50 articlesIf you’re eager to try out Arknights: Endfield, you’re most likely wondering how friendly it is to free-to-play (F2P) players.
Gachas are inherently predatory, no doubt about it. Nonetheless, some of them do a solid job of allowing F2P players to get what they want and enjoy the game for free.
Is Endfield set to be one of these friendly gachas? Or is it going to roadblock you for money? Let’s find out!
How the Limited Character Gacha Works
Before I go over how friendly or unfriendly the game’s gacha is, I first need to give you a quick rundown of how the limited character gacha in Endfield works.
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Additionally, you have a 100% chance guarantee to get the limited character at 120 pulls. You can then get a duplicate at 240 pulls.
However, your pulls for the guarantee do not carry over to the next banner. The 50/50 hard pity at 80 does, but the guarantee at 120 does not.
As an example, let’s say you pull 60 times for Laevatain and stop. You would need 20 more pulls for the 50/50, but still 60 more for the guarantee shot at getting Laevatain.
Once Laevatain’s banner is replaced by Gilberta’s, you will still only need 20 more pulls to reach the 50/50 hard pity at 80 pulls. However, you’ll be back to 0 for the guarantee, requiring 120 more pulls to get Gilberta.
What this essentially means is that you should avoid pulling for limited characters at all unless you have 120 pulls to reach the guarantee. It’s as simple as that, if you want to avoid headaches!
Based on what’s been shown and tested by the community, F2P players should be able to get around 240 limited pulls during 1.0. You’re guaranteed to pull at least 2 limited characters, as long as you save until 120 pulls both times.
Pulling for characters will also feed into the secondary gacha system: the weapon gacha.
How the Weapon Gacha Works
As you pull for characters, you’ll get Arsenal Tickets. You get these on both standard and limited character banners. So, you don’t need to focus exclusively on limited character banners to get weapons!
How many Arsenal Tickets you get depends on the rarity of the characters you get, as follows:
- 6-Star Operator – 2000 Arsenal Tickets
- 5-Star Operator – 200 Arsenal Tickets
- 4-Star Operator – 20 Arsenal Tickets
You’ll need a total of 1980 Arsenal Tickets to do a 10-roll pull in the weapon gacha. There are no single-roll pulls here, only 10s!
Mind you, the character gacha is not the only way to get Arsenal Tickets. For example, you can also get them from the Credit Store, Weekly Routine, and the Protocol Customized battle pass tier.
In this gacha, you’re guaranteed to get a 6-Star weapon on the 40th pull. However, there is only a 25% chance that you get the banner’s featured weapon on this roll.
However, you are also guaranteed to get the banner’s featured weapon on your 80th pull. This means that pity is a lot lower than when rolling for characters, thankfully.
Sadly, though, pity does not carry at all from one weapon banner to the next. The pull count resets to 0 every time the banner changes.
So, much like with the character banner, your best bet here is to not pull at all until you can guarantee what you want. Save up until you have enough for 80 pulls (15840 Arsenal Tickets), don’t pull unnecessarily before then!
In Summary
Based on what I’ve seen and how the gacha for this game works, Arknights: Endfield is free-to-play friendly if you can be patient.
Only ever pull for limited characters when you can hit the 120-pull guarantee, and only pull for weapons when you can hit the 80-pull guarantee. With those rules in mind, you should be able get the characters you want as an F2P.
Based on the community’s predictions and what we know about how many pulls we’re getting. F2P players should expect to get 2 limited characters during 1.0.
That is, assuming you do not get limited characters before the 120-pull guarantee. Plus, this also means that you are unlikely to get dupes for characters you want.
However, remember that this is all an educated guess on my part and the part of the community. We won’t know for sure until the game is out! It could be worse than it appears at first.
Plus, team-building seems pretty lax in Endfield. A lot of characters can work pretty well in any team. This includes some of the best Operators at launch, such as Ardelia.
This is good for F2P players as it means you don’t need to go all in pulling for multiple characters to make them work. A lot of them can stand up on their own, allowing some freedom with team compositions.
That said, it’s still early. We have to wait and see how endgame and later updates play out. For more casual players who just want to play through the story with characters they like, though, it should be perfectly fine.
So, ultimately, it looks to me like Arknights: Endfield will be decently friendly for free-to-play players. You just have to be patient and not pull pointlessly in the gacha.
That said, remember this is still very early, as the game is just coming out. Things are subject to change as we all get deeper into the game and updates release. Let’s hope things stay as good as they appear!
