i don't share your opinion.

full powered shakura is OP against new players, as any other full powered weapon. moreover situation where shakura is uncounterable are few...

then i'm not sure but i think there is often a high player in teams with high antag.

and finally players have to learn that all team need a counter antag, who need to think about the worse situation possible on the map.
for example, beast'lair --> valeria + shakura, so the counter antag must choose a character to counter that.

is shakura strong ? yes.
is shakura unbeatable ? no.

This gun is the reason so many new players are quitting

-> lol...
i thought it was doldren... 

please, stop letting me ear the sound alert of people being grabbed on the map.
no one cares.

just let us ear the sound alert when WE are targeted by grabs...

The Antsgonist coms are very cool and helpful! Even when playing against a raider group with low difficulty, just being able to throw three guys into someone’s face can really help out.

god, these focusing grunts are such a nightmare...

it is theirs and only fault.
selfish and cowards by dozens.
i had warned you in another topic. ^^

a block system to prevent being teamed-up with people we don't want to play with is a must have.

it will sound like a pretty negative remark, but i think you should fire your "think tankers".

imo, mmr is more a problem than queue time.
moreover, when there is mmr problem, problems comes from unbeatable monsters, not unbetable antag, (wich hardly can't be compensate by monsters. in all cases, even with 0monsters an unbetable guy will still beat your ass).

so you can solve the mmr without touching queue time...

just focus on caping your difficulty high and down, to prevent boring missions or insane picks of difficulty wich is what we are talking about. and the problem will be solved...
(it's simple to adjust : when your AI start doing shit she shouldn't do, you have crosses the difficulty line you shouldn't have pass.)

and by the way you should rework all your stupid AI.
increasing all their stats to increase the difficulty is a freaking bad move.
cap the damage, cap the fire rate, cap their health, cap their reaction time, just give pushback effect to elites, and generally, apply the same resriction to AI and players (so shot gunners can't OS you with pushback effect from 100m away).

number of foes is enough to increase the difficulty further more. moerover it's always fun to succeed a missions if you have killed thousand of foes.

on the contrary, succees in a mission is not fun when you died countless times against absurds foes who killed you by doing things they couldn't have done.
like (for example) being shotgunned to death, by and elite you just put on his knees in a punch combo, but who has such reaction time and fire rate, that he was able to shot you beetwin 2 punchs the exact instant where it was put on knees, and then shot again and again so quickly that the game consider you don't even have time to dodge beetwin two shots, and so you just dies absolutly powerless (and even if you could have dodge, monsters at this lvl have auto aim anyway... so it would have been of no use...) =)

but well, that's only an example beetwin so many stupid things...
change all that, start giving fun and you'll see people will play the game far more.

you think that frustration is a motivation to go on.
in a way it can be, but too much frustration + too much anger + too much powerless feeling... = ...queue problems.

i don't remember a hans in my team, so we were certainly not playing together.
i was rak, and we had harec, lycus and... maybe hive, or aneska, or... mikah... don't remember. and we were against a shae.
well, otherwise, you'd seen my name i guess.

so that's funny cause we suffered the same bug at the same time, on the same mission, in a similar situation (antag badly owned ).  ^^

oh my gosh, were we playing together ?
you know what is far worse ?
i don't even think that someone shoot on the extractor. we were at the start, no ennemy here, no one never shoot here.
me i was just running , others, i don't know, but i guess no shoot.

BUT the extractor seemed to be on the same place, more or less, that the canister on the previous part...
and if what you tell is true, there is high chances that the game considered that the bullets fired at the end of the previous part of the mission "hit" the extractor at the beggining of the second part... XD