The Night Empress. Unfortunately, she's been going the way of many a monarch with the lower class overthrowing her. She used to be the last word for night battle ARs, but with AS VAL's mod, she has fallen behind. Turns out, being able to use a crit scope at night is very good. That being said, +200% damage at night is still decent and if you can't afford the mod, she's a good replacement.

Also, while enemy armor stacks superhard now, it's actually fine if you have sufficient +FP on your ARs to punch through. If you don't though, this still wont save you.

AKA AK-47

Yes, the game pretends she's a reward.

No, she's still cores. Kinda.

Actually AK-74M makes her alright. If you have her top-tier Unique Crit Score, she actually has surprisingly REALLY GOOD DPS.