Fate/Grand Order

Which means they won't do it.

Gotta neglect those servants, yo.

I think Ookubo mentioned in an interview with her and Kawasumi last October that she wanted the Blood Countess to play during Liz's NP so it's not that unlikely.

edited 27th Mar '17 5:06:33 PM by Classifiedzerogoki

Probably at the CCC event/collab/singularity.

Got my 300 day Quartz today.

With that as well as yesterdays stream Quartz I'm sitting at 30~ rolls.

I have no plans to roll for a while, so hopefully I can build up a bit of a stockpile in case someone I really want comes around.

edited 28th Mar '17 12:11:35 AM by 32ndfreeze

Rotating class gacha starts tomorrow

Please make your bait more/less obvious DW.

Salt River interview

• NP skip won't be implemented even though they could do it since the game isn't just about efficiency.
• Auto battle/resolve isn't a high priority.
• Servants now take about an average of 6 months to make and ten times the effort it did for the OG Servants.
• Welfare Servants probably won't get interludes, but strengthening quests for them are a possibility.
• Like the CCC event, some future events will require completion of Solomon.

edited 28th Mar '17 2:02:12 AM by Nouct

Curse you, efficiency's awesome!

Auto Fight?You mean leaving the fight to RNG?

In other mobile games you can just let the AI do the fighting for you, that's the kind of auto battle he was talking about.

Also a thing I forgot in the initial post, quests to grind bond points in Chaldea Gate are apparently not coming back.

edited 28th Mar '17 2:19:04 AM by Nouct

I mean, I might try it for 1-5 AP things, but it sounds wasteful otherwise.

Of course they won't give bond grinders back. Bond now actually gets you things outside of a few lines in My Room.

The game might not be about efficiency, Salt River, but we've seen the NP animation sixteen fucking billion times, we don't need to see it again when all we're doing is farming doors or hands. It's not a matter of efficiency, it's a matter of having everything be frustratingly longer than it needs to be.

The reason why we've been stuck in Fate/Grand Rerun for the last two months.

Also Shiokawa's comments on event reruns in the future.

edited 28th Mar '17 4:21:05 AM by Nouct

Nope, not going for Mordred again and Quetzalcoatl probably hates me too. I'll wait for B.B.

The 'adjustments' and 'additions' they've made have been, for the most part, very minimal.

Quetzy loves me. I think I've rolled six of her.

I guess it's not a bad thing, she does kick a lot of ass.

edited 28th Mar '17 4:52:30 AM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

Try rolling for Artoria, Arha.

oh yeah right i could use another five rare prisms

>NP skip won't be implemented even though they could do it since the game isn't just about efficiency.

>Auto battle/resolve isn't a high priority.

I'm glad to see that DW's not compromising on the ideals of the game for the sake of a few "m-muh efficiency" whiners. If you just skip all of the lines and actions of your Servants they're not even characters anymore, just pixels. At that point you could just play Clash of Clans or whatever.

edited 28th Mar '17 8:12:04 AM by Xatu44

Sitting through the same three a dozen times a day gets really tedious and really boring extremely fast. I spent more time watching the NP animation on daily missions than actually fighting.

It's not efficiency. It's annoyance. Not to mention quite a few NP lag older phones a lot and cause some phones to outright crash, rendering them unusable.

Furthermore, I trust you know you're wandering very close to flamebait, considering several of us would welcome that feature with open arms and you're insulting us.

Actually, it's not even close, it is flamebait.

edited 28th Mar '17 2:31:51 PM by IAmNotCreativeEnough

besides if they add the option to skip them, it's not like the option to watch them dissapears

As long as they don't remove options, adding more options is never wrong.

You say that, but that's literally the reason that the full updated patch for FSN Realta Nua hasn't been completed yet; the people working on it are too busy arguing about switches and additional features to actually complete the project.

Though yes, calling people who want an NP skip, especially people whose phones explode from overly intensive sections of the game whiners was wrong, so sorry about that. Complaining about the lack of an NP skip when you break the terms of service and run multiple accounts isn't on the level though when you could easily cut your farming time dramatically by playing normally. At that point, your hell is self-inflicted. Also do you solely play FGO while farming? Not doing something else like reading a book, playing some other game, or watching anime is a pretty fast way to go crazy.

Here's the thing:

It's not about farming either.

We've seen the NP animation. A million times. If we want to see it, we'll just disable NP skip. I get that it takes effort to do. I get that they're thinking less 'efficiency' and more 'artistry'.

But I've seen that animation.

It only works once. Every time after that, it's something I have already seen.

A lot of JRPG these days have started to approach the problem the same way Disgaea lets you approach it. Namely, a lot of modern JRPG have an option that makes it so you only see each attack animation once and every time after that it's skipped.

That? That would be the perfect NP skip function.

Incidentally, Shiokawa said it himself. It would be easy to add, and what you brought up, it delaying other stuff, isn't relevant in the least. The programmers and coders are not the ones behind the glacial pace of FGO's development - they've said before that the reason stuff takes so long to come out is that the Writing Staff takes forever.

To be fair, I can see why a story dealing with a massive crisis through time and the multiverse dealing with dozens and dozens of characters, with the pressure of keeping adding more and upping the stakes, and trying to keep it all from collapsing under its own weight, would take a sweet long time to complete.

The problem is, seen from that perspective, Grand Order's story would probably fit another narrative format, like a series of books or even a manga, better.

I think the format of a videogame actually works.

I mean, how did we beat the impossible odds time and time again?

We're time travellers, we just 'reloaded' back in time to a 'previous save', whenever we failed.