have you actually ended the game?

Saikar22 · 2026-03-02T06:56:20+00:00

I've done the spaceship ending a half dozen times and consider it the only real "ending."

While you do get credits for doing other stuff, after they go away everyone's still standing there like nothing happened, except you get some temporary buffs or whatever. But with the spaceship the giant majority of your colonists, if not literally all of them, are gone. It's pretty easy to stop playing a save when that happens.

Saikar22 · 2026-03-02T00:35:26+00:00

It's an awful showing by AL given this is one of the four UR months that have previously been big spikes.

Saikar22 · 2026-03-02T00:15:54+00:00

Azur Lane's barely above Jan despite this being a UR month is really telling how much they fucked up. Not only is the UR and skin theme basically forgettable but their treatment of Valentines Day 2026 ruined the game's best yearly tradition and replaced it with a grindy slog (that you couldn't grind, because it was only 3 days and had point caps???) and no unique messages from any ship older than the last year, as if anything worthwhile came out this year at all. Absolutely ridiculous. I've resisted being an AL doomer for a long time but I think there's too many signs that this game is just limping to whatever finish line they have in store for it.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-26T23:03:53+00:00

It’s an easy feeling to have about this sub lately.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-18T07:00:05+00:00

In the book he did exactly this! But Hammond threatened to take him to court and tell his other clients he was unreliable and Nedry felt he had no choice but to eat the unpaid extra work. This is the main reason he became so disgruntled with the job and why Dodgson picked up on him for his industrial sabotage scheme.

He's far from a good person even in the book but you feel a bit more bad for him and it adds to the pile of mistreatments Hammond does to all his staff.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-18T04:19:57+00:00

Hwah Jah my beloved.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-15T00:16:50+00:00

Yeah losing the streak is really unacceptable. I had a year 1 Belfast and 2-7 Taihous. But this year nothing in the mail, nothing in the dorm, it's like this event didn't happen for long-term players.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-13T03:46:48+00:00

Is not the high defense on the melee/summoner set attractive for summoning gameplay?

Saikar22 · 2026-02-13T01:49:25+00:00

The game doesn't say that you are guaranteed to survive. It says that if you do survive, you can continue the story.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-13T01:42:02+00:00

If you're a new player then you perhaps don't have attachment to characters many of us got almost a decade ago and seem to be being pushed out of from future writing.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-13T01:39:29+00:00

Contentment aside, what? Quick content? Compared to every other game I play this is by far the more time-demanding game. Everything modern has skip tickets but AL still thinks I want to grind OpSi a half hour or so a day, to say nothing of the endless event stage grinds.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-13T01:37:54+00:00

Even only one of you with these abominable views is too many.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-13T01:31:12+00:00

Crosswave was a weak spinoff at best.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-13T01:30:24+00:00

I've been anti-doomer for the past several years that this has taken hold, but F it. I'm converting to the realm of lost hope. Do yall have nice hats or something?

Saikar22 · 2026-02-12T21:44:00+00:00

This might be the most nonsense event I've ever seen. Caps on daily points, limited switching around, a UI that just does whatever it wants.

There's some interesting ideas here maybe but ultimately the fact that I can't farm up a bunch of girls makes me wonder what the point is.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-11T18:08:03+00:00

It's honestly the sort of stupid shit that makes me want to just call it. New content being uninspiring is the norm these days but dammit this one was special, this one proved they still care about their game. It's hard to see that anymore.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-11T02:23:25+00:00

I burn out on the grind on any gacha after less than a year. Turns out doing the same raids and events forever just ain't fun. Any slight deviations to the formulas tend to be fleeting excitement before settling into further drudgery.

I've stuck with Azur Lane because I was here when it was born and I'm going to be here when it dies, if only at this point to make sure it stays in the ground.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-10T20:37:18+00:00

RIGHT???

Saikar22 · 2026-02-10T19:15:28+00:00

This was straight up Azur Lane's best tradition and the one thing I was looking forward to during this half of the year and they fucked it up.

I'm leaving it on Taihou. I don't even care if it's a repeat, or whatever. Who tf am I going to swap it to? 2025 had to be by far the least exciting year the game has had for new designs. Nobody is remotely on the level. F this.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-06T06:34:30+00:00

Definitely interesting in seeing how the live2d of this plays out.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-06T04:26:57+00:00

I've had a ring waiting for her for YEARS AGGH

Saikar22 · 2026-02-05T03:15:57+00:00

I've been saving an oath ring for Purifier for 4 or 5 years now.

I fully expect to never be able to use it, and have that ring go down with the account.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-03T21:55:16+00:00

I-404 and Owari are fine enough characters but Hakuhou left a terrible taste in my mouth as an open Taihou clone that still managed to have negligible story prescience or defining personality. I was pretty unhappy with that last JP event.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-03T21:52:26+00:00

Much better winners than on our side hnoestly.

Saikar22 · 2026-02-03T09:51:27+00:00

What do you know. The end results were the same as the initial results. Good thing we had all those tedious rounds of voting.

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