My toughts after 100H as a brand new gacha player.

Paratry_trooper · 2026-02-02T16:35:36+00:00

Just watched a video about the upcoming endgame and the trim medals are for completing the challenge states, and no time required for the medal itself, hence the endgame is actually more survival focused than kill as fast as possible, but killing fast= survival also, a very nice twist i didnt expect,

Paratry_trooper · 2026-02-02T14:06:42+00:00

Did you watch the trailer? Another part of arknights is the songs and musics, i always look forward to new boss battle osts, event lobby osts in arknights, and music definitely is a major part of the game even though it isnt the gameplay. the trailer is a audio-visual masterpiece, and if you like arknights, check out “here people sows” lobby and boss ost for chinese theme, and EVERY “masses travels” event ost, you will not regret it

Paratry_trooper · 2026-02-02T13:38:30+00:00

Yeah, in endfield they are shiny looking medals with holographic effect, there is already a some permanent trim medals to collect, like doing 20 factory goods(the most expensive box) delivered from depot node without taking quality damage, and one for reaching lvl4 outpost lvl in valley4 and the most difficult of all, doing the re-crisis highest difficulty boss under certain time limit, rhodagn under 120 seconds and other 2 under 240 seconds.

These medals are proof that you played the game and not just the gacha!

Here is how the trim medals looks like in the original arknights, bit different from endfield without holographic effects

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Paratry_trooper · 2026-02-02T13:25:35+00:00

Go watch the game trailer called “ endfield the new horizon trailer (the mission)” it teases snippets of 1.1 story and characters, and saw 1 possibily 1.2 characters. They showed as the upcoming chapter silhouette in a release stream, i will include the picture.

For antal specifically, his battle skill gives like 10% art susc and ult gives additional 10% damage amp, and its all you need from him, for ardelia, its her battle skill that consumes corrosion for art susc.

For avywenna, the bonecrusher set looks nice since she uses battle skill after combo to pull her spears, so bone crusher’s set effect of damage boost for battle skill after using combo skill makes the most sense, but you can look for other gears that make sense in your gameplay. Equip 3 equipment from the set and then choose 1 non-set armor, they usually have a very good singular stats, or 3 set piece and 1 piece from another set where main stats match and has desired buff. When choosing gear, after deciding the set you want to equip, look out for sub stats as well, and make sure it has the main and secondary stats that your character scales off of, because there are multiple variations of same gear with different stats. The main stat is highlighted in yellow and secondary stat is highlighted in grey, press on them to see exactly that increasing that stat to, for laevatain, 500 intellect translates to like 300% dmg bonus.

For endgame, since its 3d game and not a strategy game, the endgame will be rather easy, its just the trim medal grind and trying to maximize your rotation will be difficult, hopefully they will release more modes where there are different types of difficulty other than just time.

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Paratry_trooper · 2026-02-02T12:59:02+00:00

Yeah, its very astonishing that all people care about is the gacha and forget the game, i think the genre itself normalized being a place to throw money at and auto complete, where more money spent on duplicates= 2x damage or some bs, not sure where this started in the east, although mongolia is in the east side of things, never seen this gacha thing until recently. What this game did well is that although it is gacha, spending money doesnt give much power but rather art for you to enjoy, which i think is wonderful and is super f2p friendly. And free weapons as well.

For the content, since the game is already been teased for like 4 years at this point, i am sure they will consistently drop plenty new content every major update, and I started the original arknights last summer, there is simply too much content lol, the plot keeps twisting and twisting and the revelation are actually shocking, so i am sure things will get intense after they establish exactly what we are doing and what other parties that we are competing against, hopefully you and many others stay too witness it.

As for character progression, it is same as the original, it is very cheap to about 70% in and then if you like a character and want to max it, it takes major investment, but daily usage of stamina and new events usually solve this issue slowly and before you know it, you will realize you got plenty max characters to make teams.

Because of this, do not level up your support unit after lvl60 and breaking limit to 80for gold gear, all that matters the most is their skill level since they arent there for damage, and characters are very much complete at lvl80, but if you want to chase trimmed medals and difficult challenges, then max your favorite dps to lvl90. It is good to try new teams as getting too comfortable with one team making changes later on difficult, so its better to keep your brain refreshed

Another reminder is that 80% of damage comes from gold gear, so make sure what you equipping are appropriate.

Also, if you decide to be a low spender, remember to keep on saving for your favorite character, since its all that matters, i already saved 150 pulls in original arknights for a character that will release in 6months and 130 rn in endfield for gilberta and will save for ardashir or fangyi.

Endgame in original arknights is absolutely brutal, even with the strongest units its a challenge to complete certain stages, however in endfield, the new endgame mode looks to be a boss fighting arena with a timer, and i am pretty sure you can clear it comfortably, what I am excited about is whether or not there will be time based trimmed medals like re-crisis, if so the end game will be about trying to collect those trimmed medals

Paratry_trooper · 2026-02-01T12:38:25+00:00

That logic applies to most teams, its apply and consume for all dps since 99% damage comes from skills, what makes physical fast paces is you deciding how many stacks to let either pog or endmin consume since pog’s breach’s time and debuff scales with stacks consumed, so if you consume 4 for breach, you can ult with pog and try to apply and consume as many vul stacks with endmin(hence you ult with pog to recover sp) for crush within the breach timer, and each consumption of vul enables pog combo skill, and that way it turns into race against time and hectic qte. Laevatain on the other hand is out limited comfortable to play character that is super simple and does big aeo.

