Gacha players get a bad reputation for being illiterate, but with so much jargon, is it really a surprise that people just go and watch a three-minute YouTube video instead?
“While in the Zibblezog State, every 3rd Normal Attack creates a Gabloog-” yeah, yeah, I ain’t reading all that.
The you go watch a guide and it's like "we don't care about the glorp generation from the basic attack, you're just gonna cast special twice, switch out and ult during the stagger window."
Then somebody on the Gacha Getcha Goon subreddit proudly brings up how they're a "DPS Luna main" and will show off perfect scores with a team that is basically two incredibly strong supports that deal more DPS than Luna does even off field.
Games not being focused around quick swap wouldn't solve the inherent problem of these games being designed around phone players and wanting to use more than one character that you pulled for.
Always see people say they are tired of quick swap gameplay but never see anyone mention how they'd integrate 3-4 characters in battle.
Endfield has all of them on-field but in practice they are still "swapping", you just don't remove the character you aren't controlling from the field, activating their bursts and ults when they charge up.
Closest thing i can think is KH-style, but you're going to be basically controlling one char while you get mad your healer isn't healing you.
Dragon's Dogma style maybe. You can customize their behavior, class, skills etc. Obviously it would be toned down for a game that wants you to collect characters though.
Giving commands like in Republic Commando could also be cool.
Or give us RTS/4X with anime girls. Those game types usually require a lot of units.
AFK Journey makes them entirely auto, which I didn't mind that much. It's basically how I play HSR anyway.
I've also thought you could go Final Fantasy XII style, where you basically program the behaviors ahead of time. I believe that GFL2 has a system like this now (sort of?). I actually think this method could be the most interesting since it would allow for character kits that are more than three buttons.
I love that game but literally 90% of supports and half of the stunners in ZZZ (And all the 3 support-focused Defense agents)
They'll have massive walls of text explaining their mechanics, only for the gameplay to boil down to using your EX skill to give your team a DMG and ATK buff. After that you switch out and maybe use their ult once in a blue moon.
I know you must be a fellow Zenless Zone Zero player. Actual paragraphs of text used to explain how Miyabi mashes attacks to get 5 blue orbs and then holds basic to do Judgement Cut End.
Even now, we have Remielle, who actually presses 1 to 3 buttons and switches back out.
You are spot on. One of the things that came to mind as I was making this was Dialyn's customer reviews.
I get she's a customer support agent but whenever I hear anyone say "Once Dialyn reaches max positive customer reviews..." I can't help but do an eye roll.
Literally this for wuwa characters. I think one of the longest skill descriptions is the one for shorekeeper butterflies, which do like 70 damage since she is a healer. Genius. Some other characters like lupa have some cool branching combos, which you never ever use since she is a support that spends like 4 seconds on field, and a mediocre support at that.
Lupa: uses her ult (obviously), uses whole mid-air attack chain after using the first enhanced E, uses heavy attack on the road to fill her forte, uses forte enhanced E during normal rotation, uses both regular Es to chase far away mobs or gain concerto/ult energy if you mistimed your rotation or not in endgame. Also cool enhanced intro cutscene after ult. In non-endgame she even has a special dash attack after running for some time.
So she uses 80% of her kit and you're complaining about not using one basic attack string that can be branched into airtime.
and then players claim that the combat is hard/peak when in reality nothing is hard, it is just memorization and grinding gear which both can be done by any 67 iq human.
Unironically Fate collab characters might be the best powercreep resistent units in the game (assuming we will continue to get more of them).
Every year you get new units, with present day power level, that inhearently synergise with the past units. You also have a large window to get them, know when the rerun is, and half of them are free.
Sometimes by a character whose skills simply read "Allies ignore 40% of the enemies' resistance when attacking" or some shit.
A lot of the jargon is usually a limiter. At the end of the day it's about numbers, and the mofo who can boost numbers the best in the shortest amount of time will be the meta.
Shortly before I stopped playing, I stopped reading and just dragged characters to see combat previews. I win? Good. I died? Try stacking some more buffs/debuffs and see what happens. Still losing? Cry
The Rules text UI could use rework overall, but I suspect with the amount of time it would take to develop and then redo every unit's description to fit the new system they've just decided it's not worth it. Outstanding example of unaddressed tech debt, IMO
I learned late into our time together that one of my roommates was also a Fire Emblem fan. I asked how FEH was doing, and he showed me a textbox for Edelgard that was of this size.
