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[Honkai: Star Rail] scared exorcist with angry tail and the worst banner ever

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  • eMoandereMoander Registered User regular
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    Magic Pink
  • MadicanMadican No face Registered User regular
    Managed to get enough of the tickets to finish up that discount banner. Rolled Clara as my 5 star and she's very good when combined with March. Her whole deal is being a counter tank she excels at it.

    Also she is basically Ilya from Fate series, just instead of summoning Heracles she calls out a big robot punch man to hit things.

    Shadowfire
  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    Just got through the intro, and my interest is at least piqued

    Doctor Detroit
  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Couple of extra codes.

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    STARRAILGIFT

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    My Id is 600748892

  • abotkinabotkin Registered User regular
    Wow, their Discord is fucked. Someone had the bright idea of requiring people to assign themselves a rank before they can even see any of the main channels, so of course the bot that makes that work basically broke instantly once the game launched. They have a message up saying they're aware of it, and to just check back later after it isn't stupidly busy. Which lol, but not sure what else they'd do on short notice immediately after launch.

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  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    is it just me or is this game all white people? that's really weird to me.

    It's been noted. Oh how it has been noted.

    Shadowfire
  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 26
    Yeah, I'm still in space Russia, and the closest I've seen to a nonwhite person was the chief of security has a tan

    Also, that was a lot of build up for the train to go into hyperspace, and not watching March eat shit on the brakes.

    Fencingsax on
    Polaritie
  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    is it just me or is this game all white people? that's really weird to me.

    It's been noted. Oh how it has been noted.

    This is a payment in Genshin as well. The desert folk and other people that should be dark skinned are just kinda tan. The darkest skinned person is Xinyan.

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  • SonelanSonelan Registered User regular
    Is there a way to use a controller for this game? Trying to use my mouse and keyboard for a long time is causing a fair amount of pain.

    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Sonelan wrote: »
    Is there a way to use a controller for this game? Trying to use my mouse and keyboard for a long time is causing a fair amount of pain.

    You have to go into settings and switch it manually some times

    Shadowfire
  • MirkelMirkel FinlandRegistered User regular
    I'm enjoying not having a Paimon. It's like a constantly hungry, greedy tiny monkey in diapers was removed from my back. MC is still silent but at least now it feels like we are interacting with the NPCs and not just standing there looking dumb.

    Also was not expecting the game going all Stanley Parable on me when I inspected a closet in a hotel room.

    Oh, and I got Himeko who isn't really who I wanted as my guaranteed 5* but she's growing on me and she really destroys lower level groups which can be fun. She's not too great in difficult fights though, which makes me question just how much real power she is adding to my team. On the other hand she's easy on the eyes which is always a plus for me.

    Magic PinkFencingsaxeMoander
  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    I enjoy this so far. Some xenosaga vibes and basic mobile rpg 2 ability combat though I like the bit of turn manip you can do with ults.

    Clearing out the station ran into a lvl 13 boss at lvl 6ish so that was fun. Annoyingly I died one turn before it died but at least it seems like the game has some tension of “burn resources or come back later” challenges.

    I have added a guitar lady to my team. I also realized I don’t know what the classes mean. I got a harmony character assuming that would be a healer and she just has fire attacks

  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    If you click on the element or path it'll give a description. Harmony is buffing iirc?

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    Magic PinkShadowfireFencingsax
  • SonelanSonelan Registered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Sonelan wrote: »
    Is there a way to use a controller for this game? Trying to use my mouse and keyboard for a long time is causing a fair amount of pain.

    You have to go into settings and switch it manually some times

    Thanks! This makes it so much easier to play.

    [SIGPIC][/SIGPIC]
    Magic Pink
  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    edited April 26
    harmony is buff. I got lucky and pulled natasha who is abundance, the healer role. oh and she has a grenade launcher

    Jars on
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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
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    just hitting the first planet

  • MirkelMirkel FinlandRegistered User regular
    Jars wrote: »
    harmony is buff. I got lucky and pulled natasha who is abundance, the healer role. oh and she has a grenade launcher

    You get one Natasha for free once you hit a certain point in the main story. She is also the only 4* healer at launch (there's a 5* one as well) so it's not like there's that many options.

