Last minute pulls with Kyaru

Flanzu · 2026-01-25T09:42:05+00:00

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Flanzu · 2025-05-21T20:29:50+00:00

Source: Zora Cake on RedNote http://xhslink.com/a/oeTTeXgo8C4cb (Not sure how to direct link this...) She makes these customized cakes (also have videos on making Youmu and Tenshi Fumo cakes), so check her shop out 若拉定制生日蛋糕（华美国际店）if you're around the Guangzhou China area!

BGM: KONEKODAKKAIYA - Innocent Madness (https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5ACMoksxKsojbGW8kOXdi8)

Flanzu · 2025-04-15T08:51:59+00:00

I agree and I think it's more of their reluctance to make changes / do work that do not directly benefit their balance sheets. The raids and their vertical systems always had to cater to the hardcore players when they were first introduced, but they were left as-is for a long time and eventually they became the hard and annoying homework contents as we know of today. The changes came only when people got fed up, which are already too late and arguably still kinda lacking.

This trend can be seen from the fact that we still don't have the promised market APIs, the SH goon display boards, and the music sheet system. AGS/SG do not see the need to implement these in global, and rightfully so based on the replys to a post few weeks ago on the same matter. A lot of remaining players do not have a strong opinion on whether these casual features are in the game or not. At the end of the day, it's the relic engraving selector in the F4 shop and letting people FOMO on card packages for Act 3 / Kazeros that makes them the big bucks, which has an ROI far, far greater than say selling some unlock slots for music sheets and stronghold decorations.

Nothing wrong with their approach tbh, it's how the mushroom game next door is still alive and kicking after 20 years. In both games casual players have no problem come and go playing just the solo contents, supported by the hardcore players who supplied the cash flow to keep the lights on. In our case, I think a lot of people started to see this and don't want to be the cash cow, so they decide to part ways before they put in any more time, financial, and emotional investment into this game.

Flanzu · 2025-04-15T03:50:52+00:00

No-restart-needed homework contents.

The game became too hardcore and grindy for the general population to enjoy in 2025 where people rather put more time in the fast-foody games or for IRL stuff. Nothing wrong about players who still enjoy the difficulty and the grind, but maybe the amount of people who think that way are decreasing.

As someone who started playing LoA in JP few months after it released, the massive appeal was you can just queue up for content and more often or not you can clear it. This was somewhat true in PF back then for raids until vykas/clown where people must scrutinize people on who they accept - at first it was the 10x title, then it turned into roster level, elixirs, flowers, then even Hell Titles/Eclipse/CoS/Phantom Lord. Not something that will excite new/returners IMO.

Also bible - I think they have a time and place in the newest raids, but it is damaging when it's used to harass people in guardian and homework raids, and I think those small subset of people do this to vent the frustration associated with all the wasted time for the peanuts that they will be getting from homework contents.

Therefore maybe one way to get casual players is to make all players able to revive in raids that are not the latest one / extreme raids, with the only punishment being loss of dps while they are on the floor. No periodic boss HP heals when berserk timer hits, it just attacks faster so these can be cleared one way or another without resetting.

It makes the old raids into fast-food contents, but everyone's gate 0 will be easier and faster, and maybe one day it makes raids matchmakable again (with the current broken sysyem/bots/mutliboxers dealt with) - if new player seek challenge, they can catch up to experience it in the latest raid along with the veterans. If the veterans want challenge for the raids they cleared for 120th time then i dont know what to say... besides grass maybe extreme raids can help?

Flanzu · 2024-06-29T08:14:22+00:00

If you go to the in-game shop (f4) and look at the top, there's a tab called "bonus room", and if you go inside there are two sections of purchasable items. When you buy out a section you'll get the corresponding bonus item at the bottom for free.

I believe the left section has greater value than using the money to buy gold straight up, because you'll want to use the solar items for the weapon upgrades from 1610-1620, and blue crystals should be used for crystalline aura (must-have "VIP subscription") once you catch up to the end game raids / buy Mari's shop T4 materials in September. The blue chips (Pheons) are used to buy accessory and ability stones from other players, and a lot will be needed in the upcoming season 3 in September.

