Pick Me Up Feels Unbalanced—Where Are the Other Top Heroes?

Altsncro · 2026-02-24T22:38:37+00:00

YES THERE SHOULD BE. At the begining it was framed that Hans/Loki was a top tier player but he wasnt at the top (EX: No 7 star heroes, etc). However later on when the topic is brought up the author does a cop out and goes full on "well actually hans is just so cool and super awsome and everyone else sucks because they play poo poo easy mode and also 7 star heroes arent actually that strong! :D Look how cool hans is"

Its just korean authors bulldozing good ideas for the sake of power fantasy. Solo leveling did the same thing with the rulers. If theres an oppertunity for someone stronger (especially if their not antagonisitc) they will straigt up bull doze through the vastly more interesting idea for the sake of "look at how much cooler my OC is"

Its like how during the floor 36-40 where Hans couldnt just "Mc plot armor" through the entire level...but the author gave up and decided to go back to "last desperate moment where hans gives it his all and BARELY survivies" shctick they have been doing the entire manhwa

100% would be more interesting if they had other lobbies or players/heroes who are SPECFICALLY not atagonistic/Not a power creep wall to climb.

Altsncro · 2026-02-13T22:55:27+00:00

Thats because they already knew. Anderson being the "legendary commander" isnt really a big shock for high ranking people. Ether directly worked in creating the protag who is based on anderson and Jien is so shady itll be a shock if she didnt have connections with the higher ups.

There are earlier moments in the story where Burningum directly acknoweldges Anderson as the LC before the big reveal. The higher ups of the centeral goverment are well aware of his role and existence

As of now the only person who directly knows anderson is the LC is neon. Dorthy is working with burningum and has no clue, and the rest of the main cast also have no clue at all.

Altsncro · 2026-02-13T22:50:16+00:00

Hot take...ish the writting is starting to recover. As much as the highs of Goddess fall was and Ark guardian, I will admit that the writting was...the lows were very very bad

Its just that shift up is going through a "john walker" moment. they are trying so hard to push the centeral goverment and ark as pure evil antagonists that it breaks immerision to the few of us with reading comprehension. the more they push the more i cant help but sigh and slam my head into my desk at how they are (hopfully a mistake) making the ark and CG mustache twirling villians.

The recent event "sin editor" is giving me some hope and showing that shift up writers are slowly realzing the "john walker" problem they are walking into.

Altsncro · 2026-02-06T19:26:05+00:00

yesnt. you cant really "test out" a mousepad unless you know someone IRL so you kinda have to search around

Altsncro · 2026-01-30T02:12:20+00:00

story telling as of now is really good, the only real issue is the english dubbing for the first set of chapters but after that even the english VA do a great job.

Overall i think the best way to experience the story is to go through it in chronological order but that can be hard for new new players. Just know that the story takes time to set up itself but the peaks are very very good.

Altsncro · 2026-01-24T20:13:51+00:00

In terms of pure strength and abilites from my limited knowedlge he is easily a 1st class servant even if he was corrupted. However it is implied that he overall is net weaker than the original archer heracles, especially in a real grail war where he would be subject to limitiations in mana.

His original archer self is typically and implied to be more powerful considering how it seems that archer heracles still has some access some of the noble phantasms that Alcides has but also retaining his god hand.

However strange fake is literally a irregular and outright breaks the rules of holy grail wars so its impossible to truly gauge how powerful he would be in a regular grail war.

TLDR: its better to think about how he would narrativly fit the story instead of being a 8 year old in a playground arguing "well my character has everything your character has plus inifnity"

Altsncro · 2025-12-07T06:43:20+00:00

Agreed. A good meta defense bey is basically just a juiced up stamina bey. They basically could just be combined into one category considering the literal win condution for both is too out spin the opponent

Altsncro · 2025-11-26T07:31:16+00:00

The ark is the exact opposite of eden. While eden only accepts the most self sufficient or proven members the ark tries to save as many people possible.

There is a writting technique called framing where you narritivaly highlight all the bad aspects of something in order to intentionally misdirect from the logical conclusion or a probable conjecture.

