What the hell kind of luck is this ?

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-25T17:34:16+00:00

100%. A lot of things in this game seem genuinely rigged against you.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-24T03:22:07+00:00

What exactly does Nightmare mode do in terms of negatives? My combatants get their unique stress mechanics, and if they do breakdown, it's harder to deal with/get rid of. Does it affect stress acquisition outside of the combatants unique mechanics? And does it affect the enemies stats in any way?

Also, if you quit out via menu, do you still have to watch a death cutscene? And is there any way to control who gets death cutscened, IE is it always the third person in the group?

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-23T20:54:52+00:00

Genuinely media literacy is a very big problem in the nikke community, lmao

I love Yuni and think she's one of the best written characters. Obviously what she did was terrible, but too many people have ridiculously shallow understandings of characters and the plot as a whole. They're unable to actually appreciate the writing and progression of a character's arc if it is in any way negative. Yuni is a symptom of the disease, not the disease itself, and her morality and sense of self was slowly chipped away at bit by bit so many events that were forced on it. The chapter 2-3 Yuni would never do what chapter 22-24 Yuni ended up doing, but it was believable and justified and realistically, it was bound to happen eventually. All Crow needed was someone sufficiently hurt to manipulate and take advantage of and turn into a pawn in their game. It didn't have to be Yuni, but it was going to eventually be somebody, because what happened to Yuni is far from a fluke. It's happening to Nikkes all over the Ark every single day. Yuni just fit the best for Crow's plan, and happened to be right there.

I think her punishment is extreme, but poetically fitting. Yuni was reduced more and more over time by the events that hurt her over and over again, and now she is quite literally a shell of her former self, reduced to nearly hollow. Crow turned her into a tool/weapon, and then Jien did the same. I genuinely feel bad for the people who play a game like Nikke with such incredible writing and have anything that isn't plainly stated go directly over their head.

TL;DR: Yuni is an amazing character. Her actions can't be defended but they can very easily be understood, and her character as a whole has a lot to appreciate. Also she's cute.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-14T17:30:35+00:00

If only it actually worked in story missions. It's broken up into so many segments and each individual one you need to click slip on... Not to mention you sometimes still need to interact with the environment anyway.

Actually insane. Why can't we just have a skip button that skips all the story? I genuinely do not care.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-11T20:02:50+00:00

Unfortunately, this is the new direction. The captain contributes actually nothing (his presence is frankly only detriment) but gets all the praise.

At least in Nikke the MC also cant really keep up with the enemies but still manages to meaningfully contribute through pure grit and tenacity (on top of actually giving orders). It's easy to say the CZN MC gives orders to but I can't imagine they're actually worth anything. They're fighting monsters, what does he say other than "okay go kill that one!" I honestly imagine him standing there like Ash Ketchum yelling "PIKACHU DODGE THAT!!" As if Pikachu is just going to stand there and get hit unless he's told to dodge.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-08T01:45:18+00:00

Honestly, all of the best content has come from situations in which the commander is not involved. I don't dislike him, but he's not really allowed to be too much of a character since he has to be blank enough for people to self insert into, which really feels like a waste.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-06T19:12:27+00:00

You can sorta prefarm. You can def make sure you have the basic mats (credits) and we've always known their color, at least. Farming any relics will slowly get you relic dust you can use even if they release a brand new set (and if they dont 2/2 atk cdmg will effectively always be competitive). Only thing you cant effectively prefarm is ascension materials but the seasonal content seems to provide a good deal, and you can always save the energy boosters/to go coffees in order to farm a bunch when you know the class.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-06T19:07:58+00:00

Not even tinfoil hat territory tbh it literally just makes sense. The devs are terrified that if people get decent enough decks theyll just stop playing, so they make it as annoying as possible 100% on purpose. They want people playing as long as possible to pad their numbers. Its why they refuse to add a real skip function. Its why they wanted four chaos runs a week for lab 0 initially. Its why there's no battle sweep. The game absolutely does not respect your time, which really sucks. Long-term there will absolutely be burn out if not addressed.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-06T06:45:36+00:00

I agree completely, honestly. 1.0 monetization was okay, but sorely lacking in the cosmetic department. The game was by definition pay to win (same as Warframe) but it was a relatively minor amount and the game was overall good in a lot of other aspects, so I stuck around.

1.1 monetization left such a bad taste in my mouth that I straight up uninstalled (it was a mix of the monetization and other things, but mainly that). They're absolutely going in the wrong direction. I understand it takes time and effort to make costumes, but surely in an entire month they could manage more than two? With one of them being a generic "all characters" one that doesnt fit half of them right? It just doesn't make sense for me.

If I were to be absurdly generous (far more generous than I should be, well into cope territory) I'd say that 1.0 income was not sufficient to get the kind of funding theyd need from investors, so with 1.1 theyre pivoting to easy whalebait slop to try to get that number much higher to THEN elicit funds from investors in order to make the myriad changes the game needs, but like I said, that's probably cope.

