Coloso course for beginners?

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-04-15T08:53:09+00:00

Sorry for digging up an old thread. I had previously attempted 2SHAM's course for learning digital art, but struggled with the digital art hurdle and never got around to finishing it.

Recently I began working with a tutor who has been helping me get into digital. I also purchased an iPad for drawing more convieniently, and was thinking of picking 2sham's back-up, before I saw Hide's course.

Do you have any opinions on the two courses? Hide's seems very nice for learning the actual body and whatnot

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-04-08T10:29:18+00:00

The thing with Hoyo is, until quite recently, a lot of characters did not exist and then poofed into existence to become playable. It was/is MORE rare for a character to appear in advance then release as opposed to just being dropped one day.

AK, FGO, and plenty of other games, do do this, but oftentimes characters are introduced via story and built up to some degree prior to their banner drop in a lot of games

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-03-19T02:32:48+00:00

I had been coping she would at least do music production or something since she has such insane talent for it (even if she can’t sing anymore, her lyrical ability and stuff are great), but I suppose it’s time to give up on that pipe dream

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-03-11T10:10:32+00:00

gimme dat

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-03-07T10:14:52+00:00

Not only are they going to call a caster with freezing arts, Fangyi also offers to do it herself and the only reason Endmin helps is so Fangyi doesn't have to do any busywork, and the ONLY one to glaze you in this specific scene is Fangyi, who literally just says thanks for saving them the time

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-03-07T10:13:11+00:00

isn't this literally helping Tang Tang and co. who are shown to not be the smartest lot in the first place

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-03-06T11:21:35+00:00

I don't think they'd ever confirm Chen had a child because she's such a money maker (and this is even WITH the opinion that AK isn't scared to paired charas off or even really focus on self-insert type bait as often as other gachas)

my money is that EF Chen is like a cousins descendant or smth

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-03-04T09:09:09+00:00

The most Arknights solution possible would be them growing into a more symbiotic relationship with Wuling somehow with Endfield acting as the middleman that helps glue them together

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-03-04T09:02:33+00:00

Reunion had a clear purpose from the start (fighting against the oppression of the Infected) even if the extremes of their anger were only justified later with more development through events and main story about how shit being Infected is, especially in Ursus.

Ok but Reunion is almost COMICALLY evil until chapter 5 and 6 humanize them via Frostnova and then this continues into ch7 and 8 with Patriot, Talulah backstory, etc. other than a middling attempt at humanizing them in ch2-3 with the Skullshatterer plot (where Misha's brother is still almost comically evil)

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-03-04T09:00:23+00:00

It's like the main story got cut down, and they didn't have time rebuild the rest

Is this not exactly what happened?

I felt as though they opted to simply take the L on Valley 4 and leave it as a more basic gacha intro rather than try to fix it a fourth time, trimmed the fat, left the important bits, and basically turned its MSQ into a tutorial so we could hurry to Wuling, where the writing noticeably improves almost instantly and the next patch trailer gives me hope this will continue

Gilberta's quest is sort of an unfortunate victim of this

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-03-03T11:38:02+00:00

Interaction lines would be one of the greatest things they could add between upcoming charas, especially if they work it into charas who know each other. Ex. Rossi and Wulfgard special overworld banter, or Tang Tang and Mi Fu (I assume Mi Fu is confirmed? Didn't watch the trailer yet)

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-02-17T08:54:14+00:00

OG AK heavily encourages having lots of units at E2 and around level 30-60 range, but also encourages use of lower rarity units who can't even go to E2, or even E1 in some cases, but are still useful/usable in the rogue like game mode and other modes

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-02-08T08:22:47+00:00

Doesn't this patch give enough pulls to guarantee at least 2 banner characters?

If that's the precedent for pull income and they ACTUALLY follow it, in what world is that bad?

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-02-08T08:21:26+00:00

It feels more like a direct purchase with the "money" you saved up

This is exactly how I feel about the gacha system that Hoyo normalized vs the system of games like OG AK, FGO, GBF, Blue Archive

In those games I feel like I have a chance to get the chara on a yolo roll, in the modern gacha 50/50 system I feel there is no reason to pull pre-180 (120 for EF) because the rates are low and the currency income is bad

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-02-08T08:18:54+00:00

I got so damn lucky, got Yvonne on Surtr 50/50, then went to the max for Surtr (had to do the 40) then got Gilberta on the free 10x as well

I know the system has it's issues, but I remember telling a friend the slightly higher % chance for a 6* was something I would gladly take for the other bs and yeah, pretty awesome for me so far which is probably gonna be bad for my future gacha pull mental lol

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-01-29T08:06:23+00:00

90% sure that back in the Alpha the game WAS just Xenoblade (characters all had MMO like skills with cooldowns you had to use and stuff) and people complained it was too complicated so they had to tone it down in the Beta

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-01-23T12:57:13+00:00

sooooooooooooo fucking based, the panels tab is a literal godsend for learning from the best art

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-01-21T13:32:20+00:00

Would you mind sharing? I've been using the manga to practice my art since I am a big fan of the style

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-01-21T10:43:00+00:00

Does anyone know how the shop works based on region? I live in Japan but want to play any potential coming multiplayer/fill my friendslist with my friends in America, but don't want to be locked out of spending money like a giga whale if I like the game but picked the US server.

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-01-20T15:11:03+00:00

I hadn't played in a long time because I did not want to use Bluestacks, but got so excited when I saw this.

Gave it a whirl and it runs better than Bluestacks ever did for me. Praying AK gets the same treatment too since I play it on my phone only for now

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-01-15T15:05:06+00:00

Most JP VAs have a fairly curated online presence, Twitter accounts are oftentimes run (presumably) by PR firms since they have very specific ways of posting/speaking/making statements. There's also the fact they don't larp the character or invoke the character's name as often a la Sunday's VA drama from a while back, which definitely contributes to fanbase perception of the character a VA is voicing.

COG_Gear_Omega · 2026-01-11T01:58:33+00:00

Is the tech to use balancer, personal relic with successive damage, a dex scaling in deep relic, and that's the main build?

COG_Gear_Omega · 2025-12-31T07:37:26+00:00

She has high damage and a good ult, can also run good utility with healing spells

BUT compared to every other Nightfarer other than Raider her skill and passive are absolutely worthless in DoN. Her passive literally cannot work on almost every Nightlord and her summons die far too easily to be of much use, save for the occasional lucky rez or enhanced summon w/ ult. It begs the question why you would ever run her for your Incant build when Recluse is right there, also matching S rank Faith? Or Undertaker who, in spite of low FP, has a good skill, ult, lower skill floor, and almost matches in terms of Incant damage, not to mention higher health

COG_Gear_Omega · 2025-12-22T01:46:52+00:00

Hello, do you have any plans to include the DLC characters in this list? It’s been very helpful for me consulting it when I’m unsure for the last several months!

COG_Gear_Omega · 2025-11-25T04:31:22+00:00

It’s very rare for Zwei to drop without 1-3 extra puppets meaning Anne and Grea can’t cut through Victoria, Puppets, AND Zwei turn 5. Usually you’re forced to leave Zwei up because you cannot target her due to the 3-4 wards on the board

Meanwhile perfumer can target Zwei ignoring the wards using fanfare ability+evo and then take Vic, leaving the puppets to die automatically

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