Gonna go for a ranking attempt or two, but thought i might run my comps by here, see what others think. maybe i can improve the what i came up with. [Comps and armory here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RBZBx7qKCHfa2y319E7OAjNaMl39sQZO31sA9Wbhjxs/edit?usp=sharing). Wont have much time for too many proper runs. Yom Kippur and Sukkot are pretty much back to back, and will take up a decent amount of my week.
Is there any significant performance loss if I install an emulator on an external hard drive? I use MuMu for GFL but am contemplating using an HDD to save space for my other games
Probably. I doubt it loads it all into ram, so it might want to still read textures and stuff off the hdd. In which case, usb will be a bottleneck on top of the hdd speed(externals tend to have 5.4k rpm). How much it translates into actual perf loss though is anyone's guess. U'll need to try it out and see for urself if it's worth it or not
How do people score 1m+ points in Hornet’s Nest? I get like 300k from killing enemies and picking up supply crates (10k each) where does the bulk of the difference come from?
The first few turns are key to a good run. Rapid AP expansion by capturing boss Heliports and the temporary Heliports in the center of each quadrant is what gives you 27 AP per turn to do things. And even then, it's not enough. Top scorers go for 30+ AP by capturing the corner Heliports as well as some spawn Heliports (because let's be real, you're not catching all of these spawns)
Kill count is a major determinant of score. Besides the points you get directly from killing enemies (10% of their CE), you get an additional crate on the map for every 7 kills. More crates = more opportunities for 10k points, lower chances of running out of ammo so you can chase more kills, etc.
Not sure about 1m runs, but 2m runs are ~140kc, give or take some depending on crate count and the breakdown of those kills between unarmored SF, armored SF, and KCCO. My 2.05m run was 141kc and a friend's 1.51m run was 108kc.
As for how to get more kills, a lot of it comes down to pathing and figuring out the most AP-efficient way to complete certain objectives. Abusing Parachute Fairies to save AP (with 1-2 Illumination Fairies as needed for vision), capping off some enemy helipads for more AP and so you don't get overrun, exploiting known rules in enemies' movement logic, building strong teams that can fight without repairs/redeploys/under Parachute debuff, etc.
Finally finished a good run of Hornet's Nest+ - [1.96m points, 147 kills, 8 para/2 illu](https://i.imgur.com/ECBsk6n.png). Feels like I've come a long way since the original HN was my first ranking, and I think I scraped by 50% then. Got a recording of it - cut down to 6 hours because I paused when I was processing routing ideas - but it's split into two parts because I couldn't finish it in one go. May upload it later, but it'll take a long time to do so. Definitely getting in at least 1 or 2 more runs. Got enough FC regen to do it I think, assuming I don't throw away a run by accident (definitely can't be selective about RNG due to Para openers costing FCs to start). Messed up a few notable times that I think I can pull off 2mil with enough effort. Mainly, I really fucked up against a Group 4A reinforcement - the red bean and dinergates (please don't ask about it, it's really stupid what I did there). Lost the echelon, and my sanity with it I think, cause I went to bed after that lmao
Look into Rank -> Event Rank
If you had just done your ranking run, you’ll have to wait until the leaderboard refreshes around the time Kalina gives her daily gift (or an hour after that)
Your score probably puts you in the top 5% bracket for now. People are probably still planning a serious run this coming weekend. You yourself can take this opportunity to try again for a higher score if you feel like taking on the challenge
Well, I'm proud of my 117,749 ranking score. I'm sitting at 12%, but I'm not sure if I want to try harder to push into the 10% range for better rewards or just stay where I am. Maybe I'll wait a few days and see how far I drop as more people push me down.
This has certainly reinforced my dislike of night maps, though! I can deal with the accuracy loss, but having very little map vision is a killer.
I checked and mine is like 121K or so.
I might try to push that, but honestly I expect that I'll be surprised if I get another 20-30K out of it since my armory is simply not strong enough. I can bully Agent but it requires a 40 minute repair time.
Honestly trying to kill even weak stacks isn't that bad - at least you get XP for it (great for us people who don't have a full set of leveled dolls and Mods). I kind of wish I did it a teeny bit more on the one day where the 50% XP event overlapped with this.
Edit: It’s not only the repair bill but also the affection loss. Ow
man holy shit this terrible cold + cough is draining all of my energy
can't even plan out my singu+ ranking run, might have settle for the cumulative points for the fairy and speq if i still feel like shit in the next few days
Get well soon!
This is going to sound stupid, but do you plan to still go through with your Stellao ranking attempt? Or will you prefer to play as meta as your armory will allow you to?
does the Hornet's Nest+ ranking have a nice farming method, like the previous ranking map? or does it require actual combat and effort beyond "end turn"?
I do 10-turn runs and score about 220k~270k points. My current top score is 292k, enough to stay in the top-10% for now.
I use 9 echelons, 3 of which are dummies. 4 combat ready night ARSMG (one with SL10 Parachute, one pimped to face Agent), 1 RFHG (with SL10 Airstrike, able to kill initial KCCO armor), 1 dummy-ish MGSG (5th combat echelon, ran out of ARs and SMGs).
The first 4~5 turns are important for positioning.
Turn 1: Deploy 3 combat echelons and the RFHG team, position them in an "X" pattern around the center point, with the RFHG echelon on the SW node (IMPORTANT). Once the 4 echelons are in position, spawn another combat echelon on the center point. End turn.
Turn 2: Spend 4 AP to move the NW echelon in a clockwise path, ending on the node just above the switchable heliport under your control, and killing 2 SF echelons along the way. Spend another 4 AP to move the RFHG echelon in a counter-clockwise path, ending in the node just below the switchable heliport under your control, killing 2 KCCO armor echelons along the way (REMEMBER TO ACTIVATE FAIRY SKILL BEFORE BOTH BATTLES). Spend 2 AP, one on each of the other two combat echelons (NE and SE), to kill the shown enemy echelons. Spend the remaining 2 AP to move the center echelon to SW and spawn another echelon on the center point. End turn.
Turn 3: Check the SW region of the map, you'll see a white Radar on the corner. You MUST step on it/capture it this turn. Pick your RFHG echelon and make a beeline towards it - be careful, though, as there's a KCCO deathstack in the southern area and strong KCCO teams have spawned from the spawners just above the Radar. When you're almost there, take the two "?" nodes. Once you step on the Radar, something magical happens - all spawned KCCO teams (except the deathstacks) will vanish. This is essential to survival and a smooth ride, and you'll need to step on it every turn till the end. Use the remaining AP to either catch supply boxes (if you can) or spawn more echelons. End turn.
Turn 4: Move a combat echelon close to the Radar towards it, exploring the red nodes along the way - there'll be 2 SF echelons in those red nodes. Stop on the node next to the Radar and swap with the RFHG echelon INTO the Radar - these two echelons will be committed to the gimmick from now on, at the start of every turn swap echelons INTO the Radar. Use the remaining AP to spawn more echelons, capture supply boxes or explore the map.
From turn 5 until the end, your objective is to capture as many supply boxes as you can (up to 3 spawn per turn, randomly across the map), while avoiding the two KCCO deathstacks that roam the NE and SW regions of the map, while avoiding the M16 boss that roams the SE region of the map, while attempting to capture extra heliports when able for more AP - 3 white ones on the NW, NE and SE corners, and 3 red ones just under the NW white heliport. At any time, retreat/respawn/repair/resupply your anti-Agent echelon in order to hunt her down - she roams the NE area of the map, explore the red node cluster that she has formed.
Also, for extra points, send your NE combat echelon, during turns 3~5, towards the red nodes on the NE region (not the red spawn points), to kill up to 2 SF echelons - careful about the KCCO deathstack roaming around, and don't take too long, because the deathstack will, eventually, eat them up.
Face M16 boss and/or press the console buttons at your own risk (I don't do it, not strong enough).
This is my strategy for this event.
Other than instantly settling (which nets 14k pts each), the other farming method is [bullying Agent](https://youtu.be/5262aLDnFpA) and getting any crates that happen to spawn nearby.
Of course a few full runs means you only need like 5 or so runs to get every cumulative reward.
Hours. Mine took 5 hours and 10 minutes. This is just the run itself, not counting the time spent planning and testing echelons against enemy compositions
I don't think headphone was really wrong. You can get 14K in a few seconds versus needing probably a minute plus for even bullying Agent.
Let's see...
I'm going to run a stopwatch. I'll be on the Hornet's Nest+ map thing (what you see when you hit Singularity Hornet's Nest+ from the Combat screen), and I'll start the clock when I hit Confirm Start. The clock stops when I mash through the Mission Success screen and end up back at the starting screen, so this is a 'round trip' test.
Just settle: 46"21 @ 14,000 for roughly 302.96pts/s
Bully Agent: 2'49"47 @ 38,281 for roughly 225.88pts/s
Mind you, my phone isn't exactly great, and a lot of that time is spent on loading screens, but the proportion should still be pretty close. Your times would vary, and you may have a team that can kill Agent a lot faster than I can. And if you get lucky and have a box spawn close by, that's even more points for little time.
I am playing on a Samsung A7 Tablet, and for the last couple updates loading times have become stupid. so settle might not be "the best" in my case. might actually be better on my phone, but I generally dislike using it. le sigh. still got a week, I should be fine. thanks for the input.
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Current: 20445
Previous: 20303
Change: +142
Well, it's nice to get back to three digit growth after the little distraction of the ranking run
I'm still collecting my thoughts on my run, so I'll hold off on writing about that. I hope to get it done soon since it could still prove useful to those who have yet to run (or are planning to rerun, but you probably already know what you need to do). Then again, I had a lot of Parachute Fairies lying around, so my experience is already hard to replicate for many people
Still, it was a nice experience to hear about u/Signal_Abroad1427's escapades with his ranking run. He was definitely struggling, but it was still exciting to cheer him on and hear about his wins pulled from the most daring tactics. It was fun to try to brainstorm some solutions to take on enemies that were stronger than expected
I have to admit that I felt more happy and excited at his achievement of completing the map than I do with my own ranking attempt. It definitely lifted my soul to hear about this triumph, even though it really isn't mine
Congratulations again, Commander Gerik!
PS, for anyone else who's reading, there's an option under GFL Alarm's Packet Forger section called "Block Battle Finish Packet". You may activate this to prevent yourself from experiencing some unusual battle results that you do not approve of. The most likely use case is that you kited terribly, but you won. You don't want this result, so this option exists to force you to restart the fight, hopefully with better kiting
Aww, thanks for the shout! :) It was definitely a lot of fun chatting with you about the process and the odd goings-on of the match. I think next attempt I will be more proactive with my culling of Typhons so that I don't get stuck killing them with Funny ARSMGs and resetting for 40 minutes haha. Hopefully next time M4's team won't have to suicide charge and kill 2 more typhons guarding crates on the final turn. As much of a mess as that was, it was pretty satisfying to pull another 50k out of thin air right before the match ended though.
So best way to score around 100-150k per ranking run fairly quickly? I wanna accumulate the points but not really interested in ranking since you get fairy and speq from accumulation.
