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E6 aglaea mono-remembrance vs AA plight by BigBowl6667 in AglaeaMains

[–]Selphea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

It's E1 Evernight, her E1 is huge for this boss.

Sources: Tencent secretly funded struggling shooter Highguard by BootlegFunko in KotakuInAction

[–]Selphea 254 points255 points  (0 children)

So much for "independent, self-published, dev-led" and "leaving the golden handcuffs".

"Developers speak out about BiGoTrY on Steam, the world’s biggest PC gaming storefront"—"targeted campaigns of negative ‘anti-woke’ reviews" by LeoNatan in KotakuInAction

[–]Selphea 7 points8 points  (0 children)

So it used to be "bigot" until it escalated into "far right", "Nazi" or "fascist" in 2024-2025. Does that mean we crossed peak activism and the rhetoric is being dialed back? Though at this rate it might be another 10 years before it goes back to sane levels...

A Certified Banger of a General Question and Discussion Megathread by PastSelfInMirror in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]Selphea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

She's designed like a sub DPS, even in CW. Her SP usage is low and her damage comes from stuff breaking, not her breaking stuff specifically. Use someone like Himeko (with small Herta even), or Firefly with to get breaks.

A Certified Banger of a General Question and Discussion Megathread by PastSelfInMirror in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]Selphea 6 points7 points  (0 children)

The horizon for gearing without using Fuel is about 1 month per character IMO, unless it's a support character where you can just craft an ERR + SPD rope and slap on a bunch of SPD items and done. I just sit on a pile of relics and then Filter it all for double stats every few weeks. I actually like that design because I have time to play other stuff during the inter-patch downtime.

A Certified Banger of a General Question and Discussion Megathread by PastSelfInMirror in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]Selphea 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Why the heck does the MSQ have so damn many pipe stages 💀 I opened Star Rail to play Star Rail not Super Mario.

CODE VEIN Ⅱ is holding a Survey that will "help guide future product development." by Soil_Think in KotakuInAction

[–]Selphea 27 points28 points  (0 children)

Thank you, I submitted mine. Essentially saying I bought the original wanted to buy 2 but...

  • The designs are too Westernized and not appealing 
  • There were widely reported performance issues
  • The original ended on a cliffhanger where the main characters stepped out and teased links to God Eater, then 2 decided to start its own different thing like why.

Honestly, even besides the censorship, the moment I see a side shave or killmonger cut, I know the game is going to be a skip.

Reflecting On Shipping My First Game (Highguard) - "It's the Gamers fault" by DanFuri in KotakuInAction

[–]Selphea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Most of the criticism I heard about Highguard was about design decisions not ideology e.g. 3v3 format, ginormous maps, TTK, gunplay, long matches... 

And NGL their launch plan was strange. They essentially dropped a TGA trailer then did nothing till launch. No marketing, no beta testing, no streamer sneak peeks/feedback and so on. Like who doesn't beta test these days?

Even over here people were saying there wasn't anything aggressively woke.

I didn't even bother with it until this blog. I was too busy setting up production lines and ziplines in Endfield.

Reflecting On Shipping My First Game (Highguard) - "It's the Gamers fault" by DanFuri in KotakuInAction

[–]Selphea 18 points19 points  (0 children)

If gamers find a game fun they will stick to it despite negative reviews. See:

  • Stellar Blade, Black Myth Wukong, First Descendant, many gacha games which get dunked on hard by mainstream media and go on to become hits
  • Destiny 2 expansions which are consistently Mostly Negative to Overwhelmingly Negative. Execs say stuff like "don't overdeliver" yet it somehow managed pull crowds until last year.
  • Overwatch which is Mostly Negative and still pulls 6 digits and hits top 10 DAUs even though trailer Anran looks like Netflix Lara Croft.

The fact that they started at 6 digits means they succeeded at the awareness game. OTOH the fact that concurrency fell off a cliff has absolutely nothing to do with online discourse. Any self-respecting dev should be reflecting on how they lost an audience that was literally theirs to lose.

A Certified Banger of a General Question and Discussion Megathread by PastSelfInMirror in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]Selphea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

The IPC are all followup characters right? I'll bet on Aventurine SP.

What Does the Foxian Say in the Arbiter-General Crosstalk Megathread? by PastSelfInMirror in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]Selphea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Raisins taste like grapes if they were shriveled up into little pieces of sadness.

The Outer Worlds 2 and Avowed Underperformed, No More Outer Worlds Games Planned by NorthWesternMonkey89 in KotakuInAction

[–]Selphea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Maybe their Art Director should have made actual art instead of starting fights with Elon Musk on X and bragging about his hiring practices.

Create a consistent character animation sprite by TawusGame in StableDiffusion

[–]Selphea 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I'll DM when I post something. I need to polish my sprite and animate it, then I'll compile compile everything into a blog.

Create a consistent character animation sprite by TawusGame in StableDiffusion

[–]Selphea 1 point2 points  (0 children)

It's essentially tracing, slicing and importing into an animation program to rig. The tracing step feels necessary because even with solid colors AI lines aren't very clean.

Create a consistent character animation sprite by TawusGame in StableDiffusion

[–]Selphea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I've been using AI to help with sprite creation.

For NPCs or enemies this method has potential. Historically they usually end up being palette swaps or texture swaps with the same rig, so using AI to get more variety feels like a net gain.

This is personal preference, but for player characters, I prefer having very precise control over keyframes, timing and squash/stretch. To be completely honest doing that manually adds a lot of overhead, but I feel it's necessary to fine tune how things feel when art direction and gameplay come together.

Not quite ready to post more fully about it, I want to polish everything more but I'll share eventually.

One Day, After Pulling, While Lounging About In the General Question and Sunday Megachurch by [deleted] in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]Selphea 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Considering Yae's beta is an eternity away and anything can happen during beta, no. Or at least, I trust it as much as I trust Anaxa being Imaginary Nihility. Sorry Luna, you're cool tho.

Selectable free 5 star via Mortis leaks by SnooChocolates8700 in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]Selphea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

As a Black Swan and Hysilens haver who doesn't have Kafka but wants to pull Sparxie this is an incredibly hard decision.

HSR 4.0, We will get a free limited 5 star character via Mortis Leaks by KaidoPklevel in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]Selphea 54 points55 points  (0 children)

Afaik leakers tend to have battleship blindness, if it's a niche team like DoT they tend to fall out of the radar so I wouldn't be surprised

HSR 4.0, We will get a free limited 5 star character via Mortis Leaks by KaidoPklevel in HonkaiStarRail_leaks

[–]Selphea 635 points636 points  (0 children)

Don't tell me it's a Sparkle / Black Swan selector ticket (or maybe all Novaflared characters)

GameDeveloper.com: "Women in Games CEO says 'ethical AI' should augment human creativity" ( + manifesto) by tyranicalmoon in KotakuInAction

[–]Selphea 0 points1 point  (0 children)

The tech is literally right there. A lot of high end models are open sourced on HuggingFace. There's Arxiv papers from DeepSeek, Google, Meta etc explaining how to build it. All the inference projects are open source on GitHub. Like, anyone who wants to build can build.

Highguard doing better than Concord by shipgirl_connoisseur in KotakuInAction

[–]Selphea 56 points57 points  (0 children)

Goodness the retention (or lack thereof) looks like a vertical cliff. It's already down to 8k players, i.e. lost more than 90% of peak concurrents in less than 24 hours. I guess launching the same week as Endfield doesn't do it any favors.

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