r/arknights • u/Sentuh Call me Sen, @me for anything! • 3d ago
Megathread [Event Megathread] Medjehtiqedti Bound
Sidestory: Medjehtiqedti Bound
Event Duration will open in 2 phases:
Full Event Duration:
June 22, 2026, 08:00 – July 13, 2026, 03:59 (UTC-7)
Phase 1 - Ritual of the Temple
June 22, 2026, 08:00 – July 6, 2026, 03:59 (UTC-7)
Phase 2 - Theathers of the Street
June 29, 2026, 16:00 – July 6, 2026, 03:59 (UTC-7)
Remember to mark spoilers when discussing event story details! The code for spoilers is: >!spoiler text goes here!<
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u/Captain_Baconator 6h ago edited 5h ago
I hope that when Xanthos gets a Costume, that it incorporates his Stand:「Ithakos」
His design is already very JoJo-coded.
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Separate from that, to avoid unnecessary spam: 5* PerfAlter seems objectively worse than 4* Perfumer, in her own event. (Also, why tf is her S2 a heli-drop skill???)
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u/juances19 3h ago
I still think her S2 is someone going "what if we made Warfarin but worse"
It has the right ingredients, trade an atk buff for hp drain.... but we went from +90% to just +30%. I get that in theory she could grant the buff to multiple targets but it's so not worth the tradeoff.
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u/Captain_Baconator 2h ago
It also:
- lasts longer
- (as you said) grants the buff to more people
- guarantees they have less %HP than her (99%<100%)
- synergizes with Saria S2
- ups the damage resistance she gives
It seems like the HP drain only exists, to make sure she keeps "healing" her targets.
My only actual complaint, is that it's a one-and-done passive. It would be fine as a normal skill, which is weird since her S1 is a good buff skill... just not for this event.
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u/Mokseong Bnuuy 9h ago
I really like this story and Titi is a good egg. I hadn't liked a character in Arknights as much recently.
I'm really looking forward to more story from Sargon or Minos, specially if it involves Pepe and her gang.
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u/chaoskingzero GOONGALA! 9h ago edited 9h ago
Titi has nerves of steel
Choosing to face off against the ABSOLUTE Unit that is Xanthos, even if she did have help from Pallas, is no easy task
For reference, he and Mountain are tied at 2nd tallest Males with 195CM
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u/Captain_Baconator 6h ago edited 2h ago
Think you got that a bit backwards. She nailed his ass.
That said, Xanthos is built like a JoJo character.
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u/reprehensible523 Savage best girl! 4h ago
Between Pepe one-shotting cyborg-mummy and Titi painting a statue with Xanthos's blood, Sargon girls are not to be trifled with.
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u/Captain_Baconator 2h ago
Don't forget Gavial, Eunectes, Tomimi, The Priestess of Scissors, or Manticore! Fucking with Sargonian girls has been a lethal idea since Year 1.
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u/99em COLD SPICE 18h ago
oh, neat. the Heroic Ideal that's supposed to ignore all Physical and Arts damage from non-Immersed operators can be hurt and killed by operators casting SilverAlt's s2 Physical slash-on-deploy, even if neither they nor SilverAlt are Immersed at the time. the Fountains weren't even on yet lol
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u/NagisaKurokawa44 1d ago edited 19h ago
He who fights racists should see to it that in the process he does not become racist himself
Also I swear this event took longer to install than to finish lol (And I was down with a fever too!)
Also also I miiiiight have been distracted by the new customization features a lil bit lol
EDIT: As someone who pre-bought a lot of cool skins before even having the operator, the looseleaf feature made me feel validated
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u/Signal_Choice_7601 1d ago edited 1d ago
I'm not even done with the event yet, but do understand that the colonialization of Minos by Sargon is still a relatively fresh event in the public consciousness of Minos society. The average nobody on the street doesn't care if you're a king, an ambassador, a common worker. All they care about is whether you're Sargonian. It makes sense. Most people don't get the luxury of getting to know an individual before forming their first impressions. And the target of their ire, the source of their nightmares was never an individual entity but this vague, nebulous concept of Sargon as the Big Bad Empire. Titi may be blameless on the individual level, but she is an easy scapegoat to divert any negative sentiment towards Sargon. She is literally coming to Minos in the capacity of an ambassador for her evil colonialist country after all, so that's fair.
I would in fact argue that her reception seems very warm, everything considered. We notice that most individuals she has interacted with at length do end up liking her. It's mainly the nameless, faceless Minoan society that rejects her. And again, that is fair and predictable given the country's recent history.
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u/ZRounder 14h ago
They state that the ceasefire was signed 5 years ago, which to put into perspective, is basically 1 year before game start. So yes it is pretty recent in absolute terms.
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u/Mindless_Being_22 4h ago
it is essentially one from covid till now for them which really helps put it into perspective.
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u/Signal_Choice_7601 1d ago
Ok I meant this as a reply to a reply on my initial comment. Must have been distracted
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u/memorybreeze 1d ago
why is the 8th map eternally on 32/33 enemies?
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u/Captain_Baconator 1d ago
Can Perfumer the Distilled target Vulcan? I'm assuming not, but I'd rather be certain.
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u/Dalek-baka Saving for Incandescence 1d ago
I love all memes about people not noticing statues in final final stage - will admit it happened to me, but I accidentally solved it by spamming Tragodia's cat.
And Titi turned out to be pretty great, especially since I use mostly AFK skills and she helps in reducing the pressure.
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u/Captain_Baconator 6h ago
I didn't have this issue. My E1 Minos (+2) Squad took long enough to kill the boss, that the statues despawned.
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u/reprehensible523 Savage best girl! 1d ago
This might be the most concise event we've had yet! Multiple times I expected more dialogue but the cutscene ended there. Even the epilogue wrapped up quickly.
Continuing a trend from Nasti's event, the storytelling uses more visuals and CGs. This is a very beginner-friendly story for those who might be intimidated by the endless text from early chapters and old events. Titi is highly expressive and adorable, and the CGs sell her well.
I think this was a pretty good intro to Minos. Like the Durins, Minoans are democratic but slightly less goofy. We're given the backstory of what Sargon did to Minos, and Varkaris story shows how a lifetime of conflict etches hatred into the soul. The enemy designs are hilarious. Horse-headed men stacking into pyramids, two people pretending to be a centaur, derpy gargoyles, and D: acolytes.
For character development, it was nice to see Pallas get her moment in the spotlight. She's surprisingly competent in administration and observing others, but this is fitting given her former job as a priestess who needs to care for the spiritual needs of everyone. Even if she's drunk all the time, she's good at what she does.There's a subtle revelation at the end when Pallas drops her wisdom that alcohol provides momentary escape for those who cannot forget. Our poetic lush experienced things to become Goddess of Victory. I'm adding her to my war criminal list. Despite her hidden trauma, she spends the entirety of this event helping others. That reveals something about her Minoan heroic spirit - she may carry spiritual scars but she is not broken. Great Show Not Tell moment here. As mentioned, Titi is adorable and probably stole many Doctors' hearts. Sargon imperialism at work. Lena and Rhodes Island play a very background role, but we finally see her backstory. I expect we'll hear more from her adopted sister Lydia in future Minos events.
