Board Game Arena

Basically everyone I've played Arena with admits that they hate having to run for the Escape Shuttle but that all high level players do it. And even when the mission isn't suited to do so it's often best in Arena just to run to the ES and get a big chance for tie (moving up the ladder in arena) or a win without having done much.

I would love to hear if everyone is experiencing this game warping plan. I would love to be able to play this more as a team or two pl who are often trying to accomplish a mission, sure there are personal missions but not every game is two players running toward C hoping for ES to show up.

In the OG Nemesis there is a condition for using the ES. In Retaliation no such luck.

Is there possibly an update errata we could think of that clearly makes the rush to ES plan not so free? I'm sure there are some elegant ways this could be done.

I would suggest stop playing arena for now. A lot of people with 200+ ELO are not playing at all. Seems like in general, people wants an arena with 3-4 players.

Yeah. That makes sense. I wouls like to go for the Elite badge though.

Who wouldn't. But as the game taught me, we need to be patient

I've noticed this too. And sometimes you get two objectives that contradict each other - Mission objective succeed, or the no other survivors.
I've literally got off on the escape shuttle on ROUND TWO and won.
The fix is to have Arena games of 3 or more players.