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No. 274808
HoYoverse's new space fantasy RPG. Currently in the final beta testing phase. Soon to be published on mobile and PC platforms.
Pre-register via the official website. Follow twitter for all announcements, youtube for character and story trailers, and twitch for new version livestreams.
Official website
https://hsr.hoyoverse.comTwitter
https://twitter.com/honkaistarrailYoutube
https://www.youtube.com/@honkaistarrailTwitch
https://www.twitch.tv/honkaistarrail No. 274828
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>>274827here's a pic of two of them kek enemies to lovers?
No. 274833
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>>274831tbh im planning on making husbando only teams. i agree that female designs suck ass, maybe some will have personalities that make up for it, but im tired of pretending the characters im looking at are not incel wet dreams lol
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100 more slots to final beta but the discord server is having a hard time keeping up with the spams kek
No. 274850
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I'm gonna come clean, I have a crush on jingyuan. I hope besides the female mc, he won't be shipped with any other girls but that's too much to wish for… I also like yanqing, i hope they have a cute relationship
No. 274852
Girls who played it-is it better than Genshin? My problem with Genshin is sunk cost fallacy. I spent so much time on it and feel obligated to keep playing it because I already spent that time.
>>274850Honhon now that's a fine looking fellow. My laptop better be able to run it
No. 274872
>>274852>>274870i wanna go in relatively blind so i didnt watch it fully but here's a vid with the gameplay in it. im not a fan of turn based games but maybe ill learn to enjoy it kek
>sunk cost fallacyi feel this. i wont stop playing genshin and im planning on mostly logging into star rail during story updates instead of farming daily. iirc the artifacts have a 5-set bonus so not farming will cost me but kek i cant care too much
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>>274833here's his introduction btw kek forgot to post
this official hoyolab post has his animations and all skill info:
https://www.hoyolab.com/article/16249686?utm_source=sns&utm_id=6he looks very pretty in gameplay tbh, im sick of genshin's rattails so it's so nice to see a beautiful ponytail on a long haired guy
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>>274894first hate comment!
No. 274902
I will probably try it out, I likest most male designs. There are only a few females one that I like, some of them have a specific design element that female genshin characters also have (armpits out, thigh strap, knee high socks) that makes a bit irritated. Hopefully there will be more girls that I actually like. With Genshin I chose Lumine to play but for Star Rail I will probably choose the guy. I really don't like the skirt and thigh strap the fmc is wearing and I like to self-insert with female characters but I would never wear something like that.
>>274895She's one of the female character were I think the design is pretty compared to the others
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>>274916star rail isn't open world and the graphics dont seem to require as much pc power (esl idk the pro terms kek) so i think you should be fine nonna
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news 1) we reached another milestone, so more rewards when the game is released
news 2) the discord extra slots event winners are announced on the discord "announcements" channel. here's the link since i forgot to add it to the op kek
https://discord.gg/honkaistarrail>>275844agreed
nonnie i think too few hoyo males are anything other than calm/collected
No. 275993
>>275986>not bad for a moid gacha game that wants to make a quick buck off female cucks on the sideftfy, but still debatable
made in china fire emblem with less attractive dudes. AND it's tied to honkai impact, ebin. hope this attempt to cash in on the hoyofags genshit brought in fails miserably. op is a samefagging shill, plz ban again.
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>>275986I haven't actually counted recently but the last time I did it looked like Starrail does its character m:f ratio basically the same as Genshin, meaning the five star banners are approximately even but four stars are heavily skewed female
Anyway, I can see how anyone who's a lover of the genshin manlets wouldn't be looking at this game with much anticipation, but as someone who wishes genshin wasn't so full of very young looking guys, this game looks great for husbando collecting to me. I'm only really worried that the gameplay grind of it may be too much of a chore long term. I don't mind genshin dailies because I find genshin combat actually fun, but something turn based? We'll see ig
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>>275993Suggest a better free to play mobile game then. I’m no Hoyo bootlicker but what gacha game isn’t trying to make a quick buck off people
>>274850Same for me but with Danheng. Unfortunately looks like he might get shipped with that Blade guy so I’m preparing to have all the tags blocked on release kek
No. 276219
>>276104mobile gaming is a massive market with thousands of entries, anon. I dunno your taste. we have an entire mobage thread on this very board you can browse, go skim through it or make a post there about what you're looking for to get some recommendations catered to you.
>no hoyo bootlickermy ass. genshit is one thing but an unremarkable turnbased rpg gacha is not a groundbreaking, top of the line experience no other f2p mobage has done (better) before. the autistic urge to resist change is limiting your scope to the company that made your special interest game. I'll let you in on a little secret: most mobile gacha games are f2p turnbased rpgs! some have characters that don't look ai generated, some have a surplus of female writers resulting in a story that isn't dogshit, and some even pander to women exclusively, not to men with the occasional stiff anime nigel to tide over the cucked female playerbase once or twice a year. a novel concept, I know.
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>>276155even if it flops internationally it's not gonna flop in china obviously
>>276219get a job
No. 277470
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Checked leaks and they keep adding hideous waifu coomer bait designs like pic as well as retarded lolis. Not to mention looks like they’re going to fujobait instead of self insert with the male characters which will make their fans all insufferable uwu “transboys” like prosekai. Maybe I won’t play after all kek
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>>277470design complaints are
valid but every gacha game has them. likewise, every fandom has those hetheys acting like theyre the headmasters of ships "because thyere literally mlms"
the fujobait is a plus though
No. 277596
>>277577>oppressive powerfulYou're referring to a small, bitter group of people mass reporting things that make them seethe to the Chinese government, who has in the past gone as far as to arrest women for producing said content. Do you also believe Keffals is oppressive and powerful? Or the trannies who allegedly reported RedKatherine to the RUS Government? That behavior is coming from a place of not only jealousy over a fictional scrote but genuine homophobia and misogyny, no matter how strong your vendetta against fujos is it's disgusting to support or even simply feel vindicated by it.
And if you're going to throw the word incel around, I sure hope you weren't the anon who was shaming women for having boyfriends IRL in the husbando thread. Don't project your own femcel mental illness onto others.
No. 277613
>>277596>>277600Extremely based posts, thanks
nonny.
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White day? illustrations. Don't know why they're not detailed/dynamic like genshin's though
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>>292301Thanks for the link! I thought it wasn't going to be that fun when I heard it's not open world but tbh it feels just like open world, just using teleport more instead of walking long distance. The combat in the livestream seemed complicated too but playing it, it's pretty to get a hold of all the character skills. One thing I dislike it how quickly enemy shields are regenerated but I feel like it's not gonna be a big issue once we start building characters. I like it so far and will probably keep playing it. The female characters walking around in their underwear is tolerable if we'll get good stories kek
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>>292479samefag, forgot to mention how adorable this dog is and how glad I am we can
pet it No. 292486
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>>292301So far from what I've seen, it seems to have better writing than genshin. Also it has some actually funny tidbits, like MC being obsessed with trash cans. In genshin the humour is very paimon-centric and we know paimon is insufferable, but here it has some really hilarious stuff, like the references to the metaverse kek. I expected march to be annoying, like paimon but she's pretty decent so far. Both her and danheng are very cliche and trope-y , but I can tolerate them and I enjoy the found family aspect. Kafka reminds me too much of makima tbh, but her design is cool. The problem is that most female characters don't look very memorable, I've seen some of the new leaked girls and they all look so boring and have cluttered designs just like honkai (bonus giant boobs). March, kafka and FEMC are probably the best designed right now. As for husbandos, i really like jingyuan, blade and yanqing but I'm not very interested in the rest (or any of the other leaked guys). I wanted to reroll for yanqing at first but since I can already get him at 300 rolls I decided to go with the first account I made where I got bailu. She's a strong healer so she's gonna be useful. The battle system is a bit tiring though and I don't have a lot of patience for it, not a huge fan of turn-based RPGs
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Aaaaah my first 5 star is Gepard I'm so happy he is just so cute! i love his idle animation so much, pic related.
>>292362>They finally stopped with the jelly boob physics, thank GodKek I noticed that too, they really toned down the animation. Some of the female characters designs I don't like, Bronya and Pela both look like they dont have any pants. However there are also some very cute female character designs. I really like Herta and Asta. The dialogue def is a lot better, it helps that we don't have a character like Paimon who just repeats everything and the female characters indeed have more personality then in genshin.
>>292479>>292480No problem and yeah I agree with the fact that enemy shields regenerate pretty quick. The dog is indeed so cute! and yes it feels like it's still openworld for me since the closed off worlds are just so bigg!
>>292486>like MC being obsessed with trash cansKek I really like how the MC has so much personality. I can understand that if you don't like turn based that it might be tiring to play this.
No. 292521
>>292519not sure if this is what you mean but I think it's great that the short women model look like grown women actually. They're taller than GI model for short women/teenager. Only Herta's model stands out to me (and others who share her model if there's more, I dont have them yet) but I just take her robot thing as a child model anyway. I even like npc models way more compared to GI, they all have different clothes and all even though they share the same model. Even children look less uncanny valley kek and the playable children (Bailu) are the same size as npc children, they dont have the huge head syndrome GI has either. I think SR's models are a real upgrade to GI, can't compare it to Honkai Impact though.
Unrelated but I love how truly alive cities feel in SR. Npcs are just randoms minding their business as opposed to GI where if you can talk to an npc, they're just there to lead you to a game mechanic or say one specific thing about the city/world. I love the attention to detail, I was mesmerized when I saw/heard the guitar playing girl.
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>>292876What level are you? I feel like leveling one team is easy enough to meet the enemy expectations for now but I'm at level 22 now. I've been farming exp from the flower things and did mostly that other than skill and light cone materials. I think the game is not going to be that grindy especially with how fast the auto battle is on x2 speed. I'm satisfied with how easy it is kek but maybe it will become too challenging for auto battle later on
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as a tall semi-gnc girl stelle makes me incredibly happy, i've never seen a female protagonist like her in a gacha/any game that let's you pick between girl or boy
No. 292938
>>292924I just wish they had gaven her some kind of shorts under her skirt like what they did with Lumine. Don't click the reddit link if you don't want to see moids degeneracy but they are already taking panty shots of the female mc already.
https://www.reddit.com/r/HonkaiStarRail/comments/132j8gl/funfact_characters_dont_become_transparent_while/ I really hate how just like the genshin sub reddit this one is filled with moids sexualising the female characters. I feel like the only place where it doesn't happen is here, so i hope this thread won't die. Do you guys know any other place for star rail that isn't filled with moids?
>>292876Once you are a higher level you can grind very easy for character materials. Unlike genshin where you have to wait certain days till a domain is open to enter it, you don't have that here. Also you can use the speed up and auto button so that in a few minutes you have used your "resin". This makes it a lot less grindy then genshin imo. My advice would be to focus on leveling a few characters that you like and raising there traces (talents). The relics you get in the beginning are very bad so its not worth to level them. With the light cones i would advice to level the lvl 4 ones and above.
>>292922These two are very cute together in the story! I'm still so surprised how well written the characters are.
No. 293135
>>293118I really like Female MC's design except for one tiny detail which
triggers me immensely, which is the retarded blue stripe on her tight (rant incoming).
I already dislike how mihoyo constantly forces most of its female characters
at least in genshin to have an element of "zettai ryoiki" with stupid looking thigh bracelet things, but why the fuck would they make it bright blue in a character whose palette is completely made of black, grey and gold? I like female mc's design other than that and I really love the colour cohesion, so it peeves me so much why would they fuck up the colour pallete like that with such and obviously bad choice. It also fucks up the focal point, it's like you're being
forced to focus on her thigh (gross)
I haven't had much issue with character design in star rail
and tbh "busy design" is just how mihoyo designs every character so eh but this one particular detail has me livid
No. 293230
>>292939>>292942yeah I would like to avoid the twitter community, I only go there to look at some art.
>>293118Eh I don't understand how you can only like fmc outfit when its legit the same as the male one. Only difference is that she's wearing a mini skirt with a belt wrapped across her thigh. I like most character designs except for the ones where it looks like the girls aren't wearing any pants (Bronya ect).
>>293135I have the same issue, also the thigh bracelete thing also has like no use? Like maybe if it was actually used for like holding a weapon or maybe attaching a pocket to it i would understand. But I hate it so much when they give a female character that useless thingie. Like you said its just there so that people are forced to look at her thighs.
>>293169If you mean the official discord, its mostly just 12 year old boys. The fan-creation has some hilarious bad art. Truely worthy to being posted in the bad art thread. But like I mentioned they are all kids so it's understandable it looks so bad.
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god i despise this type of fanart. we finally get one tall fmc with a very modest chest, but i have to now go through fanart where she is petite,stacked and sexualized. she's literally almost the same height as the male mc. and worse of all, this is fanart drawn by a girl
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Been rerolling, got an account with Gepard- but he's the only 5* on that account, from the guaranteed pull. I don't know if I should reroll, he's super cute and looping his shield saved me in some hard battles.
