The lack of the new set and the Delta problems affecting the game allowed me to enjoy just a few hours of testing. However I was able to gain several infos and I would like to provide new feedbacks both on the PTS and general infos about the game:

Bugs report:

• The focus talent is still not working with Dread Eredict, despite having a 12x scope and despite you mark it as already “solved”.
• The "Closer" named chest has an error in the talent's description: it should be “amplifies damage” (as the normal spotter) and not “increase damage”.

Still to be fix:

• PvE skill damage applied in PvP: every status effect deal PvE damage if the player dies during the status effect application (eg "fire glitch"). You can for example remove the status effect when the player that applies it dies. 
• The "traps glitch", in which a player can kill a full armor explosive resistance player just by throwing traps directly on the player (that result in the player killing himself for the game killfeed) instead of throwing them on the floor. Video available on my yt (search for rafxx90).
• "Corner glitch", done using in-animation scopes and small shields, that allows you to shoot hidden behind corners (enemy players can't shoot you and they see bullets going through the wall).
• Armor regen that sometimes impact the proc of "unbreakable" and "tardigrade" talents.
• Invisible walls in dark zone (we believe they’re created when skills are destroyed, creating invisible obstacles).
• Fix bonus armor impacting the proc of every talent activated by shooting the target and at the same time the bonus armor impacting the deactivation of specific talents (vigilance eg) if they have momentaneous bonus armor.
• Fix the “Sweet Dreams” inability to melee down if the enemy has *any* bonus armor and fix it’s pvp description to match its functionality.
• Fix the “True Patriot” regen, not working as intended by the talent.
• Fix bombardier drone, flying slowly and being destroyed every time.
• Fix the sticky disappearing after its deployment.
• The "Creeping death" talent deal more damage to players which gain the status effect from the talent spread.

Feedback on shields:

You tested: "Shield Changes - Following your Phase 2 feedback, we are happy to hear that you are pleased with Shield changes. Right now, we have no plans to change or revert the existing meta, but feel free to let us know if you think otherwise."

• For the bulwark shield, the generation of a small window for shooting the head (like the Rikers big shield) should have balanced the skill well enough to avoid the need to change the modifier damage. 
• I still think that you need to deal differently between big shields and small ones. Nerfing in this way the "crusader" and "striker" shields, with also the deactivation of in sync talent, does not reward players aiming at head and, conversely, makes more effective the crit damage. Instead, currently it's usage correctly protects players from bodyshots. 
• The firewall spec striker shield should not give a buff on damage when only one player is inside the cone range.

Feedback on expertise

• Set a clear cap to expertise. It's still confusing.
• The amount of materials required to upgrade items is now more balanced.
• Some stats acquired by skills have a sense, others not. For example, all offensive skills gain damage, while the reinforcer chem launcher, the restorer hive and the fixer drone gain duration. It makes no sense. Replace with healing  (like repair traps and mender mine).
• Incinerator turret should gain burn damage or duration and not damage. It's a status effect skill.
• Shields should gain health (given the nerf due to the damage multiplier).
• The decoy should gain something useful also in PvP. I hope that "threat" stats increase both duration and health in PvP.
• The airburst seeker mine should gain burn damage instead of damage.
• The achilles pulse has damage (I think is related with the damage you deal hitting the weakpoint). It should probably be an increase in “zone duration” to have something more related to the skill itself.
• Increase the amount of proficiency gained by PvP fights. Killing npcs is easier and there are a lot more npcs than players in a usual fight.
• Maybe think about increasing skill efficiency for all the skills conversely that a different stat for each skill. It could be a good balance.
• Put back again the armor gain by expertise to total armor instead of armor of the single piece but reduce the amount of armor gained to 0.5% instead of 1%. Now the buff is useless.
• The expertise on weapons and gears should be the same for every item and not for individual items (eg. you maximize the Famas categories like for proficiency). Indeed, skills have the advantage of being unique while other items are not.

Feedback on the Hearthbreaker gear set:

• You should gain half of the stacks on bodyshot. This prevent shotguns like ACS to instantly gain stacks.
• You can charge the talent on decoys
• You can charge the talent on opponents wearing a full pulse resistant build if using a shotgun while aiming headshots because of the multiple bullets.

