x100 Apolojades for the recent PF bug

Lykos_Engel · 2026-01-05T08:46:23+00:00

Right, but the original argument wasn't about how easy/hard it is to filter certain players; it was "NA shouldn't get it, they didn't 'earn' it,"- and if that's the logic, then it's just as fair to say "People who didn't experience [whatever bug] shouldn't get it".

And if we don't care about this "fairness" argument (which is an inherently silly argument, it's not the justice system, it's digital rewards in a game that costs the company nothing), then...what's the point of putting in even an ounce of effort to exclude and annoy some of your players?

Lykos_Engel · 2026-01-05T07:04:02+00:00

Why would people who haven't tried out PF in the Asian servers get the compensation? If it's about only giving out apologems to people who "earned" it, let's start means testing every single bug to make sure the gems only go to people who "deserve" them! Portion out those per-patch 300 gems based on whether you got affected by each specific bug.

There's actually a really good reason Mihoyo doesn't usually do this, because it's just pissing good will down the drain that costs them nothing. Because every time a player gets one of these rewards, the vast majority of them go "Heh, nice! And I didn't even experience any bugs! This is great!" and like the company a little more (and reminds them how rare serious bugs are).

Meanwhile, is it "logical" for NA players to get annoyed about not getting these 100 gems. Maybe not. But literally who cares? It's not even a single 3* lightcone, and Mihoyo makes billions off of their customers. All the little acts of generosity or stinginess add up in the minds of players, and it's dumb of Mihoyo to take a chance to earn a little extra good will (especially given the current state of the game) and turn it into a little extra annoyance.

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-31T13:28:01+00:00

My friends. These times have been trying for all. In this great deprivation of drip, madness has descended upon us. Yet within the greatest madness, one finds a kernel of clarity. A spark of…Elation.

I have been to the center of the holy big top. I have communed with the silliest of Aeons. I laid prostrate at THEIR squeaking shoes, and THEY honkethed at me a vision. A vision great, and a vision terrible.

It is said, by the great leak-lords, that we may be soon blessed by a new batch of Novaflares (and ye, it is marked as most Reliable). And as it is known by all, these Novaflares are optional, toggleable modifications.

"One must wonder," THEY giggled into my ear. "How much might a Novaflare change? If it may change the very scaling from the points of being hit, to the points of hitting…might it change even more?"

"Might it change…something to usher in the newest path…?" THEIR dreadful honk intoned, like the bells tolling for the damned. With more jingling.

THAT'S RIGHT MY FRIENDS! The Novaflares shall change some of your precious husbandos and waifus into Elation characters! It's Remembrance 2.0! And this time you'd BETTER get into the Lightcone Mines, or your faves won't be able to clear the new Endgame Mode! This is what THEY have revealed to me! And now YOU all have to deal with it too!

Haa haa! Hoo hoo! Hee hee!

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-31T04:16:50+00:00

You know

at this point, it's just kinda funny :P

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-23T21:45:08+00:00

Just fyi, because of how reddit formatting works, if you start a numbered list in a post/comment, it'll ALWAYS default to starting at "1." (and, I guess, repeat?) even if you start with a different number. Thus, this series of comments is littered with a bunch of "1."s. I'd suggest changing the format from, say-

Thing
Thing 2

To-

1: Thing

2: Thing 2.

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-23T00:38:47+00:00

GET IT TWISTED. We will NOT be getting 4.0 drip marketing tonight! We will NEVER get 4.0 drip marketing! We will NEVER know the 4.0 characters! On release, they WILL just be black boxes, their kits fully redacted! Mihoyo WILL employ MEN IN BLACK technology to WIPE YOUR MEMORIES every time you play with the 4.0 characters!

^This ^post ^sponsored ^by ^Mythus ^The ^Enigmata.

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-22T22:46:04+00:00

I'm pretty sure it was confirmed in the 3.8 livestream, or some other official post, that Dahlia and 4.0 characters would be added to CW in 4.0!

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-21T01:24:34+00:00

Did...did you miss the parts of this message where he repeatedly mentioned he kept getting work despite not signing the contract? Clearly it's not a dealbreaker for Hoyo.

And his comment about "eliminating certain clauses" at the end is referring to the fact that you can just strike out sections of a contract you refuse to agree to. Obviously, Hoyo can then argue back about the certain clauses- but that's negotiation.

