dude, everything about this game is fun except that you have to play this like a second job to get to any equipment in 4th and 5th tier. and mortars need a buff

fun

It's a Battle Rating free to play game. Yes, it has payment accelerators. But if you played Warthunder, World of Warships/Tanks, etc, you know the deal. You play for free at lower BR with basically no penalty and only start throwing money down at higher BRs or to move research progression. The squads you can buy? 4 Star Soldier? Doesn't matter. I could count on my hand how many times somebodies AI soldier is what killed me. It might literally have never happened. The soldiers are less AI buddies and more lives you jump into as you die. They are a respawn system, not really a threat. You get enough credits to make whatever squad you want after a day of playing. The vehicles take more time than anything. Oh somebody has a rifle they consider slightly better? I still 1 shot people with the default weapons, so whats the deal?

This game isn't really pay to win because at the end of the day it's still the guy controlling the soldier doing all the work. Even in my first day of playing I was regularly topping the leaderboard because you're shooting a bunch of fish in a barrel when people don't know how to make their squad stay back.