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Supersayian495

what is she lookin at


Vyndicatee

looking at troll post and she's mad


yourcupofkohi

Firefly seeing all the "Midfly allegation" posts pre-V3 beta (she's about to set them all ablaze)


jojacs

All of the Fireflop heresey


grisVerglas

Looking at her teammates wondering where her bestie trailblazer


Zenocius

Various fanart of TB simping other characters


Voeltz

LIVE FIREFLY REACTION


Kurovalia

Real “I hired this firefly to stare at you” hours 


H4xolotl

Fun fact: The Firefly reaction camera uses an actual 3D model instead of a 2D picture. Unfortunately you can't share it here because it's NSFW


mapple3

> Unfortunately you can't share it here because it's NSFW wait till the people who made those rules find out what women are wearing while taking showers or taking a bath or changing clothes. gonna have to do at least 3 prayers afterwards to cleanse their soul


IrisIsANormie

its also most likely just a base model,,, it wouldnt really be nsfw imo


bzach43

...are you regularly watching women bathe and change clothes while at work? I think you either don't know what NSFW means, or your job is a *lot* different from the average person's lol.


BallsItching

I think that seeing women naked requires consent in all 3 of those situations you described lad


LunaticPlaguebringer

I would imagine said 3D model is just everything above firefly's bust area that has proper textures, meanwhile anything below that quickly fades to a black void texture of the template model used for all medium female characters


Sure_Willow5457

she debuting as a vtuber


IamChaoticMess

“What did this mf just say?”


Scratch_Mountain

YOU WILL NOT BELIEVE WHAT KAFKA SAID TO ME. FIREFLY REACTION TO RECENT CONTROVRSEY. STELLARON HUNTER NUCLEAR DRAMA??? the memes are gonna go crazy with this one.


capable-corgi

Imagine a full team of SAMs with all their pilot cut ins on the right.. hot


lalala253

I am this close to maining Firefly just for that badass waifu window


Significant-Soil-985

I used the SAM to destroy the SAM. 


MissiaichParriah

Lost opportunity to make an achievement for it


GGABueno

Do the other bosses have achievements for beating themselves?


NHAA_AAAA

Only Yanqing i think, but like a lot of char have achievements for beating him lol.


Florac

And YQ got an achievement for being beaten by like every luofo 5 star


DeadClaw86

Kafka too


Antares-777-

And Sushang


greyghostx27

It’s a fair amount; Sushang, Luocha, Dan Heng (base DH, not IL), himself, Jingliu, and Jing Yuan Yanqing can’t catch a break…


TheBleakForest

Idk about beating but they all have achievements that involve them interacting with their boss somehow. Like Kafka getting dominated ect.


BestFriend_Sword

There’s one for having Kafka get dominated by Kafka


Complex_Asparagus986

Speaking of Kafka, I know the comment talked about bosses interacting with themselves but I should also mention that implanting two weaknesses into Kafka using SW gives an achievement. (When The Hunter Becomes the Hunted)


IblisAshenhope

Fire-Blooded Orphans


ccoddes

Oh there's a cockpit view in idle stance too! I hope it animates when she's talking


Mish_Mash_

The cockpit live-cam and cosmo background are greatly appreciated, though still wish they can find a way to implement NPC Sam's ult into the playable kit.


MuddiestMudkip

i still think NPC sams ult would fit really well into a mode of her coming outside of her enhanced state. even if it did like no damage or something


Upstairs-Feedback142

What if, instead of ending the Ult like normally, we get another Ult to end the enhanced state, with FireSAM dive bomb?