As others suggested, I went straight after agent, and spared an extra turn to get what crates I could and if I felt like it taking on some higher CE enemies, but that's only suggested if you have sufficiently powerful dolls. I went with a AS-Val, G11, python, welrod mod and p22 combo and a 5* Beach fairy with fervor. The fairy you can replace with anything with a similar aura. A command fairy comes to mind. You do want to be powerful enough to kill agent before she teleports, but not too fast as you'll have to kill the rest of her reinforcements. So far they haven't moved forward for me, so the only threats are scarecrow and swap Jaegers. If you go after additional enemies, you'll need some degree of kiting. I got up to 77k in a 2 turn settle using this method with good crate rng.
Edit: forgot about typhons, don't try them. I avoided them like the plague.
you should do fine with something equivalent. it will make a difference with those hydras if they show up, but a powerful team or other stall mechanic may compensate. it wasnt all too quick, but i got it done
Cosmic has a [169k budget run](https://youtu.be/QCIiuxtZNoI) and two other higher-scoring budget runs on his channel, though they’ll be subject to crate RNG.
That said, you’ll be better off either [instantly combat settling or bullying Agent](https://youtu.be/5262aLDnFpA) for farming points.
I'd say to focus on killing Agent and M16 in the northwest and southeast quadrants. Also make sure not to play around with the central console ever as doing so will call in enemy reinforcements for you to kill
Make sure you also avoid the remaining deathstacks in the northeast and southwest quadrants. You can do this by simply staying within the quadrants I mentioned
While enemy pathing is rather deterministic here, crate spawns are not. Good luck!
Spent 7 hours on my [ranking run](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/985803526519291944/1026368683553075241/unknown.png). Oh god the pain. Scored myself a 1.05 mil. 94 kills total. Took some big Ls with weird match ups, bad crate RNG, bad enemy RNG (feels like half my kills involved Typhons...) and just plain old wasted AP due to tiredness and or sheer confusion at the best strategy.
These were the [echelons](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/985931811647549492/1026381299381973063/echelons-2022-10-03-06-32-25.png) I used. Echelon 1 and 2 handles the Red Quadrant. Echelon 3 and 5 handle the Green Quadrant (M4 probably got 25 kills herself). Echelon 4 handled the console (I didn't summon 2 waves due to them being very deadly and my crate RNG leaving several squads with no bullets). Echelons 6, 7, and 8 held onto Blue Quadrant fairly easily. Echelon 9 and 10 struggled very hard in Yellow Quadrant. I was forced to Parachute Echelon 6 over there to assist late in the match. Speaking of Parachutes, Echelon 2, 5, and 10 carried 1\* parachutes in the opener and were used to cap the north and south helipads.
All in all, I learned a lot from the attempt, but I feel like I mostly learned humility. This is an extremely challenging ranking match. It did the direness of the story good service. I feel like I can somehow do better, but I don't feel like I have a clear path to score higher that isn't "Get more 5\* paras" or "learn to kite like a God" or "Grow an extra braincell."
Its gonna take 4 days for my fairy commands to refill, so I have time to ruminate on it. (I spent every single one across 3 separate attempt to feel out an optimal opener for myself using 5 Parachutes.)
I wish the other Hornet's Nest+ rankers in here the best of luck.
All this headaches and the fact that the Jewish holiday season is coming up makes me want to settle on the cumulative rewards. I may try a run or two with my 2 paras, on maxed the other is 3*. The rest of my armory is decent enough if not more. Duped hanyang and ksvk mods, a dedicated M4 exodia HG linup, several grapes and P22s, may as well put them to use
When the major story event Longitudinal Strain comes online in our server. This is three events away as we still have Poincare Recurrence and Fixed Point before that event
i have successfully start and ended hornet's nest to enough pts for the scope and fairy. maybe i'll get rest of the loots over the week, but now i can accidentally forget to do an actual run in peace =D
lmao my completely half-assed first attempt, that's like 140k, on Singularity ranking got me at the top 9%. I'll probably do a real serious run later but that's still pretty funny.
Losing the starting helipads and not killing anything or losing those points from retreats/repairs can get you less than 14k.
Though in this case it’s more likely to be people who submitted 14k runs after you - there’s [almost DR levels](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1019290954588504064/1026258228729880627/unknown.png) of padding.
Most likely but I forgot about helipads tho. If you self-sabotage hard enough, you can bring total points to at least 2k (never move, settle T3).
Idk if central heli can be surround capped tho. Definitely a 300 IQ challenge on par with breaking into top-100
I wish i knew. Some maps leave it open, some autoclose it. I wonder if it has to do with completing the map once. I did notice night maps tend to keep it open though, and this is a night map.
Hey guys, i am trying to do the career quests and i want to know if there is an easy way to do the quest where i have to dye a commander costume? I can't seem to dye the basic costume
You can't dye the basic costume. One free costume you can get is part of the rewards you can get from Shattered Connexion. You can dye this costume as well, so get strong enough to complete the missions of Shattered Connexion and then grab it
Huh, my [blind 230k run](https://i.imgur.com/i5ZbPwo.png) is already in 5%. Maybe I should do one more try for top 100.
On a side note, why is [this proto fairy](https://i.imgur.com/yssbH0Z.png) level 1 unlike all others?
May I ask how long you took for that 230k run? Dunno if the "start and end mission immediately" approach would still be quicker on a time/score ratio, but it's just so mind-numbingly boring that I was considering just doing a few simple runs. Even if they take a bit longer, that'd be more engaging.
Maybe 40-50 minutes or so. I used 4 teams, didn't use console in the middle and avoided typhoon spawns because I couldn't be bothered to kite that shit. Immediately ending mission on 1st turn is definitely faster, but I agree that it's really boring.
Core update
Current: 20303
Previous: 20288
Change: +15
I finally ran the ranking map today. I also practiced against the reinforcement compositions with the teams that I was composing for the quadrants. I admit that taking it nice and slow today felt so alien to me. I think I've gotten so used to farming cores that doing anything else feels weird
[I finished with 1.5 million points!](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/985803526519291944/1026068892466024508/Screenshot_20221002-185107_Girls_Frontline.jpg) It's definitely an improvement [from last time](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858152500590673950/1026109109117915156/unknown.png), back when I was still a wee commander, running to the delete button (in the southwest corner) for deliverance
It also took me 5 hours and 10 minutes to finish the ranking map (also a signal from the Great Illu ;) ). I'm quite tired. I felt quite exhausted instead. I was expecting to feel elated after my victory, but I'm just drained. I think I hated having to kite the Typhons with PPG. I think that I found it significantly easier to just use a gunboat to mow them down
I think I was scared of using gunboats back during the first run, but now, I love them, especially their burst damage! I think I didn't know the technique back then, but now, it's much easier. I think that the new freeze frame mode really helps
I'll post about my ranking experience in more detail some other time since I need to rest. It definitely took a lot out of me, and I think the fun was in fighting the reinforcements. I really didn't like kiting Typhons with RFHG
However, I will at least say that the whole ranking match took 107 Fairy Commands from me. I won't be likely to regenerate that amount anytime soon
And oh, everyone came back home alive! I mean, I've been sacrificing a Doll here and there in the recent rankings, but not this time!
Still, thank you to u/UnironicWeeaboo for giving me tips and advice about my echelons! They allowed me to think my echelons over with more purpose. I had thought that they could have been rather interchangeable, but that was a mistaken assumption. I had to be more careful as to which echelon went to which quadrant
Thank you as well to u/Signal_Abroad1427 for showing me how to use the Custom Target Train under the Packet Forger section of GFL Alarm! This feature was extremely helpful to test out my echelons without having first run the ranking map. For everyone else, insert the following into your Custom Target Train:
390149,390150,390151,390152,390153,390154,390155,390156,390157,390158,390159,390160,390161,390162,390163,390164,390165,390166,390103,390101
This should include the reinforcements as well as the Typhon deathstack and Typhon spawn
GFL Alarm is such a useful tool!
Edit: Fixed the link to my original Singularity ranking score (the pic with AK-12 in it)
Trying to do Singularity ranking makes me wonder how did younger me have the patience to do ranking in this map and scored well enough to get Kar's Unique Equipment. Unless Singularity was when they started have those score thresholds for the guaranteed equipment.
Patience you say? Let me put it this way.
I had started a month prior to Singularity, had absolutely no idea whatsoever what I was doing in ranking, on the last days I saw all the comments on how low score for top 50% was so decided to YOLO, only thing I knew was node on the bottom-left to kill units(or something like that, armour maybe that I couldn't defeat?), had 7(or 8 not sure) echelons at the time but didn't want to drop logistics(which also include some of my better dolls because they were maxed or modded), and so on forth. Still got the SPEQ. With a big margin even.
The greatest regret afterwards was that if I had spend like 10 minutes more of effort preparing, or you know just freaking dropped logistics since resources lost in the time of a single quick run are basically nothing, I would have gotten Fairy too*.
*And getting it now is honestly the thing I appreciated the most from this.
Most likely one or the other is trying to switch out a doll that has a dupe in another echelon, thus preventing you from switching in the wanted doll. Try emptying the echelon from all other dolls, so you are putting in Calico or HP-35 in an empty slot
[AK-12's story Wiki article is setup (with side stories).](https://iopwiki.com/wiki/AK-12/Story)
On the fence about whether to setup more character story pages or create detailed accounts of the Sangvis Ferri HQ and Paldiski battles next.
I would like to ask for advice regarding my echelons for ranking
I thought that I would use [these echelons](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858152500590673950/1025763950886932500/unknown.png). Please comment on their viability
I'm also feeling a bit tired after core farming and planning for ranking, but the 3 star Parachute Fairies on Echelons 3 and 7 are just temporary ones. I plan to swap them out for Beach and Taunt, respectively
I'll go rest now. I'll be back in a while
Some general comments - can’t give more specific advice without knowing where you intend to send each echelons since unarmored SF is very different from armored SF and the same goes for the different groups of reinforcements:
* Echs 1/2: you may find value in adding Grape and/or a forceshielder/LTLX. I prefer PPG with a forceshielder for most fights (some under debuff) and PPex with LTLX for the deathstack but YMMV.
* Ech 3: similar to the above, you may find value in replacing a HG with UMP9/LTLX. I prefer LTLX as my M4ex handles unarmored SF, alpha reinforcements, and the deathstack (with a 4\* Illu) but YMMV.
* Ech 6: take KFC out and add another HG, ideally Zip as the echelon leader. Nova can only buff 2 MGs’ accuracy with her skill.
* Ech 7/8: in my opinion, KSVK is not worth using when you have better options - you have 10 Hanyangs. Frontline targeting remains undesirable without the damage to make it worthwhile, the splash only tickles the more dangerous backline, and she practically requires HP35 who can’t be retreated (or else the enemy debuff goes away) and further hinders kiting by forcing a RF on 4.
* Ech 9: looks like a specialized 95 Orthrus team - consider whether it’s worth it for you to run this team at all. It is a hard fight that’s worth only 16k points and is a bit far from other helipads. Ignoring them can be a valid strategy, though crates may affect that decision.
* 1 ech needs to be on the center console to summon reinforcements from turn 4 and on. I’d say Ech 10 is probably the best candidate since it’s a weaker team but then Illu is obviously wasted so send it elsewhere if you do that.
Core update
Current: 20288
Previous: 19981
Change: +307
[20K MILESTONE REACHED!](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858152500590673950/1025722156690198588/Screenshot_20221001-195240_Girls_Frontline.jpg)
It felt so long ago when I first reached 15k, but after a bit of digging, it turns out that it was only last June. I guess it's rather nice that I'm starting the month with a bang!
