For anyone interested: now that SM's going back to the workshop, this is what I would do to her. A rework using SM 2.0 as the core, but with elements of 1.0 (Active zones come back) and 3.0 (mobile drones and the EMP Dart).
What do we think?
A huge amount of the Xenomorph's design and themes were designed by Giger to evoke the idea of sexual violation. Latches onto your face, shoves an ovipositor down your throat, gets you pregnant with its murderbaby... it's what makes Alien viscerally uncomfortable viewing.
"This put our content creators in an incredibly difficult position trying to troubleshoot and adapt in real time while live."
The troubleshooting wasn't the difficulty here. They already had the answer. The only thing putting them in a difficult situation was you.
Yesterday’s livestream with Chandler Riggs and our creators didn’t go as planned, and we want to sincerely apologize for how things unfolded.
As most of you are now aware, we couldn’t complete a match because the dedicated server players were on was the target of an attack.
How to kill any goodwill people still had for you and your game after a string of rough releases, SBMM and a plague of hackers. It's one thing to make mistakes, making a game is hard, but this is just selling your soul for cryptodollars. Absolutely vile.