В Honkai: StarRail Closed beta testing of version 4.5 has begun with SP versions of familiar characters - Galowian Robins и top manager of AventurineIt's known that the next stop on the Star Express exploration route will be Star City, a resort in the KMM region. As a result, banners will feature variations of heroes with summer-themed skills and animations, and their Paths and damage types will be modified to suit. current meta.
The animations and skill descriptions were taken from closed beta data by insiders. They may be tweaked or completely changed by the developers before the patch releases.
Robin Clearwater (Memory: Windy) - buffer and secondary damage dealer for Memory squadsDuring combat, the girl gradually accumulates charges of "Mood" to summon three summer birds and create a zone. The zone allows allies to ignore a percentage of enemy defense, and also increases damage taken by all enemies within it.
This ultimate boosts one hero's attack power by 100% and restores their energy. The trails contain a buff based on the boosted character's stats: if their attack power is higher than Robin's ATK, their attack power is increased; if it's lower, their critical damage is increased.
Aventurine Surf (Joy: Quantum) — An AoE damage dealer whose abilities allow for both playing in Radost teams and without them. Requires high Haste (up to 260) and is further increased by his Ultimate during combat.
Through Traces, he receives a huge boost to critical damage for any allied action. If he's in a squad with Joy heroes, he increases his own Joy by 100%. Otherwise, he more effectively accumulates stacks of his personal passive and Humor when other characters perform actions.
On E2, Robin, like the number, records damage in addition to the actual damage, and then the recorded damage is returned as a bonus by the birds. On the Phaenon run, after one cycle of the ult and then exiting the domain, the birds were dealing several million damage, which was hilarious.
Nikke is currently running a summer event, and I got Cinderella's swimsuit version for 20 spins. She's not just a stylish character, but also incredibly meta. In min-maxing tests, she even outperformed Red Hood in Iron in terms of damage.
Somehow the animations are just complete crap, just pure bullshit.
Skins for the price of a character. Just lazy buck farming.
It's incredibly counterintuitive. Making skins and selling them at a fixed price is much easier than fiddling with animations and skillsets.
Scheme: skins-new character-skins for him, in combination, will bring more money than this.
So they're not lazy. They're weird.
FEH and FGO have been doing this for years, ever since they launched, and they're making no money, whether it's on consoles, mobile, or PC. Half the game is already about throwing candy, hearts, pumpkins, Christmas trees, beach balls, and other seasonal paraphernalia at each other. The other half is fan service, featuring panties, miniskirts, size 5s, and muscular men in thongs. Both franchises have been doing this for about 10 years now, though not their main games, but rather gacha games based on past and current releases.
Europeans love this kind of crap, and they make it to suit their budgets. Regular skins without additional stats are mostly only profitable in the Asian market.
So I wouldn't be surprised to see Feixiao wielding a Christmas tree instead of a halberd, or Jin Yuan summoning Santa and beating his enemies with a candy cane. The Japanese have long been successfully exploiting this theme for Westerners.
The rails are made by the Chinese and they don't really like the Japanese.
Plus, these games get most of their money… from China itself. And Japan. Because that's where male gamers have forgotten how to interact with people and spend 15 hours a day in offices.
Europeans have nothing to do with this at all.
The Chinese don't care who they work for as long as they're getting paid. They're a mercantile nation, and they don't shy away from anything that brings in money.
And don't let me tell you about spreading those myths about sweatshop workers masturbating to 2D girls—in both Japan and South Korea, most people drink, not play games. Besides, alcohol is a great help in relationships in those countries.
Try searching for information about how the Chinese operate. And how government regulators impose requirements and monitor compliance.
Yeah, yeah, the Chinese are alcoholics, and so are the Japanese. Whatever you say, but I'd rather look at the income charts, even if they're incomplete.
By the way, you might try to find some info about the latest scandal with LADS. It's clear there that the Chinese are only interested in drinking.
For Chinese, alcohol is part of the culture; they drink a lot and with pleasure. Many dishes are made with alcohol, or rather, cooked directly in it. If you think drinking means you'll end up with a permanent black eye, well, that's your alcohol problem. Most people are perfectly capable of regulating their intake without causing poisoning.
You need to know how to read charts. If 30% of your income from the US isn't enough for you, then the economy is probably a buy-and-sell proposition for you. And the fact that margins in the Chinese market are extremely low is probably a minor detail.
And don't confuse PR scandals with the average sweatshop worker, who supposedly doesn't exist simply because they've become offices. Honestly, she's an old woman who judges a nation based on the scandals of public figures.
And what the hell are they incomplete for? MiHoYo Co., Ltd., like any other joint-stock company, lists its shares annually, otherwise their shares wouldn't have entered the international market.
There is no division into "USA - not US" ))0
Dude, you're living in some kind of self-written mess. Not only is there no point in arguing, but the text itself is still just soup.
Go ahead, tell someone about Chinese alcoholism somewhere in a dispensary.
Where are they, in professional financial analysts or full financial reports? Yeah, exactly, she's an old woman, with no financial, cultural, or medical knowledge—but she makes judgments about everything based on her meager, superficial knowledge, all without ever leaving her own well. A frog is a frog everywhere.
Drinking isn't the same as alcoholism, not by WHO standards, nor by any other country's standards. It's just something old ladies on benches do; they lack the imagination for more. It's the simple snobbery of ignorant people trying to look better through ostentatious piety, while underneath, it's a real dump beneath the glossy façade.
Global financial reporting standards, as well as those in major countries, including China, require reporting income and expenses separately for each country, including paying taxes to each country. That's how international financial law works, and joint-stock companies have additional requirements. If you don't want to work under it, sit and sell cigarettes and beer at a kiosk—the reporting there is simpler (purchases, sales, leasing expenses). Your thinking is tailored to the kiosk/tent level; the only thing higher is bankruptcy.
Where you never got. In Google search.
Okay, stop it. My ICQ crashes every time I start reading this.
So don't read it, especially if that's the only thing you care about. Otherwise, maybe they'll love your child less. How can someone who clings to the crowd's opinion survive such a tragedy?
In a perfect vacuum, yes. Fewer production stages, lower costs.
It also depends on power creep and the character's popularity. But really, what's stopping them from making skins while the character is in the meta? They're making really weird decisions.
By the way, for those who have seen the information from future updates, is Zaryanka only playable in Memory squads, or is there some kind of alternative option?
She also pairs well with bonus attacks (literally better than Aventurine lol), Saber + Gilgamesh, and Sili. She might also pair well with Himeko, but from what I've heard, Zaryanka can't always maintain full uptime for her buffs and has counter-synergy with E2.
Oh, maybe it will be with Saber and Gilgamesh, that's encouraging, thanks for the information :)
Is this SP Zaryanka designed for your Darkness E2? How does it fit with Kastoria E2 instead of Darkness? Or does Darkness have stronger Eidolons for a Kass pack?
Some leakers say she plays well with Himeko: Nova, so she probably won't be in the memory team.
Kastoria and Darkness are characters that play a HP-burning style, where the base stat is each team member's max HP (especially Kastoria). Why would they need a character with an ATK bias? For CU, they could have used a robin jet. Of the entire Kastoria pack, Darkness is the only one that gets a buff based on the number of teammates with memory.
Basically, no one ever wrote about the robin being a Kastoria character; they wrote that it would allow a replacement—and those are two different things. It's more suited to Midea, Aglaya, and possibly Phaenon.
Robin SP does not scale from attacks.