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I didn't expect Ch'en to act like that in the anime short they did. If anything, I felt like Ch'en and Hoshiguma's personalities felt like they were swapped, but I'd rather believe it's just another aspect we don't see represented in their character files.

With that in mind, it really makes me hope we get more of these specials that showcase more of the characters' personalities.

I didn't expect Ch'en to act like that in the anime short they did. If anything, I felt like Ch'en and Hoshiguma's personalities felt like they were swapped, but I'd rather believe it's just another aspect we don't see represented in their character files.

With that in mind, it really makes me hope we get more of these specials that showcase more of the characters' personalities.

I'm not even sure if it can be considered canon specifically when it happens in the timeline. Cannot be during ch 4-8 and even after that. I don't think there's a break between those story chapters since the events there happen immediately after each other. Then we know Ch'en is no longer part of the LGD after ch 8 and Hoshi takes her position instead. Maybe sometime between ch 3 and 4? Tho it doesn't make sense in tone imo since Amiya was just dealing with the death of Misha. Not that it matters I think. Special moments like this, as you said, shows more of the characters that we don't often see so it's nice to have anyway.

IT took me all 10 rolls to get pity but I got Ifrit's mom Silence from the banner along with another Cuora, a Cardigan, a Beehunter, and Catapult . :)

Managed to clear DM-MO-1. It was pretty tough - even though I spent a day's worth of practice plans on it, I still ended up wasting sanity on a bad run that I messed up at the last second and didn't cancel in time. Still, it was fun - E2 Nightingale really is a godsend for this map, and this event in general.

Also I forgot to mention this yesterday, but finally there'll be more operators in Recruitment! This is happening a bit later than it did for the Chinese server, but at least it's finally happening. This is actually a bit of a mixed bag, since this means that several tag combinations no longer give out guaranteed 4-stars (ie you'll probably get Spot instead of Gummy, Popukar instead of Estelle, and Catapult instead of Shirayuki). On the other hand, there will be a few new tag combinations that guarantee the 4-star Greyy and the 5-star Nightmare, such as Caster+Slow and Healing+DPS. And of course if you manage to get a Top Operator tag there'll be Skadi and Ch'en finally available.

Those plant crab things are indeed adorable and she's the same race as Spot. The second Hyena for Arknights, and the first female one.

I can already see the futa jokes

Those plant crab things are indeed adorable and she's the same race as Spot. The second Hyena for Arknights, and the first female one.

I can already see the futa jokes

...only Beany isn't a spotted hyena which is the only one whose females have that gnarly pseudopenis. She's probably based on the aardwolf, very much the odd one out among the extant hyenas in general.

Those plant crab things are indeed adorable and she's the same race as Spot. The second Hyena for Arknights, and the first female one.

I can already see the futa jokes

...only Beany isn't a spotted hyena which is the only one whose females have that gnarly pseudopenis. She's probably based on the aardwolf, very much the odd one out among the extant hyenas in general.

Oh, I completely missed that. Yeah, looking at her E2 art that's definitely not a spotted hyena. Aardwolves are still cool, if pretty obscure.

Those plant crab things are indeed adorable and she's the same race as Spot. The second Hyena for Arknights, and the first female one.

I can already see the futa jokes

...only Beany isn't a spotted hyena which is the only one whose females have that gnarly pseudopenis. She's probably based on the aardwolf, very much the odd one out among the extant hyenas in general.

Huh. I didn't even know female spotted hyenas had external genitalia like that. Literally just searched it up cause I saw this and wondered how exactly that worked. Guess you learn something new everyday...

It does rather complicate several aspects of reproduction yeah. Which is of course why it's a more or less unique trait, but then spotted hyena evolution was edgy hipster af and took several other unusual turns anyway.

Jeff Williams and Casey Lee Williams made a song for Arknights?? Link

Genuinely didn't expect to see these names for Arknights. If anyone doesn't know, these two are the ones famously known for creating music for RWBY.

Hypergryph continues to look more like a music company LOL. Also the MV and the special we got keeps making me think we're going to get an anime...

Watched Lord Kyo's DM-6 playthrough, found out his strat was roughly similar to mine which encouraged me to just try harder, and I finally finished it.
I really should get on the challenge modes and maybe that annihilation stage...

Only a couple of days left before the Darknights event ends; I'm probably not going to clear out the shop but I should be able to get everything besides the LMD and the Furniture Parts.

A rather depressing Theresa x W comic. No translations but you probably don't need them here.
Slightly lewd Specter x Andreana x Skadi pic, with translations on Danbooru. I kinda want to typeset and request this one when Andreana's added to global, though there's a few untranslated hanzi left there.

