Have fun! Pull for whoever you want and disregard meta because it isn't very important in the game unless you're a pvp maniac. All umas are viable and good (maybe except urara who has bad stats and you can't really make many fans on her carrer, but she couldn't be great for story loyalty reasons)

Not only oil, oil is for the time being. They are also coming for our lithium, and then, most importantly, our water reserves. We are full of it and with ai and the climate crisis they'll get desperate and come for it sooner than later. They are also giving away land to the zionists. We're doomed

If you want to play on pc, there are other translation tools available as well. And many story events, and side stories are uploaded translated to youtube periodically

3-Hachimi has a useful discord that you can consult for help with more specific issues

1-The first time you open the game after patching, disable hachimi's UI from the menu, exit and open again.
2- If there's issues with a broken UI and textures, go to the uma patcher folder, look for a sub folder called "atlas" and straight up delete it.

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If you plan to play on mobile, this video explain the steps to get some translations essential to play, but doesn't translate all dialogue sadly. (The one big point the global version has on it's favor.) Also, not explained in the video are 3 important points:

Come to the honse gril hell with me! Lotsa daughters/waifus/evil creatures of chaos to choose, and popular as fuck right now. My only pro tip would be that if you really want to have fun and see more umas, it's better to play on jp server. Global released like 6 months and is like being in jail

Ohhh baby guuurrlll the horrid door that has been opened in south american geopolitics is taking aways some big sleep from us all at night. For a country so full of insane, self righteous assholes and guns, nobody is having the kind of vigilante psychosis the world needs. Just saying...