Delayed gratification to an extreme, yep. Lots of people agree that it's quite harsh, but I can at least say it feels REALLY good once you've unlocked some of the fun power spikes and plentiful resources to build blocks almost wherever you please.

I'm not sure what to make of your comment here, but I'll say that any game is at its weakest when it starts to feel like a chore, especially when stuff you can't control gets in the way of getting it done. When that chore involves gameplay that's unfamiliar for others, the least I can do is offer them the knowledge from my experiences.

Good for you, gamer! Unfortunately, I missed dailies because of the holiday, and decided to make this for anyone else with the same problem.

Her versatility sure does come in handy, you're right! Being able to pivot (quite literally in her case) is huge in some RA maps.

A shame indeed. I miss IS1... I would have the menu music open just for that kooky sax alone. 🎷🍄 MSR did post the songs up to music streaming services and all but...it's just not the same.

This video will be less useful for you, and that's okay! Good for you, gamer.

@@DoctorSockrates just saying even players that do not touch it could if they tried get it. But I agree that the rewards should be permanent. Although then they would be tied to algorithim instead of allowing other things to progress it.

That'll do for now! Hopefully with some of the RA rewards you'll be able to bolster your roster even more; it only gets better from here. Good luck!

@@DoctorSockrates Thanks! The video was useful, and I'll try it soon

Correct, gamer! I explicitly said in the beginning of the video that this is for those of you who have missed out on enough daily missions that you would *need* to play RA to gather enough points comfortably. ...Myself included. I love Arknights but FOMO/games as a service practices are brutal on anyone when life happens, and even if the math would've worked out and I could've just done more dailies, the anxiety worked, and here we are.

@@DoctorSockrates Fair fair. Tho I must say IMO peoples (ESPECIALY gacha player, but not limited to them) REALY ned to work on themself about that FOMO thing, Life is full of "missing out" moment, I think if peoples realized and accepted it FOMO would have MUCH less of an impact on them. Exemple: I can't play Arknights and draw at the same time, if I was letting that get into me it would eat me. Also if you're not carefull it can realy be bad for your life to not work on it (a general "you" as in peoples concerned not you in particular), an aquitance of my brother recently bough 33 monitors because they where on huge "everything need to go"-type sales, I spoil you they didn't needed more than 3 monitors and definitly didn't had the money for 30 extra ones (or the place to stock them for that matter)... it's obviousely an extreme exemple but that what not working on your FOMO can result to.

@kevinseraphin5456 I really wish Arknights wasn't a gacha for some of those reasons you mentioned, but that rant's for a different day. I understand that stuff like this is what helps fuel the games industry right now, and at least Hypergryph has the guts to use their whale-watching cash to make good stuff in return, like all of the music, animation, Ambience Synesthesia, and other supplementary media that helps make Arknights so cool to get into.

@@DoctorSockrates I agree with that, but I'll even add that if AK wasn't a gacha it probably wouldn't even have be able to get yp to Ch.8, wich would honestly have made it a mid game at best. So personaly I'm fine with the way the game is.

Now what's that supposed to mean, gamer?

just checked it I bet that was updated few weeks ago, nothing to "slander" about-

Hah, carry on then, fellow Doctor.

They didn't make the thresholds too bad, and I'm glad. Always nice to get a few extras, of course.

It's good that they made it attainable with dailies alone! Kinda defeats the goal of promoting RA, but I think that's a fair trade off. I do wish they somehow addressed some of the lag though. Some of the grand scale battles here are so cool to exist but make the game fall to its knees. Feranmut help you if you bring Reed Alter into a stage.

MULTIPLE OF THEM IN FACT! (you can only race your best one though) Vanilla would be over the twin moons with delight here, I'd imagine

That is wild if true. Never heard of the guy.

@@DoctorSockrates It's true. He was a legend 😁

Reading about him now and I can only hope to live up to a fraction of his legacy. Incredible coincidence, and bravo.

THEY LEGIT DO NOT INDICATE IT AT ALL so this time around I made sure to just show it explicitly. You're welcome.

I haven't even touched RA2 yet, and got the skin by just doing the dailies.😅

I want to believe it isn't that hard, but alas, the people need guidance...

Truly a delayed gratification after juggling all this reading and mechanics. They had a vision.

Is that including that Black Knight skin? (The one in Boss Rush mode)

@@Sweet_Jelly39 Yes, no skin is excluded from this. Depending on the skin's original source, it either first becomes re-available via event shops and then goes into the cert shop later, or just goes straight into the cert shop. I can't remember the ruleset for that differentiation offhand, but ultimately the end result is the same. The game has no limited skins anymore, and never will again.

