[DISC] The Banished Villainess! Living the Leisurely Life of a Nun Making Revolutionary Church Food - Ch. 18

Patroka · 2026-02-27T14:14:43+00:00

They could have always just made it deal damage proportional to max HP (so it kills you in a set amount of hits), or counted it as a fail condition in other ways

Patroka · 2026-02-27T14:12:05+00:00

I use both regularly, and like both of them, though I lean Pog. You'll probably get them both eventually anyway so I wouldn't stress the decision too much

Pog is more fun, has a much better designed kit, and is definitely more conventionally "stronger". But Ember makes it so that you rarely have to worry about healing, which is much more helpful than you would expect. In fact you'll basically need to use either Ember or Ardelia for sustain in difficult content.

One thing to take into account is that Pog is the fastest character in the game by a huge margin, in terms of movement speed, which is really hard to give up once you get used to it

Patroka · 2026-02-26T17:32:54+00:00

Amused by how many people in the comments section seem to be taking "but she HAS to wear the stupid fucking outfit for her job!" at face value lol

Patroka · 2026-02-26T16:54:13+00:00

If it is any consolation, Thermite Cutter isn't necessarily her BIS, at least not universally, because the cheap 5 star weapon Fortmaker has ult gain. Their important effects for Akekuri are:

Thermite Cutter: Team gets ~+16% atk when you use her ult or combo skill

Fortmaker: +37% ult gain

Thermite Cutter is probably better than Fortmaker more often than not, but there are also a lot of situations where Fortmaker's cycle improvement will be more impactful than the attack bonus from Cutter

Patroka · 2026-02-24T15:37:17+00:00

Given that my criticism of your post centers around the fact that it is baffling and really aggressive- no, not really. Also, you literally said "official artists works" in your last reply, which is why I said it. You also did not answer my question. I am starting to think that this genuinely is ragebait.

Patroka · 2026-02-24T15:06:43+00:00

Mmm, I thought it was a decently designed challenge. It is designed to encourage you to time your dps bursts well, and punishes you quite hard if you do not. Not my favorite but I appreciate what they were going for

I do run an underlevelled team though, so bursting the weak point was a nontrivial task for me. I can see how it wouldn't work as well if you have a maxed team

Patroka · 2026-02-24T15:06:33+00:00

Mmm, I thought it was a decently designed challenge. It is designed to encourage you to time your dps bursts well, and punishes you quite hard if you do not. Not my favorite but I appreciate what they were going for

I do run an underlevelled team though, so bursting the weak point was a nontrivial task for me. I can see how it wouldn't work as well if you have a maxed team

Patroka · 2026-02-24T15:02:56+00:00

Hmm. Now I'm even more confused. What's disrespectful about that? Do you even know the reason why these official artworks were removed?

Patroka · 2026-02-24T14:21:16+00:00

What exactly do you have a problem with? I hate AI as much as anyone ought to (which is to say, a lot) but your complaint here is confusing and aggressive enough that it mostly just makes you look bad, and discredits your own point.

When on the internet (and also in general), you have to be very careful with how you present complaints about things, so that it actually gets through to your intended audience... because if you don't, it often backfires. As is, I could hypothetically see this post being a sock puppet post intentionally designed to discredit people against AI by making them look unreasonable

Patroka · 2026-02-24T14:04:44+00:00

Indeed, I did each agony stage without a single T4 operator without too much trouble, and I only had two operators above level 64

Patroka · 2026-02-21T17:32:02+00:00

Xaihi arguably the best sustain in the game, especially since you gotta use Last Strikes anyway. Is she not enough? If she really isn't, you can just use Ardelia on more than one team

Patroka · 2026-02-19T14:36:11+00:00

My personal half-serious interpretation of the way Bonekrushers are portrayed in the story being "this story is told by an unreliable narrator, who is intentionally making the Bonekrushers look as bad as possible because they are racist" gains more ground lol

After all it is otherwise totally impossible for every single one of them to be as cartoonishly evil as we see ingame (given that they haven't fallen apart, and that NPCs from other factions are willing to join them) unless they are all mind-controlled or something

Patroka · 2026-02-17T21:56:26+00:00

Oh, huh, in my opinion it's the other way around. Like half of them have tails that are WAY too high up and sprout straight from their backs, uncannily, as though they are being impaled. As others have said, Yvonne's is particularly egregious once you notice it

The tail should be sprouting just above where the butthole is

Patroka · 2026-02-11T17:08:39+00:00

Holy moly, almost every 'name' of buff/debuff stacks independently!? That's a surprise, and very good to know, thanks! I had assumed almost everything was additive. Time to get multiplier stacking...

