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They've figured this out in Honkai by making the event content be permanent but most of the rewards being limited-time, but god forbid they put the QOL stuff in this game.

Itto was the event king for a while, I miss him. I was more than fine with him passing the crown to Cyno for the last three events though, I'm just missing the goofs and I don't really like Klee.

Did enough of the event to finish the current storyline and get the little gadget. I see it actually gives you the location of chests which is a HUGE boon compared to GAA. Trying not to get overwhelmed by this one.

The area is neat but man these story cutscenes...it really feels like they just rounded up the C-listers they have no idea what to do with.

I think via game files we already have soft confirmation there will be no 3.9

I can't imagine what they would drag things out for either

goddd kazuha feels so much better to play with than sucrose. I have been missing out big time.

Yeah well I'm basically cleaned out now so I could use it, although I'm not terribly excited for most of the Fontaine characters I might snag the archon or something.

Hopefully the summer event area is fun but given how last year's archipelago was, I'm kinda dreading it.

Yeah I know she's good but I've got Baizhu, that's the only reason I don't need her.

Well it took me two pity's worth of pulls and a C2 Mona to break my lucky streak, but I'm finally a Kazuha haver

also went from c0 to c5 yaoyao, lol. not that I'm probably gonna build her

Do you have your characters built decently? Leveled your artifacts and such? It makes an enormous difference.

Also some of the domains are just rough and it could be less of a skill or power level thing and more of a team comp problem. For example you are just straight up not gonna have a good time in the Mondstadt ice domain without a fire DPS.

You could also try getting carried in multiplayer, I only used it for certain weekly bosses I had no good teams for for a long time but it should be easier if the randos don't also suck.

And again Leylines are always good

OH also food. Food helps so fucking much before you have good stats

"Patch order" kind of breaks down around Liyue now: it basically splits into two parts, one route that goes to Inazuma and another that deals with the aftermath of the Liyue finale and also The Chasm. Those were added AFTER Inazuma wrapped but you can do them now (I wouldn't advise it!).

Eventually the routes converge but not until Sumeru wraps, I have no fucking clue the exact order of quest requirements.

I do know you need to look for the first Dansleif interlude quest to continue to Inazuma

Honestly a lot of the best writing in Liyue and Inazuma are in the area side stories like The Chasm or Enkanomiya or the fog island I forget the name of where you're just going through a zone and learning about its lore and side character stories from generic NPCs. Or the interlude quests after each main chapter that you'll get to soon.

Then in Sumeru this flips and the main story gets super consistent (aside from some FF14-style filler) and the exploration quests become endless expositions of key terms

UshiromiyaEva posted...

I really wish there was a super fast way to spend Resin, still 100 to go on this weekly challenge but I should make it.

So there is a way to condense 40 resin to spend instead of 20 in domains and such (think the Immersifiers from Star Rail, but you can use on any non-boss), except for whatever reason it's a reputation reward from Liyue. Also you have to spend Crystal Cores from crystalflies on it instead of it being "free" which is annoying...but it does speed doing domains up, especially early on.

They've killed so much of my desire to make good abyss teams to 36* since being introduced. At this point the thing I'm looking forward to most for Fontaine is keeping them out of every Abyss cycle

I still don't have that tiny patch by the desert unlocked lol

The snow mountain isn't its own nation, it's technically Mondstadt but kind of a wildcard area that is disconnected to it (doesn't have wind oculi to collect etc.). Besides Sumeru all of the nations have one of these. You'll actually need to do Inazuma's (place called Enkanomiya) for Yae even though it's side content.

And yeah the exploration is kind of a big problem but it's the worst for Inazuma which you can't even get to without doing the main story. I had to deal with this when I started with Raiden but I totally forgot how much worse Yae's stuff is to get. You'll want to prioritize the main plot until you unlock that.

Sceptilesolar posted...

Xingqiu qualifies as a support, probably Kirara does too. Anyone who doesn't spend a lot of time on the field attacking.

Ah yeah I should've been more specific. Xingqiu is a support but also a DPS, he does damage from off-field so you'll want to keep his stats/skill/burst up to date but he's not AS important as whoever is on field and probably doesn't need basic attack. Same for characters like Xiangling or Beidou.

Versus like...Kiara or Dendro Traveler where you want their effects but don't really care about their damage so you barely need to level anything.

Barbara is the F2P healer, she's not very good but can be made to work if you're desperate. Especially because Hydro is kinda just a busted element.