That's good news if it's true - I haven't looked at CN clairvoyance to verify this skin in particular, but it's good that there's a positive track record so far. That said, I make no assumptions otherwise. Arknights is a mobile game through and through, and with that comes so many FOMO practices that are industry standard, all bets are off in my book. If nothing else, this skin's current existence made my words from my previous video age like milk.

Except you neglected to mention that the skin isn't likely to be readily available for 3-4 years. It is limited until then, so if people are interested in the skin then they should put in the effort instead of relying on a future shop!

Oh you are chillin'. Hell yeah, you've earned that right.

Oh man, I can't wait for Endfield. That probably says a lot about me and RA, haha.

Good job gamer! I unfortunately skipped a few and so here we are, back at it in my favorite game mode that I can't play off camera because I decided doing content is fun.

I did the same. If you farm the event stages, you'll get those 'missions' done as well, yielding enough points to claim the rewards.

Imo, i think Arknights is by far the best game that gives freedom to the players.

That's the spirit! The more I play, the more I really feel like the early game really is the hardest part of the mode. I feel bad for the devs that worked on it, since it usually ends up being a crappy first impression for a lot of people.

I just farm using 1211 points per 3 days run method

finished grinding RA just for hoshi skin but i still dislike the mode 🤷

@simmie912 Can't blame you for that; plenty of valid reasons to not like it and nobody should let my yapping convince them otherwise. 🫡

And it only took me a month or two of effective burnout! 🤗 Jokes aside, the urge to make another video finally won over playing AK off-camera and/or other games. I decided long ago that if I wasn't happy with the content rat race, I am always able to simply Stop Posting™

Plenty of valid reasons to dislike it, I don't blame you even if I personally like it! Just doin' what I can with what I got out here, y'know?

This is my only problem with AK's permanent modes. RA is grindy and takes too long to get a good groove going. SSS is just mind numbingly rote, with a super cheesy stray of just dumping everything on one operator And IS....ooh boy how many layers of RNG does it have. Too much, in my opinion. After 4 years of playing this, I'm content to just do my dailies before bed and ignore everything it tries to offer me. I'm just here for the memes now.

@janematthews9087 Ironically enough, I hate doing dailies; they're shallow grinds that don't give me any satisfaction of sense of achievement. I enjoy Arknights at its best when I'm able to settle into a good long session without feeling pressured to, and the side modes deliver this experience that enhances the base game while feeling different in their own way. I uh...I won't talk about SSS though. I love IS and RA but...I do not perceive SSS 🙈 I get plenty of its materials from event shops anyway LOL

Don't worry about video length - if people are upset about the length, then they might not have the brainpower to understand this mode anyway. Regarding skin reruns, it's likely that the skin will come back in the future, but probably in 3-4 years; it won't be anytime soon.

@xtranathor8143 Hah, saying the silent part out loud are we? As much as it's tempting for me to rag on people's brain cells, the nicer way that I acknowledge it is that if people don't like it, they've got their reasons, and that's fine. I just think acknowledging the fact that I do make longer stuff and talking about it is worthwhile. And, well, yeah. It's gonna be An Amount Of Time™ before the re-run. How long? Who knows. No promises. Get your points.

@@DoctorSockrates aha, well I do think your phrasing is better. You're quite right that there could be any number of reasons for someone to not engage well with longer content, but it hurts me to see you have to apologise for making longer content, especially when you've simply got a lot to say - it's not like you kept repeating yourself! I like to think that if someone has a reason for not liking longer content (that isn't just being lazy), then they would offer constructive feedback, e.g. saying which parts they felt would be better in a different video, or weren't needed, or how to better cater towards certain learning disabilities.

@xtranathor8143 I appreciate you recognizing this, it means more than I can express in words. Feels like I took an extra Sanity potion knowing that there's people out there that can understand my nuance and say it out loud.

The good news: you will eventually be not fucked, and this guide and mode will still be there for you when that happens. The bad news: this may take longer than the current Caper skin event. The okay news: there are strategies to farm rec alg that only involve reloading the first 3 days that are not in this vid but are well covered by others. Also, you do not need to do rec alg at all if you keep up with your dailies for Caper's skin.

@DoctorSockrates Sorry about that. I probably shouldn't comment while absolutely livid, huh? But yeah, I must accept that I am not getting that free operator. especially considering I *just* unlocked it last night I had just spent like, over half an hour getting my ass wiped, and so now that I have calmed down, I apologize for my tone.

Water under the bridge, no worries! The fact that you're owning up to it at all is huge in my book. Some skins in Arknights are known to roll around again sometimes, and Caper's skin isn't a collab or anything, so maybe in the future it'll be available again. At the very least, Caper herself is in the red ticket shop for purchase with in-game resources, so you won't be missing out on her as a playable Operator. Speaking of gachaless operators, Kestrel is also in RA's permanent shop too, so there's another treat to look forward to.

