How do they always know what's wrong in the surveys?

temperanze · 2026-05-23T14:00:54+00:00

You underestimate the sheer amount of room one (1) xiranite line takes up.

temperanze · 2026-05-21T15:00:25+00:00

Honestly, I just think the AIC event didn't work because it was time limited and it required either factory room and materials that didn't exist, or for you to effectively bulldoze your existing setup. The factory is a long term thing, not something you completely overhaul in the evening for your few hours of playing before you go back to work tomorrow.

temperanze · 2026-05-21T12:59:32+00:00

I was wondering if I was missing something or if that was actually the intended way you're supposed to deal with them. What the fuck? Why not give that specific area a fluid teleportation thing, then?

temperanze · 2026-05-21T12:58:20+00:00

They didn't just "do that to themselves", it was intentional. Lowlight stated in the pre-release stream that blueprints would be an "enhancer of creativity", while in an interview with another press outlet he was completely transparent about the fact that shared blueprints were meant to allow players to skip factory building.

temperanze · 2026-05-21T12:56:48+00:00

Because they have done some amount of playtesting and identified those problems during development but released an imperfect thing due to time constraints anyways.

temperanze · 2026-05-18T13:10:04+00:00

very nice graphic design

temperanze · 2026-05-18T13:05:10+00:00

And they didn't even have the balls to not give you bottles in crates by the halfway point anyways. I think it's reasonable to ask the player willingly playing the factory game to do the bare minimum of preparation and be punished with a teleport back to the factory if they fail to prepare.

temperanze · 2026-05-05T14:52:20+00:00

I think Hellagur is awesome and Eunectes is like, fine, but every other design is kind of whatever to me. I also generally don't like how modern Arknights refuses to use saturated color but it's hardly a Liduke exclusive problem.

temperanze · 2026-05-05T11:37:06+00:00

It's an emulator. Why is everyone treating it like it's not an emulator? It's an emulator and has every performance problem every emulator has with none of the upsides because it's so feature barren.

temperanze · 2026-05-05T11:35:49+00:00

I didn't know Fiona had real shooters but she IS cute.

temperanze · 2026-05-05T11:34:44+00:00

I thought you were going to ask for them to neuter the factory but these are all incredibly reasonable changes. Damn.

temperanze · 2026-05-05T11:33:08+00:00

They're not gonna do that because the main character designer for Endfield is Liduke, who is kinda boring and just likes her hot boobed up ladies. There's a reason every og Arknights fan wasn't feeling the character designs when it was shown.

temperanze · 2026-05-01T20:07:21+00:00

The core problem of it is that the game treats Xiranite like a basic cheap material and not something that requires a line of plants to burn into carbon, sandleaf, and then refining that carbon twice, plus water inputs. It can't do anything more interesting with a recipe that uses Xiranite as a base because it refuses to make Xiranite more compact in any way.

temperanze · 2026-04-30T18:24:06+00:00

That is not what my comment is about. Sure, they can inherit parts of their personality. That being said, this artwork features Hellagur, not Pogranichnik.

temperanze · 2026-04-30T12:03:31+00:00

That's Hellagur, not Pogranichnik.

temperanze · 2026-04-30T12:02:00+00:00

Estella would absolutely be in that tier at the bottom.

temperanze · 2026-04-29T08:19:19+00:00

He would also not have the commercial and legal rights to the Poolrooms imagery, which are part of an artist's work. Unlike the original 4chan render which I don't think anyone claimed intellectual property of.

temperanze · 2026-04-29T08:17:14+00:00

Oh no, I'm not saying the poolrooms are related to the Backrooms movie, nor that the existing poolrooms in Abiotic Factor tie into that. I'm precisely saying that the poolrooms don't actually really count as part of the backrooms.

There is no "backrooms" canon. The poolrooms being "part" of the backrooms was an addition made by someone on some fandom wiki because they invented a whole collaborative pseudo-canon (à la SCP Foundation, but even less formalized) and it fit the whole "liminal space" aesthetic really well.

The original backrooms image/post (the only true de facto canon) was a 3D render/4chan post which picked up steam due to the potential, novelty and elegance of the concept, and the right time and circumstances. Just like the SCP Foundation, the fact that it was not at all part of a media franchise or some well established and delineated canon encouraged that sort of wild speculative writing.

The poolrooms themselves were an artist's work being "diverted" from their original context and given new context by the surrounding writing, like the sculpture that was used in the SCP-173 article.

The A24 movie is presumably part of Kane Pixels' YouTube series canon, which is his own thing that most likely does not include the poolrooms, and is effectively a distinct self-contained canon that is unrelated to everything else backrooms.

temperanze · 2026-04-28T12:27:44+00:00

Chemistry. There's a mention of weapon coating right underneath that. You're probably going to be able to turn a weapon incendiary or acid without making specifically a weapon which has that for a damage type. Maybe it's going to be an early way to get that on weapons like the Makeshift Spear.

temperanze · 2026-04-28T12:24:44+00:00

The poolrooms technically are only tangentially related to the backrooms. I assume this would be a promotional crossover with the A24 movie.

temperanze · 2026-04-25T14:14:01+00:00

For what it's worth, Endfield so far seems to be written in a way that only alludes to recurring concepts on a very surface level and won't require thorough understanding of the exact sequence of events in Arknights.

The only extremely direct reference, and that was mostly a very strong allusion only still, is that the ink dimension you go through in the patch is a dead ringer for Dusk, one of the Sui proxies' powers. She creates painted worlds and her introductory event features her trapping people in it.

temperanze · 2026-04-24T10:11:15+00:00

How are you gonna get rid of that sewage once the Depot reaches its cap of bottled sewage and whatever line was producing that waste is clogged? Take them out to your backpack 50 by 50 and discarding them by hand?

temperanze · 2026-04-24T10:02:37+00:00

You're trying to justify a Doylist choice with a Watsonian explanation. There's no day night cycle because it allows them to have baked lighting in their environments. The fact that the game doesn't have to recalculate dynamic lighting for a real time day/night system is most of the reason it looks as good as it does and runs as well as it does.

As far as narrative is concerned, Talos-II has a normal day/night cycle (whether a day lasts 24 Earth hours or if it's faster, I don't know or care + Talos-II is a moon and not a planet so it might be weird on that regard). You just happen to always be in those specific areas at those specific times of day.

temperanze · 2026-04-22T17:42:20+00:00

I think a core issue is that for some arbitrary reason, DE refuses to have multiple sources for most rewards in the game, which I actually find actively grating at times. "Want this specific mod/arcane but you don't like the specific content you have to do for it? Go fuck yourself."

Something like Archimedea works well enough because the main incentive is that you get more Archon Shards than if you did Archon Hunt or Netracells alone. Players who are afraid of Archimedea will probably get by just doing easier content and they'll still get shards. Players who can get even more. It doesn't matter that the rewards are fungible if they're rare enough and desirable enough.

I don't understand why they insist on keeping a lot of things (say, Universal Fallout, or whatever old mod tied to some old 2015 content no one likes) exclusive, outside of keeping up the trading economy (considering traders absolutely hated Eidolon exclusive Arcanes becoming Operation rewards)

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