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Childe coming into play to potentially throw more chaos into the mix came as a bit of a surprise to me too. Don't think anything was leaked about him being involved in this story arc. It seems like he's here because he heard about and wanted to challenge Chlorinde to a duel and ends up getting roped into whatever is happening with the traveler. One other thing I noticed is that Navia comes packing two bodyguards she clearly doesn't need who I can only hope are going to be doing some sort of Solt and Peppor routine. Seems weird that she would apparently be a revolutionary though since they seemed to indicate she's one of Fontaine's elite and is doing well under it's current system. Hopefully there's a good reason for why she'd want to tear it all down. My guess is it's that prophecy they mentioned and she figures under the current course it's destined to come true. Guessing already she's the candidate to take over things after the arc is done since basically every arc ends with the status quo of the nation overturned.
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FractalSandwich posted:I mean, it's not hard to triangulate where Celestia is, yeah. I was just expecting Fontaine to connect to the rest of the world through the watery bits in the northwest of Liyue -- which happens to be where Celestia is -- not through this weird circuitous route that comes off the northernmost part of the desert and has the whole place further north, way far away from everything else. Maybe by having a gap they'll manage to make it not load the entire drat world or whatever, so it'll be playable on ps4 still. They mostly fixed the 'sometimes the floor doesn't exist in the academia/some cutscenes,' but I've come to realize that one statue in liyue is just an instakill if you teleport to it, because the floating platform it's on doesn't exist when your character loads in, so you look back over and suddenly someone's dead.
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Childe going to help us out in our boss fight against Cappuccino, but get smacked away hilariously for phase 2 .
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Notably missing from 4.0 updates: more map pins. The only reason I can come up with for this is they're afraid of people using the pins to spell stuff out? Because if they can up the artifact cap, surely they can give us a few more pins.
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Space Opera posted:Notably missing from 4.0 updates: more map pins. The only reason I can come up with for this is they're afraid of people using the pins to spell stuff out? Because if they can up the artifact cap, surely they can give us a few more pins. What do you use them for? I mostly used them to mark unexplored areas/unsolved puzzles.
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    Probable timeline of events checks out.
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Hey did they ever give out a free Gorou or am I just unlucky to have never gotten him, the Sole Guy Who Shows Inazuma Uniques????
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Real Cool Catfish posted:What do you use them for? I mostly used them to mark unexplored areas/unsolved puzzles. I'd LIKE to use them to mark oculi I've picked up in new regions but Sumeru had 271 and Fontaine should be even higher. It's just baffling that we only have 150 pins for 5 countries plus 2 extra map zones.
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Real Cool Catfish posted:Do we know the non new 4*’s on the banners? Would be fine risking a few ten pulls on the new guy, Zhongli or (gasp) Tortellini Lynette/Xiangling/Xingqiu and then second half would be Freminet/Fischl/Diona
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To be fair Lynette/Xiangling/Xingqiu with Yelan on the other side would still be a really solid banner.
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yeah yelan/xiangling/xingqiu/lynette would be a good team all on its own but xingqiu doesnt work with lyney on multiple levels and hes the main character theyd be pushing barbara and noelle are the other 4*s that havent had reruns for a while so if they wanted to make the banners worse they could toss them in, but they seem to like x.0 banners to be good. for instance, 3.0's was Tighnari & Zhongli/Collei/Fischl/Diona and Ganyu & Kokomi/Dori/Xingqiu/Sucrose Diona was a bit of an odd fit but shes a good character on her own, and Tighnari/Collei/Fischl/Flex is a pretty good team even if Tighnari prefers Yae. Likewise Dori isn't great but Kokomi/Dori/Xingqiu/Sucrose is a functioning taser team.
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Kale posted:Childe coming into play to potentially throw more chaos into the mix came as a bit of a surprise to me too. Don't think anything was leaked about him being involved in this story arc. It seems like he's here because he heard about and wanted to challenge Chlorinde to a duel and ends up getting roped into whatever is happening with the traveler. I mean, Childe technically showed up for Scaramouche's plot in Labyrinth Warriors, but absolutely nothing came out of that.
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Space Opera posted:I'd LIKE to use them to mark oculi I've picked up in new regions but Sumeru had 271 and Fontaine should be even higher. It's just baffling that we only have 150 pins for 5 countries plus 2 extra map zones.
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Meowywitch posted:Hey did they ever give out a free Gorou or am I just unlucky to have never gotten him, the Sole Guy Who Shows Inazuma Uniques???? Just unlucky. I'm pretty sure he's only ever run with Itto, so if you're not interested in Itto it's not super unlikely that you'd never get him.
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MoonCrab posted:Just unlucky. I'm pretty sure he's only ever run with Itto, so if you're not interested in Itto it's not super unlikely that you'd never get him. Maybe they'll run him with Navia whenever that banner is up never know. Guess it depends whether she's a DPS or not.
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The Electrogranum buffs are pretty crazy but is there anywhere that it's beneficial to use them to take on tougher enemies? I've seen them occasionally near hylichurls or large samurai but they don't seem common enough to have built an entire system around buffing the attack power.
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I finished the big summer adventure event So is this area gonna disappear forever too
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Meowywitch posted:I finished the big summer adventure event Just finished Day 2 earlier. Yup!