Other changes:

• Decrease the mortar damage. It's too op and often destroys the gaming experience.
• Change in the hazard protection stat. Makes it decrees dmg and time duration and not only the time.
• Change the mod max value for headshot (bring it to 15%).
• Add pulse resistance mods.
• Add new maps on conflict mode.
• Add a new game mode for conflict in which is only possible to shoot (no skills) and all players in the match have the same build (random for every match) and weapons.
• Rework useless equip (5.11, repair traps, burster firefly, bombardier drone), talents (Outsider, Naked, First Blood, Protect Reload, Clutch) and change association of talent/named items (alps with percussive maintenance, Claws out and wyvern, ecc).
• HanaU value of haste 10% to 15% (improvised holster gives more values than the brand thanks to the 12% skill haste mod).
• Increase to 15% the hazard protection value for gear pieces (yaahl and ceska) and replace existing mods for burn, disrupt, ecc resistance with an universal mod for hazpro. It will increase the variety of builds used and reduce the amount of pieces in the stash.
• Nerf base pistol damage by an amount of 15% and Liberty of 20% in PvP.
• Nerf Nemesis base damage on full charge in PvP.
• In PvP put a cap on CHC to 50% and to crit damage in PvP (maybe different for each weapon type, eg: 150% for smg, 130% for ar and lmg, 120% for sniper, 140% for rifle) to rewards more who aim for headshots. To obtain a more balanced TTK among different builds (every crit build at long range is unbalanced, also given the corner glitch) , think to decrease the value of CHC on gears attributes and equip mods to 4% (instead of 6) and of CHD from 12% to 10%. You should overcome the cap only by taking advantage of talents like “finisher” or “vindictive”.
• Introduce more rewards and activities to do in DZ to increase the amount of players populating them.
• Make rifles and LMG more useful in pvp by increasing their dmg since they can hardly deal with ARs or any other popular weapon types
• Allow rogue agents to gain med kits when killing shd agents (from DZ perks), as SHD agents could gain med kits by killing rogues. 
• SHD healer: do not allow to a non rogue healer to heal or buff (when using “future initiative” and “empathic resolve” talent) or  players outside of his group
• Allow talents like“finisher, vindictive and preservation” to be activated by melee finishing.
• Make Preservation to work even after weapon swap.
• Accuracy should be buffed to work better when moving.
• Make the booster hive working differently from a stinger one and allow it to work during the application of the medkit.
• Prevent the proc of talents like "Trauma" when shooting Robots since they cannot be put under status effects. Moreover, make weakpoint of robotics take damage from the headshot damage stat.
• Modify “armor on kill” mods to a % value instead of a numeric one.
• Make EMP sticky also able to make damage to skills and able to stagger only from tier 3.
• Make player ADS under the fire status effect when over 60% hazpro.
• Let players cancel the loot disposal animation during extraction operations. Once you interact with the rope you're unable to defend yourself in the current state. Same goes for the rope cutting animation that traps you in it once you reach a certain point during it.
• The proc indicator on finisher pistols should show how much time players have left to switch to primaries. Additional kills with pistols while the “finisher” talent is active should refresh the switch timer.

Expectations from Ubisoft and Massive Support:

• I sincerely expect the support to regularly start banning in a permanent mode players caught cheating. 
• Remove the ability to benefit from Controller Aim Assist while using Native Mouse input on a PC. Do this by disabling mouse & keyboard gameplay inputs on controller detection or by choosing the input in the game menu and completely deactivating the other periferic.

@ubi-keo good afternoon, with @volleyweb we made this short video just to show that despite wearing a tank build, just using a skill tier higher than 0 (1 or 2 is usually enough for kill everyone) you can kill every player, also if he wear an explosive resistance build.
Basically, when you throw the traps on a player instead of directly on the ground, they will explode all together, providing an amount of damage too high to allow any player to survive. The same does not happens in PvE, because if you throw the traps on a npc, only one trap will explode avoiding the npc to die. Moreover, when you throw the traps to kill a player and he die, as you can see from the video, the game consider that the player killed himself, strongly suggesting us the possibility that we are facing a glitch instead of something considered to be part of the game. I hope that you can make something to solve the issue.
I uploaded the video on YT at the following link:

So here we are with also my opinion and experience after 5 hours of PTS.
I start with 3 major bugs encountered:

• The countdown mode often become stucked during the loading after you finish the session. It locks on 100% loading screen. You need to close and reopen the game and this is a bit annoying.
• Delta3 errors often happening when joining countdown with matchmaking
• Intimidate gear set stacks to infinite. I've seen single AR bullet hitting 131.000.000 damage. lol.
• The proficiency and expertize are not working in DZ. I mean, doing landamarks or killing players do not allow to increase the proficiency level. I don't know if it is something done voluntarily or is it a mistake. I really hope this is a mistake.

