The Stultifera Navis mechanics are the devs' answer for those that complained how easy the Under Tides event mechanics are. The devs went wild In Stultifera Navis and the players complained how hard it is. Really can't please everybody.
I just remember people complaining about eggs and reaper flower. Where are these people complaining it was too easy? I only remember people dissing the boss a lot for being arguably the weakest boss in the game together with Jesselton.
I'm sure that's the common complaint, but my biggest problem with Stultifera Navis is its mechanics clash with its narrative. Don't get me wrong, the seaborn had interesting abilities, and the devs did a good job making them interesting, but for a species that adapts to nearly any obstacle, they're sure easy to shut down with status effects. The ultimate irony is that the faction that's supposedly best equipped to deal with them by tearing through their adaptation with sheer force is actually rather bad at it mechanic-wise.
UT was still pretty hard imo, prevented a lot of players easy wins because you can't just brute force the stages because of mechanics, haven't even heard from a vocal minority complaining about UT being easy, if anything it was just endless bitching about nervous impairment, the only thing I remember about UT being relatively easy was the boss because it was a big punching bag. As for mechanics in SN, I think it was probably because it's a major event of the theme they had already made a previous major event on (which were seabornes), so taking into account the last event, the story, and the current operator meta, they need to make this event stand out as a major event that's not so easily cheesed by Surtr, Chalter, Kalsit, Silverdad, Thorns and the like.
Very nice breakdown of the community's overall view of these mechanics. I started playing a few months ago and personally, I love when the game imposes restrictions on me because it forces me to think hard and come up with a different strategy than simply just spamming my meta ops. This really hit me hard in my Ashring risk 18 and SN-10 clear where I was stuck for days and hours of attempts trying to squeeze out the perfect attempt to beat these stages. It felt awful in the moment, but being able to share it with friends and look back on it made it worth it many times over. All of this being said, I might just be on copium because I have Pozy and she lets me get away with so much that I wouldn't be able to do before Ideal city. My original point still stands. tl;dr I really like restrictions as a new player because it forces me to strategize where I normally wouldn't. I understand if you don't, some people aren't here for that and I respect it nonetheless. Pozy may have corrupted my sense of difficulty so this with a grain of salt
Same, the light mechanic is my favorite mechanic in the whole game. That being said, I mean specifically the light mechanic, I wasn't necessarily a huge fan of all the enemies interactions with light/dark. Though I didn't hate them I just didn't love them as much as I love the core mechanic itself. I just specifically like having to unveil fog of war, not being able to spawn camp cheese, making some long range ops less powerful and some short range ops more powerful, making facing matter for 0 range operators and operators with omni directional range, etc... I think it would be a perfectly great mechanic with normal enemies.
Personally I never saw the hatred of Ideal City as understandable, mostly because I saw the cars as a tool rather than an obstacle, and it was especially fun to perma-freeze enemies.
I'm surprised to hear that near light and many other major events are so mixed received if this is true. Near light and Stultifera Navis were actually some of my favorite events in Arknights and I actually loved them because of the restricting situations the event forces you into. I really enjoy when Arknights constantly changes the way the game is played it makes you approach the game in a new way and gives less popular units a chance to shine. Arknights should not let the player always get away with similar strategies or else the game would just lose a big part of what makes it fun
I loved Near Light but I had mixed feelings about Stultifera Navis. My specific complaint for SN was how many things you had to read and know before you could understand what was actually going on. Having 6 different buffs for the boss that you had to memorize etc...
It's admittedly challenging and annoying, yeah. But there's this certain satisfaction on clearing it. Not the one where "you gotta open your wallet to clear it". But more like "daaeemm big brain moment here bruh"
@@carolingio1152 yeahhh the annoying thing is that corrosion archer not the light mechanic itself, the light mechanic makes it more difficult to kill them if they just spawn across the map lolll
Got that right, fellow Dokutah. Yeah, the snipers are the main problem in this event. I wish we already got Totter (*4 heavyweight sniper, can reveal invisible enemies, and can attack up to 3 enemies with S2) for this event, but ah well, it's still clearable without him
I didn't use either of those- the mvps for me there was my frds. Didn't have Jaye or lappland and never leveled therapist medics, but gravel + projekt red saved my ass from all the annoying enemies
Back then I had none of that. I did have lappers but not build and she did horribly for me lol. I just survived with parfumer and angelica healing even if they were frozen.
i still don't get the hate for chapter 6 i've been doing it with Dobermann squad; and all it took to finish was simply bait cold drones and periodically block spiders with 1-2 block units away from your team. Yato, Plume, Noir and 1-star robots did a lot of job there, being cheap and reliable baits. The only elites in these stages were weebs with swords and rare red mages - so we don't need full team of strong units. ..was it REALLY that horrible? Is the idea of baiting is so hard for people to implement? Can it even be compared to enemies with 10second dodge, or light mechanics, etc?
The real reason everyone hates SN, NL, IC, and DH is S stages. The nature of AK's development cycle means we get new experiments in game mechanics on a schedule that is completely crazy by game development standards. There's just not that much time to playtest, so every event has **something** frustrating. But a 3 week duration means any frustration you have doesn't get to peter out after EX stages. You have to keep going for yet another week of even harder stages. Personally, I really like Near Light in a vacuum. I think it has some of the best mechanics of any Arknights event yet. The problem is that by the third time fighting Tola, Viviana, and the Blood Knight, I was just sick of it. I literally cheesed the Blood Knight into a hole with Weedy because I was having absolutely none of it and didn't want to think about his mechanics for even one more second
People didn’t like Stultifera, or Ideal City, or Near Light? Whyyyy? All three are some of the best and most fun events in the entire game!! What the actual fuck
Ideal City event came, and it became my epiphany that I have smol brain because I used Surtr to defeat flying cube thing.. to my stupid surprise, Surtr can't attack flying enemies.. I figured out how to beat it eventually but it took challenge and a lot of brain power from me. I love Arknights because of many things, giving me these fun challenges is one of them, even if I end up watching guides to get through them
Personally feel like stultifera navis was hated because its difficulty spike jump from 0 to 100. In defence of stultifera navis most of the difficulty came from how players dont have all of the roomba parts early on. I may hate the funny dodge bois but I can see why their addition is necessary
The most annoying part for me was The Blood Knight Dikaiopolis, actually. I said screw it and just borrowed a Chalter. I'm stumped on the CM of EX-8 otherwise. I can't block the blades. Aside from Chalter, only my Mlynar can kill the blades quickly, and he has a limited duration. (and Chalter can't 2-shot them lol. I still need more support)
I started playing when The Great Chief returns event was running - I couldn't complete it cause my ops were way too weak, and I didn't have time to level them. Maria Nearl was the first event I 100% completed, followed by Near Light. The main thing that disappointed me about the event was that I had just pulled Fartooth and wanted to use her, but the light mechanic restricted me from using her, in her own event (basically)! I think having these events with unique mechanics is interesting and refreshing. The biggest complaint I had about Stultifera Navis was the creep on the floor, but that's cause my Fartooth said "what dodge?" to the dodgy bois. I'm glad it brought Lappland back up to being powerful again too, she's fun to use.
It's better for devs to try to innovate and fail rather than sticking to the same stuff that works. Even if some of them miss, HG clearly putting effort to spice up the event, and that should be encouraged for future events.
I think the light mechanic is neat because it forces weird positions and directions. It makes the facing of defenders with no range matter, it gives a new use to fast redeploy ops, and it forces really clear planning for deployment. What I don't like is Dikaiopolis spawning dozens of threatening units that hone in on his position while he's invulnerable. Not a fan of those. (I totally could handle it with my units if I sunk some time into it, I'm just low on IRL sanity these days haha) But oh well, I'll come back later for the Oprime I can't get now. It's a rerun already, so it'll be in side stories when I'm ready. Same thought process I had when I joined into Sultifera and got my shit toasted in the first half of page 1 - I'll be ready for the rerun when that rolls around.
i mean the ideal city was rly fun except for a few ex stages that went "stunlock them with cars for ages or you lose period" also i think it's rarely the same people that complain about specific events everyone is biased in how they enjoy a new content and mechanic
For reference, I started playing in October of 2022. The only event so far I didn't like was IC. I didn't care for the cars personally, but I could use them for a few things. I actually enjoyed the event up until I started doing the S stages. S-1 was fine, actually kinda fun in places while I had to repeatedly try different supports, skill timings, and deployment formations. S-2 was difficult and frustrating, but I did it and was satisfied. Then S-3 happened and I just gave up. The mechanics I could deal with. The annoying range on the casters I could deal with. Having to use the cars when I didn't like them, I could deal with. But sending waves of enemies that are functionally immune to 2/3s of my damage, extremely high attack elites, and enemies with block requirements all at once was just too much at the time. There comes a point where you just stop having fun throwing yourself into a wall and I reached that point. Things might be different on the rerun, but that's how I feel about it. On the other hand, I had fun with DH and NL. It really was just IC's particular combination of stuff that I didn't like. I haven't mentioned SN because I only got through half the EX stages and am saving the rest of it for the rerun, so I don't think I can properly judge it. I did like what I played of it though.
as a new-ish dokutah, I only heard people shows their dislikes for SN. didnt know Ideal City and Nearlight is as bad. just to add, I really like IC and NL, I get to play AK in more than one way. one of the most fun event. SN was one of my first real event and it was hard, but it set my expectations on how hard AK gameplay really is and that got me excited. so far none of the AK content gave me that difficulty like SN does, maybe the stage (iirc chapter 8 or 9) where you have to escorts Tallulah while drones boss all over the map. oh and Emperor Blade, that one still one of the hardest boss I ever faced.
I love Stuf Navis, I was just malding when I was doing FreeKnights clear. It was difficult and I had to think out side the box for the harder stages so much, spent hours clawing at it to clear it and to get all the medals. I really don’t know why I like that event so much than ideal city and near light since they are easier.
I don't really remember hating Ideal City. The only really annoying thing was the long range caster dudes, but the armorless union guys are much worse.
