#Arknights: Endfield

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Seeing the Angelina announcement for Endfield has assuaged so many of my fears it's unreal. The phrasing and the mention of Warfarin seems to all but confirm that the game shares the same continuity as regular Arknights, meaning all the similar designs like not!Ch'en and not!Kal'tsit won't just be a cashgrab with no actual lore justification beyond "it's a separate universe lol", they'll likely have actual justification. Angelina's design is also pretty good. I prefer it to her regular Bloodline of Combat skin, it's a lot less visually cluttered without all those belts. After a lot of fairly middling designs they've been announcing, it's good to finally have one that I can say looks pretty good. Here's to hoping that they have a damn good explanation for not!Kal'tsit. Not!Ch'en does have a different family name so I'll begrudgingly accept it just being someone totally unrelated who just coincidentally looks similar in-universe, but that Kal'tsit lookalike has some explaining to do; aside from the lack of shoulder originium crystals and different eye color she's a dead ringer for a younger looking, more upbeat Kal'tsit.

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Wulfgard - Arknights: Endfield

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what are your thoughts on endfield? will you be playing?

I hate it but I will definitely try it out at least.

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Arknights: Endfield Technical Test Impressions

Arknights: Endfield is an upcoming real-time gacha 3D RPG with strategic elements by HYPERGRYPH. The game follows the Endministrator, a highly regarded hero among the people of Talos II, a region stricken with chaos from malicious creatures known as the Aggeloi. After fighting alongside Endfield Industries as a unique specialist, the Endministrator was frozen in a hibernation state. However,…

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Cinematech's Trailer Park - Arknights: Endfield (Multiplatform)

"I'm here for you now, Endministrator."

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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ya know you have to hand it to the recent 3d gacha trend their really making massive strides in the generic bland male self insert that's less interesting then the female option field.

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god sent me the vision of saria with a hoodie at 3 am

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Ok so, funny aah theory I have for Endfield to explain whatever is going on; it's not an alternate universe, but more of a dimensional world. We know with Expeditioner's Joklumarkar (IS4) and Sami icefields lore that dimensional portals and beings do exist. While those seem corrupted, unlike anything we are familiar with, it's likely they are related to how the Ancients arrived to Terra in the first place. I doubt they came from space, considering the sky barrier, so they probably came from another dimension, which is some fucked up shit but interesting.

Endfield could be taking place in exploring another dimension of Terra, where Angelina has been sent - I mean, she has been dispatched here by Rhodes Island, and yet when we see Rhodes's landship in Endfield, it doesn't seem to live its best ship life. It could be interesting if they managed to enter in contact with some interdimensional company and accepted to explore their world because it could bring a lot about the origin of Originium and a possible Oripathy cure.

Interesting, I didn't realize that the demons were confirmed to be extradimensional rather than just from outside Terra. I considered in passing that Endfield might be another dimension as a way of explaining Kal'tsit that isn't Kal'tsit and Ch'en that isn't Ch'en, but I didn't give it any more thought than that until I saw a post speculating that a few shots in the trailer contained a portal, with the Endministrator and that bossfight we saw a glimpse of on one side and Angelina teased at the end of the trailer on the other side.

I hadn't considered the ancients being extradimensional. I had always just assumed their arrival on Terra (or creation by whatever precursor civilization left behind things like the Chernobog sarcophagus and The Law, if you subscribe to that theory) predated the construction of the fake sky. But given the gate in Sami it's definitely possible they could have arrived that way, after that fake sky was already a thing.

And I really have no idea what is going on with the suspended Rhodes Island landship crashing into a tower of Babel, or that statue of Patriot. They both had the same white-grey stone texture and color to them, but otherwise I have no idea what to make of them. If Talos-II is in a separate dimension, maybe they're aspects of Terra leaking through into Talos-II? but for it to be those highly specific things at that scale without any other things showing this is a wider phenomena, that wouldn't make a ton of sense imo, so I don't really have a guess I'm confident in.

I'm somewhat split on the alternate dimension theory. I vastly prefer it to there just being no lore or story connection at all, and thankfully the Angelina announcement has ruled that out. But I think Endfield and Arknights being in the same universe has more interesting potential than separate dimensions, because it forces them to give more concrete and specific explanations for things rather than being able to handwave away things by going "oh that's just this dimension's Kal'tsit don't worry about it".

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Fjall - Arknights: Endfield

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Endfield news not really after eons, finally.

Also.....is that young Kal'tsit?????