**Clarification** 09:58 Regarding my info about collab banners, CN announced the re-run banners of Ash which was the limited 6* operator during the 1st rainbow six siege collab along with a new 6* as well. I don't know if this is going to happen with Monster Hunter banner as well.

HG was a genius for naming their stamina points as sanity, because you are losing them figuratively and LITERALLY. Touché HG touché.

Cant believe arknights is old enough for me to get a retrospective video in my recommendations

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

It's even older in CN.

Been playing for almost 3 years, I originally came across Arknights looking for a good tower defense game and boy did I

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

True and it offer varieties in difficulty as well.

Also please forgive the script since it was made back in october. Happy new year everyone!

Honestly the grind part is rough only when you just start to mid game, in the long run it's easier because you just simply stockpile mats you get from event The only thing you go out your way to farm is Dual Chips so it's common if you see someone maxed character that just got their banner released right off the bat. And the upgrade is straight forward you only need your average farmable materials, no need for duplicate or locked behind ⭐ or farm the character fragments.

@gigaslave

6 ай бұрын

Don't need to farm hundreds of weapon bits like Blue Archive or Priconne lol, and don't need to minmax for Special Interceptions to get Overload kit like Nikke.

@shionuzuki5549

6 ай бұрын

I agree. Mid game is brutal and a real slog. At account level >100, where you've made significant gains and a proper main roster and M3s on skills, the game has been a lot easier. Mats are easy to stockpile now off of events that I can now 100% complete without problems.

@koldfusion3742

6 ай бұрын

​@@shionuzuki5549 do you realy need M3s, only M3 I have is on Myrtle

finally got my 1 year medal yesterday. I lost a 5$ bet to my friend for that because i never expecting myself to play a gacha's game for one entire year. The experience so far is a blast. Lone Trail so far is the best event for me, which conclude why this game is so great. Story is top notch, stage gimmick creating a lot of space for creative clear, etc. If i could critize this game is the newbie experience. I'm sorry for comparing this game to Genshin, but Genshin is great for the first 20 hour, and Arknights is pain in the ass for the beginner. IMO, that happen because of nature of strategy and gacha in Arknights. You are locked away from certain strategy by gacha's wall. For myself, i can't do "sleep stalling" because i don't have Liskarm and Blemi. Something like this is far worse for beginner player. imagine how inconveniences it was to clear a very demanding gimmick like what we had on Stultivera Navis, Break the Ice, Ch. 12, etc. without any operators with specific characteristics and niche. I know Kyostinv and Support system exist, but new player need more room to work and learn any shenanigans by s/himself. From a basic things like operator branches to complicated one like laneholding, dps check, stalling, helidroping, etc. My solution is to expand 3-star roster and give a 4-star selector from event shop. Or they can overhaul the support system for newbie, like they can borrow at least 2 operators from their friendlist until certain level.

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

Truee. The beginning part where you still scramble to upgrade operators and do your research on who works best is a royal pain. Not to mention the cost for each rarity so in the beginning chapter it would be mostly 4* and 5* runs with your free 6*

@ian59

6 ай бұрын

I agree with expanding the easily accessible roster and making more of them automatically added to your account for the reasons stated above but also for another reason. When you know every single account has specific operators it gives you more freedom in level design. You're not held back by having to have every level be completable with the original year 1 operators so they can make designs that are more synergistic with specific mechanics, in particular the mechanics/archetypes that are newer. Where I might differ a little bit is in having those be 3* operators since I feel like 3* operators are starting to become more limited in what they can be used to accomplish. Though maybe that's ok if they're only meant to get you so far before you need to start gachaing to progress further.

Knowing that Ansel is a man never stopped me... In war every hole is a trench

Great video. Lets hope for another great year!

@YaBoiRenegade

7 ай бұрын

Hoping for another great year indeed!

It'll be a year on the 20th of this month for me. I've never played a mobile game for longer than maybe a month or two before. Arknights is just too damn good. I also love how in this game you feel progression with both your operators and your strategies. All other games i played required you to have armor/weapons with like 7 layers of rng for them to be useful. I hate that shit.

