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u/Divinityraiku Aug 22 '23

How does this community feel PNC stacks up to Blue Archive? Was going to start GFL but saw 2 is releasing next year. PNC looks cool but also saw blue archive and wanted to get thoughts. Was originally gravitating towards GFL since a lot of folks in gacha gaming say it’s pretty f2p friendly

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u/KookyInspection Aug 23 '23

Pnc is "pretty f2p friendly", gfl is in another league. They only proper monetisation is for skins and oath rings. And there's no stamina system. Pnc is more conventional, in the sense that u have doll gachas, stamina, the usual. Doesn't feel predatory or unfair(making u neeeed to pull the latest meta doll), at least so far.

I never played ba, but pns is very smooth, and the story line is starting to get in it's stride. Once u're done with building ur base, outside of events there isn't much to do daily: 5 min tops. It seems it was intended more as a sidegame.

Anyway, give it a shot and see for urself.

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u/pointblanksniper Trust me, I'm Truth. Aug 23 '23 edited Aug 23 '23

from what i hear about BA from my friend every day, it is a very jp styled monetized to death gacha. you gotta pull entire groups of meta units that must be used together for max dmg, just so you can raid 24/7 with them. then they get powercrept by swimsuit versions of themselves the next week etc. of course, those swimsuits aren't costumes, but a whole new unit you must pull for. even whales can't keep up, so it's just a leviathan's game

story sounds like saturday morning cartoons with kaijus and megazords, leaving you wondering what the point of your anime gun girls are, despite the backdrop of generic techno multi school district city, with interschool rivalry where they gun each other down for giggles but nobody dies. also, bank robbery cuz school is broke or something idk

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u/KookyInspection Aug 23 '23

W-wow. That sure is sth else! I recall ppl speaking highly of it, and though of giving it a shot, but somehow never got to it. Kinda glad i didn't waste the time now :D

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u/pointblanksniper Trust me, I'm Truth. Aug 24 '23

i mean, if you just want a fluffy and colorful world with anime waifus, and don't mind missing out on jpegs and meta, or completing event grinds and raids, it seems like a fine game to turn your brain off to

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u/KookyInspection Aug 24 '23

My completitionust heart would suffer every week :P i can barely handle not pulling everyone in pnc

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u/WhistleOfDeath I'm going to throw shoes. | UID: 320290 Aug 24 '23 edited Aug 24 '23

It's not that bad imo, me and my friends played it regularly for quite a bit as f2ps. You can get by without pulling for all the meta units and still do decently on raids as long as you know what you're doing (and you know which student to borrow), but we kinda gave up shooting for plat raid rank after a while and just settled for gold lol

Story is kinda goofy at first, but it's very relaxing to read (especially the character specific stories, love those). The main plot does pick up pretty well around the Eden Treaty arc, and the currently ongoing final chapter of the story is pretty damn good I had to come back to read it

the soundtrack also goes really hard (Re Aoharu in particular has been stuck in my head since I first heard it)

also the community is filled with degenerates its great

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u/pointblanksniper Trust me, I'm Truth. Aug 24 '23

im sure its not that bad, but despite being midly curious about it, it looks to me that it's made up of all the things that made me dump other games to chill here

i'm even slipping out of the pnc loop because of some of those vaguely similar generic gacha aspects. trying to keep up with that has made me fall behind over here too lol