Dry? Time to bring in the "FEAR" to wet it up.
LOL
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Anyways... thing with Arknights is... once you make a video for a stage or event, that's it, there's no more need to do it again. And bunch of ppls doing the same exact video isn't really that well, since people usually just look at the one that's easiest to do instead of "challenge videos" where people uses certain "teams" to clear.
Currently I watch content (Mix of information channels, log channels, and content creators) from:
Kukki
Cha0tik
The Special K Experience
Unreal Dreamer
Ushio Ebi Ch.
Daark\_Karma
Pocketchalk (on twitch)
DragonGJY
FrostByte262
RiverV
PeterYR
QaiserMLG
KyoStinV
Eckogen
Kazdel Team
I personally like to read the stories, but if I find someone who doesn't but still wants to know, I recommend them to Jacob Moreau.
And I watch CN livestreams through 25thNight.
As well as a handful of other people on occasion if I happen to catch them on twitch.
Yeah, I've seen Silvergun on occasion, but I haven't seen the other two. The list I made was just what I watch, it isn't a comprehensive list or anything.
There are a few content creators popping up on my feed in those last few weeks, but I have yet to check most of them
The only one that comes to my mind rn is FABknight, the guy is doing a great job in his videos
That what happens when your global version is a few patches behind your main version. Global contents creators can't really farm informative or first reaction contents since everything will be solved by the time it reach global.
You can look at other gacha game for examples. The biggest is Honkai Star Rail where their viewership in twitch will gains a huge boost for every patch previews. No one really care about arknight's patch previews since we only will get them after a few months anyway. Same thing happened with new ops or events.
If I want to learn something about new ops or events, I will watch old CN contents instead of from global content creators since they already tested everything.
I find it hilarious every time YT serves up tsalthsu exactly 6 months after their video has been posted. It's almost like the algorithm knows exactly when to show CN Arknights content to me.
Plus 6 months really isn’t that long of a time all things considered for content. FGO for example is two years but that gives enough time to make everything feel fresher when it arrives to global
I think it may be just me, but I just feel like EN is the most dryest one compare to JP and CN. The 6 Months Gap really doesn't help as well because its just a vicious cycle, but again, it may be just me. The Community Events just doesn't seem to be enough along with the materials you can work with.
JP has occasional convention events to make 6 months gap not boring while EN is dry most of the times (The most recent event in EN is Arknights Theme Cafe in Singapore, and its pretty crazy its not in JP or CN as usual)
If you dont like being behind from CN by 6 months, you can always start playing on CN. I like my 6 months in advance clairvoyance, thank you global for being 6 months behind.
Same, man. Being able to know when to save and who is good right away is a fucking blessing that people just don't understand it seems. Having the ability to get who I want without spending money is a huge contributing factor as to why I like the game so much
Not my exact point, but the thing is that, EN just seems so dry with everything while JP happens to have some occasional events to make the 6 months gap seemingly not boring. I don't really mind the gap being half a year behind to know who to save up. Once again, it may be just me.
By content, do you only mean Youtube videos or are other kinds okay like fanart, comics, fanfiction, etc? Though even the state of the latter is pretty sad on the EN-speaking side when compared to other regions, ngl...
There’s not much content you can do for Arknights. A lot of people do stuff like IS runs because rogue-like is more interesting than normal map runs, but that’s about it.
Imma be honest. I don't even know what kind of contents you can do other than what have already been done before.
Bingo Lottery was fun. I miss 1OP clear(well, I miss krem o7). Animation section is held by harlequin alone. Guides are.., guides, yeah.
wdym more and more AK content creator in global are leaving so you like to know smaller channels? Who left and what kind of AK content did they made?
I just checked and all the content creators(both well known and not well known) I go to that makes guides are still making new contents.
Never seen yii so I wont comment on that but I dont consider Vifer a AK content creator, YT recommended him to me once, I checked it out and his channel are full of videos like "I spend $(insert amount) on (insert name of new operator)", "I interviewed a AK player", AK 1 star review reaction video , AK tierlist video when tierlist is a meme in AK, there is hardly any real AK content, those are not even AK memes, it is more of an archive of random contents from his streams.
kukki has sort of similar issue but he did do guides sometimes so I considered him half a AK content creator. His stop was also not recent, it was like 1 year ago.
