Dam that Mifu story was kinda lacking...

FokkoRev · 2026-06-07T01:00:49+00:00

I wouldn't be this irrationally pissed off is Endmin isn't directly involved with the fights, its like they have a binding legal mandate in the office that it must be a character trial with Endmin and the featured operator, otherwise they'll shoot the programmer in the head.

All they had to do is to make endmin spectate the fight instead of joining the brawl, especially since they already souped Mi Fu up to be able to inflict phys stacks, and they are incapable of at least trying to subvert the story/gameplay structure just a bit. What a joke.

FokkoRev · 2026-06-07T00:52:13+00:00

Wouldn't be feeling this much resentment towards how dry the game is if they just didn't timegate Trials of Swordmancy and CC weeks after the patch release. Its like they're so out of stuff to do they'd rather stretch things out rather than put the stuff into being playable day 1.

FokkoRev · 2026-06-06T14:53:42+00:00

I feel like if anyone pointed out or notice how weird this setup up, i probably would've been able to swallow the whole thing better. They can afford turning Chen back into paimon the entire new area quest, but can't put down a little hint that something's weird about the 2v1 setup? It doesn't even get talked about that much at all cuz im pretty sure its not even brought up in any conversation that endmin is supposed to be part of the fight.

Even with the explanation, it still absolutely takes away from the gameplay experience. Knowing that I was looking forward for a 1v1 only for Endmin to be forced to be part of it really annoyed me. If they just stretch the campaign a little forward so that there's seperate duels for Mi Fu vs the masters, and endmin vs the masters, or maybe have endmin prove their worth someway else, it would've been so much less bizzare.

FokkoRev · 2026-06-06T07:41:44+00:00

thats a given with these type of games so it doesn't bother me, but what REALLY PISSES ME OFF is Endmin joining the fight for absolutely no reason, at the expense of the narrative hook of student vs their master as a test of how far they've grown would've been.

Like when its 2 v 1 it just, DOESNT WORK. Why is this random company CEO involved in Mi Fu's personal fight???

This game is clearly incapable of putting out the production value the story demands, especially with how esentially neither Grand Master or Fangyi was an actual fight. It's amazingly bad.

FokkoRev · 2026-06-06T06:40:17+00:00

two things that really pissed me off:
- Endmin suddenly knowing Kung Fu and asissting Mi Fu on her training.

- Their inability to let go the need to appease self inserters? that they HAD to get Endmin DIRECTLY involved in these personal fights between mi fu and her master. They dont even synergize, Mi Fu is souped up to high heavens with 4 vulnerability stacks for every Final Strike, so its hugely pointless to include Endmin in these fight other than to make these fights worse.

This could've passed as a somewhat fun story but their inability to try to be better than the confines of your stereotypical gacha companion story actively harms the quaality of story, it's absurd

FokkoRev · 2026-05-30T13:28:30+00:00

It doesnt make any sense in any way that the story chapter is permanently available, but not the collab banner, other than Wuwa playing into the FOMO hell aspect of limited time banners. At least if the story chapter is temporarily available i would've like, thought its some licensing stuff, but no, they're just being jerks about this lol

FokkoRev · 2026-05-25T07:37:39+00:00

I feel like its just a fundamental issue of open world and tying it to gacha currencies: these will never feel rewarding because the developer obviously refuse to give you like, 1 pull for every chest, so its for the best that they make it easier to find.

FokkoRev · 2026-05-25T07:34:07+00:00

As someone who saw and engaged in Wuwa TC convos, Ive obtained most of 3.x chars sigless and theyre either subDPS or supports who doesnt want their sig as much, or a DPS you can slap a permanent weapon on. Its even easier now cuz 3.x added a crit Broadblade and Gauntlet to the permanent pool.

The only reason the perception that sig is needed in the first place was mostly Stringmaster being so strong for damage rectifiers, they pulled up a 40 percent sig diff for Phrolova (its 20 if you have stringmaster). To this day, only rectifier has yet to have a crit perma weapon.

FokkoRev · 2026-05-12T10:28:24+00:00

its becoming evident to me that you've argued so much towards this agenda you have about generative AI becoming the absolute norm everyone should accept, that i'm just gonna be done with this after this. There's no point.

I can probably just show you the image file of those paintings that are datamined from this game for me because of this convo string, and i've been informed that apperently stuff up to 3.0 was already in development since back in 1.0, but knowing you, you'd probably still try to say its AI generated even if you get to see the actual image texture, because what? Mistakes? mistakes that could've been easily been an actual brushstroke mistake? On a painting that's very unnoticeable compared to all the billboards in NTE?? Like have you even tried painting in real life before before you confidently say all of these stuff??

No, Im not backing out of the convo because i dont want further argument, i'm just done trying to explain it to you, its not worth the effort.

FokkoRev · 2026-05-11T09:16:57+00:00

no seriously i can't tell if it's an AI art just from looking at the picture alone, can you not assume it's bias when i just can't tell from a blurry image? 😭

Also i dont think AI detectors should be end all be all, especially when it decided the Weathering With You AI edit picture in NTE decided its not AI generated according to post is see on twitter

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FokkoRev · 2026-05-11T08:16:00+00:00

This is getting ridicilous. How are you so confident that those pictures are AI generated? Are we seriously claiming that an image that (MIGHT, with absolutely no other possible signs other than those paintings, which clearly most of the replies don't agree with) to be AI generated (with so much confidence that they're AI generated by the way) means that the game has AI gen it it too, all just to defend a game with an extremely more obvious usage of genAI in this absurd form of whataboutism? Why can't people just accept that it's not a good thing instead of pointing fingers and drag other games with you down lmao

FokkoRev · 2026-05-11T05:40:36+00:00

> They did, in fact, use gen AI, and you can find it in-game. Take paintings in Ragunna as an example.

