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Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium
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Developer(s)	MICA Team
Publisher(s)	CN/NA/ANZ/IE: Darkwinter EU/UK/JP/KR/TW: HaoPlay
Producer(s)	Yuzhong (羽中)
Series	Girls' Frontline
Engine	Unity
Platform(s)	Microsoft Windows, iOS, Android
Release	CN: 21 December 2023 NA/ANZ/IE: 3 December 2024 EU/UK/JP/KR/TW: 5 December 2024
Genre(s)	Turn-based tactics
Mode(s)	Single-player

Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium (simplified Chinese: 少女前线2：追放; traditional Chinese: 少女前線2：追放; pinyin: Shàonǚ Qiánxiàn 2: Zhuīfàng) is a turn-based tactical strategy game developed by China-based studio MICA Team, where players command squads of android characters, known in-universe as T-Dolls, armed with firearms and melee blades. It is the sequel to Girls' Frontline, set ten years after the closing events of the prior game. The game was released in Mainland China on 21 December 2023, and later released worldwide on 3 December 2024 (by Darkwinter Software) or 5 December 2024 (by HaoPlay) depending on region.

Gameplay

The gameplay of Girls' Frontline 2 revolves around isometric turn-based tactical battles, akin to games such as XCOM, Disgaea and Shadowrun. The player commands a squad of units in order to fulfil mission objectives on a tactical map, which include destroying enemy units, capturing strategic points, surviving waves of enemy attacks, or evacuating all units to an extraction point. These playable units, which are combat androids known in-universe as T-Dolls, are obtained by the player via a Genshin-esque gacha system with standard and seasonal event banners to roll from, using in-game currencies.

T-Dolls are categorised into four different classes, namely:

• Sentinel: Primary damage dealing units with high DPS
• Bulwark: Tanking units with high survivability and defensive abilities
• Support: Units with healing and buffing abilities
• Vanguard: Units with high mobility and are able to perform flanking maneuvers against enemies in cover

In addition to a standard attack and a passive skill, T-Dolls have special active abilities which consume confectance index to use, akin to ability points in standard role-playing games, and provide unique offensive or defensive capabilities depending on the T-Doll. Confectance index can be replenished over time, or through the use of certain active abilities.

All units, both player-controlled and enemy-controlled, have a stability index which gradually decreases as they receive attacks from other units; when this is reduced to zero, stability break occurs, which reduces the effect of battlefield cover. The combat map offers locations with varying cover which reduces the amount of damage a unit receives, and the player is able to mitigate the effect of enemy cover though the use of positional flanking, area-of-effect attacks, melee attacks, elevated tiles which negate the efficacy of cover, or by reducing the enemy unit's stability index to zero. Other forms of environmental effectors on the map include hazard tiles which apply damage or negative status effects to units, and interactable levers that alter elevators, conveyor belts or turrets on the battlefield.

The combat ability of T-Dolls can be enhanced by increasing their training level, altering their weapon and attachment loadouts, fortifying the T-Doll using duplicates obtained via the gacha system, unlocking enhancement nodes on each T-Doll's neural helix, and equipping keys which provide modifiers to abilities or stats.

While not in battle, the player can visit the T-Dolls in their dormitory to observe them during their everyday activities and present them with gifts to increase their affinity level, which provides minor stat increases during combat. Outside of the main game, the player is also able to read additional in-universe lore using the "Traceback" menu.

Setting

The game is set ten years after the events of the final campaign chapter of Girls' Frontline. The combat T-Dolls, having previously been exclusively referred to by the names of the firearms they've been imprinted onto within their fire-control cores, begin choosing to adopt new, more human-like personal names as their callsigns, either for personal or professional reasons. As the private military company Griffin & Kryuger undergoes dissolution and reshuffling, many T-Dolls find themselves joining other organisations, or ending up settling down in civilian life. Meanwhile, as the URNC grows in size and power, it begins to undertake a major project of purifying contamination zones afflicted by Collapse radiation so that human resettlement can occur.

