Arknights

Also looks like Jessica reacted to running out of ammo waaaaaaaay back in Holy Night Light by becoming a veritable walking armory

Actually managed to beat the Blade boss for the first time now.

When I saw who it was as the Mid-boss, I just stacked all my snipers in the right upper side and aimed them down where the Blade would come out from when it entered the right side of the field and prayed it would be enough when going activating every single skill available on it when it showed up.

It worked!

We now know what the next Contingency Contract on CN server will be.

Battleplan: UNDERDAWN is here, and it is a Stultifera Navis-themed permanent map.

Okay, I have another question regarding IS 4

I just did the Magallan's mission (and completed it with a "Perfect Clear" on the Boss to my happy surprise) which got me to Level 50.

Here is my question:

Shall I wait with doing more IS 4 until another section is unlocked or can I still do it for the sake of unlocking more perks before the next section unlocks?

You can keep playing if you want to unlock the tree all the way, there’s a lot of stuff like investment in Cannot, medals, and ending clears both for the stories and all the squads that completionists can go for

Also if you haven’t finished IS2 or 3 but still have the itch to play roguelikes you can go for those

Edited by Nouct on Mar 23rd 2024 at 2:29:23 AM

Ah, good to know.

Also, regarding the other two, I only managed to beat one boss in IS 2 and still have the last fourth boss in IS 3 to do as well, so once the Tree is unlocked, I'll see how well I fare in IS 2 now when my team isn't just composed by low-star operators anymore like when it was active back then.

I like how the meta in each season of Integrated Strategies is so different.

Crimson Solitare had an emphasis on ranged and global damage because you wanted to defeat enemies from a distance AND deal with those balloons, elemental mitigation because of all the Nervous Impairment going around, and anti-Stealth for Emergency nodes because of invisible Chargers and stuff, and Mudrock was extra good because of all the Sarkaz enemies in the pool. Executors were very important for emergency blocking because of Sarkaz Chargers and could be relied on in an emergency. Jaye was awesome because he stalled everything or sealed everything's skills. Ethan was meta because he could bindlock and disrupt Chargers.

IS3 had an emphasis on stun procs because of those stupid enemies that lose their flight when stunned, making Keen Glint Kroos extra meta because of her reach and rapidfire S2 allowing her to stunlock enemies to death, and both versions of Texas were top tier because they both could inflict stun to whole crowds. Abyssal Hunters are all powerful here because of their shared synergies and especially Gladiia's ability to do massive damage to Seaborns. Skill Sealing is especially necessary here, so Lappland and Jaye retain relevance.

IS4 has an emphasis on blockers, sustain, and damage, making Gavial and Mlynar take the spotlight from Thorns as far as meta Guards go. Reed rises to absolute prominence because she can turn blockers into self-healing fire pillars. Typhon just does her canon thing and destroys the demons easily. Slow effects and crowd control are king in this format, so Suzuran and Podenco are really strong, and Summoners are even more relevant because cheap emergency blockers are really critical if you don't have enough defenders. With less Sarkaz enemies present, Penance takes over from Mudrock as relevant.

I have been playing IS 3 to kill time before next update for 4. Got to Highmore on SW 12 a couple of times, but got wrecked during the second phase. I guess, I will drop the difficulty for now and unlock full text for all endings, part 3 for 3-4 seems pretty hard to achieve...

Also, it's kinda frustrating that I'm currently level 137 in 3 and only have 220 ingots, while in 4 I stopped once I got to level 50, yet already have 141.

Fancomic: Octodeco introduces a Nearl fanboy who understands what Margaret believes to be the ideal of Knighthood.

Something seems to have broken today because it seems everyone's friend lists got completely nuked

According to some comments on reddit I'm seeing, it's most likely a failure of service that loads friend list: the poster has their friend' assistants walking around their reception room.

My friend list got wiped. Don't know how or why, yesterday it was fine but now everyone is gone. Not even the dead Doctah that I still kinda kept around remained.

Anyone who wanna be friend, send request to Alba#2308

But send your request anyway.

Edited by AlaAlba on Mar 27th 2024 at 6:27:08 PM

Yostar put up emergency maintenance to fix this, planned for an hour to finish.

Apparently, the maintenance has been extended till 7:00 (UTC-7).

Something serious must've happened on the servers.

Edited by NHunter on Mar 27th 2024 at 8:44:08 AM

Oh man, so that's why I stopped seeing friend units when I was doing EX stages during the hour before the reset. I hope there won't be a roll back, I was up to EX 8 CM with the trimmed medal...

Servers are back up. Friend lists are back to normal, though it seems like they didn't roll back any unaccepted requests sent before maintenance

Going to do the EX-quests today now when the servers are back up and after my latest project-operator have been finished (Wild Mane to E2) and to get the last of the medals.

CV-EX-8 was easier to understand with the fact they screwed up the medal trim conditions to be killing Cliff directly with the vents when it's actually just have them be active when he goes down in both phases, but it was still incredibly tight getting him to be there and the vents up when he died jfc.

To no one's surprise, chapter 13 will on 16th with Tactical Support event launching on 2nd, alongside the Front That Was banner.

EDIT: No info on DoS yet, but it will likely run alongside the first half of the Tactical Support.

Edited by NHunter on Mar 27th 2024 at 2:02:14 PM

Got all medals. EX 8 CM took some experimenting, but in the end Silence Alter was the MVP, for once I'm actually happy I've built her (I guess, I owe her a module now).

If you have Lin Yushia, apparently she can happily tank quite a lot of damage from the vents with her glass barrier and then ignore the DEF buffs enemies get from the Overload charges.

Edited by AceOfScarabs on Mar 28th 2024 at 4:36:27 PM

Also in CN, HG has announced a new 2 week side story for mid-April, so I expect them to release crusher modules there

Those modules will crush our hopes.

That said, where exactly did you see that it will be a side story? Dev news don't say anything beside some vague hints towards something Sarkaz-related coming.

It says so in the news post.

In fact, that's all they wrote.

And DoS has been officially announced as well!

I know I'm probably being worrying for nothing again, but that looked like a real mess back when it ran on CN. I just hope I can get the skin; sincerely doubt I can clear all of the materials.