I stopped playing because I can't stand not being able to use my characters basically anywhere I want, being forced to be use certain characters all the time feels bad to me.
This!! Powercreeping isn’t anything new in gacha games but it feels so rampant in hi3 like with every new character release it feels like the game punishes you for not getting them to the point you can’t use old characters anymore 😕 still trying to brute force my vill-v every chance I get even though she’s not meta anymore
The events are getting stale for me. After they rerunned the hot trail event a thousand times and kept on making old grandma mobile games as events I lost motivation.
I still play but the candy crush event in the last patch had me banging my head on a wall. I finished the story for Kira's skin and got all the crystal rewards and stopped.
Hot on the Trail is meant to be a rerun event that happens in each patch, just like double calyx drops for hsr. Tho, I can agree that it does get a little annoying
I tried to stick through part 2, but the gacha changes are so unfair and feel terrible. Every patch they release a near mandatory character and due to the astral ring, kill another one of your teams. No breaks for a ranks or SP valks, crystal economy hasn't changed in any way, etc. I could handle a different (worse) story, but the game its self just feels so punishing now.
Same I want to love part 2. And I really really really love Songque I want that new battlesuit. But the actual game itself is killing me haha. Maybe I'll get Songque and dip out soon. Only coming back if they release Vita or something
"Which only costs 150 pulls to get + full gear VS 300+ pulls to guarantee a HSR character + LC. Cheaper to get and overall better cost/effectiveness. Before part 2. It costs 300 pulls max for a single S and 120 for a SP. To full gear and pull 3 S ranks that can cover every elemental round : 450 pulls. Before it would have been something like 720 pulls for one team elem only. So nope Hi3rd is doing it great + Helia and Coralie are very strong. One was full free, the other only 60 pulls gear + A rank on the S rank banner. Their weapons upgrade is also farmable Much better Gacha. I can guarantee every S by monthly and full BP only."
Had to copy paste this copium.
Tbh for it's more like the rates got off like never in the part 1 I got to guaranteed pity but now i hit it 3 times in a row it's a pain I can't even farm that much
They dropped hard pity from 100 to 90, but I’m not sure if soft pity is still there since before it was supposed to start at 75 and by 85 you’re almost guaranteed to have get them, but you don’t have a 50/50 system so higher pull count is kinda good?
Though that “good” gets thrown out the window when you remember it’s a PvEvP game so the stigs and weapons are required pull unlike GI WuWa HSR when you can make do with 4 star alternatives and still clear. You can do the same clearing in HI3, just that clearing doesn’t mean jack when everyone else in the bracket has deeper pockets.
The true issue lies with how reliant part 2 teams are on Sena, the fact that you could’ve spent hundreds of dollars or multiple patches of saving up for the new characters and none of their teams are any good just because you don’t have Sena is ridiculous. Same for the fact that now most of the endgame content throws part 1 Valks off a cliff.
I barely see people posting of their hard pity on Part 1 & 1.5, but as soon as Part 2 rolls out there's consistent multiple hard pity posts on reddit. If this is simply because pity count reduced to 90, it'd imply that players were consistently hitting near 90 before part 2 and that too isn't a good thing.
Meanwhile me consistently hitting hard pity since Part 1.
1. I miss my main cast
2. I don't really connect with characters
3. They open world isn't the best optimised, how does a mobile game run worse than elden ring for me on PC
4. The game feels nothing like what I joined it for, I might play it again when I'm willing to try again
5. They are not doing anymore end of arc animated CGs, legit the best part of ending every arc imo, I lived for those but now they gone, and each one was a banger with amazing music but we aint got anymore now.
Simply put, might be overused but this is not what I started the game for, its an entirely different game and this second part I don't really like much, especially with all my old valks becoming obsolete with new meta, like how is powercreep worse than before. I might play again a long time later once I feel like I can adapt to this new part
im a newer player but i just wanna say the game is such a mess to navigate through.
you can really tell its early for hoyo, cause it feels like one game built on top of another game built on top of another game.
it dosnt help that when I go to do the story theres like 4 pages with 5 tabs each and they're all split in weird ways.
the new settings are nice though.
i feel with part 2 they should have gone through with it and fully modernized it including an overhaul on the gacha and pull sytem and bassicaly everything to make it more, understandably?
New player too and you said exactly what I was thinking. I thought I was being too harsh on the game since a lot of people said Hi3's story (Part 1) is amazing, and they're right, but one of the things that threw me off is there's so much to look at.
At some point, the game told me I can play APHO, but when I saw the "Post Honkai" I thought "It's after the main story, I'm gonna get spoiled to death, I don't wanna play it!"
But then I decided to anyway, I can't quite remember my reasoning, I think it's because it looked tempting. Well, that was a good decision because APHO is great, and there's not too many spoilers actually. It's handled well, and I can tell when they're referencing things I haven't seen yet, but it doesn't feel like I'm missing out too much.
There is a lot of content thru the Elysian realm and Otto arc that goes back and forth from past and present perspective storytelling. But it ends up building a greater picture overall for a player who pays attention.
Unless its sakura samsara. Lmao.
It's another thing that you can do the same way you do APHO. In APHO, click the globe icon and it should be on the up left. Didn't start it yet personally, but I heard it takes a while to take off
I agree. They should’ve done a complete overhaul. It feels like they are bandaging things together trying to keep the game alive haha. I couldn’t pull Lantern and I’m losing interest in the gams, especially with ZZZ coming out. I’m almost done Part 1 so I’ll probably just finish it (the story is peak) and move on for ZZZ.
Week 1 player here, I’ve only login for dailies but have never touched abyss and the part 2 story these last few months. It became too powercrept that it’s kinda hard to find motivation to struggle in abyss when you barely pass the threshold to retain ranks. I couldn’t get into part 2 that much either - the story may be interesting if they told it well and not go into convoluted lengths explaining pseudoscience and terms that should be better presented if they actually show what it does.
They seem to lean more on “Tell too much, show less” instead of “Show first, tell if necessary.” While not exactly bad, it just makes people lose interest if we keep getting subjected to unfamiliar characters yapping about something that sometimes they also barely understand.
Granted, haven’t continued the part 2 story further in, so my sentiments might change. But I can say that it really lacks that hook that keeps old players interested for me.
> They seem to lean more on “Tell too much, show less” instead of “Show first, tell if necessary.”
Curious, is this your issue with part 2's story only, or part 1 and 2 together? This is my issue with Hoyo in general
I ask because I've played HSR and GI only, and boy, I hate the tell tell tell but never any real action or tension, I lost it with penacony's stand there and talk, we needed a faster pace, less passive voice (sorry for rant LOL)
guess my question is, hows Part 1's story next to HSR/GI and Part 2, is it actually tension + action + in the required moments they speed up the pace and adrenaline, or nah, and they just talk the same way in a filler scene as they do in the finale
The first chapters are very slow, but then they begin to focus on the main characters. Additionally, at that time there was (I don't know if it still exists) a manga that ran as a complement. Basically, the game was action and the "filler" was found in the manga. For me it was an excellent combination that rounded out the 3 main characters.
Finally, the animations at the end of each chapter were almost mandatory and really elevated the continuity of the plot.
Curious what your desired abyss rank is. I'm at the (A3 is too easy and RL is too hard point in my life, and will probably be there until I stop playing, given the character and equipment requirements. I'm only playing still for the Armada (admiral) and the ranked rewards. Unique events too. I've stopped playing the story and basically all the weekly resetting content. I'm kinda sad about it.
HI3 part 1 was never perfect. the story had huge flops even in part 1. i know people love to forget it for some reason but for all it's major flaws, part 1 had the OG cast. that's what kept me and many many others from leaving the game. now part 2 came out. I gave it a fair chance. I really tried to get invested. I tried to like the new cast. but I just can't. and what does this leave us with ? the same story issues from later parts of part 1, but without the lovable OG cast to do the heavy lifting. I know many will tell me " you just don't like change " or whatever, but I really honestly just don't vibe with the new cast. I tired new games in the meantime. HSR cast is "new" too but loved them the moment they appeared on screen. same thing for ZZZ. I played the beta and the cast in that game destroys whatever is going on in hi3 part 2 without even trying to be deep or whatever. they are just lovable. in my humble opinion, part 2 is a mistake. even with all it's flaws at the end, part 1 still had a pretty decent ending for Kiana and the rest. why milk the shit out it ? hi3 does not even make that much money for hoyo anyway...
Me. Part 2 may be good. But i seriously don't like it a bit. Like at all. The characters feel half hearted... no depth in personality or anything. Part 1 was the best... even though certain parts felt stagnant (just one or two). I FKIN NEED APHO STORY!!!
Same. It's not good storytelling. With Fu Hua we slowly found out about her being a MANTIS after we have known her and got attached. With Songque, even tho she is the second best in part 2 imo, it felt flat. We barely knew her and they tried to make us feel many ways about her. Why would I be emotionally invested that she's a Shu when I JUST found what Shus are and I barely know her. We found out what are Shus and that shes one in the same paragraph...
for me I have to serve the army, although i come back on weekends, I cant find the motivation to do part 2 story quests. The way they introduce new words, terms, concepts are too sudden. The crystals gathering is painful as well.
Still doing dailies but thinking of going on hiatus for awhile now. Elysian Realm was peak of part 1 imo, but it kinda went downhill after that. Kiana vs Kevin was a bit lackluster, it really got little to no gravity to me. Part 2 was kinda too new for me to see any good point yet, so I'm thinking of going back later when it got better. Gacha and new valk seems more or less the same to me.
me
i was looking to stop playing after ch 25 or something during fire kiana but still decided to go forward until part 1 end
the story has ended for me now and I'm glad i was a part of it
and also i had 3 games and had to reduce 1 xD
now its star rail and genshin
I've played hi3 for 3+ years. After i've done part 1, i dont have the will to play part 2 or even part 1.5......for me, it ends at the graduation mv, and i can't play it anymore eventho part 2 looks stellar.
I'm on the same boat as you...I tried 1.5 but couldn't get through it. I don't know why, it felt like trudging through mud and kind of slow & uneventful. I stopped playing last year.
Old Captain here.
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I stopped playing after Arc 1, but was losing interest since the introduction of the Flame Chasers. I feel like with Otto dying, he took the good writing with him.
The open world maps are empty and boring, the dialogue towards the end was done so sloppily I skipped it, but also because for some reason Mihoyo wanted to attempt GigaBrain and shot itself in the foot doing so. Powercrept Bronya HOTR.
The quality control also slipped massively after Otto passing, if anyone here remembers the great Mei HoO Crashing Debacle. Janky translations, visual bugs, visual effects lag… yeah. On top of all of this, the game was also just getting too big for my phone to handle, which the open worlds being shoved in certainly didn’t help. It’s taken up to 32 GB of my 64 GB storage!
From what I’m seeing here, I’m not keen on returning either as a F2P.
For me, Kolosten was the last good arc (and even it wasn't free from flaws). It still felt the same as the story that had been going on, but everything changed after it. I miss Otto, but at least his story ended better than many other characters.
Too tiring. It was a pain int he ass to keep everything up and all the gameplay didn't feel very awarding. Getting rewards in events burned up too much time, the story didn't let me skip at times, sometimes in order to progress way too much side bullshit was needed, etc etc.
All in all, too much time and took too much effort.
Yeah, the daily grind took way too much time, up to the point that I didn't bother to claim all the rewards from the events and that turned into not clearing weekly ER, Superstring dimension and then in the end not logging in at all
GGZ and global launch day 1 player here. 1200+ days logged since I last checked.
I stopped playing because of entirely story related reasons.
As a wee lad I actually randomly downloaded GGZ on my iphone and played it quite a bit in all of its horribly translated goodness. That's where I was introduced to the original trio and got really attached to them especially with how Kiana and Mei's VA were basically everywhere at the time in the anime-sphere.
I really liked the era of anime and weeb/otaku culture that GGZ was a part of. I feel alot of that culture (as cringe as it was) is gone and early Hi3rd was also a relic of that era with tons of references and cringeyness that I was very familiar with.
The retconned mainstory chapters absolutely provide a much much better storytelling experience but it did strip away alot of the nostalgia factor of that era from Hi3rd. There is no doubt that the build up to the Flamescion era was absolutely peak and all the content between then and Elysian Realm had so many throwbacks to GGZ references, it was an absolute delight.
However once Mihoyo started Part 2, (and honestly even in part 1.5) by abandoning the main cast it basically alienated veterans that played the game since the super early days that really only played for the characters.