The player takes on the role of "the Commander", who, at the end of the previous game, resigned from their position at Griffin & Kryuger following a catastrophic military operation in Frankfurt, and subsequently was forced by Rossartrist shadow members to sign a contract prohibiting them from coming into contact with their former subordinate T-Dolls from Griffin & Kryuger, and to exile themselves to the contaminated zone, as a condition for not being killed. There, the Commander assumes the role of a bounty hunter who takes on various tasks for commissions, accompanied by a team of three T-Dolls and a mechanic named Mayling.

During a cargo delivery job issued by BRIEF, the Commander's team is raided by Varjager bandits. After escaping from combat, they resupply from a black marketeer named Poludnitsa, who shares intel regarding the suspicious nature of the job they have taken. Deciding to head towards the Great Wall Railway at the edge of the contaminated zone, the Commander's team makes a detour to Port Vest, an area with hostile terrain that is teeming with ELIDs, in an attempt to eliminate the remaining Varjagers in pursuit. There, they encounter Colphne, a civilian medical support doll, who requests to join the team and have her body modified with a fire-control core. Unbeknownst to the team, the same client who had requested the cargo delivery job also hired the Varjager bandits to eliminate the Commander and to secure the cargo.

While inspecting the cargo to be delivered, the Commander's team discovered that the box contains a girl inside, Helena, who is a human experimentation subject seemingly immune to the adverse effects of Collapse radiation. The client contacts the team, and asks to rendezvous at a set of coordinates. Meanwhile, in a call, former Griffin & Kryuger colleague Kalina instructs the Commander to meet with her at ODE-01, a satellite city in Odesa, and so the Commander's team splits up. As the T-Dolls reach the rendezvous point, the client ambushes them, only for the client to be apprehended following the firefight. However, the client is promptly rescued by a hostile T-Doll, Sextans, and the two escape. At the same time, Kalina reveals to the Commander that she is now working at the Non-Military Forces Administration of the URNC, and that it was her who issued the assignment so that the human sample could be safely secured.

One of Kalina's subordinate T-Dolls, Lenna, spots law enforcement en route to apprehend the Commander, forcing the Commander to make their escape, and loses track of Helena in the process. Lenna explains that the Girard Group, a large machinery manufacturing conglomerate, is involved with the human sample. Upon reuniting with the team, they raid the facility where the client has kept Helena, and then escape by car in an attempt to take the train to depart for Kyiv, only to encounter another hostile T-Doll, Darture, who attacks. Odesa law enforcement agents, under the command of the client, raid Kalina's office and prepare to give her a summary execution, however are thwarted by Lenna who arrives at the last minute in an attack helicopter.

After their escape from Odesa, the Commander seemingly receives a message from Kalina, stating that the meetup point has changed to an abandoned factory within the Yellow Zone. Eventually it is revealed that their comms had been compromised, as they find themselves in a trap set by Darture. After defeating Darture in a firefight, Kalina calls, requesting that the Commander continue making their way towards Kyiv, and that they should resupply with a black marketeer named Saga while on the way. The team encounters a Varjager encampment in Bihor and quickly subdues them, only to find the same band of Varjagers raiding Saga's encampment.

Characters

Campaign story playable T-Dolls

Groza (闪电; Shǎndiàn)

Voiced by: Zhang Jen (Chinese); Marina Inoue (Japanese); Lee Daeun (Korean)

A combat T-Doll armed with an OTs-14 Groza, whom the Commander originally found damaged under a pile of rubble. Groza is unable to recall any memories prior to being reactivated by the Commander.

Nemesis (纳美西丝; Nàměixīsī)

Voiced by: Qin Ziyi (Chinese); Aya Endō (Japanese); Shin Nari (Korean)

A T-Doll armed with an OM 50 Nemesis who plays the role of the team's sniper. She has a damaged language module, and as a result, can only speak in poetic riddles.

Krolik (克罗丽科; Kèluólìkē)

Voiced by: MAO (Chinese); Sayaka Ohara (Japanese); Song Harim (Korean)

A T-Doll with bunny ears armed with a melee blade. In addition to combat duties, she assumes the role of the team's de facto translator for Nemesis.

