i'm not sure i have understood you clearly, so maybe my answer will miss your point, but, if that's what you're asking, shae is good to counter hans and alicia.

Oh...haha, sorry for the mixup, my reply was more towards LuB (and just generally speaking).

But yeah...Shae is indeed a good counter against Alicia as a matter of fact. With Alicia being one of my my mains, I have "Sassy" on her, so her extra mobility makes Shae not that effective. I never considered the fight without the card, so you're right. With Hans, I think on stages like Short-Fused, Shae will give him a bit of a headache sure, but once he closes the gap, it's a wrap (most of the time). Hans can match all characters, which makes sense lore wise...he should of been a starting character instead, and have Harec be the first raider you can unlock/buy honestly.

I really don't remember much of my beginnings of this game (it's been MONTHS...), but I don't remember it being that bad? Or maybe I was having too much fun playing the game. Either way, "leveling the playing field" is virtually impossible in this game, because of all the variables (and there's ALOT). Take away the passives, the raiders should still have the advantage, cause 4 raiders who atleast semi know what they're doing should win 80%-85% of the time generally. And the inverse of that is the MMR against the raiders and that's a whole other story...

Same with the high/max weapon forge levels, atleast to me, it seems like a small difference in play (as with the passives). I'm level 185 (almost at MAX forge!) and still using Alicia, Hans, and Kuzman's default weapon & not upgraded, and it doesn't feel too underwhelming? Well...I guess once I get MAX forge, I'll really know, but it's feels very minuscule. Someone doing a video by video would be interesting to see...

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Good to hear, and I wasn't even trying to be condescending or anything with that health comment BTW.

And it's not about being a "pushover"... Despite them being a small team, I guess it's just my pessimistic nature that I don't see things changing lol. Though at the same time, I'm neutral on antag and still love the game as is (despite the recent aleph/ammo nonsense). The grind and shop prices are the games biggest problems personally...everything else is minor things that can be slightly tweaked. But yeah...good luck on yall's fight. MSE even acknowledging you anti-antags would be a sight to behold. I've only been on these forums (mostly lurking) about 7-8 months, and have never seen the staff address it...

What counter can you think for Hans? He is one of my nemesis

Same. I'm not afraid and have no trouble with any other characters, but Hans antags (especially when playing as Alien faction). Even a newbie who has some idea of how the game works, gives me pause. Only thing I got is always try to have the higher ground against him obviously and attack when he reloads. Knowing the height when fighting him should be a constant, especially when you're in line with him for a grab kill or you're in stealth and he happens to fly by you.

“Complaining” is the only thing we can do, this is where you come to leave feedback… and considering the toxic nature of the current antagonist system, it is very much warranted, ppl can lose hours of their time, just to satisfy some random griefer, both because of lost rewards and lost gameplay time enjoyment.

I've had the (dis)pleasure of getting teamed with you randomly. You immediately dropped out when there was an antagonist...talk about toxic (a game the group ended up winning anyways...)

Regardless...MSE have ALWAYS insisted on the antag system and have never contemplated making it optional or revising it drastically on these froums. You and the same 2 or 3 people complaining about it here all the time should just move on, cause yall sound miserable lol. I realize, as you said, this is their forum for game feedback, but you anti-antag folk are literally talking to a brick wall, it's bad for your health mate. I'm not even a pro-antag guy either, but it's here to stay..."deal with it" or play another game.

That being said, "lost gameplay time enjoyment" is completely subjective...but I agree with you on the lost of rewards. If only MSE implemented personal end mission rewards i.e enemies killed, assists, aleph overloads, deaths, level extraction, etc. That would mitigate the more dragged out fights/losses. But as we all know, MSE isn't known for implementing helpful new ideas/mechanics (quite the opposite sadly...) That I'l never argue against.

As someone who put hours into Mass Effect 3 multilpayer, I'd definitely be down for a horde mode of sorts with this game. It would give folks that constantly whine about PVP to finally shut to as well. Win win...but I don't see it happening, atleast now. Hopefully down the line...

I've always given MSE a friendly pass, since they're such a small team and I ADORE the game so much...but I REALLY question that they even play their own game sometim...no, ALOT of the times with some of the boneheaded decisions and (VERY) late fixes to old problems they've made (or no fixes at all...). Biggest for me being, finally fixing Ayana's in game voice, after like what? After 6 or more months? Like how small a team is it for a such an obvious oversight to be missed?!, sheesh...99% of you reading this probably didn't care, but that had always bothered me LMAO. But it does tie in to it's other problems...

As for as communication goes, it always been bad, the whole fan base would agree with that. The recent implements didn't do jack s***. I don't use them and I don't pay attention to them when others use them either. So, pretty much worthless/wasted addition...That being said, it's never bothered me personally. I enjoyed the growing pains early on of learning the levels, characters, and overall game while being hammered by over leveled antags & f***** up MMR. All that experience early on really shaped me and it being not newbie friendly was not a problem for. But if MSE wants more new players (especially casuals) and keep early player retention, things NEED to be changed ASAP and like that previous meme posted, the removal of the tutorial was dumb to put it very lightly...

But overall, the game is nowhere near as bad as some people on here make it out to be. It just needs some literal tweaks. I still enjoy and think the game is a blast to play, although I don't play it nearly as much as I used to. My 2 biggest problems have always been the grind and the in game purchases/microtransactions. But mostly the former, and if fixed, would help early game retention and folks at mid game by ALOT. There's alot MSE can do to alleviate the grind (the monthly rewards help), but they can do more. Give mentors & leader approved gold, up desertions gold/FP, per mission rewards would go a long ways, so losses won't be as discouraging/waste of time (especially for newer players).

When it comes to the microtransactions, I'm not going to harp on it too much, (edit: nevermind...) since it's mostly cosmetics...but the pricing till this day is utterly ridiculous. People can do what they want with their money, but I literally die a little inside every time I see a Ginebra alt while playing. I could buy another game with $40 for goodness sake! I'm honestly surprised they've received such little backlash for that, even back when it was released. Their reasoning was silly as well SMH... This is on the levels of Fallout 76 bad, sheesh. On that front, MSE should be ashamed. The character packs aren't great either for what you pay. Even to the point of being a rip off IMHO. If the game were more known, they would be ripped to shreds for this...

I question if MSE hates money as well. They would make SO MUCH MORE if they lower the prices to something more affordable, they would sell like hot cakes. Since alot of the fanbase just likes this game and keeps playing only because they like the characters so much. Hell, I'm dying to give them my money & support them, if they were $5 or $10 each (even though the latter is pushing it a slight bit). Damn shame really, but it's MSE's loss on that...regardless I still love the game quite a bit, but tweaks REALLY need to be made if they want more players. And yall should advertise your game more! Can't wait for Sooma in the mean time! Hope MSE reads the thread as well, peace to you all.

I have strong doubts that this will contribute to the improvement of the game.

Please don't do that, this will totally ruin the solo queue, because if you get teamed up with a bunch of newbies (and that happens quite often), who burn up all team-life, someone has very little chance (or no chance at all) of carrying the game!!


Oh boy, I have to say I'm very disappointed what happens in the recent updates - Aleph drops, now this … 

I mean...would you rather crash and burn in 10 minutes or do a carry job for 35+ minutes? The gold in the end for the latter is nice I suppose, but at what cost???

We'll see how it goes when this update drops, but "sudden death" doesn't seem that bad IMO...But the Aleph system definitely needs to be reverted back, that's for sure...Oh, and getting actual gold as a mentor in mentor matches (or anything other than worthless EXP) would be nice, as well as upping desertions from 300 to 500...