The Side Story Showdown: Which Events Reign Supreme in Arknights?

[@wollyram6248]

I have a massive soft spot for Twilight of Wolumonde, it was my first big event, and I got double Suzuran from the banner.

[@yourlocalweebfriend3537]

I really liked Wolumonde. the Story itself was amazing, multiple perspectives shown under a single event which accumulated into a massive climax. And the heavy and bleak themes it shows, the atmosphere with tints of despair and of course, the melancholic music.

[@wollyram6248]

@@yourlocalweebfriend3537 I mostly remember malding at the Mudrock and golems level. But the story and music were hooking me in bad at that point.

[@pawdaypay]

Hell yeah, Vigilo Event is S-tier, one of the best events that reveals the Doctor's past. I hope HG makes more events that uncover the Doctor's lore.

[@YandereENjoyer4469]

I bet once Lone trail event comes to global it's gonna be top of your list

[@crikeybaguette4564]

Actually, we did hear about Team Rainbow again through their modules. Turns out they formed their own mercenary company in Terra.

[@96kami31]

i want to know more about team rainbow after the watchtower event, but they're ubi's character so its going to be tricky

[@eizenTV]

the more you know

[@haniwa6471]

​@@96kami31does he know?????

[@96kami31]

@@haniwa6471 i watched the 4.5 anniv stream, its really nuts. Idk about the banner though but at least i can get fuze.

[@shark20069]

0:07 Grani and the Knights Treasure 0:16 Operational Intelligence 0:22 Heart of Surging Flame 0:29 Code of Brawl 0:38 Ancient Forge 0:46 Stories of Afternoon 0:55 Children of Ursus 1:04 Twilight of Wolumonde 1:21 Darknights Memoir 1:35 The Great Chief returns 1:46 Rewinding Breeze 1:55 Maria Nearl 2:06 Mansfield Break 2:15 Beyond Here 2:22 Who is Real 2:31 Operation Originium Dust 2:47 A Walk in the Dust 2:59 Under Tides 3:11 Preluding Lights 3:18 Dossoles Holiday 3:25 Vigilo 3:40 Pinus Sylvestris 3:47 Near Light 3:58 Break the Ice 4:20 Invitation to Wine 4:23 A Light Spark in the Darkness 4:33 Guide Ahead 4:47 Stutifera Navis 5:03 Lingering Echoes 5:29 Ideal City 5:51 Dorothy's Vision 6:20 An Obscure Wanderer 6:36 Il Siracusano

[@CoyotesMoon]

I do agree, Break the Ice is a great story. Enciodes trying to modernize his too traditionally stuck nation so they don’t fall behind the rest and get easily invaded and conquered later on. It was also great that there was no real villain, just different people with different ideals and motivations. A Walk in the Dust is my favorite story. It made me go from hating Kal’tsit and having her as my least favorite character, to her being Best Girl. Getting to know more about her and how much she does for Terra. How she is a realist but also an idealist. She is trying so hard to believe (in others) and keeps getting hurt but doesn’t give up. Truly the bestest of best girls.

[@Nioxre]

i love the guide ahead event! it was the 1st big event that i participated in & was blown away by the story telling; i was already hooked w/ the main story, but this really pushed me to explore the side story tab more because the past events have some really good story telling

[@DylanoRevs]

Something i like about the "A light spark in darkness" story is how every section of the stories were all connected into what has happened. Like how GoldenGlow's barn got burned down. It was such a nice way to tell the full story while only relying on story segments.

[@frenzleboy]

Interesting, can't say that I'd agree with some of that. Mansfield Break was one of the best and surprising stories that I've read. I'm impressed that you managed to complete them all.

[@glassbottle9205]

Spitting pure fire on the Gertrude part, those AK evil women hitting different

[@baguetto563]

They literally made an evil mommy texas (best character in the game) just to kill her

[@TheOrian34]

Saddest moment in arknights, knowing you'll never see her again.@@baguetto563

[@nad4243]

I may not understand most of the stuff in the Sui saga but they just have these atmosphere that made you get carried into the story. IDK man like sui saga vibes is really good but the translation are.. oh well

[@heartunderbruh7735]

Same man like I read Ancient Forge and Who is Real and I find it hard deciphering and understanding what the hell is happening and what do these characters meant. Invitation to Wine was a chore to read because of the translations.

