Blue Archive - The south Korean Gacha game that almost died, is now being released on Steam this summer.

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I pulled fully expecting to spark for NYFuuka, and I did, but I'm not mad about that. I'm mad that in my 200 pulls the only two 3* I got were one dupe of Haruna and the Izoon each.
 
Big Brown Schlub said:
I pulled fully expecting to spark for NYFuuka, and I did, but I'm not mad about that. I'm mad that in my 200 pulls the only two 3* I got were one dupe of Haruna and the Izoon each.
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Damn, that sucks. Glad you got her though - At least you got a bunch of Eligma and some Enigma out of the deal.

Arona-Chan waited until I was at my 190th recruitment point to give me Sena (Casual) so I had a shit ton of recruitment points I ended up not using.
 
Finished volume 1 chapter 3. I thought it was good even when people say this is were the story is starting to "fall off" Hosino backstory and character arc was done well, and i like that Terror Shiroko got some peace as well. Underground Dweller (more like Basement Dweller lol) was a pretty cool villain and watching him get BTFO was satisfying as fuck. You basically ruin his D&D session by using pay2win mechanics and calls you out on it

What i dislike about the chapter is the hole build up for the Cannon train and it just ended up being taken care of off screen. Same with Suou. I do wonder when gehenna are getting their own Vloume since i would like to know more of Terror emperor and the relationship (rivalry) between Makoto and Hina
 
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Finished Chapter 4 part 2, I really like how the game doesn't fall for scale creep. It's very funny how they play with the setting. Trying to induce peace into Kivotos is basically impossible.
Twin Addler said:
But for the highest difficulties taking multiple teams to clear is normal depending on your investment. There's actually no limit to the number of teams you can use to take down a raid besides the number of actual viable built students you own.

There's raids like Wakaboat where you'll need a different team for phase 1 and for phase 2 since they ask for different requirements. And there's Goz and Peroro where you need reposition / cleanse students respectively so the number of teams you can bring depend on the number of reposition / cleanse students you have.

The meta is usually doing stuff like if s.Hanako is the best dps for this raid (Like against Purple Kurokage) then team 1 is Borrowed s.Hanako then team 2 is your own s.Hanako.

That's why redundancy is actually useful in this game. Himari used to be the meta Special buffer before Rio and Kisaki released. But now instead of Himari being benched never to be played again like if this happened with other gacha, they're now instead used for 2nd teams and beyond.
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That's surprisingly good design. I do still think that the jump between level 50 and 70 is too much.
Gravityqueen4life said:
What i dislike about the chapter is the hole build up for the Cannon train and it just ended up being taken care of off screen. Same with Suou. I do wonder when gehenna are getting their own Vloume since i would like to Terror emperor and the relationship (rivalry) between Makoto and Hina
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I kinda liked it, it was always a plot device so no point dwelling on it. More expanding on Suou would have been nice though
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wtfNeedSignUp said:
I kinda liked it, it was always a plot device so no point dwelling on it. More expanding on Suou would have been nice though
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It started out as a "MacGuffin" that drives the plot as multiple factions compete to find it and scheme to gain legal ownership of it. Then, in a quick sequence, it's declared a major threat and destroyed off-screen.

Kind of like if
1. Death Star plans from original 'Star Wars' were instead a map to one that had been previously built.
2. Turns Death Star's main reactor is unstable due to flawed/incomplete design - instead of firing controlled shots, it will probably blow up and take an entire Star System with it.
3. Suddenly, it's disposed safely off-screen.
Elaborations, with more direct analogies and some spoilers:

1. Pretty much how I explained at the start. People know Train Cannon exists but aren't sure of the (exact) location. Who legally owns the thing is muddied.
>Abydos High School owns the land
>A Private Equity Fund owns the right to certain rail infrastructure in the area and argues this includes the Train Cannon.
>Kaiser Corporation basically declares "fuck that" and just holds the PEF members at gunpoint until they sign to become a Kaiser subsidiary (this would by "duress" in basically any sane jurisdiction, but the Chapter does include an outright disclaimer that legal stuff in it is a work of fiction and not representative of any real law.)
2. Arona hypes it up, explaining that because the Tyrant Emperor didn't fully understand the ancient/anomalous technology, the thing is even more dangerous than if it worked properly (compare a functioning Fusion Reactor and a Hydrogen Bomb)
3. I assume the Highlander (Shupogaki) Twins drove it somewhere remote and either did a controlled detonation, or sabotaged whatever was powering it to make it inert. I personally remember everyone just suddenly going "Train Cannon is no longer a threat" or something like that.
 
wtfNeedSignUp said:
Finished Chapter 4 part 2, I really like how the game doesn't fall for scale creep. It's very funny how they play with the setting. Trying to induce peace into Kivotos is basically impossible.
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Without a big bad like Chroma starting shit up, Kivotos is at peace. What we been seeing is mostly domestic nothing burgers the local school law enforcement arms, Valkyrie, and when needed, Sensei can't handle.
 
