Pre-Release Arknights was VERY INTERESTING...
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- Опубликовано: 7 окт 2022
- I researched the past of Arknights and wanted to figure out what's it's past is.
The stuff I found were so intriguing that I just had to make a video with all kind of interesting things I found through my search...
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Petition to bring back the old cute Amiya Chibi...
where the petition
We need *OLD AMIYA* & *SHIRAYUKI* to comeback
That would be great!!! Where's the petition?
Or petition to make a Beta/alpha skin series that would make for a good content
heck yes.
The Doctor, W were supposed to be characters for Girls frontline created by lowlight by the time he was still working for MICA team but his ideas were rejected along with Kal'tsit and 12F being Lowlights OC characters back in 2015 when Arknights wasn't a thing yet.
Imagine Dokutah, Kal'tsit and W in GFL
@@kevinplayz7965 It would've been great if it was the pre release gfl but it also went thru some changes and lets just say both went on a better path that fits each of the games themes
@@JustCheppo Didn't Ange also have dokutah hoodie pre release?
Oh yeah, I remember seeing Kal'tsit artworks back then among Lowlight works, if I remember correctly you can still see it in pixiv.
W was supposedly MK18, a scrapped AR team member, and when it came here, it was something for lowlight to bring the news and ideals from GFL when he made Arknights.
The doctor was originally supposed to be GFL’s commander but they went for a more militaristic approach and scrapped lowlight’s concept after a while. Most of the old concepts were lost but one of MK18 and the doctor still lives to this day, confirming that GFL was the one before Arknights, and it’s prior before arknights was made into a newer concept
Hearing that Arknights ops have no voiceline way back when inspires me somewhat, like dayum how far has this game went, to having dozens of ops fully voiced and more to come
And in different languages too!
From not having voices to even moving with the L2D thing hahah
And even having their own theme
There's something cursed about seeing Silverash and Exusiai as 5* units instead of 6*
and Ch'en being a 4★
maybe Robots wasnt an idea back then.
Most likely they hadn't figured what would be highest rarity yet.
@@eyp29204 this is so wrong
@@eyp29204 chen being a 4 makes sense
her s3 is really damn good but normal attacks and sp regeneration is rigged for a 6*
"Imagine ten big bobs running at you how fun would it be to fight that".
Chalter : Yes
Hehe, Watergun go Pew Pew.
I need that Original Kal'tsit skin from Fantasia to be brought back on today's Arknights and my life is complete
Indeed my friend!! Kal'tsit original design would be a great skin!!!
yep aggrea
I just want kal skin man . . .
Mon5ter module pl0x
04:57 La Great Lynx
What surprises me the most is that, apparently, Red had different skills back then. Look at 1:03 she is invisible. And that kind of makes me wonder what other operators got their kit rework or even scrap entirely.
Looking at Kalt
On the red, it seems like not attacking for a while gives her the invis, just like todays manticore passive
@@skywalkerjohn8965 Ex-Wife was (allegedly) removed for being too OP.
Came back even more OP instead.
@@xtrafries123 can't be too op if everything else is as op or even stronger than you lol
and she also wear a mask
maybe Estelle's scar healing is part of her lore and gameplay
The current gacha animation is iconic for me, its simple but can give u major heart attacks when flames pops out. The old one just wouldnt hit, its looks kinda boring too so im glad they changed it.
Here's some insight from a Chinese speaker and an artist.
1) "Set sail." Rhodes Island is a landSHIP. Arknights's name also has the word Ark in it, which is a type of boat, and this isn't a stretch either, because Arknights's Chinese name, Ming Ri Fang Zhou, roughly translates to "the ship facing tomorrow."
2) The timers on the home screen. The one with the timer was the Base (Infrastructure), and the other was the Depot (Storehouse).
3) Regarding the chibi sprite differences: Ifrit's eye color didn't change, the style in which her chibi is drawn changed. This is the same for Estelle and Meteor's chibi sprites. Their designs didn't change, since the designs are done by the artists, but it's clear the directors weren't satisfied with how the chibi sprites looked and had them redone.
Artists are commissioned YEARS ahead of time. Windflit was commissioned over two years before his release on CN, which the artist commented about because of the resemblance of pose in his E2 to La Pluma's E2.
Some additional comments:
Hai Mao used to work on Girl's Frontline, and left because of creative differences regarding character death.
Concept art of a female Doctor exists, but not a male Doctor.
