I'd be fine with her getting a swarm buff as long as the numbers stay unchanged against other players. As it is she can easily burn out a human opponent in CQC if she doesn't immediately get killed. Honestly the main issue is the complete lack of ranged offensive capability once she has excess health; relying solely on melee against mooks is still dangerous since grabs don't give a damn how much health she has and at higher MMRs the enemies can put out a pretty obscene amount of firepower without reloading.

Just did a match on Double Agent with a friend and two newbies. After hacking the 3rd terminal, Schneider just stood completely still. We let him lose his shield, and after getting it back he still wouldn't move. So we let him block that terminal and get his shield back, at which point he hacked the terminal and just stood there again. We had no choice but to abandon.

Friend basically forfeited his blueprint because of that. Incredibly frustrating. Is there any way to fix that? Felt like I wasted my time, and Cortez chastising the group didn't help.

It's ironic because I might actually be inclined to drop like $50 on skins if it meant that I could get more than one or two. The price is really offputting despite how nice some of them are.

I'm a largely new player myself, and I pretty much agree with everything you've said, if this game is anything (besides fun, that is), it's incredibly vague about the information it conveys, more so than it was before it went free-to-play. Most of the time if you want to figure out how something works, the nitty-gritty of it, you have to actually use it first and play around with it; Which I would normally be fine with, but when investments seem incredibly steep (every character past Ginebra is at the price cap), it's hard to justify that experimentation.

I think, in order to allow players to tinker with characters and mechanics and such, that the Solo Training mode should have unrestricted access to characters, cards, and weapons. It's already a controlled environment where an individual wouldn't be hindering their team by trying new things, and it'd be a good way for people to get a feel for what they want, or to test out theorycrafted builds.

And, like OP said, some more detailed information would work wonders. It'd be nice to get the skinny on a gun before building it so I'll know if it's worth my time or not.