Thread for the discussion of the Japanese server of Blue Archive
Summer stream and announcement soon. What are your hopes for it?

>>1779706 (OP)
PC client PLEASE

>>1779808
I tried it, and while it's nice for the fancy graphics, I wouldn't use it for raids before some improvements are made.

>>1779820
It's 100% worthless for JP raids but it's pretty nice for Global purposes. Global players struggle with insane so I can just belt out some quick insanes and consistently rank among the top 1000 ins clears.

Meanwhile I'm staring at the current Goz cutoff with equal amounts of disgust and annoyance. Amazing how JP can have so many players tryharding the shit out of the game and still get treated like 3rd class citizens.

>>1779820
>>1779935
It's more that JP will get really pissed if there's no PC client even if it's not as good for raids. Like, what even is Yostar's excuse? Surely Nexon can just hand them a build of the Steam version, and they have to know it's one of the server's biggest demands.

>>1779945
>It's more that JP will get really pissed if there's no PC client even if it's not as good for raids.
Are they actually pissed or annoyed though? Or have they resigned themselves to their fate as third class citizens funding the server that matters?

>>1779947
I remember several comments as far back as the Shupo stream asking for a PC version, and I occasionally spot someone on twitter wondering when they'll get one. There's definitely a demand, a lot of people probably don't want to deal with emulators. And you can bet that if global got it and they didn't even after the half anniversary, even the mild-mannered nips will get pissed.

>>1779945
one of yostar requirement to nexon would likely be a standalone client
i don't see a reason why they wouldn't want a pc client be it steam or standalone, looking at their other games that they publish (mahjong soul, aether gazer)

>>1779957
I don't know, I feel like a lot of nips enter this resignation state where they don't really care anymore and just take whatever they get. Honkai 3rd had a similar thing where every server except JP got a PC client then it took JP like two more years to get their own PC client.
It's why I was asking if the nips are actually upset or annoyed about the situation or if they don't really care since they'll use emulators for the hotkeys and macros anyway.

>>1779963
Well yeah, but yostar's radio silence is still pretty weird

>>1779966
The difference here is that JP is the main server, unlike Honkai which is Chinese. Either way, I don't think it's a good idea to test your playerbase's patience, and I think having a PC client would help make the game more engaging to casual players, who seem to be the ones putting in the least effort/peacing out the most if the raid participation distribution is anything to go by

>>1779976
>The difference here is that JP is the main server, unlike Honkai which is Chinese.
Yeah but JP came out a whole year before Global and SEA. And they still got PC first, which is a similar situation.

>>1779935
>It's 100% worthless for JP raids
Why?

>>1780296
JP raids often need keybinds for repositions or specific spots you want to move to.
Global raid you can just kinda do whatever and plat. If you're used to platting JP raids then you can most likely plat any global raid without a timeline.

>>1780508
No, you don't. Most people me included don't use macros or anything like that.

>>1780518
Well if you aren't tryharding then global client is perfect yeah. It just kinda sucks if you're trying to plat raids on JP because a lot of them greatly benefit from strategic keybinds here and there.

>>1780520
I don't really see your point since 1 team clear will be enough to get plat this time...

I hate goz P1 so fucking much

>>1780526
The cutoff is looking like it'll be 1t clear with like 20~30 left tho

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QACr9gB5v4c
I followed this clear, it felt easygoing compared to the gym Yuuka one.

data mining future banner or something?

>>1782139
What banner? This banner lasts until bluefes

is swimsuit saki used for anything currently?

>>1783010
Greg is her primary use, useful for Geburah too with the special buff. Can also be a bit of a cope option for high defence single target raids like Binah/Hiero if you're desperate.

You know, this game could use a catch-up mechanic for returning players
Came back after 6+ months or so? Here are some gibs

>>1784163
You can't catch up to something like missing Kisaki, for example

>>1784441
You can't, but something is better than nothing from a psychological standpoint.

>>1784441
>hear an important student is getting a banner
>come back
>get reminded you have nothing to roll with and no hope of getting a lot without whaling
>leave again
It helps with player retention

Extra Kaiten tickets in the mail.

