Genshin Impact

[DenseDeerFather]

I liked the Xianzhou exactly because it was space wuxia, not yet another retrod of mass effect or star trek.

It also felt infinitely more comprehensible than anything after that. I too like Xianzhou.

Also Duet Night Abyss will not be coming to steam after all. They announced a delay on the day of the supposed release. Really professional.

They have also not given any new release date either so that's swell.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

NTE is recruiting for beta testing.

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

There's something funny about buying this after Christmas


Also picked this up


This one only made it 23 rounds

 

[DenseDeerFather]

So WuWa 3.0.

Spoiler: Wuthering Thoughts

YOU CANNOT FLY. THAT'S ASS. It's entirely reliant on the bike which is kinda annoying.

The bike itself is pretty neat, but I hate the drifting. I've been spoiled by Crash Team Racing.

The world design itself is pretty cool. It's finally more sci-fi shit which I have been deeply missing in WuWa, the music is neat, and goodness, the map is stupidly large. It's also super laggy and buggy but since I play via Steam, it's not too bad though my characters occasionally t-pose on the bike.

They added a toughness break on top of the toughness break of enemies so occasionally they get a super shield you need to break because otherwise they are goddamn tanks. Well it's slightly annoying - or maybe it's becuase I'm running 2.X characters currently but at least it's not ZZZ's miasma.

The story? Meh, It's yet another glorified companion quest, so idgaf. The plot itself feels nonexistent so I have tuned out. Lynae is pretty likable and she doesn't want to fuck us after we save her life but she does come off as super friendly right off the bat and it goes full throttle. Also slight nitpick she's not at all a gyaru charactter despite her appearance so no silly Shibuya slang for me, oh well.

Appearently she stole someone's identity and initially came from the New Federation, specifically the Lawless Zone which Calcharo is also from.

All of that just makes me slightly sad that we're not in the New Federation yet.


Though Chisa's whole arc was stupidly anticlimactic. She came along to Lahai-Roi to find her parents, and it all happens in an off hand, optional conversation that you can miss entirely. That's retarded.

WuWa may have superior visual storytelling over Genshin and HSR, but its narrative is equally as retarded.

Bootleg Cyrene shows up in one cutscene and she's giving me horrible Cyrene vibes, so that's going to be absolute fucking cringe.

But enough about that, get a load of this!

The entire new region feels like it's fucking built for this bint from traversing to combat, so we might as well get her. I am in good need of a weapon for her so I will either get her sig or one of the standard ones because one is decent for her.

But also Chisa is really neat for her so I can use the anime archetype schoolgirl strikers once I get Fusion Shorekeeper-I mean Phaenomena-I mean Mornye.

How the hell do you even pronounce that?

 

[Noebel]

This dude made anothe pizza tower mod

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Spoiler

YOU CANNOT FLY. THAT'S ASS. It's entirely reliant on the bike which is kinda annoying.

The bike itself is pretty neat, but I hate the drifting. I've been spoiled by Crash Team Racing.

The world design itself is pretty cool. It's finally more sci-fi shit which I have been deeply missing in WuWa, the music is neat, and goodness, the map is stupidly large. It's also super laggy and buggy but since I play via Steam, it's not too bad though my characters occasionally t-pose on the bike.

They added a toughness break on top of the toughness break of enemies so occasionally they get a super shield you need to break because otherwise they are goddamn tanks. Well it's slightly annoying - or maybe it's becuase I'm running 2.X characters currently but at least it's not ZZZ's miasma.

The story? Meh, It's yet another glorified companion quest, so idgaf. The plot itself feels nonexistent so I have tuned out. Lynae is pretty likable and she doesn't want to fuck us after we save her life but she does come off as super friendly right off the bat and it goes full throttle. Also slight nitpick she's not at all a gyaru charactter despite her appearance so no silly Shibuya slang for me, oh well.

Appearently she stole someone's identity and initially came from the New Federation, specifically the Lawless Zone which Calcharo is also from.

