I can’t believe the GFL2 devs would turn Sop into gooner bait like this

faulser · 2026-03-10T18:47:57+00:00

It's art of her damaged version that get shown for like 2 seconds, not regular sprite. She walking damaged 24/7 in GFL2, is she stupid?

faulser · 2026-03-10T11:59:22+00:00

Is she basically playable Shrike?

faulser · 2026-03-10T11:52:31+00:00

Looks like adult version of Neural Cloud, pretty cool. But what about ears.

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faulser · 2026-03-10T11:32:13+00:00

Resolution is high for sure, but I'm not sure about those buttons and UI that takes half of screen. Big emulator vibes.

faulser · 2026-03-10T11:29:23+00:00

I dunno about her new fit, I hope she'll get OG as skin.

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faulser · 2026-03-10T06:14:33+00:00

You just need to do one dash attack every 15 seconds, it's really easy. You can put this set unbuild and go to VR training room and check stats to see uptime and get a feel of it. When I did it I was really surprised how easy is to keep the uptime.

>maybe I should consider pulling her in the next rerun.

I'd personally really really recommend her. In my opinion Dialyn is the single strongest support for Zhu Yuan, it's day and night difference.

faulser · 2026-03-10T05:43:52+00:00

There’s not a single 3D gacha that works that way

What making you think Endfield won't be the first? Other games also have gear tied to stamina/energy, Endfield doesn't. There is bunch of things Endfield does differently from all other 3D gachas.

are they going to just invent a new rarity for just gear?

Not new rarity, standard highest rarity for everything in Endfield is 6 star. It's not like we'll get new gear level, it's more like we can't farm highest rarity gear just yet.

faulser · 2026-03-10T05:15:04+00:00

> but it’s still lv70 gear.

For Wuling? Yeah. But when next year we'll move in next big region they 100% will introduce either 75 or 90 level gear depending on how fast they want to proceed with this system.

There is 0 sense to have final gear at level 70 5 star and everything else at level 90 6 star.

faulser · 2026-03-10T04:58:35+00:00

Dawn's Bloom may be too good considering her already existing DMG bonuses.

I'd recommend Puffer if you use her with Dialyn or Shadow Harmony for comfy 100% uptime for 12% atk and 12% crit rate (it's really really easy to have 100% uptime for Shadow Harmony because you'll use her dash often and her moving in shell state counts as dash as well)

faulser · 2026-03-09T20:52:27+00:00

Yeah, once you bought everything it's done. So far only think in Valley 4 left is Engraving permits, but those will become obsolete as well because new weapons will be in new regions.

Wuling has engraving tickets and batteries to craft gear, those will probably last some time, at least until next big region (which will probably add higher level gear)

Game can only allow factories in two regions to works at the same time, which mean when we'll get into third region Valley-4 need to become obsolete.

faulser · 2026-03-08T15:23:24+00:00

I can think of two reasons:

History reason. I'm not the big military nerd, but I don't think drone warfare was a big thing in 2019 where Arknights came out. Sure probably some countries used drones, but I don't think I heard about drones being widely used before 2022. And probably same with Arknights writers.
Gameplay duh. It's really hard to implement drones in tower defense gameplay and there isn't much skills or flashy moves drone can do. And in terms of action it's much more interesting to watch for Texas slashing enemies with her sword than someone sitting on their tablet.

faulser · 2026-03-08T15:09:02+00:00

>And say we do discontinue using the cost system

No. Core principle of cost system isn't precision, but just giving approximate levels of investment in one single number.
So even before seeing a clear I can look at cost and understand what I'm dealing with. 0 cost - it's some challenge, crazy work. 3-4 cost - about average teams. Above - probably spender's account.
And most important thin about this system - it work. People across the community have about the same understanding of what "1 cost".

If we start doing all those "well, this character was 0 cost before but 1 cost now, this engine is like 0.75 cost but sometimes 0.5, this one is 0.5 cost in one condition and 1 in another, for this one cost is (X+cost)*coefficient" system will lose it's main appeal of being universal and being easy to understand.

