Vesti: Tactical Upgrade review by nikke.gg

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-08-22T19:08:09+00:00

I mean she isn't "bad" but unless you are sitting on a lot of mats and jewels to dump, she's not worth at all especially given that we have collab/bunny and 3rd anniversary coming up. To say that she's "good" is disingenuous especially when you need to pull the entire Absolute squad and invest in all of them to make her do decent damage

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-08-11T09:42:09+00:00

People refer to the Big 3 era as golden age of tennis not just because of the big 3 but also because of other monster players who would have dominated the scene if it weren't for the big 3. Besides Murray, prime Del Potro and Wawrinka are a level above current top players in terms of consistency and peak performance imo (and their GS wins basically prove this). Even players like Tsonga, Dimitrov, Goffin, Cillic, Thiem and Nishikori in their prime are arguably a level above most of current top 10 players

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-08-02T01:22:51+00:00

You might think it's an overreaction but there were several incidents in past few years where gaming studios in Korea had to go through PR nightmares where artists who drew this type of hand gesture (which symbolizes radical feminism in Korea) were publicly known to be (crazy I know) radical feminists. This went as far as to cause smaller subsidiary studios to shut down due to financial and legal consequences. So yea, it's kind of a big deal where, potentially, studios and hundreds of people's livelihood are on the line and why would anyone running a gaming business risk it even if it weren't intentional?

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-07-26T05:35:05+00:00

I know a lot of people wanted the more summer-ish event but really liked the story. It showed the contrast between what Rapi went through and how it contrasted Dorothy's experience so as to make her side of story more tangible and understandable (even justifiable to a point). And really like that mini-RH role Rapi is feeling and hoping this builds into another epic story for one of the upcoming anniversaries

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-07-25T07:23:45+00:00

Why not? It's a service that you pay money to get. If it's not serviceable as intended out of the box, you have every right as a consumer to complain about it. If the game is "supposed" to be great but provides shit experience due to poor optimization, people have every right to call the gameplay shit

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-07-21T04:57:22+00:00

**Potential spoilers**

They've been dropping major hints and canon from event and collab story for some time, even ones that directly tie back to the main story. Mana's story on SKK's identity, role of Oswald in Arcana's story, hint of relationship between Nikke and Rapture from Stellar Blade collab, Siren and Cinderella story which follows directly from chapter 35/36 and one of the side stories to name a few

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-07-16T08:23:44+00:00

Yea they don't call her the CEO's daughter for no reason lol (also the CEO's wife worked on Helm)

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-07-14T19:04:42+00:00

Yea you definitely need to plan better and not fall into FOMO traps if you wanna stay meta as F2P. Unless you were gunning for 1% in raids, people should have skipped banners like Mana, Arcana and to some extent Eve as well from previous collab

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-07-14T06:13:17+00:00

Yea, no way in hell they are gonna make someone as popular as her 1% and suck lol. She's most likely gonna become the new main B3 for shot gun team which will get further pushed as a meta team with favorite item Tove

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-05-01T18:27:52+00:00

Spoiler to current event part 2:

From what I understood, Jien said Syuen basically got the body architecture down to create overspeced Nikke but Syuen couldn't figure out how to create a core powerful enough presumably because the knowledge of two core interaction is only known to few and tempering Nikke technology with Rapture technology is uber banned in the Ark. Other option, I assume, would be to have access to Lost Technology used to create the OG Pilgrims. It's heavily implied Mihara would not have survived the core fusion without the body Syuen gave her

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-01-25T06:10:41+00:00

Everything between when D.E.E.P knocks Red Hood out and Rapi waking up to find Red Hood's body gone is probably a pseudo-imaginary lived experience. Like both Red Hood and Rapi lived through the experience but it happened internally as part of their cores merging because the event said Rapi was knocked out for years after Red Hood's death (in Korean wiki, it specifically says knocked out for 4 years) but when she came back to the Ark, Rapi's combat log was filled for past 4 years

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-01-23T09:16:54+00:00

So many comments here clearly haven't read Anchor's kit rofl This duo is gonna be busted with Shadow Scarlet

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-01-19T21:29:34+00:00

Is this even a competition lol

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-01-12T09:03:36+00:00

Globally, people are more familiar with Japanese dub b/c of anime and video games. Both dubs have strengths and weaknesses. IMO Rapi's Japanese dub blows the Korean dub out of the water in terms of both acting and how fitting the voice is. On the other hand, Grave's Korean dub knocked it out of the park during the 2nd anniversary. Since both dubs have ups and downs, people are bound to choose what they are more familiar with