Actually the chinese name 明日方舟 means 'The Ark of Tomorrow' instead of a ship, but yes it makes sense that they set sail~
I hope doctor gets a proper gender on anime as i had seen many comments not liking his non binary voice
@@yuurina5092 idk, the doctor is suppose to be us, given that the main story has characters directly talking to us
@@yuurina5092 to be honest this is tough, i want also want more doctot plot, but operator increase to much and his portion in the story became drawned, not same as GBF whos MC get a good portion in the story, well Punishing Gray also did good job plot for MC in the story, the bad from AK is the MC/Doctor seems do not enough propotion in main story and became drown as plain character.
@@MrWeissenHerz I think that's because Arknights's story hasn't even reach midway yet, hell it even have a sequel. That game is a very, very long project
The Doctor is as mysterious as the story itself, hence why there are very little information about him/her. The writer must have planned to reveal The Doctor's and the other such as Kal'tsit and Amiya's backstory along with the progression of the story. You can also find information about characters just from reading their stats, lines, or data
Just to remind you that Arknights is probably one of the most complicated game lorewise with thousands of stories and infinite possibilities. The kazimier trilogy could even be a game itfself.
Sorry for the long comment, i hope it helped
Kal'tsit's MON5TER art is primordial art from a few years before Arknights was conceived, she predates Terra by an entire era lol.
-Well, at least the Old Well's origin is lore accurate lol-
SHE REALLY IS OLD LOL
I was thinking "Are you not gonna talk about the username "Theresa"!? And then it hits me "oh right he didn't read".
Honestly, old or new, the graphic designers of Arknights are on a godly level. Every designs were so detailed, and clean and just so badass wth.
I'm just really glad Recruitment cost a lot less now than before. 19k for single recruitment is no freaken joke.💀
Doctor: fast Big Bob isn't real, It can't hurt me
Fast Big Bob: 01:10
Big bob with tag risk +70% movement speed seems horrifying doe
@@asepfaisal856 Big Bob just got a call from the farm, they said that the perro girl has come back.
I'm surprised you thought the "Storehouse" would be the base.
Sounds pretty straightforward what it actually was.
don't ask me why I completely forgor about the depot... I was so sure the drones would indicate the base 😅
at least everyone else is able to connect the dots.
I missed the days when OG Ch'en was a must have boss killer aside with SA and Eyja. The old days were wildly chill but now we're getting more and more Doktahs which became more lively in a good way! It's crazy how popular Arknights has become to the point that we got an anime, it's like watching a child grow up, they grow up so fast.
The "set sail" was probably because arknights in chinese can be translated to "ark of tmrw" or "tmrw boat"
- Sauce i forgor but its probably Qaiser
It's also somewhat accurate since there are even some images that are related to that specific word.
Rhodes Island is also a massive landship.
@@kudachi999 indeed my friend!!
Yeah the actual name is Tomorrow's Ark and the whole concept of RI is a tad biblical, a futuristic Noah's Ark that houses hundreds upon hundreds of thousands of infected in a world that doesn't accept them.
"Set sail" is a rather hard hitting quote.
5:25 doctor's name is Theresa...that really hit me in the feels
5:30 notice the little Easter egg. The doctor's (or account's for that matter) name here is Theresa.
Something I’m surprised about is at 12:26, the game didn’t have orundum to spend for pulls but rather originite prime
Especially the recruitment part you have to spend TONS of LMD just for a single recruitment.
6:17 The "infrastructure" actually must've been the base, since "command center" would very likely pertain to what we call "Control Center" now in AK. The storehouse probably was the depot, and my theory would be that they set a storage limit back then, which is 200 and is upgradable via account level-up.
Yeah. My initial thought when he said ‘storehouse’ was ‘oh thats your inventory.thank god they removed the storage limit’.
Dude that old version of Shirayuki looks sick.
Conviction is interesting because, AFAIK, back in the beta they where a Legit operator rather than the april fools meme we ended up getting.
Also I remember reading about Kal'tsit at some point in the past. she was in the early prototypes of the game as an op, and was *pretty* similar to what we ended up getting, albeit she was nerfed significantly given her beta form was busted as all hell.
No kidding...can you imagine current-version Mon3ter with *RANGE* _AND_ 3-block? Like a 7* Liskarm?! Literally gamebreaking XD
@@DManSammy I mean Monst3r we have now can block 3 enemies too
@@januszpolak254 I know, I'm saying having a 3-block with huge dmg that has RANGE would be insane! Imagine how much easier Andoain would've been if S3 had RANGE 😵
Actually thats untrue
Monstr had insane range but significantly less stats on his kit and kaltsits skill didnt make him deal true damage
But yes older versions of arknights was wild
finally someone who knows that conviction is not a girl
Wait, Texas isn’t a Guard?
