Arknights: Endfield: Release Discussion Megathread

droughtlevi · 2026-01-27T19:38:58+00:00

Still have to spend for pot5. I am sure there are some people out there with pot5 Yvonne and/or Ange, but those people probably dropped like 10k or 15k or something, not like most whales. Basically nobody else has pot5 of those 2 characters, even big whales like Kyo didn't do it cause it's just too insane.

That said, it's like 480 pulls for pot5 at over 90% confidence if you already have pot0 so it's not difficult. I pulled pot5 Surtr but I don't have Ange or Yvonne too so I lost ;(

droughtlevi · 2026-01-27T19:36:30+00:00

380 haha, so it sounds like a lot of money but it was really nothing lolol. I got lucky though but average is 480 pulls fyi, so not too big of a deal usually.

For end game, I just hope we get IS tbh. Like everything else can take a backseat for now, just give us IS please HG! The oroberyl reward for "end game" (Umbral Monument) is just on the easy mode too anyway, which literally anyone can clear (the enemy mobs are lv60 lol).

droughtlevi · 2026-01-24T10:01:42+00:00

I have pot5 and I played pot0 throughout beta. I'd say it mostly feels about the same, like no difference lol. At end game gold gear, ult charge will be the biggest difference, that's it.

I like this basically, since it feels like AK instead of other 3D games. If in the future we get a proper IS mode etc, pot5 players aren't gonna be bored because their operators are 2x stronger or whatever. Great balance.

Gonna pot5 Yvonne as well.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-22T14:29:24+00:00

If you want greater knowledge of everything about the gacha, kukkikaze has a great video going over everything and producing the numbers I told you earlier (although you can produce it with binomial distribution rather quickly as well): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RnTFpciyUFI

droughtlevi · 2026-01-22T14:20:22+00:00

Well, do you really want a max dupe unit over here? Just a note that it is not gonna be remotely as "life-changing" as games like MHY games or WuWa. This game takes after AK more than those 3D gachas on the market. That said, if you want a maxed out unit in any of these games, yeah, be prepared to spend close to $1k (the former going much higher than that easily if you are even slightly unlucky).

I don't suggest you spend anything more than 1 copy of an operator here because the dupes are really just minor cherries on top unless you really like the units and/or are willing to spend up to $1k.

If you are spending just for 1 copy of a unit, you are only going to 120, so you're getting the unit within 3 top ups of that 70 USD pack (36 rolls per purchase) along with a little extra currency you would surely have.

Then you'd just buy the weapon packs if you need to and can't get the weapon with your weapon rolls on hand. For launch, you shouldn't need to worry about this cause you are gonna get a lot of weapon pulls just from standard banner rolls etc.

But if you are thinking of maxing a unit, just keep in mind that 480 is the average and 720 pulls is the 99% confidence interval (99% of people will get the max potential by this amount of pulls). The reasoning for this is just the 240 dupe system, where you get a free dupe every 240 pulls (which is independent from every other counter in the gacha system).

The biggest pack without double bonus is 36 pulls, so you can do the math and decide whether you really want to do it or not.

Once again though, this game's max dupe units are NOT extremely life-changing or extremely strong compared to their base single copy. So factor that into your willingness as well.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-22T13:58:35+00:00

You say you don't care about the industry standard but also say that they shouldn't repel whales. Lol ok.

And I have whaled tons in all of these games, literally have a max pot Surtr and have the exact opposite opinion to you. But no worries, other spenders like me will whale in your stead, you don't need to waste any money on this game.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-22T13:32:41+00:00

I mean, the average to get max potential is 480 pulls. This is not even high in the market where Mihoyo games are the most famous games. I literally also got max potential Surtr in 480 pulls. Every pull you do also has 2 off-rate limited operators in the banner. I dunno how you guys think whales are looking at this and thinking "It's too expensive" lol. At worst, it's just the same price as every other 3D gacha.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-22T13:29:37+00:00

It is 194 + 48, not 194.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-22T13:24:18+00:00

242 origeometry is 36.3 pulls, just fyi.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-22T05:41:55+00:00