[@nad4243]

@@heartunderbruh7735 yeah, invitation to wine is hard to read. I mostly skim through the sentences when i don't understand anything. I am forever thankful for lava being the only character I can decipher her words in the cast choice while reading saga's made my brain do a backflip

[@heartunderbruh7735]

@@nad4243 reading Ling's poetic flowery dialogues is a fvckin chore. I understand Nian and Dusk just fine.

[@nad4243]

@@heartunderbruh7735 at least it looks cool lol I still don't understand what ling's powers and problem is

[@a-kreata9279]

Breaking the ice is really one of the best stories in arknights hands down

[@junkname9983]

Seriously? I thought it was very dumb

[@a-kreata9279]

The only dumb part was cliffheart climbing in her normal outfit through the blizzard tbh The writing overall was better, like how SA was hostile against gnosis even in his house and the reader which made everything gnosis done pretty convincing even for the other houses there is alot of good stuffs here and there

[@Christian-gr3gu]

Bruh naw man, granis event is the worse one, expecially since it could have been solved easily If skadi just said that she just explained herself

[@metalslug3fan]

Big Bob single-handedly carries the whole event

[@velnard8540]

​@@metalslug3fanBig bob was so good we keep getting references to him in IS#3

[@asheqabeer1798]

@@velnard8540 its a shame the colombian cops arrested him cuz of his competitors I hope he manages to become free

[@Christian-gr3gu]

@@metalslug3fan if only skadi wasn't there being an ass for no reason

[@akl844]

mostly agree, but stultifera navis needs to be in S smh

[@alifakbar4232]

smh not putting Lingering Echoes on at least A+ tier is a heresy

[@fischwell]

the under tides line is amazing

[@marielcarey4288]

Surprised to see DM in S, i think it was boring af. What good is lore when its delivered as a snoozefest of character sprites on grey backdrop after grey backdrop? All i remember is Theresa fixing a door and everyone being sad about it.

[@kraney195]

It mainly tells a story about W, A child tainted by the filth of war and that's it, It establishes the relationship between the trio building it up for chapter 12 when they all reunites, I remember the dialogue was pretty witty and enjoyable to read than most other events, and a handful of curses which isn't out of place, other than that it's not much going on, the event doesn't even have a boss fight, Tho the one thing I remember about the event was one random scene at the end where W's trying to test the two struggling children about trust and relying to one another to survive

[@hardVatsuki]

I would put stultifera navis to D tier because it's not fun to play, 80% of the attack dodge is really fun, I love absolutely random elements in my strategic game. and to dodge this I have to use very niche specific operators and praying to god that silence won't bug out and that one annoying ass won't leak the mud.

[@ammarbaagu]

for Il Siracusano, PL was there because they want to bring Texas back and accompany Sora in her theatre journey

[@livingrain]

Bruh Il Siracusano Over Dorothy? I'm disappointed brother 😔

[@voltrixgames4375]

BRO HE PUT WHO IS REAL IN THE SAME TIER AS MARIA NEARL’s???? Chasing down a Sui sibling who’s paintings literally transcend realities versus a horse girl entering an arena competition only to be saved by her sister from two knights coming for her shins. 🫡😭

[@baguetto563]

I liked maria nearl better than who is real until deus ex machina sister dropped from the heavens to instantly win, that was pretty lame but I also have no clue how else they couldve had that go

[@kraney195]

​@@baguetto563It would be better if tsundere Uncle expected this to happened and despite his protest, secretly helps maria behind the scene by informing nearl and prepared her a launchpad for her entrance, and sabotaging kgcc together with Tolan, it adds another depth to the story

[@mochalatte8362]

​​@@baguetto563 Same. I really love Mansfield Break too, but Saria came and Rhine Lab's all over Jesselton (But Maria Nearl story had it worse, shame because I liked the plot 😔)

[@MarSem-uy9hy]

3:09 Based.

