Arknights Rumor Mill: Will Next Event NOT Be Summer? No Schwarz?!

The rumor mill is buzzing today after Arknights EN, KR, and JP all tweeted more or less the following message:

• 【COMING SOON】 Disasters plague their lands, yet people keep moving forward. They are guided by faith, principles, ambition, and courage. Each offers but a piece of a complete tale, but shines proudly on their own. Like you will, Doctor... Stay tuned!

And all the Global Arknights players responded with:

• And what the heck Event is THAT?!?

According to the order of Events for the CN version of the game, the next event would be the Summer Event: Heart of Surging Flame.  Along with that event comes the well-worshipped Schwarz, along with the following banner and Operators:

Featured Operators:

Rarity	Operator
6★ Rate Up	Schwarz
5★ Rate Up	Blue Poison Glaucus
4★ Rate Up	Sussurro

• 6★ Rate-Ups have a 50% chance of appearing when pulling a 6★
• 5★ Rate-Ups have a 50% chance of appearing when pulling a 5★
• 4★ Rate-Ups have a 50% chance of appearing when pulling a 4★
• New Operator Feature Banners do not add Operators to the Distinction shop

Also awarded to players would be welfare Operator Ceylon:

The following Skins come with the Summer Event:

Also arriving with the Summer event are the Furniture Themes:  Xista Beach Hut and Rhodes Island Modern Music Rehearsal Room

And last, but not least, in the second part of summer Hellagur arrives.  I won't go into the details here, but the banner can be found here in the summon simulator:

There are 3 main reasons to believe that the Summer Event might NOT be the next Event after all.

• Reason 1: Today’s Tweet.  It’s mood and tone does not seem to be fully consistent with that of the Summer Event, and seems to fit better with a different Event we will discuss below.
• Reason 2: The Sign-In Event that started today.  The rewards for the New Lifestyle Aid -Sign in Event that started today has the Exact Same Rewards as the Sign-In Event that preceded the Summer Event for CN.  That Sign-in Event was called “Obsidian Festival”:

So, the question is, if we ARE getting the Summer Event next: Why Would They Change The Banner for the Preceding Sign In Event??  One conclusion might be: because we aren’t getting the Summer Event.

• Reason 3: It isn’t Summer yet.  It would make sense to run a different event next and save the Summer Event for, you know, Summer.  Yostar has already shown its willingness to deviate from the CN order of things with the last two Standard Pool Banners.  Why would we think that Events would be different?

The obvious question then becomes, if Summer isn’t coming yet, then what is?  The most likely candidate is the Event that comes after Summer for CN: Operational Intelligence.

The style, theme, and mood of this Event also seems to fit better with the current Sign-In Event and the tweet that went out this morning.  So which Operators arrive with this event? The winner of the “Least Comfortable-Looking Outfit” Award, Magallan  from Rhine Lab.  Here is the banner info:

Featured Operators:

Rarity	Operator
6★ Rate Up	Magallan
5★ Rate Up	Silence Executor
4★ Rate Up	Vermeil

• 6★ Rate-Ups have a 50% chance of appearing when pulling a 6★
• 5★ Rate-Ups have a 50% chance of appearing when pulling a 5★
• 4★ Rate-Ups have a 50% chance of appearing when pulling a 4★
• New Operator Feature Banners do not add Operators to the Distinction shop

Also joining players would be the welfare Operator Flamebringer:

The Skins coming with this Event would be as follows:

And the Furniture theme added would be Hermetically Sealed Chemical Warfare Bunker.

So which of these Events will we actually get?  Let me know what YOU think in the comments below, I’m curious.  We’ll let you know as soon as we find out more!