Arknights Endgame: Now What?
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- Опубліковано 10 лип 2024
- arknights strategy concepts are cool and all but end game content is even cooler
0:00 Intro
1:00 Veteran Burnout
3:48 Why I Stayed
5:21 Endgame Challenges
www.bilibili.com/video/BV1574... (Project Ark CC#0 R27)
• [TW] PLAYING FUNGIMIST... (Zafang Integrated Strategy Gravestone Hardmode Run)
• RI-EX-8 CM - 4★ Only 5... (Dr. Silvergun RI-EX-8 CM 4* Only 5 Ops)
• CC#3 Cinder: World's F... (I Love Amiya CC#3 R21 3* Only)
• I Got The World Best A... (Cesith Arknights Speedrun)
www.bilibili.com/video/BV1Q34... (Project Ark H8-4 Vanguards Only)
• 에기르본 DLC : 불멸의 검은 뱀 (Reno D JT8-3 Abyssal Hunters Only)
• Magallan Tower PV (Lungmen Dragons Magallan Tower PV)
#arknights - Ігри
It's pretty understandable that there will be a time of burnout, but what keeps me in the game is the lore and story since there's so much world building put into this game.
I too quite enjoy Arknights lore, hence why I'm looking forward to Vigilo and Chapter 9.
_(Also base decorations. I love base decorations, haha.)_
Take care Wendigo. Cheers!
@@Mr_Rhodey indeed my friend! The lore and worldbuilding is very enjoyable. Really excited aswell for Vigilo & chapter 9, and yes let's not the new rotation furniture update! Cheers & take care of yourself aswell Mr. Rhodey!🥂
Playing this game don't have to be all day, dat is a way to get burnout pretty quick. Just play at your own pace i still haven't finish the story still at 5-4.
The endgame kinda gets bummed when you run out of sanity, which makes me more excited for the permanent integrated strategies
Burnout isn’t a huge deal for me in this game. Maybe it’s because I’m also a FGO player which gives me some perspective on things, but I actually kind of appreciate how there isn’t a ton of endgame content because it means that when I am feeling burnout, I don’t have to spend a lot of effort to keep up with the game. During big events, I just have to spend about 2-3 hours a week to finish up all of the nodes. After that, I can just auto-grind for the rest of the week. Outside of big events, if I want to take a break from the game I can still get full rewards each day by spending 5 minutes logging, and then just grinding my sanity away. Compared to FGO where you have to spend an hour minimum of manual gameplay every day to keep up with the game (sometimes more), Arknights is just so much easier to keep up with, even when I do start to feel burnout.
Things I do in Endgame:
- Making trust farm / fast farm on every stages
- Beat daily CC stages by bringing low numbers of operators
- Revisits old stages that was Hard/Impossible back then
- Learning operators kit
Doing stages with low rarity also fun, since its more challenging than doing it with 6 stars
@@d290-er NOOOOOOOOOO-
Things I do in endgame: play a different game
@@vbaudelaire7325 An IRL friend of mine recently started and it's fun to try to clear stages with a team of similar powerlevel to his. We spent a good while ironing out a strategy for ri-8 together since he was severely underleveled.
I E2'ed a lot of 5* and 4* operators.
I enjoyed arknights and after 1 year of playing I can say that it's the best tower defense game I've ever played
Somehow HG managed to have better gameplays than Bloons TD. Now that's an achievement.
Remove "tower defense" and just say "best game I've ever played"
@@404User-Not-Found now that would certainly be a stretch
as an Endgame player, the thing that keeps me going is the possibility of Swire on getting that summer outfit from Dossoles as a skin
so yeah definitely doing it for the Waifus lol
On the other hand I also want to raise the strongest team for any content, just to make my past self proud, cause that guy had totally struggled way to much
haha,
they broke that hope since they make chen in swimsuit as alter instead of skin
_LIMITED FUCKING ALTER_
so no, no more hoping for me
For me it's the Worldbuilding, lore and story that keep me in. Aswell for the graphic design.