I needed the LMD so I spent my sanity on it. The new recruitment pool looks nice even though my Cardigan isn't in it. :(

Thank you for coming home. Of course Elite 2 immediately. Glad she did come home after 118 rolls cause I wouldn't want the mats I saved up to be for naught.

....huh. So I only did 33 pulls and got both Weedy and W and also pot 2 Elysium. I genuinely don't know how to feel cause I thought it would take way more... It took me over 100 pulls to get Nian so the fact I still have a 10 pull ticket left over AND 40k orundum left makes me feel a little complicated.

Oh well, guess I'll just use it on Thorns and Surtr. The unfortunate part of being lucky is that I have to farm so many chips for all of the 6 stars I just got. I still haven't even promoted Phantom to elite 1 so it's gonna be a while of farming for me. The dumb part here is that I have 3 million LMD and all of the mats saved up but the only thing I'm missing are chips.

Also spent money and bought Blaze so I'm probably going to promote Elysium first, then Blaze, and then we'll see from there.

24th started very good for me, since I finally got top operator tag after like 2-3 months of nothing. Early present from Santa. Tag combinations weren't that great, had healing, ranged and melee, so I decided to go for Shinning or Nightingale. Got Shining. Next day rolled on banner and got Silence with 5 tickets from guarantee which was nice, since I do use her often.

Norainhere posted:

I managed to beat all of the extra operations! Now all that's left is the pseudo-Annihilation stage in a few days. This is actually the first event I've been able to beat without using any guides at all, so I'm pretty happy with myself. DM-EX-6 gave me a lot of trouble but I barely managed to beat it without wasting any sanity.

Yea. DM-EX-6 was a nightmare. I barely managed to do it on normal version and then turns out I can't repeat it on challenge, because my strategy didn't work with Sentinels leaving faster, so I had to reinvent it. Myrtle turned out to be MVP. I thought I didn't have enough time to deploy her, but again I heavily underestimated just how fast and much DP she creates. M3 her S1 was totally worth it. Her and Hellagur carried me through this event. I'm totally E2 him after this.

But yea, technically first event I beat without ever checking guides was Grani, but that's because I only played rerun and with my E2 operators, it was a walk in the park. I wasn't even playing it half seriously, so I'm considering this event first true challenge I beat entirely myself, which I'm incredibly happy with. Then of course I checked Eckogen's and Kyostin's guides and felt stupid I didn't figure out you can just let Blaze solo everything... Well I never used her so I couldn't even know she could do it. Also strat with using Spot to block Sentinels so they'd never leave was so clever xD

Psuedo-Anni turned to be a nightmare and because I was taking it easy and only left last week to do extra stages and it, I was a bit pressed for time. I finished clearing Extra stages 2 days ago, so I only had 2 days to beat Anni. I wasted like 300 ap and 1 Originium to beat it, but it was totally worth it and I finished clearing entire shop except for furnitures and furnitures part, which I don't care about, anyway. Projekt Red was incredible there (as well as Hellagur). Honestly I'll probably E2 all operators I used in that stage...

Norainhere posted:

Also I forgot to mention this yesterday, but finally there'll be more operators in Recruitment! This is happening a bit later than it did for the Chinese server, but at least it's finally happening. This is actually a bit of a mixed bag, since this means that several tag combinations no longer give out guaranteed 4-stars (ie you'll probably get Spot instead of Gummy, Popukar instead of Estelle, and Catapult instead of Shirayuki). On the other hand, there will be a few new tag combinations that guarantee the 4-star Greyy and the 5-star Nightmare, such as Caster+Slow and Healing+DPS. And of course if you manage to get a Top Operator tag there'll be Skadi and Ch'en finally available.

Yea. Since I already maxed the ones they added, it doesn't really matter to me, then again I already maxed those 3 stars as well... I wish other 4 stars started to drop from my rolls... Still those 5-6 stars are nice additions.

塞雷娅 posted:

Hypergryph continues to look more like a music company LOL. Also the MV and the special we got keeps making me think we're going to get an anime...

Yea. They totally should.

myrrhmidon posted:

Thank you for coming home. Of course Elite 2 immediately. Glad she did come home after 118 rolls cause I wouldn't want the mats I saved up to be for naught.

Gj! Yea, that'd suck x3 I know from experience stare

塞雷娅 posted:

....huh. So I only did 33 pulls and got both Weedy and W and also pot 2 Elysium. I genuinely don't know how to feel cause I thought it would take way more... It took me over 100 pulls to get Nian so the fact I still have a 10 pull ticket left over AND 40k orundum left makes me feel a little complicated.

