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[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

What a mess, 2 launcher executables (3 in my case since I've originally downloaded the game from Epic).

 

[Nankatsu]

Yeah, just as I suspected.

Cantarella is an insane and hot design, but gameplay wise she is a complete miss for me.

Didn't felt any click at all during her demo.

 

[Pejo]

Yeah, just as I suspected.

Cantarella is an insane and hot design, but gameplay wise she is a complete miss for me.

Didn't felt any click at all during her demo.

To be fair, Shorekeeper isn't a gameplay-centric character either. Press heal, press Liberation, swap out.

 

[T4keD0wN]

Yeah, just as I suspected.

Cantarella is an insane and hot design, but gameplay wise she is a complete miss for me.

Didn't felt any click at all during her demo.

Yeah, i am not feeling her gameplay either, she requires to be played in a very specific way with and way too much brain usage for me to play.

No regret getting her, seems very versatile, but gonna have to watch a guide on how to play her because ive been just pressing random buttons so far.

Update: ok so ive maxed out her weapon and she hits really hard, kind of sucks as a healer because her field time is long, at least compared to Verina, but shell do a lot of damage while healing and supporting too.

 

[Nankatsu]

To be fair, Shorekeeper isn't a gameplay-centric character either. Press heal, press Liberation, swap out.

That's true, but the value she offers is way bigger for any account.

Only way I'm gonna regret not getting Cantarella is if they make Scar Havoc and she ends up being an insane support for him

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Wanted to play the new story today, but I'm too tired after work, so I had to put it on pause and I'll be saving it for the weekend, lol.

But hot damn, I was surprised by how expressive Zelda is in the story quest, I mean Cartethyia....

Both her and Ciaccona are must pull for me come next patch or whenever they release.

So in my case this game went from Wuthering Waves to Gathering Elves.

Spoiler: 🧝‍♀️

 

[Mayar]

That's true, but the value she offers is way bigger for any account.

Only way I'm gonna regret not getting Cantarella is if they make Scar Havoc and she ends up being an insane support for him

Don't worry, I bet they forgot about his existence a long time ago, as well as about all the 1.0 characters (This branch never existed, you just imagined it ), I'm almost 95% sure that she is a support for Phrolova. Let's be honest, male characters don't sell well. Although there is a rumor that Calcharo may get his quest in the next patches - suddenly.

 

[Pejo]

That's true, but the value she offers is way bigger for any account.

Only way I'm gonna regret not getting Cantarella is if they make Scar Havoc and she ends up being an insane support for him

 

[Nankatsu]

Man I did a bit of the story quest yesterday, and while each to their own, I think Kuro kind of slapped Changli's mommy vibe and mysterious aura into Cantarella.

I'm seeing the exact same character plot wise, pulling the exact same strings and buttons, except adapted to the current region and lore.

Both headline a brand new region in the map too, assuming the head role of that story arc in order to help the regions sentinel resonator.

Not that I'm complaining, they are both very well written characters (Changli is peak Wuwa for me so far), but damn, you can't deny the similarities.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

These WuWa adverts on YouTube are something else, lol.

Edit: New official art with the best Yandere girl in Gacha

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

One of the indie vtubers I've been watching for the past couple of months said she was more than moved to tears by the new story, so I'm even more hyped to continue playing it!

 

[Pejo]

best Yandere girl in Gacha

Spoiler: Slim chance anybody else played this, but disagree.

One of the indie vtubers I've been watching for the past couple of months said she was more than moved to tears by the new story, so I'm even more hyped to continue playing it!

Good news! I also haven't had a chance to do any significant content in the new patch yet. Sucks that Cantarella's ascension mats are locked to the new area. I did hear that people are quite excited to get Cartethiya after the new story, so it's gonna be a packed few patches.

 

[Nankatsu]

What in the actual hell is this difficulty spike in Overflowing Palette?

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Finished the 1st half of the new main quest, and really enjoying it so far (both the story and the inverted tower).

Also, made a ton of captures so enjoy this batch of "my elf bard can't be this expressive" gifs I've made (going to drop cantarella next).

Spoiler: 4 more gifs

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Holy shit, I take back what I said about Cantarella. I really like her now and I might pull for her once I'm done with the story.

And Kuro did a real good job even with some of these simple scenes where you talk with her and she just idles by.

Also, I dig the BGM they've used during these dialogue scenes, makes her character more intriguing.



She has some good shocked pikachu face

Spoiler: You know what, I wouldn't say no to that.😅

 

[Mayar]

I completed this patch, closed the map 100%. A very nice patch, considering that this is not the main patch, the quality of the work with the plot is simply very good. I got great pleasure from completing both the quest and the plot. And give a bonus to the person who is responsible for the camera in the cutscenes, his work with the angles is simply 10 out of 10.

