Nice. I know some people prefer Orca x Shark over Orca x Horse, but the latter works too IMO.

I mean if you entirely ignore the canon, sure.

Come on now, what's a little attempted murder between love interests friends? (TBH, Skadi trying to kill Grani for most of their event is probably a big reason why so many people ship them)

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Nice. I know some people prefer Orca x Shark over Orca x Horse, but the latter works too IMO.

I mean if you entirely ignore the canon, sure.

Come on, what's a little attempted murder between love interests friends?

The best pairing for Grani is actually with Carol smh. Also huh, Grani and Bagpipe are buddies. Actually Bagpipe seems quite shippable with a bunch of people.

With Ch'en: "Back in school, Chenchen always had a pissed off look on her face. But that's just the kind of girl she is. She made a lot of enemies at first, but later on, there wasn't a single person who could take their eyes off her! But y'know, bandagin' her wounds, cookin' for her, teamin' up with her squad and whatnot... I had to look after her quite a lot, and that was no easy feat..." - Bagpipe Talk 1

With Reed: "I know I've seen her before, that girl called Reed. But she looks so lonely and pitiful now... Is she really the same terrifyin' person I once knew? How strange. I should go ask her... I can't talk to her? Huh? Why not?!" - Bagpipe Talk after Trust Increase 1

With Grani: "At least, if one was to consider "Rhodes Island's Most Likeable Ranking," she and Grani unsurprisingly topped the list. The image of her carrying Grani on her shoulders, running through the halls "harassing" various Operators, remains a fond memory in everyone's hearts." - Bagpipe Promotion Record

Here's actually fanart of the moment with Grani.

The best pairing for Grani is actually with Carol smh.

True - I like Grani x Skadi, but I like Carol x Skadi even more. Now if only more people actually drew that ship...

Actually Bagpipe seems quite shippable with a bunch of people.

Yeah, the potential's definitely there. I imagine that whenever a Victoria-related event comes out, there'll be even more Bagpipe ships popping up.

Also, here's a video of someone trying to save that suicidal jetpack enemy from the current CC: https://twitter.com/arknightspeta/status/1304729480942895104

Okay but there's a perfectly good shark x orca ship right there and the reason why she did all that to Grani in the first place was for Specter's sake... like come on now that's completely misinterpreting Skadi's purpose. She literally broke the rules, almost murdered her teammate, and went on a rampage through the countryside just to find something that can help Specter.

Also, here's a video of someone trying to save that suicidal jetpack enemy from the current CC: https://twitter.com/arknightspeta/status/1304729480942895104

Ah... the preset route sending the jetpack dude to his death... That's hilarious though.

Okay but there's a perfectly good shark x orca ship right there and the reason why she did all that to Grani in the first place was for Specter's sake... like come on now that's completely misinterpreting Skadi's purpose. She literally broke the rules, almost murdered her teammate, and went on a rampage through the countryside just to find something that can help Specter.

...Oooohh. I'm a complete moron; that explains a lot. God, I need better reading comprehension. For some reason that whole thing of "Skadi doing all of this to help Specter" completely went over my head.

For the record, I already did like Skadi x Specter more than Grani x Skadi, I'm just a multishipper that ships pretty much everything. But now Skadi x Specter is even better in my book.

Also, more event-related silliness: apparently in the Fungi Mist roguelike mode, there's a combination of artifacts/bonuses you can get that can get Yato's redeploy cooldown down to 2 seconds, essentially turning her into a spammable meatshield.

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Hey, it's alright. Arknights itself likes to be coy when revealing lore so missing stuff happens to all of us. Honestly, the lore provides so much ship tease that I feel pretty spoiled when it comes to gacha games. Like instead of shipping the MC with the characters like other gachas, Arknights ships the characters with other characters. And most of them are gay ships. Not really sure why the devs decided to do that, but I'm very thankful either way.

Grani and the Knight's Treasure was basically Grani x Carol + hidden pairing Skadi x Specter. Operational Intelligence arguably had Magallan with the unreleased operator + Hellagur x Patriot, Heart of Surging Flame was Schwarz x Ceylon, Code of Brawl was Mostima x Exusiai + hints of Sora's crush on Texas, Ancient Forge was Nian x Lava, and Stories of Afternoon had some Vulcan x Ceobe sprinkled in it.

That's literally every event with a story so far?? Like they included some gay ship tease in pretty much every event. Pretty sure the future events will also hints for yuri ships. Like Darknights' Memoirs has W shipped with another girl named Ines. And then there's the Ursus event where I saw a lot of bear x bear fanart, specifically Rosa x Zima.

Also, more event-related silliness: apparently in the Fungi Mist roguelike mode, there's a combination of artifacts/bonuses you can get that can get Yato's redeploy cooldown down to 2 seconds, essentially turning her into a spammable meatshield.

Ayyy, ucky back at it again. I love this guy's channel. His streams are pretty fun to watch too.

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Let us all calm down and appreciate all the ships. An armada is stronger than a single ship after all. TaluCh'en is the real OTP anyway :P

Speaking of Orca ships, here's a slightly lewd Skadi x Warfarin pic

That artist seems to really like that ship.

Grani and the Knight's Treasure was basically Grani x Carol + hidden pairing Skadi x Specter. Operational Intelligence arguably had Magallan with the unreleased operator + Hellagur x Patriot, Heart of Surging Flame was Schwarz x Ceylon, Code of Brawl was Mostima x Exusiai + hints of Sora's crush on Texas, Ancient Forge was Nian x Lava, and Stories of Afternoon had some Vulcan x Ceobe sprinkled in it.

