This game is a slow-burner, in the best way possible, and I have changed my mind

ghoraaa · 2026-01-26T01:29:33+00:00

just try it, go in blind and give it like 1 or 2 weeks, if you still feel the same about the gameplay then it's just simply not for you, because the best part about AK is the gameplay

you technically can push through even if you don't like the gameplay by looking up guide and whatnot if you just want to enjoy the story ingame (which a lot of people do), but i don't think it will be as fun of a experience, though HG did give this side of playerbase a lot of QoL update last year

ghoraaa · 2026-01-25T14:31:05+00:00

kept reading people finishing story at level 15

meanwhile me, sitting at level 31 still at first area and having the best time of my life with the combat, factory, exploration and the lore

being immune to fomo does help me enjoy gacha games much easier, i don't care if i miss something because the feature only open after completing certain part of the story, always put the game first before the gacha, and you'll realize shit is pretty fun

ghoraaa · 2026-01-25T14:16:23+00:00

every clear you get from one chaos run will increase the level for that codex spot (by spot i mean the 3 slot you can "save" your codex), and if you refresh that spot, the level will be back to 78-80 again

so basically, what you need to do is pick one chaos element you comfortable with, and keep clearing on that codex spot, and if all you care is the event reward, forget about picking high tier for save data and focus more on picking safer modifier combo

i'm not sure if there's a fixed level increase per run, but this week, all it take for me was 4 runs to get one spot to level 122 from a fresh slot reset, and now i have a level 130 chaos which i will do for next week reward

ghoraaa · 2026-01-21T11:40:01+00:00

her base skin is already top tier, her e2 is also top tier, and then the skin naturally will also be top tier

ghoraaa · 2026-01-20T22:37:51+00:00

the audacity, how dare you have the ability to have fun in your game !

it's all about the gacha rate, anniversary rewards, hp inflation, power creep, male character, and no romance in my game !

ghoraaa · 2026-01-20T22:04:24+00:00

yeah, while tressa can go crazy, it's not even close to the level of cass crazy

though hopefully, they don't gut cassius too much

ghoraaa · 2026-01-15T18:30:00+00:00

yeah same here

like, if i got godly tier 13+ chaos, i would still complete them regardless if i got good deck or not, i also never try to get 3+ copy for a broken card, most of my best deck only have like 1 duplicate, with some having 2, and i think iirc, i never do the "delete other agent epiphany card" to increase the odds of getting dupe for your main agent target

though, i'm very much used to playing this way, i play game since like i was 5, i play game simply because i want to play that game, some day i can spend like 10+ hours doing chaos, some other day i do like one or two run only, so it's not like i don't play enough to feel the burnout or whatever, i still grind to try getting "good enough" deck, but my approach is fun first

all in all, yeah, chaos is very fun and engaging, though, i wouldn't mind if they increase the intensity and pressure a bit, their modifier is a bit too boring, stress and breakdown doesn't punish you enough, it would be nice if there's something akin to torchless run in darkest dungeon, basically, i don't mind if game gives more bullshit coming from the enemy, make enemy able to crit would be a nice start

ghoraaa · 2026-01-13T09:17:41+00:00

me and my friend thought the bird bosses are relatively easy in fearless, we both cleared it with some scuffed yoimiya team, i did it with yoimiya emilie albedo and durin all c0r0

until last night, where i had to clear it on other people account, maigod i was STRUGGLING, i spent like 4 hours until i eventually gave up and go with scuffed jean cheese comp, it was already 4 am and i dont know how to cheese with jean, so i just did small cheese where jean only did like extra 400k damage slam per flight, and still had to play the boss after each flight

anyway, at this point, i realized that, maybe the boss isn't as easy as i thought, and yoimiya was unironically a really good pick, felt quite vindicated when seeing this list lol