No. 294278
>>294276Thanks
nonnie! And yeah, I like a lot of girl characters in games but Bronya here just annoyed me with her permanent constipated look, lmao
No. 294317
>>294306>>294297if you don't mind knowing leaks
a certain leaked male 5* has a boob window and open back in his outfit so that's one thing to look forward to. hopefully they don't stop with just him tho
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I'll save for him
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>>294371I'm torn between him and Blade
>>294317>hopefully they don't stop with just him thoAmen
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the in-game description of the "passerby of wandering clouds" relic set, from blade's POV. on a scale of 1-10 how fruity were they?
No. 294487
>>294473>belovedI don't know if I should believe they're really implying
they were together or not.
Normally I would say "oh they'll never properly imply a homosexual relationship" but I'm starting to think people calling ships in HI3 canon were not lying or exaggerating lol No. 294624
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Dailies in this game are so nice, we only get one and they actually have stories and are short but still interesting to read.
No. 294715
>>294681Hope they have good content in the future. I feel like all three Blade ships have good potential despite not having too much content on him kek he's the loverboy
>>294709>>294710get off the thread
No. 294733
>>294710Almost like we like the characters and enjoy sperging about them
>>294715Agreed blade/Dan works for rivals to lovers and blade/jingliu for the people who like angst.
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>>294786lol yeah disappointed but not surprised given the games proximity to genshin, that thread is always a trashfire
If you can't handle seeing someone post a stupid ship that's not whatever kind you like without devolving into a sperg rant you need to stay in a containment thread for whatever specific fujo/yume/het shit you like
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>>294529in the full descripton of the item it says "A slender yet strong hand once wore the other bracer. That owner, whose sharp spear glinted with a cold light and flourished like shooting stars, once sparred with the unnamed" den heng has a spear so thats why people assumed it was him, idk if this leak is accurate but according to it jingliu has a sword. maybe chinese fans have a different reason to think it's her tho idk.
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>>294832I thought the bracer was referring to this but Danheng's still wearing it, he might have forgotten its powers and it's how they found him/express maybe? Regardless of who it is I'm so ready for Bladie story though. Hopefully we get a personal story or something in the update
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>>294846>he might have forgotten its powers and it's how they found him/express maybethat's an interesting idea, I assumed it's rather that he can't pinpoint his location with it anyway so den heng decided to keep the bracer as a suvnoiur or something lol.
and same, I hope they don't half ass his story to make it more palpable to players.
No. 294867
Bump dont scroll down
>>294848I think so too, wasn't there a troon shitting up the genshin thread with discussions similar to this? Maybe it's the same troll
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>>294852I also want to know Blade/Dan Heng the most because I like Dan Heng too but the other connections have potential to be written well to create his personality and motives. Why is he following Kafka around and obeys her? What's with his friendship with Jingyuan? Also I think the stellaron hunters' dealings in Xianzhou are interesting, and JY/Blade understanding each other's motives could be an interesting reason why
JY let him go. I agree with the Belobog vs Xianzhou part. We'll likely get similar stories to "slices of life before the furnace" series which I adored. After the main story in XZ finishes though, which I don't know when it will happen
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>>294874>Why is he following Kafka around and obeys her? all of the passerby of wandering cloud item descriptions have some part of blades story although vauge. it's pretty obvious 'the woman in sunglasses' is kafka, the quastion remains what she offered him
No. 295026
>>294771maybe i just like the dynamic? i ship m/m too in other fandoms but none have interested me much in honkai except maybe male mc x gepard or male mc x welt and blade x dan. I like march/female/dan too. It's more about me liking how characters interact than anything.
i don't understand all the moralfagging related to ships? do you do the same with shipping tropes too like trying to say friends to lovers is more sophisticated than enemies to lovers kek. sounds very exhuasting. either way it's women writing all the fanfics and making the fanart.
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>>295229it could just be hearsay but
allegedly we'll be getting a male fire support at some point in the future, picrel, so i'm feeling cautiously optimistic on the husbando front, especially with that description of his appearance. No. 295446
Gepard is truely so amazing, im glad i got him i can literally clear simulated universe so easily with him. He just tanks everything, I hope that everytime I lose my pity i will get him. Gepard my beloved…
>>295385This is so cool! Good luck to all the nonnies who are pulling for him. I will get him for sure even though i have no idea what his kit is kek
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sage for dumb post since we all know that women's outfits in this game are somewhat retarded(see bronya)but i just noticed that natasha's back has an asswindow. as if seeing her front and her tits wasnt enough.wtf is this
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saw this while browsing reddit (i know) and thought it was interesting. thoughts, nonnas?
i think the darker parts could have lended themselves to the ending of the Belobog arch a little better–considering Bronya's ultimate decision in regards to the Cocolia situation–but then i can see how rock cancer and hundreds of years of isolation, due to what i assume was the product of some flavor of religious zeal, could have been a little much for a game like this.
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>>295861I like the more relaxed story to be honest. I think 10 years of the two parts of the city being sealed is a better choice because it would be too heavy to be solved so quickly if it was centuries. People actually remember each other the way it is now, otherwise it would be too complicated. The rock cancer reminds me of Arknights that has much heavier writing and actually has serious long standing conflicts in its story and yeah, it would be way too heavy for Star Rail imo. Add in the hatred being brewed for centuries between the citizens and it's just not a story fit to be told as your entrance to this magic world. We wouldn't be having the happy reunion cutscenes at the end because there would still be too many in-city conflicts and problems to be solved, which I think ended Belobog's story in a great note. Also I prefer Hook to be happy with her father. I think Mondstadt in Genshin was also more chill than other places, an easier introduction to the game seems to be working well to hook the player in without throwing you realistic political issues. The city would feel more hostile too and from my Genshin experience I still hate Inazuma because it feels so oppressive even after we fixed it. Also, again in the topic of Hook, she felt like a breath of fresh air and showed the life of the city. Children being children could be told as fun side stories because they weren't being treated as demons or seeing everyone die of rock cancer. I have a feeling Belobog will continue to be the place most players feel at home, other than the Express.
No. 295914
>>295894i've found it easiest to while away the time by keeping myself busy. if you haven't already, you could start farming relics for a decent build and mats for his levels and traces, and begin planning your team.
outside of in-game busy work, you could engage with the fandom side of the game, if you don't mind wading through a lot of bullshit. you could collect fanart of him that you like, draw him yourself, or start putting together a playlist inspired by him. if you're a writer, you could write about him.
the waiting game is a hassle, but that doesn't mean it has to be painful, too. staying occupied will make the time pass more quickly, and before you know it his banner will be right around the corner!
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>>296495I like her lab coat thing side on her right and black Rockstar on the left, really cute and smart idea, but before I downloaded it and saw character splash art and thought it was picrel.
Ngl she grew on me and her character is sweet but I don't know if it's my fault for immediately connecting Hsr characters to other media or because they intentionally took likeness to drum up waifu/husbando people's hype. (can't say it isn't effective lmao)
Also Playstation sisters I heard it coming in patch 1.1, no JY but atleast you can get Blade and Luo-nice hair-cha.
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kek nice. have any nonnies pulled for him yet? what do you think of him so far?
i'm in the NA server (rip), so i still have a few hours before i can get my hands on him.
No. 296914
>>296907i can't imagine he's that far behind Seele–she certainly didn't crash any servers like our boy did!–but hopefully we don't have to wait very long to find out. maybe if the sales are big enough, it'll finally incentivize Mihoyo to put out more male characters more often. a girl can dream…
>>296910:( my condolences, nonna. is Himeko at least a new unit for you? or is she a dupe?
No. 296919
>>296914Thank you, I didn't have Himiko before but I am a husbando collector so I would have preffered if I would have gotten a male character (that isn't gepard because I already have him. Atleast her design isn't that bad, she looks elegant imo so i might build her anyway.
>Seele–she certainly didn't crash any servers like our boy didAbout her sales, they are high because they include all top ups including for the standard banner and the battle pass ect. Whales want to get all the standard characters so they drop a lot of money in the first patch, so those revenues are included in the random pictures that people have been sharing online about her supposely sales. So in summary her sales aren't actually that high in reality, so don't worry about trying to compare it since stuff like that is inaccurate. Sadly we have no accurate way of knowing how much a banner sales, but the fact that they made the server crash probably is a sign that indeed a lot of people are trying to get Jing Yuan!
No. 296959
>>296910ah that’s too bad… i’m the
>>296716 and i registered a new account with an asian server today, demo-ed him, ended up liking his game play a lot, pulled for him from my main account and… got a second gepard lol & a bunch of 4 stars. it’s a shame but also it’s also fine, i think now i’ll just calmly collect more wishes and try my luck again on next banners lol. good luck with ur future pulls! fingers crossed u get him nonna after all!!
No. 297094
>>296959Thank you anon, im sorry about your pulls and I also wish you good luck with saving and pulling for the future characters you want!
>>296975Congrats! I heard his cone is super good
No. 297231
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>>297187KEK never listen to any male youtuber. Sorry for genshinposting but since their fanbases clash so much I was already expecting this. They either assume everyone spends money with their dicks so everyone has every single fanservicy female character or just cant stand seeing a male character made for women be so good so now they have to get that character for meta purposes.
No. 297253
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sage for design character sperg but I found out why Clara is barefoot and it's the dumbest thing they could think of. I saw a theory saying that the reason she can walk around on snow no problem is due to her being experimented on by Vache for blizzard immunity which would at least make sense. But the reason is because "she isn't used to wearing shoes so she twists her ankles uwu" LIKE WTF. Just a fucking stupid reason to show a little girl's feet ig
No. 297285
>>297187kek i thought it was
very interesting how there was a sudden upsurge of redditors complaining about other users–assumedly women–celebrating their pulls of JY by posting pics. as if every redditor and his little brother wasn't verbally masturbating about their Seele pulls until the very last minute of her banner. the absolute state of moids and their compulsion to dick measure when it comes to male characters doing well~ talk about jealousy! i'm not surprised at all that scrote youtubers are downplaying JY's viability, birds of a feather and all that.
No. 297524
>>297474it's a shame, but i mean, she is
technically the mascot…
No. 297967
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This game has the worst customer service ever. I sent them my account number, username, screenshots, last login time and the code of my tablet on which I'm having a graphical glitch. They just copy pasted "sorry for your inconvenience uwu, please rate us~".
So I mailed them again about the glitch and they copy pasted the same.
My tablet can run genshin on highest settings btw, won't give star rail a single cent this way
No. 298060
>>297474Yes, she really messed up the tone at the end of the Belobog quest. I still feel Star Rail character writting is more entertaining than Genshin, but what the fuck was that about?
You're supposed to be feeling sad about just seeing a character die and March doesn't wait a single second before going "that sure was some Trail Blazin heehee", ruined the mood with a single lineI still think March is miles better than Paimon though, because at least her and MC are allowed to be actual separate characters, instead of March being canonically glued to mc's ass cheeks for every single second
No. 298772
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EN stream is borked, stole this from reddit kek. apparently there won't be any new story in 1.1, which is a choice, but that explains all the events they're dropping on us.
thoughts? tbh i'm a pretty disappointed. guess i'll keep farming in the mean time sigh
No. 299303
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Hello, I am frothing at the mouth over the leak of this lightcone showing a knight diluc look-alike. Diluc's 3D model in genshin looks so wonky but I am hoping and praying this man's 3D model will look like the diluc of my dreams
No. 299472
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>>299303same!! i'm super excited too!
spoilered my little annoyance rant & picrel to it too.
oh my god it was (and still is) so annoying to witness the absolute shitshow on twitter over this leak. at first he was announced by leakers to be a woman, and ppl went crazy, with all the «its a win for the lesbians!!!» stuff but lets be real its hoyoverse… if he was a woman they would never leave her fully clothed unfortunately, at least her sholders would've been exposed… so yeah, now that all the reliable leakers said its a man, we got picrel and «its a they\she bisexual nonbinary lesbian»!!! god i'm so tired. No. 299695
>>299621ikr! so annoying.
>>299664ayrt and
yes i am with u on that one, like, i'm perfectly fine with him being a man, but
also honkai already has soooo many husbandos… so i just knew its not possible any other way unfortunately. i'm not hyped for kafka or any other upcoming female characters unfortunately too, though i really really wanted to be excited for them… its just sad to me.
No. 299743
>>299696i feel u nonna. i
think they’re
trying to do something with blade / jing yuan / dan heng in terms of a big story judging by hints and leaks, but i’m so upset there won’t be any major lore updates till version 1.2… all the female characters so far feel like they can be described with a character stereotype like “protective big sister with a quirky hobby”, “a princess who just learned she’s been adopted into the royal family”, and kafka just reminds me of
makima who i hate with a burning passion. i feel like only obnoxious pornsick moids are obsessed with spoiler and her. and it makes me so sad. i feel the same way about voicelines too… hopefully they’ll add on more & the whole blade’s past story will make sense too.