Regarding Countdown

• The general difficulty of the game mode is too low, we were able to do it in 2.
• The game mode after 4 times become repetive, nothing really exciting (as a survival for example). I see it just as a new mode to farm equipment and to increase the proficiency/expertize level.
• The general idea looks nice, but probably it still need to be optimized with something that makes it interesting to be played continously. This cannot be the content that push players to come back to the game. They come back, try it for 10 times and then leave again since it is not so hard and is not so enjoyable.

Regarding Proficiency/expertise

• This is something really crazy to add after 3 years of game. How am I supposed to come back to farm for infinite hours again just to maximize a new library system. It should have been added with WONY maybe. Now is a little bit late. Despite new players could find it interesting, players like me with 3k hours prefer probably to kill themselves instead of spend hours and hours doing just farming. Expecially PvP players like me. How can I enjoy the idea of spend other 1k hours probably to maximize everything. Yeah, I can optimize only equip I use. But it's anyway a lot and i cannot reach the maximum level of expertise if I do not reach the proficiency on every object in the game. This is going to force me to play the PvE game and moreover to use stuffs that I hate just for reach the level 10 of expertise on my favourite equipment.
• Seriously you don't get proficiency on the brand if you use a named item? That's crazy. Why I have to increase the expertise of every M4 I have in the inventory/stash if one day i found new one better than the actual? Make the expertise system like to proficiency please.
• The amount of material to increase expertise is crazy.

Other comments.
Actually in a game you should encourage player to becomes better at the game. In a shooter, players hitting headshot should be rewarder. Conversely, with this modification on shields you're actually rewarding bodyshot player. Is fine remove in sync. Is fine to nerf big shields (despite the better solution was just to allow to shields to take the same damage also from headshots and not only from crit damage). But crusader or striker shield were good for headshot players to have an advantage on who shoots just body. Try to think at it. Moreover, the flatline talent is really nice, but again it will completely replace in sync in terms of usage.
Moreover:

• When the shield is broken you take disorientation. That's true also if you have an hazard protection build with 100% disorientation resistance. This cannot work in this way I hope.

Thanks a lot for your patience to read till here

rafxx90

After a lot of hours spent in PTS here I have a list of important aspects, among suggestions and bugs, mainly for PvP.

Main bugs noticed:

• The talent "Focus" is not working with the new exotic SVD, despite it's equipped with an 8x scope.
• You can charge the hearthbraker talent on decoy. This is clearly not intended to work this way.
• If you use the ACS shotgun with the hearthbreaker set, and you shoot the head of an enemy players, you can charge the set's talent also if your opponent is using a full pulse resistant build (3 yaahl and 3 system corruption pieces). This not works with AR, so I guess it is related with shotguns shooting 8 bullets simoultaneously.
• The new exotic mask also heals enemy players in dark zone.

Still to be fixed:

• PvE skill damage also in PvP (fire if the player suicide himself in his own fire, known as fire glitch, and traps, if the player throws traps on you, known as traps glitch)
• Corner glitch, done using magnification scopes and shields
• Armor regen sometimes impact the proc of the unbreakable talent

Feedback on new equip:

• The new heartbreaker set should be nerfed a bit, and should have a different bonus for headshot and bodyshot (with headshot applying the maximum stack and the bodyshot half of the stack). ACS stacking the talent is too op, so it's probably better to set a cap if more bullets are shooted simoultaneously.
• The chatarsis mask probably will work better with hazard resistance and maybe change incoming repairs since it is not working with the mask. A nice buff could be make the mask remove status effect of all your teammates in order to contrast the status effect builds.