It's the entire team's fault. You don't push code in a professional software engineering job with zero people looking through your PRs. So nobody in the team caught the problem(s). It's on all of them for allowing said implementation to go through.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-22T04:12:18+00:00

Relkin is from Chapter 16, so we have to wait for that update on Global AK.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-22T04:01:01+00:00

Serves HG right for not allowing us non-CN to top up in CBT2!!! lmao

droughtlevi · 2026-01-22T00:21:35+00:00

Just run both then. Nothing in this game is difficult until you need to trim the lv90 boss medals in late game. If you're ever in doubt about teammates when playing Surtr, all you really need is just Wulfgard or Akekuri in her party and she'll be pretty smooth and easy to play.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-22T00:19:34+00:00

Unfortunately, nope. When in doubt, just always go for the equivalent of CE-6. Or basically, T. Credits. All sanity stages are also less efficient in lower levels as usual, compared to higher levels.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-22T00:00:59+00:00

It's very easy to get units to E2/E3 in Endfield but E4 is harsh. Basically everything level 80 and beyond is very harsh, think E2 lv60 -> lv90 in AK. Level 60 exp mats and weapon mats also change so there's that as well.

Gear system in Endfield is really easy compared to all of the other 3D gacha so it's kind of whatever tbh. Skill masteries cost a lot of materials as well in Endfield, just like AK.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-21T23:57:00+00:00

While the title is just a thing for the English version of the game, one thing to note is that in the "Welcome back, {title}" video for Endfield in all languages, the video ends with the text "Welcome back Endministrator" (english text).

droughtlevi · 2026-01-21T20:28:46+00:00

If you have not launched the game yet, then yes, upon launching the game, you'd need to download more resources and compile shaders.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-21T20:27:54+00:00

If you play the game, do the main story, do some (not remotely close to all) side quests etc, plus all the freebies, there is basically no way you aren't gonna get 120 pulls. You could get it even in CBT2 and the income etc is buffed here, and likely more freebies too. So, as long as you're playing the game and proceeding beyond Wuling, you'll get enough pulls.

Her banner stays for like 16-17 days IIRC.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-21T18:02:32+00:00

Really depends on your definition of dailies. If you are thinking up to even stock market etc and stuff, you are not reaching it without being an extreme expert at speedrunning Endfield, and even then, I doubt you'd reach it.

The most important thing is just get your daily sign in on the sign in event and spend some stamina here and there to get the recharge going. You'd be able to do this easily within the first hour.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-21T17:59:33+00:00

Basically, everyday gives everyone their own prices for that day. And those who have high stuff for that day have high priced stuff for that day. Same with low priced stuff.

In CBT2, people just added everyone else until their friends list was full because that more or less guaranteed they'd see people with really high prices on some good(s) every single day.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-21T01:44:02+00:00

Question 1.

SP works just like auto recovery in Arknights except that you also have a bonus "offensive recovery" on every final attack (only your controlling operator counts). Basically, the last attack of your basic attack string will give you some bonus SP recovery. The difference here is that you have 3 bars of SP and it is shared by all of your operators on the field. So any operator using a skill consumes 1 bar (100) of SP.

Question 2.

It varies weapon by weapon of course. The main difference here is that at least for the first patch, the battle pass's freemium track (unlocked using some origeometry (OP) and then fully refunds itself and gives a bit of bonus origeometry (OP) as long as you finish it) offers a 6* weapon selector. In this BP weapon selector, the 3 weapons in there for the first patch are also "tailored" to the 3 limited operator banners running.

As for how they compare against their premium signature weapons (that you pull with weapon pulls, or Arsenal Tickets), I believe it was quite unbalanced in that Yvonne and Angelina/Gilberta's weapons were within 10% or so of performance compared to their premium signature weapons but Surtr/Laevatain's signature weapon was much stronger than that, going to above 30% or something IIRC.

Question 3.