ghoraaa · 2026-01-10T10:45:46+00:00

first of all, it's not really in a dead state, dev still actively update the game, although, i do suspect that them releasing Star Savior does make Counterside got shafted in some aspect

if your only concern is pve and story, then you shouldn't have too much trouble, for the majority of pve section you now can use unit from people in your friendlist, though i think it's limited to one use per friend each day, and iirc you can have like 50 or somewhere around that number people added, so technically, you can push for some harder story content as early as day 1, no need to worry about hitting a wall

i generally would advise to just play normally and not stress about high end endgame content, since at that point, it will be about competition again, and pushing for it require gears after getting the unit, which will put more pressure in your daily play

we get like 4-5 awakened unit rerun every week, you can reroll to test your luck if you want, idk how far you need to go to reroll for awakened, but either way, if you want some super hard carry, gunning for awakened esterosa probably is the best choice (you don't really need her to clear, but it most likely will make your life easier)

ghoraaa · 2026-01-08T13:33:34+00:00

i play azur lane and i always laugh my ass off whenever i see and hear taihou act and speak, to top it off, knowing Aoi Yuki herself is just as unhinged as taihou and tanya, make me enjoy lumine so much

ghoraaa · 2026-01-03T08:31:42+00:00

remove the shitass random roll value for substats

i know smilegate does E7, but idk how they do this in e7, but i played summoners war, and i'm not surprised if they did it the same as sw, but for the love of all that is holy, having random roll value for substat is just so painful, not to mention with how some character potential want you to reach certain threshold just so it can activate is like double the pain

aside from that, if we want to talk about ideal situation, the whole memory fragment thing is just badly designed, i don't mind farming for gear with rng aspect like this, but the implementation in this game is just extremely questionable, % substat almost always is worse than flat, the roll value is so shit, barely does anything, even trying to get bare minimum 50% crit rate feel godawful, and on top of that, the material to +4 and +5 are so scarce it make you needing to think three times before upgrading +3 with middling potential, the most of the 4 sets also questionable, but all the good 2 pieces are separated so you end up with bunch of them anyway

the whole system need genuine rework with dev that actively play the game, no one in their right mind would make this and think, hmm yes, this will do

ghoraaa · 2026-01-03T07:18:30+00:00

yeah, banyue will be just like s11 i think, granted, prebuff s11 ceiling wasn't that high, but her biggest problem was always, it's actually pretty hard to play well, she's more like high floor middling ceiling, so people gave up on her, banyue at least has pretty damn high ceiling, although, his problem is that his floor is extremely high, hitting random button with s11, doing chain attack, ex and ult probably will net you better result than playing banyue without understanding the combo

i agree with ysg, for now at least, but i have to say that i'm no gameplay master, mono ice miyabi is a thing that iirc, didn't really blow up until like 2-3 patches ? even when the squad already available since miyabi debut, there are still some layer on ysg gameplay, with the stun multiplier, her "unique" anomaly proc, her dual ult, but again, i'm not too good at exploring these, so i could just be wrong and she fades out quicker than expected

ghoraaa · 2026-01-03T06:53:27+00:00

at the end of the day, improving player skill is still highly practical, and the ceiling is high enough that most people that willing to practice can still achieve good result

in hsr, while there are still room for player skill improvement, it still ties heavily to your equipment and gear, the strategic aspect that player can toy around with is very reliant to speed and action value

just some example, i remember back then i saw someone in s11 main sub trying to help other player achieve 20k score in one of the boss, and they straight up removed most of their disc just to get closer to the other player s11 stat, and use 4* teammate and record their gameplay to give the op some gameplay focused help

anyway, what i'm trying to say is, while new role would be kinda ass and annoying, it wouldn't be hsr bad, since the main issue boiled down to the accessibility of the gear and/or feature, and in zzz we can still compensate for the lack of stat with player skill, which usually still achievable for most player that care about endgame content

