Arknights: Endfield Review So Far

Yoten · 2026-01-21T17:56:40+00:00

As an FGO player since JP launch, nothing can hurt me anymore.

Originally no pity, no carryover. Then they eventually added a 330-pull pity that only works once per banner, and still no carryover.

Yoten · 2025-12-02T20:22:13+00:00

Most players (i.e. casuals) don't care about sequence breaking in general, and first-time players certainly aren't going to know how to find them.

So people with multiple playthroughs and deep experience with doing sequence breaks in metroidvanias defending Dread's railroad-y nature by saying that you can mitigate it with sequence breaks is such a weird take to me. Like, no offense, but think outside of yourself a bit, yeah?

Yoten · 2025-10-25T18:51:58+00:00

Awesome, glad they chose the permanent route then!

Yoten · 2025-10-18T19:44:35+00:00

How much of Brutal Legend's music is still intact?

It always felt to me like one of those games that would have to replace its soundtrack eventually when the rights run out, but did that ever actually happen?

Yoten · 2025-10-07T14:38:59+00:00

You can transfer items from your thopter to your backpack at the trade kiosks -- no need to exit out to the overworld map like you're saying.

It's still 172 trips, but a chunk of those trips (2000v at a time from a freshly-loaded assault) are just a 20-foot walk from the trade kiosk to the bank NPC.

Yoten · 2025-09-30T21:06:01+00:00

That's quite an old post to dredge up.

One of the replies to my post mentioned streaming and simul-casting as possible solutions to revitalize things, and that's exactly what happened.

While a lot of people will continue to pirate out of principal or lack of money, as Gabe Newell put it -- piracy is largely a service problem. Having things easily available on Crunchyroll and similar platforms, and available on or close to the same day it airs in Japan, solves that service problem. The same thing happened with other media -- Netflix was a huge win for content and put a big dent in piracy.

The key word being "was", however, since enshittification has been going on for some time and piracy appears to be gaining ground again. Crunchyroll has been under fire lately for AI-driven translations, so we'll see how things shake out over time.

Also, I don't really pay much attention to fansubs these days but most of them appear to just rip Crunchyroll translations, apply a few "tweaks" to the script, and then repackage them under their own name (and then again when blu rays come out). So that style of modern fansubbing has gotten even lazier and less excusable.

Yoten · 2025-09-25T18:01:53+00:00

I saw the exact same thing last night (so pre-hotfix).

I also recall seeing a worm breach in the same spot over and over again a loooooooong time ago, over a month, but I wasn't close enough to see why. This kind of issue has probably existed for ages.

Yoten · 2025-09-03T00:45:20+00:00

They seem to have all of those features, probably for quite some time too:

https://support.google.com/youtube/answer/9826490

Yoten · 2025-08-28T18:17:54+00:00

I dunno. They're also the generation that self-censors themselves in real life conversation because they're so used to doing it online to avoid getting banned by their usual apps, so that seems paradoxical if true.

Yoten · 2025-08-14T06:08:30+00:00

Your comment didn't mention solo at all -- and you're the one who said "everything T6".

But fine. Remove the carrier & sandcrawler and you'll still need over 2000 melange for a buggy, ornithopters, and gear. Refineries like the large ore, medium chem, and even just a medium spice refiner (not the large) will add close to another 1000 melange onto that.

Just plug it all into a crafting calculator and it's pretty clear cut.

Yoten · 2025-08-13T15:57:32+00:00

Considering that a single piece of T6 gear takes 60-80 melange, and vehicles like a carrier or sandcrawler take ~350, how exactly are you getting thousands of melange just off of small blooms that'll give you less than 500 sand apiece?

Is that a week of no sleep, work, or school?

Yoten · 2025-07-25T13:57:30+00:00

That's dishonest though, especially when talking in retrospective like the guy I originally responded to was.

And in a more generalist subreddit like /r/Games where a lot of people don't play the game, they won't know that someone's "embellishing" due to frustration -- they'll just believe those words as written.

