In RF Online Next, players can align with one of three major factions — Bellato, Cora, and Accretia. While the choice might seem cosmetic at first, your faction affects your battleground starting position, weekly reward caps, stat bonuses from ID cards, and the exclusive items you can unlock. This guide breaks down every key difference and explains how to choose — or change — your faction.
Are There Differences Between Factions?
Yes — your faction choice has meaningful impact across several gameplay systems. Here is a full breakdown of what changes depending on which faction card you have equipped.
1. Your Battleground Starting Base Differs
Each faction spawns from a different base when entering battleground.
When you join a battleground, your spawn point is tied to whichever faction card you have equipped at that moment. This is especially important for guild or party play — everyone in the group needs to be on the same faction to share a base and avoid accidental player-killing (PK) between allies.
2. Weekly Baerer Credit Note Limit Scales With Faction Level
The maximum number of Baerer Credit Notes you can earn per week in battleground is determined by the highest contribution level across all factions you have levelled up. Because of this, concentrating your effort on raising one faction's contribution level as high as possible gives you a better weekly cap — spreading effort thinly across all factions slows your overall progress.
3. Faction Cards Give Different Stat Bonuses
Each faction card has unique possession effects that differ per faction.
Faction cards have two types of effects:
- Equipped effects — these are identical across all factions and activate only when the card is slotted in your equipment.
- Possession effects — these differ per faction and activate simply by having the card in your inventory, even without equipping it.
Because possession effects are always active, it is worth collecting cards from multiple factions over time to stack passive bonuses from different nations simultaneously.
4. Hit an Enhancement Wall? Try Cards From Other Factions
The success rate for strengthening (enhancing) faction ID cards drops with each upgrade level. When you start hitting a wall on one faction's card, the recommended approach is to temporarily switch and enhance cards from a different faction. Rotating between factions keeps your overall enhancement progress moving without burning resources on low-probability upgrade attempts.
5. Contribution Points Only Count for Your Equipped Card's Faction
Contribution points only accumulate for the faction whose card you currently have equipped.
Faction contribution points are earned based on whichever faction card is currently equipped. If you want to raise the contribution level of a specific faction, you must have that faction's card equipped while earning points. Equipping a different faction's card mid-session means all contribution gained during that time goes to the new faction instead.
6. Token Exchange Items Differ Per Faction
Each faction's token shop offers different exclusive items and skill acquisition materials.
Each faction has its own token exchange shop, and the available items are not the same across factions. The two most important differences are:
- Skill acquisition items — unique skills can only be purchased using tokens from a specific faction.
- Faction-exclusive mission tickets — these unlock missions specific to your faction, which in turn reward more tokens, creating a self-sustaining loop.
7. Bellato's Active-Enhanced Skill Is Highly Recommended
Bellato's "Active – Enhanced Skill II" powerfully amplifies your biosuit's unique traits.
The Active – Enhanced Skill II, exchangeable with Bellato tokens, is one of the strongest skills available. Its specific enhancement varies by biosuit, but in every case it amplifies the character's core strengths — making it a high-value unlock regardless of your playstyle. If you are unsure where to start, prioritising Bellato contribution to unlock this skill is a solid early goal.
How to Choose and Change Your Faction
Factions in RF Online Next are not permanently locked — you can switch at any time simply by swapping which ID card you have equipped. Here is how the system works in practice.
Changing Your Faction Is As Simple As Swapping Your Equipped Card
The faction contribution screen shows your current equipped card and rank progress.
- 1 Open your character or ID card menu and locate the faction card slot.
- 2 Equip the ID card corresponding to the faction you want to join (Bellato, Cora, or Accretia).
- 3 Your affiliated faction updates immediately — contribution points will now accumulate for the new faction.
- 4 To switch back, simply re-equip the previous faction's card at any time, including during battleground.
Choose a Faction Where You Can Climb the Ranking
Higher contribution ranking within a faction means better N-token and Baerer Credit Note rewards.
End-of-season rewards scale with your contribution level ranking within a faction. The higher you rank, the more N-tokens and Baerer Credit Notes you receive. With this in mind, there are two smart ways to pick your faction:
- Join a faction with fewer competitive players so you can rank higher relative to others.
- Once you plateau at a top rank and further improvement becomes difficult, start raising your contribution level on a second faction to collect rewards from multiple rankings simultaneously.
Choose Based on the Items You Want to Unlock
If you already have a specific skill or item in mind, work backwards from there. Each faction's contribution shop unlocks different skill acquisition items at certain contribution thresholds. Check which faction sells the item you want most, then prioritise that faction's card until you hit the required level to exchange for it.
- Want Active – Enhanced Skill II? → Prioritise Bellato.
- Playing in a guild? → Match your faction to your guildmates.
- Chasing better weekly rewards? → Pick the faction where you can reach the highest rank.
- Want maximum long-term gains? → Gradually level all three factions over time.