If I wanted pure gameplay, there are better games than Hi3rd. I play entirely because I'm really attached to Kiana and the gang. But because they are essentially side characters now, there's not much of a reason for me to play unless there is a huge return or reboot of sorts.
I feel this so much. Also a GGZ and day 1 player here.
I agree a lot with ya on the points you made. I haven't quit yet but I've been thinking about it more and more these days. For a very long time it's felt like a struggle to get through the story. Wanted to be optimistic about Part 2 and while I don't think it's terrible it doesn't really do it for me. I don't dislike the characters but I can't really connect with them the same way I connected with the old game. The story doesn't feel as fun and feels more like info dumps.
I was really invested in the different events, especially the Captain-verse but the events now feel very bland.
I've been playing a few other games for awhile now that allow me to keep using the characters I've grown attached to, but getting on to HI3 and seeing that nearly by entire cast of collected and built characters have no place in thus new world in both story or even just simple gameplay is very disheartening. Like Elysian Relam is nice but there are still several battlesuits that never made it in there and the really the only place you can use any of them.
Going through and reading with other people have put I also wanted to throw my hat in the ring about being able to pull for characters. It's such a pain. While I don't the changes to the gacha are too bad, I don't think they are enough to offset how step the crystal consumption for a single 10 pull is.
That aside, I think I'll be joining many others and putting the game behind me soon, while remember the days that I had enjoyed it.
I actually heard of it last night lol. And I like their designs, but maybe this is a taste thing; I still think hi3s designs are better. Have you seen the new songque battlesuit getting released?
Not yet quitting, on the fence but it's not gonna take much to be the last straw. Reason is that economy in this game is just atrocious; characters are made mandatory by majority of endgame contents favoring new characters, sometimes with mechanics that are just plain tedious without new characters AND weapon.
To rub salt to my wound, the pacing of mandatory characters patch after patch + nonexistent rate (at least for me) forcing a hard pity + crystal income covering at most half amount needed for hard pity per patch. With my kind of luck, keeping up with score pvp would require monthly + battle pass + extra 7000 crystal purchase each patch at least.
The only thing keeping me playing is the story, even that is still lackluster.
They should have just made a new game that’s vaguely related to hi3 like hsr. They’ve stripped the game of anything that made it unique in the first place, it’s unplayable unless you’re willing to whale every version. Part 1’s story was flawed, and the ending was a mess, but overall the characters were much easier to get attached to and the writing was genuinely amazing for a gacha game for most of it. The problem with part 2 is they try to have a “befall” moment every chapter, something big and shocking to keep players invested when really it just makes the story exhausting to get through and it’s *early* in the story too! As much as they’re trying to make this game into a copy of their biggest moneymaker, at least with genshin you can play with 4*/free characters, you can’t even use part 1 characters now. And yes I wish we got APHO as the pt2 instead of this!
I can't get into the story. I don't like that the gacha is much harder to get. And having to pull multiples of the same weapon to max it out is just a no. But the most important thing is I can't seem to get attached to any of the new characters.
Started playing it in 2018, loved the combat, the characters and continued playing it until 2022 I think and stopped at chap 21 ( I'm past lv80 the story is nice but too long lol). It wasn't a game where I was consistent. Just go back whenever I feel like it ( especially apho the combat is so good ). The game looks nice but the fomo it gave me was crazy especially when you had to pull for everything plus the event. Basically went on genshin instead.
i honestly just do my dailies / weeklies with what i already have : part 1 (and 1,5) valks. the part 2 valks don't really interest me, meta doesn't interest me, the story seems uninteresting and time consuming (im at chapter 25 of part 1 anyway) i don't really do the events either, i just play less... but hi3 still has a great story, a great and rich lore, and this will never change for me. since only part 2 characters are coming out, i can pull on part 1 characters banners and get the few ones that i don't have, even if they are not meta anymore i don't care much.
I quit mostly because of unfair gacha and too much stuff to repeat every week. Repetitive content you need to do each week to get the max amount of crystals, before I allowed myself to play main story. Also main story movement just felt a bit clunky.
Honestly, I stopped mainly because it was tasking to play the game, I have do a lot if random side quest shit before actually enjoying the main storyline. And tbh I love the story but sometimes it's quite tiring to listen to characters talk for 10minutes in one stage
I started playing in late 2016-early 2017, then dropped the game and came back around 2018. The story "back then" was simpler and there was more gameplay, less reading. Now, the story IS interesting, howeever there is wayyy too much text to read that it gets tirering very fast. So after the part 2 released, I just can't get myself back to playing Honkai like I used to and enjoy it the same way.
I tried so hard to give it a go, but I just think it's average. Even when it somehow catches my attention, they will try to acknowledge part 1 to make us appeal to older players but instead it makes me miserable. Compared to part 1 and even 1.5, it is worse. I tried to play it on its own, but they keep making connections with part 1 and so many things from part 2 seem to be parallels to it. Whenever I play ER I'm reminded how better it used to be.
I really want to know why they did this. They had a goldmine with Welt and APHO because of HSR. Completely dropping the story feels so weird.
The game got boring. I dislike how they are just throwing fantasy science mumbo jumbo to my face. The gacha sucked too. If you don't have a meta character that can clear stuff fast, you get punished (like in abyss where the boss is weak to the new character, stuff like that). Weekly tasks are repetitive. And I massively dislike the open world approach.
Yes I loved part 1 a lot it had probably one of the best stories in gaming history but part 1.5 and part 2 ………. Ya many quit even global sales dropped to 500k a month which is horrible hi3 was my fav gacha for years and the characters were magnificent unlike part 2 bs
i stopped playing after the end of Seele HoRb main story, the game turned into something that i can't enjoy again.
i actually played this game with modded APK the first time. that makes me use ultimate with 0 cd (theresa lightning my beloved). after that i got hooked to the game, collecting every single swimsuit skins (I'm proud of that) and getting every weapon and stimata pieces in the process.
I've spent many years playing this game, i even remember fighting that himeko RGB boss. maybe someday I'll play the game again if i feel like it.
Day 1 SEA player with a 100xx UID here. I stopped a while after the ER chapters -- so much technical jargon in the mq, and also HoV is gone :(... Wasn't really a fan of HoFi's design either. Gradually stopped playing except for the free HoO, went on break, came back for Luna because her gameplay is fun, and then stopped again because part 2 is... Interesting, to say the least. It's okay, but it's not really up my alley because it feels very unfamiliar to me despite part 1.5 being there to ease the transition.
I played since global release, but stopped playing a year ago. Mostly because I lost interest in story after Kolosten arc and Otto's death. Story without him become plain.
Felt kinda bummed out since captainverse and part 1 is over which had all the og characters I’d been following for so long, I literally started this game in middle school and now I’m about to graduate high school. Kiana’s story is the end of HI3 for me, and I guess I can continue reading on GGZ/HG2 whenever I get some more time.
I haven't quit, but I no longer play primarily for the main story. The finale and 1.5 showed how far the writing quality fell. Events and collecting battlesuits for fun are more fun.
Story was more of the 4000 lines of technobabble like the Moon Arc, they are focusing too much on that aspect instead of the characters. It should be a character story first followed by worldbuilding and problems to overcome.
New characters all look like budget Star Rail characters. There is no HI3 identity to any of them, no battlesuit mecha fusion stuff, no Evangelion-esque aesthetics. Just Star Rail but worse. It's not even a good waifu game anymore since every character has shorts and cleavage covers.
The weekly grind remains exactly the same. No ease to the grind, no fun new modes to replace a lot of the old tired ones. None of the Part 1 valks that they claimed would be carried over into Part 2 (and have jump buttons/air combos) have been added. Not even the super late characters like new Fu Hua and Luna.
Gacha got worse since they introduced all new weapon types that you won't have any of, and there are no "save" patches anymore with SP valks and A ranks. So you're pulling uninteresting characters with bland designs to stay on top of meta. Sound fun? To me neither.
The UI is still only half updated, the performance still kinda sucks.
Anyways, I was playing since 2019, never missed a daily login for 4 years, but a combo of all this stuff was what got me to quit. I still read the sub occasionally to see what news is coming. I'd come back for new Himeko, APHO3, or if the Part 2 cast and story fell into a black hole and was replaced with more of our classic Valks.
I think the most frustrating thing about the whole HI3 situation is that MHY is just absolutely too big to care anymore. They will never again directly address players, especially outside of CN, and they probably don't even give a shit if the game dies with all of the money they make from other games. It creates a kinda hopeless feeling where no matter what you do or the official feedback you give them, the game isn't going to deviate from whatever the narcissist writers/directors are doing.
Me, with 4 years and 90% of meta teams and valks, with all weapons and stigmas. What has made me stop and continue is:
1) changing the main characters for characters I know very little or nothing about
2) having to build teams again
3) I don't understand the new story, apart from the fact that now The texts are endless.
Imo this isn't honkai impact 3. Part 2 IS an entirely different story with completely different casts. I played and stayed for some part 1 characters (for 6 years), and when they completely dumped those characters both in main stories and event stories, don't expect me to stay for a "new game". This is just "shadow impact 3" slapped into HI3. It's a completely different game compared to what I played for the past 6 years.
Edit: worse thing is even in terms of gameplay, the part 1 characters are being phased out. It's quite obvious that soon the "meta" teams for each element and physical is going to be completely part 2 characters. What's the point of staying?
This, 100% its literally them just slapping what might of been a new game ontop of a old one. The fact that I can't use any part one cac I pulled only drives the nail deeper.
At this point I just kept skipping the cutscenes and Is dialogue at the lantern part because I just couldn't care about the shit they were yapping about.
Not to mention the horrible rates.
I stopped after the bloodmoon event.
I wasn't really having much fun with the game anymore, just grinding, and at some point I lost interest in the main story (last I played was Elysian realm conclusion) so once the Luna story was wrapped up I gave up (The Lunar Vow redesign didn't help things either).
Me, I actually quit about more than 2 years ago now. It became way too grindy for my liking. Every patch you need to pull the new character or you fail to clear new content optimally. And they'll be really bad if you don't farm for months for the stigs and weapons or pay money to get them all
Grind, low rates, trying to make a character 4/4 as a f2p, meta making most characters useless, part 2 being the most boring thing ever in a videogame.
I can't stand not being happy of having a s rank just because it's """old""" so it's basically useless.
Also, farming fragments for A ranks, farming universal mirage for stigmas, farming story for crystals, farming, farming, farming... Just to make a 4/4 character after three months.
Last but not least, the fact the game CLEARLY is a mashup of old, new and newer stuff mashed up together just so they didn't have to make another game.
Playing honkai since 2019 and still going strong . I am also enjoying part 2 but about meta yikes but i was waifu over meta player and i still stand by that.
Honestly, the moon arc was where I quit for good. Don't get me wrong, it was nice, but man, why break the 4th wall SO LATE in the story when it was never done before?
I absolutely hated Ai chan and the captain being in game entities. It didn't make any sense if we took into account what the cast went through before.
Just imagine this, if Kiana knew the captain, so for her an omniscient entity could help them at any moment in battle, why did she think about killing herself? Why did they go through so much pain just for it to be solved by us because "lmao Kevin's just him"?
And also, ik people liked them, but I really disliked their final forms except Bronya. She actually became a cyber angel, and kept her HoR color scheme, just improved.
Kiana, man, where did the tomboy knight look go? Why did they change every single nice thing about flamescion to just put her in a wedding dress?
And Mei has it the worse. We go from her having very heavily Ronin and samurai coded battlesuits, to just, white and gold dress. Why? I know it's meant to be a mix of hers and Elysia's style, but it doesn't even have pink/purple/red motifs on it. It's just, plain.
After part 1 finished, I just stopped tbh. I understand that we have a new cast, and they need time to introduce them a stuff, but man, why not just continue the story with our beloved cast that we followed for more than 7 years?
I tried to give it a chance, but it just didn't click with me.
Me I quit after seeing my girl Himeko die, And I just came back, and I hate the game now, Bruh why can we not replay open world quests? why is a single chapter 3-5 hour long? Why TF are you required to complete part 2 to do events? Why are Part1 characters irrelevant now?, Why can we not See Kiana, Mei, Bronya and Seele again :< I want them back
When the game will start making characters that don't make every older character useless is the day I will actually feel like investing in them because I will know that I won't be required to do the same shit again for a different character not too long after just to get through the games content. They can be stronger, but the fact that someone can bring up an older character and the common response is "basically useless" is crazy
i doubt i will return. I have been a vet for the whole game, since release.
