Starting off with

Fangyi Combat Demo

To Bloom Official Comic

>To Bloom Official Comic

With the proper Pengmin.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

Fangyi Operator Story

Well! The new patch is online and the servers will come back up tonight after I go to bed. But Zhuang Fangyi is on the banner.

And I already use an electric team. I am not big on spending cash on gacha, but I have to admit I've really been enjoying this game and it might be worth it.

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>Well! The new patch is online and the servers will come back up
>tonight after I go to bed.

Yup. No Rossi for me. :(

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Got a Tangtang dupe. Probably means hard pity before getting Fangyi, but I've got time to try for that.

And the arsenal roll gave me Rossis weapon, so adorable wolf girl is now even more deadly.

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Yeah, I didn't get lucky on Fangyi. I had to go all the way to hard pity. Fortunately she's the first character I really spent resources on, so I had plenty of free pulls. Didn't have to pay much to finally get her.

On the other hand, I pulled her weapon on the second batch of 10, so hey, there's some luck.

Just waiting right now on some Hetonite components to get her armor together, and it's party time.

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For someone with such a fundamentally cheerful and helpful personality, Chen seems to have an unusual number of enemies.

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Some people are jerks like that.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

>For someone with such a fundamentally cheerful and helpful
>personality, Chen seems to have an unusual number of enemies.

Perhaps it's karma for not having to deal with all the emotional baggage that Grandma Ch'en got saddled with.

wheels - 10 years of cleaning (mild spoilers for the fight and boss that closes the main story in the current Wuling update)

At The Wake of Spring OST

Wake the Sea

Put a fair bit of time refactoring my bases after 1.2, now that we're closer to final recipes. Created a blueprint for Xiranite but mostly handplaced everything else.

Blueprinted Xiranite on the left, leading to crucibles and then SC Battery production in the center. Cuprium shredding, planters, and component production on the right. Back left is a temp flex area, right now handling some marginal battery overflow as well as the event recipe.

Valley sub PAC is simpler...

4 Xiranite blueprints and a deactivated 1/2 rate Yazhen C line. That can be picked up and probably a 5th Xiranite line fit in if I need it, but I don't think I will. Hidden in the back is also powder production for the Depot crates.

There isn't enough height to get a good picture of the Marker Stone PAC but it's doing the Hetonite production and would be doing Heavy Xiranite normally if not for the event. Instead it's doing single Xiranite to fractional event item production.

Goddamn, that is gorgeous. I have much the same production that you do, but I would have to pick up and rearrange everything to get much other than the incomprehensible spaghetti pipelines I currently have.

It would have helped a long time ago if I'd realized that Protocol Stashes are NOT Easy Stashes and I could have a triple storage input literally anywhere I wanted! I only realized that this morning, but at least that now means I can have completely autonomous buckflower/sandleaf generators anywhere I want, with no connections to a depot loader or the PAC.

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Well, the second phase of the crafting event just started, and all I'll say is, the payout for the new item had better be spectacular. The mats needed are obnoxious.

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>Well, the second phase of the crafting event just started, and all
>I'll say is, the payout for the new item had better be
>spectacular. The mats needed are obnoxious.
>
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Shouldn't actually be that bad. You just trade your Phase 1 production Xiranite wise back into Heavy Xiranite (hopefully you didn't blow up your production previously), then tap your Hetonite production and you're done. You trade half your Hetonite Part production to get an item worth 120, so it's like a 100 point gain per item. Not that you need to care about Outpost bills that much at this point, only the event currency.

>Shouldn't actually be that bad. You just trade your Phase 1 production
>Xiranite wise back into Heavy Xiranite (hopefully you didn't blow up
>your production previously), then tap your Hetonite production and
>you're done.

As an aside, my eye keeps wanting to read the name of that substance as "Hedonite", which gives the concept a whole different complexion than the devs presumably intended.

