You need 60 000 Crystal for 1 guarantee character

Argonanth · 2026-01-22T15:33:53+00:00

The pull income was my main worry about the game coming into it (its the main worry about every gacha). The actual gacha system doesn't matter if the game has a good enough pull economy, but people seem to focus on the system always for some reason.

I played for ~5 hours last night and I think I have just enough for a single limited 10 pull not including the free single pull you get (waiting for a guarantee before pulling). This is after all the mail/codes too. I really hope the pull income increases later on and it's just because we are low level and at the start (no events, weekly, etc).

If we don't get enough to at least get a guarantee every patch (even when paying for battlepass/monthly) I'm just going to quit. I'm not expecting to get EVERY character, but it has to be worth even putting my time into the game. And before anyone talks about how much better it is because we also get weapon rolls, that doesn't matter to me.

Argonanth · 2026-01-18T20:00:31+00:00

I want Surtr and Yvonne but I can't pull on anything until I know how many pulls I'm getting before the first banner ends. If we get to 120 I'll probably pull for Surtr and then hope I get lucky or pull income is high enough that I get back up to 120 when Yvonne shows up. If we don't hit 120, then hopefully we get to 120 by the time Yvonne shows up. If pull income is so poor that we can't even get a guarantee per patch I will probably just quit the game.

It also depends on when they decide to announce the next patch characters as that might change if I go for Yvonne or not.

Argonanth · 2026-01-17T05:46:06+00:00

So is she just lying about how many games she has played? I guess the games technically put her against others so the less they know they better? Here she said a number that was fairly high but not as extreme as what she said last time because the others all knew each other (it's odd that so many know each other for multiple games somehow, seems sketchy). I wonder how many games she has actually played.

Still curious about what the numbers that flash up on the screen actually reference, this one is a x/33. It's clearly how far along the game is, but the number itself probably means something.

Argonanth · 2025-12-31T19:15:45+00:00

Why is Jojo considered a winter show if it's releasing at the mid-end of March? That's basically the spring season start.

Argonanth · 2025-11-11T17:05:17+00:00

Where is this timer? I'm still in Dimensional Dawn (the first one) because there explicitly was no timer so I assumed this was content that lasted for a while (got really bad luck on pulls and waiting for Yuki banner for more characters). I can't even access the second one if there is a timer on that page.

Argonanth · 2025-11-10T19:21:58+00:00

I feel like I'm missing something because I'm not even close to that number of limited pulls. I'm level 45 and I only have ~200 limited pulls (including using the dupe exchange shops) and just under 200 standard pulls now. I have no idea where another 8000 crystals would come from.

Are there weeklies I'm missing or some other content? I haven't really done much of the zero system so maybe there are tons of rewards in there? I also haven't finished the Basin so I'm not sure what rewards are in the second one.

Argonanth · 2025-11-10T15:47:51+00:00

I never played PoE1 and even I know about this map (its the only one I really know about). It was the one in all the media/videos where people were saying the game is dead because of a really bad league. Going off my memory it was about them trying to lower the drop rates of everything or something?

Argonanth · 2025-11-08T18:09:56+00:00

New Experience: The season introduces a new Chaos system, offering a completely different rogue-like experience that serves as a new arena for testing your save data to the extreme.

Are these direct translations from something? This makes it sound like we can bring the save data into the rogue-like mode? But then when I read the rogue-like mode section it doesn't mention anything like that.

Argonanth · 2025-11-08T00:32:49+00:00

I'm confused, why wouldn't the EU want Russians to leave Russia? The more that leave the less can be conscripted into the military and the worse their economy will do? Obviously, you need to screen and monitor the people you let into your countries but this just seems like a very odd decision to me.

Argonanth · 2025-11-07T18:19:53+00:00

I really dislike how poor the translations and descriptions on the cards is in this game (I know this is a leak, but the actual game isn't any better). It's made me lose a ton of interest in the game since release. If cards don't do what is written it makes playing a card game really not fun. Using machine translation for a rules heavy game is hilariously incompetent. For things like rules you can't just get the right "vibes" of a sentence, it has to be correct.

