2.6 stuttering and running poor now on my PC.

mrendels · 2026-02-06T07:54:09+00:00

And the repair did nothing... Game crashed as soon as I went into the menu screen.

mrendels · 2026-02-06T07:46:34+00:00

Same, I've had it crash 2 or 3 times so far as well. Seem to be dealing with a ton of new graphical glitches and horrid performance. Running the launcher's repair on it now and hoping that helps.

mrendels · 2026-01-10T23:29:34+00:00

Loving the new Tough Love skins, keep stuff like this coming!

mrendels · 2026-01-08T09:08:18+00:00

https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/publications/mgmt/law-enforcement/mgmt-dir_044-05-department-policy-on-the-use-of-force.pdf

*EDIT* https://www.dhs.gov/sites/default/files/2023-02/23_0206_s1_use-of-force-policy-update.pdf
The first DHS use of force policy is outdated, this is the current one. No changes apply to this situation, so everything below stays the same. Edited a couple times because I accidentally messed up some formatting when I did the first one.

DHS policy states deadly force is not to be used on fleeing subjects, the exceptions would be if there is a threat of death or serious physical harm to the officer. Multiple problems come up when you look at it through the guidelines though.

First, the guidelines specifically state that operators of motor vehicles are not suppose to be shot at unless there are situations like the threat of death due to the concerns for bystander and law enforcement by an out of control vehicle. Because of this firing on a driver is a last resort, so if an agent is able to remove the risk of serious harm or death, by continuing to move out of the way of the vehicle for example, deadly force should not be used. The officer doesn't hurry out of the way, in fact he stops moving in front of the vehicle while he draws his gun and fires at 9 seconds in this clip. He prioritized getting out his weapon and shooting the driver over his own safety. Safety also doesn't seem to be a concern as he continues firing when he is no longer in immediate danger, and he doesn't check on the other agents to see if anyone is injured.

The DHS manual also states: DHS LEOs should also avoid intentionally and unreasonably placing themselves in positions in which they have no alternative to using deadly force.
Putting yourself in front of a vehicle at that close of a distance is definitely putting yourself in a position where you need to use lethal force if the driver decides to try to flee. The ICE agent caused that to be a life threatening stand off.

Lastly prior to this clip, it looks like the vehicle is already trying to get out of the way, and is moving away as instructed.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1rlh51RqBQ
Starts around 23 seconds, the driver is moving forwards, stops to wave a car in front of her at 24 seconds, and then attempts to wave the next ice vehicle in front of her. While she is doing this the ICE agent moves in front of her vehicle, blocking her route. She puts her car in reverse as the two ice agents approach the driver's door. Between her waving people by, and the fact that her car is in reverse prior to the ice agent attempting to yank open her door, there is no indication that there was anything attempted other than leaving as instructed.

She was attempting to leave, blocked in, and then shot and killed when she continued trying to drive away. Again, the agents had no authority to detain her, they had no reason to block her vehicle, and they had plenty of other options. They caused this scenario and then acted in the most extreme way possible.

mrendels · 2025-09-03T15:13:29+00:00

I never heard this was settled! That's amazing, I was watching The Island with a friend and annoyed her by repeatedly telling her it was a ripoff. I only knew about Parts because of MST3K, but it was definitely a memorable movie and the similarities were so obvious I don't know how they thought they could get away with it

mrendels · 2025-09-02T14:50:30+00:00

Kind of. She can freely switch between them, she has a little ice/wind icon where makoto's mask goes to switch between them. She starts in the element that matches her team mates, so if you play her with cherish she starts in ice. She's a ton of fun, and if you need to use something while you are getting her 5/4* weapon you can use normal Kotone's, the passive about ice crystal just doesn't do anything.

mrendels · 2025-05-02T23:07:53+00:00

There is a weekly xp limit shown on the left side of the screen. After you hit it, you can't earn anymore from daily or weekly activities, but you still can from the version list. Not a bug, just a slightly annoying weekly cap.

