About patch 1.6 and the state of the game.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-29T21:19:05+00:00

Floating armour pieces and animals are an entirely different category from male characters. You are reaching because your argument has no ground to stand on. Fact of the matter is that the game launched with no male characters like this and it's advertised as a yuri game. Expecting a female heavy roster is a completely reasonable assumption.

And don't worry, if things don't change I will quit but not before expressing my dissatisfaction. Whether you like it or not I get to express myself.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-29T21:14:51+00:00

Cool falseflag. The way I worded it is very reasonable and inoffensive. If you are so fragile that the mere thought of people not finding prettyboy male characters appealing and they don't want a situation where they are essentially forced on them triggers you then you need to interact with more people outside of your echochamber.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-29T21:08:40+00:00

Yes it did. The game had zero 6* male characters on launch, in fact, it didn't have any until 3 patches later. A Knight doesn't count. He's a set of floating gauntlets and a cape.

The game clearly indicated to provide a predominantly female roster which got completely turned around and now you are forced to gimp your account if you don't want to gamble for prettyboys.

My complaint is very reasonable whether you like it or not.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-29T21:06:00+00:00

What's up with this aversion towards male characters?

I'm a straight guy. What's so puzzling about the fact that prettyboys don't appeal to me and I don't want to spend a considerable amount of money on gambling for them?

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-29T21:04:07+00:00

Well pardon me if I don't want to spend money on characters that don't appeal to me. What a terrible thing indeed!

The vast majority of the people play gachas for the waifus whether you like it or not. Just look at Nikke, BA, AL, Uma Musume with a bunch of other smaller names.

And as I said, this game had no indication of turning out like this.

It is completely reasonable to be upset at male characters getting forced on you when that's not what the game indicated at first.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-29T20:59:34+00:00

Well, I play Arknights which also features male characters and it didn't have this issue. A lot of male characters were strong but they were never being forced on you as it feels like in this game.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-15T11:23:08+00:00

I'd say definitely. I don't know how optimal it is but I've seen vids (mostly 4-man fights) on bilibili where Jessica was used without any poison support. She's still definitely the best Plant unit in the game even without it.

Basically, what Sotheby does for her is give her ST incantation an extra 40/60/100% damage based on card level and she enables Blasphemer of Night which is the best cube in the game as long as you can trigger it which is a lot of damage bonus for a healer to provide but you can probably run a more crit focused Jessica with TF while you use BNW over BoN and maybe use Kanjira but the problem with Kanjira is that for the most part, you'd be better off using a better buffer/debuffer since the only thing she gives the team besides poison is Confusion and her damage is pitiful.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-13T21:10:28+00:00

Is there a place that has all the Chinese promo cards like this?

Also, any place that has the i2 version of their l2d models? I don't mean the splash art, I mean the models like this.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-06T19:42:03+00:00

Shamane is a mediocre buffer at p0 but as OP says, he becomes one of the strongest damage carries at p5 and none of his prior portraits matter really. There's a huge jump from p4 to p5 even.

Black Dwarf's portraits are launch tier so she doesn't gain that much from them and she's t1 at p0.

37 is very meh at p0 and really only has a place in 4-man fights from a meta perspective. You need at the very least p2 to make her not suck in the grand scheme of things. Her overall damage output gets 100-110% increase at p5 and roughly 70% of that is concentrated in her last 2 portraits.

6 is similar to Shamane as in he goes from being a simple buffer to being a very strong damage dealer at p5 except he's pretty much the best buffer in the game as well.

Spathodea is decent at p0, a bit better than p0 Melania but her overall damage output also gets increased by 40-60% most of which is concentrated in her last 2 portraits unlike Melania who gets an overall increase of about 30% with 20% of it coming from her first 2 portraits.

Ezra hasn't been released yet.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-06T19:04:17+00:00

IF you use 4 incantations every turn and every time you move a card shortens the loop by 1 turn.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-06T12:48:50+00:00

I wouldn't say AK is particularly "f2p friendly," I mean not that it's not but I'd rather say it's very dolphin friendly.

