I think some of the respawn points should have their locations adjusted: On some missions where there are evacuation points, like the fatty aleph convoy, when the evacuation timer activates, raiders respawn at the evacuation zone, but for other missions like the sargon mines, the mission for rescuing Lycus and the mission for rescuing the first protector, raiders don't respawn at the evacuation zones; and on the general Marmalade mission, raiders respawn to the evacuation point if their in the right location

This issue was mildly annoying, because when the evacutation timer had only a few seconds left on the clock and I just respawned, I died for no reason.

Furthermore, dying meant that my team would have to go on without me, which can create more issues:

1) If I played a fifth council character that wasn't Ginebra and the rest of the team was already far ahead, it would take a while to catch up, which could leave me open for attack and perpetuate the cycle of dying and respawning again and again
2) If my absence meant my fellow raiders couldn't effectively progress through the mission, then they could also die, I would have to wait for them to respawn and I could left me open for attacks, perpetuating the cycle of dying and respawning again and again.

In conclusion, I think raiders should respawn at evacuation zones so a perpetual cycle of unfair, unnecessary team deaths does not occur.

I think there are two issues with character viability right now

1) Most characters aren't viable throughout the whole of the missions
2) Some mission objectives follow themes that only a few characters are viable at. And when that happens, it makes character variety feel less impactful.


Explanation for problem #1: When I'm on a mission objective where the goal or part of the goal is to attack a giant bullet sponge in an open spaced area, like fighting Dr. Kuzman in the desert, General Marmalade, Aneska in her mech or Schneider in his mech, I always choose a high DPS character like Schneider and Constantine; When I'm on the mission where the spacelords have to save Loaht, I choose Rak Mayura, because his ability to increase the movement speed of teammates is useful when their holding the canister; when I need effective AOE damage I pick Dr. Kuzman.

The reason why I choose theses characters, is because their effective at those objectives. But when it comes to other types of objectives, they are less viable which makes their viability throughout the whole of the mission inconsistent. And the only character I can think of with consistent viability throughout a certain mission is Ginebra on the hades aleph mining mission. In this whole mission, mobility and flanking is quite crucial and Ginebra fits this mission well.

In conclusion, I think the solution for character viability is a mix of more characters that can be effective at specific objective types, so theirs more variety, more missions that can compliment the abilities, weapons and talents of the least played characters to make them more viable and more mission pattern variety so that some characters have general viability on certain mission (Which brings us back to character variety).

I think a spider chart should be displayed in the character profile screens to summarize loadout attributes, like how much crit damage they can deal, crit chance, average DPS, healing output, mobility etc. Maybe an expandable spider chart.

I think MMR should be relative to match difficulty ratings and that MMR should only increase if players can consistently win a certain amount of matches relative to what their MMR is on average.