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Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Ibblebibble posted:

Arknights global unlocks at 11:30pm for me :negative:

3AM local for me. I'll just assume that the servers will spontaneously combust at launch, and wake up to a working game instead.

https://twitter.com/ArknightsEN/status/1217636933754486784

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Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

What concerns me more is launching the game several days before the company staff goes on holidays for Chinese New Year. Hope there's no major breakages/exploits.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

I'm working on making an Arknights thread now, although I forgot to take screenshots while I was in the beta so they'll have to be put in later.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Arknights thread is up: https://forums.somethingawful.com/showthread.php?threadid=3911296

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

https://twitter.com/KaroshiMyriad/status/1241932210346680320

Looks like the SINoALICE devs got tired of Nexon's poo poo and are just going to localise the game themselves.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Romancing SaGa Re;univerSe now has an official Twitter account, with details of the pre-reg bonuses and interviews they've done with gaming media: https://twitter.com/reuniverse_en

This bit stood out to me from their SiliconEra interview (https://www.siliconera.com/saga-producer-talks-about-romancing-saga-reuniverse-interview-the-final-fantasy-legend/), and is cool and good imho:

quote:

Also, in Romancing SaGa Re;univerSe, an A-rarity unit and an SS-rarity unit of the same character share EXP and stats. Wouldn’t it be boring if you obtain powerful characters through gacha, level them up, and that’s the end of it?

About 6 weeks to go before the game proper launches.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Some more Re;univerSe notes in the comments of this post:

https://www.reddit.com/r/SaGa_ReuniverSe/comments/hf8sab/romancing_saga_reuniverse_starter_guide_reposting/

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Pleasantly surprised that units will use healing spells in Full-power Auto mode.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007


I wonder what the dislike ratio was before the video got pulled.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

whocares8310 posted:

is there any sort of goon contingent (still) playing the SEA client of CounteR Side? I was going to play a little to familiarize myself before a global release. JP releases this week and there was, allegedly, a post on the KR forums from a dev saying that the project was hiring/working toward a global release

thaaaaanks

I've just been poking at it while in a pubbie company. CounterSide sure has the most over-the-top character levelling process I've ever seen in a gacha game, it's great. I'd record footage of it if I knew how.

Good music all through the game, really.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=q2A8olYn0qE

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

"The inscrutable spaghetti code I'm putting into the game will make me indispensible!"

*monkey's paw curls*

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

The global version of CounterSide is Coming Soon (tm).

https://twitter.com/CounterSideGBL
https://www.global.counterside.com/

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

New Leaf posted:

Is there like a preregistration? I was hammering the Google Play button on my phone but it wasn't doing anything.

Pre-reg hasn't started yet (I'm pretty sure), that Google Play button is just an image.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

CounterSide global has a beta test version up today.


The "closed" beta test is more like an open beta because afaict anyone can download and play it.

If you're in USA, Canada or Mexico then you can download it via Google Play. Otherwise it can be grabbed from your 3rd party app deliverer of choice.

The dupe/uncap aspect didn't bother me, but then I can't remember every aspect of when I was playing the SEA version. Could be that the game was throwing me enough free stuff to level characters up as I got them, or I was selling the excess dupes somehow.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

That's fair enough. Maybe it also helped that I was able to use the PC client at the time, which I found easier to use than the touch interface.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

There was some official press release that mentioned working on an "overseas" version but it's unclear whether that means global or just KR/CN versions. They have to navigate a bunch of hairy IP stuff with all the real-life racehorses whose names/likenesses they use, and negotiating for rights only in korea is probably 100x easier than getting global rights.

Pretty sure it was the latter - the "global" rumor was due to machine translation fuckery.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Soon... soon... :toot:

https://twitter.com/CounterSideGBL/status/1524661837853171717

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Good Citizen posted:

Oh nice. The company had gone almost completely silent on the release timeframe after closed beta ended so I thought it might slip. I liked the beta as anime booba BattleCats

The last I heard, they were aiming for June. We're supposed to be getting a roadmap sometime this month.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

The counterside beta / global launch is the day 1 state of the game before they added an entire new rarity of units to powercreep with, on their own separate gacha banner with different currency. At least it is slowly grindable f2p. From the sound of it the pvp meta pretty much revolves around these "Awakened" units too.

