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Since theres so many of us from the gacha topic, might as well get a general started. Discuss the game or whatever else.

I'm still on the hunt for a good 3 or 4* SMG. Got Sten and Skorpion and just pulled Thompson.
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I just want an M1A1 and then I don't care about anything else until they add more of the glasses guns

I wouldn't mind a dupe Grizzly. Other than that, just trying for shotguns and maybe that sleepyhead AR coming up (supposed to have an increased pull chance).
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Finally! We get a general! Now @Spidey5 can shut the hell up about there being "too much GFL talk" in the Anime general and that gacha topic. Anyways, I've mostly been using the increased combat exp event to grind my squads. Before the event, my main squad was level 80 and my others were around 50-60. Now, I have all 4 of my squads at 80 and I'm raising a 5th batch of characters, some of which might take places on the previous 4 squads when they level up.

Main squad (starring my raifu Skorpion):


4AR DPS squad:


Night squad 1:


Night squad 2:


Units in training:


TheMarthKoopa posted...

I just want an M1A1 and then I don't care about anything else until they add more of the glasses guns

https://en.gfwiki.com/wiki/FMG-9

FMG-9 is a cute glasses girl SMG. She's not in the normal crafting pool and is a limited drop (as in, either from the boss or at the end of the chapter if you clear with an S rank) but she's from a really early chapter (2-6 or 2-4e) so you can get her early if you're lucky or persistent enough.
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just got my 6th echelon for logistics use so now I can slowly start training up my 2nd team to go with the 1st team.
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BTW, does a HG with night vision gear negate/mitigate the penalty for all other units in the echelon?
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Shotgunnova posted...

BTW, does a HG with night vision gear negate/mitigate the penalty for all other units in the echelon?

No, ARs need to equip their own night vision goggles. On that note and as a general tip, armored night units have zero evasion so you don't need to equip night vision goggles. Although, you're probably better with RFs against armored units anyway due to their high AP stat.

Edit: Oh, some HGs have a skill where they fire off a flare that I -think- raises your accuracy to normal levels, but I'm not sure on that. I just run 3x AR against non armored night maps and walk through them.

As for me, I'm currently only missing Suomi, Grizzly, Type 97, Welrod, M950, and the shotguns for 5*s. Well, and the MGs, but fuck MGs. The real pain in the ass is getting 5* equipment and calibrating them. Finally got my first triple 100 gold Holo. Only took me 600+ tickets.

Grumble grumble.
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I got 5* SMG... a bunch of 3* SMGs, a couple 3* ARs, a 3* MG, and a 3* RF.

and a bunch of 2* ARs, SMGs, and HGs. and one 2* RF

main echelon is 5* SMG, 3*SMG, 3* AR, 3* MG, 3* RF
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Dammit, I figured it wouldn't be as easy as including some scrub HG to buff everyone else. Not sure if I have any flare users, at least of the 2-star handguns I have laying around. I tend to dismantle all the other ones, haha.

Anyway, my team is basically just two echelons with Lv30-40 logistics runners. I only have that one MG, so I might have to shift it around for a better team composition.



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Oh, here. So that everyone has it.

http://dmesse.egloos.com/category/-%20Guides

USE. THIS. SITE.

It has everything you need to figure out the inner workings of this game. Crafting recipes and times for dolls, same for equipment, a breakdown of what equipment to use when and on who, step by step S rank guides for the first three chapters, guides for future events, the best leveling and core grinding maps and routes...

Seriously, this site is a godsend.
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https://imgur.com/BNe0aaF
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I'll look at that site in a sec.

Until then, I forgot my team of leftovers meant to farm fodder from easy-peasy maps. I think I did 1-2 over sixty times, haha.


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TerrifyingRei posted...

and a bunch of 2* ARs, SMGs, and HGs. and one 2* RF

If one of those 2* handguns is PPK, level her up. She's a diamond in the rough, a 2* more useful than some of the 4* units in her category.

main echelon is 5* SMG, 3*SMG, 3* AR, 3* MG, 3* RF

This isn't really a good setup since only the SMGs and AR are actually getting tile buffs. Generally, you don't want any units on your team that are not buffing or being buffed by anyone else, which your MG and RF aren't. I'd say replace the MG with a HG, maybe swap out the 2nd SMG for a 2nd AR for more damage. The best basic setups for early-game players are 3AR/2SMG or 2AR/2SMG/1HG. But as long as tile buffs aren't being wasted, something more versatile like 2AR/1SMG/1RF/1HG or 2AR/1SMG/1MG/1SG could work too.

https://imgur.com/BNe0aaF

Yeah, definitely ditch SR-3MP for now. She's a very niche use SMG that needs a team built around her, and isn't suitable at all for general SMG usage. Replace her with a 2nd AR like I mentioned before, or maybe a shotgun if you have one and need a second frontline tank.