Spoiler

Damn, I'm starting to envy your ability to make gifs like this so much that I'm seriously considering buying a capture card to do the same.

 

[Peroroncino]

Holy shit, I take back what I said about Cantarella. I really like her now and I might pull for her once I'm done with the story.

Spoiler: very mild NSFW

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Spoiler: very mild NSFW

Gotta resist that temptation to pull, my man!

Spoiler: 😅

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Here are 2 pics I've taken from some of the new zones (were meant for a different thread, but I might as well share them here too).

Spoiler: ✨

Also, made a short capture with this very chill piano BGM they've added in one of the new areas.



Oh, and I just finished the new story. It def met my expectations based on the hype I had seen in the community before playing it. The ending was pure kino, and now I'm off to watch some of the reactions that have been posted on YT.

Last edit: The 2 songs with vocals that were used in the cinematics at the end of the story are up on youtube. They've very spoiler heavy so I'm putting them under a spoiler tag.

Spoiler: 🎵

The music they've used for Fleurdelys's phase 2 boss fight was really fucking epic.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Looks like the Ciaccona gifs I've uploaded on Tenor are starting to get popular, lol.

I've also checked to see if there are Cartethyia gifs, and there are a bunch of them already on Tenor (no big surprise), which means I'll probably skip doing any gifs with her.

This one of Cartethyia is very funny though.

 

[Pejo]

I don't get the reference since I didn't do the story yet, but...

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

I don't get the reference since I didn't do the story yet, but...

Yeah, I already have this pic saved in my WuWa meme folder.

Edit. Cantarella's desktop and mobile wallpapers from the WuWa JP account:

Spoiler: ✨

 

[Peroroncino]

Carthy is so expressive despite being so... I don't know, solemn? It comes off super cute, I like both Rover's and her chemistry together.

Amazing update so far.

 

[Peroroncino]

I just noticed Camellya's earring being the same pattern as Rovers necklace, further proof she's the best.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Yeah, I agree, it's a really great patch. I also liked Fleurdelys and Cantarella's role in the story a lot.

Personally, it's one of my favorite story focused updates so far in WuWa, and it had higher highs than anything they've released so far imo. As for the new zones, although nice, they did not wow me as much as Rinascita did in version 2.0 (I wasn't expecting it, but felt mentioning it). Still cool though, and I managed to 100% both areas earlier today (it was pretty easy to do, with the exception of a few of those overflowing palette puzzles).

The BGM, especially during the boss fight with Cadanto and Fleurdelys, and also the 3 new vocals songs (I think this one is being sung in the native language of Solaris?) were really good, so great job Kuro! Keep it up!

Now I have Cantarella's companion story left (I heard they did a great job on this as well) and the new exploration quest, which I'll save for next weekend.

Also, I've watched a bunch of player reacts today, lol. Not gonna post them all, but I'm gonna drop 2 compilations with the reactions from JP Vtubers (spoiler heavy obv, so check them out once you're done with the story).

 

[Nankatsu]

Done with the main story of the update. Really good narrative wise.

I can't help but feel a bit disappointed with how Cantarella turned out to be. Due to the trailer I was leaning towards something more different.

I think she shows her good side extremely quickly. Maybe her companion quest changes things a bit, idk. I know for a fact I won't be pulling for her.

On the other hand Aero Rover is awesome. Really like the fast pace combos.

And Cartethyia won my heart.

It's gonna be a couple of rough months ahead, with so many cool characters coming, mainly her and Zani.

 

[Peroroncino]

That boss fight was hype as a motherfucker, entire sequence of event was just mind-bogglingly good.

 

[Peroroncino]

Thighs you're gonna lose your mind in the latter portion of Cantarella's companion story.

 

[Mayar]

They are great, they continue to keep the quality bar at a very good level, they are especially good at working with the camera in cutscenes. I really hope that this will continue in the future.
Regarding the Aero Rover, of course I've only been driving it seriously for 2 days now, but it's really bad. Prydwen just rolled over him/her, although I also think he/she has problems, but it's not that bad.

Spoiler

He/She has a lot of problems, and very serious problems. Although from the pleasant moments, weapons are given to him/she for a quest, so he\she is Free to Play Friendly.

Spoiler

Let's see if they will listen to the criticism and there will be some fixes or patches, but for now the character is weak. I even went to other resources for the sake of interest and looked at game8.co, where they usually evaluate characters more softly, but no, they also think that the character is weak. It is a rare case when all the resources agreed on one opinion.

Spoiler

Most likely, we need to wait for a specific character for him\her as usual, but as we know, this means that sooner or later another 5 star character will come as a replacement, so this is a temporary solution. But at the moment, he\she simply cannot open up, and there is no character or group for him\her.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Thighs you're gonna lose your mind in the latter portion of Cantarella's companion story.