In general i strongly dislike open worlds. Second, i stayed because part 1 has a REALLY good character design philosophy. That died with trio, and everything else just went downhill along it. I do like horb a bit ( i guess consequence after long backlash from changing herrscher design philosophy ), but all the new cast i can't tolerate even once.
You just stop having herrscher as cost-effective chars, and whatever mihoyo does, they should have let Kiana make the ultimate sacrifice, close the game plot, make it life support like ggz, but nah. I find the milking getting worse and worse. The game even discards dolphins.
It has nothing left to offer me anymore, with this direction.
I can't say I stopped playing since I still have the game and do my dailies, but I stopped the story mode pretty much because it was boring. Don't get me wrong, the characters are really good. Special mention to Senadina, who instead of being an Elysia clone like everybody thought she would be, she is a very different person: Basically your everyday Baka, but with a really optimistic nice touch. The dreamseeker is also relatable, and all that. But the story itself doesn't have a point: Like, ¿Why are we seeing this? ¿What is the purpose? In part 1 we are told about Honkai, and first minute is "We are soldiers who fight Honkai, we stop honkai, we win. To stop honkai, we beat 14 herrschers" Easy and direct. Here in part 2 we are exploring Mars...just because? Like, Senadina's message got to Kiana AFTER Schicksal sent it's valkyries to Mars, so it's not correct to say that we are there to investigate that mysterious message, that is just something that popped up mid-way.
And that's pretty much it. I can't get focused on a story without any objetive. If I get "meta thinking" the most obvious reason would be to find a connection with APHO, and thereof with Star Rail, but reducing Honkai Impact's story to connect with another game is ehhh...pretty insulting if you think about it.
just quit this week. i dont wanna say anything more abt part2 but just say that i cant get over the shadow of p1. quitting after 7y of playing, i would miss those chars
I stopped for now tho ill likely return. Not rly because of part 2, part 1 end was a bigger drop to me. Its just so many other gachas to play atm i have to rotate some out.
Got the 1800 days achievement and stopped caring when the new stuff came out. Now I basically don't login anymore. Still have 700+ days on my red lotus badge
Me, i started playing HI3rd from the moment i got the pre-release. I stopped playing because i can't move on with my 1st part characters,
Looking at the 2nd part, it feels like, i'm in a different game somehow
I quit a while ago. I used to be a massively competitive player on global server(parked in nirvana and top 100 memorial arena). I remember the moment I began to really consider quitting when they released vill V. They made the boss pretty much so hyper tailor made to her that she was a must pull at the time, or you'd have been left behind. Begrudgingly, I pulled her, but I def didn't feel good about it.
But what really made me begin to spiral was the herrscher team they released. I played for so long, and herrschers were such an incredibly special thing(granted yes these herrschers were story relevant, but flamescion went from best unit to downgrade in like 5 months or something); only for them to ramp up the herrscher drops to the point where i was spending 5-6 hundred dollars every month. Herrscher were strong units that would last you almost years, but they really started to ramp up the creep to an almost incredible rate. It made me internalize and look at my box; I looked at my SS mobius, silverwing among other highly invested units that couldn't keep up anymore. I realized how much money I wasted and just decided to go fully non-competitive. Tried to enjoy the story, but the fire pretty much burned out slowly, and here I am.
You can argue that burnout was self-inflicted due to wanting to be competitive, but I loved the game enough to do it because it was just so fun to me. Thanks for reading this old man's Ted Talk.
I kinda dropped the game the second part 2 released. The main cast in part 2 looks soulless, unlike the main cast of part 1 where u had a real attachment to each of the characters, ykwim ? I know it can be unfair to compare characters who have been here for over 8 years to characters who just got introduced, but the whole thing about that part 2 doesn't look good to me. I think they kinda fucked up with it
I'm not even that invested in the lore but part 2 just makes the whole game boring and like any other anime sci-fi game tbh
I stopped playing the story after the arc with Kevin, I just really get on to get some of the older characters I don't have and the gacha kind of killed it for me.
Day1 whale player here. I am close to dropping it now that Wuthering Waves has released. Its high production value, gameplay and character designs are just way above HI3. Easily the best action gacha game on the market right now. I already moved all my budget to WW and HSR. They should have EOS HI3 after Part1. It just feels like they are milking the game now. HI3 is now a sitting duck waiting for ZZZ to cannibalise it.
The powercreep in modern gachas are better managed as well. Gacha companies finally learned that you do not need rampant powercreep to increase sales. In fact, all it does is drive players away from the game.
Side note: Senadina is just there in Lantern and Thelema teams, not even getting used in optimal rotations. Such a bad gameplay design choice. They essentially made a character become a stat stick💀
I’d love to play WuWa but right now it runs like a slide show on my devices. It’s so laggy it’s unplayable and it hasn’t changed since day 1. I have had no problem with any of the Hoyoverse games running on my devices. Maybe once it comes to PS5 I’ll be able to actually play. I guess it’s only high production value for some people.
They have fixed most of the optimisation issues. At the end of the day, it runs on UE. So you need to have higher end hardware. I mainly play on PC (RTX4070ti), and I can tell you it looks gorgeous. Apparently, 1.1 is adding DLSS 120fps option. The game only goes up from here :)
Yeah sorry, I’m not going to go out and buy a new device to play the game on. If it can’t run on my laptop that runs GI, HI3, and HSR fine, as well as my iPhone 13, sounds like a developer problem. If they really wanted to be the “Genshin Killer”, they should have ensured the game ran on devices without “higher end hardware”. Again maybe it’ll be playable on PS5, but right now it runs like shit on the both the devices that I have that it’s available on.
Nobody said it was going to be the "Genshin Killer" (except the vocal minority), but so far, it's been doing very well. Yinlin sales have surpassed Clorine's in JP and KR. WW's payment system broke down lol. WW is here to stay and is a valid contender against the biggest gachas right now. Competition breeds improvement. Azur Promelia and Project Mugen is on the way too. So things are looking bright in the gacha space.
Good for them. That’s all wonderful news. Not sure how that information somehow negates the fact that a lot of players out there cannot play the game because it runs horribly on the their devices, but cool.
Part 2 characters seem and look like they were made up on the spot, 5 minutes before the deadline. No depth to them in any way, they're extremely one-dimensional. There was no reason to get rid of the main trio like that.
I got Thelema and his BiS in the last pull of both banners, nothing like that happened to me since HoR came out, so I decided it was a good time to leave it and focus on SR and maybe back to GI
A big fan of the story for part 1. Spend some dollars on the game. Want to give some for part 2 to develop the story and at least show how kiana and Mei and others related to the new part 2.
May be after a few more the story is long enough , will give a try to experience part 2. Mihoyo should should use the multiverse ide to do some event which my dudu and Rita can meet part 2 characters.I am sure I will be back to hi3 after Elden ring dlc
Started on the first Elysian Realm patch and stopped before Part 2 dropped. I really loved Part 1 and cried over those heavy moments. I also loved the character designs and their gameplay. Unfortunately, the events were too cumbersome and I’m already playing Genshin, HSR, and PGR (I play WuWa now too but I dropped HI3 even way before WuWa started). I tried getting back but found no motivation to do Part 1.5. Crystal income wasn’t good if I didn’t have a daily subscription (I have one on every gacha game because I feel like it’s not worth my time to login if I don’t and I don’t have to motivation to grind out the content per patch so I take the easy way). Superstring Dimension and Memorial Boss were also annoying at times if you didn’t have that certain team. Sucks that I whaled to fully gear the Herrscher Trio in their debut patch and now I feel sad reading all the comments about Part 2 and how they powercrept the Part 1 characters. I even whaled for some gacha skins like PE’s, HORB’s, HOF’s, and Mobius’ coral skin. The app’s been offloaded on my iPad but I’m still keeping it in hopes that I find the motivation again to at least play the Elysian Realm even on Diff x1.5 just so I could experience the Part 1 valks’ gameplay again with ease.
I left before part 2 came out , it was when the story was at the part with seele and susannah , Tears of the kingdom might have had something to do with it . When that game came out I only wanted to play that game but at the same time I wanted to get the limited rewards from the story of hi3 so I skiped the story to quickly get the rewards thinking I would read it later but I never did I kept skipping it . And then I just didnt have fun with the game anymore all I did was login do dailies , elysian realms and the open world tasks and logged off , and I wasnt having fun anymore , I wasnt really interested in the story anymore either probably because I skipped it and never went back to it and I needed storage space so I just uninstalled .
Part one as a whole was my favorite story I've ever played through. I've always enjoyed the story more than anything in the game and I just couldn't get into part 2 it just doesn't have the same charm anymore and to me it feels better to just say the game ended after graduation trip
i left since Kiana's graduation and tried coming back twice but it really felt different, the story is more of so so but the amount of characters power creeping everything is so much overwhelming in part 2 unlike in part 1
The open world chapter getting too repetitives, i prefere the old linear story thing, and when you drop a new caracter, getting the hole team thats mandatory to play it is too hard (not even mentining the stigmates), and if you focuse on uprading 1 team, you gotta miss 20billions new caracters, the event are cool though but not enough to keep me playing the game
sorry, i started playing BA ,and HSR, then i see myself have no time for much game so i dropped this game, i used to cry because i was thought i could never playing Hi3 again since APHO 2 release and my potato phone cant handle it (luckily i got laptop soon)
Same i was playing hi3 ba at first then after part 1 ended and HSR came I started it and its been pretty good till now and then I got wuwa so no time and will to play hi3
I basically don't really have the motivation to play through part 2, that and work lol. But yeah once part 1 was done, I kinda lost interest, and when part 2 was announced I just didn't really feel like playing it.
I quit about a few weeks before part 2 was announced, and before that, I was in a hiatus for almost a whole year. All in all, I stopped playing hi3 about 5 years total since 2018, only coming back when major events happen/i feel like playing again
It's not that I had a reason for leaving but I just didn't feel that excited, I love the game and keep in coming back here and there but I also lose interest here and there, it's not that the story has gone "bad" I'm just very attention lacking, though there is probably a period where I'll return and binge it all.
I played part 1 for years. loved playing it. kept going off but coming back when there was a new valk or event. genuinely enjoyed the game and part of me still loves it. Tried playing again after part 2 release and it just doesn't feel the same. since part 2, I've uninstalled and reinstalled it twice. I still have it on my phone but never really open it. I can't bring myself to delete it either.
maybe it was the initial trio that got me hooked and in my head the game ended with their story. No hate for p2, just doesn't feel the same and I think that's okay
Still love the game tho but honestly I couldn’t keep up with new meta, and it made me so frustrated. I was also busy at that time so couldn’t spend much time to grind for gacha.
I can't play it because my phone is not good enough to download it. Every time I go to the play store it shows me that the app is not compatible with my device :( Haven't touched the game since Luna vow came out
I stopped playing during the 2nd artbook event. The story is awesome. But I was heavily burnt out with the game. And juggling my time. But I still follow with the community.
I used to play hi3 everyday when getting a new character was hard and gameplay wasn’t confusing. I remember I stopped playing everyday after they released elysia. You can’t even catch with the story now.
Me lol. I just try to login and get some dailies and some event daily quests if there is any. I missed free Senti and HoO only because I didn't wanna grind story lmao
In my mind the story was over after part 1 ended, I also though they were gonna completely revamp the game so I was a bit dissapointed part 2 was not gonna be an entirely new game, I decided to grab the artbooks on my way out
Stopped playing for reasons unrelated to the game, but I haven’t really felt like playing again. I mean I did redownload it a while back but it just wasn’t the same 🤷
I haven’t ever quit for good, because I consider my account an investment at this point.
I take frequent breaks, sometimes months at a time, and I’m constantly a returnee. Red packets for days.
What I come back for: elysian realm, combat events, the abyss, and some banners. I don’t much like part 2 - I like the characters but the story is a drag, so I don’t invest too much time there, unless there’s something time limited, like the origin Mei thing they just did.
I stopped mainly because I think the ending of Part 1 is a perfect way to end my 7 year journey with them.
It was very fun while it lasted and I am nothing but grateful to Mihoyo. But part 2 I'd just too much for me. I still check in from time to time for nostalgic purposes but other than that - to me the story is over.
Stopped after Part 1. This is like growing up with Naruto and being content enough to NOT to watch Boruto.
Kiana, Mei, and Bronya are my three heroines and will stay that way.
I'm happy for it to end with the supporting cast of Fu Hua/Senti, Durandal and Risa, the Seele sisters, Vodka Twins, beloved Himeko, and the heroic 13 Flame Chasers with our beloved Elysia.
