Escaping The Hortus In Arknights

[@bnau374]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="215">3:35</a> Bro saw a Sarkaz and immediatly thought he is getting mugged, he is starting to internalize the racism!

[@k0sami]

DOWN WITH THE SARKAZ, LONG LIVE VICTORIA

[@Equinoctilus]

If you think the civilians from Chapter 8/Talulah were annoying to babysit, you're gonna be in for heck of a night, an Arknight, even

[@SUPAH_SUPAH_SUPAH]

Loved hearing that whole rant about Arknights tutorials not being useful because the gimmick isn't as hard as the tutorial or you won't need to use it, seeing a members-first video called "The boulder event broke me"

[@ClayChoShow]

The worst event for me to make this point on.

[@Razor4884]

@@ClayChoShow Usually, mechanics become more pronounced in late-EX and S stages. The story stages are easier to brute force past by design.

[@kaynanbirro7277]

​@@ClayChoShow Fun fact: there are exactly 1 stages where you get to use the temp roadblock. You use in the tutorial, and then only once more. Ever.

[@Balloonshopper]

I like how, intentionally or not, Clay Arknights trajectory has led him to becoming a Rhine Lab enjoyer. Bro started with Silence in the early game, then the Dorothy support arc, and now we've reached the Ifrit-Saria dynamic duo. Wouldn't surprise me if bro gets a Mumu spook once Lappy event rolls around.

[@sb18wlc]

Bro found his future nicheknights content

[@headphones2308]

Not exactly Rhine Labs, but Mountain being his first 6 star and the whole hate to bromance arc he had seems fitting as he’s the closest you’ll get to a Rhine Labs op on the beginner banner when Clay started playing.

[@zombieking3571]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="305">5:05</a> “I don’t need another training stage! I am a professional at this game!” *Press X to doubt*

[@nathanbastos4961]

"The civilians have health bar, just like the civilians at chapter 8".... Well, I think we have a misunderstanding here. THEY ARE WAAAAAAY WORSE THAN THE CIVILIANS OF CHAPTER 8. THIS EVENT DUDE I DON'T EVEN WANT TO CONTINUE. HOLY SHEET HOW I HATE THEM

[@mananak.]

This event made me cry

[@rifqiindraputra265]

Congrats being on best of arknights 2024 part 2

[@giornogiovanna8367]

If You wanna fight Satan...Lingering Echos and Zwilligstürme in Herbst Bosses quite fit that Title Alternativtly You can try Your Luck against an Emperor's Blade as the Boss of A Walk in the Dust, literally Eldritch Demon Thingies

[@ClayChoShow]

I read "eldrich demon thighs" and was very confused for a second.

[@giornogiovanna8367]

@ClayChoShow I would much prefer those....

[@ncx2727]

​@@ClayChoShow that would be so cool my king

[@cemanz]

If you want Thigh, I could recommend chapter 9 Boss. ​@@ClayChoShow

[@rayond6450]

That's not satan, it's just hitler with crazy magic

[@Reldan]

The boss is much scarier than Satan - the unholy union of boulders and gravity.

[@SUPAH_SUPAH_SUPAH]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="153">2:33</a> surprisingly good pronunciation

[@sharkz401]

If I call clay 'papa clay', can I call you 'granpa supah'?

[@rogytomaru586]

​@@sharkz401Daddy Clay

[@justintime7577]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="284">4:44</a> LEMUEN THE GOAT! HYPERGRYPH, RELEASE OUR GIRL FROM NPC JAIL! FREE LUIG- I mean, FREE LEMUEN! Also fun fact, she's Lemuel's sister, or better known as - Exusiai.

[@Man-of-segs]

If you wanna fight Jesus you can play "Guide ahead" event. His theme is one of the most listened songs

[@amooosasaki2299]

The good thing about this event is that the devil you were supposed to be fighting committed suicide, the bad thing is that he was replaced by a very depressed suicide bomber gardener

[@dros-]

Btw i think you should just play Saria with Skill 1 or Skill 2. Her Skill 3 is... more like a support for boss killing, as it have a lot of SP, slows enemies + adds percentage Arts damage + heals allies Btw again, yeah. Sankta mostly uses guns. Its every day sight to see angels with guns

[@Dr.SoloWing]

Words said before disaster: "how hard could this event be?" xD OMG Melanite's EN voice is amazing!!

[@aaronpanta605]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="165">2:45</a> famous last words

[@pathalenvivaldi7811]

"This one has a gun, you really don't want to piss her off." Foreshadowing! :D

[@tiliaoliveri6066]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="482">8:02</a> because tonight will be the night that i will fall for you~

[@TL_ForevezZ]

ClayYo: "This event is going to be easy." Also, ClayYo: "Typhon died! This event is hard." 🤣🤣🤣

[@nabi7701]

Use Saria S1 or S2. Her S3 is mainly for amlipfying arts damage against bosses. S1 is for healing herself or one other person closeby. This is if you want to use her as a tank who can keep one person alive. S2 is of you want to use her as closer to a regular aoe medic with its larger range and aoe healing. But shes a lot less tankier herself using S2 so not as good as a defender. The lack of any heals between S3 usages and the extremely long cooldown make ot not very practical to use. Funnily enough the newest 6 star healing defender, Shu, fixes this problem on her S3. She has ongoing passive heals permanently on herself. So she can save her S3 for emergencies and not waste on minor damage. Plus she has much shorter cooldown. Making her S3 actually her best skill.

