Current Events > Gacha General Topic 41: 1%? I Like Those Odds

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Getting closer to completing Lost Sword story, I think there's 60 chapters or something, on 56 now
Lohengrin is very strong, really helped solidify my team
Got caught up Nikke's story last week or so after like half a year

I think I should be story caught-up in all my gacha this month

Big-ish HBR update, namely the badge system which are accomplishments with stat upgrade

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/811b2e49.jpg
Definitely not biased. Ruka, Mari, Tama, and Yingxia has the most badges for me. Sadly they didn't keep track of the dungeon runs since about a month ago or so? I swear I did more than 5 with Bungo for instance

Weirdly enough they actually kept track of all the Score Attacks I've ever done? There are some units I haven't used since like the first few weeks and they seem to have scores.

Also there isn't a badge for the Angel Beats girls, considering I used Irie a ton.

I barely used the Ohshima sisters... my most used squad is probably 31-A

My Last Cloudia collab pulls:

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New Jersey tag

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Anyone still play Lost Sword here? They are gonna fix the PVP weekly reward thing to automatically give you them
They're also making it so you lose points if your D fails from Master 3 tier up. Instead of grinding 20 times over 20 hours, it's 6 battles every 24h
And banning the 2 most frequently used PVP characters every 2 weeks plus 3 random characters

legendarylemur posted...

Big-ish HBR update, namely the badge system which are accomplishments with stat upgrade

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/811b2e49.jpg
Definitely not biased. Ruka, Mari, Tama, and Yingxia has the most badges for me. Sadly they didn't keep track of the dungeon runs since about a month ago or so? I swear I did more than 5 with Bungo for instance

Weirdly enough they actually kept track of all the Score Attacks I've ever done? There are some units I haven't used since like the first few weeks and they seem to have scores.

Also there isn't a badge for the Angel Beats girls, considering I used Irie a ton.

I barely used the Ohshima sisters... my most used squad is probably 31-A

I have Ruka and Vitrika tied for most medals with Inori trailing a bit behind them.

Also threw a few platinum tickets to the Unison Ruka banner, got the new Chie instead. Sadly I don't have good Ice units.
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/8/8f3a3972.jpg

What a coincidence. I threw 5 pulls for fun into the Unison Ruka cuz I need a Dark DPS. Got Chie SS1 lmao. Considering my luck, there was no way it was gonna be worth throwing more pulls into it so I guess I'm not getting Unison Ruka

HeeathLivesOn posted...

Anyone still play Lost Sword here? They are gonna fix the PVP weekly reward thing to automatically give you them
They're also making it so you lose points if your D fails from Master 3 tier up. Instead of grinding 20 times over 20 hours, it's 6 battles every 24h
And banning the 2 most frequently used PVP characters every 2 weeks plus 3 random characters

Lmao man this took them way too long to implement auto rewards. Are they adding the option to just outright skip matches too instead of having to wait for it to load then start before you can skip?

And I guess that means Tiamat and Lancelot are only gonna be seen every 2 weeks then lol

1%, you say?
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It was unwittingly a Frieren reference for sure. Surely there's a fan art of her crashing out in a gacha

YugiNoob posted...

Lmao man this took them way too long to implement auto rewards. Are they adding the option to just outright skip matches too instead of having to wait for it to load then start before you can skip?

And I guess that means Tiamat and Lancelot are only gonna be seen every 2 weeks then lol

Prob Lancelot and Claire removed right away
Lots of melee characters with earlier skill timings that make for PVP staples before any of the mages I think

Don't know if you can just skip

I seem to have 2 extra copies of Dorothy:Serendipity (limited Pilgrim in Nikke) than I drew
I know for a fact I drew her once naturally and then used 2 golden mileage tickets on her and left her at +2, but I noticed sometime this week she's +4 (core reinforcement 1)? I have no idea how that happened, definitely didn't use 4 tickets on her. I log every character I get in gacha, at least since April, and nothing beyond those 2 tickets.

No pull history to reference unfortunately, but I'll accept the result anyways
Seriously wtf tho
Wonder if I forgot I had her at +2 and then used 2 more tickets to get her to +2 then wound up at +4
Probably more likely than being bugged

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legendarylemur posted...

It was unwittingly a Frieren reference for sure. Surely there's a fan art of her crashing out in a gacha

best I can do you is frieren thirsting over femHimmel in the future
https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/4/4dff3c9b.jpg

Ugh, looking back at my logs, I totally did get 2 more copies of Dorothy: Serendipity thinking I had her at +0 at the time when she was already +2

Dammit

Huh...

I think HBR messed up with this update because they skipped so many memorias. I just noticed that my Swimsuit Adel is missing all of her skills lmao

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/e/e598e576.jpg
I was doing a monthly Anachrony, and I had a pretty unique line where she uses her clone jutsu to avoid a pretty serious hit, and I was puzzled to see she didn't have the skill. I thought I messed up somehow and didn't put on the skill

Seems this is a problem with a lot of the new swimsuit units, so I have to guess they messed up trying to create their own unique version where the swimsuit units were implemented into the game like 8-9 months in advance

https://www.reddit.com/r/gachagaming/comments/1n9sxpj/epic_7_x_frieren_collaboration_announced/

Lol speaking of Frieren. I guess I'm a leaker now

Huh, the first collab Epic Seven had that I have absolutely zero interest in lol. All previous collabs I had at least a little hype for, although FMA was minimal.

