one thing i can't understand is why HSR put so much advertising for that version? the profile change to that monkey (although it was short), the facts about rappa being posted here and there. sunday and fugue, two much more important characters did not receive the same advertising from hoyo as rappa at all to this very moment. is this a strategy? if a new 5 star with questionable kit is out they compensate for that with more ads to make sure they sell it?
Two things waifu and money. If it's a waifu, they'll go the extra mile of marketing (like hiring singers for example rappa and robin). Plus they also know that this patch is a nothing burger, but they want money so went hard on it.
@yoshsha9694 Or maybe also because she's the only new character this patch. Personally, I don't see much difference in the amount of advertising for her specifically. Just about every patch they hype up every new character but I'm probably missing something. Maybe people focused too much on leaks I guess.
It wasn’t that bad! For me having Rappa as the only limited character was a major plus, as one of the biggest problems with Star Rail right now is releasing a bunch of op limited five stars and power creeping everyone else. Having just one limited character that was relatively balanced was super refreshing and gave people a chance to catch up and get/get eidolons on important characters like Acheron and Aventurine. So for me that was very good. As for the story, it’s fine. It felt in line with the rest of Penacony - an interesting idea with allot of potential and promise, but ultimately a bit tedious and overlong in execution. I don’t mind the length cause Star Rail gives you a full month to complete events, although I did have to cut it close cause I was finishing up Penacony. Easily my favorite part was Rappa’s backstory - it was genuinely emotional and compelling, and gave what could have been a ha ha brainrot character surprising depth. The rest was fine, I found it funny. Not every event has to be super serious, the game isn’t afraid to get goofy sometimes and I like that, and just having a fun, relaxed quest gave some variety after the sad story of Penacony. I found the monkeys entertaining, at least I liked them more than the overused trash cans, although they definitely will get annoying if Hoyo decides to run them into the ground like they did with the cans. I admit that unknowable domain sucks, it has allot of the same problems as divergent universe does plus more, I guess I wouldn’t have minded it if it wer
@@Ty_Jac Sure... But Hoyo freaking hired Reol to help promote this one new character, that we don't know if we are gonna meet again later on after this patch. The only other character that Hoyo managed to hire a singer to help promote a character is Robin, but at least she made sense. Since Robin herself is someone who has an important role at the Penacony main story line (even though she herself didn't do much in it).
(yap wanring) saying "if you care abt the story of hsr you don't have to play the 2.6 quest" is actually insane 😭 i agree that it didn't need to be 6 hours, and that the monkey brainrot was a lot, but aside from that the quest gave a lot of interesting lore. We learned more lore about Dr primitive and the genius society (which we're clearly going to get more of based on the trailers for 2.7 and 3.0), and we also got lore on the galaxy rangers, specifically Boothill and Rappa. People didn't like Boothill because he came out of nowhere and barley got any screentime. Plus, you'd only know abt his backstory with his destroyed planet, dead family, dead daughter, and vendetta against the ipc if you had him and read his stories. But, with this quest, they finally gave him more screentime and gave parts of his backstory center stage - like they did with Acheron and Aventurine in Penacony. Same thing with Rappa, she came out of nowhere, but bc she had a good kit, a lot of screentime, and we explored her backstory in the same quest she appeared in, people switched up on her. Again, I'm not trying to glaze hsr, and I agree that hoyo's writing is very bloated and their quests are dragged out, but saying that the 2.6 quest was horrible and the worst quest out of any hoyoverse game is definitely an overreaction. Not saying you have to like it for the lore it gave us, especially if you don't care about lore, but I fear you might need to take a chill pill 💀😅
The biggest problem with 2.6 story is that it sould have been character quests not main story. Then every player can choose if they want to play it or not. Nothing in the story is important enough to be in the main story.
@anurmi5717 except everything about Dr. Primitive and Mr. Reca like how Dr. Ratio was in the 1.5 quest or whatever, I'm sure we'll see Mr. Reca again especially since he hinted that he knows where Dr. Primitive is, and it's hinted he's where the Astral Express is headed to next also, Mr. Reca as a Memokeeper and potential Cremetor will certainly play a role on the planet only visible through the Memokeepers mirrors and this quest was also hinted at by the message that told Black Swan to keep away, else she's gonna be infected by the Banana memetic virus so all in all, I think it was pretty important kinda like Summer Quests in Genshin always kinda foreshadow what the next patch will bring
@@mitsurukia If 2.6 is important it is just bad writing. We are Trailblazers and travel from planet to planet to save them from stellarons, that was the story in the two first planets. What we have been doing lately makes no sense, we have gone to a party in Penacony, attending a wardance festival in Luofu and then go back to Penacony to go to school. If people does not see how stupid that is they are compleatly braindead.
I personally disagree, I think the new story quest was pretty good, I think Rappa is an interesting character and as a Boothill fan I'm so happy he got so much time to shine and get fleshed out. But I do agree it should not have been as long as it was. I think the multiple POVs they've been doing since 2.1, while nice and allows for more good character moments, has also been to the story's detriment, because now it feels like they're stretching out every story update to warrant switching to other character's perspectives. I think the Amphoreus plot will benefit from being streamlined and not relying on the POV switching feature as much as Penacony and the wardance storyline did
@@shiromatsunoki its alright if you disagree, im 99% sure you enjoy the story more than i do 😭 i did think the parts with boothill and robin werent that bad, i liked how they got some interaction (furthering the robinhill agenda) but other than that the quest was pretty much pure yapping I was willing to give rappa a chance since i liked her but the whole school arc was so boring i just lost interest I do agree with your take about the POV’s, it feels just like a way to artificially inflate the length of the story, and its also very annoying that you cant click out of it and do other things mid story but that’s probably just a nitpick
@@axHSRlol yeah I do still enjoy the story even if I do agree with your criticisms and can personally see room for improvement. Like you said, I still love Star Rail for what it does right, but it’s because you love the game that you critique and want to see it get better
I dont wanna be rude so I hope you dont understand it the wrong way but...How? Imo it does not matter if Rappa has some story behind her. The way her story was presented is so terrible. When someone loses his mother...yet before and after knowing that they jump around with Monkeys saying "Bana" every 5 seconds, the villain being some stupid monkey too and unnecessary convoluded dialouge all the time. I dont care if this mother died...because I died reaching that point.
I find videos like this so enjoyable! These are the type of videos I listen to while playing HSR I usually never skip the story in HSR since I find them entertaining (I only skipped a few quests). However, 2.6 story quest really annoyed me. Yes, the banana brain rot was funny at first but it quickly became too much. Despite others pointing out the story had decent lore in it, I still can't bring myself to read because it's irritating. I'd rather skip the dialogues and watch a HSR lore video on RUclips instead cause it's much more fun, informative, and engaging. I also agree with your other video about the boss HP inflation. I'm glad people are starting to become vocal about this. I remember a few months ago a certain CC was saying power creep is fine and in my mind I was disagreeing with them. small rant: I really love Seele and Bronya but I can't even use them in 2.6 anymore unless I'm asking for a bad experience..
7:30 i thought i was the crazy one for saying this has got to be the most boring SU there is, you just literally sit there and do absolutely nothing while the scepters just do all the work, the only thing its good for is how much damage you can really do
Nothing will be worse for me than the 20 minute filler quest involving Tingyun's funeral. This quest was pretty meh as well, but at least we got backstory on Boothill and Rappa. The monkeys were silly though.
