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They might as well just automatically give people the best possible roll first try, or just not even have the roll... The want to discourage re-rolls deliberately because otherwise, why would you roll again for $$$?
It worked for me. I went through all of the stages on normal without issue.
Ah okay thank you, must be a me issue then, I'll try it again later
Did you finish whatever is available for the main story before starting the event?
That seems like a really good roll. The only other way it'd be better is if you also had A2, but I'd just stick with this.
Still haven't been able to get into the game. Over 12 hours now. I shouldn't have deleted my account to reroll but damn. 30 pulls with shit to show for it wasn't feeling good.
I like how easy it was to catch up to the end of Chapter 4 which is where I got up to in the beta. The skip story skipping the whole thing and not requiring you to keep skipping over and over was really helpful.
Looking forward to continuing the story from here.
Looking forward to continuing the story from here.
Is it worth doing rerolls at all? I figure we'll get enough jewels from the story and launch banners are always bad compared to what comes later anyway.
I got an A2 so I might just stick with that, though I would prefer a 2B…
I got an A2 so I might just stick with that, though I would prefer a 2B…
Yeah, it's pretty dense. Right now, especially at launch, people are more interested in sharing how to maximize their gambling rolls at the start of the game than anything else. All this talk of emulators and so forth is to boost the efficiency of that process.
I put a lot more time into this last night than I probably should have. The stamina system is not a barrier for a very long time, especially given that all the stamina costs are halved right now. I'm no gacha expert, but mechanically it seems very standard. All the strategy really happens before a battle starts in terms of matching weapon elemental types in your loadout to enemies (indicated by the missions you get before you start). I couldn't get much of a sense of what my skills did, nor did I have to care; I just use them whenever they come off cooldown. It moves quickly enough when you step the battle speed up. The character and weapon enhancement seems to follow more-or-less the same model as Granblue Fantasy: feed things to other things so the numbers go up.
The most interesting stuff here is the music and the art direction, which deliver a lot of what you get from the console games in the series. The story framing so far (I'm into Chapter 3) is still a bit too vague to be compelling, but the internal "weapon stories" that advancement through each chapter are built around are fitting and pretty well done. I also played through the Automata crossover subquests at the normal difficulty, and the story that comes with that is basically just flavor on what you know of Automata and the relationship between 2B and 9S.
I got a decent enough start, and I'll keep going for the moment, but I don't know if there's enough meat to this for me to stick around too long-term given other demands on my time.
Still rerolling today, the game has started crashing sometimes during the data download. I imagine the servers are getting hammered.
So this is Gacha? I've only done the tutorial weapon story, but I don't feel like I'm effecting anything. I'm thoroughly enjoying the presentation.
Definitely. With some grinding and a little patience you can auto play enough to easily get one or two of the characters once you unlock the side quests. Just boost your power up till your team can comfortably clear the last one on normal and then it's 10 per run. Each character is 200
Absolutely. I didn't reroll and am ardently F2P and I've still managed to do 9 10-pulls so far. Evidently luck will play into things but I've rolled four 4-stars so far. make sure to tap Mama 100 times when you're in the cage to get 3000 free gems, too!
I can't believe how much time people waste on re-rolling. Literally cannot fathom the dullness of repeating the opening over and over again. Unlike in Automata, you should just accept your fate in gacha games. :P
To build on this, definitely prioritize the event weapons over the weapons your characters are good with- the Medal bonuses add up fast (currently getting over 40 Automata Medals per mission).
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Still rerolling. First run I got yorha Fio and a handful of 4* weapons but I'm honestly after 2B/2P more than anything else, hahaha.
I'm a little concerned about whether the production values will support the costs of the game, and whether it'll get a Star Ocean style shut down though. This game is insanely high production on the visual/audio front.
I'm a little concerned about whether the production values will support the costs of the game, and whether it'll get a Star Ocean style shut down though. This game is insanely high production on the visual/audio front.
It's not something I've always done for other games but for limited collab stuff like this, especially when it can affect the event farm, I'd really rather be safe than sorry if I can help it. Generally speaking I get why people do it - if you pull the best characters at the start it can save a lot of time/trouble later and to a significant degree in some games, not to mention save $ if you're someone who will pay for pulls - but I'm more concerned with stuff like this. It was also extremely easy to set up a macro that did the entire prologue; there's a lot of autoing and skipping. So I barely had to do anything beyond reset it, and it's only a few minutes to get to the first 10 pull. Would be nicer if it just had it right at the start like some games, but it was definitely an acceptable amount of time for me if I can do something else while it gets there, and games that do that probably wouldn't let it be on the collab banner anyway.
