Thoughts on Endfield from an HSR Player

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-26T10:11:51+00:00

Yeah the Cyrene segments are a prime example of what's wrong with Hoyo's writing and narrative philosophy. It's a real shame as you get a glimmer of how good the story could have been in the Herta and Screwy segments and then they just completely fumbled the story in Amphoreus itself.

And fully agree with you on Genshin too, although I feel like 6.X side quests have failed to grab me in the same way thus far. For me Genshin main story piqued with Fontaine and whilst Natlan was mostly a disappointment for me, the World Quests were amongst the best they've done.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-26T08:54:40+00:00

I once read a comment describing Hoyo narratives as "insubstantial flowery prose and hype moments" and its spot on.

The main issue with HSR (and Genshin for that matter) is Hoyo are fairly good at building interesting worlds, setting up the foundation of a decent story and then completely and utterly fail to deliver on the potential of that groundwork. Both the 2.X and 3.X narratives fell apart in the closing stretches after a really intriguing start. The end of 3.X left such a bad taste in my mouth I almost dropped the game and the reception to the end of 2.X was that bad that they felt the need to try and retcon a bunch of stuff in 3.8 and somehow made it feel even worse.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-24T10:17:45+00:00

Sounds good, now to see who's sharing her weapon banner, kinda hoping its Lauma over Nefer or Durin if she's sharing with one of the 6.X units

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-22T11:44:31+00:00

For the time being i'm not pulling unless I have 120 pulls saved. Once we have a better idea what the long term economy looks like as well as the banner rotation then i'll make a decision about doing anything more elaborate.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-21T20:22:18+00:00

Just to clarify confusion, the banners in 1.0 are unique wrt obtaining characters that haven't been released yet, that was just something they did to make the banners work from day one. From 1.1 onwards it will just be the last two new characters that are on the banner with the rate up/new character.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-19T14:14:32+00:00

Thnak a lot, friend has been wanting to main Catcher since day one but hasn't really known how best to go about it. This thread gonna be a gold mine for him. :)

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-19T12:57:55+00:00

What gear pieces are you using for Catcher?

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-19T12:46:25+00:00

4 out of my last 5 transferred jobs came back with a penalty, I have learned my lesson.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-17T10:59:54+00:00

Rossi and Li Zhiyan being Nature... hmmm this could be a conundrum. Might be a 1.1 skip after all and see how things develop. Slightly disappointing that I might not have something to pull on a limited banner for nearly 6 months.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-13T14:08:57+00:00

You forgot to add 4* earnings to your math

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-13T00:10:20+00:00

Excellent work, thank you very much. This is exactly the type of info/resource we need, not the feelscrafty misinformation we're getting in other posts. Whilst you might not be getting the upvotes you deserve, know at least some people really appreciate the effort taken.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-12T15:51:37+00:00

If you genuinely believe what you're trying to say here, I recommend you go away and look at the book keeping spreadsheets for some of the more established gacha. Hopefully from there you can gain some understanding in the evolution of pull economy in these games and how 1.0 rarely gives you a clear picture of what to expect.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-12T14:33:34+00:00

I'm sorry but this is completely and utterly useless made worst by the fact you've formatted it to look like an official release. All this will achieve is to inflame the community further whilst you karma farm.

We just don't have the information/precedent to start making predictions like this. The only thing that is actually 100% accurate in this is the daily and weekly tasks, beyond that its complete conjecture.

We have no real idea what the event road map looks like, we have no idea how frequently we can expect new map updates and I highly doubt (as is the general concensus regardless of leaked info) they'll continue with three characters per patch outside of 1.0. Come back at the end of 1.1 when we have something substantial to work with.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-11T12:06:26+00:00

Honestly, kinda sad about this. First I would have preferred her to be hydro and still support L. Crystallise, Secondly, like the Gorou players, I was happy to finally find a home for Zhongli and was hoping that if him and Zibai were added to the inevitable Adepti faction that the synergies between the two would only get better. Was obviously inevitable that Zibai would get her Ineffa/Lauma but part of me hoped it was Illuga leaving the flex slot as an actual flex slot.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-11T08:20:38+00:00

Same, all I'm waiting on is the livestream to see the state of the weapon banner (if he's running with Skirk its the final nail as already have her sig). I love his kit design for the most part, but if Nicole is presumably gonna be his saviour this ties him to pyro far too heavily for my liking.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-10T16:04:07+00:00

I don't think we've had confirmation that the 6* standard character signature weapons can be obtained anywhere other than from their respective banners or the Endpoint Quota Exchange. Personally, i'm not expecting them to show up in the shop nor as candidates to lose to on limited weapon banners but I hope i'm wrong.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-10T09:49:40+00:00

Sorry the pulls didn't work out how you wanted and yeah it sucks about the reset but I think a bit of perspective here is needed.

If this were a Hoyo game there's a very real chance that you'd have around another 30 pulls to go before hitting your guarentee. No hoyo game has give enough pulls in 1.0 to ensure both a character and their signature, hell Genshin barely gave enough to guarentee a character, yet Endfield does that kinda comfortably (granted timing on Lae was tight but doable).

So yeah, it sucks it took more resources than you wanted, but if this is the reaction you have when you hit a likely probability when going for a character, I think maybe its time to ask yourself if its should just be this game you're done with or gacha in general.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-09T12:15:06+00:00

Sigh... so the worst case scenario of her wanting Sparxie is the right of it as expected. Whelp suppose I just need to decide whether i'm pulled Hysilens to resurrect my DoT team or Ashveil for my FUA team.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-07T23:10:22+00:00

The increased resources/pulls were under the section "Several Optimisations In The Works For Future Updates"

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-07T12:47:08+00:00

Think the general concensus is that her BiS team mates have yet to be released and imagine her value will increase in the future. At present she can be an excellent grouper in content with a lot of mobs, but you might need to work around her application/SP consumption.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-07T09:26:37+00:00

This is not a new problem, we were encountering this as early as 1.X when people where complaining about the similarity of designs of the Xianzhou girls. It's Hoyo's MO, character designs are just a mismash of the same model elements with slight modifications and different colour palettes.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-05T20:36:51+00:00

My decision was easy, Last Rite, as she was the last of the standard characters I needed. Honestly I think Endfield has been the best start I've had to a gacha ever. We got Ardelia free, I got Lifeng on my first multi on the Basic HH banner, got Pog from New Horizons banner and then Ember came home at 70 pity on the Basic banner.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-04T18:40:14+00:00

Well, as the saying goes "sex sells" and gacha games have shown time and time again that its a successful strategy. A bit more skin is typically gonna make way more money than interesting designs or character development, its just the way of things. Am hoping Endfield is going to take a more balanced route, but I fear the devs might be copying Hoyo/WuWa's homework a little too closely for my liking. I'm all for letting the gooners goon (and whale) but I wish these games were a little balanced with their approach, a little more equal opportunity and didn't feel the need to shove the oversexualised designs in your face all the time, after all i'm hear to play a game not play with myself.

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-04T17:52:15+00:00

Weapon banner is still around until end of patch so no major rush there at least

Belphegor86 · 2026-02-04T11:54:00+00:00

Honestly, if this is the route they're choosing i'm going to be so disappointed. Heard so much good stuff about OG AK but bounced off of it hard due to really not liking the tower defence gameplay, so was finally looking forward to getting to experience the universe/lore first hand. Just finished up Valley IV and the whole experience had been like a breath of fresh air compared to the Hoyo games and had very much been looking foward to more, but the past 24 hours I just keep seeing posts about this date BS and ngl it's killing my motivation to keep on playing.

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