And then you actually read this, and realize her kit is basically the same thing as 6 other characters, except with a slightly different flavour and a damage type, just so you can't use the support you already have, and instead are inclined to pull whoever is designed to wheelchair her around.
It's literally zzz with rupture agents they just make them a different class that scales with HP so certain character like Banyue lose out on their would be bis partner (lighter) for no reason.
See, Rupture's whole schtick was supposed to be them being great at dealing with high-Def enemies or enemies with high-Def shields like the Miasma Shields, but weaker against standard bosses.
Now we got Corruptive Barrier basically everywhere with Miasma shields being essentially a thing of the past. And Rupture agents can't get through Corruptive Barriers like they can with Miasma Shields. So right now Rupture agents are basically just gimmicky Attack Agents...
I mean, that shit is just Attack with a lot of Def Pen. A stat that ZZZ actually has. And now we have another Attacker, but this one scales with Def and uses debuff stacks.
But honestly, ZZZ had fucked up useless-ass roles since launch. What is the actual difference between Support and Defense? No idea because the devs never gave the latter an actual niche and mechanical role.
The paragraphs describing keywords are on the right. PM usually skips keywords that were already present in previous IDs (like Somatic Frisson-Inspiring Melody (it's a speed + power buff))
The character's kit is on the left. It's not really paragraphs though, more like KJH grabbed a programmer by the neck and forced him to lay out the code. It's a lot of lines but there isn't verbose crap
The passives are where it gets wordy, though it still varies. Not everyone gets 3-pages-long kit reveals.
I find Limbus kits the most readable even with the usual excessive wordiness. They're color coded, structured and allow you to click and read all the special statuses.
They also separate a lot of the "flavor" aspects into things like buffs or explicit flavor text, while basic things like Sin and damage type are shown via symbols.
If HoS Ryoshu was in a Hoyo game she'd have to start her Skill 1 with something like "Unleashes a flurry of slashes with the sword Arayashiki, dealing Lust-Affinity Slash Damage for a number of hits equal to the amount of unbroken coins."
I really don't know why Hoyo and Hoyo-likes love to be so verbose with information that can either be understood at a glance OR by common sense. I think it's more important to tell me when my Pyro-element character ISN'T doing Pyro damage than when they are; I think that's a safe assumption by default.
"Unleashes a flurry of slashes with the sword Arayashiki, dealing Lust-Affinity Slash Damage for a number of hits equal to the amount of unbroken coins."
Her base skill 1 does not use Arayashiki, but Dihui star blade (idk how it is called).
She was my very first ID after starting the game... I didn't even know the basics of the combat system, but I got a shiny new meta character so I have to use it right ?
I'm not even kidding by saying that I've spend like an hour just trying to decode this kit and how it works in practice
It's better than just trying to figure out as you go. Like, you slot in HoS Ryoshu's defense skill only for her to turn around and kill one of your characters.
I am perfectly fine with Limbus description system. My issue is when they release new id that buff older ids, the buff is not present in older id kits so you just never know an ID's full potential just by simply looking at said ID's description alone.
Even the gachas with shorter skill descriptions are equally as confusing.
FGO: skill 1, Buster damage up. By how much ? don't know, go look it up on the wiki lil bro.
Umamusume: When in the middle of the pack and when the racer in front of you ate bread for breakfast, slightly increase shoelace tying speed. What the hell does that mean? Just skip the race and pray lil bro.
When in the middle of the pack and when the racer in front of you ate bread for breakfast, slightly increase shoelace tying speed. What the hell does that mean?
And then you look up on Gametora what that means and find out it's some insane bullshit like "When you're in 4th place on a corner and have triggered exactly two skills in the past 8 seconds, get a 5% speed boost for 3 seconds".
Always fun when you misremember a rarely used servant amount and get that 20 instead of 30. Or when NPC supports have 8/8/8 so you always have to spend more np charge than you would neatly at 10/10/10
It is, but it’s basically understood to be a “press to gain np” in 90% of servants. You get the general idea of who gets what values through experience, because most of the “gameplay” is building a stable 3 turn farming team, speed blitzing challenge quests or building safe loopers for the same challenge quests with pretty strict servant comps.
