no offense taken! Have you played an action game with this orb type system before? This was the first time I've seen it. I'd like to see other developers take on the same system. Admittedly, everything else has definitely been done elsewhere!

My dark team already is currently still my worst team, so I'm thinking about skipping her to get watanabe and qu :/ We'll see how much resources I have by lamia's release though, because she would be a huge help On the bright side, I started doing ultimate PPC this week and didn't realize there were so many skulls for just doing ultimate so I'll have SS3 balter at the reset this week!

@@ToastythunderGD Well, what you can do is skip Lamia on her patch, and pull her via the blue ticket selector two patches later. She is essential for the Dark team.

Do I need Karenina to get a good Dark Team? I have XXI at SSS but I am thinking if she is worth the anniv banner

​@@jgdj01 I've heard karenina doesn't really start to pop off until you get some investment in her. So it might depend on how much you have to invest in a karen vs your sss XXI. I unfrotunately dont know the break point of when karen would start to be better

@@jgdj01 If you are f2p, don't backpull, make do with what you have and grab new characters as they arrive. The dark team as a whole is an expensive one, they all want SS3+, Sig weapon with resonance... bloody high maintenance.

Personally I liked Aether Gazer better but I havnt gotten that deep in PGR yet

You bring up some good points and I don't entirely disagree! a) This one feels mostly personal preference and even for myself pgr is the first game I've even liked touch controls. b) I agree, for action games like this minimal rng is generally preferred, but I think it would bother me more if I felt like I ever actually ever fully lost BECAUSE of the rng in this game. I can't remember a time where like "Oh man, if I had I blue orb here I would have won!" There's been times where my combo didn't do as much damage as possible, but didn't really cause me to lose. And there are plenty of games where rng is in it's combat outside of action games so this hasn't bothered me that much personally. c) You should be able to control your character without looking at controls, I agree! And the orb system alone definitely spits in the face of that, but I think the Matrix mode helps alleviate this issue in multiple ways. First and most apparent, the time slow gives you a window where you can look at the orbs with nothing else to worry about and solve the orb puzzle and once you've solved it you can press your orbs in peace and watch the sparks fly! Second, the first ping in matrix mode counting as a 3 ping helps make solving the puzzle easier AND helps alleviate any criminally bad rng. To each their own though! I personally feel they have a really unique system and implemented it well, even if it's not entirely perfect! Is there an action rpg you've been playing and enjoying more lately?

Is it better or worse than lalafel? That's what I was before this lol

@@ToastythunderGD Lala is just funny to look at lol.

I know /: I'm not good at sound mixing, but I appreciate the feedback and will continue to improve!

and people keep defending this, even Rexlent, which is so absurd to me the game lost what made it special because of this design philosophy, so much stupidly long boring, repetitive fixed combos with one invulnerable animation after another

@@kskr8610 I feel the same. How tf is rex and everyone else acting as nothing happened? At least I'm happy to know that I'm not the only one that noticed it

@@sumas7 me and my friend actually said something like this to Rex on twitter once, stating that Gen 2 characters aren't fun at all and the bosses have become sloppily designed and HOARDS of Rex's followers along with the guy himself made fun of us, even to the extent of calling me an alt account of the other guy just because I agreed with him. I have lost most respect for the guy and the PGR fandom ever since. Most of the fandom really just want the game to be flashy, nothing more. Current PGR feels like playing HI3, full of animations, you spend like half the fights watching animations. The game hasn't become completely braindead easy, Babel is still "hard", but it's just not fun to play.

@@kskr8610 well, that's fucked, can you link me to the post (if it doesn't get removed by yt)? Also, hot take, babel is also braindead easy for the same reason that we discussed earlier, it just takes more than 1 rotation to clear

i wish you can ping orbs with scroll wheel

yeah some mentioned you can double bind and that DEFINITELY seems like the play! Thanks for the heads up!

I didn't know you could do the double bind that's actually game changing!

@@ToastythunderGD it is unless you already use that keybind for another thing for example: If you have Rapid Fire binded to Space then you won´t be able to do any double bind with Space. And If you already have Space double binded then you won´t be able to single bind any action to Space. Only happens in PC port but the camera in a emulator is wonky

It's extremely simple on mobile (haven't truly used a keyboard or controller) as long as you don't just mindlessly spam button

It's braindead now because of ult and core spamming on gen 2 attackers

​@@YoloTub3 nope, easier doesnt mean it braindead You still have to line up 3 orbs anyway. if not even CW you cant get her full potential

@@imcat1236 even if I fumble ping order, I can still clear high difficulty stages just by holding dodge, spamming cw core and ult. Run out of orbs? Just spam swordwave. It's just that braindead.

@@YoloTub3 if you think it that way then just spam core passive every time when red number and you will never be in any top of any list

@@imcat1236 there's no top list for clearing high difficulty modes, hell even babel ranking is useless since most players can easily max risk with gen 2. Competitive modes are more on who whales the most than skill just like any other gacha games even top lists' build are sss+ gen 2

I played Mega Man X Dive since i love the Mega Man Series, then stumbled on PGR on MMX-Dive global chat after someone mentioned they are making their move to PGR. By comparison MMXD would bleed you dry of resources with little reward. Been playing PGR nearly every day since December and never looked back. Kuro treats their fans and their IP well.

Yeah I could originally see a full keyboard set up working, but the camera is, uh, interesting at times in this game and I want to be able to adjust the camera freely. I could try clicking manually though, I'd just be scared someone dashes behind me as I'm trying to click orbs

I mapped mine a la Warframe. Movement: WASD Attack: E Ult: Q CUB: R QTE and Character Switch: 1, 2 Shift: Dodge Mouse 3: Camera lock, switch, and unlock. Then I manually click the orbs with the mouse. But yeah, I can't use the default keyboard controls, it's cumbersome for me. I've tried control and it is surprisingly good to use. But the king is the mouse pointer mode or frankly, mobile touch screens. 😂

thanks for the feedback! I'm excited to pull for stigmata finally in the upcoming event! I think my current strat is gonna be: roll for stigmata in alisa patch, and make my already main physical team, clearly my best team get brs for a stand-in fire attacker (sophia is literally the only fire unit i own lmao) get empyria on the lamia patch s selector, but pass on lamia roll for watanabe roll for qu then probably save until oathbreaker, my dark team will just have to suffer, rip in pieces