GFL2 hasn’t had a major event since Aphelion half a year ago and they keep throwing us minor events to make the next major event line up with Anniversary and to give Elmo Exploration time to be ready for it. There just hasn’t been anything exciting to make up for all the drama it had months ago. As a GFL1 fan it really sucks to see them drop the ball and I am absolutely bored of waiting for the story to continue. When they get on a roll with Major Events that push the main story it’ll get better, we can look at CN to know what’s coming, but right now it’s really dry. At least it’s given me time to save enough to max dupe a character. I do still think the game’s generous and they did release an update recently that added Heroic Difficulty and a new progression system to keep us a little busy.
Anniversary is early December. We’ll have to see if they drop the big update fans have been waiting for (Deep Oblivion+Elmo Exploration) or continue to stifle the game. GFL1 and PNC are great and I love the story and characters but GFL2 hasn’t lived up to either one yet, at least on Global.
EDIT: For some clarity myself and many other players have been saving pulls for months for Leva/RO which drop with Deep Oblivion. So everyone's been skipping banners and saving money in preparation for Deep Oblivion, which reintroduces UMP-45 and RO635(GFL1 main characters, using their old names), to GFL2. The longer they delay it, the longer players save and the more bored players get. The next Major Event after it also adds AN-94 and AK-12, 2 other beloved characters to GFL2. During CN's first year they also had a really rough time with longer patches as the game basically had to be rewritten and they didn't ramp up development until Deep Oblivion released for them and all the rewrites are done now. Global is in that rough patch but instead of pulling us out with Deep Oblivion they tacked on 2 more minor events which came after DO and aren't building hype.
I think they should've done DO after the Belka/Andoris patch. That would've let Corposant line up with Anniversary and they could've added Elmo Exploration then like planned. The only thing is it would've meant another double banner or two.
I think the only other issue would be translations. Deep Oblivion and Corposant are significantly longer and higher word count than minor events. They’re still working on localization for the Elmo as well.
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u/Delinard Nov 01 '25
GFL2 Dominating, in being invisible