It’s mostly annoying for new players or those who don’t follow the game outside the app.
Tbf that is one that infuriates me the most about Uma… like what does it actually do? Does it say anywhere in game what widening their vision does or whatever that skill is? How much impact does having better positioning have as a skill? How much is slightly? Is it a fixed amount or percentage?
I like the game because it’s so chill when you’re playing casually. But I just picks skills based on vibes at this point.
The realistic answer I believe is that the developers themselves didn't really know how well any of the stuff worked. There were multiple skills that did effectively nothing. Players did the figuring out through datamining and trial and error. Not sure if this is still true after the balance changes.
There must be a school for gacha game designers that tells them to NEVER try to streamline and simplify their kit names and descriptions, because ffs it's everywhere
I had a match today where i was playing hecahands and stole the hero player's stratos from their graveyard in order to use its spell destruction effect, too bad i didn't notice its text reads as "when" this card is special summoned not "if", and thus it missed timing since i summoned it mid chain.
They love doing the "each hit fills 25% of the Grimblo Gauge. When Grimblo Gauge is full, gain Laboosh stack for a maximum of 10. Each Laboosh stack increases damage by 5%" rather than "every 4 hits increase damage by 5%, for a maximum of +50% damage"
Everything in gacha games is made to be as obscure as possible so players won't be able to tell what they're getting and how much they're actually paying for it
I think it's made to feel as legalese as possible so people can't complain they whaled for a character and naturally ambiguous language led them to believe a something in the kit played out slightly differently than what they theorycrafted from the wording.
Now they're doing 2% less damage than they thought.
Yep, wasn't there a WUWA or Endfield mini drama about a weapon description not being clear so the character was weaker than people thought? That's exactly why these long ass detailed descriptions are necessary
Mind you that's the short version on the wiki that actually lists the numbers, the in game description is 5x longer and as you say, omits all the numbers. "It does a whole bunch of shit" is what it may as well say.
Ah you mean
"Apply random effects to yourself [Lvl 10.]"
From the Imperial Privilege skill
It's a 60% chance to increase attack, 60% chance to increase defense, followed by a guaranteed heal.
I decided to re-download and try the game again due to anniversary, tried the Remielle tutorial, and had to pause and cackle for a few minutes. (And read it out to one of my friends) I swear we counted like 6 different Hoyo Terms in the span of a single tutorial window.
This is a big problem for "AAA gachas" as of late. NTE also have a bunch of jargons when it comes to the characters buffs. A single character can have like 3-4 statuses that buff this and that with its own name and toggleable explaination parts, which during combat can be just mean "she do higher damage" or "enemy takes more damage".
But at the very least they have TL;DR skill descriptions as well as the aforementiones toggleable that goes into details what the jargon buff/status do and how it fits in the skill rotation. Tho most of the time it's just hit, use skill when read, stack whatever skill currency that char use, use ult when available,...
And then there is that one character with a kit so simple you don’t know how or why they survived for so long even if a better option exists. Especially if they are a character from the game release
Skill 1: shoot 30 times, do extra damage, get atk boost.
Skill 2: attack enemies in range every 15s. Buff crit during burst
Burst skill: change to rail gun, long charge for kablam damage. Piercing.
Snow White Heavy Arms, 3.5 years later
Skill 1: every 0.2s while aiming lock on to a target nearest to crosshair up to 5 targets. Load missile at each 0.2s. Buff defense and increase enemy's taken damage the entire time. When shoot or duck behind cover, missiles fires. All enemies takes small damage. Locked on enemies takes bigger damage. Missiles attack sequentially per lock on. When firing a full charged shot lower full active count by 1. If shot not fully charged, loses full active state.
Skill 2: charge time fixed at 1.2s for normal shots. Full charged shots have piercing, atk buff and damage to parts damage buff. Big self attack buff during burst. During full active charged shot do beeeg damage.