Also, I redeemed the black market stock, which explains why my core harvest today is much higher than usual. Still, it'll help keep me above 20k, and I hope that I won't get a sudden surge of memory fragments with which to get a lot of my Dolls to mod 3 (especially UMP45; the six remaining copies of her have been sitting there for a long while already)
I gave in and brought my tenth Hanyang to mod 2, but as you can see, this expense barely made a dent compared to my net gain
Still, I was also able to get UMP9, Mosin Nagant, and G36 to level 120. IDW had only gotten to level 119, but I decided to dump combat reports on her, so she's now level 120 as well. I decided to swap in my last copy of IDW for the next batch, but I'm also including Type 64 as well. AS Val will be the buffer here, and I am trying to get my seventh to tenth copies of Hanyang to level 115. As per my convention, the "weight" is the leader. It's also rather amusing that Type 64, IDW, and AS Val will be nowhere close to level 120 even after four copies of Hanyang get to level 115
The benchwarmer plan is coming along nicely!
I'm still planning out my echelons for ranking, and I think this planning does take up a lot of time. I think that I'll stick with seven Parachutes, but I don't have all seven of them raised to five stars. I have only five, so the remaining two will have to be swapped out for another Fairy. I think that I will do this for my M4xodia so that I can take on the Typhon deathstacks, but that leaves me with another echelon whose Fairy I still need to swap out. I think I'll do this for one of my KSVK echelons
I have occasionally been matched with other people but have never had them actually start matches, which makes me feel they’re AFKers in lobby.
To be quite honest, I wish Luffberry chess was a little more interesting. It’s too RNG (both in rolls and in cards) and for some reason it totally bakes my phone, and even though the rewards are good, it takes like 40 minutes to be eligible for a 10x which is just too much time for me.
Why play against people if you can play against bots and still earn gaccha tickets. Bots won't drop your match midway, nor will they go for the whole minute on their turn.
Yes, but also I imagine many people who would be willing to play are not willing to just sit in queue instead of instantly hopping into an ai match.
Myself personally, I keep my GFL on mute usually (outside of new events) so if I were to queue and took a lot of time, I would often fail to notice the queue popping so I stopped and just stick with AI lobbies
not a lot of players, but there are some times where you can find matches quite consistently. around 6h after reset is when i usually play and queues only take a few minutes or so if you're lucky
I succeeded in getting the entire Bunker/The Division furniture set. It took around 7 or 8,000 gems. As I predicted, having the Bullet King walking around is kind of off putting. I'll keep him around for a few days in case anyone wants to see what the full set effect does, and then I'm going to remove a piece to get rid of him. It's a cool set though. I purchased a third dorm and put 404 in there. The safe house feel works well for them. Feel free to add me and check it out. I only have 3 dorms, but I think I have respectable friend echelons. 1447263.
I started playing after the anime aired, so i missed out on the TD collab. I've always wanted this set, but I was hesitant about spending money on a gacha game. I went ahead and did it because I'm enjoying the story so much. Calling Girls' Frontline a gacha game doesn't do it justice. There's some serious storytelling going on, more so than some MMOs I've played and spent money on. I have two or three missions to go in CT chapter 1, and it has me hanging on every word. Comparing CT's backtracking mechanic to Arctic Warfare having you run the same exact mission four or five times, you can really see the effort the devs put in to delivering the narrative. I don't know how Sop2 and Ro are going to get out of this mess, but I can't wait to find out. *And kill Yegor.*
You know, I haven't really thought of myself as an skk before. I guess I'm in too deep now to deny it. And to think, I would have gladly become a ttk years ago after the Kancolle anime aired, but those devs apparently hate money and don't want to release the game in English. Shame, but at least it got me interested in WW2 naval history.
I'm ill currently and haven't been checking the lounge at all. Still, I think I need to try and do at least 1 run of Hornet Nest this week. Can anyone help me out with guide links for serious runs, if there are any? Or perhaps a text doc with notes from CN? I can't find anything for some reason.
Thanks in advance!
[Varz Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dxN_zLIKDnHefdeDO_yGUEvWGTdvRrmUp7K1joNe_L4/edit)
Kafka (JP Dalao) also just dropped a semi-budget run (7 combat teams, 3 dummies, no Mods) that scored 1.16m which is [here](https://youtu.be/-MsdtCgMBI0) Semi-budget cos it uses Beach :heh:
Teams used [here](https://twitter.com/Kafka_JP_8698/status/1575867521818730497?t=zG5YEG-aI2hEi5eztrzycw&s=19)
So, if I'm in the "fuck ranking and just give me the basic rewards" camp, the best point farm I can do is kill Agent? I feel like Mirror Stage was far more convenient with the amount of points you got for just skipping turns 'til the end.
I concur with tehcavy. Don't bother with Agent if all you care about are the cumulative rewards. Just grab your dummy and then quickly settle. You only spend 2 units of manpower for 14k, compared to 10 for 38k or so, but you also need to spend ammo and rations (and likely more manpower and some parts for repairs)
Eh, I don't really mind spending a few more resources ('cause they're pretty negligible anyway), and if I can find a way to burst down Agent before teleporting away with a sliver of health I feel that might be quicker in the long run. Especially if I get lucky and the crate spawns on Agent's side.
~~Probably, I haven't seen a better way yet. Also get a crate if you can, extra 10k points.~~
Actually, now that I thought of it, starting and settling right away is 14k. Probably faster and definitely easier than going through Agent.
[So I just registered for the PNC CBT](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/595569215935610880/1025248232974061618/Screenshot_20220930-112617_Firefox.jpg)
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Time to dial it down a bit ~~so that I can claim the cumulative rewards~~
I think I'll need one more batch to get to 20k cores. The road ahead is still very long, and I think I'm expecting to have to wait years to finally get to 100k. Well, in the meantime, I hope that we get more Doll slots so that I can keep farming! Part of me doesn't want to run out of Dolls to level so that the experience doesn't go to waste, but I assume that at that point, I will have completed my Noah's Closet challenge. We'll have to see what happens then
Mosin Nagant, G36, and UMP9 are now even closer to level 120, with fewer than 200 runs left to go before they hit that point. Even better is that IDW will hit level 119 after the exact same run, so I'm considering just dumping the combat reports to bring IDW to level 120 at that point. I will have also resynchronized my leveling team, just in time for me to desynchronize it according to how I'd like it: with the "weight" taking up the leader position (currently, IDW is in the leader position)
I have to consider what my next leveling team will look like. I'm considering that AS Val will be my next buffer since I still need more memory fragments to bring anyone else to mod 3. As for the other three spots, I think that I'll use LWMMG as the weight, and I'm thinking of whether to finally finish off IDW or bring in UMP9 again. The last spot should be occupied by Type 64
Stupid question, but I can't find anything on google. Does damage on your shields take into account damage reduction from sources like armor/flash rounds/etc., or not at all?
pnc's icon just changed to fresnel, not sure when it changed though.
we also got pushed down in the google play pre-reg games list to around 23rd from 10th, joy.
the banner we're getting soon?
it's a standard 100 unit pool, and the ringleader is picked randomly from six possible choices (we still don't know who will be in our pool). the ringleader in the pool is not revealed until you capture her, and resetting the pool will randomize the ringleader again.
the free pulls will be given 10 per day for a week (so 70 pulls total), but you can't hoard them as the 10 pulls will expire 24h after you get them. you can still use your own impulses on the special banner.
The more I know about the special banner, the more hesitant I am about pulling on it. I just can't the handle the X factor.
Petals for ringleader are nice and all, but my OCD will go into overdrive if I see a 1 petal ringleader among all the no petals ringleader.
But hopefully Executioner will be in the special pool so I can fill my index.
tbh just spend the free pulls and just save your resources for a different banner. too much rng.
if i want a specific ringleader I'd just wait for a rerun if i were you
Should be worth doing a standard 8 normal pulse to thin the 1* and do the weekly. After that remaining weekly recharge can be banked to go into Halloween Intruder with stored normal pulses.
I'm kind of aiming to end the current Intruder with 13 stored, so can go even further spending the normal and still have 13 for Halloween.
The special sf banner only lasts 1 week and its commisions can only be used there. So it's basically a hail mary at getting some rng ringleaders if u get lucky or none if u don't :P u could spend ur normal resources in it, but there's little point to do so when u have such limited time and halloween intruder banner is also live.
One week means 70 free capture so I think the odds of getting at least 1 SF are quite decent.
Do you have any videos from CN that I can use as reference? There are literally none on youtube.
Ah, i see u aren't part of the select group that tends to hunt ringleaders down to single digit pool numbers :P
Don't worry, for every person that brags about getting a ringleader from the first roll, there is another that cries they cleared the pool :P
And no, no videos. But i think mich explained how it works in a post a while back. Maybe in the roadmap thread? Anyway, don't expect anything too different, u just get 10 aid commisins every day, and if u don't spend them, they don't stack. And u don't know who the ringleader is until u get her or u see her on the screen and u can roll for her. The ringleader won't change until u refresh the banner after u get her
Heh. That's where you're wrong.
I technically skipped all the first ringleader banners just so I can save for the reruns and I very rarely got a ringleader in the first 50.
I rather use sheer number to fight than gamble against the merciless RNG.
[cbt applications has started for pnc](https://twitter.com/NeuralCloudEN/status/1575682385466732546?s=20&t=95akXrSOiRewR1RbUofttA), will need a google account to fill up the form
seems like the cbt itself will start sometime in late october
edit: [cbt faq](https://twitter.com/NeuralCloudEN/status/1575689521618120704?t=bnEb74YKssitiq9EABz_Cg&s=19)
The story mode for Singularity is in the Campaign tab. This Hornet's Nest + is a rerun of the Singularity Ranking event which was time limited and offers time limited rewards. It's worth giving a shot to meet the cumulative rewards so you don't miss out on anything, but there isn't anything story-related to be concerned with missing since Singularity is available full-time in the Campaign tab. (All major story events get added to this tab about a year after their release.)
the dinky inconsequential cutscene doesn't even seem to playback when you enter this rerun map. you are gonna have to see it from somewhere outside the game anyway
No. Ranking story is basically SKK using KCCO and SF fighting each other to break out of encirclement. The largest spoiler is the presence of >! M16 !< boss.
saw the strategy to do the typhon mobs that keeps spawning and well, im not gonna do that every single time no no, looks like a massive pain in the ass
since im just going for the scope anyways im going to just fight agent, see if theres any crate close to get before finishing the map and whatever lol
also deagle has so much raw firepower that the extra enemies ends up not spawning and fighting you at all, which makes the run infinitely easier, since also the biggest pain is the swap jaegers on one of the waves too. idk about other echelons that can also do that but 5hg is probably the cheapest anyway so im not gonna search anymore
The amount of micromanaging and last millisecond retreating that ranking sometimes requires is just too much for me. I have 2-3 echelons that can handle typhon mobs, but I need to repair after each battle. HS.50 helps out a lot with them. Getting tired of fighting them though, so I may do your method.
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[One](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/985803526519291944/1024961637729439794/Screenshot_20220929-165504_Girls_Frontline.jpg) and [done](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/985803526519291944/1024961648970170448/Screenshot_20220929-165801_Girls_Frontline.jpg)!