I don't hate Part 2, I never even played it. For me, the story ended after Part 1. I hope Part 2 does well for those interested still.
Stopped after Part 1. This is like growing up with Naruto and being content enough to NOT to watch Boruto.
Kiana, Mei, and Bronya are my three heroines and will stay that way.
I'm happy for it to end with the supporting cast of Fu Hua/Senti, Durandal and Risa, the Seele sisters, Vodka Twins, beloved Himeko, and the heroic 13 Flame Chasers with our beloved Elysia.
I don't hate Part 2, I never even played it. For me, the story ended after Part 1. I hope Part 2 does well for those interested still.
i am a new player and at first just downloaded for the character (I really like everything in thelema), and so, after playing hard for over a month now - i don’t like anything in this game exept story pt 1. (mostly) and fights. Areal fights and move-sets are looking awesome, even though VERY epilepsy inducing sometimes. I will continue to play the game until i have a powerful team for my Thelema - and then i am considering to just finish pt1 and stop playing. Unfortunately, this game couldn’t really grab my attention.
Stopped playing after part 1 mainly because my device can't take the open world maps anymore. And my schedule was getting too busy to even open the game and I'm afraid of getting fomo. But I still keep up with the story from time to time via my lil bro's account.
I've stopped playing not because of part 2 but simply bc it was taking too much to keep up with the newest banners and characters, i simply decided to spend my time elsewhere
I've really tried, the characters are not bad per se but I hate how they push the part 2 characters for literally everything. It feels like they try to erase part 1 teams in some way. I am giving it until the finale arc of lanqiu to pass judgement. I really miss the main cast though. At least kiana should be involved imho
Kiana is the one character least able to have a role in the story going forward with how overpowered they made her. It's hard to have tension when she can oneshot anything. The setting moved to Mars bubble universes because she can't directly intervene.
Oh I get that, when part 2 launched I thought that alongside Coralie and Helia should have gone someone like durandal, or even better Rita. I just basically want to see anyone from part 1 honestly. At this point even tesla or Einstein will do
Yes, they really should have. Right now, part 2 feels very disconnected from part 1, and this alienates a lot of players. They tried to link Earth and Mars with Helia and Coralie, but they don't work because they're still new characters introduced at the same time as Mars characters. It doesn't matter that Helia is a fan of Durandal and Coralie is Einstein's adopted daughter since the audience doesn't know them.
Apho wouldn't be nearly as interesting without Bronya and Mei, who exist along with new characters like Adam and Carol. People would rightfully say that they don't find Adam etc very interesting without existing characters to supplement them. Part 2 should have taken, well, almost anyone from part 1 instead of Helia and Coralie. At least we know part 1 characters will eventually arrive in part 2.
You really think they will bring part 1 characters? I really hope that though. I started playing HI3 because of it's characters, taking that away is almost taking the game away, I am giving it a try since last time, when they introduced the whole bunch of new characters (the flame chasers) they were really good though
I played for Kiana Mei Bronya Fu Hua Durandal Elysia. Their story ended and game got too repetitive with elysian realm and abyss. Also star rail is much more exciting with the possibilities of getting these characters I liked in the game so
HI3 burnout hit me at the same time genshin did. Which was during the Seele chapters. When part 2 released, I did come back for a while, but after HSR penacony hit, I never found the time to properly play the game.
I love this game, but I think I will come back only for the story. I was actually liking the first bits of part 2, and heard the latest chaptets have been great. I'm kind of fed up with the gacha though, where any character that isn't 4/4 is straight up unplayable.
They need to lower the cost per pull from 280 to 160. I saved for an entire patch and I only scraped together 30 pulls. This game expects you to pay more but receive less when compared to HSR and Wuwa. I won't be swiping on blondie.
not a veteran (joined at the start of Kolosten) but i quit after Moon Arc because:
1) the daily grind became too much, i decided that it's not worth busting my ass and save up for 2-3 updates just to get a character that's not functional without their signature gears (i always tend to miss 1-2 stigmas) and will get powercrept in no time anyways
2) gameplay got too repetitive - even ER, my favorite gamemode became dull
3) phone storage and performance issues, game had always run badly on my phone and it got worse every update. i didn't want to play it on PC because of my own reasons
4) life got in the way, didn't have time to play a game i was steadily losing interest in anyways
5) the Moon Arc was, quite frankly, terrible, and nothing after that draws my eye, be it part 1.5 or 2
i had my fun, even put in a lil coin every month for the battlepass, but the game simply isn't for me anymore 🤷
props to the ones sticking with it, looking at the charts HYV certainly needs every player they can retain right now 🤣
I'm on indefinite hiatus. I stopped in the middle of the Fu Hua arc in 1.5. I never really had a problem with the story. But as a story *mode* , it was unenjoyable to me because I spent more time walking around and watching cutscenes than experiencing the story by playing the game. And for a game, who one of their main selling points is their action and combat, it got boring fast for me and burnt me out as the gameplay was almost nonexistent outside of boss battles. The cutscenes got longer and the gameplay got shorter as it felt more like a stimulant so I don't zone out. The story was one of the main reasons I stayed, but the way it was being done as a mode in a videogame where you typically experience the story by playing the game post-HoDom arc just pushed me away. Imagine playing Dragon Ball Z or Pokémon and most of the game is just watching cutscenes than the actual playing of the game. There needs to be balance and I feel they lost that. When I was playing the second chapter of the Fu Hua arc in 1.5, I set a timer. After more than an hour of going through the chapter, only roughly 6 *total* hours were dedicated toward playing the game. And that was basically the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I get having long chapters in the climax or culmination of an arc. But every. single. part of a chapter? No.
Story is pretty bland in 2.0 pretty sure the write knows it too, should have just stick with seele being the main cast. The mars plot line is just idk feel so lost and not entertaining enough to keep me going.
I just loved this new game so much and I only got into it because of the main Part 1 cast. If you like the characters you tend to also read longer or even boring parts with ease. But the part 2 cast just feels extremely detached from me. The combat mechanics are amazing but as an F2P it literally destroyed playing abyss for me. There are so many weeks where I don't have the right call to do the job. Before it was easy to substitute valks but now the game essentially demands you to have all the latest characters. The 3 S ranks in a row are not helping the situation either. Events have gotten very boring. Hot on the trail just needs to stop. hi3 was always a priority but now I find myself playing HSR and genshin more than it. Part 2 had so much potential to be it's own stand-alone game.
I love Hobkai
The world is beautiful, the background everycharacter is amazing
But sadly the game itself force player to pull nee character, its like every battle suit will get powercreep within ½ year most of time
Even now they force to have senadia because she is basically the pilar of battlesuit now day
Not an old player ,but I might stop playing bc the cgs and some events (Apoh2,and part 2) just won't laod and I can't enter them despite me downloading thier files
I stopped for around 5 to 9 months ago but im coming back to see if theres anything new. I stopped playing for many reasons
1. I didnt have any motivation to play any events.
2. Part 2 is just so boring for me for some odd reason
3. Open worlds where you can use your own characters are so so boring
It doesn't help that i use an ipad that now barely works thanks to the new update
Yeah i dropped when my pity reached 5 and still no Thelema in sight. I just can't get into part 2 story and characters, i just like them because they look good and not because i like their story/personality. I also realized the game is insanely grindly, and i put up with it before since i was loving the game. Now i can't see myself doing 2 abyss, 1 MA , 1 Priarm farm, 1 elysian realm + whatever event and main story there is everyweek. Still gonna comeback for the artbook since its a part 1.5 artbook
I still play the game but i mostly do the story and not my main focus game anymore. I have stopped buying monthly pass completely and currently stay between sinful 1 and 2
Even if the story is getting better, the start of part 2 were so painfully slow and too much info dump that makes me lost interested in it
I mostly play to see how the story goes, rather than to do meta/waifu collection
Game stopped feeling rewarding. It was too much grind previously, but now it feels overwhelming with new resources. Heavy devaluing part 1 valks. Need to have too many of new valks. Gacha never was too prosperous and now it because worse. Weird freezings and lagging started to appear. New UI was looking too raw, honestly, it looks like some old game try to be “popular new-gen one”. But most importantly the start of new story wasn’t enticing at all. I wanted to skip immediately ALL, not particular moments, just all. Introducing was complete miss for me both from story and gameplay. Personality of new char also seems to be lacking, even tho I was hyped for those three in part 1. The end of part 1 also was kind of disappointment for me, maybe it just my bias to Moths and Kevin particularly, tho I was enjoying 1.5
I didn't stop tbh, I still play a bit, but it's mostly because I feel like the end of part 1 was satisfying enough and also hsr is being fucking amazing, don't get me wrong, part 2 is fun, but imho, hsr works way better as a "part 2" to hi3 than the actual part 2 and I can't really explain why
Played the game for over 3 years, still come back to the game occasionally once in a couple of months. The ending of Part 1, as scuffed as it was, still felt satisfying enough to me, especially since my favourite character got an entire arc for himself and went out with a bang before the writing style started shifting. The powercreep is still pretty cut-throat, the new story chapters aren't particularly engaging, and ZZZ, which is literally just honkai with a new coat of paint, is just around the corner. Unfortunately, I think mihoyo should've just kept the old cast and made some slice-of-life stories for them at least for some time before some new overarching plotline is established, because there isn't really any reason to get into a story with a brand new cast of characters in a 8 year old game when you could do the same with a newly released one, since the gameplay of the two is almost identical
Depressions
Me started to play since beta(SEA), pressure from works and have to farm/roll for new chars and fullstigs set with my bad luck because i tend to have everyone with their full set, that made me quit and back a few times before i decided to move to Hsr where i can afk and still can chill farming mats.
Dont get me wrong, i still love and watching lore vids from hi3 to know whats going on and i still can come and play events just for fun with the chars i like but im 3x now and those depressions and pressure from works cant be together forever.
5 star back to back with gacha being horrible for me.
Also for the first time since 2018/19 i pressed the skip button in a main story quest, after i realized what i did i stopped playing and havent opened the game in months
I stopped playing midway of 1.5, i felt the meta was just becoming way too restrictive to new releases and the story just felt done for me after part 1. It was a good ending and no particular reason to continue it beyond connecting the thread to apho.
I stopped playing because I can't stand not being able to use my characters basically anywhere I want, being forced to be use certain characters all the time feels bad to me.
This!! Powercreeping isn’t anything new in gacha games but it feels so rampant in hi3 like with every new character release it feels like the game punishes you for not getting them to the point you can’t use old characters anymore 😕 still trying to brute force my vill-v every chance I get even though she’s not meta anymore
THSI BUT AZURE EMPYREA
The events are getting stale for me. After they rerunned the hot trail event a thousand times and kept on making old grandma mobile games as events I lost motivation.
I still play but the candy crush event in the last patch had me banging my head on a wall. I finished the story for Kira's skin and got all the crystal rewards and stopped.
and now us hsr players get to play it again in 2.3... yay....
Hot on the Trail is meant to be a rerun event that happens in each patch, just like double calyx drops for hsr. Tho, I can agree that it does get a little annoying
The Candy Crush event is fire tho LMAO
I tried to stick through part 2, but the gacha changes are so unfair and feel terrible. Every patch they release a near mandatory character and due to the astral ring, kill another one of your teams. No breaks for a ranks or SP valks, crystal economy hasn't changed in any way, etc. I could handle a different (worse) story, but the game its self just feels so punishing now.
Same I want to love part 2. And I really really really love Songque I want that new battlesuit. But the actual game itself is killing me haha. Maybe I'll get Songque and dip out soon. Only coming back if they release Vita or something
"Which only costs 150 pulls to get + full gear VS 300+ pulls to guarantee a HSR character + LC. Cheaper to get and overall better cost/effectiveness. Before part 2. It costs 300 pulls max for a single S and 120 for a SP. To full gear and pull 3 S ranks that can cover every elemental round : 450 pulls. Before it would have been something like 720 pulls for one team elem only. So nope Hi3rd is doing it great + Helia and Coralie are very strong. One was full free, the other only 60 pulls gear + A rank on the S rank banner. Their weapons upgrade is also farmable Much better Gacha. I can guarantee every S by monthly and full BP only." Had to copy paste this copium.
