A Tieba (Chinese Reddit-like forum) dataminer decided to crack open the client files of a certain gacha shooter nicknamed "Potato 2" — and what they found wasn't bugs or placeholder code. It was a goldmine of cut fanservice (麻辣, literally "mala" / spicy) content: romantic character voice lines, risqué skin descriptions, and even a scrapped roguelike tower mode. The leaker themselves admitted there are two "nuclear-level" items too spicy to share, supposedly to "protect the dignity of hardcore non-fanservice players." Yeah, you read that right.
The datamine screenshots first revealed a World Chat system — something many players didn't expect to see. Then came character assets: KSVK and another unidentified character. There was also a drone system, likely a leftover from the second closed beta test.
Even more interesting were the scrapped systems. The datamine revealed a monthly pass (explicitly labeled as abandoned), a roguelike tower-climbing mode, two skins dated for Feb 8, and a gacha banner #191. The original poster remarked: "The abandoned content had a roguelike tower mode... they just can't quit roguelikes, can they" — implying this gameplay direction was flip-flopped on during development. There were also fresh assets for character 97 (codenamed "Jiangyu" / 绛雨), leading the poster to conclude this was from a more recent build, not the old beta.
But the real bombshell that set the comments on fire was the leaker's own words. As relayed by one commenter: "The Tieba dataminer says the fanservice content inside is extremely spicy. Not sure if it's scrapped content, so he didn't post it as ammunition." Then came the kicker, from another commenter quoting the leaker directly: "There are actually two more nuclear-level items, but I won't post them — gotta protect the dignity of hardcore non-fanservice players." The comment section instantly went nuclear.
The community reaction was a cocktail of bitterness and sarcasm. One commenter wrote: "They must have felt so wronged when they were forced to write fanservice storylines" — implying the dev team clearly had the chops to create waifu-bait content but was held back by higher-level direction decisions. Another was far less sympathetic: "Only when they got hit in the wallet did they crawl back begging fanservice fans to spend. What were they doing before?" — a direct shot at how the game's revenue cratered after going the anti-fanservice route.
Perhaps the most devastating comment was a single line: "Oh, so they miss their sugar daddies now? But the sugar daddies already moved to Snowbreak or other games." In Chinese gacha community slang, "义父" (adoptive father) refers to the heavy spenders (whales) who essentially bankroll the game — the equivalent of calling someone your "daddy" because they fund your lifestyle. The message was crystal clear: you pushed away the big spenders when you went anti-waifu, and now you want them back? They've already settled down elsewhere.
One commenter added that the skin descriptions in the datamine were "ghost-pepper-level spicy" — meaning the skin flavor text was loaded with romantic/fanservice overtones. But the follow-up was pure resignation: "...so what?" Meanwhile, another took direct aim at the "hardcore non-fanservice" positioning: "Saying 'hardcore, no fanservice' in a waifu gacha game is literally a joke." Brutal, maybe, but it arguably captured what a significant chunk of the playerbase was feeling.
All told, this datamine wasn't exactly earth-shattering in terms of raw content volume. But it struck the most sensitive nerve in the Potato 2 community — the whiplash-inducing flip-flopping on game direction. The sheer volume of fanservice content buried in the client files proves the devs once built and were fully capable of delivering fan-oriented content, only to have it all axed. Now these "scrapped" assets are being excavated like archaeological evidence, with the "two nuclear-level items still hidden" tease only fueling speculation that the abandoned path might have been the better one all along. Whether the devs will actually "miss their sugar daddies" enough to course-correct in future updates — well, that remains to be seen.
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