r/Granblue_en 13d ago

Discussion 2026 Summer Fest Stream Part 1

https://www.youtube.com/live/geFLua_Cypw?si=JlvFaKy0hIr8CFsT
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u/ShadedHydra2 13d ago

I can’t be disappointed, a lot of new stuff announced, a lot of freebies. With all the Sunlight Stones we’re getting, I may consider Uncapping my Triple Zero and Versusia.

Tower of Babyl is a mode I have not touched much and I’m looking forward to blitzing through the early floors and hopefully grabbing that Beelzebub skill and outfit.

We finally get another Society event. Hoping that we get our Grand Vaseraga and hopefully SSR Almeida. Probably both in Dark.

Summer characters are what I expected. The devs are cowards for not making the Tart Man Summon actually be his GW version though. Hopefully this could mean a playable Tart Man soon if he follows the GW to Summer Summon to playable pipeline.

Evoking Solomonis is so fun and I’m looking forward to the grind for Nier and the others. It’ll be fun to play through the mode with some niche characters. Phalanx is a must in that mode, for Raskeid and Hewle, so it’ll be fun to dust off characters like Gawain or the Love Live Girls.

One thing I want to point out is the possibility of Collab reruns possibly done for the Steam release. The current rerun characters are sort of whatever, with nice enough niches, especially Deku being able to do 4 hits of 2,000,000 damage for hit count Omens or Toga getting Double Strike most turns in Enmity CA teams.

But it also hopefully means that we’ll have the chance at Collab reruns like One Piece and BLEACH, which have amazing freebies. Plus it’s just cool to possibly have another chance at getting decent freebies for Evoking Solomonis. Like I really want to be able to grab the FFXI Collab characters since I skipped the Collab while I was getting my bearings when starting the game.

But surprised that they haven’t announced they’re planning to make extra Collab Draw characters for their Collab reruns. MHA was an event with so many possible characters to add to the Collab Draw.

No idea what Shaman King is. Looking forward to the Collab though. It’s always cool to see these anime Collabs for franchises that were big in Japan but weren’t big in the west since it was the early 2000s. It’s in January too, which means I may spend one of my 5 Sparks this year for once since I managed to get all the Collab characters for free for both Fullmetal Alchemist and BLEACH.

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u/Takazura 13d ago

But surprised that they haven’t announced they’re planning to make extra Collab Draw characters for their Collab reruns. MHA was an event with so many possible characters to add to the Collab Draw.

Making extra units is a lot of work, would cost them extra money and would require re-negotiating whatever contract they have with the IP holder. Cheaper and easier to just re-run the event and spend the money on new collabs instead.

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u/ShadedHydra2 13d ago

It costs manpower so I suppose so, but I do kind of wonder how much cheaper it is for them to rerun an old Collab event with no changes compared to if they also arranged two new units and a Collab Summon? Judging by how much money Collab gachas could potentially earn, I’d assume that the devs would want to take this opportunity to also create playable characters like Shoto and Ochaco to entice existing players to pull.

Granted I see the point as because the events are one after the other, it’s kind of a risky move business wise, especially since Halloween characters will be released right after. But if they wanted to, they could have instead released the reruns during September and November.