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Fatsuit Shinji said:
Without a big bad like Chroma starting shit up, Kivotos is at peace. What we been seeing is mostly domestic nothing burgers the local school law enforcement arms, Valkyrie, and when needed, Sensei can't handle.
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I feel like Kaiser attempting to essentially invade and conquer an entire sub-city of Kivotos with obvious plans to try and take the rest of the city by force is kind of a big deal.

I mean, sure, 4 teenage girls and their friends (Problem Solver and Hifumi, plus the Prefect Team) were able to kick the shit out of Kaiser, but...

Anyhow was anybody else low-key disappointed that when Problem Solver and the Prefect Team comes to help the Foreclosure Task Force by hitting Kaiser in a raid to divert their attention, we didn't get to control them for at least one battle?

I think I enjoyed chapter 2 part 2 a little more just because it kept bouncing between C&C and the Game Development Team.

Currently on Chapter 3 - I really like Trinity's structure and how the three major factions (other than Sisterhood and Remedial Knights) are named after the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Arius is named after the Arianism heresy. I'm kind of surprised they didn't go with a female swapped version however.
 
Gorilla Milk said:
Currently on Chapter 3 - I really like Trinity's structure and how the three major factions (other than Sisterhood and Remedial Knights) are named after the Father, Son, Holy Spirit, and Arius is named after the Arianism heresy. I'm kind of surprised they didn't go with a female swapped version however.
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Those "three major factions" at current time don't even exist anymore. As they had merge to become the Tea Party. With Tea Party, Justice Task Force, Sisterhood and Remedial Knights being the present four major factions. With Sisterhood and Remedial Knights leaders non too happy they now have to be involved in politics. With JTF not too happy they have to do more internal politicking and having to tard wrangled Trinity's leaders as when needed.
 
Gorilla Milk said:
Damn, that sucks. Glad you got her though - At least you got a bunch of Eligma and some Enigma out of the deal.

Arona-Chan waited until I was at my 190th recruitment point to give me Sena (Casual) so I had a shit ton of recruitment points I ended up not using.
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As I said, I expected bad luck but this is something else. Again, there's probably some gambler's fallacy cope at play here but I swear whether I have to spark or not, or more precisely whether I'm lucky in a banner or not, follows a lucky-unlucky-lucky-unlucky pattern. My pre-fest banner luck was shit and I had to copespark for Seia and missed out on Uniform Asuna and I got a bunch of middling 3* as well, my fest banner on the other hand was insane, I mean yeah I had to spark for Rio but god-fucking-dammit, in 200 pulls I got Uniform Neru, Swimsuit Hanako, Wakamo, Mika and Dress Hina. 3 off-banner fest limiteds I got in just 200 pulls. So naturally, this banner that I decided to pull on was shit. I plan to pull on the Hikari/Nozomi banner next and I wouldn't be surprised if I get both of them within 50 pulls. I remember the first time I stopped playing the game I had great luck on the final banner I pulled on, pretty sure it was the Ako banner. I started playing soon after launch and stopped several months in as I felt I wasn't really progressing at all, not to mention I couldn't get Bluestacks to run BA on my current PC so I just gave up. The Steam release made me pick up the game again and I'm having way more fun.
 
The new event involving the newly introduced Wild Hunt academy should be live on JP now, giving you some glimpse on how they looked like. As far as we know it, they are more or less.... Italians.
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The one on the left uses Franchi LF57 SMG with the one on the right uses Beretta ARX-160 assault rifle.

There's not much to go on whether the whole Italian theme thingie gonna stick or not, considering what we got is just some mobs and playable student from said academy is using italian-made weapons (the wizard hat girl Eri turns out to be using italian-made Carcano rifle, the same thing that killed JFK), but for now, let's just assume Wild Hunt is Kivotos equivalent of Italians.

Which also means Kivotos now have the entire Axis power within it. (Gehenna/Germany, Hyakkiyako/Japan, and now Wild Hunt/Italia)
 
Interesting, as the whole witch theme and look they're going for has more in common with a romanticized 19th century Germany as told by the collected folk tales by brothers Grimm.
 