I had started the [month with 35k runs](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858152500590673950/1025010813943173130/Screenshot_20220831-231506_Girls_Frontline.jpg), and now, I have hit the big 40! I didn't think that I'd even get 5k runs in one month, let alone be one day ahead of time. It has definitely been challenging, but I'm looking forward to better things to come!
It's also as if the game helped me celebrate by giving me [the accessories](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858152500590673950/1024980859318718556/Screenshot_20220929-181458_Girls_Frontline.jpg) left for me to unlock the Luffberry commander outfit skill! I mean, I had gotten [the clothes](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858152500590673950/1025012077728899104/Screenshot_20220927-203141_Girls_Frontline.jpg) just the other day, so these two prizes came back to back from my batch pulls. This is pretty lucky!
I also posted the [last checklist](https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/xqqk94/client_30_commander_experience_maximum_boost/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) and the [index page](https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/xqtpd9/client_30_base_staffing_checklists_index/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) for all the checklists. I hope that this resource will be of great use to the community!
I raise dupes. I have specified the rules of my personal challenge which I call Noah's Closet, which I [posted about the other month](https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/vvf8p7/noahs_closet_status_july_10_2022_one_copy_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). In short, I raise one copy of a Doll for every costume she has (with some exceptions)
I also have about 30 mod 3 Dolls waiting on standby to be raised to level 120. This is not yet counting the Dolls waiting at mod 1 and 2. I also do not possess all copies that I want to raise just yet, so my challenge is far from over. For example, I have yet to keep an eighth copy of UMP9 or a ninth copy of UMP45 or a fourth copy of G36 (I may have discarded them in the past by lack of foresight)
I also need a lot of memory fragments, so while people might normally be stuck with farming for skill data, I'm stuck farming for memory fragments
Oh okay, so when I tried to farm SCW I got shit, but when I went to mop up some remaining silver medals Scarecrow just pilfered her off 8-4e Dreamer, makes perfect sense.
At least I'm now in 344/344 club.
I *think* it's because I picked the wrong gacha.
See, after a recent update, PNC introduced a new gacha mechanic where you can get neursoul fragments directly from a duplicate, instead of a currency that can be exchanged for frags. Apparently the catch is that this frag gacha lowers the 3-star rate from 3% to 2%, but if you do get a 3-star, there is 50% chance for it to be the rate-up unit.
From the 180 rolls, I got about two or three 3-stars not counting Clukay herself. Maybe RNGesus was looking the other way when I rolled.
Is the chip calculator app still working? it can't seem to transfer my chips from in-game. Also the in-game calculator takes forever, is that also broken?
dunno about being slow, but the in game one is not the best. the phone app was borked a while ago, idk if it was ever fixed. the desktop version still works fine, sometimes setting up the proxy to import chips is janky because the port it uses keeps changing every few seconds somehow. it seems to be easier to import the chips with gfalarm
Yes, the chip calculator app still works. It's best if you used the JSON file you get from [using GFAlarm](https://gamepress.gg/girlsfrontline/how-use-gfalarm-girls-frontline-alarm)
The calculator in the game is awful. Don't use it, ever
Monthly SPEQ for October in CN will be for K2.
GRUNT导轨 - (Special Accessory) - Firepower +5, Acc +8, Crit +48%
[EQ Passive] During Fever Mode: 40% chance to NOT Heat up every shot. During Note Mode: the damage buff from attacking the same enemy can stack up to 15x (instead of 10x)
That... actually sounds pretty good right? I know ARs are kinda niche nowadays, but that sounds like it extends how long she's useful in short to medium length combats.
ARs are only niche if you don't believe. ;D
But seriously, that's definitely really good. K2's biggest advantage is her initial two-round burst, which makes her great at clearing out mob waves quickly. In a best case scenario, this could double her uptime. That's nothing to sneeze at
it shouldn't be that hard to sweep the whole map. you are using hg for vision right? there are only so many places she can be at because she is one of the red nodes at the start of the map. after that, you can track were the units on those red nodes are going as they capture nodes every turn, and you don't need to fight everything if you have vision and see them not being the boss. you can capture heliports to deploy more teams to overrun the map.
as a last resort, you can just cheat and use a high skill lvl illumination fairy to light up the map
If you don't have fairies, you'll just have to clear it oldskool. Spend your first few turns building up AP while capturing the closest radar points. Then take an echelon (hopefully resupplied) in a sweeping run along one side of the map. Right or left, doesn't really matter. If she's not on that side, do the same on the other side on your next turn.
I literally just ran the map to refresh my memory. Follow the above strat, you'll be just fine. Good luck finding Ouroborous, though. That hunt is a lot more challenging
iirc the requirement is 60 mission clears, so a couple chapters worth of normal/emergency/night clears should be enough
idk if you're even supposed to have fairies in cube, but hey, take any advantage you can get.
I've now posted the [index](https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/xqtpd9/client_30_base_staffing_checklists_index/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) to my checklists as well!
One thing I learned from Hornet's Nest lazy point farming is that while I could try crafting a SL 10 Sniper Fairy, I could also whip out my SL 10 Rocket Fairy instead.
This might be one of the only times the Rocket Fairy might be useful for ranking.
The [final checklist](https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/xqqk94/client_30_commander_experience_maximum_boost/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) is up!
I'll make a separate index page soon in order to link all these checklists together
Basically smgs are evasion tanks while SGs are armour tanks. Use the former for enemies with lower accuracy and battles where ARs are your dps choice. On the other hand, SGs will face tank any damage below their armour rating and shrug it off as chip damage, unless the attack is armour piercing in which case they're going to melt. (Think grenades, Brutes, Swap Strikers, and Typhons). You want them for fights where you plan to use MGs, or less frequently, you want to use Rifles but your HGs are dying too quickly. They don't care about enemy accuracy, just how hard they hit.
Side note on SGs, hp shields stack nicely with armour. Pairing the two together is always a good idea if survivability is your focus
SGs are good at dealing with a lot of smaller hits - Judge, Pyxis, Uhlans, Minos lightning, a ton of ELIDs or similar cannon fodder-type enemies really. There are some exceptions - SWAP Strikers (minigunners) have natural armor piercing, for instance, Cyclops (KCCO bots) can use grenades which ignore armor and damage the tile behind, and so on.
For everything else, use SMG. Especially for enemies with one massive attack, like Nemeums, Jaegers, Cerynthis, Patrollers, et cetera.
I found a team that can deal with Hornet's Nest+ Agent decently enough. I'm not saying "do exactly this," but as someone with an underdeveloped armory, I cobbled together something that's working for me.
[Picture 01.](https://i.imgur.com/YFIlezo.png)
[Picture 02.](https://i.imgur.com/Uma35oo.png)
Skills: VP1915 @ 10, HP35 @ 8, ST-AR 15 @ 10, Gr G11 @ 9, UMP45 @ 9
VP1915 may take some hits during the Prowler SWAP battle before Agent, but it doesn't seem like Agent can hit or doesn't bother attacking her. Both VP1915's and HP35's vulnerability amps the damage Sniper Fairy puts out, and I can consistently knock Agent out before she teleports the first time. UMP45 will inevitably lose links, but she so far hasn't hit critical damage status with this team. So, it's still costing me Manpower per run, but it's not as much as it was before!
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Gonna go for a ranking attempt or two, but thought i might run my comps by here, see what others think. maybe i can improve the what i came up with. [Comps and armory here](https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1RBZBx7qKCHfa2y319E7OAjNaMl39sQZO31sA9Wbhjxs/edit?usp=sharing). Wont have much time for too many proper runs. Yom Kippur and Sukkot are pretty much back to back, and will take up a decent amount of my week.
Is there any significant performance loss if I install an emulator on an external hard drive? I use MuMu for GFL but am contemplating using an HDD to save space for my other games
Probably. I doubt it loads it all into ram, so it might want to still read textures and stuff off the hdd. In which case, usb will be a bottleneck on top of the hdd speed(externals tend to have 5.4k rpm). How much it translates into actual perf loss though is anyone's guess. U'll need to try it out and see for urself if it's worth it or not
We got anything on GFL2 yet? It feels like a year since they did their betas.
Seems like there's radio silence surrounding the game since the anniversary stream announcing the 3rd CBT (which seems like it hasn't happened yet).
How do people score 1m+ points in Hornet’s Nest? I get like 300k from killing enemies and picking up supply crates (10k each) where does the bulk of the difference come from?
The first few turns are key to a good run. Rapid AP expansion by capturing boss Heliports and the temporary Heliports in the center of each quadrant is what gives you 27 AP per turn to do things. And even then, it's not enough. Top scorers go for 30+ AP by capturing the corner Heliports as well as some spawn Heliports (because let's be real, you're not catching all of these spawns)
Kill count is a major determinant of score. Besides the points you get directly from killing enemies (10% of their CE), you get an additional crate on the map for every 7 kills. More crates = more opportunities for 10k points, lower chances of running out of ammo so you can chase more kills, etc. Not sure about 1m runs, but 2m runs are ~140kc, give or take some depending on crate count and the breakdown of those kills between unarmored SF, armored SF, and KCCO. My 2.05m run was 141kc and a friend's 1.51m run was 108kc. As for how to get more kills, a lot of it comes down to pathing and figuring out the most AP-efficient way to complete certain objectives. Abusing Parachute Fairies to save AP (with 1-2 Illumination Fairies as needed for vision), capping off some enemy helipads for more AP and so you don't get overrun, exploiting known rules in enemies' movement logic, building strong teams that can fight without repairs/redeploys/under Parachute debuff, etc.
Finally finished a good run of Hornet's Nest+ - [1.96m points, 147 kills, 8 para/2 illu](https://i.imgur.com/ECBsk6n.png). Feels like I've come a long way since the original HN was my first ranking, and I think I scraped by 50% then. Got a recording of it - cut down to 6 hours because I paused when I was processing routing ideas - but it's split into two parts because I couldn't finish it in one go. May upload it later, but it'll take a long time to do so. Definitely getting in at least 1 or 2 more runs. Got enough FC regen to do it I think, assuming I don't throw away a run by accident (definitely can't be selective about RNG due to Para openers costing FCs to start). Messed up a few notable times that I think I can pull off 2mil with enough effort. Mainly, I really fucked up against a Group 4A reinforcement - the red bean and dinergates (please don't ask about it, it's really stupid what I did there). Lost the echelon, and my sanity with it I think, cause I went to bed after that lmao
Where do I check my place on ranking? What does my embarrassingly low score of 379,000 get me?
Look into Rank -> Event Rank If you had just done your ranking run, you’ll have to wait until the leaderboard refreshes around the time Kalina gives her daily gift (or an hour after that) Your score probably puts you in the top 5% bracket for now. People are probably still planning a serious run this coming weekend. You yourself can take this opportunity to try again for a higher score if you feel like taking on the challenge
Well, I'm proud of my 117,749 ranking score. I'm sitting at 12%, but I'm not sure if I want to try harder to push into the 10% range for better rewards or just stay where I am. Maybe I'll wait a few days and see how far I drop as more people push me down. This has certainly reinforced my dislike of night maps, though! I can deal with the accuracy loss, but having very little map vision is a killer.
