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I wonder if we're going to get any story content with Topaz, I assume 1.4 will be wrapping up Xianzhou and moving onto the next planet?
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it's a space pig it can have any name 
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Not So Fast posted:I wonder if we're going to get any story content with Topaz, I assume 1.4 will be wrapping up Xianzhou and moving onto the next planet? Yes, from the most recent set of datamines regarding story content, 1.4 should at least tell us where we're going next, and it's going to involve IPC pretty heavily. Right now it's not entirely clear whether we'll actually get any significant content for the new planet in 1.4 or if it'll get its true debut in 1.6.
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Aug 16, 2023 15:33
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I keep thinking the pig is Nimby
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Aug 16, 2023 15:36
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I'm an old so my brain keeps thinking Gumby. 
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Aug 16, 2023 15:47
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Gumby is probably the right direction to thin, pronunciation-wise, because otherwise it's nummy which is probably worse.
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Aug 16, 2023 16:05
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Clarste posted:Gumby is probably the right direction to thin, pronunciation-wise, because otherwise it's nummy which is probably worse. The lore entries for trotters do say they're delicious... (also inedible, but hey) 
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Aug 16, 2023 16:32
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NeonPunk posted:Yeah no, no, absolutely no, out of the question. It was pushing the line by adding a straight-up terrorist who bombed, murdered, assassinated, incited a revolution, and all other bad stuff, to the team. But adding a debt collector? That's just far too depraved and evil for even me to suspend my disbelief anymore. Your honor those are sexy crimes and my client looked incredibly hot doing them. I move to acquit her.
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Aug 16, 2023 16:38
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Eimi posted:Your honor those are sexy crimes and my client looked incredibly hot doing them. I move to acquit her. ... is this why they intentionally made Topaz showing more skin and cleavage in comparison to the other characters? So we can simply give her a pass on her job? That's some dirty manipulation on Mihoyo side NeonPunk fucked around with this message at 16:54 on Aug 16, 2023 |
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Aug 16, 2023 16:52
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NeonPunk posted:... is this why they intentionally made Topaz showing more skin and cleavage in comparison to the other characters? So we can simply give her a pass on her job? except she isn't?
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Aug 16, 2023 17:22
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221/300. getting there. still no idea who to pick but prolly the dragon girl for revives and being cute
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Aug 16, 2023 17:33
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UHD posted:except she isn't? She doesn't wear pants my god
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Aug 16, 2023 17:34
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in space, we don't need pants
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Aug 16, 2023 17:38
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Any day in which I am forced to wear pants is a bad day.
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Aug 16, 2023 17:45
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gonna be honest working from home has entirely soured me on the concept of wearing pants at all, ever
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Aug 16, 2023 17:46
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Numby's Chinese name is still Zhangzhang, the character used means "account" as in "bank account", and doubled as a diminuitive. Thus in English, (bank) Numbers -> Numby.
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Aug 16, 2023 17:47
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NeonPunk posted:... is this why they intentionally made Topaz showing more skin and cleavage in comparison to the other characters? So we can simply give her a pass on her job? This is a weird gimmick
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Aug 16, 2023 18:08
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Tae posted:This is a weird gimmick I would've figured that SA would have aged beyond puriteens, and yet.
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Aug 16, 2023 18:29
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Tae posted:This is a weird gimmick You don't see a problem with the Astral Rail Express letting a debt collector on the team?
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Aug 16, 2023 18:40
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For the record I was talking about Kafka, who has never done anything wrong in her life.
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Aug 16, 2023 18:42
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UHD posted:The premise of the game is traveling the universe. Our time at each location is therefore finite. The main story is not going to go into every location in great depth because we’re never going to be at any one location long enough for it to matter. Relegating those sorts of details to side quests solves that problem - they can add those at their leisure without worrying about making those details relevant to the greater plot. The game also makes it seem like you can just casually travel back to Belobog or the space station though, so I'm not sure if we're supposed to interpret that as a weird gameplay abstraction or a thing that is actually possible because of the way the star rail works. Like it'll explicitly have "you traveling back and forth between these places" happen in side-quests, like the one where you bring robots from Belobog to the cult people.
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Aug 16, 2023 18:43
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The characters we pull all famously joined us on our journey and were in all future story quests and texting us daily for more than a week.
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Aug 16, 2023 18:44
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NeonPunk posted:You don't see a problem with the Astral Rail Express letting a debt collector on the team? Chad face: No.
