you get one copy of lancet-2 for completing TR-10 and one copy of texas for completing all the pinboard missions so I consider them free in that they're available to all players regardless of headhunting or recruitment luck. lancet's potentials only increase the instant heal on deployment so that doesn't affect this strategy, and to compensate for my texas being max pot I deployed everyone 2 DP later
more detailed strategy discussion:
the biggest issue for this map is that the free operator roster doesn't have a lot of aoe burst damage so it's easy to get overwhelmed. the chain casters aren't that bad to deal with on their own but the swordguys deal so much fucking damage with not a lot of options to get rid of them fast when they're always surrounded by a bunch of trash. if you have like eyja or chalter or silverash or something this all gets a lot easier because you can just kill those clowns
highmore is crucial for the consistent aoe damage and also has the bonus of not needing a healer on her which lets me place honeyberry like that. as a bard heidi is able to heal highmore and since it's a shatterpoint map heidi also has a cracked as hell skill aura that lets me pull off the switcharoo at the bottom around the 4 minute mark and massively boosts minimalist's damage output
shalem doesn't have the raw hp to take the cannon but his s1 increases his max hp so he still survives. of the free defenders bison and heavyrain do have the raw hp but I don't have them raised so I went with shalem, also because he's got pretty good multitarget damage. czerny is like shalem in that he can't take the cannon raw but can with his s2
gladiia is used to bait the caster that appears bottom left after the first cannon hit so everyone else doesn't get their shit rocked and to help highmore clear the bigger reborn creations. shifting an enemy prevents them from attacking so highmore has enough time to restore some hp between their attacks
the swordguys deal massive damage per hit but their attack interval is a whole 5 seconds so they're extremely susceptible to bibeak slapping their attack animation out of their hands. she can take one hit from them too so she has a decent amount of leeway to recharge her skills and if kjera rolls freeze too it's joever for them. if you want this to be autodeploy stable you might want to replace kjera with absinthe or something though because the freeze will affect how you need to time bibeak's stuns on top of minimalist's damage varying a lot with his crit rolls
texas isn't like super crucial because she's just there to print dp but I tried with courier and i just haven't invested in him enough to make him print fast enough + the extra stun is nice to help bibeak at the end. just myrtle it if you're not playing under self imposed restrictions lol
This is an interesting poll from NGA, an Arknights CN community. As it's data from a poll, keep in mind that this may not represent trends from the full playerbase.
Additionally, some operators are still new or don't have their modules yet, which affects data like ownership stats and module popularity.
Some cool takeaways:
Saria is understandably Queen of Masteries, being the best M9 candidate in the game with a lot of value from investing in all of her skills. Second place is Horn with her incredibly powerful burst damage on all three, and 3rd is NTRK with her versatile (and in my opinion kinda unfair) skills.
Dorothy and Stainless are scraping the bottom of the barrel when it comes to popularity. The poll respondents just didn't roll for these folks with them so close to expected limited banners, I suppose.
Silverash on the other hand, has the highest ownership at 96% of poll respondents, even higher than other Day 1 operators like Eyjafjalla or Exusiai. Everybody rolled for the king of schwing
Highest E2 rate is Skadi the Corrupting Heart at 99.9% of all players who owned her E2ing her, followed closely behind by Texas the Omertosa at 99.8%
The most modded character is, surprise surprise, Specter the Unchained, whose mods are among the most powerful in the game and is probably the only operator so far where you want to Mod3 both X (for solo Specter) and Y (for Abyssal Hunter squads).
While Gladiia and Lumen were very successful 6 star Freebies who have high E2 rates (which suggests regular usage), Vigil is looks to be mostly ignored, having the lowest E2 rate among all 6 stars at 44% (the only one at less than 50%!) HG are going to need a real strong module for Tacticians if they want to save him.
2(to the power of)2(to the power of)k ≡n(mod3)22k≡n(mod3)
This equation represents the congruence relationship modulo 3 for the iterated exponentiation of 2.
In the Patenaude Conjecture, nn represents any positive integer for which we are trying to find a corresponding value of kk that satisfies the congruence relationship modulo 3. So nn can take on any positive integer value.
now mathematicians, try to solve THIS. It should be harder to solve than 3x+1 to solve >:)