Which is fine by me, since whenever PVP rears its head in a gacha game, I interact with it as little as possible (e.g. doing 3 matches in Epic Seven for daily requirements).

Speaking of CounterSide, I may post a thread for it around launch time, workload permitting

Cheap Trick fucked around with this message at 02:02 on May 17, 2022

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

https://twitter.com/CounterSideGBL/status/1527482450032852993

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

CounterSide news was good to wake up to!

PC client on Steam by August, that's good. When I tried running the SEA client through Bluestacks, it was like a slideshow.



Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Tae posted:

Why blu3stacks, sea had a pc client

When I first started with the SEA version, I tried running it through an emulator and then later that day found out about the PC client.

My post was intended as a cautionary note for people who were thinking of emulating the global version. Although aparrently some people have had better experiences with LDPlayer

Cheap Trick fucked around with this message at 06:47 on May 22, 2022

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

I can't comment much on the gacha math (it sounds about right), but can agree that Prydwen.co is pretty much the go-to website for CounterSide knowledge.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007


Nice, thanks for doing this!

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

I will at least give Octopath Traveler a poke because I like its aesthetics and the look of the battle system.

Seems like it's crazy time with how many gachas are launching lately, I don't remember it being this hectic before in this genre. Meanwhile I'm juggling my time between a few of them and managing to keep my head above water so far

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Shwqa posted:

Have a premium bundle which gives a good amount of paid currency but you have to log in daily to get a little each day. Often the final day will have a better reward than the other days.

Which games do the bolded bit? I've only ever seen the currency from those bundles be doled out at a constant rate.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

PBnJamo posted:

I'm still holding out for bigger limiteds. Getting the original 5*s will come eventually and I'm hoping there's a rateup gala or something. AFAIK, there will be Memory banners to get the story characters eventually. Got my sights on El from Master of All, she seems cool.

Octopath is weird though. Most the 5*s are really good, like surprisingly so. The jp tierlist has most of the original 8 5*s rated pretty highly still. So getting more of them isn't a bad idea at all.

Does Octopath still have the problem of "temporarily disable your emulator's network connection to get past the loading screen"?

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

PBnJamo posted:

From what I understand, yes, for emulators and stuff for first boot, but just the first time. You can also use a VPN if it's a different country thing. I'm in the U.S. and playing on my phone so I never needed to.

Oh just for first boot? That's better than I thought, thanks for the info

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

This is the first I've heard of it. RIP to my mothballed Azur Lane account then I guess

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

I use Google for everything else, I just can't remember if I switched AL over to it or not. It's been ages since I last played that game

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

One more day until Dragalia Lost goes offline for good :smith:

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Granblue Fantasy is doing its customary Christmas/New Years draw roulette (10-200 draws per day until Jan 5) plus a bunch of other free stuff, if anyone's looking to start playing.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Just wanna say thanks for the Blue Archive posts, I've been getting back into it

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Quixzlizx posted:

You're not going to get a GaaS with no microtransactions, that doesn't make any business sense on the publisher side.

What you're going to get are self-contained games with gacha mechanics, like XB2 or https://store.steampowered.com/app/1569090/Vivid_Knight/

Vivid Knight owns, we need more like this.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

The higher 3* rate on Hoshino's banner helped me out a lot since my roster was anemic.

Once I got more characters set up, I was able to clear level 62 Heavy Armor fights in the event even though I'm level 47.

I'm still not that great against Light Armor, so I won't be able to fully clear area 3. But I was able to finish the event's story, and that's the important thing for me.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

She was one of my 3* pulls! So now I have more Makicoins from Total Assault to make her even more swole.

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

RPATDO_LAMD posted:

keep in mind that once you join a guild/"club" you can borrow guildmates' units
if your level 47 red team can't handle an event mission, your buddy's maxed out level 80 5-star murder machine can probably handle it for you

I'm club-less, and on the Asia server so I can't join up with goons. I'll have to find another way

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

I am in fact also in Australia :v:

But yeah, I should just find a pubbie club to chill in

Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Feliday Melody posted:

How many Elephs is there in a full character?

To recruit:

1★ = 10 Eleph
2★ = 40 Eleph
3★ = 120 Eleph

And to promote:

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Cheap Trick
Jan 4, 2007

Tagichatn posted:

Tsurugi's always gets me.

I heard this one for the first time yesterday. Just perfect

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