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Genshin Impact |OT| 4.0 (Fontaine) - Je m'appelle "la baleine"
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Pejo
Gold Member
Interestingly, it looks like if we complete this, we get a permanent extra daily quest added from Katheryne to track down and hunt Wei (the unusual hilichurl).
Also, hit rank 8 teapot, got my beach house started. I already love it so much more than my cloud realm. Don't have time tonight to really do much with it, but I'm looking forward to making it actually look nice.
BlackM1st
Banned
LOL, word.
Not necessarily, but I understand what you mean. You either really care and build your 2 teams properly(including pesky 4☆ supports) or just bust it with P2W help. In either case it's hardly a fun activity. Only yesterday I got to 12-3(1). Killed the new bosses in 5 minutes. Then 12-3(2) mages ohk killed me and I said F it lol
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LegendOfKage
Gold Member
So with the teapot, why do we have options to build ceilings, floors, and walls, but none of them seem to work? Have they been announced as placeholders or something?
I also find it interesting that the load is going to be increased depending on which platform you're on. Does that mean large portions of your furnishings won't show up on certain platforms, or are they going to separate who can even enter which teapot depending on platform? I guess we'll all find out soon enough.
I also find it interesting that the load is going to be increased depending on which platform you're on. Does that mean large portions of your furnishings won't show up on certain platforms, or are they going to separate who can even enter which teapot depending on platform? I guess we'll all find out soon enough.
BlackM1st
Banned
Isn't it just switching the texture of existing walls/floors?
Nah. I think that being able to PLACE is not the same as being able to DISPLAY. IMO on your PC account you will be able to furnish all you want, but on mobile it will be only displayed and wouldn't be something that you will be able to change in the "place" menu. Otherwise we wouldn't be able to see anything in the open world, especially in the cities haha
Saber
Member
They seem to work on here but its specific to each room. If I have one floor/wall/ceiling in one room, I can't use the same on another. I would have to build a new one. At least from what I get here, can't say I understand much how this works.
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Reizo Ryuu
Member
Powercreep can be rebalanced, it happens in Honkai quite a bit when older kits get updated or a support is released that boosts another older group of characters.
Personally I like having the CN server being one version ahead, GI and Honkai are really stingy with free currency and summons are expensive, with the previews I can pick when to save and when to spend.
also *laughs in +2 fallen edelgard
Fuz
Banned
This is the main problem with this game.
There's nothing to do right now for long time players who finished exploring the overworld. And we can't pull on shit (which is a pretty huge part of gacha enjoyement, plus having new stuff gives us more things to try) due to lacking resources and how banners are designed.
I finished the BP (and not buying this month - fuck you mihoyo) and I just log to get the free gems then I fuck right off on to DFFOO and Exos Heroes.
For comparison, and I'm F2P in both:
- In DFFOO I have 1.2mil gems and 800 tickets (5000 gems = 1 multi pull for 11 chars), got all the weapons I wanted and more, I'm pulling every week, mostly with tickets and they give away tons of free multipulls (got 2 BT weapons - top tier, rarest - from free multipulls).
- Exos gives away TONS of currency and free pulls too, playing for a bit less than a month now and pulled 5 stars left and right. TBH, apparently pvp is whale territory, but who fucking cares for pvp.
I sure have complaints for both games, but sure as fuck I'm not getting bored because of dry spells.
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Dregnel
Member
I honestly don't have the strength to play another gacha, i'm testing phantasy star online 2 CBT and i liked it, i will play that instead i can't farm another 2 month to get that guaranteed pity in this game, that would be 5 month without nothing, almost the half year, xingqiu c14 seriously fuck this game
Pejo
Gold Member
Yep you hit on the biggest problem for me. These battle events are nice time wasters and probably easy for them to pump out, but if this game had been a timed DPS race in a circular room from the very start, I wouldn't have played past day 1. Honkai already does that, and does it way better. I was drawn into this game by the story/world/lore/exploration. I think they should nix so many of these little shitty events, make less of them but they last longer or whatever to fill gaps, then focus on making a dragonspine-sized area for every or every other version update. It was amazing how rejuvenated I was when dragonspine dropped and it made me remember how good this game is when you're just exploring shit and unlocking stuff. It's not even so much about the rewards as is it just the feeling of exploration.
They just did the final survey for 1.6 players a few days ago, and one of the big questions was "do you want the puzzles to get harder or stay the same", and I'm really hoping that most people picked to make them harder. I also hope, that unlike dragonspine, they don't force us to rush through exploring the area and let us take it at our own pace. Due to the story quests tied in to dragonspine and the crimson wishes, I felt like I was falling behind by not grinding out every hidden chest in the first week or so. Obviously that ended up not being the case because they completely abandoned the area after that patch, but still.
BlackM1st
Banned
All leaks are controlled and not real "leaks". I really wanna know what's happening behind the closed doors and why they are struggling so much with new meaningful content. Surely can't be money or team size issues. Mobile holding them back? Doubtful too because mobile evolve just like a PC and they can bump game requirements lately down the road. But now it's not even necessary imo. So it's not money, not a team size, not mobile platform restrictions...Then what? I fondly remember Destiny's launch and how developers complained about horrible engine. But GI uses very common/simple engine, surely they should be capable to work with it.
Fuz
Banned
That's what I also think, but when the spike is gonna show itself it will be already too late.
Saber
Member
Yeah, thats why its a guess. I mean, someone even said they lost 40% of the player base but somehow I'm getting the impression like they aren't even bothered?
Feels like for them it's no big deal. I see no sense of "rushing things" in order to get back those 40%, feels like everything is at a slow pace as if they have nothing to worry.
