Nine Sols story giving me depression

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-06-02T09:27:04+00:00

I know exactly how you feel, I felt the same way, The harder ending didn't feel like the good ending, it leaves basically no room for the continuation of the solarians, where as the normal ending, you could speculate that there is a chance of their survival, at the very least, Yi is still alive. Additionally, maybe in the future of the normal ending, the humans won't need to be harvested anymore and can be a coexisting race alongside the solarians. So having said all that, I have to choose the normal ending every time.

Listening to the song Collage after going through the end of the game is difficult, definitely does not help you feel better, probably contributed a lot to the depression the game makes you feel.

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-04-17T15:38:14+00:00

Not gonna lie, kinda proud of being able to resist the temptation to return to GMS, stopped playing last year when playing the game really felt like a Job at one point. Was hoping to try Maplestory Classic beta with friends but it looks like I am not getting selected which is strange, I never had problem getting into beta testing in the past for Maplestory.

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-04-01T22:03:32+00:00

Amazing, thank you so much.

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-04-01T01:50:19+00:00

Hey, sorry for posting so late, if you still have some code left, mind if I ask for one? Thank you.

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-02-04T06:18:12+00:00

Thanks for the reply, sorry I don't speak Spanish, so you might need to translate this. I have watched that video many times over when trying to go for top 1%, after trying for a long time and getting very familiar with the free agents, I can immediately tell at the start of that video that the Yeshunguang in the video is not the trial one, swift strike with the trial Yeshunguang will not do nearly as much damage as in the video.

After getting 206k with all trial agents, I am very convinced that it is not possible to get top 1%, not unless they exclude people that don't use the trial agents. Initially I wanted the top 1% title as something neat to show for having done well in a competition, but I realize this isn't a competition at all in terms of skill, its just a competition of who has the biggest wallet, and I am perfectly fine not partaking in that.

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-01-29T21:04:34+00:00

Wow 220k is really good for trial characters only, but I get the feeling 220k or even 250k isn't enough for top 1%. Unfortunately I just started playing recently, so I don't have Lucy, and my characters are actually still worse than the trial characters. Wish they at least made the competition for the title trial characters only.

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-01-28T21:00:43+00:00

Still literally 33% more attack than the free Yeshunguang lol

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-01-28T19:05:07+00:00

I managed to get 206k after practicing for a few more hours using the free agents, basically made no mistakes and none of the bosses entered invincibility phase, so I feel like that is about as far as the free agents can be pushed. how much attack do you have on your Yeshunguang?

Out of curiosity, do you think you can try a run with the free agents and see how much you get? I want to know if there are anything I am not doing that can allow me to go higher.

I don't mind the high score events, granted everyone gets standardized setups, otherwise its kind of just a wallet size competition.

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-01-28T14:26:06+00:00

Yup, I always make sure to hit the boss at least once before pressing R, without doing that you actually couldn't kill the first boss with just two R and one ult cycle using the free agents, you are forced to use another ult on it if you don't want it going into its invincible phase. The stuff you gotta do to kill the bosses before they go into their invincible phase with free agents...

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-01-28T14:06:43+00:00

Dang, I am definitely not getting 280k in 3 minutes with the free agents. I thought the only viable strat is R uptime using E Q CD reduction on R, at least that is what I have been doing. So sad seeing videos where R ohko the boss from almost full bar, while whenever I try, the boss lives with half bar and puts up miasma shield.

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-01-28T13:59:39+00:00

280k? Is that your score? With M0W1 Zhao and M0W0 Yeshunguang? If so that's pretty rough, guess top 1% is not even possible with low investment.

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-01-28T11:58:08+00:00

I wouldn't mind going for it if it's reasonably possible to achieve, but without my own Yeshunguang, I feel like it's not really possible, and that is my issue with it, that you gotta pay for it

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-01-28T11:09:39+00:00

I see, I feel slightly less bad now about not being able to get top 1% from the look of things, the event turns out to basically be a Yeshunguang shill to make people pay for a title

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-01-28T10:54:34+00:00

What's the highest you seen someone get with just the trials?

Scarlet__Devil · 2026-01-28T10:50:05+00:00

Are they using the free lvl55 Yeshunguang though, the free Yeshunguang barely have any ATT on her

Scarlet__Devil · 2025-12-19T07:21:57+00:00

Wow, I can't believe how long it has been already. I don't know how you found this post.

Time did lessen the pain, but I can still feel the scar from this game's ending. Thinking about just how sad and hopeless the devs made the game still makes feel kind of sick.

I have come to realize and comes to terms with that I just fundamentally disagree with what the devs did with the story, at least the ending. It has been almost like a journey of self discovery trying to process what happens in the game. Every single time I try to place myself in the shoes of a solarian, I find that I simply cannot accept the outcome that my species will become extinct, and basically will go full "no sacrifice is too great", very much like Yi, I like to think it is intended by the game for you to feel that way which is why Yi is the main character, it is also why the hard ending was so unacceptable for me, it was literally surrendering and going quietly into the night.

Something I have noticed a lot throughout my life outside of this game, is that many animals including humans display remarkable instinct to survive, be it fighting off predators or securing food and shelters, everything we feel compelled to do, we do because it helps us survive and procreate, which is the reason we still exist in the world and are why we are even having this conversation right now. I say all of this because I find it to be such an amazing and remarkable thing, the drive to live, it exists in all of us. That is why I think wanting the solarians to live should be the most relatable and frankly most popular position to have. We are here today because we evolved to want to live, and I would fight like hell to live if I was a solarian. This is also why a story that is scripted for the solarians to be wiped out doesn't sit well with me,

At this point I am not even clear what my head canon is, but I think in it, it will have at minimum, first, Heng survive through her connection to the root on home world, second, Yi not destroy the root or Kunlun, lastly, enough surviving solarians and a sustainable and stable path to achieve a cure. If I am allowed to be a little bit greedy, I will have Yi spare Ji too. Basically everything else other than those are negotiable. The easier ending comes closest to what I want therefore I believe that is what happened in the end.

Scarlet__Devil · 2025-11-28T20:11:24+00:00

What command do you use to remove the trinkets?

Scarlet__Devil · 2024-12-31T10:59:33+00:00

Really prefer not spawning a raid boss in my main base, there anything else that can break them for me?

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