Just wait until Soul hears about the Firefly kit that got released. And that new alleged Sunday boss and how he hits over 7k+ damage with his special attack.
And the new multi layered toughness bars that are designed to shill characters like her, Ruan Mei and Boothill . And people PRAISE this stuff too because "at least they're adding stuff to the game" when the stuff being added are straight up strongarming and predatory shill mechanics 💀
Long term players like myself forget how difficult this game is in terms of investment. The beetle is actually impossible for a new player. As someone whos made a alt account I'm currently in the same position as you were, I can't beat the beetle because I haven't been playing for months. The power creep is insane and the investment required to beat the beetle is just not fair especially for a new player who doesn't have 5 stars to help bridge the investment gap. But yes if you a few five stars the game is super chill
my brother beat the Beetle and Argenti with Physical/FireMC, March and Dr. Ratio plus one other character playing the game for less than a month. He had a hard time yes but not as hard as people make it out to be just saying P.S. I breezed through the Beetle and Argenti with Dr. Ratio, Bronya and Sparkle heh
Dipped after 1.1 and came back in 2.1 -Penacony so far has been peak, it's not even exaggerated. Though I rushed through the Xianzhou arc, which felt tedious af. -The character checks are atrocious, especially with Pure fiction and the fucking beetles in gold and gears. -I surprised myself with how much i enjoyed the turnbased gameplay, i did not remember it being this fun (I also got Bronya pretty much day one of returning, which helped) -Burning through fuel and quests to level up characters meant my world level (equilibrium) also increased. Now at Eq5 and empty pockets, with a handful of lvl60 characters and a couple lvl70 characters -The resource demand is crazy, over a week's worth of resin (um akhchu-) just to get someone to lvl 70 with their traces and weapon. -I thought Genshin's artifact system is bad...good thing there isn't a emblem or Marachusse domain situation...yet. -Character check (again). It felt like I was playing on hard mode in early-mid game without a proper sustain. I now worship my Loucha -Speed and turns make my brain hurt. Also so much reading during any Simulated Universe or Gold &Gears (I'm EN 😭 😭)
Felt the same way in genshin. Joined a patch before sumeru and everything in inazuma (Inazuma in general) was absolutely scary. The samurai could 1-2 shot my characters, most the weekly bosses were nearly impossible to clear by my own. I guess the same applies to hsr. Maybe more since it power creeps faster?
Paimon being there or not doesn't change anything when the writing is still dogshit all the same regardless of her existence. Lmfao Anyways this game has March 7th, who is arguably just as annoying and high pitched so meh
I'm in a very weird situation. I wanna say I started somewhere around october of last year, or whenever Huohuo dropped. I remember struggling a little bit, but not to the extent being mentioned, probably because the Beetle boss hadn't released yet at the time. I wasn't able to complete a lot of the end game stuff yet but I did fully complete all the story/side content things they had completed. Now, I genuinely look back and wonder, if I had not just said "FUCK IT" and pulled Huohuo at the time I did, I genuinely wonder how screwed I would be in the content that came out after that, such as the beetle and such, I have no idea what would have happened and its honestly interesting to think of how my experience would have been had I not done that.
As someone who is a literal veteran for the game... yeah game is not new player friendly, I've recently started a new account and you describe a lot of the problems. Too much content that its overwhelming, dialogue heavy, powercreep at its finest, and etc. Especially the new content. If you want to play the new content, unlike Genshin, you have to dedicate a good week or two, even three to get to that content and so on. But I know the game is in good hands and will definitely improve on that new player experience soon
If you think that's crazy for new players you havent played any other gacha. Hoyo is very friendly. My friend is the most lucky person i have ever witnessed he built after like two weeks a account better then most people prolly lmao it's honestly scary.
@@chaosinfernoid9008 I have played other gachas, Im glad that these games are still new player friendly, but even then, it still has some problems. For example: The beetle, even if you have a cracked account, you still need to invest a lot of your time into farming relics and other materials, especially since new characters want those new drops. Besides, I was only summarizing on what I know, coming in as a "new" player. I can still see some of its glaring weaknesses for new players and may discourage them from advancing their account or outright make them quit.
it didn`t feel bad or that i needed to rush anything, i started at 2.0 and i immediately knew how things were gonna go, i`d even say it`s way better than genshin, less boring and with better story, from the get go and how the maps were built i knew this game was gonna be more generous than genshin in everything, the bettle was very easy in story mode, but i beat him when i was level 50-40 and didn`t think much of it, i lterally just used natasha, acheron, clara and pela, until now the most challenge i faced was getting xianqing and his lightcone, worst character i have ever seen in a gacha
people that say HSR doesn't have powercreep are the ones that either spend money or f2ps that no-life the crap out of the game and are able to get all the resourses and characters they need. case and point, i was unemployed for the entire 2 months after penacony released and without spending a thing i was able to get black swan for my kafka, dhil's lightcone for my dhil, sparkle for my dhil, and acheron + lightcone.
@@Not_Kritikal hsr gives you a ton of jades with SU, MoC+PF updates, Swarm disaster runs, Gold and Gears runs and quests give you 100 jades each! they are a ton more generous than genshin, you just need the time for all the that
@@cristianavideira2545 you don't need to be no lifer to get all the above mentioned rewards It takes mei 3 min to clear my dailes and another 3 min to use up my resin If I don't feel like using it i convert it into sim uni chips Each Sunday i do my 2 sim uni runs and one gng run If they have events they have around 20 days time for each event anyways I spend like 20 min on events reading all the dialogue Then if the story updates drop I do it in Sunday's when I am free in 4-5 hours I don't think I am not lifing here
@@cristianavideira2545you can't even say I don't have good built characters because the support system gives you free e6 characters anyways for your resin runs (excluding moc and sim uni )
...... Yea sure, this game has a lot u can do, but u dont need to no-life the game to get everything u want. I only log in to do dailies everyday then log out, and maybe events + MoC/PF in the weekend, and I can still get like 70 wishes a patch as a f2p. But I guess u r right, 5 mins everyday and like 2 hours on the weekend is too hardcore, or else I wouldnt ve been able to get every character I want since launch
Welcome back, Soul. I for one love Honkai Star Rail even if I know that the game is essentially a team builder game that relied on the relic lottery. But this game is like drugs. I get a good dopamine hit out of watching my well built characters decimate MOC.
You can kill the beetle boss by using the support function before killing it, you can borrow a character from your friends accounts and a pick a Fu Xuan or Abenturine.
SAME!! At the time I had a very strong Kafka team that were dominating the whole game. But the bug boss beat my ass so hard I had to built a brand new team featuring Dr Ratio. But uh-oh he needs the bug boss materials to level up the talents to be stronger. At the end I used huo huo and gepard to not die at this boss and beating him was sooo slow. At the end I felt bitterness and saltiness, thinking that I finally beat this stupid boss.
I know when this video and all of your experiences happened this wasn't added yet, but in this last patch (2.1) they added an option to farm mats on places that you haven't gone to in the story. I agree with mostly everything else tho. I'm a day one player so most of the work on my account was done when it was simpler and now the game sustains itself with 30 min of gameplay each day and maybe a couple hours of story every few months, wich allows me to enjoy the content at a good pace; but all of this happened to me on Genshin when Fontaine came out and my account was abandoned at the end of the Archon quest in Inazuma, I dreaded coming back but gave it a shot, and quit shortly after. The bettle is however infamous for being the worst boss in the game, harder than anything that cam before and it made farming for low level players a nightmare, followed only by the Aventurine boss (he isn't as bad but his day 1 fight before the nerf was quite hard, and nowadays he just sucks bc his gimmick forces you to miss so much damage). I think it's fair to critize that encounter in particular since it was clearly designed to be fought with a Fu Xuan + Jing Liu team, just like Swarm disaster was clearly trying to sell Fu Xuan just a few months prior. As for the powercreep point, you're half right. DPS units are better now, but they're only better when it comes to accesibility, Seele can still clear most content in the game but she needs decent (not even good, mine are meh) relics and a dedicated team of supports, while JL was designed to work out of the box and with an easier comp since her best team was available at release, while Seele became better with her supports being released in time. Same for Acheron, she is good to build at low investment rn, but her team is a nightmare to get until the dedicated debuffer comes in a couple of patches. But yeah, I completely agree, these problems exist and are real for many players, and powercreep will eventually get to a point where Seele will get completely forgoten and you will need a new dps, tho I don't think this will get addresed in any way since that's their marketing strategy. The main way to play HSR is to plan ahead the best you can and (sadly) use leaks and other means of gathering information to get an idea of how to pull and build units to play smartly.
U should not expect to beat endgame content like PF and MOC barely playing the game, im a new player two mounth into the game, have beaten 2 stages of PF, and 10 MOC, and its fine. U just need to plan what to pull in the future. Yes, u need need a shit tone of units for two teams in moc and two teams in PF, and there is different meta. So yeah it takes a long time. Also u are not missing out for a lot of rewards, last stages give u like 160 gems for 3 stars, most gems come from easy events and everyday log in. I was recommened to not rush endgame otherwise ill brick my acc, and focus on traces on core 8 units.
You can redo old events and still get the rewards from them so you didn't have to rush through the main questline to do it and as for the bosses, as of you uploading this video, there is a quick challenge feature on them so you can do them before you unlock them through the story. Materials can also be crafted from 2 of any other material. Both the Ruan Mei quest and the Tingyun quest are Traiblaze Continuance quests, meaning you don't have to do it to progress the main Trailblaze Quests, just like Jade Chamber Rising in Genshin. I will agree on the power creep point though, that is really big compared to Genshin, even when comparing characters like 2 updates apart. A large reason why I pulled Kafka was because she's kinda power creep resistant as she scales off of the sub-dps you put along side her which is pretty easy to replace, going from Sampo to Luka to Guinaifen to BLACK Swan and probably more in the future.
I honestly love your content and way of presenting the videos, i really wish you continue making content and ignore any negative or hate comments. For every 2 bad comments there will be 6 good ones, and i know it might be hard ignoring these 2 out of 6 but thats just how life is❤
guy plays game. gets surprised that he can't just go to the end content of game on a fresh account. thats like if you made your character in bloodborne and wanted to fight the Moon presence right off the bat.
@@DOGEELLL its not really luck only. you have to pick what elements and character combinations to use which is why its important to level up multiple characters. If you want to do good you have to plan what characters to pull unlike Genshin where you can basically pull for whatever characters you want.
