MOST FUN I HAD IN A LONG TIME | Arknights Chapter 12 

I've heard that some people really hate this chapter with a passion. They didn't enjoy the DP limit mechanic, or the civilians. I personally found them the most fun to play with in a long time. It's more casual friendly, or easy to pick up/understand mechanically as compared to Chapter 10's painful cannon and slugs mechanics or the horde of enemies with crazy abilities/stats in Chapter 11. Last I remembered really having fun in a story chapter miiight be Chapter 9? So yes, might be going against crowd opinion, but Chapter 12 is a joy

Can I just say that Dorothy is the MVP in this chapter. She detects sussy civillians better than anyone else.

Honestly, the DP limit is a pretty good balancing mechanic imo. It practically forces players to use low stars if they need high block units with cheap DP costs, while also preventing players from just bursting the stage with DP using flagpipe and in turn, being able to use costly 5 or 6 stars really often

Chapter 12 Imo one of the best chapters Easy to understand mechanic with an interesting twist on enemies and civilians As well limiting usage of high powered ops like Penance and Blaze

This chapter has one of my favorite enemy... Trilby Ashers, or Top Hat guys.

"Airport failure" That is one of the funniest descriptions for chapter 12, ngl.

This chapter was so much fun ! The Dp restriction made the team building more interessting. The civilian were a great source of fun, I was like "Evacuate the civilian ! don't let the ennemies pass through !". And usualy reading make me bored, but idk, this chapter really hooked me ! I love the story and I'm hyped for chapter 13 !

Ngl I made good use of Totter and Vigil in this chapter. It was pretty fun in the latter half, I enjoyed the chaos of juggling DP and trying to reveal the sussy NPCs.

04:42 i think this is the funniest part😂

Chapter 12 has some very interesting mechanics. H12-3 and -4 however, were very painful. Hopefully it wont take me longer than it took me to defeat the H10 stages lol

Vigil is OP this chapter, a block 3 unit that cost less than 15 DP

Dorothy was my mvp since her traps scan the civilians

The chapter gave me a refreshing experience and made me use my other non meta ops😂 loved it

Thank Kukki, I had some good laught after a while, love ya

Ch. 12 is such a wild ride. And given a diverse roster, the enemies are not exactly HP sponge except for the floating dishpenser statues dishing out dishplates and the 3-block bullysarkaz.

I love this chapter so much (although not as much as chapter 10, londinium cannon supremacy) and I don't understand all the flack that this chapter gets, I love the imposter + dp limit mechanics

My favorite part of this event is that made me actually think and ot wasn't just an statcheck, I mean, I DID brute force my way for most stages, but used some operators I usually don't use, like Gnosis for his weird attack range

Watching kukkikaze turn into Bruce Lee when things happens is the best part of my day atm xD

The under 20 dp 3 block gang really pulled through for me this chapter, my only sad is Ive been having fun with Fia and Penance lately and theyre just so hard to get to this chap. Still overall Im having fun

that blinking edit when he was reading the boss description killed me looool XD

3:24 Pick a better time horn

I loved this chapter a lot. I completely circumvented the DP limit mechanic because only one unit in my squad was above 20 DP, and since my general strategy is "stack up blockers and healers" i didn't notice civilians until later stages either. The boss was also very cool. After the suffering that is chapter 10 this was very enjoyable and fun.

Honestly the biggest problem I have with this chapter is the sudden flying enemies after so many stages with only melee enemies. It's so frustrating when combined with all the other mechanics, but i managed to pull through and had some fun with this chapter everything else considered.

After seeing Kukki read the description for the boss, i am utterly amazed that I beat this stage on my second or third try without knowing his mechanics at all (granted on standard difficulty). My first try/tries only failed because I had a bad setup and leaked some enemies early on

ambriel is my mvp low cost & big range to scan the civilian

Possibly my favorite Main Story chapter, like, out of all of them. Maybe 5 competes? Not sure. Thought I would hate it at the beginning because I'm used to dealing with block issue with incredible violence which doesn't really work with the spy mechanic, but I got into a flow around 12-7. Also got a lot of use out of Heidi and comboing her with Humus which makes me very happy as well.

