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Make your bets on how good or bad this will age. This is from a star rail leaker but a very trusted one.

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>no capitano

I'm not seeing enough women so i already call bullshit. Durin this early makes it sound like he'll be relevant, i'd think he would be a late nation filler unit.

Varka being cryo releasing after archon quest end sounds questionable. He's the "boreas knight" so most people think he would be ice (but it was always a theory). I don't believe in Dottore or at least THAT dottore, i expect to be an innocent clone.

I believe in bennet skin, they seem to favor skins for free or meta 4* and i'm sure bennet would get one eventually to fix his awful default outfit.

In other unrelated but sad news, i found tribe nine posted some news 5 days ago explaining the dev tear has already completely disbanded and they'll try to refund at least some stuff from 1.1 version. I think i bought 3 monthly vids (15 dollars = 90 reais) so if i can get at least 1-2 back on steam it would be better than nothing.

They will release the text in japanese for the story up to chapter 5 so i guess at least a few characters with no screentime will get something...


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(Thet shot the dev team, rest in peace)
 
Daddy's Little Kitten said:
I agree with @LucasSomething. It looks like bootleg WuWa with HSR mixed in. Looks very cheap. I don't know if it's gonna survive for long.
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Appearantly it's been up and down in Korea with a botched launch and pvp mode is actually ass. The matches scale to your level so there's a good chance you'll get buttfucked six times till Sunday. Or it's piss easy.

The fact that there was zero marketing and the English website launched the day of global, and the social media side has been nonexistent for the west does not bode well.

I've given it a go, I'll log in for gibs but I don't really have high hopes for this. Maybe they can turn it around. Starting with controller support.

Also something i forgot to mention in my other post: the models can be really ugly. Fox bitch the not tranny has an unappealing face and elf bitch looks weird at certain angles.

Also if you care, there's a lot of ass shots of the girls.

Also more importantly, the music is really generic. It's not bad but it's really.....meh. I cannot remember a single piece of music from the game. Maybe it's better later.

Finally there was an area, right around the time you get darkie and it really hit me how much it actually reminded me of Genshins domains. Almost looked like a ripoff.

Man I'm just shitting on this. I don't hate it but I'm not sure what I expected either.

I like some of the character designs though... Not the freebies except darkie.

Edit: Meanwhile, in the actual Star Rail.
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Well then! That was fucking fast. Had 30 pity. Time to save for Cipher.

I already pulled double duty in this phase, I'm not about to grind for triple duty and Bubblegum Barbie's light cone. I'll wait for a rerun. With Aglaea already getting her rerun within a year of her release, who the hell even knows what the plan for the 3.0 units is.
 
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non genshin gacha coming to america - Uma Musume Pretty Derby

i did open genshin after a few months. i decided to swap my entire team to five stars. i pulled zhongli for the first time back in december and as a week 1 player, wow buddy thanks for showing up.

so i have Kequing , Kokomi, Nahida and johnlee as my main team. not really great for natlan but im just gonna go wander around and collect rocks.
 
Okay one final thing with Rememento is that for some ungodly reason, the game doesn't launch in full screen properly. You have to go into settings, set it to window mode, then full screen to make it working properly.

In all fairness the global announcement and the devs make it clear that they have done a soft launch so it's possible they are working on it in the meantime.
 
RIPRhongoBongo said:
Moved on to Chapter 2 in Black Beacon. Writing's pretty good compared to Chapter 1(shit's starting to actually make some sort of sense)
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I liked that game, resembles the NieR games a lot in both gameplay, aesthetics and the lore/setting, too bad I had to play it with a google play pc emulator or some shit, I got to a point where I had to pinch the screen to solve a puzzle, and was therefore unable to progress.
 
Played some Rememento and went to the HQ of the organisation in charge of hunting down witches. It's the Pharos Witch Trials! And we, the MC, are the special super duper chosen ones designed to hunt down witches because we survived the Golden Wood event and can absorb the evil energy of the witches and monsters that would otherwise corrupt others. Oh, and we aren't affected by the witches' magic.

