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[Pejo]

This game is absolute cinema, btw!

You still haven't seen anything yet.

Spoiler: Character story gifs, minor spoilers maybe?.

Gathering Wives ain't just a meme.

 

[Nankatsu]

You still haven't seen anything yet.

Spoiler: Character story gifs, minor spoilers maybe?.

Gathering Wives ain't just a meme.

Suffice to say that so far you only had one 5 star summonable male unit with an actual banner in the game, since Xiangli Yao was free.

Calcharo and Lingyang don't count.

Spoiler

Give me Scar and Genshu Lin

 

[PonyStation4]

Beta version Camellya on the left, 2.0 version Carlotta on the right

 

[Pejo]

Suffice to say that so far you only have one 5 star summonable male unit with an actual banner in the game, since Xiangli Yao was free.

Calcharo doesn't count.

It's actually crazy.

It's not just that they are in the game and have great cutscenes, their character stories are also fantastic and really develop the characters and flesh them out. Really top tier character writing compared to most gachas out there, in my opinion.

My only complaint is that once their patch is gone, you basically never see them in official capacity anymore. I guess that moon festival brought them back to varying degrees, but yea. Poor Yinlin became a circus act lol.

 

[PonyStation4]

It's not just that they are in the game and have great cutscenes, their character stories are also fantastic and really develop the characters and flesh them out. Really top tier character writing compared to most gachas out there, in my opinion.

My only complaint is that once their patch is gone, you basically never see them in official capacity anymore. I guess that moon festival brought them back to varying degrees, but yea. Poor Yinlin became a circus act lol.

Meanwhile, Calcharo hasn't even appeared yet in the released games story. They removed his quest after Beta 1 involving the monkey boss, because Kuro rushed and redeveloped all of V1.0 and so he will reappear in a later region. Yinlin will come back once Calcharo reappears because they share some connection.

 

[Nankatsu]

It's not just that they are in the game and have great cutscenes, their character stories are also fantastic and really develop the characters and flesh them out. Really top tier character writing compared to most gachas out there, in my opinion.

My only complaint is that once their patch is gone, you basically never see them in official capacity anymore. I guess that moon festival brought them back to varying degrees, but yea. Poor Yinlin became a circus act lol.

Deep down they knew if they kept Changli around for too long, every female character would get overshadowed by her

 

[Pejo]

Deep down they knew if they kept Changli around for too long, every female character would get overshadowed by her

 

[PonyStation4]

New 2.3 resonator leaked

Spoiler

 

[Nankatsu]

New 2.3 resonator leaked

Spoiler

Hey look, it's mini Shorekeeper.

Also leaving this here in case anyone wants to use it:

https://wuwatracker.com/

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Progressing well so far, just hit union level 25 and the team I'm rolling with is lvl 50 and I can handle all the content that's currently at this level without any need for food buffs or to lvl up my echos past lvl 10.

I'm now trying to save enough pulls for Camellya to at least try my luck with the 50/50 before her banner goes away as I really like her design and she seems to be a monster main DPS too.

Also, speaking of her, the WuWa official account has been going hard with all the Camellya artwork they've been posting for the past week or so, lol.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

New 2.3 resonator leaked

Spoiler

Her design kinda reminds me of Eltolinde from my current GOTY, Unicorn Overlord.

 

[Pejo]

Progressing well so far, just hit union level 25 and the team I'm rolling with is lvl 50 and I can handle all the content that's currently at this level without any need for food buffs or to lvl up my echos past lvl 10.

I'm now trying to save enough pulls for Camellya to at least try my luck with the 50/50 before her banner goes away as I really like her design and she seems to be a monster main DPS too.

Also, speaking of her, the WuWa official account has been going hard with all the Camellya artwork they've been posting for the past week or so, lol.

I couldn't help but laugh when I saw what the Rover dolls are concentrating on when I saw this art.