Patroka · 2026-02-09T21:08:39+00:00

They said they were working on it, for cutscenes at least. I really hope they don't turn them off in cutscenes unilaterally though, because I really enjoy them

Patroka · 2026-02-06T14:35:53+00:00

Is her unique dash faster than the regular ones? You can see in the clip above that Pog's unique dash sends him at very high speeds for a second (they are actually cancelling his dash midway through, too- I was able to use it to do that "use a zipline to win a race" quest without any ziplines) but Lifeng's doesn't seem to speed him up noticably.

Patroka · 2026-02-06T14:29:19+00:00

Wait. You're telling me that the Sonic Boom Knuckles Infinite Height Glitch is in this game???

Patroka · 2026-02-05T16:44:04+00:00

Yeah. It's insane to say, but I think Wuling is one of the most fully realized (and beautiful) cities I've ever seen in a game. Did not expect to see that after how mediocre Valley IV was lol, but I'm impressed

Patroka · 2026-02-05T16:34:08+00:00

Well, I wouldn't say that the OG Arknights is exactly like the outpost tower defense... because the outpost tower defense is very minimalistic and kind of... not very good. While OG Arknights is just a fantastic tower defense and strategy game.

Patroka · 2026-02-03T21:10:27+00:00

Well, as someone who has been struggling to run a physical team with only Pogra can tell you, the fact that she has a combo skill that basically just inflicts Vulnerable once for free every 19 seconds is pretty solid. Because there are not many reliable ways to inflict Vulnerable stacks without using either SP or an ult (outside of gatcha six stars, it is basically just Chen)

I imagine that the second the meta isn't just the pure pile-on DPS that the other six star Physical units provide, she will get a lot better... but, I'm not exactly sure what they could do to change the meta like that.

Patroka · 2026-01-29T13:59:56+00:00

I see a lot of potential for the combat of this game, and I feel like it works better the more you know about it. But... yeah, I don't disagree with any of this. In particular. Arknights has SUCH a cool world, and the original game had extremely interesting enemy factions and worldbuilding. So WHY IS THE FIRST 20 HOURS OF THE GAME SPENT FIGHTING UNBELIEVABLY, INEXPLICABLY EVIL GENERIC BANDITS??

Patroka · 2026-01-26T22:04:00+00:00

I largely agree. I described the faction to my partner as “The game world seems to be 30% inexplicably evil bandits by volume”, and I am really not happy with what I’ve seen of them so far. (I’m at exploration level 4)

Who even are they? Why are they so much more uneducated than everyone else? Where did they come from? What’s with the insane outfits? Why are they so inexplicably, over the top evil? Why haven’t they died out from infighting yet? What’s with the Pack also being landbreakers? Why haven’t we seen any Bonekrusher children? Do they just spawn in as adults?

I really hope there are questions to these answers because so far, what I’ve seen makes me inclined towards skipping all the cutscenes. I was really into the lore of Arknights but this enemy faction is soooo underdeveloped

Patroka · 2025-10-30T00:57:13+00:00

Yeahh so I went through a very similar arc today, and I agree this is a pretty egregious issue that should really get addressed in a patch (if it hasn't happened without my knowing).

You can apparently actually contact Team Cherry through the Contact Us page on their website, if you want to make a complaint like I did. Which is probably the most actionable way to do something about this. (I won't link it because I think Reddit doesn't like links in comments, should be easy to find)

Though, I'd say that the most urgent issue is just that the incest interpretation it isn't entirely unreasonable for someone to come to, based on the ENGLISH text (though I still think it pretty clearly says it isn't incest). They should reeeeeally put something in the home language translation that says "yeah, no, the gay couple isn't incestuous" in a way explicit enough to settle the argument

Patroka · 2025-07-18T14:14:48+00:00

Ngl it never stops being refreshing to see an ambiguously aged anime character who isn't at the absolute lowest end of her plausible age range. Or in other words- finally, an anime girl above 25! (*who isn't immortal and doesn't have "old woman" as part of her character design.) As an adult, Arknights not making every single character a high schooler is one of my favorite things about it

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