[Arknights] Anime cancer beastpeople tower defense wants YOU

Spectrum

Do you like Tower Defense games? Do you like cute kemono girls and boys? Do you like near future sci-fi, shadowrunning, and politicking? Are you willing to descend into gacha hell with the rest of us?

Then come join us!

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Quick FAQ:
Arknights is originally a CN game.

Top rarity is 6*, base rate is 2% with a pity system. Fail to roll 6*s on any banner and the rate increases until you roll one after 50 rolls.

There are multiple classes and the key to success is bringing a balanced class roster to every stage.

If you perfect a stage without taking a friend operator along, you unlock the ability to replay it on auto for ease of farming.

There's a base building aspect as well that gives you resources and lets you see your characters walking around.

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Resources:
Wiki/Guide Site: https://gamepress.gg/arknights/

Recruitment Tag Site: https://aceship.github.io/AN-EN-Tags/akhr.html

Database Site: https://ark-nights.com
Interactive Map Site: https://map.ark-nights.com/

Base Skills Unlocked on Promotion: Factory Trading

Reception Room Hidden Efficiency Guide: https://i.imgur.com/uqUJTEY.png

Sanity Farming Efficiency:
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1A_rd8htvWOotqTCf0lEHFpk8ghK0or9Z1temdCZsKEA/edit#gid=475728090

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12X0uBQaN7MuuMWWDTiUjIni_MOP015GnulggmBJgBaQ/edit#gid=485742288 - Updated for Chapter 8

Outdated: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1Fhz24nSxUef3FWplZtwPMRldyrNMc45DOcN0yaSTPaw/htmlview?sle=true#

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1W-iH9WvnIFr5LKA7MdefB2uZ4AaLp7w_uDuvDxdPWA8/edit?pli=1#gid=991853193 - Includes LMD/xp that drop from some maps. Has a Commendation Certificate and Friend Credit value sheet.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1tmJPCsKjaWHsizcZmM9HAoZPCCPwhyoryVGMKpr7FsQ/edit#gid=363318132 - Does not include LMD/xp that drop from some maps. Has a Commendation Certificate value sheet.

Promotion Materials: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1zJynZNQf4jdzWn_aQL0YVEl0Q57AjkK1wCtCJ6_p5k8/edit#gid=0

Future Banners & Events: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1grR4bbCPLiWlZnCK_A7j-VWYy8ifVi5RriGioEETWc0/edit?pli=1#gid=2144865082

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PA Friend Spreadsheet: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/16ba4F5Udzcmpnh4uRSCaZuWRSQKP1fbEg1qZzoEyVdk/edit#gid=0

Lorek

Looks like tomorrow's standard pool banner is Skadi and Siege, with Texas, Provence, and Spectre.
So yellow certs will be flipping over to Siege and Provence.

Polaritie

That's a pretty nice banner.

When is Bagpipe coming though?

Lorek

Should be the 9th or the 16th. Depends if they give us a week break with no event between this Story event and Contingency Contract.

ph blake

CC#0 prep is going well. Finished M3 on Lappland, Blaze, and Myrtle already, next priority is Saria skill 1, Silverash skill 3, and FEater skill 1 (they're all at M1 atm). Would also like E2 both Nearl and Nian before the event, and maybe Specter as well, but that might be a tall order.

I'm pretty sure this is all overkill and I can easily clear risk 18 with what I have, but I want the option to mess around with teamcomps for fun.

Polaritie

I should really do some mastery ranks but it's a pain in the ass to check them in game compared to just pumping more units to E1 max with rank 7 skills.

ph blake

Yeah, having to actually put them in the training room just to see the mat costs is annoying as hell.

Like sure, I can just look them up online, but sometimes I'm just playing this while lying on my couch and really don't feel like going through the extra effort.

Lorek

Nice, looking like we're going to get the 5* recruitment passes sooner than later.

https://twitter.com/ArknightsEN/status/1301795091812511745

Only saved up like 70ish recruitment passes for this, so still a way to go. But a free Indra/Vulcan at 300 and 1000 recruitments is nice to start working towards.

Feldorn

That's cool, I'm not sure there are any 5*s left I feel strongly about.

2 pulls on the new batter for Astesia P1.

Polaritie

Ahaha new banner is kind.

One pull for a Skadi DP reduction.

shoeboxjeddy

I decided to pull on the new banner since I'm definitely going to get Siege, so it would (have been) nice to save on yellow certs if possible. Welp, that was a waste anyway, 10 pulls got me Provence potential (literally the worst possible on banner pick for me) and nothing else. Ah well, Siege is mine anyway, thanks to yellow certs. Hopefully those 10 pulls don't screw me when it's Bagpipe time.

vagrant_winds

Feldorn wrote: »

That's cool, I'm not sure there are any 5*s left I feel strongly about.

It's for Indra and Vulcan.

Polaritie

vagrant_winds wrote: »

Feldorn wrote: »

That's cool, I'm not sure there are any 5*s left I feel strongly about.

It's for Indra and Vulcan.

Just those two specifically?

Lorek

Recruitment is the only way to get those two operators and it's damned near impossible to hit the right tags for them, so it's sort of like a recruitment mercy.

ph blake

I have like 180 recruitment tickets at the moment, so I guess I'm saving them for whenever that ticket drops.

Feldorn

vagrant_winds wrote: »

Feldorn wrote: »

That's cool, I'm not sure there are any 5*s left I feel strongly about.

