1.5 DREAMSCAPE: TYPHOEUS, PURRCHENA & YVONNE

The [Dreamscape of Wind and Snow] Version Preview Program has aired, and Version 1.5 is a bigger structural change than the operator list suggests. Yes, you get Typhoeus, a 6-star Nature Striker who fights from the air, and Purrchena, a free 5-star Physical Defender in a plush suit. But the headline for anyone who tracks pull economy is RE-Factor Headhunting, an entirely new banner type where your progress carries forward between phases instead of resetting.

Version 1.5 lands in two waves. September 2, 2026 brings Typhoeus, the Snowy Forest, and the story continuation. September 24, 2026 brings Suiming, free Purrchena, and the Yvonne RE-Factor banner. Below is the full breakdown: both kits, the exact RE-Factor milestone table, all four events, the QoL list, and what the program teased for after 1.5.

TL;DR - Key Points

• Version 1.5 [Dreamscape of Wind and Snow] launches September 2, 2026 with Typhoeus, the Snowy Forest, and the main story continuation. Phase 2 arrives September 24, 2026 at 12:00 server time.
• Typhoeus is a 6-star Nature Striker built around a hover state that lets her attack continuously from the air while evading all ground attacks. Her loop converts enemy Nature infliction into Signs, then Signs into Hunting Arrows.
• Purrchena is a free 5-star Physical Defender, given away with her weapon through the Purry Big Feline! RAWR! event from September 24. Both arrive at max potential, and neither returns on later banners.
• RE-Factor Headhunting is a new banner type. Progress carries across every phase in the same series, so pulls spent on #1 are not wasted when #2 opens.
• [Resplendent Spectrum] RE-Factor Headhunting #1 features Yvonne from September 24. The 6-star pool is narrow: Yvonne, Ember, Lifeng, Ardelia, Last Rite, Pogranichnik.
• Milestones: 30/60/90 pulls each grant 10 bonus Urgent Recruitment attempts, the featured 6-star is guaranteed within 120, and 240 pulls award a token. A separate 6-star guarantee sits at 80 with pity shared across all RE-Factor banners.
• Artzy Tyrannical, Yvonne’s 6-star Handcannon, is the rate-up in [Tag Artist Issue] RE-Factor Issue #1 and is guaranteed within 8 issue attempts.
• Four events: Trial of the Bow (challenge), Echoing Bell of an Old City (guide), AIC Support: Chubby Lung Attacks (production), and Runners’ Steeplechase (fun and games).
• Teased next: Si and the Yuanyuan Manor ink scroll, a ranch system, Arena of Games, and a harder second Contingency Contract.

Version 1.5 Release Date and Phase Schedule

The version splits cleanly. Phase 1 is the story-and-operator wave. Phase 2 is where almost all of the pull decisions and the free operator live, which is unusual and worth planning around.

Both RE-Factor banners run from September 24 until the maintenance before the next version update, so they close out the version rather than rotating mid-patch. Endfield has not published end dates for the individual events yet, so treat the event windows as open until confirmed in-game.

If you are coming off 1.4, our Companionship Celebration and Homecoming Special Program recap covers the Arcane and Liino version in the same format, including the Snowy Forest tease that 1.5 now pays off.

Typhoeus: 6-Star Nature Striker

Typhoeus is a Striker on the Nature element. The greatbow is her character model; her equipment class is the Arts Unit, the same weapon slot Zhuang Fangyi and Ardelia use, so she draws from the Arts Unit pool you have already farmed. Our Typhoeus build guide covers her weapons, gear sets and teams in full. In lore she is a reconvener of Rhodes Island who travels alone through Sami, collecting and preserving the region’s stories. Her stream tagline, “Everything is a gift from Sami,” is doing a lot of work for anyone who followed the original game’s Sami arc.

She functions on the ground perfectly well, but the kit clearly wants her airborne. Her hover state is the centerpiece: while hovering she deals continuous damage and evades all ground attacks. Against the melee-heavy packs that fill most Endfield content, that is a defensive layer stapled to a damage window.

