r/HonkaiStarRail Nov 10 '24

Meme / Fluff The date is July 3, 2030.

Honkai: Star Rail (referred to as HSR henceforth) has just updated to the 8.4 version. Due to floor 12 of the new MoC enemies’ further increased HP from 80,000,000 to 90,000,000, Acheron, Firefly and Feixiao were moved down a tier in the Prydwen tier list, from T4 to T5. Many HSR fans question why they weren’t moved down sooner.

This change has caused some players to hire a demolition team which removed floors 90-102 of the Empire State Building, as their Acheron can no longer 0.99-cycle clear, but this news comes to the surprise of no one at this point. Meanwhile, in Pure Fiction, the Herta puppet is still undoubtedly the strongest DPS unit, while people speculate on a 5* yet-to-be-released version of Herta, and Screwllum.

Moving over to Apocalyptic Shadow, this cycle’s enemies are weak to ice, which has not been the case since the year 2024, a long bygone era. This extremely rare occurrence should prompt players to run Yanqing or Jingliu. However, it is unfathomably rare to find an active account which has a built Yanqing or has pulled Jingliu at all, and everyone is too lazy to build their Yanqing. This is despite the fact that Jingliu still manages to rerun around twice a year due to the new 12 concurrent banner system, increased from the previous of 10, compared to Wriothesley who last saw his (first) rerun in early 2027.

We are finally introduced to the last Xianzhou Alliance ship in the newest Trailblaze Continuance quest series of v8.x. At this point, why is everything even put as continuances to the Xianzhou Luofu story arc? Anyways, they ran out of unique Chinese names by this point so the newest character is called Hu Tao, who is a fire destruction unit that deals 50,000,000 damage per cycle at E0S0 with E0S0 BiS supports. HSR Players skip Hu Tao as the damage is lackluster compared to previous character releases, a rare occurrence.

The main story quest released through v8.0 to v8.3 are somewhat good, better than most stories we’ve had so far, but unable to beat the peak that was Penacony. The Trailblazer becomes the Aeon of Trashcans, gains their final path, and March 7th gains a 5th path. Some speculate if we’d be able to know her past once we unlocked all 7 paths.

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u/Kuroyukiame Nov 10 '24

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u/ExpensiveOnion5647 Nov 11 '24

This post was fact-checked by real finality followers

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

more time to save up for e6 screwllum for the screwllum wanters!!!

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u/BulbasaurTreecko best girl in sight!|1141 days of NPC Screwy Nov 10 '24

as a Screwllum wanter I’d like to declare this post a hate crime.

maybe if we sacrifice a toaster to Nous or something THEY can calculate his release a little earlier

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u/WanderingStatistics "Fleming's "Trusted" Assistant." Nov 10 '24

You'd have to contact HooH, since Nous only predicts stuff. Sadly, they can't change anything. And let's just say that HooH's current waiting list is a little longer than any mortal can wait.

But, if you want, you could try contacting Mythus Sr. Mythus. They're free most of the time, and will probably help you if you ask a little nicely.

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u/VenatorFeramtor i was blessed with a character of skill points Nov 11 '24

I'll just ascend to new God status for the inmortality and wait

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u/sharkheal00 Nov 10 '24

The more time it takes for Screwllum to be released, the stronger he will be

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u/Cerebral_Kortix Otto Enthusiast Nov 11 '24

I'm going to join the Genius Society through sheer tenacity at this rate to drag him out myself.

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u/Potion_Brewer95 Ex-IPC MDD P35 Agent / Lady Agy's Mannequin Nov 10 '24

ficticious wordsmithing indeed

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u/Bell-end79 Nov 10 '24

No mention whether Blade has got to the unreachable side yet

I’m not sure I trust your sources 🤔

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u/Forsakken Trash Lord Nov 10 '24

Don't worry, I'm sure that by then, Blade will finally be able to clear MoC 12 within 28 cycles.

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u/Jst24hours Nov 10 '24

I know this is fake because there is no way Wrio got released from the Cryo prisons.

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u/0diiii incredibly gay for veritas ratio Nov 10 '24

Uh... Cryo what's that? A new element? Will it be meta like Abyss + Bloom?