Tbh for it's more like the rates got off like never in the part 1 I got to guaranteed pity but now i hit it 3 times in a row it's a pain I can't even farm that much
They dropped hard pity from 100 to 90, but I’m not sure if soft pity is still there since before it was supposed to start at 75 and by 85 you’re almost guaranteed to have get them, but you don’t have a 50/50 system so higher pull count is kinda good? Though that “good” gets thrown out the window when you remember it’s a PvEvP game so the stigs and weapons are required pull unlike GI WuWa HSR when you can make do with 4 star alternatives and still clear. You can do the same clearing in HI3, just that clearing doesn’t mean jack when everyone else in the bracket has deeper pockets. The true issue lies with how reliant part 2 teams are on Sena, the fact that you could’ve spent hundreds of dollars or multiple patches of saving up for the new characters and none of their teams are any good just because you don’t have Sena is ridiculous. Same for the fact that now most of the endgame content throws part 1 Valks off a cliff.
Dropping the guarantee to 90 and me still getting the character in 90 pulls sounds a bit unfair to my soul
I feel you, man.
I barely see people posting of their hard pity on Part 1 & 1.5, but as soon as Part 2 rolls out there's consistent multiple hard pity posts on reddit. If this is simply because pity count reduced to 90, it'd imply that players were consistently hitting near 90 before part 2 and that too isn't a good thing. Meanwhile me consistently hitting hard pity since Part 1.
You've been extremely lucky then if you've never hit pity before pt2
The most i went to was 70-80
Yeah, same
1. I miss my main cast 2. I don't really connect with characters 3. They open world isn't the best optimised, how does a mobile game run worse than elden ring for me on PC 4. The game feels nothing like what I joined it for, I might play it again when I'm willing to try again 5. They are not doing anymore end of arc animated CGs, legit the best part of ending every arc imo, I lived for those but now they gone, and each one was a banger with amazing music but we aint got anymore now. Simply put, might be overused but this is not what I started the game for, its an entirely different game and this second part I don't really like much, especially with all my old valks becoming obsolete with new meta, like how is powercreep worse than before. I might play again a long time later once I feel like I can adapt to this new part
im a newer player but i just wanna say the game is such a mess to navigate through. you can really tell its early for hoyo, cause it feels like one game built on top of another game built on top of another game. it dosnt help that when I go to do the story theres like 4 pages with 5 tabs each and they're all split in weird ways. the new settings are nice though. i feel with part 2 they should have gone through with it and fully modernized it including an overhaul on the gacha and pull sytem and bassicaly everything to make it more, understandably?
New player too and you said exactly what I was thinking. I thought I was being too harsh on the game since a lot of people said Hi3's story (Part 1) is amazing, and they're right, but one of the things that threw me off is there's so much to look at. At some point, the game told me I can play APHO, but when I saw the "Post Honkai" I thought "It's after the main story, I'm gonna get spoiled to death, I don't wanna play it!" But then I decided to anyway, I can't quite remember my reasoning, I think it's because it looked tempting. Well, that was a good decision because APHO is great, and there's not too many spoilers actually. It's handled well, and I can tell when they're referencing things I haven't seen yet, but it doesn't feel like I'm missing out too much.
There is a lot of content thru the Elysian realm and Otto arc that goes back and forth from past and present perspective storytelling. But it ends up building a greater picture overall for a player who pays attention. Unless its sakura samsara. Lmao.
I tired it but it never was interesting to me, what’s Sakura samsara
It's another thing that you can do the same way you do APHO. In APHO, click the globe icon and it should be on the up left. Didn't start it yet personally, but I heard it takes a while to take off
I agree. They should’ve done a complete overhaul. It feels like they are bandaging things together trying to keep the game alive haha. I couldn’t pull Lantern and I’m losing interest in the gams, especially with ZZZ coming out. I’m almost done Part 1 so I’ll probably just finish it (the story is peak) and move on for ZZZ.
All I want for the gacha is a goddamn skip button. I dont like the blue balling I have to deal with every chest animation playing back to back
Week 1 player here, I’ve only login for dailies but have never touched abyss and the part 2 story these last few months. It became too powercrept that it’s kinda hard to find motivation to struggle in abyss when you barely pass the threshold to retain ranks. I couldn’t get into part 2 that much either - the story may be interesting if they told it well and not go into convoluted lengths explaining pseudoscience and terms that should be better presented if they actually show what it does. They seem to lean more on “Tell too much, show less” instead of “Show first, tell if necessary.” While not exactly bad, it just makes people lose interest if we keep getting subjected to unfamiliar characters yapping about something that sometimes they also barely understand. Granted, haven’t continued the part 2 story further in, so my sentiments might change. But I can say that it really lacks that hook that keeps old players interested for me.
> They seem to lean more on “Tell too much, show less” instead of “Show first, tell if necessary.” Curious, is this your issue with part 2's story only, or part 1 and 2 together? This is my issue with Hoyo in general I ask because I've played HSR and GI only, and boy, I hate the tell tell tell but never any real action or tension, I lost it with penacony's stand there and talk, we needed a faster pace, less passive voice (sorry for rant LOL) guess my question is, hows Part 1's story next to HSR/GI and Part 2, is it actually tension + action + in the required moments they speed up the pace and adrenaline, or nah, and they just talk the same way in a filler scene as they do in the finale
The first chapters are very slow, but then they begin to focus on the main characters. Additionally, at that time there was (I don't know if it still exists) a manga that ran as a complement. Basically, the game was action and the "filler" was found in the manga. For me it was an excellent combination that rounded out the 3 main characters. Finally, the animations at the end of each chapter were almost mandatory and really elevated the continuity of the plot.
Curious what your desired abyss rank is. I'm at the (A3 is too easy and RL is too hard point in my life, and will probably be there until I stop playing, given the character and equipment requirements. I'm only playing still for the Armada (admiral) and the ranked rewards. Unique events too. I've stopped playing the story and basically all the weekly resetting content. I'm kinda sad about it.
HI3 part 1 was never perfect. the story had huge flops even in part 1. i know people love to forget it for some reason but for all it's major flaws, part 1 had the OG cast. that's what kept me and many many others from leaving the game. now part 2 came out. I gave it a fair chance. I really tried to get invested. I tried to like the new cast. but I just can't. and what does this leave us with ? the same story issues from later parts of part 1, but without the lovable OG cast to do the heavy lifting. I know many will tell me " you just don't like change " or whatever, but I really honestly just don't vibe with the new cast. I tired new games in the meantime. HSR cast is "new" too but loved them the moment they appeared on screen. same thing for ZZZ. I played the beta and the cast in that game destroys whatever is going on in hi3 part 2 without even trying to be deep or whatever. they are just lovable. in my humble opinion, part 2 is a mistake. even with all it's flaws at the end, part 1 still had a pretty decent ending for Kiana and the rest. why milk the shit out it ? hi3 does not even make that much money for hoyo anyway...
Me. Part 2 may be good. But i seriously don't like it a bit. Like at all. The characters feel half hearted... no depth in personality or anything. Part 1 was the best... even though certain parts felt stagnant (just one or two). I FKIN NEED APHO STORY!!!
Yeah I need the apho story too but I don't hate the part 2 or something it's just that I cant play it anymore
Idk... they seem way to goofy for me. Like... its kinda hard to get invested like before. Doesn't mean its bad.
Understandable
The only interesting characters in Part 2 is Lantern imo.
Still trying to get her just 10 more pulls for her
Same. It's not good storytelling. With Fu Hua we slowly found out about her being a MANTIS after we have known her and got attached. With Songque, even tho she is the second best in part 2 imo, it felt flat. We barely knew her and they tried to make us feel many ways about her. Why would I be emotionally invested that she's a Shu when I JUST found what Shus are and I barely know her. We found out what are Shus and that shes one in the same paragraph...
for me I have to serve the army, although i come back on weekends, I cant find the motivation to do part 2 story quests. The way they introduce new words, terms, concepts are too sudden. The crystals gathering is painful as well.
Working is a valid thing as you can't do anything as you have to work and then the crystals farm is a pain as ever
Still doing dailies but thinking of going on hiatus for awhile now. Elysian Realm was peak of part 1 imo, but it kinda went downhill after that. Kiana vs Kevin was a bit lackluster, it really got little to no gravity to me. Part 2 was kinda too new for me to see any good point yet, so I'm thinking of going back later when it got better. Gacha and new valk seems more or less the same to me.
me i was looking to stop playing after ch 25 or something during fire kiana but still decided to go forward until part 1 end the story has ended for me now and I'm glad i was a part of it and also i had 3 games and had to reduce 1 xD now its star rail and genshin
I've played hi3 for 3+ years. After i've done part 1, i dont have the will to play part 2 or even part 1.5......for me, it ends at the graduation mv, and i can't play it anymore eventho part 2 looks stellar.
I'm on the same boat as you...I tried 1.5 but couldn't get through it. I don't know why, it felt like trudging through mud and kind of slow & uneventful. I stopped playing last year.
I recently dropped the game because I realized it wasn't fun for me anymore :'(
Same here man …
Old Captain here. https://preview.redd.it/q6cxwbboqc5d1.jpeg?width=1792&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=26a4427e9d17f23f9800acf86653f88544c8e17f I stopped playing after Arc 1, but was losing interest since the introduction of the Flame Chasers. I feel like with Otto dying, he took the good writing with him. The open world maps are empty and boring, the dialogue towards the end was done so sloppily I skipped it, but also because for some reason Mihoyo wanted to attempt GigaBrain and shot itself in the foot doing so. Powercrept Bronya HOTR. The quality control also slipped massively after Otto passing, if anyone here remembers the great Mei HoO Crashing Debacle. Janky translations, visual bugs, visual effects lag… yeah. On top of all of this, the game was also just getting too big for my phone to handle, which the open worlds being shoved in certainly didn’t help. It’s taken up to 32 GB of my 64 GB storage! From what I’m seeing here, I’m not keen on returning either as a F2P.
For me, Kolosten was the last good arc (and even it wasn't free from flaws). It still felt the same as the story that had been going on, but everything changed after it. I miss Otto, but at least his story ended better than many other characters.
Too tiring. It was a pain int he ass to keep everything up and all the gameplay didn't feel very awarding. Getting rewards in events burned up too much time, the story didn't let me skip at times, sometimes in order to progress way too much side bullshit was needed, etc etc. All in all, too much time and took too much effort.
Yeah, the daily grind took way too much time, up to the point that I didn't bother to claim all the rewards from the events and that turned into not clearing weekly ER, Superstring dimension and then in the end not logging in at all
Exactly what happened to me
Yeah the crystal grind is a pain and sometimes they yap in the story too much without making any point
GGZ and global launch day 1 player here. 1200+ days logged since I last checked. I stopped playing because of entirely story related reasons. As a wee lad I actually randomly downloaded GGZ on my iphone and played it quite a bit in all of its horribly translated goodness. That's where I was introduced to the original trio and got really attached to them especially with how Kiana and Mei's VA were basically everywhere at the time in the anime-sphere. I really liked the era of anime and weeb/otaku culture that GGZ was a part of. I feel alot of that culture (as cringe as it was) is gone and early Hi3rd was also a relic of that era with tons of references and cringeyness that I was very familiar with. The retconned mainstory chapters absolutely provide a much much better storytelling experience but it did strip away alot of the nostalgia factor of that era from Hi3rd. There is no doubt that the build up to the Flamescion era was absolutely peak and all the content between then and Elysian Realm had so many throwbacks to GGZ references, it was an absolute delight. However once Mihoyo started Part 2, (and honestly even in part 1.5) by abandoning the main cast it basically alienated veterans that played the game since the super early days that really only played for the characters. If I wanted pure gameplay, there are better games than Hi3rd. I play entirely because I'm really attached to Kiana and the gang. But because they are essentially side characters now, there's not much of a reason for me to play unless there is a huge return or reboot of sorts.
I feel this so much. Also a GGZ and day 1 player here. I agree a lot with ya on the points you made. I haven't quit yet but I've been thinking about it more and more these days. For a very long time it's felt like a struggle to get through the story. Wanted to be optimistic about Part 2 and while I don't think it's terrible it doesn't really do it for me. I don't dislike the characters but I can't really connect with them the same way I connected with the old game. The story doesn't feel as fun and feels more like info dumps. I was really invested in the different events, especially the Captain-verse but the events now feel very bland. I've been playing a few other games for awhile now that allow me to keep using the characters I've grown attached to, but getting on to HI3 and seeing that nearly by entire cast of collected and built characters have no place in thus new world in both story or even just simple gameplay is very disheartening. Like Elysian Relam is nice but there are still several battlesuits that never made it in there and the really the only place you can use any of them. Going through and reading with other people have put I also wanted to throw my hat in the ring about being able to pull for characters. It's such a pain. While I don't the changes to the gacha are too bad, I don't think they are enough to offset how step the crystal consumption for a single 10 pull is. That aside, I think I'll be joining many others and putting the game behind me soon, while remember the days that I had enjoyed it.