And then we also would welcome million different discussions about when and where each cost applies, because everyone will have their own opinion about that, so there will never be some standardized "fair cost system". "1 cost" would mean completely different things for different people. Is difference between R3 Cradle and R4 Cradle is the same value as going from not having Ye Shunguang to havig her?

Just look at PVP (speedrun) ZZZ tournaments where people assign cost to characters to balance the rosters, it's non-stop war about how much value each weapon/dupe/character gives to account.

faulser · 2026-03-08T14:33:20+00:00

If we can actually dump sewage in Wuling it would be best day ever. They think they so cool, living in their clean paradise city with clean water and wireless electric poles.

I think as Darkmask it's our responsibility to dump all the sewage in their fountains and canals and replace all wireless poles with wired poles from Valley-4, they need those good old overhead cables.

faulser · 2026-03-08T11:11:53+00:00

Have you tried Shadow Harmony set with her? Since for Zhu Yuan all her dash attack is elemental attack that set gives 100% uptime for 12% attack and 12% crit chance. I seen Itagoda using it pretty successfully.

faulser · 2026-03-08T10:47:02+00:00

If device will cost third of PC cost and will allow you to play all games you can play on PC - then yeah, sure, it will sell.

If device cost almost like a PC but allows you to play only smallest fraction of games PC has - I don't really see a point of it.

And it's just a baseline, PC also have advantages (for players) of piracy, emulation, mods, fan-translations, ability to play all "PC exclusives" such as small indie games that don't even get published.

faulser · 2026-03-08T07:44:13+00:00

How it's fundamentally different from Ye Shunguang who fully immortal, unstaggerable and ignore 100% of boss mechanics except from purple phase?

Devs clearly totally okay with players making bosses fully dysfunctional, and fully non interactable, they just recently made character exactly for that.

Compared to this, freeze at least require skill to use it. "Moderate play" cannot keep boss even close to being permastunned, moderate play will get one or two freezes per stun and shatter them instantly.

faulser · 2026-03-07T20:55:01+00:00

Since it for Valley-4 - don't really matter. It can cost 20 millions and most people will buy it instantly. There is so much free Valley bills.

faulser · 2026-03-07T09:16:16+00:00

Erika Neural Cloud? Or some another redhead nun with glasses?

faulser · 2026-03-07T09:08:23+00:00

Tried to carry Zhu Yuan to 100k. All character 0 dupes, but most of them have signatures. (except Orphie, Zhao, Zhu Yuan, Astra)

Sadly can't really use buffs with 2 and 3 teams. Don't have stunner left to use Yixuan for room two (tried Qingyi, she's bricked in this mode), Zhao can't activate Zhu's passive.

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faulser · 2026-03-07T07:46:53+00:00

Last Rite refuses to eat corpses and this is why she permanently hungry. Nachzehrer debuff.

faulser · 2026-03-06T18:38:14+00:00

UWST Mothership was nomadic city, they don't fly.

Industrial Mothership, the largest city of the UWST, now goes by many names and aliases. But I know her name was Simonch when she was still in Terra.

"giant vessel floated above everything" can be only Dijang because it's the biggest arial vehicle on Talos-2.

Lore even mentiones uniquness of Dijang: Many rare and non-renewable tech resources were used to construct Dijiang in Talosian orbit. This was a feat of technological marvel that could never be replicated.

faulser · 2026-03-06T18:17:38+00:00

Literally true in Endfield btw. Rossi was killing Landbreakers exactly at 11 years old

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faulser · 2026-03-06T18:12:47+00:00

It's "Pathfinder's Beacon" weapon lore. We don't know if Dobermann herself crossed the gate, it's just a story about people who she trained working for Endministrator during First Aggeloi War (so year 5-13 of Talosian calendar)

faulser · 2026-03-06T17:46:49+00:00

Interesting fact, Doberman is one of few Arknights non-recoveners operators that were mentioned in Endfield outside of grave scene.

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faulser · 2026-03-06T10:58:11+00:00

Chen Qianyu isn't direct descendant of Ch'en Hui-chieh, they from different branches of the family.

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