@@alien7804Not a single thing you listed involves any actual skill though. It isn't a skill to be able to look at the screen and see what elements are favored against what enemies and just pick something that's good against it. Star rail straight up REMOVES the player expression and skill that would normally exist in a turn based game by straight up telling you what the elites and such are weak against. Please tell me what "skill" is involved in looking at PF, seeing fire / ice weakness and selecting himeko/herta for that side ? There is none. All you did was read the sign telling you what to use and followed it lol The problem is, and a lot of hsr players REALLY fail to see this, is that if the account does NOT have the elemental coverage needed, they are by DEFAULT at a disadvantage (you literally do 25% less damage) until you either raise other characters with the right elements, or pull new ones to cover all your bases because these dogwater "games" NEED to twist your arm in some way to get you to be "incentivised" in artificial ways to build more characters and keep players running on the endless psychological hamster wheel.
The swarm king fucked me over until sparkle came and I couldn't level her until I built Welt with the mission LC so I can counter its one shot move even Sam fucked me less than the swarm king and I defeated Sam with Seele
To think that soon there will be a boss that deals a guaranteed 5500 damage to every single character in your team with ite big attack, boss powercreep is so strong
R u fr? I don’t really believe it tbh. Characters at max even supports only have a little over 4k HP. Meaning it’s impossible without damage mitigation or shielding. Kinda crazy if real but I wouldn’t trust every leak.
@BuiltSimilarG its hard to survive even with a good sustain like fuxuan or aventurine cus that's not the intended solution , the boss gives you a chunky shield every time you break its toughness and it has multiple toughness bars and the attack that does 5k+ to each character need 7 turns to change up. To add on that the boss becomes weak to every element in that phase
Huh, I'm a returnee player because I felt kinda burnt out from it, and only came back to get Aventurine, see if I can build him then go back to taking a break. How you felt as a returnee player is exactly how I felt. I just now appreciate some QoL things they added that was definitely not there back when I still played it. But it felt awful to be blocked by lots of story just to even farm certain things...
I've resorted to using a mobile autoclicker to get thru most story that I don't think I'll be interested in. I only care about the characters I like in star rail so this is what I do most the time. On my way to college I turn gane volume down and slap on some music and let the autoclicker do it's thing in my pocket. Whenever I wanna change song I see if I'm done with dialogue or I'm in an endless dialogue loop I need to manually get out of. I usually see the cutscenes pop up on TH-cam so im not worried about missing anything too important.
The thing is I join this game at Aven banner up, when I ask someone on discord how to make to end game smoothly(I just got to luofu at that time) they just said : "Use every Stellar Jade you have to get your First Limited Sustain, as you need survive to clear the content" 😅 "Check the pinned massage" 😮 I got Aven at E0S1 and he's make easy survive at reasonable content I need to clear as solo sustain in team.
Im sorry, but this sounds little like a skill issue . I played since release, and my main acc is very invested, so it can clear easy but i started a new alt acc and i went to the entire game with ease with free characters, only limited character i got was sparkle and i didn't even use her until penacony . I only got stuck on the aventurine boss, but that was cus i was 20 level below then i should have been it was still a little tough, but lynx and fire mc were able to keep me alive . To be fair, i haven't done the starcrusher swarm king scaracabaz, aka the beatle fight yet but im sure i would mange. If you are curious i used mostly qingque, lynx, fire mc and hanya until she got replaced with sparkle
I to this day dont understand how ppl get such crazy numbers with qq do I need to whale more? I max out all her buffs and my attacks are just nowhere near the dmg I see ppl pulling off with her. It may be a skill issue but thats not exactly helpful advice, how do you do it? Same with Clara, I even have Clara light cone from standard banner. At least it works with Accherron I hit 1 mil with her on the regular.
Started playing when they gave out Dr Ratio and lmfao yeah. The beetle i brute forced with Natasha and Fire MC but holy shit it was awful. I relate so hard with that "Luocha deleted every ounce of difficulty i had with the game", it's fucking insane how the game is just "motherfucker did i just catch you in one-shot range (full HP)?" for so long. It feels like they REALLY don't want players to even touch end-game for four months so that they can starve them from those pulls since they were oh-so-generous with the ones they give you when you start the game. You really have to "unlock the fun" by getting two insane sustain units (hi Luocha and Adventurine) before you can do anything, it sucks balls, and don't get me started on how horribly slow leveling and trace farming is because holy shit I still am not able to go out of my way to farm relics because there's still traces to go for so everyone's on rainbow set mainstat only xddd tl;dr new player experience is ATROCIOUS
I’ve played since launch BUT I was doing university + got bumped to what was basically full-time at my job so I could only log in twice, maybe three times a week. Getting back into this game was HELL. It definitely felt like I was being punished for not pulling for the “right” characters rather than characters I just enjoyed. I’ve been logging in every day since Penacony started (Imbibitor Lunae rerun + Aventurine were great motivators) but even after almost three months I can only BARELY start clearing early stages of MoC, Swarm, and PF. And that’s only after I got Aventurine.
@@certainperson have you seen arknights? people are clearing hardest content with ass units. Not all gacha games are stat simulators, but majority is, that I agree.
@@trickmonster7905 false, in genshin impact you can clear with literally all your characters built with one stat( em), and if not you can even rely on reaction to deal dmg such as reverse melt, national comps( which are to this day the best f2p comps ever), even the physical comps which are absolute garbage can clear all content( freminet).... it's not only a matter of stats, it's simply a matter of gameplay, rotation, and elemental reactions. Unlike hsr, where every unit cant be separated from his initial purpose( healers only serve heals, they do ridiculously low dmg, same for shielders and aventurine is no exception unless you chase stats, harmony dont even do dmg as opposed to anemo buffers like kazuha and venti who deals lot of dmg).
Listen brother, please, Don't use Acheron without 2 other nihility characters. Seeing Acheron do such little damage is painful. Also, Build your free Lynx man. You get her for free and she's an A tier healer who can cleanse and heal(no need for it now because of Loucha who is only a bit better than Lynx, he's much more of an autoplay unit though because all the important things to activate, activate on their own). When building Aventurine, aim for 4000 defense stat before focusing on anything else. You'll never have to worry about taking damage. Get his traces as well. Relics are half the characters power. Aventurine gives 50% effect res for the whole team as well, so you don't even need to cleanse most of the time. A f2p friendly team with Acheron that has beaten MOC 12 Literally consisted of fire mc, a Pela(which you could have gotten for free in a limited time event) and Guinaifen(which you can get for free in a limited time event) and Acheron. I can understand the beetle but the Penacony story mobs should never be a problem. I'm not going to say skill issue, but, with enough skill, you can get a lot done. There is a youtuber who has created an account and restricted himself from pulling on a character even once until he either full clears(36 stars) the limited time MOC or reach 300 tickets standard banner. He has done 35 stars without a single limited 5 star and almost no standard 4 star. He is only using characters the game gives you for free. Just search up Honkai star rail Zmm
Did we watch the same video? He knows how to play the game (it's not that hard if you've played an rpg ever), the game is just hostiley designed to make things unnecessarily difficult. Imagine if relic farming didn't require suffering ludicrous amounts of layered rng, if there was a skip dialogue button for people who don't enjoy story, if the resource curve to maxing characters and relics wasn't so ridiculously high, if fight rng wasn't so swingy, if bosses weren't so specifically designed to make the new characters look good (seriously, wtf is Adventurine's 50% effect res. he basically turns off a game mechanic that those who don't own him have to suffer through). There certainly is a lot of skill expression when it comes to Star Rail's gameplay, but it feels like the game is trying to stop you from having fun. On their own, each system is bad design. Together, it's evil design. I dare you to play the game with all free characters and say you're still having fun when you try full clearing anything. Side Note: personal anecdotes of stupid fight rng - Silver Wolf implanting Wind weakness 3x while my Seele just sits there and watches, Pela (DEF sphere) getting solo targeted 3x through Fu Xuan field and dying, ruining my MOC run.
im only bringing her into Sim uni to one shot trash mods - I swap her out for bosses once i have Loucha or Tingyun from character downloaders later on i know how Acheron works - its not complex - anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together can figure it out
@@DarkLi3275 Moc is the only actual hard thing and it's because it's supposed to be hard. A game needs an endgame that players work towards and build their accounts for. Even pure fiction is somewhat manageable with characters like Serval and Herta all of which are free.
@@DarkLi3275 The point of Relic farming is that it takes some time though. It's a pve game and what people need to remember that this is a marathon not a sprint. If everything could be accomplished easily then there's no incentive for the player to continue or work towards something.
true about the beetle boss is the worst even for veteran players who dont have the right units, same issue with the aventurine boss now and unlike genshin where you build one strong team which can be used for most overworld gameplay, star rail has these break shield bs which require the right units to have, as a casual player a strongly made the decision to pull for Luocha and get a free Gerpard to have always 2 sustainers in my team, so that I can basically tank through story content, and yet despite that I doesnt help me in simulated universe or the forgotten hall -.-
I don't think it's a powercreep thing but rather a match-up and character level check. Having 5 star relics, lvl 80 characters, and characters like Clara Gepard, BE Luka, and etc do really well in this fight and they're not meta.
I've played day one and I didn't notice the creep but you saying this does make sense thankfully, they updated the game.So now you can go wherever you need for materials.And it's not locked behind story 🙏
Trust me you arent the only one who hates Beetle boss, Almost everyone complained about that boss when it came out, It took me almost three days to beat that boss so yes you truly need certain characters that you dont have to beat all these content
Ngl I think we need another Equilibrium level so we can get our characters to 90 instead 80 because dear God these level 95 guys one shot you so bad...its terrible
People don't realize how powerful 4* on star rail , they always keep their eyes on 5* . Bro you can beat the Beatles using herta and March . That's why you need strategy and actually use a brain in some scenario! Rather than brutes force and relaying on 5* gimmick
No they aren't lol you're basing this off people who have INSANE investment put into those characters and several dupes of them coupled with extensive knowledge of the game. This is NOT realistic for most people and acting like it is is just disingenuous. My friend who used those same characters you mentioned BARELY was able to beat that boss. Why? Because he just did not farm good enough relics and such for the characters. Turns out if you aren't sinking all your time into the game, you WILL fall behind trying to beat content.
Higly investing on characters you barely use just for a specific level or boss? Man fck that, its better saving your time investing on meta characters for all stages
Your criticism is on point. I am also a returnee player. Quit around Blade's debut banner and returned around Sparkle's debut banner. I had the issue with that insolent insect boss. I was forced to raise Pela and Herta just to barely get through. I already used my leftover resources on other characters I *actually* liked so it definitely delayed my progress. Now it's easy after getting Aventurine and Acheron who is game breaking. But who knows how long will they stay useful until mhy decides to make their kits useless just like using healers now can not cut it sustaining your group because the boss deals so much damage MHY's Games do not know how to transition new players from easy to hard difficulty. There is no middle. It's not skill. Because you know how to beat it but because of the amount of resources you need to raise just 1 character and the RNG on RNG artifact farming, it stalls you from your progress. That's not a skill issue. That's a luck issue.
