Another amazing Simulated Universe update. Firefly, TB, Ruan Mei and Gallagher team is strong af

anyone here playing ZZZ?

yeah

tho the tv mode sucks and kills my desire to progress every time it pops up

wuthering waves also had much more enjoyable combat which makes zzz lackluster by comparison

don't think i'll be playing zzz in the long run, just need wuwa on ps5 bc i'm too lazy to play an action game on pc

That TV mode is exactly why I'm probably not sticking with it. Everything aside from that is great, but I don't need another Hoyo gacha stealing my money. The VPN top ups sure as hell help though lol

Kinda surprised WuWa didn't launch on console. Could've sworn they confirmed PS5 when they first revealed it a couple years back, but might just be misremembering. Feel like it's a matter of time though.

Yeah Hoyo got enough of my money with firefly and I still didn't get E2 damnit

Yea if the game could just be about getting to gameplay then it'd be much more enjoyable. I also don't really like the design of the city. "Walk here, press x, exit building, walk here, press x."

It reminds of starfield where it just feels to menu oriented to go from place A to place B

I hope they'll update things and maybe a year from now it'll be ab better experience

Given the PC WuWa launched with issues the console version probably got some kinks they need to workout

Agreed. The menus/UI also just feels terrible too. I genuinely have no idea what I'm looking at half the time. Though I'm sure most things will be in a good shape a year from now.

And yeah, that's fair. Fortunately Kuro's been pretty quick on the fixes.

i actually dont mind the tv mode since it usually just leads to fights anyway. however, if they can pull off some actual puzzles with all of the different tiles like bomberman bombs, tracks, boxes and springs etc that unlock later, it could be a real game mode in itself

havent played WuWa yet (since its not on consoles) so i can't compare combat but ive been having plenty of fun fighting. guess it helps that i lucked into pulling a variety of characters already with the story and event funds

the town is stupid small and will definitely get tiring. there should be other hubs on the horizon though, right?

my main issue rn is if i want to give mihoyo my money again lol i dropped genshin a bit ago and never got into star rail but this is one might get me again

VPN to Japan on your phone/PC, go to the Hoyo top up website, and get 20-25% off

Haven't tried it on ZZZ, but I'd imagine it works fine there. No issues on Genshin or Star Rail (or WuWa) and I've done it a number of times within the past month. Genshin's almost 40% off if you VPN to Ukraine w/ an Epic Games account

yeah it works lol

Got zzz working on steam deck but I’m not crazy about the gotcha stuff and I’m not gonna spend any money

This s*** is f***ing gas. Gameplay hard, technobabble hard, varied character designs, love the music and aesthetic. It's like a splatoon-y jet set, wrapped in a p5 bow

And it's Parry combat without trying to be a souls, thank f***. More like a nier-like with persona dungeon navigation

shark maid
should zzz have its own thread? idk many people here will play it

This shark tailed girl is living rent free. I need her

They made the banner discs so rare there’s no way I can pull 90 times for free. S*** is so manipulative smfh

very manipulative lol but at least it's possible to get to the s-rank pity on the shark girl banner with just the current story and event rewards + the sub-objectives. other than the initial 1.9 pulls that interknot mem gave me (via jp site for $3), i was able to her that way

The shark maid in ZZZ looks cool as f*** but I'm not being tricked into playing another gacha game with limited character and weapon banners

how is it ? kinda want to try it but never played any of these games

wait this game be dumb but do you need a playstation online account to play ZZZ on PS5?

would rather play it on there then pc

ive been enjoying it so far as its paced similarly to an actual game like P4 or Astral Chain imo. there's plenty of dialogue, which seems to be turning people off, but I don't mind it atm since its mostly voiced and, i feel, entertaining. the story is kinda 'slice of life' / lower stakes right now with the worldbuilding being set up

another aspect that isn't being received that well is the tv set exploration mode that the proxy (you) enters in between fights in the hollows. at the point im at in the story, there are a number of modifiers, tilesets, etc for a pseudo-roguelite puzzle that adds a little strategy while you make your way to the next combat phase. however, this mode also has dialogue that halts progress for a moment...can get annoying

the real star is the character action gameplay which is easy to jump into but has a little more to it with the perfect evades/parries that are mixed in to prevent mashing.

but gacha is.........well gacha. its gambling, straight up, and can get very addicting which is usually enough to not approach and understandably so. the early game is full of accessible funds for banner pulls for now but the majority of the game will be doing a few objectives day to day for upgrade materials and a paltry amount of tapes (this game's wishes) if any just like it was in genshin (and im sure star rail)

so im having a lot of fun rn* lol

and no you dont need psn to play

gonna give it a try im so cheap i definitely won’t participate in the gambling part

dont get me wrong, its perfectly possible to stay 'free to play'. its just that those slot machines can be enticing whenever they drop a new character so just be careful lol

I’ve saved up 11 limited discs and 5k polychromes. I’m actually shook to use them

Spent everything. Nothing but garbage. I think I’ll stop playing now…