Shotgunnova posted...

Anyway, my team is basically just two echelons with Lv30-40 logistics runners. I only have that one MG, so I might have to shift it around for a better team composition.

That's pretty solid so far. M2HB is another underrated gem that outperforms her rarity by quite a bit.

omega cookie posted...

Oh, here. So that everyone has it.

http://dmesse.egloos.com/category/-%20Guides

USE. THIS. SITE.

Yeah, that site is pretty good. GamePress has some GFL stuff now as well, notably some unit analysis pages for specific units. Not all units are done yet though.

https://girlsfrontline.gamepress.gg/guides
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Shotgunnova posted...

Dammit, I figured it wouldn't be as easy as including some scrub HG to buff everyone else. Not sure if I have any flare users, at least of the 2-star handguns I have laying around. I tend to dismantle all the other ones, haha.

Anyway, my team is basically just two echelons with Lv30-40 logistics runners. I only have that one MG, so I might have to shift it around for a better team composition.

P38 is a 2* HG with flare. According to the game it's effect is;

Increase all allies' accuracy by 90% during nighttime for 15 seconds

Which is roughly three times as long as a battle should last. I don't know how long it's initial CD is though, as I don't currently have one to check, nor how strong it is at level 1. She's got a pretty good formation bonus though, RoF 7% and Accuracy 25% for all types.

That plus a good support summon should be able to carry you through 2-4N, which is needed to unlock... something.
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@Calwings

https://imgur.com/7uthwPR

only the RF isn't getting anything.

EDIT: Never mind the MG isn't getting buffed either.
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Calwings posted...

FMG-9 is a cute glasses girl SMG. She's not in the normal crafting pool and is a limited drop (as in, either from the boss or at the end of the chapter if you clear with an S rank) but she's from a really early chapter (2-6 or 2-4e) so you can get her early if you're lucky or persistent enough.

More important than her glasses is that she's Smoke's SMG from Rainbow 6 Siege.

Oh, guess I already have a P38 sitting around. Not surprising, considering how slim the pickings were early in the game. Guess I just forgot since I've never actually seen her use the flare on auto ability (or whatever that mode's called where they instantly use their techs).

That's pretty solid so far. M2HB is another underrated gem that outperforms her rarity by quite a bit.

Her passive is pretty nice, but I haven't upgraded it yet. In general, I don't want to bring her out for normal missions since she chews through ammo. She has some kind of AP ammo upgrade though, so it should be good enough for the first night mission (which I still haven't beaten lmao).
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TerrifyingRei posted...

https://imgur.com/7uthwPR

only the RF isn't getting anything.

EDIT: Never mind the MG isn't getting buffed either.

And neither is Sten. Swap out SR-3MP for an AR to put behind (and buff) Sten. Then either replace the MG with a Handgun (so the RF buffs the HG and the HG buffs a bunch of units around it) or the RF with a Shotgun (so the MG and SG buff each other). Then again, you may not have Heavy Production unlocked to get a SG yet...
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I don't have a shotgun or access to one yet.

I don't have any free ARs at the minute. i'll dig around later and see what i can do.
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Calwings posted...

If one of those 2* handguns is PPK, level her up. She's a diamond in the rough, a 2* more useful than some of the 4* units in her category.

But for the love of god, don't actually use her until she's at 90+ and is 5x linked. That's when she truly shines, what with having the highest evasion stat in the game. Before that though, she'll be dead in seconds as she also has one of the lowest HP pools in the game.

On the topic of really good lower rarity units, M14 is one of the best units in the game. She's a pretty common 3* RF who still regularly beats my G41 for MVP at level 100. With no formation buff. I can't remember the last time I saw a Jaeger actually fire it's sniper at my SMGs.

She's actually better than most 5* RFs. The only one that is vastly better than her is WA2000, and that's mostly because of WA2000's absolutely disgusting skill. And maybe some of the Pause and Bang snipers for bosses.

You'll never regret leveling M14. Some people have two or three for other echelons. She's that good.
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Hey Cal, I noticed you're using Thompson. How do you use her properly? Even though she has Force Shield, mine still dies ridiculously fast :<
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omega cookie posted...

But for the love of god, don't actually use her until she's at 90+ and is 5x linked. That's when she truly shines, what with having the highest evasion stat in the game. Before that though, she'll be dead in seconds as she also has one of the lowest HP pools in the game.