I have been loyal to this game for 3 years, even though there was a broken login streak, I managed to reach level 120 with quite a lot of achievements from main story progress, events, CC, operators, and I can say that the last 3 years of my life have been completely filled with Arknights and have become part of my daily life. And over the last 3 years there have been quite a few I tried playing gacha games other than Arknights, but after at most 4 months, I returned to facing my loyalty to Arknights. It seems redundant that I live to keep playing Arknights however since 2022, life is not as easy and smooth as I thought, and sometimes the feeling of wanting to give up and stop living life often occurs to me, but it seems to be small and trivial things like Waiting for the Arknights update still encourages me to live life. I know, that someday when everyone has turned their back on Arknights and the game finally closes the servers, I wish I had stay there, waiting for the last moment before tears of contentment fall into goodbye.

Been playing Arknights for about 5-7 months (I can't precisely remember lmao) and I've been playing Arknights like crazy and enjoyed the content a lot such as the music, artwork, etc. Let's hope for another great year!!!!

@Myfksarentgiven

6 ай бұрын

If you open your friend card, the date you started playing will be on the top left c:

@Clevaxis

6 ай бұрын

@@Myfksarentgiven oh ye I forgot ty

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You're not being honest with yourself 7:54 10:55

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

Ansel is a mixed bag for me xD

I like the music sync at 0:12 very ebic

@YaBoiRenegade

5 ай бұрын

Editor has attention to details. Props to him!

@momsaccount4033

5 ай бұрын

@@YaBoiRenegade Thank you editor 🙏

Great video, very informative and entertaining at the same time. Ive been playing for 2 1/3 years, and my single problem about the game as a long time noob is the fact that my 3gb ram, 64 gb storage phone cant handle the game anymore compared to 1 1/2 years ago. Youre right when the grind for mats is tedious, but its too much when the game crashes right when the stage im clearing is about to be finished, especially in the IS gamemode, eventually got so tired of feeling like im wasting my time that I decided to stop until I could play smoothly on a good device, even with minimal graphics.

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

I feel you, man. Sometimes when i'm out and about and need to play the game I do wish that my phone could handle it or better yet can store it since the game file size gets bigger and bigger since there are a lot of stuff being archived now like stories and IS.

AK has a really cool setting, GREAT character design without excessive fanservice, reasonable Gacha rates and actually decent and involved gameplay for a mobile game. It's a nice twist on the tower defense genre, higher stages need a little bit of strategy to beat and you're never required to have one specific operator to beat any given stage (huge shoutout to the low star guides on KZread). I wish it was more popular.

Subscribing. Nice editing.

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

Thanks. It's my friend who offered to edit for me.

istg this game would do so much better if only there wouldnt be any dead weeks

the fact that the best option for oversexualized character design was Conviction e2 for you speaks volumes

@marielcarey4288

6 ай бұрын

I'm hoping that was just a joke because Conviction? No way

@milkman7834

6 ай бұрын

I mean, eunectes exists?

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

I know 💀 I have a problem that I need to fix.

@lokteraplays2619

5 ай бұрын

Broca workout skin. 😚🤌

Been playing since month 2 love the game but haven't played since December loved 2000 hours

Hypergryph does add features to the game to make it new player friendly.... well, as new player friendly as it's possible to be for a gacha game. Examples: Every year they give a permanent voucher for a 5* operator of your choice. (aka as of the end of this month a new player will start with 4 more 5* operators than a day 1 player started with and they can select the most powerful ones) Limited rewards (including free 5* and 6* operators) from past events become permanently available (as mentioned in the video). The most powerful of any event, Gladiia, just got unlocked and is available to new players. Additionally the IS rewards stay around permanently and can be binged by new players vs the drip feed that veterans experienced. They increased the sanity value in potions so new players get more sanity than veteran players did when they started. They added the Kernel banner which helps new players get legacy operators slightly more efficiently. They increased the efficiency of farming CE and LS (money and XP) and increased the weekly orundum amount gained from annihilation They added more rewards into daily and weekly missions. So compared to 4 years ago a new player starts with more powerful operators, gets more sanity, and more rewards per sanity point spent than veterans did. All of these features means that new players progress faster with less effort than veterans did. Nonetheless, gacha games are inherently challenging to join into later since the library of characters keeps growing.

