Favorite shipgirl (Kancolle,Azur lane, Arpeggio of blue steel,Haifuri)

[ShinGetsu]

Kancolle does run on smartphone too. There's an Android ver.

 

However it's recommended to play it on computer with your browser as the game is exclusively in Japanese, and the US/UK community made a Chrome Extension that does translates most parts of the game and provide different tools for the game.

 

I'm usually only using the phone app for launching expedition and doing some daily quests.

 

Honestly, I like the fact that kancolle allows you to do something else at the same time. It's not a game that requires your undivided attention and it's nice. On the other hand that means you don't have much to do unless you're clearing maps, event maps and relaunching expedition. I'm only invested in the game when there is an ongoing event, like now.

 

IMO, Kancolle is nice for the historical reference and the overall very colorful personality of the differents girls. And also the wide variety of design since there is a lot of different artists for the designs. AL should be better for overall gameplay.

[HaachamaShipping]

1 hour ago, BrigadierRosen said:

ill go for that azur lane game instead. Especially since ill get distracted while on the web browser. (very bad at focusing on many things).

 

thank you vereh much.

 

For gameplay experience, AL feels kind of better. Less grindy, translated, more interaction with your ships during battle and thus you feel like it tests skill more and isn't just a resource/time manager of how often can you afford to bash your head against the wall in hopes of breaking through. Art-wise, AL is not bad, but Kancolle has set a high bar. But for that, I may as well just go on danbooru.

34 minutes ago, ShinGetsu said:

Kancolle does run on smartphone too. There's an Android ver.

Yeah, the point was more that AL does not work that way. I'd personally for example not bother with AL, if I hadn't already gotten an emulator to run Girls Frontline.

[ShinGetsu]

Kancolle is very nice for the BGM too. Event BGM are really good.

 

 

That was the music of the last boss of E-7 during Summer 2017 event.

 

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Last boss of Winter 2018 event.

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And this one was E-4 last winter. I like this one a lot.

 

[LOZFFVII]

@BrigadierRosen Basically, you choose KanColle for the Waifus and you choose AL for the gameplay.

Personally, I think KanColle's gameply can be charitably described as "an RNG mess", while at least I can actually play AL. I still come back to KC because I just prefer their character designs over AL's equivalents. (I've made a rant before about how much better KC's Warspite is over AL's)

[ShinGetsu]

Kancolle RNG can really be mitigated honestly. You still get some BS, but as long as your fleet are properly fitted, properly leveled, and you used everything you can to make a proper run, only the random trolling can happen. And even then, with support expedition and fully sparkled fleet, as long as your ships are properly leveled and random Head-on on night PT node doesn't happens too much, you'll lose at most 4/5 runs for a boss.

 

Usually people hits a wall in event boss when they have barely the fleet to success. I had that at my first event (Summer 2017, E-4), I had that at my second event and couldn't clear because I had not the fleet, period (could have passed with a lot of luck basically, and I didn't manage that), and I had to go in casual for E-7 last winter, and even then I bashed my head for some time before finally clearing the final boss.

 

Salt in kancolle happens the most when you're there, but not exactly. I completely massacrated E-2 this event because I had everything for me. Good ships, good equipment, wise choice of formation, and I knew which ressources I could afford to lose. I got a bit lucky as the pre-boss node didn't troll me, but the boss herself was a walk in the park. (Murasame literally nuked her with Daihatsu-tank + double WG42).

 

Actually I'm pretty confident I can do E-3 in medium difficulty too, but the choices of lock I did may complicate the task and I think the plane isn't worth the salt. So easy for me for E-3 and probably E-4 and E-5...

 

 

Also, I feel that with the new update in HTML5, the RNG fest and trolling offrouting got really, really mitigated in the new normal maps. Even the infamous 3-2 is a lot, lot more bearable.

 

If anything, the true RNG-salt is when you're trying to get a rare drop in event and she doesn't appear. At all. That's the most frustrating part.

[BrigadierRosen]

55 minutes ago, Riselotte said:

For gameplay experience, AL feels kind of better. Less grindy, translated, more interaction with your ships during battle and thus you feel like it tests skill more and isn't just a resource/time manager of how often can you afford to bash your head against the wall in hopes of breaking through. Art-wise, AL is not bad, but Kancolle has set a high bar. But for that, I may as well just go on danbooru.

Yeah, the point was more that AL does not work that way. I'd personally for example not bother with AL, if I hadn't already gotten an emulator to run Girls Frontline.

 

19 minutes ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

@BrigadierRosen Basically, you choose KanColle for the Waifus and you choose AL for the gameplay.