All of that just makes me slightly sad that we're not in the New Federation yet.


Though Chisa's whole arc was stupidly anticlimactic. She came along to Lahai-Roi to find her parents, and it all happens in an off hand, optional conversation that you can miss entirely. That's retarded.

WuWa may have superior visual storytelling over Genshin and HSR, but its narrative is equally as retarded.

Bootleg Cyrene shows up in one cutscene and she's giving me horrible Cyrene vibes, so that's going to be absolute fucking cringe.

Spoiler: More WuWa thoughts

You're absolutely right about the no-flying. Feels like I'm back in 1.0. This map is huge and flight would've helped a lot with exploring. However, I do like this map a lot. The futuristic nature aspect is great. It's gonna take me a while to completely explore...

The bike is neat, but kinda clunky if you're off-roading and drifting sucks. You also get stuck in places with it. However, I like that you can go cinematic and share a ride with Resonators. I also like the music selection.

I'm never escaping Sonic, am I?

2edgy4me bike

I feel like the new combat mechanic was unnecessary. You already have a break system, why add another on top of it? I also feel like it doesn't do much since no one can make use of it yet except Lynae. Of course as the game progresses, we'll see a better use of it. I haven't tried the new endgame modes yet, but they're an apparent skill check.

They brought the stupid TCG back with more stuff. I really hate this and I need to find cheese for it.

As for the story, there wasn't much to it. You obviously have some story with Mornye and Luuk, but we don't remember any of it. We get to meet not Cyrene.exe and I'm already getting bad vibes from her. Chisa gets completely blown over by Lynae. You might as well not have her there at all seeing as she didn't even help with the Voidworm... What was the point of Chisa anyways?

I did managed to get both Lynae and her weapon for 30 pulls, so hopefully I can save up more for Mornye. I also want to try to get Augusta's weapon.

 

[Back me up!]

In WuWa can I skip straight to 3.0 map and story or do I gotta do more story BS first?

 

[Golfing on the Moon 1971]

Japan ramps up military spending, bye bye ever seeing more Japanese themed stuff out of Chinese games again.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

In WuWa can I skip straight to 3.0 map and story or do I gotta do more story BS first?

I think so, but don't quote me on that.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Mornye

Asked us out on a date - or some kind of star ceremony, which will inevitably be a date. The only reason why I didn't skip was because I liked the piano piece that played in the background.

Luuk

A doctor and the best character so far. Please don't be Aero, Electro or Fusion.

Cyrene.exe

Lmao I am glad this is catching on.

I do kinda wonder what's going on with WuWa and Star Rail. Both games drop a Grecco-Roman world around the same time and now WuWa is teasing its own version of Cyrene.exe. It comes without Amphoreus OS and assorted bloatware though but still.

It's most likely a coincidence but damn.

It's like Windows VS iOS.

Chisa gets completely blown over by Lynae

Of course, she's not a banner character anymore. See you in phase 2 where Lynae gets BTFO'd by Mornye.

And the cycle continues. IDGAF, WuWa cannot tell a story to save its life. It can present them well but construct a narrative that's not ass? Lmao.

What was the point of Chisa anyways?

Anime.

Jokes aside, why tease the whole parent thing if it's not gonna matter anyway? Where in the fuck was she? Man, the whole pump and dump of waifus is really bad now.

Fuck it, I'll cruise with Chisa in Lahai-Roi on my bitch blue bike.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

Fuck it, I'll cruise with Chisa in Lahai-Roi on my bitch blue bike.

I've been riding with Cartethyia and she looks so out of place.

What a delicate little flower...


Edit: I just discovered Lynae can roller-skate up walls.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

So in three days time, Black Beacon is Dead Bacon and this is darkly funny. So a few days after the death of Global, China will receive a free 5* character.

It's assumed this is a last hurrah before the game inevitably dies in China as well.

As for the character herself...what the hell happened to her?

This is what she looks like throughout the game. She's a major NPC who shows up through the entire Fantasy China chapter.

