Suggestions

I think it might be kind of cool to have like a blue effect around the player while dashing or something to that effect to show that the player has the stubborn stone active

While cosmetics and titles have been great, we're slowly running out of things to buy. 3 people have already bought everything in the shop, and more are approaching. I know Buckethead is already working on more cosmetics, and I think that's great, especially if they start to make it regular with each new update, but I feel like we could also use Gear coins for more things. My idea was to have expensive unlockables in the gym, such as a large training area, or even just silly things like trophies and graffiti. I think this would give a lot of personality to the gym, and would be a cool thing to work towards.

Send a direct match invite, just like park invites, that will give a notification we can accept. With a big friend list you will sometimes match with the wrong person in friends matchmaking. And it's unclear when the friend you made plans with is actually ready so you can wait a long time in friend matchmaking resulting in multiple missmatches. This can be prevented with a direct invite. Would be nice if that worked cross region and automatically puts you in their region. You can accept the invite from the park friends board. And to prevent people stalking you, it only work for those who accepted your friend request.

Upon reaching a high enough BP, experienced players could get a customizable "boss" arena that other players could fight them in (and possibly earn something for successfully winning against them, if there's a way to feasibly make that work?) Customizations for this arena could cost gear coins.

Currently, as far as I'm aware, new players have access to all shift stones from 0 BP, including many which they cannot utilize due to lacking access to the moves required to utilize them at pebble rank. I think it would make sense to only have unlocked as a pebble the shift stones that don't require a certain move to utilize them and to allow the shift stones that require certain moves to be unlocked only once the required moves/BP has been acquired. Since there is a shift stone tab in the gear market, perhaps they could be acquired from there once the player has those moves and/or the required BP? Rank (BP) requirement for each stone with this change: Pebble (0 BP) - Surge, Adamant, Vigor, Guard Tor (30 BP) - Flow, Stubborn [this rank grants Dash, which completes the set of two moves referenced on both of these stones] Monolith (96 BP) - Charge Mountain (156 BP) - Volatile Thank you for your consideration. ^_^

Right now, one of the things making spawn pace OP, is the way hitstun is handled. A lot of the time, your inputs like "parry" or "ground", will just get eaten and not happen if your structure is in hitstun. To me, this feels very janky. I think hitstun as a feature is cool, but making it so stuff like parry is buffered and happens after the hitstun is over would help balance everything and make the game feel better.

at the end of game next to (or pherhaps below) the replay button there should be a replay but with different map button, so you won't have to requeue 18 times to get the right map

In the game's current state, Vigor is perhaps the least used shiftstone, often getting discarded for adamant and stubborn for damage negation effects. Besides just making it heal more or requiring less damage (I'm gonna out some thoughts to these at the bottom, but they're not the main focus of this post), I think a good change would be to allow the healing to go over 20 HP. A problem that all defensive stones share is that they don't really do anything until you get hit. Stubborn, Adamant and Guard however at least interact with that first hit and reduce the damage. Vigor already has the downside of having a limited amount of healing to give each match (6 if the opponent isn't playing damage negation), so in some scenarios getting a 5 damage burst while staying at full HP - something that should feel great - can feel like you just lost 2 HP you could have healed to gain even greater HP advantage. On Changing the Numbers: I feel like a 3hp heal would be justifiable for how hard it is to proc, 4 would maybe even be too much. I'm against lowering the activation number, since that would completely change its current playstyle of going for two hits and follow ups to fishing for singular, strong hits with Walls and Grounded Cubes.

as the title says I wish to rebalance some of the shift stones. And please leave a comment if you have any other ideas/feedback Adamant: doesnt pre activate on self damage, so self damage doesnt always give you the -1 Stubborn: remove its -1 damage guard: make its damage blocked -2 and have it cover your feet Volatile: make it less effective for player knockback Vigor: reduce damage needed to 4 and increase time to 7.5sec and let it work in tandem with surge charge: reduce time needed from 1 sec to .8sec

Someone said recently on the discord "Every Canadian plays US East", which applies to all unpopular regions. Everyone uses the closest of the 3 major servers: EU, AU and USE. It even applies to Europeans, who go visit the USE matchmaker when playing after 11pm! It means a lot of times, people from the same country end up matched on a faraway server, and it has been observed that their connection gets delayed in match even though they're physically close. I suppose it's because the traffic is getting diverted via this other region's broker (to avoid IP doxxing), while there is a much closer one that is unused. I think once the match has been found, the broker that regulates the traffic should be selected as the closest one to the host, independently from the matchmaking region. This will allow players from unpopular regions to get matched with players from their regions and have decent ping for both of them.