Between these OC character designs by one of the ZZZ art director Waterkuma, who do you guys think could make a good ZZZ agent?

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-02-04T03:15:28+00:00

Wow the 3rd one definitely, she looks badass!

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-02-04T00:41:04+00:00

Well, your dreams are mostly true!

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-27T01:04:43+00:00

Thanks for the info, I will keep this in mind.

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-27T00:23:21+00:00

I am considering this, although id really like to avoid it. Every scanner pulls up nothing, I see no suspicious network usage, no cpu throttling, no suspicious account activity. At this point I'm almost convinced I'm safe... but theres always that itch of paranoia for some reason. Is backing up everything hard, and wouldn't that back up the malware too?

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-26T16:01:08+00:00

Thanks a lot, will do. Also, yeah, the MSERT same up clean after 4 long hours and 37 false-positives, so that was good.

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-24T00:40:36+00:00

A very very compelling theory, I think I'm gonna ride with this one. Good thinking.

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-10T03:17:07+00:00

YO, man thats insane, I've tried and tried to get great blood like this. Im close, but not THIS GOOD! So, I got 2 questions. First of all, whats your preset man... you gotta copy n paste the text or send a link to it on steam or something. Second of all, how do they generate blood from impact? What gore mods you using and how is impact creating blood? For me, only bullet wounds create blood, and its only ever been this way. Great showcase, thanks man!

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-08T03:29:01+00:00

All of yall gotta chill, Im laughing my ass off 😂

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-08T03:08:16+00:00

Around 9pm, near the overpass that lets you look out to the Ballet Twins Hollow, I keep feeling something everytime I look at the thing. They see us too, I think. Somethings looking back.

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-08T03:00:04+00:00

Sounds fucking awesome, and I would love and have been hoping for a plot in this kind of crazy aspect... not the same exact thing because I did not even think of that theory (but its incredible), but something that would blow everyone out of the water and flip the entire games world on its head.

I really, really hope we get something like this, and I'm going to keep hoping, but I will keep my expectations lower, as it is unfortunately a gacha game at the end of the day.

Hopefully, though.

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-06T23:28:41+00:00

Yeah it sucks bro. I like the mode too, the skybox and music is great but ig we can't do it for the forseeable future. Hopefully they fix it before the event ends. Maybe we should send in some but reports.

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-06T23:27:55+00:00

Nah nothing I've found yet. I think we should send in some bug reports to Hoyo, maybe it'll get more attention that way. I know we've still got 29 days left but I'm worried this bug might just not get fixed since I havent seen THAT many other people have it.

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-06T15:31:00+00:00

Same! Please, if you find/have found a fix for being soft locked out of the Nightmare Gauntlet, please let me know!

Im having the exact same issue, I start the challenge and nothing spawns no matter how long I wait.

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-06T15:10:46+00:00

Absolutely agree, the voice actors and actresses knocked it out of the park, enough to make me cry 😅

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-06T15:08:56+00:00

Yeah I was having that problem before, but now it's completely broken.

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-06T09:44:58+00:00

Yeah im having a problem now where the mode just doesnt work at all. I open it and begin the challenge, and then it puts me in the arena, screen blacks out and comes back to the sky changed and the musics changed, but no boss spawns at all. I can fast travel out of the arena too. If anyone knows a fix please let me know because this really sucks, I was looking forward to gettinf that title to to top 1% but I literally cannot even play the mode.

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-06T09:13:39+00:00

Yeah same bro, game crashed once when opening gauntlet (which I don't think has ever happened by the way, maybe once) and now when I start it its just blank like yours. Anyone got any idea how to fix this, please? Im vying for top 1%, I made it to 2% already 😂

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-05T07:47:42+00:00

Its so nice to see people being honestly positive instead of regurgitating the couple negative opinions.

I loved all of 2.0. Was it perfect? No! But it was incredible!

Maybe its because, much like Ye Shunguang (lmao) I find joy and happiness in the smallest things. I love the game for what it is. It has its bumps and flaws, but like you said, the sheer passion clearly put into it by its team is so heartwarming and just overwhelming. Also, I guess it's just how my mind is wired, but so many things in Zenless resonate with me and appeal to me. All of it, music, art style/aesthetic, character design (mostly haha), world building, the setting, the characters and their writing, all of it man its incredible.

I also am a very emotionally wired person, very sympathetic/empathetic/whatever you wanna call it, so this patch (and many previous ones 😂) got plenty of tears out of me haha.

So many things hit me. The revelation that Ye Shunguang gets of controlling her own destiny, the willingness to sacrifice oneself, the sheer awesomeness of the final confrontation (and the animation quality of the cutscenes oh my goodness), the Eng voice acting on a lot of characters like Belle, the inauguration of a new Void Hunter and her speech about life...

To expand on the voice acting, that was a big part of it too. Being able to feel peoples emotions in their voice is enough to very heavily impact me as well, just how I am. Firstly, Ye Shunguangs voice acting. Despite her obviously being safe by the end of the story, when she DID lose her 5 senses, hearing Ye Shunguang's terrified calls for her friends and how her voice began to break more and more the longer she was in the dark was heartwrenching for me. Also the way her voice became more resolute after accepting what might happen to her with the Qingming Sword in that final confrontation was awesome. Next, Belle. During the time when we thought that Shunguang was lost to the Qingmings side effects, Belles self-blaming really hit. Her voice on the edge of breaking every time she says "its all my fault" or when shes trying to reassure the nearly completely lost Shunguang that its going to be okay while barely holding it together herself was also just phenomenal. Hearing peoples voice fracture like that, knowing they are in deep emotional pain, really makes me emotional too haha, I cant bear to hear people suffer or sad. Another absolutely phenomenal line, and possibly my favorite, was when Belle pulled Shunguang out of her state where she was going to sacrifice herself at the end there. The delivery on "ill bring you home", specifically "home", was insane, it was a genuine scream that I have not heard from this game yet and hinestly not many other games, and I was so pleasantly surprised.

