>Good story
>Fun tower defence gameplay
>Good looking character design
>It's fucking gacha though...
Why aren't (you) playing it Ganker?
For those who are playing, what are your thoughts on the new event?
Arknights
>Good story
>Fun tower defence gameplay
>Good looking character design
>It's fucking gacha though...
Why aren't (you) playing it Ganker?
For those who are playing, what are your thoughts on the new event?
Endfield release when?
there is no point in starting now
>>It's fucking gacha though...
It's time for westoids to accept "real games" lost and are somehow more predatory than gacha is.
Especially when these days you can just straight up buy characters after a certain amount of rolls, taking luck out of the game entirely.
I guess so, Spider"man" 2 at 90 USD, "micro transactions" that cost the price of a full game...
I miss the time when it was just you buy the game and it was all there.
Why do people keep saying it's 90 bucks when it's 70? Is this some new meme I'm not hip to?
The event is pretty good so far. The gravity gimmick adds a lot to the stages. I just wish there was a better way to switch than just taking 1-2 fast redeploys every map
Technically speaking Flagbearer VG's can also work a switch by dropping to 0 block during their skill. Something they technically teach during the tutorial but never outright state.
Yeah, I noticed but that's a bit iffy since the "weight" returns automatically at a fixed time so you can't really control it as precisely as I'd like
I just did CW-7 and I feel doing it the "right" way requires a good amount of switching up and down on demand
Who do I take for the final stage if I don't have Mjolnir?
Get some high damage units to try and kill the boss quickly, use the gravity switch, Saria for main deffense, destroy star balls to weaken boss but be carefull with the AOE damage it causes.
Shouldn't be too hard honestly.
Just take support NTR. She almost solo Kristen.
>Why aren't (you) playing it Ganker?
>>It's fucking gacha though...
You answered your own question.
>Good story
>Good
>Story
The absolute state. None of the mysteries from the very start have been explored yet (usually if you don't reveal something it's because the mystery is not that interesting to begin with), the Doctor is one of the worst self-inserts I've seen because they never show you what he does, just tell you; trying to tie another character to him, saying it's him (old Doctor) is pretty pointless because we know he's not coming back. I loved the gameplay but their inability to add meaningful QoL to their game turned me off of it; the QoL was great for 2019 when the game first came out but it's now at an unacceptable level. AKs gacha system was one of the best amongst all gacha games at one point, but now, with its limited system and shitty pity for rate-up character—both standard and limited—its lagging behind in that department, too. It's telling how bad things had gotten when even FGO had a pity system before AK. The events definitely have a high production quality but that can only get you so far when all other systems are strictly inferior. Oh right, the new player experience is woeful.
>the Doctor is one of the worst self-inserts I've seen
At least it's better than Blue Archive's sensei I guess.
And yeah to the rest of your points, it not the greatest thing in the world, but it's still good I would say.
It's a shame because I really liked AK but some intrusive, easily fixable issues forced me out.
What do you mean exactly?
I don't see any big issues that would make an old player want to quit other than the usual burnout.
No sweeps made the game a needless slog to get through (doubly so if farming the likes of 1-7) and their unwillingness to add it to all content is rather insulting when the game already has sweeps (annihilation). Multiple replays does next to nothing, just a QoL on paper to make players think that they're doing something to improve QoL. The base still requires players to rotate characters in and out; it's not fun, nor is it engaging, adding nothing to the game. Losing or retrying stages still costs sanity; practice is limited to daily practice plans so there's only so much to can mess around to perfect a stage or fuck around in random stages daily. Again, they introduced a system to address this issue but it was only implemented into the story mode, and only for a 2 week, event period. Probably other issues but these are the main ones. If you gave me PtNs QoL with AK I'd actually go back to AK, because I could actually enjoy it again.
>Losing or retrying stages still costs sanity;
its 1 sanity and it probably regened in the time you spent dying
i burnt out of the game a year ago but your complaints are barely issues
>its 1 sanity
You're being disingenuous. You'll rarely lose or require to retry stages that cost 1 sanity on loss. The harder version of stages have a tripled practice plan cost, meaning that you can only practice a hard stage at most 10 times per day. Why exactly does such a limiter still exist? The sanity loss is also increased to half of the stage cost.
