Alkaid
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4 hours ago, DarkAlf said:
Congrats to everybody who promoted at least one tier this week!
I figured that this last season is the best shot I will ever get to make T21 with Eir being a bonus unit and with Legendary Azura lining up with water season. I cannot remember being this determined or focused in FEH before. I pulled out all the stops to try to make it, from a new defense map to making 5 teams to counter all possible threats, to inheriting SI from GHB/TT units for the first time ever, to spending tons of feathers for building Galeforce Peri and more.
The results: 11,100 lift and rank 1,189! I still to this minute cannot believe I pulled it off!
I felt I got very lucky with my match-ups and only had to use the ladder once; I upgraded to level 3 just in case, but it wasn't necessary.
@Vicious Sal Thank you for sharing how many folks are in T21! I figured 1500-2000 before I saw your posts, so it's cool to get an exact number!
Now for some shout-outs:
@Johann Thank you so much for helping me with my defense map! It turned out I didn't need it since I only lost 3 units total this week, so if I had eaten 7 -80s, I'd still have 11,020 lift, enough to make it anyway. I ran into a bit of bad luck with defense match-ups, but it was still pretty effective!
@Maaka Thank you for convincing me to give DC to my Fae! I was very apprehensive at first to inherit that skill onto her, but you convinced me, and it paid off big!@Azuris Thank you for your advice and for cheering me on! You certainly helped me make it to the top!
@Alkaid What can I say? I cannot thank you enough for helping me out these last few weeks! From convincing me to build Galeforce Peri, which saved my bacon on one of the battles, to other tips and pointers, you have meant the world to me here in AR! I wish I could repay you somehow!
Congrats on making it to the comfy tier! Welcome to relaxation time! (for a few more weeks, anyway) And no need for thanks, since you're the one who still had to play out the battles, after all. You're still the the one who had to bring it together to make it happen.
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I'm surprised to see Duma as the first one. I thought he could happen at some point, but I didn't expect them to lead off with him (Eir doesn't really count). I can't say I'm that interested in the FE god/dragon characters, though, so I don't think I'll pull for him. If I do pull on this banner, it's just to try and fix my Loki's IVs.
Barring maybe Anankos, I'd probably pass most of the other likely picks in this category. I don't have any attachment to Naga, Mila, Yune, etc. to really care about them. (Anankos is just since I like his eyeball design, though his cloaked human form would be kind of lame)
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4 minutes ago, Icelerate said:
What about people who use different IPs? Where did IS say they have a plan for this?
Some people can be pretty good at hiding their mischief that even powerful corporations and governments could have a hard time dealing with.
I know last year there were people using VPNs to spam votes for Tharja and Eirika. Not sure about the others, but no doubt each group has some people trying to do it. Hopefully IS detects this stuff, but I wouldn't be surprised they don't.
And I haven't seen any concerted effort for vote stuffing behind any of the characters on 4chan or elsewhere. Just random individuals like this Robin person and the ones I saw last year. Hopefully it's not too widespread, for any character.
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1 hour ago, DehNutCase said:
Most people will probably just re-match people with level 3 fort on offense (since that guarantees you can't have a level 4 fort on defense---not having the 300 stones from paying $75 is a little annoying here, since people with +10 teams can have a fort level on you), rather than roll the dice.
Mind, I was so far ahead the entire week that my random matchmaking is basically all cancer teams, so maybe people who were 100 or 200 lift behind me had it easier in the random teams department. (I did get a joke team, but that was day 2, before I pulled freakishly ahead.)
I almost always roll the dice regardless. Rematching options usually aren't appealing when the majority of attackers I've gotten are whales and/or people with +10 Firesweep Lyn defense leads I know will just be a pain to deal with. It's mostly been better to take the chance on finding cancer than walking into it almost guaranteed. (and yeah, the majority of people high up seem to have bought that pack).
There really is a fair amount of joke teams, though, so people hitting that 1000 lift range of the low 11,000's may still manage to catch some breaks.
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1 hour ago, Tybrosion said:
So, checking out that 4chan link was my first time visiting there...and also my last because holy shit, that place really is as bad as I’ve heard. Suddenly, the GameFaqs boards don’t look as bad.
Gfaqs has become so bad now I honestly think it still might be worse.
34 minutes ago, Othin said:So thinking about the Three Houses thing:
So far, each CYL has had all four of its finalists from different games. CYL3 isn't over yet, but it looks like a safe bet to continue that pattern: even if one or both of the current 3rd place characters move up, it wouldn't change that. (We'd need something like Chrom/Robin or Camilla/Azura, and neither of those look plausible.) It's not some hard and fast rule, but I don't think it's a coincidence, either. Each game only has so many fans, and it's difficult for one game to rally enough support for multiple characters at once.
