>>1173509 The annoying "schizos" in the halfchan thread are mostly from /hsrg/ and /gig/ (they're lesbians from /lolg/ and /gbfg/ by the way) and scorned part 1 fags who hate part 2 so if you have any questions about the game the latter will still give you a straight answer.

Rita finally got a new suit, too bad the games pretty much dead now.

>>1218507 Holy SEXXXXXXXXXXXX

>>1218507 I'll post the video when I get off from work.

>>1218507 The outfit showcase always looks like a porno shot will all those closeups and poses. Can't wait to see some Sexrita outfits in the future.

>>1218507 Full lowres video. This new Rita suit feels like Mihoyo handwaving the signal that they're done pretending to be retarded with part 2 lole. When are they ever going to release Vita's bodysuit as a skin though.

>>1223534 Rita proving yet again she always had and always will be best girl.

While the schizos are battling out to steal the OP from Elysia's birthday on 4kanker, I'm staying here. >>1223865 If they fucked up Rita, I'm finally jumping ship. Fortunately, they didn't. Mihoyo still has it and it can't be repressed any longer.

Holy shit the halfchan thread fucking sucks. It was getting bad before when part 2 launched but now it's completely overrun by Twitter shitters who, frankly, shouldn't be there in the first place. Rapeape should kill himself for allowing that shithole to rot under the weight of fat lesbian women and transexuals.

Is there any place where I can find decent story summaries? I forgot a bit more than I thought I would and I feel that the in-game summaries aren't completely refreshing my memory of the in-game events.

I'm not surprised that /hig/ is also on here, but I never knew before. Since I just recently returned to Honkai Impact, I haven't browsed /hig/ in quite some time. The state of /hig/ on 4chin reminds me of /vt/ - you won't be surprised that my home thread on /vt/ is also on 8/vyt/, it very much the same, a colony to visit during streams and when 4/vt/ just gets too retarded, overran by schizos, you get the idea. I'm that guy who had the idea of making a /hig/ divegrass team for the VGL. I'm still around, there's just not that much to talk about right now. If you're interested, I could show you some archived matches of that independant /hi3/ team or even my VTL team so you might get a picture of what things would look like with me.

Does anyone here play GGZ?

>>1228664 Post em.

Inoue was recently interviewed by PASH magazine on her role as Elysia. Posting it here if anyone cares.

>>1229335 Alright, here are /hi3/'s one victory at DBC last year https://implying.fun/video/dbc5/2024-12-08/2/?t=1:47:59.0 and here's another match played at another event: https://implying.fun/video/akko5/2024-10-04/1/?t=2:37:27.0 Since /hi3/ isn't connected to /hig/, that team doesn't compete in the VGL, but instead "unofficial" tournaments against (mostly) other unofficial teams. That VTL team I manage is /mint/, a thread on 4/vt/ and 8/vyt/ about the Vtuber Mint Fantôme. Here's the opening to our VTL9 campaign which might be a good showcase how my co-manager over there and me do stuff: https://implying.fun/video/vtl9/2025-09-13/?t=15:15.0

They should have released these stigmata

>>1232852 Gonna check this out later when I'm not busy. >/hi3/ isn't connected to /hig/ ehhh???? That's odd. I did remember someone was asking for a divegrass manager there 2 years ago and I thought nothing came out from it. I'm not really surprised since /hig/ is pretty much a shell of its former self and a hangout of /gig/ imbeciles nowadays. >>1251922 They truly have lost the plot when the best they could come up next year was Rita. Not countersignaling Rita's new suit, it's just that they should've just made APHO 3 a thing instead of trying to resuscitate part 2. Sin Mal would've been a good candidate for a new battlesuit but that ship sailed 2 years ago.