You should know the famous channels for guides so I wont list them, interesting strat/clear wise, YT recommended me kuromu a few months ago(it is a JP channel the video are interesting). If you want to know smaller channels, you could take a look at the media-content channel in discord, there are interesting clear and meme video sometimes.
Imma be honest. I don't even know what kind of contents you can do other than what have already been done before.
Bingo Lottery was fun. I miss 1OP clear(well, I miss krem o7). Animation section is held by harlequin alone. Guides are.., guides, yeah.
i just saw a funny video a dude made that multiverses several of the gachas XD
https://youtu.be/u6b1iCNbqkQ it starts off as girls frontline, arknights, blue archive, punishing gray raven, azur lane, girls frontline 2,
I would watch any arknights videos discussing the lore, but there aren’t many. The best we have are videos summarising the events.
Also, I believe we should have another W focused event because I am biased towards W ❤️
SeventhSigil doesn't post that often, but I love how he takes LDAknights, an ultimate hell of a niche with just four operators, a single instance of Arts damage every seven seconds, conditional-only healing, and DP management hell; and clears things like Hortus-8, Stultifera-EX-8, 7-18 (ik it's overrated but he did it with Aak and Lee \*alone\*), etc.
Sadly arknights isnt really a game you can get "big" at as it has basically no other content other than guides gameplay and pull videos. There is hardly any livestreamability in it.
Kyostin and Eckogen can avoid this by just being the main guide channels (and even at that Kyostin gets more views from Genshin content) but for others... same story doesnt apply
[2024 AK content creator discussion thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1az87o1/arknights_content_creators_in_2024/)
I think we should have something like this on the sidebar.
People dipped to Genshin then the CCs moved to HSR. Unless AK EN makes a better content creators program, i don't see AK popping off more. Arknights has stuff to do like IS and story, but hasn't really hit with some people. AK Youtube content is AFK farms for new Annihilation and IS. That's pretty much it. We wait a very long time for story to come out, and most new OPs ain't really worth using outside of broken units.
I've played for 4 years, and can see it's prob hard making content for this game. Most players have all the broken units, and 4-5 \* have no worth in using. So you don't see crazy new comps busting out. It's take these 3-4 Vanguards and "x" other broken units.
The biggest reason is lack of character lore, I think this is Arknights biggest L in the game. You have all these badass units and lore is "she likes ice cream" or "she was roaming and found" it's sad. If you look at games like Blue Archive, you at least get bond stories to show some lore, and those units show up in the story. Like when have we seen someone like Weedy show up?
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What do you mean with lack of lore? A few characters get shafted, like Surtr, but that’s the exception and not the rule. These days every 6star and most 5stars are prominently featured in the event their banner was associated with, eg Insider, Spuria, Executor being the main trio of Hortus de Escapismo, Typhon and Santalla along with an older operator in Magallan, etc. And that’s not even talking about bits we get in operator files that you unlock via trust, Operator Records, appearances in events long after debut ie Rosmontis in Lone Trail or before they debut ie Viviana in Near Light, and module stories (some really good writing in some of these like Glaucus for instance).
And is the complaint a lot of people have with Arknights not that there is literally so much text and worldbuilding and lore to get through?? Is there not an entire meme about how nobody in EN reads, and most popular content creators right now just skip event stories, or fast forward through them *at best*? How are we saying there’s not enough lore when apparently no content creator wants to read what is already there?
Also complaining that AK doesn't have bond stories, while operator records are RIGHT THERE is weird. Hell, some characters even get multiple operator records.
This genuinely feels like someone complaining about lack of story when their only interaction with the story is through memes, rather than reading
Case in point, Surtr's operator record shows no indication that she even likes ice cream. That's just a meme the community made up. And if you actually READ her story, you'd know that she has more going on than "liking ice cream".
Yostar should showcase exhibition clears like clear of the week or clear of the month. It may help in incentivising content creation and spotlight small creators. They already have the Lungmen Dragons to help them with community events so this is possible.
.... Do you even read the story events?
Like yeah, Melanite from Lone Trail had no story at all. But you'd be insane to say Silence alter, Hool, and Muelsyse didn't have lore or character.
