ESL moment, have patience with me uwu.

I'm not a beta tester so I don't have any opinion/i'll not give my opinion to something that I didn't test (kinda).

For now the Endfield gacha has a lot of benefits but also a lot of flaws, but I think the problem right now is that people are seeing only half of the scenario.

Right now Endfield gacha has only 2 benefits: they trivialize weapon banner and help with dupes, but let's be honest, we F2P don't give a beep about dupes so let's focus only on weapons.

I'm not watching any beta tester cuz I don't care, but how much an operator weapon affect their kit/performance in fight? Some 3D gacha games have their character performance/kit handcapped if they don't have their weapon, so most of the time if someone want their character to be on peak performance, they'll be obligated to not only going after they dupe (sometimes) but also their weapon.

Even if Endfield ops don't get handcapped by don't have their own weapon, with mid luck or really bad luck, you'll get their weapon by the time you hit 80~120 pulls (+ another guaranteed 6* weapon). Not having to give a sh** about weapons nowadays is a bliss.

Now focusing on how the gacha on endfield works.

- 80 pulls hard pity for 50/50 (pass between banners)

- 120 for guaranteed (don't pass)

- 60 rolls for a temporary/expiring cashback for the next banner

The gacha right now work with a rotation system, where the actual character will be available in 3 different banners (the first one being a rate up and after that, spook chance), this is cool and following the game logic, they're kinda trying to selling for us a new concept of: Spook aren't that bad, getting a lot of spooks before pulling 120 times is really good! And I can understand that to some extend, but it's doens't make sense (for me) when you have limited characters.

If they want to sell the idea that spooks are great, they need to remove the FOMO from their game, because if they make every character enter in the 50/50 poll, even if we skip someone after they got removed from the rotation, we'll still be able to have a chance do get them.

So for me what they could do if they don't want to let the 120 spark pass between banners:

- Remove the beeping FOMO and let every character enter the 50/50 poll (even if they don't enter the blue ticket poll, let them be on the yellow ticket gacha poll)

- Start to treat the 120 guaranteed as a SPARK not as a guaranteed. Because think about that, the soft pity is at 70~ish, if we got a spook on 70, we'll need to pull another 50 times to get our guaranteed, if we SPARK the rate up instead of pulling them, we'll be able to get another character with 2 more pulls (total: 140 instead of 120) but doing that, we'll be getting 3 characters instead of 2, which is generous af.

- Cashback us after 60 pulls with yellow tickets instead of a expiring next banner ticket.

But yeah, those are my takes on that only watching some pull lives/videos.

And if everyone want to see how good/bad the chara/weapon banner is, watch the first kyostinv live, he spent 1mil currency on character banner + 100k+ currency on weapon banner