Board Thread:Game Updates/@comment-3502824-20171207155334/@comment-32647310-20180206115156

NozomiType-R wrote:

Azur Lane is another simulation game that shares the same concepts as Kancolle. Some people compare it against Kancolle because of that, but IMO it is an original game.

For example, Kancolle has no room for you to customize (like Idolmaster, for example), it has no auto-battle, the battles are different (psuedo-bullet hell vs RNG-run tree-branching), there is live 2D and there are three factions that the shipfus can come from. Plus you cannot sink anybody forever. There are no blocking game-mechanics that require external help to make the game playable (*looks at LoS*), so it is quite newbie-friendly.

IJN is the only faction that has animal-ears, so not the whole game is like that.

It seems to be gaining traction in Japan. It has actual Japanese servers, it won some app award and there were actual advertisements at Akihabara (while I was there). The voiceovers (if implemented) are in Japanese.

My understanding is that AL has more in common with more recent browser-based games than it does with KC. In fact, as far as I'm aware, about the only thing KC and AL have in common is that they use WWI/II warships as their basis (I don't see 'cute girls' as a factor, because given the target audience it's a given). Is it gaining traction in Japan? Sure, I don't see why it wouldn't, especially considering that its new and shiny and different from anything that's similar (such as KC)...but that also doesn't make the games mutually exclusive to each other either.

193.127.223.11 wrote:

Some sort of Super Duper Confidential High Tech Late Model Blueprint?

Who knows?

The Action Report thing kinda came out of nowhere for Fall, so there's not reason to not think they would do something like that again...though I admit it really is just random speculation on my part.

In all seriousness, I expect Musashi's K2 to require 1 BP, 1-2 AR and a metric fuckton of ammo and steel. Things like Devmats and Torches *may* also be thrown into the mix as well (as upgrading Tatsuta to K2 apparenlty costs some of these).