Looking forward to playing her companion story, my man!

Also, I haven't posted new fan art in a while, so I'll be sharing some later today.

 

[Peroroncino]

I Brant'ed through all hologram difficulties and 30/30 TOA, The Flaming Returned hypercarried it all.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Lots of amazing fan art has been posted since the launch of version 2.2. Some of it is nsfwish, so I'll be putting everything under a spoiler tag. Enjoy!

Spoiler: ✨

 

[Peroroncino]

Mr. Kuro, can I give you one Cartethyia in exchange for 1 Fleurdelys?

Now, I do like Cartethyia very much, but she just pales in comparison to Fleurdelys, and if 2 can't exist, I choose the latter, 'mkay?

Sincerely,
Simp

 

[Nankatsu]

Mr. Kuro, can I give you one Cartethyia in exchange for 1 Fleurdelys?

Now, I do like Cartethyia very much, but she just pales in comparison to Fleurdelys, and if 2 can't exist, I choose the latter, 'mkay?

Sincerely,
Simp

I sincerely hope they don't fumble her and she ends up being 100% Cartethyia.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Forgot to say, there's a Discord sign-in event ongoing right now. It doesn't take too long to link your Kuro account with your Discord account, and once you're set up, all you have to do is sign in, and then you get the rewards each day via in-game mail.

 

[Dragon_Rocks]

Xiangli Yao deciding which hand to use.

Spoiler: Touch

 

[Pejo]

Just did the main story quest. Wow the last half of it was something else. Now that's how you handle a power up (with the Aero Rover moment in the boss fight)

I was kinda disappointed that they overshadowed Cantarella in her own patch, but everything else was 10/10. Kuro is a step above in story quests in the gacha market for sure. Very expressive characters too. They really waifu-baited hard with Cartethiya. I hope she gets both forms when she eventually becomes playable. I really liked the BIG one.

The only real complaint I had is that the quest is far too hand-holdy for my tastes. I get that you're playing to the gacha audience so you don't want to frustrate them and make them quit, but it's such a jarring contrast between their battle events which are very demanding of gear/skill checks, and then you have the story that you could faceroll on your controller/keyboard and beat. Ideally I'd like to see them meet in the middle somewhere. Even if it's a toggle for "puzzle easy/hard" or something like that.

The story itself was pretty novel, with Imperator purposefully letting itself get contaminated with the Threnodean so it could find a way to kill/stop it and all other Threnodeans. It seems like they ended the 2.x versions early though. What's left for the story to cover? I did notice at the very end of the quest that Phrolova's red flowers fluttered by, indicating that she still has something up her sleeve, but if it were me, I'd have saved this storyline in particular for the end of the 2.x patches.

I played around with Aero Rover. A little too warpy-aroundy for my tastes, it's hard to accurately target and dodge when your hitbox is flying all over the place, but it is definitely stylish. Don't see myself using that one much, but the Spectro and Havoc ones are both still very good. The Sword that you get at the end of the quest is pretty awesome too, if underwhelming stat-wise. Wish it also came with a weapon skin that you can use on any model.

Overall, extremely pleased with the story, gonna dig into Cantarella's character quest later.

 

[Nankatsu]

I did notice at the very end of the quest that Phrolova's red flowers fluttered by, indicating that she still has something up her sleeve, but if it were me, I'd have saved this storyline in particular for the end of the 2.x patches.

Spoiler

Her going back to Jinzhou to release him.

 

[Peroroncino]

Forgot to say, there's a Discord sign-in event ongoing right now. It doesn't take too long to link your Kuro account with your Discord account, and once you're set up, all you have to do is sign in, and then you get the rewards each day via in-game mail.

Thanks, didn't even know this was a thing. They should hurry up and set-up a website like hoyogreed

 

[Pejo]

Spoiler

Her going back to Jinzhou to release him.

Maybe man, maybe.

On the topic of male characters, I did Yuanwu's trial and they had Calcharo as a teammate, first time I got to use him. I actually really liked his kit, and kinda hope when I eventually lose a 50/50, I get a copy of him.

 

[Mayar]

Maybe man, maybe.

On the topic of male characters, I did Yuanwu's trial and they had Calcharo as a teammate, first time I got to use him. I actually really liked his kit, and kinda hope when I eventually lose a 50/50, I get a copy of him.

He very well made in terms of design, but damn he is difficult, I've been torturing him for about a half of year now and I haven't managed to land 4DM with him yet, and 3DM isn't very good either, sometimes I miss in combos. He really demanding on the player. From pleasant rumors, it seems like he should finally get his own personal quest in the next patches.

