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armoredisopod Ā· 26 days ago
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Arknights Thank You Celebration 2024 PVs
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New Operators
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Figurino, 5* Merchant Specialist
I have a lot to learn, and right now, i'd like to start by making a new suit.
Crownslayer, 6* Welfare Executor Specialist
"Crownslayer", that's the name we're familiar with, let's keep it.
Vulpisfoglia, 6* Pioneer Vanguard
I appreciate the acknowledgement. But you know this means in the future the people who are hunting me for bounty will come to Rhodes Island first. Will that be fine?
Lappland the Decadenza, 6* Limited Mech-Accord Caster
Is this your way of trying to get me to settle down, or do you also think this game needs more excitement...
I just can't guess you, no wonder i like your trust in me!
2 new operators to the voucher shop
Contrail, 4* å·”ē©ŗ者 (Air Patrol) Specialist
Philae, 5* ęœ¬ęŗé“å« (Primal Protector) Defender
Operator Outfits Update
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Total of 6 new outfits, 2 new additions for the Cambrian brand, 1 new addition for the Epoque brand, 2 new additions for the Test Collection brand and 1 new addition for the 0011/Tempest brand
Cambrian
At the Warm Velvet Corner - Warmy
Travel Freely - Sussurro (Login Event)
Epoque
Il Segreto Della Notte - Texas the Omertosa (21 OP)
Test Collection
Allmind As One - Executor the Ex Foedere (24 OP)
The city lights up. I can sense everyone's presence, and everyone's absence. We are togetherā€”ā€”ā€” as one "Laterano".
Diversity Oneness - Virtuosa (24 OP)
Please stay, Sankta. Please tell me, is the Laterano of now a place that is connected to the rest of the land?
0011/Tempest
Ignis Fatuus - Lessing
Lessing's outfit will be up for sale during ZwillingstĆ¼rme im Herbst Retrospect
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Announced outfit reruns
Young Branch - Muelsyse
Red Countess - Skadi the Corrupting Heart
Operator Modules Update
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All the new operators (except the red cert shop ops) being part of branches with modules immediately get their modules
FUN-X module base effect increases the starting damage of Lappland the Decadenza's drones to 35% of her ATK
SOL-X module base effect gives Vulpisfoglia +8% ATK and DEF when blocking
EXE-X module base effect makes it so retreating Crownslayer refunds 80% of her current DP Cost
MER-X module base effect reduces the DP drained by Figurino's trait effect
Ritualist Supporter branch gets 1 module type
Lessing gets his second module
DRE-Y module base effect allows Lessing to survive a single fatal blow, healing back to full and gaining +30 ASPD at the cost of -60% Max HP, this effect only activates once per deployment
Angelina and Rosmontis get Integrated Strategies specialized modules
These modules' effects are unknown at the time of writing
Events and Stories
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I Portatori Dei Velluti, a Siracusa side story event
Put on your masks and dresses, the show is about to begin in the streets.
Come on, don't be boring - you're probably the least "Carnival" of the bunch!
