2:14:26himao was the art director iirc
2:14:26the art director of girls frontline went to make arknights
2:14:26They did! W was originally a memeber of the team in Girls Frotnline
2:14:27I have an entire article explaining the origins of GFL and Arknights, it's weird and kind of incestuous.
2:14:28Without GFL we wouldn't have ARKNIGHTS
2:14:28we make jokes that W is supposed to be MK-18
2:14:28W form Arknights was originally a AR team member
2:14:29I still remember the big split from GFL1 and Ark
2:14:29All CN gachas lead back to GFL
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2:14:30sop and W are designed by same person
2:14:31Arknights wiki is depressing indeed
2:14:32CEO of GFL's devs was close friends with Ark Knights dev CEO
2:14:35some of the early characters look very similar to gfl characters for that reason
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2:14:39W was a scrapped design from the AR team and was reused for Arknights
2:14:39W was meant to be SOPMOD's sister
2:14:39Nikke, Arknights and GFL are kinda sharing devs
2:14:41W was the 6th AR Team member btw
2:14:41I agreed with doc let Pippa read stop dropping names and spoilers chat
2:14:43there's also separate lore between the rivalry between GFL and Arknights
2:14:43And yet those two games never collaborated, they just existed in parallel
2:14:44Everybody ripping off everybody else. except FGO, who are ripping off Thomas Malory.