I feel your pain bro. 2.6 was so bad i don't even want to watch a video explaining why it's the case... I just want it to be over, done with and forgotten. Rappa sucks, rythm event was cringe and boring, new SU is braindead and the quest was unbearable. First time i actually skipped most of the dialogue in main story quest of HSR and i am pretty sure i did not miss anything important by doing it just by listening the couple of lines i frogot to skip. Penacony was boring as a whole, but it had a couple of good points here and there at least. I get it, most of gacha audience does not have enough braicells to make up a soccer team, but my god, this was too much.
I agree with every point you raised. Belabog was fun and engaging, with a tightly focused plot and interesting characters. How did we go from that to Penacony in only a year!
@@jesusvermillionthemereoleo5660 Sometimes stupid people do and say quite baffling things. How people can refer to Penacony as "Peakacony" is beyond belief.
Yeah this patch was mainly just a filler patch, but even though it's a filler patch the story was dragged out for too long which felt annoying to go through, but the thing i liked about the story was that there were a lot more animation scenes compared to other patches which I hope this is a nod from hoyoverse that they will be putting out a lot more animated scenes in the next patch and future patches. I personally thought the event was alright ngl, it was pretty chill and had some cute moments which i adored. Overall though I did think that even for a filler patch this was probably one of the slowest patches in hsr's history.
It's true that while playing story quests, I feel sleepy and often fall asleep. I only sleep at night, and even when I'm studying, I don't feel sleepy. However, every time I play a story, I end up falling asleep.
Oh yes, the utter dogshit tier storytelling is absolutely the biggest flaw of this game. Which is so unfortunate, because the lore and the world building of HSR is actually pretty damn interesting. They just cannot tell it in a digestable way for some damn reason.
I need peak story in hsr man because there isnt no skip. I mean, maybe-- just maybe, hoyo should make character introductions unskippable. That way we get a basic gist of their character.
I liked the monkey part - players are monkeys and Hoyo is feeding them bananas. If you actually ask what ppl find fun to do in HSR I am not sure they can tell. Its kinda like reading a book with occasional illustration + inventory management. The lore in the book is good, the idea of the story is often deep but its a total soap opera. after 3.0 I am just quitting. maybe for a year, maybe forever. HSR just dont respect my time
The scepters do buff your characters. Ive played through every iteration of SU, have gotten nearly every reward, playing on almost every difficulty. Hitting over 40 million with a unit (no scepter skill) is something ive never done in SU. The story for Unknowable domain was also super interesting but you guys skip that every chance you get so it is what it is.
I just skiped all story while seeing some RUclips videos on second monitor, I dont like all this monkey garbage story, its like the f trashcans. The new SU I like it a lot more than the others because I can just click any card and not read anything and still clear everything
I think the worst part is the fact that the misery isnt over. Look at 2.7's livestream. Theres no events. Like, not as an exaggeration, theres is not a single event, neither flagship minigame event nor combat event nor experimental event, there's NOTHING. The patch is EMPTY
I’d call it a save patch but you’re probably not earning any jades from anything in the first place😭 The only thing saving it is prob the banners and lore
It wasn’t that bad! For me having Rappa as the only limited character was a major plus, as one of the biggest problems with Star Rail right now is releasing a bunch of op limited five stars and power creeping everyone else. Having just one limited character that was relatively balanced was super refreshing and gave people a chance to catch up and get/get eidolons on important characters like Acheron and Aventurine. So for me that was very good. As for the story, it’s fine. It felt in line with the rest of Penacony - an interesting idea with allot of potential and promise, but ultimately a bit tedious and overlong in execution. I don’t mind the length cause Star Rail gives you a full month to complete events, although I did have to cut it close cause I was finishing up Penacony. Easily my favorite part was Rappa’s backstory - it was genuinely emotional and compelling, and gave what could have been a ha ha brainrot character surprising depth. The rest was fine, I found it funny. Not every event has to be super serious, the game isn’t afraid to get goofy sometimes and I like that, and just having a fun, relaxed quest gave some variety after the sad story of Penacony. I found the monkeys entertaining, at least I liked them more than the overused trash cans, although they definitely will get annoying if Hoyo decides to run them into the ground like they did with the cans. I admit that unknowable domain sucks, it has allot of the same problems as divergent universe does plus more, I guess I wouldn’t have minded it if it were shorter, like one plane, but as is it’s such a slog to get through. But hey at least we get jades from it. So overall I liked the update, it felt like a breather compared to the other patches that let you catch your breath before we dive into Amorphous.
Nah bro, 1.1 clears low diff. Literally made me quit for a period of time from how mid it was Edit: IMO when it comes to 2.X story, 2.4-2.5 is easily the worst story we’ve gotten. Honestly the only time I wished a skip button was there.
So Im not the only one who hates this patch, I very much hate how all the event are in the first phase of them patch and in the second phase of the patch, all you can do is do dailies before logging off
I'm even having a bigger problem, I don't want a story at all actually. I JUST WANT TO PLAY, You know, Like just play? It's annoying when I hit myself into a dialogue while I'm playing
I picked up Rappa and liked her backstory. It was also cool to see Boothill, Robin and Reca. As for the rest of the story, I skipped most of it in the interest of time, only slowing down here and there when something caught my attention.
bro has never experienced 3.5 and 4.5 genshin 💀 didn't even realize it was 6 hours. figures why even with barely raeading the dialogue, i still needed about 3-4 hours
I seriously got a headache from the monkey brainrot stuff i just skipped all that crap man. Wuthering waves makes less money than HSR and they didn't even care about player retention, they added a skip button the very next patch, that game will forever be GOATED for that.
Thats why they got skip button on wuwa, the story is garbage. Even the dev know it & just giving up on the story forever. Imagine calling that goated 💀
THIS! This is why I uninstalled and quit Genshin Impact. I avoided the yellow marker story quests because you will be trapped in horrendous story glut you cannot skip.
I could definitely see how somebody who treats hsr as their main game would think this patch is a bad thing but as someone who treats hsr as a side game this patch was perfect
Only disagreement was the comment on the March event in 2.4 I at least found it funny this story was meant to be funny but it wasn't at all. It was like a joke that didn't land the 1st time and they kept using it again and again.
2.6 was shit because why snd where tf did monkey's come from and the "new" enemy's are just like reskined and creepy like I don't want anything to do with em
One of my close friends has barely played the new update at all, and I can’t blame them. I’m only playing because I need as many jades as possible for Sunday, but if I didn’t then I probably wouldn’t bother with this update at all. 😭 I don’t necessarily think that it’s the worst thing imaginable, but it is dreadfully boring and the story just wasn’t doing it for me. Filler patches will always exist so I try not to let a few mediocre or bad ones ruin a game entirely for me. And like you mentioned, this one isn’t ruining HSR for me. But it has demotivated me a bit, for sure.
Yeah, the lore in this story was sorta interesting but the execution of it was just not it man. I feel like thats the main problem with all these story quest, the presentation of it all is just so bland and characters are usually just yapping and can even come off as annoying at times and I would say that is very much the case for this patch but even worse. Honestly, if they presented it better with more dynamic shots as well as characters yapping less and having more physical expressions instead of doing the same emotes over and over again then I would certainly find it to be more entertaining and tolerable. It certainly would not solve all the issues it has but I think that it will be a nice change to have.
Wait for the next patch along with the acheron and aventurine rerun, it's gonna be the biggest money hungry moment they might've ever had, just like in Genshin with the pyro archon and other 3 top tier units back to back. No wonder they didn't win any award this year and only ZZZ had a chance but let's be honest, we all know why ZZZ had the high score out there.
I’m starting to realize…how clueless people are as to what makes a story good. The only thing I agree with is thst it’s a bit too long. Other then it it’s a really fun. Downtime adventure while learning about a really great new character whipping genuinely funny interactions.
