#friston-3 arknights

[ultimateumbreon33]

characters i like- 5 old and a new

[leafesol]

Arknights 4th Anniversary announced a new 1☆ Defender, and ya'll know what that means!

*spams Defender tags in recruitment for the next 5 months afterwards to max pot the bitch*

[officialmyshithole]

Running some AK numbers and Chiave+Robots is actually amazingly well done rotation wise, especially with his module. 80% reduction brings robots down from 200s->40s, with their strong deployment effects... i read once that slotting Chiave+Robots is essentially giving him more skills and that's never been more true

Redeploy/Skill Uptime List

Lancet: 40s

Thermal: 40s/3s deploy/8s debuff

Chiave: 45s Blazing Wire Stripper

Friston: 40s/10s buff

Justice/Castle: 40s/20s buff

The biggest issue is that Friston, Justice, and Castle will desync if you let them play out their whole duration, and Thermal needs to be Potential 2/3 for his Fragile to make up for not sticking around to buff Chiave (18/21% fragile vs 15/18% robot out).

Basically, ideal rotation seems to be to dump all robots when BWS is at 40s charge, let 'er rip, and retreat them all immediately after the explosion.

But also Friston has pretty bad uptime and tbh numbers as a skill, Castle and Justice are fairly average... Lancet and Thermal are burst skills.

Chiave S1 has 38/35s rotation and is automatic... but the robots are cheap enough that you don't actually need this dp infusion before you deploy them and especially not on a second round...

It makes me wanna mess around with the team way more and I'm gonna go do that

[oltammefru]

All the robots have basically the same flavor text of "[pronoun] knows that [pronoun]'s a robot."

But meanwhile, Friston:

[arkiwii]

now can we talk about how ho'olheyak sequestred some immortal all knowing god's consciousness in her staff, that then got transferred in a robot as a one star operator in Rhodes Island, and Closure then drew on his face?

yeah we have god in our company and that's how we treat Him.

[burstfoot]

You wish you were me

[bulecelup]

seiyuu joke when you plays the game for years now and the nerve of the dev to make Ikd-san voicing a red robot

[day-at-rhodes-island]

Ada! Don't bully the old man!

[strikerjoshy]

Reblogg if u fuckin love Friston-3.

[essefryu]

The evil voice inside my head trying to convince me to pick up Arknights solely because of the robot voiced by Ikeda Shuuichi

[kindauglypikachuicon]

PhonoR-0 joins the robot team!!!

[officialmyshithole]

2 hours and 350+ recruiment expediters later

[armoredisopod]

Arknights CN 4th Anniversary PVs

New Operators

Melanite, 5* Heavyshooter Sniper

Please check the status of your weapons again to avoid any mishaps on the battlefield.

Silence the Paradigmatic, 6* Welfare Abjurer Supporter

We should explore the meaning of combat, not just let it happen.

Ho'olheyak, 6* Core Caster

Doctor, are you really going to waste your time alone with me, preaching about Rhodes Island's rules and regulations?

Muelsyse, 6* Limited Tactician Vanguard

Rhine Lab, Director of the Ecology Department, Muelsyse, but i don't think there should be such a formal greeting between us, Doctor.

Friston-3, 1* Protector Defender

Greetings, my name is Friston. And yes, "Friston", not "Friston-3".

Operator Skins Update

Total of 9 new skins, 6 new additions for the Bloodline of Combat brand and 3 new additions for the Ambiance Synesthesia brand

Bloodline of Combat

Orchid's Twines of Time - Free Login Event skin

Ebenholz's Eine Variation

Specter the Unchained's Born As One - L2D Skin

Ch'en the Holungday's Ten Thousand Mountains - L2D skin

Kal'tsit's Remnant - L2D + Special Voicelines skin

Justice Knight's Tournament Fantasy Retrofit Kit - Event Reward skin

Ambiance Synesthesia

Irene's Voyage of Feathers

Lumen's Golden Dream

Roberta's Granter of Colors

Announced skin reruns

W, Rosmontis, Nearl the Radiant Knight's Epoque skins

Mountain, Eunectes, Ayerscarpe and Flint's Bloodline of Combat skins

Series I & II Ambiance Synesthesia skins

~74 skins as part of 4th Anniversary Celebration edition of Rhodes Fashion Review

Operator Modules Update

Melanite and Ho'olheyak being part of branches with modules immediately gets their modules

ARC-Y module base effect increases Melanite's ATK to 105% and allows her to ignore Physical dodge when attacking enemies directly ahead

