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Arknights sideblog for @zayzl

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[zellk]

I really enjoyed the last story chapter... (Mantra & Raidian live rent free in my head now)

[aphelion-i-c]

have you guys seen broca's 123 rhodes island strip

broca how are you doing that

[chryza]

while I do believe episode 16 is supposed to be a sort of interstitial expositional chapter between the chaos of what has happened and what is to come, it was still an excellent read. They’ve gotten so much better at developing their plot hooks into compelling stakes, and it occurred to me that Arknights tells its stories in a very unique way. I’ve never read a story that is so committed to the narrative being shown at every level of circumstance. Yes we have the cosmic horror plot of the Observers, Priestess, and Originium, but we see how that directly cascades down into the movers and shakers of the world like the Grand Duchess and Chairman Witte, which then cascades down the pipeline to the populace and Rhodes Island flows easily between these levels, so we see it at all the narrative strata. It creates a really interesting depth which can sometimes feel like being lost in the weeds but ultimately becomes commitment to artistic vision.

[cerastes]

Chapter 16 is about the continued horrors of war in which civilians have no choice but to fight their own authoritative regime in order to not be crushed under it and about how fucked up it’d be if there was a bear that was strong as fuck.

[kazimiierz]

The ENDFIELD hate is so strong it's kind of sad really. We should be happy that Hypergryph is expanding the media into other territories, I'm sorry you don't like the artists or have beef with the reconvener units but that's not what makes a game bad.

The space the Endministrator is in looks to be on par with the Sea of Originium, where everything is stored like a literal pocket of biological data, as the Originium would have the knowledge of how Babel fell once Rhodes Island was recovered. It would have Patriot and the sounds of fighting. Hell, the tube head enemies look like the high ranking Ursus generals, just the design is more basic than equipped. Past that is what looks like gravestones and the place Priestess was seen in Chapter 15 albeit scaled smaller with the Epitaph basically reminiscent of her ode to waiting. But these aren't really gravestones. Some of them act like a marker of information, a storage unit, as some are glowing and some aren't. One of them is even for the Endministrator, which begs the question since they're alive, if they're not headstones what are they replicating in this place?

At the end of the scene we come across a titan made of Originium in the place where the base operation was to start, and a banshee sarkaz using what appeared to be the same arts as Logos to control it. The combat was fluid and snappy, dodging led to successful counters. Finally we manage to wrest power away from the boss only to find it's the end of the combat tutorial and we're "reawakening." Which comes with a cutscene of the AIC booting up to find ourselves in the next scene literally coming out of a chunk of Originium

So the basis of the Endministrator is wrapped up in how their body is tied exclusively to the mineral, as we know it's harnessed to evolve and grow but also store information from the infected. This is reflective in all of Endfield, the process of growth and design all within harnessing this Prometheus gift appropriately WHICH has the same response as Arknights had: The indigenous life on Talos II started to fight back against the assimilation. Ankhors, which spawn the Sarkaz/Sankta amalgamation, look to be the first iteration of Originium that erode and fade when the core is destroyed. There's a similarity in the start of the story where you're trying to navigate through your own shadow to relearn everything and everyone.

I find the base building part to be the most interesting. We have the Base Beta on Rhodes Island pre made for us but now we have to do the work in Endfield to let the operators and Endfielders continue their work. There's set points of interest, which, house these places accordingly. It's all too familiar with the other gacha entries having similar giant structures marking a place on the map, however the way you connect is a bit more refreshing to establish your mark on a place to ensure it keeps running

Four hours in and I'm already enjoying the pacing. We learn there's the Endfield division and a secondary backup division helping, the "Infected" group seems far more radical and destructive with a single leader (allegedly) behind it all. Given how deeply entrenched the use of Originium is, especially without a mention of infection as arts units are floating companions for Casters, I wouldn't be surprised if this is all occurring on another timeline that Priestess has wandered in. Time doesn't seem to be organic in Arknights, especially when Chapter 15 showed how Heirda could move with Priestess through various moments in time. Allowing Priestess to exist in any given moment if a body was placed at a point of origin (Rhodes Island)

This is simply a summary of my time with the game. I am happy with the designs as we're now 3d. If we complicate the model, the design is lost. The one thing is the level of detail comes from the material texture in the clothing, which changes according to the weather conditions. The Reconvener units are great, I love seeing familiar faces but I also love the new faces joining us. There was a lot of care with the modelling too as the appropriate fur and scales on units were seen to with care. Hell Feathers have even gotten an uplift.

