Thread: Sengoku Providence announced!

I'm kind of upset Canada got a soft-launch. Gives me less time to try for Oda Nobunaga, but at least I managed a 5* character otherwise I'd be really upset. I can't imagine how those who spent money for the unlocked slots feel, with a few more days to go until the official launch, only to get their time cut short.

Anyway, I started this last night (well, early morning actually), and I find myself really liking the characters, story, and the music. Also, the game is a lot more humorous than I thought it would be. What I don't particularly care for is the constant/slow loading between screens (it is a soft-launch, I guess) and the "Paid Magatama ONLY!" gatcha. It's nice that we (as F2P players) have the option to save up 40/280, to do a guaranteed single/multi-pull with 5* characters, but given how slow currency-earning is, that will likely take a while. I'm tempted to purchase the $5 5* character pull, since it's cheap enough to not really feel bad if I later quit the game (due to greed), but I'm also a bit apprehensive over supporting this game when it's going about things as they are.

It's nice to see that Auto/2x Battle are only locked behind the Player Rank and NOT paid. It'll take a decent while to get there, but you probably shouldn't be using Auto Battle in the beginning anyway.

The scenes seem decent enough (I had forgotten that they're animated, at least the 5* ones are), but I did notice that the first scene with Nankoubou Tenkai (when animated) was censored. It wasn't when it was still, but the moment it started moving the area was mosaic'd.

I'm not sure I'll stick with this game or not. I might purchase the starter bundle ($5 isn't much at all), and just focus on the story content. GVG doesn't really interest me if it's going to be full of whales vs whales, so I'll just concern myself with solo story/events and see how far that can carry me.

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Also, I think the banners might be incorrect (when they list that you can only use paid Magatama, maybe they later changed their mind but didn't reflect it in the banner text?). I can't check for sure, since I'm just under 70 Magatama for a ten-pull, but when I try to use the 70 Magatama gatcha (for the Premium/Light/Dark/Fire/Wind gatcha), I get a message that I have 68 Magatama but 70 is required. If I choose the other gatcha, such as the 40 Magatama for a guaranteed single-pull 5*, or the Ultra Premium Twp 5* guaranteed gatcha, I get a notice that I don't have enough paid Magatama. So maybe the only gathat that required paid Magatama are Ultra Premium and 5* Gatcha.

I'll know later tonight, when I hit 70 Magatama and try. I'll post the results here.

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Okay, so I have 71 Magatama now, but when I go to choose the Fire gatcha, I get this:

"70 Paid Magatama for a Guaranteed 5* Fire Senki

You have 1 Paid Magatama
and 71 Free Magatama

Use 70 Magatama and 0 Paid Magatama to
draw?
NOTE: Free Magatama will be used first."

So...if I use 70 free Magatama instead of paid, do I get the guaranteed 5*? The way it sounds it's as though they need to be paid, but it's letting me pull the gatcha anyway. :/

Aw, no!
Now I can't keep rolling for a 5*.
It's like they're doing everything they can to make people hate this game.

If VPN can get you into early release, can it get you out?

So I turned on my VPN to Canada to try out the game and I have 2 things to report.

The load times are atrocious, but if you go into the Display Settings and turn it to Low quality, it will be much more bearable (until they get the load times fixed).

Secondly I turned off my VPN and went to the site to see what happens. It looks like you can reroll for your free gacha, but if you hit the roll button it just pops up an error and it fails.

Originally Posted by Fujinaito

So I turned on my VPN to Canada to try out the game and I have 2 things to report.

The load times are atrocious, but if you go into the Display Settings and turn it to Low quality, it will be much more bearable (until they get the load times fixed).

Secondly I turned off my VPN and went to the site to see what happens. It looks like you can reroll for your free gacha, but if you hit the roll button it just pops up an error and it fails.

Thanks for testing. Guess I'll just wait since I still haven't rolled a 5star.

The only paid gacha worth doing is the limited time 5 pMag for a 5* start up gacha.

For free Mag, use the once per day limited gacha.

So, apparently you can't use free Magatama on the element gatcha, despite the prompt box saying you could. It was fixed when the daily rolled over yesterday, and they've updated the prompt box to state that paid Magatama are required. The fact that we don't have ANY gatcha currently in the game yet, that offers you a guaranteed 5* with a multi-pull (Japan has this), is disappointing. Every single one of the usable gatcha are "paid Magatama only", and it's not difficult to see the greed for the ones behind this version (SuperHippo?).

It's really depressing, as there's a good game here. I've been playing just the story content, and the characters/music are interesting, and the dialogue is fun to read (funny at times, too). However, the constant push for paid Magatama over the ones you earn for free is frustrating, especially considering that you'll essentially need the 5* characters for later content. This isn't like Flower Knight Girl where 5* characters are basically the bulk of your team (earned through events, and regularly through gatcha pulls), unless you get lucky with 6* pulls or opt to pay. 5* characters in Sengoku Providence shouldn't be this difficult to get, and I'm not exactly thrilled about throwing them all away with the ~3% chance to get them in our FREE MAGATAMA gatcha. It's why Japan has that guaranteed 5* multi-pull in the first place, since the game is centered around you having a decent amount of them. If SuperHippo continues to rely on forcing people to use paid Magatama for all of the guaranteed 5* multi-pulls, it's going to cripple everyone who isn't P2P. Instead, why not make the option for a guaranteed multi-pull with paid Magatama be cheaper/lower than free Magatama? Maybe have it so (if you pay) you can choose which 5* you get out of the pull? Or have it so, if the number of Magatama between free and paid are the same, the paid variant get 2-3 guaranteed 5* out of a multi-pull while free Magatama only get the one.

Give me an option to save up a nice amount and spend them for a guaranteed 5*, and then we'll talk. Until then, I guess I'll save as long as I can until that happens, or I get tired of waiting for the developers to fix things and move on. I'm guessing it'll be the latter. :/