The 2.5 Luka event almost saved my interest for the story but this version grabbed what little there was of hope and crushed it, murdered it right in front of my eyes If 2.7 story sucks, I don't care if the story gets good at X version, I am thoroughly skipping all of it and eventually leaving the game, like what happened to me with Genshin after Inazuma arc 1
Honestly I feel kinda the same, the story was just filler, I think the story's concept is cool, but I just couldn't care less for the dialogue and rappa as a character, I like her design, but her personality... not so much The main even was fun, but the boothill event and sampo event was just boring The new SU is a fun time waster And the new PF catering to DoT, the archetype that hasn't had any love since 2.0, just sucks tbh It's the first month where I haven't really been active in playing, it took me 2 weeks to start the story quest and other than that I've played the events end game mode, new SU and not much else, just the necessities and dailies
I think besides the story it was a decent update but everything to do with the story was so UGH it was the first time (im a day 1 player) i skipped the main story i just didnt care since it was way too much silly filler
I don't mind HSR being goofy for their filler patches, but 2.6 would've been much better if it was cut in half. HSR seems to have an issue with stretching a joke out for far too long, the trashcans being the main offender
Funnily enough, I expected to hate it due to the doomposting and brainrot but I beat it in 3 1/2 hrs (I never listen to full dialogue cause I can just read fast af, possible mistranslations be damned) so maybe that helped me not hate it. Only thing I didn't like was the Rappa reveal cause I dislike when people go through shit and they only get through it due to make believe stuff (in this case, Ninja Meme Virus).
The history was quite interesting and with lots of meta social themes, but the presentation was bad to be honest. Lots of exposition that could be avoided, and I agree about the skip bottom The Sim universe expansion was bad, hp sponges are simply lazy design. Even tho I can't fully agree with you, it's good that we discuss this things coz the whole idea is improving the game
"i logged in, do my dailies and events that takes 3 minutes and i logged out" you said something like this (not an actual quote sorry) but you sounded like it was a bad thing, if anything hoyo is respecting your time on its app, it was a filler patch? yeah but it doesnt need to be bad on every aspect (besides the hp sponges and the SU update)
I'll be honest, things will only get worse, and if you want a skip button, stop playing hoyoslop and go play literally anything else. Mihoyo isn't changing shit until player count drops by half
2.6 was THE worst patch so far and it is not even close. If I can go back in time to before I played this story I would button mash to save me from mental dmg. I am realy dissapointed in Star rails story lately, yes Penacony and new Luofu story was good but it feels so weird in the overarching story. I beleve we was Trailblazers that traveled through space and saving planets from stellarons but all we have been doing is going to a party in Penacony, a tournament festival on Luofu and school in Penacony.
This is my favorite version of the game, it's a nice filler and we get some new endgame content on top of that. Not every update can be good as rhe other ones, they're good in their own right. I'm looking forward to get Sunday and Fugue, I wonder where the story will take them this time?
Disagree with the quest part, yes it was maybe too long (I love Peakcony) but it DID have a lot of amazing Lore; Boothill backstory, Dr. Primitive, The Genius Society, Memokeepers and the Monkeys with the modern parallelism of society were amazing. Now when talking about the new SU... Yes, its the definition of RNG hell and boring af.
Yeah sadly this patch wasnt that good Especially with end game content Events were well bad... and Pure Fiction and MoC were annoying af For the quest, the message of this quest is really good, but it is quite too long (most of the school arc could have been cut off and nothing of value would be lost) The annoyances with monkeys were well done, but the quest itself was too long so it became a hassle Rappa is overall cool character and ngl for me still nothing can beat Xianzhou in flopping recently in HSR but at least HSR isnt as bad as Genshin and Hi3rd recently
while not my favorite i can see the value in it. its like the huohuo patch it's setting up lore for later. Herta is in 3.0 and it's fleshing out genius society lore. if you cant see that maybe your a meat head.
@@Zoeila More like fleshing out a monkey lore. Dr. Primitive is a nobody on the greater scale, as are Rappa and Boothill. Lazy patch, not worth my time. Skipped most of it and if it wasn't for jade rewards, wouldn't have even bothered at all. The same goes for the Huohuo patch, but at least we got a couple of fun battles out of that one, this one was pure waste.
Now yk damn well it is the worst hoyo story. Genshin could never do anything as bad as this, even with inazuma's story. Let's also not forget about Natlan act 3 and 4 so yes, Hsr 2.6 story is the worst in all of hoyoverse games stories.
@Purelich It isn't. I played hsr 2.6 and skipped everything because it was just hurting my brain. I tried to not skip in the beginning, but it started to get boring and hard to sit there and listen to nonsense for 6 fucking hours. When I was playing filler stories in genshin I actually enjoyed them because they weren't 6 hours long and talking nonsense. The only thing that did interest me a little was Rappa's backstory, but that's it. Penacony main story isn't that well written, but I can say it's better than any story genshin put out till Natlan. Natlan's story has me more hooked than Penacony, but that's just my opinion
@@JeffUni I still think aranara is the worst story hoyo’s done. But we’re honestly just comparing turds here. this story is definitely bad. I just think there are a few in Genshin that just bugged a bit more. Also, anytime I hear piemon repeat back to me the same thing I’ve already heard for the ninth time It makes me wanna bash my skull in which is definitely a part of my bias.
@Purelich I mean, yeah, I was definitely exaggerating when I said I enjoyed every filler story in genshin. There are some I didn't enjoy. Also, I'm pretty sure Paimon is repeating everything because most genshin players don't have any reading comprehension, lol.
hahaah jokes on you the moment they went back to the xianzhou i stopped paying any attention to the story. its just a lot of yapping and i just want to play the game.
lmao i started playing again for first time in a while a few days back (i want herta and maybe another firefly dupe for e2) and yeah this is all quite rough to play. Unfortunately the game gets really hindered by the idea of accessibility when it comes to any form of gameplay that isn't combat. (puzzles, events) I'm a pretty decent rhythm game fan and damn this was just ass. I don't hate the new SU mode, though it only really feels like SU in name. Felt like Galactic Baseballer, which I kinda hated (off topic shoutout to 1.5 event damn how did so many people like that so much) but it was in SU instead of all being one big fight so it felt slightly less bad. Still agree with the point about the characters doing zero damage though. Storywise yeah nothing needs to be said.
before i watch i will state a few things. i found it boring up until rappas back story and then it went back to boring.i did not enjoy this. it feel like filler until sundays release
100% agree 1) Rappa is a break character, when we've already got Firefly, and summon meta will be the next big thing. 2) The banana story was the most infantile trash I've seen in a long time. 3) The story was incredibly boring, full of tedious yapping, and way too long. 2.6 was so bad, it made me genuinely think about quitting HSR, and I'm a whale with multiple E6S5 characters.
I thought the Main story quest was decent this patch, not great but decent. The Boothill parts were really fun. The events are dogshit though i will agree. Also agree about SU too this is the wrost iteration.
I really don't get people who don't want a skip button. Because it literally has no negative impact at all to players. If you want to experience the story don't skip. If you don't want to experience the story just skip. It's baffling how players think qol changes are bad
As someone who would never skip, I think it's important to make a difference between "wanting" and "not minding if it's added". I wouldn't use the skip button - therefore I don't want it, but I also don't want lack of it. I'm indifferent. I don't care about skip button. So in polls about skip button, binary "Do you want skip button? Yes/no" will mix people who are indifferent with people who actively don't want the button to be there.