@@3takoyakis that's becuz u do t have Chen alter hahahaha 😂
@@3takoyakis let us cry in LIMITED OPERATORS together. No Ch'en, no Skalter, no W, no Ash... I do have Rosmontis and Nian, so that's something
@@louisandrean6279 lol
Defenderknight : Amazing
Casterknight : Cool
Sniperknight : Nice choice
Vanguardknight : Brave one
Guardknight : thorn it or surtr it (meh)
Supporterknight : Big brain
Medicknight : Absolutely Legend
Are there only 2 medics that can deal damage? At least they will not die! lmao
@@Khroniclas yeah, kal'pog, and folipog
@@mttrue6302 where's specialistknight?
@@nathanyu9134 red still doesn't come home, even after i bought her a new skin.. so until she came no one can add specialist on my list
@@mttrue6302 Good luck on getting her!
There is one thing I want to do, and it is to clear every main stage with only the operators that are supposed to be there.
Obviously, JT8-3 looks impossible with just Guard Amiya and Guard Chen, but the rest ? I wanna try it.
Maybe just guard Amiya and guard Chen attacking Talulah because all the other mobs aren't "supposed" to be there would be doable?
I just started doing that and it's pretty fun tbh
As for me and endgame, I've started setting self-imposed strategies upon myself, ranging from 4 stars only to my beloved medicknights.
I've also recently joined an AK discord which has user-created challenges which has really been fun to talk about, strategise and flex about.
@Derrick Cheow I can't send you a link, but check "Arknights Challenge Contracts" on disboard for it.
Honestly really excited for IS2 to truly revitalize late-to-endgame players with nearly infinite new things to do, and more motivation to level up and build operators for fun
I think the Permanent Rogue-like mode would help.
I’m still playing it since the release while waiting for the next event, this mode consume a lot of time so I never get bored.
How do I keep myself entertained with Arknights? The same way I keep myself entertained with all of my long running games: _Moderation and Prioritization_
I make sure to take everything in palatable doses and prioritize the things that I particularly enjoy doing. For me, those are currently: Enjoying the lore, interacting with the Community and decorating my base, haha.
Don't let something you enjoy smother you to the point that you later come to resent it. Remember to have fun and take care everyone. Cheers!
I couldn't agree more with you lad.
cheers
@@zerogalaxy2735 Cheers to you too Zero!
I want to embrace the joy of decorating dorms too. Helps keep a new view on stuff.
Roar!
Funny enough I've never been burnt out from Arknights, I'm always there on the grind, since every event entertains me with its new lore and mechanics, as well as trying to grind as much currency I can for operators I want, man this game has me by the tail
I understand where you're coming from. I've been playing since when the grany event came out and well there was a time in where I had everything I wanted built and all I was doing was farming. I stopped playing Fgo for sometime for the exact same reason but I ended up going back to fate after I took a break and it was just what I needed. Granted I play way to many gachas but taking a break sometimes is all you need. I love you content and if there's every a time you need to step back for a bit we understand.
Same man... Now that I'm at the endgame, the only thing that makes me excited are the limited banners, especially the Chinese new year limited banners.
CNY Operator 1 and 2 are meh for me, but somehow got both after suffering for Saga
Both dragons still lv 1
Arknights endgame is basically "I maxed all good stuff, guess I will now build the meh and trash stuff"
PS:
I had an obsession with Vanguardknights since earlygame. I already have a full e2 squad + Yato. Just waiting for some of the new Vanguards to come out so that I can go even crazier.
Especially excited for Black Knight.
Yato alter when?
*niche and fun
building big brain stuff, like all my Summoners
Pretty much but still haven't reached to that point yet.
same lol, now i had built most good stuff
i think its time for me to built summonerknights
Zima is STONKS
I love the fact that you introducting many niche challenges like ClassKnights/AbyssKnights/E0E1only. It took me a while to aware about that existed. I hope that many people can join the Arknights endgame challenges community by picking niche challenge(s) and stick with it.