[@icedemon4554]

Clay, sorry, but I have to disappoint you, but most of all those who love us, probably, gravel, Angelina, platinum and a couple of operators. The rest are more likely to just respect us or something like that, our relationship with operators is more businesslike. At best, they feel gratitude and recognition, or something like interest. There is practically no romance in Arknights.

[@quitw18]

peak EN cant read

[@bnau374]

Gongratz on E2 Saria, her S3 is gonna be your key to beat Talulah

[@ahmadalvan8578]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="350">5:50</a> perfectly sum up the whole event🤣

[@KnoxZone]

You picked the absolute worst event to get smug about event difficulty. This one's a pain even with the best operators.

[@sb18wlc]

Not really difficult tho, just annoying because you need to keep track of 10 things at once.

[@justintime7577]

​@sb18wlc that's literally the definition of difficulty. I had to play last EX stage in slo mo because shit was so stressful

[@azuzuni]

this event mechanics can become quite challanging actually, especially without good DP printing to keep up with calming down the npcs youre 100% going to suffer really soon (other possibility i just made the event hard on myself by trying to keep npcs in single place at all times which resulted in big DP usage)

[@LONKULADE]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="223">3:43</a> BIG BRAIN ARKNIGHTS rizz

[@anbui2725]

bruv skips every words in the tutorial then proceeds to say its hard, truly our EN brother

[@IamHolou]

Literally the worst event mechanic in the game for most people. These civilians are literally trying everything to die. You just look away for one second and you can restart the stage cause one of them threw themself off a cliff

[@gamerzone1853]

you're gonna love this event's boss :D

[@Reldan]

On the bright side, this is not one of those events where the tutorial was the hardest use of the event mechanics.

[@dominicbudram4714]

the pain the suffering

[@kiwi_446]

You know the event is hard, when a TRAINING STAGE is harder than regular level (even harder than some ex levels)

[@awesomesauce980]

I once heard this event prioritizes multitasking in a game that already requires multitasking. Multitasking squared, if you will. Good luck Clay, with your adhd ass.

[@omaba]

It always starts with a rant about how easy something is before you get clapped by said mechanics. I just can't wait until you get to the Londinium defense cannon in Episode 10. Buy Amiya's Birthday skin.

[@scream8737]

The Hortus are coming! The Hortus are coming!! Ruuuun!!!

[@NikkiTheViolist]

the difference between civilians in this event and the civilians in Chapter 8 is the civilians in chapter 8 get killed by the enemy units but here the civilians get killed by running into holes

[@rogytomaru586]

Can't wait to see clay realises how "easy" this event civilian is

[@justintime7577]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="165">2:45</a> Hahahaha famous last words 🤣 😂

[@justintime7577]

<a href="#" class="seekto" data-time="27">0:27</a> oh, you have noooo idea... Time to pray is the perfect name for a tutorial of this event, because honestly? That's all you can do going in.. 😂

[@GBlockbreaker]

oh boy it's this event well, the good news is, this event is far less dependant on good operators, it doesn't even have a boss to fight, meaning even fresh accounts should be able to get reasonably far the bad news is, the event is a weird mix of different mechanics and not paying attention to them will make you fail the stage promptly good luck

[@burpium1767]

"Do we have to start with tutorial? How hard could this event be? 😝" Oh little sweetie pookie bear, how clueless you were 😭

[@cyberkallas]

unfortunately satan is in another event.

[@bruhhhh---]

What's worse than this event mechanics was my ability to read. I was trying to trim my medal but I thought you needed to protect all the statues.

[@pathalenvivaldi7811]

We had times of a week between events. Now we rarely have times of 3 days between events, you get 7 hours to a day, no more, and you'll like it. :D

[@LilyBannel]

This event is annoying in many spots thanks to those darn civilians. So many redos because either a civilian fell when I was focused on an enemy OR the enemies managed to blow up their therapy posts causing them to leave earlier than I wanted. At least getting the rewards isn't too bad. On a separate note, I read the banner for pulling characters and it looks like the rate up banners give a better description than the standard banners. At least on Executor's banner right now, it says after 150 attempts and you still don't have him, the next 6 star operator is guaranteed to be him. The Penance pull was doomed because it was a standard banner with other characters that had rate ups but not with that rule set. I hope I am reading that right. So next time she appears, make sure she is solo or look at the details on the banner to see a guarantee on her. Still saving my pulls for Thorns Alter and right now trying to get the welfare characters. Lumen and Gladiia are really good when you have resources to build them and Bison has a skill that boosts the defense of guards and vanguards placed behind him by 50% with his talent while also boosting defenses of allies around him with skill 2. I managed to build Lumen but I'm trying for Gladiia and Bison next.

[@TheOniraf]

Refuse to read, fail the tutorial, complaints.