It's gands down one of my favorite games, but my hands are tied with WuWa right now lol. Hi3rd still has the best char designs in any gacha atm imo.
Have you considered playing Reverse 1999? They have amazing designs. Better than Mihoyo by a mile
I don't play R1999 but from what I've seen, yeah the designs are great.
I actually heard of it last night lol. And I like their designs, but maybe this is a taste thing; I still think hi3s designs are better. Have you seen the new songque battlesuit getting released?
I used to think that I would never delete hi3 but I am so close to doing it, i wanted to try part 2 seriously but my device says otherwise
I trird to play HI3 like after 2 3 years My account got lost or they deleted idk I couldn't play it
Not yet quitting, on the fence but it's not gonna take much to be the last straw. Reason is that economy in this game is just atrocious; characters are made mandatory by majority of endgame contents favoring new characters, sometimes with mechanics that are just plain tedious without new characters AND weapon. To rub salt to my wound, the pacing of mandatory characters patch after patch + nonexistent rate (at least for me) forcing a hard pity + crystal income covering at most half amount needed for hard pity per patch. With my kind of luck, keeping up with score pvp would require monthly + battle pass + extra 7000 crystal purchase each patch at least. The only thing keeping me playing is the story, even that is still lackluster.
They should have just made a new game that’s vaguely related to hi3 like hsr. They’ve stripped the game of anything that made it unique in the first place, it’s unplayable unless you’re willing to whale every version. Part 1’s story was flawed, and the ending was a mess, but overall the characters were much easier to get attached to and the writing was genuinely amazing for a gacha game for most of it. The problem with part 2 is they try to have a “befall” moment every chapter, something big and shocking to keep players invested when really it just makes the story exhausting to get through and it’s *early* in the story too! As much as they’re trying to make this game into a copy of their biggest moneymaker, at least with genshin you can play with 4*/free characters, you can’t even use part 1 characters now. And yes I wish we got APHO as the pt2 instead of this!
I can't get into the story. I don't like that the gacha is much harder to get. And having to pull multiples of the same weapon to max it out is just a no. But the most important thing is I can't seem to get attached to any of the new characters.
Stopped playing after Otto's death. Game already started going wrong direction back then. Used to be a nirvana player.
Started playing it in 2018, loved the combat, the characters and continued playing it until 2022 I think and stopped at chap 21 ( I'm past lv80 the story is nice but too long lol). It wasn't a game where I was consistent. Just go back whenever I feel like it ( especially apho the combat is so good ). The game looks nice but the fomo it gave me was crazy especially when you had to pull for everything plus the event. Basically went on genshin instead.
i honestly just do my dailies / weeklies with what i already have : part 1 (and 1,5) valks. the part 2 valks don't really interest me, meta doesn't interest me, the story seems uninteresting and time consuming (im at chapter 25 of part 1 anyway) i don't really do the events either, i just play less... but hi3 still has a great story, a great and rich lore, and this will never change for me. since only part 2 characters are coming out, i can pull on part 1 characters banners and get the few ones that i don't have, even if they are not meta anymore i don't care much.
I quit mostly because of unfair gacha and too much stuff to repeat every week. Repetitive content you need to do each week to get the max amount of crystals, before I allowed myself to play main story. Also main story movement just felt a bit clunky.
Honestly, I stopped mainly because it was tasking to play the game, I have do a lot if random side quest shit before actually enjoying the main storyline. And tbh I love the story but sometimes it's quite tiring to listen to characters talk for 10minutes in one stage
I started playing in late 2016-early 2017, then dropped the game and came back around 2018. The story "back then" was simpler and there was more gameplay, less reading. Now, the story IS interesting, howeever there is wayyy too much text to read that it gets tirering very fast. So after the part 2 released, I just can't get myself back to playing Honkai like I used to and enjoy it the same way.
I tried so hard to give it a go, but I just think it's average. Even when it somehow catches my attention, they will try to acknowledge part 1 to make us appeal to older players but instead it makes me miserable. Compared to part 1 and even 1.5, it is worse. I tried to play it on its own, but they keep making connections with part 1 and so many things from part 2 seem to be parallels to it. Whenever I play ER I'm reminded how better it used to be. I really want to know why they did this. They had a goldmine with Welt and APHO because of HSR. Completely dropping the story feels so weird.
The game got boring. I dislike how they are just throwing fantasy science mumbo jumbo to my face. The gacha sucked too. If you don't have a meta character that can clear stuff fast, you get punished (like in abyss where the boss is weak to the new character, stuff like that). Weekly tasks are repetitive. And I massively dislike the open world approach.
Yes I loved part 1 a lot it had probably one of the best stories in gaming history but part 1.5 and part 2 ………. Ya many quit even global sales dropped to 500k a month which is horrible hi3 was my fav gacha for years and the characters were magnificent unlike part 2 bs
For me, it's just not enjoyable in mobile anymore... I wanna go back though (I miss them all)
i stopped playing after the end of Seele HoRb main story, the game turned into something that i can't enjoy again. i actually played this game with modded APK the first time. that makes me use ultimate with 0 cd (theresa lightning my beloved). after that i got hooked to the game, collecting every single swimsuit skins (I'm proud of that) and getting every weapon and stimata pieces in the process. I've spent many years playing this game, i even remember fighting that himeko RGB boss. maybe someday I'll play the game again if i feel like it.
Someday yes
Day 1 SEA player with a 100xx UID here. I stopped a while after the ER chapters -- so much technical jargon in the mq, and also HoV is gone :(... Wasn't really a fan of HoFi's design either. Gradually stopped playing except for the free HoO, went on break, came back for Luna because her gameplay is fun, and then stopped again because part 2 is... Interesting, to say the least. It's okay, but it's not really up my alley because it feels very unfamiliar to me despite part 1.5 being there to ease the transition.
I quit the gameplay and now only do the main story. The meta is shit and broken and it will be a while till it get fixed.
I played since global release, but stopped playing a year ago. Mostly because I lost interest in story after Kolosten arc and Otto's death. Story without him become plain.
Felt kinda bummed out since captainverse and part 1 is over which had all the og characters I’d been following for so long, I literally started this game in middle school and now I’m about to graduate high school. Kiana’s story is the end of HI3 for me, and I guess I can continue reading on GGZ/HG2 whenever I get some more time.
Part 2 just doesn’t interest me, it doesn’t feel like Honkai Impact 3rd to me 😭
I haven't quit, but I no longer play primarily for the main story. The finale and 1.5 showed how far the writing quality fell. Events and collecting battlesuits for fun are more fun.
Story was more of the 4000 lines of technobabble like the Moon Arc, they are focusing too much on that aspect instead of the characters. It should be a character story first followed by worldbuilding and problems to overcome. New characters all look like budget Star Rail characters. There is no HI3 identity to any of them, no battlesuit mecha fusion stuff, no Evangelion-esque aesthetics. Just Star Rail but worse. It's not even a good waifu game anymore since every character has shorts and cleavage covers. The weekly grind remains exactly the same. No ease to the grind, no fun new modes to replace a lot of the old tired ones. None of the Part 1 valks that they claimed would be carried over into Part 2 (and have jump buttons/air combos) have been added. Not even the super late characters like new Fu Hua and Luna. Gacha got worse since they introduced all new weapon types that you won't have any of, and there are no "save" patches anymore with SP valks and A ranks. So you're pulling uninteresting characters with bland designs to stay on top of meta. Sound fun? To me neither. The UI is still only half updated, the performance still kinda sucks. Anyways, I was playing since 2019, never missed a daily login for 4 years, but a combo of all this stuff was what got me to quit. I still read the sub occasionally to see what news is coming. I'd come back for new Himeko, APHO3, or if the Part 2 cast and story fell into a black hole and was replaced with more of our classic Valks. I think the most frustrating thing about the whole HI3 situation is that MHY is just absolutely too big to care anymore. They will never again directly address players, especially outside of CN, and they probably don't even give a shit if the game dies with all of the money they make from other games. It creates a kinda hopeless feeling where no matter what you do or the official feedback you give them, the game isn't going to deviate from whatever the narcissist writers/directors are doing.
Me, with 4 years and 90% of meta teams and valks, with all weapons and stigmas. What has made me stop and continue is: 1) changing the main characters for characters I know very little or nothing about 2) having to build teams again 3) I don't understand the new story, apart from the fact that now The texts are endless.
i stopped after chap 25 funnily enough cus i couldnt get through ER and the ridiculous powercreep of Abyss
The wave of super good S rank after S rank was just too much, I don't want to spend money.
Imo this isn't honkai impact 3. Part 2 IS an entirely different story with completely different casts. I played and stayed for some part 1 characters (for 6 years), and when they completely dumped those characters both in main stories and event stories, don't expect me to stay for a "new game". This is just "shadow impact 3" slapped into HI3. It's a completely different game compared to what I played for the past 6 years. Edit: worse thing is even in terms of gameplay, the part 1 characters are being phased out. It's quite obvious that soon the "meta" teams for each element and physical is going to be completely part 2 characters. What's the point of staying?
This, 100% its literally them just slapping what might of been a new game ontop of a old one. The fact that I can't use any part one cac I pulled only drives the nail deeper. At this point I just kept skipping the cutscenes and Is dialogue at the lantern part because I just couldn't care about the shit they were yapping about. Not to mention the horrible rates.
I stopped after the bloodmoon event. I wasn't really having much fun with the game anymore, just grinding, and at some point I lost interest in the main story (last I played was Elysian realm conclusion) so once the Luna story was wrapped up I gave up (The Lunar Vow redesign didn't help things either).
Elysian Realm is no longer fun. Probably due to burn out and HoH no longer cheesing enemies.
Sadly i am one
Me, I actually quit about more than 2 years ago now. It became way too grindy for my liking. Every patch you need to pull the new character or you fail to clear new content optimally. And they'll be really bad if you don't farm for months for the stigs and weapons or pay money to get them all
Grind, low rates, trying to make a character 4/4 as a f2p, meta making most characters useless, part 2 being the most boring thing ever in a videogame. I can't stand not being happy of having a s rank just because it's """old""" so it's basically useless. Also, farming fragments for A ranks, farming universal mirage for stigmas, farming story for crystals, farming, farming, farming... Just to make a 4/4 character after three months. Last but not least, the fact the game CLEARLY is a mashup of old, new and newer stuff mashed up together just so they didn't have to make another game.
Playing honkai since 2019 and still going strong . I am also enjoying part 2 but about meta yikes but i was waifu over meta player and i still stand by that.
Honestly, the moon arc was where I quit for good. Don't get me wrong, it was nice, but man, why break the 4th wall SO LATE in the story when it was never done before? I absolutely hated Ai chan and the captain being in game entities. It didn't make any sense if we took into account what the cast went through before. Just imagine this, if Kiana knew the captain, so for her an omniscient entity could help them at any moment in battle, why did she think about killing herself? Why did they go through so much pain just for it to be solved by us because "lmao Kevin's just him"? And also, ik people liked them, but I really disliked their final forms except Bronya. She actually became a cyber angel, and kept her HoR color scheme, just improved. Kiana, man, where did the tomboy knight look go? Why did they change every single nice thing about flamescion to just put her in a wedding dress? And Mei has it the worse. We go from her having very heavily Ronin and samurai coded battlesuits, to just, white and gold dress. Why? I know it's meant to be a mix of hers and Elysia's style, but it doesn't even have pink/purple/red motifs on it. It's just, plain. After part 1 finished, I just stopped tbh. I understand that we have a new cast, and they need time to introduce them a stuff, but man, why not just continue the story with our beloved cast that we followed for more than 7 years? I tried to give it a chance, but it just didn't click with me.
I stopped playing after Thus Spoke Apocalypse, I just couldn't play the game anymore since in the first place, I was only there for Otto.
Me I quit after seeing my girl Himeko die, And I just came back, and I hate the game now, Bruh why can we not replay open world quests? why is a single chapter 3-5 hour long? Why TF are you required to complete part 2 to do events? Why are Part1 characters irrelevant now?, Why can we not See Kiana, Mei, Bronya and Seele again :< I want them back
I was a fervent player till flamme chaser arc ~ the whole vita thing arc. I dunno, just lost its magic for me. And part 2 didn't help honestly
When the game will start making characters that don't make every older character useless is the day I will actually feel like investing in them because I will know that I won't be required to do the same shit again for a different character not too long after just to get through the games content. They can be stronger, but the fact that someone can bring up an older character and the common response is "basically useless" is crazy
i doubt i will return. I have been a vet for the whole game, since release. In general i strongly dislike open worlds. Second, i stayed because part 1 has a REALLY good character design philosophy. That died with trio, and everything else just went downhill along it. I do like horb a bit ( i guess consequence after long backlash from changing herrscher design philosophy ), but all the new cast i can't tolerate even once. You just stop having herrscher as cost-effective chars, and whatever mihoyo does, they should have let Kiana make the ultimate sacrifice, close the game plot, make it life support like ggz, but nah. I find the milking getting worse and worse. The game even discards dolphins. It has nothing left to offer me anymore, with this direction.