"I didn't think" - kukkikaze

Recommended operators for the flying enemies: April (Stealth S2 is great) Pozymka (her typewriter shreds them and her S3 does loads of damage) Gravel (emergency aggro magnet) Laurentina (because her Dollkeeper powers let her tank some hits) Mlynar (Uncle draws aggro and his S3 shreds them, just give him medic backup) Shirayuki, W, Jieyuan, Meteorite, Fiametta (arty snipers can pick off the adds from a distance and attack from out of reach.)

really good video 🎉

2:33 Completely forgot about that but yea, I don't think the Skill 2 attack is effect by bind or stun

I really enjoyed the chapter, it was perfect for my Abyssal Hunter core squad. Great for Ines too.

Im okay with this chapter too, the mechanics are manageable depending your roster cost. Going less than 20 dp cost opens a restricted early roster which even 3-4* are good, like Cuora with mod x)

I loved your summary of gaming experience on episode 12. ^^ I had fun, though the DP limits on several stages in the beginning ...meh. When the blocks were introduced, it was much better then. I fear for when the drone and spy and "the let the spy walk by" in annihilation and combined with other mechanics! o.o

This ch 12 mechanic is really fun, although I could not use my expensive dp operators and/or the strongest dp generator duo but still an enjoyable experience.

I just spent 2.5days grinding out 12-19 Adverse with my niche. It was fun but holy crap my brain, lol

I was fine with the scanning and DP-locked mechanics, it was interesting way to force players to try different styles of play, what I didn't like was when they introduced enemies that steal your DP on the already DP-scarce stages, that sucks complete dick to deal with. Also FUCK H12-4! I'VE TRIED FOR 5 TOTAL HOURS TO DO THIS FUCKING STAGE BUT I DON'T HAVE A FULLY BUILT SARIA AND NONE OF THE PEOPLE ON MY FRIENDS LIST HAS HER FULLY BUILT AND EVERY SINGLE GUIDE USES A FULLY BUILT SARIA AND I CAN'T FIND A SINGLE THING THAT CAN REPLACE HER OR EXTRA THINGS TO SUPPORT HER AND KEEP EVERYONE ALIVE WHEN WHEN THE BOSS DECIDES TO HIT THE "FUCK YOU" BUTTON!

(I'm not finished with the chapter yet my opinion might change) I don't like the DP limit because I love using big powerful 32 dp cost units like Passenger and by the time I can deploy them on these stages the fights are practically over. OTHERWISE, they're pretty fun! Cool chapter, featuring a return of one of my fave characters, Nonbinary Slime

I started realize yato s2 and s3 animation bypass all cc when im against the knight boss in IS3 and got the freeze rejection on yato, attack the boss and she started froze after both skill animations ends

I always feel a sudden pain when I see sanity at the cap

My friend: Hey, new chapter just came out! Me: Hmm I might try out some nicheknight playstyle this time. My friend: Which niche? Me: Blemishine isn't in shop yet... maybe I'll try one-op relay first. My friend: You what? Me: I don't see any problem here. * Does the tutorial * Me: Oh right I forgot that was this chapter's mechanic. I ended up doing like the first three or four stages anyways lol by exploiting robots. SilverAsh also saved me. The 3-block guys ended it though. Literally no way to defend two lanes at once when both requires scanning of more than 1 enemy spy.

H12-1 to H12-2 /H12-3 is so hard to beat because the civilian and boss clone big giant that one hit the operator when you place in same tale

This chapter gave me a big headache at the start. But towards the later stages, I got used to it. But I’m still locked at 12-19

I now know what a Chinese man running an airport sounds like. I’d fly Kukki Air.

it will be even more funny, if we place Vifer's squad for 12-14

Nc video for future planning you see I'm still newbie can you give me a help is cement good I can't find a proper video explaining it I got her just now I'm planning to use her as a beginner is she good? And any tips what 4 star is the best medic ,tank that's all

10:56 of course because there's a red bar. Every you saw a red bar from the enemy that's the boss

12 - 13 one of the hardest stage especially adverse operation but still did it without guides

Chapter 12 was fun tbh

Ch12 was actually fun (besides 12-20 adverse)

This chapter made me actually like playing arknights cuz it made me think haha

I made good use of Heidi second skill and low cost in this chapter

HAHAHA I LOVE THIS😂😂

This chapter made people think about characters other than chalter. I really liked the chapter personally, but I can see how others may not have

My big problem is that you're locked out of so many options with this mechanic it's kind of frustrating. Plus you're forced to use so much block count in this event, it's easy to get distracted and oopsy a civilian passed through The damazti fight also drawn on for so freaking long lol, we fight her in 4 stages including 3 hell stages and she has a morbillion phases, like dude i want to hit you with my sword stop going invulnerable and spawning more people for me to block 😂

12:45 can someone tell what is the bgm? Nvm, i've found it, its called field of hopes and dreams

this chapter was great fun IMO first one i could clear without resorting to guides since chapter 6? until the boss anyway >.

