Hi everyone,

Regarding Schneider's dron, the reason for the change was inspired on the Glass Cannon: the dron makes more damage but Schneider is slightly more fragile in order to balance things.

What the f-... Aliens are the Glass Cannon in this game, they have the headshot. They have gimmicks to master so they can be really effective. Scheneider only was good at bosses and cleaning areas, and he wasn't the best (Kuzzman or Valeria are much better at this).

This is just a random change that doesn't answer any call. Is not for the players, is just you "balancing" something that was ok, because Scheneider has been like that 1 year at least and no one said anything about the hacker being a bucket of HP.

The Glass Cannon is just a lame excuse. Aliens are Glass Cannons that have their life at 60 but they can refill it with their gimmick. The hacker loses half of his life and you promote with him a slow and boring mechanic (because right now 70 HP is just a f***ing joke and you will be always in the floor) in a very fast game.

And don't make me start about how this thing is supposed to be lore friendly. Aneska summons her mecha and doesn't lose life. Hades is about those 140 points because they don't have another thing going for them (no regeneration, no bullet proof, no aleph control).

Every raider in this game has a bloody skill that doesn't make him pay life (being the exception Loath, bus yeah, his skill needs that because reasons). In Scheneider this is more important because IS THE ONLY WAY HE CAN DO GUN DAMAGE. YOU ALREADY GAVE HIM A CONS WITH THAT DECISION AND EVERYONE AGREED. And if someone destroys the drone you are at disadvantage a good chunk of time. Make the dron weaker if you want to nerf Scheneider, but stop making him static.

If you want to balance mechanics further use the card system, ffs, you put it in the game for something.

Kuzzman + Lightbolgen worked to get the 10, but wasn't easy; play as normal antag (some CQC, some shootwork), use your trap on the pillars whenever you can and shoot-cover to infect all of them if they activate the pillars. You should always stay on the upper platform so you can have some advantage, and be agressive, but don't overextend yourself.

Sphere part: You have to be very agressive with your arcs and always infect two raiders at least, so you make them stay away and be less conscious about the spheres and more about you. Your trap here can be used in the corner with the snipers, but you shouldn't rely too much on it.

With this a a bit of luck you can overkill the sudden death, or the first phase without Aleph.

Cards were... Don't remember the name. The one that gives you healthpoints as a passive and the one that recharges your trap 300% faster while in cover.

If only they listen.

If only.

But same story same ending.

Unlike what MSE thinks, I think in the long term having dedicated PvE would actually decrease Antag queue wait times, because the community would begin to blossom. 

Pretty much true, but the game has got a bad reputation already. i tried to get some friends here some time ago, and the response was "frick that 4vs1 bullshit man, I don't want to play that thing again with the antagonist mechanic."

Games are made with the idea of "entertain" the players. Maybe this game doesn't want to make a full cooperative experience, but... competitive? At a random pace? You want PVP players or PVE? These kind of decisions (because PVP is hurting PVE and vice versa)  are cutting new players, everyday. It isn't getting any attention on Twitch neither (50  viewers at best is just sad).

Maybe a new game mode, separate PVE from PVP would help. Something funny happened at the start of july; Fortnite (yes, that game) went nuts when the developers quit the team mode with unlimited lives. Players spoke, they wanted the mode back. Epic didn't wait too long to make the mode permanent. Now everyone is happy and people is even getting on battle royale because they feel confident enough to try it.

Funny story, MSE, about being stubborn. Even Epic listens to their playerbase better than you.

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On topic, yeah, Shakura is a player killer. The only way to endure it I found is with a good Harec or a good Doldren pressing against Valeria. Maybe a Loath can suck a chunk of pain and transform. Dunno. The weapon is just very good on tiny spaces. Make it so it needs 30 bullets to change direction, or shooting the orb to change it, maybe that would balance the things a little.

This is another example of the devs not testing the update before launching it. So many problems that you, the players, have to endure.

Sorry to hear this. The game was fun some time ago for a lot of us. Right now is just failure after failure.

Since day 1 guys, from 2017, this bug has been there. Just wait until the timer appears... And try to warn new players un someway. Dunno how.

As a 72-78% MMR player in my days, yeah. The challenge is unfair, stressful and is not rewarding enough. I learnt to manipulate the MMR in my favor. The hard way.

So, if you are a loot player you want to be in the 0-20% MMR. It's another way to play this game. The boring part is to low your MMR once a while to just enjoy it. Some kind of difficulty selection would have been appreciated, but meh.

I'm curious about this one when the Aleph thing gets online. We will need to wait for Aleph to spawn or still fight the copies for 1 of Aleph?

In topic: Uras dogs are always faster because they want you yo jump all over the place. Problem is when they reproduce themselves like a plague.