『Dolls Nest:ORPHANS』The mecha girl action game originally created by Nitroplus has been reimagined as a comic from a unique perspective by up-and-coming manga artist Nykken and original scenario writer Kenji Maejima!https://comic-walker.com/detail/KC_008597_S/episodes/KC_0085970000200011_E?episodeType=firstPrevious thread: >>23904585
We're finally in the decayed broodchamber
game punished nehma is kind of a sight to behold. But the manga version unnerves me
accumulation zone being the next level always made more sense. Fuck corrosion though.
Gilli-Vell is finally here
well that's it for this month's first update. reminder the game's getting an update this coming tgshttps://x.com/Dolls_Nest/status/2086649234787291468
>>24006416And the model kit is up for preorder, releases next year.
>>24006524More pics here https://www.hlj.com/plamatea-armored-soldier-of-unknown-affiliation-dolls-nest-gsc59267
>>24006524was she always that blue? I swear her color scheme were more more monotonous blacks.
>>24006410GV! I still need to progress in my second playthrough so I can save her.>>24006526Wasn't expecting such a cute face.
Manga Nehma is alot more upfront about being an angry god.The manga actually makes you feel for the Seedling. Considering the manga sub-title of "Orphans", looks like family is going to be a central theme.In this chapter, Nehma made it clear that she only ever views the Seedling as a tool. Now that I think about it, game Nehma was a tad flippant about treating the seedling as a sentient being too, but I guess Reina Ueda's gentle voice kind of dampened just how much of a cunt she really is. Without her sweet voice, Nehma really just seems stone fucking cold. >>24006378Nanakino spilling spaghetti as she tries calling Nehma "M-Mother" only to get shut down by Nehma bluntly calling her a mere Doll kinda hurts. That look of shock and despair in lower left panel really sells it. Leave my autistic seedling girl alone you cunt. >>24006386Nehma's opinions on the factions in the three main levels are more blunt compared to the game:Upper Levels = Clowns that play make-believeMiddle Levels = Rabble that keep killing each otherLower Levels = Shithole infested with ugly abominations>>24006391And after killing what remains of Nanakino's soul, she makes it clear that her purpose is to be Nehma's personal executioner. Genocide and Plunder all that goes against her. She's really pushing Nanakino into a murderhobo playthrough. Stupid bitch is locking herself into the "A New Queen" Ending. But jokes aside, seems that the main narrative being set up is Nanakino meeting a bunch of Nymphs as she goes up Hod and finally starting to think for herself.
I hope we get to see a doll with maxed out boob slider.
>>24006346so is this just manga version of the game and the lore of entirety?
>>24007021both, it also adds more details on setting and the characters. >>24006741yeah nehma's cute voice and vagueness does a good job masking how much of a bitch she really is.
>>24006558She is, but you can only see it during closeups.
>>24006400>>24006403>>24006405>>24006410Really love Gilli-Vell's entrance into the story.>Literally tank the blast from the Variant worm and come out unscathed>Respond by curtly telling the Variant to fuck off via giant cannon>See a Nymph corpse, apologize for disturbing its rest>Aura Farm by removing her sickass helmetLove her character archetype too. You'd think from the cold and rough way she talks that she'd be kind of a bitch. But she's actually one of the nicest and levelheaded people in the story. Really shows that after telling a Variant to fuck off, next thing she does is apologize to a dead body regarding the noise she just made.
>>24006626break the wall at the center of the tram(you can tell because it's got a platform to nowhere) by either baiting the giant spider mech or sabi-ing the fuck out of it. >>24007542she's a cute tsun and hopefully manga seedling doesn't fuck up and prevent her suicide.
>>24007547Yeah, I looked up how to do it after she jumped in my first playthrough. I'd like to know how many people found that room naturally.
Once Gilly joins the Broodchamber in the game, she immediately dotes on both Yoyo and the Twins too.Honestly, I think Gypro-Verde might've been one of the better colonies to be part of. In one of the earlier chapters in the manga, the unnamed Gypro-Verde Nymph held a last stand in order to keep Gardiniggers at bay while having complete faith in her commander, i.e. Gilli. I imagine there's a huge culture of solidarity and familial ties within Gypro-Verde. They genuinely love their sisters and seem to have a fondness for little Nymphs. And from this chapter alone, we see Gilli apologizing to a corpse, so they probably have the whole honorable warrior culture thing too. Compare that to Gardina, who literally views all Nymphs under its umbrella as disposable meat sent to the grinder. Not much care for their younglings too as seen in Yodo and Yoyo's treatment. A bunch of gayass backstabbers too. Gypro-Verde viewed the Variants as a bigger threat to Nymphkind as a whole and geared their war efforts to combat them, but while Gypro-Verde was preparing for full on war against Variants in the lower levels (probably because all Nagarans already fucking died trying to NAGARA DAMASHII them), Gardina decided to use this opportunity to stab them in the back.FUCK GARDINIGGERS
>>24007578my only complaint is you don't get to fight more hostile nymphs in this game like you do in AC. sure would like to see more gardiniggers sick a gankfest on me.
