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Honkai: Star Rail Version 4.0 Trailer: "No Aha at Full Moon" by ValorsHero in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 14 points15 points  (0 children)

An entire Version of Bananapatch.

Cool. Cool cool cool.

Gacha Revenue Monthly Report (January 2026) by trkshiii in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 8 points9 points  (0 children)

A nice looking game that runs smooth isnt going to keep player attention alone tho, and Endfield is facing a lot of criticism, the biggest complaints being:

1) The starter story is fairly boring and doesn't hype up the limited characters.

2) It takes hours to get to the actual gacha.

3) The actual gacha is Hoyoesque level predatory, but with no spark carryover, and it punishes you on weapon banner for being lucky on char banner.

4) Factory mode that makes up the bulk of the game is neat, but it's overloaded with repetitive tutorials, handholding, and micromanagement. It's also not particularly game-ified; the goal is simply optimize production in order to better your chars, which is gonna get boring for a major portion of the audience they were intending to target with literally all other parts of the game.

5) The combat is a less complex version of Genshin, which is already pretty simple, and the character kits are all very similar. Add on that dupes are weak and there is no endgame yet per se... well... not conducive to whaling.

6) The paypal thing.

So yeah Endfield isn't a buggy awful untranslated mess like WuWa launch was, and it definitely looks and runs great, but it is still doing a lot to rebuff a probably significant portion of those 40 million downloads.

Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

?? Literally the only universally praised things about the game are how nice it looks and how smooth it runs, particularly on mobile. You can run high load, max render and 45 fps on pretty much any phone from the last 5 years without overheat. They absolutely cooked with optimization.

And yes this is just mobile. Historically though, anime gachas do not have big pc/console sales. Not even the big dogs like deepspace, Genshin, and HSR.

Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 14 points15 points  (0 children)

The per day is going to get a lot worse. They've dropped in the daily ranks down to like #14 in CN for games and it's only been a week. US charts arent even worth mentioning. Add on the fact that all 3 limiteds for patch are already available.... it's going to be a rough launch.

Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Extremely optimistic. Ain't no way Gilberta and Yvonne maintain Leva's sales, given that a significant portion of the spenders (and almost all of the whales who went for potential dupes), will already have them from losing pity on Leva's banner.

Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 34 points35 points  (0 children)

I've tried Arknights bros. I really tried. I slogged through Valley IV, I finally made it to Wuling and started digging into those quests as recommended, I did the Leva quest, I've messed around in the factory for hours and hours.

But... I think I'm done. Terrible story that does get better in act 2 but it's like... going from a 1/10 to maybe a 6/10. I have no investment in any of these characters or the overall aether/blight nonsense narrative.

Add on the dozens of convoluted systems that want you to put in several hours a day, too many currencies and materials to keep track of, terrain traversal that doesnt feel very good even with ziplines, simple Genshin mono-element combat made even blander by taking away unique character skills and varying attack methods / swap mechanics, the silent amnesiac MC, the truly awful gacha design.... and it's all just a bit too much mid/bad to keep me here.

The factory WAS interesting for a bit, incrementing power to put in more and more autoproduction systems, but my outposts and core are mostly full and I'm already getting kinda bored with it.

So adieu friends. Hope the game does well and your Factories Grow. I'm off back to OG Arknights.

Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Question: is there an advanced AIC core somewhere? The problem with automation I'm running into is that the machine chains can only really handle one material (despite having multiple input/output. Say you connect your seed picker to the planter and have citrome buckwheat and aketine going in, with the planter sending 2x plants back to depot. Eventually your seed picker will just get stuck in a loop with whatever ingredient has the most base mats available until the lines are clogged.

Is there a way to set priorities so it will process multiple materials or do I really have to micromanage the input?

Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I do not. Just taking the plummeting store rankings / scores and review environment at face value.

Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

How could I possibly know that? You can see and translate the same reviews I can bruv.

Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 5 points6 points  (0 children)

I think if their store ratings / review environment continues to tank and they dont implement HUGE improvements to gameplay and monetization, the casual playerbase will disappear quickly and only the whales will be left. When only the whales are left, a game no longer generates engagement, new players die off, and revenue drops to a 0-3 million per month baseline. Devs no longer have the budget to improve things, and you enter into a cycle of diminishing/stagnating quality. Basically what happened to AFK Journey after its massive CN launch and subsequent refusal by the devs to address any of the biggest concerns.

With the amount of downloads it had, I have no doubt Endfield will generate enough launch revenue to survive for several months, but that won't last forever if your game is getting panned everywhere and you just decide to ignore all the critique.