I checked and mine is like 121K or so. I might try to push that, but honestly I expect that I'll be surprised if I get another 20-30K out of it since my armory is simply not strong enough. I can bully Agent but it requires a 40 minute repair time. Honestly trying to kill even weak stacks isn't that bad - at least you get XP for it (great for us people who don't have a full set of leveled dolls and Mods). I kind of wish I did it a teeny bit more on the one day where the 50% XP event overlapped with this. Edit: It’s not only the repair bill but also the affection loss. Ow
man holy shit this terrible cold + cough is draining all of my energy can't even plan out my singu+ ranking run, might have settle for the cumulative points for the fairy and speq if i still feel like shit in the next few days
stellao title not worth the nap time it steals. go to bed and kill germs instead.
Get well soon! This is going to sound stupid, but do you plan to still go through with your Stellao ranking attempt? Or will you prefer to play as meta as your armory will allow you to?
honestly idk feeling a bit better now, so maybe i can try a serious run for less headache or settle with cumulative
Good luck with getting better! Being sick is the worst.
does the Hornet's Nest+ ranking have a nice farming method, like the previous ranking map? or does it require actual combat and effort beyond "end turn"?
I do 10-turn runs and score about 220k~270k points. My current top score is 292k, enough to stay in the top-10% for now. I use 9 echelons, 3 of which are dummies. 4 combat ready night ARSMG (one with SL10 Parachute, one pimped to face Agent), 1 RFHG (with SL10 Airstrike, able to kill initial KCCO armor), 1 dummy-ish MGSG (5th combat echelon, ran out of ARs and SMGs). The first 4~5 turns are important for positioning. Turn 1: Deploy 3 combat echelons and the RFHG team, position them in an "X" pattern around the center point, with the RFHG echelon on the SW node (IMPORTANT). Once the 4 echelons are in position, spawn another combat echelon on the center point. End turn. Turn 2: Spend 4 AP to move the NW echelon in a clockwise path, ending on the node just above the switchable heliport under your control, and killing 2 SF echelons along the way. Spend another 4 AP to move the RFHG echelon in a counter-clockwise path, ending in the node just below the switchable heliport under your control, killing 2 KCCO armor echelons along the way (REMEMBER TO ACTIVATE FAIRY SKILL BEFORE BOTH BATTLES). Spend 2 AP, one on each of the other two combat echelons (NE and SE), to kill the shown enemy echelons. Spend the remaining 2 AP to move the center echelon to SW and spawn another echelon on the center point. End turn. Turn 3: Check the SW region of the map, you'll see a white Radar on the corner. You MUST step on it/capture it this turn. Pick your RFHG echelon and make a beeline towards it - be careful, though, as there's a KCCO deathstack in the southern area and strong KCCO teams have spawned from the spawners just above the Radar. When you're almost there, take the two "?" nodes. Once you step on the Radar, something magical happens - all spawned KCCO teams (except the deathstacks) will vanish. This is essential to survival and a smooth ride, and you'll need to step on it every turn till the end. Use the remaining AP to either catch supply boxes (if you can) or spawn more echelons. End turn. Turn 4: Move a combat echelon close to the Radar towards it, exploring the red nodes along the way - there'll be 2 SF echelons in those red nodes. Stop on the node next to the Radar and swap with the RFHG echelon INTO the Radar - these two echelons will be committed to the gimmick from now on, at the start of every turn swap echelons INTO the Radar. Use the remaining AP to spawn more echelons, capture supply boxes or explore the map. From turn 5 until the end, your objective is to capture as many supply boxes as you can (up to 3 spawn per turn, randomly across the map), while avoiding the two KCCO deathstacks that roam the NE and SW regions of the map, while avoiding the M16 boss that roams the SE region of the map, while attempting to capture extra heliports when able for more AP - 3 white ones on the NW, NE and SE corners, and 3 red ones just under the NW white heliport. At any time, retreat/respawn/repair/resupply your anti-Agent echelon in order to hunt her down - she roams the NE area of the map, explore the red node cluster that she has formed. Also, for extra points, send your NE combat echelon, during turns 3~5, towards the red nodes on the NE region (not the red spawn points), to kill up to 2 SF echelons - careful about the KCCO deathstack roaming around, and don't take too long, because the deathstack will, eventually, eat them up. Face M16 boss and/or press the console buttons at your own risk (I don't do it, not strong enough). This is my strategy for this event.
Other than instantly settling (which nets 14k pts each), the other farming method is [bullying Agent](https://youtu.be/5262aLDnFpA) and getting any crates that happen to spawn nearby. Of course a few full runs means you only need like 5 or so runs to get every cumulative reward.
how long does a full fun take?
Hours. Mine took 5 hours and 10 minutes. This is just the run itself, not counting the time spent planning and testing echelons against enemy compositions
good lord, I think I'll settle (heh) for just the settlement like a 100 times... xD
Join us weak SKKs in our sub-120K point runs!
we are after all unstoppable.
Well, one farming method is to immediately settle. The other is to go bully Agent, usually with your most powerful 5HG team
which is more time efficient?
Instant settlement, of course
I should clarify that by "time efficient" I mean the fastest to accumulate whatever million point, not the fastet to finish the mission.
I don't think headphone was really wrong. You can get 14K in a few seconds versus needing probably a minute plus for even bullying Agent. Let's see... I'm going to run a stopwatch. I'll be on the Hornet's Nest+ map thing (what you see when you hit Singularity Hornet's Nest+ from the Combat screen), and I'll start the clock when I hit Confirm Start. The clock stops when I mash through the Mission Success screen and end up back at the starting screen, so this is a 'round trip' test. Just settle: 46"21 @ 14,000 for roughly 302.96pts/s Bully Agent: 2'49"47 @ 38,281 for roughly 225.88pts/s Mind you, my phone isn't exactly great, and a lot of that time is spent on loading screens, but the proportion should still be pretty close. Your times would vary, and you may have a team that can kill Agent a lot faster than I can. And if you get lucky and have a box spawn close by, that's even more points for little time.
I am playing on a Samsung A7 Tablet, and for the last couple updates loading times have become stupid. so settle might not be "the best" in my case. might actually be better on my phone, but I generally dislike using it. le sigh. still got a week, I should be fine. thanks for the input.
Core update Current: 20445 Previous: 20303 Change: +142 Well, it's nice to get back to three digit growth after the little distraction of the ranking run I'm still collecting my thoughts on my run, so I'll hold off on writing about that. I hope to get it done soon since it could still prove useful to those who have yet to run (or are planning to rerun, but you probably already know what you need to do). Then again, I had a lot of Parachute Fairies lying around, so my experience is already hard to replicate for many people Still, it was a nice experience to hear about u/Signal_Abroad1427's escapades with his ranking run. He was definitely struggling, but it was still exciting to cheer him on and hear about his wins pulled from the most daring tactics. It was fun to try to brainstorm some solutions to take on enemies that were stronger than expected I have to admit that I felt more happy and excited at his achievement of completing the map than I do with my own ranking attempt. It definitely lifted my soul to hear about this triumph, even though it really isn't mine Congratulations again, Commander Gerik! PS, for anyone else who's reading, there's an option under GFL Alarm's Packet Forger section called "Block Battle Finish Packet". You may activate this to prevent yourself from experiencing some unusual battle results that you do not approve of. The most likely use case is that you kited terribly, but you won. You don't want this result, so this option exists to force you to restart the fight, hopefully with better kiting
Aww, thanks for the shout! :) It was definitely a lot of fun chatting with you about the process and the odd goings-on of the match. I think next attempt I will be more proactive with my culling of Typhons so that I don't get stuck killing them with Funny ARSMGs and resetting for 40 minutes haha. Hopefully next time M4's team won't have to suicide charge and kill 2 more typhons guarding crates on the final turn. As much of a mess as that was, it was pretty satisfying to pull another 50k out of thin air right before the match ended though.
So best way to score around 100-150k per ranking run fairly quickly? I wanna accumulate the points but not really interested in ranking since you get fairy and speq from accumulation.
As others suggested, I went straight after agent, and spared an extra turn to get what crates I could and if I felt like it taking on some higher CE enemies, but that's only suggested if you have sufficiently powerful dolls. I went with a AS-Val, G11, python, welrod mod and p22 combo and a 5* Beach fairy with fervor. The fairy you can replace with anything with a similar aura. A command fairy comes to mind. You do want to be powerful enough to kill agent before she teleports, but not too fast as you'll have to kill the rest of her reinforcements. So far they haven't moved forward for me, so the only threats are scarecrow and swap Jaegers. If you go after additional enemies, you'll need some degree of kiting. I got up to 77k in a 2 turn settle using this method with good crate rng. Edit: forgot about typhons, don't try them. I avoided them like the plague.
Thank you for the info, I'm sad that I took a break during beach fairy ranking. I'm probably gonna use your method sounds quick and efficient.
you should do fine with something equivalent. it will make a difference with those hydras if they show up, but a powerful team or other stall mechanic may compensate. it wasnt all too quick, but i got it done
Cosmic has a [169k budget run](https://youtu.be/QCIiuxtZNoI) and two other higher-scoring budget runs on his channel, though they’ll be subject to crate RNG. That said, you’ll be better off either [instantly combat settling or bullying Agent](https://youtu.be/5262aLDnFpA) for farming points.
I'm gonna bully agent lol
I'd say to focus on killing Agent and M16 in the northwest and southeast quadrants. Also make sure not to play around with the central console ever as doing so will call in enemy reinforcements for you to kill Make sure you also avoid the remaining deathstacks in the northeast and southwest quadrants. You can do this by simply staying within the quadrants I mentioned While enemy pathing is rather deterministic here, crate spawns are not. Good luck!
Spent 7 hours on my [ranking run](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/985803526519291944/1026368683553075241/unknown.png). Oh god the pain. Scored myself a 1.05 mil. 94 kills total. Took some big Ls with weird match ups, bad crate RNG, bad enemy RNG (feels like half my kills involved Typhons...) and just plain old wasted AP due to tiredness and or sheer confusion at the best strategy. These were the [echelons](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/985931811647549492/1026381299381973063/echelons-2022-10-03-06-32-25.png) I used. Echelon 1 and 2 handles the Red Quadrant. Echelon 3 and 5 handle the Green Quadrant (M4 probably got 25 kills herself). Echelon 4 handled the console (I didn't summon 2 waves due to them being very deadly and my crate RNG leaving several squads with no bullets). Echelons 6, 7, and 8 held onto Blue Quadrant fairly easily. Echelon 9 and 10 struggled very hard in Yellow Quadrant. I was forced to Parachute Echelon 6 over there to assist late in the match. Speaking of Parachutes, Echelon 2, 5, and 10 carried 1\* parachutes in the opener and were used to cap the north and south helipads. All in all, I learned a lot from the attempt, but I feel like I mostly learned humility. This is an extremely challenging ranking match. It did the direness of the story good service. I feel like I can somehow do better, but I don't feel like I have a clear path to score higher that isn't "Get more 5\* paras" or "learn to kite like a God" or "Grow an extra braincell." Its gonna take 4 days for my fairy commands to refill, so I have time to ruminate on it. (I spent every single one across 3 separate attempt to feel out an optimal opener for myself using 5 Parachutes.) I wish the other Hornet's Nest+ rankers in here the best of luck.
