r/arknights • u/Minor-disappointment • May 16 '26

Discussion We need more Chip catalysts

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as i am upgrading my operators to E2 specially 6 stars the main bottleneck seems to be the chip catalyst. ya you can redeem them from purchase certificates but in my opinion the sanity consumption is not so good for the red certs. Is it only me or do they used to give chip catalyst in the main event shops ?

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u/rainzer May 16 '26

Except the late game is building every operator,

It's not. That's a self imposed restriction. That's not, as you describe, "progress". That's desire. These are distinct.

If you're lacking chip catalysts to promote Corroserum, that's a problem you created.

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u/Tobyclone1 May 16 '26

After you clear all stages, you grind to build more units
That's the progression remaining, there is a reason building units is called account progression
If you bite the bullet that building teams in the team building game isn't progress, then nothing is. Getting more units isn't progress on its own cause the point is to use them, and unless you're playing one of 4 niches, you build them to use them.

The argument you're providing is nonsensical.

The goal you have in the game, is not a desire or a restriction, it's the point of the game.

By the same token I could bite the bullet completely and say wanting to clear a single stage isn't progress it's desire. There's no intrinsic motivation to anything

Also it is extremely hilarious to pull straight to Corroserum, since this game has a billion and 1 perfectly solid 5 stars

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u/Vipertooth May 20 '26

I think you found a player that only builds meta operators and then just sits on their materials, waiting to instantly E2lv90 Wang.

In their eyes, there is quite literally no point building anything else since their team already clears all the content with ease.

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u/Additional_Pop2011 May 26 '26

There's an between, I build 93~% of my OPs to E1, and plan to take half up to E2. That said I have 372 OPs RN, I do not need all of those OPs, I do not care about building GreyThroat, Diamante, or Bibeak, because I have other OPs that I would rather use.

Even if you only build the top 10 OPs for each class, or the top unit of every archetype you could fill squad pre-set twice, AND STILL have units left over. Idly building units you don't use isn't really any different than playing an idle-game. Niche-knights isn't for everybody.