This hit the nail on the head as someone who played briefly in 1.0 and then took several months off, it felt like the game was just punishing me for not playing when Fu Xuan ran, and not lucking in to Gepard at all. Those soda monkey mini-bosses in Penacony made me want to tear my hair out. "Use shields to reflect the damage!" says the flashing letters on screen. "What *&*%(*$ shields?" I'd shout back. Not to mention the relic farming made Genshin's system feel positively rewarding in comparison, not having an off set piece, and having a dozen extra useless substats to get in the way. And then I got Acheron, and suddenly the difficulty vanished. She does more than triple the amount of damage my Jingliu does, and can break toughness bars without caring about the type matchups. The game went from agonizing to hilariously easy and all I had to do was spend $50 on a purple hair murder mommy. And I bet that process will keep repeating forever.
Great video. I started playing during version 1.4. It really sucked when against certain bosses or MOC stages my characters were dying because I just didn’t have that one sustain character from the premium gacha. I was stuck with Natasha and Lynx for majority of the time I play the game. Oh you should have pulled for Huo Huo, dude the 4 stars on her banner were hot garbage. Then the next sustain on banner Luocha wasn’t available until like 4 months later. My hot take is that if Genshin feels like you’re bottle neck for damage for trying to 36 Star Spiral Abyss then Honkai Star Rail can feel like you’re bottle neck for damage trying to 36 Star MOC on top of needing to have certain or really strong defensive utilities/units to survive battles. Which I mean you can argue ones an action rpg requiring less defensive options compare to a turn base rpg but my point still stands.
This video basically describes most problems that star rail players or at least me go through. The beetle boss (I'm not gonna bother mentioning the real name cuz it doesn't deserve the respect of being a pain in the ass) is legit the most bs thing I went through in my entire gameplay of the game. Games like star rail forcing us to get good characters like loucha or adventurine as an example (both I absolutely don't like and never will pull for) is one of the reasons why I or many would feel burnt earlier than it should and the absurdity of resources you need to fully build one is a lot. The only reason I was able to beat is the fact I had bailu as my only healer, till this day I only have bailu, mc and March as the only sustainer and itll be this way until i at least get someone i would *like* to get and not be forced to. Anyways, good video. *also, the adventurine boss was pathetic, even without the nerf*
being region locked to upgrade your char sucks, reminds me when i started playing genshin last year and i got some inazuma characters and i was still in monstadt. i had to reroll my account lol
I completely agree and can relate as a new/"returning" player. The early to mid game are rough especially if your lacking A LOT of things, may it be new units, gear and materials. The beetle boss, yes, it was the bane of my existence for a good long while during my return to the game with a fresh account since I lost my day one account due to circumstances beyond my control. I only used Ratio, March, Lynx and Bronya. I had to grit my teeth and ascended my main team to 80 and their light cones too and beat the boss after almost 2 hours of restarts. Nowadays, I'm at a point where I am pretty comfortable doing endgame content with both Acheron and Aventurine. You instantly feel that gratification of breezing through content you never even dreamed of clearing back then. Gacha games have been notorious for FOMO tacticsto bait us players to roll for the new hotness. And as a long-time gacha player, I still haven't really learned my lesson on self-restraint and impulse actions. But one thing is for certain when you play these games, the moment you pause, step back, look at your account, and you realized that you had an epiphany that you don't really need unit x because I can still use unit y or z , then things become more easier and clearer and you get to enjoy the game even more and take it for what it is.
I agree with everything. I just two days ago beat the 65 equilibrium quest I was stuck on because I finally got my solo sustain. I finally feel like I'm playing what everyone else is playing since starting Star Rail in 1.5.
I started this game during 1.5 and yeah I faced the same thing this game is not at all new player friendly I remember getting my ass handed to me during those story boss fights...Now that I have HuoHuo and finally Aventurine I feel like I have finally won now I don't die anymore maybe sometimes on the team where I run HuoHuo but it's no more annoying and easily manageable... Dr. Ratio is an incredible Free DPS character and I was lucky enough to get his lightcone in one 10 pull as well....Now I am zooming through every content tho I am short on other limited DPS characters because I like DOT teams so I wanted to get the entire package...Black Swan, Kafka, Ruan Mei and HuoHuo those were all where my early pulls went and I lost only one 50/50 to date in Star Rail and that was on the Sparkle banner but I did get her. And these are all my characters till now..!!!
This is very true. I didn't play star rail for like 3 months and when I came back there was just too much content and I needed to even update relics for my old dps' and get new ones. Thankfully i had a luocha and a il or I would have been done for
I am a day one player and I LOOVE Star Rail, but new player experience sucks major balls... I have a friend who is relatively new to the game, and has seen Firefly and decided that she really likes her. She doesn't NOT have the time to sit thru the MASSIVE Penacony quest, so she still doesn't know that Firefly is SAM. In two weeks, she will be spoiled for that whether she likes it or not! In addition to the story locked things, Star Rail for new players feels like a chore, and at this rate will be unplayable for anyone who isn't a long time player, which is a shame...
After watching this video I will definitely be calling Penacony "Pina colada" great video man. Also your not the only person who struggled with the bug boss. All my friends struggled with it and saw a lot of people on Reddit and TH-cam comments asking for help.
Playing HSR since my release, here's my thoughts/experience (also spoilers ahead): -Belobog is okay. At least, they tried to show some realism of attempting to rehabilitate an isolated country or even the planet, it is not easy. -Xianzhou feels meh. IDGF about Tingyun, and yet I am more interested with the NPC named Dan Shu. But I feel like it's not done yet since Jingliu appeared at the last minute, like why??? They made a patch only for Tinyun's funeral, even tho it was hinted that she wasn't dead yet, but tbf, i feel like Welt is just assuming out of nowhere. -Seele and Jing Yuan got powercrept to the max, but I expected this. It's like Klee and Diluc at 1.0. I still like JY tho. As for the standard banner characters, Bronya is still good, Himeko kinda got powercrept except for PF, Gepard, Bailu and Yanqing got powercrept, Welt is still well liked for his high-chance imprisonment debuff/dps hybrid, Clara is still well liked for her FUA. -So much to do. I haven't 12 star'ed PF yet, i just recently 36* MOC. -Another Raiden Mei expy, everyone loves her. I grew sick of her seeing every time she appears. -I enjoyed Penacony, but at the same time the story is tedious. Dialogue feels like a literary thesis. imo, i felt nothing towards Firefly or Robin being "dead" since I freaking know they aren't before even revealing that they are still alive all this time. -I was so unlucky with relics (especially with DPSes), so much that I don't want to pull for characters anymore. -I enjoyed playing SU and MOC, great way to test my characters. -Not a great time to reroll a new account if you're attempting to speedrun content.
Same with genshin, it's not worth to return or to start late because 1. You missing events 2. You missing characters 3. You missing the gifts devs are sending.
7/10 is really high considering that you skipped the story which is like half the game 4:56 or you could have imaged that you came back 2 days later and ignored it because at most you were losing out on like 8 pulls
I am a veteran player, so the game being favor toward endgame players is a nice change for once, its the exact opposite of genshin. maybe this make me sound like an egoist, but making a balanced game that favor both new player and endgame is near impossible, but to me loyalty should be more valued Just like in corpa, the high rank manager who been working for years should be given better facility and wages than a new recruit who arrived yesterday, eventually they will be in the same path, however if its the other way around, the old ones getting the worse treatment, they will quit, and the new ones who replacing them will be in the same spot too, this also applied to customers analogy Which is why genshin game structure looks soo bad to me, it's an example of bad business practice, neclect your old player demands after their wallet is dry, while also prevent the new player toward limited items and events to induce fomo. For all the flaws HSR have, it got far faar better treatment than genshin, not the best game or even best gacha game in the world, but aleast i agree with what they offered so far, challanges (PS: srry for my bad English, not my mother's language, feel free to educate me to improve my writing)
I too struggled with the blue beetle,tried every teamcomp i had available. Do you know what ended up working.. Qingque, lvl50 natasha,and lvl20 march...damn
Star Rail looks great with Nvidia filters on. These are my current settings. Sharpen + (Depending on what resolution your screen is 1440p~4k) Intensity 30%~50% Texture Details 30%~50% Color new™ (Tint for Warm tones, Vibrance for overall color) Tint Color 95% Tint Intensity 20% Temperature 0% Vibrance 30%~50% Details (Bloom at 0% looks sharper 9% is more blended) Sharpen 0% Clarity 100% HDR Toning -100% Bloom 0~9% Brightness/Contrast Exposure 25%~29% (Depends on how your screen displays brightness) Contrast 35% Highlights 50% Shadows 50%~75%~85% (Depending on preferences) Gamma 0% Nvidia Control Panel Digital Vibrance 70% Screen brighttness should be at 100% (monitor brightness) If it's too bright lower exposure, if it's too dark lower shadows OR HDR Toning to 80% I recommend getting a MINI LED screen as they look the best with filters the GP27U looks crazy, if you can wait there's an update for it coming later on this year. MINI LED > OLED.
To be honest you are not wrong in your statement about getting a good character I had the same issue, and I am not even caught up with the story and all I've been doing is level up most of my characters that I can with the areas I have unlock and the funeral quest, not even done but I am almost there (I think)
Kinda fun I start on black swan banner and I say frankly I did not find that difficult, maybe because I already play gachas? Probably but again I did strungle but I didn't find that difficult seriously just focus lvl up you light cones and you talents
star rail is a strategy game lol i see people clearing endgame content with free characters every new moc cycle, people who feel like they need limited units are just bad
What strategy dawg? It's just pick element that enemies are weak to + construct your team as follows: DPS, support, sustain. You people act like this shit is SMT3 Nocturne when it's anything but that. LMAO And those people clearing with free characters have VERY HIGH levels of relic investment put into them. Stop pretending like these are some E0 4stars with barely any good gear whatsoever. They have eidolons, they have multiple S5 lightcones (some are using five star light cones outside of the herta shop ones sometimes lmao) . It's like when people say xiangling is so broken meanwhile the xiangling is like 70:140 crit, has C4+ (have you ever tried this character at c0?) 2k or so atk, an R5 weapon they spent 200 hours fishing for (or a five star weapon cause they couldn't be bothered) etc etc. completely ignoring all the context and work needed to be put into making her as strong as she is and acting like she trivializes the entire game with barely any effort is exactly what you're doing with the hsr 4stars. Weird how it's always "look, these OTHER people did it" too. Show me NEW players or players who are playing catch up being able to do that though. Bet you can't.
