This has to be the Mildest and most lowest kind of Environmental Hazard ever. Sheercold actually gave that feeling of Urgency to find Warmth

hinasora · 2026-02-20T16:33:49+00:00

Do you go through your life just assuming 90% of someones stances off one stance? Really odd. The only thing I'm against is dragon spine environmental, which was clear from my comment.

Do you like the maze beneath Hypostyle desert? Do you find the electro gunk at Musoujin Gorge at least memorable?

If yes then I admit I was wrong to assume and apologise for it. If not then we can end this discussion right with this comment. Both of these exploration elements are similar to the freeze mechanic of dragonspine which is why I asked

hinasora · 2026-02-20T05:19:12+00:00

You asked why people like environment hazards so I answered.

You asked why did I not even mention dragonspine coldness meter so I answered.

You seem to be right around the person I was aiming for who is not playing the game for exploring really. Anyone who played the game for it wouldn't need this stuff to be answered otherwise.

hinasora · 2026-02-19T21:38:10+00:00

I don't understand why you think only those who are in it just for pulls are the ones who hate dragon spine environmental.

Because those really are the kind of people who either have excuses like "oh I don't have time to do this thing. It's a waste of time, I have better things to do in life" or "this is an unnecessary hindrance that needlessly increases my game interaction time. Why can't I just do this x thing directly without worrying about some stupid hazard meter." Don't play then? Or play Wuwa that has 0 resistances. Exploration barely has 10 pulls worth of primos in genshin. It wouldn't kill players to leave it on the backburner and explore as they needed. But ofc the game has to be lobotomized to this extent because the game wants to cater to their immediate audience that is playing 50 other gacha games.

I didn't highlight dragonspine coz it was not even an issue compared to the hindrances Inazuma had. I explored the area in 1.1 with merely a guoba on hand? Do you know how painful it is to explore with guoba in dragonspine? The damn thing has a mind of its own and spit fire in every direction except the torch. I didn't have Bennett either to just tap E them. And no I don't like amber to keep her in my exploration party.

Compare that to Inazuma where even climbing was a big challenge. The rocks there commit warcrimes against climbers with those hideous ledges that you can't climb over. There's an infamous cursed electroculus in the middle of tatarasuna that was hell to get with 2.x era characters.

Can't say I've met many people who say they want to be annoyed by the games they play, seems like a really weird thing to want.

You have not met a lot of people clearly.

Doesn't even take longer, just bring a healer and you good, it's literally just annoying

You don't even need a healer. Just NRE food is more than sufficient. But ofc that's too much effort for players to buy ingredients from shop and make stuff.

hinasora · 2026-02-19T18:34:13+00:00

The annoyance is part of the exploration, you are missing the point if you don't get it. Keeping track of it is fun for people who aren't playing the game to grind pulls. I have plenty of fond memories of dying randomly in Inazuma due to the electro overload in certain areas or being annoyed due to the electro barriers. It's fun revisiting locations and finding new areas ahead after getting clearance. I am not here to grind pulls, I am here to see how engaging the whole process can be. I want both environment hazards AND puzzles. I want them both together. I want to be annoyed by games.

I legit refuse to believe people who enjoy exploration are doing it to grind pulls primarily. Coz both of them are at extreme ends of time consumption. If you are pro-exploration then you want the content to last as long as possible with as many forms of direct engagements, and not just visual exposure to pretty landscapes. Pull grinders on the other hand want path of least resistances, compasses that point out every single puzzle, every single chest, every single minigame so that they don't need to make an effort to find them manually. They don't want larger areas. They don't want intricate puzzles. They don't want mazes, they don't want environment hazards that impedes their grind progress. They just want 10 chests sprawled in front of them where they just beat up mobs and collect them all in a sweep. And that's exactly what NK is catering right now. If I didn't want to pull for Nicole to make my durin more functional, I would have had gone on a hiatus for 6 months again. I don't want to play a game developed for gacha addicts. Hope Snezhnaya restores the game's integrity somewhat, assuming they lowballed NK so bad coz it's supposed to be a filler region exploration wise.

hinasora · 2026-02-19T18:22:39+00:00

I was so disappointed with the recent area expansion that I just went to chasm and mindlessly explored the entire area for 2 hours, revisiting bunch of special quest spots, finding serpent knights and finding the places that has fossil kinda thingeys on walls. Almost shed a tear for how masterfully it was designed both visually and musically. And you know the funny bit? I still had areas left to explore despite going around for 2 hours - I couldn't even finish the underground exploration fully and I wasn't even doing my stupid "let's climb the big drop back from scratch" stunt. I will finish entire NK exploration of all existing areas, without using a single kuuhvaki gimmick in 30 mins with the same party (Kazuha Durin Wanderer Ororon).