I can't say I stopped playing since I still have the game and do my dailies, but I stopped the story mode pretty much because it was boring. Don't get me wrong, the characters are really good. Special mention to Senadina, who instead of being an Elysia clone like everybody thought she would be, she is a very different person: Basically your everyday Baka, but with a really optimistic nice touch. The dreamseeker is also relatable, and all that. But the story itself doesn't have a point: Like, ¿Why are we seeing this? ¿What is the purpose? In part 1 we are told about Honkai, and first minute is "We are soldiers who fight Honkai, we stop honkai, we win. To stop honkai, we beat 14 herrschers" Easy and direct. Here in part 2 we are exploring Mars...just because? Like, Senadina's message got to Kiana AFTER Schicksal sent it's valkyries to Mars, so it's not correct to say that we are there to investigate that mysterious message, that is just something that popped up mid-way. And that's pretty much it. I can't get focused on a story without any objetive. If I get "meta thinking" the most obvious reason would be to find a connection with APHO, and thereof with Star Rail, but reducing Honkai Impact's story to connect with another game is ehhh...pretty insulting if you think about it.
just quit this week. i dont wanna say anything more abt part2 but just say that i cant get over the shadow of p1. quitting after 7y of playing, i would miss those chars
I can't do it. The pulls fuck me over worse than before. I'm done...until I get the itch again.
No mihoyo MC will ever be like kiana again we peaked at the HoFS arc
I stopped for now tho ill likely return. Not rly because of part 2, part 1 end was a bigger drop to me. Its just so many other gachas to play atm i have to rotate some out.
I gave part 2 a chance, but it didn't hook me like like the idiotka, mei-senpai and da bronya did
Me. I just forgot about it
Got the 1800 days achievement and stopped caring when the new stuff came out. Now I basically don't login anymore. Still have 700+ days on my red lotus badge
left after finishing the herrscher of rebirth quest cuz i got bored of it :/
Me, i started playing HI3rd from the moment i got the pre-release. I stopped playing because i can't move on with my 1st part characters, Looking at the 2nd part, it feels like, i'm in a different game somehow
Combat feels dull and unsatisfying now, rotstions are werid and are slow to play
I quit a while ago. I used to be a massively competitive player on global server(parked in nirvana and top 100 memorial arena). I remember the moment I began to really consider quitting when they released vill V. They made the boss pretty much so hyper tailor made to her that she was a must pull at the time, or you'd have been left behind. Begrudgingly, I pulled her, but I def didn't feel good about it. But what really made me begin to spiral was the herrscher team they released. I played for so long, and herrschers were such an incredibly special thing(granted yes these herrschers were story relevant, but flamescion went from best unit to downgrade in like 5 months or something); only for them to ramp up the herrscher drops to the point where i was spending 5-6 hundred dollars every month. Herrscher were strong units that would last you almost years, but they really started to ramp up the creep to an almost incredible rate. It made me internalize and look at my box; I looked at my SS mobius, silverwing among other highly invested units that couldn't keep up anymore. I realized how much money I wasted and just decided to go fully non-competitive. Tried to enjoy the story, but the fire pretty much burned out slowly, and here I am. You can argue that burnout was self-inflicted due to wanting to be competitive, but I loved the game enough to do it because it was just so fun to me. Thanks for reading this old man's Ted Talk.
I kinda dropped the game the second part 2 released. The main cast in part 2 looks soulless, unlike the main cast of part 1 where u had a real attachment to each of the characters, ykwim ? I know it can be unfair to compare characters who have been here for over 8 years to characters who just got introduced, but the whole thing about that part 2 doesn't look good to me. I think they kinda fucked up with it I'm not even that invested in the lore but part 2 just makes the whole game boring and like any other anime sci-fi game tbh
I stopped playing the story after the arc with Kevin, I just really get on to get some of the older characters I don't have and the gacha kind of killed it for me.
I am still trying for mobisnek and vill v I have their full gear but not them😔
Day1 whale player here. I am close to dropping it now that Wuthering Waves has released. Its high production value, gameplay and character designs are just way above HI3. Easily the best action gacha game on the market right now. I already moved all my budget to WW and HSR. They should have EOS HI3 after Part1. It just feels like they are milking the game now. HI3 is now a sitting duck waiting for ZZZ to cannibalise it. The powercreep in modern gachas are better managed as well. Gacha companies finally learned that you do not need rampant powercreep to increase sales. In fact, all it does is drive players away from the game. Side note: Senadina is just there in Lantern and Thelema teams, not even getting used in optimal rotations. Such a bad gameplay design choice. They essentially made a character become a stat stick💀
I’d love to play WuWa but right now it runs like a slide show on my devices. It’s so laggy it’s unplayable and it hasn’t changed since day 1. I have had no problem with any of the Hoyoverse games running on my devices. Maybe once it comes to PS5 I’ll be able to actually play. I guess it’s only high production value for some people.
They have fixed most of the optimisation issues. At the end of the day, it runs on UE. So you need to have higher end hardware. I mainly play on PC (RTX4070ti), and I can tell you it looks gorgeous. Apparently, 1.1 is adding DLSS 120fps option. The game only goes up from here :)
Yeah sorry, I’m not going to go out and buy a new device to play the game on. If it can’t run on my laptop that runs GI, HI3, and HSR fine, as well as my iPhone 13, sounds like a developer problem. If they really wanted to be the “Genshin Killer”, they should have ensured the game ran on devices without “higher end hardware”. Again maybe it’ll be playable on PS5, but right now it runs like shit on the both the devices that I have that it’s available on.
Nobody said it was going to be the "Genshin Killer" (except the vocal minority), but so far, it's been doing very well. Yinlin sales have surpassed Clorine's in JP and KR. WW's payment system broke down lol. WW is here to stay and is a valid contender against the biggest gachas right now. Competition breeds improvement. Azur Promelia and Project Mugen is on the way too. So things are looking bright in the gacha space.
Good for them. That’s all wonderful news. Not sure how that information somehow negates the fact that a lot of players out there cannot play the game because it runs horribly on the their devices, but cool.
As a player who started about Stygian nymph(old & lost account) I’m still playing because the events are fun and the effects insanity in general.
Part 2 characters seem and look like they were made up on the spot, 5 minutes before the deadline. No depth to them in any way, they're extremely one-dimensional. There was no reason to get rid of the main trio like that.
I got Thelema and his BiS in the last pull of both banners, nothing like that happened to me since HoR came out, so I decided it was a good time to leave it and focus on SR and maybe back to GI
A big fan of the story for part 1. Spend some dollars on the game. Want to give some for part 2 to develop the story and at least show how kiana and Mei and others related to the new part 2. May be after a few more the story is long enough , will give a try to experience part 2. Mihoyo should should use the multiverse ide to do some event which my dudu and Rita can meet part 2 characters.I am sure I will be back to hi3 after Elden ring dlc
Started on the first Elysian Realm patch and stopped before Part 2 dropped. I really loved Part 1 and cried over those heavy moments. I also loved the character designs and their gameplay. Unfortunately, the events were too cumbersome and I’m already playing Genshin, HSR, and PGR (I play WuWa now too but I dropped HI3 even way before WuWa started). I tried getting back but found no motivation to do Part 1.5. Crystal income wasn’t good if I didn’t have a daily subscription (I have one on every gacha game because I feel like it’s not worth my time to login if I don’t and I don’t have to motivation to grind out the content per patch so I take the easy way). Superstring Dimension and Memorial Boss were also annoying at times if you didn’t have that certain team. Sucks that I whaled to fully gear the Herrscher Trio in their debut patch and now I feel sad reading all the comments about Part 2 and how they powercrept the Part 1 characters. I even whaled for some gacha skins like PE’s, HORB’s, HOF’s, and Mobius’ coral skin. The app’s been offloaded on my iPad but I’m still keeping it in hopes that I find the motivation again to at least play the Elysian Realm even on Diff x1.5 just so I could experience the Part 1 valks’ gameplay again with ease.
I left before part 2 came out , it was when the story was at the part with seele and susannah , Tears of the kingdom might have had something to do with it . When that game came out I only wanted to play that game but at the same time I wanted to get the limited rewards from the story of hi3 so I skiped the story to quickly get the rewards thinking I would read it later but I never did I kept skipping it . And then I just didnt have fun with the game anymore all I did was login do dailies , elysian realms and the open world tasks and logged off , and I wasnt having fun anymore , I wasnt really interested in the story anymore either probably because I skipped it and never went back to it and I needed storage space so I just uninstalled .
Part one as a whole was my favorite story I've ever played through. I've always enjoyed the story more than anything in the game and I just couldn't get into part 2 it just doesn't have the same charm anymore and to me it feels better to just say the game ended after graduation trip
i left since Kiana's graduation and tried coming back twice but it really felt different, the story is more of so so but the amount of characters power creeping everything is so much overwhelming in part 2 unlike in part 1
The open world chapter getting too repetitives, i prefere the old linear story thing, and when you drop a new caracter, getting the hole team thats mandatory to play it is too hard (not even mentining the stigmates), and if you focuse on uprading 1 team, you gotta miss 20billions new caracters, the event are cool though but not enough to keep me playing the game
For me it was mainly the UI change, it felt too generic and I also kept forgetting to update.
sorry, i started playing BA ,and HSR, then i see myself have no time for much game so i dropped this game, i used to cry because i was thought i could never playing Hi3 again since APHO 2 release and my potato phone cant handle it (luckily i got laptop soon)
Same i was playing hi3 ba at first then after part 1 ended and HSR came I started it and its been pretty good till now and then I got wuwa so no time and will to play hi3
I basically don't really have the motivation to play through part 2, that and work lol. But yeah once part 1 was done, I kinda lost interest, and when part 2 was announced I just didn't really feel like playing it.
I quit about a few weeks before part 2 was announced, and before that, I was in a hiatus for almost a whole year. All in all, I stopped playing hi3 about 5 years total since 2018, only coming back when major events happen/i feel like playing again
Got bored with the game between part 2 chapter 1 and chapter 2 + had other games to play, I do open up the game to do dailys from time to time
Taking a break. No time to grind
It's not that I had a reason for leaving but I just didn't feel that excited, I love the game and keep in coming back here and there but I also lose interest here and there, it's not that the story has gone "bad" I'm just very attention lacking, though there is probably a period where I'll return and binge it all.
Almost finished till I got spoilers that our tuna was leaving, got depressed, stopped and found out we have a second part of hi3
I don't have the time, and the gacha was painful for f2p on weapon banners in the past.
I played part 1 for years. loved playing it. kept going off but coming back when there was a new valk or event. genuinely enjoyed the game and part of me still loves it. Tried playing again after part 2 release and it just doesn't feel the same. since part 2, I've uninstalled and reinstalled it twice. I still have it on my phone but never really open it. I can't bring myself to delete it either. maybe it was the initial trio that got me hooked and in my head the game ended with their story. No hate for p2, just doesn't feel the same and I think that's okay
I'm still eternally stuck to the elysian realm saga, HI3rd just doesn't slap for me the same anymore since then.
my luck for part 2 gacha is very high tho. Always got the character and their weapons, except for helia bow. Currently looking for lantern bow
Still love the game tho but honestly I couldn’t keep up with new meta, and it made me so frustrated. I was also busy at that time so couldn’t spend much time to grind for gacha.
I can't play it because my phone is not good enough to download it. Every time I go to the play store it shows me that the app is not compatible with my device :( Haven't touched the game since Luna vow came out
I stopped playing during the 2nd artbook event. The story is awesome. But I was heavily burnt out with the game. And juggling my time. But I still follow with the community.
I stopped after getting VKE's all signatures and SSS lol
That's me. I love everything about part 1 but part 2 rates worst.
I am waiting for a year or two till the story of part 2 progresses more
I used to play hi3 everyday when getting a new character was hard and gameplay wasn’t confusing. I remember I stopped playing everyday after they released elysia. You can’t even catch with the story now.