Its about the grind that take ages for a character to be good, like even building both Himeko and Herta mainly pure fiction is taking me more than a month
i came back for ratio cause fomo lol. i got lucky and get gepard on the 50 pull. even he felt clunky and i used him with natasha and each fight took so long. then i plan out, and use my pulls almost perfectly and got the ipc team and fu xuan. and more. thats when i have fun lol but then after the quests and stuff..... im just waiting for my resin to refresh, i did all the voiced quest and enjoyed it, i try to enjoy even if it wasnt my first intention to have fun..... and just farmed quest to get jade cause I COULDNT CLEAR PURE FICTION AT ALL. after i got jade and pair her with herta.... almost clear pure fiction perfectly. like jesus. i also struggle with the bug and even after lol, i need to use a random friend request firefly e2 and crack relics since with mine it will take too long but beatable. and phantylia.... like jesus her single attack bypass my aventurine shield, almost 4k defense btw and her anti hp thing ruin my fu xuan so i just borrow a huohuo. now im fine with overworld and boss. but still borrow op characters lol with crack relics. imo penacony is weird, it hype me up a lot but the region feels kinda like a scam, in game they say its a dream but for me its just another place i got tp to by a teleport waypoint and i dont feel the festive vibe
If you're binging the story, you're better off ignoring the new stuff and playing like a JRPG. Otherwise, you'll get burnout or information overload and won't enjoy the game as much. You might miss some limited rewards, but the patience pays off imo.
i remember also having fromblems with that bug thing and it was so got damn anoying i tooka break from the game and i finnaly beat it with some changes lynx got me through it jingliu and march and ruan mei. i or i might have used silverwolf either way i tried so hard and i remembered there is food in this game so i used it and than it worked
i mean i borrowed characters to just beat the beetle until i got archeron but yes i agree new players in a bad spot if they dont have an invested account.
Great video! As a day 1 player I can see how that beetle fucked u up cuz it did the samw to me..... I would say the main reason to play star rail is it respects ur time. Dailies take me like 2 minutes
We all hate that Beetle!! When the Run Mei mission first came out you could see the whole SR Community desperate crying on how annoying and hard that b*tch was, It personally Took me 4 Tries. I get what you say, since I got Luocha at the beggining of the game I was Luocha dependant since forever. Idk if I would have survive without him haha, and even then I couldn't beat the overworld Boss Monkey in Penacony until I got Aventurine, I had No Shielde besider March for a Year and I still have no Gepard. But despite those moments I still enjoy Star Rail a lot, and I don't think is that bad if you don't rush it, I started a secondary account and I beat the Beetle in 2 Tries having only Jingliu and Bailu for support. Maybe the issue was you trying to Get to Penacony Right Now instead of being a bit more patient, but Idk. I do get the Blocked by Quest thing though, as I got Jingliu in her latest re-run and I can't get her up yet, but you know what can be done? Don't level the World Level until you know you can handle it.
First off, 2 sustains? What? Who tells people these fucking tips? LMFAO Okay but seriously, 2 sustain is good for most content of the game. Fire traiblazer, while not the best, is the best unit to sustain party wise if you build them full defense because they can reliably reduce 1.5k damage or even 2k with their shield. Meaning you only need natsha to sustain excess damage (from single target or emergency aoe) and heal any debuff/crowd control (you will have to). Are they ideal? Fuck no. Your locked into 2 units which offer nothing but sustain so it can only get you through most of the story and basic grinding. It doesn't prevent damage/recover from damage as well prevent debuff/crowd control. These 2 issues will only be fixable in the future, either with new sets or Light cones. Which is horrible since if it's sets you need to get further into the game to get (but at least it's something and f2p) while the later is literaly p2w hell (because you have to get lucky and get them to have something in that situation.) I am not mention march builds because I am not suggesting to build her 4 ways when sub stat hell is real. (For context. She needs Defense for her shields, she needs atk for her damage, she needs speed to go often to maintain her shield and sustain her damage since her follow up is limited and needs Effect hit rate for her ult freeze to give party more sustain. That's 4 stats of which people can only reliably build 2 at minimum.) It is becoming a noticeable issue where sustainers need not only be able to sustain the party alone but offer more to the party, which is making power creep very noticeable when you don't have such units. (Lynx is considered the best f2p unit because her ult does the cleansing meaning you can get rid of crowd controls easily and quickly and why their considered top tier even though they can't sustain because most people end fight quickly to avoid needing the healing) And now for dps issue. I don't fully agree with it. Dang heng, Herta and Serval are perfectly fine units for the game. Herta is for obvious reasons to anyone who has build her, since she works in nearly all content of the game now and does high number. And serval because she's a stupidly good unit, who can can do single and aoe good while doubling up as a dot unit. And why Dang Heng and not Ratio? Ratio requires debuff unit to work. As f2p, new player, you can only get 2 reliable debuff of which 1 is 1 turn. Fire traiblazer and serval. And unless you want to build Dang heng as well, meaning no double sustain, you are in for a rough time. So even though Ratio does stupid damage more, he isn't a great early unit, only when your account gets older does he get better and actually to the level we're familiar with. But yeah Dang Heng is a suitable unit for single target. While even though he isn't future proof like herta, or stupid good for a f2p unit like serval. Building him doesn't disappoint, his multiplier are good and as more dps sets are release the more likely you are to get a set that can keep building up his damage. Obviously you have seele so me mentioning him is kind of stupid when her multipliers are just so much better but still the concept is there. Actually the fact your struggling with seele is surprising. Same with Jingliu. But I think I know why for Jingliu and Seele. Jingliu is a drain on party hp, so when you don't have double sustain or someone who can quickly recover hp, I'm guessing that Jingliu brings you to close to death to survive anything. As for Seele, i'm going to make a stupid assumption and that is she drains sp so much, you don't have any for the party leaving you to struggle. (For context. Dang heng inhibitor lunae consumes 3 sp, with only 1 on the turn after they ult. Seele, can consume 4 sp per turn, which is far more rough.) I believe the main issue is mainly just the sustainability and dps going against each other and creating troubles to either side. Not enough sp for sustain. Not enough dps to end fights before sustain breaks. Obviously this isn't easy to fix when more recent unit require more recent material you can only get in latest content, meaning you can only use early units, but I do believe that you can win most of the content with 4star and f2p units, albeit you require time and a lot of dedication since this game is not only far more stat depending, set dependent, light cone dependent and unit dependent. The more recent the unit the better it is obviously but you can do it with old units you build. Issue is the time and dedication to build them does make it rough. So in the context of you wanting to speed blitz content. No shit your going to have a horrible time. But Gacha games aren't designed to speed run content. You know these game are designed to require time and grinding investment for your units to be viable and that means you need to either fork up for powerful unit to clear latest content quickly or actually build the units you have to clear all the content being released, even if you have to trash all the relics you got because you didn't get the idea main and sub stats. That said, happy to know your on the grind now and enjoying the game! Hopefully we'll get more content from you on that game then genshin.
Yeah Star Rail obviously has a lot of issues. Well, I guess it isn't really obvious as everyone D rides it. A lot of Genshin issues are present in Star Rail as well! But no one cares. I mean I get it, its enjoyable and people need to get their mind off Genshin. But man the D ride for this game is annoying.
For real man, the genshin could never trend is really one of the most hypocritical statement I've heard. Because the reality is hsr is the same game, without the openworld, full stop. Wheter it's the rewards, the farming, the storytelling, it's just in the endgame that it can be cooler, that's all. They really should stop lying to themselves
@@unoreversecard5549 JUST A LITTLE? Are you serious? It's too much toxicism for nothing. As if this statement will slow new players to enjoy genshin man. And it is also misleading, because you constantly sell another game like a better game, just for players to come and discover the same trash as their previous one. It creates hatred towards all of the genshin fans for no reason, even towards those who actually plays the game for fun despite knowing all the flaws it contains, and those people are much more numerous than only the content creators community
After I got Dan Heng IL I dropped the game. So I’m fortunate enough when I returned it wasn’t as brutal like it was for you. JFC tho if I was in your shoes I would have dropped HSR because the retiring players ( who don’t have good sustainers ) or new players sounds brutal 💀
SOULLAFA ARTEEST!!! vid..eo?? i played it for 10 mins and quit epicly also wtf the beetle boss section??? omg ??? r u ok ??? why did u put urself through that
holy fuck he mentioned me omg omg omg
Just wait until Soul hears about the Firefly kit that got released. And that new alleged Sunday boss and how he hits over 7k+ damage with his special attack.
And the new multi layered toughness bars that are designed to shill characters like her, Ruan Mei and Boothill .
And people PRAISE this stuff too because "at least they're adding stuff to the game" when the stuff being added are straight up strongarming and predatory shill mechanics 💀
Long term players like myself forget how difficult this game is in terms of investment. The beetle is actually impossible for a new player. As someone whos made a alt account I'm currently in the same position as you were, I can't beat the beetle because I haven't been playing for months. The power creep is insane and the investment required to beat the beetle is just not fair especially for a new player who doesn't have 5 stars to help bridge the investment gap. But yes if you a few five stars the game is super chill
If u mean the swarm thing there are some cheesy strats and u get stronger as u progress cause of the skill trees ig but yeah its really tough
@kayanono he means the blue beetle from rm quest. Perfect example with that is that I got stuck on it for 2 months lmao
@@wishes2052 Ahhh gotchu
I have an alt and beat it pretty quickly idk bro maybe my experience is lucky? Just run Herta, asta, fire mc, Natasha and it cleared fine
my brother beat the Beetle and Argenti with Physical/FireMC, March and Dr. Ratio plus one other character playing the game for less than a month. He had a hard time yes but not as hard as people make it out to be
just saying
P.S. I breezed through the Beetle and Argenti with Dr. Ratio, Bronya and Sparkle heh
Dipped after 1.1 and came back in 2.1
-Penacony so far has been peak, it's not even exaggerated. Though I rushed through the Xianzhou arc, which felt tedious af.
-The character checks are atrocious, especially with Pure fiction and the fucking beetles in gold and gears.
-I surprised myself with how much i enjoyed the turnbased gameplay, i did not remember it being this fun (I also got Bronya pretty much day one of returning, which helped)
-Burning through fuel and quests to level up characters meant my world level (equilibrium) also increased. Now at Eq5 and empty pockets, with a handful of lvl60 characters and a couple lvl70 characters
-The resource demand is crazy, over a week's worth of resin (um akhchu-) just to get someone to lvl 70 with their traces and weapon.
-I thought Genshin's artifact system is bad...good thing there isn't a emblem or Marachusse domain situation...yet.
-Character check (again). It felt like I was playing on hard mode in early-mid game without a proper sustain. I now worship my Loucha
-Speed and turns make my brain hurt. Also so much reading during any Simulated Universe or Gold &Gears (I'm EN 😭 😭)
I ALSO WORSHIP MY LOUCHA😂
Penacony is far from peak for me cause I have a very biased view on Shaoji as a writer (dude fucking sucks I'm sorry) but I'm glad you enjoyed it
@@justsomeguy727 what are shaoji's flaws when it comes to story writing in your opinion? what makes him a bad writer?