Another disingenuous poster.
>who's gonna tell him?
Why don't you tell me? Better yet, why not link me to something to better make your point?
>it takes less than 5 minutes
It takes ~5 minutes. It should take no time.
>Assumptions and a straw man
You're pathetic.
>His arguments boil down to "I don't want to play the game, give me stuff for free".
>Autoing 1-7 every 2 minutes is playing
Huh?
farm kin or otherwise retard
>He wants to be told how much he can play a game and wants to be ordered to turn it on at least once per day.
>No sweeps
who's gonna tell him?
>The base still requires players to rotate characters in and out;
it takes less than 5 minutes
>Losing or retrying stages still costs sanity;
actually play out the stage instead of rage quitting like a cuck every time you activate a skill 0.1 frames before you intended to
or better yet, stop trying to brute force the game with nothing but DPS
>stop trying
yes, the 3 practice tickets per each challenge mode attempt is making you do exactly that
Hard to take westoid opinions seriously when they look like a video essay compressed into a shitpost.
Not reading all that shit when right off the bat this very event drops big lore answers.
This very event revealed the Doctor is an ancient alien. Whether you think that's a good reveal or not, it's still pretty major.
It's definitely progress, can't deny that. Does it do more than reveal his origin, though? They need to do a lot more than that for it to have any meaningful relevance. I will concede that future events will address it and we should wait but I'd argue that it's not in the near future given how so many of the other major plot points/mysteries have yet to be thoroughly explored.
Yeah, dropped AK as my third gacha for BA, because the autist devs refuse to implement QoL. The limited banners truly ruined the game for me. Such a shame. Hell, even their program for returning players is grindy as hell. They also kept on introducing more retarded RNG mechanics in their harder content, want fun at all. Oh, and more character designs have been getting worse and worse. In general they are releasing too many characters.
hows 4 limiteds a month on BA treating you asiaticshill?
Mobile retards, U can Go to Mobile Games ITS Not YOU place here
Joke's on you, I play it on pc
MY LAST COPE
I have been playing the game for years.
Lone Trail is not generally bad, but for the big Rhine Labs event there sure was a lot of stuff that wasn't Rhine Labs (it could definitely do with a little less Preserver). I get that they're following up on some of the RL story bits that they've planted in other things, but they probably should have given more time to Kirsten and Saria and just generally explored the pre-established character relationships more. Silence and Ferdinand being main characters felt unnecessary as well. Genuinely, what was the purpose of giving them that much screen time? It ended up being an event about legacy and progress that just happens to feature RL, and that seems off to me.
Limited system is garbage
Anni is garbage
SSS is garbage
POO is garbage
Game is too easy
Boss design is bad
>regular bosses have game mechanics explained on their intro
>Kirsten just has "this woman fucking sucks"
I love her so much
just has "this woman fucking sucks"
I mean Ho'olheyak mentioned that Kristen is a pretty weak opponent, so she could probably kill her if she wanted to.
My problem with Arknights is that it's the most fun at about 6-8 months in. After a year of playing you're stomping 90% of the content and you have to restrict yourself from using your most powerful operators to even have any fun.
>For those who are playing, what are your thoughts on the new event?
You mean the story, right? Because the stages available in the first week are so fucking easy they don't even register as gameplay.
I wish they'd just accept their playerbase isn't new anymore and make a clear separation: main story for the newcomers, events for the veterans. But of course they won't, so since CC is over, I'm thinking of quitting until it comes back in 8 months or so.
>Omertosa
>Kirin
>Surtr
>Radiant Knight
>Abyssals
Yup, it's balanced time.
Look man, I don't have hours to waste slogging through the story. I've been forcing my way through FGO's story too, and as ridiculously long as FGO's gets it has nothing on Arknights. There so much fucking faffing about and not enough getting to the point, and trying to read literally hours upon hours of text a couple lines at a time is pain.
I stopped playing 'cause I got bored of the gameplay
Still pretty decent, might come back one day
Played for more than a year
Had fun but just asked for too much commitment for a phone game. I remember playing CC so late into the night I was wondering why am I doing this to myself
By the last days I played I feel like my interest in the universe and story just gone and that made me stop playing completely
Basically if you don't have any other game to play, Arknights is good. But you just can't treat it like a side game.