Then they make her playable and turn her into this.

Huh? What happened?

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

This is what she looks like throughout the game.

Then they make her playable and turn her into this.

Huh? What happened?

What I can only assume is an attempt to milk whales with some eye candy one last time before EoS?

 

[RIPRhongoBongo]

Mom said it's my turn to win the 50/50.

Also, I would like to extend my most sincere fuck you to Iuno for blowing 2 weapon banners back to back

 

[LucasSomething]

Had a newbie (is AR55 "newbie"?) join my world and ask me to help them clear a challenge in nodkrai as they literally can't kill enemies in time lol. Bro was using proto rancour keqing with def sands rip.

We talked some more and turns out they didnt have any limited character at all, they were saving ALL for skirk cause it's their favourite character and they started playing for her (lol). I said it would be easier if they had any limited dps to help them progress and not keqing and i'd roll xilonen. Eventually it escalated into them going all out, rolling xilonen, losing to jean and getting varesa. But they also got c2 chevruse, c6 iansan and c6 gaming all from nothing (what the fuck man).

Unsurprisingly i went on another 2 hour ramble teaching an internet stranger what "attack scaling" means. Helped them kill some bosses, pick flowers and arfitact domains. At least they seem to understand rpg mechanics but only half of them so it leads to dumb shit, like using def sands on xingling cause it had 2 crit rolls.

(bro was using level 60 weapons and somehow finished natlan story)

They were so happy that now i want to roll varesa damit. I rolled 30 on her banner to 63 pity and only got one iansan who is c2 now ugggh, but i need to save for columbina and varka...

Again, it's always interesting how some people can play this game and get so far with barely half understanding of it's complexities (and i guess a lot of food buffs).

Anyway, after buying a copy in the harpy banner and farming the exppedition for months i got my final upgrade, then spent some of the freemium rolls to get mats and half an hour looking at this screen


(i hate the refinement system in this game so much, you still have to be careful to not spend an upgrade kit wrong)

I got my first rainbow mech in the game, Malthus, now capable of debuffing enemy move by -1 when hitting 3+ enemies. Not that insane offensively but i can see this cheating some maps.

(gave it a new coat of paint in celebration. The eileen sticker stays on)

 

[Telvanni]

It also felt infinitely more comprehensible than anything after that. I too like Xianzhou.

Also Duet Night Abyss will not be coming to steam after all. They announced a delay on the day of the supposed release. Really professional.

They have also not given any new release date either so that's swell.

Xianzhou sucked and was boring at first BUT
I enjoyed it a lot during the Abundance Furry Apocalypse patch
Note- I can't ever say Hoolay; it's Julayyy.... thanks Chris

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Xianzhou sucked and was boring at first BUT
I enjoyed it a lot during the Abundance Furry Apocalypse patch
Note- I can't ever say Hoolay; it's Julayyy.... thanks Chris

I wasn't playing at that point, so I played it all in one go when I began, and it had a dragging beginning, but really picked up and didn't feel as convoluted as Penacony or heaven forbid, Amphoreus OS, despite being Space China.

It also had some of the best companion quests IMO. Which probably doesn't say a lot because I'm pretty sure they went the way of the dodo bird as soon as Penacony became a thing.

Some of the old event quests and their areas were great too.

 

[Daddy's Little Kitten]

To me, Xianzhou was one of their worst arcs story-wise. Then, Penacony and Amorpheus came.
I think Belobog is their strongest arc.

 

[Leaf Wage Slave Jr]

Is anyone else amused that Nod-Krai is so light on gimmicks that we're still getting Natlan based Events?

Truly, this is a filler year that they're just trying to fill out as much as possible.

 

[Trash Pandit]

Is anyone else amused that Nod-Krai is so light on gimmicks that we're still getting Natlan based Events?

Feels more like they're trying really hard to convince people "Natlan characters and their gimmicks are really cool guys trust me," because the entirety of Natlan itself failed to do so.