Yesn't my friend.
Ptilopsis was Supporter before
Texas is a state in US my friend🗿
Surprised how no one mentioned Silence's weird name (10:28) being "Olivia Hermer" (while her actual is Olivia Silence, and only Silence is displayed in the game, but Chinese is already 赫默 which is Silence's actual name in game). i'm glad they went for all code names instead of some having their names, some code names
I was about to write
"how did I miss that"
but they real question is more like
how the freak did you notice that 😂
@@Cesith I'm surprised i'm the only one to notice it (or at least write it down), i guess i played arknights way too much lmao. it's probably not a major thing but it's funny to see that they planned for at least some operators to use their names, but what bugs me is that the chinese part remained the same
14:20 I remember that original Kal'tsit, first time I saw her is among pixiv fantasia artworks (it something like Collab among artist's and their design really look good)and her artist is Lowlight Kirilenko, also you should be able to see the original concept design in the pixiv.
Those old chibi designs, Kal'tsit's old design, and development designs in general would make a cool skin line. Maybe call them "Vintage" or "Proto".
5:30 I really like that Rhodes Island is visibly under construction in this early version. It's both amusing and a little heartwarming. We should get that for one of the background options.
Additionally, the account name on that screenshot is Theresa. A very good lore reference.
Ah steparu, good to see the shout-out from you
Steparu really deserve it for doing lots of gameplay for games that yet not been released
old chibis were more sticky Ig, but old rarity looks interesting
For the early UI, i think the left one is actually base upgrade timer because if you remembered, base upgrade cost drones and drones = fast forward system so basically old arknights probably didn't use drone as a MUST HAVE requirement for upgrades.
As for the right one it's probably the storage/depot where it had limited material storage
The old chibis are so fuckin weird, with all of them standing in the same stance, with those twisted legs and fucked up heads. I'm so glad they went for this new style and rig. You can just do so much more with a rig based model like this than those original ones.
i think the shield defender chibi is more cursed
How did they came up with that left leg facing to different sides lol
I like the old map design, it's really simpel and easy to understand. I would love it if they implement it to the global version but you can click on it to see the details of the stage like the feature we have right now
0:49 the UI menu design is like GFL back then
Other things that I found interesting was the design of the Doctor and a few ops were originally drawn for girls frontline.
I'm not too sure if the source of my info is correct tho so forgiv if I got somethings wrong
Indeed your correct my friend, the Doctor was supposed to be the commander and W was supposed to be a T-doll for the AR team but never made used.
@@-thepatriot-9719 No wonder why W's design at first reminded me a lot of characters from GFL and that she'll fit almost perfectly. W will definitely be a great friend with Sop 2, which is my #1 waifu in GFL and W just so happen to be my #1 waifu too lmao
6:48 Red had a black mask covering her face why they remove it, it looks so cool.
she also have similar talent like manticore iirc, she became hidden after not attacking for few second 1:03
the 2:26 comparison frame really tells you that the team wanted to give true Identity to the characters. it wasnt simply a change in model pose but they wanted the operators to be retoned, colored, and completely FEEL apart from one another with their independent identities
Dobermann hitting drones!?
Fun fact: Kal'tsit's module which is only available on CN version right now is called Mon2tr. This is a clever and quite hard to understand reference to her original design from 2015 on Lowlights pixiv account where Mon3tr originally called Mon5tr. To sum it up: Mon2tr + Mon3tr = Mon5tr
Looks like the Alive Until Sunset group were intended to be more prominent as they are in the background of the promotional art at 14:09 (just to the left of the Doctor).
i mean set sail makes sense if you consider the "ark" in arknights. also the cn name just being "ark of tomorrow"
9:12 Seems like the double Kroos was just a glitch where Rangers got replaced.
Or duplicate operators was considered
Imagine a time line where lowlight never quitted GFL and we got W as a character on that series
Damn arknights felt different those days but i think the free chen thing would be a nice implement for current game so players can be more willing to play it
Something fun to note; in that old menu ui thing the account name is under the name "Theresa"
I really like the black exp from 11:11,and the crystals from 11:38 hope they'll reimplement these in future
Yes, back in early arknights there were no vanguards. We can actually see 2 remnants of this in the game to this day. The first is the DP recovery tag. Its a tag which is quite literally synonymous with vanguards, to the extent that every single vanguard in the game has it (except yato). It exists solely because in old arknights, you'd pick guard and DP recovery to get your vanguards.