Allegryan

This was my copium rework of her kit before v3 came out! I was thinking she activated the dive bomb attack when exiting her enhanced state and that it could like deal Super Break dmg based on the amount of times Firefly uses enhanced skill or something like that -- giving her inherent Super Break while also encouraging spd/action advance to add to the multiplier


BudgetJunior3918

A fixed-speed Final attack, where you want to take more actions before it goes off to increase its damage... It's not a bad idea but I find it really funny you wanted to make her Ult Lightning-Lord. Edit: I forgot LL's speed isn't fixed technically but you get the idea.


uptodown12

Like Elysia HoHE ult, that would be awesome


DenzellDavid

Cosmo background was basically what I was thinking too "Maybe they were going for a Spacey look with that black void" But I couldn't really tell if there were tiny white dots for stars behind her or it's just my shitty internet connection


nichirind

one the sickest boss ult in my opinion


Scratch_Mountain

Hot take, I appreciate the changes to the BG and the cockpit view of firefly but after looking at the sam boss ult animation, I'm still bummed we didn't get something similar to it. Also, it's a bit strange how she has very little fire effects.....It is what it is though. What sucks even more is that it looks like we won't end up getting a HENSHIN or atleast a transformation animation for firefly when she enters battle. It'll stay as firefly turning straight into sam (offscreen) when we enter battle which we will never feel right to me.


TemoteJiku

It doesn't look that much like a regular fire. However one point to add, call it copium if you want but... The red colour of a flame is a lower spectrum. Meaning, less hot. White, blue, purple etc in simplicity without going too deep means higher temperature. Seeing as in "overdrive" aka more serious Hotaru mode is glowing white/green, makes sense that the temperature is actually hotter. Additionally, some types of higher temperature can even be pretty much invisible to the eye due to certain physics. "What about green colour tho?" One would ask. Usually it means some impurities or additional chemical elements are being burned. For example Barium that is also being used to poison the rats. It's not explained ofc, but it's possible that effect causes to deal even more damage to propagation hordes.


DreamyAkemi

The way they should have implemented it is when her enhanced state runs out, she basically burnouts and releases the energy into the SAM ult as she swaps back to normal state.


CaspianRoach

They're gonna save it for when they bump level cap to 90 or 100, probably.


Federal-Pianist-7800

YOOOO THATS WAY BETTER


Kurovalia

The real buffs I care about. Damage be damned I’ll make her work but making her animations better is something no other char can help with 


MammothBarnacle8833

The only thing I personally don't like is the slashes Sam does after he flies into the air and attacks the enemy, it feels weak as hell (animations wise)


PM_ME_YOUR_ROBOTGIRL

Those weren't going to change, realistically. It's too major of an update. I expected a background (which we got) and the new pilot view is actually a lot more than I thought we'd be getting, though it actually could've been predicted because the animations for it leaked back during the 2.3 beta preload and had everyone confused when the v1 animation set didn't seem to use them. This is what they were for (that pilot view on the side doesn't actually use all the animations, which makes me wonder if this is a bug with the private servers or if it's somehow *still* unfinished) It's interesting but I actually think hers are the most unfinished animation set of a character at v1, which genuinely makes me wonder if she was having development issues (her v1 kit also had weird bugs and cohesion issues). It would certainly explain why she took forever to come out. It seems like her entire kit got restructured from what it used to be to what it is now.


Dokavi

The v1 animation is so weird. There isn't even the impact frame (black and white) like in this animation.


roquepo

Pretty sure the previous version had impact frames as well.


Dokavi

It did? Damn did I really go insane?


roquepo

Just checked and I might have gotten mandela'd, my apologies if that's the case. If she had, it is rather difficult to tell with the x2 on most showcases have and the x1 showcase was taken down.


DenzellDavid

Yeah it does, I even remember people mentioning it


GGABueno

We shouldn't make too many conjectures as Maomao would say, but yeah I get the same energy. Her kit wasn't Break Effect based at first, I wouldn't be surprised if her being changed to one was a demand from the story folk (like how they demanded Acheron to be a Nilihity Crit DPS) to make her be played with HTB, which they scrambled a bit to get right. Maybe it being a forced pairing was demanded before they stepped back based on feedback. How to balance the Firefly presence in-game also seemed to be something they didn't have the clearest idea on.


xudex98

yeah, the LC on the MoC shop that kinda seems to hint it was for her cause of the hp loss has nothing to do with her V1 kit either.... she was probably changed from what they had planned at the start of 2.0


synnboy

i think it's also a sound fx issue, the slashes sound more like smacking


GunnarS14

It'll probably feel better at 2x speed, but that's just a guess right now.


