Wuthering Waves |OT| - Devil May Impact

Peroroncino

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Genshin has released probably one of the worst updates yet, and it's saying something since Natlan overall for me was a massive disappointment (story, characters, designs, literally everything), and yet it's still number 1, depressing. ☠️

I still like it and play it everyday, but damn is most of the magic just gone for me, it's been going downhill for a while now. Hopefully Nod-Krai is gonna reinvigorate it a bit.
 
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Nankatsu

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Well, Camellya is Camellya so it's best not to anger her...

That said, I did just finish making this new gif of Fleurdelis in a defeated state... :messenger_grinning_sweat:

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Pejo

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Wait, do you also play PGR? I've seen you mentioning it a couple of times in your recent posts.
Very very casually. Had it installed since launch, but I stopped reading the story at chapter 3 (wasn't for me). My favorite part are the event boss battles. It's such a shame that they're limited time, they're by far the best content in the game.

I really hope that's not the case, Abby is like the only mascot I like out of all these gacha games. Not annoying, not overused, just the right amount.
Agreed actually. Can't wait to see his "true" form.
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

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Very very casually. Had it installed since launch, but I stopped reading the story at chapter 3 (wasn't for me). My favorite part are the event boss battles. It's such a shame that they're limited time, they're by far the best content in the game.
Oh, I see. I'm trying to get into PGR since the combat looks fun and some of the units are really cool, but it's a bit hard since the PC version is too mobile-y for my taste.
 

Pejo

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Oh, I see. I'm trying to get into PGR since the combat looks fun and some of the units are really cool, but it's a bit hard since the PC version is too mobile-y for my taste.
The game is on a hyper catch-up phase right now to catch up to CN because there's a Devil May Cry collab coming up that they want to sync servers for. Most new S rank characters are just cutscene generators and the gameplay has been mostly removed in favor of rotations and gacha powercreep. WuWa is the much better combat game now, better story/presentation too. They made PGR to rival Honkai Impact 3, it's not really worth getting into at this point IMO. The character designs are great, and I have suspicions that the world and WuWa's world are connected, but I dunno if it's worth playing even still. The one grace it has is that it's pretty F2P. Since they (normally) release characters so slowly, you should always be able to guarantee every character for free. That got kinda busted up with them doing 2-3 characters per patch in the catch up phase, despite the additional income.
 
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Kazdane

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People not realizing it's April's Fool day.
This one surprised me (as in, that they went for this prank specifically) because not every country celebrates April's Fools, so they're catching many people off guard. I was telling my friends yesterday to remember that today is April's Fools because here in Spain (and in many other countries), we actually celebrate it on December 28.
 
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Pejo

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This one surprised me (as in, that they went for this prank specifically) because not every country celebrates April's Fools, so they're catching many people off guard. I was telling my friends yesterday to remember that today is April's Fools because here in Spain (and in many other countries), we actually celebrate it on December 28.
Celebrate April fools in December?
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Did I just get got?
 

Kazdane

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Celebrate April fools in December?
Suspicious Futurama GIF


Did I just get got?
You didn't get got :)

From https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massacre_of_the_Innocents#Catholic_medieval_traditions
"In Spain, Hispanic America, and the Philippines, 28 December is still a day for pranks, equivalent to April Fool's Day in many countries. Pranks (bromas) are also known as inocentadas and their victims are called inocentes; alternatively, the pranksters are the inocentes and the victims should not be angry at them, since they could not have committed any sin. One of the more famous of these traditions is the annual "Els Enfarinats" festival of Ibi in Alacant, where the inocentes dress up in full military dress and incite a flour fight."
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

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Finally, the full OST for version 2.2 is up on all streaming platforms. They really did a bangup job with most if not all of the songs!



 

Pejo

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Looks like the new monthly gacha revenue chart is up, lol. WuWa jumped about 7 spots compared to February, which means the Brant and Cantarella banners have done quite a bit of work. :messenger_sunglasses:
Man I saw some charts that showed Brant's banner being the lowest selling in the game after the free dude they gave away, so either he was an extremely late bloomer, the data was just wrong, or Cantarella was a WuWillion dollar banner.

*edit*

Looks like that chart I saw was plain wrong if the above post is accurate. Looks like the game made it to "2rd" on PSN, lol.
 
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Thick Thighs Save Lives

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Man I saw some charts that showed Brant's banner being the lowest selling in the game after the free dude they gave away, so either he was an extremely late bloomer, the data was just wrong, or Cantarella was a WuWillion dollar banner.

*edit*

Looks like that chart I saw was plain wrong if the above post is accurate. Looks like the game made it to "2rd" on PSN, lol.
Maybe that one was for CN? This dude Ofa, who's doing this revenue chart, is mostly focusing on iOS JP (not sure where he gets that daily JPY breakdown). And yeah, I noticed that "2rd" typo as well, lmao.

Edit: Looks like the data for iOS JP is from https://game-i.daa.jp/
 
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Nankatsu

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Here's the full revenue breakdown with a focus on the JP iOS if you're curious:

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Cantarella's banner already 159M in 5 days :messenger_tears_of_joy:

In all honestly I didn't expect Brant to top Changli in terms of pulls. But then again that's more IOS focused data, maybe with all things packed together that doesn't happen.

