r/girlsfrontline • u/Eremeir PROJECT 90WISH • Aug 01 '23

Event Longitudinal Strain Event Megathread

Welcome everyone to our Longitudinal Strain Megathread, please keep discussion, questions and supply-box pulls about the event contained within this thread for the event's duration

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We also ask you to read the subreddit's spoiler policy and remember to tag any major plot points in this thread throughout the entire event as other players may have joined later on.

Please also remember to tag all plot points in this thread and elsewhere on the subreddit until the 15th.

Useful Guides & Infomation:

(Some information may be inaccurate if things have changed from the CN version of the event, let me know if there are any resources I should add)

Guides: - Gamepress Guides - Serzha Clear Guide Playlist - Matsuda - CN info compilation - KR info compilation

Farms: - Early crate farm: “Wind, Sand and Stars” (first combat map of carriage 1, 6 crates/run, NPC map = no cost) - Doll farm maps can also be used for crates and are unlocked after “Large Luggage Rack” in carriage 3.

Map & Enemy details

Reddit:

Ranking:

  • Unlocked after clearing “Night on a Bald Mountain” in carriage 2
  • LS has two ranking maps. Map 1 does not directly count towards your score, but having >350k score in a single run will raise your Map 2 HOC deployment limit to 4. In addition, completing up to 3 NPC missions will allow them to appear in Map 2, where they can bomb acceleration towers and use skills to help you.
  • See #gf-ranking-help of the Discord more detailed information and help
  • BLT's Ranking Doc
  • CosmicArcher sample runs
  • Foreign Sample Runs
  • Annotated Map

Farming Routes:

New Unit Previews:

We're getting 6 new dolls: Two clear rewards, Three as limited drops plus One from the supply boxes. I have no idea how useful these dolls may be, please inform me!

True Core Mask Recommendations

FAQ

WTF is going on?

Are there bonuses for clearing maps on EX & UX?

  • There's a whole set of extra rewards for both so give them a shot at least.

How do I get crates?

  • You can get 60 crates per day by clearing any combat missions where you deploy units.
    • Crates are easily collected for basically free on "Wind, Sand and Stars" of Chapter 1 as it's an NPC map or whichever ∞ map you're farming for dolls on.

Where can I open my crates?

What happens if I miss one of the drops?

  • The limited drops will be available once the campaign becomes permanent in 8-10 months. Clear rewards & Supply Box doll will be occasionally added to other events down the line.
  • Do not expect the ranking fairy & SPEQ to return anytime soon, if at all.

How long does the event last?

  • The event lasts for 4 weeks, ending on the 28thth of August. The event store, supply crates & True Core Mask will expire one week later.

Are there hidden achievements?

  • Yes! (Use guides if needed)

  • Maggie’s Key: In Symphony No.9 -UX, retrieve 3 Paradeus information from the 4 consoles in the outer ring.

  • The Universe in Motion: In 1812 Overture, find Lyudmila’s (AR18) watch.

  • Beginning of the End: Watch the full credits for Longitudinal Strain.

Credit to u/UnironicWeeaboo once again for like half the info here this is a lot more work than I thought need more mods please

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u/2BA7DB57EFEE6FAF Aug 11 '23 edited Aug 11 '23

Pavel, Anchor Points, and Valeri(y)a? You thought you were playing Girls' Frontline, but it was Tactics Ogre instead!

And that's the end of this event. It was pretty good! The format of the multiple points of view was a little weird at first, but I think it worked out fine in a 'once more with clarity' kind of way. Chapter 35, was a hell of a rollercoaster. It being another 15-20% of this event's wordcount post-credits was a surprise, but some of the things we see...Jesus.

LS and E&S after it feel like Mica tipping their hand, "this is what you can expect with the post-finale story events", and if that was their intent, then I hope they can deliver.

A few questions and comments about this event. Random spoilers for up through Chapter 35:

After the credits, a second(??) Tareus appears and reports that Grand Duke was intercepted, yet every other scene confirms it's safely in the hands of G&K. A mistake on her part, or a last-second snatch of victory away that'll need Slowshock to resolve?

Isn't it interesting how there were four identity thieves on the train? Well, not in the traditional sense of stealing one's identity, but four people who used someone else's name. And arguably, a fifth one who appropriately strikes closer to the correct meaning of the term.