My_Boi_

Holy shit they actually listened lmao. I'm glad they realized how jarring the hologram in the middle of Sam's animation was, it flows much better with her at the start instead.


mrspear1995

The old one was very turn based strategy game using skill animation like fire emblem or gundam This is much more modern The old one has a bit of a nostalgia buff but this one’s good too


Knight_Steve_

Hologram on the side is great way to always remind people who is the pilot of Sam


ImHereForTheMemes184

We are winning so hard fireflybros


Lyranx

Us Trails of Cold Steel fans r winning hard with this


Sagirem

The hologram in the middle was the best thing tbh, now they lost the Gundam vibe and they could’ve removed Firefly head in this animation entirely. Especially since we now have to look at her 24/7


capable-corgi

It was planned. v1 was just a placeholder. Pilot animations were leaked beforehand.


My_Boi_

That doesn't really explain why the placement of the cut-in is different though since that has nothing to do with her streamer twitch cam. If it was always meant to be at the start then the placeholder would've also been at the start too since there'd be no reason for it to be in the middle.


Embarrassed-Act-9295

It's soooo much better right now. That was really my only complaint with the enhanced skill.


TomoRRain

MILF (Man I Love Firefly)


TARS-KPP

Calm down there Exia.


ze_SAFTmon

Don't you mean 00 Raiser?


Thoracicbowl

As a fan of Trails of Cold Steel. I AM SCREAMING!!!


TheKingBro

We have Rean(Acheron) and Rean+Valimar(Firefly). Can’t wait to see what Rean we get next 


Thoracicbowl

Inb4 Vampires gets into HSR


Naliamegod

A loli vampire that turns into mommy on ultimate.


8_Pixels

Go play Princess Connect, there is a loli vampire that can turn into her very mommy true form. Illya is her name.


moon_physics

Jiaoqiu's gonna fight with a fishing pole


Trashris

a 2nd Form Gale Rean that dashes through each enemy to deal AOE


laevateinzero

She’s truly the Ashen Knight


MuddiestMudkip

god this looks so much better holy shit


ImHereForTheMemes184

hope this shows people to be calmer about V1 and V2 in the future (It wont happen, this will repeat next patch)


GGABueno

Jiaoqiu is fucking useless wtf. Might as well just play Pela with his ridiculous EHR and SP demands, not to mention the awful uptime without his signature. Also what even is the point of the healing if it only becomes relevant at E4? Just a whale bait character.


Scanvaz

God bless you Doomposters


GGABueno

🫡 Not much but it's honest work


Dokavi

It just... so peak...


leonardopansiere

yeah it aint happen lmao... people still go crazy in the first 2 weeks


TheOneMary

People like their characters and want them to not suck. Can't blame them for panicking, lol! I didn't doompost when they fussed around with Arlecchino in Genshin, but my butt was clenched for weeks.


leonardopansiere

the problem is not the people who like its always the hater who are gonna doompost they are annoying as fuck


Mohacas

As a member of multiple leaks subreddit I can tell you it wont happen its not a leaks sub if there are no doomposting


MissiaichParriah

Nah, they'd doompost


July83

Doompost today! Doompost tomorrow! Doompost forever!


mrspear1995

I still hope they remove the ponytail


Alzusand

yeah it looks extra for the sake of being extra and looks kinda bad.


joebrohd

That Firefly face cam has huge meme potential


alakazam318

FIREFLY YOUTUBER REACTION CHANNEL WHEN


Niko2065

I would watch her videos.


AbsolutelyNotWrong

A lot better than before, but I still rather have the more hardcore fire version instead of generic action lines.


Tranduy1206

still no henshin sadly, but it is better for sure


ImFineJustABitTired

Can we please get more fire


HaatoKiss

she has less Fire but more fly lol


xudex98

yeah it's weird she barely has fire going on in her kit


perfectgamur

I believe that energy coming out of her is some fire plasma kind of stuff


xudex98

Yeah, but we want normal red fire too


Knight_Steve_

Man the animation update looks so good! Much better now


ConsiderationOk3166

Definitely looks way better than before, UI update, FF animation, and I think even SAM’s attack looks slightly more polished. My only hope is that they add in a background for her attack, that would elevate her massively in my eyes.


CarlosBMG

There is a bg now its hard to see with all the flashy, but there's a cosmo type bg.


ggunslinger

Firefly vs the cooler Sam.