How much did Phoebe make during February?
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

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Cantarella's banner already 159M in 5 days :messenger_tears_of_joy:

In all honestly I didn't expect Brant to top Changli in terms of pulls. But then again that's more IOS focused data, maybe with all things packed together that doesn't happen.

How much did Phoebe make during February?
Looks like Phoebe did 244M JPY all by herself, lol (there was no double banner).

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Nankatsu

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Looks like Phoebe did 244M JPY all by herself, lol (there was no double banner).

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Do you know who's the best selling banner so far?

Probably Jinhsi / Chiangli / Carlotta, no?

I actually would lean more towards Carlotta because the game had way better traction when Raguna drop compared to when they dropped Jihnsi or Changli.
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

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Do you know who's the best selling banner so far?

Probably Jinhsi / Chiangli / Carlotta, no?

I actually would lean more towards Carlotta because the game had way better traction when Raguna drop compared to when they dropped Jihnsi or Changli.
So this dude's data for iOS JP goes as far back as February, but it's pretty safe to say that the 1.0 and 1.1 banners (Yinlin, Jyan, Changli and Jinhsi) were the best selling banners. And IIRC Carlotta did very good too, but I don't think it did as much as those 4.
 
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Nankatsu

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So this dude's data for iOS JP goes as far back as February, but it's pretty safe to say that the 1.0 and 1.1 banners (Yinlin, Jyan, Changli and Jinhsi) were the best selling banners. And IIRC Carlotta did very good too, but I don't think it did as much as those 4.

Oh really? I didn't thought it would be the OG banners, because the game back there was in it's hit and miss phase, full of bugs and performance issues.

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Thick Thighs Save Lives

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Oh really? I didn't thought it would be the OG banners, because the game back there was in it's hit and miss phase, full of bugs and performance issues.

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Keep in mind that people can overlook bugs and technical shortcomings if the game is fun, and Kuro put out a lot of marketing for the game's launch (1.0 banners) and then also for 1.1 banners (saw a bunch of Changli marketing and I wasn't even playing the game at the time).

And while I don't have the full data for JP iOS, here's the estimated mobile revenue since the game's release from Sensor Tower with the usual caveats :

MonthRevenue
May 2024$25M
June 2024$45M
July 2024$30M
August 2024$13M
September 2024$7M
October 2024$10M
November 2024$17M
December 2024$6.5M
January 2025$28M
February 2025$14M
March 2025$21M
 
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Nankatsu

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Keep in mind that people can overlook bugs and technical shortcomings if the game is fun, and Kuro put out a lot of marketing for the game's launch (1.0 banners) and then also for 1.1 banners (saw a bunch of Changli marketing and I wasn't even playing the game at the time).

And while I don't have the full data for JP iOS, here's the estimated mobile revenue since the game's release from Sensor Tower with the usual caveats :

MonthRevenue
May 2024$25M
June 2024$45M
July 2024$30M
August 2024$13M
September 2024$7M
October 2024$10M
November 2024$17M
December 2024$6.5M
January 2025$28M
February 2025$14M
March 2025$21M

Interesting. June 2024 covers a bit of Jiyan's Banner, along with Yinlin for 2nd phase.
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

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Interesting. June 2024 covers a bit of Jiyan's Banner, along with Yinlin for 2nd phase.
Yeah, like I said, Jiyan and Yinlin did really well, lol. There was a lot of hype for both of them.

Btw, you can somewhat correlate these estimates with the amount of engagement (views, likes, reshares) each video and post received on YT, TW, etc.

For YouTube though, some of these videos were also used as ads, so a better metric there is the number of likes instead of the number of views.

In any case, the game is on a good trajectory right now and the 1st anniversary is just around the corner, so expect the $$$ to keep coming in.
 
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Mayar

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Looks like Phoebe did 244M JPY all by herself, lol (there was no double banner).
There is nothing particularly surprising here, they promoted her very strongly, plus she is now objectively one of the strongest characters in the game, even despite the fact that 50% of the character does not work and she actually does not have a group now, only a temporary crutch through Rover. And if God forbid Zani is also broken at the same level, I think we will see a drop of all old DPS in the table. That's why the demand for her was very high.
 

Nankatsu

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There is nothing particularly surprising here, they promoted her very strongly, plus she is now objectively one of the strongest characters in the game, even despite the fact that 50% of the character does not work and she actually does not have a group now, only a temporary crutch through Rover. And if God forbid Zani is also broken at the same level, I think we will see a drop of all old DPS in the table. That's why the demand for her was very high.

I sincerely hope they don't side line Zani to a mere sub-dps, and make her main existing reason be to buff Phoebe.

I'm quite honestly surprised on how popular Phoebe became. She is insanely boring in my eyes.

But I'm in the minority here, I know, the numbers prove me wrong :messenger_tears_of_joy:
 
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Mayar

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I sincerely hope they don't side line Zani to a mere sub-dps, and make her main existing reason be to buff Phoebe.

