Current Events > Girls' Frontline General 16: Gunslingers & Funbringers

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Which 5* should I pick from the event shop?

Here's the ones I don't have:

• PA-15
• Gr MG36
• Gr MG5
• Gr MG4

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I can probably make a case for each one except MG36. You could also just get the icon and pull most of these during a general rate-up. MG36 will come around again as an event drop at some point. Whatever you do, don't rush your decision. You still have plenty of time before the True Core Mask expires.

-MG5 is one of the original Big 4. She's a great first volley MG for general use. The downside is that MGs have become more niche and her role is ageing somewhat but I think she's still pretty useful. She's pretty easy to get in crafting though.

-PA-15 has a skill that stuns an enemy in a different way than flashbangs. It's still a bit wonky and very niche in use but could be worth having on hand for later.

-MG4 sucks as a MG but she's kinda rare in crafting, probably 2nd to Negev. She is used to buff SG armor with her tiles (not so much anymore though, with better MGs that buff armor to choose from). Up to you if she's worth that or not.

You can also check doll reviews here for advice:
https://gfl.matsuda.tips/dolls/

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Whew, beat the second night battle (where you rescue UMP45 or something). I hope this stupid train isn't in every night battle from here on out, but I suspect they'll wring as much annoyance from it as possible. Gonna go watch one of those videos to see how to do the next one, so I don't waste a ton of time.

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Shotgunnova posted...

Whew, beat the second night battle (where you rescue UMP45 or something). I hope this stupid train isn't in every night battle from here on out, but I suspect they'll wring as much annoyance from it as possible. Gonna go watch one of those videos to see how to do the next one, so I don't waste a ton of time.

It's not in every map for the chapter; you'll get a break on the last combat map with no train to worry about. There's also a minigame battle you have to go through in the middle of the chapter. Other than that, you'll either be fighting while the train supports KCCO enemies (not all the time but the cannons have a lot of range) or you'll be fighting the train cannons themselves (two maps). If you're fighting under the guns, there are ways to avoid getting blasted.

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I spent more resources than I should have to max this fairy to 5*, but it was worth it.



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Congrats! I don't have any 5* fairies yet, although a couple are close (2400/3000). Heavy equipment production really doesn't like giving me fairies for some reason.

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ennuigamer posted...

Congrats! I don't have any 5* fairies yet, although a couple are close (2400/3000). Heavy equipment production really doesn't like giving me fairies for some reason.

I know that feeling. I've been doing tons of heavy equipment production everyday. But the main resource sink I did was I was 15 away from getting this fairy to 5* so I calibrated the fairy I just produced until the talent matched. I had really bad rng.

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Anyone have any guides for the ranking map?

I got a score of 154389, but I could probably do better if I knew the enemy layout to get a MG team to take out the opposing Tank.

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Tmaster148 posted...

Anyone have any guides for the ranking map?

Sort of. There are no real "go here and do this to win" kind of guides but rather a lot of info to help you piece together what you'll want to be doing. The big thing about ranking maps, prizes aside, is that it's the place where you can go all out and test yourself. I posted a couple of prep guides a while ago but here they are again for your convenience:
https://bit.ly/35KXHKO
https://tinyurl.com/y2n2djdg

The good thing about the ranking map this time around is that the objectives are pretty simple. Most of your time will probably be spent in the early turns, getting set up and such, while the last several turns are just about killing as many enemies as you can and keeping enemy heliports unclogged.

A guide for normal ranking, if all you want is to get 500k+ points for the fairy. It's not really meant to be followed 1:1 due to enemy movement RNG but to give you a rough idea of what you'll want to be doing. The main idea here is that you'll be "silver medal-ing" the map, capturing all of the nodes on the map instead of killing as many enemy spawns as possible like you would otherwise be doing.
https://youtu.be/cTbqZWOr21U

A list of enemy compositions on the ranking map to help you put together your teams.
https://gflinfo.github.io/ranking/2020/09/01/sc-enemy-comps.html
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/14jg3YeS5hSPxNcq_1ZmghpILNStIBhbmrJWOwsqe2gU/edit#gid=0

If you're playing the ranking map on Hard, all that's left is to watch videos of the top players' runs and note what they did to improve your own run. There are a lot of them you can watch, but here's a Top 5'er run for you as one example:
https://youtu.be/Erfu85Qp6_E

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Finally moving into action to get Desert Eagle after taking way too much time off.