>>24006526>125 dollarydoosHoly shit what
>>24009491That's about the expected price range of higher end girlpla.Believe it or not, model kits like this are cheaper than good figures. Like half or a third of their price. Cute anime girl toys are a very expensive kind of crack.
>>24009491>>24009517It's around the price of the fancier Megami Device or Frame Arms Girl kits. But the thing is, those lines earned the right to ask for that asking price with their quality. Kotobukiya stuff is generally accepted to be top of the line kits in the girlpla market. GSC's Plamatea line is still relatively new and their first releases have been a bit rough. Stuff improves over time yeah sure, but I think I'll wait on the reviews of this kit first. For that price, they really should be on the same level of quality of a Kotobukiya kit in the same price range.
>>24009528>>24009517It's also bigger, as MD and 30Minute Sisters are usually 12 cm, this one is 15 and comes loaded with weapons and optional parts. I do think it was expensive as usually I only get 30MS, but I wanted to show support for the franchise so I didn't hesitate to PO
>>24010032Damn i wish bandai adopted dolls nest to their 30mm line. Its a perfect fit as another subline for sisters.
>>24010032Considering that GSC ended up getting the license for Demonbane and Muramasa Moderoids, I guess it was inevitable that Dolls Nest would end up in their Plamatea line. Hell, they also have an Al Azif kit also coming up in their lineup. I guess GSC has a stranglehold on Nitroplus IPs. I'm just glad that Dolls Nest is getting stuff. Not fully sold on the Jane Dolls Nest kit yet though. I'm a bit miffed that they don't have an effect part for the cool as fuck wing energy exhaust for when she activates her legally distinct moonlight blade in her 2nd phase. Feel like that's the coolest part of her design. If they do end up releasing further kits though, then I'll do a day 1 PO for a Nanakino or Gilli-Vell one. Hell, hopefully Dolls Nest remains relevant long enough for either Kotobukiya or Bandai to rent the IP too for kit releases.
>no yoyo buttshotsShe will remain pure.
>>24011573Anon, we already seen much more than just her butt.She's about as impure and used as any common Gardinan whore.
>>24011593That shot was to represent her purity and strength. Slander her again and I will slice thee from chop to navel
what's the point of tank legs or heavy bipeds in this game. I swear quad legs are the best legs in this game and no named character ever uses one.
>>24012441The best legs are all the various lighter bipeds, you can't nagara damashi with heavy shit. Also the point of heavy legs is that they are COOL, not every part type needs to be meta.
>>24012488sabi is overated shit. Now two gars will kill anything with 100% reliability just ask the gyproniggers at how good it was.
https://x.com/Dolls_Nest/status/2097883007025647920
>>24006346We shouldn’t be programming robots to think like people. We should be programming them to think like insects
>>24013288Seems like some kind of Arena mode ala AC games rather than a full blown multiplayer mode? Might be cool.More lore for the lorefags at least.>>24013289I mean, Nymphs are quite literally antgirls. They have antlike societal behaviour.
>>24013288>>24013352so it's just re fight the random nymphs as an arena. This update better increase stat cap then.
>>24013288>>24013352An arena would be awesome, especially if they put some new characters in there like how AC had a bunch of random schlubs that weren't in any missions. It could also be some nine breaker shit with obstacle courses and time trials.
>>24014296Those silly little Raven profiles in the Arena has always been a highlight of AC games for me. So it'd be nice if they had them. From the announcement, it looks like they'll have dialogue so it'd be cool to see Nymphs from the other colonies that weren't represented in the main campaign or sidequests. Though if it really is a sort of Arena mode, then they really should retool or nerf Sabi because even in Hard Mode, the wandering Nymph encounters can be oneshotted by a NAGARA DAMASHII from the WAGA YAIBA.
>>24014383All weapons need to be rebalanced, specially bullet speed. Lots of them feel like I am shooting nerf guns, thats why I only use the the physical weapons or the sniper cannons that are almost hitscan.
>>24016004It reminds me of AC2 balance where only a handful of weapons deal enough damage per ammunition capacity. In DN there's no continuum of high momentary damage with expensive shot cost to low shot cost but middling damage. Like there are some that are just gimped in both directions. The souls like nature of the game also (at least for the first run where you don't know what's coming) discourages weapons that aren't ammo cost efficient.
>>24016242I just want some of the explosives to have a point to their existence. I wanna run around and shoot shit with zooks, give me the damage for that to actually be viable(even if it's still not meta). I don't mind things being inefficient but at least let the inefficient shit do damage.