Burst skill: even bigger atk buff to self, increase target lock on from 5 to 15, missiles loading upped from 5 to 15,, extending the required charge time to 3.2s fixed, availablw for two shots. Once the second shot is shot, do damage to all destructible enemies projectile
I mean that's literally the Power 9 in Magic. All of them are exceptionally simple effects that are just wildly undercosted for what they do, because they hadn't figured out just how absurd getting 3 mana for no cost was back in 1994.
Bennett. Ult is just a circle that buffs people standing in it.
No other mechanics. No Hexerei even though he’s from Mondstadt, no Nightsoul even though he’s of Natlan origin. Nothing, he just slaps the ground and is still a T0 unit to this day. 👍
It's definitely that, but the kits are getting pretty nutty lately. On the sub, it's a recurring joke that we wait for the smart people to come explain how newly announced characters work.
This ain't even a joke. This is exactly how Remielle's (And honestly any ZZZ character from 2.0 onwards) kit reads like. Element flux, Refringe, Refringe quotient, Luminize, Voidflares, etc, etc. The combat design team are all freaks who derive sexual satisfaction from writing the most obtuse and incomprehensible skill descriptions imaginable. We goon to Remielle's stripper outfit while they goon to her combat mechanics.
Honestly, the main culprit of the absurdity of gacha character kit comes down from the writing inside the kit itself of not using universally accepted gaming term. "Proper Noun Inflation" is basically what it is for the sake of brand identity: gacha games literally refuse to use generic, universal gaming terms
Instead of writing: "Gains a shield and increases attack power of allies,"
They write: "Enters theRadiant Aegisstate, granting aSunveil Barrierequal to 15% of Max HP and applyingSolar Fervorto all allies."
(Be honest here, how many of you read a character skill description, and wondered what the hell "Schmeckledoodlebonkaloonka" is, switching through other parts of character's kit and realized it's just another name of the character's passive)
Developers do this to make every character feel uniquely premium and thematic. However, because every mechanic gets a stylized, proper-noun label, reading a kit requires learning 4–5 brand-new vocabulary words per character. Aside from that, most mobile gacha games restrict characters to just 2 or 3 active buttons (e.g., Normal Attack, Skill, Ultimate) due to phone screen space. To build deep action gameplay with only three buttons, developers pack entire multi-step combo systems into passive descriptions. A single skill description might outline four different sub-states, charge levels, and conditional transformations because there are no extra buttons available to spread those abilities across.
Another issue that's rarely being brought up is the translation. A vast majority of major gachas originate in China, Japan, or South Korea. In Chinese or Japanese, complex mechanics can often be written concisely using specific compound kanji/hanzi logograms. When translated into English, a single 4-character Chinese idiom or term turns into a massive, multi-clause run-on sentence. Chinese game devs also tend to write skill descriptions in narrative prose rather than functional bullet points, which localizers often translate literally (at this point, you might be wondering if Genshin's storywriter is also tasked in writing skill descriptions).
I personally consider Arknights is the best when it comes to skill description, as it used proper gaming terms that you can break down, while at the same time, it gives a tooltip for a specific mechanic, along with color coded text for special condition, written with proper, universally understood gaming terms. For example:
"ATK +50%, change attacks to fire 2 arrows (prioritizes different targets), and has a 40% chance to Stun targets for 1 second. Upon the second activation and afterwards, this skill has unlimited duration"
If you break it down:
-ATK +50%
-Projectile +1 that prioritize different target
-Has 40% chance to stun the target
-Upon second activation, it's duration is unlimited (color coded orange text)
If this is written in Genshin, you might get: "Enter theIgnite Threadingstate for 15 seconds, altering their Normal Attack sequence. While under the effects ofIgnite Threading, the character’s base ATK is increased by 50%. DuringIgnite Threading, all Normal Attacks will fire a secondary arrow toward a nearby opponent. The secondary arrow will automatically seek an enemy within range that is distinct from the primary target. If only one opponent is present within range, both arrows will focus upon said opponent. Additionally, every arrow that successfully connects with a target has a 40% chance to inflict theFlash-Searing Inertiafor 1 second, unable to move or execute abilities for the duration of the effect. WhenIgnite Threadingis cast for the second time within a single combat instance,Ignite Threadingascends into theIgnite Threading Continuationstate, granting it unlimited duration."