I liked IC and SN. SN-s-4 is one of my fav stages. But NL is just horrible. Like you said, it requires much more specific solution, even when compared to IC and SN or chap6 or whatever I have encountered. Or can also just me randomly happen no be a no tank no healer player due to not liking any of them
Well the darkness BS as a mechanic and also the Blood Night can literally become unbeatable unless you use certain ops or just stall the living shit out of him,and don't get me started on the medals!But yeah.....it would have been fine if all of those types of mechanics weren't on at the same time!
It’s not just the predators, dodge is inherently bad game design in Arknights. If they changed the 80% dodge to 80% damage reduction from physical and arts, I think there would be a lot less complaining. The issue with dodge isn’t the difficulty, it’s the way autodeploy works. Rng in autodeploys changes when trust changes, and dodge forces the player to have rng in their clears. There’s always a way to counter dodge, but if the player attacks an enemy that can dodge a single time, there’s a chance autodeploy will change later. I had to adjust my autodeploy 3 times in SN-10 because the predators die at different times, before it was stable. At least for operators, the player chooses to take that risk; with enemies, there’s not much you can do except be extremely safe.
The darkness system became less of a problem with time, for me at least, it was just a matter of adaptation. Ship of fools... I have Lapdumb and Gnosis. I liked the roombas, they were simple and useful. The Ideal city cars annoyed me, by creating visual clutter on the map. In general, any system that feel like "you don't get to play, and I'm not telling you why" is going to be received negatively.
When Near Light first released, I had left so many of the advanced stages untouched (just looking at guides was enough to dissuade me from trying). But now that my roster is well built, it's become a good kind of challenge. This event really demands that you have great OPs, otherwise just a struggle. Btw Lee was a surprising MVP for several stages. The perfect counter against bloodblades & great for glimmering touch too. Glad I got him! Edit: Lee's also nice against Monique and Roy bc his taunt out-prioritizes deployment order.
My only real complain with Ideal City is not exactly the fact that game forces you to use arts damage, but rather because I personally don't have much arts damage sources, but much more physical, and yeah, stars just don't align here
I started Feb 10th of this year and while not f2p, I struggled real hard but ended up getting all 11 medals in Near Light. I beat nl-ex-8 cm on my last run of the last day. It forced me to interact with the community more and learn new ways to use my operators. Yes I watched strats but I had to learn what operators I could replace with the ones I have/built. I look forward to taking the time to clear Dosoles Holiday because I know I'm more powerful than I was during the rerun.
I first started consistently playing arknights during sultiferia navis and wasn't able to beat the final stage at that time. I just viewed it as I wasn't ready for that yet kind of difficulty yet and eventually came back to beat it recently. I think the goop mechanic was very annoying but also interesting to play around. I think overall I'm fine with events bringing in somewhat restrictive mechanics since it's only an event but the real issue comes when it put into story chapters
THe issue with Stultifera Navis is not dodge. It's not the no block, it's not the weird boss who OHKO's your ops if you don't remove them from the field after killing them, it's not the passive neural impairment on the netherbrand tiles. It's the fact that there are enemies with dodge AND can't be blocked.
this event has been VERY hard but also i appreciated it. the challenges lets me use more oddball operators to great effect and it feels really satisfying to finally get the clear on a difficult stage
The only thing I hate is NL EX 8 CM those daggers +30% stats from new update in CM makes is way more difficult than last year (tho Im new player from last December) the rest are fairly well made..
@@francopoma2487 I don't think the old content is affected by the CM stat change, otherwise we would know it with all the challenge run so tight a few more hp on a sigle enemy would no longer make it possible.
@@kevinseraphin5456 welp idk if you meant the single enemy like the Blood Knight or the dozens pf daggers going around. I tried E2 aoe ops to deal with it but still failed x) welp I didn't give up yet, I just came up with another idea so I gotta wait for drillls to fill up again thanks for letting me know.
Finishing the map is fine, farming the map is..... CAN I JUST SPAWN KILL IT FFS. Yeah clearing it for the first time is fun and challenging, but farming it? I just throw my phones cause it keeps freezing due to how long the map takes to finish for farming
I... I like Near Light so far. The light mechanics are genuinely fun to work around, though that may be in small part due to my penchant for preferring fast redeploy operators. By contrast, I despised Stultifera Navis because, with my play style, the creep was another thing for me to pay attention to -- and, in some cases, a bunch of things to pay attention to. Not only did I have to be aware of the lanes I was holding, but also the points the creep was encroaching on. I seriously felt so overloaded while playing through the late EX stages and S stages that I needed to take breaks not just to get up, move around, and stretch, but to destim and decompress. I felt a massive wave of relief when I got the all clear medal, like I could finally relax. SN was an incredibly busy event. Looking back, I do not know if I could have called it fun, but I was obviously enjoying myself at the time. Regardless, I do not look forward to clearing Gloomy Shipyard.
As someone who started around Near Light, what I hated on my initial playthrough, and thought was BS was both the Corrosion Snipers and the Viviana clones. Sure it was annoying to have to take maps slow when deploying units, but coming off of Dossoles Holiday and the Carnelian event left me with Carnelian, Watergun Chen, and Mizuki(the absolute goat). I also had built La Pluma to a decent point at the time, and pulled for Flametail, because Nearl was boring. Some of the units that carried me were actually Mizuki, Fang, and the best bird, La Pluma. So when a map had Viviana clones... it was annoying but doable, but the Corrosion Snipers were so infuriating. Just the fact that they can attack from so far away, and remove defense made my few central units crumble. It was even worse cause I didn't have an easy method to deal with them besides throwing Gravel on the field to redirect some shots as Bubble was just a pain. Aside from the light not letting me hit those snipers, it was actually fun to play around. When Stultifera rolled around, it was a lot easier to go through due to experience and having a lot of units built. The creep forced fun interactions of placing units ahead to slow the spread, and forcing the use of tankier ops to keep the infestation in check. While the dodge bros were annoying, it didn't take long for me to learn that CC made them into jokes as Kjera and Gnosis had come out, and Kjera is my waifu, so you can bet she was in the squad. When I looked into the mechanics more online, and found out that they were weak to silence, that just made building Lappland so much easier to justify considering she has a 5 second passive silence. Finally, IC... What? People complained about guys who only had dodge for a few seconds, so poking them and running away was a viable tactic? Yea... IC is the easiest event among these three, and I cannot understand why you would complain about the funny cars or lovable robots. Now complaining about not having the Carnelian skin for the event, I would whole-heatedly agree about being upset. And to further dunk on the durins... in normal stages, they never come out in such numbers that a reliable defender and guard combo could hold them off long enough for your snipers and single target casters to sweep up. They weren't even as annoying as the Waregeists, which straight-up demands you have rapid arts damage or have built any of the three poisoners at the time(Ethan, Blue Poison, or Thorns). Obviously, hindsight is 20/20, and those who started around those events, well I'm sorry you had to deal with Stultifera and Near Light, and hope that IC's gimmicks were fun to mess with. As much as I hate two enemies from Near Light, it definitely was good for teaching players how to position units, and Stultifera was fun in encouraging an aggressive play style. Don't be like me, build Bubble to have someone that can sit there doing nothing on skill while enemies wonder why they're out of motivation and health. Or get lucky and get Hoshiguma... that's an option too
Near Light just needed some ops jumping up and down but that's about it Stultifera creep however, needed a lot of micro. It doesn't stop it from not being fun (also because Lumen trivialized everything), but as long as the funny 80% dodge dudes don't slip right through my ops I can cope
This event is my fav (except EX-8 CM because it's ridiculous), but I do think that the mechanics are significantly harder than in most other events, and that it becomes very noticeable during this event's CC
The text on the Predators read "Gains Physical and Arts dodge (disabled by certain negative statuses)." They lose it when bound, stunned, frozen, silenced or levitated
Near Light is one of my favourite events from a lore and gameplay perspective. I think the light mechanic is one of the better event gimmicks. Ideal City's car and SN romba were fun mechanics but altered the game in a different way to Near light. Those mechanics added a different aspect to the gameplay being used to assist the operators. The light mechanic limits the players ability deploy which actually made me think about how I should probably use my operators (I should do this anyway but Surtr go brrr). While not beginner friendly I'd argue from a lore perspective all three of those mechanics come from sequel events where potentially in the Devs eyes players have already cleared the previous events. While in reality new players probably aren't in a rush to go back and play the old events if the Devs limited their event difficulty and design to be beginner friendly every event would play the exact same
ah yes i remember when twilight of wolumonde was 1st released it was frustrating yet still remains as one of my favourite times playing this game tho what i truly find only frustrating is simply the limited time of events side story events do get added permanently at some point sure but story collection events are ran once and never again i enjoy being able to come back to previous challenges no matter if i come back a day or a year later
For me I love the mechanic of Near Light event, makes you think to choose the operator direction, for me I don't like ying yang mechanic of who is real
Ngl, I enjoyed the light mechanics to the point when i started playing normal levels that I still have that mindset and started place placing operators in weird directions without noticing it, I have started playing arknights 3 months ago as f2p but I managed to beat normal event story and cm (2 levels remain for cm), all of the ex ones/easy cm ones, except for boss (impossible for my current level and operators)
Near Light mechanics are my favorite in the game. I really like the light mechanics, and sure it probably feels more like an annoyance for record-chasers, but for most players having to think and being rewarded by funky operator placements is a really fun experience (at least for me)
I dunno why people would complain about Near Light. Funnily enough I seem to have enjoyed it for the opposite reason of the complaints. Dropping down operators all willy nilly is fine and all but there's only so much you can do with 'place defender on lane and have snipers, lords or casters deal with whatever is being blocked'. Now I had to think a lot more, consider my deployment order (Armorless Union Snipers), consider how my tactics would change based on what direction certain ops were facing (like maybe having Gavial reach out from the bottom lane to help deal with the mid lane filled with incoming Candle Knight trainees while still ripping her lane enemies apart and taking heat off the defender I stationed at mid). It was a lot of fun! In the end seeing that completed medal card after failing the event the first time when I was a new player just gave me great big smile of pride
I really hate that they lock stories content behind those ex cm stage on near light, I don't unlock all the info port stories because I just can't clear the stage, I wish the all these ex cm stage were just for medal and flex not for locking stories
I started playing just before Stultifera came out and I haven't even finished SN-10 yet despite playing for more than 5 months. I managed to get all the medals for Ideal City, Dossoles Holiday rerun and now Near Light rerun. Under tides rerun I missed one medal due to SV-EX-6 being impossible for me to clear. I pretty much hate anything seaborn related now.
