Arknights

Chapter 5 teaser for a release probably next week

god I want Ch'en so badly

Wait, already? I haven't even finished chapter 4!

I roll for the current banner hoping to get Irift but got Red Suomi instead. Now to save my rolls for Chen.

Future Welfare Lads and Ladettes.

The guy with the giant sword seems pretty good.

I also want to know what demented string of logic led them to having the costumes for 3* (which everyone has) behind premium currency while costumes for 4* and above (which people might not have) are given out for free.

Edited by HailMuffins on Feb 23rd 2020 at 4:14:03 PM

Looking at how one character is named FlameBringer when we already had another named SilverAsh...

Now I'd like to ask... What's with this game's preference for Camel case in naming characters? This is quite a rare naming convention in video games.

Well, if developers in China have the same mindset as the ones in Japan, it went along the lines of:

Something like that.

Hell yeah I got a Senior Operator tag

Tag combos left me with either FEater or Croissant as the guaranteed combo so I decided to go for Croissant

Don't you think there's something odd about the way "Click here to see Elite appearance" images got coded into the TV Tropes Character subpages for this game? The Elite appearance artworks have borders within borders, and the right side of the Elite image has a wider space than the left.

I think it applied to all characters who have alternate artworks. I'm not sure if it's a recent bug on this website. I'm using Firefox BTW.

For example (Edit: Anyway, the double borders thing don't show up here in this site's forum threads, but try checking Courier's folder in the Arknights Vanguards subpage to see it):

^{Click to see Elite 2 appearance.} 

On second thoughts, I compared the way how gachas with alternate arts for the characters are coded on this website (i.e. Granblue Fantasy and Fate/Grand Order), but they don't have double borders on their images. So I guess it's something that applied only to Arknights character pages thus far.

Edited by DanteVin on Feb 23rd 2020 at 5:58:00 PM

So, which are your favorites?

Mine's are Nearl and Mash Amiya.

@HailMuffins: Umm...I just got Platinum from recruitment. Pure Sniper tag too. ...I mean I was hoping for Shirayuki (just for the more likely possibility, and needing more AOE sniper), but this is good too I guess!

E2 art...hard to say. I do kinda have soft spot for art that doesn't try to make the character "epic" though, something like Mousse (her art's so adorable), Nightmare, Shaw, or May/Gummy (cute kind of "epic" lulz). Although, gotta say Ethan's art is quite great...no need to make it "epic" like many others but still look really cool.

Edited by onyhow on Feb 23rd 2020 at 8:37:37 AM

Yeah, I love Mousse's E2 art for how cute it is. Courier revealing what's under the jacket really took me by surprise lmao.

Pramanix and Silence were the ones that really left an impact on me. Ceylon, Aak, Executor, and Exusiai are also really good.

All the servers are reporting chapter 5 for this Wednesday so Global should get an announcement soon.

Edited by Nouct on Feb 24th 2020 at 12:10:03 PM

Ack, I shouldn't have spent Furniture parts earlier...now there's the new Ch'en set coming.

Calculator that I found.

You know, keep things organized and all.

LITERALLY UNPLAYABLE!!!!

I realized a few days ago that Swire might be named after the Swire group and now I dunno how seriously I can take her or whether I want her (un)ironically

Edited by Nouct on Feb 25th 2020 at 7:45:33 AM

Pls no bulli Grani, she smol and precious

Just something that I'd like to verify while I'm troping stuff on the character pages...

I can't seem to find a wiki page for reference regarding Closure. So, what's her race? Bats are her Animal Motifs... Is she a vampire? Or is it just her gimmick to look like a waifu vampire?

Also, can we re-read story content in this game? I think majority of gachas have it, so I was wondering how I could do it with Arknights. I forgot how Closure introduced herself in the Base tutorials.

Just go to the quest and tap "Story". It doesn't have a dedicated library.

Closure is just a vampire, which is considered a subrace of Sarkaz in this setting. You get more details about vampires from Warfarin, who also mentions that Rhodes Island has another vampire working in logistics or something.

....aaaaand I just wasted 60 sanity because I didn't know the maint will be 6 hours long, so my sanity is near cap when maint starts.

Fucking hell, the other maint are way shorter, even the event one, why is this one so long??? Was thinking of saving it up for the all supplies stage available...fuck, next time I'll just spend most of it just to not waste anything.

Edited by onyhow on Feb 26th 2020 at 5:04:23 AM

Oh, it's six hours? Eesh, it'll be a while yet, then.

Unlike Azur Lane the maint note doesn't put the friggin timer at the start, so I got confused as hell. Fuck, 60 lost...

They are giving out 100 free sanity according to the twitter so it's some compensation for a longer maintenance.

Chapter 5 animation trailer

And after that 60 stam loss...Franka and dupe Silence from Ch'en banner.