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Livestream Stuff

Showcased Hoshiguma the Breacher, our first 6★ Arts Protector Defender

Talent 1 - Karmic Flame stops Hoshiguma from retreating when her HP reaches 0 and instead makes her enter a special state where she can't be healed but can still take damage and when she accumulates damage equal to a certain % of her Max HP in this state she will then forcibly retreat, when she doesn't take damage for a certain amount of time in this state she will begin recovering HP every second and exit the state when her HP is above 0

Talent 2 - Ghost Stance gives her a [Tenacity] buff that increases her ATK and RES the lower her HP is

Skill 1 - Karmic Retribution is an infinite duration skill that increases her ATK & DEF and when an enemy attacks her, she will deal damage to that enemy with a certain % of her ATK as Arts damage

Skill 2 - Ignorance Without Beginning makes her throw her shield and makes her attacks deal 3 hits to multiple enemies equal to her Block Count, her shield will travel around her counterclockwise dealing Arts damage every 0.5s and inflict Slow to enemies within its AoE and healing her by a certain amount of damage dealt, the skill duration is tied to the shield being in the air and the shield itself will actually slow down when it's attacking enemies

Skill 3 - Hell Incarnate expands her Attack Range, increases her ATK & Max HP and makes her attack deal 2 hits to multiple enemies within range, the skill has a special mechanic where if you manually deactivate it, she will keep the skill buffs for a certain amount of time and will not retreat, additionally Hoshiguma's attacks will become a 4-hit combo and she will protect other operators within range from lethal damage (her protection is prioritized over other similar effects), then after a certain amount of time she will forcibly retreat

Showcased Haruka, a 6★ Abjurer Supporter with special ways to mitigate damage

Talent 1 - Floating Light and Bubbles makes Haruka apply a Bubble to an ally operator within range after each Attack Interval, Bubbles grants Sanctuary and pops shortly after being attacked by an enemy

Talent 2 - Rouse the Fireworks makes her Bubbles heal the operator it's applied on when it pops by a certain amount of Haruka's ATK

Skill 1 - Night Crowing, Colorful Feathers increases her ASPD and makes it so whenever a Bubble pops it will apply Bubbles to allies within 8 surrounding tiles that doesn't have one

Skill 2 - Firefly in the Gap increases the amount of units she can target with her attacks/heals/talent at once and makes her heals deal Arts damage equal to her healing amount to enemies around her healing targets, after this skill is used a second time it will increase her ATK and become infinite duration

Skill 3 - Late Summer Fin Scales expands her Attack Range, increases her ATK, reduces her Attack Interval, increases the amount of Sanctuary her Bubbles grant and makes it so whenever an enemy attacks a Bubble during skill duration they will be Levitated for a few seconds and take Arts damage every second they're in the air

Showcased the event mechanic, machines that spit out pinballs that push aside enemies in their way and be attacked by ally units, players can catch the pinballs by placing units on special tiles to fill up a bar on the top of the screen, when the bar is full, the rightmost operator in the deployment waiting zone will cost 0 DP and gain +100 SP upon deployment

The cost required to spark Ch'en the Holungday will be reduced to 200 starting from this event, the cost to spark Nearl the Radiant Knight will be reduced to 200 in the CN 6.5 Anniversary event

CC#4 Battleplan Arclight will have the additional tags unlock at Day 1 and Day 7 of the event and one of the rewards for this CC is a Coral Coast outfit for Aciddrop

Announced a new permanent addition, Holographic Combat Matrix

Players can play a selection of stages and apply modifiers to it similar to CC

Players can get various rewards from it including CC#2 Operation Blade themed profile card and main menu background

Announced Duel Channel Honeydew, another season of the EvE multiplayer event, adding new enemies and mechanics

Announced Rebuilding Mandate, a new gamemode

In this gamemode players will have to deploy production modules, gather resources and fight enemies

Battles have a time limit and enemies can drop production modules

Players can combine production modules and certain modules can spawn enemies in battles

If there are too many enemies on the field at once, your Life Points will start to decrease

Announced the first expansion for IS#6, adding a new ending, new squads, new coins and collectibles and a second specialized module for Raidian

