r/Endfield

I’m a CN player, and I’ve been thinking about the difference between the discussion environment in CN communities and on Reddit.

This is not about one specific character or one specific story. I’m more interested in the overall community atmosphere.

From what I have observed, CN communities often allow very subjective and emotional responses to become mainstream. Players may focus on whether a character moved them, whether they could emotionally connect with the story, whether they felt sympathy, pain, affection, or identification with a character. These responses can be very personal, but they are often treated as valid and important parts of discussing a game.

On Reddit, however, I feel that this kind of emotional or highly subjective reading is less likely to become the dominant voice. Instead, posts that are more critical, analytical, or focused on narrative structure seem to attract more discussion: whether the writing is balanced, whether a character is too convenient for the plot, whether the story structure works, whether flaws have consequences, and so on.

I don’t think either environment is necessarily better. I also don’t think Reddit is purely objective or CN communities are purely emotional. Structural criticism is still shaped by personal preference, and emotional interpretation can still contain real analysis.

But the difference in what each community seems to reward is very noticeable to me.

In CN communities, emotional connection itself is often treated as a legitimate way to judge whether a story works. On Reddit, it feels like arguments are more easily accepted when they are framed as external criticism of writing structure rather than personal emotional experience.

I’m curious why this difference exists. Is it because of platform mechanics, language, culture, fandom habits, moderation, or the types of players who choose to participate in each space?

I also wanted to ask how Reddit users view Reddit’s own discussion environment. Do you think Reddit tends to reward critical or structural takes more than emotional ones? And for people who read other communities, such as CN, JP, KR, or others, have you noticed similar differences?

Also, please forgive me if anything sounds awkward. My English is limited, and I often rely on translation tools to read and write. Because of that, my impression of Reddit may be incomplete or even mistaken.

I also want to clarify that I’m not trying to speak for all CN players, nor do I think CN communities are all the same. This is only based on my personal observation as one CN player. I would be glad to hear corrections, disagreements, or different perspectives.

Just that, I would like to stuggle with puzzles too, not only combat

I hope future "chapters" get harder and harder, I understand these are the first 2

Salutations, everyone! I've been playing Arknights: Endfield for a while now, basically purely from the factory, and i've seen that Endfield has divided people with the nature of rebuilding the factory per update. It seems as if the developers have also noticed that given the newest survey, so as someone who severely enjoys the factory, including the rebuilding part as it gives me something to do for multiple days per update, the newest survey answers do concern me as they seem to hint at a possible reduction of the friction in factory gameplay.

Endfield is the first true large live service game with a factory built in it, which also means that in the case of less stubborn devs, it may end up getting sidelined, this is my main concern as the complaints that "Endfield has no content" will likely only grow bigger as factory players end up solving the factory significantly faster than they used to. Do note as well that a lot of people have mentioned that they believe the Valley-IV factory to be lacking an incredible amount of depth, yet now that Wuling has that depth, people are now complaining, even though these same people are also able to understand that there's not a single reason to have a mega optimized factory, added on to the fact that if they really wanted to, they could just use blueprints.

Rebuilding for me as someone who's actively looking to improve has become part of the fun specifically because it introduces some form of friction and "antagonism", if you will, in the factory, which is something i find fun getting around since at their core, factory games are about solving problems, by playing a factory game, you're actively looking for issues to solve.

In the end, I know the rebuilding discussion is a divisive one, however, I will repeat, there's a reason why the developers added blueprints, specifically to make it so people don't need to experience that friction if they don't want to. Why spoil the enjoyment for people who like factory games that have depth when you have the solution drawn out for you already?

And yes, as a lot of you have noticed, this is a personally motivated post. There's been an increasingly worrying trend of people asking for the factory to continuously be dumbed down when, again, people can simply blueprint it all and leave people who enjoy the depth of the factory to learn the ropes by themselves, and i'd like it if we could maintain a healthy relationship between factory veterans, factory beginners and people who just want to skip it all, so that beginners can learn, veterans can have the depth they want, and people who want to skip can simply blueprint and not infringe on either.

Yeah I gave the first half of the 1.2 story a 4 from 5, but I would like to say what I disliked about it too, instead of only being allowed to praise it. And I gave the second half 2 from 5, but please let me also mark the good parts of it instead of only the bad.