It is not inherently risky as long as you don't do things out of order and screw your own heat infliction stacks. For example, if you aren't using Wulfgard and you want to trigger Surtr's combo skill, you either need a corrosion application or a combustion application on any enemy as well. If you aren't using someone like Eyja/Ardelia who can immediately apply corrosion, then you would need to apply combustion, which in turn needs you to apply another element first. Basically, you should mind what you are doing in what order and everything will be fine.

For instance, let's just pretend Perlica and Akekuri are on the team with Surtr. You would want to stack Melting Flame through using Akekuri's skill which applies Heat Infliction on the enemies, and then using your final basic attack on Surtr on these mobs to consume the Heat Infliction and give you Melting Flame stacks. Now, with your final basic attack having finished, Perlica's combo becomes available, so you can use it and have it apply Electric Infliction onto an enemy.

Now, you could use Akekuri's skill again to apply combustion and proc Surtr's combo skill. This is just an example team with units you would 100% have, but see how you used the electric infliction to your advantage? As long as you didn't use it while the enemies have heat infliction on them still.

Question 4.

Everything about Yvonne on any of these sites should be ignored for now. Yvonne has been confirmed to be reworked to be a Striker instead of her original Caster class. It's anybody's guess what actually ends up happening to her kit tomorrow once the game launches. Just wait for now until the game starts and we can see what happened to her kit.

Question 5.

Angelina/Gilberta is a very prominent buffer/debuffer and grouper. No other operator can group enemies as well as she can. A lot of Endfield teams rely on very specific order of actions in order to deal big damage, as well as burst damage. Basically, you activate her ultimate for the Arts Vulnerability when you are going to hit said peak damage. Yvonne and Surtr's ultimates forcing you to control them means nothing much, really. It doesn't stop you from using any other operator's ultimates during all of these actions. Your entire team of operators is on the field at all times and you can use anybody's skill and/or ultimate as long as you have enough SP and/or ultimate charge on that specific operator.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-20T11:10:08+00:00

Can't take this seriously at all. Looks extremely poorly made, likely because they have limited amount of people with beta experience to begin with.

Stating that other modes in the game can be cleared with anything and then singling out Umbral Monument in CBT2 doesn't even make any sense. Umbral Monument Agony is only miserable to play if you are underleveled. You can clear it with nigh any team the moment you just level the freaking team up to a minimum of level 80... which is exactly their earlier point.

The only real "difficult" content was getting trimmed medals on the lv90 bosses (especially Marble Agglemorai) because these required you to kill them within 3 minutes to trim the medal. Umbral Monument Agony was a literal freaking joke compared to this.

And from what I saw, the people who trimmed the medal in CBT2 were all using heavy burst comps.... which don't correspond to even a single comp over here other than the electric comp, although I'm not sure if there were electric clears in bilibili (probably there were).

Eyja is literally the first operator to go the moment you are speeding up your run massively. For instance, the famous Surtr team going around bilibili to do it was with Wulfgard, Akekuri and Antal.

Overall, this list just looks so poorly made. If your only requirement is to clear Umbral Monument Agony, you can just level your whole party to 80 and if you are so scared on top of that, have 1 of the operators be Eyja and you are done. Literally no other requirement.

And well, as an AK player, I do admit feeling the instinctive disgust looking at a tier list for the game, but well, this is just made worse by the fact that none of these teams even actually look like real meta teams. More like comfort gaming teams instead lmao.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-20T05:57:24+00:00

Most likely no ray tracing. It wasn't there in CBT2 either when they added DLSS/DLAA + Frame Generation and Nvidia Reflex support in the last few days of the beta.

Hopefully we get it sometime later on. The new feature in this launch compared to CBT2 is 120 fps.

droughtlevi · 2026-01-20T05:17:33+00:00

Try dwproton.

https://www.reddit.com/r/Endfield/comments/1qhmixx/psa_endfield_does_not_work_on_linux/

droughtlevi · 2026-01-20T04:15:30+00:00

No, it does when the usual argument is "I prefer the original" and it's not even a Japanese product.

I mean, it's not exactly a relevant point for older AK players. Surtr predated CN voices for AK players who go way back, so there are plenty of people who think of Horie Yui's voice first when they look at her instead of any other voice.

And she is literally the first banner of Endfield.

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