CCR-X module base effect allows Ho'olheyak to ignore 10 RES

Hexer Supporter and Flinger Sniper branches gets 1 module type each

W and Kal'tsit gets their second modules

ART-Y module base effect allows W to ignore 100 DEF

PHY-Y module base effect increases Kal'tsit's healing effectiveness by 15% when healing units on melee tiles

Events and Stories

Lonetrail, a Rhine Lab side story event

Misc Stuff

CN regional dialect voices for Lee, Aak, Waai Fu and Hung (though for some reason the PV claims there are 11 new additions)

Suzuran, Ayerscarpe, Click and Friston-3 added to recruitment

2 new main menu screen backgrounds, Laterano and Rhine Lab

Livestream Stuff

Showcased Muelsyse being a 6* Tactician Vanguard utilizing a special reinforcement unit that you can deploy on melee and ranged tiles, her reinforcement also comes with a unique skill that lets you deploy any operator on it to clone (most of) the op's base stats and applies unique properties depending on whether the operator copied was melee or ranged, her 2nd and 3rd skills play into this and have different skill effects depending on what mode the reinforcement is in

Showcased Ho'olheyak being a 6* Core Caster that reduces the weight of enemies in her range and utilizes Levitate, her 2nd skill is a rapid-fire arts burst with a chance to Levitate enemies and her 3rd skill makes her attack by sending tornadoes down her attack range and Levitating the first enemy it hits + dealing massive arts damage

Showcased Silence the Paradigmatic being a 6* Abjurer Supporter that gives a Sanctuary effect without any HP prerequisite and the effect becomes stronger the lower the ally's HP is + has a talent that automatically heals allies below a certain HP threshold, her 2nd skill allows use of a drone that can give a stronger Sanctuary effect and her 3rd skill allows the first ally that takes lethal damage in her range during skill duration to survive and their HP will not go below 1 for several seconds

Showcased the event mechanic, adjustable artificial gravity that can affect enemy movement speed and ally operators ASPD depending on the direction it's set to and gravity-affected spheres that can block enemy pathing and ram into enemies, the spheres can be pushed by operators dealing enough hits to it or by operators applying Push to it

Showcased the new gamemode Pinch-Out, Experimental Operation

A different take on the difficulty-select challenge gamemode, you can choose contracts of varying difficulty that are placed on a branching path with rewards scattered throughout the paths, certain rewards are only unlocked by clearing all connected contracts or paths required

After completing a run you can start the next run from certain "checkpoint" nodes instead of starting over from the original starting point

The gamemode has daily maps and missions for rewards

Laterano lore video narrated in Latin, showing the history of Laterano's founding and racial conflict, which then cuts to a room filled with unknown technology, a teaser for the next Laterano event

An introductory video for potential surveyors of the Infy Icefields, the video advises people to go through Sami due to ongoing Ursus-Columbia disputes then elaborates on Sami's geography, culture and society. A teaser for IS4: Expeditioner's Jöklumarkar

Showcased a few of IS4's new content

Temperature which presumably replaces IS3's light levels mechanic

Collectable rune tablets that can be combined to gain buffs and special effects, for example the ability to change nodes ahead of you

Ability to scout upcoming nodes with a special device to peek at the contents, the device can break which will prevent you from seeing what the upcoming nodes are at all

Interference in the form of elements and weather that can disrupt your exploration

Teased the next summer event to be located in Siesta after the events of Heart of Surging Flame, with a title "Wanderland"

Showed teasers for more episodes of the Ceobe mini-series in progress and LDA anime

Showed a teaser for a new comic series centered around Angelina and her travels across Terra

Arknights anime adaptation 2nd season: Perish in Frost teaser

Talked about the Terra settings/world building art book and the Arknights Vol. 2 art book, which comes with an exclusive Planter skin for 3* Lava

Showed art for an Arknights tabletop game, planned to release Late 2023

Showed teasers for collabs with ANTA Sneaker and China Aerospace Science

Announced that Rhodes Kitchen Tidbits and Rhine Lab - Records of Originium will get physical book forms

Ended off the livestream with an animation starring the Rhine Lab cast, from the founding of the company to Saria and Kirsten's parting

Destiny 2 collab teaser, said to be a story collection event and will have collab exclusive skins

[marahuyos]

Arknights 4th Anniversary Summary

First part of the stream is that they showed old concept art of the game as well as the concepts for NPCs, the setting, Closure and Kal'tsit etc. I recommend reading more into this once there are translations bc its so interesting to see the thought process behind the world of arknights!!

01 | New Sidestory

Rhine Lab focused event where they appear to focus on the evolution of Terra (and might go even to space??? Endfield moment????)

New stage mechanics where you play catch with a hyper realistic eye that acts as a roadblock

elevator mechanic????

