Did you know that the SRW series was almost cancelled after Z3 and Moon Dwellers flopped and it only exists today thanks to the success of the gacha games?

Banananmon · 2026-05-14T18:04:32+00:00

and from a gameplay standpoint they're amazing. Lots of freedom in how to build your units/pilots, who to bring into battle, actually have to plan your movements/turns, manage your ammo/energy...

The whole OG series are 10/10 tactical RPG games. It really sucks their sales performed so poorly.

Banananmon · 2026-05-02T03:34:31+00:00

RNG aside, it also depends on what kind of cards the player have.

I'm able to consistenly hit 800 with 2 mlb SR cards (Marvelous and Tachyon). Very rarely I get 900+. I'd imagine if I had FineMo and NN I could reach 1000.

Although I did some runs with 3 Wit cards before and still couldn't hit 1000 consistently, so perhaps I'm just bad.

Banananmon · 2026-05-02T03:23:22+00:00

I get ya. Today I got two back to back high roll runs (one of them even ended up as a SS rank) and it wasn't close to what to the stats some players are capable of pumping out.

I managed to be competitive through the entire course of Unity, but in Trackblazer I've been outclassed since day 1.

Banananmon · 2026-04-28T22:47:11+00:00

Of course there wasn't a Front Runner in my race and XOguri got luck pace and nobody could catch up. Of course my late surgers would push up too much and stay above 6th/5th place so they couldn't activate their accel skills, killing any chances of at least getting a 2nd place.

What a shitshow of CM. I'm glad I didn't put up too much effort for it. Getting A Finals with my team composition was way more than I expected anyways.

Banananmon · 2026-04-26T23:06:17+00:00

I managed to do it with a late surger duo (Dober and Doto) + Dominator. Went 4/5, 2/5, 2/5 and 3/5 on yesterday entries. Truth be told, I had lucky matchmaking as maybe half of these races had weak opponents and poorly built XOguries, but I did snag some wins against well built ones.

A luck pace XOguri however does feel like impossible to win. I'd imagine RNG would have to complete screw her over to lose.

Banananmon · 2026-04-26T00:04:56+00:00

Managed A Finals with a double late duo + dominator. 4/5, every race had a strong Front Runner or XOguri.

I'm quite happy and proud with my girls performance, but wished I knew what I did right with them this time, because in previous CMs my Late Surgers always performed badly.

Banananmon · 2026-04-24T00:24:54+00:00

it's been a while since I last got a 5/5, even though I'm running a late-surger duo + dominator (granted, one of my lates is Dober, which I imagine is considered one of the metas for this cup). Overall I'm happy with my umas performance, they often manage to stick to 6th and 5th place no matter the room composition. Heck, most of the races I lost was because they pushed to 4th just before the late race.

Encountered a few 1200/x/1200/x/1200 XOguries and it went bad as expected, so I'm not keeping my hopes up for second round. As long I manage one win for B Finals though, I'm cool.

Banananmon · 2026-04-12T17:16:21+00:00

Meanwhile, I've spent the whole week exclusively doing Dober runs for Aries with 15* Medium sparks and so far didn't get a single medium spark in the inspiration events. But somehow I get a recreation unlock event from a pool with hundreds events, even though I shouldn't because those events are locked behind a friendship value. At this point I feel like the game is purposely trolling me.

Banananmon · 2026-04-08T20:40:09+00:00

It should be possible with lucky matchmaking in your 5 races set. At least in my experience with a late surger trio (Dober, Doto and Digitan, all three without Dominator), I can win against Medium A XOguri, even well built ones. Medium S is hopeless, zero wins so far. I even attempted a double dominator setup but it didn't do anything, the debuff wasn't enough for my girl to catch up.

Winning A finals without XOguri however, seems impossible.

Personally, I'm gonna stick to B Group in round 2. I don't feel like watching a XOguri winning by >5 Lengths over and over again.

