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I absolutely agree when it comes to the TV mechanic. I am very nervous with what they have said. We'll have to see what they mean exactly, but I feel like they either need to lean in to it all the way or cut entirely. Doing a half baked measure in both directions will keep it subpar. Allowing players to skip the TV mechanic but keeping the combat encounters the same as they are will be incredibly boring and have bad pacing. Giving that option could encourage them to leave the TV mechanic as is which can also be very tedious/boring at times. Imo the TV mechanic itself really has potential. Increasing the difficulty/depth of puzzles, as well as playing in to the semi rogue-like elements that are already present which can add variety and difficulty to the combat encounters.

Turns out the devs addressed a lot of these changes the day after posting this. Might make a follow up and talk a bit about those as well.

To be completely honest I doubt I’m ever swapping off of Mono Ice. 😂

An otherwise great video is getting set back by this cringey horny-bait thumbnail. Have some self-respect man. Other than that, I agree with you, the UI is extremely annoying to navigate and the day/night cycles feel very artificial.

After playing ToF so long I don't really have that big of a confidence in HottaS ability to make a quality game.

Short sweet and to the point, thanks for the video

Like we aaaalll know this trailer was fake as hell

i got her a few days ago and once i saw the combo ult with ben i was sold on teaming those two together, also didnt know i had I-frames during the 4th hit. i dont know if there are others but it look like they are the first to interact with each other in thier moves/ults and that is super cool to see

First off. It's Unreal Engine 5.. UE5 has a smart procedural LOD feature that can be applied to the whole map. Now the reflections, in the gameplay trailer they have Ray Tracing enabled, so medium end PCs will use Screen Space Reflections, but i am not sure how they will do with performance because i have a GTX 1060 with a i5 2.7GHz processor and it does not do well with Tekken 8. Now the climbing on buildings... all the way back from GTA San Andreas (2004) you could stand on every single building, even the old and new Spider-man games have that, all of the buildings have collision. And yes it takes a lot of time to develop these types of games, because that's game development. If you want a game to have a fun feature then you're obviously gonna spend some time developing it.

Nice video, I'm not high on my compliment game rn so comment for algorithm I just agree with everything you said

Does it even matter about any characters ULT? All I ever use is my dps ult.

THANK YOU!! I was really confused on what PEN was

12:50 I want to add something that they never addressed with Firefly: she literally admits that she doesn't feel much when she kills ppl in a convo with Acheron. She doesn't really feel anything when she kills ppl, but she clearly does want to at least feel empathetic for them (at least that's what I figured). And also. This is. Never explored. At all.

was really surprised how well drawn and consistent the manga style story telling sections were, gg edit: really don't like the TV parts, I've played 1 that was 40 mins long and watched a stream where someone was stuck in one for an hour. I think its OK for hollow zero but i would prefer a skip button (with story summary paragraph) for when they make me do the TVs during story sections.

this kind of stuff never goes away, fanboy 'wars' happen in almost everything, iphone vs samsung, playstation vs xbox, happens a lot with car brands even. I can confirm that its surprisingly easy to spark up an argument based on a comment about very old games hardware like Genesis vs SNES. It's really dumb and its super tiring. This might sound like CRAZY talk but I enjoy genshin, wuthering and zzz, pretty shocking right? 😂