I really want to see how far Arknights goes, I'm excited to see the new part of the story that could very well just be a fabrication of information due to Priestess wanting control. She lost control with Oracle, so who's to say she didn't create a perfect timeline where she's in control over the Endministrator or Perlica? We aren't on Terra so this is a new place to establish story and find out what makes this different

[arknights-global-news]

Dear Doctor,

The following Operators will appear at a higher rate between November 13, 2025, 08:00 – November 27, 2025, 03:59 (UTC-7).

★★★★★★: Tragodia

★★★★★: Tippi / Rockrock

Original Tweet

[chryza]

I forgot that this never uploaded properly so here's the full extended edition of Broken Sun sung by Casey Lee Williams from Ambience Synesthesia 2025. This lives in my mind always. Please watch it its so good.

[kazimiierz]

I just really like this UI and the music that I wish they'd release

[armoredisopod]

New Main Story PV

New Operators

Снегурочка (Snegurochka), 4★ Agent Vanguard

In order to stay alive, everyone worked so hard.

Веточки (Vetochki), 5★ Juggernaut Defender

This place... It's warm.

Mantra, 6★ Primal Caster

Those who left us connect the past and the present. After that, we have the future.

Operator Outfits Update

Total of 5 new outfits, 4 new additions coming with the new Storyboard Breaker brand, 1 new addition for the Epoque brand

Storyboard Breaker

The Chainsaw Nurse - Narantuya

Under Surgical Lights - Mitm

Biochemical Submergence - Greyy the Lightningbearer

The Nursing Home Creepshow - Haze

Epoque

Cloud in Foreign Lands - Windscoot (Mission Reward)

Announced outfit reruns

Series IV and V Witch Feast outfits (Fiammetta, Dorothy, Whisperain, Quercus, Degenbrecher, Blaze, Bassline, Popukar)

Trust Your Eyes - Lee

The Other Side of Siracusa - Vigil

Rope's [Imp's House] outfit will be available in the event shop to players that don't have it

Coming with the new update is a brand new [Fashion Retrospective] outfit gacha

Players can pull on the [Fashion Retrospective] gacha using orundum to get a random skin from a specified pool, players can only pull once If the player already has all the skins in the pool, they will instead get a ticket they can use for future [Fashion Retrospective] gachas

Operator Modules Update

All new operators being part of branches with modules immediately get their modules

PRI-X module base effect increases Mantra's ATK to 110% when attacking enemies under an Elemental Injury burst effect

UNY-X module base effect makes Веточки take 15% less damage from enemies she's blocking

AGE-X module base effect makes Снегурочка less likely to be attacked

Loopshooter Sniper branch gets 1 module type

Executor the Ex-Foedere, Eyjafjalla and Raidian get their second modules

The base effect of REA-Y and Raidian's 2nd module are unknown at the time of writing

CCR-Y module base effect restores 1 SP to Eyjafjalla when she attacks an Elite/Leader enemy

Events and Stories

Ep16: Abnormal Spectrum

Are we a snowflake on this land, or a spark? The homeland is vast, the night is dark. If the misty white can't replace the mud, and a solitary torch can't illuminate all corners-- Is it futile to have more? The one who raised the fire in the snowy night said: Absolutely not! As long as we join hands, we shall not stray from the path of progress; As long as we walk together, our gathered brilliance shall not extinguish. This way, we will ensure that no comrade continues to journey alone... in the middle of this polar night.

Rhodes Island Icebreaker Games #2, scheduled after the 2-weeks new Main Story event period

2nd Sanrio collab scheduled some time after Icebreaker Games and confirmed to have new collab outfits and rerun of the old ones

Operator Archives update for Mantra, Bobbing, Tippi and Pinecone

[yoiku]

grabs your fave and gives them eyebags

[yoiku]

They are like hard liquor auntie and fine wine auntie to me.

[kazimiierz]

So I forgot Casters.

[kazimiierz]

A Piece of Steak

[tainbocuailnge]

its very immersive and all but they really could've stood to make that monitor static just a little smaller so you can still, yknow, see the damn blue box

[kazimiierz]

So I guess we can safely say the reason why the og sarcophagus in Prelude was in Ursus was because it was offline from prts. Away from Priestess and Kal knew if she left Doctor in that sarcophagus, despite hating him for killing Theresa, then he would have regressed and been on Priestess' side to accelerate Originium. Given the Doctor knew when they awakened in Babel story Kao woke up the Doctor because of where Originium was initially headed. Now, it was preserving her only chance of having the strongest piece on her side of the board instead of with Priestess, which could explain her unerring tendency to want to take Doctor back by removing what he cares about most.

[kazimiierz]

Which one of you flagged the Kal'tsit video.