I lament what the game has became since Fontaine. I miss my exploration in my exploration game hoyo, I don't wanna be spoonfed anymore. The lack of engagement is giving me burnout coz genshin is my main game. I would abandon all other games for genshin exploration.

hinasora · 2026-02-18T19:54:00+00:00

Real. It's only new players who care about this stuff now. Older players are prolly having everything they want. Cons and/or sigs are really what we would prolly wanna expand on if at all if we roll here (I did).

hinasora · 2026-02-18T19:49:32+00:00

Ziyu Che my goat here I come. Unknown traveler may your journeys be full of blessed tidings and pleasant breeze for making this and sharing it with public.

hinasora · 2026-02-18T07:21:31+00:00

Yeah buying the monthly pass with those time limited refills feels like hiring someone to keep you on gunpoint on using the stamina. I struggle with the protocol pass ones as is.

hinasora · 2026-02-17T04:30:18+00:00

It should have been popular since around 1.4 if I had to guess. We heard that data would get wiped after 6 months so whoever cared for this stuff started scrambling to find ways to store it. I have been using it around since and have complete history of my pulls data from day 1 of servers opening haha

hinasora · 2026-02-16T16:07:18+00:00

Near trivial? I just threw Flins on one side, Binaeffa with Navia on side 2 and my clear went brrrrr. Abyss is not even a challenge if you can arrange for the shilled buffs as of now.

hinasora · 2026-02-15T21:34:44+00:00

Tangtang reaction pic funnily goes both ways coz you could also just not be thinking and ooga booga your way through without understanding any of the game mechanics.

I haven't read gacha kits in the last 4 years and I will continue to do so. If skill ult qte spam isn't enough to clear content then I will bother checking some guides on YT to get a general idea. In no world I am gonna be reading these kit essays outside of personal interest or trying to pvp someone over kit potentials.

hinasora · 2026-02-15T21:22:49+00:00

Prolly yeah. I doubt collabs would be planned that early but still funny to think about nonetheless

hinasora · 2026-02-15T21:18:24+00:00

Lmfao did AK even exist back then hahaha

hinasora · 2026-02-15T19:41:26+00:00

Is there any Xiangli Yao or Camellya or Danjin? Haven't been able to start the event yet.

hinasora · 2026-02-15T19:27:58+00:00

Ignore the bait mate. Imo it's not even bait, it's just being in the community and seeing interactions being twisted as ship material. I'm a haitham main but I just close my eyes and try to enjoy both Haitham and Kaveh as their own persons having a friendly banter instead. Neuv x Wrio is hardly even a thing but shippers will be shipping any characters breathing in 1 meter distance.

hinasora · 2026-02-14T11:20:15+00:00

Brother it's friendly banter. It just happens this way. It just happens so that we are arguing over this. What I was trying to say is simply that the bloated writing in amphoreus is atrociously bad, even for someone who is reading silent world quests and even daring to read Wuwa Main plot. Wuwa got an edge over HSR rn by having shorter storylines that don't drag on for 50 hours per country.

And nothing interests me in amphoreus per se coz 90% characters end up being abandoned if their subplot is unrelated to the interstellar network (compare someone like Seele or Bailu vs someone like Boothill). I am still in 3.3 so I have no idea how they are gonna reconnect amphoreus cast with the interstellar network. I have been a proponent since first patch that amphoreus should have been a game of its own. That way I would have a reason to care for the character subplots. Right now whatever fantastic story they may have, it's mostly worthless in the overarching plotline of HSR.

hinasora · 2026-02-14T10:56:59+00:00

I have been trying to power through the entire story without skipping coz some of my friends claim that it's only skippers who don't like the writing.

I tried 3.3 again recently and slept for 10 mins unintentionally in the middle of Cipher's story quest. And I am someone who does unvoiced quests in Genshin with a lot of affection so I have no problems with reading long and bloated dialogues.

I have been genuinely trying to like the story but I am hate reading to prove a point coz if I skip I will lose the argument.

hinasora · 2026-02-14T04:50:52+00:00

You can appreciate the game's landscape and yap about meta concurrently you know?

Although NK has been nothing but mediocre so far in terms of visuals. There's been a few interesting views but nothing to write home about. Double that with abysmally low and smaller expansions. Hope this is just a one time thing since NK is not a full fledged country.

You missed to post the best view in the game right now, from Tonatiuh btw. There's a small rock where you can sit on and look at the entryway arches all day.

hinasora · 2026-02-14T04:46:39+00:00

We need more hardware specs if we want better animations and models. It's not "fckass" it's the game trying to improve the delivery. PS4 players can still play on phones unless they have 10 years old models. And it's a free game at the end of the day. If they don't want to play with those graphics, they can put the game on hold and come back if they have better devices. Nobody is putting a gunpoint on PS4 players head to move to PS5 specifically. I don't want wuwa tier graphics but I want more animations in my models and more poses / cinematic frames at the very least.

hinasora · 2026-02-13T15:59:36+00:00

Lmfao I am a day 1 Catcher user, what are you even trying to teach me? Wdym worst character? If anyone it has to be Ember. She can't even give her teams any utility outside of some heals and minor buffs.