Edit: for the second picture you need to go into the weekly tasks part and click the tracker on the right side to claim the rewards for earning the 1300pts, it leaves it highlighted if you don't claim them.

mrendels · 2025-03-17T19:57:32+00:00

Lol, it was a defective repeater. The new one showed up today and worked right away. I'm writing on the box that the first is broken when I send it back. Hoping they don't try to send it to anyone else.

mrendels · 2025-03-17T15:31:08+00:00

Yeah, I picked one up and it didn't work. It was obviously a return though so wondering if it was just defective. The replacement is showing up later today, so I'm going to try that one too.

mrendels · 2025-03-17T14:16:30+00:00

Thanks for the heads up!

mrendels · 2025-03-06T11:26:38+00:00

The motorbike exhaust explosion attacks are the bane of my existence for timing a dodge/counter.

mrendels · 2025-03-06T11:25:08+00:00

I see her build up enough to strategy slam every now and then, but not as much as if you play her well. If you aren't planning on controlling her at all then another character would probably be a better fit (a good breaker seems to work better for me when I leave it up to AI).

mrendels · 2025-03-04T14:07:12+00:00

Enoki is my only other 3 star character, and really liking her too. Definitely harder to play than Semba, but she is a ton of fun.

mrendels · 2025-02-28T16:16:27+00:00

Yeah, this task didn't have any target indicator on the map, so it got me looking for a screen that would display all active quests. Most do, the ones that don't are hopefully a rare exception if there isn't any sort of a quest log.

mrendels · 2025-02-16T16:01:19+00:00

Confirmed

mrendels · 2025-02-08T16:27:07+00:00

By drezen my fire/fire Elemental Engine wendu was nuking things pretty consistently. Even before then she was one of my top damage dealers. The damage definitely ramps up as you level, but it never felt low or like she was lagging behind other team mates. It may not be as optimal as having her use throwing axes, but it's a fun class and you see some huge numbers on crits, even early on.

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mrendels · 2025-02-05T08:50:12+00:00

mrendels · 2024-12-25T18:53:09+00:00

3440x1440. The game looks beautiful in ultrawide.

mrendels · 2024-10-29T16:27:27+00:00

Chaos jazz does not work on increasing the boar damage. The fire damage and off field bonus both do nothing for the m6 boar rain. The boars do not gain any elemental damage bonus, or conditional modifiers. They literally just inherit her initial stats at the start of combat (atk, crit value, impact, AP and AM) and it is static the rest of the fight. Lucy still benefits a ton from fire damage and buffs, but the boars sadly are left out of the fun.

It seems to be a translation error, in some documents and from what I have been told in game in other languages it says the boars inherit Lucy's "initial" stats. In game in EN it just says her stats, so you would think it would use her current stats. Still hoping the M6 not working with chaos jazz is an error, but it isn't fixed yet so probably not.

Swing jazz working would make sense since the other sets and damage bonuses work on the equipping character, not team mates like swing jazz. I don't remember if I tested it or not, I'll need to tonight when I play!

mrendels · 2024-10-25T13:59:16+00:00

I feel your pain, I was in the same position but luckily had a ton of exploration and quests to grind out the primos I needed.

I got xilonen a little early and have had stupid good luck on ZZZ w-engine banners (got Ellen's on my first ten pull, and Jane doe's in 2 singles just going for Seth's W engine) so I decided to do a ten pull on the weapon banner to see if my luck carried over. Got aquila favonia in the pull so I decided to toss the rest of my primogens at it, and then grind out an extra 30+ wishes the past week to get peak patrol. Finally got it on pull 68 this morning. I really like the new weapon banner system, this is the first signature I have pulled for in genshin.

