Girls' Frontline 2's New Weapon Skin Triggers 'Potato Flower' PTSD — Drama Spills Into CCTV Agriculture Channel Comments

A single flower — just ONE flower — has set the Girls' Frontline 2: Exilium (少女前线2：追放) community on fire yet again. This time, players spotted a suspiciously familiar white flower on the grip of new character Ulrid's exclusive weapon, and the collective PTSD kicked in instantly: 'Is that a freaking potato flower?!'

For the uninitiated, the 'potato flower' (土豆花) is arguably the most cursed symbol in GFL2's history. It traces back to the Raymond (雷蒙) controversy — a storyline involving a male NPC whose flirtatious interactions with female characters triggered massive NTR (cuckolding) fears among the playerbase. The potato flower became a key visual motif in that storyline, and ever since, any five-petaled white flower in GFL2 is automatically branded as a 'potato flower.' It's no longer about botany — it's about broken trust.

The original poster dropped two close-up screenshots of Ulrid's weapon, showing a delicate white flower clearly visible on the hilt.

One commenter immediately tried to play defense: 'Bro, that's actually a lily (百合).' They even included a reference photo for comparison.

But the community's amateur botanists weren't having it. 'Lilies have six petals — this one clearly has five, and it really does look like a potato flower,' one user fired back. Another piled on: 'Lily? That's even worse — and lilies are six-petaled too!' The attempted whitewashing backfired spectacularly, adding a new charge to the indictment: wrong petal count. One player summed up the collective trauma: 'Stars and potato flowers — the two things that will forever haunt GFL2 players. Terrifying.'

Floor 7 served up the classic copium: 'Blame it on the Lightning Sister — this will all be explained in future unreleased story content.' A tongue-in-cheek jab at the devs' habit of retroactively justifying every controversial design choice with lore.

Some players tried to have a genuine botanical discussion. Floor 8 suggested it might be Murraya paniculata (九里香) — 'golden stamens, five recurved petals, white flowers' — complete with a reference photo. Floor 15 proposed it resembled 'Tears of the Moon' (月之泪), though another player quipped: 'Spent too much time playing NieR, huh?'

But Floor 9 delivered the real gut punch, speaking for the silent majority: 'Lily stamens are really long — I don't think it's a lily. But honestly, at this point it doesn't matter what flower it is. Can a game that's basically on life support with barely its nostrils above water really win the revival match?' In other words, the flower identification is irrelevant — player faith has already flatlined. Floor 11 was even more blunt: 'Doesn't matter what flower it is. In GFL2, it's a potato flower. Period.'

Floor 13 dropped a devastating wall of text that captured the community's rawest emotions. The user accused the devs of 'not understanding what players actually want,' declaring: 'If players say it's a potato flower, then it IS a potato flower. As for why potato flowers keep showing up — that's a question for the dev team to figure out.' The rant escalated to: 'Players want you to just die already and stop wasting everyone's time. I don't want the waifus and husbandus in my game getting shipped off with random NPC side characters.'

The absolute showstopper, though, was Floor 14 — someone unearthed a screenshot from a CCTV Agriculture channel video about actual potato flowers. The screenshot revealed that even in the comments section and danmaku (弹幕, scrolling bullet comments) of an official state media agricultural education video, GFL2 players were shitposting about the game. The commenter noted: 'Compared to what normal people comment, these two sides are on completely different wavelengths.' The reply to this was pure venom: 'We don't need you to lecture us on what real potato flowers look like. Players don't like it? Then you CHANGE it. Is it really that hard to stop using that goddamn five-petaled white flower?'

Floor 18 delivered the sarcastic mic-drop: 'The potato flower symbolizes the unbreakable love between the Raymond couple. Director Yuzhong (羽中) keeps reminding us because he's afraid we'll forget. He really cares — I'm crying.' The lead producer got name-dropped, and the potato flower curse continues its reign of terror.

At this point, GFL2's community is so scarred that a single flower can trigger a full-blown meltdown. From the original Raymond NTR scandal to the ongoing weapon skin controversies, trust has eroded to the thickness of tissue paper. When an official CCTV agriculture video becomes collateral damage in your gacha game drama, maybe — just maybe — it's time for the art team to sit down and ask themselves: why do they keep stepping on the exact same landmine?