How to Download and Play Arknights on PC - Beginners Guide
2024-10-14
Experience the wonderfully bleak but amazing world building of the post-apocalyptic world of Arknights on PC with the highest possible FPS and graphics with the help of LDPlayer 9.0, providing the most wonderful gaming experience in 4 easy steps.
- Play Arknights On PC With LDPlayer In 4 Easy Steps
- Common Problems & Suggested Solutions
- Special Recommended Settings & Features
- Conclusion
Play Arknights On PC With LDPlayer In 4 Easy Steps
Step 1: Download The Official LDPlayer Emulator
Download the official LDPlayer 9.0 Emulator from the official LDPlayer website
1.1 - Simply click the Yellow Download Button on the page to start your download process
1.2 - Once downloaded, simply click the pop-up message on your browser to start the installation process for LDPlayer 9.0 on your PC
1.3 - Upon opening the exe file, players will be treated with the installation page, simply click install and the launcher will do the rest.
1.4 - Upon completion, players can launch the LDPlayer 9.0 Emulator through the shortcut on the PC’s desktop screen or through the system’s multiplayer manager system.
Step 2: Searching & Downloading Arknights
Once players have started up an instance, players can start finding and installing games through LDPlayer’s special LD Store
2.1 - First, select the search bar on the screen and type in “Arknights”
2.2 - Once found, simply click the Install button next to the Arknights game logo. Please make sure that this is the correct version of the game made by the original game developers - Yostars Limited.
2.3 - If clicking the Install button redirects you to the Google Play Store, please proceed to Step 3 to set up your google play store account. If not, simply wait till the game is installed directly onto your instance and proceed to Step 4.
Step 3: Setting Up Your Google Play Store Account
When players try to download the games from the LD Store and are redirected to the Google Play Store, they will need to set up their Google Play Account in order to be able to download apps.
3.1 - Once redirected to the Google Play Store, the app will prompt you to log into your Google Play email account. To do so, simply click on the sign in button.
3.2 - Once clicked, players can simply input their existing Gmail account information for their Google Play Store account into the information fields to proceed. If players do not yet have a Google Play Account or Gmail Account, they can create one by clicking the Create account button on the bottom right corner.
3.3 - After filling in your email information, fill in the password for your account, if you happen to forget your account’s password, you can select the forgot password option for additional assistance. If the players’ Google Account has the two factor authentication settings turnt on, then players may have to complete the two factor authentication protocol according to the page’s instructions.
3.4 - Once the account details and password have been approved, players will be treated with the user agreement screen. Simply click Agree to proceed.
3.5 - Afterwards, players will be prompted with an additional option to back up their data on their device to their Google Account’s Cloud memory for easy information sharing and restoration between devices. If players do not want to use this setting, simply click the switch to turn it to gray. Then, simply click Accept to proceed.
3.6 - Upon completion, players will now have access to the Google Play Store of their account’s selected region, allowing the players to download all of the games that are available on their region’s Google Play Store and make in-game purchases based on their account’s purchase information and preferences.
3.7 - After finishing setting up the Google Play Account, players simply need to click Install on the Arknights game to start downloading and installing the game.
3.8 - Upon the game’s downloading process and installation completion, players will get notified with a small notification at the bottom left of their computer screen.
3.9 - Once everything has been downloaded and installed correctly, players will be able to find the game’s application icon on the main interface of the homescreen.
Step 4: Downloading Arknights Game Data And Logging In
Upon finishing downloading and installing Arknights onto the homescreen, players will need to download the game’s data and log into the game by creating an account or logging into the game in order to be able to start playing.
4.1 - Once players have started the app, they will be treated with the initial game data download screen, simply click confirm to download the data.
4.2 - After downloading the data, players can choose the voice over language that they prefer.
4.3 - Once everything has been set up, players can simply log into the game using their pre-existing accounts or create a new account and play the game.
4.4 - For players who want to log into their Yostars account, simply enter the email address onto the account bar and then click the Send Verification Code button. For players who want to log into their other types of accounts, they can simply choose the option and fill in the required information into the required fields to log into their pre-existing accounts.
4.5 - Once players have clicked the Send Verification Code button, they will need to then log into their Mail and get the code from the mail that is sent to their inbox by the game.
4.6 - After this is all done, players can simply log into the game right away by inputting the code sent in your email into the required fields. Please note that with salt emails, aka emails that end in a +, players will need to have access to the original email that is bound to the salt email.
Common Problems & Suggested Solutions
Item Is Not Available For Purchase
When trying to download Arknights in the Google Play Store, players may be treated with the Google Play Store’s warning of “Item Is Not Available For Purchase” or “Item Not Found” Notice and are unable to download Arknights.
To fix this issue, players simply need to log out of their Google Play Account and log in again or change to another Google Play Account.
If this doesn’t fix the issue, players can try to download Arknights through other means like downloading the game’s Apk files or through third-party applications like Qooapp or Apkpure.
My Emulator Instance Do Not Have Enough Storage Space To Download The Game
In order to download and install Arknights together with its in-game data, it is highly recommended that players have at least 10 GB of data available for the initial start of the game and an addition 10 GB for the game’s future updates.
In order to expand the Emulator Instance’s storage space, players can set the storage settings to automatically expand to help accommodate the large amount of data through the settings menu. Once done, this settings will allow the game instance of automatically expand the data storage that the instance can use from your PC.
Special Recommended Settings & Features
Special Arknights Pause & Redeployment Trick With LDPlayer
A special trick that advanced Arknights players can do is the special Arknights Pause & Redeployment Trick, which can be done by assigning special buttons on the keyboard mapping function for Arknights when deploying your Operators.
To make this trick possible, players will need to take advantage of the special assigned Back button on LDPlayer. For further guidance, players can see this guide.
Please keep in mind that to enable this function, players will need to disable the Esc Fullscreen function by following these steps: Go to Settings > Shortcuts > untick the option "Allow pressing ESC to exit full screen/Maximize"
Conclusion
Join the world of Arknights on PC today with the help of LDPlayer to experience the best possible Arknights gaming experience on your very own PC today.
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