[Arknights] Does Originium Dust Hold Up?

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@rabies6418 2 ай бұрын

its weird to see how six stars constantly power creep each other, but five stars have always remained tame. while ash is somewhat lacking, blitz is actually pretty good for a five star, and i bring tachanka to every stage

@bionicfactory1 2 ай бұрын

Blitz just built better fr fr

@graycard668 2 ай бұрын

Originum dust has The Lord and A sword weilding Rangers preparing a proper old man last stand agenst the Originum zombies. And the young infected doctor taking an Originum bar that rhodes and rainbow payed him with and using it slong with his personal arts to detonate the control machibe st the cost of his life and the gob smscked pit it leaves in our group to not just see him die. But explode. Leaving nothing left to morne. is peak arknights wrighting.

@bionicfactory1 2 ай бұрын

@@graycard668 this is true The Lord being peak goes without saying Rangers really makes me want an alter of him cause he honestly deserves one

@mortarion9813 17 күн бұрын

@@bionicfactory1 Get my old man a Swordmaster Guard, Hypergryph!!!

@anonymousmind8402 Ай бұрын

It still feels surreal that this is arguably one of the best video game collaboration stories out there to date, and that it is coming from a mobile gacha game of all things. Hypergryph could have very easily taken the cheap cynical route and just inserted the R6 characters in with no significance to their activity, just a few files on what they are doing on Terra and leave it at that. After all, collaboration characters, especially those who are functionally one-off gachas, are a guarantee for easy revenue. It does not help that last I heard, Rainbow 6: Siege was in a deranged and decaying period on their in-game story and lore. But they went further than a glorified skin collab. They placed the characters in an interesting yet grounded position, let them (and by extension, us real-life humans) see the world through their eyes, interact with the environment and its people as they naturally would, and remain generally faithful to their original characters. I especially like that the collab also used R6 characters - rather than just some random humans, they are the pinnacle of natural human capabilities. And yet they can barely keep up with the absurdities of the world of Arknights. While I do not play Rainbow 6: Siege, the one thing I wish the collab did story-wise was to be more open about the Rainbow 6 part of the collab. I do not remember much, but I think they hardly mention about events and people from their world directly related to Rainbow 6 - these R6 operators might as well just be any other soldier from our own world. Otherwise, Operation: Originium Dust has become something of a gold standard on what video game collaborations should aim towards. There are definitely better examples elsewhere, but the only other examples I can think of which is like this were the Monster Hunter World x Witcher 3: Wild Hunt and the Final Fantasy 14 x Final Fantasy 15 (i.e. the FFXIV side of the event) collabs, and roughly for similar reasons. In our time where such collabs are reduced to cheap skin collabs dumped in for easy money (see Fortnite), I am glad that this exists to show that collabs can be better than that.

@Dr.SoloWing 2 ай бұрын

14:54 you're a well cultured Doctor! I also liked OD a lot more exactly for giving more world building on Terra and how things works over there, even if I also enjoyed LA too First time finding your videos and I'll be sticking around!

@bionicfactory1 2 ай бұрын

Get ready to receive more bionic slop content then

@Dr.SoloWing 2 ай бұрын

@@bionicfactory1 "My body is ready" xD

@shigeru6282 2 ай бұрын

Rangers during OD was being written like a proper 6* and I'm surprised we still haven't gotten dreadnaught alter for him, Catapult during Lucent Arrowhead was just there for 1 scene (the explosion with Fuze). And overall the biggest advantage of od is that it took r6 more than half of the year to adjust to Terra all while Ela bunch adjusted in less than a week

@salt6952 2 ай бұрын

LA gang got teleported to a vacation spot while OD gang got sent to the fiery deserts. Life is cruel like that.

@bionicfactory1 2 ай бұрын

Lucent Arrowhead didn't want to have the same groundwork as Originium Dust it seems. I get that Ela has help adjusting cause she's around natives but still

@tweetug3697 2 ай бұрын

There is a difference between being drop in the middle of nowhere, Sargon and Dossoles you know. Of course Ela's squad adjusted to it much faster when they aren't being attack by the wildlife and trying to survive Sargon's land. I don't know why Catapult getting one scene is bad considering she do have multiple scenes with Ernesto. They even put more teasers about Ernesto's future now that Candela wants him to be her successor as mayor.

@shigeru6282 2 ай бұрын

@@tweetug3697 Still a week is a bit too short, and it's not about where they were dropped into but their approach, Ash decided on careful approach and was wary of everything, Ela just went with whatever the gallery guy said. Tequila's part of the story is great, he has a clear purpose to be there, Catapult could be replaced with anyone, even with npc and it wouldn't change a story at all

@tweetug3697 2 ай бұрын

@@shigeru6282 Ela didn't go along with what Reynell said all the time, they decided to become his bodyguard because that's the best option they have. They accustomed much faster because again, it's Dossoles. When you get down to it, they wouldn't really be a large difference between Dossoles and the average vacation spot in our world. They would just be surprised with the animal ears and horns, which they did. Doc and Ianna was.