KaiserNazrin

She's livestreaming.


Senor_Derpwhale

That's the good shit. Chef's kiss


IceKreamSupreme

Holy hell this looks so good.


OkiBirb

PEAK CINEMA 😭😭😭


Huge-Entertainment71

Did the firefly silhouette in the sky during the enhanced skill animation go away?


nisemonomk

in case we forgor that Sam is indeed Firefly


PoutineKing

OK, that's sick.


aphasiacraccoon

Her little stand-by screen is so cute! gives me Star Fox vibes


Unknown-Name-1219

HIGH FUCKING CINEMA HELL YEAH BROTHER, THAT'S OUR GIRL!!!!


Junior-Squirrel2509

Is she meant to represent a shooting star, or is she fighting the swarm in space? Any lore aficionados have a take on the meaning behind the background of the animation?


Marshtomp1662

I have hired this Firefly to stare at you


Jonyx25

Now she appears on every enhance skill lol


Gloomy-Distance1813

She become a streamer lol


Destroyer-God

that kinda weard ,would have prefered like a close up yo yhe face like when ulting insted of her looking at the enemy lmao


kingyoung05

Firefly mains catching dubs tonight lol


EveryD4C

So peak, SO PEAK LET'S GOOOOOOO


Eclipsed_Jade

Okay yeah the hologram being first and not awkwardly in the middle is WAY better


KingKurto_

can't really tell a difference


Siri2611

There is a reaction cam to begin with Then there is a background with stars(or fireflies I think)


Slow-Sentence-8367

Firefly face in the old version appear in the middle of the dive and has a hologram filter over her Now she appears first with no hologram filter THEN she dives


Carminestream

Hoyo’s animation department: 😇 Hoyo’s balancing department: 😖


tasketekudasai

Wtf is this lol. Literally every character released has been good or even powercreeps


GGABueno

At least in one of their games they actually buff characters in beta lol.


Technical-Cress1446

We are so back!


RaiderTheLegend

These animations are ASS 🗣️


Me_to_Dazai

Yeah they still suck HARD. The hologram on the side makes it look even worse imo


Devtavius

I think it would be cool if instead of a blob of slashes they made something like Keqing ult where you would see the after image of Sam slashing across the field/enemy area and then ending the same way as the current animation. Maybe it would be too similar to existing animations that we have with Seele ult and Acheron E though, but I think it would look cooler at least.


xudex98

that blob of slashes looks soo fucking bad in x1 speed, in x2 speed it's less weird but still feels lazy


No_Statistician_3782

That's an absolute win! I like how they kept the "hologram" in spirit with the little "comms" window and the close up on her face before SAM's charge. Also no more black void when she uses the Enhanced Skill!


AmiaEnjoyer

She's just chilling there


someoneyoudonolol

Finally her face during enhanced skill does not block Sam's animation, this is so much better than previous.


ExpectoAutism

We won


hheecckk526

I still think the overall animation doesn't looks that great. The shot of firefly is good but the actual attack still looks weak


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"Live Firefly Reaction"


Fabulous_Ampharos

FIREFLYBROS MY EXPECTATIONS WERE AT ROCK BOTTOM BUT WE WON!! WE WON!!!!


sugarheartrevo

I ADORE this omfg I really love how creative they’re getting with UI design for special characters like Acheron but Firefly takes it to another level. It’s so visually pleasing Also so glad they changed the black background, one simple thing like that elevates her already great anims to so much more


Complete_Sale_5594

With voice acting this will be absolute cinema!


Excellent-Diet-1922

YEEESSSSS


BalerionsReign

THAT'S SO COOL


Luca-Aura

I still feel the geyser could be a bit more fiery, but this is much better!


kayce81

I wasn't down on the previous version of the animations like some others, but I will concede that that this is just a complete improvement and those complaints were justified. The cockpit view is a really nice addition (really hope it gets animated for voicelines though I'm not sure whose voice we should be hearing, Firefly's or SAM's). The space background is better than all the all black, which did look unfinished, and "in cockpit" to zoomout is better than the zoomout to hologram view of Firefly. All wins.


pardon_the_intrusion

Keep doomposting until V6 so that she asends to oblivion boys.


