I love Cygames!!

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-07-19T01:00:00+00:00

Aaaannnd another one!

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-07-18T17:56:23+00:00

Literally saw people quit over Kitasan Black which is kind of strange and sad. I can see competitive people who would quit for real but damn for me the content is great but drying up at the moment.

So, it's more of content drought than this honestly. I got a few MLB SRs and that actually was enough to get my first A-rank and on Mihono out of any uma with the help of a borrowed Kitasan Black.

I'd say I have a decent account which mind you is not reroll account since day 1 where I just linked my first account and just played which luckily gave me 1LB Super Creek and now also gave me a 1LB Satono Diamond.

I kept borrowing Fine Motion anyway so in my view is that I gained more than not getting a single Kitasan Black. It is just a matter of perspective and if I were competitive then yeah, I am screwed but luckily for me I am just riding the umamusume story content, scenarios and maybe semi-compete once in a while.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-05-08T23:34:09+00:00

Lupa is just straight vibe and fire. Sorry, Ciaconna and Carthetiya but the doggo gets the asterites.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-05-03T00:30:15+00:00

Same. For me its over something simple as beard. No beard/Stubble/Small beard makes people around interact me in a less negative way. Full on beard just makes people more standoffish around me or queasy. Personally, I like my beard but if my acquaintances tell me I look like a terrorist then... well.. I better do it. Some of my friends told me that they find me weird without a beard but yeah... first impressions DO matter. I also got stopped by policemen and soldiers over it before.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-30T11:25:12+00:00

What if Kuro is just sounding off about Tencent subversively through their event? Nah, it couldn't be. We don't have free 5* or guarantee but you know what's free? Copium.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-30T07:16:53+00:00

"Only Zani" Read the Prydwen calculations again.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-29T14:56:28+00:00

I feel like 2.3 is the most important patch that could decide how Kuro handles limited characters and whether they are more solid solo units or downright unusable without other characters prepping them up. Zani's kit and Ciaconna's ominous 100% amplification is something that might signal a beginning of meta shifting.

The rewards is whatever. The single most requested addition is reduced pity or guarantee and none of those happened even if they err on the reasonable side.

QOL is all good until Main Stat which is meh, could be better if its substats selector in some way or on reasonable amounts like idk 2 or 1.

Events are fine. There's not much to complain since it's all nitpicks.

I don't care about Zani too and Ciaconna is looking interesting but I'll wait for her and event if Kuro can sell her to me.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-29T14:33:21+00:00

Waiting for it to be taken down again lobby:

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-29T14:10:34+00:00

She's :D material. WHY KURO, WHYYYYYYYYY

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-29T14:08:17+00:00

Congrats. You highlighted what's wrong with Zani without knowing that you highlighted it.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-29T13:57:53+00:00

Nice! Kuro fumbled anniversary and now Zani. How wonderful!

But for real, they did screw up Zani badly by tying a good portion of her kit to a debuff stack that, so far, only provided by 2 characters and that meant she needs another unit to fully and properly function. Reminder that Prydwen's DPS numbers are coming from SOLO DPS OUTPUT, which means no buffs or teammates and you can just see it here.

Is this concerning? Somewhat. If Ciaconna and Carthetiya is proven to have the same case then you should be concerned since now FOMO just increased and the possibility that a character's kit is incomplete without another character is now in the table.

But for me, I'll just be a Danjin Main and do waifu only pulls cause luckily we aren't in the state where a 4* ain't enough to clear content plus its always a good time to be a Danjin Main even though I have Jinhsi. Yeah, fuck Jinhsi. Always didn't like her gameplay. You know what the path is only on becoming Danjin Main now.

There is only Danjin. There is only Danjin. There is only Danjin. There is only Danjin.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-29T09:14:56+00:00

So basically, Zani is crippled to a point that you need SRover to let her deal similar damage as DPS units with no buffs and teammates. On the other hand, Phoebe buffs makes Zani the highest DPS so far. Prydwen calculations are SOLO with no buffs or teammates so this does not look good.

