r/HonkaiAgendaRail

From his post, we also learned that the original ZZZ team had only 20 people, and that by the time the project reached its second anniversary, it had been in development for 6 years.

The artist himself had been nurturing the idea of developing a farming game for nearly 20 years. He had also shared this idea with Zhenyu two years earlier, which gave him the courage to finally make this decision.

Bonus: Although he has left, Atwo_A2 said that if Teacher Y ever gets turned into a meme, he’ll leak it into the ZZZ work chat group. In other words, they’ll still keep in touch and communicate with each other when necessary.

For anyone wondering it's from the revealed character sheets from Hoyo

Let's actually just look at this objectively for a second:

SRobin legitimately is his Novaflare. We've primarily seen Nova's work in tandem with new or very-recently-released characters.

• HuoHuo Nova works with Elation
• Sparkle Nova honestly kicked Sunday out of Phainon teams, but also worked with Archer probably to set up new Fate banners
• Jing and OG Blade Nova's in order to work with Hyacine
• BlackSwan Nova to work more fluidly with DOT archetype and ''recent'' Hysilens release (emphasis on "recent")
  • Hysilens also reran right after this
• FF nova - just because she's CN and Hoyo's baby, but probably also to re-sell Dahlia on rerun
• Seele Nova pretty much the only true "1.x char and needed it"
• Welt Nova in prep for HimeNova

Sunday's slot has either already been taken by Sparkle, or is about to be taken by SRobin. His Nova would have to put him in an equal-or-better spot (better is probably pushing it, so at least equal).

Essentially, his Nova would take away from SRobin sales, and they're both filling similar spots.

• Quick tangent about this, I also think this is exactly why there's no Nova announcement for 4.6. This may be the only saving grace to the idea that he might get a Nova. If they dripped Sunday Nova in 4.6, no one owning or wanting Sunday would pull SRobin. Instead, Hoyo makes the playerbase believe he's not getting one, then players pull SRobin, Hoyo then announces 4.7 Nova's with Sunday.

But if we're not playing "Honkai: Future Rail", then even elsewhere, places Sunday could go (MDPS Saber, Seele, etc), those slots either don't exist (MDPS Saber is now Saber/Gil and SRobin is about to be BIS, with RMC currently filling, or MBlade/E1Tribbie), or he'd have to have better value than Sparkle (Hypercarry Seele, Archer), and he's not about to replace SP hungry teams that Sparkle occupies.

He also has a whole kit that's been powercrept, rather than needing minor tweaks to make him workable. Released in 2.x:

• 20% CR - at this point this just makes up for poor DPS builds
  • We have a myriad of ways to hit 100% CR nowadays
• CD - most modern DPS come with loads in their kit, and CD is a diminishing-return stat
• DMG - newer supports are giving loads of ATPR/DEF Shred/etc. Once-rare stats are now becoming more common

Meta archetypes are also getting locked-in

• Archer/Rin = pretty locked, either sustain gets replaced or a new SP support replaces Sparkle
• Saber/Gil = If Sunday gave the buff he does in CW he may work here (everyone get's energy). Otherwise, SRobin goes here and Sunday would have to be equal-or-better (not happening)
• Elation - no
• HimeNova - currently only good with E0S1 sustain HimeNova, otherwise, there are a variety of better options
• MonoRem - no
  • including MDPS E9
• Hypercarry Seele - Sparkle does it better, SRobin also going on this team
• FUA - definitely not, now locked with Feixiao Wheelchair on Ashblade, or just Waventurine
• Acheron - now has Mblade, was never really great here
• Phainon, maybe. But again, needs a full kit rework
• Break - obviously not
• DOT - same as break

All that leaves are still semi-viable, but lower tier DPS - Mydei, Agalea, Therta, Anaxa. And Sunday benefiting them (maybe Anaxa, but again Cerydra, Cyrene, SRobin all do it much better), doesn't really do anything i.e. it's not an incentive for Hoyo.

I genuinely hope he gets a Nova for Sunday mains, but I don't even see it happening.

In the Gacha space as a whole. Acting like these games aren't designed to take advantage of consumers.

I'm curious to know what you all think because I swear it didn't used to be this bad.

Like, feel free to counter me on this because I might be looking with nostalgia bias. But back in Penacony, the state of the community felt more normal. Of course, toxicity or hostility still existed back then, and you might still find those here and there. But back then there were a lot of casuals, so those discussions got buried, or at least you didn't see it as much.

Fast forward to now, where the number of casuals is less than before; it feels like that balance is gone and we're left with more extreme members of the community.

I'm curious what you all think, because I lowkey want to check myself whether I'm tripping.

No one is as excited for yanqing’s sp reveal as hoyo is

It's so fun to fight and It always gets more fun and challenging as I fight it again I think this might be a marvel of boss design and hoyo should make more bosses like it in the future and I would like to see it more often!!!🥰🥰🥰❤️❤️❤️🥰❤️🥰🥰 We should thank the creators of this boss for making something so fun and engaging, thank you hoyo!!!!!🥰🥰❤️❤️🌹🌹

This is agenda is TRUTh and I will NOT accept otherwise

And no elation tb does NOT deserve T0

This is a new low for HSR 🥀

I think the Amber one took me the longest bc I couldn't think of anything and I'm too lazy to look up info

>!Would've split Aventurine's into two parts but it looked a little unfair to the other characters!<

I swear HSR wasn't that clingy on release.

what else could they do to make Nihilux un-skippable like Yaoguang 🤔

What's funny is that in spite of having the biased opinion that Silver Wolf is ahh, I always keep it a hundred on informative posts but somehow these people tend to show up on serious posts thinking there's a hidden agenda war happening somewhere, I'm dead 😭

So it's like yeah I do have an agenda it's just I am not pushing it currently broddy calm down 😭

That being said: evanesia is the goat she doesn't rely on Yao guang. sw could never