This is a general conversation of our experiences on those topics.

The Protector.
From what I seen from an Antagonist perspective, That secondary shield he gets is a nice buff for him, it really reduced the damaged I gave him (Granted I wasnt trying to actually kill him).  It makes me wonder how well he could stand now against the strongest of weapons. My guess is he will no longer be  insta-killed with one magazine now at least.

New Aleph System.
Now that those things are popping up in random places in sets of two (sometimes just 1) I've  Noticed that players are getting high amounts of Aleph each Really fast. On waiting to see how the protectors Shields now hold up I was Surprised to see that without a few minutes into the match that every player had 4,5,2,5 Alephs and I thought, like damn ok. And the Protector was found real quick.

Antag Command System.
This is interesting, I only get three minions, not all of them and they seem to have a separate cooldown for each one when they die.  But aside you need to use them carefully cause they go down real quick. Strategies I've tried using so far.
*sending them out to a lone sniper. (fail. Only  distract said sniper for a few seconds)

*send them to a target, wait till they all group up and charge with them.

*When two raiders are paired up, distract one of them with all 3 and attack the other raider.


Questions regarding minions.
*I don't understand at what points do you get access to all 3 of them. It didn't occur to me that you don't get all 3 from the start when I did the mission White Noise. I only was able to command 1. then later when they progress a little I had access to the 2nd then later the 3rd.  Does this occur for mission progress or how long you stay spawned in game.

5# Aneska: Aneska is in the tail-end of this list because she needs the least amount of TLC compared to those below and will be a little difficult to find a good suggestion for her already impressive kit.

High health, crowd control potential and a Mech that serves as a good distraction and minor offensive support. Aneska has a lot going for her and is nearly perfect, accept for the fact that she has no good long range abilities, a lack of high burst damage, her Mech is rather weak offensively or has anyway to ward off Antagonist outside of base raider sneak attacks.

Suggestions:
*Allow her Mech to move on your command
*Since the Mech might be sentient now with the Aleph in its system (Hence the roaring) allow it to auto spawn on her location (Provided it has energy) whenever her health is at critical to provide an aoe push + melee assault.
Add a Rare weapon -
A BFG. long range, Moderate damage with 3 rounds. Ammunition for this weapon could use energy capsules used for the Mech (Allow Mech to self generate energy until it reaches the minimum requirement to be summoned). If charged the gun would increase in damage at the cost of the remaining rounds as it punches through walls.

Its Alternative mode releases its coolant to restore a fix amount of health to her Mech (equal to 2 energy capsules) as well as causing minor tick damage to nearby enemies for 5 seconds.


4# Iune: Unlike the other raiders and there Synergies, Iune’s supportive nature makes her the most vulnerable of this list as her weak health isn’t supported well enough by her guns or abilities.

Although her Guns are nothing to scoff at when used appropriately, they can't reach the level of power both Shae and Harec can achieve (even Doldren with his base gun at max forge). Where she needs help in is the synergy between her abilities and her guns. All of the other local's abilities give you a sense of safety in comparison. You can argue that her Blink with moderate crit damage can get her out of a tight situation with its limited warp ability but Stalking ,Bewitching & Astral form are all way safer than a 5 yard warp.

Suggestion: A Gun that can body switch locations with an Ally Elite or Raider. Or the ability to appear out of her Current puppet killing it in the process while causing a knock-back effect (no damage). This Will have a cooldown and allow for a potential surprise attack forcing the enemy to kill off the puppet as soon as possible.

Edit: Maybe add a card where her puppets detonate on death at the cost of all her Aleph pressure?


3# Lycus Dion:
Like a discount version of H.I.V.E., Lycus is primarily a close quarters type Raider, but much weaker than the aforementioned superior. His shield is the only thing that makes him unique from a combat perspective. But it can often be bypassed by so many Guns and abilities where it just leaves him simply as a man with a gun. This is a man who literally made a pact with the Devil for immortality, and had warlock give him his Witch Shield. In sounds great on paper but in game it really lacks luster.

Suggestions:
*Make his shield invisible to anyone but Lycus (maybe even his own allies). This is to have Antags, enemy Raiders and possibly AI if there programmed correctly to not be able to predict if his shields are up and facing them, that way should he be charging at a wounded enemy, the enemies ally wont know Lycus has his shield facing them while charging the enemy.
 
