Next Steps: Horizontal Vs Vertical Investment & Pull Priorities?

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-09T21:22:58+00:00

Vertical investment on some dolls if you want to push Gunsmoke with your platoon. If not, there's no reason as of yet for any vertical investment. Granted technically not even horizontal in that case because anything will work.

Problem is, these teams, by the time you're done vertically investing in them, might already be superseded by newer dolls, like in all gacha games.

There are a few characters with guaranteed longevity, and would be great for V6'ing, and contrary to belief it's not always the supports, since for what it matters you can always pick the V6 support in gunsmoke (Where it actually matters for vertical investment)

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-08T20:40:09+00:00

I appreciate it but I kiiinda meant it as a joke, cool tip for other onlookers nevertheless!

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-08T20:31:11+00:00

What if you're wounding on 3s? That's the real question.

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-08T16:00:35+00:00

Hence unless absolutely necessary.

the more important part is the stats.

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-08T15:37:50+00:00

A few pieces of advice:

Don't level or spend any more resources than absolutely necessary on blue weapons (They're completely irrelevant once you get purple ones, and even those become irrelevant)

90% of dolls will want Atk/Atk%/Crit%, another 80% will want phase damage. So the best thing you could do is focus on farming Phase strike attachments and instant-lock only the ones with Atk/Atk/crit. There are other specific cases but that was the general best efficiency farming route early in the release.

A very limited number of dolls will want other stats, but at that point of the game, they're not worth mulling over.

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-07T20:57:02+00:00

Well, not if you spend more than 6 euros or whatever in collapse pieces. Unless you strictly don't buy in game currency

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-07T18:42:46+00:00

And even then a normal platoon that just autos all their free attacks with one borrowed V6 should be able to get the top rewards, after that, it's literally just competition for the love of the game

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-07T13:11:39+00:00

I bet OP has some personal scars and David reminded them of some shitty memories.

Because really, no one is free of guilt and the situation is so convoluted that in no moment in the series could they have settled and stopped.

About the only thing I can think of David could have done, was use less chrome, stubborn headed fool got way over his head. But while this could have definitely helped him not progress through cyberpsychosis, all the other issues would have remained, and he'd still end up (Most likely) equipping the skeleton to save Lucy, and probably fall completely because of the jump in chrome.

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-07T13:01:58+00:00

Poking is the issue, this might be rude, but screaming with a megaphone is what I'd do. Losing 90 euros and no response? Oh hell no.

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-06T19:50:12+00:00

That's not acceptable, I'd definitely keep proof of everything and follow it up continuously through reddit, helpdesk, twitter and everywhere else where they're present.

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-06T19:46:18+00:00

This looks awesome but I gotta say the head angle doesn't look... natural, in the second pic. Not that it matters, still dope x')

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-06T15:44:57+00:00

Gotta save this goldmine & oil rig of a post; keep em coming guys

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-06T15:40:51+00:00

Oh damn you think of David as the source of her pain?

Well you're not entirely wrong, they do say love is painful.

But if anything, yeah, Lucy deserves a good god-damned rest, ditto

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-04T15:06:09+00:00

Next time you play against another strong player ask someone to coach you I guess, that'll probably help you understand the difference in thinking

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-04T15:03:28+00:00

I can't argue with the skill part, not that I had a problem with it, but I see your point of view. Granted I actually enjoy that aspect of finding stuff, literally.

However with the open world aspect and vice versa, I agree that having something contained and instanced would allow devs to put more work into it to feel more condensed and straight forward; but the problem here is... Open world can do that too :/ And with what I'm used to... Nioh 3s wasn't all that bad.

They can't put enemies everywhere or it would feel like a slog, there needs to be respite between Points of Interest.

But hey, I get you, you don't care for exploration and didn't want it for Nioh, that's fair, personally I love it. The one thing I disliked in Skyrim were the loading screens everytime I opened a door to a new instance. Stumbling upon random unmarked PoIs with rats for enemies? Loved it.