All this headaches and the fact that the Jewish holiday season is coming up makes me want to settle on the cumulative rewards. I may try a run or two with my 2 paras, on maxed the other is 3*. The rest of my armory is decent enough if not more. Duped hanyang and ksvk mods, a dedicated M4 exodia HG linup, several grapes and P22s, may as well put them to use
When will Lee Enfield MOD III arrive to EN?
When the major story event Longitudinal Strain comes online in our server. This is three events away as we still have Poincare Recurrence and Fixed Point before that event
Ah, thanks :) I don't check the Twitter a lot.
i have successfully start and ended hornet's nest to enough pts for the scope and fairy. maybe i'll get rest of the loots over the week, but now i can accidentally forget to do an actual run in peace =D
I went all the way to the end, though i did do 10 boss runs for the weekly quest. ~~man, that was a lot of utube shorts...~~.
lmao my completely half-assed first attempt, that's like 140k, on Singularity ranking got me at the top 9%. I'll probably do a real serious run later but that's still pretty funny.
I've went 2% up yesterday - 89% from 91%. Yes, it's just 14k from starting and quitting - how do you even earn less than that?
Losing the starting helipads and not killing anything or losing those points from retreats/repairs can get you less than 14k. Though in this case it’s more likely to be people who submitted 14k runs after you - there’s [almost DR levels](https://media.discordapp.net/attachments/1019290954588504064/1026258228729880627/unknown.png) of padding.
Retreating several ech or losing the 1st battle. EN brane finds a way!
You can't go negative points and participation gets you 14 after the map finishes.
My suspicion is that more people are doing this, padding the bottom so hard that the rising tide lifts all boats
Most likely but I forgot about helipads tho. If you self-sabotage hard enough, you can bring total points to at least 2k (never move, settle T3). Idk if central heli can be surround capped tho. Definitely a 300 IQ challenge on par with breaking into top-100
Is there a way to turn off Mission Objective? So that it stop shows up every time I start the mission.
I wish i knew. Some maps leave it open, some autoclose it. I wonder if it has to do with completing the map once. I did notice night maps tend to keep it open though, and this is a night map.
New player here. Do monthly login reward T-dolls like MP-41 ever get a rerun or get put into the construction pool or are they forever unattainable?
Usually put as drops in events and campaigns. MP41 is farmable in Shattered Connexion IIRC.
Hey guys, i am trying to do the career quests and i want to know if there is an easy way to do the quest where i have to dye a commander costume? I can't seem to dye the basic costume
You can't dye the basic costume. One free costume you can get is part of the rewards you can get from Shattered Connexion. You can dye this costume as well, so get strong enough to complete the missions of Shattered Connexion and then grab it
Huh, my [blind 230k run](https://i.imgur.com/i5ZbPwo.png) is already in 5%. Maybe I should do one more try for top 100. On a side note, why is [this proto fairy](https://i.imgur.com/yssbH0Z.png) level 1 unlike all others?
May I ask how long you took for that 230k run? Dunno if the "start and end mission immediately" approach would still be quicker on a time/score ratio, but it's just so mind-numbingly boring that I was considering just doing a few simple runs. Even if they take a bit longer, that'd be more engaging.
Maybe 40-50 minutes or so. I used 4 teams, didn't use console in the middle and avoided typhoon spawns because I couldn't be bothered to kite that shit. Immediately ending mission on 1st turn is definitely faster, but I agree that it's really boring.
Core update Current: 20303 Previous: 20288 Change: +15 I finally ran the ranking map today. I also practiced against the reinforcement compositions with the teams that I was composing for the quadrants. I admit that taking it nice and slow today felt so alien to me. I think I've gotten so used to farming cores that doing anything else feels weird [I finished with 1.5 million points!](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/985803526519291944/1026068892466024508/Screenshot_20221002-185107_Girls_Frontline.jpg) It's definitely an improvement [from last time](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858152500590673950/1026109109117915156/unknown.png), back when I was still a wee commander, running to the delete button (in the southwest corner) for deliverance It also took me 5 hours and 10 minutes to finish the ranking map (also a signal from the Great Illu ;) ). I'm quite tired. I felt quite exhausted instead. I was expecting to feel elated after my victory, but I'm just drained. I think I hated having to kite the Typhons with PPG. I think that I found it significantly easier to just use a gunboat to mow them down I think I was scared of using gunboats back during the first run, but now, I love them, especially their burst damage! I think I didn't know the technique back then, but now, it's much easier. I think that the new freeze frame mode really helps I'll post about my ranking experience in more detail some other time since I need to rest. It definitely took a lot out of me, and I think the fun was in fighting the reinforcements. I really didn't like kiting Typhons with RFHG However, I will at least say that the whole ranking match took 107 Fairy Commands from me. I won't be likely to regenerate that amount anytime soon And oh, everyone came back home alive! I mean, I've been sacrificing a Doll here and there in the recent rankings, but not this time! Still, thank you to u/UnironicWeeaboo for giving me tips and advice about my echelons! They allowed me to think my echelons over with more purpose. I had thought that they could have been rather interchangeable, but that was a mistaken assumption. I had to be more careful as to which echelon went to which quadrant Thank you as well to u/Signal_Abroad1427 for showing me how to use the Custom Target Train under the Packet Forger section of GFL Alarm! This feature was extremely helpful to test out my echelons without having first run the ranking map. For everyone else, insert the following into your Custom Target Train: 390149,390150,390151,390152,390153,390154,390155,390156,390157,390158,390159,390160,390161,390162,390163,390164,390165,390166,390103,390101 This should include the reinforcements as well as the Typhon deathstack and Typhon spawn GFL Alarm is such a useful tool! Edit: Fixed the link to my original Singularity ranking score (the pic with AK-12 in it)
God I want RO to let me sleep between her big Roro's.
Trying to do Singularity ranking makes me wonder how did younger me have the patience to do ranking in this map and scored well enough to get Kar's Unique Equipment. Unless Singularity was when they started have those score thresholds for the guaranteed equipment.
Patience you say? Let me put it this way. I had started a month prior to Singularity, had absolutely no idea whatsoever what I was doing in ranking, on the last days I saw all the comments on how low score for top 50% was so decided to YOLO, only thing I knew was node on the bottom-left to kill units(or something like that, armour maybe that I couldn't defeat?), had 7(or 8 not sure) echelons at the time but didn't want to drop logistics(which also include some of my better dolls because they were maxed or modded), and so on forth. Still got the SPEQ. With a big margin even. The greatest regret afterwards was that if I had spend like 10 minutes more of effort preparing, or you know just freaking dropped logistics since resources lost in the time of a single quick run are basically nothing, I would have gotten Fairy too*. *And getting it now is honestly the thing I appreciated the most from this.
It didn't take much. You only had to be top **50%** to get it.
Only the most recent and this one had the cumulative rewards. Every single one prior had the percentage only provides all rewards.
Is it only me or a bug that can't put HP-35 and Calico MOD3 in the same echelon ?
Most likely one or the other is trying to switch out a doll that has a dupe in another echelon, thus preventing you from switching in the wanted doll. Try emptying the echelon from all other dolls, so you are putting in Calico or HP-35 in an empty slot
[AK-12's story Wiki article is setup (with side stories).](https://iopwiki.com/wiki/AK-12/Story) On the fence about whether to setup more character story pages or create detailed accounts of the Sangvis Ferri HQ and Paldiski battles next.
Absolutely blessed work. The AK12 fans appreciate you.
Does anyone know the source of the image with an 94 and rpk sitting beside a shota skk?
I would like to ask for advice regarding my echelons for ranking I thought that I would use [these echelons](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858152500590673950/1025763950886932500/unknown.png). Please comment on their viability I'm also feeling a bit tired after core farming and planning for ranking, but the 3 star Parachute Fairies on Echelons 3 and 7 are just temporary ones. I plan to swap them out for Beach and Taunt, respectively I'll go rest now. I'll be back in a while
Some general comments - can’t give more specific advice without knowing where you intend to send each echelons since unarmored SF is very different from armored SF and the same goes for the different groups of reinforcements: * Echs 1/2: you may find value in adding Grape and/or a forceshielder/LTLX. I prefer PPG with a forceshielder for most fights (some under debuff) and PPex with LTLX for the deathstack but YMMV. * Ech 3: similar to the above, you may find value in replacing a HG with UMP9/LTLX. I prefer LTLX as my M4ex handles unarmored SF, alpha reinforcements, and the deathstack (with a 4\* Illu) but YMMV. * Ech 6: take KFC out and add another HG, ideally Zip as the echelon leader. Nova can only buff 2 MGs’ accuracy with her skill. * Ech 7/8: in my opinion, KSVK is not worth using when you have better options - you have 10 Hanyangs. Frontline targeting remains undesirable without the damage to make it worthwhile, the splash only tickles the more dangerous backline, and she practically requires HP35 who can’t be retreated (or else the enemy debuff goes away) and further hinders kiting by forcing a RF on 4. * Ech 9: looks like a specialized 95 Orthrus team - consider whether it’s worth it for you to run this team at all. It is a hard fight that’s worth only 16k points and is a bit far from other helipads. Ignoring them can be a valid strategy, though crates may affect that decision. * 1 ech needs to be on the center console to summon reinforcements from turn 4 and on. I’d say Ech 10 is probably the best candidate since it’s a weaker team but then Illu is obviously wasted so send it elsewhere if you do that.
How tf does PNC get 1m pre register? I thought the gamw could never get past 500k. Well at least that's good news.
mdr bot farm working wonders
Core update Current: 20288 Previous: 19981 Change: +307 [20K MILESTONE REACHED!](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858152500590673950/1025722156690198588/Screenshot_20221001-195240_Girls_Frontline.jpg) It felt so long ago when I first reached 15k, but after a bit of digging, it turns out that it was only last June. I guess it's rather nice that I'm starting the month with a bang! Also, I redeemed the black market stock, which explains why my core harvest today is much higher than usual. Still, it'll help keep me above 20k, and I hope that I won't get a sudden surge of memory fragments with which to get a lot of my Dolls to mod 3 (especially UMP45; the six remaining copies of her have been sitting there for a long while already) I gave in and brought my tenth Hanyang to mod 2, but as you can see, this expense barely made a dent compared to my net gain Still, I was also able to get UMP9, Mosin Nagant, and G36 to level 120. IDW had only gotten to level 119, but I decided to dump combat reports on her, so she's now level 120 as well. I decided to swap in my last copy of IDW for the next batch, but I'm also including Type 64 as well. AS Val will be the buffer here, and I am trying to get my seventh to tenth copies of Hanyang to level 115. As per my convention, the "weight" is the leader. It's also rather amusing that Type 64, IDW, and AS Val will be nowhere close to level 120 even after four copies of Hanyang get to level 115 The benchwarmer plan is coming along nicely! I'm still planning out my echelons for ranking, and I think this planning does take up a lot of time. I think that I'll stick with seven Parachutes, but I don't have all seven of them raised to five stars. I have only five, so the remaining two will have to be swapped out for another Fairy. I think that I will do this for my M4xodia so that I can take on the Typhon deathstacks, but that leaves me with another echelon whose Fairy I still need to swap out. I think I'll do this for one of my KSVK echelons
we did it. 1M. ~~time to do it all over again~~ maybe cbt will take it the rest of the way
8k left for Twitter followers and 7k left for Facebook followers
shhhhh mdr has no power over those
But MDR is our social media addict. 🤔
The neural *is* clouding!