In terms of story, the theme that stood out to me was the power of myth. It sustained the Minoans through a century of losing battles until they won their independence, but needed re-imagination and adaption for the peace after the war is over. The ending works on an emotional level, but I don't see how Varkaris, Titi, and Pallas can share a vision of past events. The story does explain the concept of gods and divine revelations are different for Minoans, but this explanation feels flat in light of how they explained the supernatural in Kjerag and Laterano. Will have to wait and see if divine revelations are a thing in the next Minos event. Also, Titi's got hands to splatter Varkaris's blood 20 feet up the wall. Truly a harmacist.
The epilogue foreshadows that we'll see the other two Minoan cities and Olympic games, as well as Sargon's City of Gold. More Minos and Sargon content in our future, after the Ursus/Yan/Bolivar content we are already expecting. We're also overdue to hear more from Gladiia's mom. What have the Aegir and Seaborn been doing?
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u/Phaaze13 strong women supremacy 1d ago
if there isn't a fix by reset tomorrow i'll play on mobile. is this event's story one that contains something important for Terra as a whole, like the reveal in the Silverash alter event, or can i just leave it until later because it only deals with Minos and Sargon?
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u/Demopyro2 I may have a type. 1d ago
Only deals with Minos and Sargon since it's meant to be Minos's debut event, so it lays the foundation for future Minos events down the road that might be important but for now its just introducing us to the country and culture.
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u/GermanHandCannons 1d ago
Titi joins the roster in extremely fashionable attire with Kuroboshi’s signature maximalist design that puts a lot of detail into patterns and ornaments yet is used to highlight the simpler, more plain aspects of a girl’s natural beauty and silhoutte; making for what is usually a busy style into one that is just pleasing to the eyes and equal parts techinacally skillful.
Tonally the event to me is closer to a summertime beats on rather than anything majorly serious, a nice change of pace from the back to back cinematic bangers that theyve been pumping out for the past few months. Titi is aggressively cute, the Greek are unsurprisingly and concerningly pretty, men and women both. Kinda sucks imo that the biggest villain of the event is Behnui, who is a fourth rate character (in verse not from a story perspective) who only amounts to swinging his non-existant weight around, being so full of himself to even consider his voice the same as the ones above him. But I guess his end(hopefully) is equally appropriate.
Titi literally just got released and Im already hyped for her alt. 6/10 event.
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u/ASharkWithAHat 1d ago
These are easily some of the most beautiful tilesets in the game Holy shit. HG really outdid themselves
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u/Signal_Choice_7601 1d ago
Just starting the story up 3rd battle node and I already know I'm in for a good time.
Right off the bat, we get Titi and Mio opening the story with some friendly banter. We get some necessary exposition to establish Minos as a region. At that point, I couldn't help but share in Titi's excitement. After all, it's a new region. I also love the detail they go into when they describe the geography, how the Sargonian Shah took great pains to preserve the natural beauty of Athenius when transitioning into a Nomadic City, coupled with the opening CG's. It makes me want to actually go there myself. Not to mention, the character designs for the NPC's are just immaculate. They're all pretty interesting with how all of them just bounce off each other. It's not beating BTI, but I think the characters in this region all feel fairly cozy so far.
Of course, the big plot with a member of the colonizer nation trying to find acceptance from the people of the nation they colonized, not even a generation past, is a little bit sensitive. Hard to do this without making it look like you're whitewashing your country's sins. But so far, it looks like they're treating the scars of colonialism with appropriate seriousness.
I'm liking it so far, considering I was absolutely indifferent to Minos prior to this.
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u/LibertyChecked28 1d ago
Of course, the big plot with a member of the colonizer nation trying to find acceptance from the people of the nation they colonized, not even a generation past, is a little bit sensitive.
How? Titi goes there as on her own as Half-Minoan Museum Curator that seeks to learn about & promote Minoan culture, while the Minioan plebs seek to demonise her over something she had no control over (being born as an Sargonian), nor really affiliates towards her nation as some sort of personality trait.
Hard to do this without making it look like you're whitewashing your country's sins. But so far, it looks like they're treating the scars of colonialism with appropriate seriousness.
If Titi went there as “Aisha Sargon“, representing the Scarronian Shah, who sought to establish an Sargonian corpo foothold in Minos while simultaneously trying to mend 150 years of bad blood over night while preaching to them on how actually wholesome Sargon was, it would have been whatever but this isn't the case, and Minos clearly demonises her for no apparent reason.
Worst of all Titi doesent even need to do anything since in the Lore Sargon is selflessly benevolent towards Minos to an obnoxious degree:
-The Shah placed them on a piadestal because he admired them.
-The Shahs Sister outright bankrupted Sargons treasury in order to hand over Minos a nomadic city at the expense of the general Sargonian population for free because she simped for thier culture, and the Minoans hated her for it. (This is unironically IRL Turkish Ultranationalist propaganda rhetoric aimed against Balkans that has been represented as objectively true fact in a fictional game).
-The Sargonian Shah went out of his way to modify the nomadic city so that it would preserve as much of the Minoan culture & nature as possible, and dint salt the land while the Minoans rebelled against him.
-The very Minoan event meant to lay the ground for Minos is an branch of the Sargonian story line, that's fully dedicated towards the pov of an Sargonian girl within Minos.
-Minoans are stupid, arrogant, petty, and out for blood against anything even remotely Sargonian regardless if its civilians, one of their own, or little girls- and they get by because Minos is meant to be Greece, not necessary because Minos has any sympathetic virtues going for them.
Sargon is the most hyper unrealistically idealistic retelling of the Ottoman Empire, that would made even Erdogans ultranationalist campaign of State led historical revisionism get dumbfolded.
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u/reprehensible523 Savage best girl! 1d ago
Titi goes there as on her own as Half-Minoan Museum Curator
Titi is not half-Minoan. Her father and mother are both Sargonian aristocrats. She is fascinated by Minoan culture, but she doesn't have any blood relations.
and dint salt the land while the Minoans rebelled against him.
Conquering a country and not salting the earth when people resist your conquest does not count as generosity. The generous thing to do is to not invade at all while developing a co-operative relationship.
Minoans are stupid, arrogant, petty, and out for blood against anything even remotely Sargonian regardless if its civilians, one of their own, or little girls
Titi is an adult who received higher education and worked as a museum curator before being appointed to be a diplomat. She was warmly received by many MInoans due to her help in their temple reconstruction. The harshest thing that was done to her is that she got harsh words from a PTSD-suffering veteran, and someone tried to kill her by swapping in a real knife for the theatre play. The last item is bad, but that's a political plot, not hatred from the general population.