*Make his shields immune to pierce effects. Seeing as his shields are more mystical in nature than technological perhaps things like HIVEs bugs, Ginebra’s shot and even Alicia’s Smoking Daisy wont be able to get past it.

Rare Gun - Morningstar - A very old, seemingly decrepit Magnum with undiscernible inscriptions on it. When the Witch Shield takes damage the Gun begins to smolder as its meter rises. At max capacity, the next time Lycus is wounded and downed he will instead be restored with 25% health, sending out a push effect around him. For 10 seconds his Corrupted shields will encircle him and heal him as it takes damage.


2# Ginebra: Prior to the Sudden death mode Ginebra was brought down considerably from her initial powerful state. Now its very difficult to find a situation where she is useful as both raider and Antagonist. All you can do is hope to get one good shot on a Elite/Antagonist/Raider and hope you can run away to safety after wards. Very boring and useless against hordes of grunts and 4 Raiders

Suggestion:
*Holding down the Dodge button while in cougar form, will cause Ginebra to move at an average running speeds but giving the advantage of losing her Aleph signature temporarily.
*Exclusively against Grunts, Ginebra’s cougar form can perform a lunge attack when pressing the Fire button. Doing so slows her movements for a brief moment.

*Rare Weapon: Chimera - A 3 round repeater crossbow with a strong push effect on the last shot of the clip.
Alternate mode - Lob a canister of hazardous material on the ground that remain there for 10 seconds, (area of effect provides tick damage over time) Shooting the Hazardous area with the basic firing mode ignites it to provide instant burst damage. (This removes the Hazardous area)


1# Harec: As the Weakest character in….Just kidding **** Harec.


1# Kuzmann - Arguably the most underused and niche Character in the game. Initially he was my second favorite Raider right behind Konstantin. Kuzmann seemed rather cool to me as I enjoyed the idea of playing as a 2 time Boss character. But in reality it was far from what I envisioned for him. His specialty is against mobs of Grunts and Elites only. Just like Any good raider he needs something in his kit that provides a sense of safety should an Antag show up completely out of nowhere or as an Antag be able to hold your own even though your moving at a slugs pace.

Suggestions:
*During his abilities charge up, allow him to repel 2 strike attempts.
*Increase the Diameter of his Blitzfaust.
*Allow minimal movement while loading the Blitzfaust.

Weapon -
Rare: LuftenStriek (My crappy stab at germen)
Basic firing mode shoots singular long range bolts of electricity one enemy at a time and cannot arc. Hold down the trigger to reverses the polarity, sending the electrical current inward into his chassis overloading it causing multiple short range bolts of electricity to fire out from his body in all directions.
(Hold to consume remaining magazine, you are unable to move, strike or grapple during this time.)

Alt - (Can only be used when Blitzfaust is fully charged) Press down on the alt button to consume his power meter in exchange for temporary levitated movement, causing the ground he traverses to be electrified.

I'm bored so I thought Id find gifs that describe or are related to some of the Raiders or just Spacelords as a whole.

Mikah:


Uras - Beherit:


Ginebra:


Doldren:


Low level Antag vs High level Raiders be like...


Hans Emoting




Thats all I got

I'm currently in the phase where I'm playing other games while waiting for something to draw me back into SL's. So in the mean time I've been playing Dead by Daylight and after playing that for a while me and a friend hopped on to SL's for a bit to mix up the games.

What I came to realize is how different one game (DBD) operates and makes you experience PVP as appose to others. There, You have to fight for survival right from the start and you have to use your wit and cunning to stay alive, all the while pushing for victory. Its quite intense even if from the aggressors perceptive we completely dominated it was still thrilling, having everything hang on the balance like that. But that was how that game operates.

After starting map after map where I've already memorized the safe-spots, Routines, what to look out for, etc. I found myself yearning for excitement. Then when I saw I had an Antagonist in my match I was like "Finally!" and my mindset went from here we go again to Lets kick this guys ass ...and we did, and they quite or stopped spawning and things  just returned to normal.


The first thing that came to mind here was that EVERYONE is extremely powerful in ONE (maybe two) aspects. I saw a HIVE with a plague who only learned to drop the Parasite field ...thing to instantly infect others and just melee till they drop, if that fails run till it cools off. Second match Shae with Sa Dhu just waited for one good moment to wreck one unsuspecting Raider instantly.

