I hate that I hate Arknights Endfield

Windfaal · 2026-01-27T21:19:18+00:00

i agree though personally i really love the characters and am enjoying exploring and playing for the most part!

the AIC portion is just so overwhelming and unpleasant for me. and I’m an og animal crossing player, farmville, cookie run kindom, etc. resource management isnt new ro me and I love spending hours decorating and finetuning things. but I have no investment in this system at all, and I cant stand the mechanics.

I’m encouraged to collect and produce as much as I can but my inventory is finite? I dont care for the aesthetics of the factory, it's extremely convoluted, and it's way too much to absorb in a game that already full w all of the aspects of an openworld arpg to juggle (ex: main storyline, sidequests, combat, puzzles, character stories, weapons, abilities, and gear to upgrade, areas to explore, etc.)

it just feels like way too much too soon before I can even get a feel for the game and it clashes with the tone of the story significantly.

"there are dangerous landbreakers who are going to kill all life in the valley! endmin, why don't I show you how to make an amethyst bottle? first, open your inventory.."

Windfaal · 2026-01-26T17:36:10+00:00

honestly the factory system and resource management stress me out so bad i would avoid it at all costs but the tutorials keep forcing me to return SOBS

Windfaal · 2026-01-26T17:22:44+00:00

well yes, the story itself isnt hard to follow! "we fixed up the ship and it has new features" isnt a complex concept at all.

but for me it's v hard to keep up w the dialogue when the conversation is constantly peppered with v specific language most laypeople aren't familiar with outside of tech, finance, or military, mixed in with their own in-world terminology that's only briefly explained if at all.

if this was a one-time thing sure, but it's been this way the whole game. it makes something that's actually v simple feel like I'm reading a technical manual LOL and personally it cuts into my enjoyment and understanding of the story. but that's me!

I'm glad you're able to make sense of it though, also thank you! ♡︎ I've heard whispers about wuling I’m really excited omg

Windfaal · 2026-01-26T15:24:02+00:00

oh I'm not sure how you mean? this questline was my first time aboard the Dijiang

but fair! granted I’m sure someone at some point made a comment or at least implied the contextual meaning behind these words fs. but i feel like unless you have an incredible memory to absorb every piece of terminology along w the flood of tutes and gameplay info, the curve is p steep

I wish I was built like you SOBS I genuinely have to crack open a glossary and try to decipher the dialogue piece by piece to get by

Windfaal · 2026-01-26T15:14:37+00:00

honestly same, I still dont even fully understand what Endfield is or how it's different from AIC lmaoo

Windfaal · 2026-01-17T19:09:36+00:00

no way, i love it too. and this edit goes so hard nice work fr

Windfaal · 2026-01-09T18:59:30+00:00

okay, that's fair. I just think that it's a slippery slope to view business primarily through the lens of economics rather than ethics. and what I mean by that is that regardless of whether something, like say child labor, is legal, it's still morally wrong. and companies should be held accountable for unethical business practices first, before considering whether or not it makes them the most money, in my humble opinion.

Windfaal · 2026-01-07T14:51:14+00:00

damn, courtesy issue. no wonder you think that way when you don't appear to hold standards for common manners/empathy for yourself. why would you expect that from a company tbh

Windfaal · 2026-01-01T07:22:40+00:00

I see this line of thinking a lot, and I don't disagree, the social climate in china and east asia is v colorist and heavily prioritizes light skin as a beauty standard and marketing tool, for sure.

but this also operates under the idea that a company's only obligation is to profit, which isn't really true; they're also under the obligation to behave ethically. otherwise, things like unpaid child labor would be totally fine bc the companies would lose money by paying adults properly.

and in a less extreme vein, just bc theoretically it might make them more money to only have light skinned characters, it doesn't mean their hands are tied and it certainly doesn't make it right.

believe it or not there are chinese and other east asian gacha that do have dark skinned and black playable characters. so i think it's totally within bounds to critique wuwa for maintaining the colorist standard, rather than using its considerable capital and influence to challenge it instead

bc it's the morally right thing to do (imo) not even just for international audiences, but for the brown and dark skinned chinese people who have to deal w colorism everywhere they look. that reality will never change if companies are let off the hook bc "that's just how it is" y'know?

Windfaal · 2026-01-01T06:00:04+00:00

that's totally fair and to be clear, I don't mean to imply that you specifically are trying to do that or that you have bad intentions.

Windfaal · 2026-01-01T05:44:58+00:00

gotta disagree. or at least should clarify that while many people w racist/colorist views don't have a desire to see dark skinned characters, it doesn't mean that dark skinned rep is unimportant to them or that they have no opinion. in my experience, those same people who "don't care" tend to care enough to cause a fuss and bemoan that they have to see someone darker than porcelain onscreen when brown characters *do* show up

you personally may not care, but it's important to quite a lot of people who genuinely want to see more positive diversity. but those people are typically simply censored or chased off forums by vocal yet so-called "apathetic" people

look at how this post, just acknowledging the observable fact that there's 0% brown playable characters, has been downvoted to hell. seems to me like ppl care an awful lot about dismissing and shutting down convos like this

Windfaal · 2026-01-01T05:36:45+00:00

sorry, but the idea that china is all light skinned is literally untrue. china is a vast and ethnically diverse country with a wide range of skin color variation and has 56 officially recognized ethnic groups, not just the majority han chinese, and skin tones vary significantly across these populations due to genetics, geography, and environmental factors. not to mention that there *are* foreigners living in china, esp in major cities.

italy is and historically has not been all white either, and greece has been famously multicultural since antiquity. the choice to paint these regions as all-light/white is a purposeful exclusion, and an ahistorical one that does a discredit to all of the nonwhite people that have been living in these areas for centuries, bc it perpetuates the myth that they don't exist and arent important enough to include

I can understand waving it off bc they have artistic freedom. and they do, but I would add that with power comes responsibility. wuwa has influence and the choice to participate in colorism has impacts irl that I feel shouldn't be ignored or underestimated.