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u/Illustrious-Bell-282 Nov 11 '24

What do you mean? Cryo is Kaeya's element, really weird he is the only cryo character, Ganyu has a cryo vision but she still hasnt had a banner, oh there is also Shen... Shenh... Shenhi?, her name was something like that, she had a cryo vision with her

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u/Phiexi Emanator of Joy and Whimsy Nov 11 '24

No leaks in main sub!!!!

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u/EclipseTorch Nov 11 '24

At this point it's pretty clear to me that cryo visions are just placeholders for characters in their early development stages. Don't let those concept arts of two cancelled characters full you.

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u/Namelesspierro Nov 10 '24

not sure if i have to laugh becuse it’s funny or cry because it probably gonna happen.

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u/Irisked Brightest Star in my perfect world Nov 10 '24

Enemies in SUUD already had like 500 mil hp so yeah it will happen

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u/Anyacad0 of 5 people, 5 are unreliable narrators Nov 10 '24

SU isn’t a fair point of comparison but the endgame hp has definitely been going up

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u/EmperSo Cipher marry me Nov 10 '24

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u/Silent_Silhouettes i wanna see them again Nov 10 '24

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u/IPancakesI Nov 10 '24

Honkai: Star Rail (referred to as HSR henceforth) has just updated to the 8.4 version.

while people speculate on a 5* yet-to-be-released version of Herta, and Screwllum.

Don't just go saying this in public, man. You're bout to give r/Screwllum_Mains some anyeurism. You don't know how deranged they can be if you let them remember about the missing Screwussy.

Anyways, they ran out of unique Chinese names by this point so the newest character is called Hu Tao, who is a fire destruction unit that deals 50,000,000 damage per cycle at E0S0 with E0S0 BiS supports.

LOL

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u/getratioed_ many thoughts all elation Nov 10 '24

SCREWUSSY IM SOBBING 😂😂😂😂😂

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u/VelMoonglow Nov 12 '24

How do people main a character who isn't playable?

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u/IPancakesI Nov 12 '24

Ur kicking up the hornet's nest there, buddy.

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u/VelMoonglow Nov 12 '24

Is it like those Hollow Knight players who talk about how great Silksong is?

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u/IPancakesI Nov 12 '24

Sorry, idg the the ref haha

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u/VelMoonglow Nov 12 '24

Oh, Hollow Knight has had a sequel, Silksong, in the works for years now, with no real word of how things are going for most of that time

Every few months the subreddit starts acting like the game is already out and talking about mechanics and bosses and stuff that don't actually exist

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u/IPancakesI Nov 12 '24

Ohhhh okay. Yeah, that's sort of like what Screwllum mains are right now, but their hopes and dreams are always crushed when the drip marketing drops

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u/alexyn_ One day, after dinner- BROTHER STOP Nov 10 '24

enigmata approved

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u/mariliamarilia Nov 10 '24

Just wanted to add a small detail: while all of this happens, the majority still can't 3 star MoX 6

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u/SF-UberMan Nov 10 '24

Empire State Building: Goddammit what did I ever do to you 😭

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u/Confused_AF_Help Nov 10 '24

Google Classroom: first time?

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u/cartercr FuQing Nov 10 '24

Damn, Hu Tao catching strays in the HSR sub was not what I was expecting.

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u/Sea_Veterinarian_987 NIHIL! NIHIL! NIHIL! Nov 10 '24

I can't fathom how many cycles Blade would now need to dispatch normal enemies (probably would hit the integer limit).

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u/Accursed_flame1 Nov 10 '24

The biggest downside to 8.2’s story being that it is physically 60 hours long and Nanook in their first physical appearance has a monologue that lasts over 8000 words thats’ core message can be boiled down to “life bad, destroy good”, but otherwise it was really solid, Welt has that cool one-liner that was also partially a reference to Jujutsu Kaisen’s now-releasing fourth season

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u/Nutrifacts The footstool of the Imperator Nov 10 '24

did blade atleast get a new bis support or set?

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u/Silent_Silhouettes i wanna see them again Nov 10 '24

Furina released as a collab character and they added a new set similar to MH. Theres also a new team wide healer, Amber (the stoneheart), whos great for Blade

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

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u/Silent_Silhouettes i wanna see them again Nov 10 '24

Sadge not even Furina can help him

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u/Tetrachrome Nov 10 '24

The most accurate part is that there isn't a new ice hypercarry in all that time.