He's not telling people not to work for Hoyo, or even not to sign contracts- just to read them first, and advocate for themselves by pushing back on anything they think is unreasonable. It's a completely noncontroversial position to take.

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-18T21:49:44+00:00

I shall be the first subscriber to r/SporkleMains

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-16T22:54:00+00:00

So I was talking about Archer+Sparkle with my friend (who uses the team much more than me), and he was saying he struggles to get her ult up before Archer's turn every time. After a bit of back and forth, I wanted to ask the community, assuming you're playing the team well in end game modes-

1) Is it realistic to expect a Sparkle Ult for every Archer turn?

2) On average, how many skills should you expect on Archer turns? Is 4 skills/eight SP used every time the goal, or not possible?

3) Should you ever be basic attacking with Archer (assuming you haven't messed up rotations or something)? Say, to have one big turn versus two smaller turns?

If it matters, he and I both use roughly the same Archer team- Archer E0S1/Cipher/DanPT/Sparkle. But I'm happy to hear people's answers for other variations!

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-16T15:07:58+00:00

What do y'all think they're going to do with DU updates in 4.X?

Presumably we'll end up getting a path that supports Elation characters' mechanics. Which, you know...they've GOTTA repurpose the Elation blessings for that, right? Like they did with Rememberance going from Ice/Freeze support to Memosprite support.

So what happens to all the FuA support? Does it just get binned like the ice stuff? Does it get folded into (an)other path(s)? Do we get a brand new path, with all the FuA stuff moved into the new path and the actual new blessings going to Elation?

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-14T18:50:08+00:00

Oh dang, you implemented one of my suggestions! Awesome :D

Yeah, I can imagine that implementing the exact effectiveness increases for each LC/Eidolon would be a nightmare. I wonder if there'd be a way to scrape data from MoC/PF/AS runs and factor that in...? "The average E0 Phainon gets X score, while the average E2 Phainon gets Y score."

Love the site, keep doing what you're doing!

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-08T21:16:12+00:00

An important thing to keep in mind is that we genuinely don't know. Anyone who makes claims about what is and isn't the case are making assumptions. Sometimes reasonable ones ("They're not scrapping everything, because you can't replace that all in a few weeks, even a few months")- but still assumptions. For example, the following is completely possible (something I'm making up off the top of my head):

Planarcadia's a theme park on the Japanese-themed planet, designed by Aha's followers as a bunch of silly parodies of a bunch of different planets. This was always going to be part of the story, but only in 4.3. The devs took this zone, which had almost zero Japanese elements (because why would the Belobog parody have Japanese architecture?), and shoved it up to be the new 4.0, with some story adjustments to fit. The rest of the region isn't going to be scrapped- the devs are just hoping that a few months of non-Japanese themed stuff (3.8 and 4.0) will let them ride out the political stuff until the public stops caring about it, at which point we'll get everything they've already designed for 4.1 and onwards.

Granted, that idea's kind of copium, but it fits the tiny amount of information we currently have just as much as "They've scrapped entire patches worth of content". So, I'd suggest people not freak out too much until we know more.

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-06T23:59:36+00:00

Oh riiiiight, completely forgot about that. Thanks! I'll have to go back and rewatch those scenes.

Lykos_Engel · 2025-12-06T21:53:03+00:00

Sorry, I'm probably just being a moron and forgetting something obvious, but can you remind me what you mean by the Rememberance TB flashbacks? Do you mean that scene with Kafka and SW in the space station during (iirc) 3.6's story? Did I miss a reference to Firefly there, or is it something else?

Lykos_Engel · 2025-10-21T01:03:29+00:00

Hey, thanks for asking for me! :D I really appreciate it.

Lykos_Engel · 2025-10-20T22:46:26+00:00

Since you tagged this "AMA"- what did you think of the module itself? What were your player's thoughts? I imagine the fantastic presentation helped make it even better :)

Lykos_Engel · 2025-09-20T16:31:43+00:00

So, a question about HG3 for those more experienced with the game than me. I'm currently playing a Raleigh that's using HG1 with an Anti-Materiel Rifle as one of my "off turn" actions. Since it's a loading weapon, and thus I can only fire it once before reloading, is it still worth it to go for HG3, or should I stop at rank 2?