Colphne (寇尔芙; Kòuěrfú)

Voiced by: Shi Haku (Chinese); Naomi Ōzora (Japanese); Sung Yewon (Korean)

A former civilian medical T-Doll who joins the Commander's team after her entire medical regiment was wiped out by an ELID attack, escaping as the sole survivor. Armed with a Taurus Curve.

Vepley (维普蕾; Wéipǔlěi)

Voiced by: Cotton Candy (Chinese); Hitomi Harada (Japanese); Jung Hyewon (Korean)

A singing "idol" T-Doll handed over to the Commander by the black marketeer Saga. Armed with a Vepr-12.

Supporting characters

Mayling (美玲; Měilíng)

Voiced by: Liu Wen (Chinese); Madoka Asahina (Japanese); Kim Haru (Korean)

The mechanic of the Elmo Mobile Construction Vehicle, used by the Commander as a mobile base of operations.

Kalina (格琳娜; Gélínnà)

Voiced by: Tsumao (Chinese); Nao Tōyama (Japanese); Jihyun Lee (Korean)

The Commander's former colleague from Griffin & Kryuger PMC, who has since become a bureaucrat at the Non-Military Forces Administration.

Lenna (莱娜; Láinà)

Voiced by: Hou Xiaofei (Chinese); Mamiko Noto (Japanese)

Formerly known as UMP9 in Girls' Frontline and prior to changing her name, Lenna is a combat T-Doll formerly subordinate to the Commander at Griffin & Kryuger, and now reports to Kalina.

Poludnitsa (佩妮泽; Pèinīzé)

A famed underground broker in Eastern Europe.

Saga (萨珈; Sàjiā)

An underground broker based near the Black Sea.

Seasonal event T-Dolls

Ullrid (乌尔丽德; Wūěrlìdé)

Voiced by: Ju Huahua (Chinese); Yuka Saitō (Japanese); Moon Yoojeong (Korean)

A melee T-Doll armed with a sword, and the protagonist of the Sojourners of the Glass Island time-limited event. As the leader of a wandering commune of destitute Dolls in the contaminated zone, Ullrid was faced with the threat of her commune slowly running out of supplies, until they discover an abandoned thermoelectric power plant infested by ELIDs and containing all the necessities required for their survival. To the insistence of Ullrid, all decisions made by the commune are held to a democratic vote, however the abstention of many Dolls and their unwillingness to embark on a risky expedition to obtain supplies from the power plant creates constant conflict between Ullrid and the other commune members. After a narrow vote, the commune explores the power plant, discovering a large quantity of agricultural supplies and equipment, eventually concluding that the plant was originally intended as an experimental facility for growing plants within the contaminated zone, and that the ELIDs were being attracted to the plant by the cooling towers emitting Collapse radiation. They are attacked by defence automatons and a mysterious Doll guarding the experimental facility, causing significant casualties to the commune. After disabling the cooling towers and dispatching the hostile Doll, the commune decides to settle at the power plant.

Suomi (索米; Suǒmǐ)

Voiced by: Tao Dian (Chinese); Aki Toyosaki (Japanese); Bo-hee Lee (Korean)

A T-Doll armed with a Suomi KP/-31 originally part of Ullrid's T-Doll commune, who is found by the Commander while she was on an ill-fated expedition for supplies. Suomi is inherently Russophobic, due to the way her neural cloud was designed.

Development

During a livestream in May 2020 celebrating the fourth anniversary of Girls' Frontline, game producer Yuzhong announced four new games set within the Girls' Frontline universe. Girls' Frontline 2 was described as a tactical game with exploration and character progression mechanics.

Yuzhong states in a 2021 interview that Girls' Frontline 2 is the studio's first attempt at creating a 3D game. As a departure from the previous game's simpler design, Girls' Frontline 2 utilises a freely adjustable third-person top-down perspective. The production team also combined the usage of more realistic-looking physically based rendering for objects and environments alongside the non-photorealistic rendering of animesque characters as part of their design of the game's aesthetic, seamlessly combining the characteristics of moe and realism together without breaking immersion. Battle maps with a variety of indoor and outdoor settings were created, along with variations in time-of-day and season, to create an atmosphere of realism for the game's post-apocalyptic wasteland setting.

MICA Team states in an interview that the development cost for the game exceeds 100 million renminbi (US$13.7 million).