No. 299777
>>299722not only is she dead, but she's a goddess too? i can't compete with that!
jokes aside, the fact we have to come up with a bunch of mental workarounds to reassure ourselves of the romantic availability of a shiny new husbando is ridiculous and stupid, and i'll die mad about it. male players don't have to deal with this nonsense when it comes to their precious, ambiguously aged waifus, so why do we? it's bullshit!
No. 299813
>>299686well luocha is pretty much just otto and his entire character is all about having oneitis for kallen, there's also welt who already has a wife in honkai and this isn't yet confirmed and i really hope i'm wrong but they keep talking about blade having a "beloved" and apparently they're using female pronouns and chinese fans were angry they're doing the same plotline again. not honkai but zhongli was implied to have oneitis for guizhong before they thankfully retconned a part of his backstory
it's kinda obvious that mihoyo writers just keep pushing the same trope again and again, apparently their writers think this is somehow peak writing and very romantic, even though the actual female fans made it obvious they are extremely tired of this shit
No. 300033
>>299813>not honkai but zhongli was implied to have oneitis for guizhongNot to hijack with Genshin lore but no he didn't, the Guizhong shit was entirely a runaway fanmade theory and based on a few excerpts from an item description that mentioned them having been friends in the past. They retconned nothing, the people who assumed they were lovers just because Zhongli received a gift from Guizhong were setting themselves up for disappointment to begin with when she was revealed to be a lesbian. Zhongli is a benevolent figure associated with many figures from Liyue lore, he also saved Xiao from his previous
abusive owner and again his life during the Chasm event.
One of the reasons why I really can't seem to get into HSR or Honkai in general is that the male characters exist to be generic handsome knights for the female characters and have canon wives and lovers and shit. A lot of my friends unfamiliar with Honkai are getting so hyped for HSR and I know their hopes will be crushed once they realize Mihoyo still doesn't give a shit about their female players and Honkai is entirely a waifufag-based property. I'm just hoping Genshin will be more
fujopandering now that everyone has moved on to the HSR bandwagon and they need to find new sources of revenue.
No. 300154
>>300120>Do they think female players find it appealing in some retarded "oh he's so devoted" way?The thought crossed my mind and there really be some truth in it cause it happens so often and it's usually played as a tragic romance with the male hero carrying a candle for a woman he can never have and no one else can ever match up to.
In can be a compelling device in other forms of media but not in my chinese gacha dammit. They could be stupid enough to believe female players want to be cucked.
No. 300193
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well this explains some stuff…. but can the staff members stop self-inserting on gacha characters jfc for me as a player this is so jarring. also she and her character have a crush on otto but he's still obsessed with kallen, so what's the fucking point of it, girl just wrote herself as a cuck
No. 300589
>>300192>himeko is favorite waifuHe just took a photo with her cardboard cut out in bridal suit thats all. She is too old for him lul, da wei is a lolicon.
>dyed a streak of his hair whiteOn an interview the devs were asked if welt was intentionally made to look like da wei, they asked that no it was just a coincidence and laughed. I assume its a running joke among them rn.
>>300193Well some people are more confident than others and dont get jealous over some dead woman, especially since there was an au in the game where otto got over her and became a better person.
No. 300642
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>>300639I think its pretty obvious. dw is around 30 himself
No. 301763
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>>275802Sampo is my husbando
No. 302716
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Luocha my babygirl can’t wait for his banner to be up so I can finally get rid of Natasha and her ugly ass design
No. 304040
>>302716same
nonnythough I will be keeping Natasha in my second team for the Memory of Chaos challenges
No. 305507
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>>302716I blew everything and didn't get him
got fucking Bronya instead
No. 305518
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>>300639>>300642And yet Himeko is the one he considers as his wife. He said that because he understands how otaku/weeb culture generally is with different aged men.
No. 305612
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>>305535I'm going to keep trying, he's currently the most beautiful male in game so I need him. I'll wait for the 5 free tickets.
No. 306604
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https://twitter.com/honkaistarrail/status/16760800424919040005 star Dan Heng has formally been revealed! Any nonnies planning to pull for him when his banner drops?
No. 309753
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Got Bladie. I'm kind of scared to look up build and team suggestions on YT because the sister game's meta ccs left me unable to take any of their words seriously. Lots of talking out their ass or relying on assuming you have the best of everything instead of talking practically. Anyway, even though we got a huge lore drop and lots of action the story felt so short to me. Maybe it's that we still didn't get a conclusion. I don't know if it's just me who felt that way.
No. 309806
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>>309753give Prydwen a shot, nonna. their build guides are succinct and well organized, and while you don't have to follow their recommendations to the letter, they'll at least give you an idea of what to aim for build-wise.
https://www.prydwen.gg/star-rail/characters/bladeas for the story continuation, i liked it fine i guess, but i was really expecting more to come of the Dan Heng/Blade conflict. it's possible i contracted the hype bug from spending too much time in fandom spaces online, but i would have at least liked to see Dan Heng's sin described fully, instead of implied through an easily missed memory echo or whatever the fuck those things are called.
No. 311062
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Why is this game obsessed with reminding female players that no matter their husbando, they're getting cucked?
No. 311177
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>>311062why be negative when you can focus on his way more prominent ship bait with dan heng anon
No. 311326
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>>311177eh let's be fair now, blade and kafka get way more marketing. yes lorewise blade is obsessed with danfeng he doesn't care much about kafka but hoyo forces this pair more on everyone's throats because it's easier to sell to a normie audience (girlboss femdom x broody edgy guy is popular now). it's a weird move because kafka just reads as waifubait in game but outside of it they're pushing this and cucking the fans. also unfortunately, regardless of his past with danfeng right now he is glued to kafka due to being part of their organization and danfeng is also glued to march…
No. 311341
>>311335they have the honkturd audience too which is known for disliking hetships so i'm not sure what's going but unfortunately whatever they're doing is working because blade is selling very well. i genuinely believe they brainwashed the chinese renheng fujos who are throwing big bucks right now, they're the most popular ship and giving them some crippled moments is apparently more than enough and then they can go back to shilling kafblade for normalfags
and ""yumejoshi"" cuckeans who are okay with the fact that blade has no interaction with their mc as long as he's glued to a womanand pretend nothing happened
No. 311558
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>>311326you're right in that they appear together more in the game but I guess I just don't care that much I just interpret it as platonic and go on with my fujo ways, I really don't get all the outrage, some anons here are way too obsessed with being 'cucked' although to be fair i'm a casual and didn’t spend a cent on the game
No. 311701
>>311698just like a simp x e-thot relationship
maybe it's because I don't really care for blade or kafka, so their relationship means nothing to me
No. 311796
>>311731ayrt, I agree with
>>311744 if they have such depth to their relationship we can see them actually interacting like close friends/whatever they are in those past echoes, no? We can have a proper scene of them talking instead of Blade retardedly trying to kill someone he knows isn't the person of the past.
No. 316009
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while he is pretty, Argenti looks like he belongs in a different game entirely kek
No. 316630
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Started playing this game, I can't take any of the female designs in the ice world seriouslybecause their outfits are so incongruous with the environment. Seeing Clara run around snow with bare feet physically hurts me and I can't wait to move on to the next world so that I can let my Clara free in normal conditions.
I guess this applies to Sampo as well but honestly… He has such a "bully me" personality that I sort of enjoy seeing him in clothes that would make him suffer in cold weather.
In other news, I got Kafka! I was initially turned off by her design because the disappointment of her design in particular falling prey to MHY's refusal to put women in real pants was too great, but I was sold on her within the first ten minutes of the game… She's too charismatic. Gonna ship my female trailblazer with her and choose not to go on any Star Rail related social media since I can tell every post about her will be the same ugly coomer whine of mommy shit.
No. 316704
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>>316630Kafka gets shipped with Himeko pretty often, which I am totally fine with.
No. 316706
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>>316630also I agree with you on Clara. It's so dumb they gave her a design with no shoes. It's even more ridiculous that her reason for not wearing shoes is "she doesn't know how to walk with them on".
And I love Sampo, I hope he appears in the story again later down the line.
No. 316740
>>316719Thanks for the recommendation! I've never used that site before, but since I'm evading other fan content I might need it to feed my yume love for her lol
>>316704That's cute! I can see the appeal, although I don't know much about either character yet.
>>316645So basically Genshin's fandom again, huh? I learned my lesson there even though I stopped playing pretty early, won't make the same mistake again.
>>316706He's really so fun, kek. I hope he turns up more down the line as well since I enjoy his shady goof antics.
No. 316854
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I'm having such a hard time obtaining Luka for my Kafka comp… I've got Kafka and multiples of the other 4*s but not a single Luka. Why, RNGesus, why?
No. 316894
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>>316630I'm struggling to play the game simply because the female designs are so fucking bad. I came from Genshin and while people memed on those female designs a lot HSR went way further, every woman is wearing the most ridiculous shit ever. And it gets even worse in the China region, you get not one but two identical sexy fox girls. Kafka is possibly the only adult female character that's wearing real clothes instead of tattered lingerie and even she gets the mommy dommy treatment from everyone. It's like almost every female character is made around someone's fetish
and sushang as that one female mihoyo employee's self insert like the aloof hacker lolis (two of them), foot fetish loli, elegant mommy bride, tomboy tsundere, ojousama, the engineer oneesan, literal dragon loli… I like the boys and the game in itself is enjoyable but god I feel like the only sober person in the room amongst those female designs. I guess the game's just not made for me.
No. 316923
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>>316742I don't follow any accounts as I hate most peoples commentary, but I use this site which has been helpful for relics and stuff
https://www.prydwen.gg/star-rail/characters No. 316963
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I look at those physics every time I log in the game, thank you mihoyo you did one thing right
No. 317143
>>316894I like March 7th, Kafka, and Stelle's designs (an uncoomerish and tall girl design feels like such a rarity). It's enough to get me to stay. But it's literally only those three. I'd include Clara as well, but her being barefoot is so clearly a fetish thing… A waste of a neat concept as I AM soft for her relationship with Svarog.
Some of the designs are genuinely unbearable to just look at. Like, I wish I could enjoy Bronya/Seele but I hate looking at them.
I wish it wasn't so hard to find a gacha that doesn't suck shit at least 50% of the time when it comes to female character design. The only one I can think of might be Lord of Heroes.
No. 317145
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>>317143Its basically those girls for me too…i like himeko because she's pretty but her design is still on the pandering side. I really liked that robot girl from the Xianzhou story too. She looks unique and non-coomery, so I'll roll for her too. I think I'll mostly stick to rolling boys in this game.
No. 317146
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This is probably the train autist in me speaking, but Himeko's design is my most hated female design in this game. I want a cool conductor lady but what I got is a woman glammed up in an evening gown with a conductor's coat thrown on…? Pass. I do love Pom-Pom, though.
No. 317147
>>317145Samefag from
>>317146 (sorry for dunking in Himeko like that immediately after you said you liked her… I feel bad now) but that robot girl is so cute! I haven't gotten to the Chinese area yet, I'll look forward to her.
I think Lynx is cute out of the upcoming characters as well. Meanwhile with Topaz I can't help seeing an inferior version of W from Arknights.
No. 317157
>>317153It's good for a Mihoy game, isn't that sad? I say this as one of the anons who said she liked her upthread.
It was already ibvious, but the gendered split in discussion over character designs in this game really drives home how drastically different designs appealing to men and designs appealing to women can be. Women fucking hate female character designs in HSR and vice versa for men.
On a side note, whenever I see female streamers like vtubers thirsting over female MHY designs, I have to wonder what planet they game from.
No. 317170
>>317157>On a side note, whenever I see female streamers like vtubers thirsting over female MHY designs, I have to wonder what planet they game from.Women who unironically love coomer female designs perplex me. I can see thinking that they're cool and a female power fantasy being sexy and she's just like me if you squint really hard etc but how aren't they bothered by the obvious disparity between the sexualization of male and female characters? How aren't they offended by literally
every female character being sexualized in some way, including little girls? Some of them are obvious NLOG pickmes who want to show they're not like those ugly fat feminists hating beautiful women and some of them are those weird ass mentally stunted yurifags who shit their pants in rage at the sight of a bishounen and only want more pornified moidgaze lesbians, but the people who don't fit either categories yet think Seele is peak female design are beyond my understanding.
No. 317343
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>>317276same here nona, I really hope he gets a 5* version and comes back into the story at some point. he's such a goof
No. 317365
>>317343Shaking hands with you, my fellow Sampo nonna. I want to poke him with my freezeing hands in his hip cutouts and hear his silly noises lol
Just met the Belobog NPC in the city campaigning to lynch Sampo and it made me laugh so hard.
No. 317435
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>>317358I actually like fuxuans design, for me it's one of the best in the if not the best for woman even if they don't fit her position. her outfit colors fit nicely (in compersion to seele for example), theres not too many details in it I think it's pretty cute over all.