Reading her rotation

The resource loop is a two-stage conversion and it matters more than the raw numbers. Nature infliction on enemies becomes Signs. Signs at maximum become Hunting Arrows. Hunting Arrows are consumed by her Battle Skill for bonus burst damage. That means Typhoeus is not self-sufficient in a vacuum: she wants something on the team applying Nature infliction so her Combo Skill actually comes online.

The Combo Skill also applies a Nature Burst damage amplification to enemies inside the Barrage Array, so the intended sequence is to land the array first and then dump Hunting Arrow-enhanced attacks into it.

One detail that will shape her ceiling: if she is already hovering when you press Ultimate, she stays hovering until the Ultimate ends. Chaining Battle Skill into Ultimate should extend a single airborne window rather than resetting it, which is a real uptime gain for a unit whose defensive value is tied to being off the ground.

Purrchena: Free 5-Star Physical Defender

Purrchena is a Physical Defender and an Ætherside Syndrome ambassador. The plush suit is a consequence of her condition, which also makes her drop off to sleep at inconvenient moments. Her entire kit is written in shouted capitals, and it is genuinely one of the more charming designs the game has shipped.

• Basic Attack: DESSERT! HAVE SOME! Up to 3 attack sequences dealing Physical damage.
• Battle Skill: I’M NOT SLEEPING! Raises a shield to block attacks and grants Protection to herself and nearby operators, making them harder to interrupt. The first successful block extends the skill and returns extra Skill Points. Blocking further gradually erodes the Protection effect. After a set duration she can reactivate the skill without spending Skill Points, dealing Nature damage and applying Nature infliction.
• Combo Skill: CAKE OR “PREZZIE” Triggers when the controlled operator is attacked. Tosses a Giftbox that heals them and reveals one extra gift: a Bomb (Physical damage plus extra Stagger), Handicrafts (Physical damage plus a continuous pull on nearby enemies), or Yummy Dessert (continuous healing).
• Ultimate: NAUGHTY IS BANNED! Opens 3 Big Feline’s Prezzies at once, each randomly a Bomb or a Handicraft, with a chance to reveal the Ambassador’s Special. Everything hit takes additional Arts Susceptibility.

That last clause is the part to notice. A free 5-star that applies Arts Susceptibility on her Ultimate is a support piece for Arts carries, not just a body to soak hits. Combined with the Nature infliction on her reactivated Battle Skill, she is a plausible budget enabler for exactly the kind of infliction-hungry kit Typhoeus runs. Our Purrchena build guide has her full kit, gear sets and teams.

The Battle Skill’s SP refund on first block is the other standout. Defenders that pay for themselves in SP are how you keep a rotation solvent, and getting that on a giveaway unit is unusually generous.

How to Get Purrchena Free

Purrchena comes from a giveaway event called Purry Big Feline! RAWR!, available from September 24, 2026 (server time). Completing it awards:

• Purrchena at max potential, as a 5-star operator
• Dessert Moment, her recommended 5-star sword, also at max potential

Max potential on both is the detail that makes this worth prioritizing. You are not getting a base copy to grind duplicates for later; you are getting the finished unit.

The important warning from the program: Purrchena and Dessert Moment will not appear in other banners or in special Arsenal Issue events. If you miss the event window, there is currently no announced second route to her. Clear the event.

RE-Factor Headhunting: The New Banner Type

This is the structural change in 1.5. RE-Factor Headhunting is a new headhunting type that debuts with [Resplendent Spectrum] RE-Factor Headhunting #1, and Yvonne is the rate-up operator.

The pool is small and fully disclosed, which is itself a departure:

6-star operators that may appear: Yvonne / Ember / Lifeng / Ardelia / Last Rite / Pogranichnik. Yvonne is the rate-up.