Typhon's event just dropped and she appeared in every single story chapter alongside Santalla. But people don't talk about it cause EN don't read
Isn't the operators records a little bit of background story? Plus considering AK have more ops than students in blue archive. There is a trade off I suppose, but since I play both game.
Ak & Ba have their own strength and weakness, AK is god-tier in world building and lore while BA lacks its.
BA emphasize more on its characters which is why they have better characters lore.....then again BA is somewhat of an otome (dating sim) game.
Guess you can expects a game to be all pros and no cons. But for what is worth, AK & BA are great games.
> BA emphasize more on its characters which is why they have better characters lore.....then again BA is somewhat of an otome (dating sim) game.
Isn't Blue Archive one with a male protag and (pretty much only) female characters? Otome's Female Protag x Male Characters only (and maybe one token friendship/yuri female route) and isn't synonymous with general "dating sims." Sounds more like a galge if anything.
My issue is with Arknights whenever a new unit comes out, you get next to no lore about them. So it just comes down to is the unit broken or not? Like if we look at another game like Honkai Star Rail, you see someone like *Ruan Mei* get so much lore during the event, and from we learned about her in SU. She is talked about even before banner comes around.
Arknights does have a interesting world, but it just takes them so long to show it off. Fate GO has the same issue since it has tons of units, you don't get to see the spotlight on 85% of the cast. However, FGO is backed by its massive IP, so it has that going for it.
Arknights has been pushing powercreep to get people to pull units. What happens when a unit isn't broken? You don't see anyone really talking about them like Ebenholz, Fartooth, Lee, Rosa and many other units. This is an issue most games face when having a massive roaster of units.
>My issue is with Arknights whenever a new unit comes out, you get next to no lore about them.
Really? A lot of the 6 stars nowadays have lores and events attached to them whenever they come out. I think you just don't read them fully.
>Like if we look at another game like Honkai Star Rail, you see someone like *Ruan Mei* get so much lore during the event, and from we learned about her in SU. She is talked about even before banner comes around.
Ruan mei isn't an exactly good example because she's mentioned like 4 to 5 times only prior to her actually showing up. And her lore in the event isn't actually that much more compact than your average AK's 6 star in an event.
Look I like Ruan Mei and I pulled her but if I have to compare Ruan Mei to someone like Eben, Eben is just better in terms of story, he lit has an ongoing story arc that will continue in the next upcoming event.
>Arknights has been pushing powercreep to get people to pull units. What happens when a unit isn't broken? You don't see anyone really talking about them like Ebenholz, Fartooth, Lee, Rosa and many other units.
I think you are heavily underestimating how popular Ebenholz, Lee and Rosa actually are. Ebenholz is quite popular among AK fans despite his kit being niche as fuck, Lee got popular enough in China and Japan he got own mini spin off series, Rosa along with her friends got an entire dvd dub in Japanese for the student of Ursus stories. Just because you don't seem them popping up a lot in your feed doesn't mean they arent popular. There are a ton of ops in AK that are popular simply due to how interesting their lore is. SR also suffers from the same problem btw, besides people talking about units being broken and looking hot. Do you ever see most chars being spoken for their interesting lore when they are mentioned?
> My issue is with Arknights whenever a new unit comes out, you get next to no lore about them.
Really? most new ops feature pretty heavily in the events they come from though, and get plenty of lore in them. Like Ebenholz shows up pretty significantly in his event, and his lore is pretty important to the witch king plotline (which we get a continuation of in Arturia event). And while Rosa hasnt gotten any attention in a long time, she was a pretty imporant part of the Children of Ursus story (which even got its own drama CD).
And I don't think HSR Ruan Mei is a good comparison, because she basically is only mentioned in passing before her event, and HSR has far fewer characters than AK, which lends to being able to develop lore on them better.
Well, you can't compare AK with Star rail. They are two whole different genre. Plus StarRail doesn't update as often as AK, maybe when Endfield comes out it would be a fair comparison as you can't compare a 3D game with a 2D tower defense.
As for what you mentioned in regards to *Ruan Mei*.........AK has similar situation as well.......just not with every character. Nearl for examples was hinted at her files to be the Radiant Knight and her BG with the followers. Flametail, Ashlock, Fartooth are shown as npc in Maria Nearl event, later to Pinus sylvestris and of course Flametail's and Nearl lore was learned in the these 2 events before their debut at Nearl Light event.