@steyraug772 2 ай бұрын

if only team rainbow compeltely caputed levi before being stupidly stabbed by a protruding originium abomination, he could have spit the intel about the unknown teleportation method he brought up these originium crystals to earth with that the team rainbow able to come back to earth quickly and explain this to Six

@bionicfactory1 2 ай бұрын

@@steyraug772 yeah I'm pretty sure the open ended ending was never meant to be built upon but here we are with a sequel event and if there are any more they'll need to close out the story eventually

@Zeitzbach 2 ай бұрын

Rangers has way too many achievement to his name that it's really sad he's still a neglected 2 stars. Blaze namedrop him as one of their most skilled sniper during Frost Nova fight and then we have OD outright calling him a legend. Him doing works in this event despite his age just add more to it. Kinda why I hope the Mon hun being released next year will have another collab coming just to give our Rangers a new set of gears and give him an alter.

@bionicfactory1 2 ай бұрын

Man a Rangers alter with some MonHun gear would be so awesome But yeah him being so well respected by elite operators to only be a 2 star is actually criminal

@salt6952 2 ай бұрын

Well said! Even though Lucid Arrowhead was my personal favorite out of the two stories, I have to agree with you on some points. Mainly, if you were to replace the R6 characters in LA with random Arknights operators, the story wouldn't change much, aside from the wacky interactions the characters have with the Terran culture. One of the unfortunate things about the AK story is that there are a lot of details that, while familiar to the Terran humans, are completely unknown to us, the audience. This is how OD takes full advantage of the collaboration aspect; explaining worldbuilding details that only characters from Earth would think to ask in-story that are otherwise obvious to Terrans. So in terms of that, OD wins hands-down. Rangers getting unexpected development was also really nice. One of my favorite things about AK is how much they care about the low-rarity operators. I've never played R6 myself, so I was surprised to find out that LA was mainly focused on art. But apparently Ela studied fine art in college, so that probably wasn't shocking to R6 players. I really liked LA's story of two characters (Reynell and Diaz) who experienced a tragedy in their lives, so they use art in their own ways to cope. Diaz hosts an art festival to commemorate the people who fell in the apartment fires, and Reynell becomes a cynical asshole artist who wants to blow up expensive art. So this makes LA my favorite. Gameplay-wise, OD offered a bigger challenge, and I love the design of the boss as this disgusting tumor. It really creeped me out when I first saw it transform. The EX stages were also really cool, with one of them being a Bomberman stage. Much more creative use of the event mechanics than LA, in my opinon. Every single enemy in LA having high DEF was also really annoying and I couldn't use some of my favorite operators. Interesting thoughts, thanks for sharing. And I also hope Tecno becomes playable one day (copium).

@bionicfactory1 2 ай бұрын

Yeah I definitely think LA had a better side cast then OD cause Diaz and Reynell were some genuinely interesting characters and seeing how both reacted to their traumatic pasts and how they influenced their current actions was genuinely great. Unfortunately from a Collab perspective they were both gonna eventually clash regardless of team rainbows involvement which diminishes the event slightly in my eyes when comparing the two

@yearslate9349 2 ай бұрын

I actually like Mateo as a character-- not because he's a cool boss or anything, but because of how perfectly he encapsulates his role as a thug who's clueless to how untenable his situation has become. His enemy description reads: "Captain Mateo of the Coalition Army. He refuses to recognize the dead end he stands at, and employs violence against anyone who reminds him of that." He is a symptom of Bolivar's long civil war, rather than some dude who wears a tailored suit despite hiding out in the desert.

@shield0164 Ай бұрын

As someone who read OD on the lunch I can't simply emphasize how amazed I was with how great it's story and horrible it's boss was. it essentially answered one of my biggest question at the time : if Oripathy acts like HIV in terms of infecting people then why all the hatred for the infected? wouldn't just making quarantine zone for them be enough? it was only upon realization the fact that the infected people will blow up and spread the originuim that I understood why people distance themselves so much from them. so in that regard I hold OD really high, I really haven't seen any collaboration in any games make their collab to such opportunity to tell such a great story

@user-hl1ku2pq1h 2 ай бұрын

ll like OD for its conciseness, high action and the big impact of the new characters on the story. I also enjoy having clearly evil antagonists in my stories sometimes, because it allows for interesting dynamics between factions (the good guys would not have joined forces this quick if Drudge and Levi would have been likable to some extent). For me the gameplay of that event was clearly outdated tho Lucent Arrowhead was storywise a little bit boring imo. Felt a bit like a summer event with low stakes and the missing impact of the Rainbow characters. Nothing wrong with summer events. Stakes don't always need to be high but for a Rainbow collab I was hoping for a more serious story. But I've heard there were apparently a lot of references to the Siege. So must have been fun as a Siege player to read the event. So yeah, OD wins for me easily in the story department

@bionicfactory1 2 ай бұрын

As a Siege player myself the best part of both games is actually seeing the operators actually appear in a story. OD definitely is more focused on trying to bridge that gap with a story with both collab sides being relatively equally focused on. Lucent Arrowhead feels more like they just dropped Rainbow into a fully Arknights based story. Not something that's impossible to make work as I don't think it's bad but the stakes don't feel as high for our Rainbow characters as we know they have no Levi to confront at the end

@adz4528 10 күн бұрын

I did the Ela event but sadly slacked on the Ash event so seeing what happened to the end is nice. Also facts about the girl at the end they need to free her.