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Oh wow, when I first saw this image I was on my phone and I was thinking, "Oh wow, there are actually parts of the English coastline that are undeveloped?" But no, now that I see it on desktop I see all the buildings. Still a nice picture though.
I'm very tired and annoyed -_-
I also wasted some sanity on EX-5/6 medals and EX8/CM.
But yeah EX-8 was the only thing I had to use a guide for; and even then I must have wasted a day's worth of stamina trying to get it to work. Funny thing is once I had it down, the CM didn't even require an adjustment; I didn't end up using any of those squares. Basically just had to successfully pull off the stage twice.
I dunno what happened with me then. I was like 1000 shy after I had done all the EX and challenge missions and achievements
But yeah, EX-1 through 7 were an absolute joke. EX-8 I just looked up because fuck that map. Still took me a really long time to make a strategy work because of all the crazy one-shot damage going out in that map. (I feel like this is often the case with Arknights... most maps are easy, then they put an insanely OP boss in a map and it's near impossible as he just AOE one shots guys and revives 20 times)
Also, screw you No Drones achievement. I thought I would be smart and do it on EX-5 Challenge Mode so I could knock both out. Oh, nope, that doesn't count, it has to be normal -_- I DID THE HARDER THING GAME, WHYYYYYY????
You can get through the rest having 1 carry to do the damage while you stall. I think this is the first event I've done that I had to do stall strats.
My problem was having Ops back up after finishing the boss to catch the elite units in time, but I made it harder on myself than I needed to.
Under Tides confirmed as the next event, starting on the 21st along with the Skadi Alter/Kal'tsit Banner and most of the other second anniversary stuff (skins + log in rewards, can't remember if there was anything else).
I'm sure some people are gonna be annoyed that they didn't delay it to the actual global anniversary in January, but I'm honestly pretty excited.
Edit:
Here's a vid with exactly what they announced in terms of log in campaigns/bonus packs that are available. We're getting the log in campaign (free spot skin, mats/LMD, 3 OP), the free limited banner 10 pull ticket + daily free singles (24 pulls total), and the daily Orundrum lottery thing (300-1800 per day). In the shop we have another $25 "pick a 6* operator" pack, the $50 anniversary pack (10 ticket + 90 OP + a bunch of mats), and a $5 "change your ID" pack (exactly the same as the one they just gave out for free). For the skin shop we have the new Bloodline of Combat (Mountain/Eunectes/Courier) and rockstar (Blaze/Courier/Vigna) skins available for the usual 18/15 OP.
The banner itself is the same, Skalter (limited) and Kal'tsit (permanent) rate up with W returning as an non rate up that is also sparkable (like Nian in the Dusk banner).
Looks like the only things that got moved around from when CN got this event are the free 5* ticket + a few random packs in the paid shop, and their anniversary stream rewards (3.2k orundrum + a bunch of mats). Highly likely these just get dumped in with whatever event we have at the actual global anniversary in a few months (will almost certainly be the summer event with Swimsuit Ch'en).
I redid one with Ash as a sniper but for whatever reason the skill timing ended up totally borked when I try to auto.
I should probably just do it again with BluePoison and call that good. I think it would be steady after that.
I don't have many pulls saved up anyways.
let me regret my life choices arknights
Anyway, had to keep going because I kept pulling Kal'tsit. Ended up with 1 off-banner Surtr, 3 Kal'tstit, and then finally Skalter at the very end. Whew.
65 pulls for kal'tsit. i always, always, always lose the 50/50 on these double 6* banners.
edit: i was mad and did another 10 pull, got skalter. ok arknights i'll forgive you for that nightmarish run up to the first 6*
Then 60 pulls of nothing, then Skalter on the 7th multi.
Then a dupe Skalter on the 9th multi.
Then another dupe Skalter on the 4th single ticket....
and fucking another dupe skalter on the 7th single ticket
Arknights please...
Kept going after that with shop tickets but got nothing, so yeah, 164 pulls for a fucking pot 4 Skalter + a random Silverash dupe.
At least it's the limited that graced me? Gonna hope for Kal'tsit with the remaining free singles/event currency, and then after that decide if I want to hate myself and buy out the spark or just hope she spooks me later.
Or improve the second talent if you're ph blake...