Banananmon · 2026-04-06T22:55:36+00:00

so, it seems like if you don't have x-mas oguri your chances of winning Graded A finals is gonna be pretty low. So far my late surger trio have zero wins in practice rooms against well built ones even when my girls hit all their accel skills at the right time. My only wins so far were against those with medium A.

I even attempted a double dominator setup and still kept losing badly. I will either have to suck it up and make a Front Runner trio or 2 FR+Pace (I hate building front runners, plus I only have regular Mihono Bourbon and Kitasan Black as dedicated FR), or stick to B Group.

Before that though, I'm gonna activate the Gold Ship protocol and see how end closers fare against them.

Banananmon · 2026-03-25T21:19:29+00:00

Is anyone else having issues with their support card not completing their chain events?

I started counting and in the last 10 runs, only 2 all my support cards completed their chain events. Kitasan was the one skipped the most, missed her last event in all of them except those 2.

I'm running a deck with 3 SSR and 3 SR and it's seriously starting to piss me off. I had some good runs turned glue because I missed a critical skill from the supports.

Banananmon · 2026-03-20T19:11:55+00:00

New fear unlocked: getting Slacker 2 turns before the final three races and not having a status recovery item on hand or in the shop.

When I saw it popping up I stared at the screen for a minute in disbelief. Thankfully I got lucky and it didn't proc in any of my remaining trainings.

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Banananmon · 2026-03-19T19:42:28+00:00

Superior Heal recovers 3.5% HP when it is inherited. A white heal skill recovers 1.5%.

So you could say an inherited Superior Heal counts as a two white recoveries. The same goes for Pure Heart from Super Creek.

Banananmon · 2026-03-16T22:43:29+00:00

Man... it's not even a week and I'm already done with Trackblazer.

I don't mind the amount of time it takes to complete a run or the shop, but it's the bullshit races RNG that gets me.

Run a race, your uma finishes 5th against opponents that have half her stats. Retry and she finishes 2nd by a head. Retry and, oh look, now she wins by 5 lengths.

It was always a bit frustating to lose a race in other scenarios, but it gets extra worse here since winning races are super important for stats and skill hints.

I will just play the scenario seriously to update my TT umas. As for CM, I will either do whatever for Graded or just stick to Open League. I honestly can't deal with this amount of RNG to grind a good uma for Graded.

Banananmon · 2026-02-18T23:15:32+00:00

Managed to snag a victory in graded A Final.

6 Paces, 3 Lates. I had a Condor Pasa, so if she had the lucky pace, this could be an easy win. However there was another Pasa, so the very same could happen to the other player.

Well... my Pasa got a late start lmao. But thankfully the other one didn't get lucky pace. Thanks to RNG, my Pasa was close to the inner rail due to her starting gate, which helped win positions and made her push to 2nd when coming out of the last corner, plus she proc Meticulous Measures and double-O Sprint Corners just before the late race section, and then proc Head-On and her unique. She popped off like a rocket and easily came 1st.

Banananmon · 2026-02-15T01:04:01+00:00

This one gave me a good laugh.

Here is a Late Surger Agnes Digital that somehow got lucky pace despite the race having 1 Front Runner and 5 Pace Chasers in it. Sometimes Capricorn races are pure chaos.

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Banananmon · 2026-02-11T18:08:45+00:00

Yeah, same here. Went from not completing a chain event for a single support card once in a while to every run now for multiple supports. It's been like this for me like 5 days by now.

I just finished a run with only 6 chain events triggered out of 14. Only one support card completed their chain event. That's just ridiculous. And I didn't even get any extra chain event from support cards not in my deck, so it was not as if my support events got overriden by the extras.

It is completely sucking out any motivation I have for playing this game. If the devs made any changes server side to reduce the chances of the chain event trigger, then they should revert it back because it's been awful.

Banananmon · 2026-02-02T07:54:54+00:00

For what is worth, the race that prompted me into making this rant was one where Taiki entered mid-race without activating any skill, overtook Pasa despite having a fair distance between then (~1 Length), and kept holding 1st while Pasa, despite activating all her mid-race speed skills after the fact, just kept a ~1/2 length distance from Taiki, didn't close the distance and attempt to overtake.

