Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium: Difference between revisions

Since launch, the UI of the dorm system displayed that it was in a beta state. A reworked Elmo menu and interactable 3D dorm system was announced during the first anniversary livestream,<ref>[https://www.bilibili.com/video/BV1hqzpYpEkS/ Bilibili]</ref> and shown again in July 2025 under the names “Elmo Ultra” (艾莫号Ultra), “Big Lounge” (大休息室)<ref>[https://weibo.com/7367502517/Pz6OAeuzp Weibo]</ref> or “Crew Deck” (活动层)<ref name=CrewDeck /> ahead of implementation on 1st August 2025.<ref>[https://weibo.com/7367502517/PDFcnCkap Weibo]</ref> This update introduced [[Klukai]]'s “Cerulean Breaker” costume, obtained at a 1.18% rate exclusively in a new costume gacha with a banner lasting over 330 days, and not available for direct purchase with {{Icon|Credit Token}} Credit Tokens. Like other banners, probability to obtain “Cerulean Breaker” would start to increase starting at 50 pulls, and be guaranteed at the 100th pull. Pulling on this new gacha required a new {{Icon|Outfit Access Permission}} Outfit Access Permission, which couldn't be bought with Collapse Pieces in the general shop, only with 120 {{Icon|Credit Token}} Credit Tokens per Permission. With 1{{Icon|Credit Token}} costing 0.1 CNY, with only premium Outfit Access Permissions and ignoring value packs, this meant that hitting the pity would cost 1200 CNY (about 167 USD at the time). Outside of one-time missions, Outfit Access Permissions could only be earned for free at a rate of one per week, through dorms-related weekly missions. The gacha also dropped [[Andoris]]' “Midnight Whisper” costume (1.21% drop rate), and costumes accessories for “Cerulean Breaker” and “Midnight Whisper”, weapon skins and rare dorm furnitures in a 12.09% drop rate pool. The remaining 85.52% drop rates of the pool was made of lower-rarity furniture, gift boxes and a new currency exclusive to the gacha, costume tokens. Duplicate gacha drops would also be converted into costume tokens. These costume tokens could be used in the costume gacha's “pity shop” (reminiscent of [[Girls' Frontline]]'s {{Icon|Exchange Ticket}} Exchange Tickets) to obtain most of the items available in the gacha pool, with the notable exception of “Cerulean Breaker”. The "pity shop" was the only way to obtain interactive scenes for [[Makiatto]]'s “Embroidered Bamboo, Blooming Shadows” costume (teased months prior without specified obtention method). This "pity shop" system meant that players could obtain “Cerulean Breaker” before having obtained all items in the gacha pool, and need to continue pulling the gacha as the items couldn't be purchased with a currency unrelated to the gacha.<ref>[[:File:GFL2 Costume Gacha Drops.jpg]], [[:File:GFL2 Costume Gacha Drop Rates.jpg]] [[:File:GFL2 Costume Gacha Shop.jpg]]</ref> Besides the gacha, furniture to be used in the new housing system could be purchased, for prices in the thousands for the most expensive, with a new furniture currency obtained in weekly missions, but also with {{Icon|Credit Token}} Credit Tokens at a 1:1 rate. Players pointed out that one furniture in the form of [[Mr. Pizza]] would cost more to acquire with premium currency in the game than as a physical plushie.

The day after the system was implemented, 32 top-ranked Platoons in the CN version pledged to stop all in-game payment until the system was altered.<ref>[https://gf2-bbs.exiliumgf.com/share?id=90943 Girls' Frontline 2 Official Forums] ([https://docs.google.com/document/d/1DUryqAaYgNv6jyJKDgdHOAAmq7ta75qrTMY5xnn6BOs TL])</ref> A similar declaration was shared in the KR and Global servers.<ref>[https://www.reddit.com/r/GirlsFrontline2/comments/1mq39gv/darkwinter_top_5_platoon_alliances_solidarity/ Reddit]</ref> On 5 August, an in-game mail annouced that selected players would be invited to Sunborn's HQ at H88 Yuehong Plaza, No. 88 Hongcao Road, Xuhui District, Shanghai, on 17 August to discuss changes to the system. 20 players were selected.<ref>[https://weibo.com/7367502517/5199603747524055 Weibo]</ref> The meeting resulted in a 19 August patch including more ways to obtain furniture currency, free distribution of Makiatto's interaction and promise that the next interaction would also be free, availability of Standard-rarity costumes in the regular costume shop, reduction of the duration of gacha banners to coincide with major events, and reduction of premium prices in the furniture shop by 40%.<ref>[https://weibo.com/7367502517/Q0iFMBa2s Weibo]</ref><ref>[https://gf2-bbs.exiliumgf.com/threadInfo?id=93547 Girls' Frontline 2 Official Forums]</ref> Changes would be implemented at launch for other servers,<ref name=CrewDeck /> for the first anniversary on 26 November 2025.<ref>[https://x.com/GFL2EXILIUM_EN/status/1991710791939309651 Twitter]</ref>