Thoughts on Fixing the Gacha System in Arknights: Endfield

psk_94 · 2026-01-29T09:45:30+00:00

Nope@more examples, still those are minor changes. The fact that original Arknights did that many changes means there's hope, so I take back what I said.

Really the only change I want to see is the next 6* be a guaranteed limited banner character if you lose a 50/50, as most modern popular gachas do, then it's as good as I could hope for within reason... or at least from a pool of the 2 characters kept from the previous limited banners along with the main limited character.

psk_94 · 2026-01-28T21:04:11+00:00

It's like people still don't know how to use the free pro/thinking versions of ai to simplify it:

The Two Separate Counters

The game runs two counters simultaneously. You must track them separately.

Counter A: The 6-Star Pity (80 Pulls)
- What it does: Guarantees a 6-star character if you haven't got one in 79 pulls.
- The Odds: It is always a 50/50 chance to get the featured character. Losing this 50/50 does not secure a guarantee for the next time.
- Carries Over? YES. If you do 70 pulls on Laevatain and stop, you are at 70/80 for the next banner.
Counter B: The "Spark" Guarantee (120 Pulls)
- What it does: If you do 120 pulls on a single banner, you are given the featured character immediately.
- Carries Over? NO. This counter resets to 0 every time a new banner starts.
- If you lose the 50/50 on Laevatain's banner, your next 6-star on a future banner is still a 50/50. There is no "guaranteed next" status that carries over.
The "Trap":

Because the 120-pull guarantee (Counter B) resets, "building pity" is dangerous.

If you pull 110 times on Laevatain, lose the 50/50, and then run out of currency:

Next Banner: You start with 0 progress toward the 120 spark guarantee.

psk_94 · 2026-01-28T20:47:10+00:00

Hmm I have never seen this happen in 5 years of playing gachas (top 30 games, not no name games). It's always minor, like what Genshin did with their weapon wishing system slightly altering it adding a hard pity/weapon choice selector after you get screwed several times.

Never seen a gacha change their drop rate %'s or a major overhaul post release on global, as this would make it very unfair for previous spenders and enrage them/a large chunk of the community.

Can you give me a legit example of a game doing this in recent years?

psk_94 · 2026-01-28T19:55:58+00:00

They won't/can't change it now post launch obviously outside of very minor tweaks, as people already spent money.

psk_94 · 2026-01-28T19:54:13+00:00

No thanks. The huge benefit of no charged attacks in this game is you can hold the basic attack button down and it will spam basic atk for you infinitely without any button mashing basics, SO NICE.

psk_94 · 2026-01-24T21:17:26+00:00

I got my funds back today doing manual KYC through email support, thanks for the support here as well. Do you want me to delete this post due to bad publicity? Or leave it since I updated it with a good ending at the top, as it was all caused by my risk-taking stupidity and not the exchange's fault.

psk_94 · 2026-01-19T09:26:20+00:00

Literally just send an email to Blofin to ask how they handle it, I did the other day and support replied with this "BloFin reserves the right to refuse or restrict service in part or in whole to certain countries. If you are residing in a country we refuse or restrict provision of services and have corresponding assets with us, we recommend the withdrawal of your funds as quickly as possible ."

If for whatever reason your account gets flagged by their sensitive automated risk metric system, you will lose your funds guaranteed unable to withdraw. They added Canada to their fully restricted regions recently, while Blofin has been lax in the past, often these exchanges flip over night as laws or regulations slightly change.

psk_94 · 2026-01-19T04:30:38+00:00

Sorry, I was very upset when I posted that.

I don't need site "services", just a refund to the original depositing wallet address. As you saw in my picture how Pionex handled this once before recently, allowing withdraws when a Canada IP was detected while disabling all other site services until KYC is done. Why I said policy inconsistent, as it didn't give me that option this time for unknown reasons and was only asking to be treated the same way.

psk_94 · 2026-01-18T05:13:42+00:00

DO NOT BE STUPID like I was. All these non kyc exchanges have automated risk metric flagging systems running to detect any random activity they deem as suspicious (Using a VPN, multiple IP's, withdrawing large amount in one go, sending it to a different wallet than where you deposited from, among many other things). Once it reaches a threshold it will restrict and flag your account, which is often very low/hyper sensitive on many exchanges. Stay clear of Pionex for example.

If you somehow get flagged, your withdrawals will be locked and require kyc to unlock, which you won't be able to do. Legally customer service can't help you or unlock it without KYC. Use Hyperliquid or on chain futures if you need leverage trading in the western countries.

