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I really like Saria's jailer costume so I had to buy it.
I really like Saria's jailer costume so I had to buy it.
I'd be doing a disservice to Silence if I didn't buy it too.
Wow that's a lot. Glad to see you back.
Well I guess my main issue with it was that the story was depressing as is and I got invested in Reunion's story, so the fact their downfall wasn't really their fault stung that much more...
...that it feels so realistic and captures actual reality so well, It felt a bit too real for me. At some point reading episode 8 became kinda too much for me, because of how realistically shitty the world is and I just wasn't in mental space for that.
I understand. I knew nothing about the plot when I got into Arknights other than that cool MV with Starset's Unbecoming. And animal girls which is always a charm point. Didn't expect it too get this raw either but too late since I already got invested. I feel like if I had gotten to Honkai earlier, I'd be too invested in it too, but now the things I've heard about its story is keeping me away. Anyway, back to Arknights, all the dark stuff is just making me wish more for happier moments and makes such moments all the more sweeter.
Based on trailer for episode 9, my personal take is that Theresa did possess Amiya body, but at some point she decided to give control back to Amiya and disappear completely, leaving the Fiend's power or w/e that is to Amiya.
Very likely since Theresa did say goodbye after all. Tho, I would love to see Kal's reaction that despite that goodbye message, Theresa comes back anyway lol. It could also be a thing similar to Avatar the Last Airbender's Spirit World where all the Lord of Fiends can communicate to the current one in some way.
And even that arguably didn't amount to much. Like until he removed helmet it was all information we already knew. He respects Rosmontis and is willing to let her join Gurillas, but she's too gay for Amiya to do it. And even the fact he's a feline really didn't mean much outside of being unexpected.
The one with random operators felt like the biggest waste of potential. Like, I get what they were going for, but it was neither informative nor funny. Also Pith showing up only meant anything if you played Integrated Strategies and still all it boiled down to was a easter egg.
Yeah... I guess they were all just easter eggs. Minor bonuses in contrast to the effort it takes to get some of them. Well, originite prime is always worth it lol. But it does feels like just another challenge mode for those stages. I hope that if ever HG tries something like it again, there will be more to it.
On that topic I was really disappointed with that part of story. Like the whole Mephisto got turned into a bird was weird and kinda anticlimactic. Like when I heard about it (and all I knew/saw was stages where you fight him) I thought the twist was like he wasn't human from the get go and he got turned into human from bird or something, which made sense with him being good at singing and being force-fed orginium, but no, he just randomly went into machine that Doctor was in. Like, why? I thought the explanation will be that he was in such bad shape, other reunion members put him there trying to heal him or something and it went horribly wrong. It just didn't make any sense and felt more like they had that idea, but didn't know how naturally get into that point.
Just to be clear, Mephisto really is a bird, a Liberi. As to why he went to the sarcophagus, well yes the game did poorly explain it, but supposedly he wanted to be reborn like how the Doctor lost his memories. He was expecting something similar not getting-turned-into-Lugia. He wanted to forget everything he had done basically running away from his problems. And I really do hope we see him again... preferably playable as a 6 star medic lol
On that topic, another thing that kinda ended up never being properly explained (or at least I couldn't figure it out/follow it) and is clearly a important event that is constantly brought up is what the flying fuck happened exactly the night Talulah got kindapped? What is that whole thing about Ch'en betraying her. And what's up with implication Snake might have messed with Ch'en's mind as well?
Ch'en was supposed to run away with Talulah. I'm guessing the Black Snake wanted Ch'en, too (what a fucking creep), but Wei got to Ch'en first.
So overall got 4 copies of Rosmontis (1 from token shop) so I can't really complain and I have been using her all the time since then. Also immediately mastered all her 3 skills (had mats prepared for S3, had to farm a little for S2 and wasn't in rush with S1, so it took me a week or 2. I do like those kind of skills and I think her's is not bad, but yea, I never used it once so far, but I mastered it just for completion sake) I regret nothing.
applauds Loving your dedication to cute cat daughter. I'm still working on M9'ing my own favorites.
Sadly since I spend my certs on tickets, I don't have 180 certs to buy Schwarz (and still not sure if it's good idea), so I guess I'll see if i manage to get enough before banner ends and if not, then I'll grab my first copy of Glaucus instead (I currently have 122, so it's not like I'm not close).
Ah the dilemma. 60 yellow certs is definitely unlikely from just Recruitment. Goodluck tho. And congrats on Rosa. I'll just get her when she shows up in the shop. Hopefully.
Btw, rejoice Eyja fans! Eyja summer skin. Honestly, surprisingly revealing. But wait there's more! Angelina summer skin and TOMIMI SUMMER SKIN!. Tomimi so cute. Looks like a wedding dress too lol. Trying to get Gavial to marry her.