The catgirl is a shielder, which is basically as good as a healer since you don't typically need two defensive units. I don't know much about her but I heard she's very solid for a 4*, and Dendro is also very powerful so she'll pair well with Yae Miko.

There's other types of supports but they're not as obvious and depend on your team setup (Yun Jin qualifies), so you don't have to worry about it too much for now, but if you start lagging behind on resources it's safe to just focus on a couple of damage dealers.

I think it doesn't even unlock until you get another tier or two deeper

Resin spending tips for starting out:

- Leylines (exp books and mora especially) are always good because you will burn through these like crazy while building characters
- Ascension mats for weapons you're using (from domains) and characters (from open world bosses) to keep them up to date. It's a good idea to prefarm these to get ahead of your next tier of rank ups - some of the difficulty spikes are pretty brutal if you're behind, and some of the world bosses require specific strategies/elements you may not have ready to go
- Talent books to max out your DPS unit skills and any important support skills (eg if you have a healer, level their healing talent, you can ignore their basic attack). These are like Traces but unlike Star Rail they are not nearly as scarce. You do not need to prefarm these, just go to your current tier.
- Weekly bosses with the discount are pretty good value for resource drops (shards and artifacts, rare chance for a weapon etc.) and you will eventually need the boss mats. After your discounts are done they're still ok value but not necessary. (Also do the Amber and Razor quests if you haven't, a weekly boss is hidden behind there. When you unlock 5* story quests, all of the Archons stories besides Venti also lead to weeklies)
- Under NO circumstances should you spend resin on artifact domains until you are high enough AR to do the highest difficulty, besides maybe one for the book requirement. You can get by just with random artifacts from chests until then

Ah whoops. Well yeah you will be waiting a while for those two. Ganyu at least has a normal rerun frequency so she will probably show up again before the end of the year, but Yelan is a PREMIUM support (she's the 5* version of Xingqiu I mentioned) and so far Mihoyo has been limiting their runs to one per year.

Jean is another standard-only character, and Shenhe is good but is very niche - she buffs ice characters so is only worth going for once you have Ganyu or Ayaka

Edit: That said I think many of the the current and upcoming banners are good to pull on. Yae Miko and Yoimiya are relatively easy to build (Inazuma mats aside) because you have XQ for Yoi and get free Dendro units for Miko, next set is Kazuha (another "one run per year" premium support) and Al-Haitham (a meta DPS), and next patch is some DPS units, Kokomi (best healer in the game), and Wanderer (who is not great but is the best unit for getting around the overworld lol)

Yeah having 5 stars doesn't necessarily matter if you don't have their supports. When I was starting out I needed to buy Xingqiu and Bennett from the shop to really unlock my account because my first few 5*s went Qiqi, Raiden, Childe. It depends on the 5*s you get, I guess.

UshiromiyaEva posted...

All I know is I want the short blue hair chick who looks like she's royalty or something, the light blue hair chick with the red horns, and the one who kind of looks like Sienna from RWBY only with longer hair and gold highlights.

Also just fyi the game just went through a big wave of reruns to prepare for the new region so it's hard to know when these characters are going to come back. Nilou (horns) JUST finished her rerun a few weeks ago, Ayaka (or Yelan? - blue hair girls) had theirs two patches ago. And Dehya is standard (or lose 50/50) only. So you likely have quite a bit of time to prepare and pull on other banners.

the water dude is, no joke, one of the best characters in the entire game

they tried to powercreep him with a 5* version that basically does the same thing, and there are still situations where you'd rather just take him. also they buff each other so he just becomes more powerful if you do get both anyways

azuarc posted...

I wonder how many versions we're getting in Sumeru. After the latest area, we've got to be getting down to the end, right? Inazuma was 3 islands, then 2, then 1 more, then Enkanomiya. Sumeru was rainforest, then 3 regions of desert, then 1 more, then 1 more. Has to be roughly equal, right? Unless they're going to jam us with a Mondstadt festival and another trip to the Golden Apple Archipelago while people play HSR.

You're forgetting that the islands were smaller and clustered up in bunches to be roughly equivalent to these updates, and Tsurumi Island was really tiny.

3 islands = rainforest
2 islands = desert 1
tsurumi = desert 2
enkanomiya = desert 3

The outlier is we also got the Chasm during 2.x but it sounds like that one was in development for a looong time.

cannot believe the yoko shimomura slander in here

swordz9 posted...