And yea, the real challenge in the game comes mostly from the hologram stuff, tower, battle events, and the scattered in "super enemies". They're denoted by the red flaming aura around their bodies, and are usually way stronger than the other enemies in the area. I wish there were more of them honestly. The level 120 Lightcrusher was probably my most memorable fight in the game. It took me a good 10+ times to beat it at level 80. More open world dangers like that are always welcomed. When you complete a near perfect fight with proper dodges and parries, it gives you that same feeling as when you kill a boss in a Souls game that's been giving you a hard time.

It's worth noting that you should try to level up your "data bank" as quickly as possible. The higher the level, the more frequent and better quality echo drops you get in the open world, and it's independent of SOL3 level (or world level). I wouldn't invest too much, especially tuners, into blue/purple tier echoes, wait for the golds. As you said, you don't really need them max for open world or story content, so just having the right sets and some attack bonus is fine for while you're growing. Also don't overvalue the 4 cost (boss) Pokemon. Some of the lower cost echoes have really good/useful skills, especially for doing different things. It's good to experiment with the active skills and find one that works for you.

 

[Dragon_Rocks]

This comes out on PS5 on 1/1/25. I'm definitely going to check it out.

I am so hoping that they let us port/link our PC account to PS5 our else I am not touching it. Too much investment on my PC account already.

Is anyone able to beat 2700 in the calamity class pincer warriors event? I can get high score in one round with camy but the other always comes short.

 

[PonyStation4]

I am so hoping that they let us port/link our PC account to PS5 our else I am not touching it. Too much investment on my PC account already.

Is anyone able to beat 2700 in the calamity class pincer warriors event? I can get high score in one round with camy but the other always comes short.

I used

Jinshi-Zhezi-Shorekeeper
Cameylla-Sanhua-Verina

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I couldn't help but laugh when I saw what the Rover dolls are concentrating on when I saw this art.

And yea, the real challenge in the game comes mostly from the hologram stuff, tower, battle events, and the scattered in "super enemies". They're denoted by the red flaming aura around their bodies, and are usually way stronger than the other enemies in the area. I wish there were more of them honestly. The level 120 Lightcrusher was probably my most memorable fight in the game. It took me a good 10+ times to beat it at level 80. More open world dangers like that are always welcomed. When you complete a near perfect fight with proper dodges and parries, it gives you that same feeling as when you kill a boss in a Souls game that's been giving you a hard time.

It's worth noting that you should try to level up your "data bank" as quickly as possible. The higher the level, the more frequent and better quality echo drops you get in the open world, and it's independent of SOL3 level (or world level). I wouldn't invest too much, especially tuners, into blue/purple tier echoes, wait for the golds. As you said, you don't really need them max for open world or story content, so just having the right sets and some attack bonus is fine for while you're growing. Also don't overvalue the 4 cost (boss) Pokemon. Some of the lower cost echoes have really good/useful skills, especially for doing different things. It's good to experiment with the active skills and find one that works for you.

Yeah lol, I mean I wouldn't blame the rover dolls for taking a lil peek.

I've been doing little actual main story content for the past 2 days, and instead focusing more on bosses and encounters for first clear rewards and mats. Oh and I pulled the trigger and got both the BP and the lunite subscription as I kinda need those mats and pulls to progress faster.

I've also been doing a lot of exploring, and like you said leveling up my bank because I figured it out that it's important to raise that one up ASAP for better echo drops (I'm currently at level 10 data bank). I'm working on finding all the towers and checkpoints on the map as well so I can have an easier time fast travelling to points of interest, and I think over the weekend I'll put a couple of hours to find all those golden cubes so I can obtain mats and dupes for my Rover.

As for the overworld super enemies that you've mentioned, I fought some of them that were around my level, but I'm def not ready for the tougher fights as I still have a lot to learn (super cool to hear about your experience with these very tough enemies tough).

