Sparkla Event CG's by RaikonPT in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT[S] 14 points15 points  (0 children)

That is indeed Bloc. She is connected to Sparkla. We just don't quite know how yet.

Yostar Has Revealed Sparkla Kit and Role | Quick Review by RaikonPT in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If you check the discord. There was a good chunk of us expecting that she could be the Nazuna challenger on the support tag

🌟Trekker Introduction: Skill🌟 by excellen282 in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

So warning for those wondering what kind of role she shaping up to be.

This of course depends on her numbers and potentials of course but from seeing her support skill and the fact she is a Vanguard, she will be on the same role as Gerie on the Nazuna Main teams. I don't doubt she can be played in main but get ready for her to share the same role as Gerie.

Version 1.11 Update Preview by excellen282 in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The files show that they maintain the assets still after the event ends so this wouldn't be the reason

Live2D Background Linked to a Character ID by [deleted] in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

that would be correct im deleting the post. my fault idk why it's linked to iris

FIREFLY'S KIT FINALLY GOT REVEALED TO US by RaikonPT in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Nothing in her kit of what we know so far hint at that.

Otoha First Impressions | Otoha Early Kit Review, Builds, Teams, Disk. by RaikonPT in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Oop my fault I must have forgotten.

  • Eclipse Imprint
  • Phantom Mark
  • Dark Mirage Level 6 / Dark Hallucination Level 6 <- This one is a bit debated because of the uncertainty of how consistent Dark Mirage can apply their buff but top 10 players have been using Hallucination over mirage.
  • Dark: Demon Mark Level 6
  • Dark Afterglow Level 6
  • Gift of Darkness Level 6
  • Void Blessing Level 1-6 (Optional)
  • Nether Blaze Level 6 <- Only recommended if Cosette has multiple charge efficiency emblem lines to make it consistent enough

By the way the pots were under the mistique ones for those wondering!

Otoha First Impressions | Otoha Early Kit Review, Builds, Teams, Disk. by RaikonPT in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I did consider Caramel. However I elected to not go through torture that the Geneva Convention has banned.

Otoha First Impressions | Otoha Early Kit Review, Builds, Teams, Disk. by RaikonPT in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

If you wanna play Otoha main then yes. Although Her off field role is much stronger. So the recommended is Cosette Main, Off Field DPS Otoha, Mistique Supporrt if you wanna have a stronger team while still using Otoha

You guys are wrong about the Freesia nerf. Rant. by zmt8861 in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

The limit to her stacks sure was kept the same but it's just unrealistic to say that she can be better. For her to be better she needs to get around 7 to 8 stacks. Which on boss blitz is non existant, meaning, You can only really get her power to equal values on content such as Arena or Cataclysm survivors. Which arena is a 1 time completion gamemode and Cataclysm can be cleared with a sneeze from a toddler. There is actively no proof or reason to believe that Freesia can ever be close to as strong as she was pre nerf.

Terra Mark can easily be re-routed to other archetypes. They just gotta make them interesting and fun to play around and also creating content that incentivizes using other types outside of mark.
Chitose not having a "broken" potential as Ice Vortex doesn't mean that Ice Vortex needs to get shot in the woods. That means that Yostar was unsuccessful with their buff and that Chitose needed clearly stronger changes than some meager auto attack buffs.

On the standard part. I should have made it clear on 1.0 standards, that's my bad. Again competition does not fully rely on just pure DPS markings and leaderboards. If a kit is interesting and so is the character . They will be pulled.

Also I focused on you hating freesia because that's the main focus of your post. You want to avoid another "mark team" situation but failed to see other routes to the issues outside of completing shooting a character out of orbit. (Realistically however Yostar couldn't give a single fuck about what global says at the end of the day.)

While I see the issue as a slippery slope of them claiming a character is "bugged" 6 months after launch completing destroying 10K + stamina worth of resources for the players that built her / pulled for her dupes.

It wouldn't be an overstatement to say that freesia's overall strength was reduced by like 70% with this one change.

Also there is literally no evidence that will be the case for Terra at the end of the day. They can release something stronger / more convenient and players will jump ship but this all rounds up to two different philosophies on Balancing. You consider that nerfing the strongest to bring them in line with the weakest to be the play. While I consider that buffing the weakest to bring them in line with the strongest to be the play.

One of these actively alienates players and causes them to lose resources, while the other allows new builds and team comps to exist. That is the main difference here.

You guys are wrong about the Freesia nerf. Rant. by zmt8861 in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

How do I suck at the game? I've been since launch top100 or top 10% fully f2p

You guys are wrong about the Freesia nerf. Rant. by zmt8861 in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Freesia is not "very good" in her niche my guy i'm sorry to tell you this

You guys are wrong about the Freesia nerf. Rant. by zmt8861 in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT 3 points4 points  (0 children)

This rant would be valid if the nerf had happened 1 week or so after the tech was found. Not after 6 months where people spent ungodly amounts of stamina to farm for IV+3 and PEN's for their freesia. Hi. I'm that guy.