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Stronghold Protocol, limited time autobattler gamemode, opens during the third week of I Portatori Dei Velluti
ZwillingstĆ¼rme im Herbst Retrospect, scheduled after I Portatori Dei Velluti
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Operator Archives update for Lessing, Jieyun, Schwarz, Sora, Totter and Vigil
Misc Stuff
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New QoL changes
Added the ability to have preset base loadouts that you can easily swap between
Added the ability to instantly send every exhausted operator into dormitories with one button
Max Sanity cap increased by +45
Refilling sanity using Originite Prime will refill 135 sanity regardless of level/max cap
Added the ability to instantly move to required lower materials when crafting and a button to move back the higher tier material that required it
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Mountain, Kafka and Pinecone added to recruitment
Bagpipe's [Queen, No.1] outfit will be available in the certs shop to players that don't have it
Livestream Stuff
Showcased Lappland the Decadenza, a hyper offensive 6* Mech-Accord Caster with potent self buffs and powerful debuffs
First talent makes her stronger the longer she stays on the field, getting the following buffs in order: increased drone damage cap, ability to inflict Silence, gains more drones
Second talent increases the initial SP of all [Siracusa] operators when she's in the squad
Skill 1 has a passive effect that immediately gives her an additional drone, when the skill activates she gains ATK, releases her drones to attack enemies and her drones will attack idling enemies anywhere on the field
Skill 2 expands her attack range, increases her ATK, gives her more drones and releases her drones to attack enemies randomly within range, her drones have a chance to inflict Panic
Skill 3 increases her ATK and gives her more drones, then releases special drones that actively seek out and hunt enemies, the special drones inflict Panic upon reaching a target and locks onto them; enemies near the drones will have decreased movement speed and take Arts damage every second
Showcased Vulpisfoglia, a 6* Pioneer Vanguard with a strong battlefield presence
First talent makes her attacks deal additional Arts damage for a few seconds after the first time hitting them
Second talent increases the natural DP regeneration by a small amount and lets her recover HP when she hasn't taken damage for a few seconds
Skill 1 is a power strike skill that makes her next attack deal Arts damage and generate some DP, this skill can store charges
Skill 2 lets her immediately deal Arts damage in an area in front of her, Slows the hit enemies and generates some DP. If the enemies were already under the effects of Slow they will be Stunned instead, this skill can store charges
Skill 3 immediately generates DP, expands her attack range, increases her ATK, gives a massive decaying ASPD boost, allows her to attack enemies equal to block count and each attack briefly Stuns the hit enemies. If she defeats any enemy during the skill she will gain Camouflage at the end of the skill that lasts until the next skill activation
Showcased Crownslayer, a 6* Executor Specialist with a unique disruptive kit
First talent sprays a smokescreen on the 8 surrounding tiles around her during skill duration, reducing the Physical and Arts Hit Rate of ground enemies in those tiles
Second talent lets her deal increased Physical damage to enemies that have not landed a hit on her
Skill 1 gives her increased ATK and some amount of Physical and Arts Dodge
Skill 2 stops her from attacking upon deployment, makes her less likely to be attacked and increases the amount of Physical and Arts Hit Rate the smokescreen decreases, when skill ends she will deal a certain % of ATK as Physical damage to all enemies within range
Skill 3 increases her first talent range, gives her Invisibility and sets her Block Count to 0, every few seconds she will appear to attack an enemy within the talent range dealing a certain % of ATK as Physical damage and Stunning them for a few seconds
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Showcased the event mechanic, a fireworks machine that will apply effects on a number of tiles around it when activated
While the machine is active, operators on those tiles will take periodic damage and cannot be healed but will not have their HP go below 1, enemies on those tiles will take constant damage
Players can additionally customize which tiles will be affected by the fireworks machine and have it apply additional bonus effects in the event menu
Showcased Contrail, an experimental 4* of a neat new branch å·”ē©ŗ者 (Air Patrol), a Specialist branch that consists of operators that have 2 Block Count and utilizes the new status "Takeoff"
Takeoff: Does not block ground enemies and will not be attacked by ground enemies, can block aerial enemies
S1 makes her takeoff immediately upon deployment, expands her attack range, increases her ATK and gives her some Physical Dodge
S2 makes her takeoff when activated, expands her attack range, increases her ATK, lets her attack 2 targets at once and is able to attack an additional aerial enemy and her attacks inflict Slow to aerial enemies
Showed footage of the new base loadouts feature
Work rooms and Dormitories are now in separate tabs
You can set up to 3 loadouts for each individual room and press a button to immediately swap out exhausted operators, there is also a button to immediately do this in every room all at once