Six possible 6-stars instead of an ever-growing standard pool meaningfully improves your odds of a useful off-rate. You spend Chartered HH Permits or Oroberyls as normal. Availability is September 24, 2026 at 12:00 server time through the maintenance before the next version update.

If Yvonne is new to you or you shelved her after 1.0, our Yvonne complete guide covers her kit and gearing, and the Yvonne rotation guide handles the sequencing that makes her worth the investment.

The RE-Factor Milestone Table

Here is the full milestone structure, and the reason this system changes pull planning:

The three milestone rewards are effectively 30 free pulls folded into the first 90, which lowers the real cost of reaching the 120 guarantee considerably.

But the rule that matters most is the carryover: progress and claim status persist into future events in the same [Resplendent Spectrum] series (#2, #3, and onward). In a conventional banner, stopping at 70 pulls means those 70 pulls bought you nothing but the units you happened to hit. Here, 70 pulls is 70 pulls of permanent progress toward a later phase’s guarantee.

That flips the usual advice. Partial investment in a RE-Factor banner is no longer a trap, because there is no reset punishing you for stopping early.

RE-Factor Issue and Artzy Tyrannical

The weapon side gets the same treatment. [Tag Artist Issue] RE-Factor Issue #1 runs on the same window (September 24, 2026, 12:00 server time to pre-update maintenance) and rate-ups Artzy Tyrannical, a 6-star Handcannon and Yvonne’s signature weapon.

The rules:

• Artzy Tyrannical is guaranteed within 8 issue attempts
• Past 8 attempts, further milestones alternate between Arms Offering and additional Artzy Tyrannical copies
• Attempts carry over into later phases of the Tag Artist Issue series

Eight attempts for a guaranteed 6-star weapon is a tight, predictable number. The alternating structure past that point is how you build refinement copies without a fresh gamble each time. Endfield has said fuller banner rules are coming in a dedicated announcement, so exact attempt counts past the first guarantee are still pending.

Snowy Forest: New Area and Story

The story resumes after the confrontation in Wuling. Chief Engineer Andre goes silent while transporting supplies, and the Endministrator heads into the Snowy Forest outside the Yinglung Pass to find him. In the mist you run into Typhoeus, who is trapped there too.

The region is built around strange runes and a bewitched atmosphere, with a new puzzle set to match. You will fight Ents and a new enemy type specialized in witchcraft, and the area boss is Gloomwald’s Rage.

Endfield has been steadily improving its overworld design, and the pitch here is a mist-and-illusion zone where the environment fights you as much as the enemies do. We flagged this area back when it was only a teaser slide in the 1.4 program; it is now the version’s centerpiece.

Trial of the Bow

Trial of the Bow is a challenge event. Typhoeus takes the Endministrator into the Snowy Forest’s archery range hunting for special Sami arrows, and the event is a series of archery challenges testing her kit.

The valuable part: the story remains playable after the event period ends. Endfield has been consistent about this with narrative events, and it removes the usual anxiety about missing story content because you were busy during a three-week window. The rewards are still time-limited, so the incentive to play it live is intact.

Echoing Bell of an Old City

This is the most mechanically interesting event in the version. Echoing Bell of an Old City is a guide event built around the city of Suiming, and the entire city functions as one enormous puzzle.

Two systems drive it:

• Tides rise and fall continuously, opening and closing paths as they move
• The Waking Bell repeatedly reverses time, resetting the city to the moment you first entered

A full-city time loop could easily be miserable, so the key concession is that important items carry over between resets. Progress is not wiped; key discoveries persist while the geography resets around you. The stream framing, that a city lost to silent calamity reveals a sliver of its memories to you, suggests the loop is narrative as much as mechanical.

Time-loop puzzle zones live or die on whether the reset feels like a tool or a punishment. Persistent key items put this on the right side of that line, at least on paper.

