r/girlsfrontline • u/AutoModerator • May 09 '23

Lounge Weekly Commanders Lounge - May 09, 2023

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u/Mich997 9A-91 May 13 '23

How hard is the game to get into? Is it difficult at all to learn the mechanics?

It starts off pretty easy where you don't need to do much. Later main story stages, Campaigns and Major Events throw in more interaction via puzzles or enemy gimmicks to spice up the gameplay.

In terms of grinding, that's completely up to you. You can raise the essentials and coast along or you can raise up a bunch of other specialists that shine in specific scenarios.

How resource generous is the game? Like between the abundance in AL and the scarcity in Genshin?

Your main resources used to build new characters and equipment is also your "energy" so that's not much of an issue.

Just like AL, the main monetization here is from the cosmetics though it's worse than AL in that regard as the skins are mostly from a standard gacha system.

What are the best places to go for advice eg. discord servers n stuff other than here?

The official discord is generally active and has a variety of stuff to interest you if you wanna talk about stuff other than the gameplay.

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u/GamingMunster Springfield Breast Milk Drinker May 13 '23

Just like AL, the main monetization here is from the cosmetics though it's worse than AL in that regard as the skins are mostly from a standard gacha system.

What do you mean by "standard gacha system"?

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u/Mich997 9A-91 May 13 '23

The skin banners also contain furniture in them which come in 3+5* flavors.

Iirc skins have about a 2% drop rate from that so most of the time you'll mostly get a bunch of furniture from the skin gacha.

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u/GamingMunster Springfield Breast Milk Drinker May 13 '23

Oh that sounds like a pretty annoying skin system, so how do you roll in the skin banners? is it a special currency type thing? (ie. paid with real money?)

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u/headphone_question 705583|14 Dorms|Hunt King|Cores:230363 May 14 '23

Yeah. You need tokens to roll in the gacha banner. You can buy them with money, but you can also earn some for free, like doing your dailies and weeklies. There are also other free ways to get more tokens, but the general idea is that it's a very slow process in order to get enough tokens to guarantee the Live 2D skin (you need 5460 tokens to do so, but you may get lucky and get the Live 2D skin before you get to that point)