And thanks for introducing Magallan Tower on the video Yii ! It's problaby the hardest arknights challenge i've ever done in my career. I wouldnt recommend people doing it unless they are somewhat good at the game, have a lot of time and dedicated enough. But i would love to see more and more towers run in the near future.
Yea my sanity’s been capped for 3 months now 😔
There's a reason why I abandoned my main account. I can't find any excitement cause of those bunch of 6 stars. That's why 1 year ago, I decided to go back, make another account for welfare only.
There's loads of unique gameplay mode you can try with yourself if you were tired of go full monke.
And heck, that tower challenge looks sick af
Not an arknights vet but i experienced the "vet burnout syndrome" in warframe.
Gameplay aside, farming resources and collecting new operators or characters is the core gameplay of arknights and other farming games, the collection of items and resources is part of the thrill and people doesn't seem to notice that.
Yea the gameplay loop will entertain for a time, or trying new builds, but it's just a matter of time.
Doing that interlocking competition on steroids thing sounds like fun. My little beer nun is going to be busy... Thanks for sharing.
Imagine an update where you're able to adjust your operator levels freely (not exceeding your current op level).
That would be a wet dream because maxing out some operators really limits their usability in certain extent, W's S2 for example almost completely soft-locks her normal auto-attacks which lets drones and dogs easily slip through her.
I was interested and entertained by the things you said in this video but when you mentioned favorite operator and Podenco showed up at 7:04 I felt personally attacked lol.
Thank you for the video. I do enjoy the amount of ways to handle the game and how many self challenges you can push upon yourself to complete content. For me personally, I try to do use as few 6* operators as possible which isn't the greatest self challenges compared to low rarity or class specific arch types, but it keeps my brain going well enough.
Here's hoping IS2 release brings new life into the game for you :3
This perfectly explains how I have been feeling lately, a new event mostly means wait one week and then clear EX stages to finish the event for me. This is why I loved IS so much too, the roguelike concept nailed it completely. CC and IS just hits different man
Been feeling the burnout, too. Nowadays, I just log in, do some dailies, grab whatever I can, and leave the game off refilling Sanity until it caps at 135 until the next day. The challenges, while fun, start to become monotonous after a while, too. End result was me making a randomizer to have me play with operators I normally don't use on stages I normally don't visit and that's keeping my attention for now.
In the meantime, perhaps try out some new games? I wouldn't mind seeing videos of you trying out different games/genres and bringing your commentary along with it as I'm sure it'd be enjoyable. I'm sure others would agree.
while i'm not *glad* you're feeling this way, it's good to know there's other doctors out there struggling to stay motivated to try new things. i started playing at the tail end of nian's banner, so i caught up with guides and am not super good at coming up with strategies on my own. something that's helped me with burnout & improving my skills is making a f2p side account where i only raise 4*s and welfare operators, just to get some variety! i also think it's fun to redo my old auto-deploys using the same questionable team comps and skill selections i did in my early days :)
Yoo that Tower challenge sounds pretty fun
I really understand and sympathise with your problem, since ceobes fungimist i haven't been having nearly as much fun as before. Personaly i am going for summonerknights because i just recently got magallan from recruit to complete the current team and i am really excited for ling for even more summoning fun. Keep on making amazing content and i am looking foward to your vanguardknights clears should you post them.
Funny enough, as a day 1 player after I have cleared all stages and level up my meta ops the game simply became much more fun for me because I'm now free do anything on the game. i.e. experimenting various stats like 1ops relay, pushers and pullers only, or lore accurate stage clear. Plus I can now appreciate the lore since I'm not grinding and min-maxing anymore. kinda looking back and appreciating what have you accomplished.