I actually liked Stultifera Navis and Ideal City. Near Light not as much, but that's less to do with the light mechanic and more to do with the Lazurite a-holes (though admittedly I'm not terribly fond of the light mechanic either, but it's far from the worst aspect of those maps imo). And sure, the other two events were a bit more restrictive for the average player, but at the same time none of it ever felt impossible for me, even if I did resort to a guide for some of the more difficult stages to retain my sanity (the resource). Admittedly I also love the seaborn and summer event stages so I had some bias going in, but still.
I completely understand but NL cemented my hatred for bosses like the Blood Knight, who are just giant walking statsticks. I much prefer bosses that try to do something fun or weird (ex: IC's Minimalist, who while I don't super like bc his effects make it hard for me to see, still find fairly novel bc Flying bosses are pretty rare, or SN's Endspeaker, who I actually had a fair amount of fun beating, which is rare for me bc I usually get tired of the bosses that appear in 3 sections) then ones that only exist to walk menacingly to box while one-shotting my ops (Well the only boss I dislike as much as him is Manfred, who while technically novel, I do not enjoy any boss that "demands" true damage, even if the canon is free true damage). The light mechanic I don't find the most annoying (that probably goes to LE's light ray puzzles, bc their design felt really half-baked) but I did hate how hard it is to save yourself when you fuck up bc of how punishing it is. Made me feel like I was wasting more practice plans/sanity then I needed to.
Minimalist was indeed a lights show. Both of his atks were flashy, and having the cars running around together with the enemies was a lot for the screen.
I'm first time player for NLrerun, and I didn't feel too bad playing it. Certainly not on the level of Ideal City cars mechanics bad nor SN cancer enemies bad. Though the main reason why I felt like that is because I started right before SN and gotten my first E2 during at the end of first week of the event. Meanwhile SN asked for specific operators that I simply didn't have and couldn't easily build as a new player. As for IC... it's pretty much the same. My roster was stronger by then and I did manage to finish the event. But I still lacked in arts damage department. Every stage in IC came down to finding an Ifrit lane and using the cars. For newer account. Event mechanics that ask for particular operators is really painful and frustrating. As for NL. None of that. The lights are fun to play with and while they might nerf some long range operators, it's not by much. It certainly doesn't say... haha, half of the operators that you build are useless in this event!
this is the first time ive heard of people complaining about ideal city aand its surprising cause ideal city is my absolute favorite event. the car mechanic is so fun and they give you so much customisation. i do agree about near light being incredibly hard but not because of the light mechanics (its a fun restriction!!!!) but because of how they nerf defenders in challenge modes so godaamn hard (triple costs and slow dp) since defenders in this event are like so essential for almost every scenario
I personally loved all the events listed that people so hate. For round 2, after having gone through NL hard the first time, I love going wild and just destroying the event with Uncle Horse or Horn's flares or whatnot. The cars were really fun because I got to watch things just destroy the enemy if I built my comedy roadways right. The most fun part about the restrictions and conditions they throw at us I think, is figuring out a way to best them and then comparing what you did with friends after just to see how wildly divergent strategies might get. I recall during SN mostly relying on Blitz, Ash and W and such. A friend just shot them with Fartooth and doubled up on true damage with kalstit, nearl and Amiya. Another friend taught me that Pushes still work even on dodge and shoved lots of them into holes. There's just so many ways to do things even with restrictions that trying to do something funny or weird and then seeing it work out and then talking about it is what keeps me playing the game. No stage is impawsible with a bit of creativity afterall. That's what gives the game it's koalaty.
Arknights' recent mechanics seem to be trying to challenge the "broken" operators. An enemy can't simply die to 1 or 2 hits from Chalter/Mlynar/Surtr if they had dodge. Perhaps this could be in response to people saying the game is "too easy" or "boring" because of using said operators. The mechanics also bring light to some underused ops because of their specific conditions like how Lappland's silence suddenly became relevant with the dodge mechanics. Although I like this taking of the spotlight from the meta ops and giving it to some of the wide roster of Arknights, it is kinda sucky that it feels forced. It felt as though you HAD to bring Lappland or Gnosis to clear stages. Thankfully the game offers tools to counteract this (roomba, cars...). This difficulty also made niche clears more amazing. I was absolutely shocked when I saw ILA's clear of Stultifera Navis EX-8 CM with 3* only team, a team that doesn't even have cc or silence or wandering medics to go against the mechanics. Anyways, it's as you said. It sucks that we have less freedom to clear recent event stages, but it's mostly just coming back to Arknights' strong point of being a challenging game, and when the game gets easy, HG will find ways to kick us in the balls.
I am one of those people you are calling out for IC, I had no issue with the car mechanic at first until IC-8-EX where they are throwing so much dodging Durin at you at once that you are almost forced to use them, same for the S stages and I don't even wanna talk about the cars that can do so much damag to your operators to me there is no middle ground for that, either you like using the car mechanic either you will hate the event. As for NL I think the mechanic is pretty alright except as you said those damn bow ennemies with global range and you can't do much about it but you can work around that, it can also "nerf" some operators like Dorothy and fartooth but that isn't too much of a big deal either. And for SN yeah some ennemies are kinda annoying, looking at you the dodgy bois and the tree who can stack up attack and especially the boss can be annoying at first because he have a lot of mechanic but you get around that since the event was 3 weeks.
As someone who started during stultifera, I definitely found it to be a challenging event at the time but I also didn't expect to clear too much. I was just hopeful to get lumen. Since then my accounts grown quite a bit and I didn't have much trouble with chapter 6, ideal city, or this event. I'm fairly confident that a rerun through SN wouldn't be much trouble now and I'm probably at the point where some players end up picking a niche to play in. All of this to say, when you start and there are annoying mechanics. I just kinda of expect they were outside of my strength range at that time but as you pick up knowledge, exp, and some e2 and good ops the game becomes easy enough for you to navigate that challenges like these becomes welcome imo. Game balance is really tricky though, SSS is a great example where I felt the initial release was hard without certain ops, but the nerfed version feels a bit too easy. However, i do think the core feeling of "removing freedom from the players" is what a lot of people get frustrated with. (idk why this is so long, my bad)
The only thing I hated in the Navis was the boss and his annoying gimmick being forced to choose 1 of 2 forms for him because the other one will obliterate your operators and usually the sacrificial enemy with the desirable (less difficult) form would spawn so far away from the boss you're forced to take a lot of additional steps with perfect timing to prevent the boss from eating the strongest or both sacrifices
Although I personally don't like the Near Light mechanic, once I figured out where to face my ops, I just get a sigh of relief. That in mind, It's not that bad. Ideal City and Stultifera Navis though, I loved those. Bringing only a certain damage type is fine, the game does it all the time. Buffs and debuffs exist for a reason, and you can solve the dodge problem by using most of them. Hell, you can just stall (which I'm sure you do ALL the time).
i enjoyed this near light rerun (except lazurites and co) and i started arknights with the stultifera event, and i would say that it was incredibly hard yet i still made it to SN-9 eventually. i didn't expect to get far in it at all since i'm still supposed to be weak in a relatively high end event but it was still fun (the weird tree monsters were awful though). the mechanics were all interesting though since it breaks away from the regular gameplay in my opinion
I actually really enjoyed dusting off my lapland it had been a while I loved Stultifera Navis. I thought 100% phys dodge was annoying to deal with but yea it was just bring arts damage wait out the mobs or silence them so it was bearable. and my biggest complaint about near light is that I was lazy so I had to wait till rerun to actually get all of the story stuff which is 100% on me. personally I would have preferred them to not be anniversary like events as we get a lot of new players I would rather have it after or right before the anniversary but I get why they are placed the way they are.
The one enemy I hate the most is the blue archer they have a whole freaking long range attack and shoot your operators you need a element medic or a regular medic this rerun event is okay for me because this is my first time playing it.
It was certainly an _experience_ for me a month in because man was it wacky how many Gravels and bodies I had to throw the first time making the auto-deploy work as well as in NL-S-3 CM where fire rains from above.
@@cheekywombat9208 well dang gravel just tanking those shot man and on nl-ex-5 is just so annoying how many those archer guys am stuck with nl-ex-5 because those archer man.
I love creep, dodge and light mechanics, but my biggest complain about light one is that some operators just become too uncomfortable. For example Rosa. She on her own can only light up 3 of 13 tiles of her range. Similar thing with AOE and deadeye snipers, fortress defenders, ambushers, chain and phalanx casters. Its making me very upset when my recently m6'd Rosa cant go sickomode without someones help
Thanks for this video! I find dodge experts including Andoain annoying, but you make a great point about the game kind of "encouraging" us to make use of one of the two damage types against those specific enemies when we really only have Physical and Arts since true damage is justifiably rare I'm surprised people hated Ideal City outside of the dodge experts honestly, especially when the cars had several parts that let you click them less often. I'll plead guilty to hating Stultifera even though it allowed Ceobe S1 to be hilariously effective lolz Thanks for showing empathy towards newer players and all that, though I do think the game should encourage them to work on, like, Grani and the Knight's Treasure with better newcomer rewards since a lot of newcomers really complain about difficulty
>Me liking Near Light because I think so far it's probably the only gimmick that integrated well with Arknights' core gameplay and had a degree of depth and interactivity I will absolutely 100% complain about the dodge enemies in SN because IMO randomly failing to damage an enemy is consistently the most infuriating mechanic possible and I really can't believe we're still seeing it in 2022-2023. I liked that the game actually gave you a variety of ways to circumvent it, one of which is a universal event mechanic so you're not screwed if you somehow don't have any sources of Bind, Stun, or Silence in your roster, but would it really have been that bad for it to be 90% damage resistance instead of 90% dodge chance? (I mean we all know that the reason they did it like that was so Fartooth's dumb talent would be useful but shhh)
I like it too, but that doesn't tell much, it's very hard for me to not like something in ak. But it's such a design challenge with how much they seem to try to be inclusive with it's players
I think that the S stages are really what gets people for the really hard events. The EX stages are nasty enough, then we have to do even harder stages, that don't really do a lot different to the EX stages. I really did enjoy Maria Nearl and Near Light, since all the different enemy types have gimmicks, that have room for interesting counter-play, while the light mechanic is just restricting enough to be a challenge, but is simple to manage with some planning. Navis on the other hand... enemies had (sometimes multiple) nasty and unfair gimmicks on top of great stats, on top of the nasty creep. I would have been a lot happier if they cut either the creep or the stats of the enemies, because both were just too much. - People were upset about the carts? Really?