No. 317454
>>317358>Yukong especially disappointed me because it's so rare to see a mother character (even if her kid is adopted)It's so fucking hilarious that they pulled this TWO times in a row, Cocolia with Bronya and Yukong with her daughter, absolutely no shame. I guess they have to pander to the mommy fetish but still have to have the women remain virginal, and possibly have their daughter be fuckable as well. Honestly during the entire Belobog arc I was way too distracted by Cocolia walking around in her underwear to take her seriously as the "supreme guardian", and only facepalmed harder when Yukong came along. How the fuck come Jing Yuan is given an actually noble outfit showing his status and my lady Yukong is here dressed like a stripper with her thong out?
>>317435Her design would be so much better if she didn't have the traditional Mihoyo armpit&bared back fetish pandering.
>>317447Honestly most female designs in Genshin were boring but in HSR they're just unapologetically ugly. Designs like Serval, Seele and Asta are a hot fucking mess wearing the most mismatched pieces with no composition at all. It's like someone just pressed a "randomize" button.
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What percentage of HSR text do you nonnas actually read? Right now I'm steamrolling content to get pulls and there's just so much text that I find myself skimming… But then I inevitably see something that catches my eye and makes me regret not reading, kek.
Not to be that obnoxious Genshin comparer, but on average I do actually find the writing in this game to be much more interesting, both in terms of the actual lore and simple entertainment value. I was genuinely surprised the first couple times sidequests actually had me feeling something even if I only read bits and pieces of them. The underground fighter who whittled away his health after losing his family, just for the sake of donating to Natasha's clinic so that he could somewhat fill the void left in him, made me emo.
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>>317480I found myself doing the same as you in the beginning, nona. I'd skim through most text because I was initially only interested in pulls. But now I wish I'd paid more attention to the build-up of the story. Moreso in the Space Station and Jarilo-VI, I didn't care much for the Xianzhou Luofu storyline personally. If I could continue to stay/progress in Jarilo-VI then I absolutely would.
No. 317506
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>>317480ngl I skip most of the story unless a character I like is on screen
No. 317782
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I met him! He's cute!
No. 318493
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Kafka's banner has come and gone, and I now breathe a sigh of relief knowing that I can enjoy the story at my own pace without grinding out pulls on a deadline… I got her E1 and will krep holding onto my rolls to try to F2P E6 her whenever she reruns.
Good luck to all of the nonnas husbando-pulling! Sending you my strength!
No. 318496
>>318332I usually use either the Korean or the Chinese and have found both to be enjoyable. It's a nice change of pace when most of the media I consume comes with either English or Japanese voice acting options only.
I'm curious, what is everybody's favorite VA for Sampo? His performance varies a lot between the languages, and the English in particular seems to be polarizing with fans. I personally like the Korean the best, it has the right mix of attractive and pathetic sleaze to it for me. The English is fun in it's own way, but having heard him in the other three languages first it just sounds way too different for my ears to integrate as him.
No. 318507
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Ahhh, i lost the coinflip and my entire savings were drained trying to get dragon boy so he's coping with the herta store cone. His stats are only slightly better than my jingyuan but he's much stronger. I'm glad they gave husbando enjoyers such a strong unit. Now if only we could get a male harmony…i really hope they release one soon
No. 318588
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>>318507Congrats! Enjoy your dragon lad!
>>318498Same, personally waiting for Huo Huo, because a) healer b) cute c) a girl who isn't doing the skintight/excessively exposed look.
No. 318612
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My Cold Dragon Young hits like a truck, even with his traces and relics only half built, and it's actually hilarious. He's making my fully built speed tuned JY look like a schlub kek. Rip cool grandpa, I guess.
On the story side of this update, I really feel like we could have gotten this last chapter in the previous patch. It was so short and we still barely have half an answer to any of the bigger questions surrounding the whole thing! MHY come on!
No. 318659
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Is the similarity in Yukong and Tingyun's appearances ever acknowledged in game…? Thry look like reskins of each other to me, and I kept waiting for another character to comment on it when the two were introducedin the story. Unless I missed something, it's never brought up. Am I insane for thinking they look identical?
No. 318661
>>318651Makes sense to me. You're the ones baffled over people enjoying a game's story in the game's own thread.
I'm never going to be somebody who calls Hoyo's writing good but man you need to find something better to do with your time.
No. 318738
>>318659>They look identicalYes
>In game people would notice thatNo. They're used to seeing fluffy haired fox women around and if they're self aware enough to tell npcs and pcs apart, they know a certain group of female characters/people dress skimpy and almost identical because it's always the same fetishes. Tbf all characters have the same face except for eyes and to give them a foxy look they went with a similar shape.
No. 321410
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anyone else dropped off this game hard?
The new event is so boring to me, it's mostly just dull text with not a lot going on. I'm also not a fan on how much they're dragging out the main story.
I loved the Space Station and Jarilo, but The Xianzhou Luofu is so dull. I really wanted to love this game, and I did for the first couple of months.
No. 334706
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They could have done literally anything with a space concept in this game but they just choose to release generic Chinese woman #1-100 for a year straight kek. I'm pretty much done with it
No. 334711
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>>334706>literally all the exact same silhouette ugh it sucks because I really do love the male designs
No. 342947
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Male 5* for free. Apparently this is not Sampo?
No. 345825
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ending my life if he doesn’t get more screen time
No. 358823
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goddd the male characters in this game are so hot too bad I'll never play it
No. 358831
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>>358826for me it's the gacha grind, I can tolerate a boring story if there are at least a few characters that I like, but the gameplay is too uninteresting to play it every day.
No. 359186
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>>358823So true, not even my all-consuming need to see Sampo get wrecked and destroyed can get me to endure the dozens of hours of performative nothing Hoyo games ask you to do for basic progression.
No. 359223
>>358829In all honesty you can tell when the moid Honkai head writer took over when the story gets so fucking autistic and sloggish and turns into a boring ass space opera going absolutely nowhere and treating its characters as plot devices instead of developed personalities. Xianzhou Luofu was probably the worst written Mihoyo story I've ever read, on par with Inazuma, with a rapid fire introduction of a billion characters you never get to know, a ton of confusing shit happening at the same time and none of those substories came to a conclusion and everything was left open ended in a very unsatisfying way. Literally nobody that I have met could tell what the fuck was the point of that stupid story chapter and I think the writer had no idea either, he just wanted to show off all the "cool" concepts that he had in his mind. The event/interlude stories have been much more coherent and interesting and Penacony started off much better so there's still hope. I think.
>>358831The gameplay in Star Rail is so bad though. I'm glad they included the autoplay mechanic but what's the point in playing it when the games do it for you? The combat isn't rewarding because it's a pay2win scenario and the battles are so annoying to get through, especially for a husbando player since every single male character that gets released is Imaginary element and even for the waifufag in me I hate the female characters and how they all wear ugly lingerie instead of real clothes.
No. 359239
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>>359186same nona
I played the game when it first came out and instantly fell in love with this idiot.
I dropped off the game after about 2 months though because the 3rd area you go to is so fucking boring.
Supposedly Sampo has more screentime in the more recent patches, but I just can't be bothered.
No. 398816
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Look at this handsome foxian gentleman. I want to visit his practice at the alchemy commission with some snacks and tea and have him cook me up some red-hot rice in return. We can sit by the stove and chat while we eat: I want to hear about his broken dreams. I also like his simple design, I don't like male designs that are too elaborate, it looks tacky. And I don't care if he's 'not meta,' I can full clear most of the end game content like MoC, PF, etc. (or 90% clear if I'm being lazy), and anyways I have so many wishes saved up but no one to wish for: Jade is way too coomer for me and Yunli is just Clara+.
No. 398821
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>>398820Seriously, he's straight up genderbent pozy.
No. 412695
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do any of you nonas still play this?
I saw they're doing a F/SN colab next year, so I reinstalled to start earning jade. Loaded the game, got so overwhelmed by all the notifications and new things that I just ended up closing it and not doing anything anyway. This game feels like too much effort.
No. 413633
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I hated penacony so much it made me drop the game but I came back because of jiaoqiu and I kind of like it again. Him and moze are so cute but I really do not care about the xianzhou luofu.
No. 416193
>>412695I only play for my favs, that´s about it. Every time I tried to get engaged with the story it was very boring so i´ve resorted to spamming M1 and skipping everything
>>413633Based
No. 428210
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Has anyone caught up to the storyline? I was expecting to hate rappa just because her design is terrible but i actually kind of like her…? Her personality is honestly kind of endearing. Anyways I basically fast forwarded all the scenes that didn’t include Mr Reca, Boothill or Dan Heng. Speaking of Dan Heng, I forgot how cute he was ❤︎ If i had to give a top 5 ranking of hsr men he would definitely be first (followed by argenti, aventurine, boothill and then luocha).
No. 428695
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Anyone else find Sunday’s outfit and animations absolutely underwhelming? There is so much hype around him because of the milquetoast Christian imagery, but I am honestly disappointed. His ultimate has about the same level of effort as his sister’s skill animation, and he is just way too covered up. I wonder when we will get another male chara with a slightly erotic outfit.
>>428210I am still playing through the latest update, but I feel like my interest is slipping since I am not super excited to finish the storyline. Rappa's design is rather atrocious, but I did like the part where she defended Chaletka. I just started replaying HSR on my alt account, and I have to agree - DH is really growing on me this time around. I also really want to pull for DHIL for his back window alone, but I am saving up to upgrade my Aventurine and pull for Sunday.
>>428214Kek anon. Is there any specific ship you are looking for? I am not at all picky about positions as long as I get to see qt men together, but I have noticed that manlet x manlet ships don’t usually suffer from those roidpig proportions. I recently came across this artist on xitter — kino_mgmg, who draws Dancae and her art is really nice to look at. She has also got a lot of R18 stuff on her poipiku.
No. 429052
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>>428212There you go poonerina-chan
No. 429738
The female characters designs in this mobage are so much better than male ones tbh. I almost get the urge to play, but then I remember about all the burlesque hip windows, heels, etc (and also how boring the "game" is) and it thankfully goes away.
>>429683Lolcow and thirsting over Rafayel - never change. I played LADS before, but tbh it gets annoying with all the grinding and hard-to-get myth cards. Also I hate the interface it has, Life Makeover had it too, and it's just so clunky.
I only play enstars now, hopefully not for long lol, fuck gachas.
No. 447937
Dead thread, but is anyone here looking forward to Amphoreus?
>>447925It's amusing how China's censorship laws allow hypersexualized designs for female characters complete with visible underwear, but male characters showing a bit of arm somehow crosses the line.
No. 448040
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>>447937>anyone here looking forward to Amphoreus?I am. I haven’t played since release, though, and only started playing again recently for Sunday (I lost his 50/50 which sucks for my Jing Yuan but whatever). I’m only really interested in Algaea, Anaxa, and Mydei. Phanion is kind of ugly to me idk why. Who are you planning on pulling for?
No. 448169
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>>448040>that picKek Aventurine truly is best boy. I really hope he still has plot relevance.
I don’t have JY or any other summon characters, but I ended up using nearly 200 pulls to get Sunday and his LC. He will probably be BiS for remembrance units, so I can see him getting a rerun in the near future. Don't lose hope anon!
I am definitely pulling for Mydei
even though his animations are super boring, and he will probably turn out to be stoic male #13749789 instead of a cocky asshole like Gil or a battleschizo like Childe. I wasn’t interested in Phainon initially as he happens to be a Kebin expy and shares the same color palette with Sunday, but the recent trailers have kind of sold him to me. He seems to have a playful personality that I like in male characters. There's that shirtless scene too so I will be pulling for him as well. Anaxa doesn’t do much for me right now even though he has exposed pits, but I guess I will probably end up liking him once I learn more about him in the story.
I am probably bricking my account kek, because I do not plan on pulling for any remembrance units as of now — mostly because they are genderlocked, but whatever.
No. 448418
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>>448169200 pulls, so based. Penacony men are truly the best. And thank you, I’ll definitely try and get Sunday on his rerun! What’s your team comp like with Sunday? I hear a lot of the characters in HSR get powercrept like clockwork but I’ve always thought the concept of meta in games like these as stupid so I just put whoever in a team.
I haven’t watched any of the trailers but based on your words, I’ll probably start liking Phainon’s ugly ass kek. I love playful types as well ❤︎
No. 448808
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>>448418>so I just put whoever in a teamSame here. I feel pulling for characters that you like is more rewarding than pulling for meta. My Sunday team is random bullshit go at the moment. I use him with Aventurine, Ting, along with some 4 star dps like Serval or Misha. It is almost impossible to 3 star endgame content with this, but that doesn’t upset me.
>>448776According to leaks he is
physical destruction. Hoyo really hates its female playerbase kek. No. 449059
Honestly if I was a husbando player, I would vertically invest into my husbando (getting his best supports and eidolons/lightcone if needed), so maybe less options is better, because the game doesn't give you enough pulls to go for everyone. I have seen husbando players do some crazy shit.
>>448418Leakers say Sunday will work well with Mydei, and I wouldn't be surprised if Phaion is really strong too.
