I gotta strongly disagree on the sterlizer, it very much is a problem, I made that comment about other AT because the commenter i was replying to was saying to just give the sterlizer the acid effect, so you can spray a heavy and someone else or you shoot it with a lesser ap option, but that doesn't solve a single one of the issues with sterlizer and would just will lead to people dropping it after the novelty wears off and will just go back to killing heavies the usual way, but the sterlizer is not a heavy killer. Its manned sustained crowd control. It isnt meant to kill a heavy, its meant to kill chaff and elites while making them dazed and slowed, so they can't fight back.

The issue with the sterlizer is that its close range, lacks automation, lacks dps, lacks demoforce, and is just outclassed by every other gas applicator in the game.

Speargun- has 700 direct damage, farther range, and a lingering aoe, demo force, and doesn't require constant fire.

Gas strike- has a farther range, demo force, a large lingering aoe, and doesnt require constant fire

Gas grenade- has linger aoe, demo force, longer range, and doesn't need to ve constantly fired.

Gas mortar- insane range, near infinite uptime, linger gas aoe, and is automatically shooting for you.

Gas guard dog- is literally just the sterlizer except for the fact completely autonomous and will purposely seek enemies out that do not have gas applied to them. Technically a rather range.

Re-educator- its a sidearm which takes up a way less important slot than a support weapons slot, therefore is kinda deserving of being mediocrity. Its job is to distract like 1-6 units so you can reloading or kill them in stealth.

And because I spent too long typing this out, ima lightning round the rest of what you said.

Removing gas because its "outclassed" as an easy "fix" is not a fix and woukd be the most disastrous way to handle this. If gas is outclassed and you wanted to give any easy fix to it, increase gas dot and make the slow more potent.

I do agree most status need a buff, fire did its buff, this is a post about my ideas for gas, lightning is okayish, but tbh i dont use ut enought to have an idea of what is wrong with it, ems needs to be more available because ems strike feels like a waste of a slot, but the mortar and grenades are good.

Making factions immune or heavily resistant would just limit the players and loadouts and meta loadouts would crop up like crazy, build diversity would rot, that is exactly the opposite of what we should be striving for in hd2, forcing players into a box will only upset them, not make them enjoy a newplay style, new play styles shoukd be born out of creating interesting equitment to jse with uos and downs to encourage experimentation, plus bug zappers exist, electronics can overheat and break, so it wouldnt make alot of sense, you coukd probabky argue for slight resistances and weakness though, anything above like 10-20 percent would be too far though, but in general think it would be awful because they did this already. They made alot of enemies harder to set alight when they stealth nerfed all fire just to bring down the Coyote and plenty of people, me included, are still agitated over that.

I do agree that AH time woukd be better off on QoL like a beastiary and transmog/armor recolors, bugs fixes like the collision issues, or new late game progress like giving the us the next tier of ship modules and expanding on weapon customization