What is SSS and why are players dreading it | Arknights Stationary Security Service 

Take the time you need kukki, thanks for everything and I hope things look up for you soon ^^

Kukki, as a new player that start arknight about a month ago i thank you for all of your guide including the beginner one and stages guide. it really help me a lot, and also your explanation is top notch for me personally. So keep up the good work, and take your time to rest. We all looking forward for your return. Cheers❤

Hope you get better soon Arknights Uncle!

Sure! We are always here for you, take your time!

Take all the time you need, we will be here when you come back. Love your content!

Something like Yii's contingency contract guides?

@@derp4581 Yeah but Yii CC guides only tell you what are the threats and ops that are really useful, but not how to deal with them.

Threats: pretty much everything near the end Solution: DEF/RES ignore, true damage

I think the easiest way to clear these stages is to find the best operators on your account that you can roid up, and try to get at least one of them going in your runs. Operators like Gnosis, Goldenglow, and Irene are some examples of operators that scale really hard with buffs. The first two with aspd buffs, and Irene with sp generation/dmg. There are other operators who work great too, I just can't remember them off the top of my head.

@@Razor4884 Exusiai with atk buffs Shamare is broken with no buffs if she doesn't die SP gen Mudrock There are a lot

kek same, it reminds me of Azur Lane's Operation Siren, havent really done it outside of the daily req

Extra dragon is only on Lv2, Lv3 gives you extra stat for the dragons

And as someone who like using Magallan too... to bad her 2nd module will only appear after Dorothy upadate

Lings also pretty dang good in IS

@@St33ldancer I have only finished IS once, and it was using Ling with first module. I also had Horn and Surtr in the squad when I reached the end, but it wouldn’t have been possible without Ling s3 dragons. Even s2 dragons are great when I had the binding-damage modifiers.

But NA isn't getting that, so right now it is not important

there is an NA region 😛?

@@ebn1412 yeah it stands for "Nearly Arknights" Because it's almost arknights, but a bit behind on the times

just endure 6 more months should be no problem, c'mon we went through weekly anni grind and no claim all for years, it won't be as hard right??

@@ebn1412 I mean yeah kinda. There's no real "global" version; there's a Japanese, a Korean and a Taiwanese version, and then there's an English version with the official timezone of UTC-0700, which is NA.

The problem with IS is that there was few incentive to do after you collect your monthly reward (Unless you are one of those people that want to collect all of the medal). Give me more incentive to play the stage. Like more progression buff, not only the first 5 lvl of upgrade, more mode, more wacky collectibles not just stat altering. Or like the first time you reach the final stage of the day and you would receive a small price like a couple LMD, XP Pot,or upgrade material, it doesn't have to be significant just gives player incentive to interact with the mode daily.

The big difference between IS2 and SSS is the chore part of it. With IS2, it doesn't matter when and how you play it. The rewards are not going anywhere. The only thing you miss out that are never going to come back are the monthly squad rewards. Which aren't significant. With SSS the problem is that you are essentially forced to play it every 2 weeks. Unlike IS2 which just adds more rewards to the reward pool every month.

@@Zwiebel4 thats why IS2 is so good for newer and returning player. Especially someone that stopped playing if I remember the day when eyja's first banner were coming out, so its like years ago and started to playing again 3 months ago. The amount of stuff you get from IS2 is staggering for new player. You can easily E2 at least 2 *6 with the resource only from IS2. They really to do something more with IS, cause a lot of new player probably had a sweet spot for this mode.

@@GranMaj No gives nothing for those shit modes. I fucking hate IS and ignore it and now they put in this overtuned SSS garbage and lock modules behind it. It's fucking dumb. Just let me farm events in peace or make modes that are fun.

@@DieKao For me IS is fun though. You can do stupid shit you will never do in normal mode, it doesn't lock any progress behind it, it gives a crap ton of free resource for new and returning player with 0 sanity cost. They just need to update it more, since it become stale quickly with no new reward or content. And people that hate it can just ignore it. I am just saying that there is an audience for this mode.

Bro her level 1 module give her -8 DP cost which makes it easier to use her

@@Weee_ee oh shit really? That makes it a flat 23 dp. I might start to farm for her resource, but later. Since there is a certain pink marksman coming at gavial banner thats more priority.

