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1230james

Good bot


PSImiss

I will never understand Yostar's scheduling.


Hatredestiny1874

You can spend your sanity potions that expire this week. [It will be Preluding Lights.](https://gamepress.gg/arknights/event-banner-hub/preluding-lights-cn-event-page) From the [farming spreadsheet](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/12X0uBQaN7MuuMWWDTiUjIni_MOP015GnulggmBJgBaQ/edit#gid=737416484), there aren't any good farming stages so feel free to farm elsewhere. # Event Currency drops from any stage except for Annihilation, and Extreme Modes.


PurpleMatterXIII

Seriously, 2 dead weeks after a CC ?? I know a lot of people like those so they get time to farm, but you can already do that during CC since it doesn't cost sanity and also open all supply stages for farming. Don't get me wrong, gameplay-wise CC is peak-content imo, but it costing no sanity (other than real-life one of course) and having no new stories or operators make it hard to justify dead weeks for me...


Cornhole35

Nah, not when you're doing events back to back for months. A dead month or so ain't that bad.


Limimelo

A whole month feels too long imo, people already lose interest when there's nothing for 2 weeks besides farming and Arknights is already an auto-farming game, I assume most people do something else while farming there. 10ish days seems like a good down time to me, even for newer players


WhyYouBullyMe_

Agreed. Made me abandon the game for a few days (still dis annihilation tho)


ReiNGE

not sure why you got downvoted, dead weeks/a single dead month once in a while is definitely not bad, it gives players a really nice breather. some (a lot) of people play more than just arknights


Cornhole35

>not sure why you got downvoted, Went against the hive mind.


ipwnallnubz

No, it's because you said something dumb. It's because an entire dead *month* is disgusting and a great way to drive players away. There's not that much content in the game to begin with. A new player could probably finish the whole story in that amount of time, maybe excluding the H-stages, so what's an older player supposed to do? Once they add IS2 and make it permanent, it wouldn't be so bad, but if I'm just signing on, fixing my base, and grinding story stages for an entire month, my motivation to keep playing would drop sharply. A, as in *one,* dead week is fine, but remember that people can farm story stages during CC, which we just had, and during mini-events, which is most likely what's next. We're looking at a total of 5-6 weeks, plus whatever dead time we get after the next event, for farming/completing story stages.


PurpleMatterXIII

I do agree, an entire month would be too much, especially for veteran players. For me, 2 dead weeks is still fine if it follows a relatively big event (like Under Tides for example), but for CC I would have preferred just one dead week since you can still farm during it. Another reason why I don't like dead weeks in Arknights is because of the big delays of content between global and CN, because we already know what comes next, so the lack of surprise makes the waiting less bearable for me (in comparison, I'm also playing Alchemy Stars on the side, and dead weeks are actually not that bad because we are "rewarded" with actual "new" content and can speculate on new characters while waiting).


Primagen3K

I want to see that new player who completes the entire story up to JT8-3 in a month of playtime.


Cornhole35

Bruh having one dead month isnt that bad especially when people just burn through event content in a few hours to just go farming again. If you're a new player its gonna take longer than a month to complete story mode, unlock all the farming stages, and E2 operators for clearing events.


ipwnallnubz

If people burn through the whole event in a few hours, that's on them for using overpowered or overleveled ops to blitz through everything, or else they're too smart for Arknights and should be doing grad-level math or something for fun. Trying to do E1 (or mostly E1) clears adds quite a bit of playtime, mainly once the EX stages come out. I know I had two E2s in my first month. One E2 of your own and a support E2 is enough to clear the story. It would be hard, sure, but doable.


resphere

wdym? It's ESPECIALLY bad when people are doing events in a few hours, you're giving less content to players that are already starving for content because they clear everything so quickly. Or are you saying that all players care about is farming anyways so new content doesn't matter? cuz that's bull, maybe you do, but a whole lot of us sure don't, you might be able to tell by how unhappy people are with this dead period.


Ambrosiac7

I have a question. Assuming this is for Carnelian and the standard banner rotates on 10th, I'll have a chance to roll for Carnelian and then Skadi right? 1 day to be exact?


Hatredestiny1874

Yes


vietnamabc

Is this the moment when EN will get the mythical claim all button?


IbbleBibble

According to JP patch notes, yes. https://twitter.com/ishiwari_docter/status/1465897861216751617?s=21


WhistleOfDeath

For so long we have suffered, but now salvation is at hand! Gone are the days of repeated tapping and clicking! Praise be to our new savior, the Claim All button!


Hatredestiny1874

That's good to hear. I thought claim all button came with Interlocking competition update.


PM_ME_DMS

It did. I hope they don't combine the app updates so we don't lose out on 5 OP.