Showed the button that immediately sends all exhausted operators into the dorms
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Teased even more base QoL features planned for the next Sui sibling event update
Expanded the Reception Room and added the ability to decorate it
Added activity rooms, operators assigned to this room can be manually controlled and move around the base
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Announced the ability to register your birthday, players will receive gift furniture on their set birthday and operators have special birthday voicelines
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Announced the ability to have a list of rotating assistant operators that change every day
Announced the ability to make loadouts for the main menu background/UI theme/assistant operators for quick switching
SSS will get a skip feature, uses the same PRTS Proxy Cards used for annihilation skip
The older SSS maps will become playable again
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Stronghold Protocol, limited time autobattler gamemode
In the gamemode the player will have to prepare their squad and operators before each battle, the player can hire additional operators and have multiple copies of them deployed or combined into a higher tier of that operator
Players can hire reserve operators should they lack usable units and also hire up to 8 friend support operators
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Teased the next event involving Thorns and the history of alchemy in Iberia
Announced some kind of mini game collection "Poly Vision Museum"
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Announced the second expansion update for IS#5
A 5th ending exploring the story of an alternate universe Amiya
The ability to share seeds of runs you completed to other players, completing a seeded run will not unlock higher difficulty/new relics/etc
Max difficulty increased beyond 15
New starting squads
New collectibles and thoughts (IS5 gimmick items)
Teased Arknights anime season 3 [RISE FROM EMBER]
Announced U-Official mini series
Announced Ambience Synesthesia 2025: Best Song Award, the song lineup featured in the concert will be decided via community polling
INVESTIGATED TERRA lore video covering the history and development of Originium on Terra and the technology that sprouted from it narrated by Kal'tsit
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ailusaur Ā· 3 months ago
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I think I hauve covid
Iā€™m so so so so hyped she got a second skin, this one is awesome and Iā€™m so glad to finally see her in a different color, the purple is great. I still feel like her default E2 art canā€™t be beat but Iā€™m 100% buying this one either way lmao. Obsessed with her bigass feathers and also the fact that she cut her hairā€¦ oh man AND sheā€™s getting a second module which means more lore. Iā€™m really excited for the DunMeshi collab but to me this is now the Category 5 Irene Event fr
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willowcreeklesbeans Ā· 1 month ago
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WEā€™VE GOT CN NEWS GAYMERS
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October 26 is the 5.5 Anniversary Livestream!!
My Personal Hopes~ :
- LAPPY PLS I BEG
- RED???? MAN IDK
- HELL POSSIBLY CROWNSLAYER???
- Suzu mom introduction!
- If that ugly man is on the banner you will see me on the news (NEGATIVE)
- WOLF LOREEERRE
- Adam gubman track pls and tyyyyyy
See yā€™all in uh, less than 10 days Jesus Christ šŸ˜­
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nyantodamax145 Ā· 5 months ago
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Iā€™m losing my mind HOLY SHIT
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bentosandbox Ā· 10 months ago
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YUXIA BONK
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the beginning of the skin flavour text is something like 'replica of a Lungmen VIP's childhood dream' do you think she larps in her spare time
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leithanienwnt Ā· 7 days ago
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They're the same picture
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snowlilly Ā· 5 months ago
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What New Year girl. It's July
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astranauticus Ā· 1 year ago
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stultifera navis rerun AKA thinking about Iberia hours again because a lot of the Iberians have such fascinating relationships with the concept of home but specifically Thorns and Lumen are eating at my brain. like where do you call home when the place that is your home Just Fucking Hates You? Elysium's rewinding breeze specifically makes a point to hammers home how differently Iberia treats its Liberi and its Aegir
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(which is especially interesting since this comes right after a conversation where Purestream commented on how despite Leizi being a high ranking government official, there are still some experiences that are universal for all Yanese people - because the experience of what Iberia itself is like isnt universal for all Iberians)
But all that being said, Thorns also straight up states that Aegir is not his home, and yeah, how could it be? How could a place you've never been to, never truly known, ever be your home? How could it ever feel like a home?