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>>Shouldn't actually be that bad. You just trade your Phase 1 production
>>Xiranite wise back into Heavy Xiranite (hopefully you didn't blow up
>>your production previously), then tap your Hetonite production and
>>you're done.

Yeah, I put up the queue yesterday and it wasn't quite as bad as I'd feared. I had already paused heavy xiranite just like you did, so I just had to restart that and dump Yazhen C (I already have over 40K units) then I didn't need as much heavy xiranite or hetonite as I thought.

Also...yeah. The fact that our outposts are pretty much already capped on development before the event began isn't great.

>As an aside, my eye keeps wanting to read the name of that substance
>as "Hedonite", which gives the concept a whole different complexion
>than the devs presumably intended.

You and me both! Just waiting for the art of Endmin getting vamped by Perlica on one side and Fangyi on the other.

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>Also...yeah. The fact that our outposts are pretty much already capped
>on development before the event began isn't great.

It's less that they're development capped but more that if you have stopped producing Parts/Components just to have them in surplus and are ready to mostly just sell stuff the outpost bill production can't keep up. So you have a lot of flex to make whatever at this point.

>my eye keeps wanting to read the name of that substance
>as "Hedonite", which gives the concept a whole different complexion
>than the devs presumably intended.

It's still a waifu game, I doubt it'd be that different. =]

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FiMFiction.net: we might accept blatant porn involving the cast of My Little Pony but as God is my witness we have standards.

if it gets too gacha horny, do we start calling the game Fucktorio?

Newest Umbral Monument phase is out, knocked it all out today. Last stage Agony difficulty

Pretty straightforward, though I did swap between my three teams as necessary to make sure I brought a team suited for each stage. I think only 5 got a little spicy in the middle.

Test Area finally unlocks on the 14th, along with another one of those "cook several dishes" events and the Base rerun banner.

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HappyLemon collab also starts next week

I don't think I'll go to this one since the nearest location to me is more like 45 mins away and in an area I'm not familiar with but I might take leave of my senses.

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>HappyLemon collab also starts next week
>
>I don't think I'll go to this one since the nearest location to me is
>more like 45 mins away and in an area I'm not familiar with but I
>might take leave of my senses.

I actually somehow knew someone who was going to be in the area of one and they offered to just go and get the drinks and give me the collab merch, so hurray.

Test Area is finally unlocked and comes with it 4 more Skyforges.

Unfortunately in today's frustration, I hit the facility cap in Wuling City, preventing me from fitting another Xiranite line in the main PAC. I had to go around the city and reroute power to be able to remove a couple spurs or share relays better for both transmission and providing power, to be able to then pick up unnecessary relays to get enough under the cap to place more in the PAC. Also means that production there is largely done for now even though I still have some space left that could be taken advantage of.

Yeah, I haven't optimized nearly as well as you have, but the fact is, I have everything I need at this point and I don't have to add more lines of Xiranite. There's very little else to do with crafting until we get a significant addition to the construction system, really. Given that we have basically filled out the research tree, I haven't seen another tower defense job since I was done helping Tangtang, and I've stockpiled all the current rare craftable materials (Hetonite, Xircon, etc.) we really need more to accomplish and another Sub-PAC area to do it in. Maybe based off the water treatment area in the new Test Area.

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>Yeah, I haven't optimized nearly as well as you have, but the fact is,
>I have everything I need at this point and I don't have to add more
>lines of Xiranite. There's very little else to do with crafting until
>we get a significant addition to the construction system, really.
>Given that we have basically filled out the research tree, I haven't
>seen another tower defense job since I was done helping Tangtang, and
>I've stockpiled all the current rare craftable materials (Hetonite,
>Xircon, etc.) we really need more to accomplish and another Sub-PAC
>area to do it in. Maybe based off the water treatment area in the new
>Test Area.
>

The real issue is that the outposts currently don't make enough bills to buy everything we produce as-is, so we don't actually Need to do some of these further optimizations. I'm just doing it for the love of the game, as the kids say.