Three Houses is new territory, of course, and I do think it has a good shot of breaking the pattern. I could see two Three Houses characters winning CYL4, probably one male and one female. But three seems like a stretch to me, and four is probably impossible. Especially with midway totals seeming to be here to stay.
I think Edelgard is a 99.9% lock for first next year. Just like Celica, she'll be the lead girl of the most recent game and soak up attention and votes. The male side may be more dividided between the male avatar(or whatever Byleth is) and the other 2 male lords. So Eiliwood, Chrom, or whoever else could still take a top spot, if not both. The second spot for the female side would likely have whoever gets bumped to third this year, be it Camilla, Robin or Micaiah. If there's a strong enough popularity for a female side character in 3H then she could usurp that too, though.
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2 minutes ago, Tree said:
That's very nice of you.
I'm at 9360 right now. I use a friendly defense team, so I'll lose the guaranteed 80 lift tomorrow. Should have two tries to get a total of 120. My max score is 140, so it seems possible (although I'm out of ladders).
Good luck! At least 1/4 of the people I've attacked or been attacked by have either had joke maps or surrendered to my team. Luckily the competition for rank isn't needed yet in tier 21 so a fair amount of people are just taking it easy. In my second match today I did a conga line with my Camilla team until the timer ran out of time on a map where the guy had 6 lvl 1 Myrrhs set out. The meta certainly takes a turn for the better once you make your way here.
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I've been handing out surrenders and free defenses still this week. I've seen some other t21 people doing the same. I wonder if it'll make the jump from 20 easier for people as they get closer, since they'll have a chance at encountering more of these joke defense teams people on the top have out.
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1 hour ago, Jotari said:
But like, and correct me if there's some support out there saying otherwise, Camilla has like no connection to Young Azura at all (nor does Corrin for that matter, they never even met until the game itself I'm pretty sure). While Arete was Azura's mother and would have been way more suitable to get all introspective about.
I agree Aerete should make more sense, but like I said, I think they have her slated for something else so they may have not wanted to use her for it. So they picked out some other characters to go with the theme. At least they did something unique with Camilla by going with the alternate personality thing. They put more effort into that banner's theme than usual, even if seeing more alts kind of took most of the attention from people.
5 hours ago, Drakhis said:Thanks! 6Milla is a dream, but even if I'm trying to get every Camilla, I'm always getting someone else (Yes I'm talking about you BOTH Morgan)
I know that feeling! IF Camilla does still win this CYL, will you save up for her or just take the free pick? I may actually try to save up orbs for the first time to +10 a 5* unit. It would be really hard to save through all the summer banners, but I might still try.
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48 minutes ago, Jotari said:
Adrift Camilla is the weird everyone wearing white banner, right? Regardless as to how serious and accurate she is a unit, I think it was pretty senseless to use her in that one when it was Valla themed. Should have given us Arete or Sumaragi instead (or hell just straight up give us Anankos).
Yeah, it was a pretty random banner in general. And it seemed more like it was built around little Azura's special scenario than trying to be a true Valla banner, so I guess they decided to do some other ideas instead. My bet is Arete's in the pipeline to be a GHB at some point in the future anyway, at least. Perhaps Anankos could be slated for a mythic appearance, if they actually keep to the "godlike" descriptor.
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18 minutes ago, Lewyn said:
Adrift is kind of an alternate universe Camilla, I think very comparable to the tome wielding Eirika (she couldn't even use magic in her game). She's actually more accurate cause Camilla can wield magic in Fates she even does with her base class. Besides the dagger wielding one we just got, the rest wield tomes and fly very fitting for Camilla and very canon.
However you are right lots of generalizations and assumptions going around.
Still just seems like another seasonal-like one to me. It's more about being a part of special theme or not than anything else to me. And the others are mostly fitting for her, but they're still just themed stuff. Swimsuits, bunny outfits, kimonos, bath towels. I certainly like that fun stuff, but I'd like a more grounded kick-ass kind alt of her too. A legendary could do the same thing(Like personally I think Marth's legendary alt is about what I would have wanted from a CYL for him, already), though I think Xander's more likely out of Nohrian representative options.
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7 minutes ago, Lewyn said:
One other thing about Eirika vs Camilla fans that I didn't address, Adrift Camilla is just as "serious" as an alt as the wild far fetched Glepnir wielding Eirika. That tome wielding Eirika was the only alt of her in the game during CYL2. Legendary Eirika, since people are talking about Bolverk legendary Camilla, only came in November long after CYL2 finished. So the serious alt argument doesn't really work here.
Personally, I don't find Adrift Camilla serious. She's part of the Adrift theme, which while it's not a real seasonal certainly feels like one. What I want out of CYL is an alt that's like Hinoka's kinshi one. No seasonal or thematic thing at all, just a more serious "cool" promotion/class change kind.