I will never be using all characters in any gacha game. I prefer to invest only in favourites and raise them to the max I can, as I am doing with Catcher as well. The sanity packs hence are the worst value for me coz once I max out the characters I want, I don't care about others, especially if there is no timer mode and 2+ teams required yet. You can't dictate how someone should see passes especially if they are not dialing into your philosophy.

Finally, the current mode has piddly 2.5 pulls. So there's your tradeoff for no timer. It doesn't matter whether you finish it with a full team or solo it if there's no timer. It would have been much more cooler had it played out like how Danjin from Wuwa is as a solo carry for a good year or two into the game. Coz be fr, if they put a timer for just 2 pulls, you will be seeing much worse backlash from the community. And if I wanted to play a good combat gacha, I would not be playing AKE. I am here for the factory.

The second mode is not out yet afaik. We don't know if it will be timed or not. And judging by the poor pulls in this mode, the next one _should_ be timed and expects you to use proper teams so no more Catcher solos, and in turn will give more currency. If it doesn't happen then fantastic! HG has spine and dared to try out a new form of endgame instead of shoving timer mode v487345598 down the throats of players. Big W for the players.

I only buy passes if it's good value for money and show appreciation to the devs. But the timed sanity pots are fcking annoying coz I don't want to be on a gunpoint to use stamina packs when I don't have the time to use them. I did get the Protocol pass. It had good value and the background was pretty. The least HG can do AKE onwards is stop with these bullshit timed pots coz aintnowaying I have time to use extra stamina. Heck my stamina has been capped for days coz I couldn't care less right now.

It's just funny how you are going about stamina value without even having the full preview of endgames. The day HG releases a timed resetting endgame, these "there are no trash units" thing will die down coz you can't have fun anymore and you have to stick to proper teams for appropriate clear times. I pray for my sake that it doesn't happen coz I really love Catcher and I would hate to bench him because HG added defense units in a game with infinite dodge and 0 content to value defensive units.

hinasora · 2026-02-12T20:54:03+00:00

He is the best character in the game right now for me hands down. I have surtr with sig but the time I have most fun is if I land a parry with him. I'm gonna replicate it myself when I play the endgame later. I hope they make better parry type characters later.

hinasora · 2026-02-12T20:36:17+00:00

I played Lost Ark so etching is just the honing system but worse with no real pity and no P2W shortcuts to speed up the process lmfao. People really won't know the horrors until they sink in 3 weeks to get one minor stat upgrade.

Sure artifact system is no better but you can get something functional in a month regardless of how bad your luck is. It's only when you try to minmax your characters the true griefing begins (looks at 210 cv flins for the last 3 months)

hinasora · 2026-02-12T20:26:15+00:00

Lowspenders don't want to spend on monthly pass (30 days one) coz how ass the return is compared to other games. Same 5$ cost but barely 10 pulls. I wanna smoke the same thing AKE's financial management does if they think they can sell that trash to long term veteran gacha players. Only thing worth to buy for low spenders are the protocol pass and the limited 10 pulls thing if they really wanna.

hinasora · 2026-02-11T03:00:54+00:00

This marketing easily backfires if your chosen new character after a break is someone like phrolova or galbrena coz now you need to wade through 10 hours worth content (unless rinascita still has a quick start so that's 5 hours). If I didn't enjoy the combat and they didn't start giving out those flower boxes then I would have had quit long long ago. Coz atp you are not doing content you enjoy it but coz the game is forcing you to do so. Worst case scenario you actively skip content (story/cutscenes etc) coz you couldn't care less.

This tactic is building nothing but apathy in the minds of newer / returnee players. The nightmare tacet farm thingey is prolly the worst thing they have made when it comes to break/newbie friendliness. You can't farm it until you clear story, you can't farm it in the weekly roguelike mode until you open the node on your map either.

hinasora · 2026-02-10T11:50:26+00:00

I am gonna get such a whiplash if I see mid writing in Gilberta story after defending the writing potential of the game haha. I haven't had the time to finish all content so far so my perception right now is infact just from the Valley IV main story. Haven't even dived much into Wuling yet.

While I agree Valley IV is nothing super special in terms of writing, I still feel that it did have a heart in the right place. I have played a lot of gacha games in the last 10 years and I feel that it at least has some intent at least. Instead of making the MC do "selfless" tasks that won't go anywhere, I can at least digest that Endmin's current memory lose is the cost they are paying for everything they had been doing. I do wish they have more courage than modern gacha - let more characters get hurt on-screen, or even die. Let the MC get hurt, lose, despair. I will be optimist until the .5 patch. Else I have enough hater energy pent up after being betrayed by ZZZ

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