i'm having a blast
is the game actually good?how goonable is it?
>>744633735>is the game actually good?If you like open world games you'll enjoy opening chests, killing squirrels and running around on your shadow wolf bro (you get him as a free DLC). The combat is swap slop, but the twist it brings to the table adds some freshness to the rotation routine.>how goonable is it?It's tame by Korean standards, but there are some sexy outfits here and there, with swimsuit DLC in the near future.
>>744633673I've reached that really annoying midgame where resources choke and I must focus on one team. Right now that's Theresia/Roxy/Castella which is fine but I wanted to have Kalien/Aria/!Diluc as a secondary and I think I can only have that once I clear the next 3 chapters.Like Genshin Impact, I'm not a fan of "feed mats to level up to cap, feed asc mats to unlock next cap". Maybe I'm an unc but I never acclimatized to how awkward that makes gameplay and progress.
>>744633673she needs to be naked or at least in a microbikini
>>744633673pirated it but i'm waiting for the ice girl to get her bikini because she's the hottest ingame from what i've seen
Where’s the tanned Elf I swear to God
>>744634045It's a staple of gachas going back even before Genshin, though I'm not really sure what the purpose of it is. Maybe trying to catch you lacking one of the game's five-thousand resources and baiting you into paying up for it.
this is almost as erotic as Aria's fat butt
>>744634692I love that one of her character traits is getting pissed if you call her a "dark elf" kek
>>744633673i would love to talk about this game with you guys but really have nothing to say about it, i am having a blast for sure though, like i'm just waiting for content expansion at this point.have a bump.
>>744633952I know you can switch between 3 characters. Can I just play a single character without any drawbacks?
>>744635071the ornette sion tarte lineup is exactly that coz sion and tarte is so awful and they're there just for you to buff stack up shock for free.
>>744634607we gotta talk about those rock textures
>>744635071Most characters are heavily reliant on status support from other characters. There's a few who are self-sufficient, though.
Ice cat, ice witch and drunk elf combo is 24/7 swapping.
>roxy/theresia/astria for bosses>kalsion/cerese/kalien for groupsholy fuck, this is what i'm talking about; holy shitcrit so high on my fire team that trash just evaporates; break damage so high on my boss team that they always have the ruinsbreaker damage buff; jesus CHRIST this is video games
>>744633673So this is basically genshin without the gacha part?
>>744633673is this rollslop
>>744634724jesus
>>744635069The problem with any gacha's 1.0 is that you're really kinda stuck with whatever comps the devs want you to run. We have it somewhat solved, right?>Freeze: Cerese/Dana/Othello>Burn: Kalsion/Kalien/Aria>Poison/Aerial: Charlotte/Johnny/Reina>Bleed/Stun: Therese/Roxy/Castella>Shockcucks eat shitIn some future DLC I'm sure such jank as the Fire/Ice Mage will come along to increase team flexibility (and maybe Ryza will come along to make Shock better) but for now the most amount of spice we can play with is Astria Solo jank or "putting Lute somewhere in there so you have healing". Beyond that the dedicated elemental comps are kinda locked in. Substats are also getting solved.
>>744634724Is they an internal cooldown for signal skill? I'm testing this right now and the results are mixed.
friendly reminder to check the ingredients whenever you get a new recipe and just copy those to the other two crafting methods for free formulas
>>744636627i can kill gauron in roughly 3 minutes with my mixed elemental waifu teami'm fine with that
>>744636713There is or at least I believe so, I wish it showed up somewhere. Around 10-15 seconds I reckon
>>744636862Kalien/Ornette/Cerese DOES seem like someone's wet dream, power to you.
I won't play it until they add an EN or JP voice over. I don't speak Starcraft, and not everything in the game is subtitled.
>>744636627>Shockcucks eat shitwhat's wrong with Ornette/Sion
>>744636951Oh. That is important information. I can't stand how korean sounds so I am in agreement. I can not play the game unless they add additional languages.
>>744636942>Kalien/Ornettei don't use those two but i probably will eventually
>>744636951I dunno man, Korean is kinda growing on me. It's more aspirated than Japanese so the rowdy types sound more fun.
>gacha>"Kill yourself slop eater">gacha but without gacha>"KVNO ABSOLUTE KVNO"
>>744637061It's not about the sound. I just don't speak it. The game giving me information (for example combat call outs and ambient dialogue) in a language I don't understand is a deal breaker.
>>744637121Yes.
>>744637154That's kinda gay ngl
>>744637121yes? are you slow?
>combat grunt (english):)>combat grunt (not english):(
>>744637121Yes, Anon, removing gacha is a universal improvement.
