#QoL Announcement

[neobastard]

🚨BREAKING NEWS🚨

tnt has officially put the void within on pause between chapters 7 and 8. according to their statement on the official twitter account, it's to "make exciting improvements based on your feedback".

all plot activities (void essence collection, battledome fights, volunteer shifts, and story updates) will be on hold, and voidworks specifically will be getting an update.

the void within is slated to return in early 2025, but the team's assured us that there will be plenty of holiday activities in the meantime.

i have absolutely no clue what this means for the future of the plot.

but i'm going to trust that tnt made this decision because they felt that the feedback they received required such a long hiatus to make changes around.

[doyourequirefirstaid]

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[juniperjelly]

once again minecraft fans be mad for all the wrong reasons

[misedejem]

I fully forgot to post a drawing because I was too busy yelling internally about FFXIV all evening

[yeuc-c]

REGRETEVATOR UPDATE THIS SATURDAY AT 3PM EST

A LITTLE LATE TO ANNOUNCE THIS. but Regretevator updates this weekend!

This week is a really big development week.

A lot of what's being released this update will mainly be bug fixes and a lot of QOL with floor reworks while we work on (hopefully) releasing STAT next week.

[dustyoo10]

PSA (Public Shilling Announcement) for anyone who's never experienced these games before.

Halo 1 - 4 all in a single package with toggleable remastered visuals for Halo 1 and 2, enhanced customization, 10 free never expiring battlepasses, mod support with workshop integration, and QoL features. All for 10 bucks.

[armoredisopod]

Arknights Thank You Celebration 2024 PVs

New Operators

Figurino, 5* Merchant Specialist

I have a lot to learn, and right now, i'd like to start by making a new suit.

Crownslayer, 6* Welfare Executor Specialist

"Crownslayer", that's the name we're familiar with, let's keep it.

Vulpisfoglia, 6* Pioneer Vanguard

I appreciate the acknowledgement. But you know this means in the future the people who are hunting me for bounty will come to Rhodes Island first. Will that be fine?

Lappland the Decadenza, 6* Limited Mech-Accord Caster

Is this your way of trying to get me to settle down, or do you also think this game needs more excitement...

I just can't guess you, no wonder i like your trust in me!

2 new operators to the voucher shop

Contrail, 4* 巡空者 (Air Patrol) Specialist

Philae, 5* 本源铁卫 (Primal Protector) Defender

Operator Outfits Update

Total of 6 new outfits, 2 new additions for the Cambrian brand, 1 new addition for the Epoque brand, 2 new additions for the Test Collection brand and 1 new addition for the 0011/Tempest brand

Cambrian

At the Warm Velvet Corner - Warmy

Travel Freely - Sussurro (Login Event)

Epoque

Il Segreto Della Notte - Texas the Omertosa (21 OP)

Test Collection

Allmind As One - Executor the Ex Foedere (24 OP)

The city lights up. I can sense everyone's presence, and everyone's absence. We are together——— as one "Laterano".

Diversity Oneness - Virtuosa (24 OP)

Please stay, Sankta. Please tell me, is the Laterano of now a place that is connected to the rest of the land?

0011/Tempest

Ignis Fatuus - Lessing

Lessing's outfit will be up for sale during Zwillingstürme im Herbst Retrospect

Announced outfit reruns

Young Branch - Muelsyse

Red Countess - Skadi the Corrupting Heart

Operator Modules Update

All the new operators (except the red cert shop ops) being part of branches with modules immediately get their modules

FUN-X module base effect increases the starting damage of Lappland the Decadenza's drones to 35% of her ATK

SOL-X module base effect gives Vulpisfoglia +8% ATK and DEF when blocking

EXE-X module base effect makes it so retreating Crownslayer refunds 80% of her current DP Cost

MER-X module base effect reduces the DP drained by Figurino's trait effect

Ritualist Supporter branch gets 1 module type

Lessing gets his second module

DRE-Y module base effect allows Lessing to survive a single fatal blow, healing back to full and gaining +30 ASPD at the cost of -60% Max HP, this effect only activates once per deployment

Angelina and Rosmontis get Integrated Strategies specialized modules

These modules' effects are unknown at the time of writing

Events and Stories

I Portatori Dei Velluti, a Siracusa side story event

Put on your masks and dresses, the show is about to begin in the streets.

Come on, don't be boring - you're probably the least "Carnival" of the bunch!