This 100%. Arknights acts like it's not a mobile gacha game but a god damned MMO in terms of time investment. Shit's ridiculous.
Stat bloat content like CC and high ascensions are there for the sweaties guidefagging and crying the game is too easy.
They aren't real content, just guidefag 18 and dip on those.
That's how I played for a little while until like I mentioned, in the last days I just lost interest in the whole story, lore and stuff. I feel ashamed to admit this but all the dialogue and talking filtered me, I wasn't really having fun reading anymore. That basically was the last thing that made me login. So as my interest in that is gone I just decide to stop. These days I don't really play gacha anymore.
>I feel ashamed to admit this but all the dialogue and talking filtered me, I wasn't really having fun reading anymore.
There's nothing to be ashamed about, the writing is way, way too long and has all these faux-intellectual tirades for no reason other than the writer's wanking. I strongly suspect the translators improve the English version by a lot already because there's no way you'd write all this stupid shit with such a nice choice of words.
>I strongly suspect the translators improve the English version
The Chinese events suggest otherwise. Those events can't be improved.
>just don't play a video game man
>you turn on a video game to... uh, well, for something, I don't know, just not to play it!
I will never understand you people, wouldn't it be better for you to watch streams instead?
you have the rest of the game, no point in beating your head against the pointless brick wall that is stat bloat content when it doesn't give any rewards
the new shit to get module mats is what made me stop, too much side grind
Agreed, I just skip the module and rogue stuff
Because I'm playing Limbus
I wish we'd get an event like Wolumonde again, that was peak comfy
>Good night Terra
>Good night universe
Kino
Is there a gacha that can rival puzzles and dragons? I want to get into all these new ones with cute girls and fat asses but the gameplay is always tacked on garbage, pad felt like it had a significant skill ceiling and was engaging to actually play. is there another anons?
ROACH IN THE SHILL THREAD!
>I'll never have a W of my own...
It hurts
literally just don't roll for anything half a year before her banner.
>Implying I have any semblance of self-control
Wouldn't be a Wfag if I did, now would I?
>self-control issue
>lack of self-control
What exactly did Kirsten do wrong again?
Murder, experimented on innocents (including multiple children), sold technology to the military, made Rhine Labs into a key part of the military industrial complex in Columbia, political assassination, frame jobs, torture, disregard for lab safety.
I got really burned out by the 3rd anniversary after playing it for 3 years and have a hard time coming back. I'm pretty much a seasonal at this point and only really log it for milestone events or operators I want, but being a seasonal in Arknights fucking sucks.
Yeah same for me. Played since launch but dropped it after Texas alter. I think it was CC 11 when I couldn't take it anymore. Have no idea how MMOfags can play the same game for years without breaks. The worst part is it's hard to go back to a gacha after burning out since you're punished for falling behind. I didn't go back for Yato even with 200 something OP in my account
I've never not gotten fucked on limited banner other than radiant nearl. Lee fucking 5 pot. Oh well. Is the green bird hair lady shit? Ho'oleefuk or whatever her name is?
if you have to ask, stick to tier lists
She seems kinda gimmick with her tornado/levitate stuff and very niche. I guess if you really wanna fuck around with levitate and weightless teams or want to use your brain or want to su2ck that fat tail then go for her.
Ho'olheyak is bad. Like, release Passenger levels of bad. Near Skyfire levels of bad, that's how awful she is.
Her gimmick, levitation, gets halved in duration for any enemy over Weight 3 which are usually the heavy DEF enemies who are the Core Casters' most common prey, and her levitation time is already not great (the longest is S1 which is 4 seconds, but isn't controllable. S2's is 1 second, and S3's is 2.2 seconds maximum). This means that her levitation time on enemies is normally pretty dogshit. Her 5 star rival, Qanipalaat, who is also a FREE unit, can levitate an enemy for 7 seconds with his S2.
To make things HG shot Ho'ol in the kneecaps while making her S3, her most unique and useful skill. It extends her range, makes each projectile levitate an enemy, and deal good burst damage with range. However, for some reason they also made her S3 slow her ATK interval to 3 whole seconds, meaning Ho'ol attacks slower than a fuckin Splash Caster without having any AOE.