I've been using her the whole time, but I've been smart and keeping her off the front line.



She'll be firmly planted behind an SMG or (once I level up M500) a shotgun until she reaches that 5th dummy link. Although since I got her to 80 and equipped an Exo on her, her evasion is already through the roof. She's the only unit I have whose evasion is in triple digits right now.

omega cookie posted...

On the topic of really good lower rarity units, M14 is one of the best units in the game. She's a pretty common 3* RF who still regularly beats my G41 for MVP at level 100. With no formation buff. I can't remember the last time I saw a Jaeger actually fire it's sniper at my SMGs.

I can vouch for this too. On my secondary account (which isn't nearly as leveled as my main account) M14 is basically the star of my squads.
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I'll keep an eye out for M14. I don't think I've ever gotten one yet.
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lmao, I got the "complete 100 battles with S rank" achievement for grinding mission 1-2. Didn't even know that was a thing.
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fuzzylittlbunny posted...

Hey Cal, I noticed you're using Thompson. How do you use her properly? Even though she has Force Shield, mine still dies ridiculously fast :<

What level is yours at? Is she dummy linked properly for her level?

I've never had problems using her. Thompson is meant to be a health tank SMG because her HP pool is absolutely massive for an SMG, especially at higher dummy link levels. She takes more hits and needs repaired a lot, but she's just as durable overall as most other SMG's. She also does pretty solid damage for an SMG too.
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Calwings posted...

I've been using her the whole time, but I've been smart and keeping her off the front line.



She'll be firmly planted behind an SMG or (once I level up M500) a shotgun until she reaches that 5th dummy link. Although since I got her to 80 and equipped an Exo on her, her evasion is already through the roof. She's the only unit I have whose evasion is in triple digits right now.

Oh, yeah. Using her for the formation buff is good, I meant absolutely don't use her to tank until she's high leveled. For a time, the subreddit was lousy with people complaining that they were told that PPK is a great tank, and then once they posted their formation they had her in the front row at level 20. Worst idea.
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I've been seeing this game everywhere.

What should I expect from it?
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It's fun, albeit a bit grindy. All the units in the game are robot girls (anthropomorphized firearms) and they have battlefield hijinx against an evil rival company.

Also...just found a site that keeps track of all the reset timers and stuff. Seems useful.
http://gftimers.netlify.com/
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I still have room for 41 friends add me bros ID: 263812

Got a pretty solid A and B team going now since I just pulled another FAL to link to my P2W one

Alrighty, I can now post some screens of my teams!

The A-Team, composed of my favorite Raifus.




The B-Team, which started as mainly the leftovers as I switched off of A-Team players, but has since grown into it's own. The leftovers have since moved out, and more favorites were moved in. They became a team of more favorite Raifus who I can't fit onto the A-Team.




Then all the rest are Logistics teams I threw together, nothing really important. Sometimes I switch to theme teams like Team "Fuck Ammo" composed of entirely MGs, or sometimes I'll throw together a team based on country. Currently, my theme team is Team Pistols.

Pitlord_Special posted...

I still have room for 41 friends add me bros ID: 263812

I'm about to go somewhere, but I'll send you requests with both my accounts later on.

Got a pretty solid A and B team going now since I just pulled another FAL to link to my P2W one

I would personally switch Mk23 with one of the SMG's on the first team. Those SMG tile buffs are being wasted on the first team. Other than that, no big complaints.

Popcorn_Fairy posted...

Currently, my theme team is Team Pistols.

I actually thought about making a team of 5 pistols once I got Tokarev's bridal skin from the resupply gacha. They're very resource-friendly, and with all of them buffing each other in different ways, they could be pretty decent in battle. Obviously not as good as a fully built and optimized team, but still.
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I havent linked her yet. Is that a necessity early on? I linked basically everyone else lol.
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so i'm guessing i suck.

y'all have strategies and linking and stuff.
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TheMarthKoopa posted...

more of the glasses guns

fuzzylittlbunny posted...

I havent linked her yet. Is that a necessity early on? I linked basically everyone else lol.

Dummy Linking is important, but early game, depending on rarity, it's worth to hold off. Cores are harder to come by early game, and 5 Stars take a ton, plus get less buffs from Dummy-ing than the lower stars do.

Popcorn_Fairy posted...

Calwings posted...

FMG-9 is a cute glasses girl SMG. She's not in the normal crafting pool and is a limited drop (as in, either from the boss or at the end of the chapter if you clear with an S rank) but she's from a really early chapter (2-6 or 2-4e) so you can get her early if you're lucky or persistent enough.

More important than her glasses is that she's Smoke's SMG from Rainbow 6 Siege.