  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Yeah, I got the 5* healer off the guarantee and yes, healing is nice.

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  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    The only character I've gotten from the pulls so far is a constellation for Serval. Which is perfect since I'll probably never take her out of my party.

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  • Jubal77Jubal77 Registered User regular
    edited April 26
    Decided to try it cause i have no chill. Got Clara for my 5*. She seems great. Tank. Got the 4* healer in the pulls to Clara so im set. Using March and Serval as well. Freezing to Shock to counters from Clara seem to work fine.

    I am already skipping the story though.... Not really a fan/seems dull to way over the top.
    Like when you walk into March's bedroom lol

    Game may hold me longer than Genshin did but not sure.

    Jubal77 on
  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited April 26
    I cannot tell which characters are how many stars, besides the initial screen.

    Also, I keep forgetting to use consumables to level up my guys, so every so often I just slam right into the difficulty wall

    Fencingsax on
  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    do I need to keep the main pc in the party? or can I dump them whenever

  • Jubal77Jubal77 Registered User regular
    edited April 26
    You can put whoever you want in the party. Looks like the main pc will get the most consistent upgrades initially though.

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  • MirkelMirkel FinlandRegistered User regular
    There's just something about the MC using a baseball bat to kill stuff that amuses me to no end. I'm keeping her around for a while at least. Also there seems to be quite a few physical weakness bosses.

    ... physical being an actually decent damage type seems just weird after Genshin.

    Magic PinkShadowfire
  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    MC will probably have an easier time of it with readily available upgrades, yeah. You can get the second eidolon unlock basically right after the first if you explore the station enough (it costs 500 of the zone currency you get from every chest, quest, etc).

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  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    I like to hit them with the bat

    MirkelFrem
  • Magic PinkMagic Pink Tur-Boner-Fed Registered User regular
    Mirkel wrote: »
    There's just something about the MC using a baseball bat to kill stuff that amuses me to no end. I'm keeping her around for a while at least. Also there seems to be quite a few physical weakness bosses.

    ... physical being an actually decent damage type seems just weird after Genshin.

    excuse me LASER baseball bat

  • MirkelMirkel FinlandRegistered User regular
    Magic Pink wrote: »
    Mirkel wrote: »
    There's just something about the MC using a baseball bat to kill stuff that amuses me to no end. I'm keeping her around for a while at least. Also there seems to be quite a few physical weakness bosses.

    ... physical being an actually decent damage type seems just weird after Genshin.

    excuse me LASER baseball bat

    Well, it is a scifi game so yeah. Everything's gotta be laser this and nano-vorpal that.

    Magic Pink
  • MirkelMirkel FinlandRegistered User regular
    Somebody already won the game. Guess that's it, time to pack our things and head home.

    Magic Pink
  • PolaritiePolaritie Sleepy Registered User regular
    Mirkel wrote: »
    Somebody already won the game. Guess that's it, time to pack our things and head home.

    Ahaha, I love that they put that in as an option. (It's a joke ending to be clear)

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  • JarsJars Registered User regular
    pulled clara for my 5*, which is fine. the only one I didn't want was welt

  • MirkelMirkel FinlandRegistered User regular
    Polaritie wrote: »
    Mirkel wrote: »
    Somebody already won the game. Guess that's it, time to pack our things and head home.

    Ahaha, I love that they put that in as an option. (It's a joke ending to be clear)

    The whole game seems to take itself a lot less seriously than Genshin, which is amazing. I'm really enjoying the writing. The main plot is pretty basic so far but all the little things have jokes and amusing details.

  • Jubal77Jubal77 Registered User regular
    That english VO for welt has me muting the phone heh.