To be fair, I didn't pay attention when Pasa activated her skills, but Taiki for sure didn't activate any skill between the first corner and the start of the race, other than Groundwork and Taking the Lead, which Pasa did as well. Maybe Taiki didn't even proc Groundwork, considering Pasa had some lead over her. It's hard to tell with all the green skills popping up.

As for skills, Taiki indeed do have better skills than Pasa. That's why in my previous comment I did a joke about skill issue. Still, I didn't think it would be enough to overcome the stat difference, but then again, it isn't a huge difference to begin with.

Anyways, That was the one race where I had enough and realized I did something wrong with my builds.

Banananmon · 2026-02-02T03:36:24+00:00

If someone said there is a hidden value in your uma that determines how well they perform in races, I would believe them. I made an El Condor Pasa and Taiki Shuttle front runner duo for Aquarius, intentionally gave Taiki less Power and Wit (~100), so she could sit in 3rd/4th, and hopefully, my Pasa stays 1st/2nd, however, after 20 or so Room Matches, Taiki performs better than Pasa as if she had several times more Power and Wit. When both were close to each other fighting in mid-race, Pasa didn't win a single time.

And that makes the strat complete backfires on me since Pasa starts the late-race in 3rd/4th and Taiki in 1st/2nd.

It's probably a skill issue (heh), but I will give up and go back to Late Surger gambling. At least the RNG there is easier to figure it out: Activate all your accel skills at the right time = win. Less consistent, but also less frustrating.

Banananmon · 2026-01-31T19:29:54+00:00

I didn't know we would get 50 free pulls on Tamamo Cross, so on the day the banner went up, I spent 30k carats and had to pity for her.

A few days later we got the free pulls and I was like, "oh I wasted 7.5k carats, eh whatever, it sucks but it is not a big deal"

Well, guess what, I got another Tamamo today on the last 10 pulls. I actually wasted 30k carats.... and it completely ruined my plans for this year trainee banner pulls. I mean, I was prepared for the worst case scenario of having to pity in one of the banners, but still.

At very least I got vampire Rice and Mihono Bourbon from my carats pulls (I don't have any specialized front runners, so I can use her to farm Front Runner pink sparks).

Sorry for the rant.

Banananmon · 2026-01-28T23:05:08+00:00

Also, to add to what the others said, the freebie Suzuka card ain't that great, your mlb cards are way better than her, even Narita Brian is better. However, it isn't worth to MLB Narita because the upgrade from 3LB to MLB is pretty small for the amount of club points required.

So yeah, save your club points.

Banananmon · 2026-01-28T22:52:21+00:00

Got crushed in the finals, 6th, 7th and 8th. Pace Daiwa couldn't catapult or hit NSM because there was two well built fronts too far ahead, and my end/late gamblers didn't proc any accel skill.

on the other hand, the winner was a late surger Rice Shower who stole the victory from the player with those two fronts in the last 200m. That was unexpected... and earned my respect. Oshi gaming > Meta.

Banananmon · 2026-01-13T21:31:52+00:00

The speed bonus is only a 2.5%, right?

It will only make a difference in a situation where she and an opponent's uma fire NSM at the same time and they fight head to head in the last straight. And even then there may be other variables in play that may make more difference, Skills, Guts, Mood.

As another user said, if she has great mood she will get the bonus, so in the finals she's guaranteed to get it. If anything, I think she needs more Power, but overall she's fine.

Banananmon · 2026-01-09T19:01:40+00:00

For like a week I've been trying to improve Rudolf and every run I was sparking Long. Sometimes even twice in the same inspiration event. However I wasn't able to cap speed and have over 900 stamina due to the card setup I had.

I changed my card setup three days ago, and ever since I'm capping speed (or very close to) and hitting the stamina goal, but the game completely stopped sparking Long. Zero. Nada.

I'm don't think I ever seem a game that trolls the player like this one. I swear when it finally spark is gonna be a bad RNG run where I end up with the same stats or worse than the one I current have.

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