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@Fredy31 and then they add the usual boss that has long "can't hit me" downtimes.
Alas, Mihoyo once said that surveys showed that Abyss was causing stress to players, so they wanted to avoid very hard content.
But that sentiment, actually shared by tons of players if you read thru the linked post, betrays a complete misunderstanding of the issue.
The Abyss is "hated" not because it is hard gameplay wise. All the "difficulty" is just artificial difficulty due to a timelimit.
And that timelimit actually proves that the combat is NOT hard. Quite the opposite. The combat is braindead.
Idiots call characters like Diluc "Unga Bunga" gameplay because their skill are very simple and "button mashing".
I ask you: isn't the very concept of "fixed rotation / attack order" a worse example of "Unga Bunga" gameplay?
Here you have the National team (carried by the three most broken 4* characters in the game, there is a reason players joke that Xiangling is the Pyro archon)
Fixed sequence of attacks, no matter the enemy, no "avoid attack", just "try to not get interrupted by attack, if that happens, start room again until lucky"
Wonder why you don't get "skill rotations" for your average Soul-like boss, or for a Streetfighter clone?
Because (outside exploits) there you are reacting to the boss actions. Genshin min-max is you trying to ignore the boss actions to just repeat the "max damage in shortest time" button sequence. I wonder if you could put all the National rotation in a Dual Sense Edge macro...
Now, if this kind of gameplay hasn't already pushed you on the "Abyss is not fun gameplay" side of the scale, then you have also to min-max artifacts to stand a chance (or pay to try to get some rare characters to C6, Furina C6 or example removes all her balancing and turns her in a "she does everything" monster. But most players only have resources to go for C0, even as low spender who just pay the monthly welking sub)
And Artifact farming is the real trash.
And oddly enough... it seems to be the same trash in every Mihoyo game, the issues are always the same.
Too many RNG layers stacked one after another that means that you can play for weeks and end up with nothing. Growth isn't linear, the more you train, the stronger you get. You get stronger only when you get a better artifact by sheer luck.
And the RNG is so bad that this can very well never happen.
Imagine if in World of Warcraft you had to farm a boss for an Epic sword drop with 5% chance. Simple, right?
But then the sword can have a mains stat and 4 sub stat and those are random too. Some are useless, some are good, but the good one have a worse chance
So, when the sword finally drops, you have about 5% (on top of the 5% drop rate) to get the main stat you wanted. Then you have to hope to get at least 2 good sub stats out of four (but if you want to min-max you wanted all four).... Your drop chance is already probably less than one in a thousand.
But this is not the end: you also have to "level up" the sword four times, and on each level up you get a random bonus on a random sub stat. So you want good bonus (+10 vs +5 for example) on the best stats.
Want to get an EM Goblet with Crit Rate, Crit DMG, ER and ATK? that is 0,0006%.
YES, rarer than a rare character in the gacha. And... you know how most of the time you don't get those to drop outside of the guaranteed pity? Well, the artifacts have no pity.
Even getting a base good Flower has a 0.03% chance. (Flower has a fixed main stat, so one less rng layer)
then when you finally get one... all the rolls go in ER while you wanted critical. Toss the artifact in the trash and go looking for another one. Then get unlucky again. And again. And again. And all this time, you don't get any stronger.
And then you think players hate the Abyss because it is hard "dark soul" bosses.
No, players hate being forced in rotation gameplay (aka: can't play like I want, have to play like they tell me) and even more importantly having to get gear.
You can play the rest of the game perfectly fine with low/average artifacts. Only the Abyss and some combat event that have Abyss like mechanics and hp sponges require min maxing.
Wonder what? those event gets the same hate as the Abyss.
I don't get if the actual game devs don't realize this or think this is good for the game. Either way, this seems VERY VERY stupid.
Defense missions on planets have two bars, one blue and one yellow, and a timer. What do they indicate?
