people hate this shit and kinda come to this game to get away from this kind of thing. Keep this type of shit in Apex or Paladins tbh.

Agree with this 100%, those are games I would really hope they don’t take as inspiration for anything, monetization or otherwise… although sadly it seems they have, I am very happy overall with the new cosmetic store, with one exception, and that is the new emotes, MS has always done a great job of keeping stuff sold for each raider lore friendly and appropriate to their background and personality, I would have hoped that would have extended to the new emotes, they should have been unique and character locked, taking into account the raiders themselves. Every time I see an Aneska twerk I die a little inside, it’s an action so completely alien to anything she would actually do…

I have simmilar problem(I think??), I stuck on "Awaiting response from MercurySteam servers" after I change skins or emotes. At least I can change builds.

Same issue, I can’t change anything on anyone’s loadout or I get stuck on “Awaiting response from MecurySteam servers?” and have to force quit to get out of it.

Well, 16+12+8=36. This is not that bad. This sudden death stage only reduce a chance to have a game longer than, say, 25 minutes.

36 lives is not that much, especially when you consider purple tier1’s farming noobs and they know it, antags know it, they are already rejoicing about it in the discord, they know the havoc they are going to bring shortly, how easy it will be.

Also having shorter but lost matches won’t make for better farming, especially when you consider this games queue times, let’s say you fail a match at around the 15-minute mark because of an antag, then wait 5-15 minutes in queue, then lose another match again (since they will be so easy to lose if you get a purple-tier1 antags while having 2-3 tier5’s or lower, which is a VERY common scenario in this game for some reason…), you will probly end up with the same or less rewards than if you simply had continued and wont the 1st match at the 30-40 minute mark.

Point is losing a match is only profitable when you do it at the very beginning, say you get an antag and surrender as soon as the surrender option is available so you can try your luck again, that’s a scenario where you have higher chances of losing less, and even then queue times alone may fuck you over, so losing a bunch of missions at the 15-25 mark will not help, and those loses will be even more infuriating than normal, just like they were in “short fused” since watching or being the last player trying to survive the timer is much better, it gives the player hope, rather than being the last player with no survives left and simply jumping off a cliff.

At least raiders will also have some small measure of power with this system, if you’re a lone purple1 with a bunch of lowbies getting invaded by a purple antag, or if you are one of those lowbies, and don’t want to lose too much time, just take a good look at cliff and I’ll let you imagine the rest 

You know what's an undeserved win? A raider playing ginembra and running around in a circle as a cat to let the timer expire while I'm playing a 5th council like kuzman and have 0% chance of winning since in that instance my only win objective is to kill raiders.

If all missions had a secondary objective for the antag win this would be unnecessary.

You are working under the pretence that antags don’t have the advantage when it comes to preparation and character countering, the scenario you describe would be the antags fault, you as antag can ofc see all raider picks. Now kuzie can be fine against a Ginebra on certain maps that have small areas with narrow corridors such as “A Low Blow” but if you decide to choose kuzie against a Ginebra on open maps such as “Short Fused”, “A Weapon from the Past”, etc, that is entirely your fault, since again YOU have the advantage when it comes to countering raider picks, if you’re going against her you need either a fast moving raider, a raider with a ranged/hitscan weapon or preferably both.

But this is exactly the only thing MSE will “fix” with this update, it will give free wins to antags that think even after making a wrong counter choice they should be able to brute force a win and steal everyone’s time, rewards and enjoyment, getting raiders to a 2nd survival, even without an antag is already brain dead easy if you have even 1 newbie going through lives.

Finite lives have already been proven to be a bad idea in old “Short Fused”, they literally have the evidence of it, WHY Is this coming back? I can’t really wrap my head around it, same as with the new aleph system, they are changing what aint broken…

This cap on raider lives is going to be so exploitable that it aint funny, by both parties, antags think it’s only here to give them power and easier wins, WRONG, raider suiciding will become an even stronger weapon than ever before…

1st, if u had been ddos I don’t think you would have been able to stick around and see the mission continue at 999 ping, sounds more like host lag, intentional or not, who knows…

2nd, I’m trying real hard here, but I still can’t manage to shed a single tear for an antag that failed to ruin someone else’s mission…

Aleph and ammo being drop hasnt been an issue for me tbh. If anything its helped spread aleph out evenly to all teammates so everyone is getting there aleph boosts going therefore increasing team performance.
They both drop like 0.5 seconds after a kill so its not like it takes forever like others have claimed. It doesnt slow the game down at all (at least for me).

There seems to be different reasons for disliking the new aleph/ammo drops, and so far I think they’ve all been valid, however for me personally it’s not about it being an “issue” when it comes to difficulty or getting adjusted to it, the new system is not going to make me lose matches, it doesn’t bump the challenge one bit, my problem with it is that it is unsightly, as a said it makes the combat look and feel clumsy, those 0.5-1 seconds make all the difference, a large part of the fluidity of the games combat is currently lost, and that is a damn shame, the one thing holding this game together despite its issues has been the spectacular combat, and a huge part of that just vanished with the update imo.

Has it increased Antag activity? Sure. Is that a bad thing? No.

Depends on who you ask, not only do I think it’s a bad thing, I find it game breaking.

Quote from: Cazic-Thule on May 09, 2019, 03:37:14 AM

This game is mere months away from dying for a fourth and truly final time. My advice to anybody still here on these forums, which really isn't many people at all, is to just walk away. There are barely any players left and the few who are still vocal/active post 95% complaints with suggestions that have gone ignored by the devs for nearly 2 years now. The devs have gotten to the point where they literally lie about their past statements/promises and delete the comments of people who try to call them out for it. Don't spend the next few months hating 90% of the time you spend playing this failed game until it dies and make yourself angry enough to waste time on these pointless forums. Just walk away. Go outside. Make new friends. Be happy. This game is done, it's time to just move on to greener pastures. I gained so much peace of mind from finally accepting that no matter how much potential this game has to be absolutely incredible doesn't change the fact that the devs will never let it be. I just hope other people can let go of all that stress Spacelords has caused them and find the same peace of mind.

Thanks for your worthless post. The game is fine.

The store, the cosmetics that came with it and the possibility it adds for visual customization for the future was a great addition, however other than that the game continues to go downhill, I would say the game is far from “fine”, now we have a TERRIBLE aleph collection system and Antags in 90% of matches, I don’t think its months away from dying, but it also won’t grow when you have a constant wave of children invading your matches.

Yea the amount of antags has reached stupid levels, I can’t see how ppl are going to put up with this much longer. I called it before it was added, this adventure mode was going to promote nothing but issues, on top of it being and unfair system for PVE players, the way it should have worked in order for it to be fair is that between the raider and antagonist score from a map, only the highest should be taken into account, allowing for ppl to CHOOSE their playstyle or do both. But we all know that “CHOOSE” is a naughty word, can’t have any of that in the game…