No. 449786
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So I just finished the quest and I was wondering if it’s even worth getting into Mydei/Phainon. Ngl they are kind of flat as characters haha, but their interactions were fun. My tl is flooded with art of them, which really makes me want to hop on the ship. At the same time, I am super skeptical because of that whole Cyrene scene at the end. She is clearly set up to be the Elysia expy, and it feels like it is gonna end up like another Baiheng situation. I am rather sure she is gonna be the main focus of the next patches, and it will turn out that she is the big reason Phainon decided to become a hero.
I don’t know, but it feels like Hoyo loves baiting ships like this and then sidelining them for something else entirely. It is kind of hard to trust they will do anything satisfying with Mydei/Phainon when all the focus is probably gonna shift to Cyrene and her tragic backstory. I like them but I don’t want to set myself up for disappointment again. The writing loves to take the waifu route, and I just can’t get hyped when it’s so obvious what they’re gonna do.
No. 450283
>>449786When that happens, flip hoyo off and do what you want with the ship. I don't see any renheng shippers even mention Baiheng in their art/fics or even try to make her relevant outside of giving Jingliu a girlfriend, if Jingliu even appears at all. Just enjoy the ride and don't take it too seriously.
Unrelated but I'm also enjoying how much the Amphoreus enemies buff Jing Yuan even further. They feed him energy, Sunday feeds him more energy and so, and it makes it even easier for me to farm Remembrance mc traces. Speaking of, Remembrance mc is also extremely broken for JY, basically anything that was intended for Aglaea = works for JY. Oops, hoyo. You made JY relevant again, which is bad when people aren't enjoying Aglaea in the story as much as you hoped. I've seen more people take to Mydei than Aglaea, and I'm not just talking about twitterfags, a lot of people on their own official app are skipping because of the shit she pulled in the story. (Which to be honest I actually think is an overreaction but I love when hoyo's waifubait shilling backfires.)
No. 451351
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I played the Finest Duel Under the Pristine Blue quest for the first time and Yunli pissed me off so bad I had to routinely stop playing to calm down. Anyways, thoughts on the fem characters in HSR?
No. 451552
>>450283Renheng fujos are unironically so based for not caring about canonicity. It’s always the haters who annoy me the most — like the moment a ship gets "btfo," they get so smug about it with their "haha, take that fujos." Like, okay congrats, I guess?
I really regret not pulling for JY. Sunday and he can easily sweep through Amphoreus enemies. I am also seeing so many people clear the latest AS with him.
> a lot of people on their own official app are skipping because of the shit she pulled in the storyAglaea is very much the standard waifu with her ultra-detailed cleavage and that slightly suggestive scene where she asks the Trailblazer to follow her to the bath. They would never make a male character do such things. It’s funny that the same moids who were praising her for her uncensored cleavage have now turned on her because of that trial scene kek. She literally clarifies afterward that she didn’t mean to kill the tb, but they’re still salty.
No. 459923
>>459220>they already fujobaited with Su only to leave it unrequited and put Kevin with MeiI have never played HI3, but that sounds even worse. I was under the impression that Kevin and Mei were already an established couple, and Su was added later for whatever reason — you know, like those harem shows where there’s one homo guy pining after the straight MC. The more I learn about Kevin, the more I hate him. Everything about him screams writer’s pet.
>Hoyostans love this type of shit and will accuse people of biphobia for not liking whatever het ship they pull out of their assKek so I occasionally come across Kevin/Su fanart on my tl and that entire fanbase is a complete mess. I have seen fujos shipping KevMeiSu as cope so that Mei doesn't get left out. And those that ship Kevin/Su also keep preaching to others to appreciate Mei, as if fujos are going out of their way to hate her. Like, Elysia is the most blatant waifubait character ever, clearly marketed toward lonely neckbeards but everyone on shitter sees her as lesbian jesus. But the same tards will go out of their way to harass the 5 fujos who ship Kevin/Su.
No. 459957
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>>451351I am heavily invested in Ruan Mei and whatever the fuck is going on with her, Jingliu and Luocha, she is my favorite hands down. I also like Kafka, Herta, Feixiao, Lingsha and Serval
No. 460079
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>instead of creating a new, refreshing story, the entirety of 3.x will be a complete rehash of Elysian Realm that will get milked for almost a yearWhy are Hoyo writers and devs so adamant about shoving HI3 slop down our throats? There are already so many unresolved subplots in HSR like the one mentioned by
>>459957 yet they would rather use every single opportunity to promote a game I will never play. I seriously suspect that they are trying to get hsrfags to play hi3. They have already added Sparkle in it, and now Firefly is set to be the next collab character. Free Elysia was also announced on the same day the first teaser for Amphoreus dropped. These tards cannot accept that their beloved passion project flopped badly and now they are hellbent on blowing up the entire revenue to get normalfags to care about it.
No. 460296
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I love Firefly, but I hate how she has been reduced to waifubait slop to appeal to the Trailblazer who forgets about her in a patch. Like she is only a plot device to tug at your heartstrings and thrown away. It's such a shame.
No. 464024
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so, how y'all feel about castorice? apparently you don't even need her on your team to revive?
this might not survive beta but so far very cringy behavior from hoyo.
No. 464160
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>>464024It's super scummy on Hoyo's part because her kit is already so broken - she has teamwide buffs, teamwide healing, jaw-dropping animations, and a summon that can be controlled. Meanwhile, Mydei is stuck with auto-battle. I worry that dude is going to be the biggest flop, outdoing even Argenti, and this will give Hoyo even more excuse to not give a shit about male characters.
No. 467187
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I'm never forgiving Mihoyo for making me fall in love with a gay man
No. 467192
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>>467187I am a fujo but don’t feel dejected anon. Aventurine is basically an omnislut who gets passed around the entire Penacony cast, so just ship him with yourself and let your imagination run wild.
No. 467223
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>>467192:( I don't want him as my slut or just a one night stand, I want to cuddle him every night and make sure he feels safe, appreciated and loved.
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It’s almost Mydei’s banner. Are any anons pulling for him? I was going to because I really liked his design, but the auto-battle is so irritating. I just know it will make me never want to play him, which would make spending jades for him pointless. I guess I’d rather just save up for Anaxa. At least he’s not fucking imaginary kek
No. 470029
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Thanks for feeding me Mihoyo. This is going into my Aventurine folder.
No. 479476
>>479276The entire Anaxa situation is just sad. They are going out of their way to ensure that he flops. His kit has been nerfed into oblivion and his banner is running alongside with only Ratio, which basically guarantees bad sales. Meanwhile Castorice
>gets a global passive>gets multiple trailers>has a gigabroken kit>has a quad banner>will get a special login animation according to leaks>entirety of 3.2 will shill her>she will give a ring to tb>will have a special dimension just for her and tbThe western fanbase is equally retarded, I am already seeing women justify the ring thing with excuses like "oh it's just a friendship bracelet!11". Hoyo can put the most blatant, in-your-face incelpandering and these people will still slurp it up.
The entire game has basically devolved into a waifu fest at this point. Even the polls force you to pick between waifus and no one else. Apparently the choice to bid farewell to either Kafka or Firefly in 3.0 was a hidden poll to determine who is more popular. And many women on shitter are concerned that if most people picked FF, Kafka might get sidelined later in the story. Honestly, I could not care less about either. They are both (You)bait characters anyway. Kafka is the tryhard dommy mommy gf and Firefly is the sweet yamato nadeshiko gf. And they keep inventing new power levels to justify why the newest waifu has to be stronger - "She is an anniversary character", "she is an Archon" , "she is an Emanator". According to leaks, there are "throne-level" emanators, and to nobody's surprise, the Elysia expy is one of them.
Waifu rant aside, it is practically impossible to clear endgame content without the latest units. And even if you do manage to pull them, it takes months to build them because the relic system is complete trash. Then they just get powercrept in like two patches anyway. Hoyo has also gotten stingier with jades. The amount of pulls they are giving out in the anniversary patch is the same as a regular patch. There are like 2 events in each patch, no companion quests, nothing that makes the game feel alive. And the only way they know how to make endgame harder now is by bloating enemy HP, which is just sad. At this point, it is just exhausting to keep playing. I have got Mydei. I will probably uninstall after Phainon’s shill patch drops.
No. 480583
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Got my free Lucoha (I ditched him for my Aventurine account over a year ago)
The anniversary is so ass with all the Castorice worship and the whale only event and packs
No. 480789
>>479476They're topping the chart with this predatory practice. Castorice is so boring but of course some people see Stelle in the trailer and claim it for yuri and also claim Castorice for the bisexuals.
This game is no longer fun to play. Genshin is becoming ass, but Hsr doesn't even have companion quests, regional events or even character birthdays. When a shill patch is done, a character is done, unless they're the dev's pet waifu like Firefly. Of course she's getting fixed but they leave older like Luocha to rot, or drop Sunday because of stupid incels. How I wish any company would make a decent higher budget with good husbandos so people can finally leave this shitty company behind.
No. 480993
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>>480789Not gonna lie, I swapped to LADS. I know it's not a strategy/turn based game, but I have Arknights to fill that niche for me and console games…
Twst is too simple and boring + Yana pushes her favourite too hard while some characters rot for a whole year
Enstars exists, but I only play the Japanese version and only for one boy, otherwise I ignore it
I feel like that's about it for games with cute guys that make a lot of money. I also like some dudes in GBF and FGO and you know things are BAD BAD when mihoyo is treating female players worse than those two
No. 481493
>>481125The only reason people are tolerating it is because there's nowhere else for them to go now that they experienced a high budget gacha. It's the same reason why a lot of fujoyumes will watch shounen anime that has a high budgets over a shitty joseimuke adaptation, even though the latter is aimed at them. Where are people going back to? FGO treated female players the same, the summer events are basically all waifu. People who came to Mhy games because they wanted something other than otome or idol games aren't going to be satisfied going back to those games. It is shit that Mhy is getting rewarded for these predatory practices like the global passive and for fucking over husbando fans, but the fans accept it. The Mhy cult is too strong, it's all about the company being number one and laughing that nothing can take it down. No one is leaving unless an actual good game with a budget and husbandos comes out, and none of the upcoming gachas are going to fit that need. Otome isn't for everyone, and the games mentioned here
>>480993 won't fit the niche Mhy provided either since they don't have the fun gameplay or people are just plain bored with idolshit. People like lore and some feeling of higher stakes and Mhy is unfortunately good at crafting character concepts, despite the stories themselves lacking. Mhy can taunt players and treat male characters like garbage after milking fujo artists for publicity because what are you going to do about it? You can't take down Mhy. They know you have nowhere else to go.
No. 481505
>>481493Personally I'm having more fun playing Infinity Nikki and LADS, while also playing offline indie titles like Fear and Hunger or replaying Danganronpa. We, who are displeased players can simply drop the games and not spend money and do something more enjoyable, there's no point in looking at it on a whole fandom scale. The change you can make is to make the games look uncool to your closer circle, most of my friends already moved on from it anyway.
Mihoyo is even shittier than FGO in my opinion, because FGO at least keeps the male characters story relevant and has a white day event.
>Where are people going back to? Just go back to offline games and VNs, make creative content and ignore the social media algorithm and FOMO.
No. 481533
>>481521>>481530I support them calling hoyoshit yuri games because it
triggers the men. ZZZ and WuWa shamelessly turning to incel harem pandering even though they have female MCs is fucking disgusting though, HSR was more neutral from the start.
No. 481851
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No. 482176
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>>481125>>Evangelion and other generic otaku shit (yes, ironic for Eva to be that, but it is)>Starts as an otak callout>BackfiresIt's almost as if Anno wanted his cake too. Just like the Honkek incels.
>>481493What can take them down is eventually concurrency from other games. PGR doesn't hold a candle to HSR (and let's be fair, it's by Kuro, which is Hoyo but worse).
>>481530They are so clueless it has to be their first gacha game. The only reason Hoyo gets away with it is because they don't go full coomer like NIKKE or Brown Dust 2.
>>481533Event he yuri is calming down. Who the fuck remembers acheswan in 2025?
>>481851Dr Ratio 2, basically
Anyway, reminder to not buy HSR's sense of promises. Pic related is an example of their "improvement".
No. 482332
>>481715I feel so conflicted about Phainon. I like him and I really want to know what his deal is. What annoys me a lot is the preferential treatment he is getting over other male characters just because he is a Kevin expy. For now. I am sure Hoyo will still fuck him over due to him being a male once his patch is over. All I can hope is that he carries through despite the Fate collab being right after his banner.
>>482176Black text on white screen?? In this economy?
Honestly, the storytelling is SO bland. All characters have the same 5 movements that they keep repeating over and over again.
>Character holds out his right hand and moves it a few time while explaining something>Character holds out his left hand and moves it a few time while explaining something>Character puts his hand on his chestI am sure they will keep doing the bare minimum because people will eat it up and keep spending money anyway.
No. 482423
>>482332Oh don't worry, Phainon will get shafted too. They're already trying to fuck his sales by putting him with the Fate collab. The same uncle who has beef with Sunday also hates him too. I want to know what midhoyo bothers so much with these type of male characters if they hate the fans who love them and want them to fail anyway. They're looking for an excuse to drop male characters by making Phainon underperform.
