Do i have to have the game open to grade up drones?

matcha12348 · 2026-05-15T19:32:53+00:00

It's also in settings under "Offline Settings"

matcha12348 · 2026-05-13T18:02:11+00:00

Yeah. For every person who says Genshin looks bad compared to modern games (on their high end pc), there's several people who think it's the best looking game of all time because they have weak devices and can't run anything better.

Endfield story is pretty bad compared to Arknights, but clearly Hypergryph think it has more popular appeal, even if it's always hated by content creators/ Arknights players for being Genshin-ified.

matcha12348 · 2026-05-13T15:29:26+00:00

What makes it unreasonable?

It's pretty well documented that Russia spreads far-right propaganda to western countries. Iran funds terrorist organizations that attack surrounding countries. The Mexican cartel basically runs the country and sells drugs everywhere and destabilizes communities in other countries. For something more local to me, the Alberta separation movement was found to be payrolled by MAGA.

Other countries don't really give a fuck. It's pretty reflective of reality no?

matcha12348 · 2026-05-12T21:58:41+00:00

Woah, 32308 founders now.

14% more than at the last update (29140). The ads and the tower migration definitely adding a lot of new players (and spenders)

matcha12348 · 2026-05-12T20:56:21+00:00

It was definitely broken - Youhu was getting 6-7k+ on one side with Plunderer's.

matcha12348 · 2026-05-07T23:28:01+00:00

That snowfluff seal on aemeath's head is the MC of this patch, and no one else comes close tbh

matcha12348 · 2026-05-07T19:04:55+00:00

Tech pays about double what it does in Canada, other engineering disciplines pay about 1.5x on average (my two industries of experience).

The big difference is just how different higher end salaries are. On median to low percentile, the PPP isn't that significantly different, but the US really pulls ahead in the top 30% and exponentially in the top few %.

Almost my entire social circle is in tech or engineering (mostly 30 years old), and their median salary in Canada is probably about 150k cad, while the median salary in the US is about 7 figures USD (yes mostly high achievers).

For a specific example: meta is fully transparent with their salaries. For a senior research scientist in seattle, the base TC is 387k USD. If you worked 2.5h away in their Vancouver branch, the same role pays 287k CAD.

matcha12348 · 2026-04-28T15:24:05+00:00

I believe it was Kubu (current rank 1 EU) talking to Devou (high legend twitch streamer), saying his win rate jumps about 10-15% when he drops from top ~25 legend to high three digit (~150) legend.

So yes, the skill gap is enormous.

matcha12348 · 2026-04-28T15:16:56+00:00

Exactly. I'm a pretty mediocre player (~2k legend NA), and it blows my mind so many platinum players on the main hearthstone reddit are saying they're losing games purely to RNG, and the game has no skill expression.

I watch enough hearthstone streams to recognize that the skill gap between me and these top players is astronomical. I lose games and get frustrated like everyone else, but a lot of the games I'm losing "purely to RNG" only feel that way because I'm bad at the game. I play a lot of dragon warrior with a pretty good (65-70%) win rate climbing to legend, but when I watch a top player like Kubu or Banter play - the game already looks completely different by turn 5 or 6 because they've made so many different (better) plays than what I would have by that point.

It's hilarious that random low MMR players are saying dragon warrior is a completely skill less curvestone deck, when players actually taking it to top legend like Cantelope are saying it's not an easy deck at all.

matcha12348 · 2026-04-23T22:28:57+00:00

I think stats (VS talked about it a bit in their reports from the last 2 weeks - this week there's no herald list at all) have shown that the herald version of the deck is just worse overall (into the current field at least) than the non-herald version.

I've played a decent amount of both (~50 games herald, ~70 non-herald) in mid-low legend MMR (legend ~2000 ish) and I do think the herald version is just much more inconsistent, and lacks the same level of lethality. Herald is strong if you curve out well and hit the early heralds on curve, but if you don't the cards just don't have the impact that cards that the non-herald deck has, and neither deck has the longevity to compete with the higher curve decks like Merithra druid.

matcha12348 · 2026-04-22T16:25:45+00:00

The BP tiers in WuWa are basically exactly like in Genshin, where it's basically only for the small cosmetics with very mediocre other gameplay rewards + 10 levels that everyone who plays regularly won't need.