Release

Development of Girls' Frontline 2 was first announced in May 2020, and the game received content review approval from the General Administration of Press and Publication of the People's Republic of China in March 2023. The game underwent numerous successive stages of closed beta testing on 29 June 2021, 18 October 2021, 20 July 2023, and 28 September 2023, and was released in China on 21 December 2023.

An English localisation for the game was announced on 20 July 2024, with pre-registrations commencing on 24 September 2024. The game was released in North America, Australia, New Zealand, Ireland and various other countries on 3 December 2024 (under the publisher Sunborn Network Technology, d/b/a Darkwinter Software), and in most European countries, the United Kingdom, Japan, South Korea, Taiwan and various other countries on 5 December 2024 (under the publisher Peiyu Digital Entertainment, d/b/a HaoPlay).

Reception

Chinese release

Pre-registrations for the Chinese version exceeded 4.74 million players prior to the game's release. On the game's day of launch in China, Girls' Frontline 2 reached the top 2 rank among all charting free-to-play games domestically.

A review for the Chinese version of the game by Gcores praises the game's aesthetics and animation quality. Similarly, Youxi Putao makes a positive note on the animation and use of camera perspective for the game's exposition sequences, and that the game differentiates itself well from other animesque tactical games on the market.

Global release

On 6 December 2024, Game producer Yuzhong announced that two million players joined the global release of the game on its first day. According to the "2025 China videogame industry trends and future potential analysis report" released by Chinese analytics firm CNG, the global version of the game had a turnover of over 100 million renminbi (US$13.7 million) within the first 3 days of release.

Footnotes

1. "Union of Rossartrist Nations Coalition" (Chinese: 联合政府罗克萨特主义合众国联盟)
2. "Bounty Hunter Rights Expansion Federation" (Chinese: 赏金猎人权益拓展及推进协会)
3. "Eurosky Low-Emission Infectious Disease" (Chinese: 广域性低辐射感染症), hostile creatures infected by Collapse radiation exposure