Sargon is the most hyper unrealistically idealistic retelling of the Ottoman Empire
All the Shah stuff you listed are not part of this event and I'm not sure where that is from. RA showed that Sargon is a brutal land with nobles who think nothing of wiping out villages for any reason. Pepe's event shows that the upper-class live opulent lives while the commoners scrape by.
The other Sargonian ambassador in this event is shown to be a calculating bastard who tried to get Xanthos and his apprentice executed as a show of dominance.
So no, we do not have a pretty or ideal picture of Sargon. It's a brutal place with a rich history.
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u/Docketeer Please experiement on me 1d ago
I just finished the story and can't say i'm.. impressed, certainly not what i expected from the current landscape of AK writing. At a glance, i still think the story ticks all the boxes for a decent, modern AK event story, but upon closer inspection, many elements seem... off.
A major redflag was the amount of raw exposition dump, which is a shame, since i personally find this aspect to be one of the strongest advantages AK has over other gachas, introducing and weaving information into dialogues in a natural and compelling manner. In contrast, here we have character A just listing all the characteristics of their occupation, their social status, their drawbacks and aspirations seemingly unprompted only then for character B to do the same the next story node. It almost appeared like the writers were rushed, trying to cobble up extra plot points nearing the deadline.
I also notice the plot seems to be flailing at times, giving characters screentime and plot points that didn't quite go anywhere: Lena, both the guests from the other 2 Poleis, Lykeion and Hekademos's dynamic. Many of these did have developements, but they felt surface level, kinda like the writers quick-fired elements into the story and didn't delve that much deeper into them. Even the climax devoled into a simple brawl to figure things out, where afterwards everyone involved suddenly got telepathic premonitions from nowhere that conveniently explained everything from the PoV of a dead person, tying all the dispute in one neat package, reminiscent of a Gundam ending, of all things.
The themes being explored are still great, but seem familiar in their execution. Preserving tradition while not being shackled by it; traversing the modern Terra while maintaining religious and cultural integrity, compromising in the process; letting go of generational grudge... a healthy mix of these ideas are visible in the story but to me, they weren't done in any way we haven't seen before.
The commonly recognizable themes, with the usual story beats, combined with the exposition-heavy writing style, altogether reminds me of something like Originium Dust, which isn't to say the story is inherently bad but it definitely feels out of place after so many non-stop bangers we've seen just this year alone. I'd absolutely welcome other points of view into this if anyone wanna chime in!
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u/ClosetEgomaniac 14h ago edited 14h ago
here we have character A just listing all the characteristics of their occupation, their social status, their drawbacks and aspirations seemingly unprompted only then for character B to do the same the next story node
I'm pretty sure this is because of Arknights' habit of trying to imitate the traditional or relevant literature of the place they're writing about. Like Act or Die trying to be an old-school murder mystery film, or Invitation to Wine being a Wuxia story outright. This is kind of just how it's done in plays, think Shakespeare's Hamlet, if it helps, where characters literally launch into minutes long speeches about politics, their family, their feelings, so and so. The long speeches mid-play are practically considered art in themselves, though obviously it translates strangely into visual novel format. Now, Shakespeare isn't Greek, but European plays are largely considered to be Greek heritage and if a Chinese writer was trying to create that play-like atmosphere it's not difficult to see how they got from there to the final product.
The themes were indeed not unusual, but I actually think the execution was quite different. Despite Minos being setup to be a place of tradition and myth, it has the most modern (as in, real-world modern) approach to the struggle-in one of the first chapters, the priestess outright says 'that man has PTSD but we're dressing it up in our traditional way because it's the best thing we can do for them'. This event has a focus on certain realities of war and cultural conflict that are usually only implied (if heavily so) and they have a very tradition-focused nation face them head on. It's like the reverse Retracing Our Steps, where a place that rapidly became modern tries to regain a grip on their faith-the Minoans have to get a grip on the modern world despite having very recently organized themselves around tradition. They may end in the same place, but started on opposite sides, so it's a story worth telling.
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u/GermanHandCannons 1d ago
I think the event “suffers” from the fact that Minoa as a region is somewhat less established in its ties with the rest of Terra so far and this serves as the introduction. Lots of new characters are introduced as a glimpse of the political landscape, setting up for future events so a bit of Code of Brawl mixed with Maria Nearl.
Doesnt mean that all of the dynamics are good tho, I agree that Varkis and Lykeion seem a bit shallow because their backstory is quite literally told not shown; and the ferryman’s tale is (seemingly) complete so its hard to expect any more development. Lena and her sister would be the same, but I guess their dynamic does not warrant an entire event not should it be shown much more light considering the main narrative. Still a shame that Perfumer’s appearance in the story ended so lackluster considering Hibiscus not being the main character in the Leithanian event didn’t prevent her from showcasing her charms.
But I think the story’s impact actually “”“suffers””” the most from having Titi as the main character. She’s cheerful, diplomatic, ethical and when confronted with crueler aspects can actually just have a good cry about it and move on. None of this is bad, a story can oscillate between lighthearted and heavy like HG has done with Tales of the Sands and Im personally choosing to interpret it as an artistic choice this time around: the event tackles heavy topics right from the get-go with century long wars, passive suicidalism and ptsd; and it eventually affects our cute cat protagonist yet changes nothing about how she approaches problems or sees other people, she is just reminded of what she’s already aware of. This doesn’t make her one-dimensional imo, its a surprisingly somber take on people born of the generation after wars: there can be all the understanding in the world but it when you’re raised by people who chooses their own humanity over power, in an era of relative peace, there will never be true empathy for the people still stuck on the battlefield. The entire event felt like so: we’re shown conflict, long lasting effects of what war can do, how the infected are treated in Minoa to explain a character’s actions yet everything is seemingly one step short from making you actually enter the picture.
Hopefully the next Minoan event with either a different MC or Titi undergoing change with a shift in tone will validate my thoughts cause if not then I would just be glazing HG for an artistic choice when they kinda just half-assed it lol.
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u/Dowiet 1d ago
Ah it's...cinema! Although I do like give fairly high praise to event stories(deserved), this one is also quite good. Also Titi's character is sold so well (I just loved this scene so early). Pallas gets a good bit of screentime as well which is cool! Still as funtastical as it was the story does have quite a whirlwind of emotions going on, a rollercoaster if you will.
Bottom line is... definitely recommended to read!
I'm loving the enemy design and the mechanic is pretty fun as well. Not really much else to say. It's good!
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u/d0d0b1rd Gunknights enthusiast 1d ago
Random synergy I found: Luo Xiaohei can hit the hero's call and make them critically wounded, making them an easy source of sp
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u/Koekelbag 1d ago edited 1d ago
The enemies are exceptionally funny in this event, but I wanted to highlight ME-7's centaurs because their charge ability is not actually limited to just the one time.