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so where do you go when the place that you are from hates your people and the place your people are from is completely unfamiliar and alien to you? Thorns' answer at the end of the conversation with Aya is: my home is where i chose it to be. my home is where there are people I care about and people who care about me
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in the complete opposite direction, Lumen's oprec asks: why do you still stay in a place that wants you gone? because the people of Gran Faro like Jordi well enough but when push comes to shove, they will want the only Aegir in town gone
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and yet, when Rald the messenger offers him a chance to leave Jordi turns him down and when he's forced to escape Gran Faro after the people there literally try to send him to his death (or worse) at the hands of the Inquisitors he keeps trying to go back because like everyone in stultifera navis, Jordi is clinging to his own dreams of a golden age
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but the shape of that dream is unique to every character and for Jordi, his dreams are deeply, inseparably bound to the Eye of Iberia, the legacy his parents left behind
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and it's this dream of becoming someone great, of bringing about that golden age that his parents devoted their lives to help create that ties Jordi to this nothing town because despite everything, despite the mistrust of the townsfolk and the hostility of the Inquisition and the danger from the ocean, he simply cannot leave it behind
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(or, because i personally dislike the official translation,)
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"I just see this place as my home"
so yeah. not sure what overall point i was trying to make here i'm just. deeply in love with these stories about chosing what is and isn't your home, of saying you will not call a place your home because it has given you no reason to or saying you consider a place your home even though it has given you every reason not to. deeply unwell about them <3
#arknights#asto speaks#not much of an essay writer i just keep thinking about them and i need to force other people to think about them too#thorns story fucks me up bc like. this whole almost found family adjacent idea of like#maybe home isnt something decided by your birth but something you can chose based on what truly matters to you#it just gets to me. i guess.#jordi gets to me in a completely different direction there's nothing personal about it i just find his story *fascinating*#just a guy. a completely normal guy. an absolute nobody caught up in these dreams of greatness while also fully aware of his own normalcy#but never letting either of those overshadow the other. never losing that self awareness or that fuckin obsessive determination#god. what a Character#i love jordi so much like genuinely#i joke a lot about him being just a Guy but thats also kinda like the best thing about him#the fact that he is the way that he is and does all the things he does despite being just a Guy#gently holds#for context i was so hyped about new iberia lore when sn was announced i read the whole thing as soon as it dropped on cn server#cuz someone uploaded all the story sections to bilibili right after it came out#and 'ꈑåŖę˜Æꊊčæ™é‡Œå½“作č‡Ŗå·±ēš„ę•…ä¹”啊' fucking hit me SO HARD#in like the greater context of elysium demanding to know why hes risking his life in like 5 different ways to return to gran faro#because yeah jordi just doesnt want to leave his home but like we the audience knows the full *weight* of what that home means to him#and the weight of the dreams that made him chose to see Gran Faro as his home and to refuse to let go of that#thats why i like the original a lot more than the translation i think like it really emphasises that active *choice*.#this is the place jordi has *decided* to see as his home and he knows what that means and what it means to him#side note the part on thorns might not actually age well depending on whether hg decides to ever release more aulus lore#i mean i'll gladly take the L if it means more aulus and/or thorns lore like#i just wanna know what (if anything) is tying him to iberia yknow#ak#iberiaposting
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oltammefru Ā· 10 months ago
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I like Shu's character and visual design a lot but so much of her gameplay design is stupid in a way that I feel like bodes pretty poorly for the future of the game.
Here's her talent 2. It's really good and also kind of really stupid.
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Specifically the "when there are 4 Sui Operators in the squad" part. It's kind of absurdly fucking good. +12% ATK is a lot and +1 SP / 4 seconds is also a lot, especially when it applies to all skills that require SP, and not just auto-recover ones. The fact that it only requires them to be on the squad and not necessarily deployed is stupidly good, you don't even have to deploy them to get a massive buff to everyone. Almost all the "give buffs just by being on the squad lineup" talent effects are relatively small in numerical effect and relatively conditional (often times only affecting a single class or faction) but this one provides an effect that is universally useful and has obscenely good numbers on it. And it requires you to have 4 specific limited ops from a faction for which there are currently only 5 playable units for! If you want to make use of this effect and currently don't have any of the Sui or you just recently started playing or any other reason, well, you better have 1200 pulls!
But wait! There's more bullshit.
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(I don't really trust the EN AK wiki, but I do trust prts.wiki and they seem to corroborate this, although to be fair I am reading google translated text.)
They made it so the 3rd part of her talent 2 doesn't work if you borrow her from Support. That's right, even if you wanted to make use of her talent 2 3rd effect and have every other Sui in the game but you got unlucky on pulls and didn't want to spend 300 entire pulls for a single character, you can't! Fuck you!
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kc5rings Ā· 1 year ago
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The Sanguinarch using an eldritch combination of ancient magic and vampiric rituals to turn a catgirl into an heir to the Sarkaz Throne
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armoredisopod Ā· 6 months ago
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New Event PV
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New Operators
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Underflow, 5* Welfare Sentinel Protector Defender
I'll intercept the tides, it is Aegir's duty to stay ahead of the land.
