That's pretty funny. I mean, it sucks for those who were affected - but maybe they're trying to trixx you into playing more antagonist mode. Maybe there's a shortage of antagonists and they're trying to put you to work. This is a joke, please don't take me seriously.

Personally, I don't find it to be too world-ending, it's quite easy to earn enough stigmas to reach a high enough rank to craft. Gold is the bottleneck though, especially with the next load of raider recruits seemingly around the corner. I just wish they would give Antagonists some gold along with stigmas, or maybe a flat gold reward even if they lose the game, if they stay to the end.

Anyway, I sympathise with those affected, but try to remember that this is a small team, and they are (I assume) pushing to release the next chunk of content ASAP. A glitch in the matrix discarding your antagonist rank might seem like a simple thing to roll back, but judging by the problems they've had with the Xbox One version of the game, I don't think it's within their power to do so. Hopefully it doesn't happen again.

Antagonist rank resets every Monday. Just rank up when you have all the blueprints available and enough gold and spend it all in one week.

No problem, glad it worked out in the end.

That's what I'm referring to though, the map shouldn't be so tightly tuned that you HAVE to take those characters, and can't take others. 60% on this map doesn't feel like 60% on any of the others.

It's really encouraging to receive word from the team, even if it's nothing concrete, it's appreciated. Please continue to engage with the community as you have the past few days. Just knowing that we're not haplessly shouting into the void has really improved my attitude toward the team and game in general.

Ja, we encountered this issue as well. Just create a PSN account in your friend's region, download their version of the client, and you can play it on your account without restrictions (or just have your buddy do it instead). I think it's only separated by EU and US versions, this is what I personally encountered.

I know this may be asking a bit much, but is there any loose release timeframe on these reward changes? I've been saving gold for Mikah and Ginebra for about a month, and I've just hit 300k by rolling exclusively on gold rewards and playing more frequently than I'd like to admit - but I don't want to spend this hard-won gold if:
a) The new Raiders are going to cost more than 100k
b) The new Raiders are going to be released within the next few weeks
c) There is no marked improvement in rewards incoming within the next 2 weeks (sorry if this seems like an arbitrary time limit, but I'm burning out on the current system, and I don't think I can go on much longer)

I would much prefer to spend this gold on the new characters, but if they're going to cost less than the recent Raiders, then I don't mind grinding up the Gold again. I'm hoping for a fair 80k on average per hero, depending on whatever your metrics are. Basically, if you can either give us a release window, or confirm that the new raiders won't cost as much as Mikah and Ginebra, then I will happily spend my Gold and earn it back again.

I've been recording my average gold earned since the update, with a fresh start, and currently I'm sitting on 1822.87 Gold earned on average per game across maps. This reflects what I posted above about the flat increase not helping, as that's half of what I was earning before you increased the gold reward by 1/3rd post-Ginebra. I've also recorded whenever there is a split roll on gold, so that will be an interesting statistic to put forward as well.