I wholeheartedly agree with you that this might actually be the worst patch of this game so far. Penacony is literally just few good cutscenes and moments and filled with trailer/teaser/animation/cliffhanger hype while in game it's just hours and hours of philosophical jargon with no real substance The dialogue bloat just kept getting worse and worse after the aventurine quest, and the conclusion to penacony isn't even about penacony it's just firefly fan service. The whole xianzhou wardance arc was kinda bearable but now this, this is absolutely unacceptable. HSR being my first actual serious gacha and logging in everyday since day 1 and now this is just sad... Might honestly drop the game if they fumble 3.0 aswell. This video honestly resonated with me, you've earned a sub. Keep up man
everything can be summed up like how Ryuuku sensei did: good story, trash story telling. I'm here to play a game, maybe watch a movie, have some turn based action RPG fun, not to read a book. I read enough cultivation manhuas and isekai and romcom mangas, I've read cool books (like the Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Pendragon series), I'm not here to learn an entire new language... drop all the jargon, I'm here to have a good time. They could've condensed the story into longer and more frequent cutscenes instead of telling. I did the entire banana quest. The story was good. Again, the story telling was trash. I did NOT appreciate having to spend multiple evenings on this quest (GOD forbid I have a life and cannot spend more than an hour on a video game per night). And yes, I wasn't actually interested in Rappa until I got to know her more... HOWEVER, that should've been in a separate companion quest (with more stellar jades received upon completion) INSTEAD of being in the MAIN story quest where we're supposed to be doing our protagonist things and saving the planet. Not saying Rappa cannot show up, but her back story should've been given to us in another companion quest. Would've saved some more time for us, cut the quest up into more chewable pieces, and given us more rewards (come on, 40-60 more stellar jades won't bankrupt Hoyoverse) On the other hand, Hoyo will NEVER implement the skip button (no balls unlike Kuro) because then they actually have to take accountability for their garbage story telling methods. When we don't read and then we don't understand what they're talking about in the next patch we'll be skipping again. Then they'll actually have to cut down the bloated fat and deliver their story in a better way.
I'm a day 1 player, and honestly, this patch was really disappointing, I knew it was filler ever since the stream; new SU isn't as interesting as the other expansions (and it was more of a letdown considering I'm not a fan of DU) and the story just doesn't feel interesting to sit through, I still have to finish it. MoC and PF are horribly annoying because of the hp inflation which is out of control, and overall I had nothing to do in this patch other than claim the rewards from the quick small events. Hope 2.7 is more fun because it's so boring to wait for the next planet with patches like this.
I like reading books, manga and listen to long podcasts on various topics, watching documentarires, even some visual novels if they are good quality. But how could anyone enjoy this bloated paid by word, brain rot humor infested amateur slop writing of hsr, or Genshin is beyond me, especially in a game about turn based combat and character collection.
Bro the new boss on MoC has 5M hp, it's not a skill issue if everything gets powercrept like crazy and you don't have resources to pull for the newer DPS that will get outshined in a few patches
@@Devin-hp8dc I don't really struggle, still full starred everything on auto, just barely... But it really says a lot that a player with meta teams (Firefly and Feixiao for MoC and beefed up Himeko, Herta and Jade for PF, all supported with Robin and RM, Lingsha and all that jazz) and good (not best, but damn good) relics can only barely clear with full stars... I can't even imagine how those poor f2p suckers with sub-par relics must struggle. It's not as much of a skill issue, but a money issue at this point. You really can't deny that.
1st,every game have dead patches/period,gachas arent supposed to be played in a long section, especially non exploration game,you log in,do your daily,you log out. The events are just things to incentives you to log in to get some bit more rewards 2nd, story is whatever for me,if you dislike it then its you,i find it whatever 3rd, previously stated, events arent entirely supposed to be smthg unique, 2.6 having 2 event that is just extra dailies enforce this statement 4th, new SU is bad but you still do dmg, you just had to read what component does b4 you get to do dmg. Like have you seen the tens of millions of dmg screenshots. Like one of the most consistent strats to beat new SU is by having you to be the main dmg dealer 5th, AS is whatever, PF can still be cleared by Himeko/Herta so not much changed and MoC HP inflation has a reason, i made a comment on your previous video that explains this deeper Like there is an issue with ppl wanting to play gachas for more than they are but are too afraid to do the try hard contents (zero cycles) which puts them in the middle ground and experiencing worst of both casual and hardcore
I've been playing since 1.0 and I disagree, the luka event was the worst thing ever, also I haven't seen yunli in any teams ever and jiaqiu only has one good team
Yup, Rappa patch is boring AF all because of the same problem: Hoyo's storytelling where all you do is just move from A to B, speak to some random NPC for 2-3 hours before move from point B to C and repeat. The new simulate universe is just some random sh*tty junks do a f*cking massive damage while your team do an unenchanted wooden sword damage.
Yup this is definitely one of the worst updates. 2.6 is a new low for Hoyo. Imma be hopeful for 2.7 but tbh I'm just kinda done with Penacony and wanna leave it behind already.
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Yeah, yeah, put the fries in the bag bro.
na xd
Everything he said was absolutely correct.
I can't even imagine how low an IQ you'd need to enjoy the banana quest.
We found hoyo's target audience. Are you paying for the fries with your mom's credit card?
@@malificajones7674 Imagine how low of an IQ you need to not be able to read.
Pin of shame
one thing i can't understand is why HSR put so much advertising for that version? the profile change to that monkey (although it was short), the facts about rappa being posted here and there. sunday and fugue, two much more important characters did not receive the same advertising from hoyo as rappa at all to this very moment. is this a strategy? if a new 5 star with questionable kit is out they compensate for that with more ads to make sure they sell it?
Two things waifu and money. If it's a waifu, they'll go the extra mile of marketing (like hiring singers for example rappa and robin). Plus they also know that this patch is a nothing burger, but they want money so went hard on it.
@@yoshsha9694 Rappa is no waifu. She's a cringe step-sister at best and not even I am horny enough for this one to be honest.
@yoshsha9694 Or maybe also because she's the only new character this patch. Personally, I don't see much difference in the amount of advertising for her specifically. Just about every patch they hype up every new character but I'm probably missing something. Maybe people focused too much on leaks I guess.
It wasn’t that bad! For me having Rappa as the only limited character was a major plus, as one of the biggest problems with Star Rail right now is releasing a bunch of op limited five stars and power creeping everyone else. Having just one limited character that was relatively balanced was super refreshing and gave people a chance to catch up and get/get eidolons on important characters like Acheron and Aventurine. So for me that was very good. As for the story, it’s fine. It felt in line with the rest of Penacony - an interesting idea with allot of potential and promise, but ultimately a bit tedious and overlong in execution. I don’t mind the length cause Star Rail gives you a full month to complete events, although I did have to cut it close cause I was finishing up Penacony. Easily my favorite part was Rappa’s backstory - it was genuinely emotional and compelling, and gave what could have been a ha ha brainrot character surprising depth. The rest was fine, I found it funny. Not every event has to be super serious, the game isn’t afraid to get goofy sometimes and I like that, and just having a fun, relaxed quest gave some variety after the sad story of Penacony. I found the monkeys entertaining, at least I liked them more than the overused trash cans, although they definitely will get annoying if Hoyo decides to run them into the ground like they did with the cans. I admit that unknowable domain sucks, it has allot of the same problems as divergent universe does plus more, I guess I wouldn’t have minded it if it wer
@@Ty_Jac Sure... But Hoyo freaking hired Reol to help promote this one new character, that we don't know if we are gonna meet again later on after this patch. The only other character that Hoyo managed to hire a singer to help promote a character is Robin, but at least she made sense. Since Robin herself is someone who has an important role at the Penacony main story line (even though she herself didn't do much in it).