[@kraney195]

Bro you forgot about the "After Story" mini event

[@dereturd]

Code of Brawl would've been higher for me because it's one of the funniest and entertaining events I can recall.

[@Curser311]

For me it was the most boring one

[@cirnobyl9158]

The Luoxiaohei story was a real joy to read imo.

[@qurt5101]

There is 0 way you put Invitation to Wine in A+ and Beyond Here in C lol

[@uraviry5066]

D*

[@kenshi3942]

mostly agree with everything except lingering echoes story is an easy S

[@please_be_an_operator_soon]

Vigilo at S tier is extremely BASED

[@Skeke]

Great tier list. I guess I should read Break the Ice when I have the time

[@phos445]

I have the moral obligation to say that Guide Ahead, just for the Fiammetta (best waifu) "Pedicabo ego te et irrumabo", is S++... that shit wasn't translated for almost 2 millenia for how brutal it was.

[@Gutzahn]

Appreciate the respect for Sharp. What a guy

[@Arezo17]

The story would be much more interesting if, instead of a wall of text, we could hear the voice of a character at least once every few slides...

[@anmolrao4007]

Is this all in chronological order like lore wise or its arranged in the order they were released.

[@szbobxc]

wait until you see lonetrail, you will need a s+ tier for that

[@cursedcandle7038]

THE BEST ENDING YAOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!

[@DiggityDawgDiggity]

Very respectable list personally il siracusano is S for me I also liked obscure wanderer a bit more than most

[@ferna8397A]

darknights was great

[@Xariel597]

#RagingCroissant

[@uraviry5066]

Love to see the salt in some comments. I personally don't agree with some choices but great list nonetheless. Beyond Here should be automatically S just because Archetto is there.

[@voltrixgames4375]

Also endspeaker is one of the easiest bosses. You can literally legit almost kill it with the bouncy stun version of the roomba. Don’t say he’s hard lol it’s his mobs that are hard bc the roomba legit can almost kill him alone seriously go try it lol

[@idonthaveaname11]

He's annoying because of that dirty tile mechanic plus the multiple fase

[@voltrixgames4375]

@@idonthaveaname11 dude you can literally have the roombas do 3/4ths of the work you have 0 excuse outside of learning with the operators these days

[@voltrixgames4375]

@@idonthaveaname11 the dirty tile mechanic is very easy to manage if you use the proper little handy parts depending the stage you’re in. Once I figured it out it became a joke. I literally had an easier time on the S stages than the ex once I learned what to do. Plus modern day operators

[@kraney195]

​@@voltrixgames4375don't really care about the boss but those things that can ignore block is the real trouble when you don't have silence ops or gnosis

[@voltrixgames4375]

@@kraney195 yeah. They’re very easy to deal with. There’s multiple sources that can handle it for you. If you have Texas alter? Even easier. There are also sources like pozy with module that can ignore the dodge effect.

[@sense6472]

the nearl events are too overrated imo

[@voltrixgames4375]

This guy really put who is real only in A, my heart was hurt especially after the ending scene with dusk talking to dawn on her deathbed this is a heresy and a scam to us all, ontop of placing it with Maria’s story like what 💀 😭🫡 it should’ve been A+

[@marielcarey4288]

And SN in A+??? This list sucks, even being an opinionated list it still sucks. Trash tier list.

[@voltrixgames4375]

@@marielcarey4288 yeah, I don’t like to be mean but this. Bruh

[@marielcarey4288]

@@voltrixgames4375 "showdown" of events yet barely says anything or analyses the stories and makes ratings on a whim. "Oh DM gave lore S tier!" Nah man it was the most boring thing ever. But what did I expect huh

[@kraney195]

​@@marielcarey4288Relax lol it's just a tier list, even when I disagree with his opinion on Mansfield, It still doesn't warrant anyone to be this heated lmao

[@eizenTV]

imagine being this triggered that I didnt put something one tier higher. Grow up