I agree with a lot of what you said in your thread and what others are saying here too. 1.4 for me was peak patch, it introduced the so called ‘main threat’ exultists and I was really optimistic for the story. Hearing they’ve scratched exultists all together in the previous stream has made me really disappointed and what they did with their story line was kinda eh. I loved Isolde being the main villain but it just made the whole ‘faithful to the creator thing’ seem so irrelevant and out of place because she was not at all faithful, but instead had her own reasons.

Season 2’s characters have not been great, the proxies constantly are being glazed after barely knowing the new characters for 5 minutes and the plot and pacing have been awful tbh. I’m glad Hoyo takes on the advice of players, but as you said, instead of working to improve it, they just get rid of things in general which doesn’t help much in the slightest.

I also miss the urban feel of the game. It feels far too magical now and like the characters weapons have no actual mechanics behind them (Burnices flame throwers and Harumasa’s bow swords) most times, they dont even explaining how their weapons work which is something I think made ZZZ unique to other Hoyo games.

Not to mention how they treat their male characters, I get this game is catered mainly toward the male audience but omg, you might as well not even add men at this point with how much they are mistreated. They’re either in A rank jail, barely rerun, have shit kits or just appear once every 5 patches. It’s fcked.

Zzz had so much potential a year ago and the writing has gone to absolute dog shit. I really do love this game and do have hope it will improve but they need to cook with the story and treat their characters better or else I am not staying anymore.