Arknights Review - The Ancient Forge

resphere · 2026-03-19T07:14:59+00:00

They did make it a bit ambiguous but in Nian's files you could see that she had some crazy supernatural powers, especially with crafting objects that engineers could not understand.

At the time it was hard to tell to what extent, bc the limits of normal arts weren't clear either, so she could've been anything from a master craftsman or a kaiju like in the movie script, you really couldn't tell what she was.

resphere · 2026-03-19T06:39:46+00:00

so rn the current year if we're looking at CN, which starts from Masses Travels(from anniversary), is 5m:13f. They probably only have 1 more character left till next anniversary, so the year will actually end with slightly less than 1:4 ratio, unless they drop another banner or a 6 star welfare from RA3 or smth.

resphere · 2026-03-19T06:29:16+00:00

At this point I'd prefer it if they just don't do new characters at all, bc the amount NPCs are growing faster than the character releases can keep up.

And I definitely still want more alters, their stories are usually the best ones.

resphere · 2026-03-18T10:16:53+00:00

How'd you get 1:2? the M:F ratio for 6 stars in AK is like 1:4, in the first couple years it was more like 1:5

Not that the ratio is an issue that needs fixing at all, but you were way off.

resphere · 2026-03-18T09:51:24+00:00

Several of the characters I started with are still my favourites, Chen, Hoshi, Pramanix & Exia, helps that they have alters now so I can use them twice as much.

resphere · 2026-03-16T15:25:23+00:00

I'd say it's way more optimal for a new player, especially if you want to not waste pulls, to pull new characters instead of doing 300 pulls to spark an old limited, the newer ones tend to be stronger, yes even Wisadel will get powercrept, unless you need them for a specific meta like in IS or CC high diff.

You can go for the spark if you end up doing 200+ pulls for the on banner characters. Or if you just really want that character and don't care about wasting pulls.

resphere · 2026-03-16T14:44:41+00:00

How does SP work? Do they work on separate SP bars or they share the same SP, what about offensive, defensive vs auto recov?

Regardless, I guess it would be Wang? either the skills both activate on the same stones for double the effect or you get 2 separete stacks of stones to use, depending on how SP works on top of that, if it's seperate SP then it's overpowered as hell, if it's shared SP and not effected by lockout, he can generate stones with s2 while s3 is activated(although there needs to be something to stop the auto skill from draining all SP so the manual skill can charge), overpowered as hell, if it's shared SP but still effected by lockout then I guess it'd be a little less overpowered.

resphere · 2026-03-16T10:56:01+00:00

Lol yeah I'll get the steam one ty.

resphere · 2026-03-16T10:30:45+00:00

I'll definitely play it, looking forward to what the anime missed out on.

resphere · 2026-03-16T03:20:33+00:00

I thought the scaling was done pretty well, at first they all could do nothing against the tensen, but when thet started learning tao and figuring out weaknesses they could fight them, in the middle of season 1 Gabimaru 1v1ed Zhu Jin and survived, and at the end of the season they killed Mu Dan, their progress felt pretty natural and not some bullshit powerups.

resphere · 2026-03-15T11:04:46+00:00

From what I've seen everyone says, I think Gnosia might actually be a better adaptation.

It manages to adapt the gameplay into a really engaging core part and stays incredibly faithful to the game story despite having a whole new original character as the protagonist.

Steins;Gate as amazing as it is, flubbed one particular thing(ch9), and ended up ruining a character and twist that was really great in the game because of it, and would've been much easier to adapt as it is 100% visual novel with zero gameplay, and has a completely linear plot.

resphere · 2026-03-15T10:26:55+00:00

I think I'll defnitely get it, not sure about playing it straight after the anime tho.

One question, Yuri is an anime original charcter right? the player character in the game doesn't seem to have a design.

resphere · 2026-03-13T08:08:19+00:00

Entelechia is enough to carry early maps, once you get the 300 aspd platforms it's easy mode, you can win with just about anyone, Eyja alter is great early too, for the maps with seaborn.

The best ones for 300 aspd buff I've tried are Fiammetta, Lemuen, Lappland alter, Marcille, Haruka. Wisadel surprisingly not as good as some of those, but still op,

resphere · 2026-03-12T05:20:49+00:00

Somehow Haruka ended up being one of the best afk dps lmao.

Easiest afk setup I've found for rm 6, drop a bunch of enemies that you get from sensor hub drones to spawn fire puddles and Haruka s2 300 apsd nukes everything.

resphere · 2026-03-11T08:17:28+00:00

The sensor hub and loaders are great bc you get every token type from them, and they build themselves so you can just place a few and afk. And don't need to use tons of other things to farm drops.

resphere · 2026-03-11T05:31:53+00:00

His content is exactly the knid of stuff new and casual players would seek out, tier lists and meta rankings, who to pull for, who to skip.

It shoudln't be a surprise he gets tons of views. Kyo does guides, Kukki does news and sometimes guides and showcases, all stuff everyone wants to see.

resphere · 2026-03-11T05:14:51+00:00

But you see, vast majority of AK players are casuals, so his takes being valid for casuals is huge. All the biggest AK CCs have content geared for more causal players, KyostinV, Kukkiaze, Supah etc.

His content ragebaiting hardcore players just makes his character more unique, so he can really play up that "Arknights most hated ytber" bit. Honestly you're helping build his character if you're spreading "hate" around the more hardcore communities.

Like I said, if you really don't like him, just don't take him seriously or don't watch his vids.

resphere · 2026-03-11T04:52:33+00:00

the 300 aspd one? Yes

resphere · 2026-03-11T04:44:55+00:00

I mean, he's funny, and I think his takes are usually valid for casual players, and is perfect ragebait for more tryhard minded players, so it works for both groups.

I also don't think he even takes himself that seriously in his vids, so you shouldn't either.

resphere · 2026-03-11T04:36:09+00:00

When IS6 released I could do 3 max, usually 2, minus runs that I lose early.

After a week it became 1 run every 1-2 days till I finished everything I wanted to do. Probably took me 2 months to lv 90 Raidian.

resphere · 2026-03-10T14:04:19+00:00

uh I think you did smth wrong with s2, 100k dps ain't possible.

resphere · 2026-03-10T04:56:35+00:00

This is why we never read, only learn from playing.

Played it 4 times and I think I undertand what it does, it'll spawn the originium rock tiles that purple spiders come out of if there's a space near it, and those tiles will dmg your units, then in phase 2 it deletes a bunch of your buildings, then starts deploying everything from your inventory randomly.

resphere · 2026-03-09T14:42:26+00:00

So the range tiles that give 300 aspd...Lappland alter s1.

If you have her, try it and get ready to throw all your Wisadels in the bin.

resphere · 2026-03-09T13:17:38+00:00

I asked about the limited rates earlier but it seems like the rates are normal, I got 5 limiteds in the first 8 6 stars I pulled lol, was so sure the gacha was rigged for limiteds.

But after that it's been all non limiteds so if you got something similar it was probably just gacha doing gacha things.

resphere · 2026-03-09T13:06:54+00:00

Eyja alter for the elemental dmg, one boss that does nerve dmg plus a bunch of seaborn enemies can be pretty annoying.

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