So new update arrived so played through what I can and I'm going to give my initial impressions as well as update the lists of controversy.
So first off this is the 3rd event they have done and they have confirmed to me that for every week of an event you will get a 10 pull. The 2 week events give 1 limited banner 10 pull and 1 standard banner 10 pull. The new event is 3 weeks and offers us 2 limited banner 10 pull as well three weeks to get the new character. You still get an another 4 summons a week from daily and weekly challenges. So it has improved the consistent amount summons you get as long as future events also offer 10 pulls a week.
There are three ways to obtain rewards:
1) The new 14 daily login for the event where you get a 10 pull for the limited banner and a new sr (purple rarity character).
2) The story rewards work as the first event complete missions and farm event currency to purchase a 10 pull of the standard and limited banner. You are limited to 5 a day unless you want to spend gems to complete the event faster.
3) Lastly they added a mini game where you play for a high score. You can practice this minigame and can do upto 5 runs a day. You goal is to reach 3500 to obtain upto 5 gift box with random rewards for every completion. They have a chance for gems but on my first 25 boxes I only got 100 gem reward once and didnt get the 20 gem reward.
Story for the event has us follow rupee the rich live streaming nikke. She wants to act as santa give gifts to spread joy and has some cute interactions.
This also added another pass for a new christmas skin for emma costing £17 and giving 10+ s. You just have to participate in the event to progress.
Thats everything related to the event now we move on to the contreversy since my last post.
1) reduce campaign rewards from chapter 13 onwards and the massive increase in power requirements for tribe towers. So before chapter 13 every few battles in campaign you would recieve 50 gems and 5 ssr fragments this allowed for 1-3 summons from the campaign not including the ex missions (completing them gives 1 pull of gems. missions so far have had 1-3 per chapter). From chapter 13 onwards this has been reduced to 10 gems pretty much making the campaign give nothing in terms of rewards. For tribe tower the cp requirement would increase by a couple hundred so you would consistently complete these mission but after lvl 80 it increases by 2000+ per mission basically stopping you from progressing for weeks if your not getting characters. This is just scummy to me. You've spent almost a month playing the game only for them to reduce the rewards and increase the difficulty. At that point youve invested so much time you might not quit the game or be tempted to just spend money.
2) censorship so the new ssr character has had a small amount of censorship where her butt is covered slightly by a minimini skirt which didnt exist before this update as some people have data mined these characters before they release or seen during its cbt and beta. Its believed this is because the game is getting released in china and requires censorship but an issue is the chinese version is different so they do not need to censor the global version unless apple or Google are involved that we do not know about. But its not looking good for it's china release as its getting low reviews due to the controversies above.
Its believed that most of these contreversy is created by the publisher level infinite and not the developers. As they have done similar things with other games including tower of fantasy
I will continue playing to see if there are any changes