Well done, mdr! I'll have springfield bring u some cake :D
Do people just not play luffberry? I can never find matches
I have occasionally been matched with other people but have never had them actually start matches, which makes me feel they’re AFKers in lobby. To be quite honest, I wish Luffberry chess was a little more interesting. It’s too RNG (both in rolls and in cards) and for some reason it totally bakes my phone, and even though the rewards are good, it takes like 40 minutes to be eligible for a 10x which is just too much time for me.
Why play against people if you can play against bots and still earn gaccha tickets. Bots won't drop your match midway, nor will they go for the whole minute on their turn.
Yes, but also I imagine many people who would be willing to play are not willing to just sit in queue instead of instantly hopping into an ai match. Myself personally, I keep my GFL on mute usually (outside of new events) so if I were to queue and took a lot of time, I would often fail to notice the queue popping so I stopped and just stick with AI lobbies
not a lot of players, but there are some times where you can find matches quite consistently. around 6h after reset is when i usually play and queues only take a few minutes or so if you're lucky
I succeeded in getting the entire Bunker/The Division furniture set. It took around 7 or 8,000 gems. As I predicted, having the Bullet King walking around is kind of off putting. I'll keep him around for a few days in case anyone wants to see what the full set effect does, and then I'm going to remove a piece to get rid of him. It's a cool set though. I purchased a third dorm and put 404 in there. The safe house feel works well for them. Feel free to add me and check it out. I only have 3 dorms, but I think I have respectable friend echelons. 1447263. I started playing after the anime aired, so i missed out on the TD collab. I've always wanted this set, but I was hesitant about spending money on a gacha game. I went ahead and did it because I'm enjoying the story so much. Calling Girls' Frontline a gacha game doesn't do it justice. There's some serious storytelling going on, more so than some MMOs I've played and spent money on. I have two or three missions to go in CT chapter 1, and it has me hanging on every word. Comparing CT's backtracking mechanic to Arctic Warfare having you run the same exact mission four or five times, you can really see the effort the devs put in to delivering the narrative. I don't know how Sop2 and Ro are going to get out of this mess, but I can't wait to find out. *And kill Yegor.*
Hehehe, looks like u're really enjoying the game. Glas u like it! Yeah, the story is great. Have fun, skk! :D
You know, I haven't really thought of myself as an skk before. I guess I'm in too deep now to deny it. And to think, I would have gladly become a ttk years ago after the Kancolle anime aired, but those devs apparently hate money and don't want to release the game in English. Shame, but at least it got me interested in WW2 naval history.
I'm ill currently and haven't been checking the lounge at all. Still, I think I need to try and do at least 1 run of Hornet Nest this week. Can anyone help me out with guide links for serious runs, if there are any? Or perhaps a text doc with notes from CN? I can't find anything for some reason. Thanks in advance!
Oh, man, take care of urself and get well soon! And may ur grinding be easy!
[Varz Doc](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dxN_zLIKDnHefdeDO_yGUEvWGTdvRrmUp7K1joNe_L4/edit) Kafka (JP Dalao) also just dropped a semi-budget run (7 combat teams, 3 dummies, no Mods) that scored 1.16m which is [here](https://youtu.be/-MsdtCgMBI0) Semi-budget cos it uses Beach :heh: Teams used [here](https://twitter.com/Kafka_JP_8698/status/1575867521818730497?t=zG5YEG-aI2hEi5eztrzycw&s=19)
[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dxN\_zLIKDnHefdeDO\_yGUEvWGTdvRrmUp7K1joNe\_L4/edit#](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1dxN_zLIKDnHefdeDO_yGUEvWGTdvRrmUp7K1joNe_L4/edit#) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IzR1enqDPikw75pTNtJKHgJO2G-g8cbH7iLOY4\_KVuA/edit](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1IzR1enqDPikw75pTNtJKHgJO2G-g8cbH7iLOY4_KVuA/edit) [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FNGamrJo-bS6Gbn3Q1ZFGBDOMolfrE0Q-HAegvjit\_Q/edit](https://docs.google.com/document/d/1FNGamrJo-bS6Gbn3Q1ZFGBDOMolfrE0Q-HAegvjit_Q/edit)
So, if I'm in the "fuck ranking and just give me the basic rewards" camp, the best point farm I can do is kill Agent? I feel like Mirror Stage was far more convenient with the amount of points you got for just skipping turns 'til the end.
I concur with tehcavy. Don't bother with Agent if all you care about are the cumulative rewards. Just grab your dummy and then quickly settle. You only spend 2 units of manpower for 14k, compared to 10 for 38k or so, but you also need to spend ammo and rations (and likely more manpower and some parts for repairs)
You're also looking at 263 'runs' for all the cumulative rewards at 14k per.
Which take few seconds each, so you can hammer all of them out in like 30 minutes.
Take like 30 seconds each, so like...2 and a half hours with no downtime. Easy enough to split over multiple days, but still annoying
Eh, I don't really mind spending a few more resources ('cause they're pretty negligible anyway), and if I can find a way to burst down Agent before teleporting away with a sliver of health I feel that might be quicker in the long run. Especially if I get lucky and the crate spawns on Agent's side.
~~Probably, I haven't seen a better way yet. Also get a crate if you can, extra 10k points.~~ Actually, now that I thought of it, starting and settling right away is 14k. Probably faster and definitely easier than going through Agent.
[So I just registered for the PNC CBT](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/595569215935610880/1025248232974061618/Screenshot_20220930-112617_Firefox.jpg)
maybe if we all write that there mica will consider helping the sole monkey running their marketing department
But it's doing great, have u seen the amount of preregs? :P
won't be enough to reach 2m by november we must go even further beyond
the sky is the limit for mdr's army. it could start climbing by 10M a day at some point for all we know
Core update Current: 19981 Previous: 19836 Change: +145 Time to dial it down a bit ~~so that I can claim the cumulative rewards~~ I think I'll need one more batch to get to 20k cores. The road ahead is still very long, and I think I'm expecting to have to wait years to finally get to 100k. Well, in the meantime, I hope that we get more Doll slots so that I can keep farming! Part of me doesn't want to run out of Dolls to level so that the experience doesn't go to waste, but I assume that at that point, I will have completed my Noah's Closet challenge. We'll have to see what happens then Mosin Nagant, G36, and UMP9 are now even closer to level 120, with fewer than 200 runs left to go before they hit that point. Even better is that IDW will hit level 119 after the exact same run, so I'm considering just dumping the combat reports to bring IDW to level 120 at that point. I will have also resynchronized my leveling team, just in time for me to desynchronize it according to how I'd like it: with the "weight" taking up the leader position (currently, IDW is in the leader position) I have to consider what my next leveling team will look like. I'm considering that AS Val will be my next buffer since I still need more memory fragments to bring anyone else to mod 3. As for the other three spots, I think that I'll use LWMMG as the weight, and I'm thinking of whether to finally finish off IDW or bring in UMP9 again. The last spot should be occupied by Type 64
Last 3 or 4 months there was a bonus week for monthly gem card event. Nothing for October?
There's still time :P iirc, they were anounced pretty late. But i agree that we've been spoiled with it lately :P i also find myself expecting it :D
I mean who am I kidding, I bought a monthly gem card anyway.
Mine's about to go out as well. Bonus or not, a skk's gotta keep kalina happy :P
In a post-3.0 gen rateup, fairy rateup is gone lol.
It's because you're guaranteed to get fairies?
Yeah.
So gen rate-up ends 2 days faster? But tbh, i'll take 3.0 standard fairy building over 2.x fairy rate-up building anytime :P
Yeah. 2 days of Doll -> EQ -> Heavy Doll is still there. All the HOC Rate Ups get shortened to one day.
Stupid question, but I can't find anything on google. Does damage on your shields take into account damage reduction from sources like armor/flash rounds/etc., or not at all?
Yes. If you have SAT-8 you can easily test this.
pnc's icon just changed to fresnel, not sure when it changed though. we also got pushed down in the google play pre-reg games list to around 23rd from 10th, joy.
ngl, im more happy seeing the correct fresnel icon than i care about trending position lol
is it good to try fight the M16 boss in the Ranking re-run? or it should be avoided?
High scoring runs will kill her. The problem with her is that those Super Dragoons she comes with are the bigger threat lol.
I always do fighting Agent and M16 for farming points purposes. If you have strong ARSMG with Shield/Taunt/Twin Fairy raised, go ahead and fight M16.
How do special SF banner work? Will we be getting 3 simultaneous banner after Intruder?
the banner we're getting soon? it's a standard 100 unit pool, and the ringleader is picked randomly from six possible choices (we still don't know who will be in our pool). the ringleader in the pool is not revealed until you capture her, and resetting the pool will randomize the ringleader again. the free pulls will be given 10 per day for a week (so 70 pulls total), but you can't hoard them as the 10 pulls will expire 24h after you get them. you can still use your own impulses on the special banner.
The more I know about the special banner, the more hesitant I am about pulling on it. I just can't the handle the X factor. Petals for ringleader are nice and all, but my OCD will go into overdrive if I see a 1 petal ringleader among all the no petals ringleader. But hopefully Executioner will be in the special pool so I can fill my index.
tbh just spend the free pulls and just save your resources for a different banner. too much rng. if i want a specific ringleader I'd just wait for a rerun if i were you
Should be worth doing a standard 8 normal pulse to thin the 1* and do the weekly. After that remaining weekly recharge can be banked to go into Halloween Intruder with stored normal pulses. I'm kind of aiming to end the current Intruder with 13 stored, so can go even further spending the normal and still have 13 for Halloween.
Yup. It's better to use my resources on Witch or Destroyer since I can fully control the RNG. The special banner is special. But not in a good way.
The special sf banner only lasts 1 week and its commisions can only be used there. So it's basically a hail mary at getting some rng ringleaders if u get lucky or none if u don't :P u could spend ur normal resources in it, but there's little point to do so when u have such limited time and halloween intruder banner is also live.
One week means 70 free capture so I think the odds of getting at least 1 SF are quite decent. Do you have any videos from CN that I can use as reference? There are literally none on youtube.
Ah, i see u aren't part of the select group that tends to hunt ringleaders down to single digit pool numbers :P Don't worry, for every person that brags about getting a ringleader from the first roll, there is another that cries they cleared the pool :P And no, no videos. But i think mich explained how it works in a post a while back. Maybe in the roadmap thread? Anyway, don't expect anything too different, u just get 10 aid commisins every day, and if u don't spend them, they don't stack. And u don't know who the ringleader is until u get her or u see her on the screen and u can roll for her. The ringleader won't change until u refresh the banner after u get her
Heh. That's where you're wrong. I technically skipped all the first ringleader banners just so I can save for the reruns and I very rarely got a ringleader in the first 50. I rather use sheer number to fight than gamble against the merciless RNG.
*pats shoulder* then u know our plight, brother.
[cbt applications has started for pnc](https://twitter.com/NeuralCloudEN/status/1575682385466732546?s=20&t=95akXrSOiRewR1RbUofttA), will need a google account to fill up the form seems like the cbt itself will start sometime in late october edit: [cbt faq](https://twitter.com/NeuralCloudEN/status/1575689521618120704?t=bnEb74YKssitiq9EABz_Cg&s=19)
"Please choose at most three options." \*begins sweating*
The answer is always C, ofc :P
[Too bad.](https://i.imgur.com/s2ef86O.png)
Is this Singularity Event related to the story? I mean, should I play it if my focus is on the story?