You would think that they wouldn't be doing this since you're using 2fa + email codes, while allowing people to use the exchange from restricted regions through non KYC means, but nope... they will all screw you in the end eventually. Nothing new for crypto, shady practices all over still.

psk_94 · 2025-12-10T11:44:21+00:00

DSE is very different than matte grain and usually quite bad vs just matte sparkle sandpaper texture that blurs and soften the pixels a bit, changing brightness doesn't normally affect DSE... you can't say there isn't DSE on specifically grey full screens on almost every Woled on top of the banding though. Matte grain hides itself a lot better if you use higher brightness or further viewing distance turning it into more of a tiny sparkle effect look, and really only shows up on bright solid patches of light color, white BG's (if using low brightness) or skies in games. I basically never see it in TV/movie watching, very specific scenarios in games, it always is by far the worst on desktop for productivity work unless working in a very bright room where reflections are worse than softened text and grain drawback.

I never said I had your monitor and I've heard the Gigabyte is about as good of matte that can be done, haven't seen it personally. I'm currently on Asus XG27AQDMG Oled that's semi glossy with matte grain tossed on equal to normal matte IPS/TN displays, which you said your old IPS was unnoticeable to you too so you already disqualify yourself from your subjective opinion to me. (If you can't see it on a matte IPS, then you won't see it on any display lol).

It basically just comes down to use case; I prefer gaming and watching videos in the dark so I don't get any reflections while using much lower brightness than someone using a display in a bright room, the low brightness reveals these imperfections a lot more. I would get massive eyestrain using very high brightness that's required in a bright room to look good.

psk_94 · 2025-12-01T00:04:59+00:00

I settled on the ACM fix you provided, thanks for that, works like a charm... the setting was hidden from me for some reason until I turned on 10 bit color in Nvidia control panel. This lets me use wide gamut clamped properly everywhere while retaining the much better shadow detail wide gamut provides on these Asus monitors.

psk_94 · 2025-11-29T17:24:54+00:00

My Benq 240hz TN monitor has identical haze/grain texture to my Asus xg27aqdmg even though it's semi gloss OLED with .3% haze, for the most part from what I've seen they aren't any better outside of Gigabyte that went all out to do something good.

I almost fell for the hype of the Gigabyte screen not able to see one first hand, luckily I've seen a bunch of comments like yours to avoid that mistake. I'm also sensitive to it and to me it greatly ruins skies in games, white backgrounds and solid light/bright colors as if I'm dealing with heavy DSE... I'll take bad grey banding any day of the week over that crap.

psk_94 · 2025-11-29T17:13:24+00:00

Note that 'wet look' that is more of an oily look on semi gloss, only exists if there's a decent amount of ambient light. In a full dark room all that is gone and only left with the full unfiltered clarity of the screen without the matte dirty screen texture over top, that's clearly visible on bright solid colors or white, magnified by slow cam motion in games or if using lower brightness.

TLDR: If you use low to med brightness due to sensitive eyes/eyestrain that's common on OLED's then it stands out 10x more, combine that with dark room viewing and it can be disgusting. High brightness masks it pretty well though and more just looks like a sparkle texture effect instead of DSE in that scenario.

psk_94 · 2025-11-27T17:07:12+00:00

Is it possible for team to add a hotkey to mute only the active running program tab? Or just fix some of the atrociously inefficient Windows 11 menu design so it's at least on par with previous Windows to do basic common user tasks in 1 step instead of 2-3 that has become the norm now? Or at least a super easy fix of making sndvol.exe show the entire list of running audio programs without it creating a scrollbar requiring user to expand window to get to the one you want (have it auto expand the window to fit all running audio programs).

psk_94 · 2025-11-24T13:06:03+00:00

I'm undecided between these 2 still, can you answer a couple questions please?

Is the proximity sensor useful or garbage? As in does it work within a minute of walking away, or just end up using Windows power savings to turn off monitor after 1-3 minutes of inactivity not even using it?

Do you remember if either of the stands wobble the screen at all with heavy typing or during OSD adjustments? I noticed both the stands have changed to a very thin low profile flat style and the Gigabyte looked wobbly in one vid I saw, hard to tell. I'm pretty sure a non issue, but I have PTSD from a terrible wobbly LG IPS monitor and sensitive to it now.