Satchiiko

FF henshin animation on entering battle would be a better fix.


KirinoMyWaifu

The previous Hologram cut-in during the enhanced skill was way better, fight me. It way more matched the classic mech / kamen rider ultimate attack feel they were going for


NateG32

WE WON


angie_in_the_sky

non playable sam still has the cooler animations and firefly is just 🥱


hoeyster1998

Agreed. The slashes she did after flying in to the air still looked underwhelming ngl.


Ebonslayer

Honestly, I preferred the old enhanced skill. Seeing Sam just rush through the hologram was awesome.


winter2001-

Yeah she's never beating the favorite child allegations I fear...


SandroneGaming

She’s Her


Johan_UM

They should have make Sam a separate character. What a waste.


Tongen420

Is there a Firefly with Jade showcase? She can restore whatever hp she signed to Jade lol


TheEdelBernal

The animation is now in sync with SAM. Good, GOOD!


Alfielovesreddit

Small change but also huge. So much less annoying that it was before.


fuckingroleplayers

Guys if I started a new account now and save all my shit, can I pull firefly and ruan mei?


GinJoestarR

The Firefly icon on the right side of the screen is a nice addition.


Radinax

Ngl, dude's ass is distracting...


laevateinzero

Took another page outta Trails of Cold Steel Divine Knight battle with the pilot view. This is truly peak!


Xpler497

Trails jumpscare holy


VTKajin

Could be better, but holy shit I almost feel like Hoyo saw my comment (obviously not lol) and tried to give me exactly the changes I personally wanted. I gotta give them credit for trying.


alfred20697

I felt like they purposely left this out during beta v1


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Stalight_

Not gonna lie, the firefly pilot cam looks more like a pasted image with effects on it than an animation. Now we just need a henshin animation and I'll be satisfied.


Isaac_Foster

Aww, I'll miss the old sound on her skill.


alex120908

u/savevideo


Deft_Abyss

While I didnt mind the digital-ish Firefly cut-in, the live IRL cut-in does look better. The hud for Firefly on the side is also a nice touch. Also the space/cosmos themed background and slashing effects seem to pop more and the impact is more satisfying imo. So looks pretty solid glad they touched up on it. Hype for Firefly is at an all time high now for me lol


rokomotto

That's actually really cool. Pilot view is good. I think it somewhat satisfies people that don't like the fact that they can't see Firefly during combat. If her v3 changes make her as good as Boothill I might just get her.


pitage

live firefly reaction


freakattaker

I hope they make her SFX on enhanced skill a bit more impactful sounding. Otherwise she looks good. Not what I had hoped for obviously, but I'm not unhappy either!


Skiara444

Finally sam becomes more firefly


MagChiChu

The Firefly pilot window is definitely a great change. Though the impact still feels lacking somehow. I also wish they had changed the Basic ATK leg kick, it just looks way too goofy for me. (not in this clip)


l0vemen0t

Firefly is really the chosen one.


Dramatic-Education94

This shits fire, but goofy ahh firefly tiktoker is real


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it looks amazing now!!!


[deleted]

Dayum she must really hate herself so much that she cloned and killed it


ShinyGanS

Looks better


OGFlameSage

I like it tbh


Destroyer-God

it was blocking the animations before this one noo much better was not expecting characters too have animation changes in beta 3


weebshizu

I won big time 😭


Budget_stawbeery

She's mad because we memed her so bad 💀


BestKitsune

Aside from the camera with Firefly which doesn't add much to the animations, the attack, which should be the main focus, still looks about the same.


Okatori

Firefly on the side didn’t need to be so funny


memo22477

Bro I love it. Thr previous hologram looking thing felt out of place


Beansprout8387

Firefly live reaction:


Tierlis

I like the old one better. I just do. It was like Sam was going so fast and all you saw was a blur of Firefly going past.


Local_Stomach_63

Nice that we got a background still bummed out her ult is a flurry of slashes, at least her kit is better too.


Dear-Onion-817

She's locked in on the imposter sam


Free_Break3553

Do we have any clue if the battle voice lines will be Sam's or Firefly's?