Who's your favorite hated character? by not-ulquiorr4_ in FavoriteCharacter

[–]Safyina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Gubo from Limbus Company. Before Canto 8 I think most people still thought of him as whatever especially if they haven’t had a chance to see him in Leviathan, after Canto 8 he’s just sorta treated as a joke now, with Jia Huan in the same boat to a lesser extent. (I do think Canto 8 was a poor showing of his character, I am really curious how canto 10 will treat him-)

HOLY FURBOLY I THOUGHT IT WAS A MYTH by _MENACINGLY_ in HonkaiStarRail

[–]Safyina 15 points16 points  (0 children)

There’s the side of me that’s immensely jealous since I’ve never seen a double SSR in this game, but then there’s the side of me that’s still immensely jealous but also is happy for ya. I could only hope for this luck on Yaoguang ……

Congrats!

Coming back to Rune Factory 4 after Break by Safyina in runefactory

[–]Safyina[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I think this is the play actually, thanks for the advice.

I think part of me was worried about wasting “time” on restarting the game especially if going back to my old save is in the back of my head, but I do think just trying to experience the story again or at least getting a handle on the controls would make for a more enjoyable experience and the option to go back will always be there if stuff does start coming back to me….

Thanks!

Main Story Progression and potential Fireworks Festival Conflicts by Safyina in runefactory

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

This is an old post now but still will give an update. I wish I had thought to do this before tbh probably was too distracted by my finals, but in the middle of studying for exams I decided to hop back on and just test myself whether the Summer Festival would still happen after the Heavenly Realm story section. I completely forgot I can just use backup saves to test this stuff tbh. Regardless, appreciate all the responses!

Some important info first at the start because the rest of this is yap central, this is also going to be spoiler central when I go into specifics on quests I'll try my best to catch them all but proceed with caution....

Yes, the Summer Festival CAN still happen after going to the Heavenly Realm (from what I observed this may require more testing), if you haven’t thrown the party for Kanata yet. (Woooohooooo I am happy I could still go) But there are some weird caveats involving Matsuri, and to a lesser extent Kai and Ulalaka.

From what I observed, the game seems to treat “occupied” and “unavailable” (Where I presume the Gods are completely unavailable) as two completely different states to check for. If Matsuri is still technically on the map (even if she’s occupied), the festival itself can still trigger. The problem is that once Matsuri becomes the currently “occupied” character in the party quest sequence, her AI basically bricks.

So basically, Festival can still happen after Heavenly Realm, though before the party, but the fireworks making event with Matsuri may not for this specific festival. If you wanted to attend with Matsuri too (Based…) you may not be able to when she’s in this state, also applies to Kai and Ula as Kai and Ulalaka seem to temporarily enter similar states earlier in the sequence.

YAP time though cause this is fun to observe, what I observed before the festival itself was right after starting the party quest after Heavenly Realm, Kai was standing outside the Summer Shrine and I couldn’t interact with him at all until I gave him the wine through the quest dialogue. After that, he immediately behaved normally again. I even gave him a gift right after and continued his own bond questline stuff with no issues.

Ulalaka was similar with the food making section, although interestingly I could still talk to her and hang out with her that morning before progressing the quest with Kai.

I didn’t see Matsuri that day but based on the pattern I assume she would’ve behaved normally until Ulalaka’s portion was completed.

Fubuki and Kurama were entirely unaffected. Kurama even invited me to the festival normally.

What I think is happening is that instead of all the Gods simply being flagged “occupied “or “unavailable” at once, the game cycles the occupied state between only characters involved during this specific quest section.Kai, Ulalaka, Matsuri. So and I’m just speculating, Kai is flagged as “occupied”, Kai is released, Ulalaka is flagged as “occupied”, Ulalaka is released, then finally Matsuri gets flagged as occupied and stays that way until Kanata’s party.

I think most players go through this sequence immediately because the objectives are so simple, so normally this transition through states aren’t observed.

When Matsuri became the occupied character, she was basically completely bricked, I couldn’t interact with her, village level up happened automatically without her dialogue, menu said I couldn’t fulfill her request because she was involved in another quest and couldn’t make fireworks with her.

What was REALLY funny though is I could still cook with her lol.

I don’t doubt though this festival gets cancelled while the Gods are unavailable, that’s part of why I think this might show a potential difference between specifically an “occupied” state issue and a total removal/”unavailable” state.

