u/ohoni

I do like her Y2K one, but the others seem boring to me (but well executed for their designs).

I prefer this to Remille's version.

Anniversary?

It's crazy we haven't powercrept the MC already, they are typically worse than any other S-Rank. Besides which, I don't think she is a 100% upgrade, just a 50% upgrade, in that if you're running Shinku or Akane, she seems like an upgrade, but if you're running a Blossom team, I didn't get the impression that she is much better. She might work, but her bonuses are for other effects.

Seriously, how much space do you need? Should they not run any other characters in the phase before and after the male character, so that there's no excuse when people just choose not to pull for him?

Extreme Meh. Elyms looks cool, but they keep throwing in the original design, which worries me. The new story area looked potentially very cool, but ideally we can traverse it freely, rather than being very static like a lot of other "dungeon" areas. Other than that, nothing of interest.

Well you seem to be a charming person to be around.

I just can't stand extraction gameplay. I would enjoy Egg Heist if 1. there were no gear degradation or anything like that, and 2. no matter how you leave the map, anything you've claimed, you keep, always. If I could just load up an Egg heist, and no matter what happens, I come out of it ahead for the time I put in, it would be much more fun for me.

I get that some people like the "tension" of maybe losing what you've picked up if you die, but it's a very niche audience.

The issue is that they need to balance out the rewards, because you can get all sorts of fancy eggs from that mode that really aren't available elsewhere. They could do a thing like NTE and have other systems that offer the same exact rewards as Egg Heist, but claiming one set removes them from the other.

That's just for the tourist trolls.

That's really not the point. No game is infinite in the sense that you can play it 24/7 and never get bored. But it is a live game, which means they intend to keep adding to it. Yes, you might "run out of things to do," for now, but then a month or so down the line they add new things to do that build on what you've done to that point. That's the infinite part. If you reach the point where you've done all you want to do, then you play something else until they add new content.

Yeah, Palworld crawled so that Aniimo could Hustle.

The opposite, actually.

Yeah, I really hate break bar mechanics too. ZZZ's also gotten worse and worse with theirs since 2.0. Cut it out with the "boringboringboring FUN TIME! Boringboringboring" gameplay, let people have fun ALL the time!

Yeah, I have all sorts of issues with aspects of the game, but the core exploration loop is so much fun that I put up with the rest. I just hope they get rid of Egg Heist and PvP and all that sort of nonsense.

A little, but, I think it's partly that the drop rate of higher end mutations is lower. I think I was still getting mutations at a standard rate, it's just that most of them were low tier mutations I'd already had, so it made less of an impact. So like by that I mean that if we rate the two cap stones as "S-rank," and then the ones below that as A-rank, the ones in the middle as B, and the ones at the bottom of the list as C, I figure I probably got at least one of every C-rank by the middle of that chart, at least one of every B by the 60% mark, and then most of the As toward the end, but I was still pulling a C or B-rank every day or two, it just wasn't a big deal because they were dupes.

Of course, I also hit RV 15 by about that midpoint and unlocked the final "mutations up" node.

Btw, my final tally was that I got every mutation except the last in each category, then broke down my spares and had enough to buy the Full Moon Peppers, but missed out on the other one.

If you have ever gotten a frozen Beetle, you can turn an ordinary Beetle into a frozen one with a Morph orb, and then evolve that, in a pinch.

I have had pretty good luck getting Umbrals from Nurtures. I got an Umbral Luminelle earlier today, and a couple weeks back, I got an Umbral Helmut and Rookey both in the same nurture. It's not a ton, but I don't see a ton in the general world either. I think it helps that they spawn right next to you, so you can't miss them.

I hope they change their mind on this and restore the recipes in a patch. It's just so dumb.

There is no point to doing a "bonus artifact hauls" event when we already have Stygian Onslaught.

I was aware of most of the things happening, and got most of my affairs in order, but I didn't realize that the recipes would vanish from the devices. I figured I'd be able to convert whatever I had left over. Now I have a bunch of uneffiicient bits and uncooked vegetables, and nobody likes uncooked vegetables.

Yeah, it sucks when you can't find the time to play along with the game, but there really isn't a god alternative. They need reasons for people to keep checking in, so that they don't bounce off the game.

I'm also annoyed that they removed the seasonal recipes from the devices. I get that you can't learn them anymore, and can't get more seeds for them, but you should still be able to use the plants in your inventory to craft the various recipes. I would have been doing that all night had I known I'd be stuck with the raw ingredients.

It certainly can be a significant problem. In a lot of these games though, they don't want to "devalue" something you've already invested in, so they avoid actually reducing the power of anyone directly. ZZZ actually managed this kind of with a character called Miyabi who was very strong early on, by basically countershilling most of the content in the game to ignore the parts of her kit that made her strong, and making most new buffer units not work well with her, but it really hurt the overall health of the game, and they still fell into a cycle of significant power creep.

Exactly my point. I do think that some amount of power creep is almost inevitable, but ideally, they would nerf anything that was too out of line with the standards set, and buff up anything that fell too far behind, so that the widest possible selection of Aniimo would at least be viable options.