Since I'm going through the story content to catch up I might as well jot down my thoughts on them as I clear them, maybe get some different thoughts from those that were there at the time. Was thinking of posting in the other site but considering the presence of Elysia in ER and a later main chapter I'd rather not set off whatever schizo(s) there that seem to have a vendetta against her that would derail discussion. >ER Ch1 Was a bit lost with what Mei was exactly trying to find in the Realm, starting out she only says she's looking for 'answers', maybe it's something that was mentioned previously but I just forgot during my break from the game. Felt pretty lacking in direction, which would be fine if it was just side content to learn more about the flame-chasers, but even early on I wasn't sure what the point of introducing them was, they don't really have any effect on the main plot, being dead and all that. Story's fine I guess, figured at the time that it was mostly just establishing the characters before Mei gets deep into the Previous Era's history. Didn't have much to say about the characters; Kevin is slightly more talkative than the real counterpart, but is still Kevin, i.e. not very interesting since he just talks in riddles. Eden is a bit bland, Kalpas is kind of annoying, Sakura and Hua are okay, I found Su pretty interesting, since he talks like a normal person for the most part, while still being knowledgeable about MOTH. Elysia's a bit of an odd one out, she's way more positive considering the nature of the Previous Era's tragedy, though there's some hints that she just buries the memories alongside with her own past, could've be an interesting thing to explore but I have a feeling that doesn't happen in the chapter focusing on her. Not sure what the schizo-tier fuss over her is though, she seems pretty benign so far. Mei's dynamic with them all is amusing, she's fairly polite but still stern enough to tell them to not waste her time with riddles, had some worries that the lack of focus on what she was trying to find would cause problems in the writing later on. There were a few moments where Mei tells someone to get to the point or Elysia in picrel almost felt like the writers having a moment of self-awareness, but I guess being aware of a flaw doesn't mean one is obliged to do anything about it Didn't really like having to do shallow/deep dives in between each story segment, made it a bit of a slog, even with the thing that lets you skip them >Thus Spoke Apocalypse/Kolosten Had a pretty miserable time with this honestly. Really hit the ground running by having a filler conversation between Fu Hua and Einstein that reads less like small talk and more like they're reading off a script as one of the first things that happens - though that was one me, I should've expected that honestly. Figuring out what Otto was up to and how he planned to revert time was interesting, but it was let down by all the technobabble. I really grew to hate how things are explained during this arc, someone will just exposition-dump for several lines with a bunch of proper nouns and gibberish, and then a second character will explain that again but with normal terms, effectively just explaining the same thing twice, I don't think Mihoyo ever learnt of the 'Brevity is the soul of wit' thing. I think the writing was always like this but I never noticed because chinese writing was all I knew and so my standards were just that low. Story wasn't even that great or memorable either due to the reliance on technobabble, The fight between Fu Hua and that other girl I forgot was played up to be a big deal, but just ended being an exposition dump, and then there's the Herrscherr of Binding (or at least it's power?) that shows up as a barrier near the end, but the solution is 'just shoot it lmao', even though the thing that destroys it is Bronya's constructs, which shouldn't even affect it since it's made from Honkai energy that the barrier negates??? The 'open area' thing doesn't benefit the game at all in my eyes, especially since it just makes it harder to go back to a certain point in the story to reread something, and the sidequests are just stupid and a waste of time, so I ignored them. But when I finally got past it and unlocked an extra side story about Rita shortly after the main chapter's events, I realised that it was a shittier ER, and progression in it was extremely difficult without the upgrades from the open area's side quests, and so I begrudgingly returned to the city. Didn't read any of the side-quest dialogue obviously, I can not be convinced that dialogue from a sidequest about setting down mousetraps or collecting ingredients for some dude to make a casserole is even worth the dignity of being read. Got enough upgrade chips to progress somewhat smoothly (even if slowly) and one of the missions in it was just Rita on a beach with the objective being to knock down mechs with a ball. A filler mission. In a filler side-story. That almost needed me to clear filler side-quests to even progress. I felt like I was losing my mind because I just started laughing when I saw the ocean and the popup explaining what I had to do, I couldn't believe it what I was seeing, how stretched out is this side story if there's a filler beach episode this early, and it wants me to do like 35 more of these missions!? Mindlessly cleared that 'mission' before leaving the chapter and deciding never to come back to that cursed city. A lot of this arc just felt like a blur, or maybe a smear is closer. Completely agonizing to experience.