AIC Support: Chubby Lung Attacks

The second run of the AIC Support format is an AIC production event called Chubby Lung Attacks. It adds new limited-time formulas to your factory lines. You produce the special products, deliver them to Wuling outposts, and exchange them for two currencies:

• Wuling Stock Bills
• Fruits of Altruism Certificates

Both redeem in the event’s limited-time shop. This is the reliable low-effort reward stream of the version: set the lines up once, let them run, and collect. If you have an efficient Wuling layout already, most of the work is done.

Runners’ Steeplechase

Arriving in Phase 2, Runners’ Steeplechase is a fun and games event: a set of purpose-built running courses across Wuling where you chase best times while collecting Chubby Lung Balloons.

The courses are stocked with bounce devices, vortexes, and other momentum mechanisms that boost your score, plus traps designed to throw you off the line. It is the direct successor to the parkour-flavored side content Endfield has been experimenting with since The Rooted Realm, and like that mode it will reward learning the optimal route far more than raw execution.

Quality of Life Improvements

The QoL list is long. The headline is the Progression Overview, a screen that takes an operator, lets you set a target (level, skills and talents, weapon level, essence), and lists every material you still need with a Go and Acquire shortcut to the place you farm it. Third-party planners have been filling this gap since launch; having it in-client is overdue and welcome.

The full list from the program:

• Option to disable the interface and hide subtitles during main story dialogue
• Quick access to the reception room
• Additional gifting options for operators already at max trust
• Improved interface for displaying engraved medals
• Optimized display for profile themes
• New Progression Overview function
• Reminders for completed quests
• AIC mode outside the core PAC area
• Ability to view facility quantities directly in the blueprint
• Optimized Echoes of War stage selection interface
• Clear times displayed on the tally screen for certain challenges

Two of these are quietly significant. AIC mode outside the core PAC area extends factory building into more of the map, and facility quantities visible in the blueprint removes a recurring counting chore when you replicate a layout.

Future Content Teasers

The program closed with four forward-looking items.

Si and Yuanyuan Manor. The Endministrator is invited by Si to the Abode of Recuperation, where you enter a special ink scroll called Yuanyuan Manor. The teaser art is a mist-and-waterfall cavern full of autumn foliage, visually nothing like anything currently in the game. Si has been the most heavily foreshadowed upcoming character in Endfield; our Feranmut and Sui Proxies explainer covers why the 13th Proxy matters before she arrives.

A ranch system. A brand new gameplay loop built around ranches, with animals to raise and produce to collect. The interface shown includes livestock cards with feed and affection meters, plus outputs like eggs, milk, meat, and fish. Endfield already has the deepest production sim in the genre, so folding livestock into it is a natural extension rather than a novelty minigame.

Arena of Games. An upcoming event expanding the mechanics introduced in Trial of Swordmancy.

Contingency Contract, round two. The second iteration will raise the difficulty further. If you cleared the first CC comfortably, this is the endgame content to prepare for.

Gear loadout presets. Planned QoL that lets you save and switch gear setups without walking through several separate gear menus. For anyone running different builds across content types, this is the most practically useful item on the entire roadmap.

We wrote up the 1.5 operator speculation back when Si, the Hongshan Imperial Guard, and the Sarkaz dream traveler were only teaser silhouettes. Typhoeus arriving as the Sami great-bow user resolves part of that guesswork, and Si is now clearly positioned for a later version.

Rewards to Claim

The reward package for 1.5:

• 7-day sign-in event granting 5 Limited-Time Offer Headhunting Permits
• 5-star operator Purrchena at max potential, free from Purry Big Feline! RAWR!
• 5-star sword Dessert Moment at max potential, from the same event

Five permits plus a finished 5-star and her weapon is a solid free haul, though it is a step down from 1.4’s free 6-star sword Farsight and 2000 Oroberyls. The value here is concentrated in the max-potential giveaway rather than in currency.

Should You Pull? By Player Type

New and returning players. Clear the Purrchena event first; a free max-potential Defender with Arts Susceptibility on her Ultimate is a genuine roster upgrade at zero cost. Then consider the Resplendent Spectrum banner over Typhoeus. The six-operator pool and the 30 free pulls baked into the milestones make it the most efficient way to add a 6-star to a thin roster.