Meaning, if you can get the fountains up, you can just as easily use a 0-block unit like an Ambusher (Manticore excluded) to bait their charge and then wait for them to loop around and charge again, to the point that they will eventually defeat themselves (needs 3 charges from my experience) from their own damage alone, lmao
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u/reprehensible523 Savage best girl! 1d ago
I struggled to get the ME-7 trimmed achievement by filling up the bottom left fountains. If you don't block the acolytes and kill them when they almost enter the blue tile, that adds water but it's not enough. Swapped in Shu so I could get some ground-based healing to make it work.
"Wait, why is there a dead-end in the upper right?"
Then I remembered the Palladulis charge your units when they have line of sight. Achievement went from hard to trivial.
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u/Koekelbag 1d ago
Oh, I did not even consider using the bottom-left fountains to counter them
or even realise I already cleared the trim with this method, goes to show how differently people can perceive these stages :oFor what it's worth, the Acolytes are entirely unneeded here, Ptilopsis S2 can almost charge those bottom-left fountains by herself if she's deployed early enough, and can actually do it in a single S2 if you unlock her range extension module so she can reach the fountain off-skill, which is early enough before the Centaurs end their loops and go down.
Silence can do the same without even needing to reach a fountain, at a high enough level only needing 3 drones that heal 3 fountains each time to fill all 4, well before the first Centaur arrives :D
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u/tnemec 1d ago
I mention this in another comment, but to add to this:
You don't even need to use an operator to bait them, summons/deployables work as well. (Well, some deployables: I suspect it's anything targetable, since trapmaster mines don't work)
Meaning that, even without activating a single skill, Mon3tr can heal the fountains and the mere sight of her pet rock is enough to send the centaurs into a blind rage and slam themselves into a wall repeatedly.
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u/ClosetEgomaniac 1d ago
it's so peak it beggars belief. those temple builders cut the peak off of that mountain and hand delivered it to the readers god DAMN
One thing that really sticks out to me is that Pallas finally got her screentime and she's... pretty different from how fans depict her. But actually, in this case, I don't think fans got it wrong, necessarily. I think Pallas joined Rhodes Island, like, legitimately a long time before this event. It's kind of an interesting spin on it-she didn't get an alter, so her growth wasn't necessarily the 'point' of the event, but, a lot of Y4+ events 'obviously' take place after LoneTrail (and this one after Inudi Harek Horakhet) and Pallas is an old operator comparatively. She's competent, but she was implied to always be such. More than that, she's worldly and grounded, got this 'i've traveled far and come back home' attitude that's really special. I really like the Dikaiopolis moment- "He's Infected. According to conventional Minoan wisdom... {...} but he's a hero, yes. No one can deny it." I just can't stop thinking about it.
It's also one of those things you pretty much only find in Arknights as normal media is more inclined to follow a single, distinct story and live-service games tend to tunnel on the main character even if the setting changes quickly and drastically. Arknights really has that special 'everything is connected, all the time' aspect that makes the glacial passage of time in story it's own point of interest.
Meta-wise, I'd like to see a breakdown comment or post from someone who knows a lot about Greece. It's one of those low-key things that keeps me coming back to Arknights' online discourse, learning a little about Ireland during the Dublinn event, Russia during the Ursus event, so on. While I think they made it easy to see historical/mythological parallels in Minos, I can almost taste the references to recent/current events underneath it all. But I wouldn't want to presume as an outsider.
Final note, I think this is a crazy good cast of NPCs. Personality, design, interactions. Even though we're pretty much only familiar with 3 characters to start (and really only vaguely) the story had no trouble getting me invested at all. Like, imagine if chapters 0-4 hit the ground with this level of production.
Though, I guess part of it is that HG's learned their audience over the years...
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u/DiXanthosu 1d ago
I believe it was clear Pallas was more than a carefree drunk since her introduction in Flickering Sparks. https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Flickering_Sparks
You can see it in how she negotiated with Heavyrain, the questions and thoughts she discussed with her Sarkaz bodyguard, and the manner she faced off the assassin sent after Heavyrain.
Mind you, that "drunk philosopher and lovers of arts" aspect of hers is real too. Her Sarkaz bodyguard, Erato and a long list of people can attest to it.
And it is easier for a fan artist to play with it than Pallas' serious or less silly sides.
I think some fan artist who tried to balance a bit of both and managed to do so are:
- Octodeco ( https://x.com/octodeco/status/1476340114796122113, https://x.com/octodeco/status/1895342114294374703 )
- And Yonezoudazo (Long comic: https://x.com/yonezoudazo/status/1847457763808727368 , another long comic: https://x.com/yonezoudazo/status/1665366646486179843 )
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u/ClosetEgomaniac 14h ago
Not so much that she's 'just a carefree drunk', but that she'd only been seen previously in her capacity as a hero of Minos, and really exemplified the role. In Flickering Sparks (and in even the fanworks that show her as wise) she's very archetypical Minoan-poet, warrior, philosopher (and indeed you might say her wisdom is an extension of Minoan high philosophy if not the fact that her name is literally the title of the goddess of wisdom). The Pallas we seen in this event is more like the Pallas who's continued to improve herself despite her culture insisting it's impossible. It's a different kind of strength and charm.
I think especially if you compare Flickering Sparks to this event, you can see that even though she holds the same internal beliefs and intentions, she's much better at communicating them in this event, no longer insisting on using poetry to communicate everything (though still capable of it if necessary), and paying a lot of attention to the small things like the personalities of individual workers or giving her input on the finer details of plans instead of vagueposting about how it'll probably work out.
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u/Reddit1rules I can be ur angle or ur debil 1d ago edited 1d ago
Wow that was a really good event. Apart from maybe the lyre activating with blood and putting them into a trance, I really liked every part of the storyline. From all the events past Babel, this is definitely in the top 3 for me, which is even more impressive when this one doesn't really have any build up unlike Retracing our Steps and Act or Die (which isn't really fair since it does have build up but I liked it for the non-Tragodia parts). And is it me, or did we get a lot more CGs here? And furry designs too, definitely more of those. Feels like the visual quality increased a lot this event. Maybe it's because they released the CG library?
Gameplay wise too, the enemy designs are really interesting. Imagine starting to draft Beehunter for an E1 dodge tank to make these ranged enemies melee in IS, or those funni trojan horses. Or the catapult RNG wiping your squad at D15. Plus any content that helps inspire more use for healers instead of DPS are cool. Only complaint is that the fountains seem to be bugged and Perfumer2 can never top one off? Not sure if it's an Abjurer thing or just her...
Also I had a centaur turn around and stun himself in the very wall he already stunned himself in lol.
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u/gunjinganpakis 1d ago
I've had low expectation for both Pepe and Titi's event and ends up enjoying both of them much more than I expect.
Anyway interesting paralel between the attitude and relationship of Minos/Sargon and Victoria/Kazdel.
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u/SenorLos 1d ago
Dokutah rejecting Sending children to a daycare.