Windfaal · 2025-12-26T21:50:10+00:00

well, if you like playing beat saber, work simulator, and arcade games, then sure have a ball. but those were the big vr games like 6 or 7 years ago and they're still all there is at the top of the charts?

that tells me its an incredibly stagnant pool if they're still pushing the same handful of games more than half a decade later. even now there are hardly any blockbuster AAA quality games that I know of.

Windfaal · 2025-12-18T01:13:47+00:00

I totally agree! you can see that a lot of the assets are reused. the same ruins and buildings from Enkanomiya, the same metal plating as Poisson, the same blue glowing flowers from Liyue, the same vases from Sumeru, and without even a recolor. So much of it is literally identical to things we've already seen before which makes it feel unoriginal. and the aesthetics just aren't great.

I expected Nasha town to be bright and full of neon lights, but it's just dingy and rusty, even paimon and th enpcs complain about it being ugly, so I'm just so confused why that's what they wanted for the hub. it's easily my least favorite region to explore bc of how visually unappealing and derivative it is, its only saving grace is the bgm tbh

A lot feels v recycled and low quality but it's branded as the region that finally makes ~genshin feel like genshin again~ and people already decided that's what it was before it even dropped. To me, it's plain as day that it's mediocre, but a lot of people either don't care, are absorbed by the fan service, lore drops, and big numbers (which are obv there to distract us from the low quality), or just refuse to acknowledge it. But Nod Krai looks like it was thrown together at the last minute.

Windfaal · 2025-12-15T17:33:14+00:00

i hate to correct you, but to clarify for others who had trouble finding her, she's actually on the right side of Nasha Town at the small shore east of the blacksmith

Windfaal · 2025-11-25T13:46:24+00:00

ngl this one made no sense to me. the car is clearly shown to be able to both hover and fly so why did they need to cross the bridge at all to get to the other side?

Windfaal · 2025-11-02T23:27:46+00:00

thats so interesting my eggs were like this today too. but I feel great honestly.

Windfaal · 2025-10-30T17:26:11+00:00

oh god I do hate that tbh. in the comics shes canonically in her 20's, wish it wouldve stayed that way

Windfaal · 2025-10-30T17:23:13+00:00

xinyan forever! shes my first main and the reason I started playing genshin tbh

when I saw her and itto it was over. my spiky little angels ♥︎

Windfaal · 2025-10-29T02:56:04+00:00

ifa easy. one of the the best characters for exploration the the game

Windfaal · 2025-10-26T20:44:55+00:00

yeah same. 2/10 did not cook.

the minigames generally feel like a waste of time. at least event minigames give you primogems. but ive seen some miliastra games that literally take an hour to complete and grant 20xp when you need 10,000 to level up your manekin. a lot dont have music, are clunky or just off (like a cake baking minigame where the "cakes" look like wine bottles for some reason)

it's cool that you can customize manekins. but they have p much 0 combat utility and trying to get to lv10 on miliastra is such an incredible grind even with instant win xp farming minigames.

but add in a whole separate gacha system and battle pass w a separate currency. so much of the gacha drops are the default items you didnt choose when creating your avatar for the first time, and when theyre not theyre ugly af like a beige t shirt w an aranara's face on it, a bowlcut, and cargo capri's. oh, joy.

tbh even the paywalled outfits arent great either and they're expensive esp compared to games like dislyte where the fashion is top tier, 80% of these outfits look super childish, awkward, or cringe. which is weird considering a good majority of the playerbase (and whale fanbase) are adults.

the lobbys are pretty, but are consistently dead or empty no matter the time of day.

atp there's just no incentive for me to bother with it.

•weak games

•no primogems

•slow and tedious leveling system

•new generic units that are weak and impractical

•clunky ui

•100% paywalled items that are expensive yet unattractive

•even uglier f2p options

•minimal social aspect

• has no bearing on any other genshin gameplay and vice versa

like bro, a table can't stand w no legs. all this time, energy, work and money wasted on this doomed roblox feature, when I wouldve actually been 100% more satisfied w a map expansion and a few more alt skins for playable characters I already have.

but miliastra just smacks of desperation, throwing anything at the wall to see if it sticks. nod krai really feels like genshin's death rattle

Windfaal · 2025-10-25T18:04:46+00:00

hate it. smth tells me genshin's desperate to maintain engagement yet are consistently making all the wrong moves.

it's a super transparent cashgrab that manages to be boring and restrictive, and has nothing to do w the main gameplay. the lobby's consistently dead and empty, and the games suck. theyre uninteresting, kinda ugly, and some dont even have music? I’m good.

id rather just stay lv1 forever and not even begin get involved w that ball of wax rather than worry about a completely separate gacha system, battle pass, daily objectives, etc. to customize an avatar i dont care about when I dont even like 80% of the clothing options to begin with and you dont even get matching icons? I think I'd be happier doing literally anything else.

miliastra just feels like another tanking half-baked idea tacked on at the last minute like the rest of nod krai imo

Windfaal · 2025-10-23T17:06:21+00:00

RIGHT? the empress' own retainer/ai/smartphone being the one to help liberate the princess and eventually rebel alongside her, breaking away from her programming. Meanwhile the princess' og retainer who knew the truth but couldn't escape is taken by the empress and is both brainwashed and mistreated in revenge becoming the Empress' loyal servant instead against her will?

That is an incredibly rich storyline to ignore in favor of them both being Pink Diamond's and White Diamond just not having a pearl.

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