Genshin Impact

[Hammr2]

This creates a "roll for global passive" meta and enables hoyo to do even worse later.

Kinda annoying the clip isn't full screen, missing bottom UI for health bar.
I mean we all know Hoyo already scummy and "out of touch"/don't care with the game balance. They could release Castorice with that, then some times later just add another mechanic disable any form of revive. Because at the end of the day, it's endgame and well unfortunately, only a small portion of player base engage in that. Or well, in Genshin, few old characters are intentionally design with trash mechanic, severely lacking if missing constellations or C1-2 conveniently fixes "minor" problem, Dehya (beating the dead horse for nth time) and even Raiden E.skill coordinate attack won't do anything to purple Natlan Abyss mimic nightsoul shield.
Also, depending on how much shilling they want for a specific character. Like lets say Castorice'll be the biggest in majority of 3.x, whether she'll be the 3.x "Firefly" or not.

Other than that, I've seen people complaining about boss fights in HSR the most, even not in end game. Back to the whole "out of touch" balance. Even Genshin is now moving into "dps check" race with Natlan, failing means instant death to active character. More common limited combat events dipping into whale territory for highest medal clear.
I'm just being apathetic to MHY handling their games now. The rest is up to people willing to "let go" or "game is still fun to play".

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

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This might be fake, but we'll see...

 

[LucasSomething]

Joking aside, I might check it out when they get over their lack of QoL stuff.

If anyone wants to check tribe 9, i recommend doing it before march 3 since you refund on your rolls that use crystals and the tutorial is just 30 minutes and you get 30 free rolls after it. The account rerolling is also instant after tutorial, you simply delete your account in the opening screen and skip the tutorial. If i knew it was that fast i would've rerolled for a 5* tbh but now i'm some hours in and doing that might burn me out...

I mean we all know Hoyo already scummy and "out of touch"/don't care with the game balance.

Come on, you know bennet needing c1 or one unit being underpowered is not the same thing. Hoyo is greedy but they won't even let genshin speed boost passives (like Chiori) function in abyss because it could break the challenge so it's exclusive to exploration. Hoyo already knows how to shill Star rail units, they don't need to sink this low.

What's next, paid skins that boost stats? Buyable endgame loot (custom relics/artifacts)? A pet system that works in endgame but the pets are gacha banner exclusive and have their own cons and powercreep (actually a thing in honkai 3)?

If you have to say "But the company was always greedy and gacha is always pay 2 win" then the slippery slope already started.

This might be fake, but we'll see...

Dimbreath is a data miner so if they say it works like that it must be truth.

and for something unrelated, i checked more on tribe 9 systems and the card system is apparently broken and retarded because you can't gain tension (ult) by attacking anymore like the beta, only breaking. This means high tension cost cards are impossible to maintain and breaking is mandatory, ironically making the low rarity cards good (they're mostly free cost) and the starter mc top tier since only does that.

I guess this is like ZZZ if only stunners could generate ultimate and weapons burned your ult (its dumb).

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

If it's coming for 3.2, they're keeping it extremely under wraps.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

This might be fake, but we'll see...

Or they could patch it out later under the guise of "we hear you, we listen to our Chinese whales"

A pet system

Yes. I will admit that I run around with the tuskpir because it's adorable albeit horribly clashing against Acheron's vibe. I'd like more pets.

NOT MEM.

that works in endgame but the pets are gacha banner exclusive and have their own cons and powercreep

Not this either. Good god, imagine if they actually did that. I know you're joking but alas, this is MHY.

ZZZ if only stunners could generate ultimate and weapons burned your ult (its dumb).

Oh wow, okay yeah I'm not even gonna bother then. Looking at the characters and the male-female ratio, I wonder how other gacha fags are responding to it.

I kinda imagine the weirdos over at reddit going "SEE, MHY? A FAT PLAYABLE CHARACTER!!!

(Ignoring the fact that all fatties in DR have always been joke characters and died. Sure it's not DR but it does hit some of those same beats in everything but name, premise (mostly) and gameplay/genre)

Also man, remember when ZZZ had everyone share the same ultimate bar?

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I'd like more pets.

You'll get one in 3.2.

Kinda annoying the clip isn't full screen, missing bottom UI for health bar.

Castorice revives you with 1 HP. You have to heal or shield yourself fast so you don't die for good.

Most of the discussion with Castorice is that yeah, it sets a precedent with other characters getting global passives that could be essential for your roster, so FOMO will be in full effect. As others have said, it may also push people to roll just for a passive. Whales will benefit the most.

 

[LucasSomething]

Oh wow, okay yeah I'm not even gonna bother then. Looking at the characters and the male-female ratio, I wonder how other gacha fags are responding to it.

It's still fiiiine, it's just kinda unbalanced cause anything that burns tension by proc is bad and anything that is permanent/free is good. The thing is that the cards aren't "weapons" but more like acessories that work under specific circunstances and most don't give stats at all, so even low rarity cards with good easy passives are good (counter and get 15% crit). My loadout only has 1 card that uses tension once for a permanent crit bonus.

The current gacha banner card require maximum tension and people seem to agree it's terrible because if you have max tension you're better off using your ultimate to do damage. It will become a problem if the devs make gacha limited cards strong AND free, which i can see in the future.

The next banner will be the handsome popular guy who dual wields bats (ofc) and the next are expected to be multiple waifus in a row.

Also man, remember when ZZZ had everyone share the same ultimate bar?

