No, but whales may have an advantage in being able to do it slightly faster due to having a more diverse cast.ĭo 3-star Dolls powercreep lower-rarity Dolls? As usual, keep in mind that this is within the context of what is known as of the second closed beta test, and details (especially numbers) may change in the future.ĭo I need to spend money to beat content? This is going to depend heavily on what you define as 'F2P friendly', so I'll instead answer some specific questions that will hopefully give you a good idea. Various resources and items for training your dolls can be bought for either Bitcoins (the in-game currency) or Quartz Sand. This store refreshes twice per day (or you can manually refresh it by spending some Quartz Sand, up to 5 times per reset). Quartz Sand has other uses like purchasing decryption keys (this game's 'stamina') or store items, so it is recommended to save Quartz Sand for other uses instead if possible. The one-time rewards are plentiful and there's almost a 10-roll in tickets each week that can be earned from quests, so this is an improvement compared to some of the more popular gacha games out there.

500 Quartz Sand as maintenance compensation.

35 Tickets + >10000 Quartz Sand from Achievements.

30 Tickets per chapter from Endless Mode.

1 Ticket + 300 Quartz Sand per week from Weekly Quests.

1 Ticket + 50 Quartz Sand per day from Daily Quests.

In the Closed Beta, rolls could be earned as follows: You can't farm as many rolls as Girls' Frontline, but you do earn a decent amount just from playing the game. Again, this may not be accurate and rates could change in the future.

The official gacha rates & pity mechanic (if any exists) are not published, but I got 9 SSR units over the course of about 300 rolls (and most other beta testers got similar numbers), so a 3% SSR rate is probably a good guess for what they went with. I'll go in-depth on this topic in the closed beta retrospective section. Unit balance isn't great at the moment, but that's to be expected of a closed beta. For example, Fighter Dolls have an easy time in Chapters 1/2, while Chapter 3 is a good chance for specialists to show off, and Chapter 4 is a test of your ranged DPS and healers. The meta can dramatically shift from minor changes to function cards, and is generally chapter-specific. Items and Synergies are replaced by Function Cards, but at this point it is hard to tell whether that is for the better or worse. Learning the game is much easier due to its PVE nature, as the Professor is not actively competing against other players. Xyn: As a Teamfight Tactics player, I can confirm what Cleista says to be true. The gameplay of Project Neural Cloud itself definitely has potential for wide appeal, and it's up to the game publisher's marketing department to make PNC a hit. Compared to that of Girls' Frontline, the user experience in Project Neural Cloud is much better as a new player - everything is intuitive and you don't have to pull out third-party tools to try and teambuild or minmax. There's no in-game tutorial explaining any of this - a player will naturally pick it up through re-trying challenging fights until eventually figuring out the specific trick. (You can also brute-force the story by overleveling, but where's the fun in that?) Doesn't Auto Chess sound like too niche of a genre?Ĭleista: I never played auto chess before, and I didn't have any particular difficulty adapting to the mechanics. Building around synergistic Function Cards.Using ranged Dolls (Specialist/Marksman class).As a rough recollection, here's what I remember learning from each chapter released so far in this beta: The tutorial and chapters do a decent job of introducing mechanics gradually so that you naturally learn all the tricks just by playing through the main story.

Players who are stuck on content can simply wait and train their units a bit more before proceeding, and they'll have an easy time. Tl dr: The game does have a lot of strategic depth and a high skillcap however, while a skilled player might push a little further than a casual player with the same unit lineup, it takes a lot more work. You can manually use a stun to interrupt some enemy skills, nuke a low-health target, set a mark to burst down an enemy boss, chain synergistic ultimates together, or even abuse AI targeting to split the enemy backline away from their healers/tanks for easy pickings. More advanced micromanagement is possible, but not necessary (unless you want to push the extreme end-game ASAP).

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