YMMV / Girls' Frontline: Neural Cloud

• Fanon: While the game is officially labeled a prequel, the timeline indicates it happens concurrently with the events of Girls' Frontline. This, combined with the fact that the player character is a G&K commander and, presumably, someone Persica trusts, has lead many fans to assume that The "Professor" is actually the Commander from GFL.
• High-Tier Scrappy: As is often the case with gacha games, newer characters often overshadow older ones, but some take it a bit too far due to being useful in literally any combat situation:
  • Jiangyu often ranks high on Warrior tier lists for one reason — she simply outputs more damage than her peers. She doesn't do it in a flashy manner, but she still manages to outstrip her competition. As an added bonus, she's fairly competent at soaking damage.
  • Clukay is Jiangyu's Sniper counterpart, far and ahead over other Snipers for similar reasons. Take Kuro's More Dakka kit and replace the Ultimate with a screen wide carpet bombing run, and you get Clukay. As one tier lists puts it:
    Strangles Kuro with one hand and beats Zangyin with the other, single-handedly fixing the unintended problem of PNC having difficult content
  • Croque is one of these, with her simple Draw Aggro skill being the sole reason she's great, while other Guards try to multitask to various extents. Ironically, she's a Starter Mon, and Guards released after her haven't put a dent in her tier list placements. The devs have tried to address this by introducing the Reflection algorithm set, whose three piece Set Bonus adds a taunt to the user's Auto Skill, but Croque remains the best regardless for her sheer tankiness.
  • Helix is considered the best Medic due to two things: her healing output is just plain better than everyon else's (even the runner-up Gin, whose kit is hyper-focused on healing alone, doesn't compare), and her skills make her an amazing Support Party Member when she isn't healing — her auto skill is a ranged Area of Effect that also increases her allies' damage, and her Ultimate lets the last ally who used an Ultimate use it again, ignoring its cooldown and without decreasing the Ultimate Gauge.
  • Angela is a Specialist present in pretty much every team due to her Cooldown Manipulating skill. Not only does it add up to three seconds to allies' skills, it also docks the same amount of time from enemy skills.
• Memetic Mutation:
  • The MICA Dartboard^Explanation The global version of the game had several release schedules of new character banners and features tweaked drastically from the original Chinese release. This happened so often that disgruntled players have started assuming that MICA Team decides on their release schedule by throwing darts at a dartboard, coming to a head when official social media announced that the Chapter 8 event was being released before the Chapter 7 event in the global version.
  • Eos's Unfortunate Name^Explanation EOS is an acronym for "End of Service" or "End of Support", which usually means yet another Defunct Online Video Game in the context of live service games like Neural Cloud. Players often react to Eos's name (jokingly or otherwise) as a sign of the end for PNC.
• They Changed It, Now It Sucks!: The first few months of the global version's lifespan saw quite a bit of backlash due to changes from the original Chinese version, intentional or otherwise:
  • Exception Protocol, a challenging dungeon that rewards lots of premium currency and resets bi-weekly, wasn't made available in the global version's launch like the Chinese version. Players saw it as intentionally holding back F2P/low-spender progress for no good reason.
  • Some seasonal log-in events had many of their free key (stamina) vouchers removed from the original rewards table, causing global version players to accuse the developers of server favoritism.
  • The gacha banners were altered from the Chinese version, usually to release stronger Dolls earlier rather than later. Players saw this as an attempted cash grab and/or a perceived slight against F2P players who would normally be slowly accumulating premium currency for these characters.