@@lancertheimaginary8462Get lost in bad philosophy and flourish the dialogues way too much
Felt the same way in genshin. Joined a patch before sumeru and everything in inazuma (Inazuma in general) was absolutely scary. The samurai could 1-2 shot my characters, most the weekly bosses were nearly impossible to clear by my own.
I guess the same applies to hsr. Maybe more since it power creeps faster?
True, At least you can dodge/ aka get better at the game to counter that a little, In hsr you're getting hit no matter what.
The story is alot better cause no paimon
Not sure about that
fax my brother - spit your shit indeed
Paimon being there or not doesn't change anything when the writing is still dogshit all the same regardless of her existence. Lmfao
Anyways this game has March 7th, who is arguably just as annoying and high pitched so meh
@@justsomeguy727But march isn't always there with MC all the time...
march 7th is Awesome frick you@@justsomeguy727
I'm in a very weird situation. I wanna say I started somewhere around october of last year, or whenever Huohuo dropped.
I remember struggling a little bit, but not to the extent being mentioned, probably because the Beetle boss hadn't released yet at the time. I wasn't able to complete a lot of the end game stuff yet but I did fully complete all the story/side content things they had completed.
Now, I genuinely look back and wonder, if I had not just said "FUCK IT" and pulled Huohuo at the time I did, I genuinely wonder how screwed I would be in the content that came out after that, such as the beetle and such, I have no idea what would have happened and its honestly interesting to think of how my experience would have been had I not done that.
As someone who is a literal veteran for the game... yeah game is not new player friendly, I've recently started a new account and you describe a lot of the problems. Too much content that its overwhelming, dialogue heavy, powercreep at its finest, and etc. Especially the new content. If you want to play the new content, unlike Genshin, you have to dedicate a good week or two, even three to get to that content and so on. But I know the game is in good hands and will definitely improve on that new player experience soon
If you think that's crazy for new players you havent played any other gacha. Hoyo is very friendly. My friend is the most lucky person i have ever witnessed he built after like two weeks a account better then most people prolly lmao it's honestly scary.
@@chaosinfernoid9008 I have played other gachas, Im glad that these games are still new player friendly, but even then, it still has some problems. For example: The beetle, even if you have a cracked account, you still need to invest a lot of your time into farming relics and other materials, especially since new characters want those new drops. Besides, I was only summarizing on what I know, coming in as a "new" player. I can still see some of its glaring weaknesses for new players and may discourage them from advancing their account or outright make them quit.
Couldn't agree more, i have faith on hsr devs more than genshin
it didn`t feel bad or that i needed to rush anything, i started at 2.0 and i immediately knew how things were gonna go, i`d even say it`s way better than genshin, less boring and with better story, from the get go and how the maps were built i knew this game was gonna be more generous than genshin in everything, the bettle was very easy in story mode, but i beat him when i was level 50-40 and didn`t think much of it, i lterally just used natasha, acheron, clara and pela, until now the most challenge i faced was getting xianqing and his lightcone, worst character i have ever seen in a gacha
"veteran" 😂
people that say HSR doesn't have powercreep are the ones that either spend money or f2ps that no-life the crap out of the game and are able to get all the resourses and characters they need. case and point, i was unemployed for the entire 2 months after penacony released and without spending a thing i was able to get black swan for my kafka, dhil's lightcone for my dhil, sparkle for my dhil, and acheron + lightcone.
That's not no life, that's just luck
@@Not_Kritikal hsr gives you a ton of jades with SU, MoC+PF updates, Swarm disaster runs, Gold and Gears runs and quests give you 100 jades each! they are a ton more generous than genshin, you just need the time for all the that
@@cristianavideira2545 you don't need to be no lifer to get all the above mentioned rewards
It takes mei 3 min to clear my dailes and another 3 min to use up my resin
If I don't feel like using it i convert it into sim uni chips
Each Sunday i do my 2 sim uni runs and one gng run
If they have events they have around 20 days time for each event anyways I spend like 20 min on events reading all the dialogue
Then if the story updates drop I do it in Sunday's when I am free in 4-5 hours
I don't think I am not lifing here
@@cristianavideira2545you can't even say I don't have good built characters because the support system gives you free e6 characters anyways for your resin runs (excluding moc and sim uni )
...... Yea sure, this game has a lot u can do, but u dont need to no-life the game to get everything u want. I only log in to do dailies everyday then log out, and maybe events + MoC/PF in the weekend, and I can still get like 70 wishes a patch as a f2p. But I guess u r right, 5 mins everyday and like 2 hours on the weekend is too hardcore, or else I wouldnt ve been able to get every character I want since launch
Welcome back, Soul.
I for one love Honkai Star Rail even if I know that the game is essentially a team builder game that relied on the relic lottery. But this game is like drugs. I get a good dopamine hit out of watching my well built characters decimate MOC.
This is how it's intenially designed so that you play as long as possible.
Comparing to drugs isn't the positive thing you're trying to make it seem like it is ya know ... Lmao
You can kill the beetle boss by using the support function before killing it, you can borrow a character from your friends accounts and a pick a Fu Xuan or Abenturine.
it was story mode so the support function wasn't available
In story you can't
@@ezik_0612 He talked about farming mats from the boss being hard and i am referring to that, not the quest.
Next weekly boss in Star Rail will be a giant wasp that straight up removes characters from your account.
It was actually the Fire Trailblazer that carried me through the Sam boss lmao.
By dealing damage? Probably by stalling the game for a long time until Sam kills itself by consuming its own HP to deal dmg
SAME!! At the time I had a very strong Kafka team that were dominating the whole game. But the bug boss beat my ass so hard I had to built a brand new team featuring Dr Ratio. But uh-oh he needs the bug boss materials to level up the talents to be stronger. At the end I used huo huo and gepard to not die at this boss and beating him was sooo slow. At the end I felt bitterness and saltiness, thinking that I finally beat this stupid boss.
I know when this video and all of your experiences happened this wasn't added yet, but in this last patch (2.1) they added an option to farm mats on places that you haven't gone to in the story. I agree with mostly everything else tho. I'm a day one player so most of the work on my account was done when it was simpler and now the game sustains itself with 30 min of gameplay each day and maybe a couple hours of story every few months, wich allows me to enjoy the content at a good pace; but all of this happened to me on Genshin when Fontaine came out and my account was abandoned at the end of the Archon quest in Inazuma, I dreaded coming back but gave it a shot, and quit shortly after.
The bettle is however infamous for being the worst boss in the game, harder than anything that cam before and it made farming for low level players a nightmare, followed only by the Aventurine boss (he isn't as bad but his day 1 fight before the nerf was quite hard, and nowadays he just sucks bc his gimmick forces you to miss so much damage). I think it's fair to critize that encounter in particular since it was clearly designed to be fought with a Fu Xuan + Jing Liu team, just like Swarm disaster was clearly trying to sell Fu Xuan just a few months prior.
As for the powercreep point, you're half right. DPS units are better now, but they're only better when it comes to accesibility, Seele can still clear most content in the game but she needs decent (not even good, mine are meh) relics and a dedicated team of supports, while JL was designed to work out of the box and with an easier comp since her best team was available at release, while Seele became better with her supports being released in time. Same for Acheron, she is good to build at low investment rn, but her team is a nightmare to get until the dedicated debuffer comes in a couple of patches.
But yeah, I completely agree, these problems exist and are real for many players, and powercreep will eventually get to a point where Seele will get completely forgoten and you will need a new dps, tho I don't think this will get addresed in any way since that's their marketing strategy. The main way to play HSR is to plan ahead the best you can and (sadly) use leaks and other means of gathering information to get an idea of how to pull and build units to play smartly.
U should not expect to beat endgame content like PF and MOC barely playing the game, im a new player two mounth into the game, have beaten 2 stages of PF, and 10 MOC, and its fine. U just need to plan what to pull in the future. Yes, u need need a shit tone of units for two teams in moc and two teams in PF, and there is different meta. So yeah it takes a long time. Also u are not missing out for a lot of rewards, last stages give u like 160 gems for 3 stars, most gems come from easy events and everyday log in. I was recommened to not rush endgame otherwise ill brick my acc, and focus on traces on core 8 units.
You can redo old events and still get the rewards from them so you didn't have to rush through the main questline to do it and as for the bosses, as of you uploading this video, there is a quick challenge feature on them so you can do them before you unlock them through the story. Materials can also be crafted from 2 of any other material. Both the Ruan Mei quest and the Tingyun quest are Traiblaze Continuance quests, meaning you don't have to do it to progress the main Trailblaze Quests, just like Jade Chamber Rising in Genshin. I will agree on the power creep point though, that is really big compared to Genshin, even when comparing characters like 2 updates apart. A large reason why I pulled Kafka was because she's kinda power creep resistant as she scales off of the sub-dps you put along side her which is pretty easy to replace, going from Sampo to Luka to Guinaifen to BLACK Swan and probably more in the future.
I honestly love your content and way of presenting the videos, i really wish you continue making content and ignore any negative or hate comments. For every 2 bad comments there will be 6 good ones, and i know it might be hard ignoring these 2 out of 6 but thats just how life is❤
guy plays game. gets surprised that he can't just go to the end content of game on a fresh account. thats like if you made your character in bloodborne and wanted to fight the Moon presence right off the bat.
Thats not whe he meant
People say its skill based when its not gambling is luck only
@@DOGEELLL its not really luck only. you have to pick what elements and character combinations to use which is why its important to level up multiple characters. If you want to do good you have to plan what characters to pull unlike Genshin where you can basically pull for whatever characters you want.
@@alien7804Not a single thing you listed involves any actual skill though. It isn't a skill to be able to look at the screen and see what elements are favored against what enemies and just pick something that's good against it. Star rail straight up REMOVES the player expression and skill that would normally exist in a turn based game by straight up telling you what the elites and such are weak against.
Please tell me what "skill" is involved in looking at PF, seeing fire / ice weakness and selecting himeko/herta for that side ? There is none. All you did was read the sign telling you what to use and followed it lol
The problem is, and a lot of hsr players REALLY fail to see this, is that if the account does NOT have the elemental coverage needed, they are by DEFAULT at a disadvantage (you literally do 25% less damage) until you either raise other characters with the right elements, or pull new ones to cover all your bases because these dogwater "games" NEED to twist your arm in some way to get you to be "incentivised" in artificial ways to build more characters and keep players running on the endless psychological hamster wheel.
The swarm king fucked me over until sparkle came and I couldn't level her until I built Welt with the mission LC so I can counter its one shot move even Sam fucked me less than the swarm king and I defeated Sam with Seele
Yeah I don't wanna try catching up to the story again after getting burned out doing the same thing with Genshin. I'll just wait to play Wuwa day one
To think that soon there will be a boss that deals a guaranteed 5500 damage to every single character in your team with ite big attack, boss powercreep is so strong
R u fr? I don’t really believe it tbh. Characters at max even supports only have a little over 4k HP. Meaning it’s impossible without damage mitigation or shielding. Kinda crazy if real but I wouldn’t trust every leak.
