I'm just playing for the platinum. Once I have it I'll beaving this game for good.

P.S. And ANOTHER match, 50 MMR pu in with 2 rank 6's and an unranked player. Again instant quit at character selection.

Look,

If a player quits a game they do so for various reasons. For example, I quit a mission, I already have a 9.0 on as a Raider because I was teamed up with 2 rank 6's and an unranked player. There's no way I was getting a better score and if an Antag joined, very probably a loss due to him/her targeting my teammates. Also mission difficulty would be very hard for them. I quit. Then it means my Guild Aequilibrium bonus drops as well. That was 25 minutes ago and they're still on the mission. Your 'cancel' button, when asked if you want to rejoin or not is broken. It puts you back in the game if you press it - game testers hello???
So, I'll get a 5 minute penalty, but making me wait until they finish the game is asinine! I could be helping others during this time.

**Edit**
After a 30 minute game end wait + penalty, my next game after a long wait is with another 3 rank 6's. Again an instant game quit before the game started. I've no desire of blundering through the Aneska mission, that'll likely take nearly 30 minutes to finish, if I finish. I have an MMR of 46. What does this mean? Your pool of players is dropping MSE.

***Another Edit***

In fact remove penalties altogether and allow players to drop into a game if they're missing players. You have no in-game player block mechanism, which won't team you up with said players. I'll instantly quit any game with a player I dislike. You have to give people the option to play or not to. Penalising them for refusing is draconian. I hate taunts and people who taunt me get blocked immediately.

So, for a score of 325, to receive an extra 50k gold, means an average score of 9.558 on each mission. It's a massive jump from the last prize score of 280 which requires an average of 8.235.
Now they've seriously nerfed gold, faction point and XP awards, after pot play and 4 dailies is it really worth the grind to get this score?
I'm a T1, Rank 3 player, currently sitting on about 316 points with a couple of 10's, a couple of 9.9's and a mix of low to medium 90's left. The thing is, some missions, to get high scores as an Antagonist are really hard to do. The same for some raider missions also. The grind needed to get 325 is a hard one so what's the point with the terrible rewards for long play time?

Is anyone here chasing the 325 or now, after the update, like me just happy to sit with the 280 score with a final 260 gold bonus, instead of 310 with the 325 score? I can hit the 280 pretty easily on just the dailies. As a raider, I can hit the average in just over 2 days play of just dailies. And luck permitting, the same as an Antagonist. So, technically, no need to really play this anywhere near as much as I was.

It's understandable why raiders and Antags quit. My team just survived a T1, R1 Doldren and it was a relatively low ranked team on a mission where the environment greatly benefited him/her. The minute I saw him, I proposed a quick surrender and ironically it was the two low ranks who decided to play. Myself and my team mate, also a T1 player were both going for rare BP's. We JUST scraped through, with myself managing to dish out the damage to the boss, while trying to avoid the Antag. Had the Antag just targeted me he probably would have won as I was knocking about 45% off the boss health bar every shot. It's not fun when a BP is on the line. Thank goodness we made it. Would have been even worse had been a last chance pot play.

But yes, stupid punishing players who quit because the enemy is way too strong for them. Put it this way, I played a mission, as an Antag Shae and hit all 4 players with a burst from Sa'Dhu. They all hit wounded state, one shot by enemy grunts, one killed by an elite heavy who took the aleph and used a super boost, chasing the remainind raider, whom he caught after I wounded him again, with a couple of well placed shots. Two players quit there and then.

I owned two doldren players nonstop. he did get me a few times, but i started focusing on him. watching out for where he hides behind, looking for his vulnerable body while he goes astral. and waiting around corners then another where i took advantage of him going after other players on my team.  i quickly run towards him then grappled him.  or as before, shot my gun towards him to drop him to zero then finish him.  there is strong doldrens, but for me it's about staying on the move and looking all around you. as well look for his vulnerable body, he's most likely in astral form looking to attack. i always look for this and quickly grapple. it's also about being just as patient as him, wait for him to strike in the wrong place and wrong time then punish  it lol.

You were a raider, yes? If there's a Doldren Antagonist, up against a raider team with a Doldren, then they'll, literally be the Antagonist hunter. It's far, far easier to hunt Antagonist Doldren as Doldren, than vice versa. Any team that sticks together is a nightmare for Antagonist Doldren. Teams, however, who stick together close are a joy to other Antagonists though.

This is why the new pot is useless. Pre July 2nd patch, if you were a serious gamer you could make 100k gold in a day, a hell of a lot of XP and ok faction points as the payout was ok. If you lost a blueprint/gold/faction point/XP multiplier award mission, you played until you did win.
Mercury Steam, for some reason only want casual gamers, hence why they made all the changes. My advice for making gol is to get in a guild and have all payers carry a Bounty weapon they have max points in, especially with the new system. It really sucks but that's just the way it is. I've lost a couple of daily pots, both also with BP's in.

There's lots of things that should happen when playing as an Antagonist, but they don't. Much higher rewards for starters. After all, it's you vs 4 after all. More so, Aequilibrium bonus should move up a lot more when winning as an Antagonist. At the moment it's crap.

What bug is that?
I've found that his beast form is utterly useless because not only are his attacks, although powerful, not very easy to aim, but also because it lasts hardly any time, before you have to shift out of beast form or explode.