I'm quoting this because It reminded me of some funny shit thats somewhat relevant.
My friends who play this game keep putting off co-op whenever I'm available to play it with them. The one that actually fucking got me Into this game weirdly just has not even so much as ever tried any of the lore or event shit, yet he's spent 40 something or other dollars on the gacha back on the Klee banner. No clue how much he's spent since. Another one that HAS done the events is somehow conveniently never on when I'm on and if there's like a way to get free primo currency he's not gonna help other than saying theres a way to most of the time, secretive bastard. Third one rage-quit the game and uninstalled after an extremely minor disagreement involving him rushing ahead while I was loading in, and he kept fucking dying because he literally put no thought into the elemental weakness mechanics so he'd end up doing shit like attacking wind elementals with wind. Point here is I've had no help from anyone so some things have taken much longer than they should have. It's not like this with other games, it's literally just genshin this shit happens in.
I actually didn't get a chance to try that theater mechanicus thing till like the FINAL HOURS of it due to scheduling and I was like "God damn there's no way I'll be able to finish this shit" so I bit the fucking bullet and entered a matchmaking queue. Usually this ends in disaster when I try it but this time the algorithm gods put me in the game of some rando who was in a similar kinda "last minute panic" kinda deal and we just fucking blew through the thing. It was really fun and I'm kinda upset that it's not just a permanent optional minigame with how in-depth it was.
The fact you could just run around the map and actually push the enemies away manually if you did properly timed attacks giving more time for the sentries to kill them kinda added a sort of hectic sense of control to the tower defense gameplay. Players could upgrade their own turrets between matches, but both players were upgrading their shit it wouldnt be exactly the same for everyone that placed theirs in the match itself. I know it's probably a balancing reason but it's kinda shitty that it was locked to 2 people only because another random person joined the game but couldn't do the gamemode and left because I think he already had finished the quests and was just playing it.
That's pretty much the entire culmination of my recent thoughts about this game right now, as incoherent as the delivery may be from the multitasking happening on my end. Hopefully i get a chance to get the fucking "late for halloween" ghost character with all the free shit I stocked up on before certain interests catch wind of undead characters being in a china based game studio's game. I'm guessing either that weird censorship ban on depictions of dead/undead characters was lifted or these guys are playing with fire having not one but 2 undead themed characters in this fucking game.
