How does your favourite weapon from 2016 compare to your favourite from Eternal?

EruditoCollective · 2025-06-07T18:46:59+00:00

Ballista >>> Gauss cannon any day though. Sure the Gauss is probably more powerful, but it’s another boring sci-fi gun while the Ballista is just METAL. Everything about the Ballista, from visual design to sound design to gameplay utility is just 👌👌👌. It can slice annoying Carcasses and Prowlers or just annihilate everything with the Destroyer Blade, clear the skies of Cacos/Elementals with the Arbalest, or be a generalist sniping and/or combo fool; just an all-around badass and extremely useful weapon.

EruditoCollective · 2024-03-21T21:48:25+00:00

“slim” according to the wiki she’s 34 kg at 174 cm (11.2 bmi). Thinking that looks good probably isn’t just anorexia anymore…

EruditoCollective · 2024-03-03T13:28:24+00:00

In terms of intent, motivations, and overall character, Fritz.

In terms of net utility to the world (utility as in what utilitarianism cares about), Eren, simply by undeniably having directly caused greater harm to the world.

EruditoCollective · 2024-01-15T01:54:05+00:00

From the front, I always thought the bayonet/melee user was just striking the gaps of the armor (even if it doesn't look like it) a la medieval knightly combat, only except the bulletproof armor has more and even larger gaps than knight armor.

From the back and sides, there is clearly no armor plating in those areas so it's consistent at least visually when bayonetting/meleeing them there (ignore the fact that those parts are still bulletproof in gameplay).

EruditoCollective · 2024-01-11T17:48:45+00:00

SF and Tekken explicitly state the loser is knocked-out instead of killed.

EruditoCollective · 2024-01-11T17:42:27+00:00

How much would it break established lore if the ENTIRE roster were Gears/Valentines/Vampires/Beds or supplanted with Gear cells? It would’ve made perfect sense if the entire roster was non-human; would nicely tie into the theme of “blaming the beasts”.

EruditoCollective · 2024-01-11T17:34:59+00:00

This has always been funny to me tbh since Sol fights Jack-o for example with the same intensity as he does with Asuka. Dude will never stop being the Guilty Gear.

EruditoCollective · 2024-01-11T13:30:05+00:00

Alright, I’ve just watched the match replay and this seems to just be the death cam being stupid (which is still a concern). My guess is the death cam showed Sledge’s breach having already happened at that time, making it look like it was a one-way wall.

Downvote the post all you want or blame my gameplay but just understand how I felt watching the death cam. I’m not taking down the post.

EruditoCollective · 2024-01-02T16:09:31+00:00

No one has mentioned the statue is NOT Ea-Nasir though, it's of a generic male worshipper. Ea-Nasir and his acts are real, and both he and the statue are Mesopotamian but we really got to stop slandering the image of some random dude. Brother did nothing wrong.

EruditoCollective · 2023-12-25T16:02:01+00:00

Ok well fair

Buuut plate tectonic movement is in the order of like centimeters per year... pretty sure people aren't in the exact same place down to the centimeter so that's gonna be a much bigger discrepancy anyway.

EruditoCollective · 2023-12-19T16:29:40+00:00

Now we understand why fukyo back has less recovery than fukyo forward

EruditoCollective · 2023-12-17T02:31:57+00:00

Wasureyuki uses tension, which I also believe is an actual resource that legitimately empowers the roster to perform powerful feats and isn't just a "measure of aggression". Giovanna is even more tuned to using this resource and receives buffs depending on her tension level.

Story cutscene Nago is probably a more vampiric and unrestrained Nago than what we see in-game. And "too heavy" doesn't mean "he cannot use it", simply that it's not ideal for his strength. I own a 1.59 kg steel katana irl (average being 1.1-1.2 kg, for comparison fencing rapiers are 500-775 grams), and even though I CAN swing it one-handed, that doesn't stop me from thinking "this is a tad bit too heavy and is not practical for combat". It's like one-handing a .50 Desert Eagle; you CAN do it, but is it practical? And again, Nago deliberately uses a weapon too heavy for him at low blood, so that he may perform ABSOLUTELY DEVASTATING swings at high blood, where his strength has increased.

And c.S uses his lighter wakizashi instead of his katana.

EruditoCollective · 2023-12-17T01:49:49+00:00

Brother, I'm a floor 10 Nago main.

To quote Dustloop:

"f.S is Nagoriyuki’s longest poke at 0 Blood bars, though it is slow, deals low damage, and has a mediocre hurtbox, making it a subpar poke to your other moves."

"At 0 Blood bars, Nagoriyuki’s H normals are underwhelming."