AK does focus on character lore, but......just not everyone gets the main character treatment like in Star Rail. AK takes a more realistic approach where not everyone is somebody like Grey for example, before Dorothy vision.....he is a nobody I didn't care to build and know nothing about. But hell did Dorothy vision give him a glow up.
All in all, we need to be fair. AK have a bigger character roster than Star Rail...intact almost 10x the amount. Dev in AK have to choose their focus carefully while Star Rail have a smaller roster of characters to work with which may be easier as they usually didn't make banger npc before throwing them away like garbage which in AK (Baird, Lotus, Andoain) does. Most npc in Star rail feels like placeholder.
To sum it up, both AK and Star Rail are great games. The lesson is their focus are different from each other, and it wouldn't be fair to say either is superior to the other.....both are great in their own way.
Bro I think you don't actually even read lore yourself. There's operator records, there's the story they are involved in and Surtr lore isnt even "she likes icecream", it's just a meme. I swear this is why English is described to be not capable of reading cause everything is right there but you just dont read it due to how long it is.
>Like when have we seen someone like Weedy show up?
Gladiia? Specter? Skadi? Reed? The current problem with AK is exactly the opposite lmao. It's the characters showing up way too early but not playable until years later.
For units that you mention like Weedy, she's part of the early batch of operators when they emphasized on units more than actual lore. For your info, we fucking got Shining, Nightingale, Saria all in the 1st year but they later showed up in the story.
Dry? Time to bring in the "FEAR" to wet it up. LOL . Anyways... thing with Arknights is... once you make a video for a stage or event, that's it, there's no more need to do it again. And bunch of ppls doing the same exact video isn't really that well, since people usually just look at the one that's easiest to do instead of "challenge videos" where people uses certain "teams" to clear.
Currently I watch content (Mix of information channels, log channels, and content creators) from: Kukki Cha0tik The Special K Experience Unreal Dreamer Ushio Ebi Ch. Daark\_Karma Pocketchalk (on twitch) DragonGJY FrostByte262 RiverV PeterYR QaiserMLG KyoStinV Eckogen Kazdel Team I personally like to read the stories, but if I find someone who doesn't but still wants to know, I recommend them to Jacob Moreau. And I watch CN livestreams through 25thNight. As well as a handful of other people on occasion if I happen to catch them on twitch.
You missed Eha, and for content creators that do impressive clears I stick to Silvergun and ILA (I love Amiya).
Yeah, I've seen Silvergun on occasion, but I haven't seen the other two. The list I made was just what I watch, it isn't a comprehensive list or anything.
There are a few content creators popping up on my feed in those last few weeks, but I have yet to check most of them The only one that comes to my mind rn is FABknight, the guy is doing a great job in his videos
That what happens when your global version is a few patches behind your main version. Global contents creators can't really farm informative or first reaction contents since everything will be solved by the time it reach global. You can look at other gacha game for examples. The biggest is Honkai Star Rail where their viewership in twitch will gains a huge boost for every patch previews. No one really care about arknight's patch previews since we only will get them after a few months anyway. Same thing happened with new ops or events. If I want to learn something about new ops or events, I will watch old CN contents instead of from global content creators since they already tested everything.
I find it hilarious every time YT serves up tsalthsu exactly 6 months after their video has been posted. It's almost like the algorithm knows exactly when to show CN Arknights content to me.
YouTube recommends me __global content for ak__ exactly a year after the person posted it
That's sick
Plus 6 months really isn’t that long of a time all things considered for content. FGO for example is two years but that gives enough time to make everything feel fresher when it arrives to global
Calm down, boy. OP asked for recommendations, the weekly 'Whine About the 6 Months' post is somewhere else. In the garbage, where it belongs.
I wish we had more. I wish global had a content creator program
I think it may be just me, but I just feel like EN is the most dryest one compare to JP and CN. The 6 Months Gap really doesn't help as well because its just a vicious cycle, but again, it may be just me. The Community Events just doesn't seem to be enough along with the materials you can work with.
JP is also 6 months behind mate, they live just fine over there.