>Black text on white screen?? In this economy? It wouldn't bother me much because I'm used to visual novels, except that the storytelling itself is bland. They have good initial concepts but they always shoot too far and then fuck it up at the end.
No. 482580
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>>482423Ofc they're putting Archer as free, meanwhile you have fauxbians larping as radfems saying shit like this.
No. 489672
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>no armor
>short skirt
>high heels
Is there some unwritten law at HYV to put every single female character in heels and a miniskirt? Does it not get boring after a point? This outfit is pretty good by Hoyo standards, no doubt, but I hate how they ruined her timeless original design. Did anyone here pull for Anaxa btw?
No. 489693
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Ubatcha posted the list of leaks from 3.0 to 4.0. I'm wary of the "community opinions" part but I'm glad Elation emanator Sampo is confirmed to some extent.
No. 489694
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>>489672Those uninspired faggots just couldnt help themselves huh
No. 489702
>>489690>Hoyo is shilling him as Herta's peg legHsr is the most predatory hoyo game. Jiaoqiu is Acheron's bis, now Anaxa is tied to Herta and if leaks are true then you need to pull Cerydra for Phainon. Sunday will work too but Cerydra will be the premium option.
>>489693I really hope this is true. I think this would make him the 2nd male emanator after Phainon which is great. Plus, it is a nice bonus that he is not a Honkai expy.
No. 490027
>>489672Got Anaxa and the game was kind enough to give me him twice in the same ten pull.
I run him as a hypercarry with Aventurine and the Halovian siblings and managed a perfect Pure Fiction score as well as Apocalyptic Shadow, so not sure why they're trying to shill him as Therta sub dps/generator when mini Herta/Serval work just as well. Maybe they're scared the incels won't pull him if they don't?
The only endgame mode I struggled with was MoC but I still managed to three star clear with only a couple of rounds remaining. He takes a little more investment, but feed him enough speed, atk and crit rate and you're good to go.
No. 490615
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Phainon's splash art is out and it is almost a 1:1 copy paste of Sunday's. How is hyv this creatively bankrupt?
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>>489672>HURR DURR FATE STARTED AS A HENTAIOn the other hand I wonder if 3.4 will launch fandom wars between Fate and Hoyo.
>>490615>Color palette and poses are too similiar to SundayBetween the death girl with a scythe (Seele, Acheron, Castorice), it's almost like copypaste at this point.
No. 490721
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>>490719If I recall, in the Fate universe semen gives servants a magical boost (kek) ala steroids. Does that mean male masters dick down their male servants too? In Fate/Zero did Gilgamesh have to suck Tohsaka-papa off to get a mana boost?
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>>490721Like the other anon said, there are other methods of mana transfer that are more commonly accepted, but also, the only reason the semen method had to be used in the VN is because Shirou is a shit mage with very little to offer in terms of mana. Medea faces a similar issue when she allies with Kuzuki, as he's not a real mage from an established bloodline. He's just a teacher who punches real hard. The Tohsaka family is an old magus family, and thus, its members have plenty of mana in reserve. Plus, they store mana in their gems, as we see with Rin in the VN. Gil is also a special case because he's an archer, which means he has Independent Action and can survive long periods without mana from a mage. So even if he had a Shirou-tier mage, he'd probably be fine. None of this factors into my headcanons about him and the priest in the 10 years between the 4th and 5th Holy Grail Wars, though, nor should it factor into yours.
No. 490764
>>490624B-balding??
>>490615He literally looks like an edit of sunday wtf
>>489694>>489672Tbf fgo itself clowned on og astoria too. I mean she literally has a bunny girl and multiple swimsuit cards.
No. 491158
>>490719Sometimes I wonder why hoyofags are so protective of their shit company. Everyone knows that F/SN is a kusoge but it still doesn't change the fact that hoyo completely butchered saber's original design.
The fandom wars had already started sometime back. I had seen some posts where fatefags were mocking hoyofags because nasuverse has more dark skinned characters. Entire discourse felt stupid to me because who in their right mind would see asian porn games as some form of activism.
>>490764It's from Anaxa's Keeping Up with Star Rail video. Hyacine hints that he might be balding. Hoyo really hates this man kek.
No. 498463
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The "AGLAEA LESBIAN" crowd also went silent when they discovered that she met Cipher when she was a kid kek.
I'm considering skipping Cipher and pink Barbara for Phainon and the Fate Collab. Only to make yuritrannies and pixel polilezzies cry more, like in pic related.
Not sure how far I'm willing to go into 4.0 since sampo 5* is rumored to appear and I've been waiting for him for a year.
>inb4 he's gonna be underwhelming
I don't care and also he technically counts as a HI3 character now thanks to the collab.
No. 498481
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I really wish they had put some effort into modeling his face because it just looks so bland. Should have used some of the budget that they blew up on his animations to give him a bishie face. And honestly it sucks that he is going to lose his cheerful personality and turn into edgy brooding faggot #176334.
>>498409I absolutely hate this preferential treatment he is getting. They have screwed over every single male so far - Sunday, Aventurine, Anaxa, Mydei only to blow all their budget on this faggot just because he happens to be the Kebin expy. Genuinely makes me sad. Sunday was literally screwed over in his own shill patch, meanwhile this dude's patch has not even started and he already has over 2000 lines. I would have loved it if they gave this treatment to LITERALLY any other male character, but I have a special hatred for Phainon and Welt because of their expy status.
>I hope the Elysia expy gets shipped with Phainon so they can lose their "wholesome yuri waifu"Please NOOOOO. But as much as it depresses me, they really are going in that direction kek. Personally I do not want them to become a thing because
-I have always despised Elysia to the core. She is the biggest Mary Sue ever created and her fanbase is beyond mentally ill
-It is more than obvious that Shaoji self-inserts as Phainon and just the idea of that fucker living his waifu fantasy pisses me off
-I just hate this omnipandering shit HoYo has been doing. They are very aware of how the entire fanbase is and they purposely do this kind of thing to incite infights
-As much as I hate Mydei/Phainon shippers, I would still prefer Mydei to be the only person who gets baited with Phainon. I am still livid about
the piss poor way in which he died.
The problem with yuritrannies is that they do not learn. Hoyo can put in all the bait in the world and they will still keep insisting that the character is gay. This already happened with Aglaea and Anaxa.
I have not played HI3 but I have seen a lot of questionable shit that Elysia says to Kevin. Many of the Elysia merch items are wedding-themed to bait lonely incels. Yuritroons will see this and still keep insisting that she is le lesbian Jesus which is insulting because how does this beyond-trash character who only exists to siphon money from neckbeards, get a label like that.
>>498463>navuiasukas and aglaealesbianI suggest blocking them, two of the most deranged troons ever.
I am sure they will be frothing at the mouth once Cyrene the company's beloved Mary Sue animation creeps and powercreeps Phainon. As much as I hate Phainon the only thing that makes me happy is that he stole some of Elysia’s signatures from HI3 because that absolutely
triggers these people kek.
>The "AGLAEA LESBIAN" crowd also went silentThe obsession the western fanbase has with a character's sexuality is laughable. Who cares? They are just pixels. Ship whatever you want without writing think oieces on the characters queercoding.
I do not even want to partake in this level of mental gymnastics. All I want is for male characters who are not HI3 expies to be treated well but unfortunately that will never happen. Sigh.
No. 498483
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Archer's gameplay for the Fate collab.
>>498481I hope Cyrene will get some hetbait just to piss off Honkaitrannies. From what I've seen of Elysia, she's incredibly flirty with everybody she encounters and since they cemented Hi3 as some epic lesbian Evangelion ripoff, that means Elysia loves women somehow. Yet for all it's worth, lots of himetrannies are still mad over Dr. Mei and Kevin being remotely implied.
>I suggest blocking them, two of the most deranged troons ever.The funniest part is naviasukas not being a troon but an actual woman claiming to be a radfem, while hugging it out with himetroons and deluding herself into thinking pixelated men = men irl.
No. 498495
>>498481naviasukas, aglaealesbian and Dreya make up the trifecta of unbearable Hoyo/gacha yuritroons.
>Many of the Elysia merch items are wedding-themed to bait lonely incels. Yuritroons will see this and still keep insisting that she is le lesbian Jesus which is insulting because how does this beyond-trash character who only exists to siphon money from neckbeards, get a label like that.I'm always shocked this happens, but I chalk it up to the fact that nobody plays Hi3 because it's a slog to get into so they just follow whatever twitter users say. Yuri twitter uses out of context quotes about Elysia praising "cute girls", even though that is obviously written in a otaku pandering way and not an actual lesbian way, ignores the fanservice towards otaku, all to paint Elysia as a lesbian icon. So because nobody actually plays that game and only knows the characters from twitter, they believe this. Why more people don't make fun of this I don't know, but Western yuri fans also like to deny that otaku like yuri too and they like to pretend that fanservice otakubait games are lesbian representation because no one is around to correct them. In CN you can see some mainland feminists do not consider otaku companies like Hoyo to be feminist or in the interest of lesbians due to how they write, because a real lesbian character would have more thoughtful writing than Elysia's, but Western twitter always needs things that they like to be representation so they twist it.
As for Phainon I actually prefer him to Kevin since at least having some yaoibait makes him less likely to be a self-insert for moids. I'm salty since they obviously used some of Kevin's themes on Sunday and also shafted Sunday because the moids at Hoyo don't like him, but you know what, I can't think of anything better for moid self inserts than for them to be known for yaoi.
>>498483It's funny how people like naviasukas and aglaealesbian are in agreement with incels in wanting the male characters gone. They hate female players who like husbandos more than they like yuri. This is why I don't feel bad for these people when they get harassed by incels for calling a waifu a lesbian. They don't ever fight back against these incels, they don't have the spine, but they will attack fujos and women who ship m/f. Even a woman f/f artist in these fandoms will be harassed by them if she dares to also draw for m/m and m/f too. Then they cry about not enough content. If they want no more male characters I hope they continue to be bullied by incels for shipping yuri and calling waifus lesbians. That's what they deserve for bullying other women after using them as a buffer against incels.
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>according to leakers Cyrene's animation would outdo Phainon
Wasn't this supposed to be March's planet? I always hated how she hogged all the screen time while Dan stayed missing, but it is insane that they are willing to abandon the game's mascot just to prop up HI3 characters. This entire planet has basically turned into a Phainon and Cyrene wankfest, it feels absurd. Every other Chrysos heir ended up a jobber. Even Herta has done absolutely nothing so far. And a few days ago there was another leak that 4.0's main character would be Yae Sakura. Playing this game feels like a punishment now. I liked Phainon at first so I will be pulling for him, but this whole HI3 favoritism makes me unbelievably salty.
No. 498546
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>>498483>lots of himetrannies are still mad over Dr. Mei and Kevin being remotely impliedEvery Hoyo fan on Twitter is mentally ill beyond belief. I have seen himetrannies and radfem larpers harass fujos who draw Kevin/Su art for not including Mei in their fanart. I have seen fujos write essays on Kevin's bi coding. I do not even want to start on himes because they are the most delusional of the bunch. The fact that they sit around all day harassing and infighting over the sexualities of characters made by a chinese gacha company while refusing to realize that Hoyo never was and never will be the based LGB feminist company they think it is is beyond retarded.
>I hope Cyrene will get some hetbaitI can’t wait for her to get waifubaited with Caelus. That naviasukas idiot realizes that FF is for the incels because of her waifubait, but for some reason thinks every other female character is feminist representation.
And as much as Cyrene getting baited with Phainon would make me extremely sad, they are definitely pushing the childhood friends thing for now. I am already seeing everyone on Twitter declare them siblings even though till now Phainon hasn’t called her “sister” even once.
Picrel is her BP lc art, which is very likely from Phainon’s POV. It’s shipbaity as fuck unless Hoyo explicitly labels them as siblings. Hoyo knows what they are doing, and the fact that Twitter idiots don’t realize this is just sad.
No. 498563
>>498495>obviously written in a otaku pandering way and not an actual lesbian wayI couldn’t have said it better. Every “lesbian” clip of Elysia I have seen just makes me want to bash my skull against a wall. She keeps talking about "girl games", "girl things", "cute things" - reminds me of trannies who think wearing a dress and makeup will make them a woman. It’s unbelievable that a one-note character this shallow gets defended everywhere. I have even seen fujos on /hsrg/ talk highly of her. These retards will probably think that anime girls who grope each other’s tits while screaming kyaaaa~ are also lez representation. I have to give it to Hoyo though, they managed to make a character who has successfully fooled every other demographic into thinking she is for them.
>waifufags love her>fujos think that she ships kevinsu so she is based>yuritrannies think she is lesbian jesusAbsolutely hilarious.
>As for Phainon I actually prefer him to Kevin since at least having some yaoibait makes him less likely to be a self-insert for moidsHis self-inserters actively hate Mydei for ruining him, though they are very few in number kek. I will wait till 3.7 to see how his character pans out. Till now, every other yaoi bait has gotten trashed in favor of something else. I’m thinking the same will happen to Phainon. Both him and Cyrene are dolls for Shaoji’s personal masturbatory session I am sure he’s gonna add shipbait for them. It will make me incredibly pissed, but it is what it is.
