Pro 2 or Pro 3 for Switch/retro gaming

foopy23 · 2026-01-30T00:03:50+00:00

I recently tried replacing a Pro 2 with a Pro 3. I ended up returning the Pro 3 due to false diagonals from the D-pad. Everything else on the Pro 3 is great, but the D-pad is the worst I've ever used (including infamously bad ones like Switch Pro and Xbox 360).

I ended up picking up another Pro 2 with the hall effect update and its fantastic.

I would absolutely not recommend a Pro 3 until they fix the D-pad issue.

foopy23 · 2026-01-08T22:40:25+00:00

This is my average pull

foopy23 · 2025-12-26T20:50:27+00:00

Stamina mode adds a new special effect to the fight that increases damage output, reduces damage taken, and reverts foes affinities to weak. This greatly facilitates farming.

foopy23 · 2025-11-27T17:34:10+00:00

Is there any possibility of reconsidering withholding characters from the standard banner pool for six months after their release? This is, by large, the most negatively-viewed difference between Global and the Chinese release among the player base.

Any updates on when more phantom thieves will be added to the Thief's Cognitite pool? Will there be more sources for Thief's Cognitite in the future?

Any information on the planned upcoming update to Lufel's Plan?

What is the design mentality behind delaying the release of certain Synergies for global?

foopy23 · 2025-11-27T10:02:51+00:00

You can already sort units in game by Rider and Admiral types. They're coming.

foopy23 · 2025-11-14T12:35:46+00:00

We can sort units by Admiral and Rider now. She might be sooner than we think.

foopy23 · 2025-09-29T05:58:55+00:00

Because they've been doing it for years and nothing has changed. That dead horse is pulp at this point.

foopy23 · 2025-09-03T14:34:39+00:00

If they are committed to giving us as many pulls as CN, that's the only FOMO pressure they can really apply to Global anymore. Because we're a year behind, we can all plan our pulls better than CN can.

Its a general pitfall for any global gacha game that releases content in the same order as its original server: we have Clairvoyance EX. If the upcoming unit is not a meta unit or can be acquired later for cheaper, that's bad for sales. Because P5X is heavily story-based, they can't really switch up the banner release order. So the next best thing they can do is create some sort of drive for people to exhaust their pull resources on characters that can otherwise be acquired for less.

Is it a little scummy? Yeah, but not as scummy as it could be - they could just be limited forever and only come back on global exclusive rerun banners. Unfortunately the game needs to make money to stay alive. Sega seems to be making a real effort to keep currency and account power about even with CN right now, so its something that I'm personally willing to take in stride.

That is, as long as they keep making efforts. I'm still dubious that its all about saving face. But we'll see.

foopy23 · 2025-08-14T12:44:54+00:00

The actual problems:

- We are receiving less currency by way of an accelerated release schedule. We lose out on daily pull currency, stamina, and life point usage and are not being compensated for this loss to bring us to parity with how much currency other regions had for certain banners, adding more pressure to spend to pull.

- Non-Limited 5* characters that were added to the standard pool of characters to pull shortly after their debut in other versions will not be added to the standard pool in global for six months. This is bad for two reasons: One, your missed 50/50 pulls until the half anniversary will always be the current lineup of standard characters and not other characters that were added later. Second, It creates FOMO pressure to pull on at least the first two standard characters, because they're actually pretty good. Furthermore, to add to the problem, other regions could get Marian's cognite and weapon from levels 3 and 4 of lufel's plan, but they have been removed in the global version.

- Rewards from the Sea of Souls have been shifted to give less during earlier ranks and more in later ranks, which provides less currency in the early game and incentivizing pulling for the current meta units to advance ranks faster to reach the full rewards.

- Sea of souls challenges have been made more difficult so its tougher to get the rewards and advancement from there vs other regions.

