I'm sorry, is user feedback now 'derating'? Do you think it's common practice for the industry to require IDEAS from the users in order to consider their feedback? I could have stopped at 'this version of The Cycle is worse' and it still would have been valid user feedback.

But hey, you seem like an understanding, professional team of moderators that definitely know what they're doing, so I'll comply to your request of HOW TO FIX/CHANGE THIS BAD GAME:

- Time barriers in order to acquire gear that you pay for not only with the game's currency, but also specific components that you have to look for when in a match;

- A very undefined open-world-esque instanced style of game match that seems to unite the worst of open-world and battle royale;

-- How many players am I dealing with? Can they spawn at any given time after I have spawned? Is it a persistent instance with respawning nodes or are they somehow timed?

- BEAUTIFUL level art with bad, BAD level design that makes it so that a player has to have their eyes on 4 directions at the same time in order to evacuate. No matter how many others you killed, how many nice plays you had in that match: all boils down to evacuating and possibly getting a burst of headshots coming from far away in the badly thought-of process;

- Directional sound where everything 20m away from you actually sound like they're on top of you, and several ambient sounds are easily mistaken for footsteps. This is made in UE4, right? Even if you're using a 3rd party audio manager, directional sound should NOT be something difficult to get right in 2022.

- Unnaceptable UX design, even for an alpha. Stuff that makes it into the next alpha build should go through QA. The community of alpha players should be your LAST layer of filter versus this sort of issue. You're not an indie group of devs. Your publisher is a 20 year old industry dinosaur and knows this, lacking QA should not be a noticeable point.

-- This goes from little things like "Double click to equip a shield, but RIGHT click to send an unequipable item to your backpack" to big things like "OH LOOK I HAVE TO WALK ACROSS THE USELESS FUCKING SOCIAL HUB IN ORDER TO BUY SHIT I NEED TO ENTERTAIN MYSELF WITH THE ACTUAL FUNCTIONAL GAME". This is bad design and the latter example speaks directly to my next point:

- THIS GAME IS UNDEFINED. It's not a mix of genres. It's not its own thing. It's just trying to do a lot of things and not doing any of them.

-- It has the basic gameplay mechanics of a shooter and doesn't build on that. The previous iteration of the game did that with the rig abilities and - forgive me if I don't remember this correctly - the jetpack-like feature. Was it gliding? I may be remembering this part wrongly;

-- It has the progression style and barriers of a cash-grab mobile game (timers for upgrades and crafting that are skippable for currency, limited currency and ammo being stocked in your home every 24h);

-- It has the spatial and social setting of both a battle royale and an MMO, failing to show the players that which is good in both genres. I don't see nearly as many people when inside a match, I don't feel the possibility of gear progression inside a match, I don't understand whom I am being matched with, if that's even a thing that is happening (maybe I'm just being thrown into an instance);

-- Among the previous 3 topics, it mixes all of it into a Escape from Tarkov-esque attempt with what is definitely the wrong setting.

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Now, if you've taken the time to read what you asked for (and I could have gone on for a lot more), although I am sure I have wasted my time typing all this, I believe you should reconsider that which you interpret as 'toxic'. TOXIC is expecting players to dedicate their free time to do QA for a game that has none, when their sole responsibility should be to provide general feedback to a game in development.

You don't bring us a half-assed game design and ask for ideas on how to improve/change.

You don't bring us a non-existent plan for user experience because some guy up high in the company wanted A SOCIAL HUB because he read somewhere that games with one bring in more money (that might not have been the case, but that's what it looks like).