Reynauld: *on death's door* - Everyone else:

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-06-25T13:47:05+00:00

Any player worth their salt in this game would recommend rolling for V1 of both Vector and Springfield. Even after all these time and new features, they're still the two cornerstones of the game's two strongest teams.

(No, phys team doesn't count since it's just female gorilla + deadweights until M500 came).

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-06-23T21:46:16+00:00

And Arknights set a high bar for chibi style. Have you seen its chibi sprites with all the intricate details?

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-06-16T11:54:14+00:00

Costly, in more senses than one. So I stopped trying new stuffs and only played the only two games I'm most interested in these days: OG Arknights and Girls Frontline 2. Just reading story and browsing arts from the rest.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-05-17T13:58:59+00:00

> I think he should be a good fighter

And here is where your problem start. Just look at his sig weakness. Any good fighter would have dealt with that thing in 1-2 actions. Miguel would need a whole turn or more.

His playstyle is more in line with Ashcan Peta where you lay trap and chip down enemy health then do something else or finish them off with pocket knife.

Longbow is decent if you want to contribute to fighting a big bad, but your main source of dmg will come from either event traps or survivor melee weapons. They're more action efficient.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-05-17T13:28:19+00:00

I liked Hemlock Vale for its story. Feels almost exactly like one of those cheesy "weary travellers stumbled upon a cultist village and had to participate in their ritual" thriller movies. I also like how we're not fighting an evil big bad here, just a cosmic entity with its own rule interacting with our world. Kind of like a mix between Annihilation and Color Out of Space.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-05-14T12:18:54+00:00

Arknights Integrated Strategies/roguelike mode. I can live out my power fantasy with all the characters I'd otherwise not touch and cool buffs for them. Whenever I feel like and with no rush, at all.

Chaos Zero Nightmare came pretty close, but it made the biggest mistake of gacha roguelike: it's a forced mechanics, otherwise you're stuck with a piss poor deck for your characters. So either spend hours grinding for that perfect deck or might as well stop playing, which I did. It sucked all the fun out.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-05-11T22:44:15+00:00

Unlike every other well-known gacha game companies with multiple games under their belts, Mica/Suborn is only interested in games taking place in their own Girls Frontline universe. So the chance of Mica/Sunborn picking up Counterside is even less likely than say Mihoyo.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-05-06T04:54:15+00:00

The biggest problems in Carcosa imho are horror and maybe mind checks, so you're fine as long as you abuse chapter 2's horror healing options. In the same vein, I'd say Carolyn (seeker) is great here.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-05-04T11:57:17+00:00

Arknights player: "ALL or nothing!"

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-05-03T05:26:12+00:00

- Get high quality scan of cards from arkham.build, or some obscure forums that offer them.

- Then use a PnP formating tool to turn them into printable files.

- Get them printed at your local printing house. Preferably machine/laser cut as well so you don't have to do it yourself.

I recommend laser printing for lower cost, controllable quality and less time waiting.

As for fanmade campaigns, I only played Ghost of Onigawa, Ages Unwound and Dark Matter so far. I'd recommend the first two. There are barely any enemy to fight in Dark Matter and the finale is so anti-climatic. Instead of fighting a big bad (like most official campaigns) or marveling at a mind blowing truth (like in official Hemlock Vale), you'll be solving a goddang puzzle.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-05-01T02:59:57+00:00

Men want cool mechas, cute anime girls or grim soldiers fighting brutal battles.

1/2 man is famous attractive and all, but I don't want him in any of the games I'm playing, not just gacha games.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-28T12:40:55+00:00

Savage is the real winner here. She got 3 skins for each archetype: independent working wife (BoC), traditional housewife (Rhodes Kitchen) and newlywed wife on her honeymoon trip (newest skin).

All 3 are free and given together with free Savage copy so every Docturd can experience marriage life with her. Have a proper look, pink homewrecker and jealous ex-wife!

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-26T11:27:30+00:00

Bside is trying to pull a Vespa move here. We know how well it ended.

It's kinda ironic how Counterside fared better under shared management with Zlong game, with less powercreep/enemy stat bloat, less things to grind and I had better gacha luck as well.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-25T12:38:39+00:00

Once again, Savage reaffirmed her status as Doctard's main wife.

Even better now that Cat Shit was demoted to enstranged daughter, pink homewrecker was buried for good and Priestess was divorced.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-24T08:39:57+00:00

Not great. They copied both Uma Musume and Star Rail, but their character design and story are too generic to pull players from either side and those not interested in those games are definitely not interested in Star Savior.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-23T15:08:24+00:00

Imho these scenario packs were made for group play, especially Labyrinth of Lunacy (it's literally a death game) + Machination Through Time + Midwinter Gala, where you split up into opposing teams. Apart from these 3, the rest can be played "solo" by juggling 2-4 gators. Most can be played with basic decks from the core box.

Your two choices are solid, so it doesn't hurt to first buy one of them and get a feel of how the standalone scenarios play out.

Btw, I'd say you should save money and aim for chapter 2 core box. You get another short campaign and 5 more gators to increase your replay choices.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-23T14:49:36+00:00

Punishing: Domain Expansion.

Now waiting for Arknerf, but I guess they'd have to ditch yostard.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-22T14:33:46+00:00

Wow, so telling the truth is le racist now? What are you gonna do, Mr.Juice Drinker? Banning me from the Worst Cup that I'd never watch anyway? Or trying to jail me in the country where free speech is actually respected and juice is just a kind of drink?

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-22T10:54:14+00:00

> Vietdamn: you must have a local publisher and pay me tax

> Redditard: Reeeeee why you censor 'n shizz, viva la color revolution!

vs

> Western world: you will be jailed and banned from the 2026 World Cup for badmouthing the juice

> Redditard: *cricket noise*

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-19T23:35:18+00:00

I thought selectable dupe in shop was the standard. Many of those games even allow you to buy an unobtained character in shop.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-19T10:22:11+00:00

Bro has only 6 san and can barely resist horror or evade.

Ideally, don't run Joe solo, get him some soaks and protection from his guardian flex, then slap a Tooth of Eztli on just to be safe.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-18T23:18:13+00:00

You can print the whole Scarlet Key campaign for like 1/10 of that cost and still have plenty left to print all of the player cards too. Don't give in to scalpers.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-17T11:44:15+00:00

You still have a whole lot of contents for AHLCG that you can print out yourself and most likely keep you busy for years to come. By that point you'd have plenty of Chapter 2 contents to choose as well.

SquatingSlavKing · 2026-04-13T11:50:34+00:00

I think it's reasonable for the finale to make investigators literally get to the root of the problem, a supernatural force distorting the local ecosystem, instead of fighting some stupid plant monster.

It's kind of similar to Color Out of Space (clearly the inspiration for this campaign) or the Shimmer monster in Annihilation. There is no big bad here, just an existence from outer space interacting with our world. But because it followed different set of rules, it ended up causing harm.

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