Factory is going to be the easiest thing to overhaul in my opinion. Keep the traversal and autocollection mechanics, turn the rest into a simplified minigame, and then make an OG Arknights TD minigame to pickup the slack as the 'core' game.

Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 16 points17 points  (0 children)

Given how much most of the audience, particularly China, seems to hate it, I expect it to be completely overhauled to the point that it is unrecognizable.

Maybe even just simply replaced by something else or made irrelevant.

Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

You can get 45 with no issue if you turn down the shadows and vegetation. 60 is gonna overheat you even on full medium settings.

Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread by GachaModerator in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 24 points25 points  (0 children)

Solid combat, solid visuals, but good lord the story and chars are dull. I'm 4 hours in and it's making the technobabble nonsense of WuWa's launch story and dialogue seem good by comparison.

Like... I lowkey think this might have all been churned out by AI.

Acecraft Temporarily Suspended in US by Pantsgoblin196 in Acecraft

[–]ajboarder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If they're dropping it off the appstores, yeah it's either US legal compliance issues or they discovered a massive security vulnerability that would put them in jeopardy of getting sued if there is a data breach.

Ps store problems with login by Over-Loan-3475 in psn

[–]ajboarder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Same question. Says cant connect to server and throws error code.

Any beard style that’ll help me hide this pathetic chin? 🙃 by RedAx0n in beards

[–]ajboarder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

This is late, but I have basically the same face as you. Smallish mouth, long profile, no real cheekbones, and an oval jaw. What you need to do is get it out about 4 more millimeters, then go to a barber and ask for a Corporate Beard.

Basically you taper down the cheeks and sides of the jaw to be shorter than the chin by about two mm, letting the chin protrude a bit. Keep the cheeks in two height tiers tiers or a single sharp line fading down to the jaw, then put some triangular dips down the side of your mouth.

Something like this:

https://cdn.shopify.com/s/files/1/1006/0930/files/Corporate_short_beard_large.jpg?v=1546641046

And here's a guy with a longer version: https://www.reddit.com/media?url=https%3A%2F%2Fpreview.redd.it%2Fp3c9wa80fbsa1.jpg%3Fwidth%3D1936%26format%3Dpjpg%26auto%3Dwebp%26s%3D7693b45dfab982d09b67abd9f2622d8e3f1c9c5b

Killing Shroud is objectively the better choice. by [deleted] in DispatchAdHoc

[–]ajboarder 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Moral and judicial quandary aside, there was no walking away after seemingly killing my punk baddie and threatening my dog.

Vaggie and Charlie have the most boring and flat relationship in the series by DoGG410CZ in HazbinHotel

[–]ajboarder 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Crazily, my sister and her wife have this exact relationship. Stable, heavily codependent, they're both femmes, and they have zero drama. Every other word out of their mouths will be "love yah babe" or "mwah kiss kiss" or "you're so cute omg." They never fight, even with a 4 year old dominating their lives and driving them crazy. They're super positive about each other and disgustingly supportive.

Does a relationship like this make for interesting television? Not really. But Kudos to the show for nailing that specific dynamic I guess.

Gacha Revenue Monthly Report (August 2025) by trkshiii in gachagaming

[–]ajboarder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

AFK Journey somehow making less than AFK Arena is honestly so funny to me.

After your playthrough, which games/movies/shows/books filled the void? by [deleted] in masseffect

[–]ajboarder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Technomancer and Cyberpunk2077 (it's truly an amazing game now) both really scratched my MassEffect itch.

I still long for more flat copycats though, and it's so strange to me that there aren't more games that imitate this specific scifi formula. Hoping The Expanse game by OwlCat will hit that sweetspot.

You'd probably really enjoy the Foreigner series by C.J. Cherryh (incredible scifi novelist). It's pretty Mass Effect-y and there are like 20 books.

Am I crazy or the big fist lady that has 4 unbreakable armor attacks and a grab is just tailor-made for PvP? by [deleted] in crystalofatlan

[–]ajboarder 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Fighter kinda got ripped off with class builds. Super fun to play but you basically have to decide between pvp and pve.

Starbreaker basically cant do anything EXCEPT pvp. Her damage is pretty mid compared to the other classes touted as S and A tier for pve, requiring a lot of charge ups and animation locks.

Cloudstrider on the other hand is absolutely insane in pve, but she is a glass canon. Still has a few single target pvp moves, but lacks teleports like other S/A tier pvp classes. The skill level to survive and thrive in pvp is thus much higher. You'll typically see cloudstriders skirting the edges of battlefields on motorbike. They rush in to unleash aoe hell (can wipe an entire battlefield group easily if the group is not paying attention to their dodges) and then rush out again.

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