There's so much content to do still lol so it's going to take me a while to catch up, but maybe I'll be at one of the higher tier SOL3 by the time patch 2.0 rolls around. We'll see...

 

[Nankatsu]

I am so hoping that they let us port/link our PC account to PS5 our else I am not touching it. Too much investment on my PC account already.

They said account syncing would be possible, enabling you to play your account both on PS5 and PC. Not sure if it's right from the get go though.

 

[Pejo]

Yeah lol, I mean I wouldn't blame the rover dolls for taking a lil peek.

I've been doing little actual main story content for the past 2 days, and instead focusing more on bosses and encounters for first clear rewards and mats. Oh and I pulled the trigger and got both the BP and the lunite subscription as I kinda need those mats and pulls to progress faster.

I've also been doing a lot of exploring, and like you said leveling up my bank because I figured it out that it's important to raise that one up ASAP for better echo drops (I'm currently at level 10 data bank). I'm working on finding all the towers and checkpoints on the map as well so I can have an easier time fast travelling to points of interest, and I think over the weekend I'll put a couple of hours to find all those golden cubes so I can obtain mats and dupes for my Rover.

As for the overworld super enemies that you've mentioned, I fought some of them that were around my level, but I'm def not ready for the tougher fights as I still have a lot to learn (super cool to hear about your experience with these very tough enemies tough).

There's so much content to do still lol so it's going to take me a while to catch up, but maybe I'll be at one of the higher tier SOL3 by the time patch 2.0 rolls around. We'll see...

Nice progress considering your playtime honestly. Don't burn yourself out by rushing everything.

Also you touched on a good point, be somewhat mindful of when you break your SOL3 levels. The jump is instantaneous and can make a lot of fights longer, thereby making farming more time consuming. After the level 50 one I think I started pre-farming materials for my "main" team before I would uncap the next SOL3 level, it made it a lot more manageable.

Regarding finding the checkpoints, this area was a real pain in the ass in my initial exploration.

(pardon the washed out pic, HDR and Win10 don't like each other)

Believe it or not, the closest teleporter to the boss is actually the one directly north of it.

 

[Dragon_Rocks]

I used

Jinshi-Zhezi-Shorekeeper
Cameylla-Sanhua-Verina

What buff did you use and what was the points split between both rounds?

 

[Nankatsu]

Nice progress considering your playtime honestly. Don't burn yourself out by rushing everything.

Also you touched on a good point, be somewhat mindful of when you break your SOL3 levels.

This. I'm still postponing leveling up to level 90.

Still rocking level 80 and geting my ass kicked from time to time.

 

[Pejo]

Lumi coming soon. Between her and Jane Doe from ZZZ, this is the year of the gyatt rats.

 

[Spyxos]

Will the beginning also be overhauled with 2.0? I played the game a few months ago but the beginning was way too dull.

 

[Pejo]

Will the beginning also be overhauled with 2.0? I played the game a few months ago but the beginning was way too dull.

They are working on a complete 1.0 story overhaul, but I don't think there's been any official word yet on when it will be rolled out. If you can stomach the early stuff though, the new story content is vastly improved.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Just encountered Camellya for the first time for the first time in the story (or maybe it's the second time?). She's such a troll that I had to make this short reaction clip with her and Rover.

 

[Pejo]

What buff did you use and what was the points split between both rounds?

Not sure if you're still having trouble with this, but I saw this guide earlier and thought maybe it'd help you get all the Astrites. TL;DR just farm a bunch of Dreamless echoes, put them on all of your characters, pick the Havoc damage buff, and just use echo, swap character, use Echo, etc.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

So I've lost my 50/50 to Encore after just 20 pulls, lol, but then I managed to snag Camellya after about 65 more pulls, so I'm really happy with that outcome. ^^

I'll see if I can get her weapon too, since I know it's pretty OP for her.