That's literally every event with a story so far?? Like they included some gay ship tease in pretty much every event. Pretty sure the future events will also hints for yuri ships. Like Darknights' Memoirs has W shipped with another girl named Ines. And then there's the Ursus event where I saw a lot of bear x bear fanart, specifically Rosa x Zima.

I also really love this about Arknights. I just want to add the Gavial event with Gavial x Tomimi, Gavial x Eunecetes and the best one, Eunectes x Lancet-2. Also, on Darknights, W is a diehard fan of Theresa so there is that.

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A drawing of most people's week 1 risk 18 I don't know why this is so funny to me - "gender reveal party" makes me want to cry

A drawing of most people's week 1 risk 18 I don't know why this is so funny to me - "gender reveal party" makes me want to cry

It's funny cause it's true.

A drawing of most people's week 1 risk 18 I don't know why this is so funny to me - "gender reveal party" makes me want to cry

Ah... this is exactly what I used yep. Gonna switch it around once week 2 risks come around though. Finally I can see if Nian can bring me to victory.

Mine was pretty much the same as well, except I used Texas instead of Siege because I haven't built the latter yet.

Speaking of Siege, what's the "mm I do like Fox girls" referring to? Another ship?

Speaking of Siege, what's the "mm I do like Fox girls" referring to? Another ship?

Probably something to do with Breeze? She knows Siege's real name and seems to be acquainted.

A drawing of most people's week 1 risk 18 I don't know why this is so funny to me - "gender reveal party" makes me want to cry

accurate, fukken lol'd

Any know who the other operator in this image(NSFW Lolicon) is? I know one of them is Vermeil but neither clicking on the tags nor using Google and Google translate is giving any insight as to who the other one is.

The other one isn't an Arknights operator.

...though if you had told me it was a new or upcoming one from the CN server I would have accepted the claim without a second thought. >_>

^ Yeah, we got some cute lolis in the game already so it's not out of the question.

My internet seems stable now so 3rd try is the charm? I missed so many rewards now lol
I did get enough to max out Bibeak at least. The permanent map doesn't seem difficult but I know the higher risks will probably kick my ass.

Today's daily map risks are EXTREMELY hard. The 3 risk one that buffs Fanatics basically lets them oneshot most operators because there's another risk where every operator has reduced HP. I tried doing it but my operators are not leveled enough to complete it. AKA elite 2 level 40 operators aren't enough for today's risks, and the combo of operators I need include two people I don't have so I'm fucked. Whenever Ange comes back to the shop I'm insta buying cause she's been useful for every CC so far. I did manage risk 12 if I didn't touch that Fanatics risk. my run

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Well today I got the rare Robot tag and got Lancet-2 with it. :) Now she's up to 2 potential.

Well today I got the rare Robot tag and got Lancet-2 with it. :) Now she's up to 2 potential.

[helpful robot noise intensifies]

So I felt like rolling, so I made another 10 roll on banner and was incredibly surprised to get another 6 star. 3 Utage were neat as well, though I kinda hoped for 1 more copy so I can also unlock bonus attack from potential.

riverFlower posted:

Speaking of Eija x Ifrit, there's a r-18 one shot that needs translating: https://www.pixiv.net/en/artworks/84096205

That's really nice. Yes translation please. It makes me happy to see Ifrit happy with her own partner.

I'm relieved the rotating maps are generally easy to clear at risk 8, so that I don't have to spend hours working out strategies.

Y-Yea! spends entire days trying to beat dailies, so she doesn't even have time to work on permanent map

To be fair, it's mainly because most of my operators are still heavily underleveled.

塞雷娅 posted:

Don't worry, the second week adds new risk tags that make clearing it at risk 18 a lot easier.

Right. They only add them or replace the current ones?

塞雷娅 posted:

Also sidenote, Arknights is honestly really generous with their gacha currency and I've seen a bunch of people say that's exactly why they want to spend money on it. There's also the monthly card that lets you do a 10 pull at a steal while also getting extra sanity daily. This kind of attitude where the game is actually generous with what you can get as F2P makes people want to spend more money on it. I definitely feel a lot better spending money on Arknights than when I whaled on FGO. I still regret whaling on FGO.

Exactly. Not only there's plenty of free stuff and you really feel like you're getting proper value from money spend (mostly thanks to guarantee 5-6 star, but also prices are more reasonable), the drop rates are much better as well, so despite not rolling that much, I have more operators than I can lvl.

Sakura Cartelet. I have no clue why you're ignoring me, so fuck you.

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Sorry, I haven't checked my friend requests in game for a while. Too busy grinding stuff. Please send it again.

^I also added you again. Hablorn is the name.

A drawing of most people's week 1 risk 18

Wow that shows half of my operators in the exact positions they were placed in. Probably is a common set-up.

Today's daily map risks are EXTREMELY hard. The 3 risk one that buffs Fanatics basically lets them oneshot most operators because there's another risk where every operator has reduced HP.

Good thing about today's map though is that risk 8 is relatively achievable without touching the risk 3 contingencies.

Friend request accepted. Here's a picture of Siege and her "Son" Mordred

Here's a small little comic about Lappland getting Texas something for her birthday.

Arknights has a lot of angsty ship potential, huh

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