*Imagine. TOTAL WAR: ARKNIGHTS.* ;)

pyrite operation is an all time BANGER

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

Blade as well!

As someone who has become jaded with Chinese Developers, Hypergryph is one of few companies I turn up the stove for. I've uninstalled a few times out of frustration, but I always come back between the fantastic (if dark) settings, amazing soundtrack, and absolutely phenomenal characters. It definitely helps that those characters don't tend to get powercrept for years (and even then, a lot of the upgrades don't completely invalidate their predecessor)

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

Even the Holy Trinity still gets some uses from time to time. Especially Eyja for AFKnights

I was one of those people who pre-ordered this game, thinking it will be a change of pace for me Good thing I stayed for *4 BLOODY YEAR* of fighting my way to get the WAIFUS. I’m so glad AK is one of game of all times and it’s uniquely a different game from a normal Tower Defense As you said, you *CANNOT UNGA BUNGA* the later stages bc you have to use your brain. I’d you have smooth brain, if playing long enough, you will have many ripples on your brain Terra can now be called “The World of Terra” instead of “The Lands of Terra”, which is a lovely change because it brings depth into the world of AK, unlike some other games (I’m looking at you Genshin & Honkia Impact)

@dindapriska

6 ай бұрын

You still can unga bunga recent stages, but depending on what stage are you doing, chances are you'll be punished by the gimmicks lol I'm waiting to see reactions of people who will unga bunga chapter 13 later. It could be "wtf was that?" and move on to the next stage or "wtf was that?" as you have to restart.

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

I unga bunga stages most of the time especially blind runs. But there are 2 types. Unga bunga with precision deployments or Random bullshit go Unga bunga

@ian59

6 ай бұрын

@@dindapriska When Renegade was talking about masteries being optional I was thinking "go clear H12-4 and tell me how optional you think masteries are for that stage". Every now and then they put something out that really tests our limits but it's like .1% of the stages. Honestly I get kind of excited when I see a stage that actually puts modules and masteries to the test because it makes me think we might be getting closer to a day when they add E3 into the game.

BEST ARKNIGHTS REVIEW IN 2023

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

Thanks. Consider playing the game bro. It's fun.

I did struggle very hard when i first start the game i even quit for like 2 month then return when my friend introduce me to ling .then i just ling everything 😂😂😂. Thats how i am today lol.

Arknights are one of the few gacha games that is worthwhile to invest your time into. I can count with my two hands gacha games that are worth your time investment.

Gacha games are musical co. in disguise change my mind.

Nice video, but your microphone seems to be too quiet compared to bgm used most of the time. Is it just me? I've had hard time hearing it.

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

Yeah that is true. We needed to add echo in order to remove the buzzing noise in the background but thank you sticking with it all the way through!

4 years and still no playable Mandragora

@Bylov6812

6 ай бұрын

Isn't she... 💀

@newspaper-hn9nw

6 ай бұрын

@@Bylov6812 WIA, wounded in action; What the Firelight Casts alluded to her as such (coping rn)

@YaBoiRenegade

6 ай бұрын

Oh really? Eblana also did mention that Mandragora escaped using the sewers or sumthin

@newspaper-hn9nw

6 ай бұрын

@@YaBoiRenegade the sewers was Mandragora considering to go into the sewers of Londinium as she was bleeding out, and then came Misery interrupting her death sequence like the good lil' RI special op he is (still on the copium, been on it for close to 2 years now)

That means you haven't played the game at all.

@YaBoiRenegade

4 ай бұрын

What

@macsenpai7006

4 ай бұрын

@@YaBoiRenegade It's supposed to be a reply to one of the commenters, it's not directed towards you. I was typing on a phone and my friends were talking to me so I misplaced the reply LOL!

A mediocre game, with phenomenal “art” 😂

@macsenpai7006

4 ай бұрын

Just say that you haven't played the game at all.

@tcritty2812

4 ай бұрын

@@macsenpai7006 I’ve played it extensively lmao. Good try tho chief

@macsenpai7006

4 ай бұрын

@@tcritty2812 I can also say that I'm an alien, but no one will believe me. Why play a game extensively if it's a mediocre one? LOL! You either never played the game or you have tried it for a few days or weeks at best.