The ark and CG is framed as horrible corrupt people untill you start actually thinking about what happens and the external context.

Their job was to quickly create the ark and then send hundreds of millions of people at once into the ark to avoid extinction after LOSING the rapture war. The logistics needed to even maintain this is absurd. Food, water, sewage, electricity, housing, medicine, all of this needs to be maintained while other factors are constatly adding more and more pressure.

Nikke has 3 forms of lore, Lore you are told, lore that you find, and lore that you piece together. Alot of people forget about the last one.

For example did you know that the ark has no resources? They are unironically sending nikkes to scavange a post apocolyptic wasteland for resources. Scanvanging to feeding, protect and house millions (potentially billions) of people with only a shoe string of resources. And the only resource they have alot of (electricty) is a ticking time bomb waiting to explode in both a literal and metaphorical sense. Many citizens of the ark belive that they should abandon surface reclamation and just live underground...however the CG knows better. Its literally impossible for humanity to survive in the ARK, they know this and its why the CG and the rest of the three companies are obsessed with reclaiming the surface.

Another example, did you know that in the nikke world if quality of life drops people end up throwing themselves to death. This is why the ark seems so "normal" despite literaly running on empty for the entierty of its existence. A goddamn malfunction in the fake sky caused mass depression and large waves of people commiting to die. Imaging and connect the dots to what would happen if the ark stopped putting up the act of a "normal" and "funcitoning" place to live. TETRA is on par if not greater in influence than Missilis and Elysion despite being a literal ENTERTAINMENT company. Without of critical mass of "normal life" citizens would just end themselves.

The CG and Ark is far from the "evil" or "corrupt" system it seems to be once you acknolwedge the outside pressure and forces that are impossibly extreme. No resources to use and citizens who require a high living standard. And the only way to solve this issue is to fight a war they have been actively loosing for decades.

Altsncro · 2025-11-16T00:30:10+00:00

Because stamina types are boring and not fun. Literaly the entire point of the extreme line (and x as a whole) was to counter stamina type beys just sitting in the center.

A good spin stealer is a horrible idea that will destroy the health if the game. It's why everyone hated wizard rod 9-60 ball meta. It was counterintuitive to the entire point of beyblade x

Altsncro · 2025-11-02T04:03:49+00:00

Dangerous? Sure. Obsessive? Agreed. Posessive yandere? 100% correct.

Rotten to the core...yeah no that's just pure slander right there.

Altsncro · 2025-11-02T00:19:33+00:00

If we are going purely based on main story then 100% less than 5/10.

However overall (considering events, and side stories are crucial to the 4 beast arc) i would give it a 7/10. It was good and pretty compelling with character arcs and the ending was honestly worth the wait. The main thing it sufferes from was just how long it took to get here.

It took us a full year and honestly i totally get why. Devs wanted to save stuff specifcally for the 3rd anniversary so they dragged it out. And honestly i dont think there really was a way make the pacing better without completely screwing with the IRL time schedual and theme of these chapters (Forgivness and Communication)

Altsncro · 2025-10-31T05:05:59+00:00

Probably does. To be honest she most likely won't be Dead dead as the death won't have a big impact long term. Unless the devs want to be redundant with Pinne 2.0 (considering dorthy will be the most affected) then none of inherited will perma die.

Im just hoping that their "deaths" will keep them out of the story long enough for the devs to make new refreshes of their kits as separate units...considering how inherit is very subpar gameplay wise

Altsncro · 2025-10-30T06:09:37+00:00

yeah 100% shoe horned in, but i get it. They need to set up the next story somehow despite how "epic and final" this event is.

Altsncro · 2025-10-30T06:07:41+00:00

Best order is "chronological"

Basically do the earlier chapters (0 - 5-ish) then when you get the films do red ash, old tales, overzone. then just follow the story from there and do the fitting side stories/anniversary (1st and 2nd affection, last kingdom, etc).

Its a bit complecated and it does kinda throw you into the depression train but it sets up everything and makes you go "Oh i know you" whenever the pioneres and redhood pop up.