Stronghold Protocol, limited time autobattler gamemode, opens during the third week of I Portatori Dei Velluti

Zwillingstürme im Herbst Retrospect, scheduled after I Portatori Dei Velluti

Operator Archives update for Lessing, Jieyun, Schwarz, Sora, Totter and Vigil

Misc Stuff

New QoL changes

Added the ability to have preset base loadouts that you can easily swap between

Added the ability to instantly send every exhausted operator into dormitories with one button

Max Sanity cap increased by +45

Refilling sanity using Originite Prime will refill 135 sanity regardless of level/max cap

Added the ability to instantly move to required lower materials when crafting and a button to move back the higher tier material that required it

Mountain, Kafka and Pinecone added to recruitment

Bagpipe's [Queen, No.1] outfit will be available in the certs shop to players that don't have it

Livestream Stuff

Showcased Lappland the Decadenza, a hyper offensive 6* Mech-Accord Caster with potent self buffs and powerful debuffs

First talent makes her stronger the longer she stays on the field, getting the following buffs in order: increased drone damage cap, ability to inflict Silence, gains more drones

Second talent increases the initial SP of all [Siracusa] operators when she's in the squad

Skill 1 has a passive effect that immediately gives her an additional drone, when the skill activates she gains ATK, releases her drones to attack enemies and her drones will attack idling enemies anywhere on the field

Skill 2 expands her attack range, increases her ATK, gives her more drones and releases her drones to attack enemies randomly within range, her drones have a chance to inflict Panic

Skill 3 increases her ATK and gives her more drones, then releases special drones that actively seek out and hunt enemies, the special drones inflict Panic upon reaching a target and locks onto them; enemies near the drones will have decreased movement speed and take Arts damage every second

Showcased Vulpisfoglia, a 6* Pioneer Vanguard with a strong battlefield presence

First talent makes her attacks deal additional Arts damage for a few seconds after the first time hitting them

Second talent increases the natural DP regeneration by a small amount and lets her recover HP when she hasn't taken damage for a few seconds

Skill 1 is a power strike skill that makes her next attack deal Arts damage and generate some DP, this skill can store charges

Skill 2 lets her immediately deal Arts damage in an area in front of her, Slows the hit enemies and generates some DP. If the enemies were already under the effects of Slow they will be Stunned instead, this skill can store charges

Skill 3 immediately generates DP, expands her attack range, increases her ATK, gives a massive decaying ASPD boost, allows her to attack enemies equal to block count and each attack briefly Stuns the hit enemies. If she defeats any enemy during the skill she will gain Camouflage at the end of the skill that lasts until the next skill activation

Showcased Crownslayer, a 6* Executor Specialist with a unique disruptive kit

First talent sprays a smokescreen on the 8 surrounding tiles around her during skill duration, reducing the Physical and Arts Hit Rate of ground enemies in those tiles

Second talent lets her deal increased Physical damage to enemies that have not landed a hit on her

Skill 1 gives her increased ATK and some amount of Physical and Arts Dodge

Skill 2 stops her from attacking upon deployment, makes her less likely to be attacked and increases the amount of Physical and Arts Hit Rate the smokescreen decreases, when skill ends she will deal a certain % of ATK as Physical damage to all enemies within range

Skill 3 increases her first talent range, gives her Invisibility and sets her Block Count to 0, every few seconds she will appear to attack an enemy within the talent range dealing a certain % of ATK as Physical damage and Stunning them for a few seconds

Showcased the event mechanic, a fireworks machine that will apply effects on a number of tiles around it when activated

While the machine is active, operators on those tiles will take periodic damage and cannot be healed but will not have their HP go below 1, enemies on those tiles will take constant damage

Players can additionally customize which tiles will be affected by the fireworks machine and have it apply additional bonus effects in the event menu

Showcased Contrail, an experimental 4* of a neat new branch 巡空者 (Air Patrol), a Specialist branch that consists of operators that have 2 Block Count and utilizes the new status "Takeoff"

Takeoff: Does not block ground enemies and will not be attacked by ground enemies, can block aerial enemies

S1 makes her takeoff immediately upon deployment, expands her attack range, increases her ATK and gives her some Physical Dodge

S2 makes her takeoff when activated, expands her attack range, increases her ATK, lets her attack 2 targets at once and is able to attack an additional aerial enemy and her attacks inflict Slow to aerial enemies

Showed footage of the new base loadouts feature

Work rooms and Dormitories are now in separate tabs

You can set up to 3 loadouts for each individual room and press a button to immediately swap out exhausted operators, there is also a button to immediately do this in every room all at once

Showed the button that immediately sends all exhausted operators into the dorms

Teased even more base QoL features planned for the next Sui sibling event update

Expanded the Reception Room and added the ability to decorate it

Added activity rooms, operators assigned to this room can be manually controlled and move around the base

Announced the ability to register your birthday, players will receive gift furniture on their set birthday and operators have special birthday voicelines