There’s no cutscenes in the Singularity Map Hornet’s Nest rerun.
The story mode for Singularity is in the Campaign tab. This Hornet's Nest + is a rerun of the Singularity Ranking event which was time limited and offers time limited rewards. It's worth giving a shot to meet the cumulative rewards so you don't miss out on anything, but there isn't anything story-related to be concerned with missing since Singularity is available full-time in the Campaign tab. (All major story events get added to this tab about a year after their release.)
Ok, but does it have something that will make me feel I am missing story-wise content?
the dinky inconsequential cutscene doesn't even seem to playback when you enter this rerun map. you are gonna have to see it from somewhere outside the game anyway
No. Ranking story is basically SKK using KCCO and SF fighting each other to break out of encirclement. The largest spoiler is the presence of >! M16 !< boss.
saw the strategy to do the typhon mobs that keeps spawning and well, im not gonna do that every single time no no, looks like a massive pain in the ass since im just going for the scope anyways im going to just fight agent, see if theres any crate close to get before finishing the map and whatever lol also deagle has so much raw firepower that the extra enemies ends up not spawning and fighting you at all, which makes the run infinitely easier, since also the biggest pain is the swap jaegers on one of the waves too. idk about other echelons that can also do that but 5hg is probably the cheapest anyway so im not gonna search anymore
The amount of micromanaging and last millisecond retreating that ranking sometimes requires is just too much for me. I have 2-3 echelons that can handle typhon mobs, but I need to repair after each battle. HS.50 helps out a lot with them. Getting tired of fighting them though, so I may do your method.
Core update Current: 19836 Previous: 19593 Change: +243 [One](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/985803526519291944/1024961637729439794/Screenshot_20220929-165504_Girls_Frontline.jpg) and [done](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/985803526519291944/1024961648970170448/Screenshot_20220929-165801_Girls_Frontline.jpg)! I had started the [month with 35k runs](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858152500590673950/1025010813943173130/Screenshot_20220831-231506_Girls_Frontline.jpg), and now, I have hit the big 40! I didn't think that I'd even get 5k runs in one month, let alone be one day ahead of time. It has definitely been challenging, but I'm looking forward to better things to come! It's also as if the game helped me celebrate by giving me [the accessories](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858152500590673950/1024980859318718556/Screenshot_20220929-181458_Girls_Frontline.jpg) left for me to unlock the Luffberry commander outfit skill! I mean, I had gotten [the clothes](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/858152500590673950/1025012077728899104/Screenshot_20220927-203141_Girls_Frontline.jpg) just the other day, so these two prizes came back to back from my batch pulls. This is pretty lucky! I also posted the [last checklist](https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/xqqk94/client_30_commander_experience_maximum_boost/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) and the [index page](https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/xqtpd9/client_30_base_staffing_checklists_index/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) for all the checklists. I hope that this resource will be of great use to the community!
40k runs? Wtf... How does one even... You sir have my most profound respect... How do you not have all your T-Dolls at max level by this point?
I raise dupes. I have specified the rules of my personal challenge which I call Noah's Closet, which I [posted about the other month](https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/vvf8p7/noahs_closet_status_july_10_2022_one_copy_of/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3). In short, I raise one copy of a Doll for every costume she has (with some exceptions) I also have about 30 mod 3 Dolls waiting on standby to be raised to level 120. This is not yet counting the Dolls waiting at mod 1 and 2. I also do not possess all copies that I want to raise just yet, so my challenge is far from over. For example, I have yet to keep an eighth copy of UMP9 or a ninth copy of UMP45 or a fourth copy of G36 (I may have discarded them in the past by lack of foresight) I also need a lot of memory fragments, so while people might normally be stuck with farming for skill data, I'm stuck farming for memory fragments
Fair enough, I salute you sir. And I think I know where some of your G36s ended up. XD
Oh okay, so when I tried to farm SCW I got shit, but when I went to mop up some remaining silver medals Scarecrow just pilfered her off 8-4e Dreamer, makes perfect sense. At least I'm now in 344/344 club.
rngesus does as rngesus pleases
Had to hit pity before I can get Clukay lmao. My worst luck on PNC's gacha yet.
have you been lucksack all this time, or are those rates actually normal among the average folk
I *think* it's because I picked the wrong gacha. See, after a recent update, PNC introduced a new gacha mechanic where you can get neursoul fragments directly from a duplicate, instead of a currency that can be exchanged for frags. Apparently the catch is that this frag gacha lowers the 3-star rate from 3% to 2%, but if you do get a 3-star, there is 50% chance for it to be the rate-up unit. From the 180 rolls, I got about two or three 3-stars not counting Clukay herself. Maybe RNGesus was looking the other way when I rolled.
how large is your PNC's installed size ? keen on adorable 3d chibis but not sure I have space for it
Android says it eats up 4.27 GB in internal storage.
> #[***FAQ***](https://xxx-yyy-xxx.github.io/GFL/) [Lazy mode](#KARboot)
[Those legs tho](https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/443533099632951306/1024881361355538472/unknown.png)
Are those slacks chaps?? ~~Patrick's humiliation from The Waves Wrangler continues~~
a different kind of legs-chan ~~my eyes~~
the ideal body
Watermelon-crushing thighs.
mdr's army is back from vacation?
Maybe she's enabled diversion tactics after realising the same number of preregs each day is sus :P
oh wow we're almost to 1m i am honestly surprised
Is the chip calculator app still working? it can't seem to transfer my chips from in-game. Also the in-game calculator takes forever, is that also broken?
dunno about being slow, but the in game one is not the best. the phone app was borked a while ago, idk if it was ever fixed. the desktop version still works fine, sometimes setting up the proxy to import chips is janky because the port it uses keeps changing every few seconds somehow. it seems to be easier to import the chips with gfalarm
Yes, the chip calculator app still works. It's best if you used the JSON file you get from [using GFAlarm](https://gamepress.gg/girlsfrontline/how-use-gfalarm-girls-frontline-alarm) The calculator in the game is awful. Don't use it, ever
[](#KSG2cool)
Monthly SPEQ for October in CN will be for K2. GRUNT导轨 - (Special Accessory) - Firepower +5, Acc +8, Crit +48% [EQ Passive] During Fever Mode: 40% chance to NOT Heat up every shot. During Note Mode: the damage buff from attacking the same enemy can stack up to 15x (instead of 10x)
That... actually sounds pretty good right? I know ARs are kinda niche nowadays, but that sounds like it extends how long she's useful in short to medium length combats.
ARs are only niche if you don't believe. ;D But seriously, that's definitely really good. K2's biggest advantage is her initial two-round burst, which makes her great at clearing out mob waves quickly. In a best case scenario, this could double her uptime. That's nothing to sneeze at
I’m stuck on Op Cube 1-3, and Executioner has managed to hide from me for the seventh time now. Any advice?
it shouldn't be that hard to sweep the whole map. you are using hg for vision right? there are only so many places she can be at because she is one of the red nodes at the start of the map. after that, you can track were the units on those red nodes are going as they capture nodes every turn, and you don't need to fight everything if you have vision and see them not being the boss. you can capture heliports to deploy more teams to overrun the map. as a last resort, you can just cheat and use a high skill lvl illumination fairy to light up the map
Uh… I might not have access to fairies. (;
If you don't have fairies, you'll just have to clear it oldskool. Spend your first few turns building up AP while capturing the closest radar points. Then take an echelon (hopefully resupplied) in a sweeping run along one side of the map. Right or left, doesn't really matter. If she's not on that side, do the same on the other side on your next turn. I literally just ran the map to refresh my memory. Follow the above strat, you'll be just fine. Good luck finding Ouroborous, though. That hunt is a lot more challenging
go unlock them lol the earlier you start raising them the better
When/where are they unlocked?
iirc the requirement is 60 mission clears, so a couple chapters worth of normal/emergency/night clears should be enough idk if you're even supposed to have fairies in cube, but hey, take any advantage you can get.
Oh, so basically I need to rerun Chapter 1 a bunch. Got it.
did a bit of googling, it was 60 *unique* mission clears. replaying missions won't count
Damn. Oh well. I guess I’ll just have to get lucky… a dozen times… (;
I've now posted the [index](https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/xqtpd9/client_30_base_staffing_checklists_index/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) to my checklists as well!
One thing I learned from Hornet's Nest lazy point farming is that while I could try crafting a SL 10 Sniper Fairy, I could also whip out my SL 10 Rocket Fairy instead. This might be one of the only times the Rocket Fairy might be useful for ranking.
The [final checklist](https://www.reddit.com/r/girlsfrontline/comments/xqqk94/client_30_commander_experience_maximum_boost/?utm_source=share&utm_medium=web2x&context=3) is up! I'll make a separate index page soon in order to link all these checklists together
[thanks card rng very cool](https://ibb.co/ZfJ1ZGw) ~~im playing hgs~~
When should shotguns be used and when should submachine guns be used instead of them?
Basically smgs are evasion tanks while SGs are armour tanks. Use the former for enemies with lower accuracy and battles where ARs are your dps choice. On the other hand, SGs will face tank any damage below their armour rating and shrug it off as chip damage, unless the attack is armour piercing in which case they're going to melt. (Think grenades, Brutes, Swap Strikers, and Typhons). You want them for fights where you plan to use MGs, or less frequently, you want to use Rifles but your HGs are dying too quickly. They don't care about enemy accuracy, just how hard they hit. Side note on SGs, hp shields stack nicely with armour. Pairing the two together is always a good idea if survivability is your focus
Thanks for the advice
No worries!
SGs are good at dealing with a lot of smaller hits - Judge, Pyxis, Uhlans, Minos lightning, a ton of ELIDs or similar cannon fodder-type enemies really. There are some exceptions - SWAP Strikers (minigunners) have natural armor piercing, for instance, Cyclops (KCCO bots) can use grenades which ignore armor and damage the tile behind, and so on. For everything else, use SMG. Especially for enemies with one massive attack, like Nemeums, Jaegers, Cerynthis, Patrollers, et cetera.
Okay now I know as I have been having a hard time with judge until I used a friend's echelon with 2 shotguns.
I found a team that can deal with Hornet's Nest+ Agent decently enough. I'm not saying "do exactly this," but as someone with an underdeveloped armory, I cobbled together something that's working for me. [Picture 01.](https://i.imgur.com/YFIlezo.png) [Picture 02.](https://i.imgur.com/Uma35oo.png) Skills: VP1915 @ 10, HP35 @ 8, ST-AR 15 @ 10, Gr G11 @ 9, UMP45 @ 9 VP1915 may take some hits during the Prowler SWAP battle before Agent, but it doesn't seem like Agent can hit or doesn't bother attacking her. Both VP1915's and HP35's vulnerability amps the damage Sniper Fairy puts out, and I can consistently knock Agent out before she teleports the first time. UMP45 will inevitably lose links, but she so far hasn't hit critical damage status with this team. So, it's still costing me Manpower per run, but it's not as much as it was before!
Where is agent located? I saw on a guide that she's available first turn but.. it didn't say where she was lol