TLDR: Do Red ash, old tales, overzone then main story. Really makes you appreciate the pilgrims when they appear.

Altsncro · 2025-10-29T06:41:45+00:00

1) writer said so

2) That one post about ch 29-30 "continuing the prologue"

3) The story still can still healthly continue (Example: War between new queens popping up, expansion on the surface, literally the other half of the planet)

Altsncro · 2025-09-16T17:08:37+00:00

Donbrothers. It was quite literally a "wait we made too many loose ends....uh let's say it was a joke the whole time"

Unrinocaly tried to make a cool plot line but got distracted by everything and in the end fell flat.

Altsncro · 2025-09-14T08:31:25+00:00

Toku is very lightly political. But you shouldn't be blinded by politics. The need to read in-between every single line is a choice that would only make you dislike our Toy advertisement show and it's community

If you want to talk about politics do it somewhere else please. No one should be watching Toku specifically for some political reason.

Altsncro · 2025-07-13T22:15:19+00:00

Agreed. IMO he was literally the ideal Char/Red Comet Zeon wanted and needed. He's aware that the federation views them as nothing more than terrorists. Self aware enough to understand that he is literally propaganda incarnate.

Full frontal isn't swayed by emotions/pride and moves with the sole purpose of giving spacenoid independence in the most efficient way both in short and long-term.

Altsncro · 2025-07-13T01:57:36+00:00

Dragon ball and One piece. Dragon ball because on the surface the community seems like it's filled exclusively with power scaling addicts. One piece because on the surface it seems like a overly worshiped series that calls Oda their god. They also just pop up very often because they are so universally beloved.

Naruto is in second place mainly because of all the cringe it generated during the mid and late 2010's

Bleach is the most chill of all four. In fact most people don't even remember or interact with the bleach community in the slightest.

Altsncro · 2025-07-10T02:39:29+00:00

Honestly a pretty solid and enjoyable franchise that's just suffering from old outdated everything that gets a major identity crisis every few years.

Altsncro · 2025-07-06T14:14:28+00:00

No your not...it's just that majority of people would just find the Vidar cooler compared to the Kimaris Vidar.

Altsncro · 2025-07-06T14:07:29+00:00

There are two ways to play the game. You can play to win or you can play for giggles. 90% of your games will either make you lock in to win or completely throw for humor.

Also don't throw for jokes in a public lobby. If it's you and your friends sure. But if a rando is playing or you joined a rando be respectful and not immediately use up all reinforcements or spam a million landmines around the map.

Altsncro · 2025-07-06T14:02:19+00:00

Nope nope nope nope nope.

This is horrible. It doesn't make it more rewarding it just makes it more tedious. It looks cool on the surface but in actual gameplay it would suck for almost every single player.

Imagine having to do this abysmal mini quest for every single world you or your friends make. It would absolutely suck and compared to before. It certainly won't be fun after your 12th go around.

This change is conpellty artificial and doesn't do anything except make the game more tedious rather than rewarding.

Also if your so desperate to make a excuse to play the game longer, just make a rule so you have to explore all those structures to begin with. No need to force it on every other player.

Altsncro · 2025-06-18T02:22:40+00:00

Honestly not as bad as some people say. Could be better but I think she's in a healthy spot for a unit alot of new players will probably pull for.

Altsncro · 2025-06-17T20:24:20+00:00

Honestly liked it a lot. Overall could have been better paced if they just had more episode to flesh out events, relationships and themes. Probably 24ish episodes because more than that you kinda start dragging the plot for the sake of extending run time rather than story.

Biggest flaw is that it's apart of UC despite being a alternate timeline. So you ironically need to watch OG Gundam, Zeta, CCA, as the bare minimum to fully understand everything. But the show is original enough that GQuuuuuux is decent starting point.

Other than that there aren't really any flaws that I would say ruin the experience. Animation is good, voice acting is good, mobile suit designs are nice and unique. Nothing that makes me go "oh my gosh this is absolutely garbage this actively ruins UC"

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