More importantly, goddamn the models in this game are ugly. Wow! They look really bad!
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Ew, what is this? It looks like elf bitch's face is a different collor than her chest. And it's not just her.
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Gross!
Side note: a really funny thing that happens is when you talk with quest-relevant NPCs, they just blink out of existence. That made me crack up.

Also the shading is really bad on some models. You can really see it in ults. I got Madam Asscheeks over here as part of a free ten pull and would you look at that.
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It really sticks out with how much emphasis they put on her ass. She's even introduced ass-first.

The NPC lady from earlier also gets some really weird shadows under her eyes during cutscenes that make it look like she has deep shadows under her eyes, but then they vanish.

The fuck was that?

I was kinda put off at the start, but I was holding off tearing into it because it's a fresh game, but now I really can't get over it. As I mentioned earlier, the animations are really stiff. It's especially bad if you have a character with flowing sleeves or long hair. Plus, the jumping feels and looks really floaty and unnatural. It's like the characters are on a beta moon. It's not quite a moon jump, but the movement doesn't feel right.

And lots and lots of clipping.

Also, the very building of the HQ is a sentient being, and he's a man. They just randomly drop that on you. It's not really important, but was mildly interesting.

Finally, as I was about to fight a big fuck-you dragon, the game crashed on me. It was already buggy, so I wasn't surprised that it happened. See the window-fullscreen issue I mentioned earlier.

I forgot to mention the shop and the many many packs they offer, as well as a permanent event that gives you gibs the more real money you spend. Think HSR anniversary oneric shard tier thingy but only three tiers and not nearly as pricy.

If anything, though, it's very FP2 beginner-friendly. And there's a lock-on feature, which is nice for puzzles and overworld elemental mechanics.

I hope they fix the optimization and the animations at the very least. There's not much you can do with the models at this point, but maybe it gets better in future patches.

At the moment, I'm not hooked on the game. I'm mainly just playing out of curiosity.

Also in Genshin news, I got the Kazoo.
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80 pulls on the dot.
 
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Dollar Store Sentai said:
Congrats! You are now up to the power level of 4 years ago~

Shame...


Kazuha is probably in my top 3 favorite units, along with Best Boi Albedo and Yoimiya. So the congrats is real there.
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Of course! Fuck meta. I just wanted the Kazoo so I could give him some love since the Archon quest shafted him harder than GOT season 8 shafted a bunch of characters. Without the stupid deaths of course.

Pop culture shit aside, I like Kazuha. He's great.
 
LucasSomething said:
Make your bets on how good or bad this will age. This is from a star rail leaker but a very trusted one.

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Not sure how accurate the leakers have been since Natlan. That region kind of blew them the fuck out. And yeah, with how Natlan ended I'm not sure they are going to go heavy into male Genshins like they did in Late Sumeru/Early Fontaine. The game got a lot less popular around that time and everything they did with Natlan was to address stuff from Fontaine. Varka and Columbina seem like safe guesses.

When are they suppose to release the teaser trailer for it?
 
Regarding Rememento: Goddamn the PC client is a bitch. It crashes upon launching, but runs in the background, so you have to click it again to launch the thing properly.

I went to reddit, wondering if my laptop was just a giant piece of shit but appearently it's a giant buggy mess and won't even start for some people, especially in phones.

There's rumors that the glitchy mess was also a thing for Koreans, but the devs didn't bother to fix them before global. And then allegations of the script being AI-translated. If this is true, this game is a bigger shitshow than percieved. Holy shit is it unpolished. It's also rumored that the revenue in Korea has been exceptionally poor, so the game is struggling heavily. We're only at 1.4. That's not good.

It's a bigger shit show than I thought. :story:

And that says a lot because before 2.0, I clipped through the entire world in WuWa on three separate occasions, but otherwise the game functioned.

