Gryphline's open-world strategy RPG Arknights: Endfield is about to flip its biggest update of the summer into its second act. Version 1.3, titled Sketches of Lost Heirlooms, went live on June 5 and runs across two banner phases, and on June 26 it serves up the moment a lot of players have been circling on the calendar: the debut of Camille, the game's first-ever limited male 6-star Operator.
If you have logged into Talos-II at all this month, you have already seen the first half. Phase 1 has been built around Mi Fu, a 6-star Physical Guard and Captain of the Wuling Watchguards, whose Fists of No Regrets banner has been running since launch and stays up until June 26. Phase 2 then swaps her spotlight for Camille's Expunger of Sin banner, which runs through the back end of the version.
A new region built out of old ruins
The headline content in 1.3 is Sword Vault Dale, a long-lost ruin that the Wuling Watch helps you pry back open. It is a vertical, broken-walls-and-floating-cliffs sort of place, and Gryphline has leaned into traversal here just as much as combat, threading new main-story beats, side quests and exploration objectives through the rubble. For a game that launched earlier in 2026 promising a genuine open world rather than a string of stages, every new region is a meaningful test of whether that pitch holds up, and Sword Vault Dale is the most ambitious slice yet.
Camille is the draw, though
Camille is a 6-star Heat Vanguard who fights with a polearm and specializes in restoring Skill Points to keep your rotations flowing. On paper that makes him a battery for the rest of your squad, but his real pull is narrative and cosmetic: first teased in the Version 1.2 livestream sprouting a pair of huge crimson wings, he has since been confirmed as a Keeper, a vampire from Ses'qa tasked with investigating internal criminal cases for the organization. As Endfield's first limited male 6-star, he is also a litmus test for how the playerbase responds to limited banners that are not built around the game's headline women.
Contingency Contract joins the endgame
1.3 is not just two banners and a map. The version also marks the debut of Contingency Contract, the risk-and-reward endgame mode Arknights veterans will recognize by name. You stack modifiers that make encounters nastier in exchange for better rewards, which finally gives high-investment squads something to chew on between story drops. There are new Operator missions for both Mi Fu and Camille, plus a batch of quality-of-life fixes that long-time players have been asking for.
Arknights: Endfield is free-to-play on iOS, Android and PC (via the Epic Games Store and the official Windows client), with cross-progression across all of them. Phase 1 wraps and Camille goes live on June 26, so if you have been saving up, now is the time to count your pulls.
