Girls' Frontline

I've recently started trying out the game this week and I think it's pretty interesting so far. My UID's 910876 under the ID of Balitok if anyone wants to add me.

Well crap. The Singularity ranking map is a nightmare. My first attempt was a failure since I was unprepared for the map's armor enemies, one way nodes and being a night mission!

I wonder what's the best teams to use so at least I'm around the top 50 percent in the ranking?

As a celebration for the game's English 2nd anniversary, the developers answer some fans questions.

So the fourth anniversary livestream ends with MICA announcing not one, not two, but four games at once.

• Girls' Frontline II: Exilium — Set in 2070, starring the very same Commander we know and love getting involved in international conspiracy again after a transport mission goes awry. Graphics will be fully 3D and features Strategy RPG gameplay. Coming to mobile in 2020.

• Girls' Frontline: Neural Cloud — Prequel featuring Persica as key character. Neural clouds from various T-Dolls are "exiled" to a strange digital space.. Apparently a roguelike with city-building elements.

• Girls' Frontline: Glitch Land — A doujin game made official by MICA. HK416 investigates the hidden secrets of an unknown researcher, accompanied by Thunder(?) and M870.

• Reverse Collapse: Codename Bakery — The remake of Codename: Bakery Girl. Has updated graphics, increased difficulty, and more overall content. Also coming to Steam sometime in the future.

Here's the official page for all four (link is in Chinese).

technically Reverse Collapse was already teased last year but shush

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Trailers for the new games.

Also, the Girls Frontline x Gunslinger Girl crossover will start in Summer 2020. Plus a Girls Frontline crossover with The Division.

Gunslinger Girl crossover trailer.

Here's the second GFL2 trailer from today's MICA stream. They also showed a gameplay demo of it.

Man, I'm really digging the XCOM-esque gameplay.

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Shattered Connection event will begin on 24th November.

PS: Great PV and music.

Girls Frontline anime will be out this year!

The recent update now allows players to capture Sangvis Ferri units and join our side.

Luckily, I got both Scarecrow (for free) and Executioner (which was lucky since I had a 25% chance of capturing her!).

Copy pasting a mini-review of sorts I wrote on reddit about Girls' Frontline: Project Neural Cloud:

Now that I've spent some time with Girls' Frontline: Project Neural Cloud (the roguelike/autochess spinoff-prequel), it's... actually pretty decent! Solid 7 out of 10 for me.

• The game feels very polished. UI is useful and responsive with tons of tooltips that explains game mechanics. It even outright tells you the stats, skills, and behavior of all enemies.

• Gacha is shard-based with an interesting twist. All characters come in different rarity (1-star up to 3-star) but can be upgraded to a maximum of 6-star. Dupes are automatically converted to a special currency that can be exchanged with shards of any character in your roster. This means you can theoretically upgrade a 3-star character to the max, even if you never pull that character again. Shards are also farmable, though limited to 5 tries per day.

• Yes, there are dudes in the gacha. There's, like, only 4 of them compared to the 30+ girls.

• Stamina system is a bit wacky. It only takes 1 stamina to enter a story stage, but you must spend more stamina to receive loot after beating it. I'm currently at chapter 2 and it can cost upwards to 50 stamina to claim all drops. You can cherry pick which item you want to get and lower the stamina consumption, but there is a discount if you claim all. Otherwise, it works conventionally for the resource gather stages. You also get recharges from completing daily missions.

• I never played any other autochess game so I don't have a frame of reference, but I do play quite a bit of roguelikes. If you've played Integrated Strategies in Arknights, it's pretty similar. You navigate a series of interconnecting nodes until you reach the stage's boss. Clearing combat nodes, finding caches, or entering shops grants you a chance to obtain a Function Card, which are items that enhances your units. Which function cards you'll get is random, but the game tells you the cards that can appear in the stage, so you can plan your build from the get-go.

• There's a fair bit of decision making. Sometimes nodes give you a choice, like sacrificing 10% of your units' max HP for an extra function card slot, or risking a hard fight to potentially get a stage-long buff.