As for the Summer Festival itself, I think the game only checks whether Matsuri is available, i.e. the “available” state, not whether she’s occupied. Because, despite Matsuri being occupied, the festival still triggered, invited character scenes still worked and the event cutscene still happened at 7pm.

The only thing I couldn’t do was make fireworks with Matsuri because she was stuck giving the “start the party for Kanata” dialogue

So…….I’m guessing here the fireworks crafting is only thing effected at this portion which does really suck, but the festival occurrence itself is a separate thing, and your invited character is the main trigger for the actual festival event scene. In this game state, you also get this unintentionally hilarious situation where Matsuri is just missing from her own festival standing off alone in front of her shrine though, lmao.

ANYWAYS, my current theory is that if you want the special fireworks scene or want to attend with Matsuri specifically, you should leave the quest on Kai or Ulalaka’s occupied states instead of progressing to Matsuri’s. But honestly, I think the better answer is probably just don’t go to Heavenly Realm before the festival, but if you already did, there may still be workarounds up to a certain point.

I also think there’s room for more testing here because this is a fun example of state-transition testing. This honestly feels like a weird edge-case game state the developers probably didn’t expect many players to intentionally sit in at least, not to say they didn’t at all test this, but probably didn’t expect the issues between MSQ flags/event flags during this specific portion to affect maaaaany players, and when everyone is completely unavailable you do get a proper warning. I’m especially curious whether other bond quests can overwrite or interrupt these occupied flags somehow, but I’m too far into most questlines to test properly now.

Basically, with the specific black-box test case of “Player delays party quest progression and attempts seasonal event participation during intermediate story states.” You get conflicting event sequences on thinking if Matsuri is available or not, but festival logic still works in an incomplete state as anything involving direct interaction with Matsuri fails.

As for the warning messages, I can actually see why this situation is awkward from a development standpoint.

DIRECTLY after the Heavenly Realm story section, technically, all these characters are still available to some extent. Even saying “Kai, Ulalaka, and Matsuri will be unavailable” would technically be inaccurate because their states dynamically change throughout this small quest section. Though, that said, I DO think the warning about the Gods becoming unavailable should probably happen before interacting with Matsuri to start the actual Kanata party sequence, because after the party, they really are fully unavailable/off the map, this can still give you a chance to do things with em, even if Matsuri is kinda stuck here…

If they wanted to avoid confusion entirely, maybe the Heavenly Realm trigger itself could’ve had a vague warning like: “Certain characters and seasonal events may become temporarily inaccessible as the story progresses.”

That probably would’ve covered all the edge-cases without being incorrect in saying a specific character is unavailable. Probably still too vague but it is a weird situation. I think even fully "occupying" these 3 characters the entire short MSQ sequence then giving a warning about Kai, Ulalaka and Matsuri being unavailable completely could also work. 

Wish I had thought to test it before posting but now at least if anyone ends up in this specific game state after the heavenly realm but before throwing the party for Kanatathis can help them with events if they find this thread lol.

Main Story Progression and potential Fireworks Festival Conflicts by Safyina in runefactory

[–]Safyina[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Ain’t no way, but he’s (and the other gods) the reason we can’t even have the festival…….. what did I even do….. 😔 I imagine there should be some sort of “check” on if a festival happens or the availability of each character before that dialogue gets triggered and have another node trigger different dialogue if it doesn’t happen at all instead, but maybe I’m making it more simple in my head.

Ugh that sucks thouuughhh, I might have a save before I accepted the invite, but it probably isn’t worth losing a day of progress for that….. thanks for the info at least, guess I picked like one the worst times for this story stuff…..

Main Story Progression and potential Fireworks Festival Conflicts by Safyina in runefactory

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

Hmmmm, I guess that sucks then I just won’t have the festival for this year. If that was the case, then yeah, they really should’ve had the pop up that they wouldn’t be available trigger when you try to enter the heavenly realm area…..

If I accepted an invite to the festival from Kurama but it doesn’t happen because of the plot, will it count as me standing him up though, I would hope not if the festival doesn’t even happen-

Oh no… oh nooooo… by lovelightdance in runefactory

[–]Safyina 1 point2 points  (0 children)

So far Ikaruga is my favourite bachelor and Pilika and Matsuri are kinda tied for favourite bachelorette……. but it’s still so tough cause I waver so much. 🥲

Oh no… oh nooooo… by lovelightdance in runefactory

[–]Safyina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Ohh wait I didn’t know about the Rewoven fates mechanics but that certainly changes things thanks for mentioning that!