I'am a new player that started playing the game a month ago and i'm suffering a lot to beat NL-7 in the event because I must have a Dreadnought guard ( that i don 't have ) at elite 1 50 to beat the stage. That is the kind of things drags me down of the game. I really dislike the feeling that this game is giving me. It feels like someone telling me "no bro you are to late for these game so you are not allowed to "enjoy" this event and it's story". It's like " hey i'm at the middle of the story, you can't make me miss the other half because i don't have an specific type of operator". I came from Girls Frontline where we have 3 dificulties for mayor events. 1 for thouse new players so the wont miss the story even if are not up to date with the story and a second for veterans and a third for thouse veterans that must have the best of the best characters and items to beat the stages.
We have that difficulty system in new story stages, you'll see after you progress a bit more. But about NL-7, I don't even know what you would do with a dreadnought, I imagine you're trying to follow a guide? Try something different, there are operators strong enough that you can borrow even at e1 and could clear most of the enemies. Like pudding, passenger, eyja, stuff like that
You don't necessarily need a dreadnought to spawn kill a corrosive archer in NL-7, really. Even a decent-to-strong charger or fast redeploy (not Gravel and probably Kafka as well) can do the role, be it your own or borrowing from someone else. I opened NL-7 with E1 Lv. 40 Wild Mane S1 to kill the first corrosion sniper. She was at low pot at the time so I couldn't redeploy her in time for the later wave of archer (it was really close), which made me improvise using a guard + a healer.
my main problem with "hated" events are mentioned rombas and cars, mostly because they are easily exploitable, the cars with the freeze module, and rombas with freeze module "gnosis". So i'am not agaist them, but they need a bit more playtest to be more balanced. Also the fact that they are easily exploitable takes even more fredom than dodge mechanics or whatever
if I'm being honest the reason I hate Near Light is literally just the Blood Knight I just wanted to clear every stage once for the story but then came NL-10 and oH MY GOD I HATE THAT BOSS because the blood blades, their weird ass paths, the light mechanic, and the level requirement (in the context of my questionable resource appropriation) are altogether way too much for my slow ass brain to even begin to figure out how to play around like any clear I've ever seen seems straightforward enough but then I remember I either don't have half the ops used leveled enough or don't have them at all only other event I didn't finish because of mechanics was Stultifera Navis because I really just did not feel like trying to figure out what to do about the boss's weird buff mechanic literally a mental deficiency issue but that makes me angrier than I would be otherwise because I can't make it less painful with a different mindset 7:28 NO bring Lappland everywhere with you she will turn off half the mechanics she may not always be able to hit enough enemies at once, but you will love her for it you WILL
I actually enjoy Ideal City so much. I mean, it's such a goofy stage. You literally can beat all the stage with only cars. Never come to my mind that people will hate such a fun event.
I myself enjoyed everything about near light pretty much, good welfare, the ost goes and I actually read the story and it was good. Imo the stages themselves aren't that horrible either besides ex 8 cm, the event was plenty fun for me
Honestly was surprised that people hated ideal city, all of these events are fun. There's a reason why AK is the dark souls of tower defense, its challenging and rewarding once you cleared it. I play like an ape but i still have fun even though i complain about some of the mechanics but i can understand that new players may find this abit overwhelming but to older players or whale brains. Just eh...
So last time I realized Młynar kills everything in few shwings, but that's not the most busted part of his kit, believe it or not. He literally covers for your mistakes in deployment. Yes. He takes aggro from your medics that you deployed after your tanks. Normally I would be destroyed by those snipers but since Młynar has targeting priority they focus on him and since he has over 4k health those poorly timed medics of mine keep him healthy. It's busted. It's like playing Dark Souls but when it gets hairy you stop the game and heal yourself, like in Dragons Dogma.
idk Near Light is my favorite big event. And the stuff with the light and darkness is really interesting. Although fighting Blood Knight feels like kind of a pain in the ass due to huge damage and stun.
Tbh NL-S-3 even on cm is easy af for me cuz i can just put mlynar outside as a bait unit cuz he has increased taunt level and have a therapist and saria s3 and s2 heal him. No matter what my deployment order is, the fireball caster and viviana will always target mlynar
I like the idea and concept behind of Stultivera Navis, enemy are unique, Moss tile are serve challenge indirectly, but the experience is so horrible due too bug. Roomba bug is i considered fatal because Romba is SN game mechanic there are two bugs : Roomba w/Extrablock lil handy : Unaffected extra block from little handy, EN Does making in the Boomerang Roomba impossible on majority of enemy. Roomba Damage Calculation = CN : CC -> Damage, EN is on reverse, making it unreliable option to counter certain enemies, like Predator of deep Azure, where SN-S-4-A/B and SN-S-5 become Tedious thanks to that. even bigbrain like Kukkikaze and Kyostinv struggle making this low stars guide, oh joy..
"There is so much to see and experience" I mean, the enemies being invis makes it pretty hard to see :c I think that I find this stage annoying because my Dorothy's bombs clearly would hit multiple enemies, but uh oh, they were in the shadows, therefore somehow untouchable :T
My only gripe on any event is that you can't just use the practice plans as a safety net while clearing. You have to specifically choose to practice the stage then redo the stage without it. I've lost count on how many times I cleared a CM stage with a practice plan only to fail multiple times while doing it for real. Full sanity refund for new chapters, you the real MVP.
Personal SN enjoyer and kinda a hardcore player here, and I hate NL mechanics to the core. And I'm speaking of it in a statistical manner: don't get me wrong, the light mechanics narrow down the set of possible build orders drastically. Combined with map design in certain circumstances (looking at you NL-S-2), the "freedom theft" in NL is actually much more absurd than any other, and it gets even worse when considering optimal tactics for harder stages involving its mechanics (EX, S, and even CC#8)
Near light mechanics make it harder but also fun imo. Also Bloodknight has one of the best visual designs in the entire game, including operators, enemies and npcs.
As long as they don't have oermsnent dodge im actually fine like in ideal city. But the seaborns in stultivera just makes me go bald. I dont have snyone that can do true damsge besides amiya, and my silaence choice is one raised lappland it kinda pissed me off how i need to borrow a gnosis to finish the last hard stage. I probably can finish it if i work hard but im not smart enough to do it 😢
As someone who has been playing for maybe a bit over a month here and there and is at lvl 48 with no E2 operator yet, I can say it was really challenging and I had to search for guides after NL-5... But I'm really dumb and I don't have a lot of free time.
You see it in other games so much, people hate challenges that aren't straighforward and/or limit you in one way. I think it's necessary otherwise it'll get kinda stale
Actually I love the mechanics in Nearl Light very much, it's a healthy challenge to work around with visibility and op placement. What I hate is the sheer dps check that are the later CM stages, especially the one that forced Kyostinv in his low op strat to bring 2(!) of the strongest 6* in the game. Like, what do they test those stages with?? Not 4*-only team for sure. Luckily I have Surtr, so I'm not in the "strong 6*" waiting room and if I borrow myself another [strong 6*]TM I may have a chance for an upper hand in this stage.
We have no confirmation, but there's a strong belief that the game is indeed balanced around 4 stars, but at high level. And even if not, hey, at least it's still beatable with them, so it's fine
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The Stultifera Navis mechanics are the devs' answer for those that complained how easy the Under Tides event mechanics are. The devs went wild In Stultifera Navis and the players complained how hard it is. Really can't please everybody.
I just remember people complaining about eggs and reaper flower. Where are these people complaining it was too easy? I only remember people dissing the boss a lot for being arguably the weakest boss in the game together with Jesselton.
I'm sure that's the common complaint, but my biggest problem with Stultifera Navis is its mechanics clash with its narrative. Don't get me wrong, the seaborn had interesting abilities, and the devs did a good job making them interesting, but for a species that adapts to nearly any obstacle, they're sure easy to shut down with status effects. The ultimate irony is that the faction that's supposedly best equipped to deal with them by tearing through their adaptation with sheer force is actually rather bad at it mechanic-wise.
@@ianwatson9358 I never thought about it that way, that is so damn true.
UT was still pretty hard imo, prevented a lot of players easy wins because you can't just brute force the stages because of mechanics, haven't even heard from a vocal minority complaining about UT being easy, if anything it was just endless bitching about nervous impairment, the only thing I remember about UT being relatively easy was the boss because it was a big punching bag. As for mechanics in SN, I think it was probably because it's a major event of the theme they had already made a previous major event on (which were seabornes), so taking into account the last event, the story, and the current operator meta, they need to make this event stand out as a major event that's not so easily cheesed by Surtr, Chalter, Kalsit, Silverdad, Thorns and the like.
@@ThatGuy-nc8nf I second your statements on Undertides.