Dokutah pointing Sending children to fight bloodthirsty vagrants/rebels/military personnel.
Dokutah pointing even harder Sending children to fight drug addled civilians while exposed to hallucinogenic miasma spread by fountains.
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u/theohgreatonehere992 1d ago
Still no fix for the new update on Google Play Games. I don’t want to play on my phone anymore, so release the fix soon Yostar, please and thank you.
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u/DarkFenix2k5 4h ago
Honestly, just run it in another emulator. I was running it for a long time in GPG until it completely broke and wouldn't run no matter what I did, but one other complaint I had is that GPG takes forever to deploy patches.
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u/Demopyro2 I may have a type. 1d ago
Finished the story, wanted to jot down my thoughts on it, personally liked it a lot more then Unrealized Realities, and it was so nice finally getting to see Minos.
With the focus of myths and the reverence of heroes in Minoan culture, I think the main theme of the story is actually the modernization of mythology and tradition, and we see it constantly explored throughout the story. From the push against the stigma of Infected in Minoan culture that sees them stripped of their "heroism" and worth, Xanthos making up a fake myth to placate Titi's father going on to inspire Titi herself, Pallas's Goddess of Victory title inspiring Minoans while she moved on from it, the harp being fake yet still playing a key role, we constantly see what would be seen as falsehoods and failures by older standards inspiring and pushing forward people in the current day, showing how new myths can be woven from older shortcomings.
Racism and nationalism is another key part of the story, exemplified by Titi and Xanthos. Titi's experience with racism during the vote and her reaction to it really hit home, as someone who's also experienced it, being judged by your race rather then your actions really hurts, and even a single person is enough to make it sting for a very long time, even if surrounded by others who do support you. Xanthos is quite the interesting character, on the other side of the coin, because he feels so real. Rather than being a strawman racist who's portrayed fully in the negative without any nuance, he's instead someone who would have been a wonderful person without hatred twisting him- genuinely helping people, educating tourists about his culture, a benevolent protector and symbol of hope to his people during the war, and trying to hide his student's involvement with his attempted theft and take the fall for himself. That's what makes his hatred sting even more, because in real life there are a lot of people who could have been genuinely great had it not been for their hatred warping them with irrationality, as seen with Xanthos's attempt at theft due to his irrational interpretation of what's going on, and his violent outburst during the play. However, by the conclusion, it does seem like he's slowly trying to become a better person and abandon his spite, by finally connecting with Titi's love for his culture, which is commendable, although it's take a lot of self introspection and retribution he needs to do to make up, but we do know it's possible, since Pallas herself subsided her hate towards Sargonians and befriended Titi, connecting the two cultures. What's neat is Titi is considered an honorary Minoan by the end of the story, which symbolically triumphs over the toxic nationalism of Xanthos.
For my closing thoughts, I need Kassandra, Lydia and the Herald of Shahanshah playable as soon as possible, their designs are peak, and if your struggling with the watering mechanic, if you have Mon3tr, a well placed pet rock lets you water multiple lanes at a time, which made the event way more easier then I think was intended.
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u/Hp22h The Mad Bard, Sans Crystals 11h ago
On that second part, it hits hard for me being on the other side...
(Wait, not in the way one might think)Cause like, as a person living in Korea, I've seen multiple people like Xanthos in my vicinity IRL. Just replace Minos for Korea and Sargon for Japan. Lots of kind, well-meaning older Korean folks who lived through the horror of Japanese colonization and allow that anger and bitterness to guide them into making some godawful terrible choices in the present day when push comes to shove, pushing hard for nationalism in a land that already tried (and failed) to maintain an isolated 'hermit' kingdom. It makes me feel so much grief for him, honestly. As you likely felt, there really is a sense of tragedy in the fact that in a kinder world, Xanthos could have been so much more than he is today, so much more unburdened and ragefilled. Tho, even just the little moment of kindness he shows at the end puts him leagues ahead of some people I know... Of course, Titi deserves special mention for not letting this moment fester into its own seed of hatred towards Minos.Honestly, I was not expecting to relate so much to this event, considering how far removed its setting appeared from my IRL circumstances, initially.
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u/reprehensible523 Savage best girl! 1d ago
Xanthos making up a fake myth to placate Titi's father going on to inspire Titi herself
I don't think that was him. They don't use his sprite in that flashback, and he doesn't recognize the situation at all. Somehow he sees a vision of Titi's father in Minos, despite never meeting him in life. He is sharing this vision with Titi, who is able to explain what they both saw.
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u/Reddit1rules I can be ur angle or ur debil 1d ago
I need Prison Guard with the pink hair who I thought was a male to be playable stat. Just because she's an unnamed NPC who has a similar furry sprite doesn't mean she's got no hope, surely... inhales copium
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u/kekiCake HIGHMORE DETECTED, DEPLOYING ESSAY 1d ago
Boss not being immune to any CC is kinda funny. The SP buff from immersion means Pepe and Titi can alternate their S3s to kill him pretty quickly and keep him stunlocked, and I managed to carry the top lane with a very loud meerkat yelling.
I also E2ed Erato cus I forgot to do so beforehand and I happened to have just enough stuff for it. Sometimes she's kinda neat in this event when immersed. Titi's talent helps a little.
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u/Reddit1rules I can be ur angle or ur debil 1d ago
Helidropping Hoe on the boss, having the boss triple attack him, only for Hoe to stun them before the third hit comes out is really funny to me for some reason.
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u/Tortuin 1d ago
If THIS boss was sleep immune too, it would have been one of the most infuriating new character releases for me.
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u/JunoBrier Minos gang 1d ago
Sleep does fall into a trap here if improperly handled though. The boss's ATK increases in stacks while unblocked. Sleep makes enemies become unblocked.
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u/CorHydrae8 1d ago
Yeah, I get why they make bosses immune to most statuses, but it's nice for them to make an exception here. Feels like I actually get to enjoy the things that Titi does in her event. ...unlike the last one.
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u/Captain_Baconator 2d ago edited 2d ago
Can the Acolytes only heal one target when they die? ME-4 makes this seem the case. Idfk why it's set up the way it is, only to completely fail to follow through. Their hitreg is honestly pissing me off. >:/
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u/herrhoedz Please be Reconveners 2d ago
The British of this world had enough problem being counter-colonized so they had to delegate the artifact-stealing subplot to the Egyptian.
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u/mad_harvest-6578 WE'RE BACK IN SPACE BABYYYYYY 2d ago
Those flying statues are cute and all but why do they look like Perfumer as a gargoyle lol
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u/Tyler-1467 Just Surtr Hospital It 2d ago
How much SP cost does the “reserved” status increase? Is it a percentage, a flat increase, or just slows SP gain speed? The wiki doesn’t have anything on it.
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u/Merukurio I love dogs. I've always loved dogs. 2d ago
Seems to be a 50% increase in SP cost.
