Given she has a special that enables her to escape repeated punches... you're actually better off going for grapples against her. You either kill her instantly or she gets into CQC with you and that is somewhat reckless for her. She is not, and I repeat not a character to attempt CQC with as she is weak to it. When I play her it's not to get tons of kills it's simply to do objectives faster. Should you have her, Shae is not a bad counter to her whether she's running away or not. There are cards that 'will' allow you to take her out in a few punches. However, Shae is good against nearly everyone if you can also switch from shooting to CQC as the need arises. If you're more of a camping sniper you will find Ginebra hunting 'you' down and taking you out more often than not.

I whole heartedly agree. The idea of making 'good' players wait an artificial time was extremely shortsighted and insulting to people who actually invested in the game both time and money. This needs to go... yesterday. I'm sorry but making me wait just pisses me off and makes me murder people even harder because I'm already upset over something I cannot do anything about. So yes, I deserve the win more because you can get three matches in the time it takes me to get one match! So yes, stop this now because you're ticking off your 'actual' core fan-base of players.

A few factors are required in my opinion for someone to gain more from Antagonist. First, they need a fair amount of experience with the game. A starting player isn't likely to come in and decimate or even hinder a more experience group of players. Second, they need to be prepared to wait in an often much longer queue. Wait times increase as your MMR rises making patience a big part of being an Antagonist. Third, it should be obvious that players without dedicated groups may prefer Antagonist. As opposed to being a Raider, the Antagonist mode does not require a group so it can be preferable for less social players. Last, there are certain blueprints and cards that require playing Antagonist. Thus, even if someone is not fond of the mode they will likely come back to it at some point.

As far as Antagonist population goes it seems quite a bit larger than before the Hades Betrayal update.

I'm experiencing the same problem. (Xbox one) but It seems to rolled back the Mercury points that I have spent and I still have all the stuff that I got from the founders pack.
However when I load the game from my PC using the Widows10/Xbox play-anywhere all of my data is there, so it does not seen that the data has been erased, but rather that Xbox can't pull the data from the mercury steam servers.

Thanks for clarifying the data is not gone. A small break from the game isn't going to kill anyone (probably) so we can just wait until they fix it. Until then, I suppose I wont play because I don't want new data to get mixed up with old data. Hoping after this gets sorted it leads to Schneider finally coming out...

Simply put, I agree more time invested should result in a better reward since levels take increasingly longer. Just add the same multiplier used to calculate experience per level on the base 2,000 Gold... and done. This is baby stuff... we shouldn't even be talking about this...

I don't blame the levels because ultimately if they have a better forged gun you can absolutely tell the difference if you're wielding the same weapon. Unfortunately, they correlated levels to forge level so we're back to that again.  You 'need' a minimum forge level to foster even moderate success or you will get steamrolled. Does this mean you need all bars maxed out? No, it does not but I guarantee that higher level person does and is using an extremely brutal card build to boot.

 Due to this new system, you go from requiring some luck and some skill to requiring either godly skill or godly luck. This 'idea' that adding leveling didn't completely change the landscape of the PVP is a farce as it only takes a match or two to notice significant difference in DPS outputs between players. In the end, I am both baffled and largely don't care about how a match goes because between questionable CQC results and not knowing how another player achieved 'their' respective results it kind of looks like... well... people are just cheating even though they're not. Ergo, this game's lack of transparency on so very many things muddles much of what might be factual from pure speculation.

Skin Bundles always seemed like a logical way to go. As for boosters, it seems they stealthily increased the quantity you get when buying the 1.5x boosters from 3 to 4. A bundle including boosters (because people want to level fast) seems like it would be one way they would go but I feel that might be a tad lazy and not very creative. Rather, I wish they'd invest in a more fleshed out experience that 'does' sidetrack us but keeps us in the Universe. For instance, one idea I keep playing around with is a Demake (retro version of a modern game) of Raiders of the Broken Planet and if this became a real thing it could end up in a bundle and maybe playing 'that' game might funnel experience or other rewards into Raiders of the Broken Planet much like a mini-game would.

It's better than it was. I am getting blueprints more often than I can build them and it depleted my Gold quick... As you get into higher levels you will realize how much slower your Gold is coming because part of it was from leveling quickly. Could it be better? Yes and maybe in time they'll come up with a different reward system but it wont be right away. They are taking feedback but it has to fit into their pipeline or it's unlikely. Thus, don't expect anything drastic and be thankful they are actually listening at all because even at my most bitter I have to admit they're very active.