@DoctorSockrates Oh, I thought it was an operator not a skin. In that case, It's perfectly fine since I don't have the operator anyways

Sorry to hear it man.

@HonorHorde Arknights is truly Mr. Worldwide when it comes to its source material and inspirations. There's straight up German and Polish in this game's English localization among other bits of flavor that makes it a delightful surprise. At least, in my opinion; I'm sure others are unimpressed or have different takes.

@@DoctorSockrates If so, i really hope our Mr. Worldwide provides us with some Anatolian or straight up Turkish operators too😁 I mean, imagine a male op with a huge mustache or a decent looking operator with turkish accent. LONG LIVE TURKKNIGHTS!!!

These things take time and quite a bit of good effort to get it right, and even then sometimes it can fall flat on its face (see the response to Hoederer's future skin...), so I'm just happy they're even risking trying especially considering how uh..."monotone", shall we say, the gacha industry is. The bar's REALLY low so I'm real happy to see Hypergryph raising it even by just a little.

@@Frostnova-n7bWhat's got ya down, gamer? Out of resources for a defense?

I just dont have the operators to beat the 14th day since its an all out raid without you having enough preparations

I didnt even have any walls by that time

@@Frostnova-n7b Dang, that's rough. Always an option to come back to it later with more main game roster upgrades, or full reset and see if the extra research points gives you enough of a starting advantage to get further than you did before. You got this....eventually!

I see why i cant beat it i was in challenge mode... Nobody told me peaceful and standard existed.

You know where to find me! Glad to hear it.

Hey, can't please everyone right? Glad it helped.

I'm no Old Well, but I certainly am a launch player...

Alright bud I got you: Follow your quest objectives, the big circles on the map. They lead towards the Narutabatim Alkalies in the south first, then expand eastwards to the Oasis where Iron spawns. The challenges I talked about in the video are what stand in your way. It isn't day-gated, but you may want to wait for favorable seasons to get around map restrictions. Good luck.

Tough call. If you're confident and experienced with both the enemies you are fighting and the operators that you're using, or if you don't mind reloading a lot, there's a lot you can get done with an underpowered roster, and the basics could probably be done with enough operators. Thing is, if you've played enough Arknights, you'll know that a LOT of operators get power spikes at E2 lvl 1. I'd also recommend getting a roster to that level because of logistics operator buffs; you'll need promotions to get the full effect eventually. Ultimately the only way to go is up here, so unless you're limiting your account to be pure E1's or something, work towards those goals and you'll have a new playground to test your power.

Sorry to disappoint, gamer. This one ain't it for you and that's OK. HR Training diss aside, your feedback's still valid. I will say this in my defense though: I don't exactly do this for a living and this was made as fast as possible around launch. I did think to include timestamps so that people can reference individual parts, but other than that, I'm just Some Guy™ with a computer and a microphone who likes to yap. Other people have found the thoroughness useful regardless and have probably learned things that you maybe take for granted. My guides are also just intentionally more open-ended, since I don't want to compete with other channels that just show you a clear with exactly what you need. Regardless, I do genuinely hope with the other resources out there now you're still able to enjoy RA. If you're able to get good enough to make your own improved and concise guide video for it, I look forward to seeing it.

Glad to hear it! I'm always happy when someone leaves a comment saying things helped.

I've seen enough comments like this to want to try and figure out just how much firepower you actually need to play the early game of Reclamation Algorithm without soft locking by over consuming on resources. Lower level players can only really do the no-deploy point farming strategies, which is boring and tedious, but in return it should get them enough sanity free resources to build at least a couple operators to finally get the ball rolling. I'm gonna have to verify the more HP than your average mini boss thing though. The actual challenge of hunting is moreso the unconventional behaviors of each prey animal. Fowlbeasts require more ranged burst damage or effective range due to their invulnerable state and roaming. Leporibeasts require at least two operators or map control to effectively hunt thanks to their evasive behavior. Mossbacks are the actual tanky ones where they do function like blockable mini bosses and regenerate health. Crabs have varying levels of effective HP, but are aggressive and usually spawn in greater numbers to compensate for their poor value. These are all challenges that you don't really get in quite the same way in the main game of Arknights, and it's only natural that this throws people off until they get a better grasp on things. At the end of the day though, I still think RA is a mid to late game mode made available way too early for most players, and even for the veteran players introduces so many new things it's very difficult to teach. Understanding your food supply, the strength and size of your roster, and the use of act points on non-combat nodes in the early game where you don't have much to work with is just something the tutorials don't convey, and guide videos can only do so much. That is, if you even watch them in the first place.