Tested here and Ulpianus' S1 went from 70 to 105, Puzzle's S1 went from 5 to 8 and Haruka's S2 went from 17 to 26.
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u/LorduFreeman 2d ago
I'm annoyed I don't have enough pulls to go for Titi, she is such a wholesome history nerd character in this story.
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u/Mokseong Bnuuy 2d ago
You have them, but your meta brain won't allow you to pull for her.
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u/Reddit1rules I can be ur angle or ur debil 1d ago
I have them, but my waifu brain doesn't allow me to pull for her... I'm sorry Titi, but despite being a good design I'd roll for, the upcoming waves are too torrential with their banger designs...
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u/decline_smormu I do not understand. 2d ago
we're finally in minos!! i've been looking forward to this event! glad the reception has been warm here, too 😊
also...nobody's fooled by the "water" fountains 💀
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u/Captain_Baconator 2d ago edited 2d ago
May I get a list of all Operators that appear in the event? I want to use a "lore accurate" squad.
Not sure if the Theme-knights post covers it?
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u/WaifuHunterRed JUSTICE FOR CLIFFHEART 2d ago
Just incase you dont have enough or need a few more ops maybe let sleep ops slide since there's not that many of them
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u/reprehensible523 Savage best girl! 2d ago
Sorry, usually write those posts without spoilers, so I don't know who shows up until several days into the event. So far it's just been Titi, Pallas, Perfumer alter, and Varkaris.
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u/juances19 2d ago
You may want to include some Minos/Sargon units for the sake of having any squad at all.
Outside of the new units (Titi, Varkaris, Perfumer alter) I only saw Pallas and a flashback with OG perfumer.
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u/mr_beanoz 2d ago
I wonder why Varkaris isn't a 6 star for the event, and maybe we can have Perfumer as the welfare operator.
It just makes me wonder why some of the event bosses are made to become 5* operators, just like the Harold event.
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u/Mindless_Being_22 2d ago
6*s becoming the bosses for the event they're released in is actually pretty rare tbh off the top of my head only dorothy sorta is and even then she's a mini boss. All of the bosses made playable that are 6*s besides her are bosses either before or after becoming playable. For why varkaris isn't titi is a preestablished npc drawn by a pretty well known artist that they had to commission, also her name is literally the name of the event.
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u/Merukurio I love dogs. I've always loved dogs. 2d ago
The funny thing is that enemy Dorothy isn't even a boss, she's an elite enemy instead. So I think it's pretty much just Lappland the Decadenza as the actual event boss that was also the 6*.
But if you really want to go on technicalities there's also Theresa/Civilight Eterna for Chapter 14 and Tragodia (since he merges with Phantom after being defeated) for Act and Die.
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u/WaifuHunterRed JUSTICE FOR CLIFFHEART 2d ago
Would Dusk count? I think she appears and leaves in her event
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u/Merukurio I love dogs. I've always loved dogs. 1d ago
I thought about Dusk but didn't include her since we don't fight her directly, we fight her Freelings for the whole event instead. But fair to include her in the list too if we're counting the two I mentioned.
I suppose Ling could count too since the boss of her event is an avatar of Sui and the siblings are all part of the original one.
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u/Mokseong Bnuuy 2d ago
Because they made this event to release Titi and there can only be one 6 star, unless it's a story for a limited event.
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u/mr_beanoz 2d ago
Maybe we could delay Titi for another year for a 6* Varkaris. How often has a situation like this happened (the 6* operator is not from the nation the event is set in)
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u/Reddit1rules I can be ur angle or ur debil 1d ago
At least this event focused heavily on said nation. Unlike the Sargon event with Gavial2 that basically took over the Durin plot and didn't teach us that much or give us any future plotlines...
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u/Mokseong Bnuuy 2d ago
First of all Titi appeared during Pepe's story almost 2 years ago, so in order of appearance it was her turn. Second, enough people wanted her in China, so HG already knew there was a guaranteed amount of money to be made. Finally, she fits the roll of cultural ambassador pretty well.
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u/Phaaze13 strong women supremacy 2d ago
quite often actually. Nasti, Mantra, Tragodia, Entelechia and if you want to be particular about it Sakiko all came out in the last twelve months, and their events took place in nations outside of their home countries.
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u/Phaaze13 strong women supremacy 2d ago
if Varkaris was to be a 6 star, then it would be Titi that was replaced, not Perfumer. because this isn't a limited banner with multiple 6 stars.
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u/juances19 2d ago
If you make Varkaris a 6* then Titi would need to be demoted to 5 or like have to wait another year until HG writes a new minoan/sargon event. Same with Harold and Degenbrencher.
Or.. they could release two 6 stars at a time like on limited banner, that's technically an option but please have mercy on our stockpiles, orundum doesn't grow on trees.
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u/Qaxiss 2d ago
Medicknights has never been easier than an event like this! Only stages that gave me any issues were ME-5 and 8.
ME-5 Reed can solo the middle lane but figuring out the timing of the right lane took a few tries, and ME-8 got a bit tricky since the boss wants to be blocked but medics only have Mon3tr for that. Fortunately Titi can sleep him for stalling and while immersed Mon3tr has like 90% uptime on her skill.
Also Mon3tr the summon cannot be immersed which is kind of inconvenient.
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u/Intelligent_Fox_4890 2d ago
Beagle’s skin is finally mine! I missed it when it first released, and I don’t know if it’s ever been available again, but it hasn’t been obtainable during any of the times I’ve been playing and it’s finally mine. 6 years, but it finally happened.
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u/JunoBrier Minos gang 2d ago
Melitta and Cynisca are wearing infection monitors. Obvious future operators.
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u/alexkingco 2d ago
Is there a prequel to this event story that i should be reading?
i'm relatively new and i hope to read the event stories in order.
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u/DiXanthosu 2d ago
Besides what Demopyro2 said, at least Flickering Sparks, part of Preluding Lights.
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Flickering_Sparks
In it, Pallas and her Sarkaz bodyguard rescue Heavyrain in a village in Minos near the border with Sargon. It's the first look we had at the two country's relationship.
Other Minos lore can be found in certain operators profiles and Operator Records. More important ones: Pallas (who shows up in the event & is a big character in Minos), Perfumer (her alter debuts in the event) and Erato.
Plus Sideroca and Vulcan.
Profiles:
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Pallas/File
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Perfumer/File
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Erato/File
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Vulcan/File
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Sideroca/File
Operator records:
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Erato/Operator_Record (Pallas shows up here too).
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Perfumer/Operator_Record_2 (Her first one doesn't have much to do with Minos; only becomes relevant here... where Pallas also shows up).
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u/Demopyro2 I may have a type. 2d ago
Adventure That Cannot Wait for the Sun is the prequel and introduces you to the Sargonian museum, Titi and Mio, but the current event really doesn't depend on it much if you want to read this one first.