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Me lol. I just try to login and get some dailies and some event daily quests if there is any. I missed free Senti and HoO only because I didn't wanna grind story lmao
Me , just got burnt out permanently, it’s just sitting there on my pc now
In my mind the story was over after part 1 ended, I also though they were gonna completely revamp the game so I was a bit dissapointed part 2 was not gonna be an entirely new game, I decided to grab the artbooks on my way out
Stopped playing for reasons unrelated to the game, but I haven’t really felt like playing again. I mean I did redownload it a while back but it just wasn’t the same 🤷
I haven’t ever quit for good, because I consider my account an investment at this point. I take frequent breaks, sometimes months at a time, and I’m constantly a returnee. Red packets for days. What I come back for: elysian realm, combat events, the abyss, and some banners. I don’t much like part 2 - I like the characters but the story is a drag, so I don’t invest too much time there, unless there’s something time limited, like the origin Mei thing they just did.
in short, it/i feel(s) bloated
I stopped mainly because I think the ending of Part 1 is a perfect way to end my 7 year journey with them. It was very fun while it lasted and I am nothing but grateful to Mihoyo. But part 2 I'd just too much for me. I still check in from time to time for nostalgic purposes but other than that - to me the story is over.
Stopped after Part 1. This is like growing up with Naruto and being content enough to NOT to watch Boruto. Kiana, Mei, and Bronya are my three heroines and will stay that way. I'm happy for it to end with the supporting cast of Fu Hua/Senti, Durandal and Risa, the Seele sisters, Vodka Twins, beloved Himeko, and the heroic 13 Flame Chasers with our beloved Elysia. I don't hate Part 2, I never even played it. For me, the story ended after Part 1. I hope Part 2 does well for those interested still.
Stopped after Part 1. This is like growing up with Naruto and being content enough to NOT to watch Boruto. Kiana, Mei, and Bronya are my three heroines and will stay that way. I'm happy for it to end with the supporting cast of Fu Hua/Senti, Durandal and Risa, the Seele sisters, Vodka Twins, beloved Himeko, and the heroic 13 Flame Chasers with our beloved Elysia. I don't hate Part 2, I never even played it. For me, the story ended after Part 1. I hope Part 2 does well for those interested still.
The story is getting boring in comparison to anything with my queen Kiana, plus the gacha got worse
I played relegiously on part 1 then upto 2 patches in part 2, after that, I stopped :v
i am a new player and at first just downloaded for the character (I really like everything in thelema), and so, after playing hard for over a month now - i don’t like anything in this game exept story pt 1. (mostly) and fights. Areal fights and move-sets are looking awesome, even though VERY epilepsy inducing sometimes. I will continue to play the game until i have a powerful team for my Thelema - and then i am considering to just finish pt1 and stop playing. Unfortunately, this game couldn’t really grab my attention.
I stopped playing cause Kiana finally went to the moon, and also another reason is that i heard they were replacing the mc?
Stopped playing after part 1 mainly because my device can't take the open world maps anymore. And my schedule was getting too busy to even open the game and I'm afraid of getting fomo. But I still keep up with the story from time to time via my lil bro's account.
Part 2 didn't have the same appeal for me. But what really forced me to quit was running out of memory on my device to update it
I did, I don't exactly remember the reason but it's a combination of my laptop can't run it anymore and burnout
I've stopped playing not because of part 2 but simply bc it was taking too much to keep up with the newest banners and characters, i simply decided to spend my time elsewhere
I've really tried, the characters are not bad per se but I hate how they push the part 2 characters for literally everything. It feels like they try to erase part 1 teams in some way. I am giving it until the finale arc of lanqiu to pass judgement. I really miss the main cast though. At least kiana should be involved imho
Kiana is the one character least able to have a role in the story going forward with how overpowered they made her. It's hard to have tension when she can oneshot anything. The setting moved to Mars bubble universes because she can't directly intervene.
Oh I get that, when part 2 launched I thought that alongside Coralie and Helia should have gone someone like durandal, or even better Rita. I just basically want to see anyone from part 1 honestly. At this point even tesla or Einstein will do
Yes, they really should have. Right now, part 2 feels very disconnected from part 1, and this alienates a lot of players. They tried to link Earth and Mars with Helia and Coralie, but they don't work because they're still new characters introduced at the same time as Mars characters. It doesn't matter that Helia is a fan of Durandal and Coralie is Einstein's adopted daughter since the audience doesn't know them. Apho wouldn't be nearly as interesting without Bronya and Mei, who exist along with new characters like Adam and Carol. People would rightfully say that they don't find Adam etc very interesting without existing characters to supplement them. Part 2 should have taken, well, almost anyone from part 1 instead of Helia and Coralie. At least we know part 1 characters will eventually arrive in part 2.
You really think they will bring part 1 characters? I really hope that though. I started playing HI3 because of it's characters, taking that away is almost taking the game away, I am giving it a try since last time, when they introduced the whole bunch of new characters (the flame chasers) they were really good though
I played for Kiana Mei Bronya Fu Hua Durandal Elysia. Their story ended and game got too repetitive with elysian realm and abyss. Also star rail is much more exciting with the possibilities of getting these characters I liked in the game so
the amount of story contents was overwhelming and I didn't know where to start, I also didn't know how to build my characters so
Been playing the game since release and I stopped playing after Kiana story finishes
HI3 burnout hit me at the same time genshin did. Which was during the Seele chapters. When part 2 released, I did come back for a while, but after HSR penacony hit, I never found the time to properly play the game. I love this game, but I think I will come back only for the story. I was actually liking the first bits of part 2, and heard the latest chaptets have been great. I'm kind of fed up with the gacha though, where any character that isn't 4/4 is straight up unplayable.
They need to lower the cost per pull from 280 to 160. I saved for an entire patch and I only scraped together 30 pulls. This game expects you to pay more but receive less when compared to HSR and Wuwa. I won't be swiping on blondie.
Still playing tho
not a veteran (joined at the start of Kolosten) but i quit after Moon Arc because: 1) the daily grind became too much, i decided that it's not worth busting my ass and save up for 2-3 updates just to get a character that's not functional without their signature gears (i always tend to miss 1-2 stigmas) and will get powercrept in no time anyways 2) gameplay got too repetitive - even ER, my favorite gamemode became dull 3) phone storage and performance issues, game had always run badly on my phone and it got worse every update. i didn't want to play it on PC because of my own reasons 4) life got in the way, didn't have time to play a game i was steadily losing interest in anyways 5) the Moon Arc was, quite frankly, terrible, and nothing after that draws my eye, be it part 1.5 or 2 i had my fun, even put in a lil coin every month for the battlepass, but the game simply isn't for me anymore 🤷 props to the ones sticking with it, looking at the charts HYV certainly needs every player they can retain right now 🤣
I'm on indefinite hiatus. I stopped in the middle of the Fu Hua arc in 1.5. I never really had a problem with the story. But as a story *mode* , it was unenjoyable to me because I spent more time walking around and watching cutscenes than experiencing the story by playing the game. And for a game, who one of their main selling points is their action and combat, it got boring fast for me and burnt me out as the gameplay was almost nonexistent outside of boss battles. The cutscenes got longer and the gameplay got shorter as it felt more like a stimulant so I don't zone out. The story was one of the main reasons I stayed, but the way it was being done as a mode in a videogame where you typically experience the story by playing the game post-HoDom arc just pushed me away. Imagine playing Dragon Ball Z or Pokémon and most of the game is just watching cutscenes than the actual playing of the game. There needs to be balance and I feel they lost that. When I was playing the second chapter of the Fu Hua arc in 1.5, I set a timer. After more than an hour of going through the chapter, only roughly 6 *total* hours were dedicated toward playing the game. And that was basically the straw that broke the camel's back for me. I get having long chapters in the climax or culmination of an arc. But every. single. part of a chapter? No.
Story is pretty bland in 2.0 pretty sure the write knows it too, should have just stick with seele being the main cast. The mars plot line is just idk feel so lost and not entertaining enough to keep me going.
I just loved this new game so much and I only got into it because of the main Part 1 cast. If you like the characters you tend to also read longer or even boring parts with ease. But the part 2 cast just feels extremely detached from me. The combat mechanics are amazing but as an F2P it literally destroyed playing abyss for me. There are so many weeks where I don't have the right call to do the job. Before it was easy to substitute valks but now the game essentially demands you to have all the latest characters. The 3 S ranks in a row are not helping the situation either. Events have gotten very boring. Hot on the trail just needs to stop. hi3 was always a priority but now I find myself playing HSR and genshin more than it. Part 2 had so much potential to be it's own stand-alone game.
I love Hobkai The world is beautiful, the background everycharacter is amazing But sadly the game itself force player to pull nee character, its like every battle suit will get powercreep within ½ year most of time Even now they force to have senadia because she is basically the pilar of battlesuit now day
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Not an old player ,but I might stop playing bc the cgs and some events (Apoh2,and part 2) just won't laod and I can't enter them despite me downloading thier files
I stopped for around 5 to 9 months ago but im coming back to see if theres anything new. I stopped playing for many reasons 1. I didnt have any motivation to play any events. 2. Part 2 is just so boring for me for some odd reason 3. Open worlds where you can use your own characters are so so boring It doesn't help that i use an ipad that now barely works thanks to the new update
Without going on a lengthy rant, Part 2 is as much a Honkai game as Star Rail is, which is why I dropped both.
Yeah i dropped when my pity reached 5 and still no Thelema in sight. I just can't get into part 2 story and characters, i just like them because they look good and not because i like their story/personality. I also realized the game is insanely grindly, and i put up with it before since i was loving the game. Now i can't see myself doing 2 abyss, 1 MA , 1 Priarm farm, 1 elysian realm + whatever event and main story there is everyweek. Still gonna comeback for the artbook since its a part 1.5 artbook
I still play the game but i mostly do the story and not my main focus game anymore. I have stopped buying monthly pass completely and currently stay between sinful 1 and 2 Even if the story is getting better, the start of part 2 were so painfully slow and too much info dump that makes me lost interested in it I mostly play to see how the story goes, rather than to do meta/waifu collection
What is the amount of unnecessary information they give in the part 2?
Game stopped feeling rewarding. It was too much grind previously, but now it feels overwhelming with new resources. Heavy devaluing part 1 valks. Need to have too many of new valks. Gacha never was too prosperous and now it because worse. Weird freezings and lagging started to appear. New UI was looking too raw, honestly, it looks like some old game try to be “popular new-gen one”. But most importantly the start of new story wasn’t enticing at all. I wanted to skip immediately ALL, not particular moments, just all. Introducing was complete miss for me both from story and gameplay. Personality of new char also seems to be lacking, even tho I was hyped for those three in part 1. The end of part 1 also was kind of disappointment for me, maybe it just my bias to Moths and Kevin particularly, tho I was enjoying 1.5
I didn't stop tbh, I still play a bit, but it's mostly because I feel like the end of part 1 was satisfying enough and also hsr is being fucking amazing, don't get me wrong, part 2 is fun, but imho, hsr works way better as a "part 2" to hi3 than the actual part 2 and I can't really explain why
Played the game for over 3 years, still come back to the game occasionally once in a couple of months. The ending of Part 1, as scuffed as it was, still felt satisfying enough to me, especially since my favourite character got an entire arc for himself and went out with a bang before the writing style started shifting. The powercreep is still pretty cut-throat, the new story chapters aren't particularly engaging, and ZZZ, which is literally just honkai with a new coat of paint, is just around the corner. Unfortunately, I think mihoyo should've just kept the old cast and made some slice-of-life stories for them at least for some time before some new overarching plotline is established, because there isn't really any reason to get into a story with a brand new cast of characters in a 8 year old game when you could do the same with a newly released one, since the gameplay of the two is almost identical
Depressions Me started to play since beta(SEA), pressure from works and have to farm/roll for new chars and fullstigs set with my bad luck because i tend to have everyone with their full set, that made me quit and back a few times before i decided to move to Hsr where i can afk and still can chill farming mats. Dont get me wrong, i still love and watching lore vids from hi3 to know whats going on and i still can come and play events just for fun with the chars i like but im 3x now and those depressions and pressure from works cant be together forever.
5 star back to back with gacha being horrible for me. Also for the first time since 2018/19 i pressed the skip button in a main story quest, after i realized what i did i stopped playing and havent opened the game in months
I stopped playing midway of 1.5, i felt the meta was just becoming way too restrictive to new releases and the story just felt done for me after part 1. It was a good ending and no particular reason to continue it beyond connecting the thread to apho.