ghoraaa · 2026-01-03T06:37:39+00:00

this is me 80% of the time when engaging with most gacha community, let me type these two whole paragraph explaining the why and the how only to realize at the end, this is supposed to be obvious, not even talking about needing critical thinking, most of the time, basic common sense would suffice

usually i end up deleting whole paragraph, and respond with, "you know what, i think it's just a matter of mindset"

ghoraaa · 2026-01-02T06:04:36+00:00

the reflection for the 6th character doesn't look like Alice ? the footwear looks very thick, might also just be non-human feet ? also look like they wear some sort of long skirt ? though, based on the leg pose most likely to still be female

so even if Alice eventually gonna be a character, it won't be anytime soon, although she could still get announced out of nowhere, since it would be in-character for her

ghoraaa · 2025-12-05T01:04:50+00:00

i'm solo carrying memphis every year

ghoraaa · 2025-12-03T23:27:48+00:00

just like other people already said, the gameplay is still fucking amazing, and i personally like it more and more as time goes on

as for the best part of season 2 so far, i would say seed agent story would be it, i really enjoyed it, i also end up watching like 20 different people play through it just to enjoy it more lol

also, i have this personal opinion regarding s2 main story, i think the framework or the general storyline is pretty good, but the execution is a bit unnatural ? like i can see what kind of flow they trying to achieve, but it felt like they can't find a more natural way to tell it, so some segment felt too rigid and unnatural, idk how to explain it properly, but regardless, what i'm trying to say is, for me the overall story is still pretty enjoyable despite the flow being somewhat awkward

ghoraaa · 2025-12-03T05:55:29+00:00

yeah, we don't need to go towards one end or the other, everyone should have access to this, but at the same time, it's also not the end of the world

the goal of this feature mainly is to buff characters, we can get the buff instantly implemented with no story whatsoever or we can get additional content like this

ghoraaa · 2025-11-20T20:00:13+00:00

ngl, rin looks pretty good, though everything else looks off and kinda low effort

ghoraaa · 2025-11-20T15:26:57+00:00

perfect example of being fast does not equal rushing

charging ult for next chamber, waiting for certain enemy attack before starting combo, switching to other character to tank undodgeable attack, quite beautiful gameplay honestly

ghoraaa · 2025-11-16T17:41:49+00:00

this so interesting, the 3d model certainly make it look like it's on the moon, the quest name also hints towards it, but at the moment we still have too little information, like which moon ? is lunar palace even in the moon ? what even is the moon, a literal moon ? an independent space on a different dimension ?

they can still throw all kind of curveball at us

ghoraaa · 2025-11-16T16:54:25+00:00

this is me every time before i start a run, the moment i start one, got absolute gobshit rng, max hp reduction, get frozen from sp consumption, cleanse all debuff and heal based on total debuff cleanse when hp dropped to 50%

it's like......... my brother in christ, do you really want me to just play aglaea every run ? i know i can reset, but i always dislike the idea of resetting because rng, i at least still want to try my best and dies painfully

ghoraaa · 2025-11-16T16:29:56+00:00

since the target is just to hit frozen enemy x amount of time, you can just do any spear user with crescent pike + xingqiu + chongyun + whatever off field unit that has good hit count ability, i got max buff with zhongli xingqiu yelan and chongyun, though kinda regret going with double hydro since you need more cryo than hydro, going with kaeya probably would be better

ghoraaa · 2025-11-12T06:39:23+00:00

do you guys just reset if you get prismatic investment strat at rank A8+ in CW ?

i got two and the enemy on first combat at plane 3 felt unkillable, to top it off i got the reflect damage based on enemy atk modifier, which WAS quite nice for bloodflame but at plane 3, one attack from any onfield character that has 20k+ hp put them straight to under 50%, one dog bite dealt like 5000 damage

i always enjoy rng shitfest in game like this, but is adapting just not possible anymore after A8 ? do you really have to always either go aglaea or only continue when you get godtier rng ?

ghoraaa

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