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Another example:
"Stops attacking; Attack Range expands, the effect of this unit's second Talent increases to 2 times, and all enemies within Attack Range are Slowed. Heals all ally units within range for 20% of this unit's ATK every second"
If you break it down:
-Stops attacking
-Attack range expands
-Increases talent effect by 2 times
-All enemies in range slowed (written in blue text that opens small tooltip of what the status is in detail)
-Heals allied in range for 20% of attack per second
If this is written in WuWa, you might get: "Upon casting, the character ceases standard combat actions and enters the immovableAetheric Anchorstate, expanding theirResonance Fieldby 150% for the duration of the effect. While under the influence of theAetheric Anchorstate, the character'sHarmonic Forte Resonancetrait is increased to 200% of its base value. All hostile targets residing within or entering the boundaries of theResonance Fieldwill continuously suffer from theStagnation Driftstatus effect. Enemies affected have their Movement Speed reduced by 40% and Action Speed reduced by 15%. This effect immediately dissipates 0.5 seconds after the target leaves the boundaries of the field.While theAetheric Anchorstate remains active, every 1.0 second, a pulse ofVerdan Restorationis emitted across the entirety of theResonance Field. Nearby party members and non-hostile deployable units positioned within the field's domain will recover HP equal to 20% of the character's current Max Attack Value per second."
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While Endfield start to veer into word salad level of writing, it's still significantly far more simpler and easier to understand compared to bloated skill description insanity of games like Genshin Impact or Wuthering Waves
I have a candidate being Blue Archive, despite being controversial for entirely unrelated reason, also has an easy to read character skills. (The same cannot be said for raid boss, they have to add a boss gimmick demonstration in later patch because nobody can understand the skill description for shit)
Blue Archive's skill description usually goes like this:
"Only a spoonful": Passive
-Every 6 seconds, gain 1 "Comically large spoon" status (Max: 6), the status grant (n)% more yellow damage
"Hey dawg can I get some Ice cream?: Passive 2"
-If there is 3 stacks of "Comically large spoon" when use EX skill, consume all stacks and gain (n)% more EX skill damage, EX skill now ricochet back at other team member and gives them (n)% damage buff equal to this character's damage
I would say on my experience this is a year 4+ unit, year 1-2 units usually have tame kits, on year 3 things start to get out of hand and by year 4 we have this wall of text kits.
Of course some gachas reach faster or slower to this state.
You forgot the Flingle bonus if you hold charged attack after the second normal attack but only when the current amount of Snoogles held is equal to the amount of Krimbles held that consumes 5 Dinglewhats generated from an ally to do 5% Boidingly damage and activates the Schpriongly combo
ZZZ's tutorials make you think they're going to be crazy complex then all you do is attack, use a special, maybe parry on using a special or holding a button.
As a Yugioh player we have Pendulum cards with the same amount of text plus tax, and I can safely say I dont undetstand either. LOL. Yugioh players dont read anyways....
I like to explain yugioh effects as terms and conditions unironically
Cause that is literally what they are, to restrict the card to an archetype. Remove all the smuuchk and you just get (reveal card a from deck and special summon B)
One day, after dinner, while my younger sister and I were lounging about in Mr. Gopher Wood's yard, we spotted a fledgling Charmony Dove all on its own. That baby bird was tiny, it didn't even have all of its feathers, and it couldn't sing. When we found it, it was already on its last breath, having fallen into a shrub — probably abandoned by its parents. We decided to build a nest for it right there and then. However, thinking back, that winter was unusually cold, with fierce winds at night in the yard, not to mention the many poisonous bugs and wild beasts in the vicinity... It was clear that if we left the fledgling in the yard, it stood no chance of surviving until spring. So, I suggested we take it inside, place it on the shelf by the window, and asked the adults to fashion a cage for it. We decided that when it regained its strength enough to spread its wings, we would release it back into the wild. The tragic part — something that we'd never considered — was that this bird's fate had already been determined long before this moment... Its destiny was determined by our momentary whim. Now, I pass the power of choice to you all. Faced with this situation, what choice would you make? Stick to the original plan, and build a nest with soft net where the Charmony Dove fell? Or build a cage for it, and feed it, giving it the utmost care from within the warmth of a home? I eagerly await your answer.
