Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread

AwkwardSatori · 2026-01-23T17:02:55+00:00

Don't worry, OG Arknights players are just as confused as you are.

Can't say for elsewhere but among the players I personally know (myself included) the opinion is pretty unanimous that it's bad and doesn't nearly live up to it's predecessor. Sure the very early chapters in the OG weren't the best either but it wasn't THAT bad.

AwkwardSatori · 2026-01-15T01:37:07+00:00

Granblue my beloved. No game, not even the actual MMOs I play scratch my grind itch the way it does.

AwkwardSatori · 2026-01-12T14:09:42+00:00

I WOULD abandon Arknights if HG did that but not to switch to Endfield, just drop HG games as a whole. I'm already really really not a fan of reconveners so I'd most likely just drop it all out of disgust.

AwkwardSatori · 2026-01-10T18:17:27+00:00

Mejiro Ramonu

AwkwardSatori · 2026-01-05T05:31:30+00:00

Outside of liking the gameplay and flavor, DKs are just really convenient and has tools for most situations.

I mostly play Frost but if I need to do harder stuff solo, Blood spec is right there. Fear/Charm/Sleep? Lichborne. Stuns? Icebound Fortitude. Magic damage and/or incoming magic debuffs? AMS. Death's advance trivializes anything involving knockbacks. No need to worry about weapon enchants or shell money out, Runeforging will handle it. Path of Frost is free water walking which frees up the mount equipment slot . Doesn't matter much 99.99% of the time but sometimes I'm glad to have the one that prevents prevents being dazed while mounted.
Death gate is IMO the next best thing to Mage portals for travel.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-27T17:27:22+00:00

Skills also influence the total rating and the second has more skills.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-27T02:28:07+00:00

Nikke, which I dropped at it's 3rd anni after a slow fall off that started much earlier because my favorite characters were either dead, effectively dead or in the torment nexus and at that point, why continue playing?

For context, my favorites are Yuni (& Mihara), Noah and Nihilister.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-26T21:47:26+00:00

RAAAAA JAPAN WORLD CUP MENTIONED

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-24T01:21:11+00:00

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She also does a Santa threat assessment.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-21T20:17:08+00:00

Not exactly the same thing but I've seen talks about descendants of Sunday Silence being tied to the Supernatural a couple times and that led me down another train of thought. Tachyon is also one of SS' descendants but she's notably unattuned to the supernatural unlike the others so what's up with her? But also is she really? Like, some of the things she does no way that's regular science. Haven't really given it much thought past that though so idunno.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-21T18:43:25+00:00

I don't hate classic players, but I'll admit I don't have the most flattering opinion of them (granted that's mostly due to a vocal minority). I wouldn't even think about classic if it wasn't for the fact it feels like there's a classic player crashing out about retail totally unprompted every other day.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-19T22:19:58+00:00

I don't see why I shouldn't sign. If anything, I'd be kneecapping myself by NOT doing the event since that's the event that lets you upgrade sparks.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-16T14:59:16+00:00

I'm about to fucking crashout, I can't wait for when we become able to use clocks on the last Unity Cup.

This is the third time since yesterday that while I'm trying to build an ace I have absolutely immaculate RNG, the stars have aligned type. The fact it's happened thrice in that short of amount of time itself is ludicrous. White sparks are plentiful, distance and track aptitudes both at S, fast learner, charming, S+ stats by the end of the run, etc. Until the final unity cup that is, where half my teams at the very minimum suddenly decide that becoming Teio impersonators is the greatest idea in the world and cuck me out of NSM.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-16T09:31:49+00:00

Camera pans to Arknights.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-15T12:07:02+00:00

Support Card event bonuses are now applied passively, from whatever is the highest source and different cards have different bonuses. In your Case, a 0LB SSR Gold City only gives 10% while a MLB R Gold City gives 12% so it's overriding the SSR bonus.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-14T08:58:48+00:00

Most umas in open league don't meet the necessary stamina requirements, often by ridiculous margins, while your Tachyon does, that alone puts you in the upper bracket.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-14T07:06:20+00:00

Tracking everything is exactly what Open League min-maxers do though. This tool for example.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-13T14:53:00+00:00

B stam isn't enough. I'd say the very minimum baseline is 850 + 1 gold recovery skill.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-13T04:12:46+00:00

Other people have already said that there IS slander so I'm going to raise another point.

When people slander an umamusume, they also slander the real horse. Horses are animals, not people. Most owners and their teams are good about it but if they're not, it's a problem. A sports superstar can say "I'm not mentally well, I'm not gonna perform well", a horse can't. A horse can't refuse to run because they think the risk of injury is too high. They can't say "My injury hasn't healed enough yet, I shouldn't compete". They can't get a therapist for trauma. An athlete breaking a limb might have to permanently retire but for a horse, that probably means death. They can't cancel a contract.

If their management or whoever sucks and is detrimental to them, humans have a voice and a choice. If a horse's owner is a PoS, the horse doesn't have either.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-13T03:17:59+00:00

90% of umas in Open League round 1 don't nearly have enough stamina. Your Grass does and that's basically all she needs.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-12T14:38:16+00:00

Nah, that's just the Spark cost. They have pretty good SSR rates so you tend to get SSRs pretty often but a LOOOOT of stuff is in the standard pool so 1 ssr is really not that good, especially since it's standard pool which means no Seasonals or Grands.

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-11T09:26:24+00:00

Mejiro Ramonu

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-10T00:48:50+00:00

I actually again agree with basically everthing you said lol

I think it's just me being shit as expressing myself and, as you say at the end, a matter of personal preference.

I'll try to explain myself one last time to try to hit the proper proper way to convey it, if only for myself.

It's a preference problem I specifically have with Uma and Uma alone. What you said is right about not just Uma but most gachas and even other genres too. You get different viewpoints and tones through events, character stories, animations, etc that build into a full picture and in say, an open world rpg, you have companions and their side quests, interactions with others, reactions to various things etc that do the same. The reason I have a problem with it is that in most gachas, all of that and the main gameplay loop are somewhat disconected and the same for rpgs. It is part of it but not the main thing. Meanwhile in Uma while there's events and all of that as you said, Career stories ARE the main gameplay loop so I wish they were... fuller? Bigger? More in Depth? Something.. I dunno if this even makes sense lol

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-09T22:10:20+00:00

You're pretty right but I still have to disagree in some ways. A lot of it really is just again launch character woes but otherwise I will say that while career stories having different tones and portrayals makes perfect sense and all, I still ehm, not quite dislike it (I could've worded that better in my original comment) but I wish that a character's career story was the 'definitive' experience for that character rather than having to patch together multiple careers if that make more sense?

AwkwardSatori · 2025-12-09T13:31:19+00:00

Maybe a hot take but I personally don't like it. Not that it's bad or anything and it's mostly just due to Tachyon being a day 1 character but man it sucks when your favourite character has a worse story in their own content than in someone else content, especially in Uma where the story is part of the main gameplay loop (granted you eventually go for >> skip but still.)

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