Announced the ability to have a list of rotating assistant operators that change every day

Announced the ability to make loadouts for the main menu background/UI theme/assistant operators for quick switching

SSS will get a skip feature, uses the same PRTS Proxy Cards used for annihilation skip

The older SSS maps will become playable again

Stronghold Protocol, limited time autobattler gamemode

In the gamemode the player will have to prepare their squad and operators before each battle, the player can hire additional operators and have multiple copies of them deployed or combined into a higher tier of that operator

Players can hire reserve operators should they lack usable units and also hire up to 8 friend support operators

Teased the next event involving Thorns and the history of alchemy in Iberia

Announced some kind of mini game collection "Poly Vision Museum"

Announced the second expansion update for IS#5

A 5th ending exploring the story of an alternate universe Amiya

The ability to share seeds of runs you completed to other players, completing a seeded run will not unlock higher difficulty/new relics/etc

Max difficulty increased beyond 15

New starting squads

New collectibles and thoughts (IS5 gimmick items)

Teased Arknights anime season 3 [RISE FROM EMBER]

Announced U-Official mini series

Announced Ambience Synesthesia 2025: Best Song Award, the song lineup featured in the concert will be decided via community polling

INVESTIGATED TERRA lore video covering the history and development of Originium on Terra and the technology that sprouted from it narrated by Kal'tsit

[riaaanna]

QUEEN I boxset spoilers look away if you're waiting for another six hours!!

£200 ish (not QOL store exclusive). Release date for 25 October 2024.

Queen’s self-titled debut album will be remixed and released this October. This is the first time that a Queen album has been remixed. Retitled Queen I for this release, the front cover’s Queen logo, originally designed by Freddie Mercury, will be updated with the addition of the Roman numeral “I”. The original album was recorded in 1972 and was released in July 1973 on EMI Records in the UK and Elektra in the USA.

Featuring the singles “Keep Yourself Alive” and “Liar”, the album achieved Gold sales in the UK and USA, and has been a fan favourite ever since.

This Collector’s Edition sees the album presented in a whole new light, having been newly mixed from the original multi-track masters, and with the song “Mad The Swine” now reinstated into the album running order in its originally intended place.

The bonus discs that complete the 6CD+1LP set include: De Lane Lea Demos (also newly mixed from the original multi-track masters for the very first time); a CD comprised entirely of previously unreleased Queen I session out-take music and dialogue; a CD of instrumental and backing track versions of the album; a live CD featuring some of the best and most interesting live performances of songs from this album (some of which are previously unreleased); and finally, a disc comprised of Queen I tracks that were recorded for BBC Radio One (including DJ announcements).

Queen I – including “Mad The Swine” – is also presented on 180g black vinyl.

The Collector’s Edition is complemented by the addition of a 108-page 12” hardback book, which features a treasure trove of rare and previously unseen photography, hand-written lyrics, Freddie Mercury’s sketches, and more.

Presented in a rigid two-piece box with fold-out poster and four photo prints.

Track List:

Exciting!! 😭💀💸

[the-typing-dragon]

ok so i want to preface by saying that i love deep rock galactic. it's one of my favorite games. but at the same time it bugs me with how audio heavy it's cues are. bug ambushes are onl y announced by rustling, same with mactera ambushes. both leeches and grabbers have audio cues before they grab you, but at least you can expend a perk slot to get a visual indicator for those. stingtails have a bit of glow but its still mostly audio since youre just not gonna be looking at them very often? bet-c's are heralded by a siren, helmets and supply caches beep. just something like the minecraft subtitle system would be such a massive qol change for a game that i honestly think is extremely good. yknow just a small visual indicator that says "bug rustle", "helmet beep", that kind of thing

[zhongrin]

Nothing that important;- QOL for Theater and compass to find things better, Banner announcement, new weapons, AQ, new location, two new bosses and the next saurians to transform into are a chicken and a bat

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ah i see. i've heard about some of them on the dev notes i think. ok, doesn't sound like anything too major. thank you for condensing the information for me! are you going to be pulling for any of the characters or are you just saving for your hubby? :)

[manonamora-if]

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[raven-at-the-writing-desk]

I've seen another blog mention that the JP server changed the weekly missions from rhythm games to guest room battles. Was there an explanation given for this change?

Explained? No.

Announced? Yes.

There was an in-game announcement (I believe packaged with the 4th year anniversary quality of life updates) which included a note about changing some of the weekly missions from doing Twistunes/Rhythmics to Guest Room battles.

I guess the devs just thought the battles would be less annoying to do than the rhythm games…? It’s definitely faster, especially with the new 3x speed (another QoL update!) to battles.