Very nice breakdown of the community's overall view of these mechanics. I started playing a few months ago and personally, I love when the game imposes restrictions on me because it forces me to think hard and come up with a different strategy than simply just spamming my meta ops. This really hit me hard in my Ashring risk 18 and SN-10 clear where I was stuck for days and hours of attempts trying to squeeze out the perfect attempt to beat these stages. It felt awful in the moment, but being able to share it with friends and look back on it made it worth it many times over. All of this being said, I might just be on copium because I have Pozy and she lets me get away with so much that I wouldn't be able to do before Ideal city. My original point still stands.
tl;dr I really like restrictions as a new player because it forces me to strategize where I normally wouldn't. I understand if you don't, some people aren't here for that and I respect it nonetheless. Pozy may have corrupted my sense of difficulty so this with a grain of salt
I didn't know people didn't like the event because I loved it. I like the welfare unit and the mechanics were unique and challenging
Same
Same, the light mechanic is my favorite mechanic in the whole game.
That being said, I mean specifically the light mechanic, I wasn't necessarily a huge fan of all the enemies interactions with light/dark. Though I didn't hate them I just didn't love them as much as I love the core mechanic itself.
I just specifically like having to unveil fog of war, not being able to spawn camp cheese, making some long range ops less powerful and some short range ops more powerful, making facing matter for 0 range operators and operators with omni directional range, etc... I think it would be a perfectly great mechanic with normal enemies.
Personally I never saw the hatred of Ideal City as understandable, mostly because I saw the cars as a tool rather than an obstacle, and it was especially fun to perma-freeze enemies.
Indeed. Watching the cars soloing a few maps was a beauty of its own
I'm surprised to hear that near light and many other major events are so mixed received if this is true. Near light and Stultifera Navis were actually some of my favorite events in Arknights and I actually loved them because of the restricting situations the event forces you into. I really enjoy when Arknights constantly changes the way the game is played it makes you approach the game in a new way and gives less popular units a chance to shine. Arknights should not let the player always get away with similar strategies or else the game would just lose a big part of what makes it fun
True, it's kinda wild how much ak gets away with letting us do, but that's also why a lot of people get bored after they learn the basics
I loved Near Light but I had mixed feelings about Stultifera Navis. My specific complaint for SN was how many things you had to read and know before you could understand what was actually going on. Having 6 different buffs for the boss that you had to memorize etc...
its my favorite and my nightmare free gladia 👀
tbh I really like the light mechanics
It's admittedly challenging and annoying, yeah. But there's this certain satisfaction on clearing it. Not the one where "you gotta open your wallet to clear it". But more like "daaeemm big brain moment here bruh"
The light mechanic is fun and the most iconic part of the event, the really bad in Nearl Light is the corrosion damage with global range in top
@@carolingio1152 yeahhh the annoying thing is that corrosion archer not the light mechanic itself, the light mechanic makes it more difficult to kill them if they just spawn across the map lolll
Got that right, fellow Dokutah. Yeah, the snipers are the main problem in this event.
I wish we already got Totter (*4 heavyweight sniper, can reveal invisible enemies, and can attack up to 3 enemies with S2) for this event, but ah well, it's still clearable without him
Changing topic, appart from SA hitting those snipers from the dark, is there another op doing the same stuff??
Chapter 6 became way easier thanks to the therapist medics and more silence users
Funny thing is I had access to those and didn't even use them, and it wasn't very hard somehow. Just good positioning.
Yeah Lumen makes that chapter quite simple.
I didn't use either of those- the mvps for me there was my frds. Didn't have Jaye or lappland and never leveled therapist medics, but gravel + projekt red saved my ass from all the annoying enemies
Back then I had none of that. I did have lappers but not build and she did horribly for me lol. I just survived with parfumer and angelica healing even if they were frozen.
i still don't get the hate for chapter 6
i've been doing it with Dobermann squad; and all it took to finish was simply bait cold drones and periodically block spiders with 1-2 block units away from your team. Yato, Plume, Noir and 1-star robots did a lot of job there, being cheap and reliable baits.
The only elites in these stages were weebs with swords and rare red mages - so we don't need full team of strong units.
..was it REALLY that horrible? Is the idea of baiting is so hard for people to implement?
Can it even be compared to enemies with 10second dodge, or light mechanics, etc?
There is no dodge enemies in this event which instantly makes it infinitely better than any other event with them
The real reason everyone hates SN, NL, IC, and DH is S stages. The nature of AK's development cycle means we get new experiments in game mechanics on a schedule that is completely crazy by game development standards. There's just not that much time to playtest, so every event has **something** frustrating. But a 3 week duration means any frustration you have doesn't get to peter out after EX stages. You have to keep going for yet another week of even harder stages. Personally, I really like Near Light in a vacuum. I think it has some of the best mechanics of any Arknights event yet. The problem is that by the third time fighting Tola, Viviana, and the Blood Knight, I was just sick of it. I literally cheesed the Blood Knight into a hole with Weedy because I was having absolutely none of it and didn't want to think about his mechanics for even one more second
Yeah, that's true, the longer events indeed give more time for people to get tired
People didn’t like Stultifera, or Ideal City, or Near Light? Whyyyy? All three are some of the best and most fun events in the entire game!! What the actual fuck
Ideal City event came, and it became my epiphany that I have smol brain because I used Surtr to defeat flying cube thing.. to my stupid surprise, Surtr can't attack flying enemies.. I figured out how to beat it eventually but it took challenge and a lot of brain power from me. I love Arknights because of many things, giving me these fun challenges is one of them, even if I end up watching guides to get through them
Personally feel like stultifera navis was hated because its difficulty spike jump from 0 to 100. In defence of stultifera navis most of the difficulty came from how players dont have all of the roomba parts early on. I may hate the funny dodge bois but I can see why their addition is necessary
The most annoying part for me was The Blood Knight Dikaiopolis, actually. I said screw it and just borrowed a Chalter. I'm stumped on the CM of EX-8 otherwise. I can't block the blades. Aside from Chalter, only my Mlynar can kill the blades quickly, and he has a limited duration. (and Chalter can't 2-shot them lol. I still need more support)
I started playing when The Great Chief returns event was running - I couldn't complete it cause my ops were way too weak, and I didn't have time to level them. Maria Nearl was the first event I 100% completed, followed by Near Light. The main thing that disappointed me about the event was that I had just pulled Fartooth and wanted to use her, but the light mechanic restricted me from using her, in her own event (basically)! I think having these events with unique mechanics is interesting and refreshing. The biggest complaint I had about Stultifera Navis was the creep on the floor, but that's cause my Fartooth said "what dodge?" to the dodgy bois. I'm glad it brought Lappland back up to being powerful again too, she's fun to use.
It's better for devs to try to innovate and fail rather than sticking to the same stuff that works. Even if some of them miss, HG clearly putting effort to spice up the event, and that should be encouraged for future events.
I think the light mechanic is neat because it forces weird positions and directions. It makes the facing of defenders with no range matter, it gives a new use to fast redeploy ops, and it forces really clear planning for deployment.
What I don't like is Dikaiopolis spawning dozens of threatening units that hone in on his position while he's invulnerable. Not a fan of those. (I totally could handle it with my units if I sunk some time into it, I'm just low on IRL sanity these days haha) But oh well, I'll come back later for the Oprime I can't get now. It's a rerun already, so it'll be in side stories when I'm ready. Same thought process I had when I joined into Sultifera and got my shit toasted in the first half of page 1 - I'll be ready for the rerun when that rolls around.
i mean the ideal city was rly fun except for a few ex stages that went "stunlock them with cars for ages or you lose period"
also i think it's rarely the same people that complain about specific events everyone is biased in how they enjoy a new content and mechanic
For reference, I started playing in October of 2022. The only event so far I didn't like was IC. I didn't care for the cars personally, but I could use them for a few things. I actually enjoyed the event up until I started doing the S stages. S-1 was fine, actually kinda fun in places while I had to repeatedly try different supports, skill timings, and deployment formations. S-2 was difficult and frustrating, but I did it and was satisfied. Then S-3 happened and I just gave up.
The mechanics I could deal with. The annoying range on the casters I could deal with. Having to use the cars when I didn't like them, I could deal with. But sending waves of enemies that are functionally immune to 2/3s of my damage, extremely high attack elites, and enemies with block requirements all at once was just too much at the time. There comes a point where you just stop having fun throwing yourself into a wall and I reached that point. Things might be different on the rerun, but that's how I feel about it.
On the other hand, I had fun with DH and NL. It really was just IC's particular combination of stuff that I didn't like. I haven't mentioned SN because I only got through half the EX stages and am saving the rest of it for the rerun, so I don't think I can properly judge it. I did like what I played of it though.
as a new-ish dokutah, I only heard people shows their dislikes for SN. didnt know Ideal City and Nearlight is as bad. just to add, I really like IC and NL, I get to play AK in more than one way. one of the most fun event.
SN was one of my first real event and it was hard, but it set my expectations on how hard AK gameplay really is and that got me excited. so far none of the AK content gave me that difficulty like SN does, maybe the stage (iirc chapter 8 or 9) where you have to escorts Tallulah while drones boss all over the map. oh and Emperor Blade, that one still one of the hardest boss I ever faced.
I hope you can continue to have fun in this great game
I love Stuf Navis, I was just malding when I was doing FreeKnights clear. It was difficult and I had to think out side the box for the harder stages so much, spent hours clawing at it to clear it and to get all the medals.
I really don’t know why I like that event so much than ideal city and near light since they are easier.
my only gripe with nl light mechanic is the coalescing fear ability counts even when an operator's back is off stage
I don't really remember hating Ideal City. The only really annoying thing was the long range caster dudes, but the armorless union guys are much worse.
I liked IC and SN. SN-s-4 is one of my fav stages. But NL is just horrible. Like you said, it requires much more specific solution, even when compared to IC and SN or chap6 or whatever I have encountered. Or can also just me randomly happen no be a no tank no healer player due to not liking any of them
Well the darkness BS as a mechanic and also the Blood Night can literally become unbeatable unless you use certain ops or just stall the living shit out of him,and don't get me started on the medals!But yeah.....it would have been fine if all of those types of mechanics weren't on at the same time!