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Meowywitch posted:I finished the big summer adventure event Yes. Maybe it will be back for next summer's event? The oceanids give a hook for Fontaine
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Meowywitch posted:I finished the big summer adventure event
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This game still needs to cut like half of the dialogue it has i do not care about the imaginary play i'm sowwy
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Finally finished up the Mirage and collected everything, just have one more post event quest to wrap up today that popped up about some Curios and that's it. It was okay, but I prefer it when the event stories focus on the actual cast of the game a bit more rather than an NPC that we'll likely never see again after the event is over. I don't know if there was feedback about sticking character story lore in events for people to never see again like they were doing more earlier in the game, but like for example the Akademiya festival event focused primarily on the cast of Sumeru, especially Kaveh, and was the last one I really got into all that much and ditto last year with the one about Mona/Fischl/Kazuha/Xinyan. I had fun exploring the era and with the antics of the Eidolons though which were definitely the highlight of the patch. Back to trying to figure out what's going on with this chess board in the desert I suppose and clearing up some exploration stuff ahead of Fontaine. 3 Faruzan's, a Rosaria and no Yanfei's in 45 pulls. Really could not have gone much better here. Think I'm gonna call it off here and see what 50/50 brings in 4.0. Really no reason not too and I'll probably end up using the hopefully next 30 or so pulls on the Yelan banner and hope I don't miss the 50/50 for that second lifeline stock constellation this time. If I miss the 50/50 hopefully finally Mona or failing that another Jean constellation since I still use her and then we'll have to see who is on the 4.1 banners. Kale fucked around with this message at 18:53 on Aug 5, 2023 |
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GAA2 kinda showed the limitations of the playable characters narrative-wise, though. The only one who got actual character development was Fischl, the other three just got their established backstories slightly expanded for us. I get the appeal of NPCs for the writers, it lets them write self-contained character arcs without stepping on marketing's toes.
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Meowywitch posted:This game still needs to cut like half of the dialogue it has Klee at the end was just too cute.
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Is Inazuma gonna loving restock its jewelry shop ever??? how long must I wait?
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Meowywitch posted:This game still needs to cut like half of the dialogue it has That was one of those rare points where I felt the same way as the people that complain about the un-skippable dialogue and like can't I just move this along here. Literally I had no button to even press to move the dialogue along because of the nature of the presentation and some of the pauses between the narrator speaking and the next line change or having to operate a prop then waiting for the scene change over just felt unreasonably long for no real reason. The roller coaster ones with the cheap props and Paimon constantly criticizing them had much better pacing.
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Did you finish the tree? It sells a bunch on furniture blueprints and some mats.
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Meowywitch posted:Is Inazuma gonna loving restock its jewelry shop ever??? how long must I wait?
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Kale posted:That was one of those rare points where I felt the same way as the people that complain about the un-skippable dialogue and like can't I just move this along here. Literally I had no button to even press to move the dialogue along because of the nature of the presentation and some of the pauses between the narrator speaking and the next line change or having to operate a prop then waiting for the scene change over just felt unreasonably long for no real reason. The roller coaster ones with the cheap props and Paimon constantly criticizing them had much better pacing. Yeah, I thought the radio play quest was neat and the pacing was spot on, ie, I never noticed the pacing of it.
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Meowywitch posted:Is Inazuma gonna loving restock its jewelry shop ever??? how long must I wait? The thing that got me the most about Inazuma is they had a hot spring building in Inazuma city and have never once used it at any point for a set piece yet. It's just sort of there and the attendant tells you it's for lords of the shogunate only and that's it. I also thought at some point we would see Chiyo pop back up cause it said that she was still out there after her going berserk and getting her horn cut off by Raiden yet nothing ever comes of that. I keep wondering if at some point during some event that's going to come up somehow.
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Oh yeah, I forgot about there being an onsen in Inazuma City. I had fully expected them to use it but it never came up at any point past its introduction, I think
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Here's the musical performance from the livestream, some really cool stuff like a glass harp and glass harmonica and of course an accordion and french horns because France. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qZ9DaB7xRZs
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Shinji2015 posted:Oh yeah, I forgot about there being an onsen in Inazuma City. I had fully expected them to use it but it never came up at any point past its introduction, I think You can build one for your teapot.
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Stare-Out posted:of course an accordion Weird Al cross over when?
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ninjoatse.cx posted:You can build one for your teapot. Literally the first thing I did when I unlocked teapot lol who wouldn't want their own private onsen in their own personal pocket plane? now there's a power fantasy for ya, teapot needs more options like that
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Anora posted:Weird Al cross over when? Natlan is just ranchero music
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its weird how Natlan barely exists and I think I can count the number of times its been directly talked about on one hand
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No point talking about it until we're going, seems to be the general structure for these things. Look forward to Liben events next year.
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We’ve seen people from Fontaine since 1.x, and a few people from inazuma were added later in 1.x. Sumeru outfits were in 2.0, I think? I knew they were there by 2.3. I don’t think we’ve seen anyone claiming to be from Natlan. I know people aren;t supposed to be able to leave Natlan, but they weren’t allowed to leave Inazuma either.
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