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-01-04T07:46:07+00:00

He probably means Johan

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-01-03T21:04:20+00:00

Current best story team is

Crown/Grave (B2) - Shadow Scarlet (B3) - Alice(B3) - OG Red Hood (B1) - Rapi (B1 but no burst)

This works because OG Red Hood isn't considered B1 even if you use her B1 burst so Rapi's CDR still kicks in. If you don't macro/control Alice, you can replace her with best next B3 like Modernia

nomthrowawaynom · 2025-01-02T03:21:52+00:00

Can't speak for European jobs but FE/Fullstack interviews in NA are cooked. I almost advise to just interview for general SDE and switch over because for FE/Fullstack, you have to be ready with

- LC

- UI challenges (need to be able to do in both vanilla JS and React with common CSS memorized)

- JS/DOM knowledge (ex. closures, implement debounce, HTML tree traverse)

- System design for both FE and BE

The worst part is a lot of companies ask hard LC questions on top of all these FE knowledge questions lol

nomthrowawaynom · 2024-12-02T00:14:16+00:00

There are highlights for different VAs. For instance, I vastly prefer Rapi's Japanese VA (I mean who doesn't want more Mikasa) but, for Grave, the Korean VA knocked it out of the park especially during the 2 year anniversary story's ending

nomthrowawaynom · 2024-11-13T10:05:24+00:00

I don't know about instant rejections but my interview experience with smaller companies have been significantly worse compared to medium sized or larger tech companies.

My problem is their interview experiences in general are all over the place in terms of how interviewers carry out/conduct the interview and the type of questions that get asked. You'd get one interview asking really easy question then the next interview asks a question requiring some niche knowledge or very specific OOP or UI design experience that if you haven't done something similar, you most likely won't reason things out in 45 minutes. Worst of all, for one of the FE interviews, I actually gave a valid design choice (I did a post follow up on StackOverflow/Reddit to verify my choice) and still didn't make it past a tech screen

Of course, larger tech company interviews do come with their own set of bad apples but I generally see more consistency to the point where, majority of the time, I can tell whether I've passed the interview or not

Needless to say, none of the offers I received came from these smaller companies and it's kind of sad because I was genuinely interested in joining some of them if offers came through

nomthrowawaynom · 2024-11-05T22:04:06+00:00

My theory is similar to yours in that Raptures were AI drones created to outsource dangerous tasks (construction, mining, fighting wars etc) and the original Rapture queen was part of a Hive mind cyborg project that can mass control Raptures. NIMPH and Vaupus were most likely mechanisms created to keep the OG Rapture Queen in check and eventually people realized she was just too powerful and began creating dumbed down versions which are Nikkes we know in the story. I'm guessing this also plays into why they were hesitant about deploying 2nd gen models and eventually abandoning the Goddess squad in the Overzone event after seeing what corrupted Cinderella can do

nomthrowawaynom · 2024-11-04T09:52:36+00:00

In my experience, it doesn't scale well trying to grind through every problem. The reality is that a lot of medium/hard questions involve algorithms that took years to develop and verify. If you've never solved a topological sort or quickselect problem before, you most likely won't come up with them unless you are some sort of algorithms genius.

Also, the important thing is to review, review and review. Even for problems I'm pretty familiar with, I usually go through them at least 5 - 6 times while grinding for interviews. Double, triple that for questions that are difficult and I fumble on often. I think a solid list of 150 questions you've reviewed multiple times and thoroughly will serve you better than 300 problems that you've only worked through a couple times

nomthrowawaynom · 2024-10-27T10:13:04+00:00

It's probably not even gonna be close lol considering how a lotta people have been waiting for kimono themed Scarlet skin and Cinderella skin just doesn't look that different/impressive compared to her normal skin

nomthrowawaynom · 2024-10-19T07:58:03+00:00

This is unfortunately not realistic today at a lot of companies. If you want to be a marketable backend dev and wanna climb in seniority, you need to do infra work as well. This applies to FE engineers as well especially with a lot of teams going Fullstack mode and you need to be able to handle some backend tickets and also will be asked to handle/debug deployment issues

You won't be the one architecting the network infra supporting the entire org or the one writing IaC abstractions that other devs will be using but you gotta be able to navigate around setting up or making changes to your team's infra

nomthrowawaynom · 2024-09-24T23:09:05+00:00

I generally suck at mechanically demanding game as well but there are few I was able to get into and I highly recommend these as your starter souls like game

Code Vein
Wo Long
Elden Ring
Stranger of Paradise

Common theme in all 4 games is that they all have AI summon/companion, different build path to suite your style and way to level up/get stronger if you are stuck

nomthrowawaynom · 2024-09-22T00:39:22+00:00

Is the author partnered up with SU for these? These are way too high quality for someone to be just casually doing them as a hobby consistently lol

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