Announced Rhodes Island Icebreaker Games #2

The Positional Football mini-game has been replaced by a new raft steering mini-game

Players can now directly invite their friends from their friends list to play in custom rooms

Announced future QoL updates

The pop-up that shows what stages you can get a material from will show the one with the highest drop rate at the top

Friend limit increase from 100 to 125

The ability to mark friends in your friends list as Best Friends, they will be prioritized in the clue exchange list and their support units will show up more

The ability to preview Attack Range changes on skills from the operator screen and squad selection screen

Announced Ep16: Abnormal Spectrum, after losing contact with Raidian and her team who were headed towards Ursus to gather info on the whereabouts on the Sarcophagus, Rhodes Island follows suit into the tundra to figure out what happened

Players will get a free operator selector voucher that allows players to pick up Bagpipe/Saria/Surtr/Eyjafjalla and an outfit voucher

Livestream Stuff

Showcased Exusiai the New Covenant, a 6★ Geek Specialist with a unique support dps kit

Talent 1 - Firepower Radio makes it so when she's deployed and an operator consumes ammo she will immediately recover some HP and call a bombardment within that operator's Attack Range dealing a certain amount of AoE Physical damage

Talent 2 - Gun and Bullet Pact increases the ATK of all operators that have ammo when she's deployed, the effect is further increased for Laterano operators

Skill 1 - Clear the Skies is an ammo skill that makes her attacks deal a certain amount of Physical damage and prioritizes aerial enemies, if the skill is manually deactivated she will immediately fire all her ammo on random enemies within Attack Range

Skill 2 - Fire Unto Blight is an ammo skill that reduces her attack interval and makes her attack deal a certain amount of Physical damage, upon skill activation it also Steals ASPD from an ally operator within Attack Range and grants both her and the operator she stole ASPD from a Barrier that decays overtime, this skill gains additional ammo if she succeeds in stealing ASPD from an operator

Skill 3 - Mission Accomplished! is an ammo skill that has a passive effect of giving her a Delivery Marker on deployment. When activated the skill increases her ATK, makes her attacks hit 5 times in a row dealing a certain amount of Physical damage and if the marker is deployed before or during the skill is active, she will deal a certain amount of AoE Physical damage and deploy the melee operator with the longest redeployment time to the position of the marker, granting them some SP and retrieving the marker, each attack while this skill is active consumes 5 ammo

Showcased Lemuen, a 6★ Deadeye Sniper that has the ability to lock onto Elite/Leader enemies

Talent 1 - Cross-Border Pursuit License makes it so when she is deployed, Elite/Leader enemies that stayed within the Attack Range of Laterano operators for a certain duration will be marked as Wanted, attacks of Laterano operators deal more damage to wanted enemies and Lemuen can target all Wanted enemies

Talent 2 - Fugitive Extradition Procedures increases her ATK and max ammo after staying on the field for a certain amount of time

Skill 1 - Reunion Greetings is an ammo skill that increases her ATK and lets her attack an additional target

Skill 2 - Homecoming Invitation is an ammo skill that increases her ATK and ASPD and has a special mechanic where if there is a Wanted enemy on the field, she will immediately lock onto that enemy, take several seconds to aim and fire a shot that cannot be dodged. While aiming, her ATK gradually increases and if her ATK exceeds the sum of the enemy's remaining HP + DEF she will immediately stop aiming and fire

Skill 3 - Salute · Forced Memorial is an ammo skill that makes her stop attacking and consume one ammo every few seconds to lock onto enemies in sequence, when the skill ends she will carry out bombardment attacks on the locked-on enemies, each dealing a certain amount of AoE Physical damage with increased damage closer to the center of the explosions

Showcased Sankta Miksaparato, a 6★ Sentry Protector Defender

Talent 1 - Gun-Sweeping Welcoming Ceremony increases his DEF and ASPD for a few seconds every time he deals damage, this effect can stack up to several times

Talent 2 - Shield-Raising Send-off Ceremony grants him a Barrier equal to a certain amount of his Max HP after not attacking for several seconds, the timer resets when he loses the Barrier