Beat 5-2 awhile ago. 5-3 looks like hot garbage.

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So I'm trying to beat the Gustavs in 5-6, but I dont have taunt fairy. Using Kord, Negev, MH2B, and the two SGs you get from SL clear.

I do have a twin fairy, should I use that? Or just get a damage buff fairy or something instead.

I can beat the first two Gustavs but then get beaten by the third one.

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MedeaLysistrata posted...

So I'm trying to beat the Gustavs in 5-6, but I dont have taunt fairy. Using Kord, Negev, MH2B, and the two SGs you get from SL clear.

I do have a twin fairy, should I use that? Or just get a damage buff fairy or something instead.

I can beat the first two Gustavs but then get beaten by the third one.

Please check post #238 in this thread. I've asked some veteran players about fighting Gustav without a Taunt Fairy and/or without a MGSG team and I quoted their replies to me. I hope that helps you.

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ennuigamer posted...

Please check post #238 in this thread. I've asked some veteran players about fighting Gustav without a Taunt Fairy and/or without a MGSG team and I quoted their replies to me. I hope that helps you.

Ok ty

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FYI: The SC ranking prep guide (post #260 in this thread, 1st link) has been updated with new information, including a turn-by-turn list of general objectives you'll want to keep in mind if you're going for a high score.

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I found one more set of notes for ranking, if anyone else is interested:
https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Knt_ouMgseJ0SdN4C0crcRKP0gFgHpVTmi7oNQi3ES0/edit#

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Sunborn announced the drop dolls for the Snowy Night Capriccio event rerun:
E1-1: PP-19
E1-2: Honey Badger
E1-3: ART556
E1-4: Five-seveN

https://twitter.com/GirlsFrontlineE/status/1339140345490096129

I'm not personally interested in any of these but I hope the voucher exchange rewards are good.

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I imagine there's a free skin in the event shop.

I was actually talking yesterday about how I have over 6K tokens, because I just haven't been super interested in any of the gacha skins. Maybe one day there will be a skin I really want.

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Maybe. If you keep an eye on the older servers' announcements, just one will do, you'll know what's coming down the pike. Since that doesn't cover older content that hasn't yet appeared on EN, there are also skin catalogues made by fans to look at so that you don't need to go looking in too many places for one set of info. I haven't looked at that stuff in over a year, so I don't know if it's up to date or not.

A free skin would be nice. Of course, if it's a re-run skin, a free Black Card is nice too!

Edit: I think this is it. It looks like it's kept fairly up to date too, which is nice.
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/181WdcBjuMKmV-KSGzNSJaOV9mq4gqgaQ-Pmamw8RXtE/edit#gid=1058548414

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Whew, finally beat 5-3. Night battles + endless reinforcements + supply links = garbage. I guess the next one is the minigame or something, but I'll do that tomorrow.

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Didn't I already post in a topic like this recently? Eh well.

Blue Stinger - Merry Christmas
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S2RfZlOGJ6s

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I'm looking ahead at what to expect for Polarized Light's ranking map. It turns out that I was wrong and it's a daytime map after all! Here's what was pointed to me:

https://youtu.be/mBHMPm3XpPQ

Main things seem to be: raise a Kord or two, get a Landmine Fairy or two*, get a Parachute Fairy as high as possible for declogging while debuffed, get a 5* Beach Fairy (prototype fairies will help).

Honestly, 1 Beach is probably fine. Itll probably be a hard requirement for top 100, but Id expect a pretty sharp cliff elsewhere since a lot of people will just nope out of fighting deathstacks altogether.

* One caveat to the Landmine use is that with the new client, all points gained are based on current CE. We abused this in Isomer against the supply line hydra deathstack, but JP has Isomer right now and noticed that it changed. If this change lasts until PL, the top ranks will go to the people who can fight deathstacks with as little help from Landmine as possible.

also i forgot to mention, there are supply lines near spawn that you need to hold for points. this is really easy to do but don't forget about them xd

mp5 mod has also became useful so grab her while your at it as well.

It looks like some players did just fine without the Beach Fairy so it's probably not a hard requirement but simply a recommendation. Regarding the Landmine Fairy, it's another recommendation but you won't absolutely need them at 5*s, although it helps. Just max out the skill and maybe raise it/them to 3*+ and you should be more than good. 3* is the usual minimum for fairies in hard mode ranking.

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I actually got MG36 from supply boxes which was one of the 4 5* I was missing that I could get with the True Core Mask.

