The stress feels differently from october. If I use a native raider before and go in melee, I could take them out in melee and run around as long my stress was low. While using a wardog raider it was a constant fight, I they kept coming and I could use cover only for a brief amount of time. And i liked both loops.
  Now whoever I'm using I draw the same amount of ads. I play natives more recklessly, so that's part of the problem, but still dosen't explain why wardongs don't take as much heat as a native. With Pak in "mind over matter" I purposely step on mines to trigger protective itinct and still I don't draw as much aggro as Shae being a support sniper.

  I played a lot "upside down" recently and having to fight a lot of elites I changed my opinion with them. I liked a lot how old elites works, mostly because they kept the pace of the game fast. They weren't eassy to learn, but after then it was fun to deal with them. Current elites feels like open heart surgery, but not in the fun way.

Napalm Elites: I didn't play to much with them, however I have a few comments. In certain mission, especially "a breath of hope" their most impactful contribution are special tropps and mad dogs. Now that ads are more dangerous, bazooka ads aìcan be deadly. The fact that they can just call special ads after spawining with no counterplay, I'm not saying it need to be changed, but it's a critical difficulty spike that need to be watched out. My other problem with napalm elites it's their ability, after they activate it only wardogs raider can brawl with them. The other must shoot them, but the ability is a visual overload and tend to screen the napalm elite itself.

Melee elites: I guess I'm fine with them after the graple change, but sure they aren't particularly fun. If you can burst them they are ok, if not it's a long process when you can't do anithyng else. I have a problem of letting them alive while I have noobs in my team, because I know that if I don't kill them we will lose lives. Another problem is with the glow associated with their ability, it dosen't works with certain lightning conditions, most notably in "mind over matter".

Fifth council's shotgun: I'll put this here since it's related to the melee elite, I think that the fifth council's shotgun have a ridiculus knockback. During the mission "In Shock", I was at the bottom of the stairs at the beginning of the bridge. Two shotgun ads apear, and one second later I'm at the top of the staris with no health, I was laugthing as thay made me fall down the staris in reverse. During the mission "upside down", a downed melee elite was able to fend off two raiders at once, someone should look into this.

Snipers: My biggest problem with them is inconsistency, their reaction time is so low that most close range option are inconsitent. As a rule of thumb if you bring a character\weapon good against melee elites won't bee that good against snipers, and the reverse is true too (there are exceptions of course). At best you can bring something that work in a awkard way for both, and when you have to carry noobs you kinda have to. While using a close to mid range character attacking a sniper become a goose chase, and if the sniper graple you, or even only walk in your generakl direction there is nothing you can do to stop her from teleporting. I strongly belive they shouldn't be able to cancel theyr graple into a teleport. It's possible to land a hit, but you have to catch here by surprise, and since we have no way to know when this happen (the stress bar is useless at his point) some player get negative reinforcements from those rare istances. In missions like a "breath of hope" (and the one with the fatties, I don't remember the name) when you have to kill full stack snipers, it's frustrating to have your progress shut down by someone who try a cheeky hit.

  I've been noticing some issues on steam after the last 18 Mb patch. In the mission "Destroyer of worlds", after Aneska refuel with sucess, the empowered plasma barrage glitch. The balls compenetrate each other creating a cloud instead of spreading out, for how the stun works if you get hit by one ball you get it by EVERY ball, killing any raider on one side of the map. Also the missile barrage seems to be faster and deal more damage, if you have less than 100 hp, you have few seconds before get downed, and at that point ou are dead.
    Also the damage of the weapons dosen't add up, and with some characters against 5th council shoting isn't an option. I played to an higher than I'm used to, but I hardly belive the differece between 39-40% and 40-41% can be so dramatic.
   The last thing I wan't to report is the ability of Shae, bewitch, not working properly. A bewithced enemy will be defensive and run away, but when needed he will see you perfectly. Especially snipers elite, they see me coming and teleport if try melee, and if at 0hp they will shoot me regardless of distance.

  Maybe my approach to talent crafting is wrong, but it would be helpfull if I could draw a path in the cards. So when I'm building something from the lower rows in several days, I don't have to remember what I was doing at every step. I was building patience rare for Doldren, don't judge me, and i end up with a different expensive card I can't even use to craft patience. Having drawn what i was doing before would have helped.
   Also I think that the current crafting system would benefit a lot from a companion app like warframe, even if maybe is not fisable.

  I want to share my experience with the aleph impregnated reciver and share some toughts, mostly because this section is called feedback. Since the heavymetal update I rolled (i.e. it was in the actual prize pool) the reciver three times, opening every deluxe box they gave to me. Of these three times I got the reciver once, that numerically make sense, but if we go in the detail I have to lament the sistem.
  First of all the reciver I actually got was from one of the best mathces I ever played in this game. I lost against an antagonist, but it was onestly an epic battle that could have gone either way (6.6 with a 97% completion) ant the reciver was the cherry on top.
  The other two times I rolled the reciver i didn't get it so it was sent in the daoly chest. Fine the two matches to open those chest as gone as follow: the first time I was in team with a bunch of tier 5 and 6, we had a tier 3 antagonist, after they died two times they surrended. The second time I had to open a chest with an aleph reciver, and only one other piece, I was in team with a tier 6 hive that died more that ten times and then as gone afk. We lost, but the fact that we manage to do half a mission in sudden death make me thinks that if the HIVE would be kicked of earlier we would won.
  Again I understand that the parts should be rare, and thats if I lose I shouldn't get rewarded. I even understand if is intended to us to get one aleph reciver per month and my numbers are normal. What I don't understand is why those numbers are enforced trought BS and toxic players. I don't understand why Cortez trow away my rewards if we surrender few minutes and/or revives in the mission, I don't understand why i don't get an extra part due to disertion, has it gives extra gold and talent points at the end. If I have to get one aleph reciver per month just add one to the monthly rewards, don't make me flip a BS coin.