Girls' Frontline 2 Teases Type 97 — Players Already Roasting: 'Another Waifu Who Comes Pre-Experienced?'

Girls' Frontline 2 is about to pull another stunt, and players aren't having it. A new character drop is on the horizon — Type 97, another Chinese-manufactured firearm turned gacha waifu — and the community has already gone full trial mode before the banner even drops.

The original poster shared a screenshot with the cryptic caption: "Chen Youliang's Type 97 offensive is coming" — a reference to the Yuan Dynasty rebel leader known for his massive but ultimately doomed naval fleet. The metaphor? GFL2's dev team is about to unleash another wave of content that nobody asked for, and it's going to crash and burn spectacularly.

To understand why players are this heated, you need to know the backstory. Earlier in GFL2's storyline, Type 95 — a beloved character based on a Chinese assault rifle — was revealed to have a pre-existing romantic entanglement with a male NPC named Raymond. In a gacha game where players spend real money to collect waifu characters, discovering your 'wife' already has an ex-boyfriend in her lore was basically the ultimate betrayal. Players felt like they were being cuckolded by the game's own writers.

Now here's the problem: Type 97 and Type 95 are canonically bandmates in the 'Monsoon Band' within the game's universe. A top-voted comment nailed the impossible dilemma: "97 is in the same band as 95, right? If they bring 95 back, there's no way to handle the Raymond situation. If they DON'T bring 95 back, it's basically confirming she went off with Raymond, and the whole 'music' angle was a lie." Either way, the story collapses.

The comment section went scorched-earth with the analogies. One player quipped: "Soliciting, servicing, paying clients — all set up, open for business" — comparing the game's storyline to a red-light district operation. Another mimicked the producer's voice: "This time she's your drinking companion, got it?" — mocking how female characters keep getting assigned intimate interactions with male NPCs against players' wishes.

Perhaps most disheartening for veteran fans is that there's no end in sight. Players spotted a new name in the leaks: "Zhaohui" (朝晖) — which insiders identified as the export variant of the CS/LS06, yet another Chinese submachine gun. The collective groan was audible: another Chinese-manufactured firearm character, another potential love interest NPC waiting in the wings. A sardonic commenter wrote: "I'm SO curious who Zhaohui is now... can't wait to see what masterpieces Yuzhong (the game's producer) has in store" — where "masterpieces" drips with pure sarcasm.

Some players crunched the lore numbers for maximum comedic devastation: "Based on the Monsoon Band's 10-year timeline, Raymond's probably gotten tired of the sister combo at this point — a battle-hardened veteran?" — using deliberately crude phrasing to express just how absurd they find the whole situation.

The Chen Youliang metaphor from the original post resonated deeply. Like the historical figure who commanded an enormous fleet yet sailed it into catastrophic defeat, GFL2's story team sits atop a goldmine of beloved IP and characters — yet insists on charging full speed in the one direction players despise most. One commenter called it "performance art."

As of now, the developers have not officially revealed Type 97's storyline details. But judging by the community's reaction, player trust is already at rock bottom. After multiple consecutive controversies involving Chinese gun characters' lore, this once-celebrated franchise's reputation continues its freefall. As one exhausted player put it: "They've smeared every piece of the opening content onto Chinese gun characters — does this company even have a single normal person left?"