1 Tighnari C barf of all the characters to lose the 50:50 to.

Tighnari is good! His cons are good! Probably the best standard character. I'd love more cons for him, but then again I pulled when he was featured so I'm biased

Simply ignore what's going on with his voice actor at the moment

Let me offer a lighter example: Hideo Kojima is a genius game designer but "you will feel ashamed of your words and deeds" is one of the most hilariously stupid things ever said about a video game, also in response to criticism he got. Just because I continue to love his games doesn't mean I gotta hand it to him for that one!

I absolutely can blame him for it lol. Unintentional or not, it's clear bias and just because I like the man's games I don't have to defend every single thing he says. I'm more than capable of respecting his creative talent while criticizing the bad parts.

andylt posted...

I remember his terrible comments on racial diversity a few months back and yeah maybe this is just a thing with him.

Yep, that was pretty disappointing but still wasn't out of nowhere because there's been similar criticism about 14 as well with mildly dismissive responses (though it's more of a mixed bag there). I think generally he's been given a pass because of his games and honestly being a genuinely likeable weird guy, but that cuts both ways and he has a tendency to put his foot in his mouth more than you might expect, if all you know about him is his acclaim.

Btw this is the excerpt from the deleted tweet although it's still up for me so idk what's going on

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/user_image/4/0/4/AAMkRCAAEOm0.png

andylt posted...

https://twitter.com/headfallsoff/status/1630594762586705925

https://twitter.com/woodaba2/status/1630578505816711168

I know XIV fans love this guy but these are strange and terrible quotes imo

No, I love FF14 but Yoshi-P says weird shit all the time and this is one of them. FF games - hell, AAA games and dramatic stories in general - tend to have a mix of lighthearted and dark serious elements to make the other land more. And like, the main plot of FF15 was not about the optimism of the series despite the goofy road trip elements, lmao. The final few chapters are some bleak shit. The past 10 years of FF being like this are maybe true if you only look at FF14, a very optimistic game where you do exactly this. And like, he could have just said he and his team want to make a darker game without those vibes. I get the feeling he's just trying to sell the game to people who prefer those darker elements. But I am more than fine indulging in some edgelord shit on occasion, this comment still doesn't make sense.

He's right about the JRPG thing though, I do see where he's coming from with that and honestly had no idea it was largely a distinction that was only made outside of the Japanese game community.

NFUN posted...

which have nothing to do with how western AAA soundtracks have been Hollywood inspired for years?

What? All of the nominations were from games whose composers who also work in the film industry, for the film score style of music. It is directly relevant to what types of video game music are currently getting recognized in the mainstream, even if it took 15 years to get formally recognized as a category.

also I'm not going to continue this conversation because it's pedantic but discussing a trend that started 15 years ago but is still currently ongoing is a bit different from saying there's been no iconic music since a single game soundtrack 25 years ago

NFUN posted...

talking about developments from 15 years ago rather than 25 is not a huge improvement

The Grammies just gave it a category this year! People were talking about The Last of Us show! Those are recent developments!

come on guys, amogus is from 2018 and gained popularity in 2020. biggest? yes. most recent? no.

I would submit both Zagreus Hades and Lady D Resident Evil as more recent entries into iconic gaming canon. Don't underestimate horny.

KamikazePotato posted...

The topic was successfully answered on Post #2, what else we gonna talk about

literally any other game music than a game from 25 years ago

maybe talk about how this question is made more difficult because blockbuster games are more and more trending towards movie soundtrack aesthetics or outright using licensed music, and getting critically evaluated along those lines instead of what we enthusiasts would traditionally consider "video game music"

it's just especially funny because the song being discussed (One Winged Angel) has been supplanted by its successor (Megalovania) even within its own category

hilarious that a topic about "recent" video game music devolved into an argument about FF7

never change gamefaqs

It's like Devil May Cry meets Viewtiful Joe. Tango still has a bunch of ex-Clover employees and Shinji Mikami was the executive producer.

It's real good! I'm not really the type of person to play and replay these character action games but it's a tight experience and a blast, even for someone like me who is bad at them. It doesn't overstay its welcome either.

Still though, you can tell they had to drop a bunch of stuff, there's clearly parts where they are joking about cut levels or bosses. Really hope it gets a follow-up where they can iterate on it.

dragona joestar my beloved

It's a really good core but it's held back by performance and the end dragging extremely.