[@rickzeroX]

It's as entertaining as it is infuriating.

[@akl844]

and then the classic "what am i supposed to do"

[@mastermavrick]

Realizing the Saria Ifrit combo ftw.

[@twizzay473]

These civilians are the DUMBEST things Hypergryph have EVER come up with I hate them.

[@akl844]

I feel like the only reason you think why tutorials are not that useful and the mechanics dont really matter that much is because you only play the normal stages, on ex and special stages of some events you need to legit min-max the event mechanics to win where brute force isnt an option.

[@akl844]

Funny enough you will need to play around civilians on the next stages

[@VectoRaith]

Perhaps I need to start praying for you, Clay. Praying like those civilians. This is literally the most annoying (if not hardest) Arknights event in history, even for seasoned players. Hope you can completely finish this event before due time. Amen.

[@godo9358]

from now on, any stage difficulty is measured by whether they kill Typhon or not

[@tk31elpis]

This is at the point you read more story than mine.

[@darkpast2177]

Oh boy this even't he is gonna love this event 😂

[@khol1611]

Skip the Tutorial, & then complain Clay as usual, lol

[@iwowowl1654]

you should give you E2 ops some more levels, the first E2 levels are inexpensive all the way to Lvl 30 - 40.

[@baconisgod13]

I ain't gonna sugarcoat it boss man, this event sucks. Good luck

[@fletchercurtin9042]

Sarias 3rd skill has better burst healing than her other skills and in a massive range but pretty Long downtime (it’s more healing cause it activates every second on everyone in range unlike her other 2 skills) also it’s probally worth getting your elite 2 level 1 opps to like level 25 or 30 just cause it’s really cheap for an ok stat increase

[@HeroicPeanutOfStormAndLightnin]

Well, with the tutorial being hard and characters being under-leveled for it, i kinda get it. Developers of a gacha can't make assumptions on the part of what kind of player/squad will get to experience the event. The common lowest denominator then becomes the beginner. So the tutorial is made with an assumption you have an all 3-4 star team that doesn't meet the likely suggested exp threshold. Also the tutorial being thorough and teaching you that it is alright to leave some operators hanging by a thread is a valid strategy can be very useful, both for a newbie and the Just-surtur-it-or-texalter-it-or-walter-it-or-me-(because i do all of those things)-player.

[@SPEEDY4004]

true regarding the mechanis most of the though he doesnt do much of ex stages with challenge mode etc right? mfg Olli

[@minhsangle9210]

i dont even know how my auto run on HE 7 from year ago wont work LOL

[@MajorJak]

I'm suprised people dislike the civilians in this so much. Guess I'm the odd one out that didn't mind it at all really. Sure I had to restart quite a bit but at least it was clear to me what went wrong.

[@giornogiovanna8367]

Oh Yeah Also, not that it matters for someone as Iliterate as You, Clay...but this Event is a Sequel to Guide Ahead! Which You can find under the Side Stories, it doesn't have any Civilians but You might struggle with the Boss Oh Yeah Also, You should check out (and maybe Buy) the New Skin for Medic Amiya in the Shop that was released for her Birthday the other Day

[@seijibaka]

ex stages with medal challanges will be pretty fun... for us! lol

[@bnau374]

There is no "escaping" from the Garden

[@bnau374]

If Clay figures out what this comment is a refernce to imma become a channel member

[@ClayChoShow]

All I know is its latin for garden of escapism. And Hortus sounds like horticulture which is like farming...which reminds me of THE RICE FIELDS MOTHER FUCKER!!!!

[@bnau374]

@@ClayChoShow ❌ imma give you a tip: There are many Spacegames out there, but only one has the Garden de Escapismo

[@oturan9728]

Omg this commentary about mechanic being ignore is going to age so badly in this one, have fun babysitting civilians my guy. Also you could give some lvl to your E2 E2 lvl 1 = E1 lvl max stats wise and the early lvl are super cheap.

[@esgaldin443]

...Skip's tutorial... -I don't understands this lvl at all - Clay probably

[@Purplepentapus_]

Good luck...

[@Marinetr]

If HE-TR-2 is already too hard. Then how can you against the gardener?

[@theessenceofawesome1]

Unfortunately, the levels you're about to play are way harder than the tutorial

[@kuuhaku4556]

new amiya skin 21 po L2d

[@xpeke1234]

Get ifrits burn module

[@GeneralAutustoPepechet]

finish all medal challenges

[@TXnovicegamer]

Will you react to arknights iceberg?

[@ClayChoShow]

The two hour video? Sir I can't even watch a five minute cutscene!

[@Glicole_]

i hate micromanagin thus i hate this event

[@Abyzone_official]

oh noo , i hate this Civillage ppl 💀

[@ONIGIRIKINGU]

Saria skill 3 aint worth using. Saria skill 1 is the best

[@BirdBoxAdobo]

Yeah monastery civs sucks Monkey Balls

[@theanimeguy6985]

This whole side story is sooo annoying

[@jakesmith4760]

ANOTHERYEARWITHU25 New Nikke code and rappi has dropped, best of luck with everyone's summons