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Come for the Raifus, Stay for the Plot: Girls' Frontline - Baking Time

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Cornuthaum said:


rate-up is real. Especially since you can farm the GSG exo with a 4HG1RF team and just terminate the mission once you kill the two manticores if it doesn't drop. Took me six attempts total this way.
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How? I tried to do gun for the Manticores but I've gotten absolutely wrecked trying to fight my way past the 17-20k squads every time.

EDIT: Managed to scrape together a squad that can get to the Manticore and kill it in 2-3 turns. It's a very messy combination (2 HG, 1 RF, 1 AR, 1 SMG), but everything else I've tried so far ends up getting trashed.
 
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Arcus said:
How? I tried to do gun for the Manticores but I've gotten absolutely wrecked trying to fight my way past the 17-20k squads every time.
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I was using this echelon: Level 100 SL10 rof self-buff rifle (WA2k/SVD/G43), level 90-100 SL8 handguns (M950, Welrod, Five-Seven, Makarov)

Rifle with +10 5* critscope and a 5* cloak (unenhanced) and AP ammo with over 90 AP. All handguns with the best T-exos I had, PEQs and ammo.
 
Cornuthaum said:
I was using this echelon: Level 100 SL10 rof self-buff rifle (WA2k/SVD/G43), level 90-100 SL8 handguns (M950, Welrod, Five-Seven, Makarov)

Rifle with +10 5* critscope and a 5* cloak (unenhanced) and AP ammo with over 90 AP. All handguns with the best T-exos I had, PEQs and ammo.
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Yeah, I basically have one handgun who can tank at all right now and that's PPK. I have Makarov, but she can't equip exos yet.

I tried running Wawa with SV-98 (look, I have SVD but she's only level 52 and M14 is in training currently) and then Makarov+PPK+Grizzly (who is underleveled compared to everyone else but she's just there to buff firepower).

They got to the Manticore. And then they got wiped out when my frontline HGs had to retreat. :/

So right now I'm running UMP45 + 9A-91 + Wawa + PPK + Grizzly. They're all x5 linked except Wawa who is level 82 and Grizzly who is 60. Gold ammo for both damage dealers, gold crit scope, and gold exo for Thot 1. One tank, one armour killer, one regular enemy/Manticore killer, 2 buffers.

Kind of annoyed I don't have Groza, because then I could probably just have put her and 9A-91 in a squad and brute forced everything. Alas. T_T
 
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Here's a budget squad for rifles: G43+M14, SAA+Astra+Makarov.


All mentioned units are pretty common, and in night G43 will still be nearly capping her rate of fire (you can swap her w/ M14 in the upper and lower back row if you want that extra frame out of G43).

Of course, then there's just the bog-standard WA/SVD squad.
 
Probably An Oreo said:
Here's a budget squad for rifles: G43+M14, SAA+Astra+Makarov.


All mentioned units are pretty common, and in night G43 will still be nearly capping her rate of fire (you can swap her w/ M14 in the upper and lower back row if you want that extra frame out of G43).

Of course, then there's just the bog-standard WA/SVD squad.
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That squad appears to be using +10 max gold equipment across the board and you're calling it a "budget" team?

Anyway, my main RF team can beat the Manticore on 4-4N, but I doubt I could clear the map afterwards. I'll have to grind both my RF squads quite a bit it seems.
 
PhoenixMercurous said:
That squad appears to be using +10 max gold equipment across the board and you're calling it a "budget" team?

Anyway, my main RF team can beat the Manticore on 4-4N, but I doubt I could clear the map afterwards. I'll have to grind both my RF squads quite a bit it seems.
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Left that on the default settings. The RF's equips don't matter past having exactly enough AP for the enemies (which I believe they have 80ish armor, so even stock gold AP would work?).

Evasion isn't a huge issue if you kite with your HGs; pull them both forwards to the 9/3 tiles, back one to 8/2, and then swap them. If your RFs can't kill all the backline+most of the front line by that point, then the HGs will be a bit dinged.

The Manticores are a bit more of a DPS race, though; as they've got evasion (and the bottom one will stop to shoot first, unlike most enemy composition where their top row stops first) it can be a bit messy. However, as long as you don't literally just AFK your units it should be doable.
 
Probably An Oreo said:
Here's a budget squad for rifles: G43+M14, SAA+Astra+Makarov.


All mentioned units are pretty common, and in night G43 will still be nearly capping her rate of fire (you can swap her w/ M14 in the upper and lower back row if you want that extra frame out of G43).

Of course, then there's just the bog-standard WA/SVD squad.
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Uh I'm going to need that link to so I can try to optimize my squads thank you.
 
Arcus said:
Yeah I wouldn't bother. Just kill the Manticore, capture a helipad to retreat your echelon, then abort the mission. You'll save yourself resources and time compared to trying to do a full map clear.
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I'd never checked if I kept my combat rewards after terminating a mission, I just assumed I didn't because that's how it works in other games. Anyway, my main RF team was quite messed up and down to just one ammo after beating the manticore both times I've run that mission, I'm not sure they could make it back to a helipad. I'll try swapping around some units to reinforce them a bit more knowing I won't need a second RF team.
 
PhoenixMercurous said:
I'd never checked if I kept my combat rewards after terminating a mission, I just assumed I didn't because that's how it works in other games. Anyway, my main RF team was quite messed up and down to just one ammo after beating the manticore both times I've run that mission, I'm not sure they could make it back to a helipad. I'll try swapping around some units to reinforce them a bit more knowing I won't need a second RF team.
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The Manticore spawns on top of a helipad.

