The training mode confused the hell out of me because I was able to play solo, so I didn't understand how it worked unless it's because I've bought all four campaigns way before the update, and because I am always online I forgot offline wasn't accessible anymore though I do agree with that being totally horse shit. I grew up with bad connect and have all the sympathy for others who have that issue and try to play online, and for those who just feel like soloing without no connection.

I don't know why I keep trying to make them not seem like EA. Maybe because they are the worst gaming company ever and I'm trying to throw MS a bone,  idk. I did think the lack of insiders was weird. I was expecting at least one more but I guess you're right about them trying to hiding unfavourable design choices.

Half of the original post was just  trying to get forums to cool off and be interesting and fun. This is like the third community I actually tried being apart of, but I'm aware of the current issues but lucky enough not to deal with them in full (mainly from a lack of understanding of how things worked).

I did recently get a understanding of the fact we have to wait 12 hours now to make any real progress with our characters which makes most missions not even worth playing for the 20th time, and do recognize the fact that BP still beinh a gamble is really stupid (even though I've been very lucky )

Defending  Mercury Steam and trying to give them some slack was bad timing on my part. I wanted to believe they didn't mess this one up like literally all the other major updates. I think I'll go with my other choice of finding a better game (think I'll play the devil may cry remakes) and take another hiatus from spacelords. I got 2 blueprints waiting to be made but I gotta grind for gold and I truly don't want to go through with that. It's too much and I got better games to play. I'm uninstalling.

I don't know man, this last update was a pretty big f**k up. And sure the devs are listening but like you said they just keep messing up with just the dumbest design decisions I have ever seen on a game as a service model. This has been going on for almost and entire year and you'd think they'd know better by now. And maybe if our complaints where addressed in a more direct manner by the devs, letting us know what they are working on, maybe we wouldn't bitch and moan so much cause we would at least know that they are working on the hot button issues. I'm just getting really tired of the two steps forward two steps back progression this game has had.

To be perfectly honest, I almost made two separate rants on a few of the issues addressed because I do think the devs might not be totally good developers or they just have shitty decision making skills because yeah this has been going on since the very beginning and it completely sucks,  but like I also said,  if we're willing to stick with it we gotta show some gratitude.

The developers are humans and when humans get pushed far enough they'll push back.  With all the negativity I am sure the developers will probably call it quits from the stress of a player base that just point out their flaws.

We gotta balance our criticisms with our appreciation, and  that requires MERCURY STEAM part too! They said a long time ago they didn't want to directly get involved but I agree with you that they need to at this point. They need to communicate with us, but to be honest they'll probably never happen because the player base and the developers has a completely different mindset from each other.

I want to point out that I was considering two choices: staying with the game/community and try to help be better, or move on to better one. I'm talking former because the potential for this game is too great, but I can't blame anyone for leaving.

It's sad since this actually could've been a great system but they want to artificially extend the games life by making what could've been easy and fun frustrating and dumb.

Just gonna copy and past on the right thread:
"I too am trying to be positive. As usually the update came with its fair share of major hiccups but I honestly haven't played enough to get a handle on all the new features so I can't even judge that much, and a lot of what of what I have experienced I enjoyed.

With every new campaign I think the dialogue gets better,  mission variety gets better (can hold 5 aleph more often!!), and the new characters are always a fantastic surpise!

Just want to let MS know I'm enjoying the product and holding on to my faith!"

A lot of the issues that are listed don't surprise me at all. When it went free to play I knew they were going to cut gold because it's for one person now so good bye changes for 9000 gold. BP is also a obvious and terrible way to keep people playing.

I honestly don't feel like making long paragraphs or lists so I'll just leave at that. Sorry for the lack of contribution

But you can't watch the mid match cutscenes with your chosen character to hear dialogue, though I agree with skipping pro and epilogues

i see. trying to allow more than one of the same character on a team, like 2 Kons?

I truly don't see this as a bad thing,  at least for the game.  The OPTION to choose between the modes wouldn't hurt devs at all! No matter if you see the game as solely pvp with pve as a backdrop giving the two completely different parties their own space wouldn't hurt. Especially since the game is already there!

In terms of story, they could create bots that act as raiders for the enemy side (bot antagonist). As raiders they add a lot to the enemy side but as bots they'll be a hell of a lot more tolerable than a human with a functioning brain. Antagonist bots,  hopefully still wouldn't be a frequent thing.

 If pvpers are worried they lose prey then Mercury needs to give insensitive for players to go through something that would be, in theory, more challenging. If you are worried then you admit to most of the playerbase not wanting to put up with it which kinda admits that pvp is hurting the game, but that's if you're worried.

A lot of good seems to be happening to the game and we haven't even learnt about the arena yet so I won't be too hard on MS but I agree 100% to separate the modes.