Feedback on shields:

• Shields should be a little bit more balanced. Despite the nerf on bulwark shield was necessary, the one on small shield wasn't. It also helped a lot of players aiming the head to survive in a fight with players only going for bodyshot. Probably the damage modifier should change from 5 to 6 for striker and crusader shields and to 7 with the disorientation effects for big shields.
• A good way to balance the damage done to shields (in general) is to make them take the same damage from headshot and crit. In this way, a player playing a full headshot build can deal better with players using bulwark shields.

Feedback on expertise

• Set a defined cap to expertise.
• The armour gained on gear pieces is now too low while before wass too much. Balance it. 1% to 2% maybe.
• Reduce the maximum skill damage acquired for PvP at least. PvP build are already unbalanced.
• Shields should gain health instead of active regeneration
• The amount of materials to cap the expertise is still too high.
• Increase the amount of proficiency gained by PvP fights. Killing npcs is easier and there are a lot more npcs than players in a usual fight.

Other changes:

• Decrease the mortar damage. It's too op and often destroy the gaming experience.
• Change in the hazrd protection. Makes it decrees dmg and time duration and not only the time.
• Change the mod max value for headshot (bring it to 15%)
• Add pulse resistance mods
• Add maps on conflict mode
• Add a new game mode for conflict in which is not allowed to use skills
• Rework useless equip (5.11, repair traps, burster firefly, bombardier drone) and change association of talent/named items (alps with percussive maintenance, Claws out and wyvern, ecc)
• HanaU value of haste 10% to 15% (improvised holster give more values than the brand)

The lack of the new set and the Delta problems affecting the game allowed me to enjoy just a few hours of testing. However I was able to gain several infos and I would like to provide new feedbacks both on the PTS and general infos about the game:

Bugs report:

• The focus talent is still not working with Dread Eredict, despite having a 12x scope and despite you mark it as already “solved”.
• The "Closer" named chest has an error in the talent's description: it should be “amplifies damage” (as the normal spotter) and not “increase damage”.

Still to be fix:

• PvE skill damage applied in PvP: every status effect deal PvE damage if the player dies during the status effect application (eg "fire glitch"). You can for example remove the status effect when the player that applies it dies. 
• The "traps glitch", in which a player can kill a full armor explosive resistance player just by throwing traps directly on the player (that result in the player killing himself for the game killfeed) instead of throwing them on the floor. Video available on my yt (search for rafxx90).
• "Corner glitch", done using in-animation scopes and small shields, that allows you to shoot hidden behind corners (enemy players can't shoot you and they see bullets going through the wall).
• Armor regen that sometimes impact the proc of "unbreakable" and "tardigrade" talents.
• Invisible walls in dark zone (we believe they’re created when skills are destroyed, creating invisible obstacles).
• Fix bonus armor impacting the proc of every talent activated by shooting the target and at the same time the bonus armor impacting the deactivation of specific talents (vigilance eg) if they have momentaneous bonus armor.
• Fix the “Sweet Dreams” inability to melee down if the enemy has *any* bonus armor and fix it’s pvp description to match its functionality.
• Fix the “True Patriot” regen, not working as intended by the talent.
• Fix bombardier drone, flying slowly and being destroyed every time.
• Fix the sticky disappearing after its deployment.
• The "Creeping death" talent deal more damage to players which gain the status effect from the talent spread.

Feedback on shields:

You tested: "Shield Changes - Following your Phase 2 feedback, we are happy to hear that you are pleased with Shield changes. Right now, we have no plans to change or revert the existing meta, but feel free to let us know if you think otherwise."

• For the bulwark shield, the generation of a small window for shooting the head (like the Rikers big shield) should have balanced the skill well enough to avoid the need to change the modifier damage. 
• I still think that you need to deal differently between big shields and small ones. Nerfing in this way the "crusader" and "striker" shields, with also the deactivation of in sync talent, does not reward players aiming at head and, conversely, makes more effective the crit damage. Instead, currently it's usage correctly protects players from bodyshots. 
• The firewall spec striker shield should not give a buff on damage when only one player is inside the cone range.