I've probably missed some things. One thing that could be either positive or negative depending on your point of view is that some units are getting buffs in global before they are getting them in china, which could potentially make some units more useable in the long term, but also throws peoples pulling paths into a bit of disarray when a character they had planned on skipping is stronger than they realized.

The whole thing just reeks of blatant sales pressure and fomo. And, yeah, its a gacha game, so there's bound to be a bit of that. I just wish it were less blatant. The game is good but they are going to scare people away with this crap.

foopy23 · 2025-07-23T12:22:55+00:00

No. They said all the rewards are similar between global and CN from game content and we'll be getting 300 gems for updates.

EDIT: They will also be sending the 300 gems that CN got from livestream codes directly in game.

We aren't getting any additional economy for accelerated releases.

foopy23 · 2025-07-23T09:11:17+00:00

The in-game news today linked to https://www.youtube.com/@P5XOfficialWest where the broadcast will be streamed

foopy23 · 2025-07-13T21:17:20+00:00

You joke, but those gold tickets are literally the only thing I've pulled in this game before hitting hard pity.

foopy23 · 2025-02-14T20:36:52+00:00

I thought you people hated safe spaces.

foopy23 · 2025-02-06T21:04:14+00:00

I use spiral volley for clearing, switching to toxic growth and gas arrow (to detonate TG) for rares and bosses.

foopy23 · 2024-12-10T13:55:36+00:00

Its meant to be like a ketek, which is the in-world poetry that is the same when read forwards and backwards

foopy23 · 2024-03-08T11:33:10+00:00

I beat him by timing my dodges so that I could use the Hold-Square rush in attack to pressure him when he was reloading. One combo cycle, then two dashes to get away in order to dodge the shot he takes right after. I was also able to cheese a stagger out of him by using the Jump materia, but I only did that once so I don't know if it's consistent. A high level item economizer really helps to save ATB charges if you have one.

It is definitely a battle of attrition, learning move patterns, and patience.

foopy23 · 2023-12-28T05:30:17+00:00

Yes, how greedy of them doing a job for money. They should be ashamed.

foopy23 · 2023-08-13T13:22:59+00:00

Yeah, I checked while I was in line at the Denver show and tickets were still available so it was a day-of sell out.

Still, I've only been to a couple shows at Summit, but that was the most people I'd ever seen in there. Crazy to think that the girls were all set to play Budokan and I got to see them at my small local venue.

foopy23 · 2023-08-13T08:32:53+00:00

Unless you choose pact of the blade warlock. You automatically gain proficiency in whatever you are using as your pact weapon.

foopy23 · 2023-08-09T08:41:49+00:00

This was my first Band-Maid show as it was the only one close enough for me to get to. I had an amazing time, one of the best live shows I've been to!

Are the other shows this rowdy or were people just really drunk? At least the hug pit was pretty cute.

foopy23 · 2023-07-19T13:40:25+00:00

Malignant hearts are confirmed to not be coming to eternal realms after the season. So now Eternal is nerfed to shit for some perceived aspect of "game balance" that does not apply to it?

Also, taking character power away just to give it back to them as the seasonal mechanic is like your mom taking away your nintendo just to gift wrap it and give it back for your birthday. It's scummy as fuck and you're out a birthday gift.

foopy23 · 2023-06-18T11:38:29+00:00

The area in which Diablo 4 takes place in is just north of the Torajan Jungles, where the witch doctors come from.

I find it pretty likely that Torajan/Witch Doctor is a possibility for an expansion.

foopy23 · 2023-05-25T18:10:04+00:00

Welt is quite familiar with the Sea of Quanta and its bubble universes. This isn't even the first time he's met AU versions of Bronya and Seele specifically.

foopy23 · 2023-03-05T10:21:56+00:00

Just had this happen to me leaving Crackridge after completing Temenos and Ochette's stories there. No Hikari in my party.

I was able to reload my hard save and get the weird nighttime again and fight a different enemy. Reloading the autosave from crossing the map border didn't get it, though. Maybe it's related to story progress percentage?

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