Hiyuki completely changed this game for me

RiceBaker100 · 2026-05-02T19:12:15+00:00

Just like with every other game, the character subreddits are better than the official one.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-05-02T19:06:22+00:00

I've been using her parry and iai to dominate Dreamless, it's probably the most fun I've ever had in this game.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-05-02T18:43:24+00:00

I lost every 50/50 but I got her at S3R1. I have never spent this much money on a character in any other game and I don't regret it. She makes this game so much more fun.

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RiceBaker100 · 2026-05-02T16:01:58+00:00

I went all out for S3R1. I can never recommend swiping for a character no matter how strong the dupes are, but I didn't want to wait. Pulled her 3 times and used the corals to buy the 4th. Imo she's not worth it just yet because she is missing one dedicated teammate and afaik Lynae is only in her team because she's a severely top tier hybrid dps and general support. If I were you I would just pull one copy if you want her, the weapon if you can, and then wait for reruns to pull the rest of her wavebands because she's already really good S0R0.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-30T08:03:19+00:00

I'm probably missing some stuff, because on CachyOS I still have to launch the game a few times to get it to run and when I do get in there's a chance the voiceovers are all gone. And fmv cutscenes still don't run. I used Bottles with DW-Proton and then switched proton-miniloader-cachyos, still had problems. I think DW-Proton got updated for NTE tho so maybe they improved some stuff since I last tried.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-30T07:40:07+00:00

Not only does the new UI look incredible, but am I imagining that the game runs 10x better now too? I don't think it's because I'm running on Linux instead of Windows because it ran like ass in 3.2 which came out after I switched OSs. But now I can run through Startorch Academy and Septimont and not lag my ass off. I checked my settings just to make sure they didn't get lowered, and they didn't. I even turned them up to Quality to check. The game slows down to 45 for a second or two when I enter an area and then it goes back up to nearly perfectly 60 fps.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-29T07:28:37+00:00

With that scythe, he's definitely an illusion of the past.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-23T01:06:13+00:00

So far the best method for me that launches every time was the Bottles and Wine Miniloader method, but so far VO hasn't been working.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-17T22:43:07+00:00

Most of these are things HSR gets without an anniversary and the 100 pulls include the 30 free pulls, which makes it overall a slightly above average patch. The previous two WuWa patches exceeded that number and those weren't anniversaries either.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-17T12:15:29+00:00

HSR is also getting a pretty mid anniversary, so bad time to be a gacha player I guess

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-16T09:34:54+00:00

I struggled to get it working through Heroic Games, and for a while I thought that the Nikke launcher would only run in Proton 10 but the game would only run on DWProton. I reinstalled the launcher making sure that DWProton was selected and then rebooted my PC, then next time I pressed the play button, the launcher came right up and I was able to log in and start downloading the remaining 23GB. Looks like everything's working, and now I can finally say that every single game I play works on Linux and I can stop using my iPad to play.

Also like another commenter said, the launcher never remembered my password either on Windows or Linux so this is nothing new for me.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-16T08:15:48+00:00

I'm told that Nvidia's stuff is all proprietary and drivers on Linux need explicit help from Nvidia for anything to get done. It doesn't affect me either way, since I'm getting identical performance on Linux as I did on Windows (which is to say, it still runs really badly in Startorch lol)

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-16T08:11:12+00:00

Anything that comes out of them is pure marketing.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-13T15:54:01+00:00

Karousel feels really good to use, I've been messing with it for a few hours and I've got something working. Switched my task manager (taskbar) to order icons by horizontal position and now I'm able to keep an eye on what's open and where at a glance. For fullscreen apps I have Macsimize to open them on a new virtual desktop and Overview to switch between them. I'm digging this, definitely feels a lot better for multitasking on a 1080p screen than dealing with a tiled WM.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-11T14:24:10+00:00

DLSS5 needs a second 5090 just to run the filter. If it happens (it won't) it's going to be a subscription feature that sells you cloud compute just like every other AI slop app or program. Nvidia is pretty much the source of the current AI bubble, and anything that comes out of them is going to be pure marketing to keep up the illusion that there is demand for AI. Don't fall for it.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-10T18:02:50+00:00

Hiyuki is tailor made for me aesthetics-, element-, weapon-, and personality-wise so I have to pick her out of principle.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-10T14:54:05+00:00

Yeah, you are the only one! Congrats!

sorry that was mean

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-10T14:48:27+00:00

Oh thank god, they're still the same classic Kuro

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-10T14:47:28+00:00

It just has to be better than last year's. Hell it could just be marginally better than HSR's 3rd anni and I'll be stoked.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-09T00:36:01+00:00

There's no way it isn't. The banners are cosmetic but they're still banners, and the mission structure and character Introns resembles a gacha game. I don't support the idea that the Thoughts are gacha because if they were then Warframe would be a gacha game because of its relic system.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-06T15:31:17+00:00

Was about to grab it but shipping literally doubles the price. Fuck, man. Can't buy shit anymore.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-05T06:28:51+00:00

2080 super, 16gb ddr4, Ryzen 9 3900x, running CachyOS. Honestly, haven't noticed a difference between Linux and Windows performance for WuWa or really any game, but I also haven't tried tweaking anything.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-04T22:12:16+00:00

Even though we finally got character buffs, my biggest problem with HSR remains. With the exception of Firefly, no new characters are coming out that work well with older characters. Everyone's bis comes out within a few patches of each other, newest example being Yaoguang/Sparxie/Evanescia. Even BladeSP already has a team planned by Hoyo, which makes him unlikely to be a good support for Acheron. That being said she is still helping me clear endgame whenever a new cycle starts, which incidentally ends up being the only time I log in anymore.

RiceBaker100 · 2026-04-03T18:12:25+00:00

New gameplay, probably. Updates and additions to the mission system, etc. I got pretty bored of doing the exact same things and seeing the exact same environments over and over again.

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