09-19-2014, 08:45 AM | #1 |
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Kantai Collection
What is Kantai Collection? "Kantai Collection (艦隊これくしょん), also known as KanColle (艦これ) , is a online browser game in which one assumes the role of an admiral, assembles a fleet of kanmusu ("ship girl", girls based on World War II era Japanese ships and submarines) and battles against fleets of alien enemy warships" - KanColle Wikia [with minor edits here and there] Spoiler: show So, think Touhou. So many shipgirls. I guess you can call KanColle as the game that has a similarly sized fan community, especially given that it's only been around for... a year and a bit? You could say that the amount of images and comics is on par with Touhou, with relationships and personalities thought up on based on their quotes in-game. Music's there too, but it's not as abundant. Same with videos for some reason. I'm sure that'll pick up soon enough. Pretty crazy, eh? I don't actually play myself because it's amazingly hard to get into. I mean: 1. You need to be in Japan to play in the first place (although there are ways to circumvent this) 2. You need an account on a shopping site. 3. You need to go into a lottery before you can even start playing as an admiral of your fleet. 4. You need to refresh the page given to you once you're in the lottery at just the right time so that you can go nuts and begin your campaign. Basically: Very hard. Of course, the fandom is pretty good at depicting the shipgirls in their daily lives when they're not out sortieing or whatnot, so you're not really missing out on much if you can't play. Anyhoo, I'll just leave you with this. Spoiler: show |
09-19-2014, 09:16 AM | #2 |
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So, gameplay!
Fleet in a diamond formation facing off against a Wo-Class Aircraft Carrier. Three of the shipgirls are pretty badly damaged. You control a fleet, managing your resources of bauxite, steel, ammo and fuel to build more shipgirls, go out on expeditions and sorties, resupply those shipgirls after a sortie, and repair them. The really big, coloured kanji read "Sortie", "Practice Exercise", and "Expedition" respectively. It's sort of one of those games where you can buy items with real-world money to make the game easier, but you don't really need that since the game can be generous at times. Or just massively trolls you at the compass spin that determines where you go when you sortie. Once you're in battle, the girls just battle by themselves. The only thing you choose is how they are arranged for battle: As in vertical line formations for high risk, high return strategies, or other formations to help ease the threat of submarines and aircraft headed your way. ON THE PLUS SIDE, YOU MIGHT FIND SOME MORE SHIPS THAT ARE LIKE YOUR SUNKEN SHIP! They won't be exactly like your sunken ship girl if you lose her, but you can at least know that you raised another shipgirl to honour her memory. *cries* Last edited by KamenAeons; 02-27-2015 at 02:32 AM. |
02-27-2015, 07:33 AM | #3 |
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SO! Emi and I became admirals today! BEHOLD AS THIS THREAD EVENTUALLY GETS CLOGGED UP WITH OUR SHENANIGANS!
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02-27-2015, 07:37 AM | #4 |
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Admiral Emilia, reporting for duty!
So I started out with the Destroyer Murakumo since I thought she was the coolest looking. =w= Ended up building my first shipgirl with turned out to be a Rare one! The Light Cruiser Yuubari, who is now my flagship! So far I'm waiting on my other ships to build before we start pounding abyssal face in! Or something like that.
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02-28-2015, 07:45 PM | #5 |
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Now see a lot of our discussion occurred in the Skype Chat. I've also mostly been not posting because I keep forgetting to take screenshots. I'm a baka, I know!
This is all going to be in spoilers for those who don't want to be spoiled on anything. Spoiler: show
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03-01-2015, 03:06 AM | #6 |
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I managed to get into the lottery on my first attempt Saturday morning, and after I got home from my soccer game around 3, I started playing / setting it up so that I could play. And for the most part, I didn't stop until an hour or two ago when I needed to force myself to do reffings for ASB. I'll hopefully make a progress report thingy sometime eventually, but I'm definitely hooked right now.
Also Hibiki <3
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03-01-2015, 03:49 AM | #7 |
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And yeah, we have three admirals who are active on the forums here *scattered applause*
Emi's made way way more progress than me, who's still stuck at 1-3 because the compass has never liked me. Spoiler: show Last edited by KamenAeons; 03-01-2015 at 09:03 AM. |
03-09-2015, 09:08 AM | #9 |
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Day 9: Kamen's curse continues. There is no Sendai to be found, despite numerous attempts to farm levels containing her as a drop.
Anyways, I'm done with Grease now, so I should have more time after school to play. I'll probably try to write up some sort of recap, and do some commentaries like Blaze did above, and do other stuff.
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03-09-2015, 12:41 PM | #10 |
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Cool beans Spark.
Going to document my run of 2-4 (since I forgot to do it for 2-2 and 2-3), and its probably going to be a doozy folks. Just did a test run and while nothing especially bad happened this map has had a habit of kicking me in the groin (I've done at least 10 other attempts at it and I'm only doing it now because I got some very lucky ships from construction. I better load up on fire extinguishers and squirrels though.) Also expect much pissing about the Compass.