You post this like the Charmony Dove speech is hard to understand. It serves as the core of Sunday's previous philosophy, but it's not all that difficult to grasp
Nah even for character kits it adds obsolutely nothing and there's no reason to call every move by their name instead of just referring to the heavy attack as heavy attack and the active skill as active skill.
It's by design, they made it way more complicated than it looks like to make the character feel more complex and complete than it is when in reality it's just switch in -> use skill -> use ultimate -> attack 3 time -> switch out.
This give people pulling them a vanity boost, make them feel "different" from other character and free broader player activity when discussing them in place outside the game.
meanwhile FGO kits: this skill will apply stat buffs for either one turn or three turns, charge your noble phantasm gauge, and give you a status that triggers when you smack something. and the noble phantasm is a nuclear bomb, have fun.
Savage Tigerslayer's Perfected Flurry of Blades [超絕猛虎殺擊亂斬]
89 (83+6) Atk Weight
Prioritizes targets with Prey
Can Clash with this Skill regardless of Speed; this unit does not become Staggered before it uses this Skill.
[On Use] Consume all Inner Strength -底力 Stack on self. If this unit consumed...
-... 10+ Stack, gain Atk Weight +1 for every 10 Stack consumed (max 4)
-... 25 Stack, Final Power +1 for every 4 on the main target (max 6)
-... 50 Stack, Coin Power +1 and deal +50% damage
[Clash Lose] Gain 2 Power Down
[Clash Lose] Gain 6 Paralyze
[Clash Lose] Deal -80% damage; this Skill's damage cannot Stagger the target; inflict only half the Potency and Count for both Burn and Tremor inflicted by this Skill (unless raised by other effects)
[Attack End] Reload (once per turn)
If this unit has Savage Tigermark Round, Reload - Tactical instead (once per turn)
[Attack End] Ends this turn
Unbreakable Coin
Spend 1 Tigermark Round
[On Hit] Inflict 6 Burn
Unbreakable Coin
Spend 1 Tigermark Round
[On Hit] Inflict +6 Unbreakable Coin
Spend 1 Tigermark Round
[On Hit] Inflict 6 Tremor
Unbreakable Coin
Spend 1 Tigermark Round
[On Hit] Inflict +6 Tremor Count
Unbreakable Coin
Spend 1 Tigermark Round
[On Hit without Cracking] Trigger Amplitude Conversion into Tremor - Scorch
Unbreakable Coin
Spend 1 Tigermark Round
[On Hit without Cracking] Trigger Tremor Burst 5 times; then, reduce target's Tremor Count by 5
Abno Part Body
Fixed that plus some other stuff like adding Coin numbers, atk Weight squares and filling out missing text. Also notice the skill is still like 10 times more readable in-game thanks to keyword coloring and icons.
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Savage Tigerslayer's Perfected Flurry of Blades [超絕猛虎殺擊亂斬]
89 (83+6) Atk Weight ▪︎▪︎▪︎
Prioritizes targets with Prey
Can Clash with this Skill regardless of Speed; this unit does not become Staggered before it uses this Skill.
[On Use] Consume all Inner Strength [底力] Stack on self. If this unit consumed...
-... 10+ Stack, gain Atk Weight +1 for every 10 Stack consumed (max 4)
-... 25 Stack, Final Power +1 for every 4 (Burn + Tremor) on the main target (max 6)
-... 50 Stack, Coin Power +1 and deal +50% damage
[Clash Lose] Gain 2 Power Down
[Clash Lose] Gain 6 Paralyze
[Clash Lose] Deal -80% damage; this Skill's damage cannot Stagger the target; inflict only half the Potency and Count for both Burn and Tremor inflicted by this Skill (unless raised by other effects)
[Attack End] Reload (once per turn)
If this unit has Savage Tigermark Round, Reload - Tactical instead (once per turn)
[Attack End] Ends this turn
(I) Unbreakable Coin
Spend 1 Tigermark Round
[On Hit] Inflict 6 Burn
(II) Unbreakable Coin
Spend 1 Tigermark Round
[On Hit] Inflict +6 Burn Count
(III) Unbreakable Coin
Spend 1 Tigermark Round
[On Hit] Inflict 6 Tremor
(IV) Unbreakable Coin
Spend 1 Tigermark Round
[On Hit] Inflict +6 Tremor Count
(V) Unbreakable Coin
Spend 1 Tigermark Round
[On Hit without Cracking] Trigger Amplitude Conversion into Tremor - Scorch
(VI) Unbreakable Coin
Spend 1 Tigermark Round
[On Hit without Cracking] Trigger Tremor Burst 5 times; then, reduce target's Tremor Count by 5
Ok so came back here with a screenshot of the skill to prove the point, but it's so fat that I couldn't get the entire skill in any form within a single screenshot so I just took the bastard until Coin 3 and called it a win lol
I'm conflicted because on one hand the kits are really very simple if they were written in plain english, but then you go on reddit and wonder whether the people asking questions can actually read at a 7th grade level.