Personally, I think KanColle's gameply can be charitably described as "an RNG mess", while at least I can actually play AL. I still come back to KC because I just prefer their character designs over AL's equivalents. (I've made a rant before about how much better KC's Warspite is over AL's)

i see, i think i would prefer azur lane since i play enough rng based games to drive up the sodden bend half the time lol and the ability to make somewhat of a difference is nice to know.

 

Also just looked at AL and it does remind me alot about this game. http://gf.sunborngame.com/

 

 

[WolfGewehr]

3 hours ago, BrigadierRosen said:

this thread reminds me of the old forum bar back on WoT

 

Just fyi want to say that we also had forum bar of our own, but it has died out.

 

 

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Dem Hood

 

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[LOZFFVII]

58 minutes ago, BrigadierRosen said:

Also just looked at AL and it does remind me alot about this game. http://gf.sunborngame.com/

Yeah, we know of Girls Frontline. A couple of the guys here even play it.

I wouldn't say they're all that similar, though.

Other than having anthropomorphised characters and being developed by a Chinese company.

I think GF is more of a strategy RPG while AL is an RPG/Bullet Hell hybrid.

...And KC is an RNG mess.

[BrigadierRosen]

3 minutes ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

Yeah, we know of Girls Frontline. A couple of the guys here even play it.

I wouldn't say they're all that similar, though.

Other than having anthropomorphised characters and being developed by a Chinese company.

I think GF is more of a strategy RPG while AL is an RPG/Bullet Hell hybrid.

...And KC is an RNG mess.

I don't know it been years since i've properly watched an anime show since i struggle to find something i like.

just downloaded AL i guess the animu characters reperesenting ships reminds me of GF but i guess the actual gameplay is a lot more intensive.

 

Is that KC game that bad lol?

[HaachamaShipping]

3 minutes ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

Yeah, we know of Girls Frontline. A couple of the guys here even play it.

I wouldn't say they're all that similar, though.

Other than having anthropomorphised characters and being developed by a Chinese company.

I think GF is more of a strategy RPG while AL is an RPG/Bullet Hell hybrid.

...And KC is an RNG mess.

KC is a resources management game.

2 minutes ago, BrigadierRosen said:

I don't know it been years since i've properly watched an anime show since i struggle to find something i like.

just downloaded AL i guess the animu characters reperesenting ships reminds me of GF but i guess the actual gameplay is a lot more intensive.

 

Is that KC game that bad lol?

The gameplay frankly is crap. It's RNG. You play it for the girls and that's it. In AL, you get to steer your escort fleet and activate support fire, thus you have a nice degree of control. In GFL you set up your echelon structure, you send T-dolls around in battle on the grid and can manually activate skills. In Kancolle you basically sit there and pray that ships shoot what they are supposed to shoot and that your Type 3 shell armed ships shoot Supply Depot Hime and the Type 91 AP armed ships shoot the artillery imps and not the other way round, if you somehow managed to run the gauntled past a few frigging gold Ru BBs and friggin PTSD imps...

 

If it's just for gameplay, there are tons of more fun games out there.

[LOZFFVII]

3 minutes ago, BrigadierRosen said:

Is that KC game that bad lol?

Absolutely none of the combat you see here is player-controlled. It's all random.

The only choices the player has any control of is "pursue into night battle: Y/N" and "retreat from operation: Y/N". That's it.

Apart from that it's all menu-based micromanagement.

The micromanagement, as others have said before, helps to mitigate some of the RNG, but the game is still mostly RNG with no real gameplay.

The shipfu's are still of higher quality than the ones in AL though. Compare Warspite (KC) with Warspite (AL).

[BrigadierRosen]

10 minutes ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

Absolutely none of the combat you see here is player-controlled. It's all random.

The only choices the player has any control of is "pursue into night battle: Y/N" and "retreat from operation: Y/N". That's it.

Apart from that it's all menu-based micromanagement.

The micromanagement, as others have said before, helps to mitigate some of the RNG, but the game is still mostly RNG with no real gameplay.

The shipfu's are still of higher quality than the ones in AL though. Compare Warspite (KC) with Warspite (AL).

I used to play games like that when i was younger but prefer more hands on and visual effects to go with it all, either way completed the first two campaign missions i do like the game quite a bit.

 

not sure about the girls being better there. I actually prefer the azur lane ones.

 

oh well.

[HaachamaShipping]

32 minutes ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

Absolutely none of the combat you see here is player-controlled. It's all random.

The only choices the player has any control of is "pursue into night battle: Y/N" and "retreat from operation: Y/N". That's it.

Apart from that it's all menu-based micromanagement.

The micromanagement, as others have said before, helps to mitigate some of the RNG, but the game is still mostly RNG with no real gameplay.

The shipfu's are still of higher quality than the ones in AL though. Compare Warspite (KC) with Warspite (AL).

You also get to pick what ships to use, formation pre-battle, withdraw ship if fleet command centre is present. Come on, you omitted over half the options!