currently watching thru the vid (7 minutes into it, so might leave another comment), but wanted to bring up something, partially regarding aven: in general, I think one of penacony's biggest issues was that it just wanted to do too much and with a lot of characters at that. it allowed for what I thought was some excellent setup, however, now that 2.3 is out, the payoff was...yeah. aside from the payoffs made within its own story, penacony as a whole just feels like setup for future plot points: black swan, aven & boothill going against the IPC (tho you have to read Boothill's character stories to come to that conclusion), sunday, robin & jade's deal, etc. even with its own payoffs, I found them to be overall kind of underwhelming for how much it was setup: 1. Firefly. I think she has some great thematic elements, but her overall execution just...left a lot to be desired from me. Most of her lore stuff doesn't even come from in game, it comes from supplemental material like the myriad celestia trailer and the animation. she was used how I expected her to be used, but the execution of all of it left me with the feeling that I saw a great character go through the motions, without actually leaving the kind of impact she was supposed to. 2. Sparkle. Yep. I agree with you; she's just *mysterious* and *sus* but doesn't contribute a ton. Her whole point is being a red herring character---i mean, literally, look at her design---and that's fine. But they don't do anything super interesting with that beyond bringing up the *idea* of the of that. 3. The Watchmaker's Legacy. I liked it. But with the way it was handled, it ironically suffers from not having a ton of setup to where the payoff makes sense; Misha was always theorized to be involved in some way given his LC and lore, but the fact is is that he was brought up in a lore relevant way very late and underwhelmingly. It felt like they introduced the setup, and then catapulted to the payoff in less than an hour. All of the Nameless stuff to me, while I liked it and enjoyed it (as I do with Penacony), just didn't feel as impactful as it could've been simply because they were juggling so many other things. I think that's how'd I'd describe Penacony in a sentence: I'm looking at an impactful story, but its execution didn't leave the impact it was supposed to. 4. Acheron. Eh. She did her part, but I still have no clue what that red text was about. 5. Aventurine (& the IPC by extension). I'm a little biased since he's my favorite character, but his part in 2.1 was honestly the best thing about Penacony IMO. The convo with Sunday was tense and left you with an "oh shit how is he gonna get outta this" (which is kind of dampened when you later learn that it was actually all part of the plan, but I also did find it enjoyable to unravel the full extent of Aven's plan to see just how complicated it was, and I consider it to mostly be a way to show the levels of 6D chess this man plays on. Which. Well. Yeah I did say I was biased ROFL---). The section from his POV at Clock Studios theme park and the little tidbits of his backstory scattered throughout it all was IMPACTFUL. Geniunely great character writing IMO, and I think it succeeded in making ppl understand him better (even tho it kinda does fall into the "giving villain tragic backstory last minute" kind of vibes, I didn't think it was as bad since there was setup for that kind of thing in 2.0's story with ratio calling him an IPC thrall waiting for execution; the tragic backstory stuff was not surprising. the only thing about it is that, as you pointed out and as I'll cover a bit later, there isn't a lot Aven has done after all that stuff was revealed. So it remains to be seen if the writers will make Aven more of a 'good boi' or a 'no he's misguided' or something later on, or if he'll still be written to act as that conniving merchant we interacted with in pre-backstory reveal in the story---fitting into the 'not a bad guy, but definitely not a saint' he was described as in the 2.1 live stream. So that his backstory simply gives added context to him, rather than becoming his entire defining trait). In short: Aven's backstory and POV was geninunely excellent writing IMO, and that is a win to the writers. However. Once again, Penacony's issue of simply having too many things to juggle comes to bite at it. As you pointed out: his POV and backstory and all of the setup included there simply wasn't acted on---we get a handwave for how he escaped Nihility, what he foundout in Dreamflux Reef, etc. And the payoff for what he did for the IPC in 2.3 was also really underwhelming IMO; Topaz & Jade's business convos were the best part of the 2.3 epilogue IMO, so there's a point there ig, but it was just....yeah, idk. It just wasn't the kind of booming or impactful payoff it was showing itself to be; I mean, THEY LITERALLY WERE TALKING ABOUT IPC SHIPS BEING ABLE TO COME AND SURROUND PENACONY---you'd think they'd be able to drum up more tension between Topaz & Jade and Old Oti's convos like that. I'll get to 2.3's story in a bit, but like. It's definitely disappointing. With how much they focus on Aven and how they're building the IPC Strategtic Investment Department, you'd think they were planning on having some great setup, or intending to focus more an Aven (ex. Like a short section on how he escaped Nihility w/ Argenti's help, that kind of stuff) but no. They just don't. Though, bc Aven got so much focus, he was able to escape the "ik you're supposed to be impactful, but you just aren't" trap that I Firefly and Acehron fall into for me. Still. Aven's whole thing just felt like his companion quest that needed to be there since it wouldn't make sense to place outside of the Penacony SQ. Again, it's probably my bias speaking here, but if you're going to focus on a character's personal strife, backstory, and personal demons so much with an hour's long playable section solely dedicated to that, I think you would act more on the setup introduced in it (which pains me to say, bc he is my fav character, but bc he's used so poorly in Penacony plotwise, I honestly would've preferred the time spent on him to have gone to FIrefly or Acheron). That's also putting aside the whole 'death' thing with him, which...again. Underwhelming. It's meant to be an opening for the IPC, and it is used as such, but I still found the 2.3's use of that to be underwhelming. You're literally using the "DEATH" of a senior manager as an opening to incorporate Penacony back into IPC shares; I would think Topaz & Jade would put wayyyyyyyyy more pressure on Old Oti than what they did in 2.3 I don't have that many complaints abt Aven not really being "dead", because it was clear to me after 2.1 that he wouldn't be dead, and frankly, given the character arc he goes thru in 2.1, I don't think death is a fitting end to his character thematically at all at that point in the story. If they're going to kill him, I think they need to have Aven actually "live" the way he's built up to do, bc otherwise, his death will feel pretty empty, at least to me; he needs to live his life before the time of his death finally comes to him. Still, character deaths so far h ave all been like this; baited, but then 'no they're alive.' Tingyun is all but confirmed to be alive, at least in some capacity to me, since the devs alluded that it would be explored more in coming patches, as well as a leak showed a ton of chara models that had a new Tingyun there. It will remain to be seen in the future, tho; I think that they're going to want to milk characters as much as possible before killing them, but also bc I feel like there needs to be a good amount of time to get properly attached to a character before killing them off. At least Misha and Gallagher are dead, lol (well. if we ignore that majorly sus letter Gallgher left us, YOU BETTER BE DEAD YOU F---) oh. that's. a big chunk of text. anyway, 2.3. Really underwhelming IMO. I liked the Topaz & Jade stuff, but other than that there just....meh. It wasn't great IMO. You're telling me THAT was the Charmony festival? The ending cutscene was good ig, and the Sparkle dolls were funny, but that's just a testament to how funny HSR's writing is when focused on the smaller details like that. it was an ending. I don't think I need to go in-depth as to why it just wasn't as good as it could've---should've---been. and also my fingers are kinda tired. anyways, great vid so far, I think I've spent more time writing this than I have watching the vid, I'm getting back to it now rofl