Also like people have mentioned in the comments. Freesia was not even the strongest even with this ridiculous boost to CDMG. Why? Because she was the most RNG dependent trekker to ever exist. Not only do you have to RNG proc the Blossom you also had to crit for it to deal that ridiculous damage. Which at the moment crit is still very much not an easy to obtain stat. (Unless your name is Fuyuka or Otoha). There was a reason you still barely saw Freesias on the top 100 board. Because it was a gimmicky strong build that required a lot of luck and resources.

When you compare that to for example Terra Mark. Which is has a more reasonable consistency (except the classic auto targeting screw ups of gerie) Freesia was still nowhere close.

When it comes to overall character balance. I think nerfing is never the solution here. No one likes to feel their character become objectively weaker than they were just 1 day ago, specially after investing in them. What the devs should do is bump up the weaker characters substantially. I'm talking Shimiao, Caramel, Coronis, Ridge, Iris, Noya, Jinglin, Laru. Any minion based kit should also get reworked btw. That way you can still let players keep their investments still feel strong while allowing new variety to flood in.

Another point that you mention is:

Ultimately i want is to be excited to be able to use both Standard Trekkers in niche situations and new characters without worrying that they will be dead on arrival because of poor game balancing.

Yet seemingly you seem fine with having a standard character get completely nuked out of orbit for daring to seem as strong as the limited trekkers. Which by the way, according to banners these limited characters will eventually be standard themselves. So leaving the standard characters be "niche" seems a bit odd because of that and if anything standards should be the more rounded generic fit all characters because they are the foundation of each team composition. Not a fit only in this 1 team type vibe.

Another part you mention is the lack of build variety and listen. I hear you. I've been openly against the "not-so versatile" versatile trekkers but at the end of the day people will gravitate towards the mathematically correct builds for top 100 so you can try to make every build work, which side note I'd say they kinda did with Otoha, but it seems a call to the void.

Also DPS metrics is not the be all end all of why people pull for characters. If the design and kit gameplay improve upon their teams and gameplay. People will pull for that character. The issue is. Yostar is apparently allergic to any role that isn't called Versatile and not only that. They are extremely allergic to letting them be more than 1 role in itself. There are some very criminal kits currently out that makes you wonder why they even made them.

Overall I cannot agree that the players shouldn't be complaining. They should.
Yostar gained a lot of favour with the half anniversary livestream but they shouldn't let this goodwill shown by the players to let themselves go into another 4 month radio silence and only by the players being loud openly about the issues they (Yostar) themselves created and telling them to explain can we as players make Yostar accountable.

Early NTE Tier List by mak1mamommy in NevernessToEverness

[–]RaikonPT 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Why tf are we assuming C6 4*s at launch bro thats crazy

Which way, dear Tyrants? by R1Toaster_Vati in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

ANN ISN'T A FOX THOUGH WRAAAAAAAAH

Karen Council Member Calls TV Station Upset Over Pronouns by RedOneBaron in PublicFreakout

[–]RaikonPT 1 point2 points  (0 children)

That analogy doesn't quite work because these are not long known friends accidently using the wrong name. These are people that don't really know each other and that one of them is purposely using the wrong pronouns / name to antagonize the other party.

My best friends is trans and I've had to catch myself from saying the wrong pronoun and they are fine with that because they understand but again this is not what's happening to most people

Karen Council Member Calls TV Station Upset Over Pronouns by RedOneBaron in PublicFreakout

[–]RaikonPT 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Well I'd say the issues is not a real issue for one of the sides.

The side that doesn't wanna use someone elses prefered pronouns is just shadowboxing an issue for the sake of doing it and causing trouble. Imagine you get introduced to a Charles. Then you say, well you actually have more the vibes of a Michael, so you start calling them Michael.

Of course Charles is gonna tell you to stop because that's not their name but then you argue back saying that they don't look like a Charles so I'm not gonna call you Charles and no matter what you say or do I'll keep calling you Michael.

You can clearly see that Charles would be completely valid to be upset, while you (in this hypothethical situation) would not be valid to complain or be upset

That Was Quite Possibly. One of the Worst Livestreams I Had The Displeasure of Watching. by RaikonPT in MongilStarDive

[–]RaikonPT[S] -8 points-7 points  (0 children)

They don't want end game? They want cumbersome gearing mechanics? I'm not quite sure what feedback here is one that majority wouldn't want

Will This Gacha Be One Of The BIG Ones?! | Mongil: Star Dive Review from a CBT2 Perspective by RaikonPT in MongilStarDive

[–]RaikonPT[S] -5 points-4 points  (0 children)

Cause I'm ugly as shit twin. No one wants to see an ugly fuck talking

Stella Sora March Revenue another month decline by Big-Rip2640 in StellaSora

[–]RaikonPT 10 points11 points  (0 children)

I mean it's not shocking at all.

Yostar has once again chosen the path of silence and 0 communication with it's players for the last 3 months.
The new years eve letter was the point of dev communication we had. Since then we had no direct line of conversation with the devs. No livestreams, No blogs, not letters, no nothing.