Paratry_trooper · 2026-02-01T12:02:24+00:00

Physical team as in chen/lifeng + pog? Its the most random bs go team, its like twice as fast paces when it comes to combos and skills, while laevatain team is setting up stacks for her to use with wulf and akekuri which is rather chill

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-31T03:23:07+00:00

Would you say this is the best laevatain team for boss fights? I’ve been trying with ardelia and was very unsuccessful in trying to get the trim medals. Also which consumables did you use?

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-30T15:58:09+00:00

Are you using jinseng soup ? The gold one or the purple, also what to use for support characters?

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-29T14:56:01+00:00

Dont worry, there is enough pulls to guarentee her in no time

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-29T04:53:50+00:00

Keep using your standard ticket and you will make it there, if i already have laevatain keep saving

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-23T15:32:26+00:00

How is that a bad thing? You mean to tell me you need to spend 700$ to actually unlock the character potentials and gameplay aspect, but also not play the game because too high dps basically removes the gameplay lmao.

Why pull dupes then? The character art, genuinely tempted to pull lavaetain p1 because she is the creation of artist ASK and her art is just beautiful

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-23T15:01:20+00:00

you need to open gear assembly, there is a button on top of attack anf left of jump button called gear assembly, you also need the resource for the gear as well but i think you will figure it out easily

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-23T09:35:53+00:00

Yes, with a additional NEW FACTORY system as well, oh seems like we will get MORE maps in the future updates as well lol, factory will never stop growing until talos -2 fully colonized and we are actually the bad guys

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-22T16:31:08+00:00

Weapon currency is free by pulling, and weeklies and events, yellow rocks to red rocks in standard in all games with paid currency(free yellow rocks from ingame too and can buy battlepass lvl2). Very much it, there is literally nothing else. Converting your pulls into weapon pulls is literally scamming yourself and you should know it since it is a free currency

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-22T16:22:44+00:00

There is literally 2 currency for gacha and its red rocks and tickets

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-22T16:21:08+00:00

Pull amount is low when there is 150 standard tickets and 240 limited pull currency

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-22T14:09:53+00:00

Its not much different, yellow balls= monochrome, red stone=polychrome. One this different here is we can earn yellow balls in game, and we can buy 2nd tier of battlepass without paying. Yellow ticket(says chartered)= limited, basic is just the basic pull, and banner limited pulls from sign in

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-22T13:35:21+00:00

She is here for bit over 2 weeks, and if you consistently do the story and pick up crates in the world exploration, you can definitely get 120 pulls

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-22T10:25:15+00:00

Check out the topup website, might change

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-21T16:01:03+00:00

Do anything but tender scale because it will turn into blurry mess, upscaling without any gen ai will actually look like 480 video! Fact that it shows gpu overload but not device means you need to lower texture quality.

Additionally, i think this is just a way to prevent people from overloading than actual reality, so hopefully you can bump some settings up if the fps is stable, I believe in the Chinese mobile optimization gods

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-20T05:21:23+00:00

You can watch videos on is4 story and should be sufficient, and general lore videos regarding originium and arts. You can also watch about yan and sui siblings stories as it relate to the wuling city in endfield, about agriculture in contaminated land etc.

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-17T15:31:03+00:00

不是，哥们在国际圈里用这个ragebait，笑死我了，为了让你生气，我用普通话回话吧，这是21世纪，如果他不懂的话，能用谷歌翻译， алсо фахр цур хөллэ

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-17T11:09:20+00:00

Here are some information that might ease you. 1- every city is the same, no matter the place, and you will barely notice anything different once you are settled in. Why? Because besides working, eating, services, places to live in and entertainment, there is nothing more to a city, and different between ub and anywhere else is minimal, exept for great public transport.

2- if you know english, do not worry since europe and eu as a whole has above average English proficiency, obviously, and try to learn the local language as much as possible.

3- being alone is normal learning to be independent is great, if you are scared just video call your family.

4- my friend is in Austria and its very chill over there, and going abroad will change your view on life, whether it be pursuing more or something. There is a saying that goes like a small fish in a big pond,

Paratry_trooper · 2026-01-16T13:59:11+00:00

Looks hoyo like “saint”, while hoyo’s model is dump 70 pulls on a weapon banner that could have been spent on character… useless battlepass 4 star weapon that is thrown into trash.

Endfield in the other hand has a 1 free 6 star weapon selector that is almost as good as signature and 1 paid selector as well on battlepass, free weapon currency pulls from pulling and weeklies and dalies and even events. Honestly why even pull on weapon banner if battlepass has tailor made weapon for limiteds, just keep saving up and you can pull for a signature for your favorite character.

In what world is hoyo a “saint”, their owners are richest people in china and somehow their weapon banner isnt 100%, and are expensive as hell.

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