Current Events > Gacha Game General Topic 26: ''Funny cat makes funny faces.''

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This topic is for discussion of all the various games where you put in your time and money effort in hopes of recruiting the hero or waifu of your dreams... yes, welcome to the wonderful world of gacha games! Princess Connect ReDive, Azur Lane, Girls' Frontline, Blue Archive, Alchemy Stars, and many, many more unique games are waiting for you to happily spend your money enjoy your time playing them.

So let's continue our discussion: what gacha games are you playing or looking forward to these days? Which do you spend the most time on, and which are you just collecting login bonuses in until you feel like actually playing them again? Feel free to name your favorite games, show off your heroes and teams, talk about games coming in the future that you're excited for, talk about anime adaptations and other media associated with gacha games, and just have fun. But remember: play responsibly!

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Luigi tag

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*BlueArchive*
Almost done gathering mats for Haruna EX5. Aw yeah, 3 cost line area oneshots in PvP! And it's nice to finally be able to raise Iori's gears, now she can survive a second

This is an official comic lmao

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Current gacha:

Girls' Frontline (is this even a gacha?)
Blue Archive
YGO Master Duel (yes this is a gacha).
Genshin (inactive)

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On Blue Archive total assault, I got kicked by 2k rank.

I'm still 800+ so still a pretty good chance I won't get kicked out of 2000.

The latest patch in PGR dropped in CN and they got this awesome boss fight with mechas

https://youtu.be/53ONj7l_KPY

Edit: I think this one might be better quality
https://youtu.be/dCgFjO2ZOY0

Noraneko_Vel posted...

I'm still 800+ so still a pretty good chance I won't get kicked out of 2000.

We just live in different world.

I honestly don't know how to push beyond 7.1 million pts outside of RNG stuff. Cherino (that I got from SS Mashiro banner) can't level her skill because of pink haniwas being non-existent, the Twins exhausted the Trinity materials, and I'm saving Gehenna Techs/BDs for Akari/Mutsuki.

At Saturday I expect I'd be at 8k out of 10k.

Blue Archive - Asian Difficulty.

I'm currently playing...

New Japan Pro Wrestling: Strong Spirits
Princess Connect ReDive
Revue Starlight ReLive
Tenkafuma

...and I'm really excited for the Mysteria Friends event coming to PriConne later today. I'm going to roll for Anne immediately when the event starts and for Grea immediately once she's added in like a week or so.

Tennousu posted...

Girls' Frontline (is this even a gacha?)

Yes, it's a gacha.

Currently playing Azur Lane. I was playing Girl Cafe Gun, but I looked at the new patch notes this morning and uninstalled it. That was also where the combat android (with boobs!) I was going to post is from, but nah.

Tennousu posted...

Blue Archive - Asian Difficulty.

Good ol' Asian "live to work" culture affecting their gamer mindsets.

But yeah I'm in 7.1mil range too, at that point it's all ex rotation RNG, crit consistency and skill upgrades.
This may get a lot worse once weapon upgrading rolls out in global...

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Only playing FGO as usual. This current event and it's raids blow.

Currently playing:

Project QT
Sexy Exiles
Azur Lane
Blue Archive
Alchemy Stars
Fire Emblem Heroes
Shin Megami Tensei: Liberation
Disgaea RPG
Pokemon Masters EX
FFBE: War of the Visions
Figure Fantasy
King's Raid
Dragon Raja

Only thing of note is that Dragon Raja continues it's slow crawl to being too big to keep manageable. It's almost at 12GBs already, and low storage space warnings flare up the most when it updates.

Gacha

Calwings posted...

Yes, it's a gacha.

I guess a game of - Love and Hope - belongs to the gacha pool, after all.

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Challenge accepted

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Mysteria Friends event just started in PriConne, I pulled Anne in 160 pulls and immediately spent divine amulets to get her to 5 stars. Now I just have to do the event quests and wait for Anne's sexy dragon girlfriend Grea to be added to the game next week.

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Calwings posted...

Grea to be added to the game next week.