Feedback on expertise

• Set a clear cap to expertise. It's still confusing.
• The amount of materials required to upgrade items is now more balanced.
• Some stats acquired by skills have a sense, others not. For example, all offensive skills gain damage, while the reinforcer chem launcher, the restorer hive and the fixer drone gain duration. It makes no sense. Replace with healing  (like repair traps and mender mine).
• Incinerator turret should gain burn damage or duration and not damage. It's a status effect skill.
• Shields should gain health (given the nerf due to the damage multiplier).
• The decoy should gain something useful also in PvP. I hope that "threat" stats increase both duration and health in PvP.
• The airburst seeker mine should gain burn damage instead of damage.
• The achilles pulse has damage (I think is related with the damage you deal hitting the weakpoint). It should probably be an increase in “zone duration” to have something more related to the skill itself.
• Increase the amount of proficiency gained by PvP fights. Killing npcs is easier and there are a lot more npcs than players in a usual fight.
• Maybe think about increasing skill efficiency for all the skills conversely that a different stat for each skill. It could be a good balance.
• Put back again the armor gain by expertise to total armor instead of armor of the single piece but reduce the amount of armor gained to 0.5% instead of 1%. Now the buff is useless.
• The expertise on weapons and gears should be the same for every item and not for individual items (eg. you maximize the Famas categories like for proficiency). Indeed, skills have the advantage of being unique while other items are not.

Feedback on the Hearthbreaker gear set:

• You should gain half of the stacks on bodyshot. This prevent shotguns like ACS to instantly gain stacks.
• You can charge the talent on decoys
• You can charge the talent on opponents wearing a full pulse resistant build if using a shotgun while aiming headshots because of the multiple bullets.

Other changes:

• Decrease the mortar damage. It's too op and often destroys the gaming experience.
• Change in the hazard protection stat. Makes it decrees dmg and time duration and not only the time.
• Change the mod max value for headshot (bring it to 15%).
• Add pulse resistance mods.
• Add new maps on conflict mode.
• Add a new game mode for conflict in which is only possible to shoot (no skills) and all players in the match have the same build (random for every match) and weapons.
• Rework useless equip (5.11, repair traps, burster firefly, bombardier drone), talents (Outsider, Naked, First Blood, Protect Reload, Clutch) and change association of talent/named items (alps with percussive maintenance, Claws out and wyvern, ecc).
• HanaU value of haste 10% to 15% (improvised holster gives more values than the brand thanks to the 12% skill haste mod).
• Increase to 15% the hazard protection value for gear pieces (yaahl and ceska) and replace existing mods for burn, disrupt, ecc resistance with an universal mod for hazpro. It will increase the variety of builds used and reduce the amount of pieces in the stash.
• Nerf base pistol damage by an amount of 15% and Liberty of 20% in PvP.
• Nerf Nemesis base damage on full charge in PvP.
• In PvP put a cap on CHC to 50% and to crit damage in PvP (maybe different for each weapon type, eg: 150% for smg, 130% for ar and lmg, 120% for sniper, 140% for rifle) to rewards more who aim for headshots. To obtain a more balanced TTK among different builds (every crit build at long range is unbalanced, also given the corner glitch) , think to decrease the value of CHC on gears attributes and equip mods to 4% (instead of 6) and of CHD from 12% to 10%. You should overcome the cap only by taking advantage of talents like “finisher” or “vindictive”.
• Introduce more rewards and activities to do in DZ to increase the amount of players populating them.
• Make rifles and LMG more useful in pvp by increasing their dmg since they can hardly deal with ARs or any other popular weapon types
• Allow rogue agents to gain med kits when killing shd agents (from DZ perks), as SHD agents could gain med kits by killing rogues. 
• SHD healer: do not allow to a non rogue healer to heal or buff (when using “future initiative” and “empathic resolve” talent) or  players outside of his group
• Allow talents like“finisher, vindictive and preservation” to be activated by melee finishing.
• Make Preservation to work even after weapon swap.
• Accuracy should be buffed to work better when moving.
• Make the booster hive working differently from a stinger one and allow it to work during the application of the medkit.
• Prevent the proc of talents like "Trauma" when shooting Robots since they cannot be put under status effects. Moreover, make weakpoint of robotics take damage from the headshot damage stat.
• Modify “armor on kill” mods to a % value instead of a numeric one.
• Make EMP sticky also able to make damage to skills and able to stagger only from tier 3.
• Make player ADS under the fire status effect when over 60% hazpro.
• Let players cancel the loot disposal animation during extraction operations. Once you interact with the rope you're unable to defend yourself in the current state. Same goes for the rope cutting animation that traps you in it once you reach a certain point during it.
• The proc indicator on finisher pistols should show how much time players have left to switch to primaries. Additional kills with pistols while the “finisher” talent is active should refresh the switch timer.