I'm getting wrecked by that doll boss in aids valley. I hit her in the back with the almighty potatogod and it didn't take nearly enough health of as I was hoping. Her shotgun blasts chunk me really bad. Any tips?
>>24017816that boss has bloated health and defense. Just bait her into doing the hammer dive and she'll leave her self open for a good couple of seconds. Do note she has no second phase gimmicks so you can keep repeating this.
>>24016242>>24016305reload and magazine needs significant buffs. It pisses me of the tree gun I painstakingly grinded for does such mid damage on top of being a one shot wonder
>>24017816try using the corrosive handguns
>>24017816Oh right, I forgot to mention this is on hard mode second playthrough so I have a fair amount of options. I'll try some status effects and run like a bitch.
>>24017816>>24017909In Hard Mode, the Pshik is your best option because it inflicts the Corrosion debuff. I recall it working against all Nymph bosses except Reim and Nehma
So any info on the combat test? Couldnt find any videos.
>>24019987it's only 7am right now give it another couple of hourshttps://x.com/Procket_info/status/2100162881472114797https://x.com/Dolls_Nest/status/2100058389405704247
>>24017833The RAM is designed to be bad, it's different from the weapons that are bad by accident.
>>24020009>it's different from the weapons that are bad by accident.
>>24020034I mean I can only assume that the majority of weapons that are ass are just ass by coincidence and general inexperience with game balance rather than a seemingly intentional choice backed up by the weapon's lore like the RAM.
https://x.com/Dolls_Nest/status/2100419478723129521Yep it's arena mode
>>24020367Holy fuck its Jane Kashima herself. Imagine getting a whole frame named after your autism.I don't really know what I was expecting. This is exactly what I expected a: "no thoughts, only NAGARA DAMASHII" combat Nymph from Nagara to look like.
https://x.com/Sam_n_Lily/status/2100421151218679818I hope it's not just pure arena mode, otherwise what the fuck is that mushroom looking thing in the begining?
>>24020384>what the fuck is that mushroom looking thing in the begining?Probably just the Arena itself. Nymphs are a hivemind robo-insect species. That freaky tree thing is probably just some kind of collective database of Hod. The profiles literally say that you're just fighting neural imprints.
>>24020367>>24020379Rough TL of the Nymph lines:Nexladea: "Why are you standing in my way?"Salari: "Quite persistent aren't you."Kashima: "This isn't a distance where even blood splatters can get on to you!"Chipi: "Can you still handle this?"Quina: "Aren't you a bit too weak?" <- Extreme msgk intonationPeh: "Being cute isn't the only thing I can do."Budo-Bell: "This Steel Lily will not shatter!"Ozu: "Target located!"Tsuyuri: "Now this is what a real duel is like!"Kashima and Tsuyuri are pretty much what you expect a Nagara Nymph to be like. I love NAGARA DAMASHII so much bros.Budo-Bell continues the trend of Gypro-Verde being the archetypal honorable knights with their heavy armor and weaponry. I guess all Gypro-Verde Nymphs follow the naming nomenclature of "Name1-Name2". Budo-Bell also refers to herself as a Lily, and considering Gilli-Vell's questline and the fact that Gypro-Verde Nymphs seems to treasure relationship between their sisters more, there's probably some not so subtle subtext here about Gypro-Verde Nymphs being gayer than the other colonies.
https://x.com/Dolls_Nest/status/2100419973780803702new clothes, and they're kinda lame. Might get the oversized hoodie thou>>24020389why a mushroom though when everything has been trees and actual databanks so far.
>>24020408Form names from left to rightMeiss Embassy GuardianPorokka General Use AviationHeros Solo OperationsMeiss is a newly named colony and it's a fuckin' colony of Jirai-kei girls it seems.Porokka is the rocket autism colony and I guess it's a cutesy interpretation of a typical baggy astronaut suit. Heros is the merchant humanfag colony that keeps digging up old carbon lifeform shitter databases and recreating whatever they find neat from it. Figures that they'll go around recreating fetish and fashion from them to peddle around the colonies.I can somewhat justify the new Herros and Porokka getups in-universe but it's kinda funny how Nitroplus just dropped a "Yeah, there's a Jirai-kei colony out there" out of nowhere on us lmao.
>>24020433all this lore snippets makes me wish DN was a bit more alive. Hope if they do make a sequel it's more like ER in terms of interactable npcs.
>>24020433>Yeah, there's a Jirai-kei colony out there" out of nowhere which ever ant thoughts merchants wearing bunnygirl is a genius. Well was, since there's no more human men in hod.
I wonder if we'll see any of the Colony Queens in their prime Nymph days before treeing out as part of the Arena database.
>>24020407>Quina: "Aren't you a bit too weak?" <- Extreme msgk intonationVoiced by Yamada Gemiko no less, peak MSGK. I'd recognize that voice anywhere.