I'm quite honestly surprised on how popular Phoebe became. She is insanely boring in my eyes.

But I'm in the minority here, I know, the numbers prove me wrong :messenger_tears_of_joy:
I would also like to see Zani as a main DPS, but in reality it won't matter very much there, since I understand their idea is that you actively switch between them + you need to use the second support stance. Regardless of which of them is in what position, on paper it will be a very active group with a constant change of characters. Plus, Probe's damage is just disgusting (she currently has the highest parser in the game on a standing target, even at S0, almost 600,000 damage), so damage problems definitely don't apply to this group.
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Thick Thighs Save Lives

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There is nothing particularly surprising here, they promoted her very strongly, plus she is now objectively one of the strongest characters in the game, even despite the fact that 50% of the character does not work and she actually does not have a group now, only a temporary crutch through Rover. And if God forbid Zani is also broken at the same level, I think we will see a drop of all old DPS in the table. That's why the demand for her was very high.
Kinda hate myself a little for skipping her, lol. I like her kit (she was slaying in some of the past events where she was a trial resonator) and also enjoyed her role in the fishing story from the last patch, as well as in the ragunna holiday side quest.

Anyway, I'll try to grab her once her banner is rerun if I have enough astrites saved up.
 

Mayar

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Kinda hate myself a little for skipping her, lol. I like her kit (she was slaying in some of the past events where she was a trial resonator) and also enjoyed her role in the fishing story from the last patch, as well as in the ragunna holiday side quest.

Anyway, I'll try to grab her once her banner is rerun if I have enough astrites saved up.
I almost skip her, there were about 5-6 days left until the end of the banner, and I just thought that if Zani really needs her, I will never forgive myself for skipping her, since who knows when her rerun will happen now (Of course they can do her rerun at the same time as Zani baner, but then it will be one of the most brutal banners in the history of the game :messenger_tears_of_joy:). Plus, even if Zani doesn't need her, in any case you get a very strong character on your account, in the end it was a win-win lottery and I decided to get her in the end.
 

Pejo

Member
Just finished Cantarella's character quest...
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That was worth waiting for. What a finely crafted story. Some sad parts, some bittersweet, etc. Again the cinematography was fantastic, the dialogue was great. The Fisalia's were pretty fucked up, to be honest.

I really wanted to take a picture of the giant Jellyfish but the game considers you in a domain for that part so you can't use the camera or even enter the options menu to disable the UI for a clean screen cap. That was jaw dropping. This game doesn't get enough credit for its visuals, there are some really incredible areas.

I've been slowly building my Cantarella over the past few days, still trying to get her weapon. I find her a bit more easy to understandher and use her in battle now, but boy have I been spoiled by having Shorekeeper in my party previously. She does so much healing that you can be very sloppy in harder fights and not even think about it. With Cantarella in her place, you still get some healing, but you need to play well for it to be sufficient. To be fair, it probably gets better as you build her. I noticed a significantly easier time with the trial Cantarella. She really takes Havoc Rover to a new level with her damage buffs and coordinated attacks though. I didn't realize this before rolling her, but she also has a very high speed swim that also charges her Forte while you're in the water. My only complaint with her is that she's melee range. I wish she either had faster attack animations or was a ranged character. It's kinda awkward to play her in boss battles, especially ones that are really mobile/warp around like Lorelei. Her personal damage is nothing to scoff at, either.
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

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For those who claimed the Discord event bonus, did you receive anything besides the rewards from day one?

Nevermind, I thought it was automatic :messenger_tears_of_joy:
Yeah, you need to manually sign in every day via their Discord bot (it doesn't take more than a couple of seconds, especially if you keep your discord client idle on PC and/or mobile like me). I'm currently at the day 2 rewards.
 

Thick Thighs Save Lives

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I see that the Zani drip marketing has started... Well, in that case, here's a good cosplay from @good_duck71:

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Edit: Looks like Zani was the top trending topic on the JP Twitter! 😳

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Thick Thighs Save Lives

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Damn, Narushio will be the cover for Animedia's May 2025 issue (Japanese monthly anime magazine)! :messenger_sunglasses:

It has been decided that Narushio will appear on the double cover of the May 2025 issue of the anime magazine Animage, which is scheduled to be released on April 10th.

The cover will feature the TV anime "WIND BREAKER Season 2," and the double cover will
feature "Narushio." In addition, there will be a special feature on "Narushio," and an original B3 poster of "WIND BREAKER Season 2 / Narushio" will also be included as a separate appendix, so please look forward to that as well.


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Peroroncino

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Ooooh, WIND BREAKER season 2 is coming, gotta remember about it. First one was fire, none of that pussy shit from tokyo revengers wankers

No clue who narushio is

but i just checked and he's a youtuber

why is an english speaking youtuber in weeb magazine?
 

Pejo

Member
Ooooh, WIND BREAKER season 2 is coming, gotta remember about it. First one was fire, none of that pussy shit from tokyo revengers wankers

No clue who narushio is

but i just checked and he's a youtuber

why is an english speaking youtuber in weeb magazine?
It's also a submarine or some boat I think.

(it's the JP name of WuWa I believe)
 
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