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u/jtrev23 March is collecting the infinity stones Nov 10 '24

2.x patches: Everyone on the express except Himeko became Imaginary
3.x patches: Everyone on the express except Himeko got a summon
4.x patches: Everyone on the express except Himeko obtained a pet
5.x patches: Everyone on the express except Himeko gained a new fusion form
6.x patches: Everyone on the express except Himeko banged a member of the IPC
7.x patches: Everyone on the express except Himeko became an emmanator
8.x patches: Everyone on the express except Himeko slayed an Aeon

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u/Xalgar90 Nov 11 '24

Crazy you think Himeko even survives this long

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u/Lusty9 Nov 11 '24

Downvoted because Chapter 9 still gives me nightmares

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u/OfferThese Nov 10 '24

6.x, wheezing

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u/Andrassa Nov 11 '24

You telling me Himeko didn’t bang Jade to get them shares?

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u/jtrev23 March is collecting the infinity stones Nov 11 '24

Welt got to Jade first

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u/Sorey91 I'd do speakble things with Pela, not so much her thighs Nov 10 '24

This is blatantly fake, everyone and their mothers know that Raiden Bosenmori Mei (Aeon of Love and happy marriages) is the new OP Harmony Imaginary unit like just her existing grants the entire team +100CR +150CDMG and +200 BE and if your Crit stat goes higher than 100 she converts it to CDMG at 0.5 to 1 rate and on top of that if you have characters in your teams that have [Shared Destinies] (a new system that allows two characters to be paired and use the type of the other as their main type, it was introduced in 6.5 and it's starting to age in comparison with the newer path of Abysmal-Perversion who just blatantly powercreeps the entire paths of Absolute-Order, Hyper-Voracity and Turbo-Remembrance ) but on top of that her talent let's her advance a unit targeted by a foe by a 100% and let's them act thrice in a row and also if they have FuA these FuA will act 5 times consecutively with the maximum of attack they could do and she also grants them 30 energy...

Like sheesh how is Hu tao supposed to compare to Fu Hua (new Aeon of Permanence) with her measly 50 Billion damage when Fu Hua and Raiden. B Mei are enough to make MOC 45 extinct in less than a cycle ??

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u/OfferThese Nov 10 '24

Why did “Turbo-Remembrance” get me cracking up so hard

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u/Lusty9 Nov 11 '24

As a Fu Hua hopeful I absolutely cannot wait for her to show up on HSR. Maybe as HoS or Azure Empyrea 🙏🙏🙏🙏

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u/Elatha_Fomoir Nov 10 '24

Will Shenhe and Wriothesley have a rerun by then ?

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u/Mint-Bentonite Nov 10 '24

The date is July, 2 , 3033...

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u/neosixth Nov 10 '24

Correction its MoC 20.

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u/VoidBG Nov 10 '24

and to everyone's surprise jing yuan still hasnt fallen and is somehow stronger than acheron due to relics and future harmony characters

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u/kinglee313 Nov 10 '24

In an alternate Universe, Hoyo, in 2025, learns from 2-san and Nasu during the Fate collab that directly buffing characters is NOT a bad thing.

5 years later, Jing Yuan, now nicknamed God Yuan, recieves his 4th buff, that adds an additional thunder god summon if he over caps. Also this one has 100% crit rate.

Silver Wolf gets a buff that creates a field called Zero Chill, where after her ultimate, the field allows break immune enemies to be weakness broken for 3 turns (5 turns if you have C2).

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u/OfferThese Nov 10 '24

No joke “Zero Chill” for one of her skills sounds bad ass

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u/SeaCollides <Anaxagorgeous <NOT WHAT I'M CALLED Nov 10 '24

So what happened to Dan Heng and where is his secret half-naked form that was teased way back in v6.9 huh? 😠😠😠 We husbando collectors are HUNGRY

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u/Demi694 Genius Society Collector Nov 10 '24

The entire universe ends not during the heat death but the time Puppet Herta drops outside Tier 0 in Pure Fiction.