All sadisctic joys aside, I do hope the game gets it shit together but the mismanagement is really starting to show. I'm not gonna go doomerposting here, but don't be surprised if it goes EOS soon.
 
tetraterezi said:
so i have Kequing , Kokomi, Nahida and johnlee as my main team. not really great for natlan but im just gonna go wander around and collect rocks.
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That's still a fucntional team. Not top tier by any means mind you but you get elec/hydro/dendro quicken+hyperbloom and zhong giving universal shred. No one to help cover the dinomobiles tho.

DenseDeerFather said:
Of course! Fuck meta. I just wanted the Kazoo so I could give him some love since the Archon quest shafted him harder than GOT season 8 shafted a bunch of characters. Without the stupid deaths of course.

Pop culture shit aside, I like Kazuha. He's great.
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Don't fall for the agenda, Kazuha is 100% still "meta" and probably the best aged 5* in the game. If you care about the "abyss usage rate" from these random chinese websites then Kaz has been top 5-10 unit in almost every abyss, yet some people still preach to this day that "sucrose is better on the spreadsheets calcs". It took until Xilonen to make a sidegrade for him.

He only "fell off" because Xilonen has better synergy with furina and mavuika who are the top units in the game and now escoffier lets you play freeze against bosses anymore without anemo, but he's still top tier.

He's also the coolest and i got his c2 for being my favourite. The "Runaway Wind Samurai" is one of those dumb cliché tropes that is always awesome and i'm afraid Hoyo pulled it of with him. If you do his quest he gets more respect there and you even unlock a very cool exclusive 4* sword (It's a mediocre atk% but looks sick).

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Not sure how accurate the leakers have been since Natlan. That region kind of blew them the fuck out. And yeah, with how Natlan ended I'm not sure they are going to go heavy into male Genshins like they did in Late Sumeru/Early Fontaine. The game got a lot less popular around that time and everything they did with Natlan was to address stuff from Fontaine. Varka and Columbina seem like safe guesses.

When are they suppose to release the teaser trailer for it?
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This leaker is from star rail and got stuff very early (he knew everyone in Amphorus was going to be 5* before the units were revealed) so he has some cred.

I'm not sure what were they trying to correct from fontaine. I sometimes see people say "fontaine had too many men" i think they forgot fontaine had like, 2 men and 2 twinks. Later we got ga-ming and sethos but from furina onwards we got a new 5* waifu every patch. This problem was already there back then.

Natlan had too much water imo (and that golem dungeon is super unoptimized and resets my pc for some reason) but requiring dinos to get around was lame in a different way.

I think they released the natlan and fontaine teasers around early to mid july so they will probably do the same with nodkrai. I wonder if they will leak everyone before reveal like it happened with sumeru lol.
 
DenseDeerFather said:
I'm not gonna go doomerposting here, but don't be surprised if it goes EOS soon.
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If it's as bad as you're saying, this thing is EoSing in a couple of weeks.

This is their video for their global "soft" launch. 6.7k views in a day and 51 commnets of people mostly telling them to advertise the game better.

Discord stats are abysmal, but there's people there...
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Daddy's Little Kitten said:
If it's as bad as you're saying, this thing is EoSing in a couple of weeks.

This is their video for their global "soft" launch. 6.7k views in a day and 51 commnets of people mostly telling them to advertise the game better.
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Well, nothing short of unexpected when their marketing has been limited to Asia only. And even then, only Japan and Korea, I guess. And let's not forget having zero social media presence and launching the English website on the same day as the global "soft" launch.

It's worth noting that prior to global, there was a bunch of chaos on the subreddit because no one could fully get behind the release date being the actual release date because it was confirmed in an untranslated dev note prior to an announcement on a random ass gameplay video.

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Even my first post was unsure of the actual release date because no one actually knew anything, let alone me. Truly, this has been a disastrous launch. At least WuWa recovered and then some. And Black Beacon is getting its stride - for mobile until they give us an actual PC client.

I am floored that it went so badly. I'm guessing this is why there are so many gibs for new players.
 
