I've been thinking about this and I think the best way to implement this difficulty setting is to have everyone vote for the match difficulty when the "let's go" message pops up. If there's a lv 1/rankless they will have priority over the selected difficulty so they won't get destroyed by 70+ mmr AI because of the higher levels. You should obviously scale the rewards based on what difficulty is selected and if an antagonist joins there should be a bonus even if they win or lose. It should be much easier to balance the Ai between these 4 difficulties instead of this huge spectrum in the current mmr system.

Just for the love of god make sure the rewards are worth it for the higher difficulties so people don't end up just voting for normal because it's the fastest/most efficient way of grinding. You want players to have a reason to go for the challenge. The difficulty should also stay the same if there's an antag or not since it's being picked by the raiders.

I killed a lot of old men on my quest for 100 MMR, but it's not as simple as everyone assumes. Antags get such garbage AI that if the mission gets far enough, it's a 4v1 fest with nothing to impede the raider's progress. The raider objective here is "walk to the end and wait" and if nothing stops them from walking to the end and waiting, they win. Pretty easy.

It's stupid easy to spawn camp 99% of characters on this mission and prevent them from killing the old man. There's about 3 or 4 OP setups that can nuke him in seconds, and only 1 of those (Harec) is viable against a team that is spawn-camping, and even that one isn't perfect.

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"it got down voted by trolls because discord is cancer "

You mean it got downvoted because people there play as both raider and antag, and know the struggles of both. Knowing the meta is one thing, understand the reason behind WHY something is meta is another.

This is obviously an exploit and people will use those 3-4 op characters once they see how easy it is. Leaving it the way it currently is just because you're not getting ad support due to incompetent developers not knowing how to balance antag matches is just not a solution. Like I said my suggestion would still allow the antag to slow the raiders down and still force them to dump aleph on the protector once you drop his shield, which almost any character can do with just a couple shots.

Let's say if they fix the mmr and enemy Ai/spawning would you still think it's fair to be able to kill the protector so easily?

I tried suggesting something similar on discord but it got down voted by trolls because discord is cancer so I left that shit. My suggestion was to make him immune to player dmg after his shield goes down, that way the antag still has a chance to slow the raiders down but not just straight up easily win by killing him.

As if the rewards weren't already bad enough, they get worst when there's an antagonist there to lower your score more even if you win. It's almost like the game is designed to give you as little rewards as possible the more effort you put into a match.

Seriously get it together this difficulty is cancer.. I'm already putting up with these annoying antags in pvp and now pve is also fucked. I have no more patience for this game anymore.

I think this is a  good idea but it's probably not gonna happen.

With anthem, the division 2, apex and borderlands 3 coming out soon will this game make it? Just curious how mercury steam plan on dealing with all these shooter games taking away a lot of their players.

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Quote from: MSE_Bert0 on February 07, 2019, 01:16:58 PM

Hello Raiders,

When designing this card my idea was to try to give a new use to the Mech, use it as an "attacking" shield, that is, if you deploy the mech, go back a couple of steps and let the enemies get closer, centering the damage on the mech and you help your mech to kill enemies or shoot the mech to maintain its life without having to worry about yours for a few seconds. It is true that it is a risky move because you will lose the Mech very quickly, but for high difficulty levels where you can accumulate several enemies in a single zone can be a good way to eliminate more grouped enemies, and quickly collect the cells of energy to have the mech available again to launch. Anyway, I will keep your comments in mind and I will check the numbers on this letter.

There's no reason to run this card when you can just use prevail. Like you said the mech will just die in seconds anyway so you can keep re-activating prevail by collecting energy cells and just letting the mech die. Vial of epinephrine can also work better in that scenario. Just increase the range on life support to 15 meters and it should be fine. That way you can at least hide the mech somewhere so it won't die in 3 seconds and it will still heal you.

The idea is to support your mech shooting the enemies, not let it die... i think prevail is more for new users with this character, but as I said, I´m going to review the numbers, thanks for the feedback

That's a nice way of saying git gud but what difficulty are you guys testing this on? This strategy does sound good on paper but when you actually put it into action at higher mmrs it doesn't really work out. That's just my thoughts I guess.