It doesn't really matter outside of Gunsmoke or target practice, this game is easy enough to play with just your default units. If you want to make the game easier I'd get Suomi from the selector banner.
Springfield dupe obtained (After losing a 50/50 to poison gunner cat girl), had also saved up 900 of the weapon currency and got Tololo's weapon.
just a heads up, in the next patch they're adding tickets to that exchange shop. the weapons are still a good deal, 1 ticket = 30 redundant pieces so you're basically spending 30 pulls for a guaranteed elite weapon. because of the formation system you only really need one copy of a weapon to swap around so it's a good idea to save after that. imo the only 2 you really need are a planeta and a golden melody for qiongjiu when you get her.
i mean, you can clear basically everything with the starter characters only so by that logic why even pull for anyone? springfield v1 is pretty low investment and tololo dupes are guaranteed eventually off the standard banner selector. they're such a strong character pairing that it's even worth it just for more difficult content where you can't borrow characters like expansion drills. which is especially nice because that's 2 free cores every couple weeks.
I try to pull at least V0 for every character just because I sometimes like to use different characters. The power creep makes the game too easy and boring. The difficult content is literally just a DPS check.
I'd say that's only marginally worse than Klukai ending it on turn 1 just by having auto on. To be fair, all gacha is powercreep, that's how they get you to pay for new content.
I want to see how many would boycott the game by still playing and spending money on it. I remember global complaining about the ticket exchange not being added and then everyone is suddenly happy when MICA adds the system *after* the Springfield/MP5 event.
>WA-2000
>War Thunder
tbf, gachas actually die because Asians are insane and will sperg out when the devs do something exceedingly retarded (usually some sort of "cucking"), they need to jew extra hard though so the whales will leave.
In addition to this, many have started lamenting the game's core problems, between a piss-easy difficulty and an unengaging story.
AFAIK Sunborn/MICA never really do much with relevancy and prefers to keep smaller, loyal fanbase (read: schizos) combined with the fact that the franchise has survive long past usual gacha game life expectancy ever since it started literally 10 years ago and considered by some as the "cockroach of gacha" that seemingly refuses to keel over dead.
I hope Exilium stays around, I've been enjoying it so far. Might pick up codename bakery too.