Doesn't matter how good the raiders are if you can just instant down them with ginebra, harec, lycus, ayana, H.I.V.E, valeria, Rak, etc lol. Antagonist get to see what characters the raiders pick so just pick someone that can counter them or at least shut down the biggest threat.

Now i'm not saying they need to have limited lives too but something needs to be done about that respawn timer. Feels like i could kill antags a million times and it won't make a difference, they just come back a couple seconds later and sneak kill me or one of my team members.

Inb4 they nerf all the guns because of broken antagonist system.

I would honestly like them to rework the entire card system to were you can earn cards just by doing missions. I'm getting tired of just grinding for gold and faction points.

Antags that kill the protector are clowns. I do not purposefully do that, and berate those that do. And when I see people brag about it, I'll tell them off. It's fine to break his shield to impede progress, but to purposefully kill a known weak objective is low and borderline exploitative.

MSE definitely needs to fix the protector situation. Make him have a lot more health, but maybe not be healed when the shield is restored, so he can still be killed but would have to be whittled down over time through multiple assaults. He should also react better to damage, or raiders should be able to push him, as stationary AoE/DoT weapons just eat his health in seconds with literally NO counter. Warm, Cookie, and Makilium will kill him in 1 clip, no questions asked. I debated naming this exact strategy, but MSE NEEDS TO KNOW. Those weapons don't need a nerf, but the protector himself needs to be fixed.

Anyways, back to topic.... I personally queue for everything except Enemy Within. The queue takes too long to be picky, but I still hate that one mission. Ever since the spacelords update though, average MMR has dropped.... i'm about 55% which I'd say is average. But now I fight teams 13, 16, 19% lower than me, almost every other match. I am fighting teams in the 30's and 40's. I am still beating them, assuming I can spawn (because antag spawning is BROKEN) when normally that handicap would be impossible to overcome. Average player skill/MMR has definitely dropped.

And yes, I do like to win as antag. Hyugga can stop the virtue signalling bullshit for the 100th time. We don't play it specifically for the motivation of "reducing Raider rewards" nor is it the fault of the player for playing the intended mechanic as it exists. Last thread you did this got deleted by the OP because I got sick of this attitude and went off.

I'm sorry but you can't have your cake and eat it too. These antagonist are also playing like you "as intended", you can criticize them all you want but you're part of that community. They can't just give the old man more health it will make the mission too easy for raiders that don't have an antagonist. Everyone is forced into this pvp bs and most people you fight probably didnt want to fight you in the first place they just accepted it and went with it. It doesn't change the fact that they had no choice over it just because you sent them a nice message after. This whole system is stupid but we just have to accept it I guess since it doesn't look like mse is  changing anything about it.

Healing is fine, IMO.

At a group fight, you can back up your team mate about 20 health, while he gets a punch. (I have not paid attention to damage given to Antag, but you can expect some damage to him, too.) One punch can give around 80 damage. You may not able to save Shea, but you maybe able to save Lycus.

Since Alicia is not a healer by design, this is good enough for her.

I know she's not a healer but come on 5 hp heals is just pathetic lol. You're not saving anyone not even lycus, any decent antags or enemies above 40% mmr will just deal too much damage. You'd have to empty like 5 full clips on someone to fully heal them and by then their own regen would have healed them completely. The main selling point of the gun is it's ability to heal and it can't really do that so might aswell just stick with the R&R.

Anyone else find this gun's healing to be useless in it's current state? Or am I just doing something wrong lol.