Expectations from Ubisoft and Massive Support:

• I sincerely expect the support to regularly start banning in a permanent mode players caught cheating. 
• Remove the ability to benefit from Controller Aim Assist while using Native Mouse input on a PC. Do this by disabling mouse & keyboard gameplay inputs on controller detection or by choosing the input in the game menu and completely deactivating the other periferic.

@ubi-lucipus thank you so much for reads and work on our feedback! Working as a community is really fantastic!

After a lot of hours spent in PTS here I have a list of important aspects, among suggestions and bugs, mainly for PvP.

Main bugs noticed:

• The talent "Focus" is not working with the new exotic SVD, despite it's equipped with an 8x scope.
• You can charge the hearthbraker talent on decoy. This is clearly not intended to work this way.
• If you use the ACS shotgun with the hearthbreaker set, and you shoot the head of an enemy players, you can charge the set's talent also if your opponent is using a full pulse resistant build (3 yaahl and 3 system corruption pieces). This not works with AR, so I guess it is related with shotguns shooting 8 bullets simoultaneously.
• The new exotic mask also heals enemy players in dark zone.

Still to be fixed:

• PvE skill damage also in PvP (fire if the player suicide himself in his own fire, known as fire glitch, and traps, if the player throws traps on you, known as traps glitch)
• Corner glitch, done using magnification scopes and shields
• Armor regen sometimes impact the proc of the unbreakable talent

Feedback on new equip:

• The new heartbreaker set should be nerfed a bit, and should have a different bonus for headshot and bodyshot (with headshot applying the maximum stack and the bodyshot half of the stack). ACS stacking the talent is too op, so it's probably better to set a cap if more bullets are shooted simoultaneously.
• The chatarsis mask probably will work better with hazard resistance and maybe change incoming repairs since it is not working with the mask. A nice buff could be make the mask remove status effect of all your teammates in order to contrast the status effect builds.

Feedback on shields:

• Shields should be a little bit more balanced. Despite the nerf on bulwark shield was necessary, the one on small shield wasn't. It also helped a lot of players aiming the head to survive in a fight with players only going for bodyshot. Probably the damage modifier should change from 5 to 6 for striker and crusader shields and to 7 with the disorientation effects for big shields.
• A good way to balance the damage done to shields (in general) is to make them take the same damage from headshot and crit. In this way, a player playing a full headshot build can deal better with players using bulwark shields.

Feedback on expertise

• Set a defined cap to expertise.
• The armour gained on gear pieces is now too low while before wass too much. Balance it. 1% to 2% maybe.
• Reduce the maximum skill damage acquired for PvP at least. PvP build are already unbalanced.
• Shields should gain health instead of active regeneration
• The amount of materials to cap the expertise is still too high.
• Increase the amount of proficiency gained by PvP fights. Killing npcs is easier and there are a lot more npcs than players in a usual fight.

Other changes:

• Decrease the mortar damage. It's too op and often destroy the gaming experience.
• Change in the hazrd protection. Makes it decrees dmg and time duration and not only the time.
• Change the mod max value for headshot (bring it to 15%)
• Add pulse resistance mods
• Add maps on conflict mode
• Add a new game mode for conflict in which is not allowed to use skills
• Rework useless equip (5.11, repair traps, burster firefly, bombardier drone) and change association of talent/named items (alps with percussive maintenance, Claws out and wyvern, ecc)
• HanaU value of haste 10% to 15% (improvised holster give more values than the brand)

Actually in my opinion is not a glitch, it works exactly how it should work. I don't see the glitch there. It's just a talent swap, you need skill to do it and allow you to not lost medikit when, for example, you're rogue and don't take any medikit from players you kill but only from npcs. A real glitch is the corner glitch and is still not fixed!!!

And I'm not talking about intimidate talent since I cannot try it in the way it should work. But, for how it should work, it could potentially become useless after the update.