Sketches of Lost Heirlooms
Version Trailer
Version Preview

Random mental car crash moment: Endmin really is the Doctor from the first game who, during one of their previous cycles, had only partial amnesia leading to:

Endmin
(disbelieving)
Wait. Are you trying to tell me everybody's dead?

M3
(to herself)
...I should have never let him out in the first place.

>Random mental car crash moment: Endmin really is the Doctor from the
>first game who, during one of their previous cycles, had only partial
>amnesia leading to:
>
>Endmin
>(disbelieving)
>Wait. Are you trying to tell me everybody's dead?

PERLICA
Death is a primitive concept. I prefer to think of them as battling evil in another dimension.

ENDMIN
(even more disbelieving)
Another dimension?! How many are left?

PERLICA
Including yourself?

ENDMIN
Yeah!

PERLICA
One!

ENDMIN
One?!!

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*snrk* Nice reference!

No doubt the Endmin was recruited to defend the Civilization Band against Nefarith, and the Landbreaker Armada.

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Perlica 1/7

Mi Fu character song in English and in Chinese.

Camille Combat Demo and Operator Story

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And his character song MV

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Arcane Combat Demo and Operator Story

And Comic, Echoes of the Beginning

And her character song

After Arcane's reunion with Chen after her main quest:
Oh, my god, Chen and Arcane. Get a room, you two.

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>After Arcane's reunion with Chen after her main quest:
>Oh, my god, Chen and Arcane. Get a room, you two.

Plenty of those available on Dijiang. Endmin can hook them up, easy. As it were.

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>>After Arcane's reunion with Chen after her main quest:
>>Oh, my god, Chen and Arcane. Get a room, you two.
>
>Plenty of those available on Dijiang. Endmin can hook them up,
>easy. As it were.

Oh, I am very certain that Perlica would be all too happy to find a place for Chen and Arcane to rest. Somewhere very far away from the Endmin's room. XD

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Random thought of the day after watching fan videos: It's hilarious how the fandom has settled on adorable goober female Endmin and hopeless playboy male Endmin.

Liino dripfeed is out

Combat Demo
Showcase (Shorts style but has more mechanical details)
Operator Story

And Character Song

English version
Japanese version
Korean version
Chinese version

Aaand I have Liino now. Got lucky as hell, pulled her in...I think my 6th set of 10 pulls. Not huge on the idol aesthetic, but I have a Fangyi electric team so she fits in perfectly. Haven't actually fought alongside her yet.

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Typhoeus
Operator Showcase
Operator Story

And Typhoeus character song

This is the song that plays near the climax of Typhoeus's character story. It is in Suomi and it is amazing.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Whd0-cdfXhs

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While this isn't directly connected to Endfield, I thought the management might be interested to hear that Hypergryph has a crossover going on right now for the CN server of the OG Arknights that will be dropping global (tentatively) next February: Persona 3 Reloaded. It includes Makoto, Yukari, and Aigis in the gacha pool and Koromaru as the welfare unit.

Wis'adel 1/7
Logos Nendo

Latest livestream not only showed that Rhodes Island is now invading Endfield, but they're finally revealing everybody's favorite vampire gremlin and a reconvener of Ceobe. For those more familiar with Endfield than OG Arknights, Ceobe is an amnesiac like Surtr, but instead of "moody goth lolita" is just a dog in a human's body who eats enough that she's been banned from Rhode Island's kitchen.

>Latest livestream not
>only showed that Rhodes Island is now invading Endfield, but
>they're finally revealing everybody's favorite vampire gremlin
>and a reconvener of Ceobe. For those more familiar with
>Endfield than OG Arknights, Ceobe is an amnesiac like
>Surtr, but instead of "moody goth lolita" is just a dog in a human's
>body who eats enough that she's been banned from Rhode Island's
>kitchen.

Kay has...a lot going on, the least of which is that she's capable of consuming enough drugs that would likely kill the hardiest of races without any real permanent side effect aside from being on a trip funky enough to spawn a whole new game mode in Arknights.