Either way, I think generalizations and assumptions are getting all over the place.
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40 minutes ago, Interdimensional Observer said:
Really, the only truly accessible FEs right now are 11, 13, 14, and 15. (And this obviously ignores of the untranslated slate of games.)
Indeed. They really need remakes or new Virtual Console releases to gain a bigger audience. The average person is not going to bother jumping through hoops to emulate or hunt down second hand copies of older titles after jumping in with the newer games. Even more so with Japanese-only titles that require fan translations. And I think that's perfectly fair.
In light of that, I think it'd also help for the community to not draw such a line between the newer and older fans, making newer ones feel like the 3DS games are a different entity and incentivizing them further to not bother digging up the older stuff.
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1 minute ago, Sunwoo said:
Did I say that it was okay for people to trash Camilla and her alts? No, no I didn't. I don't approve of outright "trashing" a character how much I may not care for them. Expressing dislike is fine as long as it's not overdrawn or virulent. Also, you're right that this is the CYL discussion thread -- meaning that people who post here have varying opinions and thoughts about the current leaderboard. Meaning that I'm completely within my rights to express my opinion that maybe this might not be the best place to talk about this?
Also, are you aware that reasonable people don't dislike other people just because they're fans of a character or their alts? It's the overall attitude one projects. You also have not addressed my actual argument, you're just getting defense and ranting about things that are not even relevant to what I even said or asked, which gives me the feeling that you're not listening, and you don't care to listen. Maybe you should take your own advice and also see more differing opinions.
I agree, people should be free to express their opinions here. But what you're saying just sounds like I shouldn't express my excitement about new alts because it might be upsetting when everyone's busy complaining about them. Well, I find some opinions in this thread upsetting too, but I won't tell them they shouldn't say them. They can express their dislike all they want, and I'm going to express my excitement too. It's sad when saying something positive about the game could get you in trouble.
Indeed, yet you threatened people will dislike me and other Camilla fans for enjoying themselves right now. I'm not going to walk on eggshells about being happy any more than everyone else is about being upset. I'm not even making rude comments, but it doesn't seem I have to.
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32 minutes ago, Sunwoo said:
That's your prerogative to not care, but then don't be surprised if other people start thinking unfavorably of you (or by extension other Camilla fans).
I'm not even asking you to not be happy or to dislike alts or turn it into a morality issue or anything like that. I'm just asking if this is REALLY the best place to be gushing over how you're looking forward to getting other seasonal Camilla alts in the near future. TIME AND PLACE is not a morality issue, it's more of a common sense issue.
What about time and place? I'm pretty sure this is the CYL3 discussion thread, not the "trash Camilla and alts" thread, unless I'm mistaken. My comments have been largely on-topic, just not sharing the group sentiment, it seems. If people are going to dislike me or anybody else over character alts in a phone game I don't think I'm the one with the problem.
I could just as well make issue with the one-sided whining for the past 50 pages this thread has turned into, but since here that's the majority's opinion I'm the one with the problematic posts for not following suit. If anything, people here could use to see more differing opinions. The absolute bafflement I've seen about Camilla's placing shows that a lot of people may be more out of touch with the overall fanbase than they think.
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3 minutes ago, Sunwoo said:
Look, I'm not trying to bring down Camilla fans or anyone who likes her, or anything else negative and divisive right now, but do you guys not realize how tone deaf this sounds? Yes, I get that you're excited because Camilla gets a lot of good stuff so better for people who like her. More power for you, but it comes off as indirect gloating and kind of greedy in the face of anyone whose favorite characters have no alts or aren't even in the game. Again, there's a time and place and I'm not sure if this is the best place.
I don't really care about the alt issue, and I'm allowed not to. Be it more Camillas, Ikes, or whatever they may make. I want some characters not in the game too, but I'm still enjoying the new alts and seasonals as well. Trying to turn liking or even just not being against alts into a morality issue lately is ridiculous. Gloating is not my intention, but yes I am enjoying that Camilla has another alt and may get a CYL one this year. I'm not going to be scared away from discussing something positively because of the community's whining.
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I still don't like her attack art, but bathmilla is pretty fun. Ouch Pouch fiting perfectly in a multi-map mode like TT helps too.
1 hour ago, Tybrosion said:I started this TT out with Xander and some horse buddies (legendary Ephraim, LA!Lilina, Elise), but now that he's maxed out on HMs again (and with Leo maxed as well):
I've never denied that I'm part of the problem, so feel free to throw shit at me if you so desire. I probably deserve it.
Based and cute team.
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6 minutes ago, Diovani Bressan said:
This sounds fun. Brave Camilla will be the 7th version of her, and... to be fair, I wouldn't be surprised to see Bride Camilla or Winter Camilla this year. Grand Conquest Camilla Team is possible to happen someday.