Oh yeah, new event in CN hints at possible Doctor lore. Face reveal? Crossing fingers on my crazy-ass theory that Doc and Priestess are look-alikes aka Priestess is an AI clone of the Doctor.
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Beyond Here event announced. It will have Archetto in the banner. Starts immediately after Mansfield Break and ends when CC#4 starts. Animated PV
With Eyja's swimsuit announced in CN, the BBQ team can finally have a beach date as long as Ifrit doesn't end up making sheep bbq. All we need is the release of Gavial's swimsuit and she can join with Tomimi.
The skins are so nice! Eyja finally got a skin.
Starts immediately after Mansfield Break and ends when CC#4 starts.
I don't like this speed. What is Yostar doing? Trying to catch ups after all? We are not getting any compensation for the Annihilation weeks we might lose because of this speed. Eh, maybe we'll just get dead weeks after this?
Ah the dilemma. 60 yellow certs is definitely unlikely from just Recruitment.
Actually! Its quite possible! You can spam recruitment + insta recruit or 1 hour recruitment for a dice roll. I've gotten around 40 since I bought the cat last week by doing this inconsistently.
Gotta love Nev's massive posts haha
Game trolled me again, when I got 6 star from my 10 roll on Eunectes banner and got really hyped, only for it to turn out it to be another Siege stare.
You feel it too, don't you? :'^)
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^tbf Siege's looking at walking garbageimperious stare is pretty hot
Forgot to mention that I also finally reached 500 recruitments. Didn't use voucher yet. Going to wait with it for now. Also E2 my Indra and put her on support, since I figured she'll do better job at encouraging people to use her than Executor since 1. she's very rare so more people won't have her 2. I got her at pot 4 so that has to count for something. Only M2 her S1 for now, need to farm mats for M3, but we'll do it once event is over.
Also, today is my 1 year anniversary of playing AK! Got medal and all.
I would love to see Kal's reaction that despite that goodbye message, Theresa comes back anyway lol.
Not to mention W's reaction.
It could also be a thing similar to Avatar the Last Airbender's Spirit World where all the Lord of Fiends can communicate to the current one in some way.
It felt more final than this, but I guess we need to wait for more info.
Just to be clear, Mephisto really is a bird, a Liberi.
Och, didn't know/remember that. I meant the actual bird, animal turning human or w/e thanks to originum though. Then again considering Emperor and High Priest exists...
supposedly he wanted to be reborn like how the Doctor lost his memories. He was expecting something similar not getting-turned-into-Lugia. He wanted to forget everything he had done basically running away from his problems.
Och, ok. That actually do make sense.
applauds Loving your dedication to cute cat daughter.
Thanks!
Btw, rejoice Eyja fans! Eyja summer skin.
Yea! Loving it! Once they teased she'll appear in summer event, I knew they'll finally give her skin, since unlike other gacha games AK doesn't bait their players, so I wasn't too surprised that we actually got it.
I don't like this speed. What is Yostar doing? Trying to catch ups after all? We are not getting any compensation for the Annihilation weeks we might lose because of this speed. Eh, maybe we'll just get dead weeks after this?
Yea, same. I really don't like it. And giving us dead weeks would defeat the purpose of rushing events, so I don't think they're going to do that.
Actually! Its quite possible! You can spam recruitment + insta recruit or 1 hour recruitment for a dice roll. I've gotten around 40 since I bought the cat last week by doing this inconsistently.
Yea, but the issue is having enough recruitment permits.
Gotta love Nev's massive posts haha
I mean. That's what happens when you don't post for like a month and had a lot of things to say stare
You feel it too, don't you? :'^)
YES
I don't like this speed. What is Yostar doing? Trying to catch ups after all? We are not getting any compensation for the Annihilation weeks we might lose because of this speed. Eh, maybe we'll just get dead weeks after this?
Yea, same. I really don't like it. And giving us dead weeks would defeat the purpose of rushing events, so I don't think they're going to do that.
Yostar does whatever lol. I'm still not over them moving the Beeswax + Chiave banner to the Grani event rerun.
We may not get dead weeks cause I'm not quite sure when Nian reruns. Supposed to rerun along with CC#4 ("mid-July") which was the case in CN, but Archetto's banner won't end until the 20th. Maybe there will be overlap or maybe Nian will start immediately after Archetto. If there is overlap, then that makes it likely for Dusk banner + event to start at the end of July when CC#4 ends aka no breaks in this banner train. It is the usual for events to start at the end of the month. But nothing confirmed other than the dates for Archetto banner and that CC#4 is "mid-July".
Also, today is my 1 year anniversary of playing AK! Got medal and all.
Congrats! I actually thought you were a day 1 player.
New Annihilation map today. Took me a couple of retries. Still hate the Freezing gimmick.