...but that being said, I was lucky and got my 3 accounts which each have 1 of the banner #1 characters within only a few loops of doing 4 at once. If this took like an hour or something, I would have just gone with what I had, yeah. And I was only aiming for 1 collab 4*, I feel like 2 4* is pushing it...
Getting through the first chapter with each account was easy too so today I'm thinking that I'll do the same auto+skip on each (after legitimately seeing the story on one of them) so that I can hit another 10 pull, then decide which I want to stick with from those accounts. After that... it's all up to luck going forward for sure.
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I've got a 2A and nothing else notable after 8 or so 10-rolls. Thinking about rerolling until I have 2 solid units and not just 1. Only 1 other 4-star weapon in the rest of the pulls.
So far at chapter 4, adequately depressing.
So far at chapter 4, adequately depressing.
I've enjoyed it quite a bit so far. I feel like they're the weapon stories from the NieR games given a bit more color which I guess is the whole point. I appreciate the characters they've introduced so far though the stories for now def. feel more stand-alone than whatever the central narrative appears to be which I'm curious about
Some games have gotten a little better about this, Twisted Wonderland being a notable example. You are tied to a fixed starter gacha but you literally can just keep rerolling until you're satisfied. It's still a gacha game at the end of the day though.
As far as this game is concerned... I don't mind giving it a shot but my expectations are very low since it's a gacha game. I kind of hope there aren't any major reveals you can only get here.
Yeah, it's gacha. You'll be introduced to it during the second weapon story. It doesn't seem much of an impediment to progression so far, but I'm still very early.
Any reason not to spend the chapter tickets on the items they have in there? Can they be used on anything better?
Guessing I'm super lucky. I got A2 on my first pull. Not sure If I will spend anymore gems at this time. I will wait to see what other characters appear for the banners.
Also, I don't play a lot of these games... but I find that having way too many high powered unit makes these game incredibly boring to play.
Also, I don't play a lot of these games... but I find that having way too many high powered unit makes these game incredibly boring to play.
Pulled 2 x10 and got what I assume to be bad results. Only character was a Dissenting Girl, and the rest were weapons: two 4*, six 3* and the rest were 2*.
I'm not about that re-rolling life and I was going to keep playing with whatever I got, but, as much as I love Yoko Taro games, this is not clicking for me. The game looks and sounds pretty, but the way it plays and is presented just makes me want to watch a playthrough of the whole thing on YouTube. Which is what I'm going to do.
Sadly, I'm not going to spend any more time with this. Same thing happened with SINoALICE — I liked the ideas, but not the game. Maybe one day I'll stick with a mobile Yoko Taro game, but once again this is not the time.
I'm not about that re-rolling life and I was going to keep playing with whatever I got, but, as much as I love Yoko Taro games, this is not clicking for me. The game looks and sounds pretty, but the way it plays and is presented just makes me want to watch a playthrough of the whole thing on YouTube. Which is what I'm going to do.
Sadly, I'm not going to spend any more time with this. Same thing happened with SINoALICE — I liked the ideas, but not the game. Maybe one day I'll stick with a mobile Yoko Taro game, but once again this is not the time.
Still can't get through much without the game crashing..got through the menu tutorial this morning but when I went to pull it crashed again. I'm gonna give it one more shot tonight and if it doesn't work don't think I'm gonna bother
Rerolled 3 times and got just A2 every time, so I think the game is trying to tell me something, so I will just roll with that.
so there's like multiple characters and each character gets their own story chapter?
:)
So I don't quite understand the event shop. I bought A2 and the version you get is a yellow 3*. Is there a way to upgrade her to the purple 4* like the 2B I pulled? I ascended her once and she's still the same, do I need to do it 4 times? Or do I need to use those intermediate books?
I hope they do a Drag-on Dragoon event at some point where you do a rhythm game to get one of the endings.
The characters from the Event Shop are not the characters from the gacha. Your A2 will never be the A2 from the gacha -- you can promote the event shop version to higher rarity but she'll have different stats than her gacha counterpart.
The main character is regaining "what she has lost" by entering the stories of characters and helping the story to completion. Each chapter has a different focus character and some of the stories overlap in an overt way and some less so, and the main story is also dropping hints and snippets of lore that seems to be leading up to something (I'm about halfway through the available story content)
Nice. Are they all new characters or does it have stories from the other games?