Established players without Yvonne. This is the banner to spend on. A narrow pool, milestone freebies, a 120 hard guarantee, and carryover into later phases combine into the friendliest pull structure Endfield has offered. Artzy Tyrannical at 8 guaranteed attempts is likewise cheap for a signature weapon.

Established players who already have Yvonne. Typhoeus is the more interesting acquisition. A hover-state Nature Striker who ignores ground attacks is a new answer to melee-dense content, and there is no equivalent in the current roster. Still consider putting some pulls into Resplendent Spectrum purely because they carry over.

Nature and infliction teams. Typhoeus is close to mandatory. Her Signs conversion feeds off Nature infliction and her Combo Skill amplifies Nature Burst damage taken, which is a straightforward multiplier for anything already building that damage type.

Factory-focused players. Chubby Lung Attacks is your event. Beyond that, AIC mode outside the core PAC area and blueprint facility counts are the two changes that will actually alter how you build.

Common Mistakes to Avoid in 1.5

Treating the Purrchena event as optional. She and her weapon will not appear in later banners or Arsenal Issue events. This is a hard window, and it opens on September 24.

Saving for Typhoeus and ignoring the phase split. Typhoeus is Phase 1 and Yvonne is Phase 2. They do not compete on the same day, but they do compete for the same Oroberyls across a three-week gap. Decide the split before September 2, not after you have already spent.

Assuming RE-Factor pity works like standard headhunting. There are two separate systems running at once: the 80-pull 6-star guarantee with pity shared across all RE-Factor banners, and the 120-pull featured guarantee specific to the banner series. Hitting the 80 does not advance you toward the 120 guarantee’s reward set.

Stopping at 20 or 25 pulls short of a milestone. With carryover, that is not a disaster, but the 30/60/90 rewards are 10 free Urgent Recruitment attempts each. Walking away at 88 pulls leaves 10 free pulls sitting on the table for no reason.

Building Typhoeus as a self-sufficient carry. Her Combo Skill needs Signs, and Signs come from consuming enemy Nature infliction. Without a teammate reliably applying it, a large slice of her kit stays offline.

Ignoring the Trial of the Bow rewards because the story persists. The story stays available afterward. The rewards do not.

What Would Change This Read

A few things could shift the assessment once 1.5 is live.

Typhoeus’s hover uptime. Everything about her value rests on how much of a fight she can spend airborne. If the hover window is short or easily interrupted, she becomes a conditional damage dealer rather than a defensive-offensive package.

The Artzy Tyrannical milestone spacing past 8 attempts. Endfield has explicitly said more banner rules are coming. If the alternating Arms Offering and weapon copies sit at reasonable intervals, this becomes the cheapest refinement path in the game. If they are far apart, the guarantee at 8 is the whole offer.

Whether Resplendent Spectrum #2 arrives soon. Carryover is only worth planning around if the next phase comes at a predictable cadence. A long gap weakens the case for partial investment now.

Suiming’s reset friction. Persistent key items are the right design, but the loop still needs to feel fair. This is the event most likely to divide the community.

Final Read

Version 1.5 is a systems patch wearing an operator patch’s clothes. Typhoeus is a well-designed Nature Striker with a genuinely new movement identity, and Purrchena is one of the better free units the game has given away, but neither is the reason to pay attention.

RE-Factor Headhunting is. A disclosed six-operator pool, 30 free pulls folded into the early milestones, a 120-pull featured guarantee, and progress that survives into the next phase together represent the most player-friendly gacha structure Endfield has shipped. If this becomes the default banner format rather than a one-off experiment, it changes how you save for every future unit.

Phase 1 on September 2 is the story and the huntress. Phase 2 on September 24 is where the decisions live. Plan your Oroberyl split now, and check back as the banner rules announcement fills in the remaining numbers.

