Arknights: Endfield Account Guide: Setup, Reroll & Link

Setting up an Arknights: Endfield account correctly in the first hour saves weeks of regret, because every system you touch early — from your first pull to your platform link — compounds into how smoothly the rest of the game runs. The opening tutorial only shows you the surface: a four-operator squad, a shared three-segment skill gauge, and a factory base that quietly produces your upgrade materials while you play. Players who skip the account setup, rush the tutorial, and burn their gacha currency on day one usually end up restarting anyway. This walkthrough lays out the actual order of operations for new accounts: the first-login checklist, the fastest reroll route for landing a top operator, how to link every platform the game supports, and where the long-term endgame loop picks up after the prologue.

First Login: What Every New Account Should Do in the First 30 Minutes

The first 30 minutes of a fresh Arknights: Endfield account are scripted but not linear. The game hands you a starter squad, drops you into the AIC base, and starts pushing story missions, but the order in which you engage with the surrounding menus determines whether you arrive at chapter 2 with usable operators or a six-character bench that cannot clear the early dailies.

Pick the Right Server Before You Log In

Server choice affects ping, event timing, and which player pool you are queued into for co-op. Most regions are obvious, but travelers and VPN users should pick the server physically closest to them rather than the one with the friendliest name. Once an account binds to a server, switching requires a full re-roll on the target server, so do not improvise here. According to the Game8's Endfield page on Monumental Etching, server region is locked at the first character creation step and cannot be migrated without starting a new account.

Finish the Tutorial Before Opening Any Banner

The prologue teaches the four-operator combat loop, the shared skill gauge, and basic factory placement. Skipping it with a known-input macro is technically faster, but you lose the free operator rewarded on tutorial completion, and the script also misses the very first pull the system grants you. New accounts that clear the tutorial at normal speed arrive at the AIC base with at least one 5-star operator and a stockpile of starting currency, which already covers ten to fifteen pulls.

Spend the Free Currency on the Standard Banner, Not the Limited One

Every fresh account receives a small wad of gacha currency and an Exchange Code entry field. The Exchange Code is single-use per account, so the Game8 progression primer notes that the common mistake is dumping the opening budget into a limited-time banner because it looks flashier. The standard banner has a permanent 5-star pity counter, a featured 6-star that rotates on a longer cycle, and a free-roster guarantee floor that the limited banner does not match. New accounts that spend their first ten pulls on the standard banner keep their pity counter intact and stack toward a 6-star within fifty pulls, which is the soft floor for any competitive roster.

Reroll Route: How to Reroll for a Top Operator in Under 20 Minutes

A reroll is a second account, started from scratch, used to chase a specific operator before committing to the long grind. Arknights: Endfield does not require a reroll to enjoy the game — the free roster plus a single 6-star is enough to clear every story chapter — but if you want a head start on the strongest operator in the current patch, the reroll route is the fastest path.

Why Reroll at All

The opening banner's 6-star pool is fixed, and the chance of pulling the best-in-slot operator on a single multi-pull is around 2%. Rerolling exploits the fact that the first ten pulls are repeatable: if your account does not land a top operator, you can bind the account to nothing, log out, and start over. Most veterans reroll until they hit at least one of the three or four operators the community considers "account-defining" at the time of the patch.

The Fast Reroll Loop

Each reroll cycle on Arknights: Endfield follows an identical sequence from the moment you install the client: create a fresh account, complete the Originium-tier tutorial fights, redeem the exchange code, and pull on the current opening banner. The 15 to 20 minute window comes almost entirely from mandatory cutscenes and combat tutorials, so skipping dialogue saves time but skipping the actual missions forfeits the pull currency those stages reward — which is why veterans never check the "skip battles" box, even on the tenth attempt.

1. Create a new account, pick the correct server, finish the tutorial cutscenes (skip the dialogue but do not skip the actual fights — the rewards are tied to mission completion, not to text read).

2. Open the Exchange Code screen under Settings, redeem the standard new-player code for bonus currency, and immediately spend everything on the current opening banner.

3. If the multi-pull produces a 6-star operator, bind the account to a Gryphline account and your platform of choice. If the pull produces only 4-stars and 5-stars, log out without binding, clear the local cache, and start again.

When to Stop Rerolling

Rerolling past four attempts has diminishing returns. The community-reported 6-star pull rate on the opening banner is about 12% within the first 50 pulls, so the expected number of attempts to land a specific target operator is closer to 25 to 30 cycles for the rarest options. The actual stop condition is the appearance of any one of the current top-four operators, not necessarily the single best one — a strong second-best operator still outperforms a stubborn chase at attempt thirty. Players who have already spent two hours rerolling should bind whatever account they have and start playing; the time saved is worth more than the marginal pull quality.

Platform Linking: Bind Your Account Before You Lose Progress

Arknights: Endfield is a cross-platform release rather than separate per-device builds, which means the same account can run on PC, PlayStation 5, iOS, and Android without a separate save file on each. The catch is that the link is opt-in: an account that creates itself on PS5 does not automatically know about a future iOS install, and the player has to bind the two manually.

How to Link a Gryphline Account

The Gryphline account is the master key that all platform logins attach to. To create one, open Settings, tap Platform and Account, and select the Gryphline option. The same screen is where the Exchange Code entry lives, so the link and the code entry are the same menu — a small UI choice that catches a lot of new players.

When to Link, and When to Wait

The best time to link is right after the first successful reroll or right after the tutorial if you are skipping reroll entirely. Linking before the first pull is fine because the link does not consume any in-game resource, but linking after you have already invested a few hours is also fine because progress is preserved. The one scenario where linking causes real trouble is when a player creates two separate accounts on two platforms without realizing they are not the same save, then tries to merge them later. The Gryphline help center can sometimes unbind a mislinked account, but the process is not instant and not guaranteed, so the simpler path is to link on day one and never split the roster.

