The spacelords identity section of the roadmap sounds awesome, I hope they allow for removal of accessories as well as adding, only reason I didn’t buy “space mechanic” was because of the cap and goggles… being able to remove those would be great. Emotes, finishers, fighting styles, it all sounds good, hope they also plan on adding auras.

The rest sound meh (space guilds), leaning on bad (the great clash, aurora specters), it seems the obsession with pvp is going deeper, MS wants everyone on the pvp bandwagon one way or another, I just hope they only give out more xp or gold as rewards for theses activities, and don’t lock up cosmetics and weapons behind this pvp/competitive stuff.

Running during survival would only be relevant in pvp… still like i said it doesn’t make any sense, it breaks the lore, she is a stealth/assassin cyborg, considering how much MS invests in lore and storytelling in their games it’s strange they would ignore that.

Also she is anything but a go-to for nerfs

I guess I was speaking from personal experience, I was not able to enjoy her for long in her original form, and after her initial nerf, its kept on going with the nerfs, money wasted... she is the only character I’ve bought with MS points because I didn’t want to wait and now she apparently gets less hp when she transforms into a form that further covers her in armor… and she is a non-stealth cougar…

Also in pvp, I can definitely see an enemy Gin's aleph as cougar, so the patch notes were a little unclear.

I guess it’s even worse than I thought then.

I think it's perfectly fair. I main Ginebra and I think she's balanced after the nerfs that were needed. Use her second form for escaping, it's very useful still. I run away from Antags all the time with her, but when you have a maxed forged Javelin it's dangerous to let you run away.

I’m not saying she isn’t usable or bad, but compared to what she should be, she is now underwhelming and weird, it goes against her character and it makes her less fun to play because of that (at least for me), all in the name of pvp “balance”.

No point investing time on Ginebra, she seems to be the go to raider for nerfs, it’s sad, she used to be my favorite, I haven’t used her in a long time but when I saw her most recent patch notes, what you describe sounds about right, her cougar form must be almost useless nowadays, not sure exactly what MS wants that character to be…

Yea I’ve definitely had a good experience getting bp’s so far with the new system (enjoying pulse and shy a lot), however I know how it could be very bad and time wasting with a string of bad luck or interference from antags, so I can understand the complaints.

The new cutscenes and lore are great (the additional insight into the 5th council is welcomed), not to mention Valeria which I think has a great character design, plus is a lot of fun gameplay wise.

When it comes to the new missions I think some of them can drag on to much and others feel way to spammy with all the stuff going on, I’m not saying they are bad, just not as fun as previous missions imo.

YOU ARE ENTERING PVP WILLINGLY BY PLAYING A GAME THAT MIGHT BE PVP.  PLAY THE GAME AS INTENDED OR STOP PRETENDING YOUR PART OF THE SOLUTION AND ADMIT TO BEING A PROBLEM.

That is all.  .  "Older Gentlemen."  It is a sport.  It is equivalent to a sport.  You spend time to grow in skill and learn new techniques, you can lose.  If you can't lose then the game gets boring, because it loses its challenge.  Someone didn't wrong you.  They won.  That is all.  You're a table flipper at Monopoly aren't you?

Not quite, I’ve never seen a pvp selection screen on this game and no amount of caps is gonna change that fact, I’ve entered no pvp willingly.

Videgames are not sports, as their name implies, they are games, no matter how much this new age “gamers” want to think of videogames as their life’s accomplishments.

Two ppl deciding they are going to engage in battle or competition that is “gentlemen” behavior, nothing of the sort is found here.

Seems like cause and effect lol, I refuse to throw on pve matches but I can’t say it hasn’t crossed my mind and be an ass whenever I’m paired with some antag that wasted my time on a previous match.

That’s only part of the issue, you know how pvpers work, the vast majority are just trolling or exploiting, if one mission is fixed they’ll just move on to the next mission that can be easily cheesed, there’s probably always going to be a mission that’s pretty much unplayable for a few weeks because all antags gang up on it, not allowing them to pick a mission, was actually a good way of preventing some of the griefing.

Edit: well apparently this system was used before and the protector and Loaht maps were already suffering for it... maybe next they should just let antags see raider cards and weapons.