I decided to give this game a try because of the thread and it seems to be giving me a much better time since I last played. That may be because I actually understand how most things work now..
I'm extremely close to getting the car I want (have the money, I just need to level up with Akiko) but the servers are barren except for a few people who have nearly 1-shot guns. It's fun and all, and I'm not that bad against them, but their guns do just enough more than mine that I keep losing to them and I'm on a crawl on the XP bar for Akiko.