Hello,

This is probably the third time I've been to this board going all the way back when I was a /b/ and /a/nime tard in '06. I don't play games on my telephone but I do make and modify MMD and Blender models of Shiroko and put her in very compromising erotic situations. I'd just like to say to you and the whole Blue Archive community that I'd like to have sex with her. That's it. I'd like to have sex with Shiroko Sunaookami. Thanks for your attention and I'll gladly take any questions or comments.

does anyone have a folder with all the LINE stickers somewhere

torment kaiten sure is a pain, interruption duration is so long during phase 1, non-tanks just drop quickly in a min or 2 during phase 2 and pray for kuroko undying doesn't trigger until the sword slash

>>1788149
only used shoshino ex once, hardest part is keeping tsubaki alive, and first team shaved 3m hp off the phase 2 boss
second team shaved 11m hp off the boss, making sure kuroko has >20% hp remaining after the missiles, so she can have an additional ex without triggering invul before the sword swing
third team is all about chaining back to back staggers
previously i had a clean up crew with wakamo+izuna+tsukuy+shiroko+sshizuko+nyharuka to finish up any remaining hp in the event team 1+2 did not build up enough parts damage

https://www.youtube.com/live/yYorFhF3T_Q

>keep getting connection error
hhuh? no MT right

>>1789490
It would be enticing to imagine a surprise stream release of something, but client works fine for me.

>>1789505
it work fine now, kinda weird since i can play other game fine except blue archive

>>1789477
up

>Ichika
okay I was NOT expecting that

To nobody's surprise, it was tea Party
Though I expected Seia to be in the rerun, maybe her VA's health played a part in it

>>1789631
They do recordings several months in advance.

same situation as shanako, now previous purple ST strikers are powercreeped

not even cares about powercreep thing anymore, gold is very enough for me now to get the character I want

https://imgur.com/a/KzcFmGT
Stream summary for those who slept through the stream

Mika/Nagisa fes
Seia/Hasumi summer limiteds
Ichika welfare

Why is Nagisa suddenly as big as Hasumi? I swear they must have a quota of putting one small and one big student for anniversaries and that's how she ended up like this

>>1789636
Yeah thanks nexon, I was able to use my Nozomi for one whole raid! I can't wait to never use her again because mika made every other purple striker unusable!

>>1789684
Mood and armor type are still a thing
And you'll need both for Lunatic and such anyway

>>1789685
Hopefully someone at nexon has a brain and Mika's moods are urban and outdoors to not interfere with Nozomi.

Also I don't think anyone's going to be doing Lunatic until they make it more accessible to the average player. Nobody's gonna be doing those several turn lunatics where you need every niche one raid wonder they printed for it or else you can't do it.

Stream is over and I don't know how I feel about the fes. Large upgrade over 4th anniversary where I had zero interest in everyone involved and playing the game felt like a chore but not so much that I'm jumping off the walls and happy to be playing the game. It's alright I guess.
Not sure what to think about Seia being denied of fes status again in favor of a clearly less popular Nagisa but it seems they gave her a better kit this time so that's an upgrade.
Not a fan of Nagisa's swimsuit but I liked her as a character at least. Skill seems kinda weird, I wonder who she's going to displace from the usual suspects.
Mika seems to be the centerpiece of the fes with the clearly overpowered kit and her swimsuit seems much cuter and better than Nagisa's swimsuit. Simple is better and hers looks great.

The upgrades for more ligma when rolling and the battle pass are nice but not particularly happy about UE60 coming out because that's going to be a lot of people to upgrade and very costly to do so.

Hi, it's me, again. Haven't been here in a while.

https://mega.nz/folder/FBRxxDSa#8DgXxWrCrIgKteNQeFaINQ

>>1789726
Nice, thank you.

>>1789726
Thanks for the dolphin porn.

>>1789692
>not particularly happy about UE60 coming out because that's going to be a lot of people to upgrade and very costly to do so
We literally always knew it was coming and it turned out to be cheaper than initially estimated
With Lunatic coming out that's just a way for whales to get comfier

>>1789806
>With Lunatic coming out that's just a way for whales to get comfier
Yeah I bet whales will be stoked about having more ways to toss nexon more money. Unfortunately, I'm not a whale and pretty unhappy about the current state of raids where everything is a shitty maldfest because everyone is packed into the same 100m~ or so due to torment being too easy and lunatic being too hard.

No main story update and no new character or new story release leaves me slightly disappointed too. I like the character choices for 4.5 since I like the tea party as characters and I wanted to roll for them but if I look past character choices, I don't like the rest of the stuff in this anniversary.

>>1789813
>I don't like the rest of the stuff in this anniversary
We also got special dangles and an archive banner that lets you both debloat the standard pool so spooks are less shit and lets F2Ps eventually get the likes of Ako and Shun which are both really good

i'm not happy with nagisa's swimsuit
all the other stuff like ue60 is whatever
seia's swimsuit i like
but nagisa is my third highest bond and it is very much not what i want from her. it'll probably be justified in the writing and make sense, that's not the issue, the issue is just that i don't like it and won't be putting it on my home screen like i had been looking forward to
totally just a personal problem and everyone else seems to like it but i'm not gonna pretend to not be disappointed
happy about kasumi screentime though

>>1789879
It really doesn't seem like Nagisa. I expected some tit service but I didn't expect that the one giving it would be Nagisa in a slingshot swimsuit with +2-3 more cups over her default size.

