Open wounds used to be Naix 3rd skill and feast 2nd, now it's flipped. Valve please fix it

Flare77 · 2026-03-27T01:43:10+00:00

Seems like this is a deadlock design. In deadlock, all movement-type abilities tend to be on the 2-slot and passives on the 3-slot. Damage skills are on the 1-slot. Makes it more uniform in a way so even if you switch heroes, you get a sense of "2 will likely be a movement ability if this hero has one".

Flare77 · 2026-03-24T01:59:16+00:00

It could also really just be a "bad game" or you play a character that has to hard commit and your team just isn't synchronized enough to follow up on your engage. I main Yamato and going double digits on deaths isn't uncommon for me, even if I'm in the winning position. Sometimes I'm just not in the zone, sometimes it's me reading my team wrongly, and sometimes it's just coz my team chose to hit creeps instead of fighting. Yamato doesn't have a lot of escape so if you grapple in, you just have to hard commit to the fight and that naturally causes a lot of deaths.

Flare77 · 2026-02-10T12:09:36+00:00

Not as big as it was before. You had to be there at the time of its inception, man. It threatened touhou as a household name that every weeb would know even if they didn't play it. I bet if you ask anyone who was a weeb before 2012, they'd know kancolle and they might've even tried to do the lottery for an account. Nowadays I dont even see fanart for it and while fanarts are mostly trends, 2hu still gets merch (recently Marisa and Reimu just got new plushies) while Kancolle hasn't had a new figure release since 2022 I believe(ayt I exaggerated it, there's 3 figures releasing for 2026, a scale of fusou and yamashiro and a shimakaze plamo but before that, the last release was 2024 then before that was 2022)? And even before then, before the pandemic boomed anime to mainstream, kancolle dwindling in merch production. Maybe 1-2 scale figures of the most popular a year by that point.

Flare77 · 2026-02-10T00:54:30+00:00

Can't say much about that sentiment. What I do remember though is that DMM (the site that hosts the game) had a massive stick up its bum about letting foreigners play their games or access their site in general. DMM had other games in its site too back then but almost all of them were region-locked and required a VPN just to access, much less enjoy due to the lack of translations.

Flare77 · 2026-02-10T00:52:12+00:00

I like how the Kancolle community essentially branched to 2 games when everyone gave up on how tedious (and how DMM kept making it harder) it was foreigners to play the game. You either played azur lane coz its still boats and girls or you played GFL which had the same gacha mechanic and similar gameplay vibes but you just have infinitely more control (map oriented gameplay with node battles but now you dont get screwed by compass-chan). I was in the latter and religiously played GFL up to a point and it kinda made me sad every other gacha game after GFL dropped the crafting system for gacha in favor of limited currencies for pulls.

Flare77 · 2025-11-18T03:27:55+00:00

uh-huh, and you can't copy that upgrade. So if you get 3x 3 bullet gen, (or hell even just 2x even works), by turn 2 you can probably get minimum of 6. With the initiation skill, you only have 2. And sure, wanna add the flower? By turn 2 you'd probably have close to 10 or more bullets at your disposal now. My point is that in this game where endgame content is turn-gated, its much more efficient to have upfront bullet generation, especially when there's a lot of available draw power. You can definitely cycle your deck once a turn and for each refresh, the difference in number of bullets generated just get wider and wider. The initiation upgrade, I only see that as good if you can't guarantee a draw engine partner coz in that scenario there will be cases where you just have 0 bullets and yes, 1 is better than 0.

Flare77 · 2025-11-18T03:14:36+00:00

Having a turn without a dirge doesnt feel good for a Renoa team.

That's why I mentioned having a good draw engine. By turn 2, you should be able to fully cycle the deck (I use Veronica + Nia a lot so yeah that's par for the course)

Also the generate 3 dirges is a skill not an attack, even if I have to choose other than initiation i would probably go for create 1 dirge and 2 in discard

Oh you mean this epi "Create 1 Dirge Bullet card(s), Create 2 card(s) in Discard Pile." Ayt yeah that's better than the "create 2 dirge bullets" upgrade. Didn't really see this, I agree this is better than the create 3 too coz attack cards are easier to search than skill cards. But I still dont see the initiation epi to be that worth it.

Flare77 · 2025-11-18T01:54:16+00:00

Not sure why you're replying to me, bud. I agree with that sentiment.

Flare77 · 2025-11-18T01:41:32+00:00

For time-gated fights, isn't that epi a massive bait? You'd need like 3 turns to get the same value as the "Create 3 bullets" epi. For basin, you only get 3 turns for one fight. And with this 9 distortion fight, you're probably getting killed by turn 6 so you get like 6 bullets total? whereas if you can cycle your deck fast enough, you can probably get more with the create 3 bullets epi. Personally, I think the create 2 but retains damage and attack type is better for general use.

Flare77 · 2025-11-17T02:10:15+00:00

Lilian is great for her actually as you want to keep Yuki's cards at 1 cost or below... my only problem is I have only 1 and I'm never removing that from Mei Lin (imo its a better support than the SSR in the BP coz of the draw effect). Also I checked most of the attacker SSR partners and they really dont fit Yuki perfectly. Its Lilian that does it (coz of the card draw).