Lucilla, 5* Hexer Supporter
Where's the one that dares disturb the ocean's currents?
Ulpianus, 6* Crusher Guard
Not everyone can welcome victory, but everyone must bear the price of failure.
Operator Outfits Update
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Total of 4 new outfits, 3 new additions for the Epoque brand and 1 new addition for the 0011/Yun brand
Epoque
For the Banquet - Melanite
Scribing - Penance
I Am The Tides - Gladiia
0011/Yun
Fragrant Pace - Grain Buds
Announced outfit reruns
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Series V 0011/Tempest outfits (Fartooth, Shalem, Paprika)
There They Be - Saga
Operator Modules Update
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Underflow and Lucilla being part of branches with modules immediately get their modules
SPT-X module base effect reveals invisible enemies within Underflow's attack range
UMD-X module base effect lets Lucilla inflict 10% Enfeeble for 2 seconds to enemies she attacks
Medic Amiya gets her module
INC-X increases Amiya's healing on each attack to 60% of damage dealt
Hunter Sniper branch gets 1 module type
Ifrit, Gladiia and Penance get their second modules
The base effect of their new modules are unknown at the time of writing
Events and Stories
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Path of Life, an Aegir side story event
The endless array of lights flashes in sequence like waves of scales, persistently lighting up the darkest abyss.
Gravity fields distorts the texture of the ocean, and the city's ships slowly open their mouths to you as they enter and leave the harbor.
Come forth, this glorious civilization, familiar yet alien, is inviting you to witness its choices for the future.
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Hortus de Escapismo Retrospect, scheduled after Path of Life
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Operator Archives update for Lucilla, Coldshot, Lutonada and Deepcolor
Record Restore update for Lingering Echoes
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thegreatyin Ā· 7 months ago
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god. zwillingstĆ¼rme is tomorrow
there's nothing else to this post i just. so much feels like it's happened this week. and we STILL have zwillingstĆ¼rme tomorrow. does anyone know if we have zwillingstĆ¼rme tomorrow. i think we might have zwillingstĆ¼rme tomorrow
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willowcreeklesbeans Ā· 4 months ago
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My thoughts on the new AK Summer event !!
First up letā€™s talk about my Favorite parts! For exampleā€¦..
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YOU. Sheā€™s a Nightzmora!! WE ARE GETTING MORE MARE LORE
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Her kit also seems super fun!!
Next up! Miss Pepe!
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Our first Earthshaker! She has another interesting kit! (And an all guard atk up bonus?!)
Then thereā€™s this guy, who I donā€™t care about since, well, male. But he has melanin! YIPPEEE
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Lastly, theirs Papyrus! I like her color scheme! Happy that Paprika isnā€™t alone anymore!
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They are defo wearing their heart on their sleeve with the inspo LMAOO
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What a cool banner manā€¦
BUT YOU GUYSā€¦.
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WE ARE SOOOO GETTING HER AGAHSJSKSKXKDSKAS IM SO HAPPY
We are getting a TON of Cool skins too!
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Andā€¦SPECIAL IS ONLY MODS?! THEY ARE CHEAP TOO..SO COOL
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Annnnd thatā€™s it! Hoora-
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Ah. Right. Sooooo this event takes heavy inspo from SPECIFICALLY Egypt šŸ‡ŖšŸ‡¬.