No. 498566
>>498530The shill is definitely going to be worse than castorice. Expect her to have a beyond broken global passive too, especially since she's powercreeping other emanators according to leaks kek. It's hilarious to see himetrannies and pixel polilezzies having a meltdown over Phainon, when she's gonna get much, much worse.
What's sad with the Amphoreus situation is that it's not even connected to the main plot. Everything here looks like HI3 levels of fanservice. So far we have:
>Dan Heng just being there for emotional support>Sunday shaft imminent>Herta doing jack shit despite being teased at the end of version 2>Black Swan also doing jackshit>March 7th being asleep for 3 patches despite her having a hidden superpowered dark form soon to be playable, not even DHIL was shafted in his own arc>No Stellaron Hunters aroundNot even Xianzhou felt that disconnected.
No. 498646
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>>498483I saw scrotes crying about the matching light cones. I know Kevin is the devpet so there might actually be hetbait with cyrene. I'm tired of every hoyo game turning into haremshit with some yuribait and yaoibait sprinkled in to boost sales. I hope every single one of these scrotes waifus keep getting paired up with other male characters so they never feel welcome in HSR. They ruined genshin and forced us to go to HSR. Now they want to do it to HSR when they already have ZZZ for their harem fantasies. Hoyo doesn't even have the guts to commit to making Stelle the canon MC for promo
No. 498675
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>nonas here want Shartji to make his waifu and self insert canon to own the incels and yuritroons
Please tell me this is a joke. This is like a trash vs shit competition. Those incel devs are not our allies. Limengan was literally laughing at female players when that Baiheng incident happened. They derive pleasure from rugpulling fujos and yumes.
This game already has a bunch of male characters with oneitis for an offscreen or dead woman. It is well known that the male devs self insert as the male characters. Just take Welt as an example.
As a yume I already feel disgruntled enough but I would take yaoibait any day over Phainon getting paired with Elysia.
No. 498688
>>498646This is actually a trick by Hyv. They want people to think that Phainon and Cyrene is canon so they don't have to show Phainon anymore and can blame incel backlash. But make no mistake, it's due to Hyv wanting to piss everyone off, make money off husbando fans, and then throw them into their next game just like they did Genshin. They will continue because they know people aren't going anywhere.
>>498675Reminds me of that schizo deweibs. She's right about Hyv manipulating people but I sure do not want them making any of this shit "canon". Kevin was already boring as shit with his manpain. I'd much rather see these straight male devs self inserts known for yaoi than a straight male insert.
No. 498695
>>498538>And now they want to port these waifus over to Genshin tooGenshin's novelty was that it was its own thing without getting tainted by HI3 trash but slowly they are putting more and more HI3 slop in it. Skirk looks straight out of HI3. Tsaritsa will be Bronya. They will throw in an Elysia too since she is the waifu of many devs. I have seen theories that Phanes might be a Kevin/Phainon expy. Kiana will be one of the moon sisters and so on. Why did they have to ruin their best IP like this is crazy.
>Why can't they balance the screentime and animations between new characters and these expies? It is annoying that Phainon and Mydei are both 5* and their pulls cost the same, when Phainon got the preferential treatment in every way. They can't even do the bare minimum for male characters who are not expies.
>>498566>Expect her to have a beyond broken global passive too, especially since she's powercreeping other emanators according to leaksYeah isn't she a THRONE LEVEL EMANATOR or whatever? Being an emanator isn't speeshul enough, Shaoji needs to give his waifu her own class.
>himetrannies and pixel polilezzies having a meltdown over PhainonI am sure once Phainon gets kicked out of the story after 3.4 they will act all smug about it. And when Cyrene's animations drop they will be insufferable for days about how this diva ate him up or whatever retarded twitterspeak they use. The hype around devpets doesn't even feel organic considering other characters get next to nothing.
>>>Sunday shaft imminentI am so worried about this. What was even the point of him getting on AE when he has had no screen time since then? He still hasn't got his ticket and is also never included in any official AE art. They will probably kick him out in 3.7.
No. 498698
>>498695I will always hate Hi3 yuritroons for gaslighting everyone into thinking that game was a lesbian paradise and so everyone should love seeing these fucking expies pop up or else you hate female centric stories. They want Skirk looking like a Honkai girl and the main heroes of Genshin to be Kiana and Elysia and Bronya again. They just can't let this story fucking go. They almost deserve to have incels harass them for making the waifus yuri.
>I am sure once Phainon gets kicked out of the story after 3.4 they will act all smug about it.That's exactly what they'll do, yeah. Yuritroons already hate him for being a man. They hate fujos and yaoi because they're jealous that fujos aren't making more content for their ships, and they will hate him on behalf of Cyrene and call it "corrective rape". So when he gets kicked out they will celebrate it as a victory for women and say that his fans are misogynists. I wouldn't be surprised if Hyv was banking on this, they're so good at reading the fandom and manipulating people like this.
>What was even the point of him getting on AE when he has had no screen time since then? That stupid uncle was right and people keep denying it because they want to think that Hyv would never do this. Sunday fans also get attacked for being "
toxic". Notice how Hyv loves to do this. They love to make a male character that people become interested in, but also who others hate for having been an antagonist, and then find a way to offscreen him and not complete any real arc. And when the fans get so angry because they were kept waiting for the character to be playable for so long and to have an arc, and not want their time and money wasted, these fans get called
toxic. It's the same playbook as Scaramouche. People are actively paying Hyv to gaslight them, shit on them, and turn other fans against them for being unhappy with shit treatment and shit writing. This is the only fandom where wanting your money to be well spent will get company shills shitting on you. It's really too bad no other game can make a good story action RPG with husbandos that actually treat players well so more people can leave Hyv. I hope their future games all tank and Dawei gets fired.
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>>498688These are exactly my thoughts. Hoyo plays all sides. They love to purposely instigate infights among fans who all feel pressured to support them when they finally get their bait, while Da Wei laughs all the way to the bank.
I am already seeing husbandofags celebrating Phainon animation-creeping and powercreeping the waifus and pledging their allegiance to hoyo, when it is more than obvious that he is the first and last male who will ever get this treatment. There is no winning here. They give nothing to female players for years, and the one time we finally get something is when its an Hi3 expy.
>Kevin was already boring as shit with his manpainThis is my main problem with this faggot. He is just another generic edgy, brooding male #172344 with no mind of his own. He is the strongest most capable man on planet but he never had any goals. He just did whatever MEI and Elysia told him to, like a mindless puppet. He is basically the perfect self-insert for bottom-tier male fans. I actually kind of liked Phainon at first because his personality was so different from Kevin’s. His cheerful, whimsical vibe made him at least somewhat bearable. I am going to be SOO disappointed when he turns into yet another stoic male in 3.4 after fusing with FR and unlocking his true memories.
No. 499023
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>>498698>Yuritroons already hate him for being a man.I was too harsh on him yesterday. Even chinese incels on weibo are complaining that although his animations are flashy his team has to work much harder just to achieve damage on par with current meta DPS characters. I still hate him but I hope he gets buffed.
>they will hate him on behalf of Cyrene They have already started it -
https://x.com/cyrenehsr/status/1925479968768745672The qrts are full of yuritroons and elysiafags acting smug. I cannot even imagine how unbearable they will be once Cyrene’s animations and kit drop.
>That stupid uncle was rightThat was the funniest thing. Sundayfags kept coping that he has a personal grudge against Sunday but it turns out Hoyo is just a scummy company that does not twink twice before tossing a male character aside no matter how relevant he is to the plot.
>People are actively paying Hyv to gaslight them, shit on them, and turn other fans against themI could not have said it better. It is a complete mess. Female players are treated like bottom feeders. Hoyo treats us like garbage and both yurifags and incels constantly pick fights with us. Like you said I have seen Sundayfags get harassed by female character stans over nothing. It is just sad that no other company is making a female-oriented open-world gacha game ever so we are stuck at Hoyo’s mercy.
No. 499027
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>>499023Samefagging but they might be going for the brother sister route with Phainon/Cyrene. I can't say for sure but Phainon's planar set mentions a single set of parents for them. Also their names - Snowy and Reney is similar to siblings from fairytales like Hansel and Gretel. They have been gatekeeping all information regarding the nature of their relation. It almost feels intentional like they enjoy watching shipfags argue and infight over it. Phainon is definitely getting rugpulled hard after 3.4.
No. 499064
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Mydei really was the last fanservice male character. I am so mad that he isn't actually shirtless. Hoyo found a way to make it look like he is wearing a skinsuit. His e6 also looks incredibly boring because of this.
No. 499117
>>498546They'll probably only show Stelle with Cyrene in the trailer to get those people going "SEE! Elysia is a lesbian".
>>498563 reminds me of trannies who think wearing a dress and makeup will make them a woman. It’s unbelievable that a one-note character this shallow gets defended everywhere. I have even seen fujos on /hsrg/ talk highly of her. These retards will probably think that anime girls who grope each other’s tits while screaming kyaaaa~ are also lez representation.
That's exactly how they are and its always troons for a reason. They don't know how to talk about female characters or yuri without going "girls <3 yuriiiii" but ask them to talk about them in depth and they can't. It's always troons acting like this shit is feminist lesbian representation. They did with Love Live too with that girl who kept groping other girls tits. You won't ever see this type of shit in live action fandoms that have a big lesbian following, only anime related media because of all the troops who self insert onto pixel women.
>>499023I feel for Sundayfags but also people don't want to believe anything bad about Hoyo or that the company is this manipulative because the only one spreading any awareness about it is deweibs, and they're honestly so schizo half the time I don't blame people for not listening to them. That and there's no company making husbandos in open world games or rpgs with budget so everyone has to stick with Hoyo. Gacha has never been more garbage as it is now.
No. 499224
>>499027I bet it will ambiguous enough to get some people calling them siblings but not outright enough to stop shippers. This is why I'm not falling for the shipwar bait anymore now that I know. Fujos vs het, or fujos fighting fujos, himes vs fujos, its all manufactured by Hyv for engagement. They're smart and they know fandom. People think fandom is this underground inscrutable thing but it's not. Companies know what makes fandom tick. They spend money on social media management and observation. They know what they're doing.
This is shipwar bait. It's going to be like the shipwars between Neuvifuri and Wriolette in Genshin. Hyv knows. They set up lore for Neuv and Furina, never let them interact again because incels them, and then sprinkle in some bait for Neuv and Wrio so the fujos and het shippers can fight. Just like here, they want the Phairene shippers to fight with Phaideis, and also with the lesbian Elysia diehards, and possibly piss off the incels who want her with Caelus and who feel they're getting cucked. Just so Hyv can shaft Phainon due to "controversy" that they manufactured. Thinking about this makes me wish for the day fandom could be smart enough to break this cycle. Dawei can't keep getting away with it.
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>>499117>Ik i sound like a broken record but as an ex hi3 player im really pissed and im not the only one who feels like this, feeling understood only by my fellow lesbian (trannies) hi3 players/ex playersKek we all know Kevin is getting shafted and the HI3 puritanian brigade is having a collective meltdown over it. Especially since he and Acheron will be one-note by the time Amphoreus ends.
No. 499271
>>499224>I bet it will ambiguous enough to get some people calling them siblings but not outright enough to stop shippers.You are absolutely right. They have intentionally worded that part vaguely so that it can be read as either them having the same or different parents. Himnetrannies have found their ammo to harass Phairene shippers. Phairene shippers are holding on to the idea that the 'mom and dad' line is just stylistic and intentionally vague, so it can still mean they have different parents. The shipwars have already begun. It is all so tiring. From a shipping perspective I wanted Phainon to have only either yaoibait or yumebait. I liked that they put some effort into Myphai. But Mydei is gone. He is not relevant in any way now. Cyrene definitely has a huge role to play in shaping Phainon's character arc while Mydei just exists as his onahole in fanarts. It is unfair. I am sick of them constantly going for the omnipandering route and giving all these male characters a dead woman with whom they are morbidly obsessed. There is not even a single playable female character who is this obsessed or has her entire motivations revolve around a male. They remain pure and virginal and just get baited with women to appease the incels. A popular theory is that Phainon's childhood memories are fake. It would mean that he has oneitis for a woman who does not even exist. And the real Cyrene who will probably appear by 3.5 will get baited with Caelus or some woman. It annoys me that only playable male characters are made to suffer like this.
>Thinking about this makes me wish for the day fandom could be smart enough to break this cycle.It is never happening. Even people on 4cucks fall for this. I have only seen anons here see it for what it is. Just sad and pathetic all in all.
No. 499768
Phainons technique can destroy enemies.
After playing the new mini game with trail characters. Castorice already feels like a subpar dps in comparison to herta.
No. 499780
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>>499117I can tell if deweibs is schizo or just illiterate in English.