I don't like it either but I don't hate it either, it's just a dislike.

>>1789879
>>1789882
Personally I think it looks classy as hell, she and Seia were my favorites this time around

Mika's swimsuit makes her look absolutely gorgeous.

I like all swimsuits except Hasumi's

>>1789890
right that's going to be the justification. as leader of trinity she has to wear it to look like a proper celebrity, she can't just wear some plebian swimsuit. i get it.
it's just not at all my thing which sucks because i was looking forward to her the most

>>1789897
Oh Hasumi's is easily the worst by far, no contest. Nagisa's just doesn't really fit her character or personality which is why it feels bad.
Feels like they're downgrading her character to just tits instead of showcasing more of her personality and character. I legitimately didn't recognize her at first because everyone was calling her mommy due to her new swimsuit and it's just bad man. I imagine the fanart will be even worse too.

Mika's in comparison is much cuter and fits more her character of wanting to be Sensei's cute princess. It's much more tasteful, it's simpler and it's very nice on the eyes. Very good.

Mika so weird without her hair bun, not a problem with the artwork itself though

I really hope they can fix their scheduling and give us regular story updates again
I don't want to see this game turn into something like Azur Lane where it only stays afloat purely through coom and fanservice

>>1789692
>Not sure what to think about Seia being denied of fes status again in favor of a clearly less popular Nagisa
No one wants to pull for Nagisa if she's in "regular banner before the fest banner"

>>1789947
>I don't want to see this game turn into something like Azur Lane where it only stays afloat purely through coom and fanservice
I feel sorry for you, to the fanbase, and to myself, because clearly eventually they will do what you are worried. Just look at Hasumi swimsuit, it's really a borderline NSWR Azurlane tier skin.

>>1790058
*NSFW

>>1790058
I don't think it's something to be worried about considering we had the bunny suits year 1, I see this as a lone blip on the radar rather than a trend, at least for now

I think all the designs are at least a little plappable, but it's the lighting (or lack thereof) that makes a lot of characters lose their softness.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uSYZuR18I9c

PD Kim and other high-level employees seem to want it that way though. Recognizable silhouettes and blue-ocean strategies over trying to compete with other gachas. I don't think I've ever seen that kind of reductive strategy win without being Apple lol

>>1790227
Oops, here's the comparison i wanted to make.

glazing on the design choice before the story even drops is hilarious

>>1790227
>>1790230
I'm not really that upset over the designs, I'm just disappointed about the lack of story. I think Blue Archive's strength was the focus on story, lore and worldbuilding but then we entered the biggest drought after 3.5 because we've gotten 2 main story updates since then and 1 of them was just moving the Deca event to main instead of continuing any of the other main story threads or plots.
Would have probably been annoyed over Hasumi if they had made her a fes or given her some broken kit but they didn't so thank god in heaven they didn't.

>>1790230
Yeah, I think the original looks way better there.

There's still one more ticket for Kaiten right? Or is the raid ending at reset?

>>1790761
this is the last ticket before reset, they gave 1 ticket in mail so it ends a day earlier

>>1790761
It's ending at reset tonight, but you have an extra set of tickets in the mail.

>>1790766
>>1790767
Thanks for the heads up, guess I'll do my tickets before clocking out.

I'm struggling to get past Blue tmt p2
Is there some trick to actually getting the groggy and not dying to the sword/missiles?

>>1790842
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W9Hgbk0F1YQ
critfishing if you are speedrunning
for 3-4T comps it's inevitable they will die to sword/missiles, so pray that the last team can start chain staggering kaiten
you would want to keep nykayoko for p2, and space out your dps into different teams, borrow another kuroko so you have 2 teams with her

>>1790842
I just did an extra 40 second team of waka+mika

https://x.com/kudaizuna/status/1947184244826243223?t=wYMa-fluwUzU73_HMIr0VA&s=33
Cherino has her new VA finally

>>1790058
I swear some of you people here are such negative nancies you give the /vg/ doomposters a run for their money
Get a grip

>>1791157
Not that anon you're replying to but I think It's overall a good half-anni and better than the last one but it does have it's downsides and not-so-good things they're trying to pass under our noses by distracting us with swimsuit mika and seia.
A thread where you can discuss the good things and the bad things about a game is nice because I hate how most threads these days are either only for shitting on the game or only for worshipping the game without any inbetween.