@raciaiadhesive the point on expertise it's annoying if it regards only pve. For who plays pvp, make missions and all the other PvE stuffs just to increase the expertise level for use it then in PvP is really annoying. They cannot avoid to gain proficiency and expertise in PvP. They should allow you to gain also more proficiency from pvp activities imho.

Regarding the shield disorientation, I know it says is "irresistibly", but at this point they could just remove shields if they don't want people to use them. If with hazpro I cannot counter the disorientation it has not sense to use the shield never. So just remove it always imho.

So here we are with also my opinion and experience after 5 hours of PTS.
I start with 3 major bugs encountered:

• The countdown mode often become stucked during the loading after you finish the session. It locks on 100% loading screen. You need to close and reopen the game and this is a bit annoying.
• Delta3 errors often happening when joining countdown with matchmaking
• Intimidate gear set stacks to infinite. I've seen single AR bullet hitting 131.000.000 damage. lol.
• The proficiency and expertize are not working in DZ. I mean, doing landamarks or killing players do not allow to increase the proficiency level. I don't know if it is something done voluntarily or is it a mistake. I really hope this is a mistake.

Regarding Countdown

• The general difficulty of the game mode is too low, we were able to do it in 2.
• The game mode after 4 times become repetive, nothing really exciting (as a survival for example). I see it just as a new mode to farm equipment and to increase the proficiency/expertize level.
• The general idea looks nice, but probably it still need to be optimized with something that makes it interesting to be played continously. This cannot be the content that push players to come back to the game. They come back, try it for 10 times and then leave again since it is not so hard and is not so enjoyable.

Regarding Proficiency/expertise

• This is something really crazy to add after 3 years of game. How am I supposed to come back to farm for infinite hours again just to maximize a new library system. It should have been added with WONY maybe. Now is a little bit late. Despite new players could find it interesting, players like me with 3k hours prefer probably to kill themselves instead of spend hours and hours doing just farming. Expecially PvP players like me. How can I enjoy the idea of spend other 1k hours probably to maximize everything. Yeah, I can optimize only equip I use. But it's anyway a lot and i cannot reach the maximum level of expertise if I do not reach the proficiency on every object in the game. This is going to force me to play the PvE game and moreover to use stuffs that I hate just for reach the level 10 of expertise on my favourite equipment.
• Seriously you don't get proficiency on the brand if you use a named item? That's crazy. Why I have to increase the expertise of every M4 I have in the inventory/stash if one day i found new one better than the actual? Make the expertise system like to proficiency please.
• The amount of material to increase expertise is crazy.

Other comments.
Actually in a game you should encourage player to becomes better at the game. In a shooter, players hitting headshot should be rewarder. Conversely, with this modification on shields you're actually rewarding bodyshot player. Is fine remove in sync. Is fine to nerf big shields (despite the better solution was just to allow to shields to take the same damage also from headshots and not only from crit damage). But crusader or striker shield were good for headshot players to have an advantage on who shoots just body. Try to think at it. Moreover, the flatline talent is really nice, but again it will completely replace in sync in terms of usage.
Moreover:

• When the shield is broken you take disorientation. That's true also if you have an hazard protection build with 100% disorientation resistance. This cannot work in this way I hope.

Thanks a lot for your patience to read till here

rafxx90

@ubi-keo good afternoon, with @volleyweb we made this short video just to show that despite wearing a tank build, just using a skill tier higher than 0 (1 or 2 is usually enough for kill everyone) you can kill every player, also if he wear an explosive resistance build.
Basically, when you throw the traps on a player instead of directly on the ground, they will explode all together, providing an amount of damage too high to allow any player to survive. The same does not happens in PvE, because if you throw the traps on a npc, only one trap will explode avoiding the npc to die. Moreover, when you throw the traps to kill a player and he die, as you can see from the video, the game consider that the player killed himself, strongly suggesting us the possibility that we are facing a glitch instead of something considered to be part of the game. I hope that you can make something to solve the issue.
I uploaded the video on YT at the following link:

A minor bug here, but I would like to report it. PC PLATFORM
Basically, I've found the Oxenefordscire trasure map and I've located the hoard. I collect the treasure but the map is still present in the inventory. Indeed, I can collect the treasure continously and it give me 180 exp each time. So it seems that until the map will not disappear I can collect the already collected treasure. Sorry for the word pun! XD