Random thing, but theres this chick in this game Im playing who has the most bullshit ability. When she gets hit, she counterattacks the entire team. It starts at 80% damage and as you rank her up it goes to 110%.

God damn team-hitting counters shouldnt do that much <_<

Tell that to Kayron post initial buff early days E7 where people were fielding him and nobody else and they'd still win

Pulled Asagi a day or two ago in Bombergirl. Started out not liking her but she's turning out to be kinda fun. We'll see. I don't use her online yet. Still want more offline non-sweaty lobbies first.
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legendarylemur posted...

Tell that to Kayron post initial buff early days E7 where people were fielding him and nobody else and they'd still win

Oh right, I forgot about him. At least his skill can be sealed :<

Oh what the heck? Hololive collab for Eminence in Shadow? Good thing I was bored of my current games and randomly decided to give it another shot :D

Although to be honest Im not a huge fan of any of the characters (La+, Ayame, Lui, Nene, and Lamy), I still love me some collabs. And Lui will always be memorable to me for that time she was having a stream where she had to end if she screamed when she played a horror game and then spilled her water and screamed lol

https://youtu.be/vo7UIS9YlbM

Woot it only took me about 2 hours of rerolling to get Lui and La+

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/f/ff6dccf0.jpg

I like the manga for Eminence in Shadow a lot. I know the game is basically like caught up and then some with the light novel and is being written by the main guy, but I'm usually not that good at re-reading stories. The manga, anime, and then the game of the same story is too much for me

Thankfully I'm not a huge fan of any of the girls they added either. I like Nene and Lamy amongst them a lot but that's about it. Lamy is also a huge Heaven Burns Red stan and I dig that.

One thing really annoys me with the game though... you have to download data (even if you choose the option to not have voices) every single cutscene. It has a batch download option, but that doesn't alleviate this issue. It's the same way for the Slime game. I don't know why they bother having a batch download because it didn't seem to help the loading time either <_<

Yeah phones have pretty shit storage. A lot of systems will basically mark the biggest app in your storage for deletion the moment you don't use it for like 2-3 hours, and some games just want to avoid that, so they just temporarily store some cutscenes.

Finally reaching the endgame for Arknights part 1 now. If you'd told me even two chapters ago (so during chapter 6, aka during Reunions assault on Lungmen) that I'd feel bad for freaking Mephisto dying I wouldn't have believed it, but damn if seeing Talulah's past and how clear the damage Mephisto suffered during his formative years was didn't make me feel sorry for him and his fate.

legendarylemur posted...

Yeah phones have pretty shit storage. A lot of systems will basically mark the biggest app in your storage for deletion the moment you don't use it for like 2-3 hours, and some games just want to avoid that, so they just temporarily store some cutscenes.

But I mean I have 128 GB so I can spare a lot of extra room :<

I've never had my phone mark apps for deletion though, even when I had older models with less storage and it was near capacity.

M1Astray posted...

Finally reaching the endgame for Arknights part 1 now. If you'd told me even two chapters ago (so during chapter 6, aka during Reunions assault on Lungmen) that I'd feel bad for freaking Mephisto dying I wouldn't have believed it, but damn if seeing Talulah's past and how clear the damage Mephisto suffered during his formative years was didn't make me feel sorry for him and his fate.

Yeah it's all very sad and only gets worse from here really.

Did you get the 'secret' ending with Mephisto's death, where you dont kill him?

On that note, who watched the Arknights anime? Did seem to go very fast at times so I wonder how easy it was to follow for none game players. Did enjoy the final fight however still and seeing Talulah breakdown.

Funkydog posted...

Yeah it's all very sad and only gets worse from here really.

Did you get the 'secret' ending with Mephisto's death, where you dont kill him?

On that note, who watched the Arknights anime? Did seem to go very fast at times so I wonder how easy it was to follow for none game players. Did enjoy the final fight however still and seeing Talulah breakdown.

Not yet, barely managed to clear it the normal way so far lol. I was sorta planning on going back and doing the extra stage clears after finishing the chapter (unlocked one by accident so far).

Funkydog posted...

On that note, who watched the Arknights anime? Did seem to go very fast at times so I wonder how easy it was to follow for none game players. Did enjoy the final fight however still and seeing Talulah breakdown.

I watched all the seasons as they aired. Season 1 was fine, Season 2 started to speed up a bit but it should still be not that difficult to follow. Season 3 is lol we're going to speedrun all the dialogue, specially when they adapted Darknights Memoir in a single episode. But we got a Bagpipe cameo so its all good for me.

YugiNoob posted...

But I mean I have 128 GB so I can spare a lot of extra room :<

I've never had my phone mark apps for deletion though, even when I had older models with less storage and it was near capacity.