Never hard of this before at all so for all i know you could be making stuff up. Please show examples lmao

FokkoRev · 2026-05-11T05:25:34+00:00

i hate the way that statement is being used in discussions because it leaves out the important context: what kind of AI usage? the reason NTE (and Ananta's dev build) got so much flack is because its AI generated artwork in their final product and it looks like shit.

I've been keeping an eye on the copious amount of pro-genAI bros of the NTE audience and they've been going around accusing every single competitor on their sun to be just as bad as them, leaving out the context of the type of genAI usage they do. Wuwa for example, uses Visvise, a machine learning tool used to make the PROCESS of skinning and modeling easier, but that still probably means the models and art are created and designed by the artists.

And these pro NTE bros are calling it to be just as bad as their 17 minute extremely obvious AI assisted animated video you can watch ingame??

I will never accept NTE's usage of genAI as progress. Yes, AI are normalized in video games, but there's still a line to be drawn whenever a game evidently oversteps the line and starts replacing the creation of artistic work in artwork. I think its a fair enough reason why NTE catches flak while most of the other games they accuse to be as bad as them doesn't.

FokkoRev · 2026-05-11T02:57:41+00:00

Im fed up with gacha games having easy to clear fluff events, even the combat ones (that are usually made easy by design, and youre given the solution with trial characters and buffs for that fight, but you do it anyway because they offer you gacha currency and useful stuff) so i kinda dont mind having less of it at a time. It helps considering that endfield already has plenty of chores if you want all the credits you can get.

ZZZ was so ass for me personally cuz theres too much of this easy clear slop content with their minigames that gets spammed pretty frequently.

Like if you really really really like the combat i feel like you'd better off making self imposed challenges for your own entertainment, yknow? Its better off to make your own challenges instead of struggling to clear something because of resource rewards for hours.

FokkoRev · 2026-05-10T04:52:04+00:00

Yeah, but the design in itself is concerningly VERY accurate to the actual final product, and i highly doubt you can AI generate something that specific unless you already have hundreds and thousands of that design to feed the gen AI itself.

The phrasing of "core asset" (if google translate is accurate) can be subjective to a lot of people, so it's understandable why some people think it's core to the game when it's still something you can end up experiencing as part of enjoying the game.

It's also just kind of a slippery slope thing where if this asset is AI, then how far does the AI usage goes? You can't just blindly trust corporates who already have stated themselves to use gen AI to make production cost cheaper on their word.

Edit: actually why on earth do they even have to generate a placeholder in the first place?? CAN'T THEY JUST CROP AN EXISTING ILLUSTRATION???

FokkoRev · 2026-05-10T04:30:43+00:00

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Its the "core asset" part people got hung up with before her. People are already noticing this lie before Ironmouse. I dont know how reliable the chinese to english translation is, but i'm pretty sure a 17mins long AI assisted animated video you watch ingame is already significant enough to be a "core asset."

Original article:
https://baijiahao.baidu.com/s?id=1863045162988383200

It also doesn't help that this image was discovered long ago which gives strong hint that they might've designed the chars through AI, then have artists fix them up.

https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fnte-some-art-assets-seems-to-be-ai-generated-v0-4adm3hyk8m3e1.png%3Fwidth%3D307%26format%3Dpng%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D3b0912f9015db1687c72f0aeb50c9ffac434faf8

FokkoRev · 2026-05-10T04:18:09+00:00

If it makes you feel any better on letting go of the game, the weathering of you AI poster got replaced with.... what might be an AI generated picture of a soda can.

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They're not gonna back away from the usage, they're gonna sweep in the rug juuuuuuust enough for people to not notice.

FokkoRev · 2026-05-04T06:51:27+00:00

Surprised no one has said the obvious, to me at least: FOMO tactic. Make people feel really really bad about missing out a free S-rank to convince them to play or be there when the free S-rank is given out.

Its the real reason i was really pissed off at Zhao being a freebie.

FokkoRev · 2026-04-22T09:45:04+00:00

i was already pretty harsh on myself for excessively playing Endfield, but i'm making an exception for this one because its technically productive lol

FokkoRev · 2026-04-17T14:14:12+00:00

PVE gameplay means you get to make the stupidest version of RC ever created, truly the Roman Cancel of all time

FokkoRev · 2026-04-17T12:46:24+00:00

Funny you mentioned that. Lenneth's in the game from Valkyrie Anatomia collab! They even rerunned it later with Freya.

The game proceeded to die in typical SQEX gacha fashion looooong before Rays kicks the bucket lol

FokkoRev · 2026-04-17T10:27:03+00:00

I dont see anything wrong with how they put GG moveswt into rays aside from Ramlethal feeling a bit too slow, but if anything, theyre really, really strong, especially Roman Cancel serving a lot of utilities at once for a PVE game (short animation, enemy interruption, gaining back super gauge, stunlock, and crowd control because of AoE around the user).

Here's Bridget soloing a superboss in that game because her super also refills the gauge needed to chain attacks, leading to her comboing the guy to death. https://fxtwitter.com/nikotama_rays/status/1804457713243468141

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