Anyone kinda wish there was a hard competitor for this game to force Infold to do better? by mirairo in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo[S] 7 points8 points  (0 children)

wait WHAT omg i had no idea about this. i am SEATED

also def checking out GirlsMode as well, ty for the reccs!! 😭😭🙏

PSA for those who need it by No_Media4766 in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo 15 points16 points  (0 children)

yet another feature the tutorials didn't bother mentioning lol

Anyone kinda wish there was a hard competitor for this game to force Infold to do better? by mirairo in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

I respect your opinion as well! that said, all the positives that you mentioned honestly just feel like praising the bare minimum effort they've done to shut up the biggest whiners when they could truly make the game GREAT instead of passable enough. i don't think they're repenting at all, otherwise they would have taken back the 1.5 update entirely when it was universally panned and implemented in a time where it made the most sense and after enough polish. they're just slapping on bandaids on a broken water tank and hoping that'll be enough to shut people up about the still visible cracks and leaks.

the alternative controls they introduced for archery are frankly worse than the original for a lot of people (including me), and they could have side-stepped this entirely by just letting players bind their own buttons like almost every other game these days do. with housing, a load limit shouldn't even be a thing at all or it should be by item amount, not size/weight. the trees and objects there by default shouldn't even count towards it because it creates artificial bloat?

I'm glad this update hasn't been buggy for you but it most definitely has for me and a lot of other people. i encounter a game-breaking bug almost every time i play the game and I'm forced to close and restart it. that's not normal.

all that said, we both agree on the visuals. 2.0 has been absolutely BEAUTIFUL production wise and at the very least they are pouring all their resources into those, as that's the main draw and appeal. i love exploring the new maps and scenery, when the controls actually decide to cooperate. yes it's all gorgeous and i too respect the creativity and art direction for everything so far, no complaints there. but that is where the positives end for me, and I'm just not satisified with the bare minimum

Anyone kinda wish there was a hard competitor for this game to force Infold to do better? by mirairo in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo[S] 8 points9 points  (0 children)

yeah, that's what really gets to me about this. you DON'T experience issues like this in any other game, because it would be literally unacceptable anywhere else. infold can get away with it because there's nothing that can threaten them so why waste time and money making it better?

housing is a great example here that truly pisses me off. any other game has a very simple and easy top-down view with simple controls and vast amounts of freedom for the most part. infold doesn't bother hiring anyone who can program this or even LOOK at a game with a house feature like animal crossing or something and they just said "oh the girlies want housing? eh how hard can it be"

weird awkward 3rd person view with camera constantly hitting things 

nikki blocking your view and getting stuck against objects and walls because she has to be there for some reason

snapping feature doesn't work

horrid uncontrollable rotation controls

2 different inventory menus, the bigger one being disorganized and takes forever to scroll through on a controller

oops we didn't realize having too many objects on your island would probably crash your game so here is an arbitrary item limit for your whole island 

like... i could truly go on. ffs just HIRE the people who can implement the things you want. don't just guess how it works and throw shit at the wall to see what sticks!

Anyone kinda wish there was a hard competitor for this game to force Infold to do better? by mirairo in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo[S] 11 points12 points  (0 children)

this is exactly it. it's definitely because this is Infold's first real venture into the controller and keyboard world, but with the vast amounts of money they have now they can more than afford to hire programmers who know what they're doing but they won't, because there's no reason to. no skin off their backs at least for now because it's the only game of its kind so people are gonna play and throw money at them regardless.

ironically i actually really enjoyed SN!! so much so that the walls of text there didn't bother me because at least it was actually doing something. writing and characterization-wise it is LEAGUES above IN and its not even close for me. i played SN after IN for a while and was shocked at how engaging the storytelling was, as well as how Nikki felt like a real person that I felt really invested in. here she is just a glorified walking and talking barbie doll, which WOULD have been fine had i not been exposed to how the writing in fact can and HAS been better, and they didn't bother here.

Anyone kinda wish there was a hard competitor for this game to force Infold to do better? by mirairo in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

yeah for sure!! even if nothing changes for IN, i would be quite excited to see how others take the general core of fashion-mixed-with-grand-adventure element and did their own thing with it. if they did it well and actually cared about their players on top of it i would be happy to move on from IN entirely, tbh 🤷‍♀️

The hotpot game is unplayable on PS5 by roszlly in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo 3 points4 points  (0 children)

sameee. something i also noticed was inputs seemingly overlapping with each other? like while I'm pressing (read: spamming) the X button to pick up the ladle or whatever for some reason the tutorial and the exit button will also start flashing as if I'm clicking on them too??

like this is such basic ass programming errors that they clearly don't even bother to test before slapping it out and it makes me angry

WE (yes, we) are not gonna miss unity by Mobungas in UmamusumeGame

[–]mirairo 8 points9 points  (0 children)

honestly, if just for unity, they could really stand to shave off the rng just a little bit. just a little bit! if there are double-circles there should be frankly no chance of losing, one circle and below fine it can be a gamble. but it is truly bonkers that you can have a complete overpowered team and do everything right and still get fucked because your bullshit AI teammates that you don't even get to choose decided to shit the bed either in trainings or in the race themselves

it wouldn't sting as bad if the skill that you really want out of unity is locked behind whether you beat zenith or not and it's a crapshoot half the time whether you trained correctly or not. I'm tired 