Wow, gj!

The unfortunate part of being lucky is that I have to farm so many chips for all of the 6 stars I just got. I still haven't even promoted Phantom to elite 1 so it's gonna be a while of farming for me. The dumb part here is that I have 3 million LMD and all of the mats saved up but the only thing I'm missing are chips.

Yea, I was like that with Ifrit as well. I had everything to E2 her, but no chips x3

As for my rolls. Finally got Cutter and of course since I really liked Elysium and wanted him, I got Ayerscarpe instead. Throw another 10 roll since I could afford to. Got another Cutter and GrayThrot so it was worth it. I really liked her in the story, so I wanted to drop her. Well, what the hell, I decided to throw another one. Didn't even get 5 star, so it's signal to drop it. Maybe I'll get lucky with daily single rolls.

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Now at like 80+ tokens after burning through my accumulated reserves. Several Elysiums and Cutters, Reed (too bad Bagpipe all but obsoletes her but her visual design's great), Texas and Utage are now at max pot, Weedy for M A X I M U M B O O L I...
No W tho.
Sadness. :c

After spending all of my orundum and tickets I've been saving up, I managed to get 2 W's, full potential Elysium, and even Suzuran popped up. Sadly no Weedy, but at least she's not limited. All in all that was still "only" 121 rolls so I'm nowhere near enough to get Weedy from the pity shop, but still I'm satisfied.

By the way, somehow I thought we'd be getting a free Thermal-EX for our anniversary in addition to a free Savage, but unfortunately I was wrong. Good luck to everyone trying to get him from recruitment; his tags are relatively rare. I think putting a Specialist tag for 3:50 has the highest chance of getting him?

Red hugs (Red, Ifrit and Frostleaf interacted with each other in one of the early events, in case anyone missed that)

Norainhere posted:

After spending all of my orundum and tickets I've been saving up, I managed to get 2 W's, full potential Elysium, and even Suzuran popped up.

Gj!

By the way, somehow I thought we'd be getting a free Thermal-EX for our anniversary in addition to a free Savage, but unfortunately I was wrong. Good luck to everyone trying to get him from recruitment; his tags are relatively rare.

We get him from first day of sign up. It just starts on January 2. We'll also get copy during episode 7. Whatever 1 or more, not sure.

Isn't Jihadbot a login reward, like Beagle's free skin? P sure that only starts counting tomorrow...

So, I recorded my terrible strategy.

We get him from first day of sign up. It just starts on January 2. We'll also get copy during episode 7. Whatever 1 or more, not sure.

Isn't Jihadbot a login reward, like Beagle's free skin? P sure that only starts counting tomorrow...

Oh, so we are getting a free copy of him. That's good to know; I must not have read the announcement carefully enough.

So, I recorded my terrible strategy.

Good job! I don't know why you're calling this a terrible strategy, it's honestly more clever than my strategy of just leaving all of the Bladeweavers and Worldcursers to Specter+Nightingale.

Norainhere posted:

We get him from first day of sign up. It just starts on January 2. We'll also get copy during episode 7. Whatever 1 or more, not sure.

Isn't Jihadbot a login reward, like Beagle's free skin? P sure that only starts counting tomorrow...

Oh, so we are getting a free copy of him. That's good to know; I must not have read the announcement carefully enough.

Yea, np. Happens to the best of us xP

So, I recorded my terrible strategy.

Good job! I don't know why you're calling this a terrible strategy

Because doing proper Ifrit setup is much easier and is way more reliable. Still thanks, I appreciate that you don't think it was stupid.

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I can't believe it! W came home on my first ten roll using the ticket. I'm so happy. :)

Edit I also got my first copy of Popukar so that's also a win in my book.

Also small W and Ines: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/86250642

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Because doing proper Ifrit setup is much easier and is way more reliable. Still thanks, I appreciate that you don't think it was stupid.

Just watched some other people's strategies for MO-1 and yeah, I can kinda see what you mean lol. But still, coming up with your own strategies and winning with them on these hard levels is half the fun, so I don't think it's worth feeling bad about at all.

Also, even though Episode 7 just came out I'll probably hold off on going through it. In addition to farming chips for W, Elysium and Suzuran there's also going to be the special extra drops from all stages starting on Jan 2. Assuming the drop rates are the same, 1-7 will still be the most efficient area to farm those, so I'll probably be farming there for a while too (I needed the rocks anyways, so I don't really mind at all).

Exusiai x Texas pic
Amiya x Blaze pic
Angelina x Astesia pic (crackship?)
Firewatch throughout the seasons