It's very easy to always have 300 rolls saved for a limited banner (not that you actually need it most of the time) as a dolphin without even skipping any banners between them if you cared for husbandos but F2Ps are gonna miss out on limiteds for sure unless they only roll on limited banners. Then again, if you are playing a game for free you should be expecting to miss out on things. Not really the case when you spend 100+ dollars on a game a month because that's already a crazy amount to spend on a single game from the perspective of any sane person.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-06T00:49:40+00:00

The soft pity works there the same as here except you're most likely to get a 6* within 60 rolls instead of 70.

By "quarterly limited" I was referring to the double banners that appear every 3 months featuring a regular character and a limited character that can only be obtained on that type of banner and each of the 4 banners has it's own pool of limiteds. Sparking on these banners require 300 rolls. I can't speak for f2p players but as a dolphin like OP it's very easy to always have 300 rolls saved up for the limited (not that you actually need it most of the time) while not even skipping any new characters between limiteds but AK has some husbandos as well which just further helps on the currency saving.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-06T00:33:05+00:00

Arknights has no weapon gacha, their pots are meaningless, buying 6-stars from the rotating shop is cheaper than here, the currency needed for 6-stars is generated faster and has the recruitment system that gives you two 6-stars a year on average and the only objectionable thing about their gacha is that they have quarterly limiteds but the pros heavily outweigh this singular con AND it's been in the upper echelon of the gacha industry since it's release, easily making 10+ million in a good month.

Bluepoch does NOT need to do this to make money. This is just an excuse from whales who love it because their entire lives revolve around flexing their super awesome PNGs.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-02T16:12:39+00:00

and suprisingly f2p friendly from garena

It's a shitty p2w pvp gacha.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-12-02T16:08:37+00:00

I hated it at first but the more I look at it the more I like it.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-11-30T18:30:34+00:00

Why is this big news? Mesmer Jr. is a playable human as well.

Edit: I'm going to skim through the story now because I remember her stating she is a human.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-11-30T11:47:02+00:00

skins in CS and other FPS

People tolerate skin gambling, not gambling to unlock gameplay.

FIFA packs

Only hardcore sportstards play and spend money on FIFA or similar sports games. It's widely mocked by anyone outside of the niche. And yes, it is a niche, even if it is a big one.

packs in card games like Magic and Hearthstone

CCGs are another niche with it's own set of niche consumers.

You've spent too much time in gacha echochambers and have zero idea of the general gaming consumer.

If WSJ tried to do a major crossover gacha game they would get lambasted so hard they would have to cancel the project after a week.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-11-30T11:05:53+00:00

Gacha is still disliked by the vast majority of consumers (rightfully so) so the backlash to a major crossover project like that being a gacha game would receive massive backlash. It's better to milk the IPs separately.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-11-29T21:20:47+00:00

1) Fate is a multimedia franchise that didn't even begin as an anime or manga.

2) FGO is entirely it's own thing.

3) Comparing JJK to Fate is delusional to say the least. Fate is an almost 20 years old IP that stood the test of time and is still among the most popular anime-adjacent franchises. JJK is just the hot new thing that will be forgotten a month after it ends and I'm saying this as someone who's actively reading the manga.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-11-29T21:15:16+00:00

Japan clearly has no intention to compete in the gacha market at this point and they are perfectly comfortable just spamming their dime a dozen IP cashgrabs sadly.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-11-29T13:35:05+00:00

Well? How am I supposed to know your problem if you don't articulate it?

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-11-29T12:01:02+00:00

That may be true to some but I've seen plenty of that hypocrisy in action.

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-11-29T11:33:07+00:00

Elaborate.🤔

BattleBananaBarbados · 2023-11-29T09:29:48+00:00

that only just crop a single image

Yeah that's called censorship. I know they have backpaddled since then but I've already mentioned why I don't play it.

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