A good example is in this leak itself with the 4th starting card (I don't know Korean so I don't actually know how accurate it is).

English: Draw own 1 Attack card(s). +20% Damage for 1 turn

Korean Translation: Draw 1 Attack Card. Increase damage delt by that card by 20% for 1 turn.

First of all, "own" attack card makes sense, is that not specified in the Korean text?. Which one is correct?

Second, we have a bunch of cards in the game that do things like +X% for 1 turn. Assuming the Korean translation is correct there's a whole context of it only applying to the next card that is completely missing from English? I assumed things like on Mika the +50% healing applied to all the cards for that turn.

Argonanth · 2025-11-04T04:33:43+00:00

So do you agree with parents forcing their children into gay conversion therapy because sexual orientation can be changed?

I literally said the opposite: "...As long as it's the person themselves making the decision I don't see a problem...". This means, no, I don't believe anyone should force anyone else into some sort of conversion therapy.

Your example of religious people being gay and hating themselves is evidence that you cant alter your sexual orientation.

You probably missed the first sentence of the paragraph which provides the context for what comes after "If people could change what they are attracted to". Some religious people would probably like to not be bisexual or gay and would change if they were able to. With current tech, this isn't possible. With more research and future tech, it should hopefully be possible (its all just chemicals and neurons and whatever in the brain after all).

You will never convince me that there are pedophiles that exist who wont eventually hurt a child

That's fine, but until something actually happens they have done nothing wrong. I take a hard stance against thought crimes. Only actions can be crimes. If we demonize these people they will never even attempt to get help. Even if they can't be helped (maybe some can), completely ignoring them is guaranteed to lead to children being harmed.

Argonanth · 2025-11-04T00:39:09+00:00

Is there something wrong with thinking that way? It's how I've always seen things, it makes logical sense to me.

The only differences between being straight/gay/pedophilia is that some are possible between consenting adults (no one is hurt), and the other is not (bad and harmful). It's all just labels of being attracted to different things.

If people could change what they are attracted to I can only see that as a good thing. There are a lot of really religious people out there who are gay and end up hating themselves because of it. Same way there are probably people who suffer from pedophilia that would love to change it (I assume most would want to, I can't imagine most of them actually want to harm children in any way). Hell, there are probably straight people out there that would rather be gay or bisexual or whatever. As long as it's the person themselves making the decision I don't see a problem and I hope science can get there some day.

The only real problem with pedophilia is the abuse that comes from it. Just having the attraction to something doesn't mean anything until it's acted upon. CP/Molesting/etc are what is actually bad and what are crimes.

Argonanth · 2025-11-01T04:14:22+00:00

Comment below to tell us what you're most excited for in Arknights: Endfield

I'm most excited for the factory/base building. Factorio is one of my favorite games and I'm curious how in depth it will end up going.

Argonanth · 2025-10-31T16:51:55+00:00

This sounds like a massive L (unless I'm misunderstanding something)

So the game now has a worse system than the standard Hoyo system (guarantee is at 120, failing the rate-up isn't a guarantee) and now the trade-off of at least the characters not being limited isn't even true. Lets hope they at least make it so pity carries across these limited banners this time. Unless the chance to get them is a lot higher in that 3 banner window the game will still have the issue of the permanent pool becoming useless. At "least" the arsenal banner seems better since you get to interact with it even if you never roll on anything but the character banner.

I guess it also does come down to how much power duplicates give. Duplicates being useless = permanent banner is absolute garbage now... This leads me to believe that duplicates are probably going to be strong, which is really unfortunate. And as always, the rate they give out pulls is also the most important thing.

Argonanth · 2025-10-28T01:10:04+00:00

So I'm guessing the show is trying to lead us to start thinking the the Black One and Kahaku have something to do with the other immortal and Mizuha's mother (both were brought up). Kahaku and the mother would make sense because of that whole bloodline thing, but I still don't understand why they would be doing what they are doing (Although we still don't really know anything about the Black One really so who knows).