>>744637154yeah but in kr you have Astria going "Re~load :D" and that's worth all the gold in the world to me
>>744637121For me it's more like >"Holy shit two cakes!"
you don't understand i NEED to hear SUGOI DESU NEEEEEE
>>744637121We're all retarded here, you don't need to announce it.
>>744637121Someone help me understand why I would play "Genshin but without gacha" over any other action-rpg
>>744634692>>744634883Dark Elf hikkokomori who doesn’t go outside and is pale bros…
>>744637449>Someone help meNo.
>>744637121Gacha without GACHA is just a normal video game.
How long before moderators start inexplicably deleting threads and then delete the threads where you ask moderation about what exactly is meant to be on /v/
>>744637449because it doesn't limit or timegate you and doesn't expect you to report in daily like a good little slave
>>744637154I don't speak it neither but now I speak a little more of it because they repeat keywords and loanwords from Japanese and Chinese like Monster (Mamul/Mamono) and Library (Toshokan), and I have a pattern-seeking brain.
>>744637195Call it what you like. I'll just go back to playing GBF Relink in the meantime to satisfy my weebslop needs.
>>744637705k
>>744637606this game shares more in common with mobile games which are typically gacha. gacha games are their own genre of masochistic grinds and terrible design. it's odd to see so many people conditioned to accept this game of torturous game design but I guess that's the f2p market has done to gamers.
What if Lute looked like an average Chinese male in his late teens and had no dialogue and the game had redundant dialogue choices and all the women in the game wanted him even though he doesn’t talk and one of the girl characters was an idol and you have to watch her concert for one patch and then she never shows up again after confessing.
>>744637682Their words for bag are also loandwords: Gabang, baekpaek and haendeubaek. Hospital is also very similar to the Japanese word.
>>744637820>Lute>hewut
>>744637875>He doesn't know
someone's having an Awakening
>>744637815It's only torturous or masochistic if you're one of those autistic retard who cared about 10% more damage.
Speaking of Korean, I'm a little upset I haven't heard a single "Oi oi" out of Johnny, I expected him to talk like the guy from this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=j4A4H0y29acHe's still great though
>>744638115Johnny becomes a 10/10 character really quick. He's certainly the sort who's great when there's a dragon that needs slaying but is a borderline menace to society when there isn't.
>>744637121so it's a normal game. What's your problem?
My team is starting to lose steam and I'm still a bit away from the next level breakthrough in terms of story progression, are there any mechanics that I should pay particular attention to for boosting my damage? Or should I try to build a new team?
If this were a gacha, it would have made it into my main rotation. However, maybe the main reason it’s doing well is the commercial gimmick of once being a gacha. Part of me wanted this to released as originally intended, just to see how it would fare against the major titles.
>>744637121>thing without the badYeah?
>>744638531Mental illness.
>>744638531It released in Korea AS a gacha and flopped hard because there was no reason to play over any of the other significantly more polished games.
>>744638526Did you buy Karmas off the exchange shop? Level ~40 ish onwards I think if you didn't buy Karma for your main team and level them you'll start suffering in the numbers cuz they do contribute crucial Atk stats. Remember to match them to each character's main attribute (the one next to their name on the front page), get the Crit % one for midgame and get like 6 copies to max the effects out. Signature Karma are better but if you don't have them yet this'll tide you over.
>>744638531you say that, but could you honestly see yourself logging in every day to go kill a group goblins or transport a crate or whatever the dailies would bethis game is great as a microcosm of gachaslop, but it would be terrible as actual gachaslop
>>744633735no, it's just the equivalent of vaping for gacha addictsit plays like what they're used but it's not harmful to them (or their wallet) like the real thing
>>744638790I think a nicotine patch is the better comparison in that case.
>>744638660I've bought one (1) karma for each character, I'll look into leveling/stackingthanks anon
>>744634724Are armor stats and perks randomized or can I start building some endgame 5 star gear for my akah akbar wife?
>>744638105not really. all of your progression is gated either through story or material grinds. normal games dont level cap you unless you awaken your characters which you can only do by getting certain materials typically related to grindable content. saying dragonsword plays just like any other normal game is incredibly disingenuous since it still shares more in common with mobile and gacha game designs than a traditional rpg.
>>744638531Gacha is dying. I'm glad they changed it. I only play 2 gacha, and the only upcoming one I care about is Silver Palace. I'll likely drop one of the ones I play now for it if it is good. After SP I don't want to play more gacha. Let the genre die.The Ananta devs made the right call changing it.
>>744640024>Gacha is dying.Dude, three mihoyo games bring in billions, that's literally more than the entire gaming industry brings in combined.
>>744640195>the most popular one is doing fine so the genre is healthyokay
Gacha games can never die because at the end of the day they're the last bastion of sexy anime babes while the rest of the video game industry crashes and burns because of wokeness.
that wasn't too hard. Took me just over 5 minutes. Ursula however I don't even think I can do right now since she jumps all over the place
>>744640195Mihoyos production levels are so good that it has ruined other games for me. For example turning in Beast of Reincarnation and immediately seeing flaws in the run animations or the combat swings etc.