We may not get dead weeks cause I'm not quite sure when Nian reruns. Supposed to rerun along with CC#4 ("mid-July") which was the case in CN, but Archetto's banner won't end until the 20th. Maybe there will be overlap or maybe Nian will start immediately after Archetto. If there is overlap, then that makes it likely for Dusk banner + event to start at the end of July when CC#4 ends aka no breaks in this banner train. It is the usual for events to start at the end of the month. But nothing confirmed other than the dates for Archetto banner and that CC#4 is "mid-July".
Yea, it sounds likely if they don't want to suddenly give us dead weeks after that sudden rush. Whatever it's because they finally decided to catch up or some other reason, who knows. Some players/youtubers would be happy about it, cos they complain they hate waiting/get bored of stuff before we get to it.
Congrats! I actually thought you were a day 1 player.
Nah. I was playing FGO and MR already, so any more gacha games would be too much. Not to mention I had no idea AK even existed, since I only started those 2 because of a friend, as I wasn't really that interested in gacha games in general myself, to keep track what's out there, what's getting global release etc. I started playing like week or 2 before half-anniversary Nian banner. Of course now that I got hooked on AK, I wish I played from day 1, because you're losing so much not playing gachas from start + for other 2 I played from the start (well for MR I missed like first week or so), so I wasn't really used to joining games once the train started.
New Annihilation map today. Took me a couple of retries. Still hate the Freezing gimmick.
Didn't try it yet. Want to farm as much Aketon as possible, so I'm waiting for playing it once Beyond Here starts.
I was slacking off again and only managed to get Robin to max pot. :( Maybe the next event will be better.
Finally maxed out Lancet, now only THRM-EX left. From 10 roll got 1 (at least, literally last roll) copy of Beanstalk and Cliffheart. Sucks since I really wanted Iris, but och well.
I was slacking off again and only managed to get Robin to max pot. :(
#relatable other that I managed to put in enough :effort: to clean out the headhunting tickets too. Almost managed to clear the last EX stage before reset actually, but fucked up at a key point and didn't have enough time left to retry. O well, it's just some mats anyway. (～o￣3￣)～
Meanwhile ~40 pulls (RIP all reserves, again) from the new banner netted me Archetto, Iris and P3 Beanstalk; weird archetype squad GET, feels good man. (Also some Pinecone and Fla-imean, Platinum dupes, why even but I'm not complaining.)
Finally maxed out Lancet, now only THRM-EX left.
As a launch player, I am officially jelly. Still need one more Lancet copy and of course THRM-EX is not even halfway there.
Meanwhile ~40 pulls (RIP all reserves, again) from the new banner netted me Archetto, Iris and P3 Beanstalk; weird archetype squad GET, feels good man. (Also some Pinecone and Fla-imean, Platinum dupes, why even but I'm not complaining.)
Congrats! A friend of mine actually got Archetto and Iris in 4 rolls.
Meanwhile for me, 34 rolls for Archetto which is nice but I actually wanted Iris so OF COURSE I wasn't getting her easily. 40 more rolls, TWO off banner 6 stars and finally one copy of Iris out of the six 5 stars I got.
Archetto's E2 mats make me want to cry.
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Meanwhile for me, 34 rolls for Archetto which is nice but I actually wanted Iris so OF COURSE I wasn't getting her easily. 40 more rolls, TWO off banner 6 stars and finally one copy of Iris out of the six 5 stars I got.
10/10 suffering from success would get everything but the actual goal again -IGN
Archetto's E2 mats make me want to cry.
TBF all 6* E2 mats tend to leave me in despair ༎ຶ‿༎ຶ
At least you get one of the Polymer Preps from the event shop... haven't looked into the stages yet so iunno if they drop anything helpful.
On another note what even is this theme music, it's... it's blyatiful (๑ꈍᴗꈍ๑)
Edit: thank you Gamepress
And 'Chetto's lines have some interesting tidbits about a certain fellow Laterano lmao
"E—Exusiai? *cough*! I never thought the legend who blew up her alma mater seventeen times in three years would be here at Rhodes Island... She does seem to have some learned business experts at her side, but the risk of an explosion while rebuilding the Monastery... best not for now."
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As always when farming chips, I tend to get one chip over the other so I ended up having the Caster chips for E2 Iris while farming for Sniper chips for Archetto. This is fine since I really do like Iris' design and her first Trust line is her singing. So worth it.
haven't looked into the stages yet so iunno if they drop anything helpful.
Apparently nothing worth farming. Even the RMA node is only slightly better than 4-9.
haven't looked into the stages yet so iunno if they drop anything helpful.
Apparently nothing worth farming. Even the RMA node is only slightly better than 4-9.
Oh so basically get the first-clear rewards and forget about 'em.