 

[Dragon_Rocks]

Not sure if you're still having trouble with this, but I saw this guide earlier and thought maybe it'd help you get all the Astrites. TL;DR just farm a bunch of Dreamless echoes, put them on all of your characters, pick the Havoc damage buff, and just use echo, swap character, use Echo, etc.

Yeah I saw that earlier. I am still trying to do normally with regular setup. I have reached till 2500 so probably will get it. If all fails then will use the dreamless trick.

 

[Dragon_Rocks]

Not sure if you're still having trouble with this, but I saw this guide earlier and thought maybe it'd help you get all the Astrites. TL;DR just farm a bunch of Dreamless echoes, put them on all of your characters, pick the Havoc damage buff, and just use echo, swap character, use Echo, etc.

Nope. Even with that I couldn't do it. My only built havoc characters are Rover and Cam. I am leaving this now as I got all astrites.

 

[Pejo]

Nope. Even with that I couldn't do it. My only built havoc characters are Rover and Cam. I am leaving this now as I got all astrites.

For what it's worth, I agree with your stance. This whole event was just an unfun exercise for min/max players that like endlessly farming echoes for perfect substats. I got the Asterites and got the hell out of it. I don't think I maxed any rewards except the first round.

There was zero 'challenge' in this event, it was just large group of weak monsters with increasingly large HP pools that you have to wear down for a timer. This is my least favorite type of event across gacha games. Made worse in that there are really only a few characters in the game that have decent grouping capabilities, so if you launched one small monster to the other end of the arena, your whole run was fucked.

Definitely giving shit on this one in the survey.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Man, that music in the 2nd region of the Black Shore gives me some heavy Nier vibes and I'm loving it.

Chilled with Camellya for a bit while listening to it, lol.

 

[Pejo]

Man, that music in the 2nd region of the Black Shore gives me some heavy Nier vibes and I'm loving it.

Chilled with Camellya for a bit while listening to it, lol.

Would make a pretty good screensaver honestly if we could steady the bouncing on the vines. I can't believe you're already at Black Shores lol. Did you already do the southeast island area?

But yea I got Nier vibes from that song too. Hauntingly beautiful.

Upcoming events for 2nd half of the current patch below. I am definitely not excited that Pincer Warriors is becoming a recurring event. It fucking sucks in its current form and needs some major adjustments.

Honestly though, this stuff is all just filler so they can finish up 2.0 content, I'm sure.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Would make a pretty good screensaver honestly if we could steady the bouncing on the vines. I can't believe you're already at Black Shores lol. Did you already do the southeast island area?

But yea I got Nier vibes from that song too. Hauntingly beautiful.

Upcoming events for 2nd half of the current patch below. I am definitely not excited that Pincer Warriors is becoming a recurring event. It fucking sucks in its current form and needs some major adjustments.

Honestly though, this stuff is all just filler so they can finish up 2.0 content, I'm sure.

I've been playing a lot this past week (I think I've put around 40h or so into the game). And yep, I finished the southeast island area this past Sunday even though some of the enemies there were 5 - 10 levels above me (I'm data bank 17 or 18 so I'm been getting some good gold echo drops that helped me deal with tougher content above my level).

But yeah, I really like this game, lol. Oh, and the Black Shore stuff has been a blast, including the BGM!

Edit: I'm also waiting for the PS5 version to drop so I can do better higher res captures because right now I'm playing on a 1080p monitor (I have a rather old PC that I haven't bothered to upgrade in years). I wish Kuro would let us disable the HUD so we could make cleaner gameplay captures without that busy UI.

 

[Pejo]

Edit: I'm also waiting for the PS5 version to drop so I can do better higher res captures because right now I'm playing on a 1080p monitor (I have a rather old PC that I haven't bothered to upgrade in years). I wish Kuro would let us disable the HUD so we could make cleaner gameplay captures without that busy UI.

HUDless is actually on the way in 2.0, so look forward to that.

