It's very much a pay to win game. You'll only be able to compete with certain factions after dumping alot of money into the game. This is coming from someone who has played 3 seasons now and the same people win every season cause well they pay the most. Not to mention just a toxic community all together. Developers favor certain languages when it comes to censorship and what have you. Long story short unless you wanna drop alot of money I'd stay away