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Arknights CN 2026 Lunar New Year Special Stream Summary: New Operators, Events, and Campaign Info
A summary of the content announced in the Arknights mainland Chinese version's 2026 New Year's special broadcast. We'll cover the performance of new Operators (Yi, Taraxacum, Red Katana Dawn Glow Chen, Wan), details of the Spring Festival event "Farewell to the Year," various campaigns, previews of future events, and information about the PC version's open beta.
1. 🏮 Spring Festival Event "Farewell to the Year": Concluding the 100-Year Battle with Sui
- ✅ The Spring Festival event "Farewell to the Year," held in the mainland Chinese version for three weeks starting February 10th, is a story that concludes the 100-year battle with Sui.
- ✅ It's the culmination of the Spring Festival events that have continued since "Blazing Path" in January 2020.
00:01 - 00:38
1. 🏮 Spring Festival Event "Farewell to the Year": Concluding the 100-Year Battle with Sui
- ✅ The Spring Festival event "Farewell to the Year," held in the mainland Chinese version for three weeks starting February 10th, is a story that concludes the 100-year battle with Sui.
- ✅ It's the culmination of the Spring Festival events that have continued since "Blazing Path" in January 2020.
00:39 - 01:26
2. 📜 Event Gimmick: Strategy with Seals and "Calligraphy Blade"
- ✅ The event gimmick is themed around seals. Effects are activated according to the characters written on the squares on the stage.
- ✅ "异(Different)": Enemies appear. "財(Wealth)": Summons reaching the goal grant cost. "山(Mountain)": High ground tiles are generated (can be obstructive).
- ✅ By paying cost and using the "Calligraphy Blade," you can erase characters and remove high ground tiles.
- ✅ The scraped-off characters can also be placed elsewhere.
01:32 - 02:05
3. ⭐ New Operators: 5-Star Sniper "Yi" and 5-Star Medic "Taraxacum"
- ✅ 5-Star Sniper "Yi" (Siegebreaker): Performance is unreleased as of the video creation.
- ✅ 5-Star Medic "Taraxacum" (Guardian): A new archetype. Specializes in supporting airborne allies by taking off. Skill 2 additionally heals operators that are airborne.
- ⚠️ Performance other than Skill 2 is unknown.
02:10 - 03:04
4. ⚔️ New Operator: 6-Star Vanguard "Red Katana Dawn Glow Chen"
- ✅ Regular operator.
- ✅ Talent 1: Increases ATK and ASPD, attacks deal damage to the enemy's weakest defense.
- ✅ Talent 2: Recovers HP every few seconds when not taking damage. Evades the next incoming physical or arts damage.
- ✅ Weakest Defense Damage: Calculates the target's DEF and RES, and attacks with whichever is easier to penetrate. An Arts Fighter with the qualities of a Warrior.
- ✅ Similar position to Veena Victoria.
03:05 - 04:25
5. ✨ Red Katana Dawn Glow Chen: Skill Details
- ✅ Skill 1: Increases ATK, attacks change to dual strikes. Nullifies the target's special abilities until the skill ends.
- ✅ Skill 2: 10 slashes to the closest enemy. If defeated, moves to a nearby enemy and continues attacking. If unable to defeat the enemy at the end of the slashes, Chen moves to that tile. Afterwards, increases ATK, and has a certain chance to evade physical and arts damage.
- ✅ Skill 3: Homage to Vanguard Chen's Skill 3. Can be activated as long as one enemy is within the attack range. After skill activation, attacks nearby enemies each time an enemy is defeated. The effective skill attack range is unlimited.
- ✅ Looks like an offensive skill, but is actually quite defense-oriented.
04:26 - 05:16
6. 🗡️ Red Katana Dawn Glow Chen: Skill 3 Details
- ✅ Skill 3: Releases a sword aura forward that can change direction. The sword aura deals arts damage equivalent to a certain percentage of the enemy's HP when passing through.
- ✅ Chen's own attack range is expanded, each attack hits multiple ground enemies 3 times, dealing arts damage equal to a certain percentage of ATK.
- ✅ The sword aura changes direction (clockwise) when it collides with a high ground tile. The more HP the enemy has, the greater the damage.
- ✅ The sword aura is always present while the skill is active.
- ✅ Chen herself deals damage with AoE and multi-hit attacks.
05:23 - 06:06
7. 💣 New Operator: 6-Star Special "Wan" (Limited)
- ✅ Spring Festival limited operator.
- ✅ Trapper-type special operator.
- ✅ The Go stones, which are traps, are strengthened by connecting them to each other like in Go. Use the strengthened Go stones to damage enemies.
06:07 - 06:33
8. 🪤 Wan: Talent Details
- ✅ Talent 1: Talent for handling traps. Go stones are activated if there are Go stones on adjacent tiles. Activated when an enemy enters an activated Go stone tile. Automatically places Go stones on adjacent tiles when Go stones are manually placed.
- ✅ Talent 2: If Go stones are lined up adjacently, damage dealt is increased, and RES is ignored.
06:34 - 07:32
9. 💥 Wan: Skill 1 and Skill 2 Details
- ✅ Skill 1: When a trap is triggered, inflicts bind on the target enemy and deals arts damage equal to a certain percentage of Wan's ATK every second.
