Arknights CN: Integrated Strategies Explained!

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6 min readMar 6, 2021

Article by Daniel O’Brien Peacecow Lauli NorseFTX

The End

There are three possible endings with one being normal and the other two being secret endings:

Normal Ending:

Walmart Faust
Ending 2:

“Frigid Calamity” (Walmart FrostNova) ending requires you to beat the game on normal or hard first, and achieve the first ending. Then in random encounters you need to meet 3 related events all in one run, and then survive until the end for the FrostNova ending level:
Non-Existent Fairy Tale I — Choose: “He deserves a proper burial — Lose 5 Originium Ingots.”
Non-Existent Fairy Tale II — Chose: “No point giving up now — Lose 1 Objective HP” then choose “Risk and reward go hand-in-hand — Lose 1 Objective HP” then choose “It’s not time to give up yet! — Lose 1 Objective HP.” to get Psychedelic Treasure Map
Non-Existent Fairy Tale III — choose “Search around everywhere — Gain a collectible.” to get Bloodstained Flyer
Ending 3:

Tombstone” (Walmart Skullshatterer) ending requires the completion of the Walmart FrostNova ending on at least normal or hard, then
Get the After the Deathmatch event and choose “ They don’t have any use for this box anymore — Gain a collectible.” to get the Heavy Metal Chest.
Defeat Area 3 Boss and choose the Pitch-Black Key.
Get the Looming Disaster event and choose “Carefully stash this item — Gain a collectible.” to get the “Hand Gun”.
After clearing Area 5 there will be an Area 6 with a shop, safe house, normal combat stage, then Tombstone boss stage. After that is the hidden ending.

For a video guide, you can check out Peacecow’s video for Ending 2.

Completion Stats

After each complete run, summary pages will be shown.

Page 1:

Doctor name, date, time, and which ending you got
A list of Relics gained
The final team roster

Page 2:

4 Areas cleared
23 moves taken
10 maps cleared
0 emergency maps
1 boss (lvl 3 one in this case)
8 Relics
14 recruited Operators
1.00 difficulty multiplier
58 shrooms, which are currency used for unlocking and upgrading team buffs that apply to all runs.
585 Honey Biscuits, which gain rewards from the event milestone reward system. Here is a summary of the Milestone rewards, and full milestone details can be found here:

Ceobe’s Fungimist — Integrated Strategies — Tasty Honey Cake Rewards

Page 3 shows which Relics were unlocked to allow them to appear in future runs. 10 Mushrooms and Honey Biscuits are awarded for each relic unlocked:

For Next Time!

After each run, the player can buy buffs with shrooms to improve your chances on future runs!

Level 1 — Cost: 10 Shrooms. Effect: Starting Originium Ingots +1
Level 2 — Cost: 25 Shrooms. Effect: Starting Originium Ingots +2
Level 3 — Cost: 40 Shrooms. Effect: Starting Originium Ingots +3
Level 4 — Cost: 80 Shrooms. Effect: Starting Originium Ingots +4
Level 5 — Cost: 150 Shrooms. Effect: Starting Originium Ingots +5

Level 1 — Cost: 40 Shrooms. Effect: Starting Life Points +1
Level 2 — Cost: 120 Shrooms. Effect: Starting Life Points +2

Level 1 — Cost: 10 Shrooms. Effect: ATK of all Operators +1%
Level 2 — Cost: 25 Shrooms. Effect: ATK of all Operators +2%
Level 3 — Cost: 40 Shrooms. Effect: ATK of all Operators +3%
Level 4 — Cost: 80 Shrooms. Effect: ATK of all Operators +4%
Level 5 — Cost: 150 Shrooms. Effect: ATK of all Operators +5%

Level 1 — Cost: 10 Shrooms. Effect: DEF of all Operators +1%
Level 2 — Cost: 25 Shrooms. Effect: DEF of all Operators +2%
Level 3 — Cost: 40 Shrooms. Effect: DEF of all Operators +3%
Level 4 — Cost: 80 Shrooms. Effect: DEF of all Operators +4%
Level 5 — Cost: 150 Shrooms. Effect: DEF of all Operators +5%

Level 1 — Cost: 10 Shrooms. Effect: Max HP of all Operators +1%
Level 2 — Cost: 25 Shrooms. Effect: Max HP of all Operators +2%
Level 3 — Cost: 40 Shrooms. Effect: Max HP of all Operators +3%
Level 4 — Cost: 80 Shrooms. Effect: Max HP of all Operators +4%
Level 5 — Cost: 150 Shrooms. Effect: Max HP of all Operators +5%

Bosses and Special Enemies

Bosses and Special enemies will occasionally appear inappropriate node types or as choices in some Nodes. Some of these can subtract multiple life-points if not stopped, and offer a Relic as a reward if they are killed.