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03-30-2015, 02:03 PM | #14 |
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So with the Spring 2015 event coming in late April, I've decided to do one last "Hurrah!" and clear 2-5, the Extra Map for World 2. Just did a test run of it and I can totally get to the Boss Node, so I figured before April comes and I stream the event I'll give you guys a stream of my attempt at 2-5. I've already completed it a bit from my test run, so I only need to sink the Flagship three more times in order to complete it.
I'm not streaming right now and will probably do it after supper, just making sure to post ahead of time so that if people want to join they can be prepared. The fleet I'm going to pull ahead with: Level 35 Kongou Level 25 Hiei Level 25 Haruna Level 25 Kirishima Level 33 Kaga Level 30 Akagi R.I.P. Resources
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03-30-2015, 09:06 PM | #15 |
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So recap of what happened in the stream:
-Got to the boss a few times but was unable to defeat the boss totally, I've got a couple of more kills on it. Also got 2 Kongou wtf. Gonna try to see if I can upload it to YT and share the link with you guys.
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03-31-2015, 12:09 AM | #16 |
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Apparently if you don't have a phone YT only permits your to upload 15 min videos. Fuck that.
Just watch it from my Livestream Channel, I legit forgot that's a thing. Will note I learned from this that I really need to tweak the volume a lot.
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04-02-2015, 11:50 PM | #17 |
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So currently, I've been having a blast playing this game and just chatting with Emi, Kamen, and Alex about it with massive Skype chat spammy goodness. I'm just gonna post a brief recap (since I forgot to record stuff via screenshots) of my first successful 3-4 run.
I went in with a fleet consisting of Haruna Kai / Kongou Kai / Kirishima Kai / Hiei Kai / Akagi Kai / Junyou Kai. I chose the Kongou class BB's over my other four BBV's for no reason other than I just like them more. Haruna and Kongou had maxed stats except for AA because lolAA, while Kirishima and Junyou had max armor. This was probably my sixth or seventh attempt, and typically, I was forced to either turn back when Akagi inevitably got critted into sinking damage or I was just not directed to the boss node (Gave me a lot of furniture coins though!) The first node, like usual, was pretty much a pushover, and I only took some chip damage. At the second node, Node F, I wasn't so lucky against the Ru that was waiting for me. Junyou ended up taking moderate damage, leaving her unable to attack during the day shelling phase for the rest of the run, and it meant that if she got hit again, I'd probably have to restart yet again. After thinking about whether the risk of continuing going was worth the extra resources I'd use, I decided to fuck it and continue on to Node H. Here I, for the third time, had to face the hardest fleet consisting of a Flagship Ru and two Elite Ru's. With a couple lucky crits and with the help of artillery spotting, we somehow prevailed, despite me almost having a heart attack when Junyou was hit, only to take 2 damage. I continued on to the boss node, and lady luck decided to finally join my side, giving me the only fleet composition that didn't have any BB's. I'd packed enough fighters to achieve Air Superiority, and we made it through. With only a single Light Cruiser standing, it was Akagi's turn to attack. And like the disappointment she always is for me, she misses. So I just hit the Night Battle button and let Haruna double attack crit it into the deepest depths of hell. Afterwards, I got my S, and I guess the RNG felt bad for not allowing me to ever construct or get a CV from a drop, so it decided to make up for it by giving me Hatsukaze as a reward, who only drops at that specific node outside of events. And now I'm heading into 4-1, which should be really fun while I try to avoid being shit on by the compass, who gets to choose whether I fight the pushover boss node or the hellish Ta class at the other nodes.
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04-03-2015, 08:46 PM | #18 |
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Note to all Admirals: When Spark is streaming, start doing constructions.
I just got Shoukaku! *huggles*
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04-03-2015, 08:54 PM | #19 |
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These are tears of
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04-03-2015, 09:17 PM | #20 |
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Fixed.
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Rear-Admiral スパーク拍子's Stats Rank 8299 in Ominato Guard District HQ Level 54 Currently at 4-4 Princess Node 840/21 98% Sortie Success Rate 29/4 88% PVP Win Rate Last Update: 4/14/15 Fleet Spoiler: show Warstories Spoiler: show Streams I Might Upload Eventually If Youtube Didn't Hate Me Spoiler: show
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04-04-2015, 11:13 AM | #23 |
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Vice-Admiral 仮面のぶゆき's Stats Rank 10840 in Kanoya Airfield HQ Level 81 Currently at 4-3 99% Sortie Success Rate 98% Expedition Success Rate 59% PVP Win Rate Fleet Spoiler: show Last edited by KamenAeons; 04-15-2015 at 09:39 PM. |
04-19-2015, 09:32 PM | #24 |
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So the latest event has been confirmed for the 28th of April. That's in pretty much a week from now. Not sure how everyone wants to do event streams. I myself really want to do them but I'll probably be taking a few days to gather information about the event and stockpile resources, so I likely wouldn't start until May.
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04-20-2015, 01:04 AM | #25 |
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Ahahahaha! I'm still sitting on my throne of 30000 bauxite!
... And underlevelled shipgirls. My body is so not ready. Streams from me will be primarily of the Easy Mode maps, and will most likely be during the final week of the event. I'll do some practice runs before the stream, but I would like to go in not blind because it took me a while to collect 420 buckets. >>; |
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