Overpriced Gaming Chair said:
It started out as a "MacGuffin" that drives the plot as multiple factions compete to find it and scheme to gain legal ownership of it. Then, in a quick sequence, it's declared a major threat and destroyed off-screen.
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The thing is that devoting one or two episodes to finishing it off wouldn't haves changed much, especially as you already have more interesting final boss than the train and you already had a showdown with Suou. Also no fucking way it would have been used anyways (especially as it might blow itself up).

The volume was already ludicrously long and had a lor of set pieces.
Fatsuit Shinji said:
Without a big bad like Chroma starting shit up, Kivotos is at peace. What we been seeing is mostly domestic nothing burgers the local school law enforcement arms, Valkyrie, and when needed, Sensei can't handle.
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Peace is pretty relative in this case. Nobody dies but thing blows up every other day. This made me think, maybe graduating/being expelled removes your halo so you are a normal human. All the grownups live far away from the crazy violent immortal girls who run the world since they are an unstoppable force.
Big Brown Schlub said:
my fest banner on the other hand was insane, I mean yeah I had to spark for Rio but god-fucking-dammit, in 200 pulls I got Uniform Neru, Swimsuit Hanako, Wakamo, Mika and Dress Hina. 3 off-banner fest limiteds I got in just 200 pulls
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That's absolutely insane luck.
 
So i'm a filthy Nikke player, is this game fun? i've been thinking of playing it. how prevalent are the loli's? are they like.... every single character? Cause if so, i might just not then.
 
Cryptosporidium 138 said:
So i'm a filthy Nikke player, is this game fun? i've been thinking of playing it. how prevalent are the loli's? are they like.... every single character? Cause if so, i might just not then.
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Depends on your definition of loli.
In this scenario, the game only has four exceptions, everyone else is a "loli".
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Lets look at the Justice Task Force. (Aside from the tutorial/prologue, they will be your main entryway into the game (and the setting as a whole) by serving as protagonists of Volume 1.

I think most of them could reasonably pass as petite legally adult women, but Hoshino is basically Konata from Lucky Star:
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Also a good example of how the game leans heavily on anime logic/tropes, as she's the oldest member of the group. (3rd grade high schooler, others are 2nd or 1st.)
 
Gorilla Milk said:
Arona is being a bratty AI 💢💢💢
Seriously though I hope your luck gets better, sucks that you've had to spark so much, but I'm jealous of you getting Wakamo and any form of Neru.
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Oh, it will. I already said my luck in banners follows a lucky-unlucky-lucky-unlucky pattern so the next one is gonna be lucky. When it comes to Neru... you can farm her Elephs in I think the 15th Hard stage tho it's gonna take a while as sadly she only drops her Elephs in that one Hard stage, compared to most other farmable 3* who drop it in 2 Hard stages.

Also, you just reminded me of one of the gameplay things that always cracks me up in Blue Archive, and that's that one of the best units against the Swimsuit Wakamo raid boss... is Swimsuit Wakamo herself. Trust nobody, not even yourself.

Overpriced Gaming Chair said:
So far, NYFuuka seems worth the hype. Easily cleared all the B-stage Scrimmages with teams that included her.
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There's a good reason I keep harping on about characters who perform 2 or more important roles at once or striker characters who perform the traditional role of a special character (like Koharu, Kokona, Casual Sena with their healing or Camp Hare with her ATK hyperbuff). Flexibility in teambuilding is very important in all forms of content, but especially raids. While her crit buffing isn't nearly as potent as Ako's and her cost support isn't as good as Ui's, the combination of these two still makes her really strong, if you use her EX on a character whose EX costs at least 5, you effectively buff their Crits for free, which means that she silently performs an additional important role, which is skill cycling, for free. If the EX cost is 7 or more, you effectively get paid to use her EX. If you upgrade NYFuuka's EX skill to 5, it starts costing 2 EX, meaning that EX costs of 5 now effectively pay you to use her skill. This also means that you open up another slot for a much needed character, be it another debuffer for Greg, or a DEF shredder for bosses with a lot of DEF like Binah, or another unit with a crowd control skill for Hod, or another healer if your units are squishy etc.

Keep in mind, some of these versatille students aren't worth it due to their low numbers but most of them are. If unsure, just look up some video or tier list website those are usually bang on the money when it comes to which characters are good and which aren't and they explain how.
 
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