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Not digging this minigame.

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It took me a few tries to beat the minigame on hard. You really want to make sure you avoid taking damage in the first half of the fight as later on the boss has some attacks that are very hard to avoid completely.

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Eventually beat it, but still, not great in my eyes. Even in Azur Lane, I try to avoid manual shmup stuff since it can be laggy.

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I watched how to beat the last two maps -- they look easy as hell. I guess the supply point mission was the true apex of the final chapter.

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Now I just need to grind for Kord!



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lol, got Kord on my first clear (second attempt) at the map.




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Cleared the event... Didn't think I would make it. Now I just need to farm for P22!

Shotgunnova posted...

lol, got Kord on my first clear (second attempt) at the map.

Nice, I got her randomly just playing through the event really early on and she got me through the armored enemy segments more or less. Negev too was helpful tho.

I guess I should get SAT 8 since I don't have her?

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Shotgunnova posted...

lol, got Kord on my first clear (second attempt) at the map.

That's some luck there! Congratulations!

MedeaLysistrata posted...

Now I just need to farm for P22!

I wish you the best of luck with that.

I guess I should get SAT 8 since I don't have her?

With the True Core Mask? Since SGs are the most expensive unit to pull for and SAT8 is the best one in general, yeah, that's probably a good idea. Just make sure you cap her skill since that's where most of her utility comes from, aside from armor and HP.

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SAT8 kicks ass and is a good choice. I only bought C-93 with my TMC because I had all the other guns; otherwise, I'd have bought a new shotgun to avoid killing my resources.

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I got 444K on the ranking map. Killing those spider sentries or whatever really killed me.

Idk if I'll attempt again. It takes so long.

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I finished my ranking run as well with less than stellar results than I would have preferred. I would have tried a few more times but my rations, manpower, and fairy command points are tapped out. That was really painful to go through and I'm disappointed because I know I could have done much better. At least I'm not walking out of it empty-handed.

Looks like it's just tomorrow's crates and I'm done with this event. Gotta rebuild those resources and prep for the collab and Polarized Light! This time I need to really focus on enhancing my fairies.

Tmaster148 posted...

Killing those spider sentries or whatever really killed me.

The Patrollers (Striders)? They're really annoying but there are a few tricks you can do to make them super easy to kill.
-Turn off Auto Skill when the fight starts. When it drops its HP shield and gains a massive evasion buff is when it's at its most vulnerable, so turn Auto Skill back on at that time to burst it down. Turn Auto Skill back off when its shield goes back up and repeat the cycle until it's dead.
-The Taunt Fairy drone can stall it for some time. Just make sure to clear the middle row to avoid its penetrating shot when it drops its shield. If you don't have a Taunt Fairy, use a really strong evasion tank with a good HP pool.
-M200 and/or any rifle with a skill shot will hit it with 100% accuracy when it drops its shield. It may take a few cycles.
-M82A1 (Inari) + one more rifle can kill in one cycle, as can Desert Eagle and two rifles.

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I couldn't sleep last night, so I ended up doing a ranking run on hard since when I checked the ranking it was using my first hard run and not the 444K run from normal. Scored 511K so guaranteed a fairy at least.

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Hey! That's not bad! Congrats on getting the guaranteed fairy!

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ennuigamer posted...

Hey! That's not bad! Congrats on getting the guaranteed fairy!

Right now I'm top 32% so I'm hoping I stay top 50% for Lee Enfield's equipment.

ennuigamer posted...

The Patrollers (Striders)? They're really annoying but there are a few tricks you can do to make them really easy to kill.
-Turn off Auto Skill when the fight starts. When it drops its HP shield and gains a massive evasion buff is when it's at its most vulnerable, so turn Auto Skill back on at that time to burst it down. Turn Auto Skill back off when its shield goes back up and repeat the cycle until it's dead.
-The Taunt Fairy drone can stall it for some time. Just make sure to clear the middle row to avoid its penetrating shot when it drops its shield. If you don't have a Taunt Fairy, use a really strong evasion tank with a good HP pool.
-M200 and/or any rifle with a skill shot will hit it with 100% accuracy when it drops its shield. It may take a few cycles.
-M82A1 (Inari) + one more rifle can kill in one cycle, as can Desert Eagle and two rifles.

Once I realize I could dodge that laser once the shield drops by having my main tank in the center front column and moving over to the next row and back to keep the laser targeting the center row helped a lot.