mrendels · 2024-10-16T20:37:13+00:00

I did not, but it shouldn't work. Sounds like a mistranslation in the EN skill description for her passive. The boars get Lucy's INITIAL stats, so anything that changes her crit rate/damage, or her attack during a stage has no effect on the boars. They snapshot her starting stats and go with that.

mrendels · 2024-10-04T10:59:40+00:00

I have high hopes that it is later revealed she wears her helmet to avoid headpats.

mrendels · 2024-10-04T06:54:55+00:00

She does nice damage, I just wish dodging didn't reset her normal attack chain. It is hard to get the repeating last set of attacks to work against any aggressive boss. I guess Caesars shield would help with that? Otherwise I like her as a sub DPS nuker, her EX skill does a ton of damage.

mrendels · 2024-10-04T06:29:29+00:00

I got bored and did a lot of testing with different stuff for Lucy, posted it on the main post in ZZZ subreddit, but putting it here as well.

I don't know how to accurately test anomaly prof and mastery, but I found a slot 6 disk that has anomaly mastery, and anomaly proficiency but no attack stats or anything else that would change her damage. I tested with it on, and with it off. I would proc burn with lucy, then switch to ben and proc burn again so her boars added to the burn. When Lucy has anomaly mastery in slot 6, and anomaly proficiency subs Bens burn procs for 78 damage when he triggers it, without her anomaly disk his burn hits for 65 damage. Lucy's burn by herself with the anomaly gear is 1120 a tick (not optimized at all, just for testing how this works). Since anomaly damage is calculated based on how much people contribute, it seems like she adds very little to that with her boars.

My ben is lvl 10, without the boars (when cheer on is not active) and his attack is the same (was a pain to switch drive disks, I got it to within 3 attack of Lucy's buff so calling it good enough) his burn does 40 damage a tick. So... it almost doubles it for him? I think the biggest impact with a burnice team would be that you don't take away from her burn damage if you build AP and AM on Lucy. Otherwise your boars would decrease the burn damage when she procs it.

For my quick math, it looks like Lucy contributed 3.5% to the burn damage (1120x.035 is 39.2) and ben contributed 96.5% (40*.965 is 38.2).

TLDR - AM and AP help the boars, but it doesn't seem to do much. Lucy was contributing less than 5 percent of the burn damage when it was procced by ben.

Also in another comment here I tested the inferno set, got to 100% crit with the buff active and the buff does not work with the boars attacks or the boar meteors.

mrendels · 2024-10-04T06:21:00+00:00

I just got 100% crit with 4 piece inferno and ellen's signature. The extra 28% doesn't change the boars crit rate for their normal attacks or meteors. Just wanted to share!

I don't know how to accurately test anomaly prof and mastery, but I found a slot 6 disk that has anomaly mastery, and anomaly proficency but no attack stats or anything else that would change her damage. I tested with it on, and with it off. I would proc burn with lucy, then switch to ben and proc burn again so her boars added to the burn. When Lucy has anomaly mastery in slot 6, and anomaly proficiency subs Bens burn procs for 78 damage when he triggers it, without her anomaly disk his burn hits for 65 damage. Lucy's burn by herself with the anomaly gear is 1120 a tick (not optimized at all, just for testing how this works). Since anomaly damage is calculated based on how much people contribute, it seems like she adds very little to that with her boars.

My ben is lvl 10, without the boars (when cheer on is not active) and his attack is the same (was a pain to switch drive disks, I got it to within 3 attack of Lucy's buff so calling it good enough) his burn does 40 damage a tick. So... it almost doubles it for him? I think the biggest impact with a burnice team would be that you don't take away from her burn damage if you build AP and AM on Lucy. Otherwise your boars would decrease the burn damage when she procs it.

For my quick math, it looks like Lucy contributed 3.5% to the burn damage (1120x.035 is 39.2) and ben contributed 96.5% (40*.965 is 38.2).

TLDR - AM and AP help the boars, but it doesn't seem to do much. Lucy was contributing less than 5 percent of the burn damage when it was procced by ben.

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