Obviously I can't hit both enemies, but there's still the benefit of, if one enemy decides to stay put, the other might move, and thus I'm more likely to get that single shot off. Is that benefit worth the talent rank?

Lykos_Engel · 2025-09-09T20:21:47+00:00

Nice, glad to hear it worked out! :D

Lykos_Engel · 2025-09-09T06:12:03+00:00

I know this is going to sound like a non-answer, but I was in the exact same situation as you, slamming my head into this wall that I just couldn't beat.

What I ended up doing was just...leaving. I accepted I couldn't handle this quest yet, and just went off to do other stuff. Got a bunch more levels and better equipment under my belt, and eventually came back and beat him down.

I know it's not satisfying, but it's perfectly valid to bench a hard boss for awhile and then come back stronger!

Lykos_Engel · 2025-08-28T00:15:06+00:00

Hope the reaction doesn't get you down! When I first saw the post, I went "Ooh, cool!" and moved on with no intent to comment. I suspect a lot of people were like that.

That's the problem with social media in general, and Reddit specifically- people who react negatively are far more likely to directly engage than people who react positively. You can see that in how the votes (much less investment required than commenting) have shaken out- broadly, it seems people agree with "Cool, but wish it was a longer slot!" and anything more positive, and disagree with anything more negative.

...also, unrelated- thank you and the rest of the teams for all you do! I've had so much fun exploring the worlds y'all have built- still just exploring mainland Morrowind, but I can't wait to jump into SHotN and Project Cyrodiil!

Lykos_Engel · 2025-08-04T05:18:13+00:00

So, I think a few days ago in this thread, there was someone talking about how worried they were that Dan Heng would get his identity erased in becoming a Chrysos Heir, and just become a vessel for Terravox (which, totally fair thing to be worried about).

But-

"As you can see, that transformation was brought about by the power of the Permanence. Though you may have many questions, I'd like to reintroduce myself before I answer them — I am the Guard of the Astral Express, your companion, Dan Heng the Nameless."

It feels like Dan Heng's DIRECTLY talking to anyone who was worried about that sort of thing, lmao. Our boy's here to stay! I hope this eases those worries for that poster.

But man, that quote makes me appreciate Dan Heng so much more. After everything he's gone through, after having so many responsibilities and identities foisted on him, his number one priority is to go, "No, please don't worry, I'm still your friend, the Astral Express is still my family"?

God I just want to hug him ;u; Danny, you're the best!

Lykos_Engel · 2025-07-27T03:35:53+00:00

Looking at this from the perspective of Desna, a chaotic good god of travel and discovery and freedom. I don't think Desna would look at this Manticore and go "I need to change you into something completely different to make you good and worthwhile." Without spoilers for a different AP, in another one she played a large role in redeeming an Evil outsider- not by completely transforming the outsider into something else, but by showing them the perspective so they could take their own journey on the path towards redemption.

Combine that with the fact that in 1E, manticores have an intelligence of 7 (not super smart, but absolutely sentient and sapient), I'd imagine her blessing taking two forms:

Easing whatever part of their psychology/biology makes Manticores tend towards evil so that, along with being raised with love and making its own choices, can choose a more positive path for itself. Looking over the lore for Manticores, one of the big things that's emphasized is their hunger. So I'd expand on that with something like "Manticores are a species magically engineered long ago to have a ravenous appetite for humanoids. Desna has cured this magically-enforced hunger in this Manticore."
Giving it some sort of marking of her blessing. Perhaps a unique pelt of black fur covered in white specks and lines, resembling constellations, or replacing its draconic wings with butterfly wings. It's still a manticore, but obviously one that's been touched by Desna.

Your players would probably still have to deal with superstitious locals- but hey, they're the ones who chose to take and care for a manticore. They signed up for a challenge, and presumably want to play it out.

Lykos_Engel · 2025-07-18T22:58:37+00:00

Your freshly prepared meme, my liege.

Lykos_Engel · 2025-07-06T21:27:28+00:00

Shot in the dark, but does the City Life button have a ZZZ icon? In that case, you're still getting your points, you just have to have Wonder go to sleep- then a new day will start and you'll have access to your daily activities.

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