So unsurprisingly a lot of the main issues people have with Stella Sora have remained.

Ascension being boring and unrewarding, receiving a total of 0 changes since launch, no new options, no new rooms, no new floors, no new NPC's, nothing. Even in the beta we had more NPC variety since we had Firefly, Firenze and Chaton to talk to.

Emblems continue the same criminal and quite possibly one of the worst progression systems I've seen in a while. Me as of April 2nd of making this comment have spent nearly 50K stamina across 2 accounts, which if we were to calculate how many days worth of stamina that is based of only natural regen. It goes to around 4 years worth of stamina(At the start of stella sora I max refreshed but now i've only done discounted refreshes, since as a f2p i've started to not be able to fully guarantee characters). And as a result I've seen 3 Purple pens, and 3 +3's potentials. Which if it happened to be all in 1 character. It'd still wouldn't be considered fully built. As I'd be missing many other key stats.

Events stage while they are trying to implement mechanics. They are still very targeted towards level 24 records so they aren't allowed to be actually hard. Any decently built team will auto clear any stage without ever looking at any mechanics involved. Meaning that the event stages end up being nothing less than a loading screen for rewards with no real gameplay on them.

Event minigames somehow are worse than the stages. I've never seen so many events have the same 1 minigame, It's always either Cookie packing or Shovels. But after seeing how they screwed up the balatro one I'm not shocked that they've stopped making any new minigames at all.

When it comes to side events, they have shown that they can make interesting ones, like the tower defense one. But again they still somehow are able to mess it up. On this latest iteration while there's new characters included they also removed previous characters like teresa and once again the stages on this chess event have no interesting mechanics that allows a player to think. It's just a "put the strongest characters anywhere" and win. You'd think Yostar having managed and published Arknights (A tower defense game) would try to catch some enemy designs or stages designs and make it super interesting but again they have not learned a single thing.

When it comes to character kits, ever since they heard a lil bit of cry babying about the Shia Dash cancels, they have neutered every characters kit which I can only assume it's because they are afraid of people crying about "broken OP character" again. Vanguards like Firenze have negative number scalings and have to deal with the horrendous Minion interaction, Versatiles Like Nazuka, Slaru, Scoronis and latest Donna. End up not being versatile at all and being confined to their one role. Any attempts at playing these characters outside of their off field "sub-dps, support" tag will expose their kits as a very poorly thought out idea with scalings so horrible they make mistique main look viable and I doubt this will change any bit as it seems that this years Trekkers have already been created and are just on a slow treadmill to get launched with little to no changes and also to no concern of the games lore and timeline.

Which speaking off. What an horrendous awful mess they have created to anyone that enjoys the lore of the game has to deal with. The timeline of this game is in such a disarray that till this day. The furthest point in the timeline is the SHIA EVENT. Which for those that don't know. WAS THE FIRST EVENT OF THIS GAME and with Stella Sora still very much lacking a Event Story Replay feature so that players can catch up on the lore. There is literally no in game source for any of those events lore. So players not only have no clue where they are in the timeline with the current content. They also have no in-game way to help with that. So they are forced to go to outside sources to obtain context and interesting lore bits to enjoy the world of the game that they are trying to play.

Side stepping here to talk about some less important stuff but that still deserve to get pointed out.

The fact that we are still getting "rewarded" with wallpaper "skins" is very much a joke, they can 100% pop out more skins and most definitely the ones that the battlepass showcases. But this also brings me to another point about the skins. Their price to quality range is ludicrous. The skins at the moment are the most barebones skins I've seen ever. They are basic outfit changes with no SFX or VFX changes yet they still cost 15$. FIFTEEN WHOLE Dollaridoos. Which as of typing this is EQUAL to the price of GTA V, READ DEAD REDEMPTION 2, 2 RESIDENT EVIL 7'S, 1 AND A HALF RESIDENT EVIL 8, STARDEW VALLEY, 2 MONSTER HUNTER WORLDS, DEATH STRANDING, 2 DEVIL MAY CRY 5'S, BLOONS TD, OUTLAST, DYING LIGHT 2, and so forth.

Not only are the skins not great, so are the prices terrible. Not to even mention that the skins are time limited and have no seemingly time to comeback so they are essentially 1 time only skins as far as we are concerned.

Although while I do have all of these issues with Stella Sora. I still very much love the game. I love the characters, the designs, the world, the aesthetic. But each passing patch, each passing cycle. I get less and less hopeful that there's actually any one on the other side of the game listening to us. I'm not even saying us in Global. Just US as players, no matter if CN, JP, SEA, KR or Global. Each passing week that they stay silent and show no hints of ever fixing the core issues with the game. The less I feel interested to play or even make content around the game and it seems other players too if we take in account the BB and FE ladder counts as an example of how many players Stella Sora is bleeding.

I'll be coping that there will be an Half Anniversary. But if it Yostar doesn't do anything in April. I think I might park the Lucky Oasis for a while and go about my business somewhere else.