(yap wanring) saying "if you care abt the story of hsr you don't have to play the 2.6 quest" is actually insane 😭 i agree that it didn't need to be 6 hours, and that the monkey brainrot was a lot, but aside from that the quest gave a lot of interesting lore.
We learned more lore about Dr primitive and the genius society (which we're clearly going to get more of based on the trailers for 2.7 and 3.0), and we also got lore on the galaxy rangers, specifically Boothill and Rappa.
People didn't like Boothill because he came out of nowhere and barley got any screentime. Plus, you'd only know abt his backstory with his destroyed planet, dead family, dead daughter, and vendetta against the ipc if you had him and read his stories. But, with this quest, they finally gave him more screentime and gave parts of his backstory center stage - like they did with Acheron and Aventurine in Penacony. Same thing with Rappa, she came out of nowhere, but bc she had a good kit, a lot of screentime, and we explored her backstory in the same quest she appeared in, people switched up on her.
Again, I'm not trying to glaze hsr, and I agree that hoyo's writing is very bloated and their quests are dragged out, but saying that the 2.6 quest was horrible and the worst quest out of any hoyoverse game is definitely an overreaction. Not saying you have to like it for the lore it gave us, especially if you don't care about lore, but I fear you might need to take a chill pill 💀😅
@@miyukiowari youre right, i completely forgot about the aranara quest in genshin impact, that easily takes the cake
@@axHSR At least aranara has actualy gameplay.
The biggest problem with 2.6 story is that it sould have been character quests not main story. Then every player can choose if they want to play it or not. Nothing in the story is important enough to be in the main story.
@anurmi5717 except everything about Dr. Primitive and Mr. Reca
like how Dr. Ratio was in the 1.5 quest or whatever, I'm sure we'll see Mr. Reca again
especially since he hinted that he knows where Dr. Primitive is, and it's hinted he's where the Astral Express is headed to next
also, Mr. Reca as a Memokeeper and potential Cremetor will certainly play a role on the planet only visible through the Memokeepers mirrors
and this quest was also hinted at by the message that told Black Swan to keep away, else she's gonna be infected by the Banana memetic virus
so all in all, I think it was pretty important
kinda like Summer Quests in Genshin always kinda foreshadow what the next patch will bring
@@mitsurukia If 2.6 is important it is just bad writing. We are Trailblazers and travel from planet to planet to save them from stellarons, that was the story in the two first planets. What we have been doing lately makes no sense, we have gone to a party in Penacony, attending a wardance festival in Luofu and then go back to Penacony to go to school. If people does not see how stupid that is they are compleatly braindead.
Rappa gives me the feeling that someone at Hoyo binged watched all of naruto and just had to make a character based off it
I personally disagree, I think the new story quest was pretty good, I think Rappa is an interesting character and as a Boothill fan I'm so happy he got so much time to shine and get fleshed out. But I do agree it should not have been as long as it was. I think the multiple POVs they've been doing since 2.1, while nice and allows for more good character moments, has also been to the story's detriment, because now it feels like they're stretching out every story update to warrant switching to other character's perspectives. I think the Amphoreus plot will benefit from being streamlined and not relying on the POV switching feature as much as Penacony and the wardance storyline did
@@shiromatsunoki its alright if you disagree, im 99% sure you enjoy the story more than i do 😭 i did think the parts with boothill and robin werent that bad, i liked how they got some interaction (furthering the robinhill agenda) but other than that the quest was pretty much pure yapping
I was willing to give rappa a chance since i liked her but the whole school arc was so boring i just lost interest
I do agree with your take about the POV’s, it feels just like a way to artificially inflate the length of the story, and its also very annoying that you cant click out of it and do other things mid story but that’s probably just a nitpick
@@axHSRlol yeah I do still enjoy the story even if I do agree with your criticisms and can personally see room for improvement. Like you said, I still love Star Rail for what it does right, but it’s because you love the game that you critique and want to see it get better
I dont wanna be rude so I hope you dont understand it the wrong way but...How? Imo it does not matter if Rappa has some story behind her. The way her story was presented is so terrible. When someone loses his mother...yet before and after knowing that they jump around with Monkeys saying "Bana" every 5 seconds, the villain being some stupid monkey too and unnecessary convoluded dialouge all the time. I dont care if this mother died...because I died reaching that point.
The events were trash. It's been dead.
@@shiromatsunokiBruh... 4 hours of characters yapping nonsense we can even compare that story to a normal trip to McDonalds man hahaha
I find videos like this so enjoyable! These are the type of videos I listen to while playing HSR
I usually never skip the story in HSR since I find them entertaining (I only skipped a few quests). However, 2.6 story quest really annoyed me. Yes, the banana brain rot was funny at first but it quickly became too much. Despite others pointing out the story had decent lore in it, I still can't bring myself to read because it's irritating. I'd rather skip the dialogues and watch a HSR lore video on RUclips instead cause it's much more fun, informative, and engaging.
I also agree with your other video about the boss HP inflation. I'm glad people are starting to become vocal about this. I remember a few months ago a certain CC was saying power creep is fine and in my mind I was disagreeing with them.
small rant:
I really love Seele and Bronya but I can't even use them in 2.6 anymore unless I'm asking for a bad experience..
7:30 i thought i was the crazy one for saying this has got to be the most boring SU there is, you just literally sit there and do absolutely nothing while the scepters just do all the work, the only thing its good for is how much damage you can really do
i think i startred using an auto clicker to skip dialogue half way through penacony lol up to this new patch i dont like anyone really in this world
Nothing will be worse for me than the 20 minute filler quest involving Tingyun's funeral. This quest was pretty meh as well, but at least we got backstory on Boothill and Rappa. The monkeys were silly though.
I feel your pain bro. 2.6 was so bad i don't even want to watch a video explaining why it's the case...
I just want it to be over, done with and forgotten. Rappa sucks, rythm event was cringe and boring, new SU is braindead and the quest was unbearable. First time i actually skipped most of the dialogue in main story quest of HSR and i am pretty sure i did not miss anything important by doing it just by listening the couple of lines i frogot to skip.
Penacony was boring as a whole, but it had a couple of good points here and there at least.
I get it, most of gacha audience does not have enough braicells to make up a soccer team, but my god, this was too much.
I agree with every point you raised.
Belabog was fun and engaging, with a tightly focused plot and interesting characters.
How did we go from that to Penacony in only a year!
"I don't like something, so I must insult people that do because my opinion and iq is superior in every way"
@@jesusvermillionthemereoleo5660 Sometimes stupid people do and say quite baffling things.
How people can refer to Penacony as "Peakacony" is beyond belief.
@@jesusvermillionthemereoleo5660 Such clever remark! And you figured it out all by yourself? What a smart boy/girl you are, want a cookie? 😂
Yeah this patch was mainly just a filler patch, but even though it's a filler patch the story was dragged out for too long which felt annoying to go through, but the thing i liked about the story was that there were a lot more animation scenes compared to other patches which I hope this is a nod from hoyoverse that they will be putting out a lot more animated scenes in the next patch and future patches.
I personally thought the event was alright ngl, it was pretty chill and had some cute moments which i adored. Overall though I did think that even for a filler patch this was probably one of the slowest patches in hsr's history.
hopefully that this dry patch will be repay with the devs working hard for 3.x and fate collabs
It's true that while playing story quests, I feel sleepy and often fall asleep. I only sleep at night, and even when I'm studying, I don't feel sleepy. However, every time I play a story, I end up falling asleep.