I was digging through the game files and Keqing actually has a battlesuit name "Driving Thunder". It's too bad she was never made playable...

>>1258799 If anyone wants to know more, unfortunately there isn't much else. She has fragments coded in but there's no data to make her 'playable' as far as I can tell. She has no graphics, although she does have skills. Either way she's been marked as unplayable client side so even if you use an emulator that puts her in your inventory she won't show up. Her name is missing too for some reason. And as we all know she did have a second costume that was shortly removed for some reason

>>1259063 Keqing was deleted from the game files after the Genshin collab event. They apparently were planning to add her in the game but never went through with it.

I am claiming this thread in the name of Guns GirlZ.

>>1255332 Well, an odd thing to say when 4/hig/ is once again so utterly bad that I feel like spending some time at the outpost and not there. If /hig/ would be connected to /hi3/, you would have heard something in the meantime, would have had a say in how things are run (the squad, music, aesthetics and such) and, most obviously, /hig/ would play in the VGL with other threads.

>>1258786 >ER Ch2-3 Maybe it was because I was trying to binge through it all and just got tired and burnt out, but it just felt like I was going through the motions with it. I still didn't have a solid grasp on what Mei was trying to find in this simulation space, despite Mihoyo's usual writing method of repeating the same thing a dozen times over, which was very suspicious. The introductions of Pardofelis onward all felt like one big filler arc within a filler arc, Vill-V's was probably the most egregious one because she just interrupts the usual arena combat to make you do stage tricks for her - It continued the trend of me just being baffled by what I was witnessing. The whole Aponia mini-arc felt really pointless too, she just goes "Oooo I'm gonna kill you in ten days and you can't do anything ooooo", I mean, Mei challenging Kalpas to a fight was an interesting solution, but that doesn't go anywhere, I thought that monologue from Mei about taking control of fate was going to lead to some growth, insight, or even a cliche powerup but no, nothing happened, Aponia just intervenes so ultimately that whole sequence was pointless. Aponia's fight was kind of shitty too, some of the butterflies she throws out are barely visible, and she scrambles your controls if enough of them hit you. Playing as Raven for a bit was neat I guess. Oh and Elysia's the 13th Herrscher, or was rather. Sure I guess, just throw a wrench into my barely lucid mind at the last minute for me to wrack my head over. Two possibilities were in my head at the time of the initial reveal; Either she was always a Herrscher - which doesn't make much because you'd think MOTH or even other Herrschers would notice, and how would she be 13th in line if she came before any of the others? Or second, She became a Herrscher very late into the PE's timeline - which makes less sense because some of the log entries clearly imply that she's aware of herself enough to make jokes foreshadowing her own nature. Had other questions like; How did she keep it under wraps for so long? What kept her from being hostile? Mobius outright called her a traitor so clearly some of them had an idea, so why didn't they do anything, knowing how Herrschers were viewed back then? Annoyingly even after clearing To the Flawless I didn't get answers to most of them. Kind of a dead fish of an arc in my opinion, didn't feel offensive like the Kolosten torture city, but just felt like a wasted opportunity to learn about the PE and to see Mei grow a bit. >To The Flawless A weird chapter, lots of mixed thoughts on this. Some shitposters made it sound like it was the product of the antichrist but honestly while I didn't outright hate it I found it to be riddled with flaws that just made it awkward. I did write/talk about it at length on the 'other' halfchan thread to probe for potential discussion - and surprisingly there were actual thoughts thrown around that wasn't just screeching, until the next thread had Elysia in the OP, opening the floodgates to the belligerents and completely killing any chance of rational thought there. To re-iterate some of the thoughts I had 'over there' - but with a bigger character count this time, it just felt like a messy byproduct of a team of writers that never cleared up obvious narrative issues early-on. The whole thing about the Flame Chaser's is that they're dead, their stories are done, so dedicating an entire arc just for them near the end of the main story's plot was never going to sit well with anyone invested in the game, not to mention that most of said FC's are just filler characters (see above). If anything the writers just doubled down on what flaws ER had, putting in more filler, more plot holes and inconsistencies, putting more focus on Elysia at the cost of everyone - including Elysia even, and still no development from Mei. How does one get 'born a Herrscher' without the need of a host? No clue, the story never elaborates. How did no