Arknights CN Dev Update: New Summer Operators, Skins, and Event Updates! (2024)

caused a flood of anguish from many CN players primarilybecause of the following statement:

• Event stage progress/first clear rewards are passed down to the rerun from the original[Heart of Surging Flame] event (In other words, if you already cleared the stages in the first run, you won't get Originite Prime from the first clear in the rerun)

A new Operator banner and new skins with no OP rewards meant that free-to-playand monthly packplayers would be left drooling over the new stuff without any way to purchase or roll for it. Other players were concerned about introducingtoo many new Operators without sufficient development of their backstory, thus neglecting the deep roots of lore that many players love about the game.

In response to the player outcry, the developer responded with the following announcements:

Translation Credit:Nightsky#3319

Thanks for your focus and support of Arknights. Due to the long period of summer events, large quantity of contentand improper arrangement, we're sorry for bringing confusion to players about the arrangement of the events. Meanwhile, the description of [Heart of Surging Flame] Retrospection is not complete and detailed. In order to introduce the future arrangement of summer events and retrospection, devteam added this Dev news here to show more about the mechanism of summer event and retrospection.

We are devoted to provide brand new events, gameplay and contents to everyone and this is what we mainly focus on in our future development and operation. While the retrospective event only functions as a complement of game contents rather than the major part of the game. There will be nonew Operators introduced in future retrospection events.

With the retrospection events, ourintention is to providean opportunity for players to retrospect on pastgame content between two new major events. So all the retrospection events will be implementedin an abbreviated form from the original,where the gaming time, total number of rewards in event shop (that may require sanity), rewards in gameplay and rewards from mission will be greatly decreased. Future retrospection events will be run in a similar abbreviated way in terms ofsanity cost and gaming time, and the core of the retrospection event will mainly aim at the content.

Our goal is to provide an opportunity for new players to get the one-off rewards. For players who earnedthe rewards in the original event, we will provideHeadhuntingresources and materialsin the Intelligence Certs shop. Meanwhile, we will add some newstories in retrospection events to enrich the story and gaming experience. In summer event of this year, devteam prepared [Gavial, the Great Chief Returns] and [Ceobe's Fungimist] as the main part of the summer events.

There are two limited time Headhunting bannersin the summer events as follows:

[Unbound Reflux] in [Heart of Surging Flame] RetrospectionEvent

Event Period: 16:00 Aug 11th - 03:59 Aug 25th

[Unbound Reflux] Banner Operators:

[Heart of Surging Flame] Event Operator

[Heart of Steel] in [Gavial, the Great Chief Returns]

Event Period: 16:00 Aug 25th - 03:59 Sept 8th

[Heart of Steel] Banner Operators:

[Gavial, the Great Chief Returns] Event Operator

Considering the problem of summer event arrangement, both of these banners will also be re-run, (along with a free 10-pull award described below).

• rerun period:Sept 8th - 03:59 Sept 15th Notes:

Notes:

• The rerunsare [Standard Headhunt]s, and the rate-up operators are the same as the original banner.
• The banners above are separated and independent, so you can get the guaranteed 5 star operator in first 10 roll in the re-runs as well.

We will giveaway 10x Headhunting permitvia in-game mail during the Headhunting Banner reruns.

Giveaway Time: 16:00 Sept 8th

Eligibility: All players who registered before 16:00 Sept 8th (including guest account)

Thepurchasable Summer Skins release plan is as follows:

Skins during the [Heart of Surging Flame Retrospection]:

New Skins for sale

Skin Reruns for sale

Skins during [Gavial, the Great Chief Returns]

New Skins for sale

Rerun Skins for sale

Event Skins

The 6 new skins introduced this year will also be rerun with the banners.

Rerun Period: 16:00 Sept 8th - 03:59 Sept 15th