LucasSomething said:
I'm not sure what were they trying to correct from fontaine. I sometimes see people say "fontaine had too many men" i think they forgot fontaine had like, 2 men and 2 twinks. Later we got ga-ming and sethos but from furina onwards we got a new 5* waifu every patch. This problem was already there back then.
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TL;DR is that Fontaine lost a lot of its playerbase and they were scrambling to get them back

Genshin took a bit of a turn at the end of Inazuma. There was some censorship (either due to feminist complaining or rival companies). But Genshin actually had a pretty big female playerbase due to COVID. So Mihoyo started to pander to them a lot more and that started in Sumeru. From then till about Natlan, the designs of the girls were way more tame to the point where no one had visible cleavage. At the same time, Mihoyo introduces the year of males. From Nahida in 3.2 till Furina in 4.2 there was not a limited female character. The only character that broke that was Dehya but she went over so badly that they didn't do any more standard banner characters until 5.4. Needless to say, none of them did well (Lynel especially which will be relevant).

The Fontaine quest too was absolutely written for women and the most obvious example is Neuvillette. This is a character who was made for women: strong, handsome, smart, but also cries and needs to be more in touch with humans. This was also the first (and kind of only) archon quest that dealt with Dragons. They basically existed up until this point in lore books but now all of a sudden they are front and center and everyone knows about the Hydro one. Despite being the archon quest, the quest was basically about him. He gets more of a focus than Furina, he solves every problem or Focalors solves it and he is a crucial part of the plan. In fact, he's the only character that talks to her, you talk to him at the end of the quest, and Furina herself is barely in Act 2-5. I wouldn't be surprised if Nahida had more lines than Furina despite the fact she was imprisoned for like 90% of the quest. The end result of this was that Furina wasn't the real archon and, story wise, Neuvillette fills that roll. Not to mention the main character and Paimon are complete dipshits to her in her Story Quest despite the Traveler knowing what happened to her.

The reason for all of this was simple. Genshin wasn't going to have anymore male archons. So now the archons aren't important. No, its all about dragons (who were basically ignored until Nahida's story quest). In fact, the next region was going to be all about dragons. Neuvillette basically usurps Furina in the quest and it became about shilling him. Funny enough, Neuvillette's quest features every major Fontaine character other than Furina. This was when revenue for the game started to drop. Also doesn't help there was the "Men Wont Play" movement in China in regards to Girls Frontline 2. Genshin wasn't involved in it, but it was basically gacha fans getting upset at omni pandering. Notice how none of the gacha games do it anymore.

The 5.0 livestream all but confirmed this. They said they were listening to feedback (despite not giving two shits before) and even Da Wei went on to say Genshin was returning to its roots. So what changed. First, its pretty clear the whole region went through a redesign. Iansan was the initial teaser character which had all been 5 stars save for Lynette and Ningguang (who was actually planned to be a 5 star at one point). But Iansan is a 4 star now, and now every character looks a lot different than her. Moreover, all of the female characters showed more skin and the ones from other regions were also more sexualized in other ways (Escoffier being a prime example). Also, despite being the "Land of Dragons" they are pushed back again into World Quest and not the main story.

The biggest change was in how they treated Mavuika vs Furina. In the initial teaser trailer, Furina appears for like 10 seconds. For Natlan, it was half the trailer. Furina's whole deal isn't given out until the last quest. Mavuika's deal is told to you at the end of Act 2 (long before you could ever roll for her). Also, there is no other character that competes for spotlight for her. Capitanio basically dies for her and there is no dragon like Neuvillette. Also, the characters all revere her which can't be said about Furina. This does make her a bit of a Mary Sue but they wanted to avoid some of the issues with Furina where the writers were basically shitting on her. This is why Natlan might have felt off. It was trying to get people back and desperately not repeat the mistakes with Fontaine. The writers could be seen walking on eggshells which might be why people say Mavuika was boring. They played her very safe.

What kind of confirms all of this is 1)The leaks at that time were all wrong despite the entire cast leaking for both Sumeru and Natlan. The design of the Archon was completely different than what they claimed 2)Another leak basically confirmed they were focusing more on guys and confirmed Capitano's death well before it happened (see attachment though I've posted it before here).
 

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