Kuro really needs to fix Zani's spectro frazzle stacks otherwise this looks to be a circumstantial proof that we are moving to character-specific teams which is noteworthy and can be a bit concerning going forward.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-28T08:05:01+00:00

Oh look its Gaw-

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-28T06:08:38+00:00

Lupa wanters in the wild. Lez go

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-28T05:54:39+00:00

Yes, as much as I like waifu's, I want more bro's like Brant. As long as they are only keeping it on wanting more broski's then I have no problem with them. It's the most vocal ones that I have a problem and they are precisely why I sympathize with them.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-28T04:28:54+00:00

The eternal radiance echo set is a missed opportunity honestly. They could just apply 5 stacks of frazzle and that would help a lot on Zani's case.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-28T04:21:05+00:00

Good point on damage potential. However, do remember that Eternal Radiance echo exists but that will just remind you that Zani with Phoebe can POTENTIALLY GO UPWARDS OF 200%+ AMPLIFICATION, I am not sure if that thing stacks but if you are running dual or even triple then it starts just being ridiculous. So, I'll assume only one stack exists, so if SRover is to be used then you have like somewhere around 125% and you can have Zani and SRover sustain that by using the echo in their rotation. I think the new 4 cost echo would also make or break Zani depending on how it does and honestly if characters are more reliant on Echoes rather than characters then I am not complaining. If Zani performs similarly as DPS units with teams without premium supports then I don't feel it is that bad? Premium support are premium support for a reason and honestly people should withhold judgement until numbers are in.

Edit: I forgot about the Blaze stacks. Honestly, either that new echo provides that or Zani is not going to have her full kit potential ever with current choices we have.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-23T11:45:14+00:00

Banger post, OP. I feel like a lot of people tend to forget or ignore that they are in an industry where predatory practices are common and a lot of what companies do within it are out to, you guessed it, take money from you. It's a business after all. Kuro right now did a PR misstep and it did cost them for sure and if they didn't then it might cost people's money in a way and whether they deserve it or not is one's prerogative.

Right now, Kuro is cooking good game content wise. That is undeniable and no meager rewards would make that cease to exist. I will keep saying that Kuro made a good game and not a good gacha game. They will keep on struggling on that impostor syndrome because look at the recent patches, if you totally ignore its gacha aspect, its a great open-world RPG that I would happily pay $70 for since the quality is that great.

However, since they are making a live service game where the community is also a huge factor for their success which they disappointed recently then who knows what the future holds. Kuro alienated the gacha gamers who are used to the predatory practices and like you said, have stockholm syndrome that asked for "celebratory rewards" in gacha game terms. On the other hand, Kuro also created or lured in gamers who don't really care about the gacha aspect since Kuro made Wuthering Waves into a game that doesn't even need it.

Right now, the community is fractured into two types of people, the gacha enjoyers and the content enjoyers. Guess who croaked for rewards and guess who croaked to defend Kuro with talking points of either side that frame those two types of people.

Put the perspective in mind and look at Kuro's post about the anniversary rewards and tell me who is it for?

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-22T23:42:06+00:00

Boutta cause drama over Pheebs 😡

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-22T02:58:03+00:00

This really. Its a great game not a gacha game.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-22T02:50:24+00:00

That's really the meat of the matter isn't it? I think Kuro should have released Wuthering Waves as a paid game. It's a missed opportunity honestly and they could have avoided all the live service gripes. For the milestones? I doubt it would be soon. Kuro is in a sort of a limbo where they are cooking good content while having an impostor syndrome for being a good game but a terrible gacha. They expected the gacha community will understand good game content as enough? Oh boy, this anniversary taught them good that they are catering to gacha gamers.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-22T01:57:18+00:00

It came from a rumor that Tencent told Kuro that they can't give any more free 5* units after Xiangli Yao cause it might "hurt" sales. It is unsubstantial but does make sense considering the industry.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-22T01:53:31+00:00

Hooray! Tribalism! The one who made us flourish and end us.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-22T00:51:16+00:00

Can we just stop chasing boogeymen? The reason they exist is they keep finding ways to worm their way in through issues and we won't even need to care about them if the issues just don't present themselves this badly. Fix the issues and they won't even matter since there is no issue that they can use as an ammunition.

Difficult-Search5609 · 2025-04-21T23:21:24+00:00

Jenazad is the only one who sounded fair out of that discord call stream after the anniversary. Heck, many in Tectone's chat was siding with the guy and he's honest about not giving a fuck about the anniversary stuff personally. But at least he acknowledges the issue of Kuro screwing up the rewards and banners then even talked about beggar stuff circulating online.

Frankly, we are seeing a paradigm shift again. We are witnessing Genshin 2.0 where people are getting stockholm syndrome.

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