one catch on to Elysia's nature? Dunno, they were just dumb or something. It raises all these questions, yet answers none of them, there was no point actually thinking about anything at all, so ultimately I just felt unsatisfied and disappointed. The mini-arc with the HoC showing up and turning the chapter into a murder mystery could have been interesting, but it drags on for so long across the huge cast that the final episodes just get rushed through and it just felt like a blur. Near the end they even slip in a line that seems to suggest that CE Herrschers being able to retain their humanity is thanks to Elysia, which is just weird, from what I (vaguely) remember PE Herrschers weren't that different, they were just more brutal in response to Humanity being more brutal and cutthroat, it just undermines the struggle Kiana, Mei, Welt, etc. went through to preserve their humanity when some writer just slips in that it was thanks to their OC. And the weird minigames before you actually fight Elysia in her Herrscher form, like the crane thing? The fuck was that, and why? Again, just baffling that someone actually implemented that. I can't even bring myself to dislike the primary suspect - Elysia - either (I kind of like her even), if anything she's just as much of a victim of the writer's ineptitude as everyone else. They hint and tease all of these potential angles to her; secrets and burdens she keeps buried to uphold her facade, doubts that supposedly haunt her, some sort of fear of being forgotten, but they don't do anything with them! They put so much effort into trying to make her out to be some flawless saviour that everyone in both eras owe thanks to that they forgot the actual flaws they set up for her that would've actually made her character more human and interesting. I mean, wouldn't it she be so much more interesting if the flashbacks actually showed her grappling between risking the MOTH torture machines or being remembered as a traitor, before finding the resolve to face death with dignity, and showing MOTH that they were in the wrong, even if too late? I at least think so. I was astonished that her VA managed to convey her buried melancholy in her final exchanges with Mei in those last minutes better than the writer's could in the entire chapter. I wish I could've seen a version of this that was written by someone with the skill to fully realise this, because there are traces of a decent story (that might not need to retcon anything either), even with the handicap that it's still disconnected from the main plot. The mix of tedious padding and unanswered questions just made it really frustrating on a level I struggle to describe fully. The only other time I felt this way was when I read an equally contentious and heavily flawed chapter for another gacha (Blue Archive), where the thought 'This could've been actually decent instead of kind of this mess' kept crossing my mind.

>>1258786 You wrote a lot of text which makes it difficult to answer you. Back then, imagine both ER and Kolosten being time-gated on top of all the filler material. It was a slog, it was slow, both of these massively overstayed their welcome. About ER, the saving grace is that the game mode is fun, really. It has been much more fun when it first dropped, mind you. It was great for older valks, but finishing Finality with HoRBeele in 2 mins is just ridiculous. The flame chasers... they exist. I disliked that so many of them are guys. It was so odd to introduce so many new characters, it felt like many lacked the depth of the established cast. Elysia will get annoying very quickly in subsequent chapters. It's just too much pink and felt as if she doesn't even have any agency or conflict. Her character arc just feels shallow for all the screen time she gets: It's like everything is just about showing her off. Kiana is also always positive, never gives up and she's as solid as a rock in everything she believes in, but they just feel so extremely different. >>1259635 I mean, she was playable in parts of the event. Perhaps it's just that. >>1296689 When I answer your post about To The Flawless, you should know that this made me quit the game back in the days, so I'm heavily biased. It's odd that you didn't even acknowledge the typewriter which was a huge meme and target of ridicule in /hig/ back in '22 when this dropped. Perhaps these chapters (once again, it's several, so this snail paced story that all feels like some filler arc was time gated and therefore split up yet again, slowing it down even more in your playing experience) might explain better why I compared pink and Tuna: Both are unmoving in their beliefs, do what they have to do, their outlook on life is very similar and very positive. Elysia, however, feels bland and shallow. We saw Kiana go through hell and back, but she has always been human and herself. Elysia's struggles feel odd, some outright contradict the logic of the universe (how can you be born a Herrscher?). I'm running in circles at this point, saying the same over and over again. The core of what I'm trying to say is that I experienced those chapters similarly to you plus time gates. It was very frustrating to play.