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Whats this about August 18-24 now :<



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I think they've just been copypasting things and don't check 'em. They did something else like that recently where they talked about the GG event in the latest three-week costume event.

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On the older servers, the next SF unit for capture is Agent!

Skill translations:

Tiles
Increase all allies' DMG, ACC and EVA
S1
Summon 3 clone reinforcements, each inheriting part of Agent's stats and possessing the same passive skills.
S2
Passive: When being supported by Fire Support Units or Coalition Units, increase the critical rate of all units and attack range of ranged units in Agent's echelon.
Active: Agent's echelon can be transported to heliports within the map, however the echelon's DMG/ACC/EVA/ARM will be massively decreased.
S3
Agent uses 4 machineguns to complete each round of attacks. Inflict stun and damage amplification to the target after a number of rounds.
S4
When allied units on the field die, increase self DMG.

She's effectively a mini Parachute Fairy with General Liu's skill

Ranking score % approximations as of today (final tally will be tomorrow morning):



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Got 365K on the ranking map by stalling until the supply line timer went out. Hopefully that's enough to get Lee's equipment. I also know why people hate those spider robots now, too -- almost impossible to kill once their power skyrockets to 70,000+ (even with max taunt fairy). I barely lost to one without a taunt fairy when it was at 40K power, but didn't want to restart my first run, so oops. :P

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The final ranking results have been released as of this morning. Check the Rank button on your home screen and click on the Event tab. Rewards will be given out next week on Tuesday, after maintenance.

I know I could've done much better but my result at least wasn't terrible in the big picture (far from it). I made a lot of really stupid mistakes and that inspired me to do better in PL's ranking. I really want to make the Top 100 leaderboard next time. I feel pretty confident I can at least do that once I get my fairies powered up and study some of the top players' runs on the older servers.

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I'm top 39% so I'll get both fairy and equipment.

New skin for m1895/nagant revolver from the Christmas event. I'm currently using her with As Val mod so nice to get a skin for her.

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Ended up at 44% and 435K points. I could have done much better this ranking.
Ended up running it on the last day,which is almost always a recipe for failure.
I keep forgetting that, since I'm doing this on mobile, there's a large amount of lag and disconnects to deal with that add more time to each run that really adds up, on top of handling everything in the map itself.

I did my run on EX, and while the ELIDs and Paradeus didn't give me too much trouble, I found that I couldn't handle the KCCO enemies,at least while under enemy Gustav support. I tried following one of the guides but must have had something go wrong, as I couldn't get my MGHG parachute team in to kill the cannon in the first place. I feel that was the biggest reason why I didn't rank higher.

Second would be failing to kill the ~94k Failed Isomer, which I think would have put me just over the top too. Not too sure why my strategy didn't work; I even tested it out in target practice first to get a feel for how the fight would go.

I'm worried the the next ranking will be out of my reach since I don't have Beach Fairy, so killing the deathstacks that will be in the next ranking map will be more difficult that if I had it. Not to mention that is a daytime map, so everyone will be at full power, more or less, which means the cutoff for the next exclusive equip and the Fairy will be even higher.

It'd be nice if MICA would ever re-run ranking or put some of the older ranking rewards in the expedition shop,if they are unwilling to re-run ranking.

Sorry about the long rant, I burned my manpower and rations down to nothing, Mod3'd AS-Val and Hanyang Type 88 and still couldn't completely deliver. Ah well, I'll just have to struggle a little harder the next go-round.

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Yeahhhhhh



I only wanted the equipment, but breaking that 50% barrier is nice, too. Not bad, considering I only did my first attempt in the last couple hours of the event.

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Genwai posted...

Ended up at 44% and 435K points. I could have done much better this ranking.
Ended up running it on the last day,which is almost always a recipe for failure.
I keep forgetting that, since I'm doing this on mobile, there's a large amount of lag and disconnects to deal with that add more time to each run that really adds up, on top of handling everything in the map itself.

I did my run on EX, and while the ELIDs and Paradeus didn't give me too much trouble, I found that I couldn't handle the KCCO enemies,at least while under enemy Gustav support. I tried following one of the guides but must have had something go wrong, as I couldn't get my MGHG parachute team in to kill the cannon in the first place. I feel that was the biggest reason why I didn't rank higher.

Second would be failing to kill the ~94k Failed Isomer, which I think would have put me just over the top too. Not too sure why my strategy didn't work; I even tested it out in target practice first to get a feel for how the fight would go.