I felt this way for a while, I took a few months off and when I came back everything felt new again and I actually started to enjoy beating hard stages again whereas before they had become a chore
I took a break after the Who Is Real event and came back for the Dossoles Event
It was so refreshing and even though I wasn't really that hyped for the Dossoles Holiday, I enjoyed it so much
I was a comment here about making my past self proud, and it really feels like that's what keeps me going, at least in terms of how strong my Operators have become as well as how high I can go in Contingency Contract.
I remember very vividly and fondly being able to clear CCBeta Risk 18, I didn't even think at the time that I would be able to. I was planning to settle on Risk 15 at the time, because it just seemed so daunting, and _"It's just 300 currency, don't worry about it."_
I remember seeing that Risk 26 clear of that stage I struggled with so much just getting to 18. I was in awe, just like you with Barrenland. (Side note: that one max risk clear of Shattered Avenue uploaded to UA-cam with its OG music is still one of my favorite Arknights vids, rip the music though)
I've finally reached that coveted Risk 26 on Spectrum, even using Archetto! After that clear I just sat there thinking, "I never thought I'd be able to do it." The same feeling I had the first time I cleared 18.
And I _still_ don't have Maggie.
Imma Skadi the Corrupting Heart towers now, and prolly Ceobe after that, ty for the knowledge of this thingo mr beeg subscriber guy
Damn! The last part hits the spot for me cuz I want to clear story stages and use operators that's only involved on that story
So basically, IS2 is a god send for everyone and especially players that love the gameplay aspect of the game. Personally I never clear nodes with a full team unless its CM or anni but always try to bring the least amount of operators I can. It's really fun thinking on how far you can optimize your runs and seeing the roster you've raised being put to use
As a day 1 player, i did got burnout and took a break for a quite a while (3-4 months) and came back quite refreshed actually. CC is the main thing that keeps me going definitely and i hope IS does as well when we get it.
I am in the exact same boat as you. I'm a monthly player and events like dossoles holiday are just 1 time clears, then farming the stages and then never looking back. I had a ton of fun optimizing the earlier contingency contracts, but the newer ones just don't really hit the same tbh. I have even missed a cc cinderes medal because I forgot to buy all the risks. IS is peak arknights content for me and that's the gamemode that I have been building units for. Previously myrtle was my only E2 4* operator. But since then I've levelled beanstalk and Jaye and M6'ed both of them. IS gives value to lower rarity operators that the traditional game doesn't and it's a great mechanic.
I never get bored i just use my split screen to watch yt just to spend my sanity just to grind. "True grinding experience"
That's why I limit cap the level of all my operators, it will make stages even more challenging so that you won't plow through stages easily, it makes the game more fun and increases its longevity IMO
for me, in the endgame, I just casually think of something that I need to achieve stuff that I never did before or no one did before. well in the end-game it gets.. boring afterwards, but you can make good challenges in previous stages or wait for the upcoming events, Yes I'm already going insane and I have been using my 6k Sanity just for Bonding Columns. and when Genshin yiimpact video
So how many bonding columns you need now my friend?
@@-thepatriot-9719 about 240+ more
@@PostKnight oof that's uh.... Are you okay my friend?
One thing that helps me is to completely change up playstyles, redo all auto deploys with very few ops and test out combinations of operators to see how well they work.
For example, just recently the Gavial event, I ended up using FrostLeaf S2, warfaring, Aak and shamare to burn the boss of RI-8. it sreally fun to see what things you can do.
Even parties revolving around certain things like a sleep squad where many operators inflict sleep, finally with the new Modules, going back to get a few if you did not yet help.
Makes summoners even more interesting and clearing every stage with them is very dynamic vs regular gameplay.
I usually feel burnt out too.
However, since I've started making (UA-cam) videos, somehow, everytime I look at my M6 Passenger, I can always think of new stuff I to do.
Year 2 player here who truly started when the Blaze Banner dropped - End game for me now is 1-7 farming and saving up to roll for the Operators that I want. I enjoy the lore and side stories and events but like you, I also want to enjoy more of the gameplay which has grown a bit stale due to me showering LMD and EXP cards on my roster. So the only thing I can do is wait for IS2 to be released. Dont get me wrong, I love AK now but am feeling that burn out a little bit, so you are definitely not alone. Would love a bit more variety in terms of gameplay, if that can even be done. And as you mentioned, would be probably be starting a 'Themed' team to make life a little bit more interesting.