More seriously, she was capable of doing extremely hard Arts just sort of naturally and no one can explain it. Also she wandered in carrying basically a set of epic weapons, which is part of why Vulcan takes care of her. (Also for more links, she's strongly aligned with a Cerberus identity.)

>Kay has...a lot going on, the least of which is that she's capable of
>consuming enough drugs that would likely kill the hardiest of races
>without any real permanent side effect aside from being on a trip
>funky enough to spawn a whole new game mode in Arknights.

I still love that side story. Kay eats random mushrooms, starts tripping balls and runs off, then randomly crashes back into the main plot, fighting everyone, WINNING, then running off after god knows what, then eventually shows up at the end digging through the teams supplies for something to eat, perfectly fine.

Also, in the Delicious in Dungeon crossover, she turned into a giant monster for the end boss because she was just that hungry.

>More seriously, she was capable of doing extremely hard Arts just sort
>of naturally and no one can explain it. Also she wandered in carrying
>basically a set of epic weapons, which is part of why Vulcan takes
>care of her. (Also for more links, she's strongly aligned with a
>Cerberus identity.)

As near as anyone can tell, she's been wandering all over Terra for longer than her age would suggest, surviving things that shouldn't be possible, and may have witnessed or taken part in events multiple governments have worked very hard to cover up. Not that she remembers it, or would care if she did.

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>I still love that side story. Kay eats random mushrooms, starts
>tripping balls and runs off, then randomly crashes back into the main
>plot, fighting everyone, WINNING, then running off after god knows
>what, then eventually shows up at the end digging through the teams
>supplies for something to eat, perfectly fine.

"The Great Chief Returns" was just a fun event all around before you included an entire new game mode that came about due to a case of Mushroom Samba. Are you taking down some ancient evil, facing off against an army of mafia thugs and assassins, or resolving one of the numerous dark conspiracies that are a rule of life on Terra? No, you're journeying to the jungle to take part in a brawl among clan leaders because Gavial's childhood friend/stalker wanted her to come home.

>Also, in the Delicious in Dungeon crossover, she turned into a giant
>monster for the end boss because she was just that hungry.

Other operators who've been event bosses had motivations like loss, grief, insanity, or manipulation by some greater evil.

Kay? "Hungry."

>As near as anyone can tell, she's been wandering all over Terra for
>longer than her age would suggest, surviving things that shouldn't be
>possible, and may have witnessed or taken part in events multiple
>governments have worked very hard to cover up. Not that she remembers
>it, or would care if she did.

There's heavy hints in the aforementioned "Delicious on Terra" event and elsewhere that Kay is either a demigod or a descendant of one who was warped by the Origanium in the past. Which is really nothing new at Rhodes Island when you keep in mind the Sui siblings and the mountain goddess in the maid outfit.

> For those more familiar with
>Endfield than OG Arknights, Ceobe is an amnesiac like
>Surtr, but instead of "moody goth lolita" is just a dog in a human's
>body who eats enough that she's been banned from Rhode Island's
>kitchen.

Now, now, she wasn't banned! Mostly because she couldn't understand what being banned meant. ("That sign means you can't go in there." "Hungry.") They just kept a basket of food handy to distract her as needed.

Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

>Now, now, she wasn't banned! Mostly because she couldn't understand
>what being banned meant. ("That sign means you can't go in there."
>"Hungry.") They just kept a basket of food handy to distract her as
>needed.
>
>Matrix Dragon, J. Random Nutter

The more I hear about this girl, the more fear my wallet feels.

	-={(Astynax)}=- "Steak, medium rare, no bees, please."

>Now, now, she wasn't banned! Mostly because she couldn't understand
>what being banned meant. ("That sign means you can't go in there."
>"Hungry.") They just kept a basket of food handy to distract her as
>needed.

A very real "That sign can't stop me because I can't read!" moment.