I have to disagree with 1 point slightly. The elite spawn rate NEEDS to be toned down, because right now there's 20 rocket devestators and at least 10 hulks on top of 6 tanks, you can't spawn in without dying instantly, the same goes for charger spam but that's more managable.

Deep Rock Galactic handles modifiers well, not only do negative modifiers increase rewards upon completion; there are also positive modifiers that provide a buff of some kind.

Honestly everytime I play now I almost instsntly rage quit, it's like no matter what I use nothing can actually do a good job, and I get ganged up on by everything with almost no way to defend myself. It's like I'm trying to cut a rock with a plastic fork, it just sucks.

1000% agree on all counts. I’m level 35. I have every Strategem unlocked. I have more than half of the ship upgrades, but I am hard locked out of further upgrades by the need for tier 3 samples. And like…. Being real playing at a difficulty 7+ is not fun for me. It’s stressful, I spend the whole game running, and the constant deaths usually feel unfair. Getting 12 hunters spawned on top of me isn’t a skill issue, it’s just bullshit. I don’t give a fuck if they want to nerf or balance or whatever. But the game was ABSOLUTELY more fun before the patch and I really wish I could play that version of the game again.

Charger tanking an entire orbital laser is crazy

The real crappie part about the modifiers is that it doesn't even give you anything extra for clearing it.

I definitely agree that the cool factor of Helldivers 2 is the ability to tear the map to shreds with artillery support via stratagems. So us getting swarmed should not be a problem if we have what it takes to still come out on top. But adding enemies, making enemies stronger, and reducing our firepower takes the game off of the sweet spot that it landed on by sheer luck.

the fact chargers and tanks can now bounce orbital railcannons is insanity

The biggest problem is the Patrol AI. they have this hyperborean third sense for where you are once they see any sign of your existence. Leave a minefield at an old objective? patrol will find it, instantly know where you are, and call a breach. Stray bullet lands on the opposite side of the objective? patrol will see that and start running towards your location. It happened before but with the new aggressiveness changes a normal fight will be pulling patrols from all over the map, leading to a breach loop and your inevitable death. That's why it always feels like patrols are pathing towards your location constantly. The patrols need to be toned down, they should enter a "searching" state when they find evidence of your existence where they split up and try to find you instead of instantly getting your location

The AI change is probably the most annoying one. Before, I used to be able to attack (from long range) a patrol or bug hive hole with my autocannon and the mobs wouldn't realize where they were getting shot from. The autocannon is supposed to only attract mobs to the destination the shell hits, not from where the shell was shot (it's stated in a Training Tip and it also used to work before the patch). Now, as soon as anything happens: if you call down an airstrike, shoot in the air, have your stratagem ball direct impact a bug, or anything, then the mobs instantly know where you are and start b-lining it towards you. It completely ruins the immersion of someone like me, who likes to play a lone ranger type of role, sniping things and being a little more strategic and sneaky in how I approach objectives. Also, before the patch, I never noticed enemies spawning or despawning. Now, I'll be sneakily doing an objective -- doing 180's to check my surroundings and checking my map to see any distant red dots -- and all of a sudden, an entire patrol will just appear out of thin air in a spot that I just checked and confirmed to be clear. I know why its happening too. The game notices I'm being sneaky and spawns a patrol to check out my location to force me to engage and exit stealth. It feels way too targeted and not at all genuine. And you lose any ability to prepare and any feeling of accomplishment after sneaking past one patrol, just to find another spawned right next to you since the last patrol failed.

It's crazy to me that someone has to give up a backpack slot to get the autocannon to work but it deflects off charger armor. Bro what is the point of armor penetrating weapons that can't penetrate armor??

