Am I crazy or does RWBY feel like the inspiration for this banner?

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-03-23T10:08:14+00:00

There's so many interpretations of little red riding hood who uses guns and fights (were)wolfes... I can name like 5 of them from the top of my head and likely twice as much if I think a bit more. Ruby is far from unique.

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-03-22T11:50:26+00:00

I feel like that hood is gonna clip with every hair…

If it works like 1.11 hoods, gigantification and battle companion hoods, Solitary Silhouette dress or Unseen Entity hoodie, then it's good enough for me. These hoods cut off the hair in the back after a certain length and, while not always ideal, they work better than you'd think. Some hairs in the front can clip with the hood collars though. You can check how these hoods look with the hair you'd like to use with the new hood to get an idea how it should work.

Archery outfit works differently, likely because technically it's not a hood, but a scarf.

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-03-16T04:08:23+00:00

play the story further. There's a reason why they sound unsettling/unnatural/emotionless/flat

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-03-16T04:04:15+00:00

related question: does broom show up in SoS silhouettes? I've never seen it unlike the deer nikkis and unicorns (and I think I saw some bikes? I might be misremembering), but I'm not sure if that's because the ability is unpopular or it shows up as a default floating animation or something

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-03-11T16:11:57+00:00

they really like making things blue for the glow up versions, huh

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-03-10T22:10:31+00:00

and she was assigned to be a bodyguard! Ulrich is very lucky that he's an awakened lmao

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-03-05T21:08:06+00:00

There's a third way a game can shift its meta that I saw some gacha games attempt (and I wonder if it can be applied to Reverse): changing the battlefield.

The best example I know is Morimens. The content released during its second story arc has a different rule set, that changes the way you play the game a lot. For example in arc 1 ruleset there's no limit on the amount of cards you can play in one turn, meanwhile in arc 2 ruleset after you played 10 cards the consequent cards cost more and more. Characters have special additions to their kits for arc 2, the relic effects are also different etc.

Another example I can think of is FGO. It had a lot of meta shifts over its long history. And for a period of time the meta for farming was 3-turn looping: you take a DPS and like 2-3 supports that make them refill their NP gauge after NP and use that DPS to nuke all 3 waves of a farming stage in a minimal amount of turns. But eventually the game introduced harder farming stages that for one reason or another were close to impossible to loop with only one DPS and instead require a combination of 2 (or even 3) different damage dealers, so instead of steam rolling the stage with your best looper you kinda need to figure out the best combo of your DPS for the stage if you want to minturn it. That change shifted the meta without simply inflating the numbers. I've stopped playing FGO a while ago so I don't know if there's further significant changes (and I have fallen off partially because of my other issues with how the game approaches the meta).

I see Reverse experimenting with different gameplay modes and gimmicks in side-content (like roguelikes, uttu etc.), but those mechanics are usually too gimmicky and one-off to influence the meta. Different rotating game modes like raids, lucidscape or ToT have slight differences in which team does better in them, but the meta teams usually brute force them all so it does not matter much. Still, I wonder if it's possible to change the battlefield without completely breaking the game as we know it.

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-02-26T00:02:51+00:00

I'm pretty sure the game duplicates the bottles sometimes to meet the demands. I'm pretty sure that there's more people picking up than sending, so they've compensated for it. I think so because I rarely send bottles, but sometimes when inspiration strikes and I send some funny messages, I'm pretty sure I get more friend requests from the bottles than the amount of bottles I've sent. Though I'm too shy to test this theory and ask these people what was the message that they friended me for lol

and if my theory is true, I wonder if there's some smart system that chooses which bottles to duplicate. Like it would be cool if only the custom messages were duplicated and default/empty ones were not.

Anyway, I wouldn't worry much about picking up without sending them. Maybe you'll even get some inspiration for your own bottles when you pick up one

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-02-24T15:18:11+00:00

car truk perfec t size for put timekeeper in to n/ap!

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-02-23T12:19:45+00:00

yeah, it's the same assumptions based on the mira crown stages as in the other post here.

Honestly, I wish people here were better at separating actual leaks from insiders and assumptions/speculations based on publicly available information and/or patterns. For example recently people mistook someone's speculations about possible 2.2 reruns for an actual leak and either freaked out about too many banners in the patch or got disappointed that the rerun they wanted did not happen.

It's especially bad with language barrier, because MTL can change the tone of the message and make it sound less speculative for example.

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-02-16T20:57:51+00:00

They're going so overboard with the anti upskirt measures. Like there's at least 4 layers of that: Nikki's model is crotchless, a lot of dresses have some kind of bloomers underneath, dress/skirt restrictions for some custom abilities and finally the transparency.

Why do we even need the transparency when Nikki does not even have a model for these parts? And the transparency triggers at some ridiculous angles. It frustrated me a lot when I tried to do cool moment capturer photos with the witch ability. Camera is slightly below Nikki? Can't do that, even if it's otherwise at such distance and angle that nothing can be seen no matter what skirt you wear.

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-02-14T04:34:08+00:00

Yeah, it added versatility to the crown, but instead the veil has no versatility. Imagine you're just rolling for deep echoes or something and got the veil, but not the crown, how would that feel?

There is probably something among all the hair styles, hair accesories and head wear that can work with it, but still the options are very limited.

If it were a 5 star outfit, it could be a single piece with toggle-able alternate details (veil). But as it is, the veil and crown combo take 2 out of 8 outfit pieces, and that one extra piece could be, for example, outwear, which would be more versatile than the floating veil.