 

[PonyStation4]

I've been playing a lot this past week (I think I've put around 40h or so into the game). And yep, I finished the southeast island area this past Sunday even though some of the enemies there were 5 - 10 levels above me (I'm data bank 17 or 18 so I'm been getting some good gold echo drops that helped me deal with tougher content above my level).

But yeah, I really like this game, lol. Oh, and the Black Shore stuff has been a blast, including the BGM!

Edit: I'm also waiting for the PS5 version to drop so I can do better higher res captures because right now I'm playing on a 1080p monitor (I have a rather old PC that I haven't bothered to upgrade in years). I wish Kuro would let us disable the HUD so we could make cleaner gameplay captures without that busy UI.

Did you do the festival event? I ask because it was limited and I'm not sure if it's still able to be done. It's the storyline around Xiangli and when Zhezi get introduced to MC.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Did you do the festival event? I ask because it was limited and I'm not sure if it's still able to be done. It's the storyline around Xiangli and when Zhezi get introduced to MC.

Not yet, but I think it's this one? Will probably be doing it this weekend. Also, it appears to be a permanent storyline.

As for the festival event itself, if it's this one, then I sadly don't have it in my game.

Also, here's where I'm at in the main story:

Spoiler: 👀

And I also have these 2 events I'm planning on doing this week if I have time:

Spoiler: ✨

 

[PonyStation4]

Not yet, but I think it's this one? Will probably be doing it this weekend. Also, it appears to be a permanent storyline.

As for the festival event itself, if it's this one, then I sadly don't have it in my game.

Also, here's where I'm at in the main story:

Spoiler: 👀

And I also have these 2 events I'm planning on doing this week if I have time:

Spoiler: ✨

Yes, the Moon Chasing Festival. It's not just an event, it's an essential part of the story. So dumb that it's only temporary since it's important to 2 characters.

Almost 2.5 hours of cutscenes

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Yes, the Moon Chasing Festival. It's not just an event, it's an essential part of the story. So dumb that it's only temporary since it's important to 2 characters.

Almost 2.5 hours of cutscenes

Well this kinda sucks. Thanks for letting me know. I'll be watching the video you've linked before starting the companion stories for these 2 characters.

 

[Pejo]

Well this kinda sucks. Thanks for letting me know. I'll be watching the video you've linked before starting the companion stories for these 2 characters.

It was a slightly higher than average quality patch event. If you like that robo-arm guy or Zhezhi, there were some fanservice moments with each of them, but it wasn't deeply lore relevant or anything. Otherwise it was just some minigames and a CN cultural celebration type thing. The most fun part for me was that they randomly scattered the playable characters around the festival at different times of day that you could find and take selfies with.

IMO the event lasted a bit too long, but you could get shell credits/materials/gold echoes every day just by talking to a few NPCs and "playing" games (mostly just text you spam through).

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

It was a slightly higher than average quality patch event. If you like that robo-arm guy or Zhezhi, there were some fanservice moments with each of them, but it wasn't deeply lore relevant or anything. Otherwise it was just some minigames and a CN cultural celebration type thing. The most fun part for me was that they randomly scattered the playable characters around the festival at different times of day that you could find and take selfies with.

IMO the event lasted a bit too long, but you could get shell credits/materials/gold echoes every day just by talking to a few NPCs and "playing" games (mostly just text you spam through).

I see! That's good to know. Will check that video walkthrough for the fanservice moments then.

Btw, I saw this video on the Geforce YouTube channel about the game receiving a ray tracing update in the future. Is it coming with patch 2.0?



Also, I love how they used Changli for the first part of the video, lol.

 

[Pejo]

Official Yinlin promo art. Her banner should start tomorrow.

*edit*

Looks like the TGA PV got uploaded early:

 

[Pejo]

I forgot Lumi was releasing on these rerun banners, so I rolled 3x 10 rolls on Yinlin banner and got a copy of Lumi. She seems really fun for a 4*, but I haven't played around with her kit much yet. Add her to the pile of unbuilt characters in my inventory I guess. Kinda fun that her EN dub is Welsh. I love that accent.