• Combat itself is fully automated as expected from an autochess, but you do get a set of three skills that can help influence it: a beam of light to smite enemies, marking priority targets for your units, and dropping a missile strike for AoE damage. Each has their own upgradable variants (so instead of marking enemies you can buff a single friendly unit) and constitutes a separate progression system.

• The map might look the same for every fight, but MICA does spice it up by varying the terrain. You can get destroyable tiles that block movement but can be shot over by ranged units, tiles that grant the unit standing on it a shield, or even tiles that teleport a unit straight to the opponent's backline. Even the reserve zone has special tiles, so units that don't directly participate in combat can still contribute.

• The OBT roster is pretty limited compared to GFL at just over 40 characters, but they do have an interesting variety of personalities, backgrounds, and skillsets. I personally have a soft spot for Yanny, the sailor boy who can channel Pudge/Blitzcrank to pull an enemy into melee range with his giant-ass anchor.

• Soundtrack is really fucking good holy shit. Vanguard Sound did it again.

• The chibis are also super cute! Plus, you can still fling them around like in GFL.

• No comments yet on the story (translators pls), but knowing MICA I expect it to be a good (if not great) post-cyberpunk tale about existentialist robots

Overall, I look forward to the proper release and eventual global version. It still has its fair share of flaws, obviously (like the autoplay AI and questionable gacha rates), but these are things that hopefully will be improved over time.

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2nd anime trailer.

It looks like the anime will be based on the manga adaptation with some original content like the fight with Scarecrow which didn't happen in the manga.

Wanna make this interesting so...

Who's best girl to you?

"There's no such thing as pure freedom in this world. Even the wind cannot blow forever."

SCW because I am obligated to like any and all characters designed by Coneyrivard her design and chill personality.

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Either Griz or Thompson

Help me. I can't get it out of my head.

I'm glad I finally got R5 for this Christmas event. Last year I was only able to get Honey Badger.

"There's no such thing as pure freedom in this world. Even the wind cannot blow forever."

Edited by TheGrayShadow on Jan 5th 2022 at 6:28:04 AM

"There's no such thing as pure freedom in this world. Even the wind cannot blow forever."

The anime will airing soon and you can legally watch it on Funimation in the US or Muse Asia in South East Asia.

Also, here's the anime OP and ED.

Sad news. Girls Frontline Glitch Land, a 2D Top down game that was originally a fan game before becoming an official spin-off and approved by Mica Team, has been shelved and the creator leaving Sunborn amicable due to difficulties and government regulation in releasing the game. However, the game might still be release, possibly outside of China but for now, there won't be any new news about this game.

It's been a while, but how did you guys feel about the Dual Randomness event? For me, I couldn't help but crack a few Among Us jokes here and there, what with The Mole hunting that was going on.

Edited by TheGrayShadow on Feb 27th 2022 at 5:58:03 AM

"There's no such thing as pure freedom in this world. Even the wind cannot blow forever."

As you can tell from my sig, I really enjoy that scene with RPK-16. The suspense, philosophical banter, and RPK's weird yet intriguing thought process are done very well.

Also, it's criminal that we still don't have DEFY in suits as actual costumes.

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I Enjoyed the story especially how Germany is in the GF universe. And the fact that the two people that were sent to help Defy turn out to be moles for different organizations, one for the German Far-right and the other with Paradeus. Ironically, it's the Stasi who remain loyal and help Defy stop or capture the bad guys.

So I finally got the Shotgun T-Doll Defender. Should I level her up or not?

I don't remember how long I've started trying to do this, but I've finally got Hanyang Type 88 (while trying to get the new RF that is HS-50). Seriously, why did she have to hide from me for so long like a 5-Star?

"There's no such thing as pure freedom in this world. Even the wind cannot blow forever."

clearly it's the desire sensor at work

Hanyang is way less niche than mini-Nemesis HS.50, at least, so long you've got the resources for her MOD III.

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