myrrhmidon posted:

"New" limited op: Rosmonthis. Guess she lives apparently

Then maybe there's chance for FrostNova. Also damn that fight was bs. I finally finished chapter 6 and for the first time I had to use support to beat it and I dirtied my hands using SA. Killing first time was easy, second time was a nightmare and I was seriously lost how to do it. The 2 guides I saw was for either using Exusiai with S3 or SilverAsh. Mine isn't E2 yet and nobody in support had her on S3 so I had to use SilverDaddy.

On story side, I really liked it and it was ful of emotions. You really could sympathize with FrostNova and her squad. Only really issue I had was that amnesia Doctor really felt out of place here. Like we have all this tragic narrative and FrostNova is spilling their guts out to some person that doesn't even really understand the situation. It'd be much stronger if it was Amiya or Doctor pre-amnesia that actually had some history with them.

Also I got to Amiya's age and 1 Reunion member said she was like 16-17 and then other corrected her it was more like 14. And even Amiya herself makes a comment she still wants to grow taller. I understand that not all information we're given has to turn out to be true, but lying to audience is very delicate art and considering the entire chapter is about even children suffering and being dragged into Infected war as well as most of Reunion members here are still children themselves, I'd say there's no reason to doubt their assessment of Amiya's age.

Guard Amiya

Why I'm not surprised. Of course they'd turn mascot of Guardknights into Guard.

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Guard Amiya

But why though. Tell me she’s at least an Arts guard

Also is this an actual thing?

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Guard Amiya

But why though. Tell me she’s at least an Arts guard

Yes and also a true damage guard. Note that she's using Ch'en's sword Chi Xiao. Speculations on how and why up to Ch'en being dead. Most likely either Ch'en lent her sword or Amiya conjured it with arts via a mental link with Ch'en. There is a part in the PV where they sync. Funny that I was hoping for Talulah x Ch'en but I got Ch'en x Amiya instead. Not bad. Possibly RIP Talulah tho

Also is this an actual thing?

Yep.

Oh my god, Texas's new skin in CN is so sexy I'm actually gonna pee. Like hello??? She looks so good, I totally get why she has so many girls into her. Changing her to my assistant once that skin drops, sorry Specter.

Ew, more double ears. D:

Meanwhile I just got quite the tag spread for a single Recruitment - Specialist, Crowd-Control, Fast-Redeploy, Survival, Slow wiping_sweat.jpg

That's quite the smorgasbord of 5*s to pick from...

Apparently there's going to be a crossover/collab with Rainbow Six Siege??? That's hilarious.

Apparently there's going to be a crossover/collab with Rainbow Six Siege??? That's hilarious.

Supposedly CN only tho. But hope endures for isekai'd Tachanka.

@Nevri Like I said before just because a character believes something to be true doesn't mean it's true. Also even if it were true from what I've read most girls stop growing in height by 14-15 so Amiya's probably as tall as she'll get.

@myrrhmidon Guard Amiya doesn't turn up anything in Google so I have no clue where you're getting that she does unmitigated damage. Having a character that does that all of the time would likely be overpowered unless there's some limiting feature or drawback.

@myrrhmidon Guard Amiya doesn't turn up anything in Google so I have no clue where you're getting that she does unmitigated damage. Having a character that does that all of the time would likely be overpowered unless there's some limiting feature or drawback.

It was from the anniversary stream; Gamepress has a write-up of the details:

Skill: During skill activation, increase ATK and gain a certain amount of Arts Evade. Attacks deal 2 hits.

Skill: Immediately seek enemies with the lowest HP ahead and carry out multiple Arts slashes (the last hit has doubled damage and deals True damage). For every enemy killed during the skill, increase ATK and RES (has limit), and the damage type changes to True for the remainder of the skill. Can only use the skill once in the entire battle.

So yeah, considering it's one-use only it seems pretty niche. Hopefully it'll be more usable than Amiya's current skill 3 though.

Also, that artist that ships Amiya x Ch'en is conflicted.

