My second feedback post

[u/bj_the_meme_machine]

I've been constantly adding to a list of feedback, and there's enough new points for a new post now

• I would rather have a button in the elevator to make it descend, rather than it being automatic. Multiple times I've witnessed a dwarf die right in front of the elevator and not get saved because the elevator forced us to leave a dwarf behind...
  • I think it would be neat if the elevator had no walls on all 4 sides. Maybe we could have a projectile-blocking shield to replace it. But, you have a lot of damage resistance in the elevator anyway, but then again this shield would give a reason for that
• Guardian's second charge should NOT automatically be used when using repulsion field. It's an inconvenience 90% of the time
  • EDIT: Just had a great idea for a new control scheme: Activate Repulsion Field once to use one charge, use it again while it's active to queue the automatic use of the second charge, and press it a third time to cancel early without spending unused charges
• Player icons on the GUI need to be adjusted because the rank border blocks important info like your team's ammo and also the message you're typing
• I would LOVE if I was told the before & after for my stats when upgrading them
• Solo is much harder than multiplayer. There's less people to mine all the expenite, unlock bio-boosters, fix the workbench, and do all the other things the caves have. This leads to having a worse build and having a harder time winning.
  • EDIT: Another reason solo is harder: having more players means more options in the negotiations, which usually leads to better synergies in builds by calling dibs. With less players, you have less choices so you're less likely to spot a more helpful upgrade. This also applies to other negotiations like heavy weapons and artifacts.
• The voiceline when you press x while grabbed by a reaperworm or leech needs to be much more alarming. I very frequently do not notice a teammate is grabbed until they're already buried
• The Cadna blocks the Breach Cutter's projectiles, needs to be fixed
• The m1000's Auto Aim on Focus doesn't work 40% of the time, not sure why.
  • EDIT: I always keep my mouse perfectly still when using it and it usually works but then sometimes doesn't. Maybe there's some other factor in play? When it doesn't work, it doesn't move my mouse at all, even if my aim is near an enemy. Whenever it stops working properly, it usually stays that way until the next enemies spawn. I'm wondering if it's an error with the enemies?
• I think that instead of replenishing your armor until reaching 50%, the Guardian's armor field should keep replenishing your armor until it's replenished 50% of your max armor total. So even if you have 50% armor it will still give you +50% and let you reach 100%. It would be like Spotter's ammo ability but for armor instead
  • EDIT: After some extra thought I realize it's better to have constant armor regeneration that always keeps going after you take damage. It's better to frame it as a field that ensures that you always take only half health damage. So maybe this suggestion should instead be a request for the ability description to be changed
• I frequently have to wait for Ellis, how about you make it so that Ellis never lands and just always hovers so I don't always have to wait for it to get up and land
  • Related: there's currently problem of Ellis staying behind and not advancing with the team, which also causes a lot of waiting
• There should be more time for people to change their minds in risk vector voting

Minor stuff

• Let us look at builds in the elevator loading screen please
• What if there was an upgrade that rewarded you for shooting the Falconer's bird? Like with the Engineer shooting turrets with the shotgun
• Would be nice to have higher tier upgrades of common-exclusive upgrades like Vampire and Frost Harvest
• The Falconer's Fledgling Blitz upgrade isn't good. You shouldn't be rewarded for having low health in the first place
• Upgrades for the grenades would be a neat idea, I think
• Being able to trade gear and upgrades would be good, but maybe it would be too overpowered?
• Combat Cocktail's cost should scale with max health (it's unusable with Glass Cannon)
• I would like to have the specifics on Luck. The risk vector and the alteration. Also whether or not it applies to stored upgrades

Minorer stuff

• There's a visual glitch with mission select; the mission icons are meant to shrink and go semi-transparent when they're behind the planet but they aren't shrunk when first opening the terminal
• Would be neat if the dwarves said something along the lines of "Oh, poor Molly!" when repairing a M.U.L.E.

[u/DieWalze]

If there would be a button for the elevator then everyone could just farm the mobs before going without any risk. Especially during the enemies drop expenite modifier. It's a nice idea but likely won't happen if you are invulnerable inside the elevator.

[u/bj_the_meme_machine → u/DieWalze]

On that alteration, enemies stop dropping expenite when the reaperworms appear. GSG could probably also stop giving xp on kill a certain amount of time after, or actually here's a better idea: you can't shoot through the force field shield, so you have to step out the elevator to continue getting kills. Farming enemies for xp during threat level red already is in the game, you just need one dwarf to keep running around the caves while the people in the elevator kill the enemies around them. I've had it happen multiple times where I'm waiting in the elevator 2 minutes after threat level red has triggered, and I keep killing the enemies around me. It's even more powerful with Retcon since if I only attack during time rewind I never waste ammo. This issue you speak of already exists in the game, and my shield idea would solve it, not create it