>>24020587Oh, and she seems be from a new colony, Meisdoll, not sure if that's supposed to be the same one the jirai outfit is from or not, localization and such. Would be funny to imagine a colony of MSGK and jirai nymphs though.
>Some madman Metametria researcher programmed jiraikeis and msgks data into the Nymph collective consciousness.Guys, I think I now know why Humans in Hod went extinct.
>>24020606Human women most affected
>>24020606>out there in hod there must a nymph colony that does those penis adoration festivals even though they have never seen a human maleImagine finding that colony.
>>24020433>Jirai-kei colony>no land mine/grenade weaponThey had one job.
>>24006346
https://x.com/Mr_Gamehit/status/2100552349270065550https://x.com/kohinata_wataru/status/2100414015323423035
at least it looks more packed than ac6's arena
Playing Doll's Nest right now.I'm stuck fighting that helicopter as my first boss. I can't beat him without running out of ammo and money to buy more. Is this a skill issue or do I tackle another level instead?Should I bother upgrading my stuff or do I search for newer and better parts? Upgrade materials seem limited.
>>24021170what's your build. If you don't have a sniper cannon or GAR, heli will be an obnoxiously long fight since the damn thing has a lot of health. If you don't want to use the sniper. use a physical battle rifle and kill the mini drones it sends since it drops ammo.
>>24021170You can find a sniper cannon in the upturned forest, which makes the fight a lot easier. Yoyo starts selling more and better upgrade materials as you progress through the game, so it's worth using them as you find them.
>>24021175>>24021196I can't be on the PC right now but by sniper cannon you mean that one that looks like a Barrett M82? I found that last night but stopped for the day right after.
>>24021202Sniper cannon are the back weapons. the BR is the handheld weapon. GAR is stupid strong, but it is heavy.
>>24021170You chose the route with with the hardest first boss.
>>24021202You should have picked up a back weapon that looks like a giant cylinder, and when you use it you go into first person view. Use that on the helicopter.
>>24021156>>24021158Just like armored core. I still can't believe Nitro+ are the ones that really GET what AC was all about
>>24021256I've said it before and I'll say it again, DN is the real AC6.
>>24021256>>24021265Jewish Chinks are trying to make more ER slop. Unfortunately that may have scared kadokawa and forced them to churn out more souls slop. Doesn't help miyazaki has jumped into the extraction pvpve bandwagon with duskbloods.
>>24021272Countries really need to ban this model of investing. Buying percent ownership and a voice in the decision-making process is so corrosive, basically just letting ignoramuses call the shots as if they know better and destroy the product/service while betting on short term gains.
>>24021256Biggest difference between wanting a money printer and being a genuine autistic passion project made out of love.DN is jank, but its soulful jank clearly made by people that loved the earlier AC games (which quite frankly was also pretty jank). It really just hits the same spots that made me fall in love with AC in the first place. I do want the game to be more big outside its niche success it already has as a bigger budget would definitely help it, but I guess there's a tough balancing act between being mainstream enough to get bigger funding and not so mainstream as to get cucked by shareholders and the masses that aren't the intended audience.
>>24021467Nitroplus are one of the old guard otaku companies, so unless they have a massive upheaval of the people in charge, its gonna be a company still ruled by degenerates (as god intended). I really doubt they're the kind of folk that wanted mainstream (tm) audience. Besides, DN cannot be divorced from its mecha musume identity. Mecha is already niche enough and anathema to a normalfag audience. Add scantily clad anime girls in leotards and mechanical bikinis inherent to mecha musume and you get an eternal normalfag filter. It would be nice for the series to get bigger funding at least.
>>24021474The only concern would be something happening to Cygames and it trickling down to them since they bought a large stock in Nitroplus somewhat recently, but iirc I don't think there's any concern over something like that at the moment
>>24021484Cygames has been corrupted for a long time. One only needs to look at the absolute fucking state of grabble for the past several years. But I'm not gonna worry about that influencing nitroplus until it actually happens.
>>24021156Oh, are those Nymphs with serial codes instead of full blown names previous Seedlings?
>>24021512Part of her profile says "種子に様々な局面での戦問経験を積ませるための提案機です""A prototype unit designed to give Seedlings battle experience in various situations."The Nescanelli series seem to be testbed Nymphs for the full deployment of Seedlings? So I guess you could technically call them Seedlings if we're going by the definition of them being Nymphs made by Nehma herself rather than any colony queen. But I always figured that Seedlings were Nehma's personal Royal Guards of sorts.The Arena is really a massive addition for lorefags and other people invested in the setting.
>>24021447That would be anti-semitic.
>>24021525Seedlings are Nehmahs agents that fuck colonies up for fun.
>>24021447You get what you ask for when you go public. All you have to do to avoid it is simply.... not.