Twitter genshin fans would never believe hoyo is bad because yaoi/yuribait makes them genuinely believe that they are an uber progressive queer friendly company. Even when hoyo doesn't validate that they bend over backwards to blame it on other fans for not seeing the queer subtext or sibling coding
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>>498463>gacha waifus designed for male coomers are feministLol
Also
>women being robbed for sake of menIsn't that just what hoyo does to their female audience?
No. 499862
>>499780I think deweibs is schizo. And when the entire crowd is full of people who just hate yaoi and yuri in general it makes Hyv look better because of the incels melting down and swearing to quit over yaoi. No actual conversation can happen on twitter.
I think deweibs might just be a jilted game dev or an incel psyop because she keeps shilling games like NTE and Ananta despite them looking every bit as incel pandering as Wuwa.
No. 499964
>>499862She's eight about one thing though: HYV is packed with sadistic incels who can't stand male characters hitting harder than their favorite princess.
I heard Phainon was nerfed or at least isn't as impressive as his animations suggest.
No. 500054
Mihoyo is fraudulent
No. 500064
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>>499820Its beyond crazy to me that they see characters like picrel and go yess this character is a lesbian deity created by misandrist feminists for women. How disconnected do you have to be from reality to be this delusional.
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>Phainon holds Stelle's hands but he grabs Caelus by the wrists
I am not a Phaicae shipper but its funny that they go the extra mile to make sure that Caelus haremfags don't feel uncomfortable.
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These people sound like bots with how they try to make this sound like a feminist game. This is how they defend endless waifu banners. "Um DIVA cunt slay"
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>>500604I am genuinely baffled that so many twitterfags idolize female characters designed by obvious male audience-pandering devs. Just look at the writers and artists behind Elysia, it is pretty clear who her target audience is. It honestly makes me feel sick that this kind of character keeps getting revered as some lesbian icon by almost everyone. It's from this video.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9QvbmPkqv8IAnd just seeing how much every other dev and writer froths over her already tells me how bad the Cyrene shilling is going to be in-game.
Even as the resident Phainon hater, I don't know how I will cope once his banner ends. It's back to back waifu banners till 3.7. Maybe DH's new skin might be something to look forward to but that's it. Also for a "greece" inspired planet the female characters are all so wacky.
-The 3 tribbies for pedofags. Tribios's story in itself is not bad but the 1000 year old loli trope who is also everyone's teacher makes me roll my eyes
-Magical girl Hyacine
-Castorice and Cyrene who are elves
-Cat burglar Cipher
Aglaea isn’t the best but at least her outfit kinda looks Greek in a fantasy way. And Cerydra was supposedly a tyrant but she has the Fu Xuan model if the leaks are true. Just thinking about that makes me laugh.
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>>500159What you said makes a lot of sense. It does not help that pop culture is now filled with lesbian icons like Chappell Roan and Jojo Siwa.
>they're very good at gaslighting other people into believing that this is for lesbiansIt is crazy how much things have changed. Nobody was doing this 5–6 years ago. I grew up watching anime with trashy yuribait like Mai-Hime and Kannazuki no Miko but not once did I think the women in those shows represented real lesbians. But twitter users today feel compelled to write thinkpieces about the lesbian coding of every female character who so much as calls another girl pretty. I have seen women use picrel to argue that Elysia is a lesbian. That image should make it obvious she is nothing but a fetish for devs but here we are. They are one step away from labeling lesbian porn as feminist and 'for the gays'.
No. 500662
>>500633>lesbian icons like Chappell Roan and Jojo Siwa>Jojo Siwalol
I agree with the rest of your post though
No. 500678
>>500615A lot of people don't play the games or they just like pink girls and Elysia looks like Madoka so it makes them claim it as a lesbian icons. But then people also ignore the obvious creepy stuff in the Madoka franchise too so it's not surprising.
Aglaea isn’t the best but at least her outfit kinda looks Greek in a fantasy way. And Cerydra was supposedly a tyrant but she has the Fu Xuan model if the leaks are true.
People don't want to admit it and most of fandom is full of pick me short women but moids are threatened by tall women. Aglaea isn't liked by incels much because she's the only tall one and isn't a blushing simpering waifu for the self insert. Look at how every single waifu ML character is the short model, in both HSR and Genshin. Ayaka, Nilou, Citlali, Firefly, Castorice, Cyrene. Moids love the short girls because their height makes them look like girls and so they're seen as cute children throwing a tantrum. Pickmes won't understand why people want a tall woman because they think they're being hated for being short women irl, because they keep projecting onto these characters. You can't discuss industry trends with them, or even basic misogyny, because its all about ME ME ME. They like that short girls are seen as more infantilized and pleasing to moids. This is why Kafka tends to be the most popular with actual GL artists who are lesbians looking for a Stelle ship over someone like Firefly who is obviously seen as incel slop. And these people don't understand why Genshin fans don't like that the Tsaritsa, a highly billed antagonist character, is going to be short. It's a built in woobification setting.
>>500633>Nobody was doing this 5–6 years ago. I have to disagree with this, people defending obvious moid pandering as something for lesbians goes way back. I remember this infamous yuritroon Andrea Ritsu was like that. She would harass anyone who said that hentai shit like Valkyrie Drive was for lesbians and not ecchi shit. /u/ has been plagued by people like this. The anime community doesn't want to admit that a lot of yuri in popular media can be made for men because they spread a narrative that all yuri is made by women for women. They ignore the fact that the current best selling yuri anime was ecchi shit of middle schoolers made for an audience of men.
When these issues are ignored by yuritroons in the West because they need to spread a narrative that yuri is clean and pure and there are absolutely no men who think girls kissing are hot, that's how this happens. These morons were claiming that franchises like Love Live! and Bang Dream! were made for lesbians. They spin the lack of men in these franchises as feminism and not because incels would commit domestic terrorism if a girl talked to a male classmate. One of the waifus in those games had to have a younger brother retconned by the director. So when people ignore this, and have been ignoring it for years, and spread narratives that all yuri in otaku media is for lesbians, and ignore that gacha game demographics are a thing, that's how you have most of twitter claiming that Kiana and Elysia are lesbian queens.
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Sometimes I feel sorry for hoyofans because of mihoyo using ragebait marketing but then I remember that time they gaslit themselves into saying robin was lesbian coded. Hoyo doesn't even have to bait now to be viewed as a feminist queer company. Steven Universe fans got made fun of for how spergy they were but at least they were the target audience for the ship bait and it wasn't male weeb wank material getting passed off as lesbian media
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These people live in such a fantasy world. It's so clear Hoyo wants to make all their games waifu games and they still cry that the women are being stolen from by the men. Are they ignoring that their precious Sue Elysia is coming?
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>>500064>>500159The same kind of himeweeb who would rather write long rants about "the fanbase denying waifuslop n°45465's lesbianism" rather than write a f/f fanfic.
No. 501605
>>501599What character does Elysia actually have, seriously? What makes her so good that people cape for her like this?
They're right about one thing, though, she should have stayed in Hi3. Maybe if he pisses off the
toxic yuri fans more people can finally say they're sick of seeing Hi3 characters getting shoved into every game.
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>>50159990% of their problems stem from them insisting that expies are 1:1 copies of their hi3 characters therefore everyone is only into women. You don’t see them insisting that venti and scara are in love with fem traveler because they're expies were lesbians so why are they doing this with cyrene when she has a different design? A hell of their own making.
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>>501696They even force on characters who aren't hi3 expies. They wish hi3 had the same normie fandom as genshin and hsr so they sperg about how both game fans should be grateful to hi3 for existing.
No. 501727
>>501696>deny her lesbianismWhy do they keep calling a character made by pornsick moids
>>500615 "a lesbian"? One of her main ships is with another woman, whom she says is "like a sister". Even I wish she was never brought to hsr. Both she and her fanbase are equally insufferable.
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>>500678>Aglaea isn't liked by incels much because she's the only tall oneI have noticed this too. Personally I am not a fan of tall women from Hoyo either. I feel like Hoyo doesn’t seem to know what to do with tall women beyond the usual stereotypes. Most of them get shoved into the same team mom role and have that ara ara dommy mommy thing going on - BS, Jade, Aglaea, Himeko, Kafka. Compared to the tall male characters, their personalities feel really restrictive. But of course gachacels still feel threatened by them which is funny to me because even after wearing 6-inch heels, they are not THAT tall. They are about the same height as the medium male model. Incels truly are fragile.
>because its all about ME ME METhe insane amount of projection women on twitter do has completely warped fandom spaces. You have to constantly walk on eggshells because you never know what might offend them. It is beyond parody how they see themselves in fictional womenlets clearly designed for male consumption. I have not seen a single short woman in real life who remotely looks or acts like the waifubait characters from hyv. I blame liberal feminism for this. They constantly see takes like “I am just like every other girl” and “if you dislike anything coomer you are an NLOG” and then apply that logic to fictional women too. And here we are. “Oh Citlali is just like me she reads shoujo!” “Castorice is just like me, she writes fanfics about men!” It is just sad. I have not seen a single scrote project this hard onto male characters.
>Tsaritsa, a highly billed antagonist character, is going to be shortI am already bracing for the "actually she's just misunderstood!11" storyline for the Tsaritsa. They will give her a tragic backstory, and Pierro or someone else will probably end up being the true bad guy. The way they set up these women to be pitiful instead of powerful is honestly frustrating, especially when the fandom eats it up without question.
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>>500678That’s true. Fanbase spaces have been going downhill since around 2013 I suppose. That was when Netflix became popular and many normalfags started to watch weebshit.
>Andrea Ritsu Kek I just checked his youtube channel and what a shitshow. I am convinced these freaks just say that degen weeb stuff is ‘actually for lesbians’ to dodge any kind of criticism.
>you have most of twitter claiming that Kiana and Elysia are lesbian queensIt’s fucked up, but that’s just how it is. It’s funny that himes on twitter spend their entire day beefing with fujos, accusing them of hating on female characters who get in the way of their yaoi. But for some reason, they can’t put two and two together and realize that it’s actually the male yurifags who get ridiculously anal at the mere idea of their pure waifu sharing the same space as male characters.
>>501605I have not played HI3 so take this with a grain of salt. From what I understand, HI3 has something called Herrschers and most of them are sexed up half-naked waifus who want to destroy humanity. But Elysia is the super special Herrscher™. Unlike characters like Kiana who struggle and overcome their nature through sheer willpower, Elysia was just born perfect. She is basically what would happen if Jesus was written by a pornsick guy. She loves humanity unconditionally, flirts with everyone, and constantly talks about how hot and pretty she is. Naturally, lonely neckbeards and yuritroons latched onto her.
She eventually sacrifices herself to give humanity a chance at survival but not before hogging all the screen time in Elysian Realm and getting endlessly glazed by EVERY SINGLE character. She is very much the textbook definition of a Mary Sue. Honestly even characters like Firefly and Mavuika seem normal in comparison.
No. 502593
>>501978They always have to project because they see female characters as only for "representation" and can't understand that a gacha game is different from a cartoon. No offense too but most of fandom is made up of nerdy, soft spoken women so they see themselves in the personalities of waifus which is why they take criticism of these girls so personally.
>The way they set up these women to be pitiful instead of powerful is honestly frustratingIt ties again to the escapism and over projection. They love to pretend they care about "evil women" so much, but their extent of it is only going "Signora served cunt diva slay" but they don't actually want to engage with it. They want justified sad women who do bad things but it's not their fault. They're obsessed with morality and so they need their faves to be morally justified or they can't stan. That's what Arlecchino who only kills bad men is acceptable to them, but they wouldn't be able to handle her if the game didn't copout and actually said she was grooming her kids into being child soldiers.
The problem with gachas like these are the same as the problem with anime in general. People want the media they like to be progressive because they can't admit they find enjoyment in something that's not. Most anime are made and directed by men for a male audience. Most cute girls shows are made for men, not for women to see themselves in. It's contradictory to the western idea of "representation". They just don't understand that the anime industry in Japan isn't making cute anime girls for girls, that's only in shows actually aimed at children, but most adult anime with cute girls are aimed at adult men. They want depressed salarymen to spend money on DVDs and figurines for their waifus. It's the exact same with gacha. They don't understand that their cute pink waifu isn't made for little girls, but for grown men. They're not for lesbians, but for waifufags who are fine with girlxgirl but also because they see the girls as part of their harem. But they can't admit this because then they'd lose all ground to hold HI3 as a feminist game that the "male loving" fujos and yumes are ignoring because no men.
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Why does Phaidei have a HUGE amount of cuntboy art? Seeing so many twitterfags push the narrative that Mydei is the bottom because he has "feminine" traits so he is the woman in the relationship, along with the crapton amount of cuntboy fanart that I see on my TL daily is slowly making me hate this ship. Funnily enough, I never had this problem with other fujo ships in hsr. This is the first time I am seeing so much mental insanity and it just ruins the fun.
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Has anyone ever told these people that Utena didn't invent the imagery of pulling a sword out of someone's chest? That it doesn't mean lesbianism? Plenty of other straight anime did the same thing.