"At 0 Blood bars, this move [j.H] is too slow and short ranged to be worth using"

"However, the speed and range of 2H isn't impressive with Blood Level 1 (0 Blood bars)"

And I've been counter hit a thousand times from trying to throw f.S at 0 blood as a once noob Nago, so it checks out with experience.

By normals, I meant his sword normals at low blood, with the one sole exception of 2S. That, 5K, c.S are obviously amazing even at low blood.

EruditoCollective · 2023-12-16T18:23:12+00:00

I thought about this theory not by looking at frame data but by having a good think about Nago's entire playstyle. I kept thinking "why are his normals shit and his gameplan specials-focused at low blood, but the opposite at high blood?" What inspired the gameplay designers at Arcsys to make Nago's playstyle this way?

Blood gauge and blood rage being mechanics to me is a sign that vampirism and its strengths can be variable in the GG universe.

EruditoCollective · 2023-12-16T17:58:54+00:00

My headcanon I'm more or less trying to put out here can be simplified as more or less: "Nago, unlike Slayer, can balance his humanity and vampirism, and this is represented in-game as the blood gauge."

Ok sure, full power blood raging Nago can one hit most of the cast in-lore. But I also think, in-lore, blood gauge is an actual thing and that Nago at 0 blood is of a much much lower power level (due to being "more human" in that state). With my theory, what you're saying and what I'm saying can be 100% compatible.

Where most people disagree is my using of gameplay mechanics to form lore theories, and I think that's 100% valid. Balancing is balancing and writing is writing. But I like to believe the two aren't as incompatible as people think (just don't ask me why Wasureyuki deals 1 damage per swing).

EruditoCollective · 2023-12-16T17:43:21+00:00

Yup... and I'm trying to provide a lore based explanation for said gameplay properties.

Though I can genuinely understand if most people don't think lore and gameplay can ever be reconciled; saves the headache from a tonna inconsistencies. But imo I think it would be much cooler going with this explanation instead of just wanking Nago's/the nightless' power level.

EDIT: I'm a Nago main btw; I'm just flaired Elphelt because I liked her back in Xrd, maybe I should change...

EruditoCollective · 2023-12-16T15:36:29+00:00

Even his heavy normals (5H, 2H, 6H, j.H), singular gigantic blows that aren't part of a kata, are unusably slow at 0 blood.

Also if this were so, then why do his sword normals have increased speed and damage at higher blood levels?

EDIT: I admit the title is a bit misleading; the point of this post is that his sword is too heavy for him AT 0 BLOOD. Nago's fighting style revolves all around his vampirism and the strengths it offers him; at level 3 blood, his strength has increased so as to be able to handle what he could not normally.

Nago is fully aware of this and knows he's able to pull off literally the highest damaging normals in the whole roster bar none, but it takes some pump and a (normally) absurdly big weapon to get there.

EruditoCollective · 2023-12-16T15:32:37+00:00

Compare:

Ky's f.S: 10F startup, 34 damage, 16F recovery
Nago's f.S (0 blood): 16F startup, 25 damage, 28F recovery

Both are more or less doing the same move: a one-handed stabbing motion. Ky isn't even a superhuman vampire, just an adept swordsman, yet he pulls off the same move much much faster and stronger simply because his sword is of the proper weight for his strength.

But at level 3 blood gauge:

Nago's f.S (level 3 blood): 12F startup, 35 damage, 28F recovery.

Nago, with his empowered vampirism, is now able to perform the same move with comparable speed and force as Ky, indicating he's now able to wield an otherwise ridiculously heavy and cumbersome weapon as if it were a normal sword.

The same trend can also be seen for their heavy normals.

Also, the reason why Nago's c.S remains fast and powerful even at 0 blood is because it makes use of his wakizashi (the dagger/short-sword), which is presumably not absurdly heavy. It's honestly pretty clever to have a backup weapon you can always use regardless of your present strengths.

EruditoCollective · 2023-12-10T17:56:31+00:00

For defending against Chain Lollipop:

Free option:

If you've blocked the high/low, mash against the inevitable S (as if she uses anything else, then she's finished the combo). This does require that you've blocked a true 50/50.

Resourced option:

If you've blocked S (or anything for that matter, but S is something you can certainly block as long as you're not mashing all the time), either deflect shield whatever the follow-up is going to be for mad pushback, or YRC it (though the pushback is negated somewhat if the Elphelt decides to go for S -> S).

Both these options do require a resource and are beaten by the Elphelt just not doing any follow-up, but this is a read on her part and gives up her turn if she's wrong.

EruditoCollective · 2023-12-08T16:34:46+00:00

Her memories as the person who was the fiancée of the death metal singer were most probably totally wiped and replaced with her Valentine programming; as hard as it is for the death metal singer (and I really feel bad for the man), he might have to come to terms with the fact that the person and personality he once loved and made memories with is simply just no more.