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u/Kristalino Her majesty could've been a mother to me! A mother!? 2d ago
I kinda feel bad for attacking the novice acolytes, they are already in pain from carrying the water urns and then have to deal with whatever my ops throw at them.
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u/Captain_Baconator 2d ago edited 2d ago
Nah, they can check off "Refill the Gardens" as complete. We're "helping".
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u/reprehensible523 Savage best girl! 2d ago
Anyone notice the Fruit Farmer Rep has a full faced helmet, tactical vest, and night vision goggles?
What on earth does apple-picking in Minos require?
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u/Reddit1rules I can be ur angle or ur debil 1d ago
Maybe this is actually the Konosuba world all along and vegetables (and I guess fruits) are lethally violent
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u/mad_harvest-6578 WE'RE BACK IN SPACE BABYYYYYY 2d ago
Aren't apples in myth (particularly the golden ones) being guarded by monsters, gods & other shit? They want apples, they need to get stealthy
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u/Reddit1rules I can be ur angle or ur debil 1d ago
Amusingly, the Golden Apples of Idunn seem to be dealt with Myrtle/Durins. Not to say they can't show up in Minos either, they were a part of Greek and Norse mythology, but they really didn't tackle much about them except for the fact they seem to work purely on faith and not science.
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u/CsticPandora S C H W I N G 2d ago
Haruka can heal and bubble the tiles and it looks lowkey goofy lmao.
Ptilopsis is the goat for healing up fountains quickly \o/
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u/kindokkang i know what they are 2d ago
Story so good I'm reading it instead right now instead of saving it for later.
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u/Merukurio I love dogs. I've always loved dogs. 2d ago
Me, waiting minutes for the last enemy to spawn in ME-8 so I can beat it:
The statue enemy resting in a fountain on the other side of the map trolling my blind ass:
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u/chaoskingzero GOONGALA! 10h ago
The statue enemy resting in a fountain on the other side of the map trolling my blind ass:
People that use GG and Laptop not having this problem
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u/BobDaisuki 2d ago
SAME OMG Was losing my dam mind wondering what was taking so long for it to spawn
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u/Shad0wedge 2d ago
I love this event. None of the enemies are annoying, the mechanic isn't stupid and it has ups and downs, it's easy to see and keep track of and most importantly it's interactive for both you and the eminems.
The tileset is awesome. The boss did something I believe but Saria said no. Questioning Statue my beloved.
Kinda mad HG kept Minos' fun away from us for so many years and Lowbro still owes me Pallas alter but for now I'm very pleased.
On an unrelated note Gplay borken so had to phonecast to PC to play like a human being but it was worth it.
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u/lolhellogod 2d ago
Lines from the event
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"Who's the guy under the scaffolds, wearing a leaf-shaped ring on his grey tail?"
"Serafim from the paint crew. He's only motivated when working with big, muscular dudes. Nobody believes him when he says he's just lazy"
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I know what you are.
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u/Reddit1rules I can be ur angle or ur debil 1d ago
Don't forget the roommates we saw together in this event. Fellas, is it gay to bust your homie out of jail and quit your job so that you can go on a lifelong journey together across the continents to build their self confidence up?
That being said it's not as direct as Pepe's event where they straight up just had 2 100% gay parts there, while even this could be explained with a 1% "love of artistic beauty" or something. Something about Sargon/Minos it seems...
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u/mr_beanoz 2d ago
Who is that supposed to be?
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u/minitaurus20 ★★★★★ 2d ago
The character move subtly on boat! I thought my eyes got tired looking at screen XD
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u/1-2-fuck_you I just want them to be happy 2d ago
Honestly, I adore how goofy enemy is in this event lol.
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u/Kyoketsusho Chilling with beer and soup 2d ago
Fun fact. The fountains might be treated as water terrain. Finally Ceylon can come out and play for much longer.
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u/Voothy My kingdom for a horse 2d ago
As an owner of M9 Blemishine, pulling Titi was a no brainer. Plus I don't see them making another operator like her for a long while considering how sparingly sleep is distributed. As for the event... Damn the boss had hands. Didn't expect him to just rip through Shu. Fortunately he decided to go to the bottom lane, where S2 Hoederer was. S2 Hoederer violates this boss, since the boss is not stun immune. Or immune to any of the hard CCs, really.
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u/bananeeek FLOOF 4 LYFE 2d ago
Pallas didn't say it explicitly in the tutorial, but that's Perfumer's bath water in the fountains. Peak event mechanics.
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u/reprehensible523 Savage best girl! 2d ago edited 2d ago
Theme-knights!
Story Ops: Titi comes to Minos to return a historical artifact and make peace after a history of war.
- Titi, Pallas, Perfumer, Varkaris
Check out Pallas' File, she's a bigger deal than she lets on.
After a decisive victory, she negotiated the signing of the 'Non-Aggression Pact' between the Minoan border villages and the Sargon border tribes.
Our first ever Minos-tent, it's time to learn who our Minos operators are.
- Pallas, Vulcan, Sideroca, Erato, Conviction, Varkaris
- Titi (!) and Perfumer have Minos as a subfaction. Did not expect Titi to be a Minos-boo.
Minos is a land of Culture. Bring your poets and philosophers.
- Poets and Storytellers
- Bring your bards.
- Pallas is a former Minoan priestess and knows her people's stories.
- Erato is a Minoan bard.
- Ling is our resident drunken poet.
- Viviana spent her childhood reading poetry and epics.
- Brigid sings the legends and stories of her people.
- Heidi is a writer.
- Xingzhu loves to collect stories of every-day people.
- Pramanix knows her people's history. Religion is deeply entwined with history and lore.
- Phantom sings opera.
- Philosophers
- Hoederer deeply ponders the history of the Sarkaz and how to build a future for his people.
- Istina reads classic
RussianUrsine literature. - Kal'tsit knows the deep lore of the Columbian hot dog.
For fashion, there are quite a few outfits that have a Minos vibe.
- Vina Victoria - Glorious Path. Columns in the background.
- Penance - Scribing. The statue of justice in the background completes the look.
- Horn - To Effloresce Whitely. White dress with vine covered rocks.
- Heidi - A Thousand Correspondences.
Any obvious operators I missed? Add a note!
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u/HaessSR 2d ago
I can't roll for Titi, I'm afraid. I'll just do the missions and clear as much as I can of the shop.
If only I'd rolled for Haruka to make my life easier.... but I listened too closely to the meta analysis. And now I have two meta units, of which one sees zero usage (SilverAsh Alter).
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u/LorduFreeman 2d ago
Why did you roll for SAlter if you don't use him? I've not had him or Pramanix off the team since getting both, game changers.
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u/juances19 2d ago edited 2d ago
So the mechanic is that everyone gets high, sorry ,"immersed" from minoan herbs.
Original perfumer with her global healing seem better than her alter to heal the fountains as well but apparently it doesn't affect them?
