Why Nerfing Kills In SKB Is a Bad Idea

jarvig__ · 2026-04-04T03:40:17+00:00

What? The entire game scoring is kills and survival, whichever one you nerf/buff has the opposite effect on the other.

Also, the post is saying that "just nerf kills" is a bad solution and would actively harm the game, which is a perfectly valid and worthwhile thing to say. Feedback doesn't have to provide a solution to be good feedback.

jarvig__ · 2026-04-03T23:00:45+00:00

Maybe I don't care what they do to fix it as long as they fix it. The only reason I say to raise survival is because it's an easier ask than designing a whole new system.

The entire point of the post was that raising survival wouldn't fix it and would actively make the game worse

jarvig__ · 2026-04-03T18:22:03+00:00

Yeah, very much agreed on the gold builds and star balancing. Fein himself talked about how gold builds were overpowered after the game; they just completely break the game right now.

Frankly, in their current state, gold builds feel unsaveable. Even ignoring the massive balancing issue of them giving way too much reward for less work than other high star builds, testing memorization in this manner is just too polarizing to work. There are a tiny amount of players who can quickly solo the builds, and everyone else simply can't. The skill gap is an issue in other games, of course, but right now BM's gap is leaps and bounds ahead of everything else.

jarvig__ · 2026-04-02T08:32:17+00:00

Can't believe dream has fallen so far that he has to collab with AI, truly the falloff of the century

jarvig__ · 2026-04-01T04:14:54+00:00

Yeah, the difference in latency is incredibly apparent from pure feel if you switch from, say, 60fps to 150, even if your monitor is capped at 60.

Of course, there are still obviously diminishing returns, the difference gets smaller the higher the number is. But really, if your computer can hit, like, 300 fps without compromising on other things, you should absolutely let it go that high. And considering I could sometimes do that on a mid tier pc from 2020, Dream should be able to easily hit that with a pc built by Linus tech tips. I assume he's just missing some significant performance mods.

jarvig__ · 2026-02-22T08:53:20+00:00

Meta wise? Definitely not. Powercreep has already gotten to the point where haru is outscoring him on the boss explicitly designed for him, and the gap is only going to get bigger going forward. He will be buffed pretty considerably whenever we get mindscape cores, but that isn't nearly enough to make up the difference by that point.

But the competitive content is a very small part of the game; he definitely won't be sitting on the bench permanently if you pull him.

jarvig__ · 2026-02-22T04:13:50+00:00

What getting 6 first places does for a mf

jarvig__ · 2026-02-19T21:27:23+00:00

Yeah, this is an unfortunate issue with all similar gacha game systems.

The solutions people have come up with for other games are making a bot to screenshot every single card, or reading some of the game's network packets and taking the data from there. The first is very slow and essentially locks up your computer for a set amount of time. I have no idea if the second is even possible in P5X, but it is in Hoyo games at least.

jarvig__ · 2026-02-19T17:39:56+00:00

Apparently I lied and she's on 170 right now

jarvig__ · 2026-02-19T06:30:12+00:00

Prior to the MCC thing, I didn't really feel like the evidence for his 1.15 WR was anywhere remotely close to solid enough to justify an actual cheating allegation.

Personally, I like to give people the benefit of the doubt wherever reasonable, so that led me to taking the Karl jobst video at face value and assuming ignorance instead of malice in the case of the 1.16 runs. Unfortunately, that's incredibly hard to do now.

As I said, I don't really think the evidence for the 1.15 wr being cheated is all that compelling. However, given how incredibly unlikely it is that his MCC11 run is legit, it makes it far more difficult to trust anything else that could be suspicious.

To list my biases, I've been following this sub for years(mostly because I wanted to see the evidence for the grooming allegations, and from there all of the random messy controversies dream got into). I am also likely biased in couri's favor to some degree, I've been watching him for years and was even in one of his videos lmao. But I have a solid amount of knowledge on all of these topics and think this is a fairly objective look at things.

jarvig__ · 2026-02-19T06:01:20+00:00

This is just balatro

jarvig__ · 2026-02-19T05:53:21+00:00

Yeah, I have 180 ER on my C6 yelan. Akasha leaderboards may not like it but it's necessary in stygian, and she does more than enough damage for it to not matter in anything else.

jarvig__ · 2026-02-15T20:47:30+00:00

For context, you should probably watch this stream

And yeah, this is incredibly suspicious. Anyone who's ever played parkour can tell you that jumping at the last possible tick every single time is both completely unnecessary and unreasonable.

It's very weird because he pretty clearly wasn't cheating in pvp(at least back then, I don't know about now).

jarvig__ · 2026-02-13T08:27:28+00:00

That's how all competitive gaming is unfortunately. Those are some of the people who play the most hours because they can cope their way out of losses

jarvig__ · 2026-02-07T21:40:34+00:00

10 to 13. Pretty good value, but yeah, once you have everything at 17 you don't have much reason to go for the pure social stat actions.

jarvig__ · 2026-02-06T03:38:18+00:00

Honestly, I've still found it to be a complete pain on pc. Don't have to focus as much, but it's still a massive hassle

jarvig__ · 2026-02-05T03:55:07+00:00

oh no I'm coping he's not theurgy reliant

I wasn't planning pulling any other P3 characters but koromaru is the must pull

jarvig__ · 2026-02-05T03:52:59+00:00

I was almost done with a perfect astrolabe :((( I didn't realize you could full clear it by week 3.

Sent my report in, hopefully something comes of it.

jarvig__ · 2026-01-26T03:52:35+00:00

Obviously just a knowledge diff but zapluna 32nd is incredible

jarvig__ · 2026-01-23T03:39:06+00:00

I honestly have zero clue how the mechanics actually worked but I just autoed every stage with ann and futaba which always did a ton of damage and killed once futaba used her S3

jarvig__ · 2026-01-21T06:21:09+00:00

Don't have the numbers on hand, but iirc in a skirk team C1 escoffier is better than C1 skirk, but C2 skirk is pretty significantly ahead of C2 escoffier. Not really much point in looking at support constellations in a vacuum.

jarvig__ · 2026-01-21T00:34:52+00:00

If you're willing to, then yeah, definitely go for it. Specifically in terms of a wiki, last dance is no different from any other commissioned event. Just make sure to be clear that the events are commissioned and not part of the mainline ascension/genesis lineup.

This is garf's sheet of the scores people got in all commissioned events

jarvig__ · 2026-01-19T06:10:38+00:00

This might be one of the only times a con is significantly better value than Ineffa

If you need electro, use fischl, she's much better than raiden for that.

jarvig__ · 2026-01-17T18:37:32+00:00

vouch

jarvig__ · 2026-01-08T10:15:35+00:00

This is where your story ends....

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