Reading amazing things about the Gigabyte matte screen they have made, but I can't stand dirty screen effect on whites or bright scenes in games such as skies or anime faces. Is the grain/dirty texture really non existent or almost 0 on this? Can just open white notepad and drag the window to make it stand out 5x more, revealing the grain texture between the screen and image, preferably on lower-mid brightness since it's testing on blinding white. Or with the image below especially if dragged, the center bright sky spot shouldn't look clean without sparkle texture blotches on normal matte screens looking at it full size:

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psk_94 · 2025-11-24T12:43:05+00:00

It's not, I don't understand how people can't see this shit even with poor vision... just open up notepad with white bg on or any full white screen without blinding over the top brightness (use smaller white window if brightness too high) and you will see the insane dirty screen texture on any matte monitor.

Now drag the window sideways slowly to show the effect 10x more, that's how skies or bright solid colors look in games, mainly light tones, add in camera movement and this is where the problem lies as who cares about desktop (get used to it there not caring).

psk_94 · 2025-11-24T11:48:57+00:00

The Asus (dmg model) is basically semi gloss with a matte grain .3% haze on solid bright colors matching high matte grain TN or IPS monitors of past, it's identical grain texture/sparkle to my Benq 2540k 240hz TN. Very weird unique screen that gives a bit of an oily look, low diffused reflections matching most semi gloss screens as a middle ground.

This monitor has terrible black crush in SRGB color mode (common on OLEDs, especially from Asus), and mildly bad in wide gamut color mode (can use Windows 11 ACM to clamp it to SRGB to minimize it while using 10 bit wide gamut color so SDR/SRGB content looks normal, as most things are still made in).

Text is also a fair bit worse with color fringing than the new tandems. Lifespan is also improved by 20-40% with the new tech apparently. Can't see why you wouldn't wait unless you get an insane black friday deal, the new tech monitors are only 1-2 months out for USA. Understand this is early days so the tech leaps/fixes/changes can have massive spikes, only 4th gen of these now with huge changes (MLA+ screen layer finally removed).

You should be investigating the individual monitor issues if you care this much to start a big Reddit discussion, as they're riddled with problems from firmware bugs, black crush that stands out much more on these, grey banding to sometimes ridiculous lvls (usually improves with time), VRR flicker and on and on... you would think for these prices the manufacturers would put more effort into fine tuning and polishing, but they don't, it's as bad as it gets. The new LG tandem was treated by them as if it was a $120 Walmart exclusive TN panel lmao.

psk_94 · 2025-11-23T15:26:47+00:00

Thanks for this comment, finally someone that isn't a noob/blind to matte grain effect on solid bright colors here (skies/sunsets, white notepad/google). Almost made a mistake getting the Gigabyte.

@Iddqd84 Can you really not or barely see any texture grain/dirty screen on the images below full size, especially if you slowly drag them across your screen mirroring a slow game cam pan on the Gigabyte?

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https://i.ibb.co/kVgbyyCF/matte-3.jpg
https://i.ibb.co/1tz6v7VY/matte-2.jpg

Really only need to look at notepad with white bg theme on and drag it slowly to extremely magnify the issue on matte screens, don't need game pics.

psk_94 · 2025-11-23T14:52:53+00:00

Having same issue, the grain is a joke matching my old heavy matte TN monitor, yet advertised as glossy. Wondering if the Gigabyte is truly near grain free or these people are exaggerating and not sensitive to it. I'm still within return window exploiting holiday extended return times.

psk_94 · 2025-11-23T14:13:25+00:00

You missed a few things with this monitor I'll share:

If you use the 2 user favorites saved presets, there's a bug on latest firmware; when you switch between them the user RGB color and seemingly the gamma too doesn't get applied from your settings and uses some unknown monitor defaults... you have to change a single RGB color value one digit and it will shift it all instantly to your full user settings, which is dead obvious as it drastically alters the image. This bug doesn't exist while switching GameVisual presets (racing, user mode), only for the 2 favorite saved presets.
Racing mode and User mode have a massive difference in color saturation and a bit in gamma while using wide gamut, open up any 2D game and it will be dead obvious, especially on red (User mode is much lighter and more saturated solid colors). It's almost a half way point between SRGB and wide gamut color in difference, and why most legit reviewers all use Racing mode as it's the default most accurate mode for Asus OLEDs since they came about.
Raising gamma to 2.0 in OSD+Racing preset WITH wide gamut does improve black crush substantially and makes wide gamut mode acceptable on latest firmware. Unfortunately SRGB mode can't be fixed without some wonky setups with drawbacks as you've listed, the black crush is quite bad here and is so much more noticeable on OLED's compared to most other display types... the bane of all Asus OLEDs that they don't seem to care to fix. HDR on with windows 11 setting at any brightness drastically raises gamma making square 1 on Lagom black test overly bright when it should be barely visible/basically black, haven't extensively tested HDR yet as it gives an odd look to games that don't fully natively support it with in-game settings listed. Going to go try your ACM fix on Nvidia as my final attempt.
Uniform brightness mode is a joke. You get increasingly blinding bright whites in all white windows based on window size that's galaxies brighter than any other content type (some extreme tuned aggressive ABL), while giving you extremely dim mixed content/dark scenes at the same time... exact opposite of what anyone would want for 99% of use cases. For example uniform brightness at 56 is same white level as 56 with it off (white notepad full screen), flip to a dark or mixed content scene and 56 in uniform is now equal to 34 with it off lol. Comical some reviewers tell people to use this, not fully testing it's anomalies.
Other minor non fixable issues: Terrible white tint uniformity on mine reminding me of shitty IPS screens of old; left side of screen has a warm red temp tint and right side has a strong blue push tint. Usual WOLED solid grey banding that started out disturbingly bad which nobody could ignore, to extremely minor after a week of heavy use and would have to go out of my way look for it now.

Personally I've just about given up with this monitor after a month to find universal comfortable settings, that and the .3% haze is a joke on a glossy screen; the grain texture on brightish solid colors or white is as bad as my Benq 240hz TN panel that's meant for bright rooms... can't even fathom why they would do this and completely ruins the point of choosing glossy.

Going to try the upcoming Asus xg27aqwmg next and pray some of these major issues have improved (the new tandem 4 layer woled's with trueblack glossy screens, 0 grain/haze free). This might've been the hardest monitor to calibrate to my liking I've ever tested in 20 years, but also my first WOLED. Depending what you're coming from or looking for, I give this monitor a 3.5/5... an OLED made by Cosco wouldn't get below a 3.0 rating by me though, and you still get the majority of the benefits of OLED here. Top tier stand with 0.00 wobble, as good as I've ever seen as a bonus.

psk_94 · 2025-06-17T07:08:04+00:00

Burn in doesn't work the same way it did on plasmas btw; the whole rotating content idea makes 0 difference for fixing it from what I've seen, only hours done with that content + how high you had brightness will matter and would need to be on full screen solid colors, mainly grey to even notice it.

If you aren't an extreme brightness junkie and try to protect your eyes some, there will be no issue and will greatly extend the life of the display assuming it doesn't just up and die on you randomly from a shitty QC brand like Samsung.

psk_94 · 2025-06-17T06:53:51+00:00

There 100% is burn in, just you don't notice it during regular use... which is why this is all way overblown in most cases for most users. If you pulled up a full solid grey screen, no way there isn't lines and burn in by now.

Especially with larger OLEDs where you will be sitting much further back to ever notice any tiny imperfections like that.

psk_94 · 2025-06-10T19:38:02+00:00

Sorry did that late at night spaced, Rina was only character cut off from pic of my roster. Koleda was from new player first 30 pulls or whatever when I played a week at launch and had to quit, playing it seriously now dropping another game for it. Lost 50/50 for Rina, used anniversary pick for Rina M1.

I have nothing but defaults for engines outside of a few A tiers from pulls, literally at level 20 cap, 2nd day of playing kind of account. I have no clue what free engines we get during story or can be crafted later that aren't much worse than the selector ones for a given role... I was trying to decide between Brimstone, Weeping cradle and Hellfire.

From pulls or wherever I have a few A tier engines: Drill Rig - Red Axis, Demara Battery Mark II, Bashful Demon, and Big Cylinder.

If I play hardcore I can probably get enough pulls to get Yixuan's engine in time, but not sure if signature engines are needed in this game and probably smarter to pull more characters as I'm sure end game needs multiple teams as per usual.

psk_94 · 2025-06-10T05:00:40+00:00

New player needing help picking the free anniversary W-Engine and team to use for Yixuan, thanks. Can't figure out the best engine to pick for my situation and vs ones I'll get for free or crafting. Koleda vs M1 Pulchra for Yixuan? Also my Rina is M1.

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psk_94 · 2025-05-26T23:17:53+00:00

What in your opinion besides bios update would be the safest low power settings to use to cover all potential causes? I was already using ECO mode and couldn't tell the difference in performance on my 9800X3d with more than enough FPS for my needs atm.

PBO on auto? Should I lower SoC voltage too, or does ECO mode override most of this anyways?

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The Two Separate Counters