It's for Indra and Vulcan.

True, I'm still missing Indra.

Brody

I should probably work on expanding my friends list, considering most of the people on my list don't play...

ph blake

Oh yeah, I added myself to the PA spreadsheet since I finally upgraded my Reception room and set a third support unit (Lappland, Saria, Blaze at the moment, though that could change).

Will probably go through and send friend requests at some point this weekend, if I ever find time in between the constant farming.

shoeboxjeddy

I will delete randos for anybody on here who intends to play actively, just let me know. My friends list is about 50/50 PA and rando right now.

Brody

I'm on there from forever ago. Planning on continuing this for the foreseeable future.

Lorek

JP twitter has started previewing the Barrenland CC skin and the 4* from Bagpipes banner so looks like it's all gonna hit on Wednesday when the current event ends.

Warlock82

Lorek wrote: »

Nice, looking like we're going to get the 5* recruitment passes sooner than later.

https://twitter.com/ArknightsEN/status/1301795091812511745

Only saved up like 70ish recruitment passes for this, so still a way to go. But a free Indra/Vulcan at 300 and 1000 recruitments is nice to start working towards.

Whelp, no more recruitments for me until this comes out...

Spectrum

http://twitter.com/ArknightsEN/status/1302290394986807296

vagrant_winds

I want actual combat Gavial though.

Orphane

https://twitter.com/ArknightsEN/status/1302260196039749634

boy they mangled that s2 description

vagrant_winds

Some more M3s.



EX---CALIBUR!!!!




The Nian-denier.

Feldorn

vagrant_winds wrote: »

I want actual combat Gavial though.

Let her join the fray after she is on the field for $x number of seconds. It's how she has been described in the stories already :rotate:

Polaritie

Well, got my second M3 going. Ch'en's S2 for that delicious nuke drop. Warfarin and Liskarm can both accelerate it's recharge, right?

Orphane

Polaritie wrote: »

Well, got my second M3 going. Ch'en's S2 for that delicious nuke drop. Warfarin and Liskarm can both accelerate it's recharge, right?

Ch'en herself will as well, as does Saria if Ch'en is healed by Saria's skills

ph blake

Don't think I can get Nian to E2 before Wednesday, but I'm gonna try this for the CC#0 permanent stage I think.

Blaze, Saria, Myrtle, and Lappland are at mastery 3, Texas m1, Nian and Nearl SL 7. Have a couple other options if this doesn't work for whatever reason, but I think I should be fine. Looking forward to screwing around with random comps this CC since I was way too new to experience the first one at all.

Spectrum

http://twitter.com/ArknightsEN/status/1303229325878075392

Lorek

Thursday is a weird day but sure. I guess they want to avoid the first daily map having like 36 hours compared to 24 like the first one?

Spectrum

http://twitter.com/ArknightsEN/status/1303377566678396929

Send help, I think I'm about to commit gacha crimes and buy an outfit for a character I don't have

Lorek

Yeah, I'm gonna see how much prime I have left after Bagpipe summons.. but this might be the first skin I actually buy.

shoeboxjeddy

You can get Hoshi through a Top Operator tag, it seems likely you'd get her eventually, shrug.

ph blake

I might do the same thing cause that is legit the best looking skin I've ever seen

Spectrum

https://twitter.com/ArknightsEN/status/1303844057035075585

Brody

Are Twitter embeds broken for mobile for everyone else?

BahamutZERO

Work for me in android firefox

archivistkitsune

Brody wrote: »

Are Twitter embeds broken for mobile for everyone else?

Twitter embeds are wildly inconsistent on whether they'll work or not. I've had days where I'll load up a page and they work fine, go to another page and not have them working. Then have the next two pages I load work, while still getting pages that don't load them properly. Twitter is a shit platform is the main issue. Unfortunately, the way most game announcement tweets are structured, can't really go with a setup where people have to also post in quotes what is being said, since you get a fair bit of information that is conveyed through a picture instead of words and I've noticed a number of games really don't have a functional main site that hosts the information that they share through tweets.

The Hoshi skin is probably a great example of the issue. Saying it's a badass looking skin really doesn't help, since there is probably someone that will say it "meh." Then there is "that's so badass that I want it!" and "that's pretty badass, but I'm not shelling out money or prime for it." So even if you usually agree with someone on the criteria for what is and isn't badass, you still don't agree with them on what warrants investment with limited resources.

Brody

Mill wrote: »

Brody wrote: »

Are Twitter embeds broken for mobile for everyone else?

Twitter embeds are wildly inconsistent on whether they'll work or not. I've had days where I'll load up a page and they work fine, go to another page and not have them working. Then have the next two pages I load work, while still getting pages that don't load them properly. Twitter is a shit platform is the main issue. Unfortunately, the way most game announcement tweets are structured, can't really go with a setup where people have to also post in quotes what is being said, since you get a fair bit of information that is conveyed through a picture instead of words and I've noticed a number of games really don't have a functional main site that hosts the information that they share through tweets.

The Hoshi skin is probably a great example of the issue. Saying it's a badass looking skin really doesn't help, since there is probably someone that will say it "meh." Then there is "that's so badass that I want it!" and "that's pretty badass, but I'm not shelling out money or prime for it." So even if you usually agree with someone on the criteria for what is and isn't badass, you still don't agree with them on what warrants investment with limited resources.

Yeah, I'm not really complaining, just wondering if it was an issue for anyone else cause I haven't been able to see tweets for a week or so now.