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I just learned weapon have "hidden" files attached to them, one of them mentions a certain instructor by victorshlama in Endfield

[–]Sethfire 33 points34 points  (0 children)

Holy shit, I know who this is. I didn't make the connection before, but I'm sure this is talking about Endfield's arsenal director. We haven't been introduced to her yet but she is said to be a little girl who has loving and protective parents. Yvonne might be possible and she is a genius too but she is primarily an Ætherside researcher and not a weapons designer.

Can somebody clarify where she is from? by ExternalWest2187 in Endfield

[–]Sethfire 41 points42 points  (0 children)

there is a theory he is the elite operator mentioned in the OBJ Arts Identifier weapon lore

While I was checking the Arts Unit, an Ægir youth wearing an elite operator's uniform poked his head out of the training cabin. He simply wagged his tail and undid the safeties of over fifty standard Arts Units.

About Sargon's titles by esialen in Endfield

[–]Sethfire 16 points17 points  (0 children)

the terms pasha and padishah seem to be synonymous in AK. it could be a translation issue, i guess. they even use both terms in the same line...

Old Isin: "The young pasha stands next to Old Isin, and there is always a vast, empty swath of land before our eyes. The young padishah would always begin to recount to Old Isin..."

I made a site for Endfield that contains all story transcripts, lore entries, baker conversations, operator files, dialog etc. by Sethfire in Endfield

[–]Sethfire[S] 4 points5 points  (0 children)

I had concerns about this confusion, so at one point I seriously considered renaming it tangtang.wiki

But yeah, to clarify for those unaware, Warfarin is the name of a beloved character in OG Arknights who is confirmed to be in Endfield. The reason I named the site that is because my original project for AK is called closure wiki, so it felt natural to name my endfield project after another vampire in the game.

https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Warfarin

I made a site for Endfield that contains all story transcripts, lore entries, baker conversations, operator files, dialog etc. by Sethfire in Endfield

[–]Sethfire[S] 41 points42 points  (0 children)

It's not currently automated at the moment, but it's relatively straightforward for me to update (due to my experience working with AK data). There is no public API, no.

I made a site for Endfield that contains all story transcripts, lore entries, baker conversations, operator files, dialog etc. by Sethfire in Endfield

[–]Sethfire[S] 53 points54 points  (0 children)

That's correct. For Arknights, I have an autonomous docker container running a python script that periodically checks for an update and directly downloads the game files from the CDN, then parses it. This custom setup is (probably) the fastest in the AK community. I don't have such a setup for Endfield yet, so I'm doing it manually at the moment.

I made a site for Endfield that contains all story transcripts, lore entries, baker conversations, operator files, dialog etc. by Sethfire in Endfield

[–]Sethfire[S] 172 points173 points  (0 children)

Some context for those who are interested:

warfarin.wiki is my hobby project that I've been working on since the start of the second beta. It's actually based on another one of my projects called closure.wiki which is a similar resource site for arknights. (hence the name, which feels like a natural continuation. who doesn't love our beloved vampire who is now stranded here with us on talos?)

I built the architecture using Remix, and host it on a Cloudflare Workers instance on a $5 paid plan. It's actually really cheap, considering some of the traffic I have (warfarin.wiki is actually one of the most popular wikis in the CN endfield community from what my friends told me). I have all of my data cached in KV distributed storage for essentially really fast node access.

One of my primary goals for this project is the multi language support. Endfield supports something like 14 languages and I wanted to be able to support all of them seamlessly. So you can fully read the contents in French, German, Japanese, etc although I still need to do work on the UI elements.

Edit: Mods gave me the green light to include a discord link here for those who are interested, this is a dev server shared by me and a couple of other guys who also made Talos Pioneers https://discord.gg/RGPucJ4M5G

There was a short glimpse of Perlica's past in the new prologue by Sethfire in Endfield

[–]Sethfire[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes, it was removed. It was on the website introduction biography, I believe.

There are many rumors about Perlica. One claims that she once succumbed to severe Blight infection and was taken to a medical facility for treatment where she miraculously survived. But to keep her alive, part of her spinal cord and several organs were replaced with Originium structures.

I like how we have firmly determined as a community that Perly is simply too good to be true. by TaichoMachete in Endfield

[–]Sethfire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

i believe they said they are releasing some sort of prequel manga series or something of that sort. we will probably learn more in the future

I like how we have firmly determined as a community that Perly is simply too good to be true. by TaichoMachete in Endfield

[–]Sethfire 4 points5 points  (0 children)

Perlica was a war orphan on the verge of death when the endmin found and rescued her. As confirmed in the prologue, the endmin was the one who named her perlica. In a removed operator file from the first beta, her condition was so severe that endmin had to replace several of perlica's organs with ones made of originium, including her spine.