    Magic Pink
  • initiatefailureinitiatefailure Registered User regular
    so are the regular tickets just things you get forever and use on the standard banner and the gold ones for whatever hot new rotating money sink banner?

    actually thinking about it I bet my genshin playing partner could just explain what everything is because these look like they pretty much map to the same things that I see when they're playing that game

    Magic PinkDoctor Detroit
  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    Mirkel wrote: »
    Somebody already won the game. Guess that's it, time to pack our things and head home.

    Hah I was just about to post this, I just got that ending. Pretty dark actually, even if the fake credit roll is funny.

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  • ReynoldsReynolds Gone Fishin'Registered User regular
    edited April 26
    is it just me or is this game all white people? that's really weird to me.

    At least a quarter of the roster is uh...Space Chinese?

    abotkin wrote: »
    Wow, their Discord is fucked. Someone had the bright idea of requiring people to assign themselves a rank before they can even see any of the main channels, so of course the bot that makes that work basically broke instantly once the game launched. They have a message up saying they're aware of it, and to just check back later after it isn't stupidly busy. Which lol, but not sure what else they'd do on short notice immediately after launch.

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85we5FDYY4w

    This guy has a bunch of helpful videos on his channel, and has a Discord server set up with the invite in the video description. They've been keeping track of character changes, strategies, redemption codes, etc. It's been pretty nice so far...for an open Discord server of course.

    Oh right, for me: America UID - 600028763

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  • KyanilisKyanilis Bellevue, WARegistered User regular
    edited April 26
    Oh yeah I should add my UID here too: 600006983

    (My support is Seele)

    Kyanilis on
    ReynoldsPolaritieMagic Pink
  • The WolfmanThe Wolfman Registered User regular
    I found the equivalent of ley lines. The fight is against fire and ice birds. I have Herta, and I find out you can take an overleveled support character from another person, so I pick Himiko. And this is where I find out how broken the two are. Turns out Himiko's counter attack when you do 3 elemental weakness attacks... can trigger her own counter attack. And the number goes up per attack. So like her drone would attack 3 ice bats and kill everything, next wave is 2 fire/2 ice, the drone attack again, doesn't kill the fire bats but does take them below 50%, which triggers Herta's spin counter... which is elemental and triggers the drone again! Holy frijoles. Eventually this feedback loop stops. On a wave with 3 ice bats. Pop Himiko's ult, and lets rev this chainsaw back up again.

    Got a good glimpse of the bullshit you can get up to. I'm down to my last 10 pulls on the discount banner and now I'm kind of hoping I get Himiko. In the meantime though I threw a few tickets at the character banner, and actually hit paydirt with a 5*. I don't remember the guy's name, some young ice Hunt kid who attacks with a sword. He kind of reminds me of a more peppy Xingqui.

    "The sausage of Green Earth explodes with flavor like the cannon of culinary delight."
    eMoanderShadowfireFencingsaxMagic Pink
  • ShadowfireShadowfire Vermont, in the middle of nowhereRegistered User regular
    I found the equivalent of ley lines. The fight is against fire and ice birds. I have Herta, and I find out you can take an overleveled support character from another person, so I pick Himiko. And this is where I find out how broken the two are. Turns out Himiko's counter attack when you do 3 elemental weakness attacks... can trigger her own counter attack. And the number goes up per attack. So like her drone would attack 3 ice bats and kill everything, next wave is 2 fire/2 ice, the drone attack again, doesn't kill the fire bats but does take them below 50%, which triggers Herta's spin counter... which is elemental and triggers the drone again! Holy frijoles. Eventually this feedback loop stops. On a wave with 3 ice bats. Pop Himiko's ult, and lets rev this chainsaw back up again.

    Got a good glimpse of the bullshit you can get up to. I'm down to my last 10 pulls on the discount banner and now I'm kind of hoping I get Himiko. In the meantime though I threw a few tickets at the character banner, and actually hit paydirt with a 5*. I don't remember the guy's name, some young ice Hunt kid who attacks with a sword. He kind of reminds me of a more peppy Xingqui.

    Yanqing! He's a precious boy and I hope I get him.

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