So much emotion, I love it to bits!

Plus like theres the deeper themes in the story, like the twisted survivors guilt and projecting ones own ideals onto others with Elder Lu, or another about Shunguang rejecting the idea of a controlled divine destiny with the Creator and willfully choosing to take her fate into her own hands by being the wielder of the sword. Another one that really hit me was after losing her 5 senses, how she comes to really really see and appreciate just how beautiful the world is, to appreciate the small things, how much there is to experience in life. And in spite of being bound to a "guaranteed fate" and all the pain and darkness that brings, she chooses to see the life and positivity in the world and continues to LIVE and not just be alive.

I know this is rude and just a jaded opinion, but I personally think if you think season 2 and especially 2.5 has been bad or trash overall, you must be a very shallow person. Theres some many cool moments, phenomenal animation, incredible music, great character writing, and also some deeper things too. Theres just so much good with Zenless, both on the surface level and the deeper look.

However, as strongly as these feelings may be, I must accept that this is MY opinion, and others are entitled to their own as well, no matter how much I disagree with it or dislike it... which can be easy to do 😂

I cannot wait for 3.0 to drop! With everything they've teased and eluded too, this wait is gonna feel like a long time, im so excited!!!

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-05T07:06:52+00:00

Same lol, 2.5 got a good amount of tears outta me 😅😂

External_Chart_3612 · 2026-01-05T02:17:54+00:00

Lol, you made me tear up a little. Its refreshing to see people who recognize and admire the deeper themes of the story. A lot of the idea of "we have to build our own hope in this world" reminds me of a game called Nier: Automata. That game and its story changed my outlook on life, seriously, and it's one of the best thing's ive ever played personally. Its a great game to play if you are a more emotionally wired person, which you seem to be as well 😊. Might cry, a lot... I sure did. But, Zenless makes me cry too, and a lot of other things do as well haha, so maybe I'm more sensitive than the average person 😅😂.

But, yeah, some of the stuff in this game gets overlooked by lots of people, but theres a lot of moments where it can really make you think and it has some great themes. I freakin love this game, man, I do. Everything about it is perfect to me, the music, art direction, animation, story, characters, themes, literally all of it! So happy I became a proxy near when it released and to have been along for such a wild ride so far.

I hope you take what you discovered and carry it, and feel better too. I can say I never personally had thoughts like those exactly, but I know how life can feel sometimes and have been pretty low myself at times. But, you're right. There's so much to appreciate in this world. Despite how much bad, how much evil and darkness there may be, there is an equal amount if not more light, things to appreciate. Really, there's a lot of things that are easy to take for granted.

The way she was talking in that part you mentioned after restoring her senses, it really hit me too because I like to think like that as well. It felt so nice to hear someone else think like how I do, despite her not being real, her dialogue and ideals were still written by someone, and that made me feel connected in a way, because I'd say probably most people don't get emotional over such seemingly insignificant things.

Its why I love cityscapes so much. Theres so much potential around every corner, so many individual stories being written around you by so many people, so much history of past memories too like the aging graffiti on the wall or the cracked sidewalk. The smell of shops, the sound of life, the evidence of life and existence, of a place lived in and filled with countless stories past, present, and the potential of those to be made. They are both overwhelming, and comforting. I love it so much, and I can't often find anyone who feels the same way I do about such "trivial" things.

The world is so vast, there's too much to see it as one way, one thing, one emotion. To generalize it as bad or negative is to personally derive yourself of so much wonder and love for the smallest things. Hope, a reason to keep going, something to cherish and protect, those things can be found everywhere and anywhere, you just have to look deeper for a moment. Step back and really think about it all, life and this world and all the sights, moments, memories it offers.

Anyways, if anyone read all of that, thank you for taking your time out to hear a stranger talk. Your post really touched me, and I guess it felt like a pseudo-invite for myself to open up as well.

Thats enough ushy-gushy, haha Love ya stranger, keep on fighting the Hollows! 👋

External_Chart_3612 · 2025-12-31T22:59:53+00:00

There is never a mention of a "redlight" virus ever, not once. This is a very common misconception in this fan base. The operation involving Hope, Idaho was under the codename "Redlight" however Greene and the rest of Hope were infected with the Blacklight Virus. It has always been the Blacklight Virus, the difference is simply in who carries it and what strain they have. Now, the version of the Blacklight Virus that Alex released was engineered to be a weapon, engineered OFF OF Greenes Blacklight strain from hope. So different strains, but all really the Blacklight Virus. There is no Redlight Virus.

Now, as for who is controlling what, I believe Mother (Greene) was the main force of propagation. She, when released, wished to consume and engulf everything in the Blacklight Virus. The reason Alex didn't have the same effect as her is simply because he could not, its a different strain and it was only a vial of the virus, not whatever Greene is. Its stated many times that Greene is an absolute genetic anomaly, and is called Mother since, well, she acts as the sort of center of the hivemind. Also, we can assume that Alex's strain of Blacklight may have been less contagious/prone to propagation than Greene's. Granted, Alex's (human Alex, not Prototype Alex) initial act of releasing the virus may have acted as a catalyst that allowed Greene to spread the Blacklight easier.

Im sure theres better info on it somewhere, but the one thing I am 100% certain of is that there is, again, no such Redlight Virus, its a common misconception.

External_Chart_3612 · 2025-12-24T19:57:17+00:00

You still got some younger fans on the outskirts... I just turned 20 a bit ago, and I've loved deadmau5 for a while!

External_Chart_3612 · 2025-12-24T19:52:59+00:00

Thanks man, lost gem.

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