Arknights

@Nouct @p448: thanks for the info!

Edited by onyhow on May 7th 2024 at 6:43:45 AM

Ex stages done. All CMs but EX-7 are also finished.

We get confirmation from Arturia's file that her Arts cannot make people act completely out of character, as she only touches upon their original memories, even if suppressed, and the emotions bound to these memories.

The real issue is that she winds people up with their buried memories and emotions and that often makes them act unwise or do drastic things that they've originally decided against doing.

Why do we need her profile to confirm that when it’s been stated at least twice in every material she’s appeared in barring lingering echoes

Having done some experimentation and falling in love with Firewhistle, due to the sheer satisfaction of setting hordes of mobs on fire with her attacks, I want to ask if there are any other operators that can assist her during operations?

Edited by Trainbarrel on May 9th 2024 at 1:17:52 PM

Horn's first talent buffs Defender attack when on the field

EDIT: Aak, Warfarin, and Skadi 2 are also just in general the best buffers in the game and the ones you want to use for really big numbers. If you don't have the third one because limited, Sora, Heidi, or the Bard we get with chapter 14 in six months will do in a pinch as replacements. Suzuran and Saria's fields are always good for amplifying damage, with Hexers like Pramanix or Shamare doing decently at debuffing as well.

Edited by Nouct on May 9th 2024 at 4:42:04 AM

Since I was already deep in the pull and I already got Virtuosa, I decided to continue until I got 300 data contract and brought Skalter.

Meanwhile I got a Rosmontis dupe from the free rolls.

Since W got an alt that made her a busted aftershock sniper. Can Rosemary get an alt that maeks her the uncontested best Artilleryman next?

EX (CM) maps done. Mostly fine outside underestimating how much damage Tuners can do >>

So far the boss has been pretty easy IMHO thanks to that 2nd mechanic that lets you basically dump all your damage onto him from whereever your main DPS cluster is, anywhere on the map.

Realized I had enough for a spark for today right on the very final day on the Virtuosa banner so I went and got Specter 2 huzzah

Viviana is also now at max pot lol

Speaking of spark, I did some math and it turned out that if I don't roll until November I will have almost exactly 400 rolls saved (100 for the collab, 300 for W). As much as I don't like her new design, I wouldn't mind getting Wis'adel, plus there are Specter and Mumu who I don't have and a discounted W in case I get all three from the gacha, so I will probably do just that. Still, I didn't include stuff like maintenance and lucky draws, so I think it is safe to at least throw one multi at the Kjerag banner, and then Ascalon's banner will be between R6 and chapter 14, so I will know exactly how much I could spare. Worse comes to worst, both of these banners will be rerun later.

Terrible luck during the Virtuosa banner. Bassline is halfway to max potential and nobody I want or that's Virtuosa has been seen. Is this going to be my gacha luck for the next several months?

Got Virtuosa but not Viviana. At least she's not limited, so I can get spooked later by the warrior pet :V

CN news: recruitment no longer costs LMD.

So basically we are forcing the units to work for free?

this can only be true when I don't have to shell out a million LMD to make them watch videotapes

Surprised they didn't increase the odds to get a TO or SO tag while at it.

Those tapes must be horrible if you have to pay hundreds thousands LMD to make people watch them. I suppose, the stat increase come from getting empowered by their burning hatred towards those videos

they're a mix of ai-genned training videos (that were not curated by Closure), video logs of failed attempts to kill SCP-682 and logs of a Noodle Incident at Angelina's Christmas party

Went back to IS3 to do the challenge missions, my stronger roster is allowing me to clear them with less trouble than the first time I tried them :V

Belatedly finished the ZT-S stages. Thought they were pretty fair overall (I didn't even use the tuner on S-5 to beat it), S-5 (CM) mostly took a few tries to figure out how to not have my healers instantly die within two hits of him teleporting to the rightward columns

The last ZT-S stage gave me trouble.

The problem in question being getting the timing right.

Either the timer runs out that resulted in an insta-loss, or the fast-redeploys get killed right before the teleportation starts, resulting in my formation being utterly wrecked in the process.

Eventually, I got it but the margin of error was only a second wide so it was tense.

Edited by Trainbarrel on May 17th 2024 at 7:34:34 PM

S-5 took a few tries because of the teleportation and the stunning guys in the first half, but overall it wasn't that bad. I liked that Hoederer attacking through the aspect of annihilation counted for his third skill, so he was contributing his true damage despite holding the upper lane.

Listening to Caper's English VA and I'm surprised that she actually speaks Spanish. Are there other operators who speaks different languages in the English dub?