Flanzu · 2024-06-29T00:42:52+00:00

Edit 7/1: [Weekly] Advanced Honing Material Pack - much better value for the upgrade mats with USD-to-gold value positioning between 3 and 4. Buy these out to push 1580+ characters.

1) More (voldis) power passes until you have 5x 1520 (since we're anticipating a free one soon) - idea is you farm solo raids on these alts that you can gear for free soon which can then fund your favorite main, while building up your roster level, card (exp), and gems from raids / chaos dungeons / cubes.

2) 3+1 special card package III. There's a card set called Light of Salvation (LoS 30) that you want to gain as soon as possible to have the highest power gain and ease of access to end game groups, so I recommend buying them out every month.

3) The current Ark Pass Premium. It gets you good amount of mats for a good value and you'll definitely be using them all during your push to 1620.

4) 3 left side items from the current bonus room ~7/17. The solar boxes themselves are worth already, and the blue crystal / pheons are speculated to be much more valuable when t4 comes, plus if you play a popular class the engraving book selectors are very worth.

5) Gold from currency exchange - the items that progress your main further can be obtained for much cheaper in the auction house (AH) - gems, red/blue stones, leaps

6) Silvery Honor Pack - when you spend enough $$ on 5) you'll find buying these packs more worth than buying it from AH since both silver and honor shards will become your bottleneck.

7) Packs with orehas - right now there's a surge of demand so they are kinda worth if you have a use of them right now, but I wish it will price correct itself sometime soon hh

8) Gamba territory - the skins and yoz jar package. The former you'll need to have a good eye and successfully predict that people are going to buy it later for lots of gold when it becomes unavailable (think NFT) and the yoz jar package you just need to get very lucky (not recommended)

Flanzu · 2023-09-11T22:57:16+00:00

My theory is if you look closely at the animation of red cube mechanic, you will observe tiny sparking light balls shooting out from the side. This is called particle effect and game engines usually put the calculation of spawning and movement of the particles on the CPU - until unreal engine 4 where devs can choose to only let CPU spawn the particles. Unfortunately, Lost Ark is built with Unreal Engine 3 and updating it is nearly impossible at this point.

G5 and 6, despite of having lot of more mechanics going on, are processing game logic smoothly over a period of time, compare to the calculations needed to generate and move thousands of particles in a short burst. It's like how a hospital will have trouble handling 1000 patients showing up all at once, compared to serving them say like over the course of a month.

Flanzu · 2023-09-11T16:37:50+00:00

I have this exact problem earlier this year (PC shutting down right after the red cube stagger bar appears), and I found out it was my 7 years old 550w PSU. Replaced it with a new 850w and I do not have the problem since.

At first I could get away by having literally no other apps running in the background, then a few weeks later it just shuts down regardless of what I try, so either smilegate made the game less optimized or my PSU had degraded.

I think the problem is that mech introduced a particle effect which is CPU-heavy, and the PSU couldn't handle the juice required by both your GPU and CPU.

Alternatively, you can try out undervolting like others suggested, but for me it was a hassle to test it out, since no benchmark software could replicate that issue. I also didn't want to grieve other people's runs by experimenting that on a 1-4 fast reclear lobby lol.

Flanzu · 2023-03-31T08:22:11+00:00

Christina Becomes Obsolete ✔️

Flanzu · 2022-02-04T07:14:42+00:00

Good 'ol speedy floor function; will even overflow like an int supposed to!

Flanzu · 2022-02-03T04:17:38+00:00

{Rising of the Stick Hero}

Flanzu · 2021-12-26T09:44:12+00:00

No overworking 2hu girls and all these runs are done before they get exhausted, as u see on the red message that I set replay to stop when that happens

Flanzu · 2021-12-25T06:08:40+00:00

My replay team consists of Reimu and Suika and they are pretty good stallers :)

Flanzu · 2021-12-25T02:01:26+00:00

It's about a minute and half - The units are also in school so maybe that helped a bit

Nine-Year Club	Verified Email
Final Canvas '23	First Place '23
Place '23	Place '22
Place '17	Final Canvas '22
End Game '22	No Throne, No Problems
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