I hope JK Firefly cosplays have not been ruined at this point 🙏

No hate post because I like current playable Feixiao

But the fact that THIS could be a more lore-accurate playable kit just makes me wish she was released later as a remembrance character.

Video credits to りゅう / Ryugamech

A few notes:

• This entire graphic was made by me, manually going through the wiki and counting every version's notable events that I could find. If I missed something or put it in the wrong category, please let me know and I can try to post an updated version in the comments.
• HSR counts everything from Aetherium Wars to the Relic Recon as events. As such, I had to decide what does and doesn't count for the sake of this discussion. All of the events on this graph (aside from the "check in" ones which I will explain shortly) are ONES WITH ACTUAL GAMEPLAY, whether that be puzzles or minigames or normal combat.
• "Check in" events are a term I use for small time-gated events that only require a minute or two of your time each day, such as 1.1's "Lab Assistants In Position" event (turning in basic materials each day) or 2.2's "All About Boothill" event (extra assignments each day). Most people, including myself, would not count these as full events, but they are represented on the graph because I think their higher frequency early on in the game's lifespan is notable.
• "Permanent mode expansion" is also somewhat arbitrary. Here are my criteria for that:
  • WHAT COUNTS: Major additions or updates, such as Simulated Universe in 1.0, expansions like Swarm Disaster, each Divergent Universe overhaul, and Currency Wars's release.
  • WHAT DOESN'T COUNT: Endgame modes like Pure Fiction and Arbitration Anomaly being added to the game, and minor updates to modes like DU or CW (such as adding new planes or characters).
• I count "Permanent" events as major mode expansions (even when they technically aren't permanent like past DU overhauls) or any event playable through the Conventional Memoir menu.
• X.0 updates such as 3.0 and 4.0 are perhaps slightly underrepresented by these metrics, as they often have a lot of extra content in the forms of map exploration, new puzzle mechanics (like the Hand of Zagreus or Planarcadia's platforming zones), and checklist events for completing objectives and beating enemies, which I do not count according to my above criteria.

I hope some of you find this interesting. While it doesn't quite show off a drastic decline in content as I was expecting, I think there are a few interesting trends, such as the amount of reran events in 3.X or the lack of combat events in 4.X. There's only ONE permanent combat event between the two Fate events in 3.4 and 4.4! Seems like they definitely shifted more towards minigames as early as mid-2.X.

What were the devs thinking implementing this? I understand the idea of wanting to have Voracity spreading be a world mechanic so it actually affects the game, but everything past the basic ideas phase is implemented horribly.

First off, this mechanic straight up spoils the game to everyone who doesn’t log on the day the patch comes out and immediately play the new story. Why didn’t they make it so this only affects players who start the new patch? Or make it so the description is censored for players who haven’t reached that point in the story, like ZZZ does with some of its bosses?

Second off, this mechanic absolutely should not affect endgame. It’s genuinely absurd to me that they would put this mechanic in an endgame mode, which is the primary form of gameplay in this game. Not only that, but I’m pretty sure the boss that’s affected by it is totally random, so some players will just get screwed over and not be able to clear content because the game happened to give the boss they had trouble with the corrosion.

And finally, it’s just a terrible mechanic. It would be one thing if the mechanic affected gameplay in a fun or unique way, but no, all it does is make enemies more annoying to kill. This is a problem with most of the new mechanics this game adds, where it’s less of a “play this fun new mechanic” and more of a “this new mechanic sucks unless you pull the character who can deal with it”, but with the way corrosion is forced on everyone it’s even worse this time.

In conclusion, I don’t understand how this mechanic ever made it out of the concept phase in its current form, much less shipped out to the live game. Genuinely one of the worst mechanics I’ve seen in a video game and Hoyo should give us all at least 1600 jades as an apology for making us deal with this bullshit and I’m not joking.

And yeah, fucking Pollux ruined my perfect run.

Ladies and gentlemen, a round of applause for HSR players.

Personally I think yeah. If these two kissed already it would fix all the problems this game has. Including the power creep, lack of contents, endgame shill etc.

GI introduced train and immediately made a train game. It has been so many years for HSR and instead what we got is car racing lol. They could’ve made an event or feature where we control the AE train. It would’ve been such a fun minigame or even better maybe something part of the story. Now that I think about it, imagine when we're escaping Planarcadia, there's something occurred and TB needs to take control of the train, which where we get the train simulator feature applied and later introduce it further as an event mini game. And no, their train being space travel doesn't prevent this concept to exist, instead it makes the concept even more cooler. I hope they implemented this into HSR.

I'm a 0-cycler, moderate spender and I use to be OBSESSED with this game. I usually had around 100runs on each AA since it's release. Trying to get 0-cycles with lowest cost with various teams was just my fav activity when traveling and stuff. Ngl HSR was like smoking for me.

After playing latest APOC and AA, I just don't feel like doing it anymore. Game suddenly feels very cold, hostile, unwelcoming and I don't want to support that.

Especially this last APOC reset and fact that it unsustainable with any older sustain and how absurdly aggressive and fast every mob is. I can deal with bigger HP, reasonable dmg reductions, but I'm not okey with it being borderline unplayable because there are only two sustains who can effectively keep your team alive.

If the image fails *again* it's a screenshot of Auto Heartthrob Bot in Astropolis mentioning that Void Archives sold the blueprints to Shush for some cash to get by, hence why there are robots who look like Shush on Astropolis.