I still think the whole Mei joining world serpent thing was kinda retarded considering World Serpent was shown to be terrible people earlier

>>1297243 >It's odd that you didn't even acknowledge the typewriter Oh yeah. That thing. To be honest, I had completely forgotten about it because of how pointless it was to the plot - and also because I wrote the other wall of text late at night and was not operating at full capacity. Looking back, if Mei wanted to 'find answers', the method to do that was right there in front of her, yet all the typewriter even does in the chapter(s) is yell "Oops Elysia's dead (and Kevin too)" and get smashed. Why even have that in the story at all? Your comparison between Kiana and Elysia is pretty good, they're both very positive and have strong beliefs, but since Kiana actually went through tangible struggle and growth, she just feels more well rounded and properly utilised. Elysia could have had something similar with her realisation that she's a Herrscher, that could've been a pretty existential matter in the context of the Previous Era, but nothing comes out of that. I won't speak more on that though, I've harped on about the wasted opportunities enough. I'm still kind of annoyed with To The Flawless, Elysia could've been interesting but the writer's just decided to prop her up like some kind of medal/trophy. There's a line from Otto I remembered from the Kolosten arc where he mentions that assuming Kallen was perfect and without flaws was a fatal mistake from him that I kept thinking about, it's like the writer's have no self-awareness.

Since i dont feel like dealing with the schizos' and their ptsd over her on hlafchan (and they're already shitting up the /hsrg/ over the belated pink birthday thread). What team does Love ely even run? my only part 2 characters are chinkiana from the carnival gacha (no weapon though), HoHE ely with the DK sparkle, and thelema. Also when is the orange yoyo goddess coming back? i wasnt playing during the months they put her in the BP shop so i didnt have enough to buy her. WIll she have a banner or obtainable some other way or am i just fucked

>>1255332 Why not both, APHO with Rita, people have been begging for her in it for years.

So Mihoyo is a woman's company now?

Apparently I was so desperate to get out of Kolosten that I didn't notice chapters 27-28 tucked away in a way that made them look like extra side missions. Thankfully they barely involved the shithole city, and were a lot shorter. The Durandal mini-arc was kind of weird, I'm guessing the 'Will of Stigma' is some kind of reflection of Kevin that wants to keep Humanity as-is rather than transform them. Durandal being revealed as Kiana is a bit odd, but sure, whatever, Siegfried apparently being alive/conscious and being locked up in some torture chamber by Kevin on the other hand is completely insane. Why do I need to know this, why would Kevin even do that, how's the dude even alive after having a bomb dropped on him in the 2nd eruption. It kind of gets swept under the rug so I guess it's not going to be brought up again soon, if ever. Chapter 28 was decent, was cool seeing Otto's plans throughout the whole game up to this point actually pay off. Still has the usual technobabble nonsense, but it didn't take long overall, and I do think the chapter ended on a fairly high note considering everything else. I'm probably going to miss this scheming shithead after this sendoff though. Amazing how much more 'tolerable' the pacing was when it didn't involve the stupid open-world/area crap to pad stuff out.