If the boss is too hard they will nerf it anyways just like they did with aventurine@@BuiltSimilarG
If the boss is too hard they will nerf it anyways just like they did with aventurine@@BuiltSimilarG
Time for a full preservation team and pray the enemy does not turn on berserk mode if the battle stalls for too long.
@BuiltSimilarG its hard to survive even with a good sustain like fuxuan or aventurine cus that's not the intended solution , the boss gives you a chunky shield every time you break its toughness and it has multiple toughness bars and the attack that does 5k+ to each character need 7 turns to change up. To add on that the boss becomes weak to every element in that phase
Huh, I'm a returnee player because I felt kinda burnt out from it, and only came back to get Aventurine, see if I can build him then go back to taking a break. How you felt as a returnee player is exactly how I felt. I just now appreciate some QoL things they added that was definitely not there back when I still played it. But it felt awful to be blocked by lots of story just to even farm certain things...
I've resorted to using a mobile autoclicker to get thru most story that I don't think I'll be interested in. I only care about the characters I like in star rail so this is what I do most the time. On my way to college I turn gane volume down and slap on some music and let the autoclicker do it's thing in my pocket. Whenever I wanna change song I see if I'm done with dialogue or I'm in an endless dialogue loop I need to manually get out of. I usually see the cutscenes pop up on TH-cam so im not worried about missing anything too important.
I too dipped in around 1.2 and came back for Penacony. Stuck at the beetle as I am watching this video with Natasha as my best sustain...
The thing is I join this game at Aven banner up, when I ask someone on discord how to make to end game smoothly(I just got to luofu at that time) they just said :
"Use every Stellar Jade you have to get your First Limited Sustain, as you need survive to clear the content" 😅
"Check the pinned massage" 😮
I got Aven at E0S1 and he's make easy survive at reasonable content I need to clear as solo sustain in team.
Yukong is not a male imaginary character lol and you get her for free if I remember correctly.
He meant that 6/7 imaginary characters are male
Welcome back?.... A bit of a short break. But as long as you're doing alright 🤷🏻
When it comes to fighting the beatle the second time, you can use a friends sustainer or dps to make it easier.
Im sorry, but this sounds little like a skill issue . I played since release, and my main acc is very invested, so it can clear easy but i started a new alt acc and i went to the entire game with ease with free characters, only limited character i got was sparkle and i didn't even use her until penacony . I only got stuck on the aventurine boss, but that was cus i was 20 level below then i should have been it was still a little tough, but lynx and fire mc were able to keep me alive . To be fair, i haven't done the starcrusher swarm king scaracabaz, aka the beatle fight yet but im sure i would mange. If you are curious i used mostly qingque, lynx, fire mc and hanya until she got replaced with sparkle
I to this day dont understand how ppl get such crazy numbers with qq do I need to whale more? I max out all her buffs and my attacks are just nowhere near the dmg I see ppl pulling off with her. It may be a skill issue but thats not exactly helpful advice, how do you do it? Same with Clara, I even have Clara light cone from standard banner. At least it works with Accherron I hit 1 mil with her on the regular.
Started playing when they gave out Dr Ratio and lmfao yeah. The beetle i brute forced with Natasha and Fire MC but holy shit it was awful.
I relate so hard with that "Luocha deleted every ounce of difficulty i had with the game", it's fucking insane how the game is just "motherfucker did i just catch you in one-shot range (full HP)?" for so long.
It feels like they REALLY don't want players to even touch end-game for four months so that they can starve them from those pulls since they were oh-so-generous with the ones they give you when you start the game. You really have to "unlock the fun" by getting two insane sustain units (hi Luocha and Adventurine) before you can do anything, it sucks balls, and don't get me started on how horribly slow leveling and trace farming is because holy shit I still am not able to go out of my way to farm relics because there's still traces to go for so everyone's on rainbow set mainstat only xddd
tl;dr new player experience is ATROCIOUS
I’ve played since launch BUT I was doing university + got bumped to what was basically full-time at my job so I could only log in twice, maybe three times a week. Getting back into this game was HELL. It definitely felt like I was being punished for not pulling for the “right” characters rather than characters I just enjoyed. I’ve been logging in every day since Penacony started (Imbibitor Lunae rerun + Aventurine were great motivators) but even after almost three months I can only BARELY start clearing early stages of MoC, Swarm, and PF. And that’s only after I got Aventurine.
HSR is just a stats sim. 🥱
every gacha is. what's your point?
@@certainpersonso true
Literally genshin impact as well ❤
@@certainperson have you seen arknights? people are clearing hardest content with ass units. Not all gacha games are stat simulators, but majority is, that I agree.
@@trickmonster7905 false, in genshin impact you can clear with literally all your characters built with one stat( em), and if not you can even rely on reaction to deal dmg such as reverse melt, national comps( which are to this day the best f2p comps ever), even the physical comps which are absolute garbage can clear all content( freminet).... it's not only a matter of stats, it's simply a matter of gameplay, rotation, and elemental reactions.
Unlike hsr, where every unit cant be separated from his initial purpose( healers only serve heals, they do ridiculously low dmg, same for shielders and aventurine is no exception unless you chase stats, harmony dont even do dmg as opposed to anemo buffers like kazuha and venti who deals lot of dmg).
my man literally cannot quit youtube and mihoyo games
Listen brother, please, Don't use Acheron without 2 other nihility characters. Seeing Acheron do such little damage is painful. Also, Build your free Lynx man. You get her for free and she's an A tier healer who can cleanse and heal(no need for it now because of Loucha who is only a bit better than Lynx, he's much more of an autoplay unit though because all the important things to activate, activate on their own). When building Aventurine, aim for 4000 defense stat before focusing on anything else. You'll never have to worry about taking damage. Get his traces as well. Relics are half the characters power. Aventurine gives 50% effect res for the whole team as well, so you don't even need to cleanse most of the time.
A f2p friendly team with Acheron that has beaten MOC 12 Literally consisted of fire mc, a Pela(which you could have gotten for free in a limited time event) and Guinaifen(which you can get for free in a limited time event) and Acheron. I can understand the beetle but the Penacony story mobs should never be a problem.
I'm not going to say skill issue, but, with enough skill, you can get a lot done. There is a youtuber who has created an account and restricted himself from pulling on a character even once until he either full clears(36 stars) the limited time MOC or reach 300 tickets standard banner. He has done 35 stars without a single limited 5 star and almost no standard 4 star. He is only using characters the game gives you for free.
Just search up Honkai star rail Zmm
Did we watch the same video? He knows how to play the game (it's not that hard if you've played an rpg ever), the game is just hostiley designed to make things unnecessarily difficult. Imagine if relic farming didn't require suffering ludicrous amounts of layered rng, if there was a skip dialogue button for people who don't enjoy story, if the resource curve to maxing characters and relics wasn't so ridiculously high, if fight rng wasn't so swingy, if bosses weren't so specifically designed to make the new characters look good (seriously, wtf is Adventurine's 50% effect res. he basically turns off a game mechanic that those who don't own him have to suffer through). There certainly is a lot of skill expression when it comes to Star Rail's gameplay, but it feels like the game is trying to stop you from having fun. On their own, each system is bad design. Together, it's evil design.
I dare you to play the game with all free characters and say you're still having fun when you try full clearing anything.
Side Note: personal anecdotes of stupid fight rng - Silver Wolf implanting Wind weakness 3x while my Seele just sits there and watches, Pela (DEF sphere) getting solo targeted 3x through Fu Xuan field and dying, ruining my MOC run.
im only bringing her into Sim uni to one shot trash mods - I swap her out for bosses once i have Loucha or Tingyun from character downloaders later on
i know how Acheron works - its not complex - anyone with 2 brain cells to rub together can figure it out
@@Soul_of_the_Og Okay then, I was simply giving you pointers. My other points still stand.
@@DarkLi3275 Moc is the only actual hard thing and it's because it's supposed to be hard. A game needs an endgame that players work towards and build their accounts for. Even pure fiction is somewhat manageable with characters like Serval and Herta all of which are free.
@@DarkLi3275 The point of Relic farming is that it takes some time though. It's a pve game and what people need to remember that this is a marathon not a sprint. If everything could be accomplished easily then there's no incentive for the player to continue or work towards something.
true about the beetle boss is the worst even for veteran players who dont have the right units, same issue with the aventurine boss now
and unlike genshin where you build one strong team which can be used for most overworld gameplay, star rail has these break shield bs which require the right units to have, as a casual player a strongly made the decision to pull for Luocha and get a free Gerpard to have always 2 sustainers in my team, so that I can basically tank through story content, and yet despite that I doesnt help me in simulated universe or the forgotten hall -.-
I don't think it's a powercreep thing but rather a match-up and character level check.
Having 5 star relics, lvl 80 characters, and characters like Clara Gepard, BE Luka, and etc do really well in this fight and they're not meta.
I've played day one and I didn't notice the creep but you saying this does make sense thankfully, they updated the game.So now you can go wherever you need for materials.And it's not locked behind story 🙏
It's been 1 year already?
Damn
Oh nvm
I joined Star Rail a few months ago cuz of Dr Ratio and man… wow I love it 😍
Trust me you arent the only one who hates Beetle boss, Almost everyone complained about that boss when it came out, It took me almost three days to beat that boss so yes you truly need certain characters that you dont have to beat all these content
Ngl I think we need another Equilibrium level so we can get our characters to 90 instead 80 because dear God these level 95 guys one shot you so bad...its terrible
That beetle absolutely fucked me. I had to go back and build a damn Sushang to finally take it out. It was awful -_-
People don't realize how powerful 4* on star rail , they always keep their eyes on 5* . Bro you can beat the Beatles using herta and March . That's why you need strategy and actually use a brain in some scenario! Rather than brutes force and relaying on 5* gimmick
yeah honestly I was listening to this and thinking the same thing
No they aren't lol you're basing this off people who have INSANE investment put into those characters and several dupes of them coupled with extensive knowledge of the game.
This is NOT realistic for most people and acting like it is is just disingenuous. My friend who used those same characters you mentioned BARELY was able to beat that boss. Why? Because he just did not farm good enough relics and such for the characters. Turns out if you aren't sinking all your time into the game, you WILL fall behind trying to beat content.