I wanna see a stream where the devs play in helldive and see how they think there game is balanced

"We made primaries weak on purpose so you'd have to rely on stratagems." >gives most stratagems long cooldowns >hits you with multiple modifiers that make your stratagems unreliable and increases their cooldown >most stratagems are honestly bad or low impact for how long the cooldowns are >swarms you with high aggro, tanky enemy that can one or two shot you It's like they're expecting you to do a high-end raid in an MMO but with mid-tier gear. I'm ok with the game being hard but you don't even have the resources to reasonably deal with enemies on the highest difficulties. Like, what's the counterplay to the 8 bile titans and 5 chargers running at you while your stratagem (which will likely only kill one of them at best) is on a 7 minute cooldown? We often end up b-lining to the objectives, suiciding at them until we complete them, then running circles around the extraction because you have no choice but to run from combat. I don't know about the rest of you, but I don't play shooters to not shoot things.

Arrowhead’s big problem, and I noticed this before the update just from the way the difficulty works, is the inability to understand how problems compound exponentially. If you increase difficulty in several ways while cutting back options to deal with difficulty you’re going to get massive difficulty spikes.

Yeah I immediately noticed a change in the amount of fun I was having post patch

People who tell you that all “this” is a skill issue haven’t played beyond easy or haven’t played the game themselves. People played the game because it was fun, now people won’t play it because it’s not fun.

Modifiers that only dish out disadvantages are garbage

I love when I dodge a charger and it immediately converts into an olympic ice skating champion The close range crushing attack they do is an insta kill as well, even with a fat man suit on so they’ll rag doll you into a rock or something and then crush you before you can stand

Modifiers can be fun and good as an OPTION for people that want to make it a bit tougher for maybe extra rewards. But to make them mandatory while playing is beyond me.

The people defending the update are the funniest part about all of this. The devs already stated they are going to tweak the amount of armored enemies that spawn, basically admitting that its overtuned. And these people will just say "Get good, the game is called Helldivers for a reason". Okay bud, I'm sure that's why they are backpedalling on certain changes.

I just think Hunters shouldnt have acid in their melee. It pisses me off, especially when the Arc thrower doesn't wanna cooperate, at least in my limited experience in close range, so I have to switch to another weapon. Or at least have armor resistant to the speed debuff. But yeah. Armor feels unimportant when they can land head shots as easily as getting killed by mortars. Edit: Just want to add. I'm rank 28 right now. I'm fine with everything else in the game. The weapon changes are fine. The difficulty is fine. Stalkers are fine. Head shots can use tinkering or just simply be removed for now. My real only gripe is that Hunters annoy the f$ck out of me. That's all. It would be nice if either they didn't lick acid on me or if there was armor that resisted the slow down where I dont have to resort to using the personal shield, thats it. The slow down *from Hunters specifically* piss me off. Also, I lied, there's another gripe, though far less occurring, but still enough to be made annoying. F#ck those Automatons, I forget their name, that jet pack up to you and die and ragdoll towards you consistently and explode. It's BS. If I shotgun it, it should be sending it back or clotheslining it, not being Amazon primed directly to my feet. That should be two separate enemies. A suicide bot and a jet pack bot. At least Hunters have the decency to not explode.

What's the point of grinding samples to upgrade our ships only to be knee capped by modifiers?

They need to chill the hunters the fuck out. Big damage, big numbers, and they can teleport on you so you can't run away. Pick fucking two.

Yesterday, I fell from 1m with a mech and instantly exploded. On lv 7-8 automaton missions I often spawn and get 1 shotted by a rocket or laser from nowhere. Because of the fog, i often don't even know where it comes from. Heavy armor is utterly useless. I tested it and enemies do "critical damage". So if you get hit 4 times, you are sure to get hit with critical which will regardless of armor kill you in 3-4 hits.

After patch, I notice that sometimes patrols just spawn mid air in front of me. lol

Feels like every difficulty has way more enemies since the exo-suit update. Had a level 4 mission immediately begin with 3 chargers at once.