I think they misspelled Smoke
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That they did, but the Fanart is still good.

I considered playing this. I downloaded t but cant be assed to start it.
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Lol Somke.
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Hmm, so I can get a Thompson (theoretically) with a basic 30-30-30-30 spread? Interesting... Wasn't super interested in her due to her evasion, but that's pretty cheap.
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Tommy is one of my favorites. The gun is iconic, I love her design, I love her personality, and most importantly, I love that she's pure tank. The Other SMGs and their evasion is nice, but Tommy don't give a shit and just shrugs off the damage like it's nothing. She's way more effective then any other SMG I got.

Thompson has so much HP that it doesn't end up mattering too much if you stack your echelons with evasion buffs for Thompson as well as equipping the best Evasion gear you can find. It's not like she doesn't dodge as much as the evasion focused SMGs, maybe she takes like 2.5 shots out of 10 vs 1 shot out of 10 at the worst case comparison. But she's a 5* with a perfect shield for one thing (aka the longest you can get with the perfect shield timer wise), and she's harder map-proof because she has the HP to make up for when the evasion isn't cutting it anymore.

Full evasion tanks are more like if you can't dodge, you're gonna die in a few seconds
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How's Type64 as an SMG to pair with Skorpion? I'm borderline bout to burn production just to roll
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I don't exactly base my teams on how good or effective they are. What I can say is the Type64 has a much, much better design than Skorpion, which means I'd say use her. I know Type64 gets an upgrade to Four Star at some point. Dunno when the English game is getting that feature.

Popcorn_Fairy posted...

I don't exactly base my teams on how good or effective they are. What I can say is the Type64 has a much, much better design than Skorpion, which means I'd say use her. I know Type64 gets an upgrade to Four Star at some point. Dunno when the English game is getting that feature.

So can I upgrade her 2* to 4 or is it a roll? Think I'm just gonna go with her because she's cute and I just wanna finalize my main team.
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She doesn't seem too bad. Seems like she has some buffs later that'll make her active insanely good. Scorpion's active is a damage based on so having another SMG that can help with her survivability is a good thing. You could also try the UMP twins who has similar skills and is better for now
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Blue_Dream87 posted...

So can I upgrade her 2* to 4 or is it a roll? Think I'm just gonna go with her because she's cute and I just wanna finalize my main team.

It's a feature they added in the other games some point down the line. I'm not sure what the process is, I think there is a mission or something involved, but you upgrade her to Four, not roll her. But again, it's not in the English game yet. But she looks badass upgraded. I've been investing in her myself.

For the MOD upgrades which are not available yet and might be spoilery if you look it up, it's pretty much running the neural corridor thing you see in combat sim to get memory fragments, the 2*'s and 4*s require different amounts of fragments to be upgrades, and there's 3 levels, MOD I, II and III, each requiring increasing amounts of fragments.

Each MOD level increases the cap level by 5, stats by a LOT, and the third upgrade raises the guns from 2* to 4* and the 4* to 5*, also unlocks a second skill for certain guns, specifically M4 and ST-AR 15.

All i know is that ST-AR's is called Crime and Punishment, and if it has to do with the 2nd rifle she's holding in her MODIII art then i'm gonna guess its she just busts out a second gun and goes ham lmao

M4's 2nd skill is pretty much a really long duration grenade launcher too, which seems broken as hell if she can solo complete stages and bosses with it.

https://imgur.com/rUlB6M1
https://imgur.com/7BeJG5m
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Also might as well post some good guides and sources for the game:

GLF "Cheat Sheet", has all the timers and recipes and such for most of the crafted crap, also some minor recs for leveling and teams which should be taken with a grain of salt.

https://cdn.discordapp.com/attachments/338790140174663686/461052419909091348/2018-05-09_03-07-34.png

A leveling guide which i assume everyone already knows about but might as well add it to the list, plus the site itself has some nice information and guides too

http://dmesse.egloos.com/3567918

A logistic spreadsheet that shows the best logistics for each resource based on resource/hour, shows everything but highlights what we have available for now.

https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1_Qemz0mRCkxMRkEcPRtToH7LznUIr6Re4XUUlhazDKw/edit#gid=1243034978

And for the next upcoming event, Operation Cube, someone made a "guide" of sorts to show you can pretty much clear the event at a decent level, no higher than 7x ish with subpar units and gear, so the whole "gotta be level 90+ to clear" is just koreans being fucking alarmist assholes because they got ravaged by events over and over, which doesnt' seem to be the case for us.

https://gfl.matsuda.tips/blog/?tag=operation-cube
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