>>24021635But number need go up
>>24021637That's the best part, number does not in fact need to endlessly go up UNLESS you go public, because there is no legal mandate unless you do. So you can actually act in the best interest of long term business success instead being legally mandated to chase short term gains.
>>24021647That 'legal mandate' exists mostly out of inertia anyway. It is not well tested and its basis is tenuous fuckery so they could oust existing leadership rather than anything actually sensible.
>>24021474>Mecha is already niche enough and anathema to a normalfag audience. Add scantily clad anime girls in leotards and mechanical bikinis inherent to mecha musume and you get an eternal normalfag filterHell a lot of mecha fans don't want to try it because they want to play as a boy
Been looking at some pictures attendees had of the TGS demo.Isn't this one the murderhobo Gardinigger from the manga?
>>24021869different setup
https://x.com/ddtr909/status/2101210880008675735Combat trial footagehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DvNw7yYlocQAlright. How many of you beat the game with the default presets?
https://x.com/Kazuha_Akane46/status/2101553459250208806
>>24023656bro struggled to deal a point of damage
Look at this fat fuck
Are there new parts being added into the game? Is this a free dlc?
>>24024151>Are there new parts being added into the game?Yes, as seen in >>24024133Update is literally the Arena mode from Armored Core. >Is this a free dlc?Also yes. But buy the cosmetic paid DLC >>24020408anyway to help keep ORPHANs running and to improve the chances of a sequel.
>>24024154I absolutely refuse to buy cosmetics. Either make a proper expansion or fuck off.
>>24024666Arena mode is a proper expansion
>>24024666All the actual updates and expansions to the game itself since launch was free.The cosmetics are just there to give a valid reason for people to throw money at them. This is honestly how things should be. Don't cuck people out of actual new stuff or expansions by making them pay for it. All of that should be free. If people like your game enough and want to throw you money to keep making more stuff, then just give them some legal precedent for a transaction via irrelevant cosmetics.
>>24024666Fuck you i dont want to pay for expansion dlcs
>>24024154Ah good that this is free since I remember the first cosmetic set was paid.And I haven't played it a while but I was thinking I didn't see those parts in that pic before, it's actually what prompted my question. Glad we're getting more thick legs. That looks straight out of the heavy bipedal sets by Zio Matrix/Mirage in oldgen AC
JP dolls nest x are having a little arena bio threadhttps://x.com/Fuga_Suzunari/status/2101840511996993954tempted to partake but my nip is nonexistant and I don't want to reverse translate
https://x.com/Dolls_Nest/status/2103012578125627828
>>24027851Is that a mistranslation? I guess by second dlc they meant more of these cosmetic packs?
>>24028329It's worded weirdly in JP too, but yes
Seedling Bio
>>240285087 KINO!
>>24028508Are all Seedlings as socially retarded and autistic as her, or is she a special case since Nehma made her while on life support?
>>24031495I think being autistic is a mandatory trait for all nymphs, not just seedlings.
>>24031542I mean, they all inherit their mom's hyperfixation on something, but they at least know how to interact with others.
>>24034885>you smell funny, we must fight to the death>you can't smell me so I'm invisible>NAGARA DAMASHIIIIIIII>haha rockets!>look at my awesome art project, aurum
New Chapter Out
>ywn princess carry yoyoI am upset
>You girls want them corrosion? Not asking btw.
And that's all for now. I think I have a good guess who the mystery nigga is, but we'll see next chapter
https://store.steampowered.com/news/app/1839430/view/693147294304830651Arena update literally just dropped. Well alright then.
>>24035894Yoyo pan
very comfy, very leggy. As in this are the only body type that have bare legs on it
It's
fucking captcha ate my comment. Baggi hoodie is pretty silly in combat frame. Anyways no censor shorts, pure panties.
haven't done much of the trials yet. But these nymphs are decently tanky. Also looks there's new new body types added in the base game.
First new weapon I got from the combat trials.
Gar cheese comes in clutch yet again
exhausted the F batch. the new weapons are ok.
>>24035906So according to Alqand Scripture:Once upon a time, the Goddess sowed a seed and that Seed grew up to be the First mother tree: "The Queen of Beginnings". The QoB birthed many Nymphs and they propagated throughout Hod as vassals to the Goddess. But the Nymphs eventually betrayed their Goddess and killed her. From the corpse of the Goddess, sprouted many monsters and those monsters devoured the QoB and her domain.The QoB is obviously referring to Arvud. So this clears up the timeline that led to the decline of Hod. Basically, Nymphs got uppity and killed Nehma, the head administrator of Hod. Maybe as direct retribution she initiated herself, or maybe it's simply the loss of the administrator just turning the cell production facilities batshit and out of control, but the either way the death of Nehma is responsible for releasing the variant horde that consumed the lower levels. And Arvud in its prime era comprised of most of the lower levels.