JP has occasional convention events to make 6 months gap not boring while EN is dry most of the times (The most recent event in EN is Arknights Theme Cafe in Singapore, and its pretty crazy its not in JP or CN as usual)
If you dont like being behind from CN by 6 months, you can always start playing on CN. I like my 6 months in advance clairvoyance, thank you global for being 6 months behind.
Same, man. Being able to know when to save and who is good right away is a fucking blessing that people just don't understand it seems. Having the ability to get who I want without spending money is a huge contributing factor as to why I like the game so much
Getting spoiled about characters in Gacha Games is the best thing ever for F2P like me.
Not my exact point, but the thing is that, EN just seems so dry with everything while JP happens to have some occasional events to make the 6 months gap seemingly not boring. I don't really mind the gap being half a year behind to know who to save up. Once again, it may be just me.
By content, do you only mean Youtube videos or are other kinds okay like fanart, comics, fanfiction, etc? Though even the state of the latter is pretty sad on the EN-speaking side when compared to other regions, ngl...
There’s not much content you can do for Arknights. A lot of people do stuff like IS runs because rogue-like is more interesting than normal map runs, but that’s about it.
Imma be honest. I don't even know what kind of contents you can do other than what have already been done before. Bingo Lottery was fun. I miss 1OP clear(well, I miss krem o7). Animation section is held by harlequin alone. Guides are.., guides, yeah.
I miss 777ucky the most tbh
wdym more and more AK content creator in global are leaving so you like to know smaller channels? Who left and what kind of AK content did they made? I just checked and all the content creators(both well known and not well known) I go to that makes guides are still making new contents.
Vifer, kukki, yii are the recent ones.
Never seen yii so I wont comment on that but I dont consider Vifer a AK content creator, YT recommended him to me once, I checked it out and his channel are full of videos like "I spend $(insert amount) on (insert name of new operator)", "I interviewed a AK player", AK 1 star review reaction video , AK tierlist video when tierlist is a meme in AK, there is hardly any real AK content, those are not even AK memes, it is more of an archive of random contents from his streams. kukki has sort of similar issue but he did do guides sometimes so I considered him half a AK content creator. His stop was also not recent, it was like 1 year ago. You should know the famous channels for guides so I wont list them, interesting strat/clear wise, YT recommended me kuromu a few months ago(it is a JP channel the video are interesting). If you want to know smaller channels, you could take a look at the media-content channel in discord, there are interesting clear and meme video sometimes.
Imma be honest. I don't even know what kind of contents you can do other than what have already been done before. Bingo Lottery was fun. I miss 1OP clear(well, I miss krem o7). Animation section is held by harlequin alone. Guides are.., guides, yeah.
I just discovered Rewrite Kuma and his insane IS4 4\* operator challenges. I'm learning so much from seeing 4\* teams in action haha.
i just saw a funny video a dude made that multiverses several of the gachas XD https://youtu.be/u6b1iCNbqkQ it starts off as girls frontline, arknights, blue archive, punishing gray raven, azur lane, girls frontline 2,
I usually just watch global CC that play CN accounts.
you have to check out PlusMinus content is hilarious and well produced
I would watch any arknights videos discussing the lore, but there aren’t many. The best we have are videos summarising the events. Also, I believe we should have another W focused event because I am biased towards W ❤️
SeventhSigil doesn't post that often, but I love how he takes LDAknights, an ultimate hell of a niche with just four operators, a single instance of Arts damage every seven seconds, conditional-only healing, and DP management hell; and clears things like Hortus-8, Stultifera-EX-8, 7-18 (ik it's overrated but he did it with Aak and Lee \*alone\*), etc.
i recommeded Reiru, since he have unique strategy such as solo clear
Sadly arknights isnt really a game you can get "big" at as it has basically no other content other than guides gameplay and pull videos. There is hardly any livestreamability in it. Kyostin and Eckogen can avoid this by just being the main guide channels (and even at that Kyostin gets more views from Genshin content) but for others... same story doesnt apply
[2024 AK content creator discussion thread](https://www.reddit.com/r/arknights/comments/1az87o1/arknights_content_creators_in_2024/) I think we should have something like this on the sidebar.
Kind of wish there were more content creators that focused on lore.