 

Also, AL shipfu's imo fall into three categories:

• Decent alternative that likely will build its own fanbase quite well, comparable in numbers to KC. e.g. Prinz Eugen. Both PEs are extremely popular. Atago and Takao too. Likely also ships like Furutaka I can see having the same niche following in both games.
• Ships AL has a monopoly on that it thus can define first: A lot. Many of the big shots are here. Hood, Cleveland, Enterprise, Belfap, ... But also minor ones like Hammann, Leander, Unicorn, ship girls that might not appear in KC for years if ever and can build a following in AL meanwhile.
• Ships that will likely never live up to KC counterparts: Not necessarily bad, but these are often ships that are wrangling with titans. For people who know KC Kongou for years now, AL Kongou might look fine, but it just is not the same. Also includes cases like Warspite, Nagato, Fuso and Yamashiro, Yuudachi, Shimakaze, etc.

This isn't necessarily a rivalry, you can appreciate both styles, but it's hard to get new associations with old ship names after all the years. For example, to me, Haruna will always be daijobu and hardly much else. Even if AL Haruna looks pretty good and the artists did a great job... 

[El2aZeR]

Some new CGs are live:

 

Maestrale:

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We expected a German or British, but it was a pizza all along.

 

Gotland:

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Am I the only one who thinks her stare is a bit.... creepy?

[HaachamaShipping]

5 minutes ago, El2aZeR said:

Some new CGs are live:

 

Maestrale:

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We expected a German or British, but it was a pizza all along.

 

Gotland:

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Am I the only one who thinks her stare is a bit.... creepy?

Weird, yes, creepy, no. Imo. Also, cute pasta and... dunno... knäckebröd? Honestly, the longer I look at her, the more I like her odd look...

[LOZFFVII]

57 minutes ago, El2aZeR said:

Maestrale:

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We expected a German or British, but it was a pizza all along.

I never publicly stated it, but I did consider Meastrale or one of Libeccio's other elder sisters to be a candidate. I also considered Vittorio Veneto as being a candidate, seeing as she's either the second of the Littorio-class or the name ship of the Vittorio Veneto-class, with both Littorio and Roma as her younger sisters (depending on if you're from Italy or not).

Oof, Jiji, please give your DDs undershirts, they're gonna find Japan's temperate climate to be a bit chilly...

59 minutes ago, El2aZeR said:

Gotland:

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Am I the only one who thinks her stare is a bit.... creepy?

She has a more striking appearance, almost as if KanColle is showing off that they got to the Swedish Navy first.

It suits her, I think.

[BrigadierRosen]

noice more ships.

 

im guessing wargaming did a collab with them ages ago?

 

if not i hope they do could get some noice ships ladz.

[HaachamaShipping]

5 minutes ago, BrigadierRosen said:

noice more ships.

 

im guessing wargaming did a collab with them ages ago?

 

if not i hope they do could get some noice ships ladz.

They didn't. They likely never will.

[BrigadierRosen]

1 minute ago, Riselotte said:

They didn't. They likely never will.

 

r.i.p mate.

[AnotherDuck]

36 minutes ago, Captain_LOZFFVII said:

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She has a more striking appearance, almost as if KanColle is showing off that they got to the Swedish Navy first.

It suits her, I think.

I like her design. Mostly. I don't like those half-gloves things. The uniform is very classy, though. The dark blue is correct. And while I guessed it before due to the fairy, I like that her hair is blue, rather than the sterotypical blonde. All in all, 9/10. Now I just want to hear what her voice is like...

[Herrscher_Elysia]

2 hours ago, El2aZeR said:

Gotland:

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Am I the only one who thinks her stare is a bit.... creepy?

No, I think its fine.

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Now this is creepy.

 

 

 

 

 

[BrigadierRosen]

3 minutes ago, IJN_Kitakami said:

No, I think its fine.

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Now this is creepy.

 

 

 

 

 

That concerned me greatly.

[Aotearas]

Okay, I just can't let it go ... what is up with the Gotland's gloves? Those would start slipping the moment she's moving her fingers. They seem to be based on half-palm gloves (popular as driving gloves) but the design the artist went with on Gotland are way too short, ... for lack of a better word they'd simply lack grip (pun intended).

 

I never thought I'd be a glove guy, but I just can't unsee it. It vexes me!

[BrigadierRosen]

slightly off topic im guessing the new royal navy event can only be fully completed with tier 8+ ships?

 

if so bugger me...

[El2aZeR]

39 minutes ago, Aotearas said:

I never thought I'd be a glove guy, but I just can't unsee it. It vexes me!

 

Think of it this way, maybe it's the skin that's tacked on instead and her hands just show her true steel self.

WHAT HAS BEEN SEEN, CANNOT BE UNSEEN!