Cornuthaum said:


rate-up is real. Especially since you can farm the GSG exo with a 4HG1RF team and just terminate the mission once you kill the two manticores if it doesn't drop. Took me six attempts total this way.
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Exterminatus said:
Only had to kill the manticore and clear the map for MP5's exoskeleton. Rate-up is real.

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Filthy lucksacks, all of you.

I've only gotten Springfield's ammo and even that took me several dozen runs.
 
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Arcus said:
I've only gotten Springfield's ammo and even that took me several dozen runs.
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like, the gsg exo is honestly pretty easy to farm if you have a sufficiently stronk HGRF echelon (1 RF 4 HG, or 2 RF 3HG).

Spawn HGRF echelon on the top airport
spawn 1 level 1 handgun on the bottom airport

run HGRF echelon left through three enemies and then into the manticores

defeat them all

see if GSG exo drops

if not, terminate mission

repeat until gsg exo drops
 
Arcus said:
The Manticore spawns on top of a helipad.
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A helipad that starts surrounded by enemy nodes. The only way to beat the manticore and get an allied helipad in two turns is to run back to the starting one. That takes time and resources, plus it isn't always possible. I've just been pushing to the manticore in one turn, retreating my second echelon, then terminating the mission. Sure it costs a bit more, but it's less tedious.

The rate up lasts for two weeks anyways, so I'm currently planning on only running each of the missions a few times each day. That should spread out the repair costs and hopefully leave me with enough resources for equipment enhancement.
 
PhoenixMercurous said:
A helipad that starts surrounded by enemy nodes. The only way to beat the manticore and get an allied helipad in two turns is to run back to the starting one. That takes time and resources, plus it isn't always possible. I've just been pushing to the manticore in one turn, retreating my second echelon, then terminating the mission. Sure it costs a bit more, but it's less tedious.
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Turn 1: Capture the node south of the Manticore helipad. This is also has the advantage of letting you avoid the 13k Guard/Jaeger squad.

Turn 2: Kill the Manticore and end turn, you now have a captured helipad.

Turn 3: Call in your dummy HG if they were forced to retreat earlier. Retreat and abort mission.

Cornuthaum said:
like, the gsg exo is honestly pretty easy to farm if you have a sufficiently stronk HGRF echelon (1 RF 4 HG, or 2 RF 3HG).

Spawn HGRF echelon on the top airport
spawn 1 level 1 handgun on the bottom airport

run HGRF echelon left through three enemies and then into the manticores

defeat them all

see if GSG exo drops

if not, terminate mission

repeat until gsg exo drops
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I've been farming the damn Manticore, RNG just refuses to cooperate T_T
 
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Also having had a bit more look at the translated material Ive linked in the fic thread so much more if the plot makes sense

Persica mentioning that she gave lyco a copy of the
brain scan used to make M4s mind
which is heavily implied to be something lyco used in making
elisa, explaining why shes so interested in M4.

Theres also the bit that
KCCO were behind the incident involving the killing of lyco and starting the sangvis incident to begin with because they wanted elisa so they could use her to link into another massive AI which was linked in with some alien tech and had actually managed to activate them for a moment.
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There's also the bit where CT mentions how one of the characters involved in bakery girl is also linked into this so ha ha continuity. Its all coming together really.
 
Quick question.

Is it better to scrap your duplicate 3 to 5 stars for cores or keep em in case you need to dummy link em?
 
Look to the Left said:
Quick question.

Is it better to scrap your duplicate 3 to 5 stars for cores or keep em in case you need to dummy link em?
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Depends. My personal rule is of thumb is not to keep more duplicates than needed for their next dummy link (so no more than two if they're under level 70, and no more than 3 if they're under level 90), and to always keep 5 stars because of how rare 5 stars are in general (except G41, because I have no intention to use her ever). If you get a duplicate and your doll isn't linked to x3 then dummy them up; it's not particularly hard to level any one doll to level 30.

It's also going to vary depending on the specific T-doll you get; some dolls are particularly rare or useful (e.g. UMP45, G36, PK), so you always want to keep any duplicates that you manage to get your hands on, while some dolls like MP5 or Springfield show up all the time in production and so can be safely turned into cores. And some dolls have no use except to be core fodder (because they suck at their jobs).

EDIT: I forgot about shotguns, who fall in the "you are an idiot if you scrap her" category. Don't scrap shotguns.
 
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I swear 4-4N is cursed.

The only good thing is that I've been getting plenty of equipment enhance fodder. I've also gotten Grizzly and WA to 70 and 90 respectively (of course that means I have no cores now).

Just hurry up and give me MP5's goddamn exoskeleton already :mad:
 
Look to the Left said:
Quick question.

Is it better to scrap your duplicate 3 to 5 stars for cores or keep em in case you need to dummy link em?
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Always scrap FAMAS and AK-47. FAMAS is a grenadier AR but there are better grenadier ARs out there and Soppo outperforms her. AK-47 is utterly crap and useless, scrap her when you see her.

I've heard advice that you shouldn't scrap 5* HGs because of the rarity and usefulness - there are apparently people who run multiple Grizzlies, for example. idk, HGs are kinda new to me this year. *shrug*
 
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