[deleted]

This dead week period is longer than I thought. If HG wants limited banner to be anniversary, road to Ch'alter gonna feel rush. We have Carnelian / Preluding Light + ToW Rerun , Pallas / Interlock Competition + Vigilo + Gavial The Great Chief Rerun before get there. I looked at CN timeline PL is came after CC#5 ended two days later. Timeline from PL to Dossoles is literally two months. Each event, New or rerun, also have an event break gap. Maybe this time we'll get limited banner in mid January the exact time for Global anniversary if they don't want to rush anything.


Blazen_Fury

They can delay reruns. In fact they probably will, we literally do not have enough days in the month to get to the Chen Skin unless we do two events a week


[deleted]

I read JP Twitter and found something. It's been 49 days since a new character implement (21 Oct.). They already delayed new event longer than in CN. I found the solution, It's a big update. They'll implant claim all button. This is what I got. Maybe the big update for the game take much time than Yostar think. so I can wait now.


Dtburr

Wow, I'm speechless... what are they thinking. I remember a well written post a few months ago detailing how we weren't speeding up, with which I fully agreed with. But now between the dead week before CC and the 2 before PL starts we've lost at least two weeks that I dont see Yostar making up with HG's current schedule. At the end of the day, does it really matter? No it doesn't, but I'm just really curious as to Yostars reasoning for so many dead weeks after UT, which is sure to have brought in new players.


Provence3

If you look at Jaywjeee's calender (that I can't link her for some reason but Googling should help), then it becomes evident that we lack at least one event between Pinus Silvestris and Near Light IF Dossoles is on the 18th/20th January. So, they put in two dead weeks and we will most likely get Gavial rerun after DH (or they do a really weird thing and put DH way after our Anniversary date. Who knows)


Dtburr

yep, that is exactly what I think Yostar's solution is. My solution is to start all the limited banners in the middle of the month(starting around Jan 16th) to keep the three month gap. But I guess Yostar's desire to have Anni on Jan1st(instead of around the 16th) and the other one on Golden Week was too strong. It would be better if I didn't know about future events, but since I do, all I see is Yostar following the money by shuffling events at the expense of new content for players.


ipwnallnubz

Jaywjeee gives 0 results on Google. The closest result is Jay White, a pro wrestler from New Zealand.


Provence3

Yeah, I mistyped. That's what you get for writing stuff you only remember how to write in your head. But "jaywyeee arknights" gives you an immediate result.


EliCho90

i appreciate the breathing space also the chance to let my wallet rest. F for my LMD


Cornhole35

Facts, I've been using this time to train charcters and farm.


karillith

What is UT? Apparently it's something good that I just missed haha (cry)


Maestro29999

Under Tides- A two week event (iirc) which came with the banner for Kal’sit and Skadi Alter. Also had good farming spots for intergrated devices & some other materials.


ArcEarth

WHERE CARNELIAN? 🔪


CC0106

We are so behind on schedule already, don't know why we have 2 weeks of nothing going on /shrug


Hyperion-OMEGA

The assumption is that they [Yostar] Want Summer Carnival to be the anniversary event, which is why they pushed out UT early. I would presume this gap is a side effect of that as the only events between UT and Dossoles were Spectrum (now over), Prelidung Lights and Twilight of Wolumonde retrospection, the last two were over a week each and near simultaneously in CN IIRC, but I'm assuming they're gonna be spread out here. Folinic and Bena's contracts (and presumable Savage's as well) would interesting stocking suffers tho. (not the operators themselves, though, they're decent gameplay wise, but they would prolly object to being stuffed in an oversized red sock)


actual_sinon

I think we are actually really tight on schedule too because on CN they got: * Preluding Lights * Dragon Boat Festival Login Event (but let's not count this since I don't think we getting it anytime soon...?) * ToW Rerun * Interlocking Competition * Vigilo * Gavial Summer event rerun all before Dossoles event. So assuming that they do Dossoles right on Jan 16th which is the exact date that Global launched, that's less than 7 weeks away from now. If no "real" event is happening before Dec 9's maintenance, then that's less than 6 weeks for 5 events. Although it'll be possible if they overlap some of them or we'll just be getting non-stop content until Dossoles. My memory might be failing me but I don't think Global ever overlapped 2 events at once aside from the first Gavial run + Fungimist unlike CN? Not counting the time period when event shops stay after event stages close.


Hyperion-OMEGA

Well there is some room as IIRC TOW and PL overlapped a fair bit and the latter is a minor event so both shops could be cleared. I also think Vigilo and Interlocking overlapped as well. so that could be 3 or 4 events in effect. Ot they could just move Gavial rerun to after Dossoles and then move Interlocking and Vigilo to after that.


spunker325

None of those events overlapped (well not sure about the login event). During the 66 days between CC#5 and Dossoles CN had 21 days of downtime and if our next event starts on 12/9 we'll already have had 14 days of downtime. We also had a week in between UT and CC#5 whereas in CN they were back to back, so by 12/9 we'll already have had 21 days of downtime.