I'm worried the the next ranking will be out of my reach since I don't have Beach Fairy, so killing the deathstacks that will be in the next ranking map will be more difficult that if I had it. Not to mention that is a daytime map, so everyone will be at full power, more or less, which means the cutoff for the next exclusive equip and the Fairy will be even higher.

It'd be nice if MICA would ever re-run ranking or put some of the older ranking rewards in the expedition shop,if they are unwilling to re-run ranking.

Sorry about the long rant, I burned my manpower and rations down to nothing, Mod3'd AS-Val and Hanyang Type 88 and still couldn't completely deliver. Ah well, I'll just have to struggle a little harder the next go-round.

Don't worry about it; I get what you mean. I had a similar experience. Frankly, I'm surprised I got the score I did, given how many mistakes I made and all the repairs, withdrawals, and redeployments I performed. ELIDs and Paradeus were pretty easy, except for the times when I forgot to bring an HOC into the fight on the Gundams and Dunkers. It's a good thing I watched that competition between the EN and CN players because I learned a good way to kite the dunkers so that I don't take any damage from their main attack.

The funny thing about the Isomer boss is that I thought the 154k Nyto boss was easier than the 96k one. In hindsight, that was probably because I knew what to do then and had a better formation before starting the battle. In the 96k boss battle, I had to move all my dolls at the start into place but in the second battle, I only had to move one doll. After that, it was a matter of paying attention to the Isomer mooks and wiggling my ARs to retarget them and get rid of them quickly. Mod3 AS Val works wonders here but only if you set up the echelon in a specific manner to maximize her potential.

With KCCO, the only real trouble I had was when the enemy was under Gustav support, and really just with the doggos + archers combination. I had trouble against the Minotaurs in the campaign but they weren't too bad in the ranking map because it was just them. Even with them under Gustav support, I didn't take too much damage.

Regarding ranking reruns, the older servers have had reruns of ranking maps before (Arctic Warfare through Singularity so far) and they have stated in QnA sessions that reruns on our server are on the table but only after we are sufficiently caught up to the older servers, which should happen next year. The rerun maps are rebalanced to be more challenging, so expect that. Since the ranking maps from Isomer forward already have multiple difficulties, I don't know if that rebalancing trend will continue past Continuum Turbulence or not. I have no clue if they'll make the ranking rewards available through other means but, in a CN stream, Yuzhong said he doesn't want any non-collaboration content to go extinct and they're exploring other options to bring that stuff back for players who missed it. I have my ideas on how they could do it, at least.

If you don't have the Beach Fairy, I heard that you can raise a Landmine Fairies or two in its place. You won't get the same amount of points, since mining the deathstacks reduces their CE and thus the points, but it's better than nothing at all and you still get the deathstacks out of the way.

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The January roadmap is out!



-The silhouette in the Neural Upgrade slot looks like LWMMG, a hotly anticipated upgrade because she's another top-notch mod.
-Chapter 12 brings a new grinding map for EXP and cores that makes both 0-2 and 10-4e obsolete.
-QLZ from Theater seasons 3 & 4 is the third HOC that can cap all stats on the chip board (the only other two are AGS and M2).
-Theater season 3 also marks AT4 entering the Intelligence pool, if you still need central data to get the HOC to 5*s.

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Might have to raise my LWMMG since the upgrade looks kinda cool.

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I'm working on Micro Uzi right now.

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I forgot about Uzi. Never was a big fan, but at least the buff tiles are slightly improved.

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It's not just a new grinding map but we also get new logistics...

12-1: Level 80+; 01:00:00; 220 ammo; 220 rations; Equipment Contract (4th best per hour for ammo and rations)
12-2: Level 80+; 01:30:00; 360 manpower; 120 parts (2nd best per hour for manpower)
12-3: Level 85+; 09:00:00; 800 manpower; 1200 ammo; 1200 rations; Quick Production Contract (3rd best overall for ammo and rations)
12-4: Level 90+; 12:00:00; 1800 manpower; 1800 rations; T-Doll Contract (best overall for manpower and rations)

...and a new chapter limited drop: MAT-49
https://iopwiki.com/wiki/MAT-49

Edit: some info from the latest QnA (only the Twitter one; I don't read the Facebook one)
-KSVK is one of the girls in the next mod batch, so that's LWMMG, KSVK, and ????
-Theater season 3 will take place "in the middle of January. Stay tuned for the exact date."
-still no ETA for the SF Capture feature

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