What SDS Origins looks like as a new player

I’ve made multiple accounts at this point and have decided to once again (for some reason) make an account to p10 Derieri because I like punching things. I think it’s the best time to start tho. Here is everything I’ve noticed about starting SDS Origins at this time:

1. They revamped progression at earlier gameplay to make it a lot smoother to becoming strong, but there’s still the downside of you having no mf premium pulls. I got a bit of a checklist for how I level accounts now so I definitely think ahead, but there’s still budget is tightttttt twinnn. We get most of our pulls as vets from events and developer mistakes, and that’s kinda sad. For a new player, I think you should just have fun. I’m hoping you came in when a character you wanted is already on banner so you’re just enjoying that.

2. Corrupted Dragon is the worst boss to fight. These immunity phases make his fight way longer than it needs to be, and it didn’t need to get added in. Outside of that, there’s enough community matchmaking to not be hard locked anymore.

3. You can’t do pledges for raid. I got folks that I can get to carry me for the week but it is literally impossible to do Taranis raid on 3 pledge with the base roster which makes me think about how and why it could even be designed that way. Yknow how Escanor is an account pull, Merlin should also be an account banner I’m ngl. She is essential.

4. They’ve done a REALLY god job at smoothing out grinding from early game. The hero tokens in tier 3, I’m sure you’re key starved but most things don’t require keys now so you can do a lot. There was a really weird bug last week that just stopped me from getting past tutorial but that’s gone now. And you get some free to make outfits.

5. Story is short. I’ve only paid attention on my main account but I noticed the lack of unskippable higher quality cutscenes kinda drops the story a bit. I like skipping through normal stuff but if you ever notice in this game, the higher quality cutscenes are just super short and not acted the best. WUWA Chapter 1 made me stand up, get hype, and brought me to tears all in one sitting. We need some serious story changes.

6. New players definitely can’t really engage with the expedition system. All the free potions we got doing nothing as vets, they don’t have in the same way so they don’t have pets in the same way. Not the biggest difference but you need max level work bench to start making weapons and it’s weird to farm those materials to upgrade it to a level that didn’t even exist when the game first came out.