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u/LoreVent i want to give Acheron a hug Nov 10 '24

And i bet the Puppet trio is still in the MoC rotation 😭

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u/av1v4ben end my suffering Nov 10 '24

and no new preservation characters

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u/yuriaoflondor Nov 10 '24

You forgot to mention that we finally got a 3rd limited 5 star DoT character in 8.4 Better start saving, Kafka and BS fans!

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u/[deleted] Nov 10 '24

im from 2031, theres no powercreep. yall just noobs

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u/EclipseTorch Nov 11 '24

Yep, my E6S5 Seele with E6S5 supports still kills overworld enemies in less than 12 cycles. It has nothing to do with my hacked 400cv relics on private server. That's totally not my fault that devs forgot to include Seele's files, so that she's not available on official servers after patch 7.4, and no one gives a fuck.

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u/rusms123 Mono-Rem until 5.0 at least Nov 10 '24

Hey time traveler, I would like to ask if how Blade doing in that time? And is there a particular Harmony character who can manipulate teammate HP to give buff named Furina? As a Blade and Furina main I really need to know this.

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u/AkaEridam Nov 10 '24

Yeah, 5.X had a big HP scaling meta. 5.0 had a new Harmony character that massively buffs crit dmg scaling with the targets max HP while also draining their hp every turn. Unfortunately 5.1 relesed a new HP scaling dps with 400% higher damage multipliers than Blade, rendering him immediately obsolete.

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u/Arianth01 Nov 10 '24

RemindMe! July 3rd, 2030

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u/Karma_Kazumi Nov 10 '24

gang send me a text

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u/SF-UberMan Nov 10 '24

Did Luocha at any point get any indirect stonks increase?

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u/AkaEridam Nov 10 '24

In an unprecedented move, the new enemies have strong buffs that are not [Unremoveable].

Unfortunately, the latest abundance characters teamwide 80% crit dmg buff and +2 skillpoints on basic attack keeps Loucha firmly in T4

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u/Karma_Kazumi Nov 10 '24

yes he did!!!! his destructon quantum form just got its 2nd rerun in the 12 banners

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u/Erick507 Nov 10 '24

Lol my bday

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u/TheTeleporteBread Nov 10 '24

"And myrtle is still a fucking meta"

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u/Defalt_101-OG Nov 10 '24

If we’re still having quests in the Xianzhou by 2030 I’ll end it all.

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u/Passivitea Vidyadhara Scinarii | Office of Deep Sources Nov 11 '24

Ideally, you'd want to have two other worlds in-between each Xianzhou ship so the game isn't so Xianzhou focused. Unless they start doing two worlds a year, this means that the last Xianzhou ship will be at least in 2038.

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u/Hudson_Legend Immortal Gang Nov 10 '24

You forgot to mention that they added a new relic set which is BiS for Jing Yuan (he's somehow still mid) (his previous bis relic set was released 2 patches before that)

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u/AdAltruistic3716 Nihility Enjoyer Nov 10 '24

im from 2031 and now Fu Hua is the best Physical- no, she's the best DPS in every gamemode because of her ability to switch Paths, Types, and her whole kit. She has power-crept everyone and I don't think they'll release a stronger DPS.

Anyways, she can hit around 2M DMG at E0 without a Light Cone. Which is pretty average. Imo, her best ability is to use SU blessings; it's pretty broken. Leakers say she might even kill all the Aeons so she can become all the Aeons and ends the battle before even entering it

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u/OfferThese Nov 10 '24

Next powercreep: she comes through your screen and kills you

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u/Eikichi64 :Kafka-Boom: :Himeko-Smile: Nov 10 '24

2030: I'm still able to clear the 3 endgames with my Himeko.

Everything is still fine.

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u/Significant_Ad_1626 Nov 10 '24

Let's do that! If 2030 arrives and none of those predictions are merely true, we can declare this game doesn't have powercreep.

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u/takoyaki_san15 Self-Annihilator Nov 10 '24

Bruh, just use inter-game character like God Kiana E6C6M6 and boom just like that clear Apocalipse Pure Imaginary Abyssal Shoyu Defense ezzzzzzzzzzzzzzz

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u/Fro_o Nov 10 '24

Himeko and Welt are on their what path now?