In light of uh, recent events, thereā€™s been a greater conversation about darker skin representation in these games when their locals are based off of places where people of color thrive! Itā€™s a good conversation to have! Though I gotta admit a lot of the nuance of these conversations gets lost with everybody jumping to whack the beehive. Which is very unfortunate. To Put my two cents on it as a black woman, I usually care heavily about these conversations after all they usually about me or people like me! Especially when characters are based off of real people ,so, where does that leave this event? Under normal circumstances, Iā€™d be a lot more up in arms if this had took inspiration from literally any other place on the continent, but I gotta be honestā€¦
Im not going to bat for people who donā€™t claim me. And donā€™t want to either. šŸ¤·šŸæā€ā™€ļø
Itā€™s as simple as that, Would it have been nice to have more darker skin characters? OF COURSE. We are even set to receive one in a future event! But Iā€™m seeing a lot of people ready to swing on my behalf when the country in question wouldnā€™t šŸ˜­ which is unfortunate. Non-black people especially too which, uh, we donā€™t have time to go over my opinions on that. That being saidā€¦
IF PEOPLE ACTUALLY EFFECTED BY THIS ARE UPSET, THEY HAVE A RIGHT TO BE SO LET THEM BE. BUT PLEASE DONā€™T GET OFFENDED ON MY BEHALF šŸ˜­
Iā€™ll be heading back to my hobbit hole for now till the next update drops cuz socials are a nightmare rn! Kachow!!
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theabysscomeshome Ā· 4 months ago
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For those who don't know, there are two difficulty modes in Reclamation Algorithm 2. The default is Challenge Mode, but you can change it to the easier Standard Mode by clicking on the little arrow circles next to the enter button. There is no difference in rewards gained between the two modes.
Later on there will also be a casual mode, which makes combat optional.
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besiegedhunter Ā· 2 months ago
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Lappland's CN introduction and Red.
So this is an interesting one that I've struggled to talk about for awhile but is quite interesting to me because it just seems to me to have some grander implications to it. Of course this being about Lappland's CN introduction.
Now it must be said that these CN introductions do hold some outdated information but also some information is the most we get on some topics or potentially spoiled future plot points. If that doesn't deter you then this could extrapolate on how Lappland came to join Rhodes Island and potentially a secret individual who's keeping tabs on her as well as has an interest in Red, possibly holding some implications on her background.
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This is the google translation of Lappland's CN introduction and immediately what's curious about it is the fact that Lappland's information was gotten through exchanging Projekt Red's. The question being 'Who could want Red's information?'
And I don't think it's information that Red has gathered. You see in one of the images that the information is labelled Red.zip and lower down is Lappland's voiceline about Red:
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Another thing I want to mention about this is it's highly unlikely that this is Lappland herself exchanging this information. For one her voiceline here lacks any familiarity or real knowledge about Red. But our current lore, it's unlikely for Lappland to realistically know Red either or for anyone else to for that matter.
That's what's so curious about this: who could even know Red exists to want information on her?
So let's break this down some more:
This says records from three black squares. Now that's commonly how the HR Director is referred to but for example Red's files display both Kal'tsit and Ascalon's names being hidden behind black squares. That said them having access to Red's information to give should mean this source is a member of Rhodes Island and honestly probably someone in a high position.
Then assuming this is a member of Rhodes Island, they talk about Lappland's information like it's new to them. There's no recognition that she is already a member and it being "unexpected" probably would be less so if Lappland is a member already. As this is her introduction and her information, maybe it's possible this file is like the ones shown when you recruit an operator and this is or is a step in recruiting Lappland to Rhodes Island.
Then, similarly to how the person who exchanged Red's information had to be a member of Rhodes Island, whoever is exchanging Lappland's information would have to be in the position to and assuming this is or leads into her recruitment, who is a position to have her information or have her join Rhodes Island?
And so that's our information: who would be interested in Red's information and who could have Lappland's information or have her join Rhodes Island?
Who is this?
So as far as who would be interested in Projekt Red we really only have one person with any concrete evidence and that is Bernardo Bellone. It's actually confirmed in the text that Bernardo knows of Red and that she is a part of Rhodes Island:
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He has the motivation to be keeping tabs on her as well, being a Fang he would be targeted by Red in the least and so should keep tracks of her whereabouts as well as Zaaro likely wanting to know the positions of the other Fangs.
However I think that this falls apart when it comes to Lappland because Bernardo has no hold over her. In theory he could gain the information on her but what good would it do to give to Rhodes Island? And assuming that her information leads to her joining he would have no power over that.
Also I don't think that Bernardo in his infinite ability to scheme ever considered Lappland to be one until she made her appearance in Il Siracusano and started making her own moves. As is pointed out:
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The phrasing definitely implies that he didn't foresee Lappland's appearance in Volsinii and improvised so where he is the one character who would want information on Red that we know of, he realistically isn't who we're looking for.