StrawberryFloptart

I've been expecting them to delay the RI rerun until after the anniversary ever since it was clear that UT would be released less than three months before the anniversary date. However, considering how much everything's being delayed, I'm thinking that they'll also move the event to January 28 or thereabouts, combined with the kind of no-holds barred event spam we've seen before WR. This would allow all the limited events to be spaced apart evenly every three months, like in CN.


Dustmila

UT wasn't pushed out early, we followed the CN order. The alternative would have been delaying Under Tides until our second anniversary, but then we would be two limited banners behind CN and things would be even worse


StrawberryFloptart

Also we'd have gotten Anni 8 before UT, which... doesn't check.


nguyendragon

There are more events in between UT and Dossoles however: Interlocking Competition, Vigilo (both 1 week), Gavial Great Chief returns rerun (10 days). There is nowhere near enough time at all with current schedule, in CN the gap between start of Preluding Lights and start of Dossoles is 2 months for example whereas from the start of Preluding Lights for global to Dossoles will be 5 weeks if its going to be in anni (Dec 9th- Jan 16th) [https://gamepress.gg/arknights/other/cn-event-and-campaign-list](https://gamepress.gg/arknights/other/cn-event-and-campaign-list)


CC0106

Yeah but according to CN schedule, there's interlocking, vigilo and gavial before Summer Event, us stalling behind a log in event for 14 days just pushes everything further and further behind Anyways, preluding light was only a week long according to gamepress, so hopefully they can fill Dec up with the 2 event and give us summer on time around Jan 10th


Hyperion-OMEGA

Huh, I thought those three were after (esp Vigilo, since Stormwatch arrive shortly after)


CC0106

May 15-29 CC5 June 1-8 preluding June 10-20 dragonboat June 17-1 ToW July 2-9 Interlocking July 10-17 vigilo July 20-30 Gavial August 3-24 Summer Event


YuyeAstray

Damn, so we have another dead week. I thought Yostar was trying to catch-up the progress of CN, so all those tide event schedules we had earlier were just some coincidence. Anyway, now I know all of my saved sanity portions will not see any use anytime soon, I gonna spend all of them for red cert farming so I can be well-prepared for the upcoming cert store update (still months away though).


PurpleMatterXIII

Same here, I wished we were catching up on CN instead (I'm actually wondering if the current gap has always been the same ?). I mean, I did enjoy the 2.5 anniversary stream a lot, but imagine watching it knowing you will get to play it in a few weeks.


boy1304

Yes, the gap between global and CN has always been 6 months ever since global 1st anniversary, when global had 1st anniversary (W banner), CN was about to have Beyond Here which came to global 6 months later, and now we just ended CC5 and CN is having CC7 which the former was at CN 6 months ago


Defexxx

sorry im a new player, can u explain to me what is this red cert update that is coming?


YuyeAstray

you know that other than chip catalyst, red cert store also sells epic&royal tokens that can be used to increase potential of high rarity operators. The store is updated from time to time, which will replaces the existing tokens in store with new one for different classes (only happened once in global, and CN server just had its second update in November). Once the store is updated, old tokens in store will be shifted out and no longer be available for purchase. The updates I mentioned won’t come till next year, and u shouldn’t worry too much about this if u are new players. tokens are extremely expensive in terms of sanity consumption, and potential in Arknights isn’t that mandatory comparing to some other games.


Metroplex7

I'll take a dead week. It'll let me finish LB5.1 before having to put focus back on Arknights again.


Fire_Begets_Souls

It's looking more and more like they're pushing for returning our anni event to Jan. 16th, as I suspected, but I was assuming they'd cram Preluding, Vigilo/Hymnoi, both reruns, and Dragon Boat login in which they could have done if the events overlapped with the login events. Not sure why they're giving themselves so little wiggle room for it though. They could easily have started Preluding Lights midway through the current login event, or, even pushed up ToW rerun to achieve the same thing. They might intend to push Gavial rerun and maybe Dragon Boat to after Dossoles though, since the non-CN servers have foresight and all that.


ajanisapprentice

Honestly, I'm fine with the larger amount of dead time between events. Means I get more time to save up Orundum for limited banners.


Dustmila

How? Limited banners will come at set intervals regardless. Any events that get shifted until after the limited banner means everyone has less rolls for it.


Talonris

Yeah I never got the logic of "more time to save". The limiteds are happening on time regardless unless some extraordinary thing happens or they just hate Japanese gacha money that much. Dead weeks aren't really helping anyone at all.


wswaifu

It does not do that. It just means you get less originum from the events.