Higly investing on characters you barely use just for a specific level or boss? Man fck that, its better saving your time investing on meta characters for all stages
Just dont get mad and abuse your brother
Your criticism is on point. I am also a returnee player. Quit around Blade's debut banner and returned around Sparkle's debut banner. I had the issue with that insolent insect boss. I was forced to raise Pela and Herta just to barely get through. I already used my leftover resources on other characters I *actually* liked so it definitely delayed my progress. Now it's easy after getting Aventurine and Acheron who is game breaking. But who knows how long will they stay useful until mhy decides to make their kits useless just like using healers now can not cut it sustaining your group because the boss deals so much damage
MHY's Games do not know how to transition new players from easy to hard difficulty. There is no middle. It's not skill. Because you know how to beat it but because of the amount of resources you need to raise just 1 character and the RNG on RNG artifact farming, it stalls you from your progress. That's not a skill issue. That's a luck issue.
This hit the nail on the head as someone who played briefly in 1.0 and then took several months off, it felt like the game was just punishing me for not playing when Fu Xuan ran, and not lucking in to Gepard at all. Those soda monkey mini-bosses in Penacony made me want to tear my hair out. "Use shields to reflect the damage!" says the flashing letters on screen. "What *&*%(*$ shields?" I'd shout back.
Not to mention the relic farming made Genshin's system feel positively rewarding in comparison, not having an off set piece, and having a dozen extra useless substats to get in the way.
And then I got Acheron, and suddenly the difficulty vanished. She does more than triple the amount of damage my Jingliu does, and can break toughness bars without caring about the type matchups. The game went from agonizing to hilariously easy and all I had to do was spend $50 on a purple hair murder mommy. And I bet that process will keep repeating forever.
The game is not Honkai Star rail, it's Preservation/Abundance starrail.
No luocha, no Fu Xuan, no HuoHuo or no Aven = get fxxxed
Glad to see you back soul
damn i joined on topaz banner so same patch as jingliu and i had none of the probles you said except the beetle so iused natasha and fire trail blazer
Also when I returned to the game lol
Great video. I started playing during version 1.4. It really sucked when against certain bosses or MOC stages my characters were dying because I just didn’t have that one sustain character from the premium gacha. I was stuck with Natasha and Lynx for majority of the time I play the game.
Oh you should have pulled for Huo Huo, dude the 4 stars on her banner were hot garbage. Then the next sustain on banner Luocha wasn’t available until like 4 months later.
My hot take is that if Genshin feels like you’re bottle neck for damage for trying to 36 Star Spiral Abyss then Honkai Star Rail can feel like you’re bottle neck for damage trying to 36 Star MOC on top of needing to have certain or really strong defensive utilities/units to survive battles. Which I mean you can argue ones an action rpg requiring less defensive options compare to a turn base rpg but my point still stands.
Damn that beetle really fucked you sideways HAHAHAH
This video basically describes most problems that star rail players or at least me go through.
The beetle boss (I'm not gonna bother mentioning the real name cuz it doesn't deserve the respect of being a pain in the ass) is legit the most bs thing I went through in my entire gameplay of the game. Games like star rail forcing us to get good characters like loucha or adventurine as an example (both I absolutely don't like and never will pull for) is one of the reasons why I or many would feel burnt earlier than it should and the absurdity of resources you need to fully build one is a lot. The only reason I was able to beat is the fact I had bailu as my only healer, till this day I only have bailu, mc and March as the only sustainer and itll be this way until i at least get someone i would *like* to get and not be forced to.
Anyways, good video.
*also, the adventurine boss was pathetic, even without the nerf*
I'm glad you're back Soul.😃
being region locked to upgrade your char sucks, reminds me when i started playing genshin last year and i got some inazuma characters and i was still in monstadt. i had to reroll my account lol
I completely agree and can relate as a new/"returning" player. The early to mid game are rough especially if your lacking A LOT of things, may it be new units, gear and materials. The beetle boss, yes, it was the bane of my existence for a good long while during my return to the game with a fresh account since I lost my day one account due to circumstances beyond my control. I only used Ratio, March, Lynx and Bronya. I had to grit my teeth and ascended my main team to 80 and their light cones too and beat the boss after almost 2 hours of restarts. Nowadays, I'm at a point where I am pretty comfortable doing endgame content with both Acheron and Aventurine. You instantly feel that gratification of breezing through content you never even dreamed of clearing back then. Gacha games have been notorious for FOMO tacticsto bait us players to roll for the new hotness. And as a long-time gacha player, I still haven't really learned my lesson on self-restraint and impulse actions. But one thing is for certain when you play these games, the moment you pause, step back, look at your account, and you realized that you had an epiphany that you don't really need unit x because I can still use unit y or z , then things become more easier and clearer and you get to enjoy the game even more and take it for what it is.
I agree with everything. I just two days ago beat the 65 equilibrium quest I was stuck on because I finally got my solo sustain. I finally feel like I'm playing what everyone else is playing since starting Star Rail in 1.5.
You can solo Sam fight with fire trailblaizer just attacking with the basic skill you can be extra sabe with the MC+ luocha
The adventurine boss fight was actually disgusting
I started this game during 1.5 and yeah I faced the same thing this game is not at all new player friendly I remember getting my ass handed to me during those story boss fights...Now that I have HuoHuo and finally Aventurine I feel like I have finally won now I don't die anymore maybe sometimes on the team where I run HuoHuo but it's no more annoying and easily manageable...
Dr. Ratio is an incredible Free DPS character and I was lucky enough to get his lightcone in one 10 pull as well....Now I am zooming through every content tho I am short on other limited DPS characters because I like DOT teams so I wanted to get the entire package...Black Swan, Kafka, Ruan Mei and HuoHuo those were all where my early pulls went and I lost only one 50/50 to date in Star Rail and that was on the Sparkle banner but I did get her. And these are all my characters till now..!!!
As some one who has been playing since the beginning sam clapped my cheeks
This is very true. I didn't play star rail for like 3 months and when I came back there was just too much content and I needed to even update relics for my old dps' and get new ones. Thankfully i had a luocha and a il or I would have been done for
I am a day one player and I LOOVE Star Rail, but new player experience sucks major balls... I have a friend who is relatively new to the game, and has seen Firefly and decided that she really likes her. She doesn't NOT have the time to sit thru the MASSIVE Penacony quest, so she still doesn't know that Firefly is SAM. In two weeks, she will be spoiled for that whether she likes it or not! In addition to the story locked things, Star Rail for new players feels like a chore, and at this rate will be unplayable for anyone who isn't a long time player, which is a shame...
After watching this video I will definitely be calling Penacony "Pina colada" great video man. Also your not the only person who struggled with the bug boss. All my friends struggled with it and saw a lot of people on Reddit and TH-cam comments asking for help.
Playing HSR since my release, here's my thoughts/experience (also spoilers ahead):
-Belobog is okay. At least, they tried to show some realism of attempting to rehabilitate an isolated country or even the planet, it is not easy.
-Xianzhou feels meh. IDGF about Tingyun, and yet I am more interested with the NPC named Dan Shu. But I feel like it's not done yet since Jingliu appeared at the last minute, like why??? They made a patch only for Tinyun's funeral, even tho it was hinted that she wasn't dead yet, but tbf, i feel like Welt is just assuming out of nowhere.
-Seele and Jing Yuan got powercrept to the max, but I expected this. It's like Klee and Diluc at 1.0. I still like JY tho. As for the standard banner characters, Bronya is still good, Himeko kinda got powercrept except for PF, Gepard, Bailu and Yanqing got powercrept, Welt is still well liked for his high-chance imprisonment debuff/dps hybrid, Clara is still well liked for her FUA.
-So much to do. I haven't 12 star'ed PF yet, i just recently 36* MOC.
-Another Raiden Mei expy, everyone loves her. I grew sick of her seeing every time she appears.
-I enjoyed Penacony, but at the same time the story is tedious. Dialogue feels like a literary thesis. imo, i felt nothing towards Firefly or Robin being "dead" since I freaking know they aren't before even revealing that they are still alive all this time.
-I was so unlucky with relics (especially with DPSes), so much that I don't want to pull for characters anymore.
-I enjoyed playing SU and MOC, great way to test my characters.
-Not a great time to reroll a new account if you're attempting to speedrun content.
Your audio seems to static a bit throughout the video. You may want to fix that
bro that bug almost made me quit the game i hate that boss
Same with genshin, it's not worth to return or to start late because 1. You missing events 2. You missing characters 3. You missing the gifts devs are sending.
That beetle took me like 4 hours to beat and I had full 5 star relics. I had to eat food to even beat it (i forgot you can eat)
7/10 is really high considering that you skipped the story which is like half the game
4:56 or you could have imaged that you came back 2 days later and ignored it because at most you were losing out on like 8 pulls
well now you get early acces to farmable mats but not weekly bosses
I am a veteran player, so the game being favor toward endgame players is a nice change for once, its the exact opposite of genshin.
maybe this make me sound like an egoist, but making a balanced game that favor both new player and endgame is near impossible, but to me loyalty should be more valued
Just like in corpa, the high rank manager who been working for years should be given better facility and wages than a new recruit who arrived yesterday, eventually they will be in the same path, however if its the other way around, the old ones getting the worse treatment, they will quit, and the new ones who replacing them will be in the same spot too, this also applied to customers analogy
Which is why genshin game structure looks soo bad to me, it's an example of bad business practice, neclect your old player demands after their wallet is dry, while also prevent the new player toward limited items and events to induce fomo.
For all the flaws HSR have, it got far faar better treatment than genshin, not the best game or even best gacha game in the world, but aleast i agree with what they offered so far, challanges
(PS: srry for my bad English, not my mother's language, feel free to educate me to improve my writing)
I also needed 2 sustains, i had the loli dragon and lynx from the gacha
I too struggled with the blue beetle,tried every teamcomp i had available.
Do you know what ended up working..
Qingque, lvl50 natasha,and lvl20 march...damn
Star Rail looks great with Nvidia filters on. These are my current settings.
Sharpen + (Depending on what resolution your screen is 1440p~4k)
Intensity 30%~50%
Texture Details 30%~50%
Color new™ (Tint for Warm tones, Vibrance for overall color)
Tint Color 95%
Tint Intensity 20%
Temperature 0%
Vibrance 30%~50%
Details (Bloom at 0% looks sharper 9% is more blended)
Sharpen 0%
Clarity 100%
HDR Toning -100%
Bloom 0~9%
Brightness/Contrast
Exposure 25%~29% (Depends on how your screen displays brightness)
Contrast 35%
Highlights 50%
Shadows 50%~75%~85% (Depending on preferences)
Gamma 0%
Nvidia Control Panel Digital Vibrance 70%
Screen brighttness should be at 100% (monitor brightness)
If it's too bright lower exposure, if it's too dark lower shadows OR HDR Toning to 80%
I recommend getting a MINI LED screen as they look the best with filters the GP27U looks crazy, if you can wait there's an update for it coming later on this year. MINI LED > OLED.