So thinking about this from who could have information on Lappland and could in theory get her to join Rhodes Island, what are the options there?
Well once again we're only really left with one option. Sure Alberto could be one but he's been cut off from Lappland. No, the only person that it could be is Signora Sicilia. The Head of State for Siracusa and the Godmother.
To go back in time a bit. When Giuseppe Texas killed his Father Salvadore and declared independence from Sicilia's family system she ordered a purge on the Texas family. This would be the earliest point we know of Lappland working for her as she led the Saluzzo's on that day. Of course the events transpiring having her be exiled from the Saluzzo family.
We next see her in Code of Brawl. When Signora Sicilia has exiled the Sicilian family and it's revealed in Wolf and Wolfpack that she sent Lappland to deal with them. Later in Il Siracusano it's revealed that Sicilia invited Lappland to join the Bocca al Lupo, her own elite force although Lappland refuses.
As Code of Brawl was one of the earliest events and Sicilia is mentioned by name then it can be assumed she was planned early on. She's also the only character who has any semblance of control over Lappland and who would have information on her. For example look at Lappland's archive 4:
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Rhodes Island gained from a similarly classified source information about Lappland. However this isn't about anything she's done but the dangers of working with her and alludes to knowing her past and her quite well.
The previous Archive File mentions random reports and eyewitness accounts. It has an classified log from Kal'tsit and for fun, in one of Suzuran's files we're alerted that she and Lappland have history. This log is very different from all of them but not necessarily the one from the CN Introduction.
Further to this, at the end of Wolf and Wolfpack a representative of Signora Sicilia meets with the Rat King after the events of Code of Brawl with the Sicilians and Lappland in this event itself. One part is of note:
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Signora Sicilia is expressly keeping an eye on the both of them, likely doubly so with Lappland. It's strange then that she would be fine with Lappland joining Rhodes Island, travelling all across Terra and being somewhere she realistically wouldn't have eyes.
However if this is her than it can be assumed that either she got what she wanted out of the deal which is this itself or there are more to the deal. Perhaps Rhodes has been given express orders similar to the Rat King in exchange for having Lappland join. Or the simple fact that Lappland suffers from Oripathy and so Sicilia wants to protect this asset of hers.
Regardless it's very probable to me that she knows Lappland joined Rhodes Island and that there may be more to this than we're led to believe.
So then. Regardless of the extent of this, I do feel Sicilia is the most likely person to have Lappland's information and exchange it with Rhodes. But that's just one side of the equation. What about Projekt Red? Why would Sicilia want information on her? Is there anything that backs that up?
There's no evidence that Sicilia is interested in Red. However Sicilia in the least knows about the Signori's game:
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So on one hand she may just be keeping tabs on the Signore dei Lupi's game and somehow learnt of Red being on Rhodes Island. But I'm unsure about that. She doesn't mention Bernardo being a Fang, focusing on his beliefs and actions. She doesn't address Lunacub either or make any mention besides on the Signori.
She kind of dismisses the Signori although Emperor says she would have acted but let him do it. Regardless she didn't stop Bernardo nor make any comment on him being a Fang so I'm unsure if she's actually keeping tabs on Red because of it, especially considering how little Red could even effect the order of Siracusa.
Conclusion
It's unknown whether we can expect this to be a plot point or say recycled into a similar plot point that will appear later in the Siracusa story. I do think Sicilia is the most likely person for both Lappland's CN introduction and Archive File 4 however, regardless if the CN introduction is relevant still.
As for Sicilia and Red, who knows really. Red's past is very unknown but if you consider the effect that Texas had on Siracusa when she left, becoming a myth, and the importance of families in Siracusa it's very possible that Red might be a significant person. That or Red made an impact before she joined Rhodes Island.
Realistically I feel there is nothing in this. That Red's past could very well be important but Sicilia caring? I can't see it based on the information that we have at present but the possibility is there.
And Sicilia and Lappland's relationship is very interesting and I'll take any chance to talk about Siracusa so thank you for reading!
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silicacid Ā· 1 year ago
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doctor: i want hateful avenger
kaltsit: we have hateful avenger at home
hateful avenger at home:
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