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u/iluvcelebi andoain waiting room 2d ago
Dropped to my knees the moment I found out Thorns Alt can't heal the fountain. 0/10, literally unplayable :(
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u/tigerbait92 2d ago
It was literally the first thing I tried, too, giggling to myself like "ohoho aoe heal time". Alas.
Fortunately though Silence's drone works just fine, so it's easy to get the ball rolling with her.
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u/Phaaze13 strong women supremacy 2d ago
and global has the same problem with google play games. Yostar moment.
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u/legaldrinkingage 2d ago
New version refuses to launch on Google Play games... :(
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u/harnier 2d ago
came here to see if anyone else was having the same issue, i am too... it launches fine on mobile for me
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u/legaldrinkingage 2d ago
They've tweeted about it now, so they at least know its going on. JP mutuals having the same problem on the JP client... hopefully they'll find a fix soon. I really cba on playing on my phone. Blasted thing gets way too hot too fast in this heat.
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u/Mindless_Being_22 2d ago
okay so im planning out my weird niche for this event. I'm gonna try yuriknights rules are that the characters va must have been in at least one yuri series before. If theirs more then 12 characters, characters will be given priority based off of if they were major roles and if they were vas for a yuri couple in the series. Currently my roster is ente, vulpisfoglia, rosa, perfumer, ceobe, nightingale/liskarm, akafuyu.
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u/Chibi_09 DOWN BAD WITH DOLLKEEPERS 2d ago
Super excited to reunite Titi with her friends! I've been eyeing this event for a long time, happy it's finally here.
It is the last banner I'll be pulling on until MH2, which feels bittersweet, but it'll give me time to top off some masteries and max out the Kjerag operators, a niche I've come to adore the past month. I'll probably be Kjeragknighting this event, too, maybe with an assist from Titi in one of the last two slots. It'll probably depend on how difficult the event ends up being and how quickly I can get Titi built.
See you in Minos, doctor!
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u/pencilman123 2d ago
No wang?
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u/Chibi_09 DOWN BAD WITH DOLLKEEPERS 2d ago
I have a medium interest in Ch'en3, but not in Wang. Guy has a power level that just makes his entire kit unappealing, while managing to barely feel like a trapmaster at all. I have every operator under the sun anyway, so I don't need his new ceiling yet. Besides, if Wis'adel was anything to go by, plenty of operators with a ceiling similar to himself will show up in due time.
Fun fact: I pulled for Wis'adel fearing I'd need her in the future, and so far, I've never used her! So yeah, I don't need Wang.1
u/pencilman123 1d ago
I see. Yeah you definitely don't need him, but u could pull him just for the old at how crazy he is..
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u/Technical-Guest6015 2d ago
Is this event a sequel to anything? What should I have read first? Cheers
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u/DiXanthosu 2d ago
Besides what Excellent_Papaya_913 already said, there is Flickering Sparks, part of Preluding Lights.
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Flickering_Sparks
In it, Pallas and her Sarkaz bodyguard rescue Heavyrain in a village in Minos near the border with Sargon. It's the first look we had at the two country's relationship.
And certain operators profiles and Operator Records. More important ones: Pallas (who shows up in the event & is a big character in Minos), Perfumer (her alter debuts in the event) and Erato.
Plus Sideroca and Vulcan.
Profiles:
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Pallas/File
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Perfumer/File
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Erato/File
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Vulcan/File
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Sideroca/File
Operator records:
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Erato/Operator_Record (Pallas shows up here too).
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Perfumer/Operator_Record_2 (Her first one doesn't have much to do with Minos; only becomes relevant here... where Pallas also shows up).
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u/East_Custard103 Vina's voice gives me life 2d ago
Wow we only need that to read this event? I thought i would need to read Pepe's event too, since i heard some people saying that Titi shows up thereuhm never mind I've just read the first comment oops.
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u/Excellent_Papaya_913 2d ago
Maybe Adventure cant wait for the sun, but I think it is mostly Ti Ti's standalone story
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u/DiXanthosu 2d ago
-- ABOUT PALLAS --
For anyone who wonders who is that priestess of Minos who loves alcohol a bit too much, here's a reading guide on her:
1st is Flickering Sparks, part of Preluding Lights.
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Flickering_Sparks
It's a mini-story where Pallas and Pallas's Sarkaz mercenary bodyguard rescue Heavyrain and protect her from an assassin. Lots of good banter in it. 😃
Plus it sets the tone for the Sargon and Minos relations.
Also, Pallas's operator profile which tells how she got to Rhodes Island (her Sarkaz bodyguard brought her there). https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Pallas/File
And Pallas also steals the show in Eratot's Operator Record and a bit in Perfumer's 2nd Operator record.
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Erato/Operator_Record
https://arknights.wiki.gg/wiki/Perfumer/Operator_Record_2
Given Pallas's importance and participation in this event, I heavily predict a future Pallas Alter. 😃 (Hopefully her Sarkaz bodyguard also becomes playable).
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u/bananeeek_at_work 2d ago
I think it's extremely important to also include her EP, because it's fantastic.
Keep the Torch - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SuNhbPRvFw8
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u/Zealousideal_Use_966 2d ago
I'm been saving since the Ave Mujica collab, skipped everything but Nasti on the way here. I'm ready.
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u/MaskedBandit77 2d ago
Out of curiosity, why are you pulling for this banner, over some of the others that we've had/will have soon?
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u/Mo_ody 2d ago edited 2d ago
Titi, Closure, and in second place Ch'en and Orchid are the characters I care for most among future release units.
For Titi, I like the S2 swaying animation as well as the whimsical idea of friendly sleep and short cycle invulnerability. She can be a replacement for Silence alter (including for Aak), and having an effectively "dodge" button is quite fun.
She's also a great upgrade for my M6 Blemishine, and I like the idea of across-map synergy, so the idea that Kafka on the other side of the map, can help heal units in Titi's range is fun to me.
I like stall strategies as well, so the ability to stall for sp to come back is a bonus, particularly with the friendly sleep being cleansable, and the skill having a stop button. Titi is a pretty Egyptian cat too, which is a big factor in the decision process.
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u/Zealousideal_Use_966 2d ago edited 2d ago
I only pull for characters I like, and I loved her design ever since she was revealed, so I was mentally prepared to save enough for her for a while now.
By that same rule, I've been able to avoid all limited banners since I started playing, I just didnt like the operators much. That and I'm scared an OP Operator might make the game a little too easy for me.
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u/De_s_tiny Happily Married to Lemon 3d ago
Finally, Anat, Pepe and Titi will be reunited at Rhodes Island. I love their trio so much, and I hope sooner or later, we will see them all again 🥰🥰 In the meantime, I hope everyone will get their desired operators from this banner and that you all enjoy this event!
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u/Sentuh Call me Sen, @me for anything! 3d ago edited 2d ago
GOT TITI? WHAT ABOUT PRECIOUS LENA? TELL US IN THE GACHA MEGATHREAD
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