Oh yes, the utter dogshit tier storytelling is absolutely the biggest flaw of this game. Which is so unfortunate, because the lore and the world building of HSR is actually pretty damn interesting. They just cannot tell it in a digestable way for some damn reason.
I need peak story in hsr man because there isnt no skip. I mean, maybe-- just maybe, hoyo should make character introductions unskippable. That way we get a basic gist of their character.
I liked the monkey part - players are monkeys and Hoyo is feeding them bananas.
If you actually ask what ppl find fun to do in HSR I am not sure they can tell. Its kinda like reading a book with occasional illustration + inventory management.
The lore in the book is good, the idea of the story is often deep but its a total soap opera.
after 3.0 I am just quitting. maybe for a year, maybe forever. HSR just dont respect my time
The scepters do buff your characters. Ive played through every iteration of SU, have gotten nearly every reward, playing on almost every difficulty. Hitting over 40 million with a unit (no scepter skill) is something ive never done in SU. The story for Unknowable domain was also super interesting but you guys skip that every chance you get so it is what it is.
The one positive thing was that this was a save patch for me since 2.5 did a number on my jades and probably so will 2.7/3.0.
I just skiped all story while seeing some RUclips videos on second monitor, I dont like all this monkey garbage story, its like the f trashcans. The new SU I like it a lot more than the others because I can just click any card and not read anything and still clear everything
thats what i did lmao, i didnt even know the story was bad or anything, i just hated monkeys and banana shits
I make this in gold and machinery
I think the worst part is the fact that the misery isnt over. Look at 2.7's livestream. Theres no events. Like, not as an exaggeration, theres is not a single event, neither flagship minigame event nor combat event nor experimental event, there's NOTHING. The patch is EMPTY
I’d call it a save patch but you’re probably not earning any jades from anything in the first place😭 The only thing saving it is prob the banners and lore
Yes the livestream tried to make it seem that there was alot of content and was hype but 90% of the stuff in the livestream was 3.0 content
Nah
It wasn’t that bad! For me having Rappa as the only limited character was a major plus, as one of the biggest problems with Star Rail right now is releasing a bunch of op limited five stars and power creeping everyone else. Having just one limited character that was relatively balanced was super refreshing and gave people a chance to catch up and get/get eidolons on important characters like Acheron and Aventurine. So for me that was very good. As for the story, it’s fine. It felt in line with the rest of Penacony - an interesting idea with allot of potential and promise, but ultimately a bit tedious and overlong in execution. I don’t mind the length cause Star Rail gives you a full month to complete events, although I did have to cut it close cause I was finishing up Penacony. Easily my favorite part was Rappa’s backstory - it was genuinely emotional and compelling, and gave what could have been a ha ha brainrot character surprising depth. The rest was fine, I found it funny. Not every event has to be super serious, the game isn’t afraid to get goofy sometimes and I like that, and just having a fun, relaxed quest gave some variety after the sad story of Penacony. I found the monkeys entertaining, at least I liked them more than the overused trash cans, although they definitely will get annoying if Hoyo decides to run them into the ground like they did with the cans. I admit that unknowable domain sucks, it has allot of the same problems as divergent universe does plus more, I guess I wouldn’t have minded it if it were shorter, like one plane, but as is it’s such a slog to get through. But hey at least we get jades from it. So overall I liked the update, it felt like a breather compared to the other patches that let you catch your breath before we dive into Amorphous.
Nah bro, 1.1 clears low diff. Literally made me quit for a period of time from how mid it was
Edit: IMO when it comes to 2.X story, 2.4-2.5 is easily the worst story we’ve gotten. Honestly the only time I wished a skip button was there.
So Im not the only one who hates this patch, I very much hate how all the event are in the first phase of them patch and in the second phase of the patch, all you can do is do dailies before logging off
I'm even having a bigger problem, I don't want a story at all actually. I JUST WANT TO PLAY, You know, Like just play? It's annoying when I hit myself into a dialogue while I'm playing
hsr is a story centered game? maybe dont play it?
robot7338, Its a turn based combat adventure game, not a visual novel, story is secondary
Then play a game with no story in it? Or so poor that you cant afford any of those? There are lot of free game with no story in it@@bef5582
Complaining about a story driven rpg game having story and not just constant gameplay. Lol, lmao even
@@bef5582 sure, but the game is nothing without the story. its shy of equivalent importance to the combat
I picked up Rappa and liked her backstory. It was also cool to see Boothill, Robin and Reca. As for the rest of the story, I skipped most of it in the interest of time, only slowing down here and there when something caught my attention.
bro has never experienced 3.5 and 4.5 genshin 💀
didn't even realize it was 6 hours. figures why even with barely raeading the dialogue, i still needed about 3-4 hours
I seriously got a headache from the monkey brainrot stuff i just skipped all that crap man.
Wuthering waves makes less money than HSR and they didn't even care about player retention, they added a skip button the very next patch, that game will forever be GOATED for that.
Thats why they got skip button on wuwa, the story is garbage. Even the dev know it & just giving up on the story forever.
Imagine calling that goated 💀
@@harfi212at least wuwa story was way better then wtf what ever this 2.6 bs brainrot was
@@UnknowinglyRL lmao, harem story telling when every girl glazing over mc 💀
@@harfi212 💀at least it was better then 2.6 garbage
@harfi212 but yeah they be glazing but at least I can play that not like this 2.6 Garbage
2.6 was dogshait for sure.
I watched this and felt like kendrick, pekaabo what they talkin bout? they talking bout nothin'
THIS!
This is why I uninstalled and quit Genshin Impact. I avoided the yellow marker story quests because you will be trapped in horrendous story glut you cannot skip.
I could definitely see how somebody who treats hsr as their main game would think this patch is a bad thing but as someone who treats hsr as a side game this patch was perfect
Only disagreement was the comment on the March event in 2.4 I at least found it funny this story was meant to be funny but it wasn't at all. It was like a joke that didn't land the 1st time and they kept using it again and again.
I agree, and I never liked Penacony much. I can't wait to get off that dump. The only thing I like about Penacony is Sparkle.
mr reca is the only reason i played the quest
1 funny monkey
2 hot
3 an island full of bananas
2.6 was shit because why snd where tf did monkey's come from and the "new" enemy's are just like reskined and creepy like I don't want anything to do with em
The scepters do buff your characters, my Jade hits for like 15 mil damage with her basic
One of my close friends has barely played the new update at all, and I can’t blame them. I’m only playing because I need as many jades as possible for Sunday, but if I didn’t then I probably wouldn’t bother with this update at all. 😭 I don’t necessarily think that it’s the worst thing imaginable, but it is dreadfully boring and the story just wasn’t doing it for me. Filler patches will always exist so I try not to let a few mediocre or bad ones ruin a game entirely for me. And like you mentioned, this one isn’t ruining HSR for me. But it has demotivated me a bit, for sure.
Yeah, the lore in this story was sorta interesting but the execution of it was just not it man. I feel like thats the main problem with all these story quest, the presentation of it all is just so bland and characters are usually just yapping and can even come off as annoying at times and I would say that is very much the case for this patch but even worse. Honestly, if they presented it better with more dynamic shots as well as characters yapping less and having more physical expressions instead of doing the same emotes over and over again then I would certainly find it to be more entertaining and tolerable. It certainly would not solve all the issues it has but I think that it will be a nice change to have.
Wait for the next patch along with the acheron and aventurine rerun, it's gonna be the biggest money hungry moment they might've ever had, just like in Genshin with the pyro archon and other 3 top tier units back to back. No wonder they didn't win any award this year and only ZZZ had a chance but let's be honest, we all know why ZZZ had the high score out there.