FAQ

When does Arknights: Endfield Version 1.5 release?

Version 1.5 [Dreamscape of Wind and Snow] launches on September 2, 2026. That is Phase 1, and it brings Typhoeus, the Snowy Forest area, the main story continuation, and the Trial of the Bow challenge event. Phase 2 follows on September 24, 2026 at 12:00 server time.

Who is Typhoeus in Arknights: Endfield?

Typhoeus is a 6-star Nature Striker who fights with a greatbow, equipped in the Arts Unit weapon slot. She is a reconvener of Rhodes Island who travels Sami collecting and preserving stories. Her defining mechanic is a hover state that lets her attack continuously from the air while ignoring ground-based attacks.

Is Purrchena free in Version 1.5?

Yes. Purrchena is a 5-star Physical Defender given away through the Purry Big Feline! RAWR! event starting September 24, 2026. Completing the event awards a max-potential Purrchena and the max-potential 5-star sword Dessert Moment. She will not appear on standard banners or in Arsenal Issue events afterward.

What is RE-Factor Headhunting?

RE-Factor Headhunting is a new banner type where your pull progress carries across every phase in the same banner series. The first one is [Resplendent Spectrum] RE-Factor Headhunting #1, featuring Yvonne. Milestone rewards at 30, 60, and 90 pulls, the 120-pull featured guarantee, and the 240-pull token all persist into #2, #3, and beyond.

When does the Yvonne RE-Factor banner start?

[Resplendent Spectrum] RE-Factor Headhunting #1 opens on September 24, 2026 at 12:00 server time and runs until the maintenance before the next version update. Yvonne is the rate-up operator, so this is Phase 2 content rather than a launch-day banner.

Which 6-star operators are in the Resplendent Spectrum pool?

The confirmed 6-star pool is Yvonne, Ember, Lifeng, Ardelia, Last Rite, and Pogranichnik. Yvonne is the rate-up. The other five are the off-rate results you can hit, which makes this pool noticeably narrower than standard headhunting.

How many pulls guarantee Yvonne?

The featured 6-star is guaranteed within your first 120 attempts on the banner. There is also a separate 6-star guarantee at 80 attempts whose pity is shared across all RE-Factor Headhunting banners. Reaching 240 attempts awards a token of the featured operator.

What weapon is featured in 1.5?

Artzy Tyrannical, a 6-star Handcannon and Yvonne’s signature weapon, is the rate-up in [Tag Artist Issue] RE-Factor Issue #1. It is guaranteed within 8 issue attempts. Past that, further attempts alternate between Arms Offering and additional copies of Artzy Tyrannical, and that progress carries into later Tag Artist Issue phases.

What is the new area in Version 1.5?

The Snowy Forest, located outside the Yinglung Pass. It is a rune-covered, mist-bound region with new puzzles, Ent enemies, and a witchcraft-focused enemy type. The area boss is Gloomwald’s Rage. The story picks up after the Wuling confrontation, with Chief Engineer Andre going silent while delivering supplies.

What is teased after Version 1.5?

Three things. Si invites the Endministrator to the Abode of Recuperation to enter an ink scroll called Yuanyuan Manor. A ranch system is coming as a new gameplay loop. An Arena of Games event will expand on Trial of Swordmancy mechanics, and a second Contingency Contract iteration will raise the difficulty ceiling again.

Related Reading

• 1.4 Homecoming Special Program Recap – the previous version program, including the Snowy Forest tease 1.5 pays off
• 1.5 Operator Speculation: Si, Imperial Guard, Sarkaz Girl – what we expected from 1.5 before the program aired
• Yvonne Complete Guide – kit, weapons, and gearing for the Resplendent Spectrum rate-up
• Yvonne Rotation Guide – skill sequencing and uptime
• What Is a Feranmut? Sui Proxies Explained – background on Si ahead of Yuanyuan Manor
• The Rooted Realm Route Map – the parkour event Runners’ Steeplechase follows