I've been playing this game since launch and I've spent a good chunk of money on it (Got Klukai and Springfield V6), but I just don't see myself staying with this game in the upcoming years. It just became tedious and there have been no signs of improvement. In fact, it just gets worse every update.

I love the IP, the execution is just disappointing. The game looks like an XCOM-like game, but that's basically just a facade. The game is piss easy and the 'heroic' mode, which is an entirely optional hard mode, just showers you with debuffs, making enemies HP sponges. It's not even hard. It just makes the stage more tedious.

The story is in a standstill. It takes forever to get to the next point of the story since they keep putting out side events just so they can sell the current gacha character. Something I found scummy was the back-to-back meta dolls during the Klukai -> Springfield banner.

>Klukai (Extremely meta)
>Mecthy (Meta for the Klukai team)
>Vector (Extremely meta for the fire team)
>Yoohee (Good, but will come into play later. Skippable)
>Zhaohui (lol)

After Zhaohui, it was supposed to be the Peri solo banner which would've given you more time to save, but sike, we got:

>Peri and Springfield banner at the same time (Springfield is extremely good)

By the time Springfield came out on CN, they already had the pull rebate (Doritos) in place, while we got nothing. It only came out after the Springfield banner ended.

Other than the dolls, story, the gameplay loop also gets old after a few months. You can't even auto some of them, and they refresh frequently, making them a commitment. The main offender is the 'Gunsmoke Frontline' gamemode which is a bimonthly boss that you and your guild members try to kill individually, and the more damage you do, the more points you get.

The thing is, almost every Gunsmoke is the same.
>Giant enemy smack dab in the middle of the screen
>A few gimmicks to make you earn more damage (Debuff management, Clumping your units, etc.)
>The boss does multiple long animations that look threatening but only actually hit you for like 5-10% hp if you're playing the game right
>Rotating buffs that may or may not be garbage

This was gunsmoke during launch and this is still gunsmoke today.

You can auto the boss... except when you can't. Well, you can, but your score would be absolutely awful. Gunsmoke bosses became even more auto-unfriendly as more updates came. Auto AI does not understand boss gimmicks and would just spam ultimates, which worked at first, but more and more gimmicks which require management were introduced.

The monetization is also disappointing, I've stopped spending, seeing where CN is at. You can see that Global is headed the same way. I'm not gonna dive into detail since it is not yet out in EN, but seeing how long it took for them to add updates the community wanted, I don't think they're going to change anything.

Overall, I think MICA blew it with this game. They spent all their goodwill with the CN drama, and the lack of communication doesn't help either. Their other games show you that they can make good games, but they just can't be assed to do it here, which is extremely disappointing. Anyways, see y'all in AK:EF.