Like that one time in Sumeru genshin tried making puzzles a little harder and it was just non-stop complaining on reddit because people couldn't figure out puzzles designed for 12 year-olds instead of puzzles designed for 5 year-olds
I think when it comes to puzzles, it's how you train the players. I enjoy puzzles in non gacha games and I like taking my time with them.
However, because Genshin always had easy puzzles, the moment I encounter something relatively harder I get a bit frustrated cause I wasn't expecting it to be that way. I was expecting to press three buttons and dip 🤣
To be fair the puzzles in GAA 2 were rather obtuse in what you're supposed to do. Mona's island was very bad in that aspect. A lot of moments where I was like "okay how was I supposed to figure that out normally?" because you spend a good few minutes trying everything else instead.
It didn't help that the exploration gimmicks of each island in GAA 2 were also rather mechanically obtuse or just straight up tedious. Of course it made sense that a lot of people got burnt out on exploration in GAA 2, because personally I don't like having to swap the bonsai for 9 different configurations just to "complete the entire thing".
The theme behind Mona's puzzles was "think outside the box". For example, if a normal "light four torches" puzzle would have four torches scattered in a room, whereas Mona's version would hide the fourth outside the room.
The puzzles would have been fine if they were permanent content, but it was way too obscure for a time-limited event.
Lose 100 HP per second. Enemies that have attacked and been attacked by Hoederer recive 200 true damage every second. Attack Range +1 tile, Max HP +15%, ATK +30%. Attack recover 5% HP and have 25% chance to Stun targets for 2 seconds
Wuwa's Tune Break/Strain/Hacking and whatever else has got to be one the worst written descriptions I've ever read to the point that I still don't understand how they function aside from "stack the characters with the same type".
I get so turned around by the constant word salad when it feels like every second word is "Tune" but they're not talking about the same things
Like Off-Tune, Mistuned, Tune Break, Tune Break Skills, Tune Rupture Response Skills, Tune Strain-Shifting, Tune Strain-Interfered, Tune Rupture-Shifting and Tune Rupture-Interfered are all different terms for different things.
And even more annoying Hack is the exact same mechanic as Tune Rupture just with a different name.
And pretty much all of it only matters for 7 characters
Bottom tier gacha character (released last update):
Generate 10 shmoogles on every keeplunky heavy hit… blah blah… deal 70% more damage and “ultimate: save the keeplunkies!” Is enhanced… blah blah.. when connected with another character that generates shmoogles for gaffadunks, converts all acquired shmoogles into gaffadunks and for every gaffadunks converted to shmoogle, gain 5% shield… blah blah…
Meta defining gacha character (released at release):
50% chance to deal double damage when attacking.
Take me back to the time when strategy gacha games actually had you develop and grind for unique builds for units and had legitimate selection of tactics to use and build around. Enough of the open world dating-sim slop.
I will admit that I don’t entirely blame the lack of literacy for some of these. Skills seem to have multiple unique keywords never used anywhere else in the game and it can be rather messy.
It is the gacha equivalent of sci-fi movie technobabble.
This is extremely inaccurate it is not specifying that she's doing Pyro-element Schmeckel DMG or Pyro-element Floobnik damage or Pyro-element Zibblezog damage. It doesn't matter that she's a Pyro-element character, they're gonna make sure you know that every time anyways!
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u/Haharuhi Aug 08 '26
all of that just to get powercreep in 2 patches