break the shield.

The crab boss has a gimmick where it has a nigh unbreakable Pyro shield the only way to break it is to break the Pyro shield of the small crabs it keeps spawning so they crash into the boss and break its shield. Then it goes down for a little bit.

Just before the boss refreshes his shield, he briefly goes underground but Skirk can still attack it during this but Skirk will start auto targeting the small crabs instead of the underground boss you just have to hope auto target actually lets Skirk hit the boss.

This boss is supposed to be a Neuvillette shill since you just rub your mouse all over your desk and he powerwashes all the small crabs and avoids dealing with auto targetting. Oh hey a Neuvillette rerun is next banner.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Either way, allegedly they're marketing really hard and plan content creators to shill the game very hard on release. If anyone here is planning to check out, keep that in mind and remember to roll on the banner that has guarantee but only after you saved enough to hit pity.

I do plan to give it a go after work tomorrow so I'll give my thoughts on eveything including the gacha.

Speaking of go , Duet Night Abyss just released on steam the other day to fuck all fanfare.


Those are some dire numbers. Didn't the game have like 15 million pre registers?

Also a lot of people are declaring they are dropping the game if the next livestream doesn't adress several issues.

I'm curious to see the graph by then

 

[Troon Whisperer]

Christ trying to gather those flowers for columbina is annoying, it feels like every 10 steps triggers a new quest, tutorial or something else that tries to demand my attention. I kinda want a focus mode toggle that just tells the game to fuck off and leave me alone for a bit.

 

[RhoasJonas]

The new boss has a gimmick where it will charge and you have to break its shield before it finishes charging. If your name is Flins, Nefer or Zibai just attacking the boss is all you have to do to break the shield but if you dare to use a dps that isn't those three you have to kill three adds far away from each other simultaneously to break the shield.

I spent way too long doing resets to try and use another hydro instead of Ineffa for onfield Bina but alas

Spoiler: Stygian

 

[Donkey Kongus]

(Mobilefagging, my apologies.)
I didn’t see this really mentioned yet, but apparently the glitching in the ending title card for True Moon (Newest Genshin AQ) briefly flashes some binary or Morse code that spells out, “YOU DID NOT STOP ME.”
Close enough, welcome back William Afton.

 

[Troon Whisperer]

While I do suspect that Dottore will return, after all it's a known fact he had multiple bodies, and ample chance to make more since Nahida forced him to destroy them the first time around, the whole morse code stuff is just the Grok AI making shit up when someone fed it a screenshot.

Current theory I've seen floating around is the glitch represents the whole system the heavenly principals enforces on Teyvat is starting to break down because of all the recent chaos and ties into what the Tsaritsa wants to achieve.

 

[RhoasJonas]

I didn’t see this really mentioned yet, but apparently the glitching in the ending title card for True Moon (Newest Genshin AQ) briefly flashes some binary or Morse code that spells out, “YOU DID NOT STOP ME.”
Close enough, welcome back William Afton.

Sorry bro but that was just some fags on reddit making a fake screenshot to force a meme from stranger things.

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

New Mane's got hands. I like it so far

 

[The Lawgiver]

Did the Apocalypse world quest and what the fuck that shit was super good. I didn't mind the lack of combat so much. Only thing to bitch about was that it wasn't a little harder. Felt like the two boss fights were over way too soon. But eveything is is fantastic. Really atmospheric and creepy and fucked up story.

I am not a lore fag but the world quests are fantastic and I will adore them.

I don't think I've encountered one I disliked. Interesting

The apocalypse quest is also linked to the others in the area in a pretty interesting way when you look at the letters and talk to NPCs. My only issue with the apocalypse quest was the stealth segment being really jank for me.

Christ trying to gather those flowers for columbina is annoying, it feels like every 10 steps triggers a new quest, tutorial or something else that tries to demand my attention. I kinda want a focus mode toggle that just tells the game to fuck off and leave me alone for a bit.

Do the quests before gathering materials dummy!

Current theory I've seen floating around is the glitch represents the whole system the heavenly principals enforces on Teyvat is starting to break down because of all the recent chaos and ties into what the Tsaritsa wants to achieve.

I've also seen retarded theories floating around going "THE ENTIRE GAEM IS JUST A DREAM/AI GENERATED SIMULATION!" due to the glitch effect. I had to retread my quest dialogue to triple check I wasn't insane with the amount of bullshit people keep saying the archon quest is a "confirmation' of. All this hit about "ah yes it's all ai! the baed guy is ai LLM image generators! and paimon is the ai god but good!" seems completely untied to fucking anything of actual merit. Time travel shit and the rules of reality breaking down is a much, much saner theory.

Anyways those effects tied to the glitch visual are specifically the effects that happen during the dottore fight when you damage him enough and he rewinds the damage and shit slows down a little, as well as in other dottore related flashback cutscenes like where it's revealed some generic npc dude was actually just dottore the whole time.

I have a theory a lot of the more retarded genshin theories are by "media literacy" people that don't actually look at the obvious things genshin pulls it's lore from.

The firmament/false sky is one of the many things I have seen utterly retard theories about when it's one of the most simple things to understand once you get what it means. The game literally spells out the firmament concept and you see the firmament get split open by that one event in natlan and later by dottore, yet somehow people have retarded theories about "oh wells the sky is fake so it's uhhh a tv screen yeah!"

The stars have fallen from the firmament before as crystal fragments in the event scaramouche was introduced in and once again i am gonna say that quest should have not been tied to a limited time minigame event mode.

 

[Donkey Kongus]

While I do suspect that Dottore will return, after all it's a known fact he had multiple bodies, and ample chance to make more since Nahida forced him to destroy them the first time around, the whole morse code stuff is just the Grok AI making shit up when someone fed it a screenshot.

Sorry bro but that was just some fags on reddit making a fake screenshot to force a meme from stranger things.

Ah shit, for real? I got jebaited then. Thanks for telling me! I shall accept this L with grace.
Now how am I gonna draw Dottore as peepaw William Afton?

 

[The Lawgiver]

Ah shit, for real? I got jebaited then. Thanks for telling me! I shall accept this L with grace.
Now how am I gonna draw Dottore as peepaw William Afton?

He is gonna come back so it's basically "i always come back" type shit already with his ridiculous "researchingpilfered ancient tech to find a way to clone myself indefinitely so I can be in multiple places at once" and then his rant about humans being held back by being beings made of flesh.