I'm also really annoyed that the codex entries require payment, I can  barely learn anything from the environment since the game doesn't really give you time to take it all in and it requires Antagonist ranks for it.

Currently since there are only so little content I can understand the difficulty of climbing the antagonist ranking to buy/craft weapons. I'm not sure what to feel when it comes to playing as an antagonist, going solo-ish (with AI) against 4 players is pretty hard when servers are limited. Playing on 300-600 ping destroys the experience, but it IS pretty new and I don't expect a lot of people to play it on Asia since you have to buy the campaigns LuL

It's really fun though, gives me Warframe vibes, I'd love to see more of this game in the future, I wonder which direction the developers will choose.