Edit: I dont wanna just 1-7 farm but I need to get those pulls for that sweet gacha experience
Yeah I'm in end game too and I only visit the game when new content or stages is updated.
The problem with first clearing the stage is often bypassed by putting restrictions on myself for the sake of my playstyle and forgo most "haha everything dies" operators or clear the new stages with new additional restrictions (which for me most of the time is all highground units except for vanguards) which help alleviate the burn out a lot.
Meanwhile, me who just started playing about 10 days before Dossoles ended, currently completely overwhelmed with needing to build all these fancy operators, doing story, farming, annihiliation etc etc. I havent even touched the practice CC stuff yet and am horrified everytime I hear the words "contingency contract". I have 3 E2s so far (Exusiai S3M2, MyrtleS1M3 and ofc Chalter S3M2 who is CARRYING MY ASS SO GODDAMN HARD) and I still need to E2 and mastery Blaze, Bagpipe, Specter and Ifrit . I am broke as a joke, no exp no lmd, base is maxxed 14 slot 252 and i feel like i am barely crawling along in terms of progress.
I dont see how i'll ever become a "veteran" at this rate but even so I am loving every second of it.
I have yet to get bored playing Arknights and I dont think I will for the foreseeable future
I also had a burnout of the game almost a year ago for the same reason as you and stopped playing the game.
But then I saw the Christmas Beanstalk skin a few weeks ago and decided to play again
I've been raising Abyssal Squad and Summoners as I've found the two to be rather fun.
Things I'm doing now that my acct is reaching endgame:
- Rosa and the 5* Sniperknights team.
- Build EnmityKnights team, plus find a built Hellagur friend.
- Build Mudrock Fanclub team, starring Chairman Blemishine.
- Another idea was making an Heir / Heiress team, but I'm missing most of those units (Ch'en, Ceylon, Silverash, Nearl, etc.)
... that said, I also enjoy the stories. Gavial event story was really good. And looking forward to Vigilo, Ch 9, and that Warfarin skin.
Taking a break is pretty much the only answer to burnout. Took a break for a month and that allowed me to 'get back' into the game.
This aged surprisingly well
Part of what makes AK content exciting is trying out new operators in new stages, but not everyone can play on CN nor get every new operator every banner. I find it way more realistic, resource light, and enjoyable to just raise an op from the backlog and use the event to break them in. It feels nice to find out how an op you've been curious about fits into your roster, what scenarios they are good for, and new tactics they give you first hand. That combined with avoiding gameplay spoilers has helped keep even the smaller events fresh.
Yeah, same. I have been playing this game since the OG skadi event. Played every day until Skalter event, and then stopped playing for like 3 months or something
My take on this kind of end game content was a battle with Patriot (on challenge mode) with lore-friendly squad.
My goal was to bring honorable end to this man and I choose operators that technically could be in Chernobog at that time.
So squad leader was obviously Amiya, accompanied with Rosmontis and... Savage. Rest of the squad was even below 5* (of course no Myrtle, Utage or Pinecone).
This thing took me 3 days of trials (because I always end with 0 practice plans).
But in the end, it was worth it
thansk for the video, its time for me to build armpitknights squad
Great job covering some fun challenges for endgame players. Here is one I've been doing with each event that comes out: Randomized EX Squads for each stage.
You put your squad into a randomizer (I personally use the one on itch.io) and roll a full 12 Op team that you need to use to beat both the normal and CM version of the EX event stages! Not only has this helped in keeping me hyped for new event stages, but it's also gave me motivation to raise OPs to use during the randomizer (Up to almost 90 E2 OPs). If you have a lot of OPs built and looking for an excuse to use them all, using a randomizer is a great way of getting them on the field :)
I'm waiting for IS2 to drop because it will deffo bump up my passion to play again
Aged like milk. We will miss you, Yii.