Iirc mostima full pot + module 3 slows enemy by 90% inside her skill 3. Combine that with knockback and its like rooting the enemy instead of slow

@@GranMaj hey, does anyone know if IS2 will be completely replaced by IS3? Will I still be able to get the battle pass rewards of IS2?

@@vukvidanovic8276 is2 is permanent and is3 will be an temporary event if I'm not wrong...

I dont know i found It fun and a bit less random than is,also its hard but not so hard if you use your op power spikes properly,i did 8/8 in a couple of hours,maybe my usual positional playstile fits well with the mode. Also be careful with auto retreat abilities cause retreat takes away all the buffs.

Here's the thing. I actually go insane when trying to clear stage 4 and 7 (Still stuck on stage 7 btw). CC on the other hand is pretty simple because you don't have to use the same squad every time you play it also the enemy didn't get buff for every what? 5 seconds? The longer you stay on one level the stronger your enemy becomes. Now that is a pain in the arse...

CC is demanding for skill and strategy. SSS is just straight garbage rng. Not the same kind of pain tbh

I would have imagined CC is fine given you can just infinitely retry.

@@narius_jaden215 Yeah, i do aware of that, but my brain just doesn't understand the map well enough, so I do prefer this kind of game mode and IS.

Yeah, unlocked her lvl 2 module and i can already see the difference

If you want, you can just get the rewards from event shops, too. Every 2-3 events will give you enough rewards to max out a module.

Although it is a mode for developed accounts, that's only when they’re trying to do all 8 stages. Literally everyone should be able to re-run the first few stages until they reach the limit before the reset.

Hes surprisingly good in SSS too! Setting aside deck bloat and boss-waves, he's good at "reviving" a melee unit while holding the line long enough so they can redeploy! And, for better or for worse, you don't need his module upgrades for his full potential.

That’s called making the game free to play and not allowing the company to earn. Feed some money if you’re that concerned about not having enough pulls.

@@kukkikaze I have been playing for two years and been on the monthly card since the beginning. I also made some occasional purchases here and there so I am not asking for a free game. I think that's taking my point way out of context even though I mentioned my reasoning. To clarify further, the reason me and many people started playing arknights is the fairness of the marketing model. You could play free to play and still progress at a reasonable speed. Now tho, with all the new upgrades that you need to work on then having more limited operators added per year, I really believe the game needs a revamp regarding the limited currency. It's similar how they increased the amount given by stamina packs since we will have to play more to be able to keep upgrading the new modules. I am not asking for the game to be free but as the game is aging, the old limit of 1800 Orundum per week is severely short. I remember I could casually save 100K Orundum easily between limited operators while now I can barely reach 60k and that's by ignoring all the banners in-between. Also I am not asking for 5000 per week. A 20-30% increase would ease things up quite a bit. We are getting double the amount of limited operators per year now so I don't think 20-30% extra is too much to ask for. I really believe the game will remain healthier and more welcoming to new players that way.

@@anirev9745 that's before they increase to 4 limited banners

not true at all, it can easily be beaten with runs of nothing but 1-3 stars to cycle 1-2 strong 6 stars

If you have enough money it almost everything can be bought just for money. Only other thing that costs time is mastery upgrades.

@@tomvanvenrooij1811 you still need mats to upgrade to e1 and e2 and you cant buy those

@@guntandy you can refres sanity with op which you can buy. But let's be clear the chip's and the chip glue are by far not the most of your time spent farming an E2-90 M9 six star operator no?

​@@tomvanvenrooij1811 my point still stands, you cant buy the materials and it doesn't change the fact it still takes time even if you buy sanity - you only buy sanity to reduce the time waiting for sanity regen lets take an example that you do need 14 orirock concentration to e2-90 m9 one eyjafjalla and tell me does it take less time to wait for her m9 or collecting the materials if you are doing it from 0 orirock

I think you do need more than one round of playtime, iirc whether bi-weekly or monthly you have to afford two hours into this mode

From what I have read and heard at the start you need about 2 lvl 5 or 6 (not sure which) clears every two weeks for the biweekly rewards.

@@tomvanvenrooij1811 ehhh i guess is not as bad as i thought it will be, but why did they just made an even worse annihilation after we got the skip tickets like wtf