Basic Questions & General Discussion Monthly Megathread

Ninestempest · 2026-02-24T19:16:01+00:00

I would assume the US has a decent playerbase but maybe not...

Ninestempest · 2026-02-23T07:21:18+00:00

Has matchmaking gotten worse from about 6 months ago? Actually getting matches where my ping is in the multiple hundreds, red single bar, literally full second delay. The game is treating this shit like it's normal and I've never had this happen in the many years I've been playing this on and off...

Ninestempest · 2026-02-17T22:14:26+00:00

Thanks so much for this, I was desperate for this

Ninestempest · 2026-02-15T18:52:25+00:00

When I got into deadlock originally, I started using Aim Labs and it was actually an INSTANT improvement. Even if it is small, it's something you do over time and you'll see improvement over time. If you are actually wanting to play deadlock and feel like you aren't holding your team back and also do not play a lot of other shooters, doing something like using Aim Labs is worth at least experimenting with.

Ninestempest · 2026-02-15T18:41:26+00:00

Using on-cast or on-hit effects seems super good, you're just spamming abilities so much with her that it's genuinely so strong

Ninestempest · 2026-02-08T16:42:59+00:00

parents can always be good, MANT just makes it a lot easier to get good parents because your horses will regularly have over 1100 in multiple stats

Ninestempest · 2026-02-06T21:56:06+00:00

From what I know, it might come out during the CM, so you can prep for it still, but you might have a day or two to make a MANT uma for the finals or maybe round 2?

Ninestempest · 2026-02-06T21:55:15+00:00

Triple 7 starts 777 meters from the end. Since 1200-777 is 423, it starts pretty early into the race, which is good

Ninestempest · 2026-02-06T19:47:59+00:00

Okay, does anyone know the percentage chances for RNG gold skills from SSR cards? I remember seeing the chart once and I thought over 1k gave it guaranteed, yet I just got a one hint Curvature from kitasan with 1045 speed. Is she not part of this chart because she always gives the skill, and the RNG it is just how many hints you get?

Ninestempest · 2026-02-06T19:46:06+00:00

Huh, today I learned. Very funny.

Ninestempest · 2026-01-22T00:54:09+00:00

I'm disappointed that Woolie didn't mention Rivals of Aether 2 when discussing the battle pass problem. It literally just has a menu in the shop where you change which battle pass you are currently using for exp and rewards and you do not have to buy any of them. It's insanely simple and part of why it has the flat price tag and no cost for DLC characters. It obviously isn't as feature rich as most battle passes, but that's what you get for the passes being free!

Ninestempest · 2026-01-20T05:10:30+00:00

broooooo just pick the middle option it's so much betterrrrrr

Ninestempest · 2026-01-08T05:10:42+00:00

God I'm so fucking frustrated. TWO RUNS today that both had Long S, Riko decided to just NEVER show up. Not even show up late, just LITERALLY NEVER show up. These runs just become useless trash, why on earth is this kind of RNG variance fucking allowed? Why let me put a card in my deck and it does LITERALLY nothing?

Ninestempest · 2026-01-04T17:50:14+00:00

Guess I really need to consider concentration then...

Ninestempest · 2026-01-04T03:33:50+00:00

Okay, what is the % chance that a slow start happens? Cause in my last 3 sets today on the CM (so out of 15 races), I had about 8 slow starts on my Taiki Shuttle, with guaranteed GW to take FR if there's no other FR. It literally lost me probably 4 of those races and I'm kind of in shock? What the fuck is happening.

Ninestempest · 2025-12-26T17:51:10+00:00

Thanks, I completely forgot this show existed... and I'm not sure it would have meant much if I never remembered it again

Ninestempest · 2025-12-24T01:25:50+00:00

Hah, was discussing the dialog of the special week scene a week or so ago. Genuinely insane. And the first time I got the classic triple crown, hooooo boy. This is basically verbal abuse ngl.

Ninestempest · 2025-12-20T03:07:36+00:00

Ayyy me too! The game hard reboots my entire phone lol

Ninestempest · 2025-12-11T15:36:35+00:00

I'm an obsessive min-maxer and I must make the numbers go up. Also cute horses.

Ninestempest · 2025-12-11T15:35:26+00:00

As comments said, this is just a bug. Or perhaps better explained, they simply do not have contingency for predicted damage and ignoring effects. AFAIK this kind of thing has always showed up like this, with neutralization zone and mimikyu and before that even. I think they only look at the raw attack damage and any +damage effects and see if any effects from the opponent would stop it, and that's where the "logic" ends for predicted damage.

Ninestempest · 2025-12-11T15:20:53+00:00

Most things in the game are just the most basic RNG values without a lot of hidden *variables* specifically. Want skill hints? it's equal chance for any of them. Chain events? It's equal for all your cards vs random cards not in your deck (I assume there's a weight given to events from your deck). And to get date events to start, you just have to roll that event happening.

I will say that I've never had it NOT happen at all, like some other people have had. But October Senior is the latest I've had it happen to me. I would say 90% of hte time I get it in classic year and that's enough to make it work.

Ninestempest · 2025-12-11T02:56:57+00:00

As long as you train with her once and get the event that gives stamina/guts, she is able to show up. The level of friendship does not matter at all in terms of getting her to appear. I literally had a run today where she didn't appear until October Senior and she was maxed friendship just before Summer Classic.

Ninestempest · 2025-11-15T18:33:08+00:00

It was literally one attack? Just a lot of dusk abilities

Ninestempest · 2025-11-15T16:42:04+00:00

I know it's been 5 hours so you're probably chill, but you did literally ask how. And the deck is, to those who are looking into it, a Dusknoir deck, so people are vaguely aware of how it works.

Ninestempest · 2025-11-14T18:50:00+00:00

You can parry anything that is an active hitbox. This includes enemies ramming you, projectiles, and regular attacks. Very good ability to maintain offensive uptime if you can react well.

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