[SC] Feedback on recent updates & Thoughts on how to improve the game

Hello everyone. Just decided to make a thread about this, i want to tell my opinion about the recent updates from an experienced player's perspective. Ive been playing this game quite actively for the past 8 years, new forum account due to the fact i want to stay anonymous. Feel free to ask questions and provide feedback.

First off, my biggest concern. The idea of new drone formations was a great idea. I was just afraid that the formations were going to mess with the PvP mechanics of the game too much which i really enjoyed before the update. Every other new formation was really good, and i enjoy and use almost all of the uridium ones. But then comes RING. It is IMO the biggest change to the game since LF-4.

Before the update, we imagine a situation where i am looking to kill some, lets say UberLordakiums for a mission i am doing. I am probably flying around with barrage, heart, or pincer. The enemy attacks with heart, but i still probably have almost the equal amount of HP and Shield. Its a fair fight (if the enemy has same equipment as me).

Nowadays, i am doing the same thing, looking for those UberLorkakiums for my mission. I am still using lets say barrage. But here comes an enemy again. But the enemy is using RING, as he is hunting and because it obviously beats pretty much every other formation in every situation. It would make no sense for me to use ring as it slows me down and it would take ages for me to find, and shoot those aliens im looking for. So i lose the fight.

I hope devs think about this and make some playtesting, and come with a solution that most people like. I understand things dont always go as someone wants, just like i didnt want ring to be like this. Some people like ring alot but to the 100's of people i've talked to this about most of them agreed ring made PvP alot worse.

Drill, wheel etc are really good. I was a little sceptic about wheel at start but its actually quite good for chasing people (and running from them ( ͡° ͜ʖ ͡°))

3D was probably one of the best updates ever. Great work on that, my FPS is better than ever.

I might be a little late on this subject, but it still bothers me. Ice Rockets.
I hated them at the start but its actually really good for using kami to people and brings out great new tactics to the game. Its been so long that most of the people dont have them anymore though. Would be amazing if they went on sale this winter again ^^

Then, some little things that i wanted to mention.
-The rank looked way better in the place it was before, a bit lower than it is now
-Infection in 3D is way too bright, hurts my eyes after 5 minutes of playing
-Spectrum, diminisher, venom etc abilities look a bit too small
-The current font. I understood that it was supposed to remove the ability of creating invisible names, which didnt work out. Making invisible name is possible nowadays and quite easy. The skinny font from 2013 and the old font from <2012 both looked amazing.


Overall great work from the team, keep going

@RickDekard @Kerensky @KrisKelvin

Would really appreciate if someone looked into this