02 | New Operators

6* Tactician Vanguard Muelsyse

Places a blob that doesnt take deployment space and has no melee/upper tile restrictions

It appears that it copies the stats and range of the operator so for example, if you place down a Fartooth, the summon gets her range and her stats as well.

One of her skills makes her make 3 more summons and they can shift(?)

6* Core Caster Ho'olheyak'

Can levitate enemies like Irene but she can also silence them

Her Skill 2 is like Amiya s2 except she randomly levitates and silences 2 enemies

Skill 3 makes her have sniper range and summons three tornadoes per lane.

6* Welfare Abjurer Silence the Paradigmatic

Talent 1: All allies in range have shelter, the lower their HP, the higher the effect

Talent 2: Allies in range with low HP will gain regen, effect doubled for rhine lab operators

Skill 1: ATK up

Skill 2: ASPD up, can summon a drone that enhances talent 1, will self destruct when skill ends

Skill 3: ATK up, talent 1 enhanced, when an operator in range tales lethal dmg, instead keep their HP at 1 for a few secs Can only use a few times per battle, can manually turn off

5* Heavyshooter Sniper Melanite

No known info

03 | New Skins

New Bloodline of Combat skins for Orchid, Ebenholz, Specter Alter, Ch'en Alter, Kal'tsit, Justice Knight

Live2D skins for Spalter, Chalter and Kal'tsit, with kal'tsit being 24 due to new voicelines

04 | Other major updates

Operator module update for Hexer ops (Gnosis, Pramanix, Shamare), Melanite, Rosmontis, Greyy Alter, Ho'olheyak', W, Kal'tsit

Implementation plan for Lee's detective agency ops

New game mode (no translated info as of yet)

apparently its contract-based??? def not the new cc update

New robot Defender Friston-3

Integrated Strategies 4

Based on the Northern Regions of Sami, the least known region in the Arknights lore and the place where actual demons reside in

Santalla might be potentially be the welfare op

These nordic runes might be used to get foresight on the paths???

New boss

Banner update

Basically a wishlist where all operators before Phantom can be chosen. You can ONLY GET the 6* and 5* ops that you've picked.

This banner gives blue certificates which able to get you a specific headhunting pass for this banner as well as buying the ops themselves (note the shopping cart icon on ceobe and astesia)

Destiny 2 Collab

05 | Merch, Anime, etc.

Official Arknights Terra Concept book

Second Artbook (get a free Lava the Purgatory skin if you bought it)

Tabletop game??? Apparently its a collab with China Aerospace Science and Technology Corporation

1/7 scale figures for Kal'tsit, Summer Surtr, Summer Mudrock

Choearth figures and Popmart figures for Amiya

Arknights anime continuation of Episodes 4-6 (misha and frostnova :)))))))

[bulecelup]

Saw your Amuro and Friston-3 art, didn't know you also like Arknights!

Now I'm kinda hoping for a Gundam collab in AK ever since we got Ikeda playing a red mono-eyed robot of all people.

If we do manage to get a collab, which characters would you like to see playable? What class do you think they'd be?

Love your art btw ♡

I have been playing AK for 2 years now? Or 3? I forgot! I rarely draw AK or talk about it much….

Ikr when they announced Ikeda lending his voice I was like wwwwwww??!!??!????? We just need Furuya-san to do the same and we’ll have charmuro chaos all crossing fandom (again) wwwwww

Friston-3 aka Char is Defender (which surprised me a little I genuinely thought he’d be a Guard), I wanna see Amuro as a Guard now….. with the same type like Mlynar or Thorns (because Thorns can really hold a big lane and Mlynar is really powerful), I also want to see others outside UC collabs as well! Like I think Seabook would be a Caster, Judau a Vanguard, Kamille a Defender as well, Suletta a Caster, Miorine a Healer, and many more!

[beornwulf]

@nhaneh so! Arknights is indeed a gacha, although it doesn't actually push that aspect of it very hard. The important bit for this is that it's set in a world with some futuristic magitech but broadly modern-day society.

Spoilers abide below:

Friston-3 is a robot that was recently released as a playable unit, and is as I understand it the remaining fragments of the personality core or something of an ancient machine-upload of a being called Trevor Friston, who had been tasked with watching over the cryo-sarcophagi of the rest of his people in a secret underground cavern.

"Firstborn" is the name used to describe the oldest of the Seaborn, an aquatic hive mind antagonist species who are one of the major threats in-game, and are ancient and mostly poorly understood and abide in the deep oceans.

There feels like there's some thematic adjacencies as well as the name assonance, but I'm not good at wording the details and haven't uncovered all the ingame lore yet myself!

Arknights crack-theory time!

Friston has a *lot* of assonance with Firstborn. Coincidence?