Do the Arena Nymphs actually have competent AI? Or do I just really suck now? Rhea is dancing around me with strafes and riddling me with bullets even before I can approach her. And Lucena, someone that is supposed to be an Aerial Specialist according to her profile actually flies around and correctly times her jumps to fuck with me while raping my ass with plasma and lasers from the skies. And these are supposed to be the F-tier Nymphs? Mother Nagara forgive me... I cannot Nagara Damashii these foes....
Faced against enemy Nymphs with actually competent AI and without the buffer of max upgraded frame parts to brute force a stat difference, I just realized that I might not be actually be that good at this game.
There was a slight tweak on the NPCs too. Their colors are changed to be more manga canon accurate.
>>24035972>>24036047Are there any new melee weapons? Does the new update break any mods?
>>24036419I avoided that by just not approaching them at all and kiting them. You can also usually get a cheap shot off at the start of each fight since the AI doesn’t seem to start running at you right away.
>>24035919Wait, so who is that Mystery Nigga?The only alive Nymph in the lower levels in the game (barring the random Nymph stragglers) is Gilli, and she has a tank glued to her torso.And I don't remember Yodo appearing anywhere else outside the middle levels.
>>24036419yeah the combat nymphs are pretty competent this time around. doesn't help all out gear reverts to l1 so you can't tank shit like normal.
>>24036047I'm trying it on hardmode and for these trial I think I'm going to have to shut it off, I can hardly touch any of them.
>>24036673hard mode is badly implemented anyways
>>24036677I personally just turn them on for bosses. Really, there should be an option for the improved bosses in hard mode, but without the stat pumping for literally everything else.
>>24035889>you will never be princess carried by HatiSteaming suicide
>>24036419Yeah they can do a lot more different stuff, picrel is the most exceedingly obvious example.>>24036673I haven't actually tried non-hardmode but honestly based on the difficulty I kind of figured there wasn't any difference.>>24036614Not sure about mods, but no new melees from what I saw. There's two melee nymphs in the arena, but there's only pretty much 4 new weapons (two back guns, pistol and a grenade launcher) and two new armor sets, for a total of six unlocks for each rank E through S.Rank 1 is easily the hardest fight.
>>24036706I guess nagara being too samurai coded caused their downfall.
Fuck Belka and also fuck how inaccurate the guns are in this damn gameI failed at the last 5% or so handful of times because the shots just kept whiffing, demonbane utility made it infinitely easier since it lets you actually breathe for a few seconds
>>24037249Hod is belka clay.
>>24037249It's certainly not helped by the arena nymphs having (I'm pretty sure) infiine energy.Belka's loadout does make you appreciate how much the energy shield helps, especially in nymph/nymph combat.>>24036810Worked against nymphs presumably. Probably just not so great against the other variants they faced that presumably just had the weight of numbers to get them dug in and wiped out.
>>24035906>That subtle Hati cleavage windowYeah that's the stuff.
>>24037282No wonder the place is fucked up, they nuked the damn thing.>>24037291She does at least, no way she could be constantly flying and dodging otherwise.Don't know about that, I watched my hp vanish through my shields several times.
>>24037306>Don't know about that, I watched my hp vanish through my shields several times.Thats exacly it, All belka's weapons ignore shields, hence if you've been mostly dashing around and only eating the occasional shots, most fights you would have the shields absorbing much of that. Belka thats instead all just going straight to HP which is much more noticable.
>>24037306would
returning player here that didn't go that far in and decided to start over (last boss i fought was a tank)i noticed there is now a high difficulty mode. should i bother with this on my first playthrough?i also remember a bunch of weapons feeling underpowered on launch, like the melee weapons not feeling that good. are all weapon archetypes on par with each other now?
>>24037414Bosses get one or two new moves but everything becomes more durable as well. That's the main change. As far as weapon balance goes, it's still pretty questionable. Most melee weapons have always been good though, you just have to get used to not having a built in AC style dash attached to the swing.
>>24037414No, high difficulty just inflates all enemy stats to stupid levels, really not recommeded even for older playthroughts. And there hasn't been any balance changes so weapons that are shit now are still shit.
>>24037249i dunno if it's just combat nymphs being really aggressive dodgers, but holy shit are they highlighting how fucking inaccurate 90% of the guns are in this game. I switched to gardinigger playstyle and just snipe fucking everyone.
>>24037414First playthrough definitely not. Personally, I turned it on in NG+ only because I'm using that weapon rebalance mod on Nexus.
>>24037421The problem is how slow the bullets are, the sniper rifles have the highest bullet speed of all weapons.
>>24037421Also the xxx laser shotgun you get from the combat trials seems to be the only hitscan weapon.