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Aug 16, 2023 18:50
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NeonPunk posted:You don't see a problem with the Astral Rail Express letting a debt collector on the team? actually no i don't have a problem with enlisting a villain on my entirely-in-gameplay team. it's fiction and my video game party is not indicative of my personal morals. who gives a poo poo. Ytlaya posted:The game also makes it seem like you can just casually travel back to Belobog or the space station though, so I'm not sure if we're supposed to interpret that as a weird gameplay abstraction or a thing that is actually possible because of the way the star rail works. Like it'll explicitly have "you traveling back and forth between these places" happen in side-quests, like the one where you bring robots from Belobog to the cult people. there's always going to be abstractions in travel for the player. my point was more than the main story probably isn't ever going to have you go back and forth between worlds you've already "completed." you're going to move on to a new one once you finish whatever's going on in the current one, even if the astral express can theoretically do it. side quests can do whatever they want; they're not bound by the main quest's constraints, including riding the astral express all over the place.
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Aug 16, 2023 19:04
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the game already has serveal cops who cares if there is a sexy debt collector oh i care because i will probably roll for her
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Aug 16, 2023 19:10
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We don't know an awful lot about Topaz, but right in her intro blurb there's a few telling things. First, she's the leader of the "Special Debts Picket Team", which implies that she's not exactly the kind of goon that comes around and repossesses your car because you're late on your payments. Second, she's one of ten major characters in the IPC, which again implies that she's more about the big, planetary-scale problems than the low-level poo poo. And her quote, if it'd been presented without any of the other text, would be considered quite positively by everyone. All in all, I expect that she's more of a special agent than a traditional debt collector. I'd reserve judgment on her until we see more of the story.
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Zurai posted:All in all, I expect that she's more of a special agent than a traditional debt collector. I'd reserve judgment on her until we see more of the story. that is even worse! lol
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Aug 16, 2023 19:13
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i dont care even a little bit what my video game characters fake job is
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Aug 16, 2023 19:14
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Turns out the Himeko has been racking up debt to pay for her candy crush addiction and we'll need to break her out of jail.
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Aug 16, 2023 19:14
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The more hosed up and evil a character is = the better they are. See: Lobelia from Granblue Fantasy
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Aug 16, 2023 19:16
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Snooze Cruise posted:that is even worse! lol OK, this I have to hear. How is being Space Jane Bond worse than being a scummy repo woman?
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Cygames had to include a disclaimer when you bought the Lobelia summer costume cuz of how hosed up he is...Star rail needs something like that.
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Yeah, I'm ambivalent about Topaz because all we know is that blurb and what we know about the IPC in general. If her vibes are cool, I'll probably pull for her, assuming I have anything left after Fu Xuan.
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One of the later luofu quests has a character from there join you on a trip to Belobog, so yes we're explicitly going back and forth along the star rail. Heck, in the opening of the game DH and March are on the station before the express gets there, so it was off somewhere else with Welt. That same quest mentioned Jarilo iv was receiving IPC ships now, so there are definitely going to be more crossovers between the various stops in the future, just like with Genshin
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Zurai posted:OK, this I have to hear. How is being Space Jane Bond worse than being a scummy repo woman? because she is still technically a repo woman but also james bond! lol bond is literally a monster so i think we may just have different value systems at work here, lmao
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when are we getting a 5 star landlord
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Reading the Databank, the IPC already controls galactic commerce. Credits are the IPC's company scrip. Amber Era, the worst calendar system, is their dating system. And what do they do with all that power and wealth? They gather resources to help Qlipoth build its wall because they started off as a Qlipoth cult. They are boring and Topaz will probably be boring too.
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Kiavahr posted:One of the later luofu quests has a character from there join you on a trip to Belobog, so yes we're explicitly going back and forth along the star rail. Heck, in the opening of the game DH and March are on the station before the express gets there, so it was off somewhere else with Welt. Remember we're traveling universes here, not through space. The Express jumps from leaf to leaf on the Imaginary Tree. So the travel time is presumably not that much once the tracks are fixed. This also how there are two Bronya's in the game, both Belobolg and Punklorde are in different universes.
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Snooze Cruise posted:because she is still technically a repo woman but also james bond! lol Yeah, I think so, especially since I was obviously using "Space Jane Bond" as a shortcut rather than to refer to the literal character of James Bond. The latter absolutely has some problematic elements (misogyny, imperialism, Sean Connery's version was almost as much of a rapist as he was), but at least James Bond's targets were almost all wealthy, powerful, and inarguably evil. A repo man's targets are the most downtrodden and persecuted elements of society.
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I'm totally cool with (and maybe even slightly prefer?) playable characters being villains and/or not good people. Everything hints to IPC being not good people. I'm not even talking about criminals with hearts of gold, or villains with tragic backstories or redeemable qualities. Just straight-up bad people. I'm in the camp where Numby reminds me of Nimby, so maybe it's just me, I'm around too many bad people. Eimi posted:Remember we're traveling universes here, not through space. The Express jumps from leaf to leaf on the Imaginary Tree. So the travel time is presumably not that much once the tracks are fixed. This also how there are two Bronya's in the game, both Belobolg and Punklorde are in different universes.  Does it mention that everywhere? I mean, this kinda makes sense. I'd assumed we were just traveling through space since you could see out the window of the train and they made the outside look space-y.
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