If it didn't have those performance and pacing issues it would probably easily be the best SMT game? But as it stands they sucked a lot of joy out of the game for me...it's worth checking out for sure though.

edit: Actually, it's missing some true fuck-off asshole dungeons like Nocturne had, that's the other thing it's lacking. Very few traditional dungeons at all, which is weird!

StealThisSheen posted...

People eat wings fast, they don't savor the flavor or anything.

people are eating bad wings then!

which is like, totally fine if you want fast food or drunk food but if I have a true craving for chicken wings I'm gonna get picky about it

it's really incredible that Yoko Taro keeps getting hired as a guest writer and writing a bunch of ironic "fuck you" plots

I mean I guess it's free marketing

isn't this the company the prince of Saudi Arabia bought?

From what I understand, Nilou+Nahida Bloom is one of the strongest teams in the game for how low the investment needed is. Even without the buff.

Ditto for hyper/quickbloom which this boon makes even better. As long as you're not getting tossed around like a ragdoll with no shield like me lol

Ghais Guevara for the polar opposite of white people whining about wokism (black people yelling about communism)

Strife2 posted...

"Falun Gong melds traditional Taoist principles with occasionally bizarre pronouncements from its Chinese-born founder and leader, Li Hongzhi. Among other pronouncements, Li has claimed that aliens started invading human minds in the beginning of the 20th century, leading to mass corruption and the invention of computers. He has also denounced feminism and homosexuality and claimed he can walk through walls and levitate. But the central tenet of the group's wide-ranging belief system is its fierce opposition to communism"

Well ok then. I am glad I never went to one of these. I live in a heavy Hmong/Chinese populated area (Twin Cities), so I saw these advertised quite often. But uh...yeah not going.

He also thinks race mixing is an alien conspiracy

It's bad.

Yeah Shen Yun is is basically a way for a cult to spread propaganda and make money. Do not spend money on it.

scarletspeed7 posted...

I agree as to the update of Superman. Frankly, the character is a conduit for philosophy and cultural justice, and the latter is entirely the concept of the original Superman. My issue with Snyder Superman is that it didn't try to dally in either of those categories and was more focused on religious iconography for the character, which I think is only earned after achieving something meaningful in the other two categories.

Right, and addition the concerns about justice for someone as grim as Snyder tend to focus on "how far should Superman go?" or "why doesn't he do more?" when he's just not well suited to that kind of thing. Frankly it's all kinda Bush-era. We've had so many authoritarian Superman takes and you just have to stretch the character SO much that it's become played out, and you're better off going with an expy.

Your Authority take is real smart, you give those questions to them because they're extremely good at dealing with it, and have Superman stand as a contrast.

I remember Animal Man being good!

Also Wonder Woman which is a weird grey area - it was an ongoing series completely rebooted but isn't anything like previous versions. It also suffers from the "should have been an Elseworlds" problem, because the edginess was divisive but no one would care if it wasn't "canon."

It's solid, but I think it gets a bad rap because it was supposed to be "the new Superman!" fitting into a new continuity, instead of being something more akin to an Elseworlds which is what it feels like it should be doing. If you take it for what it is - Morrison pulling Golden Age Supes into the modern era - it's pretty good. But I don't think it really gets a chance to breathe, there's some concepts like SUPERDOOM (the evil, Corporate IP version of Superman from another Earth) that were neat but underutilized (gee I wonder why).

All this to say, it's definitely a concept worth going back to imo. But my bias is I think the best way to "update" Superman for the modern era is to reintroduce more of those Golden Age roots. See also "Superman Smashes the Klan" which is one of the freshest takes we've had in a while despite literally being a story for children.

That's actually sort of what bappened during New 52, because Morrison's run got interrupted they had to deal with both the Batfamily existing and Superman just starting out, so Batman had been active years before Supes was. It was all very handwavey though and I don't think they were more than 5 or 10 years apart even with that.

Come to think of it, Morrison was also writing the young rookie Superman during that period too. If we're just getting the Grant Morrison Cinematic Universe I'm down.

PerfectChaosZ posted...

The Watchmen movie did pretty well despite looking like clones of mainstream characters to the layman.

Watchmen characters had like 20 years to surpass the originals they were based on. I think I'd probably go for The Boys and to a lesser extent Invincible to show there's an audience for some edgier expys.