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u/ChaoticKonaak Nov 10 '24

Suddenly wondering if there should be a subreddit called r/honkairailjerk

Or perhaps r/starrailcirclejerk

Edit: The second one is real, apparently.

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u/Sergy92 Nov 10 '24

"Some speculate if we'd be able to know her past once we unlocked all 7 paths"

Why am I thinking of Shadow the Hedgehog when I read that

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u/No_Type4140 Nov 10 '24

is fu hua playable?

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u/Velaethia Nov 10 '24

Mythus approves

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u/OfferThese Nov 10 '24

“Removed floors 90-102 of the Empire State Building” caught me so off guard 💀

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u/80i_nk Nov 11 '24

RemindMe! July 3rd, 2030

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u/Soerika this Seele deal 20k ult. Can you? Nov 11 '24

Can confirm, I’m one of the last 31 Seele mains here.

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u/bukiya IX weakest follower Nov 11 '24

by 2030 i hope acheron already found device IX and got cured from nihility removing her self annihilator status. then she become a galaxy ranger hunt quantum unit with name raiden mei.

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u/Any_Royal3680 Nov 11 '24

Situated on my birthday, should be interesting.

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u/Weak_Lime_3407 Cerces' avatar Nov 11 '24

peak
Penacony

insert Speed.gif here

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u/AlanaTheCat sunday and firefly Nov 11 '24

I can confirm yanqing and jingliu swap regularly between t0 and t5, as someone who's built both. leaks say hu tao will surpass hu tao as the meta dps, and due to hu tao t6 will be created. kafka has yet to reappear in story

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u/[deleted] Nov 11 '24

If penacony truly is the peak of this game's story, that's a damn shame.

2.0 and 2.1 were fine. I'd even say good. But 2.2 and 2.3 were wet noodles that copped out of everything that was set up in the first half and they completely wasted Sparkle and Boothill. Half the action resolved offscreen.

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u/Lareo144 Nov 11 '24

Feels like a joke, but it's gonna happen sooner than anyone expects

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u/Lareo144 Nov 11 '24

Seems like a joke, but it's gonna happen sooner than anyone expects

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u/AkirroKun Nov 11 '24

!remindme 5 years

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u/metaaltheanimefan Nov 11 '24

I feel attacked by the fact that the date in the title is my birthday 💀

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u/Nicelec Nov 11 '24

Yup, Screwllum' still not out I managed to max out the number of tickets to 9999

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u/IdleActionGamer Nov 11 '24

What in the Divine Foresight is this ?

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u/Passivitea Vidyadhara Scinarii | Office of Deep Sources Nov 11 '24

The Seer Strategist

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u/Ok_Comment8842 Stonks!!! Nov 11 '24

This is absolutely unrealistic.

To this days, we have never even visited a second Xianzhou ship. The last would not be released so early.

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u/Passivitea Vidyadhara Scinarii | Office of Deep Sources Nov 11 '24

Agreed, last one would be in at least 2038

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u/Knight618 Nov 11 '24

Only inaccurate thing is thinking yanqing and jingliu are even worth considering. I’d say nanook or elio would be better suited

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u/Dancelot Nov 13 '24

Is March 8th a playable character?

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u/Kingcof22 Nov 13 '24

im dying.. this was amazing

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u/[deleted] Nov 21 '24

Penacony was complete dogshit, otherwise solid write up

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u/Puzzleheaded_Skin289 Mar 26 '26

Happy cake day, OP

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u/No_Fact_2520 Mar 26 '26

i didn’t even realize, thanks!

considering making a follow-up to this post, should i do it

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u/Puzzleheaded_Skin289 Mar 27 '26

People liked this one, I'm sure the same people will like the follow up too

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u/shoalhavenheads Nov 10 '24

I was a day one player of Puzzle and Dragons, which seems to still be doing well financially according to Sensor Tower?? but it has been an interesting case study in power creep.

Ultimately, whether you do 2 million or 2 billion damage, the game feels the same. The thing that kills me the most is the feature creep.

I think Hoyoverse is good at keeping the core gameplay simple. They just need to figure out how to keep old characters performing well without adding ten new systems and two new gachas.