Finally beat a run with Wounded, and was stoked to see the Railgun, as it sounds super fun. However, having done a few runs with it now, I don't know if it isn't working on my game or if it's coded wrong, but it doesn't seem to benefit from the base damage increase, as the damage never gets better throughout a wave.

Anyone experience this, or is it just me?

This is a unit that has one of the outright longest ranges of any infantry unit on the tabletop, yet the game has them not outranging Guardsmen or Space Marines, and thanks to Rapid Fire, wants them at point-blank range to be most effective.

Why are they not three range with Heavy to penalize them for moving up too aggressively? That would fit far better with their actual gameplay style.

I remember when the show was still new, everyone celebrated when Diogo >!got punted by an elevator!<, because he was pretty generally hated, while Filip's survival was celebrated. The first time around, I didn't really read into this all that much, but having just rewatched the series... That seems exceedingly unfair to Diogo. He is every bit as pitiable as Filip, if not more than Filip.

Their motivations:

Both Diogo and Filip suffer from the same fate - they don't have great role models in their life when we meet them. Diogo is working with criminals, and Filip is working with his terrorist dad. Where they differ is in how they approach positive role models.

Diogo consistently tries to latch onto positive figures, even if it doesn't work. When Miller tells him to stay away from di aqua, Diogo shockingly does listen, and instead switches to legitimate work with his uncle. He sincerely does try to work with his uncle until the Martians push his uncle into his suicidal blaze of glory. Despite that, Diogo still doesn't choose to revert to being a criminal. Instead when Fred Johnson puts together a suicide mission, Diogo hires up and follows orders faithfully, and Miller looking out for him here clearly affects him, and we see him respect Miller until the latter's demise. After losing the two positive role models he had in life, Dawes manages to get his hooks into Diogo, and finally return him to a life of corruption.

Filip, in comparison starts from a worse place, there's no point in denying that. However, from there, Filip is worse than Diogo in my eyes. Virtually every positive role model Filip gets, he turns away from. Despite his father's admiration and respect for Cyn, Filip seemingly learns nothing from him or his better nature. His mother reaches out, and he elects to push her away instead. His best friend Yoan gives him an outlet to feel some sense of pride, or to talk about what's bothering him, and instead Filip kills him. He begins to empathize with Tadeo, who isn't perfect, but when he laughs at Marcos being caught as a hypocrite, Filip snaps and silences him, leaning even harder into his father's nonsense. The one somewhat positive role model he latches onto is Rosenfeld, and even there, by the time he accepts her help, she's dead almost immediately after.

Their actions:

Diogo certainly is not flawless. When we first meet him, he's in the process of stealing, he can be an absolute shit-disturber and in his final moments is attempting to kill people. Let's go ahead and count those final attempts as actual kills, meaning Diogo has committed the following crimes: Three "kills", and stealing water.

Filip's very first actions that we see are killing two people and attempting to kill two more, stealing Martian stealth tech and then blowing the dome. The next time we see him it's to disarm and ultimately execute Ashford. The next time is him killing the four unarmed crew of a science vessel. And of course, we can't forget him killing his best friend for no reason, to say nothing of the numerous attempts he makes at killing people, and his involvement of launching asteroids at Earth. Let's be extremely generous here, and ignore Filip's involvement with the killing of millions, his failed attempts at killing and the consequences of his actions, and focus only on the direct crimes: Seven kills, stolen Stealth composites, stolen data cores, destruction of a ship.

Hell, even at the end, it's not like Filip has become a good person or anything, he just leaves because he realizes he isn't all that important to his father.

TLDR:

Diogo is better than Filip, but because he isn't Naomi's kid, people root against him.