As a collector that's a light spender (dolphin), AK gives me already so much to do to raise a decent number of operators (I've been playing since day 2 with a 2 month break). I try to vary my farm teams to get trust and lore.
For event stages, I'm always on the verge of death trying to clear the latter stages. I've never raised my 6* and 5* above E2 lvl 50, and my Surtr and Ch'Alter are still lvl 1. (I've only borrowed them twice on some CC).
So I still get challenged with basic event stages, even when bringing Eyja or SilverAsh.
So yeah, even though I think I can qualify for veteran player, I'm really not faced with the same problem, as I'm not searching for the same experience as you, like you say in the video,
I usually spent my sanity while doing other things in my life (like watching a yii video or doing homework) in that way I barely feel any burnout (or at least in my case)
I have 2 phones and I just leave Arknights farming on my side phone and use my main phone for something else. During event, however, I play it on my main phone.
IS2 is when I think most OG people start back enjoying the game. I'm 10 months in so I'm still not burnt out since I have a lot of operators to build still and Ionly cleared a few stages in MN. AK doesn't really have an endgame till IS2 to be brutally honest. I hope they revamp the interlocking competition as well to have even more options for content in the endgame for players with massive rosters.
A year later when i watch this again, i think i would understand
missed opportunity to have zafang voice the closing line
banger vid tho
Creating another account with certain restrictions will give a refreshing experience of the game and appreciate the operators that haven't been used before.
so true. i like watching Cesith no gacha and specialist only playthrough because it gives a lot of perspective on playing the game with limitation. i just hope that some creator content can create a series of xxx-knight not sporadic segment of clearing stage. ex: sniperknight clear from 7-1 to H7-4 or from event to event.
also... kinda want to see the failed attempt too. because i want to know the thought of overcoming failure (one of reason why i like Cesith content also because his endeavor toward clearing the hard stage)
@@rendidatriansyah6103 I think one of the problems is HG itself is not involved with highlighting exhibition clears as a contest or as part of events. Highlighting impressive clears on a stream can give spotlights to gameplay, underused ops and the content creator themselves. It will also encourage making unconventional strats and use underused operators. The community mostly either use almost the same team in every event or just rock-paper-scissors the mechanics or steamroll events with overpowered rosters. The charm of the gameplay is there is no one strat to clear the stages and HG should encourage more different strats.
I'm not quitting until i get ALL the operators! Arknights for me is like pokemon. Gotta catch them all.
To not burn out i browse AK art. The amount of talented artists in our community is overwhelming and it keeps me hyped.
Self imposed challenges are pretty fun, my personal favourite is the randomized wheel to choose all my ops and level for me
I have played the game since Chen came out. I would be lying if I said I didn't burn out on the game, I had a period between contingency contract 1 and 4 where I barely played (I also missed integrated strategies) so I missed a lot of those medals from those contingency contracts. But I am way more active now, so to me it seems more like a periodic thing, might differ from person to person idk.
looking at the thumbnail, i thought it would be about Orundum farming using those rocks, since endgame dokutah dont really have uncleared stage so they went rock farming to traded with Orundum
I've played the game since launch and I pulled for broken ops, trash ops, fun ops, all kinds of waifus and whenever an event comes I just pick a few of my 100ish e2 characters and try to complete the event with them, trying to find if that specific op can work here and there, making fun looking auto deploys etc...
I'm also not stressing over medals, and farm, if i don't want to spend 3k sanity in an event i'll just continue with what i had planned before the event or simply wait for the next event
i thinks it's my first six months, i have like 1/4 of the meta units and still enjoying it
There's this thing where they use only one tile on the map for deploying. There's also the one that uses only 1 op at a time. That really got me raising all my fast redeploys and helidrops. Hahaha! But fr tho I went on hiatus on numerous occasions due to burnout but I still end up coming back.