It’s not just the predators, dodge is inherently bad game design in Arknights. If they changed the 80% dodge to 80% damage reduction from physical and arts, I think there would be a lot less complaining. The issue with dodge isn’t the difficulty, it’s the way autodeploy works. Rng in autodeploys changes when trust changes, and dodge forces the player to have rng in their clears. There’s always a way to counter dodge, but if the player attacks an enemy that can dodge a single time, there’s a chance autodeploy will change later. I had to adjust my autodeploy 3 times in SN-10 because the predators die at different times, before it was stable. At least for operators, the player chooses to take that risk; with enemies, there’s not much you can do except be extremely safe.
honestly the mechanics are ok but my only problem about near light is those damn blades THOSE DAMN BLADES
They truly are very tanky, indeed.
@@RewriteKuma in hard mode they also have insane damage that's why i hate those things
The darkness system became less of a problem with time, for me at least, it was just a matter of adaptation.
Ship of fools... I have Lapdumb and Gnosis.
I liked the roombas, they were simple and useful.
The Ideal city cars annoyed me, by creating visual clutter on the map.
In general, any system that feel like "you don't get to play, and I'm not telling you why" is going to be received negatively.
Yeah, that true. But I expect us, the community, to get used to it as time goes on and more of those show up, idk, we'll have to wait and see
When Near Light first released, I had left so many of the advanced stages untouched (just looking at guides was enough to dissuade me from trying). But now that my roster is well built, it's become a good kind of challenge. This event really demands that you have great OPs, otherwise just a struggle.
Btw Lee was a surprising MVP for several stages. The perfect counter against bloodblades & great for glimmering touch too. Glad I got him!
Edit: Lee's also nice against Monique and Roy bc his taunt out-prioritizes deployment order.
My only real complain with Ideal City is not exactly the fact that game forces you to use arts damage, but rather because I personally don't have much arts damage sources, but much more physical, and yeah, stars just don't align here
I started Feb 10th of this year and while not f2p, I struggled real hard but ended up getting all 11 medals in Near Light. I beat nl-ex-8 cm on my last run of the last day. It forced me to interact with the community more and learn new ways to use my operators. Yes I watched strats but I had to learn what operators I could replace with the ones I have/built. I look forward to taking the time to clear Dosoles Holiday because I know I'm more powerful than I was during the rerun.
I first started consistently playing arknights during sultiferia navis and wasn't able to beat the final stage at that time. I just viewed it as I wasn't ready for that yet kind of difficulty yet and eventually came back to beat it recently. I think the goop mechanic was very annoying but also interesting to play around. I think overall I'm fine with events bringing in somewhat restrictive mechanics since it's only an event but the real issue comes when it put into story chapters
This entire event pushes fast deploy because of this stupid lights
THe issue with Stultifera Navis is not dodge. It's not the no block, it's not the weird boss who OHKO's your ops if you don't remove them from the field after killing them, it's not the passive neural impairment on the netherbrand tiles. It's the fact that there are enemies with dodge AND can't be blocked.
this event has been VERY hard but also i appreciated it. the challenges lets me use more oddball operators to great effect and it feels really satisfying to finally get the clear on a difficult stage
This is by far the hardest event I've played so far. The difficulty spike is insane
At least the stages will be available for whenever you feel like coming back, since this is the rerun
The only thing I hate is NL EX 8 CM those daggers +30% stats from new update in CM makes is way more difficult than last year (tho Im new player from last December) the rest are fairly well made..
@@francopoma2487 I don't think the old content is affected by the CM stat change, otherwise we would know it with all the challenge run so tight a few more hp on a sigle enemy would no longer make it possible.
@@kevinseraphin5456 welp idk if you meant the single enemy like the Blood Knight or the dozens pf daggers going around. I tried E2 aoe ops to deal with it but still failed x) welp I didn't give up yet, I just came up with another idea so I gotta wait for drillls to fill up again thanks for letting me know.
@@francopoma2487 damn right. Even the S stages are relatively easier.. Holy.. I lost too much sanity on that map alone lol
I like this light gimmick but as new player the extra mission is STUPID HARD especially NL-S-3.
Finishing the map is fine, farming the map is..... CAN I JUST SPAWN KILL IT FFS. Yeah clearing it for the first time is fun and challenging, but farming it? I just throw my phones cause it keeps freezing due to how long the map takes to finish for farming
I... I like Near Light so far. The light mechanics are genuinely fun to work around, though that may be in small part due to my penchant for preferring fast redeploy operators. By contrast, I despised Stultifera Navis because, with my play style, the creep was another thing for me to pay attention to -- and, in some cases, a bunch of things to pay attention to. Not only did I have to be aware of the lanes I was holding, but also the points the creep was encroaching on. I seriously felt so overloaded while playing through the late EX stages and S stages that I needed to take breaks not just to get up, move around, and stretch, but to destim and decompress. I felt a massive wave of relief when I got the all clear medal, like I could finally relax.
SN was an incredibly busy event. Looking back, I do not know if I could have called it fun, but I was obviously enjoying myself at the time. Regardless, I do not look forward to clearing Gloomy Shipyard.
As someone who started around Near Light, what I hated on my initial playthrough, and thought was BS was both the Corrosion Snipers and the Viviana clones. Sure it was annoying to have to take maps slow when deploying units, but coming off of Dossoles Holiday and the Carnelian event left me with Carnelian, Watergun Chen, and Mizuki(the absolute goat). I also had built La Pluma to a decent point at the time, and pulled for Flametail, because Nearl was boring. Some of the units that carried me were actually Mizuki, Fang, and the best bird, La Pluma. So when a map had Viviana clones... it was annoying but doable, but the Corrosion Snipers were so infuriating. Just the fact that they can attack from so far away, and remove defense made my few central units crumble. It was even worse cause I didn't have an easy method to deal with them besides throwing Gravel on the field to redirect some shots as Bubble was just a pain. Aside from the light not letting me hit those snipers, it was actually fun to play around.
When Stultifera rolled around, it was a lot easier to go through due to experience and having a lot of units built. The creep forced fun interactions of placing units ahead to slow the spread, and forcing the use of tankier ops to keep the infestation in check. While the dodge bros were annoying, it didn't take long for me to learn that CC made them into jokes as Kjera and Gnosis had come out, and Kjera is my waifu, so you can bet she was in the squad. When I looked into the mechanics more online, and found out that they were weak to silence, that just made building Lappland so much easier to justify considering she has a 5 second passive silence.
Finally, IC... What? People complained about guys who only had dodge for a few seconds, so poking them and running away was a viable tactic? Yea... IC is the easiest event among these three, and I cannot understand why you would complain about the funny cars or lovable robots. Now complaining about not having the Carnelian skin for the event, I would whole-heatedly agree about being upset. And to further dunk on the durins... in normal stages, they never come out in such numbers that a reliable defender and guard combo could hold them off long enough for your snipers and single target casters to sweep up. They weren't even as annoying as the Waregeists, which straight-up demands you have rapid arts damage or have built any of the three poisoners at the time(Ethan, Blue Poison, or Thorns).
Obviously, hindsight is 20/20, and those who started around those events, well I'm sorry you had to deal with Stultifera and Near Light, and hope that IC's gimmicks were fun to mess with. As much as I hate two enemies from Near Light, it definitely was good for teaching players how to position units, and Stultifera was fun in encouraging an aggressive play style. Don't be like me, build Bubble to have someone that can sit there doing nothing on skill while enemies wonder why they're out of motivation and health. Or get lucky and get Hoshiguma... that's an option too
Near Light just needed some ops jumping up and down but that's about it
Stultifera creep however, needed a lot of micro. It doesn't stop it from not being fun (also because Lumen trivialized everything), but as long as the funny 80% dodge dudes don't slip right through my ops I can cope
Difficult stage: Hello
Abyssal Hunter Team: Goodbye 🎉
In the end, you can't bust what's busted
This event is my fav (except EX-8 CM because it's ridiculous), but I do think that the mechanics are significantly harder than in most other events, and that it becomes very noticeable during this event's CC
What do you mean you can take the dodge away in Stultifera Navis ?
The text on the Predators read "Gains Physical and Arts dodge (disabled by certain negative statuses)." They lose it when bound, stunned, frozen, silenced or levitated
Near Light is one of my favourite events from a lore and gameplay perspective. I think the light mechanic is one of the better event gimmicks. Ideal City's car and SN romba were fun mechanics but altered the game in a different way to Near light. Those mechanics added a different aspect to the gameplay being used to assist the operators. The light mechanic limits the players ability deploy which actually made me think about how I should probably use my operators (I should do this anyway but Surtr go brrr). While not beginner friendly I'd argue from a lore perspective all three of those mechanics come from sequel events where potentially in the Devs eyes players have already cleared the previous events. While in reality new players probably aren't in a rush to go back and play the old events if the Devs limited their event difficulty and design to be beginner friendly every event would play the exact same
ah yes i remember when twilight of wolumonde was 1st released
it was frustrating yet still remains as one of my favourite times playing this game
tho what i truly find only frustrating is simply the limited time of events
side story events do get added permanently at some point sure but story collection events are ran once and never again
i enjoy being able to come back to previous challenges no matter if i come back a day or a year later
For me I love the mechanic of Near Light event, makes you think to choose the operator direction, for me I don't like ying yang mechanic of who is real
Ngl, I enjoyed the light mechanics to the point when i started playing normal levels that I still have that mindset and started place placing operators in weird directions without noticing it, I have started playing arknights 3 months ago as f2p but I managed to beat normal event story and cm (2 levels remain for cm), all of the ex ones/easy cm ones, except for boss (impossible for my current level and operators)
Near Light mechanics are my favorite in the game. I really like the light mechanics, and sure it probably feels more like an annoyance for record-chasers, but for most players having to think and being rewarded by funky operator placements is a really fun experience (at least for me)
honestly i like the challenge the mechanic provides and am extra poud when i perfect a map
I dunno why people would complain about Near Light. Funnily enough I seem to have enjoyed it for the opposite reason of the complaints. Dropping down operators all willy nilly is fine and all but there's only so much you can do with 'place defender on lane and have snipers, lords or casters deal with whatever is being blocked'. Now I had to think a lot more, consider my deployment order (Armorless Union Snipers), consider how my tactics would change based on what direction certain ops were facing (like maybe having Gavial reach out from the bottom lane to help deal with the mid lane filled with incoming Candle Knight trainees while still ripping her lane enemies apart and taking heat off the defender I stationed at mid). It was a lot of fun! In the end seeing that completed medal card after failing the event the first time when I was a new player just gave me great big smile of pride
I really hate that they lock stories content behind those ex cm stage on near light, I don't unlock all the info port stories because I just can't clear the stage, I wish the all these ex cm stage were just for medal and flex not for locking stories
I started playing just before Stultifera came out and I haven't even finished SN-10 yet despite playing for more than 5 months. I managed to get all the medals for Ideal City, Dossoles Holiday rerun and now Near Light rerun. Under tides rerun I missed one medal due to SV-EX-6 being impossible for me to clear.