And the second is actually our darling seige. Specifically her third skill, which is the only vanguard skill in the game which doesn't generate DP, a consequence of her kit being designed when vanguards weren't a thing, so she got to have a full guard skill as well as her 2 vanguard skills. Tis unfortunate, as it makes her S3 pretty bad, but isn't unexpected.
What about Ptilopsis? Is her talent being give everyone SP regen a holdover from when she was a Supporter and not a Medic?
@@daddysempaichan probably. Would certainly make sense, although i have no idea about philopsis in the game at the moment, let along when it was pre release.
I love the lore and the likeable characters in Arknights also the gameplay is easy to learn but hard to master type of tower defense game, the only negative I can say about arknights is that sometimes the story can be a bit "long" in that make make me say "Get to the point!"
Shirayuki looking soooo good tho
Great job with covering this topic
3:18
I'm a meteor user and i like ponytailed girls, so i do hope that HG makes a skin of Ponytailed Meteor. Her old design just looks so cool
The timer on the base makes sense, you can see vestigial signs of a timed base upgrade mechanic. If you upgrade or construct a building, before you tap it even once, go into the zoomed in view by tapping another room, then scroll over to is and you’ll see a “construction in progress” screen over it
I found the lobby art changes really interesting, if you compare that to the new one, in the old one looks like our Landship still under construction. Makes me think that our current Landship is the upgraded version of the old one. In my opinion that's a genius way to show us how the game and story has progressed
I so glad there is no storage limit in Arknights or else I’d have real trouble keeping all my saved materials, also it restricts peoples progression which is not fun.
Of the 2 pulling animations I’m certainly more in love with the bag idea than the “sliced folder?”
Lastly the chibi didn’t really strike me as high quality as now so I’m glad that changed as well.
Overall there was a lot of changes and I enjoyed seeing that for myself.
Yeah, I like the bag one a lot more
one thing u can also tell thats definitely intended by the devs
and thats the home page background
its almost like the landship we use is still in construction almost
or making repair works
about 6:16 bottom left on the right side of the screen thats the base we have now
but it was less refined than the one we have now, the one on the right is just storage, all the mats and stuff
however, am not sure whats the red pop on the base icon is....since its directly translated as "Danger - 2"
we have similar pop up icons but they're for collecting resources and stuff nowadays, so not quite sure whats the danger there is
it might be because the landship was destroyed and being repaired, so danger for those places?
fun fact: there was a gamma test before the official release in cn, and that gamma test wasn't well received, so lowlight nd rua did a live stream to apologize for it 😂
I think "Infrastructure" was meant to be the Base, and Storehouse was meant to be your item list. Knowing what I know about old Arknights, I wouldn't be surprised if there was originally a limit to item storage.
"Set Sail." Is probably referring to the Rhodes Island landship, which in itself is an allegory to the Noah's *Ark* .
one another thing i notice in all those chibi desgin is that, in old one all OPs are standing in front while they looking on side but in new/current one OPs are both seeing and standing on side. since in old their legs are facing front while current one they on side.
i forgot where, but some1 mention (on YT comment or discord) that the reason current AK still have "DP recovery" tag on recruitment eventhough "vanguard" tag practically do the same thing because it is a leftover from the alpha where generating DP was part of the guard class
Shirayuki used to look more like a e-girl than a ninja
4:55
"The pictures im showing right now are not offi-"
Me: Alright time for a new background
Edit: 6:36
I believe for "storehouse" it meant your "warehouse" and for base it meant your base
why they didn't retain projekt red's invisibility...
Gloabl
Loved the video man you are underrated 👍👍
I knew this before but its funny/interesting how vanguards didn't exist/were a subclass of guards, and that's probably why both Vanguard and DP-recovery are recruitment tags.
at 5:52 it looks like the old Sanity icon was the same as Shining's skill 2 instead of the brain we have today
kalsit have mon5tr before beta. which begs the question,
where is mon4tr?
And mon1tr as well since she have mon2tr on her module
@@Hindshell5438 So are those Mon2tr is like coming from Kaltsit oripahty?
One question, was there a Yato skin in Arknights Beta?
I wish we had that original Ifrit chibi she is so cute!
"Set sail." may reference the characters in chinese of Arknights "明日方舟" lit. 明日: tomorrow and 方舟: ark, as in a ship said in the bible that Noah built to save the believers.