This kills her DPS, and makes her unable to keep a target constantly levitated as her ATK interval is slower than her maximum levitation time. Her gains on specialization are also disgustingly small for how expensive raising a 6 star's skills are (an increase of 2 seconds levitation time on S3L7 to 2.2 on S3M3. 10% increase! Wow!) And her SP cost lowering from 64 to 60 (incredibly expensive for an operator in Arknights' 4th year when most hover around 35). The damage increase is better, but unfortunately her 3 second long attack time means that's not going to be worth much.
Like I said before, I would rate Ho'ol to be about as bad as Passenger was on his release, before HG buffed him like 3 updates in a row.
nice pasta bro
She's somewhere near the bottom of 6* power levels. This means she's still stronger than lower rarities but also much weaker than meta ops.
I think I missed one or two limited characters, not that it matters since I haven't used any of them.
I quit the game after playing for 2 years since it's a slog to get through and the writing is endlessly wordy. Too bad too cause I got a God tier account with everyone.
Is there an updated word count for events? O keep telling myself I'll finally sit down and read through them but they just seem to keep getting longer and longer.
>>Good looking character design
Arknights easily has the worst artstyle of any gacha game. The scenic art and general aesthetics are nice but, Jesus fucking Christ, it has the ugliest fucking characters I have ever seen. I’m convinced the entire fanbase is full of homosexuals
>NO SEXSEXSEX NO BUY!!!
Based coomer speaks the truth
(You)
but I am playing it
I really hope when the game reaches its end (haha) they make the necessary modifications to turn it into an offline game. I can see why the need for the stupid grind in a GaaS, but if you remove it they game still has fuckton of content. I would gladly pay $70 for it.
So what's the deal with Endfield? Why are we on a different planet? What happened to Doctor? Why is Angelina here? Why is Endministrator such a stupid fucking title?
The only answer I have is about Angelina. She's a clone.
From the beta test, Angelina is apparently a clone in a line of Angelina clones. She mentions the “original” in some of her stuff I guess. As for the rest, who knows. I’m sure we’ll get more info. There are graves to RI ops in Endfield after all.
>Arkek is strategy game
>Endfield is lololo action game
No true Arkek is gonna play this shit anyway.
Endfield is looking more like a factory simulator which is going to filter so many people.
Wrong, it would be the same as Arknights base, you setup that shit once and then visit it few times per day to collect your wage.
you really think you'll get satisfactory answers seeing how AK's story is? their whole schtick is stringing along retarded mysteries and replacing them with more before they have to do the underwhelming reveals.
It's also why AK's narrative has gone nowhere, it's basically not in the best interests of a gacha to have an ending or a well made story structure to satisfactorily reach that ending in mind. Kind of like serialized shit like manga in that regard.
>So what's the deal with Endfield?
jumping on the 3d gacha train
>Why are we on a different planet?
I believe Kal's new skin infers Terra gets megafucked so people used a portal in the north to get to Talos II
>What happened to Doctor?
no-one knows, possibly Endpipi is either them or a clone of them
>Why is Angelina here?
Clone. Worth noting some of her physical atrributes are different from the original
>Why is Endministrator such a stupid fucking title?
EN translation making shit up lol
The new characters look like ass
its fun seeing people here saying arknights is grindy(it is). just from the glimpse of endfield that looks 10x worse where its just factario grind for resources rather than actual real combat that matches what the 3d trailers and story they put out. fucking joke. hope it bombs so hypergraph give us the actual AK game we deserve
>hope it bombs so hypergraph give us the actual AK game we deserve
You forgot that HG work on 2 extra games besides Arknights and Endfield but there is close to no info about them
I haven't gone through the event yet but elf a cute
>endfield is shitty crafting and gathering
>weapon and character gacha
>blatently rips off better games
wow can't wait to play the same chinese game for the 40th time
It's not about game being garbage, it's about Lowlight zealots buying it up.
I found the tower defense in Arknights to be awful, even by tower defense standards, so I dropped it. The story takes a LOT of time to get going and since Endfield is a direct sequel to a story I found boring, I think I'll pass.
I fucking love Specter