I'm not gambling like this again until the next phidia operator's banner lol but I'm still glad I pulled it off

@@caliginousinsight i've been trying to grind cw-ex-8cm for 2 days straight. Opening with Exec is very good and allows for rapid midgame, but it's also very RNG-heavy due to his crits. I've lost more time on rolling that than on thinking how to deal with everything past 39/59. It honestly drives me insane and kills my enjoyment. ):

and his best is very good!

it's actually the exact medication that fixes him like when multiplying negative numbers

@caliginousinsight even hotter omg.

he's already eating healthy and physically fit (well trained defender operator + literally raised to kill) and he can already do taxes and phone calls (valued logistics coworker + trained actor) we took care of the procrastinating in is2 and what he's got going on is far more sinister than depression. so really once he fixes the sleep schedule he's getting an extra star and a third skill

@@caliginousinsight 6* shalem alter is aiming for the top fr fr, wisadel should watch for her spot

WHEN WHEN WILL WE GET PHIDIA MEDIC?

I'm not the only one but there don't seem to be many EN players who annotate their videos yeah, it's more common among JP and CN players in my experience. It's partially to make sure everyone understands how cool and smart I am for pulling this off but I learned a lot from watching 300iq niche clears myself so it's definitely also to help other people learn new ways to engage with strategy game Arknights and move on from "just surtr/chalter/mlynar/degen/wisadel it" type thinking (you should eunectes it instead) In general watching and playing nicheknights has made me reconsider a lot of my views on what makes a unit "good" or how useful it even is to talk about units in terms of how "good" they are, even when I never bought much into the "meta" to begin with. Every single quality a unit has can be a gamechanger depending on your restrictions and especially units that do something weird that you wouldn't really imagine using normally will carry entire niches through being able to do that one weird thing.

not the worst thing to have happened to him

@@caliginousinsight unfortunately

I think is4 has good music for its vibe but is3 music was shit other than the boss themes. is2 is still my favourite though, both music and general atmosphere. i'm curious what is5 is gonna bring to the table

IKR

@@caliginousinsight agreed. Sorrow of We Many and Endospore just ate all the budget sadly.

FUCK ok its fixed thanks

yeah I draw my own thumbnails, gotta stand out somehow

oh you have no idea

should be soon yeah!

I wasn't really planning to do the advanced stages but I saw a video of someone else's clear of this one and thought I could probably do it. A lot of these maps have multiple lanes far apart so the plain lack of bodies in general is worse than the lack of medics specifically. I also have no way whatsoever to deal with those 4 block enemies, so even though the S-3 maps have that funny Ifrit lane I can't really turn it into a Corroserum lane 😔 Lateranknights has so many strong units there's no way they can't do ex8 cm, high cost Fedex will hurt but you've still got stuff like Arturia and Mostima and an actual shifter to work with. Doing some testing with my own underdeveloped versions of these units you can open right side with Insider and Plume, then set up Fiametta s3 + Virtuosa s3 + Archetto s3 to blast about half of Kristen's phase 1 (you'll need to put down someone to bait attacks away from Virtuosa to get the full skill duration, Spuria should be good for that bc she's cheap but I used Ambriel on my end) and most of the center defenders, set down Mostima left to use her s3 on the first wave coming that way, and by then the bottom left orb has been turned so you can put down Enforcer on the button to stall the left and there's enough dp to put down Fedex on the right, meaning that side is solved forever and you can focus all your attention on the rest of the map. That should be a good starting point to figure out the rest from, you've got various operators with high hitcounts to deal with orbs and necrosis bypasses Kristen's damage reduction so there has to be a solution.

@@caliginousinsight Ah, yes, the plain old lack of bodies. I know how it feels. Is binding Gundam with Indigo and reducing its RES rapidly with someone else attacking still not enough to help Corroserum handle the task? While not sustainable in the long run, the strat of making the rest of the map go round and around by flipping switches all over the place might help. You know it all better, though. You're probably right, i shouldn't give up just yet. I thought H14-2 to be unbeatable too, until i changed my perspective, after all. I did try all that already, though, and iirc the farthest i reached was around 31/59, but not in that order specifically. My main problems are: 1) Mostima sending everyone flying around and them getting stuck in awkward places or bypassing roadblocks and murdering my operators 2) Crossroads dying before phase 2 begins 3) Enforcer getting overwhelmed, missing skill cycle and dying. I also have no contingency for phase 2 in place whatsoever yet. Arturia could deal with the cars, but she's also the only one who could transition Kristen into phase 2 reliably. Leaving even 1 orb in phase 1 decimates the party, and dealing with orbs in phase 2 is a pain, unless i somehow stall Kristen long enough to deal with the rest of the level, so i won't have to redeploy already beaten up Enforcer. But maybe i should just play with the order of things. I'll keep trying once my cold stops killing me, thank you for the motivation. 💪

@@selensewar looking at casterknights clears might give you ideas on how to position mostima. i tried some more things and you could also open with enforcer + arturia and then have dp for fedex when kristen appears, my lv60 one can't kill first phase there but your lv90 might. first you beat the cold then you beat the map💪

@@caliginousinsight this is actually a great idea, if i rush phase 1 then that solves most of my problems right away. Probably. Also deploying Enforcer everywhere counts as a ranged tile, so he refunds me 9 DP, which makes him virtually a 10 DP Plume. I'll also give casterknights a look indeed. 💪

it's also relevant when you're playing IS and there's a spiked chest on an adjacent tile that he'll suddenly kill himself on lol

@ oop.

My favorite one is anaconda with a snorkel.

you won't know whether the robot has a skull until you break it open

@caliginousinsight LANCE WHY 🥲🥲🥲

Common "Is Shalem actually insane at this point?" moment.

oh absolutely don't worry about it though

@@selensewar doesn't matter. I love him more when he's unhinged.

o7

it's so sad, shalem is my favourite character too. I should poke around one of the events with healing mechanics like wolumonde or ideal city sometime and see if I can't let him loose there

@@HenryTalbott-n5k me too! Especially when he laughed while releasing his s2 ... So gorgeous. So gorgeous.

make sure to check the video I linked in the description after you commented this for more melanite gaming 👍

@ Thanks for pointing it out! That was a lot of fun!