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Pinch-Out: Experimental Operation
EN
CN
Type
Special event
In Other Languages
Simplified Chinese
特别行动「尖灭测试作战」
Traditional Chinese
特別行動「尖滅測試作戰」
Japanese
尖滅試験作戦
Korean
특별 작전 - 첨멸 실험 작전
Release
CN date
May 22, 2023 – June 5, 2023
Global date
December 5, 2023 – December 19, 2023
TW date
April 9, 2024 – April 23, 2024
Pinch-Out: Experimental Operation (P.O.) is a special event in Arknights. It acts as an experiment to replace Contingency Contract and becomes the basis of C.C. Battleplan with more balanced, measured mechanics, thus P.O. is technically an "interim" between C.C. Operations and Battleplans, and the latter's predecessor.
Pinch-Out Experimental Operation is first event in the Global server of Arknights whose runtime overlaps with another event, specifically the rerun of Stultifera Navis which is only 3 days left by the time PO is released.
Pinch-Out Experimental Operation was met with negative reception by the community, most notably due to the mechanics that can inflate enemies' stats to impossibly high amounts, making them essentially impossible to be defeated with conventional means. For instance, the R-11 Assault Power Armors in Research Base Quarantine Zone can possess 6.75 million HP with certain Test Criteria combos, taking over 4.5 hours to defeat, to the point that skills with unlimited duration such as Skadi the Corrupting Heart's Wish of Burial Beyond the Lightactually expires.[1]
However, the negative reception mostly came from players who attempted to reach the highest possible Sanctuary Judgement score early on during the event; later down in the event, additional Test Criteria that allows players to reach high scores without buffing enemies too much would be added.
Green events are exclusive to the Global server; yellow events are only released in the CN server but incorporated into other event(s) in Global instead; orange events are not released in the EN server; red events are exclusive to CN.
Wish of Burial Beyond the Light actually expires.[1]