I thought that was bad when it released, its funny how t9 probably works the same because it was inspired by zzz but then zzz changed it after release. It's still fiiine but it means i only ever use my dps ultimate which is lame. It'd be nice if they reworked it later or something.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

ZZZ's stream for 1.6 was today. I'm having issues including the highlights picture for some reason. I think it's because it's long.


Code is SOLDIER0ANBY. Please do the needful today.

Anyways, new disks. Phase one is Anby with Burnice, Pulchra included. Second phase is Trigger with Zhu Yuan.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Evelyn has reached her second-final form. I ain't pulling on mindscapes because I wanna save my guarantee.

But I got this and it's nice.

 

[LucasSomething]

The genshin tower event locking an exclusive profile card under at least 100 is dumb and i hope they get baclkash for it. Looking at my random friend wins, even a guy with c6r1 furina, c2r1 arle+citlali and mistsplitter bennet (all with great artifacts) only got to floor 23 in the bond of life floor. Maybe they could get further but didnt bother (I sure wouldnt either). They did worse in other challenges cause they dont have mavuika lol.

Still playing tribe 9 little by little and realizing some more stuff.

For starters, the game lacking gacha stamina means it doesn't have a normal account level, and you only raise your level cap by completing achievements. Not only that but the game literally has gates locking progress behind achievement level and the world does not scale with you, only the farming domains.

In case it's not obvious, this means you can't just yolo ignore shit. You HAVE to do sidequests, find grafitti, farm kills, collect thrash etc. It's not that bad on practice but it reinforces my theory that it was a singleplayer rpg.

The bronze chests and enemies respawn every day and they can drop equipment, low rarity cards and even domain tokens (you get 2 from dailies and can drop over 7 by re-exploring), so you have strong reasons to sweep your entire world everyday. If you're overleveled you skip battles (added in update) so it's not so bad but i think this could burn me out super fast so i'll avoid it for now.

I also finally felt how unbalanced the tension system is when i got a max rarity card on standard banner and it gives 1 sec timestop after you counter for 50 tension (the max is 300). This is straight up unsustainable and worse than the low rarity cards. One low rarity card gives you a full revive which comes very clutch and you dont need to level it at all.


(why is this shitty low rarity card better than a limited card? Did they even balance this?)

 

[Girl Named Sandoz]

The genshin tower event locking an exclusive profile card under at least 100 is dumb and i hope they get baclkash for it. Looking at my random friend wins, even a guy with c6r1 furina, c2r1 arle+citlali and mistsplitter bennet (all with great artifacts) only got to floor 23 in the bond of life floor. Maybe they could get further but didnt bother (I sure wouldnt either). They did worse in other challenges cause they dont have mavuika lol.

it's not that bad honestly. if anything the real issue with the event is that it's basically just a mavuika check. you can also use food and potions which help a lot.

all of these were done with c6 bennett, c0 mavuika, c0 xilonen, c0 citlali except the 4th one was c0 arlecchino instead of mavuika. no signature weapons for anyone.

my main frustration with the event is that the short timer allows for only one rotation on most teams, and if you have to use a partial second rotation you're left awkwardly standing around wasting all your skill/burst timers because for whatever reason the next group doesn't spawn in immediately. the event would have been a lot smoother if it either loaded you into separate floors or had the next wave spawn more quickly.

and hey, if you can't clear more than 15 you're only missing a (rather unappealing looking, imo) namecard.

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

I'm a good monthly reset away from putting up missing person flyers for Willow. LEAVE YOUR HOUSE, WOMAN!

Update: Fuck it, I'll just wait for 2.6 when she hits standard. Looks like I'm more likely to land Flutterpage

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

I had 10 pulls saved up so I pulled on the Phoebe banner again to see if I could get Lumi cons, ended up with Encore E1 instead. So now I'm not touching the banner again until Shorekeeper comes back around.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Encore

I'd like Encore, period.
Or Verina instead of more Calculator Cons.. He's C4 now.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

The Temptress won't win, and I'm still holding out for Brant and Cantarella.

I decided to pull for Evelyn instead of Qingyi in ZZZ. I'm 30 pulls away from hard pity. I don't know if I'll be able to make it.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

The Temptress won't win, and I'm still holding out for Brant and Cantarella.

I decided to pull for Evelyn instead of Qingyi in ZZZ. I'm 30 pulls away from hard pity. I don't know if I'll be able to make it.

Both are on my want lists, but Shorekeeper is a direct upgrade to my account. Just using her trial with Phoebe and Rover on the new event feels 100x better than with Verina

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Jesus fuck, Evelyn is still underdeveloped but with her W-engine and Astra combined, she hits like a bus.

I should pull on W-engines more often.

 

[Dollar Store Sentai]

Got my 300 pull selector for ZZZ, at 299 pulled S11's 5*Wengine. Took that as a sign to ignore cat girl for even longer and get M2 S11. (Who is keeping Evelyn's weapon)

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

I finished the story line for HSR, and I remember absolutely nothing about what happened. I also lost my Tribbie 50/50 to E4 Yanqing, so lucky me.

 

[Magicat]

Upcoming Genshin character

Spoiler: haram

Mihoyo catering to the gooners as usual. Female Astolfo lookalike with milkers, and a pinch of complementary light blue & white. Am I too far gone that when I see those colours plastered together it screams pride flag.

Here's my theory: they're trying to replace Japan's cursed gay femboy as goon material to Miss Moo Milkers by making her appear so similar.

Unrelated note. Cringed hard at that floating white shit saying stuff like 'Gee Whizz' during Mizuki's story quest.

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I finished the story line for HSR, and I remember absolutely nothing about what happened.

Same here with ZZZ. Utter slop besides the combat.