Hopefully after artifact and module it'll become more exciting again
Also they need to add auto repeat
As someone who played for a year plus and logging in daily, I do feel a bit bored at times even though I have not built all the Ops I have (because I'm a meta slave). Thankfully I have a CN account to draw my attention away and having tried out IS2, I really appreciate this mode more now that I have built Ops and reached that point where I just want to play the game without building out all Ops. Hopefully when IS2 drops on EN, you can enjoy it and it can scratch that "veteran itch" unlike all other modes.
I just find pride in the operators I already have. I’m trying to M3 any notable skills so that’s taking up most of my sanity these days haha. But overall, Arknights is a casual game that is probably something I will never be able to let go
As a level 113 player, I've never really been severely burnt out from the game because of how much I do outside the game. You made a point of how you can't really treat AK as a side game because of how good the gameplay is which I can get behind. Most content in the game, I'd usually just clear within the first day or two and I just learned to accept that. The best way I really get interested in the game after that point is by consuming content outside of it like videos or fan art. I feel like content creators are much more susceptible to burnout because of the fact that they have to milk out the game dry for content (usually in a short amount of time) that the game can't really catch up.
what make me stay motivated play arknights is try to E2 all of my Operator, so if there was no event runs i still could do many stage for promote my operator
Would love it if HG would give us the option to personalize our Operator's abilities like their level and their skills level. Where you have maxed your operators, with the update you can now move all your operator's level from E2 Lv90 to E2 Lv69. nice.
I have 2 ideas for gameplay I want to test out but I can never commit on. First 20 pull ops only run, the other one is me trying out sniperknights(Except Chalter) too bad I'm still waiting for Rosa to come home.
100% agree with the takes on this video. Endgame player here, started 2 weeks after ak global launch but I quit for like 6 months in the middle of it. I just got my 2 year medal today too. Though I love the story, characters and music in ak as a whole, waiting for more stages is just painful plus I think Dossoles Holiday has the most questionable stage design in all of AK (looking back at DH-S-2 bully and bomb rush which looks lazy and DH-MO-1 which is suffering on a loop). And playing ak with team restrictions has revitalized my love for it. Seaknights/Oceanknights, Sniperknights and Summoners only have been really fun. I've only started it recently but i don't think its gonna get old before IS2 comes out. I'll try the Tower gamemode too for fun one day. The other day I also saw yt vids about ak nuzlockes so I'll recommend trying that out too though I haven't tried it myself. I don't think I'll be enjoying ak as much as I do if the gameplay was meh like if I abused all my 6 stars instead. Thankfully I still have the story, music and artwork to look forward to though. Idk if this is a hot take but idk man ak is the jojo of gacha games. Hard to TRULY get into but so much about it is just made so well with like a few exceptions.
I wanted to try beating all events using only guns and military themed operators, but between most of them being E1, not having a single M3 besides Jessica and me not being good enough at the game, I failed.
Treating it as a sidegame and doing only the bare minimum to burn stamina between events is what helps keeping it fresh for me. Though I never really played it as a full time main game either due to the stamina limitations, it's only during CCs that I can sink more time into pushing the perma and max risk dailies.
The game is indeed starting to wear on me.
I started 1 week after launch and had a lot of fun with the game till now it just feel like a chore i need to do daily.
I started Blue Archive on the side and while you can get bored with it you can burn your energy super fast rather than having your phone locked for like an hour with auto in AK...
It would be great for AK to add a function to just burn your sanity fast instead of just auto clear so people would be less likely to be burnt out.
It's pretty understandable tho. Especially for people who are not a max risk CC achiever and playing a lot of game. I had some fun with dossoles holiday stages but good god 90% of the time is just autoing the stage to farm for like few minutes and than off to another game. The roguelike mode was really fun, i enjoy it rather than trying to max risk CC although i really enjoy roguelike games in general which might be contributing to that. Of course it's not because i missed Nian twice, ofc not that
What's the music at 3:50 and 5:03? I swear i recognize it but I completely forgot where it's from.