It would be very cool if Shirayuki's old design becomes a new skin for her, probably of Epoque skin line. The goth ninja girl style is too cool to be scrapped like that.
I actually love how some of operator looks like they actually prepared to battle.
is that the pantheon login theme at the start of the video? omg it is thank you for reminding me of this thing.
Steparu really our big bro
2:42 peko face
Imagine being able to place multiple Kroos operators, with no deployment limit, with voice acting.
Ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ko ~ da da da da da da ~ yo yo yo yo yo yo!!!!
One is depot another one is base Cescuff
Indeed my friend.
6:35 isn't that the store ad placement? Like the one that now is on the bottom left and shows us skins and furniture
I remembered seeing Kal'tsit being able to place Most3r anywhere on the map without the def reduction, and that it had lifesteal on their skill 3.
What suprised me the most is seeing Conviction
like I didn't even know she existed until recently and even then I thought she was a collab character because her art style is so different compared to the usual,
If you asked me what year was Conviction added before I saw this video I wouldve guessed 2020 - 2022 at best
so the vanguard class just added at the second beta.. so interesting, a very important class created the last
about the ui, the one on the left is the base, and the one on the right is the "storage"
Did not even know AK was a concept for that long. I didnt know about it until 2020 global launch
I kinda like that recruitment animation
I think “Set Sail” is supposed to refer to the RI Landship.
Also, why didn’t we get the old Shirayuki design, she’s so ____! 😭
(She’s still my favorite operator tho…)
Comment Repost Edit: Why _tf_ is RUclips not letting me post my comment with the word for “above warm temperature” in it? RUclips censorship is so stupid.
The four Chinese characters that are paired with Arknights is it’s Chinese title, meaning the Ark of Tommorow, and an Ark is a boat.
@@therealcactoos9457 Yeah, that’s what I was alluding to with the landship. The Ark is in reference to the Noah’s Ark of the Christian bible.
Above warm temperature? Hot?
@@Santisima_Trinidad Yeah. I don’t know why, but every time I tried to comment that with that word in it, a few seconds after my comment was posted, my comment would disappear. But once I removed the word, the comment stayed up. Stupid RUclips censorship things like this are why I always copy my comment before posting…
nah. I prefer the Newer design. Especially because of the weird stance in the original one.
For Estelle's art, E2 more often then not shows an Operator who is older, so the scar likely healed. She's implied to be the chosen one of a cult after all
and after 5 year, the base still in beta
Another interesting thing to talk about would have been beta Kal’tsit.
I’m the footage you showed she was there and it looked like monst3r had a ranged attack too
I hope they return the being able to have more than one copy of a unit but only for croos
the Base being still in beta by itself
Shirayuki is the first playbale character they made.They have talked this in a stream.
im playing since Hellagur Debut and i must say I LOVE ARKNIGHTS!
sadly since i was never good with holding phones and always and the thought of "im gonna make my transfer data tomorrow" everyday...
i already lost multiple really good Accounts that were like over Level 50
just a few months ago after my tablet i lost my Nearlter Acc where i also pulled Ling
and since then didnt played AK
but i will probably gonna start again on my new phone when Specter Alter is out and she is my favorite character in Arknights together with Skadi, Lappland and Mostima!
AND THIS TIME IM GONNA LINK MY ACCOUNT DIRECTLY ON DAY 1
4:57 You can argue this one quite hard tbh. It was made by the man himself Lowlight himself many years prior to arknights creation as it was one of his OCs used in the fantasia pixiv.
It's interesting shirayuki started as a horny bait and later change to drip, really nice knowing hg prioritizes character design that fits their lore over horniness (even if it does seep out a little lol)
Alpha phase is a good find because on that phase is where game studio do major changes before beta and released
The Pantheon theme hit me so hard
1:11. I’m sorry, was that an INVISIBLE PROJEKT RED?!?!?!?
The old chibi reminds me of the GFL ones.
Makes sense
i wonder if there's a way to have access to deepcolor's old chibi model/art... I want to see !!!!!!
The actual Guardknights
Some thoughts:
- The original chibis look more like something I'd expect from a western tower defense
- I love that we essentially saw every cut unit/design make it into the final game eventually; Conviction, Kal'tsit, and the most drastic redesign Astesia just as her sister (I guess May counts too)
- Also the set sail might just be a reference to Rhodes Island as a "ship", even though it's a landship
- And IIRC Kal or was it W wasn't even originally an Arknights character essentially
Love the may pun