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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    SharpyVII wrote: »
    Taken on Whitby Beach, North Yorkshire, England.

    Evening sun was really nice, casted some long shadows.

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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.

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    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
  • SharpyVIISharpyVII Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    There's plenty of undeveloped coast in England.....

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  • DisruptedCapitalistDisruptedCapitalist I swear! Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Huh... I guess I'm thinking of the US where the only places that are undeveloped are protected wetlands.

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    "Simple, real stupidity beats artificial intelligence every time." -Mustrum Ridcully in Terry Pratchett's Hogfather p. 142 (HarperPrism 1996)
  • honoverehonovere Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    Met a real cutie
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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    First event I've slacked on since Twilight. Didn't manage a clear of EX-8 or Challenge EX 6-8 (almost certainly could have done 6 and 7 at least). Not the biggest deal, though. It will give me something to do in the inevitable reissue.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Ok, I'll say it, fuck that event. I stayed up until literally 6am trying to run enough maps to "spend 4000 currency" for that god damn medal. And I've been farming WD-8 *constantly* since the event pretty much started. It's one thing that I waited until last minute to do the EX missions, that's on me (though I swear it feels like they were available way less time than other events), but doing all the "achievements" combined with how much I was already farming should have been enough to get that medal. It always has been in the past and I've slacked WAY more on those events. For awhile I thought I wasn't gonna make it because I thought the day was resetting at 5am, but then they gave me another hour to get the last ~200 I needed :/

    I'm very tired and annoyed -_-

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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I saved my sanity packs from the week before, so had 5 packs to spend during the event and making go to 4000 was not worse than previous events.

    I also wasted some sanity on EX-5/6 medals and EX8/CM.

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  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Ex8 was too hard, I spent like an hour trying to beat that cm and couldn’t even get close

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  • LorekLorek Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Wow, I didn't even notice the event was over today. Just farming mindlessly. I did the same thing as Feldorn and kept a weeks worth of sanity back, so managed the 4k medals without too much hassle.
    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.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Lorek wrote: »
    Wow, I didn't even notice the event was over today. Just farming mindlessly. I did the same thing as Feldorn and kept a weeks worth of sanity back, so managed the 4k medals without too much hassle.
    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 :/ I felt like I farmed WD-8 every single day as my "do a map a bunch of times to get the dailies credit." I was even not lazy this time and knocked out all the normal missions a day or two into the event, unlike others where I always wait a long time because lazy *shrug*

    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????

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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I managed to use Eckogen's strat for EX-8, but Kukkikaze broke it down really well. the biggest thing you needed was a Defender who can handle 3k damage every few seconds and enough Medics to keep them up. For instance, Cardigan could tank the boss in phase 2 with 4 medics. E1 Cuora could not.

    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.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OzKPl9Y6ryg

    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:

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Oj8BKGeYx78

    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).

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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I don't like Annihilation 6, I can't get a steady auto-deploy.

    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.

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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Servers aren't letting people in now that the update is up :rotate:

    I don't have many pulls saved up anyways.

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  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    n e t w o r k e r r o r

    let me regret my life choices arknights

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  • LorekLorek Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I managed to get in, thankfully. And then got absolutely rocked on the banner, oof. All my 230 of my saved pulls had to be used, and I got five 6* units pulled. Which I guess puts me right at about 2% rate, so rates confirmed?
    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.

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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Used 40 pulls, got Kal on the 10-pull ticket. I have 126 yellow certificates saved, so I might just dump all those and chase Skadi until then end of the banner.

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  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    sigh, 60 pulls in without a 6* so yea, def regretting my life choices

    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*

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  • shoeboxjeddyshoeboxjeddy Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Skadi, Kal'tsit, and Akafuyu GET. Also picked up Kafka off banner during the process. The spend was 24k out of my saved 27k + the 10 ticket + a one off ticket + today's free pull.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    My literal first pull of the banner, the free single, was a fucking dupe Silverash.