We need to be able to take out the swarm calling bug before it call in a bug breach. Same for flares of automatons. I feel like no matter how fast you kill them more will spawn regardless. Also heavy devastators are way more annoying than the rocket devastators. The basically have a bottomless clip laser sniper auto cannon on their arm and focus you down. Unless you’re behind cover or close enough to lob a grenade at them, they are impossible to approach in open combat. Also it feels like the amount of bug spawns has tripled. I am running out of ammo so fast now. 500kg bomb needs a buff too. Just a bigger radius is all it needs. We should also be allowed to upgrade and customize weapons like bigger mags, better grips, etc.

nerfing all the fun is a bold strategy cotton, lets see how it plays out #Diablo4

The worst part is the "off-screen" random spawns. I had a charger spawn in front of my face on screen without the orange smoke breakout. Wish I remembered to shadowplay it.

I wish the modifiers were like 'this mission has 100 titans' or 'this mission has 1000 small ads' so you actually could counter it. Now I usually run the same loadout all the time cause you gotta be ready to do it all.

Devs say "skill issue" but probably play on diff 5 at most

I legit stop playing because I have capped money and samples the reason I was keeping playing was fun but now they legit removed the fun out of it.

What I hate most, and I think has been consistent from the very start is rocket devastators one shotting you from out of the blue. They'll be completely out of your sight, and somehow they'll see you and take you out.

one thing that INFURIETED me was that the pods wont allow us to go to high ground anymore, they go away on their on, its SO annoying

So difficult is it for developers to understand that we just want the spawns to be as they were before? NO mass spawning of heavies, NO modifying any ratio involving enemies, and NO substituting those enemies with others, JUST LIKE BEFORE THE PATCH, is it so difficult?

I didn’t realize they changed the headshot values I thought it had to do with armor changes but youre right. Hunters used to be 3-4 hits to kill you and now theyre constantly landing those crits killing me in 2 hits consistently. The enemy AI is very different post patch and it’s noticeably less fun

My wife and I hopped on to do a bug elimination mission. Dude.. We were absolutely SWARMED before a single strategem could hit the ground. Couldn't grab a shield or secondary weapon or anything. It was incredibly frustrating.

Completely agree. The deploy time of stratagems is crazy high now. You cannot consistently target enemy mobs or larger enemies anymore.

Idk man. I feel you on a lot of stuff. But I think the spawn rates right now are a huge problem. Especially elite spawn rates. I was playing difficulty 5 against bugs. We had 14 min left and trying to do the last side obj before going for the extraction. We were getting absolutely swarmed! I called down my mech suit. Killed 3 chargers and mowed down bugs. I felt so badass. I killed so much bugs I ran out of ammo. I got one last view of the situation before hopping out of my depleted mech, and behold, Still swarms of bugs, 3 brood mothers, and another charger! At that point I yelled to my squad to just run to evac because there was no way we were going to finish that obj. We ended up completely squad wiping and not evacing. I was shocked at how hopeless the situation was, and this was on difficulty 5! We used everything we had, and still swarms of bugs.

The main issue is the patrol system. It's not fun to deal with a patrol only for another patrol to spawn 20m away from you immediately after, every 10 seconds, forever, for the entirety of the game. And patrol spawns are based on how many primary objectives you've completed which makes no sense and often contributes to this "off" feeling where the mission is getting harder and harder out of thin air for no reason, not because you're not dealing with bug breaches, not because you're not doing proper recon or scouting, but because the AI of the game decided that since you've completed enough objectives, you now deserve to have enemies spawn within visible range of you out of thin air all the time. They need to make patrols something we can actually play around instead of awful feeling forced combat that stacks on top of itself every 10 seconds. I actually like the AI improvements, hunters being smart is actually really fun and engaging and trying to hit them before they get close and out-wit them when they do get close is fun and engaging. What is not fun and engaging is when the game drops hunter squads on you every 10 seconds out of thin air from any angle even while you're busy with combat that otherwise would have been fun. And yeah obviously the trash headshot mechanics *need* to go, there is no excuse to have that in the game if you want people to use heavy armor. Imo the current acid effect should be split into two things. Acid and Ensnarement. Ensnarement can be like webbing or something. Acid comes form the bile enemies and all it does is DoT, no slowing. Ensnarement can come from like hunters and stalkers or whatever, since as infuriating as it is, those enemies having some way to ensnare you makes sense since that's their whole job is to rush you down and snag you for the rest of the swarm.