The sanity requirements for this event are crazy since the costume for Silence costs 500 sanity just for it. :(
The sanity requirements for this event are crazy since the costume for Silence costs 500 sanity just for it. :(
You get currency from any stages, not just event ones, so you should easily clear entire shop by just playing game normally, assuming you'll spend entire AP.
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And congrats on Rosa. I'll just get her when she shows up in the shop. Hopefully.
It's funny you say that and then next banner she's 6 star in shop xD
I got Astesia and Warfarin spook from banner. Not bad, but I really wanted April. Also got Cliffheart from solo specialist tag.
Also forgot to mention, but Rosmontis S1 actually turned out to be very useful in last EX stage in Mansfield Break. I used her and Lappland to take care of bottom line (Ifrit was able to take care of top one entirely by herself).
Finished all stages outside of last one from Beyond Here. I'm getting strong Rewinding Breeze vibe with all the reused mechanics. I guess that's how those kind of events work. Seems like this time I'll need to properly figure out how to deal with Rat King's mechanics.
I'm crying, I just realized how the scarf in Silence's new skin looks like a personification of Saria. It's got the little X's and those weird tags Saria is wearing. I straight up ditched Saria's jailer skin that I just bought back for her BoC one so they can both have matching mementoes.
And congrats on Rosa. I'll just get her when she shows up in the shop. Hopefully.
It's funny you say that and then next banner she's 6 star in shop xD
Actually, it's Ch'en tho Rosa is in the banner and I am tempted.
BUT I should not. CC#4 and Nian banner rerun on the 13th which is sooner than I was expecting. I was thinking the 16th since previous CC events were on Fridays. This means that Dusk + Saga will likely happen on the 27th. Back to back events and banners for us.
I'm crying, I just realized how the scarf in Silence's new skin looks like a personification of Saria. It's got the little X's and those weird tags Saria is wearing. I straight up ditched Saria's jailer skin that I just bought back for her BoC one so they can both have matching mementoes.
AH. I want to do this too. But officer Saria is hot and I'm sure Silence appreciates it too.
Actually, it's Ch'en tho Rosa is in the banner and I am tempted.
Fail. When I saw banner announcement, I assumed Rosa will be in shop, since I thought the 6 star on the left always is, so that's what I codded in my brain. And I even saw Ch'en in shop before posting, but I guess it didn't register in my brain, so I was still convinced Rosa was in shop.
Back to back events and banners for us.
I'm getting really bad MR flashbacks. Such pacing is the best way to get your players to burn out on the game quickly. At least the events itself usually last 2-3 weeks.
Yay me I got to level 80 today. :)
Gaaaaahhhh GOT FREAKING AAK AGAIN I HATE THIS GAME SO MUCH! REMEMBER LIKE A YEAR AGO WHEN I WAS ALL LIKE "OOOH I'M SO BLESSED IN THIS GAME :)"?! ME NEITHER! HES NOT EVEN IN RATE UP! REEEEEEEE
Already bought the Silence skin, it's cute but Gravel's skin is so freaking beautiful it kinda overshadowed it for me.
Only tried the new Annihilation stage a bit but meh! Freeze gimmick. I don't like slow stages if it wasn't obvious. Think I'll just use a guide this time, I did the previous one without guide using Ifrit.
Seems like this time I'll need to properly figure out how to deal with Rat King's mechanics.
1 Drop Surtr in front of him
2 activate skill
3 ??????
4 profit!
Works for every boss but I use Utage instead.
Gaaaaahhhh GOT FREAKING AAK AGAIN I HATE THIS GAME SO MUCH! REMEMBER LIKE A YEAR AGO WHEN I WAS ALL LIKE "OOOH I'M SO BLESSED IN THIS GAME :)"?! ME NEITHER! HES NOT EVEN IN RATE UP! REEEEEEEE
pat pat
Already bought the Silence skin, it's cute but Gravel's skin is so freaking beautiful it kinda overshadowed it for me.
Yea. Gravel skin is great. It was insta buy for me.
Freeze gimmick. I don't like slow stages if it wasn't obvious.
Yea, though surprisingly I manage to avoid it for the most part.
Think I'll just use a guide this time, I did the previous one without guide using Ifrit.
I beat it without guides fairly easy, but like with Kazimierz Anni, I'm struggling to create a stable auto in last part.
1 Drop Surtr in front of him
2 activate skill
3 ??????
4 profit!
Works for every boss but I use Utage instead.
Well, I'm avoiding using Surtr so. It turned out to not be so bad. I beat it with Ceobe and Utage in normal mode and because of deploy restriction in CM, I used Ceobe and Eyja instead. Utage instead took care of Greytails. Wow it was so satisfying seeing how freaking fast she drops their health to zero. Currently in middle of mastering her S2.