Skill: Immediately seek enemies with the lowest HP ahead and carry out multiple Arts slashes (the last hit has doubled damage and deals True damage). For every enemy killed during the skill, increase ATK and RES (has limit), and the damage type changes to True for the remainder of the skill. Can only use the skill once in the entire battle.

So yeah, considering it's one-use only it seems pretty niche. Hopefully it'll be more usable than Amiya's current skill 3 though.

Also, that artist that ships Amiya x Ch'en is conflicted.

Lol Nagi. Should be more hopeful tho. As I said, it's more likely there will be more shipping fuel for Ch'en x Amiya. RIP my incest ship tho

Her skill 2's usefulness will depend on how fast it charges and if she can be used as a helidrop duelist to take out priority targets.

Oh yeah, translated Dobermann x Fang I found and its continuation. Original is here

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Skill: Immediately seek enemies with the lowest HP ahead and carry out multiple Arts slashes (the last hit has doubled damage and deals True damage). For every enemy killed during the skill, increase ATK and RES (has limit), and the damage type changes to True for the remainder of the skill. Can only use the skill once in the entire battle.

So yeah, considering it's one-use only it seems pretty niche. Hopefully it'll be more usable than Amiya's current skill 3 though.

Also, that artist that ships Amiya x Ch'en is conflicted.

Lol Nagi. Should be more hopeful tho. As I said, it's more likely there will be more shipping fuel for Ch'en x Amiya. RIP my incest ship tho

Her skill 2's usefulness will depend on how fast it charges and if she can be used as a helidrop duelist to take out priority targets.

Oh yeah, translated Dobermann x Fang I found and its continuation. Original is here

Nice, I was wondering if there would be any of that ship after Stories of Afternoon. I'll try requesting it to be uploaded as an image, but I just wish the translator didn't stitch the images together - it looks like that messed up the resolution.

It didn't however say whether or not Amiya (Caster) and Amiya (Guard) are treated as the same or different characters for support purposes. This is can you put both of them in the same team via friend support?

Oh wow, all the new stuff they're adding to the game is crazy. Really never disappointed by the improvements Hypergryph keeps adding to Arknights, and they're even adding what's basically character interludes! That's something I really wanted to see in this game and they're actually doing it.

Also the alternate version of Lava? I wonder if it's like, a past Lava coming to the future or what cause Nian seems really taken with her in the Ancient Forge event and the movie script they made was riddled with truths hidden in lies. My "Lava is the reincarnation of the person Nian knew in the past" headcanon might actually come true.

Also the alternate version of Lava? I wonder if it's like, a past Lava coming to the future or what cause Nian seems really taken with her in the Ancient Forge event and the movie script they made was riddled with truths hidden in lies. My "Lava is the reincarnation of the person Nian knew in the past" headcanon might actually come true.

TBF the timeline is wobbly as shit anyway. Remember Rosa? Yeah according to the Ursus story segments she only became a combat Op a good year after the kids were brought out of Chernobog, which obviously makes her presence in that capacity in the narrative present a huge PIME TARDOX. About the same goes for Schwartz and Ceylon since there's no way Surging Flame happened anytime near where the main story is - Rhodes isn't going to send basically its entire combat force off on a freaking beach vacation while fighting what's essentially an open war with Reunion. (I can just imagine how Kalt would have to try to explain that to Wei... some allies, huh?)

Blemishine's theme is so Medieval it may accidentally turn your clothes into a full set of armour or reduce you to serfdom

Suzuran's banner is up! I haven't rolled yet or actually started the event; has anyone gotten her?

Also, speaking of Blemishine, here's a Blemishine x Whislash pic

Did 20 pulls on the new banner (RIP savings for W, again). No qt kitsune roris were found but Mostima came home.
Well then.
Guess I'm buying her new outfit.

Rolled until the pity 5 star and got Nearl. I mean, I don't really care either way since I don't particularly want anyone on Suzuran's banner but it would've been nice if I got someone new and not a duplicate. Also bought Mostima and Astesia's skins even though I don't have them. I'll eventually get them so might as well have them in reserve.

