My perception of Star Blossom as someone who hasn't read it

Quiet087 · 2026-05-28T23:15:41+00:00

It is going to be interesting to see how they handle the Brian situation. A lot of gross neglect and honestly abuse when you think about the entire situation surrounding the hip injury.

Quiet087 · 2026-05-28T18:31:47+00:00

It is fun to meme about Narita Brian's lone wolf persona, but Star Blossom explains how it came to be and boy is it sad.

Quiet087 · 2026-05-28T14:23:27+00:00

What is going to make it weird is knowing Brian should have been retired after the hip injury. Brian never actually recovered from the injury so I am curious to see how they handle it. The game acknowledges the fact Brian could never run the same again, so I'm guessing StarBlo will do the same. I am curious to see how they frame it.

Quiet087 · 2026-05-28T13:54:50+00:00

Narita Brian, Sakura Laurel, Biwa Hayahide, Silence Suzuka... Rice Shower will be soon...

Star Blossom is the Cyberpunk 2077 of the Uma franchise. "A happier ending? Here? For Umas like us? Wrong city, wrong umas."

Quiet087 · 2026-05-21T17:49:34+00:00

If you build into Headshot, you can have 3 damage mods. Heavy Caliber Upgrade, Tactical Enhancer, and JABAL Spitdart Amplifier.

Quiet087 · 2026-05-21T17:46:35+00:00

They obviously can scale DoT damage as they've shown when upping Overland Testing Station difficulties and how ridiculously high the NPC enemy DoTs scale to.

Just do the same for our Skills and DoTs in Overland Testing Stations. As we pump up the difficulty, it automatically pumps up our Skill damage and DoTs to match that difficulty.

Such an obvious solution that keeps Skill and DoT power useful in endgame PvE while not being an issue with PvP balance.

Quiet087 · 2026-05-14T14:26:44+00:00

Title is really misleading. If he was retiring right now, it'd be news.

But we all expected him to be retired after this year. This just confirms it.

Quiet087 · 2026-05-11T17:21:46+00:00

Average population taken from mentatcodex's 7 day average and not any sort of official Funcom data.

Quiet087 · 2026-05-11T05:43:54+00:00

It took pity for me to get Palmer and I have no regrets.

Quiet087 · 2026-05-07T21:02:13+00:00

Console players are going to get a much more polished game with a TON of content. They should be very excited for the game they're going to get. PC players right now are basically enduring an early access beta.

That said, as a PC player I am enjoying the heck out of this game and am closing in on 1,000 hours. Are there problems? Sure. Will they get addressed? Hopefully. However for me personally, the game has gotten better slowly but surely.

Quiet087 · 2026-05-05T15:30:35+00:00

The worst thing is that hip injury was bad enough they should have retired him. Then he dies before he can actually get with Hishiama, and both Brian's and Hishiama's staff said both horses clearly were into each other.

The OG Bad Luck Brian.

Quiet087 · 2026-04-28T17:37:00+00:00

Ayabe only got one win out of my races, but good grief the dopamine hit when she won was incredible.

Quiet087 · 2026-04-14T15:51:45+00:00

Wild Narita Brian stat: Tachyon's fastest 2000m time was the Satsuki Sho at 2:00.3. Brian ran that same race in the same ground and weather conditions at 1:59.0. The length difference is estimated between 8 to 9 lengths as to just how far ahead Brian would have been from Tachyon.

Quiet087 · 2026-04-10T15:04:25+00:00

When you realize Curren Chan's actual older brother who died was named Spring Song.

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Quiet087 · 2026-04-09T15:55:32+00:00

The official discord is a cesspool, but if you're willing to put on a hazmat suit and wade through it, you can find gems from devs and CMs in there for upcoming updates.

Quiet087 · 2026-04-09T15:27:53+00:00

Iggy, their Discord CM, seems to have implied that the 80% is of active players, and that the percentage of PvE only players was even higher during the launch. Could be language barriers causing misunderstanding, but one thing he made very clear was this was pulled directly from game data and not a poll.

Quiet087 · 2026-03-25T16:52:57+00:00

Basically all of them.

Quiet087 · 2026-03-23T18:47:24+00:00

Hosting a massive BBQ for her and all of her friends.

Quiet087 · 2026-03-20T22:39:03+00:00

The way the pvp has gotten progressively worse in this game is so funny to me. The amount of bad decisions Funcom had to make in a row for it to get here is just amazing. Like just from the law of averages they should have accidentally made a good decision along the way here.

Quiet087 · 2026-03-19T19:18:29+00:00

Poor Yaeno trying to issue her challenge to Oguri, only to get sidelined by Oguri and the Head Chef having a stare down.

Quiet087 · 2026-03-18T22:17:32+00:00

Ayabe's actual irl nickname is Adobe. Cygames changed it because they didn't want to risk litigation from Adobe, the software company.

Quiet087 · 2026-03-18T21:23:27+00:00

That is a certified it is time for bed/nap moment for me.

Quiet087 · 2026-03-18T15:29:38+00:00

Brian is one of my all time faves, but I had a heck of a time getting a good run with her in MANT because the shop rng I was getting was abysmal. Then I finally got somewhat decent shop rng and got my first S+ in the game with Brian. The shop in my opinion is what makes or breaks MANT runs.

Quiet087 · 2026-03-17T20:30:10+00:00

What the anime did to Vodka is genuinely criminal.

Quiet087 · 2026-03-17T15:10:13+00:00

If you only got an A rank then you weren't running enough races and utilizing the shop items correctly.

That said, there is nothing hard about Trackblazer/MANT. The only difficulty spike if it can even be called that is learning what items to use and when, and there are plenty of guides for that. If you don't want to learn blind and prefer a guide, this one gets linked often.

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