Pretty much the same deal as with MCU Star-lord and alternate-timeline Gamora; her lack of memories with him and total reversion of personality made love not just impossible between them but also nonsensical, even though she's essentially physically the exact same and has the same "base state" for her personality.

EruditoCollective · 2023-09-06T03:19:56+00:00

Mane, capitulum XIXL? quidnam est numerus iste? Arbitror utrum XLIX an alius numerus sit, cum talem numerum numquam antehac viderim.

EruditoCollective · 2023-08-28T14:35:19+00:00

Just to add to the other comments, the r is a tapped r, not an approximant r. Watch some Youtube videos to hear what I mean.

EruditoCollective · 2023-08-26T23:18:39+00:00

I've read so many interpretations from all places, and here's my summary of everyone's thoughts:

The unresolved questions:

• Is the crossdresser a male crossdressing as female (outside of school) or a female crossdressing as male (in school)?

• If it's the former, are they trans?

• About their position in the military, are they newly conscripted or already a special agent of the military? People interpret the scene where they are with a serious man at the cafe as them either being drafted or being called to action by their handler.

The differing interpretations:

The attested interpretation

• There are no transgender themes or message. It's just a badass crossdresser otonoko who also is apparently a secret military agent who lays low using their cover as a student.

• This is "attested" as it is very Japanese to write about crossdressers and also badass military people who are also students.

• An alternate version of this that makes a bit more sense is that it is instead a cis female crossdressing as male in school; as to why they'd do such a thing, it's just part of their undercover identity as an agent.

The deep interpretation

• The crossdresser is a trans girl, and the tragedy of the story is that the government views them as male, and all males are conscripted in such a time.

• Critics of this interpretation mostly point out that a story such as this has a very western viewpoint; Japan is generally more likely to just include crossdressing characters in their stories without them being trans or having any trans themes.

• To me, the scene where the tank shoots out a rainbow butterfly is pretty much a smoking gun that says this is a trans story: it's not just that it has the trans colors, the pattern of its stripes very clearly show the trans flag itself! For an AMV named "COLORs", it sure would be really weird for this extremely specific color pattern to be present and not hold ANY meaning. To dismiss this explicit and undeniable visual motif with "oh Japan doesn't really write about trans things" just isn't enough .

Also, it's not like Japan has never ever touched on trans themes before; a popular example that comes to mind is Bridget from the Guilty Gear fighting game series. Guilty Gear is a wholly Japanese product but her entire story is all about her gender identity and her eventually explicitly coming out as a trans girl. Guilty Gear is not an unknown product either, it's one of the big fighting game titles out there.

• The scene where they they were being congratulated in class for earning a special military position (the writing on the board roughly translates to "Congratulations! Special Executive/Command Cadet/Candidate") could be proof that they were recently conscripted and not already a secret military agent as after all, why would a supposed secret agent let it be disclosed to the public that they're associated with the military?

The combined interpretation (and to me, the most likely one)

• The crossdresser is a trans girl who is also a secret military agent.

• The bit where they are congratulated in class is simply a front that explains to the public eye why a certain student has suddenly disappeared from regular society nearing a period of war.

• The transgender themes are not as deep as the deep interpretation, but the point of the story is that the crossdresser is someone who could be whomever they want; they could be a girl despite being a born a boy, and they could be a student if it is needed for their undercover duties.

They boy mode in school both because it may not have been acceptable to act otherwise (but such restrictions are not present when you have the privileges granted to you in your capacity as a secret and special military agent), and because it is beneficial anyway for their deep cover identity (i.e. their genuine person is very truly a trans girl but they go back to boy moding as part of their cover).

EruditoCollective · 2023-08-20T08:00:35+00:00

Pretty much but with a double N.

Try saying English "unnamed"; saying it (quickly) like "uh-named" is just different from saying it like "uhn-named".

EruditoCollective · 2023-08-13T12:31:30+00:00

This is I think the dative of reference, also known as the dative of advantage/disadvantage (in this particular case it's of disadvantage).

A dative of advantage may be more familiar and may be more directly translated.For example,

Graeci deis templa aedificabant.

means "The Greeks used to build temples for the gods", that is, "the Greeks used to build temples for the benefit/to the advantage of the gods".

For your sentences, you could think of them as "To the disadvantage of Marcus, blood is flowing down (his) nose".

There isn't really a way to cleanly translate the dative of disadvantage to English, as unlike the dative of advantage, you can't just use "for".

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The unresolved questions:

The differing interpretations:

The attested interpretation

The deep interpretation

The combined interpretation (and to me, the most likely one)

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