It may be a bright future for Camilla emblem. And the best part is IS has a habit of giving her such good variety (as long as she's a flier), so they promise to all be fun.
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28 minutes ago, Lord-Zero said:
Most of the people that want the midterm results to go away are people whose characters were affected negatively by them such as Camilla last year.
I don't like the idea of it period. They just make a mess and the end results less "legitimate". It just turns the whole thing into a fight of bandwaggoning votes and community drama (more so than it already would be). That includes people that would be positively affecting me too, like salt miners voting Camilla this year. Midterm results are as close to an unspoiled result as we can get now, but it's only 3/7 of the way through.
52 minutes ago, Drakhis said:Same! Adrift Camilla is my favorite one too, and even if I have put so many orbs, she's not in my barrack ^^
Hope you get her! You deserve to see the glory of the full 6milla AR team.
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11 hours ago, GrandeRampel said:
One thing to consider is that maybe the actual "minority" is people who take this contest so seriously they talk about it for 45 pages. Us, basically.
Perhaps over 50% of the voters are more casual and just put their vote in and MAYBE share it on twitter with the function already on the vote site, before going on with their day as usual.
Anyway, I voted for Camilla again today.
A voice of reason. Too many people forget about the wider playerbase and their opinions. It seems there must be plenty that don't care about alts, too many Camillas, or pushing less-represented characters into the game. Just because a lot of hardcore people that care enough to be on a forum about the game lose their minds over that stuff doesn't mean everybody does. The fact that people 50 pages into this thread still seem to be in "disbelief" that Camilla could be the top spot right now already shows how out of touch they might be.
2 hours ago, Drakhis said:Anyway, even if I want Camilla to win, I think that voting for her, just to annoy people, is just childish, and really not nice at all.
The opposite is childish too. Voting to make Camilla out of the top is a bad thing.
Indeed. The whole spirit of it being a popularity poll voting is ruined when it becomes a war of people voting for salt or spite. Midterm results are such a dumb idea.
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21 minutes ago, Sunwoo said:
I don't think hating on fans of a character just for liking that character is ever okay. That is utterly stupid and I don't condone it.
However, and this may be an unpopular opinion, but expressing hate for a character is totally okay. There's a time and place, though, and it's not okay to bring up a character just to hate on them when they have nothing to do with the discussion. But if that character is actually part of a discussion, and as long as one is civil and not attacking the actual fans and people, I really don't see a problem with it.
Absolutely. No issue if anybody hates any character or says it. Just it can still feel hostile at some times being a fan of them, especially at volatile time like right now where some people are so pissed off. (which in itself is ridiculous, over a phone game) And the rallies to vote against just for the sake of the upset doesn't exactly sound in good spirit either.
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6 minutes ago, XRay said:
I think the player base as a whole is generally nice and positive, or at the very least apathetic. Only a small fraction of the community is openly hostile and super vocal. If we take the number of dislikes on YouTube videos to the number of competitive PvP players, negative players make up a very small fraction of the Heroes player base.
True enough. It can just get really hostile sometimes by those vocal people, especially on other sites. Also I just saw the flood of Camilla hate/hate for her fans on twitter right now so that hasn't helped today.
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20 minutes ago, Vince777 said:
I feel that's the sort of attitude that bolsters people to vote even more for her.
Pretty much. I would be voting for her regardless, but seeing people constantly hurl trash at your favorite character all the time just makes it feel even more satisfying if she does manage to win.
it sucks that the community will have a huge meltdown either way this year. If she wins, people have fits about it. If she loses, they all gloat they managed to ruin her victory. What sucks most is just the attitude of a big chunk of FE community itself, honestly.
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3 minutes ago, Baldrick said:
What makes a brave alt better than other alts?
If you don't mind me asking, who's your second favourite character?
I want one that's not just seasonal/theme alt for a change. I like the special promoted class/special class treatment of the CYL alts. Something like Hinoka's kinshi alt or Chrom's horse alt were similar and cool too. I like alts, and I'd like something along those lines for her.
My other favorite is Cordelia.
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4 minutes ago, Jave said:
Micaiah could have ten alts and I would still be giving all my votes to her. This is not about getting another version of the character, it's about letting IntSys know who my favorite character is.
Exactly. My favorite is my favorite. And not like anybody asked IS for the Adrift or bath banners, but we are asking for a CYL version.
Legendary Hero Battle of the Gods: Duma
in Heroes War Room
Posted
Here I present Hinoka, with bow in hand, blotting out the sun on Duma.
Easiest abyssal so far thanks to owning a flying archer and the AI being roadblocked by that breakable wall. I beat it with a more "fair" flier team first, but I noticed Hinoka did most of the work so I tried using just her afterwards. It ended up being a pretty easy but fun idea.