… since I always see ppl overusing it and ignoring their weapon, now I guess there’s no choice.

We always laugh about the Baby Harecs and Lycus who are trying to melee attack Dr. Kuzmann (In Shock), well, then I guess we have no choice either but to melee him ourselfs. Whether it helps or not *LOL*!

Yes I was also wondering, I experienced this yesterday with Alicia (but I played only one match, because of connection issues), most of the time I got only three or four bullets at a time (!!!). Please let this be just a bug, and not one of MSE's new forgettable features (except the new communication feature all others are unfortunately for the bin).

… The raider's ability is the power to open up portals or "Rifts". …
… has the gimmick of shooting small destroyable traps (the same size of the mines that are dropped by the minelayers) …

This reminds me a bit of Overwatch's Symmetra - I'm just saying.

Well, I can't really play today, the game is constantly losing the server connection.

"The connection to the mercurysteam servers was lost"

I reconnect - it works for a minute or two - and again and again and again …
Never had these issues befor the update.

It's a good thing for MSE, because with this new update, (most likely) every Raider will lose more often in games and that will lengthen the grind. I don't like this new direction (Forcing antag play with the new Adventure mode, now even the raiders lifes are limited and don't forget the aweful Aleph drops), but unfortunately that's how it is! 

Maybe I should take a closer look at Dauntless.

… We don’t believe in censorship or stifling other people’s opinions, …

… but …

… 1. Any further discussion related to changes of antagonist mode (specifically removing it from game or making it optional) from this date forward will be treated as hostile and disruptive and may result in further disciplinary action. Up to and including : mute, kick or permanent ban.
2. Continued discussion is allowed, but please do so over PM or a forum post only …

*Nuclear facepalm* *LOL*

But seriously, if it's that bad there, don't go there anymore!?
If you don't like what they do, don't care about them at all!
It's not even an official Spacelords discord.

Really not liking this new direction.
So, MSE if you are so eager to push antag games even further (and drive off even more PVE players) and run Spacelords totally aground then here are a few suggestions to speed up this process (Of course, the fastest way to accomplish this would be to integrate all at once.):

The Antag can spawn everywhere at mission start
The Antag spawns with 5 aleph
The Antag is immortal
The Antag has unlimited ammo
The Antag doesn't need to reload
The Antag's special ability is always available
The Antag can equip 2 additional cards (4 in total)
And last but not least, games without an Antag, gives no rewards.

Good luck!

But of course you could also integrate more meaningful features into the game, e.g. to revise the card system (which has been demanded for ages), buff the old man in fist full of sand (is also demanded for ages), an improved cutscene skip function, … … …

Try a disco ball, or maybe the radar or aleph drops will help? No, well then you're screwed.