I've taken a break from the game and felt a lot more refreshed since returning, although I tend to play a lot on autopilot for various reasons (not the same as autodeploy, I'm talking about me not paying too much attention to the gameplay). There is however an endgame mode I do want to get into further and that is playing through with story appropriate operators. If there is evidence that they were there at the event in the game's lore, then I can use them.
I am still a few month from becoming a peak endgame doktah but once i do i am going to farm rocks for days for that orginum order
I feel you about 2nd anni bro
Honestly, I love the game and got all the operators that I wanted that now I feel that I beat the game for me. However, now I will try to clear all the game using Lappland team.
I'm still not having an endgame (Burnout) in Arknights, yet. Possibly because i still have to level up every operator in the game to max level (Every single one i have) And i kept going for the lore and stories coming up in events and main story. There is a lot to take in within the game's world.
I've never been someone who was interested in meta ops and i wanted to clear everything with the ops i get and then arknights bestowed upon me surtr and chelter and kaltsit when i had no intention of getting them and now everything feels so easy and i shall aim towards building a team with only husbandos after endgame hahah
Perfect timing... I just finished the last story mode stage.
Youre right tho the only thing that makes me want to play is the new events and hard stages
As a doctor that started the game since global launch the only thing keeping me going and continue pulling/raising operators is IS2 coming in a few months lol.
Honestly, I love how I can play Arknights casually on endgame. It's the main appeal for me. Committing on a mobile or online game is a huge chore and I just don't have the time for that. So I'm perfectly fine with how casual the game gets on endgame.
Currently, I'm just focusing on farming for mats to raise some of my newest 6-stars and Orundums for the next event and I love that I can just leave my phone and let the game play itself while doing something else. I love coming back to the game to commit myself once every a while, so the pacing for the event in this game works perfectly well for me.
Tbh, I was burnt out playing this game. Yet I finally got my exu after 2 year of playing. At least I can get excited to build her.
i do story in games.. that was my progression and my enjoyment, primarily.
but that was back when chapter 5 was the latest and chapter 6 wasnt out. I'm still on chapter 6-1. My account so far has completed every events out and every medals achieved in those events.
I wonder what the new players who look at my account and wonder why im still in 6-1 are thinking.
While IS2 seems like it'll be great for veterans, I'm worried it'll feel more like a bigger obstacle to do(more than CC) for new players since their low amount of units restricts them in their choices for consecutive runs. Which would make it feel closer to just repeating a lvl for them instead of what we have: options.
What I really want to do is a no-hope mode for IS and only play 3stars and lower.
If you're suffering from burn out, feel free to step away. from the game until something picks your fancy.
Just remember that there are other games out there, with other experiences on offer. Absence makes the heart grow fonder, afterall.
Also IS2 soon. as soon as the next coming 6 months. So take a break until then. Don't feel bad about missing stuff, at least that means you'll have things to go after.
For me, events are only to get new skins and to farm mats efficiently. I blow past the stages with meta ops. Whats keeps me from playing? Well cause I want to raise OPs. Even though I aint using them. That keeps me from logging everyday planing who to raise or M3 next. I still have 7 6* on my roster I plan to at least e2 sl7. And during that time, I might get new ones like Saileach next. Then move to 5*.
Do you have recommendations on being better qualified to evaluate operators without being a slave to the "meta"? I'm trying to get better at this following your Blemishine video because the very article criticized in your video led me to not even really trying her.
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It's interesting to hear differences in what people like about the game. High level players seem to adore integrated strategies and high risk and here I am sucking too much to appreciate either. Failed to clear CC#5 R18 despite having all the characters and most of them built. (Nier coming out at the same time may have been a contributing factor 😅)
I really like that one day i can just open the game for 15 min twice a day only doing missions and deplete sanity then continue to irl work, but any other day when i get free time i can do some challenges and experiment to play and mald for few hours...