I pretty much hate anything seaborn related now.
Ignoring the perfectly good hole in NL-S-4 hurts my soul
It was certainly hard but fun. Really makes you get creative and think about how you deploy ops and such.
Me: s3 😢 is monster like your greatest fear... Candle!
I just hate how they handle the daily and milestones of the event, so many busywork of just clicking and picking the stuff
I actually liked Stultifera Navis and Ideal City. Near Light not as much, but that's less to do with the light mechanic and more to do with the Lazurite a-holes (though admittedly I'm not terribly fond of the light mechanic either, but it's far from the worst aspect of those maps imo). And sure, the other two events were a bit more restrictive for the average player, but at the same time none of it ever felt impossible for me, even if I did resort to a guide for some of the more difficult stages to retain my sanity (the resource). Admittedly I also love the seaborn and summer event stages so I had some bias going in, but still.
I completely understand but NL cemented my hatred for bosses like the Blood Knight, who are just giant walking statsticks. I much prefer bosses that try to do something fun or weird (ex: IC's Minimalist, who while I don't super like bc his effects make it hard for me to see, still find fairly novel bc Flying bosses are pretty rare, or SN's Endspeaker, who I actually had a fair amount of fun beating, which is rare for me bc I usually get tired of the bosses that appear in 3 sections) then ones that only exist to walk menacingly to box while one-shotting my ops (Well the only boss I dislike as much as him is Manfred, who while technically novel, I do not enjoy any boss that "demands" true damage, even if the canon is free true damage). The light mechanic I don't find the most annoying (that probably goes to LE's light ray puzzles, bc their design felt really half-baked) but I did hate how hard it is to save yourself when you fuck up bc of how punishing it is. Made me feel like I was wasting more practice plans/sanity then I needed to.
Minimalist was indeed a lights show. Both of his atks were flashy, and having the cars running around together with the enemies was a lot for the screen.
@@RewriteKuma for a believer of minimalism, it was very maximalist
Blood knight is the only straight forward boss who rush to blue box instead of taking loop like a truck-kun
I just hate the enemies. Just straight sponges for damage. I like trying to do infinite skills only, but it just isn’t fun in this event.
I'm first time player for NLrerun, and I didn't feel too bad playing it.
Certainly not on the level of Ideal City cars mechanics bad nor SN cancer enemies bad. Though the main reason why I felt like that is because I started right before SN and gotten my first E2 during at the end of first week of the event.
Meanwhile SN asked for specific operators that I simply didn't have and couldn't easily build as a new player. As for IC... it's pretty much the same. My roster was stronger by then and I did manage to finish the event. But I still lacked in arts damage department. Every stage in IC came down to finding an Ifrit lane and using the cars.
For newer account. Event mechanics that ask for particular operators is really painful and frustrating.
As for NL. None of that. The lights are fun to play with and while they might nerf some long range operators, it's not by much. It certainly doesn't say... haha, half of the operators that you build are useless in this event!
this is the first time ive heard of people complaining about ideal city aand its surprising cause ideal city is my absolute favorite event. the car mechanic is so fun and they give you so much customisation.
i do agree about near light being incredibly hard but not because of the light mechanics (its a fun restriction!!!!) but because of how they nerf defenders in challenge modes so godaamn hard (triple costs and slow dp) since defenders in this event are like so essential for almost every scenario
I personally loved all the events listed that people so hate. For round 2, after having gone through NL hard the first time, I love going wild and just destroying the event with Uncle Horse or Horn's flares or whatnot. The cars were really fun because I got to watch things just destroy the enemy if I built my comedy roadways right. The most fun part about the restrictions and conditions they throw at us I think, is figuring out a way to best them and then comparing what you did with friends after just to see how wildly divergent strategies might get.
I recall during SN mostly relying on Blitz, Ash and W and such. A friend just shot them with Fartooth and doubled up on true damage with kalstit, nearl and Amiya. Another friend taught me that Pushes still work even on dodge and shoved lots of them into holes.
There's just so many ways to do things even with restrictions that trying to do something funny or weird and then seeing it work out and then talking about it is what keeps me playing the game. No stage is impawsible with a bit of creativity afterall. That's what gives the game it's koalaty.
Arknights' recent mechanics seem to be trying to challenge the "broken" operators. An enemy can't simply die to 1 or 2 hits from Chalter/Mlynar/Surtr if they had dodge. Perhaps this could be in response to people saying the game is "too easy" or "boring" because of using said operators. The mechanics also bring light to some underused ops because of their specific conditions like how Lappland's silence suddenly became relevant with the dodge mechanics.
Although I like this taking of the spotlight from the meta ops and giving it to some of the wide roster of Arknights, it is kinda sucky that it feels forced. It felt as though you HAD to bring Lappland or Gnosis to clear stages. Thankfully the game offers tools to counteract this (roomba, cars...). This difficulty also made niche clears more amazing. I was absolutely shocked when I saw ILA's clear of Stultifera Navis EX-8 CM with 3* only team, a team that doesn't even have cc or silence or wandering medics to go against the mechanics.
Anyways, it's as you said. It sucks that we have less freedom to clear recent event stages, but it's mostly just coming back to Arknights' strong point of being a challenging game, and when the game gets easy, HG will find ways to kick us in the balls.
I am one of those people you are calling out for IC, I had no issue with the car mechanic at first until IC-8-EX where they are throwing so much dodging Durin at you at once that you are almost forced to use them, same for the S stages and I don't even wanna talk about the cars that can do so much damag to your operators to me there is no middle ground for that, either you like using the car mechanic either you will hate the event.
As for NL I think the mechanic is pretty alright except as you said those damn bow ennemies with global range and you can't do much about it but you can work around that, it can also "nerf" some operators like Dorothy and fartooth but that isn't too much of a big deal either.
And for SN yeah some ennemies are kinda annoying, looking at you the dodgy bois and the tree who can stack up attack and especially the boss can be annoying at first because he have a lot of mechanic but you get around that since the event was 3 weeks.
As someone who started during stultifera, I definitely found it to be a challenging event at the time but I also didn't expect to clear too much. I was just hopeful to get lumen. Since then my accounts grown quite a bit and I didn't have much trouble with chapter 6, ideal city, or this event. I'm fairly confident that a rerun through SN wouldn't be much trouble now and I'm probably at the point where some players end up picking a niche to play in.
All of this to say, when you start and there are annoying mechanics. I just kinda of expect they were outside of my strength range at that time but as you pick up knowledge, exp, and some e2 and good ops the game becomes easy enough for you to navigate that challenges like these becomes welcome imo. Game balance is really tricky though, SSS is a great example where I felt the initial release was hard without certain ops, but the nerfed version feels a bit too easy.
However, i do think the core feeling of "removing freedom from the players" is what a lot of people get frustrated with.
(idk why this is so long, my bad)
Straight up had no idea people were complaining lol
My only problem with the SN dodge enemies is that because their dodge is rng they fucked up my autos a lot
Stultifera navis was so good because it was hard as f*ck and for me at least, that was the fun part!
The only thing I hated in the Navis was the boss and his annoying gimmick being forced to choose 1 of 2 forms for him because the other one will obliterate your operators and usually the sacrificial enemy with the desirable (less difficult) form would spawn so far away from the boss you're forced to take a lot of additional steps with perfect timing to prevent the boss from eating the strongest or both sacrifices
Although I personally don't like the Near Light mechanic, once I figured out where to face my ops, I just get a sigh of relief. That in mind, It's not that bad.
Ideal City and Stultifera Navis though, I loved those. Bringing only a certain damage type is fine, the game does it all the time. Buffs and debuffs exist for a reason, and you can solve the dodge problem by using most of them. Hell, you can just stall (which I'm sure you do ALL the time).
i enjoyed this near light rerun (except lazurites and co) and i started arknights with the stultifera event, and i would say that it was incredibly hard yet i still made it to SN-9 eventually. i didn't expect to get far in it at all since i'm still supposed to be weak in a relatively high end event but it was still fun (the weird tree monsters were awful though). the mechanics were all interesting though since it breaks away from the regular gameplay in my opinion
I actually really enjoyed dusting off my lapland it had been a while I loved Stultifera Navis. I thought 100% phys dodge was annoying to deal with but yea it was just bring arts damage wait out the mobs or silence them so it was bearable. and my biggest complaint about near light is that I was lazy so I had to wait till rerun to actually get all of the story stuff which is 100% on me. personally I would have preferred them to not be anniversary like events as we get a lot of new players I would rather have it after or right before the anniversary but I get why they are placed the way they are.
The one enemy I hate the most is the blue archer they have a whole freaking long range attack and shoot your operators you need a element medic or a regular medic this rerun event is okay for me because this is my first time playing it.
It was certainly an _experience_ for me a month in because man was it wacky how many Gravels and bodies I had to throw the first time making the auto-deploy work as well as in NL-S-3 CM where fire rains from above.
@@cheekywombat9208 well dang gravel just tanking those shot man and on nl-ex-5 is just so annoying how many those archer guys am stuck with nl-ex-5 because those archer man.