On point. Nice vid!

Impact: 2:14 Anomaly mastery and Anomaly Proficiency: 4:17 Pen ratio: 5:40

Very good video got a new subscriber

I know that's a 5 min video, but i have a suggestion, to put time markers for each part of the vídeo

dude there r like lots of guide for character out there. If you wanna be another one in the arena at lease put some in game footage and show us what you mean man.

The massive issue is being in that community in the first place 😭

*NOTE* I describe Anomaly Mastery and Proficiency the wrong way around in this video. Anomaly Mastery: Allows Anomaly to build up quicker. Anomaly Proficiency: Makes Anomalies deal more damage.

*NOTE* This was made with beta footage. Since release, Soukaku has clearly been assigned to a support playstyle. Her fly the flag gives the next person you swap to an attack buff which is doubled when you have all the Vortex stacks. The passives related to team building for every character were altered. Soukaku now buffs her squads ice damage with Fly the Flag if she's in the appropriate team. (One of the same Attribute or Faction)

I learnd thank you

your definitions of anomaly mastery and proficiency is backwards, check the in game description by going to the character page and clicking where it says their damage type and class

based beyond belief

Internet is a space where people yell as loud as they can and completely disregard what you were trying to say in this video. The ones who needed to hear your statement won't listen or don't even open the video. And the ones who listened already follow this mindset. It's pretty much the same as saying "bullying in school is not allowed and we should promote a healthier environment". The people who don't bully agree, and the bullies don't change anything they're doing.

thank you gentlemen

Kamina has a drill, Anton has a drill sooooooooo

This is the most unhinged video I have ever seen. I LOVE IT

Does Anton have the bonus w/2 Pierce agents? I don't see that.

I just got a dupe for her... smh welp now I'm here xD

Thanks a lot! You're doing an amazing job, everything so clear. I have a lot of trouble reading with their terrible UI and your videos are really helpful <3

Clear and concise! Thanks so much for the explanation🙏🔥

bro its 1.1 relax

You got my Like. So far you're the only one out there that has actually made a Soukaku guide. The only thing I can recommend moving forward is to perhaps show more of what you're describing on screen and less camera time on you as far as guides go. Just a little bit of constructive criticism - it'd be awesome to see your channel grow. Peace & Love!

Very quick and straight to the point!

Thanks for the guide, this made it a lot simpler to understand!

solid guide a little feedback about format of the video I think rather than seeing you zoom in 80% at this guide you can just put yourself at the corner of the video clip what you're talking about, even it's a loop its way better to visualize the kit/move and zoom in when you really want to point something I personally rather be seeing what you're saying while you explaining than imagining while you explaining it

Also good to note that you can use your special without it being energized (colorful), that's a special Attack, the EX Special is the colored variant. Wish there was some more visual indication when using the basic special attack though besides just knowing how it looks/how long it takes to execute.

My favorite chainsaw miku

Oof! The Abcdef's are not for dupes! Those are unlockable with resources. Dupes go into the "cinema" of each chara. That icon would be in the bottom left of the chara screen!

I mean, some ppl prefer soggy noodle over sushi or steak cuz those sushi / steak come raw / bloody. so zzz may better suit certain "casual players"

i have c6 anton. he is like attacking while showered by sparks

This video is so pretentious, that I can't actually tell if it's a joke or not.

thanks bro bro

Bro I now have Soukaku M4 without even getting the free one or the other guranteed A character 😭

whats his best weapon? What would a rotation be like with Anton,Anby, Rina?

thank you so much bro!!!! straight forward, you gotta love it. Started playing 3 hours ago with my friends who have been playing since launch day and just got grace and anton. thx a lot!!!