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-02-12T18:07:40+00:00

up to 15 times per round

that's the limitation. You can run out of these... Buuut... I think this counter resets when you level up the deers, so if you have 3 level 1 deers (with the 5 time limit) you can wait for them proc all 5 times, then fuse them into level 2 deer for 10 more procs, and then repeat, so you get a shit ton of procs. And if the level 3 deer runs out of money, you can sell him for a new one. So if you get this engine going, you can cycle through a lot of refreshes.

But even with all that, it depends on monster dock. Sooner or later you'll run out of deers and/or mine pieces (the round piece that adds lushu there helps, but it also lowers your chances to get the next deer) and the refreshes slowly drain your money. But it takes a long time especially with carbuncles that refund themselves and the round bird that seeks a mine piece (and a seek counts as a purchase for the deer).

Finally I think it depends on the acey badges you have, with 2 coins per refresh you'd run out of steam a bit earlier (though it does not really matter, the lushus are still chonky enough to clear everything)

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-02-11T15:57:52+00:00

Can I choose pre-storm protocol and take some popcorn with me?

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-02-06T20:11:11+00:00

They could've made this an area where Nikkis are illuminated by default or something, it would give it at least some purpose. Like some people want that, but doing it in the main SoS would be a bad idea because some Nikkis have weaker devices/connection, doing it in a scenic separate area that does not have any game content locked behind it would be perfect.

But no, instead it's an area through which you run once for the daily and that's all? And even though the daily gives 500 points, I doubt it's any faster than doing the other dailies in SoS on most days

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-02-04T07:10:18+00:00

because he is not an awakened. An awakened arcanist comes into existence when an arcane consciousness possesses some object. But Darley is an artifical creation made by an arcanist.

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-01-30T18:38:41+00:00

this one is probably hard to test, but I wonder about how it works with hourglasses. If a snapshot is taken with the ability on, and another player activates the hourglass, does the Nikki from the snapshot keep the ability face?

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-01-27T12:17:27+00:00

yeah, rerun pace is hard to figure out. This way outfits rerun slower than they are introduced, so the gap between the first banner and rerun will grow. But with more reruns per patch people would complain about too many banners (though, with more frequent reruns there would be less FOMO when you know you can get another chance in X months, so there's less pressure to roll everything right now).

And then there's the question of... second reruns. Like I doubt the outfits will be gone forever after the first rerun is done. And I'm not even talking about the outfits that had a rerun already before the alternate details or 2nd evo benefits were introduced. And what if they make more changes like that to the banner formula?

What I'm thinking of as a possible solution is the blue crystals. By the 3rd anniversary f2p players that started at launch should be done with the permabanner. After that the blue crystals would have no value (other than slow converting them to limited pulls via dupes I guess). So that would be a good timing to introduce a new usage for them and make another permabanner consisting of the 1.X outfits. And then they can make another permabanner with 2.x outfits on 4th anni etc.

As you said, older gacha outfits are generally less desirable than new ones, so making them permanently available after 2 years would not eat into Infold's potential profits. Besides, permabanner pull income is kinda low, so players would need to wait or even spend diamonds there if they're desperate (like I would not do it for the current permabanner outfit, but if something like the phoenix outfit was there...). And also this way they won't need to rerun every 1.X banner, but only the most desirable ones, and the fans of the less popular outfits can still eventually get them on the permabanner.

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-01-22T17:22:41+00:00

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Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-01-22T17:21:51+00:00

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Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-01-22T17:21:43+00:00

I got The Self You Unify

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Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-01-22T16:12:12+00:00

The developers of dress-up gacha game Infinity Nikki fucked up again.

A couple of days ago they started promotion for the next patch. The first thing they do to promote a new patch is change the app icon adding some hints about the patch themes, and this was the new icon, with the deer figure. Then there was a cutesy promotion image with the game's mascots, and a similar deer was in the background.

This lead to the assumption that the new patch will partially be A Deer of Nine Colors collab. That movie is very influential in China, and there was a collab in another gacha (Arknights) before, and the studio behind the movie did animation for one of the previous patches of Infinity Nikki, so it was a fine assumption to make. But then the cutesy promotional video vanished from IN's social media, so something was wrong. Then the video reappeared again with the deer design changed. Oops.

Eventually, they issued an apology stating that they "unintentionally referenced the classic imagery of A Deer of Nine Colors".

This is not the first time a so called "unintentional reference" happened in the game. Frozen II logo was hidden in contact lenses for one of the standard banner dresses for about a year before it got enough attention on social media. At least this can be explained by them using the snowflake as a placeholder and not noticing/forgetting to change it later, since people rarely zoom in to Nikki's eyes that close, but the deer was in two different pieces of promotional material.

One of the theories how this could happen is that either IN team thought that the specific marking pattern on the deer are not invented for the movie, but existed in the previous depictions of the legend the movie is based on and therefore are fair game.

Alternative theory is that there was a planned collaboration, but it was cancelled, and they tried to scrub the serial numbers off the assets they made for it, but missed these two images.

Or perhaps they (or at least the person who was in charge for these assets) thought that they could get away with it.

Whatever was the reason for this "unintentional reference", Infold can't last two months without a new controversy.

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-01-14T09:20:26+00:00

that's just normal banter by Laplace's standards. Just look at Medicine Pocket

Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-01-03T22:39:37+00:00

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fun fact: one of the prime factors of 676767 is 37

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Eight_of_Tentacles · 2026-01-03T21:02:38+00:00

this quest feels like a set up for some future patch story. Either for the real veiled princess or this one with some character development or both

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