I hate that UFO

Loved chapter 12, but it did suck that the more expensive 30+ DP operators were just shafted entirely. The normal stages were a lot easier compared to previous chapters, but the extra ones with the buffed boss were probably some of the most challenging in the whole game.

Chapter 12 mechanic is fun but the multiple blue box gives me skill issue

Watching people not using defenders and struggle in this chapter makes me laugh.

so I do think that the civilians not being effected my slows is stupid I get why due to wording it is just annoying at times. However this is the best themed event in a while. the whole theme is that you are behind enemy lines and you are low on resources the civilians make it so you don't know who to trust and the low DP mechanic along with the DP steal from the archers make it really cohesive I actually felt like I was playing in the situation that the characters were in by how the mechanics felt. basically most enemies interact with the mechanics as well you have the spys that make it so you do have to check every civilian the boss is a civilian as well one of the mobs making it so you can't block civilians making him an auto threat in a unique way. the drones are super weird and IG the only blockable by 3 block is also super weird but they are also just stat sticks you have to deal with and you do need some mobs to just be guys with big HP pools and do damage. this was the first time since twilight of wolumonde that I think that all of the mobs had a "goal" and they were interacting with the map in that event it was the towers. maybe sultifarinavis with the creep also is a thing. makes me want to make a vid on why exactly the mob design was so great in some events while others aren't so great.

I thought this chapter was pretty fun, but I also haven't tried H12-4 so that might change.

the chapter gimmick is interesting but god damn if it werent for those 3block mfs who screw up the civilian checking so badly

Wasn't a fan of the DP limit mechanic. Not being able to deploy the CONK KREET BAYBEE half the time was not fun.

The only enemy I don't like in this is that sniper eating DP

imo, Firewatch save me alot of trouble in chapter 12

Pog

Wait until you play Nightmare stages. Now the fun mechanic turn into annoying, you made a good call pulling out of low rarity guide

I enjoyed the DP limit. It discourages rarity abuse. On the other hand, I really hate the "block this unit for X years to reveal intention" mechanic. Should have revealed on contact

as someone who used to live and work in singapore, this meltdown + some mandarin profanities will bring me back to the good old days 😂😂😂

What i honestly dont like about this chapter is the boss She basically has 4 phases and can wipe out your squad

My only problem with this chapter is the freaking rock spawners omg they are so annoying

Did you win? Yes. But what did it cost? I was dropped from my subject.

In ch 12 everything is fun and pretty well balance, until you touch H12-4 😂 (this stage drive me crazy)

The boss for this chapter is unacceptable. How many invulnerable phases do we need to sit thru before his jank RNG wipes squad mates? Dragging it out longer than annihilation with his s. You got your block 3 demolishers fine you got your crownslayer in a top hat. Fine. You got the -9 dp ammo dudes. Who are a bad idea. I would have to ask what they were Trying to do with this because they failed. You got the lets be annoying cant block civs dont make no sense but ok from gameplay. Its manageable. Then you got these 42000 hp carrier drones. Which probably would be fine if the -9 dp abominations didnt exist. And then we got the boss. Who has about 5 more invulnerable periods than is acceptable.

Defo the worst thing Ive played in this game in a while but glad others enjoyed it lol.

All I have level are H12-3 and H12-4 in this chapter…. H12-3 I’m confident with a little rng luck at the end I got it but H12-4…. What the fuck?

smh, u should've start your first clear run with Hell mode. 😂

As a CN player Chap 12 and 13 is a breath of fresh air i loved the mechanics so much and the difficulty spike on the H stages and such and i handicapped myself by not using a single translator on the game which forces me to restart and restart the stage to understand the mechanics overall Chap 12 = Chap 10 = Chap 13

i have no problem with dp limitation but i dislike every stages in chapter 12 that have those shit spitting floating tower. to me those stages are harder than boss stage.

Boss is quite annoying for me, else it's manageable