Oh man, i cant help but completely agree with you. For me playing the antagonist is soooooo crazy. It is so underpowered and unfair. I understand that its sorta the point, but they REALLY NEED TO BUFF THE ANTAGONIST SOMEHOW. And the matchmaking, oh boy. One game I was the antag, ( i love the Idea of it, they just need to make it better, ) and i was at that time lvl 29. The ENTIRE team of the raiders were over lvl 100. I put up a fight but obviously I lost. THE VERY NEXT GAME, I played as a raider. Our team was all under lvl 100 and yet an antagonist that was at lvl 390 was pitted against us.
Like what? Really? I don't care about mmr or whatever, that lvl disadvantage is insane. It gets me so made, yet, as u said, it's a love hate relationship and I will continue to play. But I REALLY want them to fix this game. A simple quick way it to improve the rewards for antag. It would be so awesome to play this game without getting annoyed at these things. I hope the dev's improve the game soon Cruz there is so many new players like me that will get frustrated by this.

But still, I'll play this game anyway.