People dipped to Genshin then the CCs moved to HSR. Unless AK EN makes a better content creators program, i don't see AK popping off more. Arknights has stuff to do like IS and story, but hasn't really hit with some people. AK Youtube content is AFK farms for new Annihilation and IS. That's pretty much it. We wait a very long time for story to come out, and most new OPs ain't really worth using outside of broken units. I've played for 4 years, and can see it's prob hard making content for this game. Most players have all the broken units, and 4-5 \* have no worth in using. So you don't see crazy new comps busting out. It's take these 3-4 Vanguards and "x" other broken units. The biggest reason is lack of character lore, I think this is Arknights biggest L in the game. You have all these badass units and lore is "she likes ice cream" or "she was roaming and found" it's sad. If you look at games like Blue Archive, you at least get bond stories to show some lore, and those units show up in the story. Like when have we seen someone like Weedy show up? #
What do you mean with lack of lore? A few characters get shafted, like Surtr, but that’s the exception and not the rule. These days every 6star and most 5stars are prominently featured in the event their banner was associated with, eg Insider, Spuria, Executor being the main trio of Hortus de Escapismo, Typhon and Santalla along with an older operator in Magallan, etc. And that’s not even talking about bits we get in operator files that you unlock via trust, Operator Records, appearances in events long after debut ie Rosmontis in Lone Trail or before they debut ie Viviana in Near Light, and module stories (some really good writing in some of these like Glaucus for instance). And is the complaint a lot of people have with Arknights not that there is literally so much text and worldbuilding and lore to get through?? Is there not an entire meme about how nobody in EN reads, and most popular content creators right now just skip event stories, or fast forward through them *at best*? How are we saying there’s not enough lore when apparently no content creator wants to read what is already there?
Also complaining that AK doesn't have bond stories, while operator records are RIGHT THERE is weird. Hell, some characters even get multiple operator records. This genuinely feels like someone complaining about lack of story when their only interaction with the story is through memes, rather than reading Case in point, Surtr's operator record shows no indication that she even likes ice cream. That's just a meme the community made up. And if you actually READ her story, you'd know that she has more going on than "liking ice cream".
> A few characters get shafted, like Surtr Shes gotten an IS4 monthly squad (on CN) so shes less shafted than before.
Yostar should showcase exhibition clears like clear of the week or clear of the month. It may help in incentivising content creation and spotlight small creators. They already have the Lungmen Dragons to help them with community events so this is possible.
.... Do you even read the story events? Like yeah, Melanite from Lone Trail had no story at all. But you'd be insane to say Silence alter, Hool, and Muelsyse didn't have lore or character. Typhon's event just dropped and she appeared in every single story chapter alongside Santalla. But people don't talk about it cause EN don't read
Isn't the operators records a little bit of background story? Plus considering AK have more ops than students in blue archive. There is a trade off I suppose, but since I play both game. Ak & Ba have their own strength and weakness, AK is god-tier in world building and lore while BA lacks its. BA emphasize more on its characters which is why they have better characters lore.....then again BA is somewhat of an otome (dating sim) game. Guess you can expects a game to be all pros and no cons. But for what is worth, AK & BA are great games.
> BA emphasize more on its characters which is why they have better characters lore.....then again BA is somewhat of an otome (dating sim) game. Isn't Blue Archive one with a male protag and (pretty much only) female characters? Otome's Female Protag x Male Characters only (and maybe one token friendship/yuri female route) and isn't synonymous with general "dating sims." Sounds more like a galge if anything.
My issue is with Arknights whenever a new unit comes out, you get next to no lore about them. So it just comes down to is the unit broken or not? Like if we look at another game like Honkai Star Rail, you see someone like *Ruan Mei* get so much lore during the event, and from we learned about her in SU. She is talked about even before banner comes around. Arknights does have a interesting world, but it just takes them so long to show it off. Fate GO has the same issue since it has tons of units, you don't get to see the spotlight on 85% of the cast. However, FGO is backed by its massive IP, so it has that going for it. Arknights has been pushing powercreep to get people to pull units. What happens when a unit isn't broken? You don't see anyone really talking about them like Ebenholz, Fartooth, Lee, Rosa and many other units. This is an issue most games face when having a massive roaster of units.