[gold-rhine]

Sorry if this comes off as rude, but are you not suspicious of the sudden QOL changes that HoYo announced? Especially after a vocal minority voiced their dissatisfaction of the lack skin variety and stereotypes? Too me it just feels like damage control after the backlash

to be for real, i don't think its damage control for skintone backlash, i think its damage control for wuwa release. if it was damage control for racism, they'd focus more on inspirations, respecting the cultures natlan is based on, etc etc, but they dont mention it all. instead, they kept repeating like oooh we're gamers too, we're listening to feedback, blah blah. which is obv bs, bc clowns were rioting about rewards for years at this point and only now hoyo woke up and did smth

like material reality of the situation is that there is unfortunately not a viable competitor who can get their players based on character diversity, so they are not threatened here. but there is now a competitor who gives rewards left and right and "listens" to the playerbase (by giving more rewards)

overall idk what you mean "are you not suspicious". like. companies are not your friends? in any industries? all they do is governed by marketing strategies and profit? like its not a question of "this specific instance is suspicious", you should not be trusting any companies to begin with. of course they only do PR moves to improve PR. like? its a gacha game for crying outloud? they are predatory by definition, and all big companies will fuck over both their players and artists for profit

[leakedexperience]

Since a remaster of the Ace Attorney Investigations games was announced yesterday (very exciting!), it seems a lot of people have been talking about Ace Attorney game pacing, especially with the first AAI game's infamous final case. But there is one thing that probably isn't brought up enough in these discussions, which is:

Ace Attorney games print text at a rate made for Japanese text, but equivalent English sentences can have approximately double the amount of text characters. But the DS versions of the games didn't do anything about this in localization, meaning if you played an Ace Attorney game in English on the DS...

...you were playing the game at around half the speed it was originally supposed to be played at.

Example: The Japanese line on the left is 16 characters, but the English one on the right is 32 -- but they both print at the same speed.

Which means that, yes, all of those most tedious and draggy parts of all of those cases you remember on the DS were twice as long as they were supposed to be! (To put things in perspective, most long boxes in the Japanese version would print faster than you could read them in your head, but most of them in English will take longer to print than it would take to even read the words out loud.)

This was (somewhat) addressed in the later games and ports for the 3DS and after, which gave you the option to force finish the line by tapping again (something that used to only be available for already-read lines). It doesn't do much about the fact you do still have to put up with it to get the most out of lines that are presented with varying speeds, but it at least provides a way to get through parts that are taking way longer than they really should. This is one of the biggest reasons H.C. (who's been playing Ace Attorney games since they were still on the DS) has a very hard time recommending the original DS versions to people unless they have a 100% save file pre-loaded, because she feels it's that damaging to the experience.

So in fact, this might actually be one of the most important QoL changes in the remastered ports!

[madocactus]

protoViolence: Definitive Edition is coming to Steam and Itch.io on February 16th, 2024! (You can wishlist it!)

Here's what's new:

New scenes that further flesh out protoViolence's story.

Polished writing and animations.

QOL updates.

Like malViolence's Definitive Edition, there will be a couple of extra goodies announced closer to release... but I'm still keeping that under wraps for now. 

Please look forward to this new version of protoViolence!

[lorwolfofficial]

Greetings, Lorfolk, and welcome back to another dev update! This month, we’re thrilled to share more details about Chapter 2: Dark Horizons, unveil new insights into Archaeology, and give you a sneak peek behind the scenes. Read on to discover more:

What’s new?

Additional Expansion Features

Archaeology 

Chapter 2 Campaign Sneak Peek

Additional Chapter 2 Features

Our coder JimJim has been hard at work on various new expansion features, including the Mole Market redesign, Archaeology, and many QoL updates. Additionally, there are several new features in the works that we plan on having finalized for launch; seasonal bosses, a vault system, guilds, and real-time events like notifications and live-chat! We’ve updated the Dark Horizons Expansions graphic with these new features: 

Archaeology

Lorwolf’s Archaeology system will be composed of a grid of hidden treasure spots that players have to carefully dig to reach. Similar to the Mining system, fossils must first be processed, or “cleaned,” in order to retrieve their hidden rewards. Shown below are four rarities of fossils players will be able to find. Each of these fossils will contain valuable materials, apparel, trinkets, or other special items.

Chapter 2 Campaign Sneak Peek

Our writing team has been busy the past couple of months putting together the quest dialogue for chapter 2. Meanwhile, the artists are focused on tackling Campaign art like backgrounds and NPCs. Shown below is a sneak peek of each pack’s new quest hub:

As a reminder, we do not have a set ETA for when Chapter 2 will be launching, however, we will announce the date as we draw closer to give Lorfolk time to prepare.