- ✅ Skill 2: When a trap is triggered, deals AoE arts damage to enemies within 3 tiles up, down, left, and right, and reduces movement speed for a few seconds. Similar to Dorothy's Skill 3, but without the chain reaction effect. Wan's Skill 2 has a wider attack range.
- ✅ Each time a Go stone is placed, one additional Go stone is placed on an adjacent tile, allowing for two placements at the same time. The tile below the placed Go stone is prioritized for placement.
- ✅ Skill 2 is a type that achieves annihilation through quantity.
07:33 - 08:56
10. 💣 Wan: Skill 3 Details
- ✅ Skill 3: Activated manually to exert its effect. Expands the activation range and attack range of Go stones. Deals arts damage equal to a certain percentage of ATK upon detonation.
- ✅ While the skill is active, Wan stops attacking, and the attack range is expanded. Immediately gains multiple Go stones, and Go stones exceeding the possession limit are placed on tiles with enemies within the attack range.
- ✅ Talent 1's additional Go stone placement effect changes to an effect that places multiple Go stones. Consumes ammo for each Go stone placed.
- ✅ Go stones during Skill 3 activation have an expanded damage range. The location where the Go stone is placed is subjected to multiple AoE damage instances.
- ✅ The number of simultaneous placements is 1 manual and 4 automatic, for a total of 5. In total, each Go stone placement deals up to nearly 17000 damage.
- ✅ Can also be placed on tiles with enemies. Not a defensive type, but an offensive type that sets up attacks.
08:57 - 09:29
11. 👗 Exclusive Outfit Showcase: Phira, Surfer, You, Sea, Ling
- ✅ Phira Exclusive Outfit "Flower Silk Tune"
- ✅ Surfer Exclusive Outfit "Sharing the Railing"
- ✅ You Exclusive Outfit "Wishing for Clear Dawn"
- ✅ Sea Exclusive Outfit "Azure Jade Inkstone"
- ✅ Ling Exclusive Outfit "Fang Qiu Scroll" (with voice)
10:09 - 10:22
12. 💝 Valentine's Day Outfits: Beanstalk, Breeze
- ✅ Beanstalk Exclusive Outfit "Promise of the Red Ribbon"
- ✅ Breeze Exclusive Outfit "Half-Sweet Strawberry"
10:23 - 10:50
13. 🎁 Campaign Information: Login Bonus, Free Headhunting, Pity Announcement, etc.
- ✅ The usual login campaign and daily free headhunting, distribution of 10-pull headhunting tickets.
- ✅ Announcement of the headhunting pity system and lowering of the pity for Sea's exchange.
- ✅ Announcement of lowering the pity for Nearl the Radiant Knight accompanying the 7th-anniversary event in May.
- ✅ Distribution of Spring Festival-related materials, congratulatory messages from operators.
10:51 - 11:51
14. 🗓️ Future Event Previews: Break the Ice #2, Additional Multi-faceted Investigation, Fortification Agreement: Covenant
- ✅ Break the Ice #2: The Near Light gimmick of darkness and vision is the main focus. The bosses are Misery and another person (probably Logos).
- ✅ Addition of multi-faceted investigation to Sui's Realm of Wonders. This addition will conclude the updates.
- ✅ Fortification Agreement: Covenant: Can be temporarily paused during solo mode. Removal of the countdown during deployment time. The multiplayer mode removes the player limit (2-4 players). All 4-star, 5-star, and 6-star reward operators can be directly deployed even if you don't own them. The content will also be updated, adding new factions, equipment, and tactics.
11:52 - 12:42
15. 🛠️ Various Improvements: Outfit Catalog, Still Image Collection, Log Mode, Contingency Contract, Pose Trick
- ✅ Outfit Catalog: You can combine your own designs and operator illustrations to create your own unique business card.
- ✅ Still Image Collection Function: Added a function to collect still images that could only be seen in the story.
- ✅ Log Mode: Font size, line spacing, etc. can be adjusted.
- ✅ Contingency Contract: Simplified the difficulty of missions, making it possible to clear even with auto-deploy.
- ✅ Pose Trick: Possible without any special operations.
12:43 - 13:00
16. 💻 PC Version Open Beta Start
- ✅ The mainland Chinese version will start the PC version's open beta (essentially the official version) on February 10th.
- ✅ Supports PC-specific key configuration and 120FPS.
- ✅ Improved parts that were lagging due to load.
13:01 - 13:35
17. 🔮 Future Events: Siracusa Omnibus, Ursus-Related Event
- ✅ After the Spring Festival event, there will be a Siracusa omnibus event. The timeline is after Karneval. The implemented operator is Dimitri?
- ✅ Ursus-related event: Depicts the moment just before entering Ursus' capital, Saint Grizlyburg? Chapter 17? The event format is unknown.
13:36 - 13:53
18. 🌱 New Integrated Strategies, Collaboration Information
- ✅ Preview of the implementation of a new Integrated Strategies. Implemented after the end of Sui's Realm of Wonders?
- ✅ Collaboration with a snack food company (currently ongoing).
- ✅ Collaboration with China Mobile (details will be announced soon).