>>1791168
>A thread where you can discuss the good things and the bad things about a game is nice because I hate how most threads these days are either only for shitting on the game or only for worshipping the game without any inbetween.
That's fine, but the whole attitude behind the post I quoted pisses me off. Acting like the game is on a downwards slippery slope because of one alt for a student who's always been more sexualized than anyone else since day 1 is ridiculous

>>1791115
still funny how dumbasses here claimed it was because tange was retiring even though she still does all her other roles and even started voicing a new horsegirl since

can anyone help a noob find a higher res of this image? already tried the usual methods and found nada

>>1791651
here's 2nd

>s.Ichika's L2D has her kabedon you
Holy shit that's hot

I feel such dissonance from Nagisa's soft voice coming from that illustration on the event screen. Her expression and voice are like two different things.

why is this faggot even complaining of all times about fanservice in a gacha full of cute girls, clearly limbabs is more up your alley

>Free daily 10 AP and 10k credits
>Have to claim it every day in the cash shop

Nice.

>>1791963
I have to say the cash shop is far and away the worst thing that came out of this latest batch now that the battle pass turned out to be not that bad

>you can skip rougelike mode
yeah, they need to add it in the future for event with minigame, not all ojisan have time to play more than 30 minutes

https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/Seia_(Swimsuit)
https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/Hasumi_(Swimsuit)
https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/Ichika_(Swimsuit)

good news are patch downloads will be way faster now, I suppose

i guess the intended way to beat the card game is to have a couple of fail runs, then via the upgrade system you can bruteforce it eventually

>>1792029
i actually win beat it on my first try lmao

https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/Summer_Sky%27s_Promise
Preliminary event page is up. There's a cascade of things that went wrong/got changed that broke loads of automation, so it'll take a couple days to untangle this fully.
If someone feels like writing the actual CCG mode guide that'd be a huge help.

Free tenner for 1st place on the app store coming soon, save your pyros

You know what, FUCK IT, I don't care about this minigame and the rewards. I can barely read JP, and they give this "minigame that can last for hours and there is a meta to clear it faster".
Fucking bullshit.
>Filtered
Yeah right, they are clearly making this to filter the casual players who does not have more than 30 minutes for a point-click gacha game.

>>1792030
Same.

>>1792251
those don't have an expiry date, and you will be using them to roll on the fes banners anyway

>>1792304
The minigame is fine as is imo. Its not like bloated chink gachas where they overload you with modes and minigames of no consequence that takes hours to finish every patch while offering very little in return

>>1792304
Why are you even playing this game if you can't read japanese?

>>1792392
I picked it up because it was published by Yewstar, and I've been holding it since it was first released. It's been too long to stop now.

>>1792427
this desu
I started playing when JP released day1 even though I didn't know japanese and it's been too long to stop
Stopped reading the story when the jp fantranslator stopped and now that global is out and has the story in English, there's just too much content for me to catch up on so I haven't bothered.
Not like it matters anyway since most globals don't give two shits about the story and just spam dumb headcanons or memes about characters anyway so not a lot of people to discuss it with.

>>1792467
>Not like it matters anyway since most globals don't give two shits about the story and just spam dumb headcanons or memes about characters anyway so not a lot of people to discuss it with.
You are talking about gacha stories in general where no one outside of the fandom even talks about it no matter how good they are

>>1792304
I don't know what's the optimal strategy but the final boss requires you to start with a fully healed team and you will have to keep killing enemy units in the back row that have 3 HP. I managed to clear the minigame on my second run with a bunch of spells that deal 3 damage to a random enemy; recruited Hina, Nagisa and Mika.

why is there a 1.8 GB patch now?
the twitter has a post about some trophy bug from the raid but that can't be 1.8 GB right?

https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/Nagisa_(Swimsuit)
https://bluearchive.wiki/wiki/Mika_(Swimsuit)
Anni units are up.

>>1793147
huh, they're both by kokosando

>>1793147
don't quite understand nagisa's EX. so it's like a temp +5 cost?

>>1793165
Buffed student can overdraft on your Cost balance, but you still have to wait for it to regenerate if your Cost bar goes negative. So bigger bursts, like 3~4 sMika EXs in a row.

Here's the relevant part from the reveal stream
https://youtu.be/yYorFhF3T_Q?t=13370

>>1793007
Seems like there are various final bosses, another one requires you to deal 15 damage in one turn.

is ue4 making any difference in pvp