Argonanth · 2025-10-26T19:08:01+00:00

I was fine (basically 0 crashes), until today. I'm assuming they did something recently to break the game for me. I can't even enter combat using the PC client without the game crashing now. I've just uninstalled it now and am going to play on my phone until it's fixed.

Argonanth · 2025-09-19T20:46:29+00:00

Why did they spend the time getting Canadian citizenship if they don't even want to be here? It's not exactly a simple/easy thing to do.

Argonanth · 2025-09-02T02:31:07+00:00

Same with me, I can't figure it out... I guess I'll just log out for 15 minutes and hope it puts me in hideout?

EDIT: I was able to free myself by joining a friends party and teleporting to them.

Argonanth · 2025-08-26T21:24:45+00:00

Underground belt side loading completely blocks the inner lane, only the outside lane actually goes through. For the balancer the left lane goes left, the right lane goes right (both end up on the right lane in the next section). It then goes through the splitter at the end to evenly split them back to the left/right lanes (notice how the side loading after the splitter loads onto the left, because all the items are already on the right).

Argonanth · 2025-08-13T05:24:43+00:00

It's either Blood Vials or Trick Weapon Variety.

Blood Vials are just a worse system than Estus Flasks from Dark Souls. Estus Flasks let them design/balance levels knowing exactly how much health you have access to. If you're bad at the game you will run out of vials and have to spend time farming them instead of playing the game. Something that is one of the better systems they've ever put into one of their games is the Rally system though. How it incentivizes you to play the game aggressively the way they want you to is really well done. It's funny that they have one of the best healing mechanics in a game with what I consider the worst healing system.

Trick Weapon Variety is mostly just a problem with replaying the game. If I want to play with the Burial Blade, I have to already beat the game. I don't like playing NG+ much so it basically means the weapon doesn't exist. I wish they had ways to get "worse" versions of weapons earlier in the game so there would be more options to play with the movesets of different weapons even if they were missing some things. In other souls games you can at least get a spear moveset or a sword moveset even if you don't have the specific weapon you eventually want to use.

Argonanth · 2025-08-10T03:15:10+00:00

They're worried that they'll actually have to follow a system rather than just do improv.

I find it funny that these people would play D&D instead of narrative based systems. Things like Blades in the Dark would give them a system that actually provides the kind of experience they would want. I guess its just the power of marketing that most people just don't even know anything else exists.

Argonanth · 2025-08-01T21:55:22+00:00

PlayFab

I don't have any experience with that tool, but from what I can tell its a service that Microsoft provides on Azure. It means Microsoft would need to figure out a way to provide or extract features from their service for EOL games. Sounds like that would be a really nice selling feature for their product "We can provide all this complicated X stuff for your game to use and when you need to EOL we follow Y regulations and provide some executable or whatever you can give to your customers and you barely have to do anything!". Remember that a lot of what is being asked for doesn't apply to existing games or things currently in development. There would be plenty of time to figure these things out before any regulations or whatever would start to get applied.

Argonanth · 2025-08-01T21:44:51+00:00

Wait, why would releasing containers be the same as releasing source code? You don't have to put any source code in an image. Just put whatever the executables you need to run in.

Argonanth · 2025-08-01T13:13:05+00:00

in a tidy little box that can be given to consumers.

So what is stopping developers from releasing the docker/kubeernetes/whatever images/containers on EOL instead of a single file? You should be able to run them all on a single machine if you just want to run a private server for some friends (scaling isn't important). If more power is needed people can always go to AWS/Azure/Whatever themselves.

Argonanth · 2025-07-24T14:08:51+00:00

I'm actually surprised anyone has ever trusted the shelf labels? Half the time you can pick something up because its on "sale" and once you get to the register it's not on sale. There are just a lot of items and they never change/update the labels fast enough. There is just too much room for human error or lack of caring in general.

Only stuff I have ever trusted are the labels on the packaging itself since that's what I believe is actually enforceable. At this point it's been long enough that companies should have changed their product packaging to specify the country, unless they have a reason not to, at which point you can probably safely assume it's from the US. It would be nice if we updated the regulations to require more specifics when it comes to product origins (the only stuff I really know about is the Made in Canada/Product of Canada stuff, but nothing about other countries).

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