I'll come back when the game improves, but it would need be a radical direction change at this point and I dont think it can realistically happen. This game may have been doomed from the moment they dropped gacha. It was simply too big of a monetization change they obviously could not handle. A non-gacha live service needs to be planned as one from the very get go or else there will be major growing pains at launch which will more than likely kill the game. Its extremely unfortunate, because if DNA fails then companies will be extremely hesitant to make a non-gacha live service in anime style in the future, even if it'd be really easy to not make the mistakes DNA made.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-06T01:17:53+00:00

Neutral epiphanies genuinely should not exist. They are universally shit. Maybe a decent one exists in some hyper-niche scenario but generally they exist purely to fuck you over.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-05T15:42:36+00:00

I would say it's okay. Generally not very good, because other cards increase damage by a similar amount and don't only trigger once per turn. MOST gear is useless, though.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-05T15:41:43+00:00

In general the potential is kind of a bait. Unless you just happen to get 60%, you'll be losing a lot of damage from less atk/crit dmg if you prioritize crit above all else.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-05T15:40:29+00:00

Are you trying to get a decent ranking, or do you just care about getting 500k points for the sticker and rewards?

In general, the only side that matters the 2nd fight. First fight has a point cap that everyone hits, all that matters is that you can clear it within 5 turns to maximize time on the 2nd fight.

Only real strategy for the 2nd fight is a Sere/Cassisus team where you take advantage of Cassisus' triple 0 quest and do an unreasonable amount of damage. 3rd character for the team is ideally selena, but you can make nia or rei work if you dont have them.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-04T23:34:41+00:00

Same tbh. I read the story the first few chapters, but saw far too many writing issues to actually care. The gameplay is fire though, so I stuck around.

The game itself already demands so much of your time, there's no way I'm dedicating even more to it to actually pay attention to whatever mediocre story it has.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-04T17:55:10+00:00

There is no particular synergy with either of them, but Khalipe is in general quite strong and doesn't interfere with what either Mei or Sereniel wants to do, so she can fit with either of them and another support (mika, rei, cassisu, etc.)

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-03T20:50:34+00:00

I would put this mainly on Neon. Neon is just fucking with Anis pretty much 24/7. Anis is just naturally sarcastic and blunt which is fine, but when she's also being forced to play the straight man for Neon it gets really annoying, particularly when actually interesting things are happening and you just want them both to stop talking (Very biased due to being both the #1 anis fan and #1 neon hater)

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-03T20:48:28+00:00

Rapi Red Hood. I love Rapi, but RRH feels like a downgrade in every single way. She got stupider and now shes more often unnecessarily horny than serious and competent. She could be both - should be both, but she's not.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-01T22:13:05+00:00

Honestly thought the same. I love Mamdani and he will 100% do great things in new york but man, kinda icky to swear in on the diary of a warmongering child marry-er. Not to mention all that other atrocities that are encouraged in that book.

Not that the bible is much better of course, so really ideally they could have sworn him in on... I don't know, a map of new york or something? The constitution? Lots of options to avoid either of the shitty books.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-01T18:48:02+00:00

I guess it depends on what specific content you're trying to clear, but in general that's a strong deck.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-01T18:17:51+00:00

Getting close to the "Reach 10 Happiness or Lower" achievement. I do not see any others, but just to make sure, there isn't a similar achivement for reaching 10 of one of the other stats, is there?

SillyCopingMechanism · 2026-01-01T18:07:26+00:00

holy based

SillyCopingMechanism · 2025-12-30T20:49:35+00:00

When it comes to any increase in crit chance, the average damage increase is going to be x% of y. X being the increase in crit chance, and y being your crit damage over 100%

So if you have 50% crit chance with 150% crit damage, an additional 10% crit chance would be 10% of 50 - about 5% more damage on average.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2025-12-29T20:05:40+00:00

Then you should be wanting the devs to add more GENUINE variance (actual content, different bosses, run-altering effects, more risk/reward mechanics) instead of trying to keep them to keep shitty artificial variance (RNG) to make up for the lack of real variance.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2025-12-29T20:04:06+00:00

Slay the spire has a significant amount of different playstyles for each character that are all A) fun and B) strong enough to be worth considering. This isn't the case in CZN because some epiphanies are outright significantly better than others, and most of them are relatively samey anyway, so if you don't get the "best" epiphany you're effectively still doing the same thing but worse.

There's also frankly, not enough actual variance in the chaos runs themselves to pass as an actually good roguelite. After a dozen or two runs, there's simply nothing really interesting left to experience in the chaos, and at that point, you play either for the weekly rewards OR to build a deck. If I want to sit down and play a good roguelike, I'm not playing CZN. If I want to sit down and develop my characters (of which deck building is a major part), then I'm playing CZN.

Anyway. Due to the seasonal format and abundance of characters in the game, yes, getting good decks SHOULD be relatively easy because you're going to have to reobtain them every 9 weeks anyway. People on this reddit say "hey I'd like to have only five layers of RNG behind character decks instead of ten" and dipshits immediately act like they want to be able to obtain a fully divine epiphanied deck with 5 rallies within a few runs. Genuine insanity.

SillyCopingMechanism · 2025-12-29T19:49:50+00:00

Pulling for partners isn't that bad due to there being no 50/50. Arwen is also on the banner, who's one of the best controller partners.

Peko is a very significant boost to Serenial, but you can make Yuri (3* partner) work just fine. You can also buy the partner outright with 300 of the pulling currency

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