I love creep, dodge and light mechanics, but my biggest complain about light one is that some operators just become too uncomfortable. For example Rosa. She on her own can only light up 3 of 13 tiles of her range. Similar thing with AOE and deadeye snipers, fortress defenders, ambushers, chain and phalanx casters. Its making me very upset when my recently m6'd Rosa cant go sickomode without someones help
Thanks for this video! I find dodge experts including Andoain annoying, but you make a great point about the game kind of "encouraging" us to make use of one of the two damage types against those specific enemies when we really only have Physical and Arts since true damage is justifiably rare
I'm surprised people hated Ideal City outside of the dodge experts honestly, especially when the cars had several parts that let you click them less often. I'll plead guilty to hating Stultifera even though it allowed Ceobe S1 to be hilariously effective lolz
Thanks for showing empathy towards newer players and all that, though I do think the game should encourage them to work on, like, Grani and the Knight's Treasure with better newcomer rewards since a lot of newcomers really complain about difficulty
True, that entire event can be played at like, e0 without much struggle, we are missing something like a level recomendation for the side story page
i also think dodge is a pretty annoying mechanic in general, but now i have pozy with module to help out as well x)
>Me liking Near Light because I think so far it's probably the only gimmick that integrated well with Arknights' core gameplay and had a degree of depth and interactivity
I will absolutely 100% complain about the dodge enemies in SN because IMO randomly failing to damage an enemy is consistently the most infuriating mechanic possible and I really can't believe we're still seeing it in 2022-2023. I liked that the game actually gave you a variety of ways to circumvent it, one of which is a universal event mechanic so you're not screwed if you somehow don't have any sources of Bind, Stun, or Silence in your roster, but would it really have been that bad for it to be 90% damage resistance instead of 90% dodge chance? (I mean we all know that the reason they did it like that was so Fartooth's dumb talent would be useful but shhh)
I like it too, but that doesn't tell much, it's very hard for me to not like something in ak. But it's such a design challenge with how much they seem to try to be inclusive with it's players
I think that the S stages are really what gets people for the really hard events. The EX stages are nasty enough, then we have to do even harder stages, that don't really do a lot different to the EX stages.
I really did enjoy Maria Nearl and Near Light, since all the different enemy types have gimmicks, that have room for interesting counter-play, while the light mechanic is just restricting enough to be a challenge, but is simple to manage with some planning.
Navis on the other hand... enemies had (sometimes multiple) nasty and unfair gimmicks on top of great stats, on top of the nasty creep. I would have been a lot happier if they cut either the creep or the stats of the enemies, because both were just too much.
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People were upset about the carts? Really?
Whenever the game becomes slightly difficult in an abnormal way, people seem to freak out and call the event trash and the mechanics bullshit.
I'am a new player that started playing the game a month ago and i'm suffering a lot to beat NL-7 in the event because I must have a Dreadnought guard ( that i don 't have ) at elite 1 50 to beat the stage. That is the kind of things drags me down of the game.
I really dislike the feeling that this game is giving me. It feels like someone telling me "no bro you are to late for these game so you are not allowed to "enjoy" this event and it's story". It's like " hey i'm at the middle of the story, you can't make me miss the other half because i don't have an specific type of operator".
I came from Girls Frontline where we have 3 dificulties for mayor events. 1 for thouse new players so the wont miss the story even if are not up to date with the story and a second for veterans and a third for thouse veterans that must have the best of the best characters and items to beat the stages.
We have that difficulty system in new story stages, you'll see after you progress a bit more. But about NL-7, I don't even know what you would do with a dreadnought, I imagine you're trying to follow a guide? Try something different, there are operators strong enough that you can borrow even at e1 and could clear most of the enemies. Like pudding, passenger, eyja, stuff like that
You don't necessarily need a dreadnought to spawn kill a corrosive archer in NL-7, really. Even a decent-to-strong charger or fast redeploy (not Gravel and probably Kafka as well) can do the role, be it your own or borrowing from someone else.
I opened NL-7 with E1 Lv. 40 Wild Mane S1 to kill the first corrosion sniper. She was at low pot at the time so I couldn't redeploy her in time for the later wave of archer (it was really close), which made me improvise using a guard + a healer.
my main problem with "hated" events are mentioned rombas and cars, mostly because they are easily exploitable, the cars with the freeze module, and rombas with freeze module "gnosis". So i'am not agaist them, but they need a bit more playtest to be more balanced. Also the fact that they are easily exploitable takes even more fredom than dodge mechanics or whatever
if I'm being honest the reason I hate Near Light is literally just the Blood Knight
I just wanted to clear every stage once for the story but then came NL-10 and oH MY GOD I HATE THAT BOSS
because the blood blades, their weird ass paths, the light mechanic, and the level requirement (in the context of my questionable resource appropriation) are altogether way too much for my slow ass brain to even begin to figure out how to play around
like any clear I've ever seen seems straightforward enough but then I remember I either don't have half the ops used leveled enough or don't have them at all
only other event I didn't finish because of mechanics was Stultifera Navis because I really just did not feel like trying to figure out what to do about the boss's weird buff mechanic
literally a mental deficiency issue but that makes me angrier than I would be otherwise because I can't make it less painful with a different mindset
7:28 NO
bring Lappland everywhere with you
she will turn off half the mechanics
she may not always be able to hit enough enemies at once, but you will love her for it
you WILL
I actually enjoy Ideal City so much. I mean, it's such a goofy stage. You literally can beat all the stage with only cars. Never come to my mind that people will hate such a fun event.
I myself enjoyed everything about near light pretty much, good welfare, the ost goes and I actually read the story and it was good. Imo the stages themselves aren't that horrible either besides ex 8 cm, the event was plenty fun for me
stultifera navis may have been painful but god was it sorta fun like playing a dark soul game
i was only able to complete all the stages after a few months because i only start playing the game during the events release
Honestly was surprised that people hated ideal city, all of these events are fun. There's a reason why AK is the dark souls of tower defense, its challenging and rewarding once you cleared it. I play like an ape but i still have fun even though i complain about some of the mechanics but i can understand that new players may find this abit overwhelming but to older players or whale brains. Just eh...
So last time I realized Młynar kills everything in few shwings, but that's not the most busted part of his kit, believe it or not. He literally covers for your mistakes in deployment. Yes. He takes aggro from your medics that you deployed after your tanks. Normally I would be destroyed by those snipers but since Młynar has targeting priority they focus on him and since he has over 4k health those poorly timed medics of mine keep him healthy. It's busted.
It's like playing Dark Souls but when it gets hairy you stop the game and heal yourself, like in Dragons Dogma.
idk Near Light is my favorite big event. And the stuff with the light and darkness is really interesting. Although fighting Blood Knight feels like kind of a pain in the ass due to huge damage and stun.
Tbh NL-S-3 even on cm is easy af for me cuz i can just put mlynar outside as a bait unit cuz he has increased taunt level and have a therapist and saria s3 and s2 heal him. No matter what my deployment order is, the fireball caster and viviana will always target mlynar
I like the idea and concept behind of Stultivera Navis, enemy are unique, Moss tile are serve challenge indirectly, but the experience is so horrible due too bug.
Roomba bug is i considered fatal because Romba is SN game mechanic
there are two bugs :
Roomba w/Extrablock lil handy : Unaffected extra block from little handy, EN Does making in the Boomerang Roomba impossible on majority of enemy.
Roomba Damage Calculation = CN : CC -> Damage, EN is on reverse, making it unreliable option to counter certain enemies, like Predator of deep Azure, where SN-S-4-A/B and SN-S-5 become Tedious thanks to that.
even bigbrain like Kukkikaze and Kyostinv struggle making this low stars guide, oh joy..
"There is so much to see and experience" I mean, the enemies being invis makes it pretty hard to see :c
I think that I find this stage annoying because my Dorothy's bombs clearly would hit multiple enemies, but uh oh, they were in the shadows, therefore somehow untouchable :T
My only gripe on any event is that you can't just use the practice plans as a safety net while clearing. You have to specifically choose to practice the stage then redo the stage without it. I've lost count on how many times I cleared a CM stage with a practice plan only to fail multiple times while doing it for real.
Full sanity refund for new chapters, you the real MVP.
Personal SN enjoyer and kinda a hardcore player here, and I hate NL mechanics to the core.
And I'm speaking of it in a statistical manner: don't get me wrong, the light mechanics narrow down the set of possible build orders drastically. Combined with map design in certain circumstances (looking at you NL-S-2), the "freedom theft" in NL is actually much more absurd than any other, and it gets even worse when considering optimal tactics for harder stages involving its mechanics (EX, S, and even CC#8)
I like the light mechanics, but I hate the global range corrosive snipers
Near light mechanics make it harder but also fun imo.
Also Bloodknight has one of the best visual designs in the entire game, including operators, enemies and npcs.
I just hate the lazerites that’s it
People hated Near Light? It's one of the best event for me. The gimmicks are engaging as hell
As long as they don't have oermsnent dodge im actually fine like in ideal city. But the seaborns in stultivera just makes me go bald. I dont have snyone that can do true damsge besides amiya, and my silaence choice is one raised lappland it kinda pissed me off how i need to borrow a gnosis to finish the last hard stage. I probably can finish it if i work hard but im not smart enough to do it 😢
As someone who has been playing for maybe a bit over a month here and there and is at lvl 48 with no E2 operator yet, I can say it was really challenging and I had to search for guides after NL-5...
But I'm really dumb and I don't have a lot of free time.
You see it in other games so much, people hate challenges that aren't straighforward and/or limit you in one way. I think it's necessary otherwise it'll get kinda stale
Actually I love the mechanics in Nearl Light very much, it's a healthy challenge to work around with visibility and op placement.
What I hate is the sheer dps check that are the later CM stages, especially the one that forced Kyostinv in his low op strat to bring 2(!) of the strongest 6* in the game. Like, what do they test those stages with?? Not 4*-only team for sure. Luckily I have Surtr, so I'm not in the "strong 6*" waiting room and if I borrow myself another [strong 6*]TM I may have a chance for an upper hand in this stage.
We have no confirmation, but there's a strong belief that the game is indeed balanced around 4 stars, but at high level. And even if not, hey, at least it's still beatable with them, so it's fine
@@konundra Yes, but I do admit it was very painful last year, but with time I eventually got better, and this time around it wasn't that big of a deal