 

[Pejo]

He very well made in terms of design, but damn he is difficult, I've been torturing him for about a half of year now and I haven't managed to land 4DM with him yet, and 3DM isn't very good either, sometimes I miss in combos. He really demanding on the player. From pleasant rumors, it seems like he should finally get his own personal quest in the next patches.

Yea obviously I don't know much about his kit, but it was fun while I was getting to try him out. Maybe Kuro will do buffs someday. Characters like Taoqi and Chixia could use a bit of a boost as well. They actually have a pretty good track record of buffing older units in PGR, and HoYo is testing out buffing old characters in Star Rail, so I wouldn't count it out entirely, especially for a 5* like Calcharo.

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Since the Camellya banner just went live last week, here's a cinematic 9:16 aspect ratio edit with my fav yandere girl (clip has sound, btw).

 

[Mayar]

Yea obviously I don't know much about his kit, but it was fun while I was getting to try him out. Maybe Kuro will do buffs someday. Characters like Taoqi and Chixia could use a bit of a boost as well. They actually have a pretty good track record of buffing older units in PGR, and HoYo is testing out buffing old characters in Star Rail, so I wouldn't count it out entirely, especially for a 5* like Calcharo.

Well, the paradox is not even in the buffs, but in the fact that the difficulty on some characters is significantly higher than on others, and some characters need to work much harder than others to achieve damage. The problem with the buff is that he doesn't have any particular problems with damage (Yes, of course, it's lower than new characters, plus he from a regular banner), he has a problem reaching this damage, and reaching this damage depends entirely on the player's hands in his case. And if they just increase the damage on him, it will help only pro players, and they buff him when they released Yinlin, it's just that his problem is that Yao exist, who is much easier to learn as a character.

But high level play on Calcharo is just an art, but it is incredibly difficult.



The most stubborn ones manage to even pass WW on him, he is essentially a single target character, but this is just for the most stubborn fans:
This is for those who think that the game is not difficult enough

 

[Peroroncino]

Since the Camellya banner just went live last week, here's a cinematic 9:16 aspect ratio edit with my fav yandere girl (clip has sound, btw).

<3

Well, the paradox is not even in the buffs, but in the fact that the difficulty on some characters is significantly higher than on others, and some characters need to work much harder than others to achieve damage. The problem with the buff is that he doesn't have any particular problems with damage (Yes, of course, it's lower than new characters, plus he from a regular banner), he has a problem reaching this damage, and reaching this damage depends entirely on the player's hands in his case. And if they just increase the damage on him, it will help only pro players, and they buff him when they released Yinlin, it's just that his problem is that Yao exist, who is much easier to learn as a character.

But high level play on Calcharo is just an art, but it is incredibly difficult.



The most stubborn ones manage to even pass WW on him, he is essentially a single target character, but this is just for the most stubborn fans:
This is for those who think that the game is not difficult enough

Wallensteins must have ADHD or something, that man operating on a whole different... FREQUENCY

I'll never put in the work to achieve Calcharo's higher level plays, so I use him to mop up first 2 TOA levels on each side, since I really like his playstyle.

 

[Mayar]

<3

Someone wants to talk to you...

Spoiler

Wallensteins must have ADHD or something

There are rumors that he is actually an Android under the control of artificial intelligence. But this is not certain, but he really loves this character =)))

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

<3

Well, Camellya is Camellya so it's best not to anger her...

That said, I did just finish making this new gif of Fleurdelis in a defeated state...

 

[Peroroncino]

Someone wants to talk to you...

Spoiler

Cam is the OG waifu, along with the SK. But there's always room for more, my astrite account can afford it.

 

[Peroroncino]

Well, Camellya is Camellya so it's best not to anger her...

That said, I did just finish making this new gif of Fleurdelis in a defeated state...

Man I really wish we could pull Fleurdelys instead of Cartethyia, she's badass as fuck and I feel she got a bit short end of the stick all things considered. I mean, Cart just walked around ate salad and told people to eat healthy, danced on water, tried to seduce us with her cute innocence, all that while Fleur was busy battling Threndonian, like COME ON. I know they're both basically the halves on a single entity, and Cart is the part that wanted to live, but what about ME and the part that wants to motorboat them big ol' t... EKHM, POINT IS, LET ME PULL BIG SIS

 

[Thick Thighs Save Lives]

Peroroncino I'm sure Kuro is already well aware of how well Fleurdelys was received by the WuWa community, and they'll find a way to make it work once they implement Cartethyia, else it will be a big bungle on their part IMO. You have to trust the process, my man!

Btw, it's almost been a week since Cantarella's banner was released, and WuWa is still ranking very high on the JP PSN best selling chart by revenue (it was #1 the day the banner was released and then fell to #2, where it is still currently sitting).