Once your account is safely linked, the next question is how that linked save feeds into your operator growth. The Arknights: Endfield progression guide walks through the AIC base production loop — specifically how the Protocol Drones, T-Creds, and Origeometry you queue at the workbenches convert into operator level-ups, skill upgrades, and weapon calibration, so nothing you farm in the early hours is wasted after the link is in place.

Early Progression: Building the Account Toward Endgame

Once the account is set up, the tutorial is finished, the first pull is spent, and the platform is linked, the next question is how the opening week maps to long-term progress. The endgame loop is gated less by raw operator strength and more by base production and stamina allocation, which means the systems you ignore on day one will be the ones bottlenecking you at chapter 6.

The AIC Base as the Real Progression Engine

Combat is the visible half of the game; the AIC base is the invisible half. According to the Game8 beginner guide, a working production line generates upgrade materials continuously while you play, while a neglected base leaves you farming by hand for every level-up. New players who secure the starting region, get a minimal factory loop running, and only then push story chapters tend to clear chapter 4 with a smaller but more usable roster than players who rush the story and ignore the base.

Stamina Priority for the First Week

Daily stamina should funnel into three systems in this order: operator ascension materials, weapon enhancement cores, and base upgrade tokens. The first is non-negotiable because every story chapter raises the enemy level by a fixed step, and a stuck ascension makes the chapter literally unwinnable. The second keeps your damage curve up, and the third is the slowest of the three but compounds the most over the first month.

The 240-point stamina cap holds for week one even on a fresh account, since the Exchange Code and tutorial rewards typically grant 180-220 bonus points by Day 3, effectively padding the cap without any premium currency spent. Premium stamina refills, by contrast, cost Orundum at roughly 60 per 100 points, a poor trade when the same Orundum is better saved for the 6-star pity pull on Day 7. Players who rush premium refills also tend to bottleneck on weapon enhancement cores, since ascension alone cannot push a DPS check past the level 50 story gate without a parallel +6 weapon.

If you want a deeper view of how stamina maps onto the daily loop once the base is running, the Arknights: Endfield power output guide walks through the daily routine that keeps the production lines fed.

Endgame: What the Late Game Actually Looks Like

A common misconception is that Arknights: Endfield is a pure story game that ends at chapter 6. The story does end there, but the endgame is a parallel track that opens up chapter by chapter and continues to expand with every patch. The endgame guide in the title refers to this parallel track, and the early-account decisions feed directly into it.

Combat Endgame: Combo Skill Chaining and the Shared Gauge

The combat endgame revolves around the combo skill system layered on top of the shared three-segment skill gauge. According to the Game8 combo skill guide, chaining two operators' combo skills lets a team break defenses faster than any single operator can alone. The opener is usually a tactical skill for stagger value, then a basic-attack string refills the shared gauge, and the rotation dumps combos and ultimates inside the imbalance window. This is not a system you can grind into in the first week — the operators that enable it are mostly 5-stars and 6-stars — but the early-account decisions about which 5-stars to invest in determine whether you can execute the loop at all by chapter 8.

Factory Endgame: Production Line Optimization

The factory endgame is less flashy but more impactful. By chapter 6, the base has six or seven production lines, and each one is a small economy of input materials, output products, and timing windows. Players who built their early bases around "make whatever the system suggests" tend to have clogged production lines by week three. The optimized approach is to designate one line for operator ascension, one for weapon enhancement, one for base upgrades, and a flexible fourth line for whatever the current event needs.

Story Endgame: How Many Chapters and What Comes After

The current patch has a fixed story chapter count that the developers release on a known schedule. The exact chapter count for the live build is something the Arknights: Endfield story order guide tracks in detail, but the takeaway for new accounts is that the story is the on-ramp, not the destination. Most of the long-term engagement sits in the daily production loop, the weekly combat challenge, and the operator banner rotation.

If you have already passed the tutorial and want a cleaner picture of how the endgame progression ties into the daily routine, the Arknights: Endfield endgame progression guide picks up where the first week leaves off.

Frequently Asked Questions

Do I actually need to reroll in Arknights: Endfield?

No. The free roster plus a single 6-star from pity is enough to clear every story chapter and the weekly combat challenges. Rerolling only matters if you want a specific top operator on day one rather than waiting for the pity counter to fill, which takes roughly fifty pulls or about three weeks of free currency. If you enjoy the game and plan to stick with it for the long haul, skipping the reroll and binding your first account is the right call.

What is the fastest way to bind my account to a second platform?

Open Settings, go to Platform and Account, and select Gryphline. Create or log into a Gryphline account, then link your PSN, Apple ID, or Google account from the same menu. The whole process takes about a minute, and your progress carries over the next time you launch the game on the new platform. Bind early, because un-linking a misbound account requires a support ticket that takes days to resolve.

Can I change my character name and appearance later?

Yes. The in-game settings menu handles both. Character appearance swaps use a cosmetic item that the game grants once for free and then sells for premium currency afterwards, while display name changes cost a small fee. Neither change touches your operators, roster, or progress, so it is safe to experiment with the system as soon as the tutorial ends.

How long does the prologue take, and what do I get for finishing it?

The prologue takes most players about two hours, including cutscenes and a few optional side objectives. The reward package includes a guaranteed 5-star operator, one free multi-pull, a small wad of upgrade materials, and the first factory slot. Players who skip the cutscenes can finish in about 45 minutes, but they do not gain anything by rushing because the rewards are the same either way.