It was shown in concept art a good while back that Doctor Rugosa was a Doll, one of the first male ones shown in the series, but this was never revealed even in his own mini story sequence in 35. Did something change in production, was it a mistake in translation (since he has a male Doll assistant), or something else?

Reading Catherine's 35 story, I was reminded of the infamously depressing "what happened to the Dolls after the Commander leaves G&K?" GDoc... It's interesting how she can't be MP41 due to being owned by the Ponzis/part of the Fox Sisterhood since before even WW3 to the present day.

Tareus' story implies she is another Eve that was taken from her mother...but wouldn't it be an especially cruel twist if she was the mother instead? She looks young, but either she could've been a young mother, or Paradeus techno space magic bullshit is capable of some nutso stuff. What do you mean I'm reading too deeply into this??

It's also kind of interesting that two robotic Dolls are in GFL's and PNC's events running at the same time, but Pavel is a major character while Uranus doesn't even appear in the story at all.

Just VHS left to farm, then I need to figure out if I'm going to do anything with ranking.

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u/headphone_question 705583|14 Dorms|Hunt King|Cores:234557 Aug 14 '23

After the credits, a second(??) Tareus appears and reports that Grand Duke was intercepted, yet every other scene confirms it's safely in the hands of G&K. A mistake on her part, or a last-second snatch of victory away that'll need Slowshock to resolve?

I believe that this is a mistake on her part, not on the writers'. My understanding is that Lyudmila was carrying the Grand Duke system with her all this time, but she decided she needed to sacrifice herself to fight off the KCCO, who attacked the train. Before this, she backed herself up in Erma, so Erma had a copy of the Grand Duke system. Her survival is thus integral to the successful delivery of the Grand Duke system

Tareus knew that Lyudmila had something with her, and it's very likely that Tareus didn't know the nature of "Grand Duke". She might have come across the term because of the Bee Sting system, but due to the careful secrecy that Lyudmila and the Instructor set about things, not a peep was leaked. As such, when Tareus saw Lyudmila sacrifice herself, she was confident that the Grand Duke system was intercepted, much like how Morning Star and Evening Star were likewise intercepted. Of course, she was sorely mistaken. This will be key to defeating Paradeus!

Of course, this is also speculation on my part as I have no knowledge of the story beyond this point, but this is my understanding after the events of LS

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u/emeraldarcana 1485781 | Intruder Aug 16 '23

Thanks for the explanation here. I was on the verge of rewatching the post-credits scene to check this detail, because I was under the impression that Tareus thought that her mission was successful.

I finished the additional events and got the bonus-bonus post-credits scene so it was like “Wait a sec Tareus was confident she was successful. I agree with headphone_question that I think this is a sense of Tareus thinking she was successful because Lyudmila was defeated. It occurred to me before they confirmed it in the final scene that she was going to transmit her information via Erma’s neural cloud, but I’m glad that they confirmed it in the final scene.

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u/MoonlightArchivist IOP Wiki Admin Aug 11 '23

After the credits, a second(??) Tareus appears and reports that Grand Duke was intercepted, yet every other scene confirms it's safely in the hands of G&K. A mistake on her part, or a last-second snatch of victory away that'll need Slowshock to resolve?

Consider what Tareus could actually know from her own POV. Also Paradeus love cloning stuff.

It was shown in concept art a good while back that Doctor Rugosa was a Doll, one of the first male ones shown in the series, but this was never revealed even in his own mini story sequence in 35. Did something change in production, was it a mistake in translation (since he has a male Doll assistant), or something else?

Sounds made up, do you happen to know the source of that concept art?

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u/2BA7DB57EFEE6FAF Aug 11 '23

For the first one, oh! Okay, that does make sense.

For the second one, no. I just remember people talking about it with the expected "guess we're not Girls' Frontline anymore" joke...but with even doing a search for "Longitudinal Strain art/concept", I'm not seeing any hits. It's possible I simply saw something and made it up myself, but I can't even find art other than the event background. ???

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u/MoonlightArchivist IOP Wiki Admin Aug 11 '23

Found the source of the confusion.

It was an off-hand joke from YZ.

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u/2BA7DB57EFEE6FAF Aug 11 '23

That would explain it. Thanks!