>>744640385They’re the last bastion for actual narrative that’s the problem with video games. Gacha are the last bastion for narrative and Nintendo are the last bastion for gameplay.
>>744641307>Gacha are the last bastion for narrativehuh? the stories are typically drip fed made to run forever. the stories are also rarely ever original or interesting. a lot of gacha stories may start off interesting but the writing falls off because they aren't allowed to progress the plot quick enough since the game is planned to run for as long as possible. weekly events are typically noncanon bullshit which are nonstop trope spamming.
>>744641307
>>744641426Exactly and they’re still better than literally 99% of release aside from FFxIv best expansions and Witcher 3’s side quests. And the reason is because it’s the only genre that evolved from the visual novel, the pinnacle of video game story telling.
>>744633673do you think she is into glass bukkake?
>>744641950>And the reason is because it’s the only genre that evolved from the visual novel, the pinnacle of video game story telling.If that's the only prerequisite then you should play more jrpgs since the majority of them are just vns when theres any story or dialogue involved. also the majority of final fantasy games have never had good stories so using them as an example isn't a good comparison.
>>744633673Why does the steam page redirect me to Genshin Impact? Where can I check out the actual game?
>>744633735its okay, but i wish hound throw this back into the oven cook a real successor to dragon nestthis swapslop designed for mobile gachaslop gameplay is a downgrade compare to that mmo 15 years ago
my issue with this game is that theres 0 skill involved. you just pick a team that has synergy and spam their tag abilities nonstop and the game essentially plays itself. it's just a stat check at the end of the day. mobile gameplay is really bad especially for this type of genre that traditionally had a high skill ceiling. This game does not respect player freedom or style.
>>744642234I’ve played all the jrpgs. I’ve played them all. The jrpgs I haven’t played are gacha titles and region locked Korean and Japanese shit. That’s why when people laugh when you say “these gacha titles are good”, I know they haven’t played much vidy.
>>744636458It's swapslop
>>744642787i've played a lot of videogames and i still think gacha games are shit, especially when it comes to their stories. you are essentially dedicating years of your life to get drip fed story updates for a game that may never get an ending.
>>744633735they have official swimsuits and it's modable
>>744637628that's only why you would play it over genshin or other gachaslop and not an actual action-rpg
>>744633673how's the game as a "genshin killer"? I know it's a tired comparison, but it is the standard comparison with these kinds of gamesI heard it has no gacha and you can input the special attacks and grabs and tag other party member in and do a combo?
>>744643058The combat doesn't feel that different from other swabidi toilet games.
>>744642434Please play video games for longer than 45 minutes I swear to godThen yall gon be like>I actually played for 25 hours man look my steam stats
>>744642846And who else is taking on Evangelion, and Gurren Lagann, and Fate’s ideas huh? Who’s carrying that otaku torch huh?I run this whole place. And when I say Dragonsword is a 9/10 it becomes gospel
>>744643058You play Genshin for the story. Do you want a shounen story with cool lore and combat made for women while the flute from Breath of the Wild plays? Then Genshin. Do you want Korean action combat with Konosuba humour? Dragonsword.
>>744642434play alex, embrace the parryslophttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pi2uRSNWymU
>>744641307>actual narrative that’s the problem with video games.No one who has played any of these believe that.The most interesting thing about their story telling is that it might as well be a serial
>There's an JP AI dub alreadyUh, neat, it's like 1gb total
Anyone doing the level 50 raid?
>>744643987>AI dubkys
>portals everywhere >portals spitting out little monsters>portals spitting out little monsters that eat and become big monsters >portal spits out little girl that likes eating grim. foreboding, even.
>>744643639Pray tell who has better story telling. Xenoblade 3? Kiseki? Wrath of the Righteous? Diablo 4? Heaven Burns Red?Who exactly
>>744643987I need this, Korean is such an ugly language holy shit it sounds bad
>>744643987Give me some samples senpai
>>744645031japanese is the only reddeming east asian language, every other language from there sounds fucking awful
Korean sounds okay. It's the Chinese languages I cannot stand.
>>744644559Ninian mating press.but only in hebe form
>>7446340455x dungeon and gathering drops mods are a must for the game to feel enjoyable. Can also throw an all mount can free-fly mod, so you dont need to stick to the little dragon.And unlimited stamina for mounts since the game makes you run a lot, and i don't really like how the map works. It has some kind of annoying delay to close and requires an awful amount of clicks to teleport.
>>744641272For how mid it is Beast of Reincarnation is still better than hoyoslop
