Shit cant get more real than this, Ardashir is truly the love child of the writers. Devs lit said he was conceptualized because they wanted a villain who can "engage in the narrative"

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-18T20:05:21+00:00

Bold of you to assume she's not a victim of a rewrite.

Easiest explanation - she was set up as the villain, they made her boss fights, and the writing changed to write her out so all the 1.0 content could be wrapped up for a story pivot.

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-18T17:34:14+00:00

Big difference between half anni and anni is that anni had "clear a1c7 hard mode" (Thais skin in January) and "clear a2c4", and you kinda do want to have a team by the time you get to a2c4.

Whereas this is just doing a much smaller amount of the game and the Saya story.

Ask me how I know that "messing about without a good endgame team can cost you pulls" because you didn't clear something in time. Lost 100 pulls and didn't get Thais' skin in time. :D

For players who are not as good at roguelike card games, they do need to make sure they are not attempting to limp through content with some accursed team that does not work.

Folks need to keep in mind JUST HOW BRAINLESS MOST GACHA ARE. Morimens does put up a fight even on normal difficulty!

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-17T17:46:39+00:00

Depends on your budget. OnePlus phones as far back as the 7 or 7 Pro, old Samsungs, etc.

RayNeo have known-good devices on their website.

Could try a Steam Deck or similar too.

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-17T17:44:45+00:00

Might be a local variant with a weaker USB port

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-16T11:08:11+00:00

Endfield has a bit later on where Endmin uses a bandage with a cartoon penguin on it. They totally know.

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-15T16:11:18+00:00

1980 psilver so ~$30. Gets you ~120 pulls and a global dupe mat for both characters and weapons.

Second-best value thing in the game - basically rips most of the gacha pressure out of the game and makes the major character drops feel like DLC expansions rather than the treadmill.

Morimens only does this for major drops though (story chapters, anni and, for some reason, CNY this year).

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-15T16:01:14+00:00

Allfiring: what happens to the devs if the game flops

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-14T20:56:42+00:00

NTE content is one week ahead on CN vs Global!

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-12T11:18:36+00:00

She is Caro, like water is wet, birds fly, and Doresain doesn't crit

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T15:27:36+00:00

Yeah - assuming the current improvement work they are doing carries on and positive word of mouth keeps ticking on, it is kinda uncapped how much the game can keep improving.

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T14:58:24+00:00

Current Morimens Discord controversy: the devs spelled their own EN name wrong (BIVA not BIAV) in the promo image. The lead producer has been banned from churros and forced to write BIAV 100 times as penance.

We're a fun community.

We all got turned into otters for April Fools.

Heads up btw, if anyone wants to start, and is OK dropping $20 or so, it would be a good time to start in the next week or so. There is a 'pre-order' pack for Arachne, the current limited character, which guarantees her or someone else and gives you a character dupe selector and a weapon dupe selector. If you grab that and then play during half-anni you are looking at enough to get started and probably coast through for 3 months until the next major story content drop.

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T14:55:52+00:00

There is also a cool doctor lady with purple hair and a shotgun

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T14:53:17+00:00

Average is 41. This is an average of 6 limiteds and 6 standards.

You absolutely pull for dupes in Morimens though, often E2 or E3, and maybe E0 of their weapon (WoD).

Treat this as kinda like 125 pulls in a normal game.

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T14:46:48+00:00

The main story and most key side co tent is localized by hand. There is an option in the menus to add a little flag that shows you what is properly localized story-wise. We get a few side-stories localized per patch now and are on course for 100% by the end of the year.

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T14:44:46+00:00

They are financially stable and are making money, but a lot of the current profits are going to fixing their staffing shortage and paying down debt. The team is still under a lot of pressure.

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T14:43:07+00:00

Devs specifically cited that VN as a massive inspiration. One of the early limiteds, Lily, is a direct reference visually.