>>24037384>>24037370Not all of them since even my shields took damage at some points, not that I'd be able to find out since the fucker rapes you the instant you stand still for a second.>>24037421Well it's that and the fact they seemingly have infinite energy and whatever else, all of them are basically playing a whole different game which kind of ruins the point of the duels imo. At least you can onetap the early trials with the pile bunker which is always comedy gold. Dunno about the later ones, haven't had the time to go find all the thingamadoos to unlock all of them.
>>24037893>Not all of them since even my shields took damage at some pointsAhh yeah, assuming she uses the default utility for the armor set, then she does have a micro-missile attack as well.Also I can't recall if it was a thing earlier, is the freecam that triggers on normal maps new or did I just never stand still long enough previously?
>>24037921>is the freecam that triggers on normal maps newYes, it triggers after some time outside combat now.
This nodes are a bit too organic for my liking
>>24037921I think it's a new feature. thought It's bug after using camouflage.
>>24037938>too organicNot even too organic per se, rather just too meaty. Should've looked similar to those little white flowers you see everywhere but bigger and more distinct or like crooked sapling versions of that one failed mother tree near the Ark.
>>24037893yep, would for sure.
>get my shit kicked like a dirty camping gardinigger>alright fine bullet hose time>miss 90% of my shots near point black>alright fine flamethrower time>she ticks fucking harder with aimbot accuracy>Fine bubbles and barrier ignore>lmao what is range>Give up and go back to ol reliable>I just pointblank sniper rifle her out of frustrationI'm starting to fucking hate wheel legs.>
Any pic and stat for the new equipment?
>>24038322L5 because I already upgraded them for the weapons.Have a second save so will grab the L1 stats in a bit. Back attack pistol is meh, xxx is a energy shotgun and neat, other back weapon is pretty much a shoulder mounted SMG, rocket launcher is pretty much the 4 shot missile but as a primary.
>>24037249>>24037291Belka gave me less trouble than all the wheel leg nymphs. Fuck quina especially
>>24038818>Fuck quina especiallyWhat did Quina ever do to you?
>>24038818How the fuck are you sniping them when they never stop moving? I get the f ranks but past that they're cheating.
>>24036644I had to remap jump to a shoulder button, cant float while aiming with on X.
>think arena is just more random nymph fight>bitches zipping around faster than the fastest light weight buildIt took one fucking update to make me question the effectiveness of two sabi build. But also why did they think nerfing us to l1 was a good idea.
>>24039199Don't gamers love high skill ceiling?
>>24039220Its doable, doesnt mean its fun. Its certainly not ac tournament.
>>24039199It's not like the Arena Nymphs had some OP-INTENSIFY shit where they cheat by getting maneuvers and perks that the player can't have normally. For all intents and purposes all those strafing and zipping they're doing is doable by a player that actually mastered the game's movement and camera control. Which just makes me get into the grim realization that I might actually just suck at this game and coasted on raw stat upgrades and unga bunga fully upgraded Sabi.
>>24039242Thing is, even with zero upgrades, a super sanicspeed boosted Sabi that connects a hit still really fucking hurts. Even better if you bonk them with a backstab. The problem now is that enemy Nymph AI actually seems to have functioning brain cells and will dance around you if they can.You can no longer larp as a daughter of Nagara. You must now truly refine your mind's eye and master wabisabi to korose your teki. Now you need to truly awaken your NAGARA DAMASHII if you want to use Sabi in the Arena.
>>24039242No, they are absolutely cheating, at at very least belka is.Flies all she wants and turns on a dime.
>>24039771Even the first arena nymph with the flight legs can hover and dodge longer than you can. Its not infinite, but they feel like they more ep than you do.
>>24038855>>24038213>>24038880I try to lead my shots to where they're going. the heavy camouflage utility is really useful in this mode since it gives you 27 sec time out. helps when I whiff all my shots too.
>>24039771it does feel like that since a lot of the entires so far have been speedy kites. I deffinitely had an easier time dealing with long ranged nymphs more. Like this chick using my old build. It's almost an inverse since I can clearly see the gar shots heading my ways during our sniper fuel.>>24039249>>24039199>>24039242>sabi shitters getting dunked onGAR wins again
>>24006346Game’s on sale right now. Is it good? Like actually good?
>>24039876I'm enjoying it so far. The level design reminds me of Blame! The bosses are surprisingly well made and not what I expected from a budget game at all.
>>24039876It's fine if (You)>liked ps2 Armored Core games>liked Dark Souls' corridory semi open world>liked Blame! in all of its megastructural glory>aren't too bothered by the gynocentric focus on anime robololi abominationsThe last one in general seems like the biggest deal breaker for the most, myself included. Although it somehow still ended up as probably the best release of 2025 for me anyway. As usual, try the demo first. You could always use mods to tweak the numbers to your liking too.
