Cor, has it really been almost half a year since we've done one of these? Apologies, readers. I honestly don't know where the time goes. It's probably because we're spending too much time with our favourite guilty pleasure games, which is the subject of this latest Ask RPS column.
The question comes courtesy of ronzilla, who asked: What were your favourite guilty pleasure games of 2022? As in, I play this all the time and I'm semi-embarrassed to admit it?
A good question! In canvassing the wider RPS Treehouse for their responses, it quickly became clear that most of our guilty pleasure games extend way beyond the bounds of just the year 2022, so we've answered a bit more broadly than the original question perhaps intended. Still, hopefully there are still some entertaining answers in here nonetheless.
]]>Genshin-alike gacha MMO Tower Of Fantasy hops onto Steam today, and brings the new realm of Vera to the game. This desert area holds a floating pyramid that’s home to a bustling cyberpunk metropolis known as Mirroria, and the new flame-powered character Ruby. You can check out more of what’s coming with the Vera update by watching the trailer below.
]]>Sci-fi gacha MMO Tower Of Fantasy is heading to Steam on October 20th, the same day as its Version 2.0 Vera update arrives. The update adds the realm of Vera, where you’ll find the Gobby desert (really) and its cyberpunk city of Mirroria. Watch the very neon and sandy trailer below.
]]>What do we know about Frigg in Tower Of Fantasy? When is she joining the Simulacrum roster, and what weapons and skills does she bring to the table? Frigg has been a part of the Tower Of Fantasy roster in China for some time now, but very soon she and her signature weapon, Balmung, will be released to the wider world. Each character and weapon in Hotta Studio's open-world RPG adds new strengths and playstyles to switch between in the heat of combat, and Frigg is no different.
Below we'll explain everything you need to know about Frigg ahead of her release in Tower Of Fantasy, from her expected release date to details of her weapon stats, skills, advancement traits, and more.
]]>One of the advantages to games heading westward long after an initial release in Asia is that there's sometimes a stack of existing update content already waiting to be localised. Perhaps that's how Tower Of Fantasy, which released two weeks ago, is already teasing its first piece of additional content. Find a trailer for it below.
]]>Want to reveal the Tower of Fantasy world map? The Tower of Fantasy map is split into six sections. However, they are initially greyed out on the world map, blocking you from seeing landmarks such as main boss locations, spacerifts, strongholds, and ruins. If you want to reveal the Tower of Fantasy map, you'll need to locate and activate six little robots. For five of the regions, these are found atop an Omnium tower. However, finding the map data robot in the final region, located in the centre of the map near the titular Tower of Fantasy, is a little trickier.
In this guide, we'll explain how to reveal the Tower of Fantasy world map, so that you can see every main boss, spacerift, stronghold, and ruin across Aida.
]]>Want to learn more about Tower of Fantasy drop rates and its pity system? In Tower of Fantasy, there are a few ways to earn new SSR and SR weapons and Matrices, which are key to getting stronger. You can get them by purchasing a special order (banners, for those familiar with Genshin Impact), some of which have a pity system that guarantees SSR drops after a set amount of purchases. However, you can also farm main bosses, which each offer rewards upon defeat. If you've seen our Tower of Fantasy character tier list and want to get the best Simulacra and Matrices, then you'll need to know the drop rates for the various banners and main bosses so that you can farm efficiently.
In this guide, we'll break down the Tower of Fantasy drop rates and potential rewards for each main boss, along with explaining the drop rates and pity system for each Tower of Fantasy Special Order.
]]>Looking for all the Tower Of Fantasy cooking recipes and ingredient locations? Cooking is a substantial but easily overlooked aspect of Hotta Studio's open-world RPG, the startlingly popular Tower Of Fantasy. Different dishes can be created from a cooking machine by bunging in the right ingredients, and consuming those dishes will then grant you positive effects such as regenerating your health, boosting your damage and resistances, and replenishing your satiety - a hunger bar which is used for passive health regeneration.
Not only will you often want to cook particular dishes to prepare for certain fights or journeys, but there are often also quest missions which require you to obtain a certain food item. Here you'll find all your answers, thanks to our definitive table of all Tower Of Fantasy cooking recipes. Keep scrolling and you'll also find useful information on where to find each of the ingredients in the game.
]]>Want to learn more about the current and upcoming Tower of Fantasy banners? Tower of Fantasy is a gacha RPG that features a range of unlockable characters, known as Simulacra. You can obtain new Simulacra by spending a premium currency in one of Tower of Fantasy's Special Orders. Special Orders are more commonly known as banners in the gacha community, as that's the term used in the immensely popular Genshin Impact. Banners are essentially a form of gambling, as you pay the required currency in exchange for a randomly rolled reward (similar to a loot box). Tower of Fantasy currently has four standard banners and one event banner, which offers an increased chance to unlock a powerful Simulacrum named Frigg.
Below, we'll break down the current event banner and the start time and featured character for the next event banner. We'll also explain the required currency and potential rewards for each Tower of Fantasy banner.
]]>Want to know how to get the Colossus Arm in Tower Of Fantasy? The planet of Aida is home to many powerful items, but one of the most powerful of all is the Colossus Arm, a SSR-tier Relic which gives you the ability to shrug off attacks and vastly boost your damage output for a short time. It's one of the most highly sought-after items in the game right now, and for good reason.
The good news is that with the help of this walkthrough, finding it is a cinch. Below we'll explain every step of how to unlock the Colossus Arm in Tower Of Fantasy so you can get busy sending your enemies flying into the air with your hulking mechanical muscles.