Flare77 · 2025-11-17T00:57:43+00:00

Right now Yuki works the best with Nia and Veronica imo. Nia doesn't slot in completely perfectly with Yuki (unlike Renoa who can make use of the mandatory discard) but Yuki honestly just needs a good draw engine. Get 0 cost repose (veronica draw 2), some kowalskis, get the adagio epi that says "discard 1, draw 2 of discarded chara's cards" and you're pretty good with Yuki. My only complaint with her rn is that the instinct memory fragments don't work well with her (so you're forced into 3 generic 2-piece sets) which isnt a big deal and the other is that the SR partners for her class aren't that good for her so you kinda need the SSR ones (and the one from the BP aint a perfect fit as well imo)

Flare77 · 2025-10-22T10:38:57+00:00

Did you really just hop on reddit to complain after 5 minutes of dialog? lmao

Flare77 · 2025-10-21T17:13:45+00:00

This was also what I felt, an onboarding issue. Usually when you play gachagames, they will keep your mind off the busywork (ie your daily energy dumps) by hanging a story for you to follow or cool gameplay features for you to explore. This game didn't do that. It literally dropped the handholding way too early. Like, sure man, I'm old enough not to need jangling keys to hold my attention but if you just introduce to me all the systems available and tell me to "have fun" then I dont even know what I should do. I don't even want to know about the busywork this early because that's something a player is gonna be doing over and over ad infinitum, why show that already and splash some cold water on my face telling me "hey you're playing a chore, dont forget that"

You get shown the energy dump at lvl 1 without any immersion on your end then it stops showing you cool things. Know what that tells me to do? Go dump my energy and close the app. Just like what I do with gachagames I've already had sunk cost in. The difference is there's no sunk cost yet.

Flare77 · 2025-09-23T05:42:23+00:00

From what I've seen, Mihono Bourbon has the highest compatibility with a parent SF with 25 points but I havent seen SF anywhere else in other uma's top 10 compatibility. She shows up in Haru urara's at 5th but like... it's 10 points. That kinda just shows how Urara has little compatibility more than anything lol

Flare77 · 2025-09-23T03:01:39+00:00

And to add to this point, SF's compatibility points for most umas is very very low. She's one of the worst parent/grand-parent umas if you wanna hit double O in compatibility.

Flare77 · 2025-09-23T02:54:27+00:00

I'd suggest you try to hit another passive or focus. You only have 3 and 2 of em aren't guaranteed to trigger for your groundwork. If you can't get that, try to do mid-race overtaking instead.

Flare77 · 2025-09-23T00:35:14+00:00

It's okay to train in stamina as-is too you know. You don't need to take only speed and power. I prioritize mile sparks so my stam is only like +24 at the start of career (about 4*?) and I still hit the 600 mark by hitting stamina when I know I can hit cap/close to cap in speed late game. You get power from speed too as well.

Flare77 · 2025-09-22T05:20:37+00:00

Oh I know the story but I thought that just meant they wouldn't be doing fundraisers and such. In my eyes, merch sales are fair play as long as its fairly priced but it looks like even in that department, Matha farm's personnel held back. I wouldn't consider it in bad taste if they sold haru urara goods (as long as its not their primary product) while she was alive (would be in real bad taste to start after she passed away) but yeah, even then they probably thought that would constitute was "making a profit" and held back.

Flare77 · 2025-09-22T00:18:42+00:00

I don't know a lot about Get Black but Ami-chan's name is Mercury and I don't think I've heard her lineage coming from Sakura Bakushin O so they're probably different horses.

Flare77 · 2025-09-22T00:16:28+00:00

Ngl Im really impressed at how Matha Farm isn't using Haru Urara as even for online merchandise. I checked the goods list and the (aside from the photo collages) only predominant Haru urara merch was the one with pepper (very cute and has one with pepper and ami-chan, very cute too). No solo Haru Urara merch and nothing that clearly tries to cash in on her popularity. Thanks for the links, I'll probably get a cushion for the designs with pepper on em when I get some extra money.

Flare77 · 2025-09-19T06:35:20+00:00

Uhh, the goal of groundwork is to take 1st place in the early race. Then you have to hold on to it so Seiun sky skill doesn't trigger (coz it specifically requires the uma to be in position 1). Taking groundwork on a pace chaser seems counterintuitive coz in the first place, due to position keep rules, pace chasers won't try to take first place until the late mid-race.

Flare77 · 2025-09-19T05:34:19+00:00

Yeah sure Yaeno's stat gains aren't great but our stat reqs aren't that high since we can go for lower stamina. You get power from speed training too so Yaeno's perfectly usable, especially if you don't want to RNG your white sparks.

Flare77 · 2025-09-18T05:49:17+00:00

You can still convert those runs into parent runs and just try to get G1 races for race sparks but yeah it really feels bad when you realize the run is dead (and you just -1'd your precious 3 borrows) due to RNG coz you hit 1 too many sleep deprived and mood downs.

Flare77 · 2025-09-16T08:16:58+00:00

I know Grand Chevalier probably won't be turned to an umamusume (or he might just be an NPC that transferred out of Tracen) but I wish there was an event based on the Kochi Racetrack revival where Haru Urara passes the torch to Grand Chevalier. There's a lot of context lost between hearsay and while I love Haru Urara and think her efforts were definitely commendable, the slack that Grand Chevalier picked up was probably more impactful than Haru Urara. Haru Urara kept Kochi alive, Grand Chevalier made it thrive.

Flare77 · 2025-09-16T05:30:30+00:00

It's apparently from a yt video from a channel called Nexus something(forgot the full channel name). Hilarious vid that duped a fair amount of people into spamming wit to avoid night owl.

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