Pejo
Gold Member
Well 40% of the playerbase is huge, but if that's true, I wonder how much were paying (welkin moon/BP) customers instead of just F2Ps or reroll accounts. Not that a game doesn't need a healthy F2P population, but if I lost 40% of my non-payers and retained a lot of the paying people, it wouldn't exactly light a fire under my ass.
601525905Pejo where is your ID?
Are you on the Americas server? If you're on EU/CN you probably can't add me.
Reizo Ryuu
Member
Gacha pretty much live by their whale customers, so unless they lost 40% of those, they probably didn't see any difference in income.
Dragon_Rocks
Gold Member
I'll add you. My GI online id is Gulsyn.
Fake
Member
Sry, was me. I disable crossfuckingplay. Already send you invite.
Pejo
Gold Member
No announcement yet, but likely yes. Probably announced after the Mimi Tomo event thing starts.
Pejo
Gold Member
Man, after building Eula to lvl 85 with some talents and artifacts leveled, I'm really liking her. If you manage to kill a small enemy like a regular hilichurl or the small sized treasure hoarders with her 3rd or 5th hit in her normal combo, it yeets their bodies like 20 yards away and ragdolls them, super satisfying. I still am not getting 100k+ with her burst like she easily got in the trial, but who knows what fuckery they have set up for that.
Finally pushed through the rest of the misty dungeon event too. The only 2 I didn't get all achievements on the first run were the plunge attack kills and the 50k HP healing on the healing dungeon. MVP team for most of those trials for me was Keqing/Albedo/Xinyan/Diona. I swapped Sucrose in for Xinyan on the ranged trial. Conspiracy theory hat time - the whole event was to show how good Albedo is in settings where there are frequent encounters with many tightly packed together enemies to try to boost his inevitable rerun. Thing is, you rarely get those conditions in the game world. Usually it's 1-3 enemies and they always stay far far away from you and each other. I particularly hate how they programmed slimes to retreat, stop, look at you for a minute, and then come back in towards you every time you use a taunt skill on them.
Finally pushed through the rest of the misty dungeon event too. The only 2 I didn't get all achievements on the first run were the plunge attack kills and the 50k HP healing on the healing dungeon. MVP team for most of those trials for me was Keqing/Albedo/Xinyan/Diona. I swapped Sucrose in for Xinyan on the ranged trial. Conspiracy theory hat time - the whole event was to show how good Albedo is in settings where there are frequent encounters with many tightly packed together enemies to try to boost his inevitable rerun. Thing is, you rarely get those conditions in the game world. Usually it's 1-3 enemies and they always stay far far away from you and each other. I particularly hate how they programmed slimes to retreat, stop, look at you for a minute, and then come back in towards you every time you use a taunt skill on them.
Pejo
Gold Member
Well at least they used the uncensored armpits version of Jean's skin. Still a bummer.
crumbs
Member
That's interesting, I mostly used the same team comp of Keqing, Albedo, Diona and changed the 4th member depending on the challenge.
Most weren't too difficult, but I managed to mess up during the final battle of the elemental reaction dungeon and got Keqing killed. Things looked dire, but I ended up leaning on an Amber (!) and Diona melt comp to finish the challenge. I did not see that coming.
Dragon_Rocks
Gold Member
Not really anything new here, but good summary of known upcoming characters:
Who all are archons among these?
Pejo
Gold Member
In that picture, just Raiden (Baal) who we have no visual clues to yet other than probably purple. There's also speculation since Yae is basically a copy/pasted design from Genshin, that Baal will look like this in some way:
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crumbs
Member
Not really anything new here, but good summary of known upcoming characters:
Mimi looks like the Female MC in a costume. Hopefully her final design is refined/tweaked to make her look more unique.
Dragon_Rocks
Gold Member
Not really anything new here, but good summary of known upcoming characters:
Of all these, the only ones I am curious about are the dendro character to see how it is implemented, duo team to see their mechanic and Dain for his importance in the story and what his element is.
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Pejo
Gold Member
I thought the same exact thing about Kazuha and Male MC. I don't think we'll get what we want lol. Regardless, I'm really excited to get another water character, and my gut tells me she's 4*. Here's hoping.
These actually aren't all of them. I like the little bug looking girl in the other leak image that I posted like a month ago. Signora won't be for quite a while I suspect, probably Shneznaya release. I guess the 2 most hyped for me personally are Mimi and Yunjin if she's the rumored Geo Bow character.
BlackM1st
Banned
One of them is a boy in a stockings? Goddamn, why Miho, why, girl there is actually looking good...
Says a guy who bent over the moment EULA was released ;D Never say never, MiHo showed that we can get a new character outta nowhere. Personally, I'm really interested in the Inazuma's girls. All of them looks pretty nice. The only problem is that they can be released too close to each other...
Pejo
Gold Member
A set of thick thighs coupled with ZR is my weakness, what can I say?
How many Friendship 10 characters do you guys have? I feel like I should have a lot more by now considering how much time I've put into this game.
So far I've got 7 - Amber, Childe, Beidou, Jean, Lisa, Diona, Mona
BlackM1st
Banned
5. Maybe 6. Probably 5. My team is static because "all stars" doesn't need scrubs tainting their awesomeness...
Saber
Member
I think 6. Kaeya, Noelle, Xingling, Fishilz, Barbara and Xynian.
Saber
Member
Your Kazuha banner:
For real? No other character I play besides Kazuha. Looks like I'm in for dissapointment.
Dragon_Rocks
Gold Member
Wait what?? I thought both were girls.
crumbs
Member
I'm at 7 now as well - Klee, Chongyun, Keqing, Fischl, Diluc, Bennett, & Ganyu. Not that friendship matters much in this game, but have been trying to build up others by adding them to the daily commissions even if they're not doing much.
Pejo
Gold Member
If waterboi is any indication, he'll be on every banner from Fontaine.