Skill 1 - Gun Cavalry Inspector makes his next attack hit 3 times in a row dealing a certain amount of Physical damage and restores 1 ammo to a nearby Laterano operator with an ammo skill active

Skill 2 - Eight-Armed Chainsaw Man is an ammo skill that increases his ATK and DEF, if he happens to take lethal damage while the skill is active several rounds of ammo will be immediately consumed to block that damage instead

Skill 3 - Pre-Retirement Evangelism is an ammo skill that immediately restores several rounds of ammo of all other Laterano operators with ammo skills active upon skill activation, it also expands his Attack Range, increases his Max HP, ATK & DEF and stops him from actively attacking enemies. When attacked, he will counterattack and hit several enemies in his Attack Range at once (minimum counterattack interval is equal to a certain % of the regular Attack Interval)

Showcased the event mechanic, special tiles that make your operators fall asleep when deployed on, sleeping operators can eventually wake up on their own but can also be hit by allies to wake them up faster, there are also sleeping allied units on some stages that can be woken up to assist you

The cost required to spark Skadi the Corrupting Heart will be reduced to 200 starting from this event, the cost to spark Ch'en the Holungday will be reduced to 200 in the 2025 Summer Carnival event

Revealed more detail on Duel Channel, an improved iteration of the Cannot April Fools event

Players can play the gamemode in single-player, 8-player and 30-player lobbies

Each round during the pre-battle countdown players can choose which side they think will win and can freely switch their choices back-and-forth, players can see each others' choices until the last few seconds of the countdown where they will immediately be hidden

On the first 5 rounds, players have a one-time pass that lets them get away with one incorrect choice

The pool of enemies have been expanded

Vector Breakthrough will return with a number of adjustments as an annual gamemode

Amount of stages increased from 8 to 12

Added new challenge stages that can be attempted after beating the 12 normal stages

Buffs have a higher tier variant and players will be restricted to only 4 buffs active at a time

Teased future events, one involving the Crimson Troupe and one possibly taking place in Higashi

IS#2 will be updated to adopt the newer difficulty system going up to D15

Players can start on D3/6/9 depending on if they cleared easy/normal/hard difficulty before the update

The chance to obtain alternate ending encounters/collectibles are greatly increased starting from D10

Starting from D11 combinations of certain Hallucinations can trigger special effects

Starting from D13 the Proof of Glory collectibles have stronger debuffs, but the effects can be reversed upon meeting certain conditions

Announced Trials for Navigator #5, no details yet other than that it will feature bosses from IS#2 and IS#3

Announced IS#6 Sui's Garden of Grotesqueries

Implemented a new "dungeon-crawl" type floor that players can enter via a special node

Upon entering the floor players are given a number of candles, these candles are used to move from node to node on the floor

When you run out of candles you will be immediately kicked out of the floor, but entering the floor again in the same run will place you exactly where you left off

Implemented the ability to store recruitment vouchers, players can use the vouchers upon reaching a new special node and it will cost less Hope to recruit operators there

The core mechanic of IS6 is Tongbao coins, players can collect coins throughout their run, the coins have different effects attached to them

Implemented general improvements to the investment system, changed the Cannot's Mark collectible to automatically convert a % of ingots obtained after beating a stage into investments (up to a certain amount at a time), increased the amount of starting operator class options, optimized support reward options and adjusted initial resources for different difficulty levels

Raidian is a special operator you can obtain from IS#6, she cannot be raised via normal means and can only be upgraded by completing weekly/IS missions

Showcased the new Kroos skin obtainable from 1000 cumulative logins, it has 2 different animated art that players can freely switch between

Discussed the new qol features and announced plans to adjust the pop-up that appears when you tap on a material and it shows every stage it can drop from

Revealed the Arknights Link to the Limitless web event, which opened for all servers simultaneously, players can get a special icon and a Rhodes Kitchen outfit for Savage

Arknights PC client announced

Arknights anime season 3 [RISE FROM EMBER] trailer released

More episodes of the U-Official mini series confirmed

Announced Arknights Art Book Vol.4 is in the works

Revealed Taiko no Tatsujin collab, confirmed to be a mini collab bringing collab outfits and furniture