u/TheLuiz212

like, if you're not an online player, is this update a nothing burger? Nothing new to the table besides e-sports stuff?

Fatuiswap is not "what if X was sent to Mondstadt instead of Signora" but "what if each Harbinger occupied another Harbinger's narrative role while keeping their own core personality?"

So Childe taking Capitano's role doesn't mean Childe becomes Capitano with orange hair. The role changes the life they lived. The personality decides what survives.

Other swaps are also welcomed, ofc

let's say that next aniv the next major QoL is fate points (aka: guarantee) carrying over to next weapon banner

Is it actually a queer friendly game? Is it afraid of making boys and girls friends? (besides the magic twins) Why is there barely any male x female pairings in the game? Worse, pairings just get repetitive like they can't exist without the other.

I’m one of those players who usually tries to play every game on the highest difficulty possible, so my problem with the new difficulty update isn’t that the game got harder. I wanted it to get harder. A lot of us did. The problem is that what we have now doesn’t feel like challenge, it's just a stat abuse.

There’s a huge difference between losing to a strong human player and losing to the AI because it has inflated numbers far beyond what the player can reasonably match. Playing against a human using a Basara goalkeeper is one thing. Playing against the machine with orange goalkeeper with bloated stats is another beast entirely, because even when the AI plays worse than a real person, it can still win through sheer attrition.

The AI is listed as level 99, but its stats behave like somethin closer to a level 200 player. That breaks the logic of the game’s own progression system. If the opponent is level 99, its power should feel like level 99. Instead, the match becomes a numbers wall where the AI can take out your goalkeeper with one shot, while you may need dozens of shots just to break through theirs. At that point, the question is no longer “how well did I play?” but if you brought the exact build for a dps check and its not even that because you will suffer just to make a scratch on the GK with your strongest shots.

And that’s where the fun starts bleeding out. In a game with hundreds of characters, players should be encouraged to experiment with teams, playstyles, favorites, and weird combinations. If the only realistic way to win legendary matches is by using very specific compositions, the so called "meta", then what's the point of giving me the "everyone is here" option?

I’m fully in favor of harder content. Better AI, smarter positioning, more aggressive tactics, tighter defensive play, more dangerous special moves, all of that would be great. But inflating the AI’s stats past the level cap is the cheapest possible version of difficulty. If the game is going to give the opponent level 200-level stats, then players should be allowed to reach that same level too. Otherwise, it’s just an uneven fight dressed up as endgame content.

The defense that “the old games did this too” also doesn’t really work. The old games had the same problem. Extreme grind routes, level 99 routes, and absurd stat-check matches were mostly used by tryhards, completionists, or content creators chasing bragging rights. Most casual players either ignored them or bounced off because they weren’t meaningfully difficult, just exhausting. Bringing back an old flaw doesn’t magically turn it into good design.

I’m one of those players who usually tries to play every game on the highest difficulty possible, so my problem with the new difficulty update isn’t that the game got harder. I wanted it to get harder. A lot of us did. The problem is that what we have now doesn’t feel like challenge, it's just a stat abuse.

There’s a huge difference between losing to a strong human player and losing to the AI because it has inflated numbers far beyond what the player can reasonably match. Playing against a human using a Basara goalkeeper is one thing. Playing against the machine with orange goalkeeper with bloated stats is another beast entirely, because even when the AI plays worse than a real person, it can still win through sheer attrition.

The AI is listed as level 99, but its stats behave like somethin closer to a level 200 player. That breaks the logic of the game’s own progression system. If the opponent is level 99, its power should feel like level 99. Instead, the match becomes a numbers wall where the AI can take out your goalkeeper with one shot, while you may need dozens of shots just to break through theirs. At that point, the question is no longer “how well did I play?” but if you brought the exact build for a dps check and its not even that because you will suffer just to make a scratch on the GK with your strongest shots.

And that’s where the fun starts bleeding out. In a game with hundreds of characters, players should be encouraged to experiment with teams, playstyles, favorites, and weird combinations. If the only realistic way to win legendary matches is by using very specific compositions, the so called "meta", then what's the point of giving me the "everyone is here" option?

I’m fully in favor of harder content. Better AI, smarter positioning, more aggressive tactics, tighter defensive play, more dangerous special moves, all of that would be great. But inflating the AI’s stats past the level cap is the cheapest possible version of difficulty. If the game is going to give the opponent level 200-level stats, then players should be allowed to reach that same level too. Otherwise, it’s just an uneven fight dressed up as endgame content.

The defense that “the old games did this too” also doesn’t really work. The old games had the same problem. Extreme grind routes, level 99 routes, and absurd stat-check matches were mostly used by tryhards, completionists, or content creators chasing bragging rights. Most casual players either ignored them or bounced off because they weren’t meaningfully difficult, just exhausting. Bringing back an old flaw doesn’t magically turn it into good design.

the saboteur storyline had potential under bioware, but considering it requires player agency, and we can't have that anymore, I feel like this could be it for the plotline that went technically nowhere.

To be fair, few and fewer Saboteur options were showing up since 7.0 so I think it was a question of time to come to a point where they'd commit to the bit or delete it.