Now if only I had enough money to upgrade them to e2 -_- I have them both sitting at e1lvl80 but basically that blew all of my cash (leveling is WAY too damn expensive in this game). I need to farm up a couple more healer chips too but otherwise I have all the mats to e2 them both. Maybe I can get the money from the event tho
i also forgot skalter has live 2d. i wish they would put some more of those out, i don't like hers but i could see some of them being really good.
Ended up buying the special anniversary pack thing (cause who am I kidding, I was going to buy that anyways); she came on the 10 ticket without needing to spend any of the OP. Final tally on this banner: 177 pulls, 1 Silverash, 4 Skalter, and then finally 1 Kal'tsit.
If I get another dupe Skalter from the remaining free single pulls I'm gonna laugh.
Kal'tsit at 60
Skalter at 110
my yellow rocks still remain untouched from pulls but i did pick up a costume or two
Skadi e2 is sweet. I love the animated background! I forgot this was a thing they were doing (I think I heard about it back when this was all announced on that Japanese super special stream or whatever that global never gets because screw us peons, we don't get KFC skins... :P). I vaguely recall them saying they want to do this for more characters? Maybe? Surprised they didn't do it for Kal'stit...
Went through all the event missions (hey I didn't slack for a change!). They were kind of stupid easy this time. It's nice to have a "boss" who doesn't just one shot everyone from halfway across the map. Actually used all my currency to get all the money so that's how I was able to afford e2'ing Skadi and Kal'stit haha...
I also ended up buying that top operator thing. Since I have everyone, picked Surtr because +1 seconds of invulnerability at 1hp? Hell yes please!
kal'tsit is in the training room for s3m3 right now, gonna start skalter s2m3 after that. finished all the mats up this morning. then i guess i'll probably do skalter s3 for +atk memes.
2 Spooks (Magallan then Saria).
1 W.
2 Kal'tsit.
Then finally Skadi.
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Are those the skills to go for? I literally haven't looked at anything yet but I probably should start working on masteries.
For Kal I think both s2 and S3 are nice, but true damage feels like a stronger/rarer niche so that's what I'm training first (M2 is currently cooking, have the mats for m3 ready).
Either way I'll end up M6ing both of them eventually.
As far as farming goes, whats the best way to farm these events? Just choose a level that has an item drop you're looking for, and just farm that till you have enough event money for what you want to buy?
1. I just saw the trailer for this game called Infernax and (as a Destructoid article I read also mentioned) this game looks inspired partially by Castlevania II: Simon's Quest, which is interesting!
2. The Mummy Demastered is a Metroidvania made by WayForward based on that Tom Cruise movie that came out a few years ago. It's better than it has any right to be. It falls more on the Metroid side of things, but has a very Castlevania atmosphere, nice pixel graphics, and a nice synthwave soundtrack The game rarely goes on sale, and when it does, it tends to happen around this time of year....like right now. It can be bought on Humble's store for 50% off. And if you're a Humble Choice subscriber, you can get it for a little cheaper than that.
I'm about 3 hours in and enjoying my time with it so far.
My Backloggery
Oh, right, I didn't even mention The Mummy Demastered's little twist: if you die, your agent becomes a zombie equipped with all the health & weapon upgrades you acquired. You start back at your last save point as a new agent and have to take down the zombified agent to get all that stuff back.
My Backloggery
Basically yeah. The later event stages usually have better efficiency than permanent stages for their item drops so most people just end up spamming those and building up a huge stock of that particular item.
In this event, for example, SV-7 and SV-8 are about equal to the permanent stages for their respective drops, while SV-9 is much better than normal for Integrated Devices. Since I need a ton of those anyways, and they are basically always useful because they are used a lot for crafting high end mats, I am pretty much gonna live in SV-9 until the event is over.
This is my go to sheet for arknights farming needs, shows the best farming spots for each mat and regularly updates for events.
Arknights Anime announced.
They're making it internally.
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This is the animated short that their internal studio (Yostar Pictures) produced for their first anniversary. It was pretty nice; interested to see what they do on a TV anime production schedule though.
The other big news from the stream was a new Kazimierz major event along with the usual new ops (Flametail escapes NPC jail as a 6* vanguard, Nearl the Radiant Knight as a limited 6* guard), and a permanent roguelike mode (basically IS2 except permanent) featuring Phantom and his troupe.