I cleared all of the event stages but there's an interesting mechanic in the event missions where you have to solve some clues to clear specific goals. Like the 1st one is talking about how you have to clear Suzuran's stage without letting the enemy take control of any of the devices. Gonna work on those right now, and I'm probably gonna save the event story for later reading.

Same here, except I got a duplicate Nightmare. Sad that I didn’t even get Click...

Apologies in advance for the bragging but I got cute ninetailed foxgirl. On the flip side, I didn't get anyone else on the banner... not even Click. Of course Suzuran is an instant E2.

Story is fucked up as usual for Arknights. Overarching theme of empty revenge but also mentions of colonialism. Also shows the negative effect of Contingency Contract. Our sufferings in CC may not be for a good cause after all. Mudrock is pretty cute. Her weird thing talking to herself but also maybe a sign of high level of infection that it affects her mind. Btw ingame text uses male pronouns still so I am not actually sure if her gender should be spoiler. Very much interested in what happened to Kazdel especially since Rhodes Island surely has a connection there with Theresa.

Really the story kept droning on forever so I sort of only halfway paid attention to it. Hopefully it'll get better but I'm not hopeful. Also my new game Trails of Cold Steel IV is eating into this game's time.

My pity roll was Liskarm which I really like. Alas no Franka in my Rhodes Island yet so I can't unite her with her girlfriend. :(

Arknights is bulling me! That's my 3rd freaking Ch'en now! Aak was the last time I got a rate up OP, I did get 1 Click at least. I really wanted at least one of Bagpipe or Blaze or Suzuran at least. The rest of my sanity goes to anni banner.

Fuck that diary entry telling you to beat the Mudrock stage with only 6 operators. If I didn't have Mayer and Magallan, I would've been fucked otherwise. Even then I barely 3 starred it near the end, thank god for Mayer's robots and Projekt Red.

So Texas's Epoque skin is what she looked like when she was still in the mafia... I totally understand why Lappland wants the old Texas back now. Didn't think she could get any cooler but her dorm animations have her wearing shades when laying down and she's literally smoking with her special animation. Mafia boss Texas comeback when?

EDIT: Also funny meme.

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塞雷娅 posted:

Like the 1st one is talking about how you have to clear Suzuran's stage without letting the enemy take control of any of the devices.

Lol. I cleared that one before I even read those clues. My guess was that I'm supposed to just use Suzuran's ability once and when I played it I happened to use her ability once just to see how it looks. Now I realized it was in my first attempt and when I was playing it later I didn't use her skill, but since I happened to not let them take over the device it was fine. If not for that I'd probably not figure it out. The same with kill 20 colossus (clearing it accidentally, this one was easy to figure out). I just got it farming TW-8.

Norainhere posted:

Same here, except I got a duplicate Nightmare. Sad that I didn’t even get Click...

I got Click with first roll and had to spend all 10 rolls to get second copy of Nightmare as well. Dropping Ptilopsis from banner would be neat so I don't have to buy her from shop, but also I really want to get Projekt Red, so I'd actually prefer to drop her and then I can buy Ptilopsis.

EDIT/ Lol and now I got support and medic tags so I can get either Warfarin or Ptilopsis. I also got vanguard so I could get Zima, who I don't have yet. Since I might get Warfarin dupe (which wouldn't be bad) I guess I'll go for Zima. Even got her skin last time.

塞雷娅 posted:

Fuck that diary entry telling you to beat the Mudrock stage with only 6 operators. If I didn't have Mayer and Magallan, I would've been fucked otherwise. Even then I barely 3 starred it near the end, thank god for Mayer's robots and Projekt Red.

I was wondering how the hell I'm supposed to kill Mudrock normally, but then I remembered I got Eyja and dropped volcano on Mudrock's head. Also I'm not sure if I'd realize myself it talks about stage with Mudrock, cos I didn't read story yet, so didn't know they're Sarkaz.

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