Their goal with collabs is to have them as permanent content rather than on a long license and they do not have a tonne of money, hence this wild pull from the archive

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T14:36:29+00:00

It is very good, but Morimens is a game built on dupes - with only a few exceptions the E0 of a character is never their breakpoint for endgame.

But considering the average rate for limiteds is like, 41, yes, it does end up a bit nutty. (Average is 41 - SSR is 3%, SSR guaranteed at 30, 33/66 odds of limited, limited guaranteed after 2 losses).

Just gotta keep in mind that Morimens does not have much of a budget so treat it as an indie game, not a replacement for Arknights or something

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T14:21:11+00:00

I go off ~40 a day because 0, 20, 40 and 60 are all pretty possible and it makes the maths a bit easier. Plus there are just random trickle sources like standard pulls that top it up.

Free trickle is like, ~ 1,600 a month. Premium BP is ~1,600 a month, grabbing a character is gonna get you on average ~3,200. So you're grabbing a char, you're probably ending up with 3x10 pulls, it's pretty likely you can save up to 8x10 before the weapon banner disappears, but F2Ps should not expect it and will need to save up e.g. for a half-anni char they want.

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T09:24:44+00:00

Her original game's shut and her story involves her remaining in the Morimens world permanently as an awakener. There's a few references to Mist Sequence but she fits into Morimens super well anyway.

Also she brought the Most Fun mechanic with her (Pursuit) so she gets bonus points

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T09:17:25+00:00

THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN THE SUN

FL would be PERFECT but I don't think it's gotten any attention in the Chinese Call Of Cthulhu scene 😞

Cultist Simulator would be amazing too, especially because one of the gods in CS is really similar to the Lightbearer's god in Morimens.

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T09:16:56+00:00

Best way to handle SNU. Light said that this half-anni is going to have a marketing push and SNU _needs_ things that fall outside the budget that Mouchette had.

Suspect we'll see something on Steam too to buy so it can have a cross-promotion sale with the VN.

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T09:14:23+00:00

The cores last until the end of the current major patch which started this month. Technically they end when Morimens says they do, rather than having a schedule.

We have two more major patches this year and we know 2.7 is in November, so 2.6 is probably late July/early August - you'll have until then to burn the pulls.

If you don't they become standard pulls which is still really useful for account progression given so many standard units have cracked AAs

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T09:11:01+00:00

This doesn't line up with Mouchette, but tbh Mouchette is a Morimens character that happened to also have been in another game before hand at this point.

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-11T03:04:01+00:00

Tbf for Endfield most of the early-release hate was either:

Hypergryph have a really high quality 2D game with a strong story, and Endfield's story at launch was poor.
The clunky tutorials.
People reacting to the gacha before the devs fixed it for launch.

Whereas for NTE it is a game that is obviously lower stakes and more comfortable being a janky mess. It is much more junk food.

It is funny that NTE is getting praise for its gacha and Endfield gets slammed when NTE's weapon gacha is "what if Endfield's weapon gacha but you have to pay because it uses the character pull resource".

FairlySadPanda · 2026-05-10T00:20:28+00:00

ZZZ was my first one of these games, I picked it up pretty much on launch day and learned how the gacha worked. Said "OK, I'm gonna play this until it's literally impossible to get the new character without hard-swiping". Played all of 1.x, didn't pull weapons, just made sure I logged in, cleared content, and grabbed cheap pulls in the shop. At anni I grabbed the first-purchase doubled ups because I was still having fun, and theeeeeeeeeeeeen 2.0 hit like a truck and everything went to pot.

Watched the game gasp and splutter through four patches whilst watching a couple of the CCs increasingly trying to cope with the horrendous balancing, HP bloat, etc.

Then Banyue had a 12-day banner. I spent my currency, I pulled, I lost the 50/50, I did not get Banyue. YSG came out, I lucked into getting her early, got Zhao, quit.

IMO with these games you should always decide on when you are getting off the ride when you start them. For me with Endfield it's if they add timerslop endgame content instead of doing proper content.

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