>>24039876Its armored core 3 in dark souls style layout. It's abit janky and some areas will chug your framerate(easily fix if you turn graphic settings too low). But of the BLAME! like games. This is one of the few games that really sells the bleakness and emptiness of that setting.
>>24039908Nice panties.
>>24039876It's the kind of game that the people that it's for will really love.
So, are you supposed to practically replay the whole game to catch 'em all before you can do the arena?
>>24039965you don't need a fresh redo for the nodes to appear. Though it'd likely help since you'll be forced to look every nook and cranny to fine these things.
>>24039974Do you get repeated unlocks on NG+ like you do with the dlc equipment?
>>24039876Top 10 mecha games ever made
>>24039965>>24039974Oh shit you have to unlock battles by roaming the world? Maybe I'll just start a new playthrough, I haven't played since last year anyway so it might be worth it.
>>24039977arena gear is one and done so no duplicates even on ng+
Fuck I already burned myself out doing two full playthroughs back in May, including a ball busting NG High Difficulty Mode run, and now the game gets an update where you need to do a full collectathon to access the content?
>>24038322sucks you can't get duplicates
>essentially dual wielding in ac>good bp efficiency>really fast reload>lightMy few favorite gun, But I am upset that nothing like this was in the base game.
>>24040172ng+?
>>24040220once you hit s rank, you'll always be s rank in later playthroughs. oh and don't sell these or you'll brick your save.>>24040202>that moment of hesitationholy shit.
>>24040202Okay, but considering Kashima is one of the most Nagaran Nagara Nymphs around, you just know that her ant boner was rock hard throughout that fight and getting killed by a Mitsuha is pretty much the biggest orgasm she got in her whole life.
>>24040202Damn nice, I would have never thought to hold my ground and just wait like that.
I take it back. I got lucky the first time, Belka is fucking hard.
>>24039900>anime robololi abominationsIt's called mecha musume and it's art.>>24039876I'd say it's a must play for mecha musume fans.
>>24040363>Fire away, coward
>>24040631>It's called mecha musume and it's art.If you say so.
>>24040363Thats some hell of a duration for invisibility
>>24040332
lego death sound ass kill animation
>>24036633Its most likely one of the twins since theres no other character in the accumulation zone other than gili. And shes kinda fond of the twins in the game. >>24036009>>24036004>bottomless hoodieBased nitro.
>>24040631>>24039900Nymphs arent that young.
>>24040959H-huge...
>>24040959>>24041079Isn't sneedling basically a newborn babby age wise?
>>24041111Sneedling is age wise the youngest of the cast.
>>24041111>>24041132Yeah but she also is a defective runt, probably wont grow much more.
>>24041194>probably wont grow much morethat's the fucking point
Modded all nymph weapon bullet speeds to be realistic (handguns,smgs are around 300-400 m/s, rifles and railguns over 1000 m/s) and made the quick boosters impulses twice as strong.https://files.catbox.moe/vek93e.mp4
>>24040792it's worth it's weight since the alternative is like 5 sec of invis with double the cooldown.
>>24040172Are they even good? Last time i played anything that isnt AR, SMG, melee, light weight shoulder weapons are poo poo
Its impossible to not set the boob slider at max.
>>24044171Big titty make me happy
>try using gigantic shoulder cannon I start the game with>character stands still for 10 seconds to fire it once>figure it works like in AC and I need tank or quad threads to move while firing it>finally find one of those>try again>character still stops moving to fire itAm I doing something wrong?
>>24044771trebuchet cannons force you to root yourself in. Otherwise all cannons have no self stun when firing.
>>24044787That's sucks, even the first AC game got that right.Is there any point in using slower legs beyond having slightly higher defensive stats and weight limit?
>>24044793Heavy tank legs are certified challenge mode and the heaviest struggle to make basic jumps. Everything else is more or less fine though. Plenty of heavy legs that still have decent enough mobility.
>>24044808In that case I might just go for a melee build for my next run instead.Is it even possible to melee the flying bosses and enemies?
>>24044818Absolutely. Aside from the heli(which is still doable, just harder) most bosses are pretty easy to melee. Rather what is more likely to give you trouble are vs nymph fights, because they are small and usually pretty fast. But that's just a matter of embracing your inner nagara damashi harder. You do want to go fast for melee though, since one of the best melee weapons gets a damage bonus the faster you are going when you connect with it.
>>24044793the trade off is no other weapons will lock you in firing stance. Even the sniper cannon still allows you to be mobile.
>>24044771almost none of those weapons is really worth it anyway. I still got a lot of mileage out of the ones I did use since the game gives you enough space and terrain to use them strategically.
Picked up the game again, so everything we have is at +0 value in the arena? From equipment upgrades and humanoid upgrades? But somehow the enemy has bloated stat including a nymph in full junk frame