Glad seeing you back in the fray
Tectone mentioned you in a recent upload calling you an abuser (“im getting banned from Genshin impact”)
the swarm was hard for everyone i never quite playing and i struggled sm
To be honest you are not wrong in your statement about getting a good character I had the same issue, and I am not even caught up with the story and all I've been doing is level up most of my characters that I can with the areas I have unlock and the funeral quest, not even done but I am almost there (I think)
Pretty much almost all of your videos are gone. Trying to start over, or hide something?
Kinda fun I start on black swan banner and I say frankly I did not find that difficult, maybe because I already play gachas? Probably but again I did strungle but I didn't find that difficult seriously just focus lvl up you light cones and you talents
star rail is a strategy game lol i see people clearing endgame content with free characters every new moc cycle, people who feel like they need limited units are just bad
What strategy dawg? It's just pick element that enemies are weak to + construct your team as follows: DPS, support, sustain.
You people act like this shit is SMT3 Nocturne when it's anything but that. LMAO
And those people clearing with free characters have VERY HIGH levels of relic investment put into them. Stop pretending like these are some E0 4stars with barely any good gear whatsoever. They have eidolons, they have multiple S5 lightcones (some are using five star light cones outside of the herta shop ones sometimes lmao) . It's like when people say xiangling is so broken meanwhile the xiangling is like 70:140 crit, has C4+ (have you ever tried this character at c0?) 2k or so atk, an R5 weapon they spent 200 hours fishing for (or a five star weapon cause they couldn't be bothered) etc etc.
completely ignoring all the context and work needed to be put into making her as strong as she is and acting like she trivializes the entire game with barely any effort is exactly what you're doing with the hsr 4stars.
Weird how it's always "look, these OTHER people did it" too. Show me NEW players or players who are playing catch up being able to do that though. Bet you can't.
@@justsomeguy727 no way you're actually whining in my replies because you play poorly and blame it on roster
Its about the grind that take ages for a character to be good, like even building both Himeko and Herta mainly pure fiction is taking me more than a month
it's great to have you back, homie :)
for pure fiction you don't need a healer at least the early stages
i came back for ratio cause fomo lol. i got lucky and get gepard on the 50 pull. even he felt clunky and i used him with natasha and each fight took so long. then i plan out, and use my pulls almost perfectly and got the ipc team and fu xuan. and more. thats when i have fun lol but then after the quests and stuff..... im just waiting for my resin to refresh, i did all the voiced quest and enjoyed it, i try to enjoy even if it wasnt my first intention to have fun..... and just farmed quest to get jade cause I COULDNT CLEAR PURE FICTION AT ALL. after i got jade and pair her with herta.... almost clear pure fiction perfectly. like jesus. i also struggle with the bug and even after lol, i need to use a random friend request firefly e2 and crack relics since with mine it will take too long but beatable. and phantylia.... like jesus her single attack bypass my aventurine shield, almost 4k defense btw and her anti hp thing ruin my fu xuan so i just borrow a huohuo. now im fine with overworld and boss. but still borrow op characters lol with crack relics. imo penacony is weird, it hype me up a lot but the region feels kinda like a scam, in game they say its a dream but for me its just another place i got tp to by a teleport waypoint and i dont feel the festive vibe
that beetle wrecked my fu xuan on lvl 8 skill and 7.8k hp
If you're binging the story, you're better off ignoring the new stuff and playing like a JRPG.
Otherwise, you'll get burnout or information overload and won't enjoy the game as much. You might miss some limited rewards, but the patience pays off imo.
Well this video is a welcoming surprise to wake up to
i remember also having fromblems with that bug thing and it was so got damn anoying i tooka break from the game and i finnaly beat it with some changes lynx got me through it jingliu and march and ruan mei. i or i might have used silverwolf either way i tried so hard and i remembered there is food in this game so i used it and than it worked
i mean i borrowed characters to just beat the beetle until i got archeron but yes i agree new players in a bad spot if they dont have an invested account.
Great video! As a day 1 player I can see how that beetle fucked u up cuz it did the samw to me..... I would say the main reason to play star rail is it respects ur time. Dailies take me like 2 minutes
True. My friend not playing much and bug been a big problem.l
We all hate that Beetle!! When the Run Mei mission first came out you could see the whole SR Community desperate crying on how annoying and hard that b*tch was, It personally Took me 4 Tries.
I get what you say, since I got Luocha at the beggining of the game I was Luocha dependant since forever. Idk if I would have survive without him haha, and even then I couldn't beat the overworld Boss Monkey in Penacony until I got Aventurine, I had No Shielde besider March for a Year and I still have no Gepard.
But despite those moments I still enjoy Star Rail a lot, and I don't think is that bad if you don't rush it, I started a secondary account and I beat the Beetle in 2 Tries having only Jingliu and Bailu for support. Maybe the issue was you trying to Get to Penacony Right Now instead of being a bit more patient, but Idk. I do get the Blocked by Quest thing though, as I got Jingliu in her latest re-run and I can't get her up yet, but you know what can be done? Don't level the World Level until you know you can handle it.
I was there when it came it out, it felt like I was the only one crying tho. I got stuck on Argenti too but then they made him not mandatory.
for beetle you can use a support sustain from a friend
I was all like true true true
And then you said you played tof bye lol
First off, 2 sustains? What? Who tells people these fucking tips?
LMFAO
Okay but seriously, 2 sustain is good for most content of the game.
Fire traiblazer, while not the best, is the best unit to sustain party wise if you build them full defense because they can reliably reduce 1.5k damage or even 2k with their shield.
Meaning you only need natsha to sustain excess damage (from single target or emergency aoe) and heal any debuff/crowd control (you will have to).
Are they ideal? Fuck no. Your locked into 2 units which offer nothing but sustain so it can only get you through most of the story and basic grinding.
It doesn't prevent damage/recover from damage as well prevent debuff/crowd control.
These 2 issues will only be fixable in the future, either with new sets or Light cones. Which is horrible since if it's sets you need to get further into the game to get (but at least it's something and f2p) while the later is literaly p2w hell (because you have to get lucky and get them to have something in that situation.)
I am not mention march builds because I am not suggesting to build her 4 ways when sub stat hell is real. (For context. She needs Defense for her shields, she needs atk for her damage, she needs speed to go often to maintain her shield and sustain her damage since her follow up is limited and needs Effect hit rate for her ult freeze to give party more sustain. That's 4 stats of which people can only reliably build 2 at minimum.)
It is becoming a noticeable issue where sustainers need not only be able to sustain the party alone but offer more to the party, which is making power creep very noticeable when you don't have such units. (Lynx is considered the best f2p unit because her ult does the cleansing meaning you can get rid of crowd controls easily and quickly and why their considered top tier even though they can't sustain because most people end fight quickly to avoid needing the healing)
And now for dps issue.
I don't fully agree with it. Dang heng, Herta and Serval are perfectly fine units for the game.
Herta is for obvious reasons to anyone who has build her, since she works in nearly all content of the game now and does high number.
And serval because she's a stupidly good unit, who can can do single and aoe good while doubling up as a dot unit.
And why Dang Heng and not Ratio? Ratio requires debuff unit to work. As f2p, new player, you can only get 2 reliable debuff of which 1 is 1 turn. Fire traiblazer and serval. And unless you want to build Dang heng as well, meaning no double sustain, you are in for a rough time.
So even though Ratio does stupid damage more, he isn't a great early unit, only when your account gets older does he get better and actually to the level we're familiar with.
But yeah Dang Heng is a suitable unit for single target. While even though he isn't future proof like herta, or stupid good for a f2p unit like serval. Building him doesn't disappoint, his multiplier are good and as more dps sets are release the more likely you are to get a set that can keep building up his damage.
Obviously you have seele so me mentioning him is kind of stupid when her multipliers are just so much better but still the concept is there. Actually the fact your struggling with seele is surprising.
Same with Jingliu.
But I think I know why for Jingliu and Seele.
Jingliu is a drain on party hp, so when you don't have double sustain or someone who can quickly recover hp, I'm guessing that Jingliu brings you to close to death to survive anything.
As for Seele, i'm going to make a stupid assumption and that is she drains sp so much, you don't have any for the party leaving you to struggle.
(For context. Dang heng inhibitor lunae consumes 3 sp, with only 1 on the turn after they ult. Seele, can consume 4 sp per turn, which is far more rough.)
I believe the main issue is mainly just the sustainability and dps going against each other and creating troubles to either side. Not enough sp for sustain. Not enough dps to end fights before sustain breaks.
Obviously this isn't easy to fix when more recent unit require more recent material you can only get in latest content, meaning you can only use early units, but I do believe that you can win most of the content with 4star and f2p units, albeit you require time and a lot of dedication since this game is not only far more stat depending, set dependent, light cone dependent and unit dependent.
The more recent the unit the better it is obviously but you can do it with old units you build. Issue is the time and dedication to build them does make it rough.
So in the context of you wanting to speed blitz content. No shit your going to have a horrible time.
But Gacha games aren't designed to speed run content.
You know these game are designed to require time and grinding investment for your units to be viable and that means you need to either fork up for powerful unit to clear latest content quickly or actually build the units you have to clear all the content being released, even if you have to trash all the relics you got because you didn't get the idea main and sub stats.
That said, happy to know your on the grind now and enjoying the game! Hopefully we'll get more content from you on that game then genshin.
Yeah Star Rail obviously has a lot of issues. Well, I guess it isn't really obvious as everyone D rides it. A lot of Genshin issues are present in Star Rail as well! But no one cares.
I mean I get it, its enjoyable and people need to get their mind off Genshin. But man the D ride for this game is annoying.
For real man, the genshin could never trend is really one of the most hypocritical statement I've heard.
Because the reality is hsr is the same game, without the openworld, full stop. Wheter it's the rewards, the farming, the storytelling, it's just in the endgame that it can be cooler, that's all.
They really should stop lying to themselves
@@djampoucheukap1742 Idk man, genshin could never can help spread the community's concerns about the game, even if it can be a little toxic.
@@unoreversecard5549 JUST A LITTLE? Are you serious? It's too much toxicism for nothing.
As if this statement will slow new players to enjoy genshin man. And it is also misleading, because you constantly sell another game like a better game, just for players to come and discover the same trash as their previous one. It creates hatred towards all of the genshin fans for no reason, even towards those who actually plays the game for fun despite knowing all the flaws it contains, and those people are much more numerous than only the content creators community
@@djampoucheukap1742 What are you so mad over bro
@@unoreversecard5549 forget it.
It just that as a genshin hater myself, I just dont like that type of hypocrisy that's all.
After I got Dan Heng IL I dropped the game. So I’m fortunate enough when I returned it wasn’t as brutal like it was for you. JFC tho if I was in your shoes I would have dropped HSR because the retiring players ( who don’t have good sustainers ) or new players sounds brutal 💀
SOULLAFA ARTEEST!!! vid..eo??
i played it for 10 mins
and quit
epicly
also wtf the beetle boss section??? omg ??? r u ok ??? why did u put urself through that
What’s goin on over here.