She's almost certainly not going to be released until the Anne banner actually ends. So you're going to wait 2 weeks for her to be added.

YotsuMaboroshi posted...

She's almost certainly not going to be released until the Anne banner actually ends. So you're going to wait 2 weeks for her to be added.

Damn. I got a little ahead of myself.

Yeah. It is a bit weird that she won't release until the event is over, but they don't really seem to run multiple banners at the same time in Priconne.

Man the roadblocks in Idle Huntress hit hard. You can't borrow supports a few times a week so there's no way to break your way through a stage you're stuck on; you have to just wait it out. Or pay up of course, like in most idle games :<

OMG THEY DID IT. Finally, they swapped the auto and 2x speed buttons in Alchemy Stars so that I won't accidentally switch to the stupid AI when I'm trying to change leaders. I don't know when it happened, but I just noticed it tonight. In every single event survey where it let you make suggestions or comments about the game I said that they should do that, so I'm overjoyed with the change :3

I'm glad someone ripped the song to that boss battle. It's such a banger, I can't stop listening to it!

I like how this game isnt ashamed of what it is lol

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YugiNoob posted...

I like how this game isnt ashamed of what it is lol

I heard that Global is censored, so it kind of is ashamed.

Does that mean that the other version(s) kept the nip slip onsen costume :o

Hmm... I wonder what the ideal Android emulator is now.

I used Noxplayer years ago, but I don't know if that's still any good.

I use Bluestacks. It's not perfect but it's good enough to play most things.

legendarylemur posted...

I use Bluestacks. It's not perfect but it's good enough to play most things.

Same. I get better performance with it than any other Ive tried.

The Catgirl Fondler posted...

Hmm... I wonder what the ideal Android emulator is now.

I used Noxplayer years ago, but I don't know if that's still any good.

Try them all out if you can to see what works for you. Every emulator has its eccentricities and has slightly different compatibility/optimization with each game.

Bluestacks
Nox
LDPlayer
Mumu and Mumu Nebula
Memu

Those are all of the popular gaming-oriented ones I can remember. There's also Android Studio, the SDK for Android apps but that one is a bit complicated to run and may not really work for games.

When it comes to the popular or most talked-about gacha games, LDPlayer and Mumu (Nebula) get tossed around the most, from my experience.

I use Nox myself and haven't had any serious issues, especially after replacing the default app launcher with Nova Launcher to get rid of some of the ads and the annoying little sample game icon it wants you to download.

Some games objectively run better on one emulator over others (better frame rates, etc.) but it can also get a bit subjective too, which is why I say to try as many as you can for yourself. As for what objectively runs better on what, I can only tell you for the games I play: Girls' Frontline, Arknights, and Punishing Gray Raven. You'll have to ask someone else for any other game.

There are some bizarre things with Bluestacks like games constantly randomly refusing to load up. It's consistent per game, and no amount of raising its max RAM etc has helped.

The ones that happen on Bluestacks 5 are Guardian Tales and World Flipper where it takes shutting down all the background apps and clearing the ram and still requiring a few restarts til boot up. There might be more with similar circumstances

AS works pretty perfectly though from experience. Honestly out of everything, AS has by far the best performance on BS5. No random crashes, no noticeable lag. On BS4, it crashed quite often.

RIP Shaly, the community manager and the presenter of FF Brave Exvius.

I must say that you guys were right about Chen the hollandaise sauce being really good. She helped me breeze through todays CC as she made the already slow Bob and Mudrock even slower, and with W stunning them with mines and Red dropping in occasionally, it made them a hell of a lot less threatening lol

Also I want eggs benedict now

Yuuuup, she's just that good!

I just used a friend Suzaran and Saria skill 3, mixed with Surtr and Ifrit skill 3 to just annihilate the three big boys at the end. Even on high risk they just melted.

Jesus I hate how dumb AI can be in games. Hey, I know Hiryu is invincible during Final Counter, so I think the only logical thing is to ram into her during the duration so the vanguard can take extra damage!

Welp, ms. Eggs benedict helped once again, this time in this weeks Annihilation. Those red assholes who make holograms or whatever were pissing me off until they got good :3

YugiNoob posted...