]]>Tower Of Fantasy developers Hotta Studio have announced that players of their free-to-play gacha MMO will be getting another free compensation package later today, after a "serious malfunction" regarding one of its top tier characters, Nemesis. The issue was first spotted in the early hours of this morning, which prevented players from participating in a time-limited event known as Rebirth Of Clemency and rolling for new items and characters. Hotta Studio have assured players it should all be sorted now, though, and that they can expect to receive their next bundle of freebies in the coming hours.
]]>What is CS in Tower Of Fantasy, and why it is important? You may have noticed in your first session or two playing Tower Of Fantasy that you have a player level which increases over time. However, what isn't immediately obvious is that there's another stat which is often an even better indicator of how far you are into Hotta's open-world RPG, and how ready you are to face the combat trials ahead.
Read on to find out what CS means in Tower Of Fantasy, how it works, and why it is such an important stat to bear in mind as you play through the game.
]]>Want to increase your CS rating in Tower Of Fantasy? It's a tough old world out there in Hotta Studio's new free-to-play RPG Tower Of Fantasy, and you're going to need to focus on upgrading yourself and your equipment as much as possible if you want to progress through to the endgame. The most important number you should pay attention to is your CS rating (also known as your Gear Score), which tells you how powerful you are overall, taking into account all your weapons, matrices, armour, stats, and more.
There are various different ways to boost your CS throughout your travels in Tower Of Fantasy, and it can be easy to forget and neglect some of these aspects of your character and progression while you play. So we've laid them all out below, so you can jump right into increasing your Tower Of Fantasy CS score as quickly as possible.
]]>Looking for the best Relics in Tower Of Fantasy? The world of Aida is filled with powerful objects and tools, and among them are Relics - unique gadgets and weapons that you can use to explore and carve a path of destruction through the various regions in Tower Of Fantasy. There is a grand total of 20 Relics to find and unlock in the game, and while some have slightly lacklustre abilities, others are tremendously strong and are well worth obtaining as early as possible.
Below we'll walk you through our tier list of the best Relics in Tower Of Fantasy, along with a primer on how Relics work, and how to unlock each of the 20 Relics in the game.
]]>Want to know how to infinite climb in Tower Of Fantasy? It's lovely when a thing's name matches its function, isn't it? Such is the case with the amazingly useful infinite climb movement tech in Hotta Studio's open-world RPG, which allows you to scale the highest cliffs from day one, with nary a thought to stamina consumption.
It's actually quite simple and easy to pull off with a bit of practice, too. Read on to learn how to infinite climb in Tower Of Fantasy.
]]>Wondering how to change the food item in your quick access hotbar button in Tower Of Fantasy? Food is a useful resource in Hotta's massive new RPG, Tower Of Fantasy, and there's even a surprisingly in-depth cooking system where you can create your own meals which bestow useful effects on you when you eat them. You may have noticed that you can quickly eat a food item using either F2 or by clicking the food button on your hotbar at the bottom of the screen. But what if you don't want to eat Dandelion Seeds? What if you want to eat one of those gourmet meals you just cooked?
You can hop into your backpack and eat from there, but that's not an ideal solution. Thankfully, there is a way to switch which food item appears in your hotbar in Tower Of Fantasy, and it's surprisingly simple. Learn how to do it using the steps below.
]]>Which are the best Simulacrum characters and weapons in Tower Of Fantasy? If you're just starting out with Hotta's open-world RPG, you might find it a bit difficult to wrap your head around the Simulacrum system in Tower Of Fantasy. In essence, all playable characters beyond your starting character are downloadable personalities known as Simulacrum, and all the best weapons in the game are manifestations of those characters. So each character is also quite literally a weapon.
In this guide you'll find an easy-to-grasp explanation of how the Simulacrum system works, along with our tier list of the best characters and the best weapons in Tower Of Fantasy. Further below we'll also list each of the Simulacrum themselves, and their pros and cons in combat.
]]>Tower Of Fantasy is a free-to-play MMO gacha game, the sort of game that implores you to spend in-game currency on lootboxes in the hopes you'll build a particularly powerful collection of anime people. Genshin Impact wrapped this business model up in a surprisingly excellent open world RPG, that Graham called one of the best games of 2020. Tower Of Fantasy pulls from a neighbouring gacha vending machine, except that its mixture of MMO, realtime combat, and lootboxing isn't wrapped up in as consistent a package.
]]>Recently launched sci-fantasy gacha MMO Tower Of Fantasy is trying to tackle server queues and cheats, the developers have promised. In a message posted to the official site, Tower Of Fantasy’s devs Hotta Studio say they’ve now implemented increased server caps and improved server recommendation logic for PC. There’s also a queue timer, if you find your feet tapping while you’re waiting to join. You can watch the game’s launch trailer below if you missed it last week.
]]>Looking for an up-to-date list of active Tower Of Fantasy codes? Despite a rocky European launch on PC, anime-esque gacha ARPG Tower Of Fantasy is proving too intriguing to resist for fans of Genshin Impact and other games in the genre. And, like most F2P games these days, Tower Of Fantasy is liberal in its approach to giving away codes you can redeem for in-game freebies.
]]>Players checking out anime gacha MMO Tower Of Fantasy have been running into some strange bugs. Though the server issues that were being experienced at launch seem to be mostly fixed, other glitches are now being uncovered, not least of which is the ability to turn your character into a cartoon character who fell underneath a steamroller.
]]>Free-to-play gacha MMO Tower Of Fantasy was struggling with server issues after it lauched yesterday, but - touch wood - no more. The developers say that these are now fixed and that players should find it easier to log in and play. They've also said there's more fixes planned for the next couple of days.
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