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17. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Journal - Transformation Point - Journal Entry 5. QBZ-191: "Oh, one more thing... You need to come up with a name for your squad. It would be best if you and your team members could get new names too, I mean—something more memorable." "To make it easier for the public to remember?" "Yes... This is part of the branding." "...Just call me Qiongjiu. AA-12, come up with a name for yourself and report it to me and Helian when you're ready."
18. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Journal - Bullet Echo - Journal Entry 5. WA2000: "...What about you, WA2000? Do you want a new name too?" "Is that really necessary?" "Maybe it will invoke a different reaction from the Commander?" ...I looked around anxiously until finally, my gaze settled on the coffee in front of me. "...J-Just call me Makiatto!" "Macchiato? Like the name of this coffee? Isn't choosing a name like that far too frivolous?"
19. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Journal - Growing-Up Emergency Manual - Journal Entry 4. Type 97: QBZ... No, she changed her name and is called Qiongjiu now. Her whole demeanor changed noticeably since the name change, and I wasn't brave enough to brush her off like I used to.
20. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Journal - Elden Succor - Journal Entry 2. Stechkin: At the time, tactical Doll's names in Griffin were merely designations representing their imprinted firearm types. So I gave up the name "Ksenia", which I had used while working in a restaurant, and wrote "Stechkin" on the form instead. As the saying goes, when in Rome, do as the Romans do...
21. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Memories - Novel Orbit - Section 2. Qiongjiu: Hmm. Before that, let's make a new name for you for this mission, Alfa. // AK-Alfa: Change my name? Why? // Qiongjiu: The grand PMC of Griffin is no more. Due to various sensitivities, it's best for us to change our callsigns. You can take it as a callsign on a mission, but you can also use it as your real name.
22. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Memories - Tales of the Seaside - Section 1. Kalina: I was thinking that maybe you and 45 could utilize this New Year as an opportunity to adopt a new name. // UMP9: N-new name? You mean new code names right? // Kalina: No, an everyday name. Even though you and 45 remain members of the "those who don't exist" squad, there are tasks now that necessitate you to make an appearance. New missions, new names. It'll also help you get used to your current lives sooner.
23. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Journal - Burial Grounds - Journal Entry 1. OTs-14: Shortly thereafter, everything changed all of a sudden. Quickly, Dolls like me who were employed by Griffin were taken over by Statesec and assigned to tasks such as crimefighting and other miscellaneous duties.
24. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Journal - Elden Succor - Journal Entry 1. Stechkin: Griffin had been unstable lately. The Commander's departure was like the first domino falling. Whether it's logistical oversights or personnel changes, everything was different from before. All the signs were pointing to something significant happening. // Stechkin: "It's nothing much, really. Headquarters said that Griffin is officially dissolving and restructuring."
25. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 04: Reverse Matrix - SL-4-1 Backtracing. Kalina: Griffin is not what it used to be. When I left, Griffin had already fractured into multiple companies. Their strength has greatly diminished, so it's not unusual that they'd buy these types of automated mechs. As a run-of-the-mill PMC, they could appear anywhere.
26. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 02: Second Signal - 2-1 Guess. Commander: Krolik, that's the mobile facility for isolating the spread of Collapse contamination and implementing the Purification Project, which is the single most important policy the URNC has undertaken since its establishment. The URNC's endeavors to purify contamination zones may be threatening to our livelihood as bounty hunters, but if it means more civilians can live under better conditions, it's not a bad thing at all...
27. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Journal - Transformation Point - Journal Entry 2. QBZ-191: More and more places are being incorporated into the URNC. Under URNC control, the various urban clusters that humans rely on for survival have started to develop... Then, the scale of PMC got limited, the industry kept shrinking, and the remaining ones were all placed under the newly established Non-Military Forces Administration.
28. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Sojourners of the Glass Island, SS-1-1 "Unexpected Signal". Commander: Two months have passed since Suomi was registered to the Elmo... Taking Suomi with us is indeed dangerous on a contractual level, but with the example of Groza, can our encounter with Suomi break that rule as well? I'm not sure, nor am I so naïve, but I can't simply leave Suomi. // Suomi: But expecting to become an exception like Miss Groza was never realistic... and... ah... I don't know what to say... What to do? Maybe I... but if I stay with the Commander and the breach of contract gets found out, the Commander will be in danger...
29. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Sojourners of the Glass Island, SA-1-9 "Chasing the Sunset". Commander: Hmm, it's just an email for now, more like a warning. I've received plenty of warnings in the contaminated zone. // Suomi: S-sorry for being so selfish. The Commander is risking contractual breach by taking me along as well... I... Miss Littara and I have always been waiting for the contract's cancellation... I never imagined that I would be so lucky... even if I knew that the contract posed such danger to the Commander, I delayed day by day...
30. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Journal - Bullet Echo - Journal Entry 2. WA2000: Even if the agreement's in effect, they can't just go hide in the contamination zone without leaving a single word behind! At least... at least they could've contacted me. Do they even know how worried I am!? I don't give a damn about the agreement; when I find you, you're going to pay!
31. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Journal - Growing-Up Emergency Manual - Journal Entry 1. Type 97: Helian mentioned something about an agreement before... We're not allowed to actively seek out the Commander... So what should I do?
32. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Memories - Home Is in the Heart - Section 1. Springfield: A very trustworthy intel broker managed to get us the latest commission issued by the Elmo through the underground network. That means we can establish contact with the Commander, you know? ...However, due to the restrictions of the agreement, we cannot communicate with the Elmo directly. Fortunately, the broker who got us the job agreed to act as an intermediary and help pass messages between us.
33. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 01: Double Pendulum Simulation - 1-1 Formulate. Commander: But we're bounty hunters now. We take money and render a service. We deliver our cargo to its destination without any hiccups and earn an honest living.
34. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 01: Double Pendulum Simulation - 1-2 Arc of Light. Groza: When the assignment was handed down, the client was listed as anonymous. It was transacted through B.R.I.E.F. HQ, who only provided basic information on the client and their parent organization. The payout for this mission was very high. Many bounty hunter teams fought over it, but it ended up falling into our hands in the end.
35. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 01: Double Pendulum Simulation - SL-1-1 Euler-Lotka Equation. Commander: We've had a string of strange coincidences, but the cargo is still with me. Once I hand it over and get paid, I'll be looking for you to refurbish the Elmo. // Poludnitsa: Refurbish the Elmo... Hang on a minute. Don't tell me you're the one who got that high-paying job...?
36. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 01: Double Pendulum Simulation - SL-1-2 Semantic Satiation. Poludnitsa: Apparently, you weren't meant to be the original contractor for this job. ...Orders made through B.R.I.E.F., or the Bounty Hunter Rights Expansion Federation, aren't supposed to have specified assignees. However, the client seems to have requested several bounty hunter teams specifically when placing this particular order. ...The bounty hunter teams that have been specifically named have many things in common. But within a month of that order coming in, the teams started losing one certain common characteristic, and your team becomes "the last one standing". (...) All the named teams have either disbanded, restructured, or changed their registered location—they have all left their original area of operation within a short period of time. Since they no longer meet this "condition", they have been eliminated from the list.
37. ^ MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 02: Second Signal - SL-2-2 Convergence. Commander: You're a medical support Doll at the Central Army Sixth General Hospital? ...The identification number on your left pupil is compiled by the Central Army Emergency First Response unit. The 736th Anti-Contamination Regiment of the Railway Force...? No, the 11th Medical and Chemical Regiment? ...I remember the 11th Regiment got wiped out while helping the main force with an ELID extermination. Are you a surviving Doll? // Colphne: ...I do not belong to a team anymore. (...) Commander: Mayling, get some rest once you're done with the turret. You can install the fire-control core on Colphne after you wake up. Thank you.
38. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 01: Double Pendulum Simulation - 1-7 Transfer I. Krolik: There's a person inside the box?! // Commander: ...We can't be sure if they're human. But if they are... Given the strength of that Collapse storm back then, even if it was just for a few seconds, a girl like that...
39. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 02: Second Signal - 2-1 Guess. Commander: A girl who survived being exposed to a Collapse storm for over two minutes. ...Or it could be a new T-Doll model. After all, none of us could get a proper look back then.
40. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 03: Lacuna Rectification - SL-3-2 First Enounter. Groza: A fully-immune individual? // Commander: ...That's the strongest possibility by the looks of it. // Krolik: What's a fully-immune individual? // Commander: A human who's completely immune to Collapse radiation. Research in this field began some 20 years ago, but have they already succeeded in creating a fully-immune specimen?
41. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 04: Reverse Matrix - SL-4-1 Backtracing. Lenna: Well, this is no ordinary satellite city. ODE-01—the very first satellite city in Odesa built out of a former mine. ...After the satellite city was built, in order to increase the available land, they dug even deeper and lowered the bottom of the mining pit. Since we're so far down from the surface, unless you crack the code and piggyback onto the metropolitan area network, it's only natural that you'll get bad signal reception connecting directly to the URNC comms.
42. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 03: Lacuna Rectification - 3-10 Chaotic Field. (Sextans is still agile and nimble even though she is carrying a man. Groza and co. wave through the mechanical parts and rubble scattered all over, fending off Sextans' seemingly offhanded attacks while also struggling to find an opening. ...The Dolls regroup. They stop trying to fight Sextans and fall back towards the exit. Sextans ceases her attack and watches as Groza's team retreats. The client, draped over Sextans' shoulder, showly regains his consciousness.)
43. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 04: Reverse Matrix - SL-4-1 Backtracing. Kalina: We are working at the Non-Military Forces Administration. Mr. Kryuger is also with us. These days, all organizations with a certain level of combat capability operating in URNC territory fall under our control. Of course, it's mostly PMCs that we deal with. ...I'm on a higher administrative level than the chief of the Odesa government, but only nominally.
44. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Dusty Journal - Hero's Road - Journal Entry 4. Nagant M1895: A few days later, I got a message from Kalina. She said she's gradually settled down in the URNC.
45. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 04: Reverse Matrix - SL-4-1 Backtracing. Commander: I have reason to suspect that this contract was given to me deliberately. Moreover, my handprint was somehow the key to open the cargo container... // Kalina: ...Oh, that. Ahem, well... It gave me some peace of mind knowing the cargo was in your hands. // Commander: ...? // Kalina: ... // Commander: —It was you? // Kalina: ...Yes. // Commander: So you're the one who gave me this assignment? It was also you who keyed in my handprint?
46. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 04: Reverse Matrix - SL-4-6 Post-Truth. Kalina: Lenna is on her way with new IDs and tickets. Follow the plan and leave first. We'll meet up in Kyiv. You'll have to escort Helena too. I'll send you the codeword and more IDs and tickets that you'll need later on.
47. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 05: Heterodyne Resonance - SL-5-2 Waveform Deviation. Commander: ...Are we still going to meet up in Kyiv? // Lenna: I think so. Miss Kalin will tell you if there are any changes.
48. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 06: Harmonic Cycle - SL-6-1 Backscattering. Kalina: If my assumptions are correct, you've received a fabricated message sent in my name, including the codeword? // Commander: ...Yes. It's unknown what the source was, and included in the message was a set of coordinates. We are currently at those coordinates. // Kalina: Where exactly are you? // Commander: Send her our coordinates, Groza. // Kalina: Ah, I see—That far out? Isn't it in the complete opposite direction of Kyiv? In a Yellow Zone, too?
49. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Campaign - Episode 06: Harmonic Cycle - SL-6-5 Rules of Bartering. Saga: According to what Poludnitsa said, the impression given was that you have a bunch of T-Dolls under your command, yet you let them do whatever they want for the most part. I feel that... Vepley might have a bit more freedom with you? (...) Commander: Groza, contact Mayling, prepare the ownership registration and the resource allocation for Vepley.
50. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Sojourners of the Glass Island, UA-1-2 "Brilliant Disguise". Ullrid: How are things? // Rosalind: Not good. Many Dolls have entered hibernation mode because of the energy shortage. Those who are still hanging in there are in very bad shape and need urgent repairs. These supplies that you just found will ease things a little... (...) If we can't secure a large amount of supplies soon, we won't even be able to keep our vehicle running properly, let alone maintain the Dolls' operation. The hibernating Dolls will have to be... // Ullrid: No. Dumping them at a place like this is practically giving them a death sentence.
51. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Sojourners of the Glass Island, US-1-1 "Old Friend". Ullrid: But as much as we'd like to keep up the collective self-determination, the truth is... since we are faced with severe shortages on supplies, many of our friends are forced into hibernation... (...) We've found the ruins of a thermal power plant nearby that contains a lot of usable supplies! (...) The problem is... the place is crawling with ELIDs...
52. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Sojourners of the Glass Island, US-1-1 "Old Friend". Ullrid: 67% of the voters abstained from voting this time! How can I not freak out about this?! (...) I don't get it, Littara. The amount of information given beforehand increased by 73%. There was no problem with information transparency—we made sure that everyone read through the report before voting. We had a consensus that our priority would be to obtain more supplies, and we even have a new volunteer... So why did this happen? // Littara: Our report may have illustrated the cost-effectiveness of the plan, but we still lacked decisive proof that fighting would lead to success. (...) Ullrid: But if we succeed, we won't be limited to such a small amount of resources! There will be no competition! (...) Littara: I'm just thinking... both the current voting system and the way the Dolls make decisions seem a bit problematic. We seem to have overlooked some... issues...
53. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Sojourners of the Glass Island, US-1-2 "The Two Ends of the Scale". Suomi: Afterward, Big Sis Ullrid gathered all the Dolls together in Level II to show them pictures and footage of what it looked like inside the Marley thermal power plant. She had made special notes to point out the most needed supplies and equipment. Big Sis wanted to begin another round of votes. But the result was... unsuccessful again. Perhaps this is simply the behavior of Dolls, especially the civilian Dolls that make up a large part of our collective. They would definitely lean towards the safer and more stable options when it came to decision-making.
54. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Sojourners of the Glass Island, UA-1-3 "Mystical Adventure". Littara: Speaking of agriculture, all the supplies in this warehouse seem to have something to do with that. There are a variety of artificial fertilizers on this side, all sorted into categories, along with some equipment for illumination and temperature control. In that corner, there's a small planting automaton that I believe is used for sowing seeds and plowing soil, though it has definitely seen better days. // Ullrid: I also found some well-preserved seeds on the other side... Why are there so many agricultural supplies in a contamination zone?
55. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Sojourners of the Glass Island, UA-1-4 "Unsolved Mystery". Littara: There are so many questions. We don't even know what a thermal power plant is doing so deep within a contamination zone. // Dushevnaya: ...Is it... to generate power for nearby settlements? The environmental conditions here are terrible though. The cables leading to the settlements would have rotten away like old bones. // Littara: But according to the geographical data that Suomi has collected, there are no reasonably sized settlements within the power plant's coverage area. The one we're in is already the largest set of ruins. Besides, considering the construction costs, even if settlements further away require power, they wouldn't have chosen to lay cables here of all places.
56. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Sojourners of the Glass Island, UA-1-7 "Daring Decision". Littara: Ullrid, have you noticed what's beneath the floor? // Ullrid: Mm. Can't be sure because of all the vapor, but the yellow-green things... Are Collapse crystals, right? // Littara: Yes. Distributing Collapse crystals at the bottom of the cooling tower, then using the tower's stack effect to have the air currents carry Collapse particles out into the air, will allow one to increase the Collapse radiation levels in the surroundings. If we combine this context with what we have observed, there should be three abnormal cooling towers like these. They are located in a few places, enough to affect all the ruins in this region. // Ullrid: So, if we are able to stop these cooling towers from spewing green vapor, the Collapse radiation levels will lower, right? Once that goes down, the ELIDs will head elsewhere, making it easier for us to resume our search.
57. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Sojourners of the Glass Island, US-1-2 "The Two Ends of the Scale". Ullrid: From the intel we have so far, it doesn't seem like any other thermal power plant. It seems to be a place for conducting agricultural research in the contamination zones. Perhaps... the thermal power facilities were created as a means to that end?
58. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Sojourners of the Glass Island, US-1-3 "Prototype of a Dream". Littara: It means that this place is truly abandoned! According to the contextual analysis of the files, I reckon that the strange Doll is Lambertia, the last Doll left behind in this place! Just now, Lotta sent over a message stating that one we defeated Lambertia, all the defense bots on her end stopped moving. So, the bots' control hub was in Lambertia's body! If the humans still had hope for this place, they wouldn't have turned over all permissions to a Doll! (...) Littara: The agricultural data that Lambertia logged had no place to upload to, so she could only store it in this tiny chip here. Not only have we gained the thermal power plant, we might even be able to use the experimental field to cultivate some crops here.
59. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Level/area: Sojourners of the Glass Island, SS-1-1 "Unexpected Signal". (I think back to that stormy night and the ray of light that pierced the dense darkness. Despite uncertain circumstances, I still ordered the Elmo to approach that dwindling light. Suomi was there, hoisting her lamp high against the wind. After she was restarted, Suomi handed me a letter, detailing her experiences while drifting with a Doll commune, including temporarily settling in the ruins of a thermoelectric power plant. As she described, after settling in somewhat, her "Sister"—Ullrid, sent her out on expedition to acquire supplies, after which a series of twists and turns befell her...)
60. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline. Sunborn Network Technology. Scene: Suomi Confidential File - MOD I. Suomi: If everyone in the world was as self-absorbed as you Soviet animals... Then maybe it'd be better to just let it all burn. (...) I hate you, and all you Soviet creatures. Get out of my sight! (...) What are you doing? Get away from me, disgusting bear.
61. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Suomi - Memories - Following Trails 1. Papasha: I TOLD you, don't play your shitty death metal in public!!! // Suomi: What do you mean shitty death metal, you pikkuryssä?! You want to say that again, blyat?!
62. MICA Team. Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium. Darkwinter Software. Scene: Suomi - Journals - Record 2. A sick joke by Suomi's designer led to her being rolled out with a sense of antipathy towards Dolls who were imprinted to old Soviet weapons and old Soviet culture in general. (...) What they all had in common was that they had to rely on each other to survive in the contaminated zones. In order to keep unity in the Doll community strong, Suomi fought against the impulses of the neural cloud to keep from showing any hostility.
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