Welp, ms. Eggs benedict helped once again, this time in this weeks Annihilation. Those red assholes who make holograms or whatever were pissing me off until they got good :3

I just used La Pluma and Ifrit to cruise through that stage. A treat watching Pluma just tear through everything with her skill 1

Oh dang why didn't I know about La Pluma before... I like scythe waifus and characters that have that life-draining effect.

She's fantastic. m3'd both her skills - and using standard Chen with her in the Annihilation means she's basically at full charge constantly and is just a constant whirling death machine that devours everything in her path. But even without Chen's skill point buff, she puts out damage very quickly regardless.

Full AoE damage, heals on units up to block damage. Just beautiful.

Re-adjusting to new daily reset times after Daylight Savings is always a pain in the ass for me. Anyone else have the same problem?

Calwings posted...

Re-adjusting to new daily reset times after Daylight Savings is always a pain in the ass for me. Anyone else have the same problem?

As far as I can remember I'm usually not affected, because the server is hosted in my region and the game adjusts to it.

Other than that it takes me 1-2 weeks to adjust when games shift a reset by an hour.

Calwings posted...

Re-adjusting to new daily reset times after Daylight Savings is always a pain in the ass for me. Anyone else have the same problem?

Yeah, this is gonna bork me for awhile until I find out (in the worst way) which ones adjust and which ones don't.

Doubly annoying as daylight saving isn't for another fortnight here, so double the messing up!

Calwings posted...

Re-adjusting to new daily reset times after Daylight Savings is always a pain in the ass for me. Anyone else have the same problem?

Always, which is why I wish my state would opt out of DST and stay on Standard Time all year 'round. Unfortunately, that never gets anywhere.

Man, this last event stage in Alchemy Stars is bullshit.

What smooth brain developer thought a boss with infinitely spawning mobs was a good idea?

Ironically DST affects me the most in terms of games since Hawaii doesn't observe it lol. So the free items that are normally given in Hero Cantare at 6-8 am and 8-10 pm are now at 5-7 and 7-9. I normally wake up at 7 for work, so I used to be able to get the first items easily since I would just turn on the game and grab them then get ready for work, but not anymore :<

I have the privilege of having Requiem for that event boss in AS though. Her passive that has a chance of sending lightning bolts to hit the farthest target after every normal attack really helps given that she's gonna be winding in and out past so many grunts lol

I'm not sure what is the point of daylight saving time. Timezones are already complicated enough, why would one make it even more complicated?

Tennousu posted...

I'm not sure what is the point of daylight saving time. Timezones are already complicated enough, why would one make it even more complicated?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daylight_saving_time#Rationale

People realized that, in the summer when days are longer, the hour or so of sunlight that comes before people normally woke up was going to waste because everyone was still asleep. So by pushing the clocks ahead an hour, the sunrise instead happens around the same time as the average working person's wake up time, and there's an extra hour of daylight at the end of the day for people to use. However, this adjustment is unnecessary when the days are shorter (otherwise people would be waking up when it's still dark out) so it's only used during the warmer part of the year when days are longer. Hence the "spring forward" to save that hour of daylight during the summer and "fall back" to re-adjust for the winter.

In today's current society, when whether it's light or dark outside doesn't really matter to most jobs because a lot of us work inside and everyone has lights, it doesn't really help as much as it used to. So what was very helpful to society decades ago is more of a minor inconvenience today.

Oh wow, Alchemy Stars is actually being WORSE than Mobile Legends Adventure with Carleen's outfit. Both force you to pay, but you can't even get Fluffy Serendipity until the 6th pull. At the very least in MLA you could get the best prizes with the single free pull you're given. Granted it was a fraction of a percent that probably nobody would get, but hey, at least it was there lol.

And it'll cost you at the very least $20 to get the costume since you need to buy 2 of the $10 packs, assuming you're really lucky and get it the first time it becomes available on the 6th roll.

I can't wait for the feedback survey for this event so I can tell them how scummy this is...Lemur, I assume you're going to do the same given your love for Carleen lol