You cannot have fun when everyone is overpowered, its just too one-sided at times, theirs no stakes, and that goes for AI as well. which on that note, I suppose I get it, to answer how to stop a team of 4 potentially overpowered Raiders you would need an Overpowered solution, which comes in the form of a single Grunt who can two shot you (one if you a Local) combined with a fairly high MMR. 


When MSE_Karen mentioned on the New Daily Rewards video (Youtube) that the average player only plays 2-3 missions a day I thought to myself "Damn..., that's the average?" Which was unfortunate to hear really. I think this game has allot of style and some powers are fun to use but perhaps the focus should be shifted a bit towards a more grounded on reality perspective.
* Re-evaluate the Stress Mechanic
* Lengthen Wounded time a bit but Allow allies to pick each other up after a period of medical attention (uninterrupted).
* Grapples cannot outright kill you unless you are wounded, it will instead bring you from a healthly state to a wounded state.
* apply accurate hit boxes which can allow difference in shot damage depending on where you were shot (Arm,Leg, Head, Torso. etc)
* Fall damage
* Charged jumps (Fifth Council)
* Running long jumps (Everyone else)
* Grunts cannot passively zone in on your location automatically when there is no reason for them to know where you are.
* Grunts can only take so much damage during there Kamikaze-Suicide sprint before they are staggered in there tracks.
*add an exhaustion mechanic
*Reconsider the rock-paper-scissor mechanic
* Add Dedicated Servers

I don’t know,….This game is making strides towards a great final product especially when you consider how things were in the beginning. As it stands the current focus is creating incentives (Prizes, Rewards and Goals), New ways to Configure the perfect weapon and finding and testing new ways to make playing and losing against an Antagonist more balanced and fun. 

I hope way way later down the line perhaps on the second Road-Map the games core mechanics can be revamped, Keep all the style and flash but tone down the damage, and more maneuverability or something, more power isn’t always more fun.

As always, ill be around and pop in when something is added in the mean time keep it up guys!

so your telling me when the amount of lives are up, and there are 4 Raiders alive and just ONE of them dies the match ends regardless of who else is still alive..... ok......ok

I know I know, Battle-Pass are unliked in some games ...but... since this is a free to play game it would make having a Battle-Pass more palatable.

In Addition the Battle-Pass could be Cosmetic only so it wont be a Pay-to-Win which is a win win. I was watching a Dead by Daylight live event and they brought one up where you have the free track and the paid track and though not ANY time soon but the idea would be interesting down the line.


Thoughts?

I only did a few missions with the new communication system and I have to say, I love it but it took a little getting used to, what with accidentally saying can someone get the switch and they say yes when you mean to say ill get it cause I’m right in front of it. That being said I found myself when in a leadership role seeing whats available and which command should I be inputting right now and much to my surprise, when sending it out correctly my teams in various missions (With random players) began listening and giving there own initiatives which often lead to a very smooth mission.

Also on a little side note was the "Group up" command removed?
Well that aside I noticed other important Commands and initiatives were missing such as:
*When carrying a Canister on short Fused or noticing someone carrying it you can say (Command) Defend the Canister or Defend me while I transport the Canister.

When going out to collect Aleph for the Monolith: "Guard the Monolith from the Looters" or I'm going to Guard the monolith"

*And when taking down the final barrier on a Low Blow you can say "I'll attack the Grunts" or Someone Take Care of the Grunts!" so the rest of the team can focus on shooting the barrier.

*When you have 5x Aleph and are heading to an extractor to blow it up you see a Shae shooting at it and you want to say “STOP” or “Don’t Shoot the Extractor”

Also, When an Antagonist is in your mission the Communications tab get a little tighter. Seeing that I thought maybe that’s why there isn’t too many commands but then I thought about other games and there solutions to this problem.

In a now retired game, Paragon had a communication system where it opened up categories on a wheel that lead to more in depth forms of communications. One for enemies and there activities, allies and giving them warnings, forms of compliments and so on.


Apex legends has an Amazing ping system where you hover over an object, enemy in the distance or what ever and and a wheel opens up that gives out “Vocal” commentary on what it is you want to say which is heard by all allies.


It would be great to hear our Raiders actually talk outside of those intercoms. You can input your going after the Elites with Ginebra and have her say something like “I’m not used to chasing after men but a jobs a job.”