Finally had some time to dig into the Somnoire event, pretty cool. Digs into the various characters' inner thoughts and gives them a few minutes of exposure again. Wish more gachas did stuff like that. Usually after their feature patch, they're long gone from a story/character growth angle.

Anyways, looks like we get a free 800 Asterites from WuWa being in the finalists for Player's Voice at TGA.


*edit*

Getting a little saucy with the promo vids, love to see it.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I forgot Lumi was releasing on these rerun banners, so I rolled 3x 10 rolls on Yinlin banner and got a copy of Lumi. She seems really fun for a 4*, but I haven't played around with her kit much yet. Add her to the pile of unbuilt characters in my inventory I guess. Kinda fun that her EN dub is Welsh. I love that accent.

Finally had some time to dig into the Somnoire event, pretty cool. Digs into the various characters' inner thoughts and gives them a few minutes of exposure again. Wish more gachas did stuff like that. Usually after their feature patch, they're long gone from a story/character growth angle.

Anyways, looks like we get a free 800 Asterites from WuWa being in the finalists for Player's Voice at TGA.


*edit*

Getting a little saucy with the promo vids, love to see it.

Those 800 Asterites will for sure come in handy!

Spicy short with mommy Yinlin there. I think I might go for her as my 2nd limited banner Resonator.

Oh and they also just dropped this ASMR video with Yinlin's EN VA.

 

[Pejo]

Those 800 Asterites will for sure come in handy!

Spicy short with mommy Yinlin there. I think I might go for her as my 2nd limited banner Resonator.

She's been really good in my account. She works best as a subdps with really strong coordinated attacks, but I've also used her in a team as a main DPS when the tower was electric flavored and she feels good to play. It's a good pickup.

Oh and they also just dropped this ASMR video with Yinlin's EN VA.

She had one of the best EN VA actresses out of the launch crew, so that's cool to see. When the game originally launched, they were using Brit actors because they were physically closer and easier to manage (supposedly), but forcing them to do American accents or drop their British accents, so the original round of EN voices were kinda shit. You still see a lot of it to this day like furry boi and the NPC/enemy dialogue. Changli is my favorite so far, well, in a lot of ways.

The one that always makes me laugh is the ponytail female exile, when she dies. She says something like "ugh! I can't believe this" but the accent is so hilariously bad.

In other news, after 2.0 it'll be easier to keep track of what you need to do to "complete" any given exploration area.

 

[Dragon_Rocks]

Spoiler: Jinshi testing new glider

 

[Pejo]

Thing that sucks about this that I read, it only works in the Archipelago for the 2.0 area. So no zipping around Jinzhou.

 

[Pejo]

Looks like at least the new characters are getting battle damage visual marks and cuts in their clothing and stuff. Early examples aren't very pronounced (mostly cuts and bruises and little rips in the clothes), but maybe they'll expand it a bit. It's a CN game, so no blood.



*edit*

Nevermind, looks like old characters get it too.

 

[Pejo]

Official 2.0 livestream announced for the 21st.

 

[Dragon_Rocks]

Official 2.0 livestream announced for the 21st.

Do they give out codes as well?

 

[Pejo]

Do they give out codes as well?

Honestly I can't remember. I'm sure they either do codes or just mail us freebies, but I don't recall specifics. We've gotten a lot of compensation in this game so it all kind of blends together in my brain.

 

[Nankatsu]

The new flying mechanics look really good and fast.

Do they have a stamina bar for usage?

 

[Pejo]

The new flying mechanics look really good and fast.

Do they have a stamina bar for usage?

I think you have a bar, yea. Then you have to find/stand on some platform with a sigil to recharge it.

Wish it was usable in Jinzhou.

These gave me a laugh. I guess Jinhsi is "that" girl in this game.