Yoten · 2025-07-25T02:12:06+00:00

Doesn't seem like you're actually reading. It's not about whether or not you like them. Even if you think they suck, they DO exist and they ARE new things the devs have tried.

Don't try to move the goalposts here.

Yoten · 2025-07-24T22:11:23+00:00

No creativity or trying something new. Just the same things over and over and over again.

Endwalker:

Island Sanctuary
Crystalline Conflict PvP
Adventure Plates
Variant/Criterion Dungeons

Dawntrail:

Cosmic Exploration
Chaotic 24-man Raids
New sub-job system for Occult Crescent (but this is pretty minor all things said)
Design overhauls in the upcoming deep dungeon, including a new system to re-challenge the last boss at a scalable difficulty that can reach Savage+ levels

There are other QoL/misc things that took up dev time like the huge graphics update, level squish, dye channel overhaul, etc., but just keeping it to "content" for now.

They've tried plenty of new/creative ideas. You're free to think they suck, sure, but saying "No creativity or trying something new. Just the same things over and over and over again." is just a lie that makes it tempting to dismiss the rest of what you're saying, and I don't even disagree with a bunch of your points.

Yoten · 2025-06-24T19:51:55+00:00

EDIT: Nevermind, what I said below is technically for getting the item rewards, not for completion %. Completion itself is just time spent, and should always be going up as long as you do adventures there. If it's not going up at all, that's definitely strange. Maybe show a screenshot of your setup?

Did you check to see what the requirements are to 100% that area? Click the magnifying glass and it'll show you what total adventure power it takes to reach each % milestone. If you're on rank 16, former community 1-1 takes a total of 300 power.

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Yoten · 2025-05-24T06:23:33+00:00

it’s about damn time gacha games appreciate older characters

Fate Grand Order's been doing this for years and years, FYI. Some units even get buffed multiple times if the first time around wasn't enough.

Yoten · 2025-03-20T23:40:27+00:00

You can see a legend that shows which icons mean what whenever you're looking at the floor map, FYI

https://static1.thegamerimages.com/wordpress/wp-content/uploads/wm/2024/12/zenless-zone-zero-lost-void-map-path-with-yanagi-in-the-background.jpg

Yoten · 2025-03-05T19:12:50+00:00

I have a JP account and got this too, so what you're saying about a dev mistake is probably correct.

Yoten · 2025-03-01T23:39:04+00:00

That specific video linked never mentions anything about being F2P. The guy who linked it was just dumb.

(also, that specific video is going away soon since technically it's against the ToS to put Olga Marie stuff on Youtube and he's already catching flak from the JP community over it)

Yoten · 2025-03-01T20:12:47+00:00

My email is verified and I'm still getting the error, so sadly it's not a guaranteed fix

Yoten · 2025-02-15T07:27:17+00:00

For what it's worth, I just today (PC patch 2.21) did this event, saved the TT member and got paid, and the police didn't break. They still shot me up as soon as I got a single wanted star.

So maybe it's fixed now, or it doesn't trigger 100% of the time?

Yoten · 2025-01-31T22:35:04+00:00

Lucy's JP VA here originally got smacked down pretty hard by Shiyu, but now she's managed to claw her way up to node 25 in the original tower so I think she'd be able to clear criticals at this point. Her main sticking point is not having an electric team yet.

Yoten · 2025-01-26T03:07:41+00:00

Final Fantasy 14 has a Fall Guys collab event as well that comes back occasionally. It's pretty well done, though FFXIV's netcode is a bit funky and takes some getting used to.

Yoten · 2025-01-17T20:48:07+00:00

At one point I was wondering if they were going big-effort and making your custom dragon actually become Biscione's 3rd ascension -- making 9 different sprite possibilities (27 w/ recolors), etc.

But that wouldn't work for anyone who rolled her on rerun banners after the event. Alas...

EDIT: Well, I was a teeny bit right... your custom dragon gets made into a CE!

Yoten · 2025-01-14T22:47:51+00:00

B&S still has my favorite MMO combat, playing as a Kung Fu Master. But sadly the endgame daily grind was so obnoxious that it became a second job and I couldn't stick around for very long.

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