I’m starting to realize…how clueless people are as to what makes a story good. The only thing I agree with is thst it’s a bit too long. Other then it it’s a really fun. Downtime adventure while learning about a really great new character whipping genuinely funny interactions.
I didn't olay for this patch after completing the story and event. But i guess it was ok since i really needed a break and have other games to play
The 2.5 Luka event almost saved my interest for the story but this version grabbed what little there was of hope and crushed it, murdered it right in front of my eyes
If 2.7 story sucks, I don't care if the story gets good at X version, I am thoroughly skipping all of it and eventually leaving the game, like what happened to me with Genshin after Inazuma arc 1
Honestly I feel kinda the same, the story was just filler, I think the story's concept is cool, but I just couldn't care less for the dialogue and rappa as a character, I like her design, but her personality... not so much
The main even was fun, but the boothill event and sampo event was just boring
The new SU is a fun time waster
And the new PF catering to DoT, the archetype that hasn't had any love since 2.0, just sucks tbh
It's the first month where I haven't really been active in playing, it took me 2 weeks to start the story quest and other than that I've played the events end game mode, new SU and not much else, just the necessities and dailies
Still waiting for that skip button.
I think besides the story it was a decent update but everything to do with the story was so UGH it was the first time (im a day 1 player) i skipped the main story i just didnt care since it was way too much silly filler
Just gotta make it to Fugue😔
If they somehow butcher 2.7 I’m quitting
Agree. It should be just 3 hours
I don't mind HSR being goofy for their filler patches, but 2.6 would've been much better if it was cut in half. HSR seems to have an issue with stretching a joke out for far too long, the trashcans being the main offender
waiting for tectone and box2 to react
Tectone got busy with his sa drama, he probably crying right now. Dont have time to react 😂
Funnily enough, I expected to hate it due to the doomposting and brainrot but I beat it in 3 1/2 hrs (I never listen to full dialogue cause I can just read fast af, possible mistranslations be damned) so maybe that helped me not hate it. Only thing I didn't like was the Rappa reveal cause I dislike when people go through shit and they only get through it due to make believe stuff (in this case, Ninja Meme Virus).
The history was quite interesting and with lots of meta social themes, but the presentation was bad to be honest. Lots of exposition that could be avoided, and I agree about the skip bottom
The Sim universe expansion was bad, hp sponges are simply lazy design.
Even tho I can't fully agree with you, it's good that we discuss this things coz the whole idea is improving the game
"i logged in, do my dailies and events that takes 3 minutes and i logged out" you said something like this (not an actual quote sorry) but you sounded like it was a bad thing, if anything hoyo is respecting your time on its app, it was a filler patch? yeah but it doesnt need to be bad on every aspect (besides the hp sponges and the SU update)
I'll be honest, things will only get worse, and if you want a skip button, stop playing hoyoslop and go play literally anything else. Mihoyo isn't changing shit until player count drops by half
2.6 was THE worst patch so far and it is not even close. If I can go back in time to before I played this story I would button mash to save me from mental dmg. I am realy dissapointed in Star rails story lately, yes Penacony and new Luofu story was good but it feels so weird in the overarching story. I beleve we was Trailblazers that traveled through space and saving planets from stellarons but all we have been doing is going to a party in Penacony, a tournament festival on Luofu and school in Penacony.
This is my favorite version of the game, it's a nice filler and we get some new endgame content on top of that.
Not every update can be good as rhe other ones, they're good in their own right.
I'm looking forward to get Sunday and Fugue, I wonder where the story will take them this time?
Disagree with the quest part, yes it was maybe too long (I love Peakcony) but it DID have a lot of amazing Lore; Boothill backstory, Dr. Primitive, The Genius Society, Memokeepers and the Monkeys with the modern parallelism of society were amazing.
Now when talking about the new SU... Yes, its the definition of RNG hell and boring af.
Yeah, the banana quest was horrible. But at least it wasn't about the stupid fucking trash cans again.
Gacha story quests 😴
Wuthering waves ones are pretty good
@ ehhh there not that great but at least the story quests don’t have npcs taking up 40% of screen time and the pacing is a lot better.
@styfling shorekeepers, encore and camellyas were great but I understand your point
@Carno_Yujia no way you said wuwa harem story is good 💀
I also hated this patch, yapping yapping nonstop, had to force myself to do kak rhythm game also
Yeah sadly this patch wasnt that good
Especially with end game content
Events were well bad... and Pure Fiction and MoC were annoying af
For the quest, the message of this quest is really good, but it is quite too long (most of the school arc could have been cut off and nothing of value would be lost)
The annoyances with monkeys were well done, but the quest itself was too long so it became a hassle
Rappa is overall cool character and ngl for me still nothing can beat Xianzhou in flopping recently in HSR
but at least HSR isnt as bad as Genshin and Hi3rd recently
while not my favorite i can see the value in it. its like the huohuo patch it's setting up lore for later. Herta is in 3.0 and it's fleshing out genius society lore. if you cant see that maybe your a meat head.
@@Zoeila More like fleshing out a monkey lore. Dr. Primitive is a nobody on the greater scale, as are Rappa and Boothill. Lazy patch, not worth my time. Skipped most of it and if it wasn't for jade rewards, wouldn't have even bothered at all.
The same goes for the Huohuo patch, but at least we got a couple of fun battles out of that one, this one was pure waste.
can you cut the dead air pls
Maybe ryuuku sensei was right😂
I think it’s the worst patch in terms of story HSR has had but saying it’s the worst Hoyo story when Genshin exist is wild.
Now yk damn well it is the worst hoyo story. Genshin could never do anything as bad as this, even with inazuma's story. Let's also not forget about Natlan act 3 and 4 so yes, Hsr 2.6 story is the worst in all of hoyoverse games stories.
@@JeffUni if this isn’t sarcasm, that’s even more wild
@Purelich It isn't. I played hsr 2.6 and skipped everything because it was just hurting my brain. I tried to not skip in the beginning, but it started to get boring and hard to sit there and listen to nonsense for 6 fucking hours. When I was playing filler stories in genshin I actually enjoyed them because they weren't 6 hours long and talking nonsense. The only thing that did interest me a little was Rappa's backstory, but that's it. Penacony main story isn't that well written, but I can say it's better than any story genshin put out till Natlan. Natlan's story has me more hooked than Penacony, but that's just my opinion
@@JeffUni I still think aranara is the worst story hoyo’s done. But we’re honestly just comparing turds here. this story is definitely bad. I just think there are a few in Genshin that just bugged a bit more. Also, anytime I hear piemon repeat back to me the same thing I’ve already heard for the ninth time It makes me wanna bash my skull in which is definitely a part of my bias.
@Purelich I mean, yeah, I was definitely exaggerating when I said I enjoyed every filler story in genshin. There are some I didn't enjoy. Also, I'm pretty sure Paimon is repeating everything because most genshin players don't have any reading comprehension, lol.
hahaah jokes on you the moment they went back to the xianzhou i stopped paying any attention to the story. its just a lot of yapping and i just want to play the game.
Bana bana
lmao i started playing again for first time in a while a few days back (i want herta and maybe another firefly dupe for e2) and yeah this is all quite rough to play.
Unfortunately the game gets really hindered by the idea of accessibility when it comes to any form of gameplay that isn't combat. (puzzles, events) I'm a pretty decent rhythm game fan and damn this was just ass.