@@DoctorSockrates I just thing it's a badly designed game mode. I tried just doing it to make some sense of it... and I got nothing. The whole gathering mechanic feels horribly out of place, energy drinks are a painful gimmick that didn't need to exists (It'd be fine if they only give you extra slots or actions), and it generally feels like a mode that had zero though put into it. I don't know if making an effort to actually play it, instead of just farming the first few stages would be worth it. I don't even see where the "fun" is supposed to come from.

As you escape the early game and build your headquarters, you'll be able to go around, collect resources, build your own bases and field outposts, and tackle some of the most unique challenges in Arknights with powerful consumables and Operator buffs. If anything, RA almost turns Arknights into its mother genre: Tower Defense into Real Time Strategy proper. The strategy overworld layer is more reminiscent of games like XCOM or Total War, where managing resources and manpower properly results in payoffs on the tactical level. And then of course in the most recent expansion, they added slug racing. Since, y'know, why not, I guess. Silly minigame as a treat. End of the day, I'm not paid by Hypergryph to shill this, I just find it really fun even though I see the faults in it, and I know that this was balanced towards more experienced players like myself. Standard mode is available to tune down the difficulty in the title screen but it's super easy to miss (it's the small circular button with the triangles inside of it). I also acknowledge that not allowing any Support Units from friends is a huge nerf from RA1 to RA2 that I'm not sure why they made it happen. There comes a point where you will generate so many resources through normal gameplay that energy drinks are no longer a problem - how you get there is the challenge of it all, and it requires a lot more than what players have access to if they've just completed 3-8.

@@DoctorSockrates Thanks, it's good to know that there ARE better stuff down the line, bc the early game is not even remotely engaging. The being balanced to more experienced players part is complete BS though. The early game is simply badly designed, probably bc HG figured that players are used to this by now, and will power though it no matter how bad they make it. I just have to train up some new archers, bc anything less then an infinite range is hot garbage for gathering. At least now I have some excuse to lvl up Ambriel. And Wai Fuu

Welcome to the Oasis, fellow Doctor. Hope the iron mining goes well.

Delayed gratification is still gratification. Congrats!

@DoctorSockrates thanks man, the game mode becomes very fun after that too. Really enjoy the gameplay loop

They're just like wood from trees - tankier, sure, but work the same. Bring any harvester hub to help collect them - harvester hubs made from stone have a damage bonus when their drones attack a stone tile. If you're limited to just operators, either bring high ATK or use Arts damage.

Check the season. Dry season severely diminishes planter box output, but encourages you to hunt for meat more thanks to HP debuffs on wildlife.

@DoctorSockrates ohh, big thanks!! :D I'm Day the 45 and at the priestess quest. Also, good thing there are no slugs, or any kind of defense would be useless against them XD

Ah, that one's easy actually. Get a Hypergryph job as a play tester and access a developer test account and debug menu. You're gonna want invincibility, global attack range or fast redeploy, and enough attack speed to get the job done without crashing the game. Some might say using your credit card is the strat here, but this affords you less options and might not be suitable for every skill or income level. (Terra have mercy this one's a stretch, I hope you laughed)

See my other reply for wood/hunting. For stone and iron, physical defense starts to ramp up considerably, so consider substituting more arts damage sources like Casters and Supporters - otherwise the strategy more or less stays the same. And for the tier 4 resource, lighting ore, that relies on a different mechanic entirely - you'll know it when you see it, and it won't be something you haven't dealt with before; just bring plenty of multi-hit or attack speed boosted operators with your harvesting hubs for that one.

See my first video on RA for my initial recommendations! But since we're here, I've got you covered: Woodcutters come in many forms, but they all either deal good DPS, provide block count, or cover a large area. Fortress Defenders, SilverAsh, Mlynar, Eyjafjalla, Artilleryman Snipers, and even Reaper or Centurion guards are all great picks thanks to their damage output, effective attack range, or block count. Kestrel's good for harvesting the sparse trees outside of your harvesting hub's range, if you want to save your Fast-Redeploy operators for something else. As for hunting, map control is key. It depends on the prey and the map of course, but you'll want operators like Ambusher Specialists and Heavyshooter, Deadeye, or Marksman Snipers to establish map control and vision. Once that's taken care of, take Dreadnought Guards like Skadi, Melantha, or other similar subclasses to deal with heavy threats, and if you don't have enough Fast-Redeploy, compensate with fielding more operators and enough Vanguards to sustain the DP cost. Regardless of objective, don't be afraid to reload a save for practice if you want to fine-tune your squads on a particular map instance. At the end of the day, I'm not you, and if your roster has suitable substitutes for the suggestions I've described, it's up to you to try them out and discover them.

Glad to hear it helped! Sometimes there's just no substitute to puttin' in the time to learn, y'know?