It's more for people with less storage. Basically whenever they recommend you clear up space, the apps with the biggest size get marked even if you're using that app on a daily basis. HBR for instance is the biggest app on my phone and I don't open it for like 12+ hrs and it'll recommend I delete it due a lack of use lmao. The App Store should be in charge of this. Not sure how iOS does it tbh

Games just want to avoid that and keep the size as low as possible. I had some pretty small sized games that I almost never play that never show up on that list, so I never delete it.

Oh neat, BD2 is having a collab rerun in October.

Although now that I think about it, Im not sure thats good. Have there been any collabs besides Senran Kagura and Goblin Slayer? Given how generous the game is, I never missed getting a character and their weapon lol

Huh, that's great news
Figured those collabs would never rerun, guess I gotta save up again

I've got a majority of the costumes to +5, but i can't get missed collabs units : /

Speaking of collabs, whats with the Genshin and Among Us one lol

Damn, Eminence in Shadow has the worst ticket prices I've ever seen. It's $30 for a single 10 pull D:

Jesus H. Monkeyballs it took me almost 2 months to get Saber <_<

Also I had to pity Ayame in EiS. I had to erm man the harpoons. Its a 3% SS rate, and I got 2 off banners with 200 pulls. Feels real bad. I wish the game had better packs to buy; its mostly just premium currency :<

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Spoiler question for anyone whos played the Eminence in Shadow game and read/seen the manga/anime:

Is it as fucked in the anime as it is in the game? It started off as a silly isekai thing with a Mary Sue protagonist, but then we get into a buttload of murders. Its one of the few games where I dont skip all of the story, because the wonky Final Destination-esque die > time loop stuff caught my attention. I thought the main characters dying wasnt a big deal because they could just deus ex machina everything by going back in time, but then apparently Delta and the other dog girl cant un-die now. And the game is trolling me hard because to watch that story, you need to spend a special ticket, which Im out of right now, and I just got to a point where demon possessed Beta stabbed Epsilon during a big war with vampires. Theyre leaving me hanging D:

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YugiNoob posted...

Damn, Eminence in Shadow has the worst ticket prices I've ever seen. It's $30 for a single 10 pull D:

Wow, that's terrible
I spend a lot but I'd never pay that shit rate

HeeathLivesOn posted...

Getting closer to completing Lost Sword story, I think there's 60 chapters or something, on 56 now
Lohengrin is very strong, really helped solidify my team
Got caught up Nikke's story last week or so after like half a year

I think I should be story caught-up in all my gacha this month

Do we ever get more voice acting in lost sword after the start?

The voice acting was great and they really improved the script over the written stuff with small tweaks to make it more fun

HeeathLivesOn posted...

Wow, that's terrible
I spend a lot but I'd never pay that shit rate

Yeah, its technically a little more than $30

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YugiNoob posted...

Spoiler question for anyone whos played the Eminence in Shadow game and read/seen the manga/anime:

Is it as fucked in the anime as it is in the game? It started off as a silly isekai thing with a Mary Sue protagonist, but then we get into a buttload of murders. Its one of the few games where I dont skip all of the story, because the wonky Final Destination-esque die > time loop stuff caught my attention. I thought the main characters dying wasnt a big deal because they could just deus ex machina everything by going back in time, but then apparently Delta and the other dog girl cant un-die now. And the game is trolling me hard because to watch that story, you need to spend a special ticket, which Im out of right now, and I just got to a point where demon possessed Beta stabbed Epsilon during a big war with vampires. Theyre leaving me hanging D:

I actually haven't read this one myself, but that one is like a game-exclusive alt history story IIRC. Could be wrong, and it could end like every other arc where the MC somehow saves the day or something lmao, but yes there are a lot of deaths and up until that arc, I don't think much of any of the deaths are taken too seriously. None of the good guys die though until that arc.

Quezovercoatl posted...

Do we ever get more voice acting in lost sword after the start?

The voice acting was great and they really improved the script over the written stuff with small tweaks to make it more fun

Nope, at least not that I can recall

YugiNoob posted...

Damn, Eminence in Shadow has the worst ticket prices I've ever seen. It's $30 for a single 10 pull D:

And I thought Umamusume's $20 for 10 was bad...

Damn Deathless Black Snake kicked my arse badly on my first three attempts. On the fourth they leaked and I discovered they only take out two life points, but since I'd spent all my ops trying to kill them I then leaked a grunt and the fight was over.

Thinking I'll wait until Mon3ter next week, I need more than two medics (one of which is Purewater who is hardly a particularly strong medic) if I'm going to tango with this one and keep on top of all that damage DBS is doing in their second phase.

Of course I could just let them leak and clear the chapter tonight, but eh. Feels kinda gross doing that.

Oh thats pretty neat. The Eminence in Shadow game apparently does follow the anime, and really well from what I can tell. And the vampire war time loop stuff seems to be a game-only thing. And I got to see 2 more episodes, which kinda helped ease the cliff hanger lol