I don't hate the new SU mode, though it only really feels like SU in name. Felt like Galactic Baseballer, which I kinda hated (off topic shoutout to 1.5 event damn how did so many people like that so much) but it was in SU instead of all being one big fight so it felt slightly less bad. Still agree with the point about the characters doing zero damage though.
Storywise yeah nothing needs to be said.
before i watch i will state a few things. i found it boring up until rappas back story and then it went back to boring.i did not enjoy this. it feel like filler until sundays release
100% agree
1) Rappa is a break character, when we've already got Firefly, and summon meta will be the next big thing.
2) The banana story was the most infantile trash I've seen in a long time.
3) The story was incredibly boring, full of tedious yapping, and way too long.
2.6 was so bad, it made me genuinely think about quitting HSR, and I'm a whale with multiple E6S5 characters.
thats not the worst SU lmao what all my fua units exploded the enemies what u mean.
I thought the Main story quest was decent this patch, not great but decent. The Boothill parts were really fun.
The events are dogshit though i will agree.
Also agree about SU too this is the wrost iteration.
2.6 the only patch i finished in one day was not fun abd didn't even finish new su as not fun
boothill and reca carried
I really don't get people who don't want a skip button. Because it literally has no negative impact at all to players. If you want to experience the story don't skip. If you don't want to experience the story just skip.
It's baffling how players think qol changes are bad
As someone who would never skip, I think it's important to make a difference between "wanting" and "not minding if it's added". I wouldn't use the skip button - therefore I don't want it, but I also don't want lack of it. I'm indifferent. I don't care about skip button. So in polls about skip button, binary "Do you want skip button? Yes/no" will mix people who are indifferent with people who actively don't want the button to be there.
I wholeheartedly agree with you that this might actually be the worst patch of this game so far.
Penacony is literally just few good cutscenes and moments and filled with trailer/teaser/animation/cliffhanger hype while in game it's just hours and hours of philosophical jargon with no real substance
The dialogue bloat just kept getting worse and worse after the aventurine quest, and the conclusion to penacony isn't even about penacony it's just firefly fan service. The whole xianzhou wardance arc was kinda bearable but now this, this is absolutely unacceptable.
HSR being my first actual serious gacha and logging in everyday since day 1 and now this is just sad... Might honestly drop the game if they fumble 3.0 aswell. This video honestly resonated with me, you've earned a sub. Keep up man
everything can be summed up like how Ryuuku sensei did: good story, trash story telling. I'm here to play a game, maybe watch a movie, have some turn based action RPG fun, not to read a book. I read enough cultivation manhuas and isekai and romcom mangas, I've read cool books (like the Harry Potter, Percy Jackson, Pendragon series), I'm not here to learn an entire new language... drop all the jargon, I'm here to have a good time. They could've condensed the story into longer and more frequent cutscenes instead of telling. I did the entire banana quest. The story was good. Again, the story telling was trash. I did NOT appreciate having to spend multiple evenings on this quest (GOD forbid I have a life and cannot spend more than an hour on a video game per night).
And yes, I wasn't actually interested in Rappa until I got to know her more... HOWEVER, that should've been in a separate companion quest (with more stellar jades received upon completion) INSTEAD of being in the MAIN story quest where we're supposed to be doing our protagonist things and saving the planet. Not saying Rappa cannot show up, but her back story should've been given to us in another companion quest. Would've saved some more time for us, cut the quest up into more chewable pieces, and given us more rewards (come on, 40-60 more stellar jades won't bankrupt Hoyoverse)
On the other hand, Hoyo will NEVER implement the skip button (no balls unlike Kuro) because then they actually have to take accountability for their garbage story telling methods. When we don't read and then we don't understand what they're talking about in the next patch we'll be skipping again. Then they'll actually have to cut down the bloated fat and deliver their story in a better way.
True 2.7 save us
I agree
I'm a day 1 player, and honestly, this patch was really disappointing, I knew it was filler ever since the stream; new SU isn't as interesting as the other expansions (and it was more of a letdown considering I'm not a fan of DU) and the story just doesn't feel interesting to sit through, I still have to finish it. MoC and PF are horribly annoying because of the hp inflation which is out of control, and overall I had nothing to do in this patch other than claim the rewards from the quick small events. Hope 2.7 is more fun because it's so boring to wait for the next planet with patches like this.
Honkai Star Rail is such a yapfest, but I did like Rappa's backstory.
Whole story. Bana bana ? Bananana 😂 🐵
I like reading books, manga and listen to long podcasts on various topics, watching documentarires, even some visual novels if they are good quality. But how could anyone enjoy this bloated paid by word, brain rot humor infested amateur slop writing of hsr, or Genshin is beyond me, especially in a game about turn based combat and character collection.
ive seen so many people struggle with moc as and pf do yall just not invest in supports/erudition this is literally a skill issue
Bro the new boss on MoC has 5M hp, it's not a skill issue if everything gets powercrept like crazy and you don't have resources to pull for the newer DPS that will get outshined in a few patches
@@Devin-hp8dc I don't really struggle, still full starred everything on auto, just barely...
But it really says a lot that a player with meta teams (Firefly and Feixiao for MoC and beefed up Himeko, Herta and Jade for PF, all supported with Robin and RM, Lingsha and all that jazz) and good (not best, but damn good) relics can only barely clear with full stars...
I can't even imagine how those poor f2p suckers with sub-par relics must struggle.
It's not as much of a skill issue, but a money issue at this point. You really can't deny that.
at least 2.4 and 2.5 was good, that was a much needed refresher after the garbage of penacony. I'm just hoping that 2.7 is not more monkie garbage
1st,every game have dead patches/period,gachas arent supposed to be played in a long section, especially non exploration game,you log in,do your daily,you log out. The events are just things to incentives you to log in to get some bit more rewards
2nd, story is whatever for me,if you dislike it then its you,i find it whatever
3rd, previously stated, events arent entirely supposed to be smthg unique, 2.6 having 2 event that is just extra dailies enforce this statement
4th, new SU is bad but you still do dmg, you just had to read what component does b4 you get to do dmg. Like have you seen the tens of millions of dmg screenshots. Like one of the most consistent strats to beat new SU is by having you to be the main dmg dealer
5th, AS is whatever, PF can still be cleared by Himeko/Herta so not much changed and MoC HP inflation has a reason, i made a comment on your previous video that explains this deeper
Like there is an issue with ppl wanting to play gachas for more than they are but are too afraid to do the try hard contents (zero cycles) which puts them in the middle ground and experiencing worst of both casual and hardcore
0 cycle is not content 😂😂
bro did NOT play genshin during version 4.5
penacony is a horrible story i agree but dude rappa story is fine lol and i love the music thing what a banger .
to me the worst story ever even 2.3 and 1.5 were better
I've been playing since 1.0 and I disagree, the luka event was the worst thing ever, also I haven't seen yunli in any teams ever and jiaqiu only has one good team
No
Yup, Rappa patch is boring AF all because of the same problem: Hoyo's storytelling where all you do is just move from A to B, speak to some random NPC for 2-3 hours before move from point B to C and repeat.
The new simulate universe is just some random sh*tty junks do a f*cking massive damage while your team do an unenchanted wooden sword damage.
saw the yanqing gameplay and already knew this opinion was wrong nice try
Don’t disrespect yanKING
rappa is trash at e0s0.
Had to skip literally ALL Rappa's yapping cause it got annoying way too fast lol
Mr. Reca and his insanity saved it for me, should've had more Reca 🥲
Yup this is definitely one of the worst updates. 2.6 is a new low for Hoyo. Imma be hopeful for 2.7 but tbh I'm just kinda done with Penacony and wanna leave it behind already.