{"id":56282,"date":"2026-01-29T23:00:00","date_gmt":"2026-01-29T14:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/?p=56282"},"modified":"2026-01-29T18:19:33","modified_gmt":"2026-01-29T09:19:33","slug":"bizarre-bug-in-arknights-endfield-turns-all-characters-blue-skinned-for-some-reason-players-mistake-it-for-alien-design","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/bizarre-bug-in-arknights-endfield-turns-all-characters-blue-skinned-for-some-reason-players-mistake-it-for-alien-design\/","title":{"rendered":"Bizarre bug in Arknights: Endfield turns all characters blue-skinned for some reason, players mistake it for alien design"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It\u2019s been around a week since Chinese developer Hypergryph released the long-anticipated free-to-play action RPG <strong>Arknights: Endfield<\/strong>, and as is common with any live service game at launch, some players have already started running into issues preventing them from comfortably expanding their industrial empire.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While more serious bugs have also been appearing, like the game <a href=\"https:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/arknights-endfield-paypal-problem\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">charging players via PayPal for microtransactions they didn\u2019t actually make<\/a>, a rather amusing one is taking the spotlight over on the Japanese side of X. Apparently, players are encountering a bug that makes the game launch with all of the characters appearing blue-skinned.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>After innocently spending a few hours in the game exploring Talos-II and setting up their automated factories, X user Hatomugi (@hatomugi_x) finally started noticing that, maybe the characters were never supposed to have blue skin in the first place. Though, since the story of Endfield has a very strong \u201cspace opera\u201d feel, it honestly wouldn\u2019t be strange to see the blue-skinned Endministrator and Perlica in the tutorial portion of the game and think \u201cmaybe they\u2019re doing something like Interstella 5555.\u201d &nbsp;&nbsp;<\/p>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-rich is-provider-twitter wp-block-embed-twitter\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\" data-width=\"550\" data-dnt=\"true\"><p lang=\"ja\" dir=\"ltr\">\u306a\u3093\u304b\u3053\u306e\u30b2\u30fc\u30e0\u59cb\u3081\u305f\u6642\u304b\u3089\u4f55\u6545\u304b\u30ad\u30e3\u30e9\u30af\u30bf\u30fc\u306e\u808c\u306e\u8272\u304c\u8ed2\u4e26\u307f\u9752\u304f\u3066\u3001\u300c\u3042\u3001\u3053\u3093\u306a\u795e\u7f85\u4e07\u8c61\u30c1\u30e7\u30b3\u306e\u9b54\u65cf\u307f\u305f\u3044\u306a\u611f\u3058\u306a\u3093\u3060\uff5e\u300d\u3063\u3066\u601d\u3063\u3066\u305f\u3093\u3060\u3051\u3069\u3001\u3088\u304f\u8003\u3048\u305f\u3089\u30ad\u30fc\u30d3\u30b8\u30e5\u3068\u304b\u306b\u9752\u808c\u4e00\u5207\u5b58\u5728\u3057\u306a\u3044\u306e\u3067\u3084\u3063\u3071\u308a\u3053\u308c\u304a\u304b\u3057\u3044\u3058\u3083\u306d\u3047\u304b\uff01\uff08\u3067\u3082\u6b63\u76f4\u3053\u308c\u306f\u3053\u308c\u3067\u2026\u2026\u3042\u308a\u3060\u308d\uff01\uff09 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/TSaRvbn2j6\">pic.twitter.com\/TSaRvbn2j6<\/a><\/p>&mdash; \u9ce9\u9ea6 (@hatomugi_x) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/hatomugi_x\/status\/2016518156047778041?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">January 28, 2026<\/a><\/blockquote><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"has-palette-color-5-background-color has-background\"><em>Post translation: <br><\/em><br><em>Ever since I started playing this game, all characters had blue skin for some reason, and I was like \u201cOhh~ this is like those <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/shinrabanshochocolate.wordpress.com\/astaroth\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><em>demons from Shinra Bansho Chocolate<\/em><\/a><em>.\u201d But when you think about, none of the promotional visuals for the game had blue skinned characters, so there\u2019s definitely something strange as heck going on here. (Though to be honest, I\u2019m kind of into it.)<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Diving into the game, Hatomugi didn\u2019t think anything was odd, and it was only when they reached that scene in which Perlica hands the Endministrator an apple (a very blue one), that they started thinking that something suspicious was going on. Though, they ended up shrugging it off at first, because if all characters are blue, there is no reason why apples can\u2019t be blue in the Endfield universe as well. Apparently, the \u201cblue bug\u201d didn\u2019t just affect the characters\u2019 skin colors.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Judging by the discrepancies between the whole color schemes of original and blue-skinned characters (both 2D illustrations and 3D models), including outfits, weapons and accessories, one could assume that an overall \u201chue shift\u201d ended up happening somewhere along the line. Furthermore, taking a closer look at the screenshots provided, the usually yellow UI elements in the operator menu had also turned blue. Another <a href=\"https:\/\/x.com\/hatomugi_x\/status\/2016149346744730020?s=20\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">gameplay screenshot<\/a> by Hatomugi showcases the same thing happening to the friend menu, with the Endministrator icon turning into a blue hue.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>It seems like this isn\u2019t the first time this kind of bug occurred in Endfield since its release seven days ago. Prompted by the now viral post, another Japanese X user reported the same \u201cblue skin\u201d bug, theorizing that it may have something to do with the Intel graphics driver update they did before installing the game. Apparently, the bug was fixed once they reverted the driver to a previous version.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Several days ago, Reddit user <a href=\"https:\/\/www.reddit.com\/r\/ArknightsEndfield\/comments\/1qn86xb\/how_do_i_fix_everyone_being_blue\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\">real3512<\/a> also encountered the same issue under rather similar circumstances to Hatomugi. While attempts at reinstalling the game and checking file integrity didn\u2019t change much, it seems like they managed to fix the bug by switching the rendering engine to DirectX 11 (this can be performed just by checking the \u201cLaunch with DirectX 11\u201d box under the Play button in the Launcher).<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Related articles:<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/automaton-media.com\/en\/news\/final-fantasy-7-almost-have-me-a-heart-attack-japanese-developers-talk-about-their-most-memorable-bugs\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener\"><strong>\u201cFinal Fantasy 7 almost gave me a heart attack.\u201d Japanese developers talk about their most memorable bugs<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Japanese Arknights: Endfield player recently discovered a bug that turns all characters blue-skinned, mistaking it for alien design.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":79,"featured_media":56285,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_gspb_post_css":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[18],"class_list":["post-56282","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-global-news"],"blocksy_meta":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.4 - 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