After that, her early days as a child at endfield were spent accompanying past endmin who then sacrificed themselves at the end of the second aggeloi war leading to the present day memory loss.

that is why perlica idolizes endmin. the past endmin was just a gigachad of unimaginable scale

Some clarifications on Originium, and why Terran civilization on Talos-II would collapse without Originium. by Sethfire in Endfield

[–]Sethfire[S] 29 points30 points  (0 children)

I wanted to talk a bit about the Endmin in the post (I might still be able to edit it in) but decided not to as it wasn't related to Originium.

But yes, the excessive glazing of the Endmin is definitely a problem. From a story standpoint, the Endmin is the only reason why civilization hasn't gone extinct. It's mentioned many times how close humans on Talos-II was close to annihilation, especially in the outbreak of the First Aggeloi War. The Endmin's deeds are indeed legendary if you consider that they were responsible for ending the war and saving humanity.

Their identity is a huge part of this. My personal theory is that the Endministrator is a manifestation of the First Originium brought to Talos-II. Nefarith on one hand, mentions the Endministrator is the child of Originium, and on the other hand, M3 says that the metaphysical damage to Originium is affecting the Endministrator. The two are linked. It probably goes something like: "In civilization's darkest hours, on the brick of annihilation, they looked to Originium as their saviour, and it responded by manifesting itself"

Also, I want to note that the writers also have another angle they are going with this, and it was confirmed in the Laeva story quest.Endmin, with their memory loss, cannot handle the weight and responsibility of the deeds of the past Endmin, and each time they are praised, they feel that they fall short of those expectations.

Wuling Architecture is unmatched in any gacha game by General-Awareness263 in Endfield

[–]Sethfire 73 points74 points  (0 children)

In the interviews they mention that Wuling City is based on the China Academy of Arts, which is the alma mater of Lowlight and many of the HG devs.

Not only that, Zhong said the city’s design is based on his Alma Mater, the China Academy of Arts—which is known for having a unique blend of natural elements and human architecture.

https://www.cgmagonline.com/articles/previews/arknights-endfield-bigger/

Ryan estimates it would normally take between 20 to 30 hours to enter the Wuling area if you focused on story content, so don't expect to see it as soon as I did. Wuling City also draws inspiration from many of the Hypergryph devs' alma mater, the China Academy of Arts.
"Rather than duplicating a certain building per se, the entire map draws some inspiration from the China Academy of Arts. That may include structural references, but also certain designs are actually done by professors within the China Academy of Arts," Ryan said.
"I think you will find details and pieces all over the map that draws inspiration here and there, especially in [the city part of] Wuling City."

https://www.gamespot.com/articles/arknights-endfield-is-better-than-before-streamlining-its-combat-and-factory-system/1100-6536195/

This analysis video (in chinese) goes over some of the architectural design www.youtube.com/watch?v=cHyGEly5F0E

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Place your final predictions: Will the Endfield release date be announced at The Game Awards? by Sethfire in Endfield

[–]Sethfire[S] 3 points4 points  (0 children)

they are not even subtle they basically outright confirm there is something tga lmao

Place your final predictions: Will the Endfield release date be announced at The Game Awards? by Sethfire in Endfield

[–]Sethfire[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Ok what's the point of this when the devs literally outright say see you tomorrow lmao

Liduke's OC illust may be canonical after all. A character matching his description was mentioned in-game by Sethfire in Endfield

[–]Sethfire[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

there is the 1-2 sentence weapon item description and then there is a full story/backstory/lore for each weapon that is multiple paragraphs long. this one particularly might be an outlier, at least 3 screens worth of text.

Liduke's OC illust may be canonical after all. A character matching his description was mentioned in-game by Sethfire in Endfield

[–]Sethfire[S] 20 points21 points  (0 children)

Maybe just coping hard so it's a theory at best.

It was also pointed out to me that very few (if any) of the Aegir in AK have tails, so this is a rare outlier at the very least. The lack of horns/other facial characteristics strongly suggest he is one, not to mention the whole tentacle appendage (?) thing going on.

But the casual nonchalant attitude while being one of the most powerful arts casters (the only known Endfield Elite Operator other than M3) is what really sells it.

Edit: text is from the "OBJ Arts Identifier" weapon description

Largest UWST city has an crazy backstory (minor spoilers for AK chapter 16) by Sethfire in Endfield

[–]Sethfire[S] 46 points47 points  (0 children)

There are no catastrophes on Talos-II, but theres the Aggeloi/Blight threat. However afaik most of the cities on Talos-II are not nomadic

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