Actually Alicia and Shae are currently the most OP. Alicia literally has no cooldowns on her jump thus allowing her to spam it constantly and remain airborne even longer than Hans who literally has a jetpack. The game falsely advertises Hans as the most mobile character when it is Alicia. Hans gets cooldowns on his jetpack and remains vulnerable for some time. But good Alicias consistently jump around every 2 seconds and allows her to ambush and escape encounters too easily. Shae is kinda obvious since she has good burst damage with the right weapon and can bewitch players long enough to secure a kill in close or long range without breaking a sweat.

I don't understand how incompetent the devs must be to make the highest difficulty impossible to beat. Each character gets melted in 2 shots since the AI has spot on aimbot from maximum range and I've literally tried every possible character including the recommended only to get the same result. Its as if they purposefully made it impossible to encourage matchmaking but I just want to grind gold. The logic for his difficulty has no justification for it. If I could Solo Gears of war campaigns on Insane which take hours to complete why can't I solo a mission on the highest difficulty that only offer about 20 minutes of gameplay. I am truly dumbfounded by this poor choice of balance the Devs applied to single player.

while I do agree that Harec feels somewhat underpowered as the antagonist, I don't think any of the proposals you made would really make him fair, but slightly OP instead. I would instead suggest removing the smoke trail that indicates his inbetween of being in stalking position or returning to his original spot. That would allow Harec to be much more stealthy with his stalking setups since people can't just trace the big black blob flying through the air and then instantly shoot him down when he arrives at his stalking spot.

 Two other options would be; making the teleport back and forth much faster, making it easier and more interesting to time the ability so the enemy doesn't see it. Or just making the smoke trail less obvious. Removing it completely seems a little overkill for me when looking at it from the raiders point of view, so just making it smaller and faster would probably work better and be more fair for both parties.

It is fair considering we have raiders like Shae who could completely go invisible to the enemy. The disappearance of his stalk Mark isn't OP at the slightest given that the smoke trail is still visible and can once again be countered by Shae's bewitched. If it had no counters then it would be OP no doubt but that's how the game is meant to played, by counter picking against the antagonist.

As the lead protagonist of the game Harec feels slightly underpowered in comparison to his allies that excell really well in the game. In my time of playing I've realized that all characters strive well in campaign but very few actually perform well as an antagonist. I would discuss all those who I feel are underpowered in PvP but I'll do an individual post for them.

Harec's kit is amazing no doubt. His stealthy gameplay is suitable for mostly every stage I've seen so far. I intend to use him throughout all my campaign adventures. My issue however is that even if you play him at a high skill cap he struggles immensely as an Antagonist (I'm on xbox btw). Harec's stalk placement is crucial before engaging as range is his game. However, when he is detected he is punished easily. His low health makes him too squishy and usually leaves him at a 50% chance of survival (I could go lower). But what lowers his chances of survival even more is his predictability. Players are allowed to see where he will return which is insanely unfair in my opinion, defeats the purpose of his stealthy playstyle.
My suggestion:
- Rework Harec's stalk to keep the returning marker invisible from the raiders and allow him to choose where he wants to teleport back.
- Buff Harec's health to 80-100 hp
- Add a "scoped sensitivity" option to allow for faster and more fluid sniping for better reaction time (since people like Alicia exist)
- Allow Harec's scope to reset the damage multiplier if the shot is not taken instead of decreasing it back to the default value (it wastes a lot of time he could spend to line up a shot instead having to reset by re-scoping).
These are the only known issues I currently have playing this character and as a Harec main it would be nice to see him more balanced out so he can take on the more OP characters.