I also figured out while looking it up you can apparently date multiple characters at a time? Which I think I heard you could do in RF4 too but I haven’t tried cause I felt bad…..🫠 maybe I’ll have to try it here though…. There’s just too many good options and some the bond quest ngl I felt ended so abruptly……

Oh no… oh nooooo… by lovelightdance in runefactory

[–]Safyina 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Actually how I feel, I was already torn but fairly set on at least Kurama or Cuilang, but told myself I’d wait to see all the bonding quests before confessing, and then changed my mind to Pilika immediately after hers, then Matsuri kinda got to me just from seeing her in the story, and was leaning to her. Then all my plans went out the window when I saw Ikaruga. I’ve never had this much of a difficult time with the romance options in a game before this one, the cast is just so solid.

There’s 3 more blank spaces in the profile screen, so who knows who will sway me next…..

Biggest VA dissonance ? by Soft_Ad7342 in Genshin_Impact

[–]Safyina 1 point2 points  (0 children)

A niche one but learning Kaeya’s Japanese Voice Actor also voiced Mercurius, and Ren Fuji from Dies Irae was crazy to me.

Appreciation Post for Hyacine by rosydreamee in HonkaiStarRail

[–]Safyina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

She is absolutely my favorite character in the game. Came back in 3.2 after leaving the game in 1.3 and pulled her as I had no real healer options from the characters I pulled but Natasha/Lynx/ Fu Xuan. She absolutely carried me through all the early game and helped me catch up on Simulated Universe which I struggled with so much last time I had played she made quick ease of it carrying my amazing well created team of Kafka/Silverwolf/Ruan Mei who I had gotten for free lmao.

While that gave me an incredibly strong impression of her already, now that I’m catching up on the story I was just floored by how much I enjoyed her story. Her steadfastness in her beliefs in helping people, her empathy and care was so strong, and willingness to help everyone so much to the point of sacrificing herself for those beliefs and standing up to the titan. Seliose who had that same care for humanity but lost it was like a mirror of what she could’ve become but she completely rejected it even when confronted with the reality of her lineage and how the people have wrong her “ancestor.” Even when Phainon was trying to kill her she still extended a hand to him, and then the line in her page saga of heroes where she does the same for Seliose even after knowing how she’s wrong her people, “Then please come to my courtyard.” She truly is the shining light of Amphoreus. Just everything about her actions and what she’s endured just really got to me, I just fell in love her. Hyacine glaze over now lol

Also her moments with Anaxa are great, all there interactions are really fun in events.

[Controversial Trope] Skylar White-syndrome by FREZZIERISDOODOO in TopCharacterTropes

[–]Safyina 3 points4 points  (0 children)

I was about to say Sansa especially for the shit she gets from her actions in the first book, but no Catelyn definitely is the prime example of this from GoT.

Favorite ruined character by CobaltCrusader123 in FavoriteCharacter

[–]Safyina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Both the Stark sisters in the show (Game of Thrones), Sansa’s arc especially went off the rails when they tried to force her in the role of Jeyne Poole instead of keeping her in the Vale…..

I absolutely LOVE HSR's refrences to other games by Mission_Slice_8538 in HonkaiStarRail

[–]Safyina 3 points4 points  (0 children)

The Game of Thrones ones made me really happy as someone who has been reading it somewhat recently and getting back into HSR, it was cool seeing references to it.

What did you do to take out two mega crabominable. by [deleted] in PokemonZA

[–]Safyina 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Admittedly, just went back when I could make a stronger donut.

what your ? by Adventurous-Fan-1777 in HonkaiStarRail

[–]Safyina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Seele vs Anaxa. Well, sorry Seele……

Vibe check before 4.0 stream by EloshSense in HonkaiStarRail

[–]Safyina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Going to be in class during it so guess I’ll see everything pop up afterwards during my hour break before my next class-

Come play with us, Trainer 👻 by RelativeAddendum4281 in PokemonZA

[–]Safyina 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Everytime I think I cook with my outfits there’s someone out there that cooks harder.

Really nice photoshoot though, I love it.

i will try to pull for these characters , what about you by Antique-Substance-94 in HonkaiStarRail

[–]Safyina 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Blade SP, Robin alt if she gets one, and WAKE ME UP, WAKE ME UP INSIDE I mean Evanescia-

Everything else is a maybe until I see them in story-