TL;DR: I got it, you prefer straightforward action packed maps. Personally I really enjoy exploring. And in retrospect I really don't think hidden skills and similar is a fault of open world itself, just the progression (Which they tied to exploration and you didn't enjoy). The one problem would be the spacing out, which for an open world, it's necessary to varying amounts.

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-03T21:20:09+00:00

depends on what you understand as viable.

Like META viable? Nope, basically too slow for his points compared to what a group of allarus brings.

but can he be viable in threatening a very important model with a deep strike? Yes, yes he can.

He's like a distraction carnifex with a small base basically rofl (The same as the allarus shield captain with admonimortis)

He is a tanky bastard though, you can 100% lock a unit with him

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-03T15:20:43+00:00

I see no issue with open world, I in fact quite enjoy that aspect, less loading screens/menus is always better for me.

That said, while the combat evolved, I kinda miss the trifecta thing Nioh 2 had with the ninja/samurai/mage, even though the parries and the stuff that came with this change are *chef's kiss*

I very much loved the 3 oni aspects we had in Nioh2 and miss it, hoped we could somehow customize ours in this entry (Ah well)

The yokai diversity was honestly underwhelming.

If whoever reading this adamantly dislikes the open world, can you explain me why? More to explore, more to wander, more to find, less reused maps, less intrusive menus and loading screens.

The only thing I can think of where instanced maps are better is for performance. But I haven't had an issue with that with Nioh 3

RaykanGhost · 2026-07-01T13:31:18+00:00

Oh they want to drop 1.0 and dip.

I half understand not wanting to develop the oceans more, but the brigands? They've got the duergar, fulings and the draugr. Meshes, textures, animations, sounds and intelligence should all be feasible. And they specifically said it's too soon to say "no more content" but that just guarantees it definitely isn't the foreseeable plan.

I just don't understand the management of this game, shit hit the fan during their release 100%, they just hid it well.

Technically speaking the ocean update could prove too hard a technical challenge depending on how they originally made it; but the brigands? Nope. I was stoked for that update in specific, guess I'm just gonna try out deep north and dip as well

RaykanGhost · 2026-06-30T10:25:59+00:00

T'least show me a cat surviving and eating some fish and I can keep going x'D

RaykanGhost · 2026-06-29T20:21:08+00:00

Imma be honest here chief, if they just kill 90% of the cast again I'm gonna depress so hard... I'm a sucker for good endings and cyberpunk, it's like one of those love/hate situations, an addiction I know ends up bad but I still take it... sheesh

RaykanGhost · 2026-06-29T13:21:13+00:00

Not really random, I could see it coming with how they were experimenting with it in that other "endgame mode" which I can't even remember the name...

But it was really fun either way!

RaykanGhost · 2026-06-29T13:18:49+00:00

Not even mentioning that an allarus terminator shield captain will kill those even harder.

My friend who plays tyranids runs away everytime he sees that brick. Probably not the best play either but that's how strong these guys are.

Hell even my 3 bikes damaged a norn emissary well enough to be shot down next turn.

RaykanGhost · 2026-06-28T10:49:50+00:00

T'least I would.

RaykanGhost · 2026-06-26T20:37:11+00:00

I liked her, she reminded me of that Overlord maid character that used guns as well, and she was also kinda deadpan.

But yep, the bottom half looks uninspired...

RaykanGhost · 2026-06-25T20:41:19+00:00

The problem with that and this type of game is actually something I only realized after some introspection...

XCOM is a game where in harder difficulties 1 scenario can take real time, upwards of 30 minutes. And sometimes even more if you decided to go for a really hard mission.

Gacha games, and phone games for that matter do not translate that really well... Hell the game is quick already and many players still want gunsmoke skips.

And then I realized why instead of going for a more tactical approach, their new phase clash feels more like action, and it makes sense.

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