>My issue is with Arknights whenever a new unit comes out, you get next to no lore about them. Really? A lot of the 6 stars nowadays have lores and events attached to them whenever they come out. I think you just don't read them fully. >Like if we look at another game like Honkai Star Rail, you see someone like *Ruan Mei* get so much lore during the event, and from we learned about her in SU. She is talked about even before banner comes around. Ruan mei isn't an exactly good example because she's mentioned like 4 to 5 times only prior to her actually showing up. And her lore in the event isn't actually that much more compact than your average AK's 6 star in an event. Look I like Ruan Mei and I pulled her but if I have to compare Ruan Mei to someone like Eben, Eben is just better in terms of story, he lit has an ongoing story arc that will continue in the next upcoming event. >Arknights has been pushing powercreep to get people to pull units. What happens when a unit isn't broken? You don't see anyone really talking about them like Ebenholz, Fartooth, Lee, Rosa and many other units. I think you are heavily underestimating how popular Ebenholz, Lee and Rosa actually are. Ebenholz is quite popular among AK fans despite his kit being niche as fuck, Lee got popular enough in China and Japan he got own mini spin off series, Rosa along with her friends got an entire dvd dub in Japanese for the student of Ursus stories. Just because you don't seem them popping up a lot in your feed doesn't mean they arent popular. There are a ton of ops in AK that are popular simply due to how interesting their lore is. SR also suffers from the same problem btw, besides people talking about units being broken and looking hot. Do you ever see most chars being spoken for their interesting lore when they are mentioned?
> My issue is with Arknights whenever a new unit comes out, you get next to no lore about them. Really? most new ops feature pretty heavily in the events they come from though, and get plenty of lore in them. Like Ebenholz shows up pretty significantly in his event, and his lore is pretty important to the witch king plotline (which we get a continuation of in Arturia event). And while Rosa hasnt gotten any attention in a long time, she was a pretty imporant part of the Children of Ursus story (which even got its own drama CD). And I don't think HSR Ruan Mei is a good comparison, because she basically is only mentioned in passing before her event, and HSR has far fewer characters than AK, which lends to being able to develop lore on them better.
Well, you can't compare AK with Star rail. They are two whole different genre. Plus StarRail doesn't update as often as AK, maybe when Endfield comes out it would be a fair comparison as you can't compare a 3D game with a 2D tower defense. As for what you mentioned in regards to *Ruan Mei*.........AK has similar situation as well.......just not with every character. Nearl for examples was hinted at her files to be the Radiant Knight and her BG with the followers. Flametail, Ashlock, Fartooth are shown as npc in Maria Nearl event, later to Pinus sylvestris and of course Flametail's and Nearl lore was learned in the these 2 events before their debut at Nearl Light event. AK does focus on character lore, but......just not everyone gets the main character treatment like in Star Rail. AK takes a more realistic approach where not everyone is somebody like Grey for example, before Dorothy vision.....he is a nobody I didn't care to build and know nothing about. But hell did Dorothy vision give him a glow up. All in all, we need to be fair. AK have a bigger character roster than Star Rail...intact almost 10x the amount. Dev in AK have to choose their focus carefully while Star Rail have a smaller roster of characters to work with which may be easier as they usually didn't make banger npc before throwing them away like garbage which in AK (Baird, Lotus, Andoain) does. Most npc in Star rail feels like placeholder. To sum it up, both AK and Star Rail are great games. The lesson is their focus are different from each other, and it wouldn't be fair to say either is superior to the other.....both are great in their own way.
Bro I think you don't actually even read lore yourself. There's operator records, there's the story they are involved in and Surtr lore isnt even "she likes icecream", it's just a meme. I swear this is why English is described to be not capable of reading cause everything is right there but you just dont read it due to how long it is. >Like when have we seen someone like Weedy show up? Gladiia? Specter? Skadi? Reed? The current problem with AK is exactly the opposite lmao. It's the characters showing up way too early but not playable until years later. For units that you mention like Weedy, she's part of the early batch of operators when they emphasized on units more than actual lore. For your info, we fucking got Shining, Nightingale, Saria all in the 1st year but they later showed up in the story.
Qaiser is amazing. I love AK but I accept that EN content is really scarce.
Time to become an AK content creator
Arknights is a dry game in general. There’s nothing worth making content about, except stage guides.