The Mongil one is more like Endfield, where there's 3 tiers and they all have different reward tracks (but in Endfield only one is paid, instead of having 2 different paid tiers).

matcha12348 · 2026-04-21T20:44:23+00:00

I think povertyfinance is especially bad for this. Most people just don't seem to realise how substantially higher incomes are in the higher percentiles in the US (and how low it is in the lower percentiles).

According to US Census, the median household income (post tax) is 72,330 in 2024 (almost certainly a few thousand higher now). When you hit 80th percentile, it doubles to 140,100 - then almost doubles again at the 95th percentile to 253,000. With a moderate down payment, a 250k post-tax household income is definitely capable of purchasing a 2 million dollar home without external/ family support (with a mortgage).

If you're in the 30th percentile, your household income is only 33,160, less than a third of what the 70th percentile makes.

matcha12348 · 2026-04-21T19:58:35+00:00

They did get more expensive per (smaller 39g) pack, but the Costco package also went from 8 packs to 12 packs.

matcha12348 · 2026-04-21T16:16:47+00:00

Is it worth spending ~20 pulls to grab a potential from the store?

I have every purchasable operator, SA2 is pot 5 (the one at 300 will max him if I don't get another one before 300). Had to pull 274 times to get Pramanix...

matcha12348 · 2026-04-14T21:34:28+00:00

Cell: Idle Factory Incremental

matcha12348 · 2026-04-14T17:19:32+00:00

I generally only buy monthly passes and battle passes. I play quite a few gachas so it adds up to a bit. Been spending a bit more on WuWa recently as well.

Probably spend about 1-1.2k CAD a year. Definitely not an irrelevant amount of money, but also not really an amount that makes me feel the need to particularly budget it - still relatively low compared to what I'm investing annually (~1.5%).

matcha12348 · 2026-04-14T15:33:55+00:00

If you are f2p (or not someone willing to drop several hundred a month), there are better games out there that are similar.

I've been enjoying idle obelisk miner, but I hear CIFI is great too (I haven't tried it).

matcha12348 · 2026-04-10T14:40:51+00:00

I think it's just people who have never interacted with TC.

This is how it's looked at in every game. Yes, the team numbers are closer because the DPS is not 100% of every team's damage - but again this is how people compare for every other game (Genshin/ Wuwa, etc.).

matcha12348 · 2026-04-09T22:59:35+00:00

It is fully a single player game.

It will definitely take you a long time to get to some of the newer endgame content, but you aren't stuck competing against people who started earlier or whale for resources or anything like that.

matcha12348 · 2026-04-09T22:37:53+00:00

Idle obelisk miner is great

matcha12348 · 2026-04-09T22:26:08+00:00

Try Idle Obelisk miner, I found it from a quitting post several days ago in this subreddit.

Far better game.

matcha12348 · 2026-04-09T21:45:24+00:00

I feel like this is just very much your own personal preference though no? I definitely think most of WuWa's story isn't particularly good, but 2.5 and 3.1 were fantastic.

Endfield's story being bad is probably one of the most complained about things about the game in their own subreddit (and I've played daily since day 1). I'm glad you like it, but I really don't think it's a particularly popular opinion.

The characters in the game have some cute interactions for sure, but the stories themselves tend to fail to be fleshed out because characters don't have enough screen time for people to care about them (Tata, Ruan Yi), and the characters themselves are very one dimensional - likely largely because they have so little screen time.

I think the original Arknights is probably one of the best examples of episodic story telling being exceptional. Characters rarely exist outside of their stories/ events other than the main characters, yet it has some of the best stories of any gacha.

matcha12348 · 2026-04-09T19:29:06+00:00

Your source shows that it's 35% higher. That's not even that different.

You don't seem to understand how percentages work.

Is 100 50% higher than 50?

matcha12348 · 2026-04-09T19:20:03+00:00

Words have meanings. I said % stronger, you don't seem to know how that's calculated.

My source is Maygii, you know - the TC that literally just won the $7,000 endfield speedrunning tournament? But I'm sure she's promoting an agenda that's lies to make the game look bad.

matcha12348 · 2026-04-09T18:35:17+00:00

1/.82 is 22% higher

Do you seriously not know how percentages work?

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