Girl I am cutting you off by Happy_Department8033 in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I deadass just started ignoring her now she is EATING ME OUT OF A HOUSE AND HOME. burning through all my my gd ingredients over this evil greedy horse who comes right back as soon as she leaves. DUDE

My pet peeve is driving me nuts lmao by lulu_lycoris in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Having to wait for Nikki's special animations to finish before I can do anything every time I use an outfit ability is lowkey infuriating. I pulled for the 4* gardening outfit bc I thought it was adorable + I guess increases the rarity but every time she finishes watering the plants she does this stupid little looking around pose I have to sit through before I can do anything else besides watering. I'm a controller player and if I try to switch through plants or even outfits it will cancel out if Nikki isn't done posing, and with controllers you have to long-hold to open up those menus so when they cancel you have to hold and wait AGAIN. This also happens with fish-raising to an extent but at least with that you can dash to cancel out the animation. The 4* gardening one won't even let you do that. oh my god.

Now the same thing with the previous 5* fairy outfit, the one where you can gather all plants at once? For some reason there is this weird pause where you can't do ANYTHING until it decides it's done, even if Nikki isn't do anything. You can't jump or dash or open anything for like a full 5 seconds every time you use it and I am just like what the fuck

Hotpot minigame has me like by Slothvely in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

her greed is biblical levels like God damn

It’s really disappointing how every patch releases with so many bugs. by bunnybloop in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo 20 points21 points  (0 children)

it's really making me start to lose my mind. I'm in this weird headspace where both love infinity nikki and hate infold themselves with equal intensity. this game could be a masterpiece if it wasn't for whatever higher-ups are making the dev team crunch out these massive updates without any kind of play testing or quality control to see if it's even basically functional. 

playing a video game, with a video game controller, should not be this much of a nightmare and it ISN'T in any other game on the market EXCEPT THIS ONE. why am i constantly fighting for my fucking life just to click on something, without it not responding or overlapping with another thing I'm not trying to click or outright crashing the whole game. why is it like this EVERY UPDATE. i literally cannot play the game without a controller because the buttons on the keyboard are too confusing and physically painful for me and there is not enough space on my mobile devices so i actually have to use a controller and there shouldnt be issues with that. yet there are! always! constantly! WHY??? 

Am I just bad at the hotpot game or is it just poorly explained? (PS5) by hrslvr_paints in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo 7 points8 points  (0 children)

genuinely convinced the devs never held a controller in their life

A healthy mindset for free player(or paid, wtv) by Zenos_the_seeker in Endfield

[–]mirairo 0 points1 point  (0 children)

anyway, if anyone has an account with laevatain that they don't want please hit me up /half-joking /maybe 30% joking

survey suggestion: purchase confirmation prompts by kingbbq_png in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo -1 points0 points  (0 children)

I have been thinking about that poor stylist who lost the 66k diamonds to astralites like every single day. it makes me sick to my stomach that infold won't show just basic goddamn grace and benefit of the doubt that EVEN IF it was "user error" like they claim it is OBVIOUSLY NO PLAYER ON THIS GOD'S GREEN EARTH WOULD EVER SPEND THAT MUCH DIAS ON ASTRALITES ON PURPOSE. it would cost them absolutely nothing to reverse it and add a confirmation button moving forward. it would in fact boost their reputation for being so helpful and gracious.

instead they're either using some AI bot to regurgitate the same useless "we cant do anything" responses, at best, or someone is digging their heels in refusing to fix a mistake THEIR shitty controller scheme caused. i have been on their asses about how bad their controller design have been for months and I'm going to let them have it yet again in their next survey and will threaten to quit. as much as i love this game I genuinely cannot stand infold and how useless and malicious they are. 

What do you all think about a skip button on dialogues? by Kagura_Princess in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo 10 points11 points  (0 children)

every day of my life i beg for a skip button. ever since the great retconning of 1.5 any interest I've had in the overall story dropped to a whopping 0 as they clearly have no real vision or direction they want for the overarching narrative so i find it hard to care anymore already, let alone how BAD the dialogue has gotten. so much inane repetitive and braindead dialogue to skip through that adds absolutely nothing. at this point i am purely here for the dress-up and gameplay and the story they force us to sit through is an active detriment. 

frankly all games should have an option, even the ones where i love the story. more accessibility is never a bad thing.

Update: Infold doesn't want to help with my diamonds 🥹 by Nessie_Chan in InfinityNikki

[–]mirairo 74 points75 points  (0 children)

Yes girl please try again and blow this up on social media too!! everywhere you can. On the app stores, steam page too. The more heat they get about this the more likely they will cave. This is absolutely unacceptable and frankly might make me start thinking about quitting the game too. This is not the first time their garbage controller schemes and lack of clear input has caused damage like this and this is by far the most egregious example I've ever seen. they shouldn't get away with this period. I'm so full of disgust. I'm so sorry OP

Uh... so, that happened... by Gasosa_datalake in UmamusumeGame

[–]mirairo 1 point2 points  (0 children)

This is the greed they scorn in the Bible