    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...

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    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.

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  • LorekLorek Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Just a heads up as well for anyone who got a Skalter, you can farm up ~3000 red certs and buy 4 rainbow support badges from the red cert store. That's a free dupe for Skalter so you can get the -1 DP.
    Or improve the second talent if you're ph blake...

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I got Kal'tsit on my second 10 pull and Skadi on my third 10 pull, so I'll call that good :3 I do need to get the 5* too but that's a whatever... I can get her later.

    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

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  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    skalter's talent upgrade is actually pretty decent, she gets 9% attack instead of 6%, which is a lot bigger % increase than most units get from a potential talent upgrade.

    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.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
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    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.

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  • OrphaneOrphane rivers of red that run to seaRegistered User regular
    edited April 14
    Akafuyu for my guaranteed on 3rd pull
    Kal'tsit at 60
    Skalter at 110

    my yellow rocks still remain untouched from pulls but i did pick up a costume or two

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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I grabbed outfits for Mountain, Blaze, and Vigna.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I grinded the heck out of stuff last night, so now Kal'stit and Skadi are both e2 :3 Whatshername (Glaceon? Gladiator? I don't remember, something with a G I think :P) that new girl from the event is e1lvl80 but I'm short on cash to promote her ATM. Also I got antsy so I did two more 10 pulls and got the 5* new character too, so she's somewhere in the middle of e1 atm :3

    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!

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  • LorekLorek Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    The Live 2D thing is supposed to be for limited-time characters going forward. Swimsuit Ch'en gets it and Nian has it on CN and should be updated for us at some point (probably 2nd anniversary?). Then I imagine somewhere down the road Dusk will also get it (probably next time she shows up on a banner).

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  • KnightKnight Dead Dead Dead Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    rosmontis and W are also limited, and w at least is very popular so i expect she'll get it at least.

    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.

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    It took me 213 pulls yesterday.
    2 Spooks (Magallan then Saria).
    1 W.
    2 Kal'tsit.
    Then finally Skadi.

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  • Warlock82Warlock82 Never pet a burning dog Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Knight_ wrote: »
    rosmontis and W are also limited, and w at least is very popular so i expect she'll get it at least.

    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.

    Are those the skills to go for? I literally haven't looked at anything yet but I probably should start working on masteries.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    Skalter s2m3 is a great fire and forget skill and will be what you use probably 80% of the time. S3M3 is for either attack memes, or maps where you really need an on demand stupid high attack buff. I haven't looked at future CCs too much, but I imagine that S3 will be preferred for high risk stuff just for dealing with annoying waves (though S2 is still really, really good and probably works nearly as well).

    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.

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  • FeldornFeldorn Mediocre Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    S3M3 going on Mudrock. Probably will work towards the same for Kal next.

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  • chrono_travellerchrono_traveller Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I haven't had much luck pulling for any of the new units. Got 3 Akafuyu's and 1 Platinum. :bigfrown:

    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?

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  • SteevSteev What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    So, two things:

    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!
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0RDRJG79e5w

    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.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0rh4RcGXo8

    I'm about 3 hours in and enjoying my time with it so far.

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  • SteevSteev What can I do for you? Registered User regular
    edited April 19
    SteevL wrote: »
    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.
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u0rh4RcGXo8

    I'm about 3 hours in and enjoying my time with it so far.

    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.

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  • KoopahTroopahKoopahTroopah The koopas, the troopas. Philadelphia, PARegistered User regular
    edited April 19
    Mummy Demastered is realllly good.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    I haven't had much luck pulling for any of the new units. Got 3 Akafuyu's and 1 Platinum. :bigfrown:

    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?

    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.

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  • vagrant_windsvagrant_winds Overworked Mysterious Eldritch Horror Hunter XX Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NakocJ9Ky0I

    Arknights Anime announced.

    They're making it internally.

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  • ph blakeph blake Registered User regular
    edited April 14
    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u82r6NIkTbU

    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.

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