"The automatons are somehow more balanced." Easy. They have meaningful weak points. Devastators and Hulks can be handled by basically any support weapon and even primaries if you just hit them in the face, and even the heaviest (Hulks, tanks, and turrets) have unarmored vents in the back that allow any weapon to destroy them quickly. You can bring anti-tank weapons and make quick and easy work of them if you want to, but other weapons can handle them with skilled play. On the other hand, chargers are completely immune to small arms from the front and their rear "weak point" still takes drastically reduced damage from most. Bile Titans straight-up can't be killed by most weapons as there is a limited amount of damage you can deal to the sacs. Both of these enemies REQUIRE specific weapons to be dealt with in a reasonable amount of time, while the automatons are all designed in such a way that bringing the "right" weapons just makes them easier to deal with. I've already noticed the Arc Thrower sliding in as the new meta, because it's now the only weapon that ignores Charger armor while still being useful against hordes and not requiring a backpack. Throw in the PS5 bug and it can also shred Titans. Nerfing the railgun without addressing the underlying issues didn't fix anything. Edit: Yes the Flamethrower also works and is usually even better against chargers, but it's less of an all-purpose weapon because of its limited range.

not to mention, "these devs are SO transparent and great with their community!" mean while, they stealth buff EVERY ENEMY, massively buff patrol spawn rate, enemy count per patrol, and they will go out of their path to go TOWARDS you even if they "haven't detected you". they linger in the area until you mess up stealth. its shit, and stupid how fast they call in for reinforcements, you pop the bug or bot that's calling it the second they started? oh sorry, INSTANTLY another one is doing it, oh you caught THAT one too? SORRY. another one (behind cover this time) is doing it. FORCED. reinforcement loop. every. time. engagement. happens.

You could replace every single enemy with bile titans and hulks and the elitists would still say “it’s a skill issue”. I hate it because they are literally just justifying bad balance and game design. Weapons differentiate WAY too much in their power rn.

Two things that are extremely obvious is the knockdown get back up to then go prone in one animation then inputs not being accepted after the animation

When the new patch game out before ExoSuits I thought I was going crazy because of how intense the bugs started to feel. Out of nowhere I was getting killed by them left and right and just always felt like I couldnt get away. Hidden patches makes sense.

I think that the increased spawns, increased aggressiveness, and the issue of enemies pin pointing your location off any action has broken a lot of what made the game fun. The automatons are super unfun to play IMO with the missile guys mapping you even with no visibility. The charger changes today seem good, but IMO the enemy spawn rates for automatons is insane and super laborious.

I’m having so much less fun now, especially on automatons. Before the update it was tough but fair, and even on helldivers you could still have fun and laugh. But now it’s just straight up frustrating how you’ll spawn and instantly be killed by rocket devastators from 100+ meters away or have 3-4 bike titans chasing you

arrowhead at least needs to rework how the patrols and spawns work, the game constantly likes to send more and more bug patrols to your exact location, comprised entirely of units who can call in a bug breach in half a second unless you have godlike reaction time, you get absurdly little downtime between patrols and almost inevitably breaches and that just makes the combat feel cheap, you're constantly trying to deal with the infinite enemies instead of actually having fun. me and my friend skyrocketed from being able to deal with difficulty 1 all the way to difficulty 6 in our first few days playing, but now, there's just such a constant onslaught of enemies that we can barely extract on difficulty 5, as every 3 minutes we have another defence section to slog through, only to make slight progress towards the objective, then sit there defending against another set of patrols that spawned in from thin air

Difficulty 7 feels a lot like old Difficulty 9 now too. One extract spawned three bile titans, one after another, two seconds apart, from just ONE bug hole breach

i'm hoping they one day add a grace period between bug reinforcements, or make it much easier to prevent, it just feels so frustrating and hopeless when you're fighting a pack of 10 small bugs and it turns into 100 hunters, 3 chargers and a titan because one of the little shits was hiding behind a rock or something

I don't think anyone asked for an increase in mobs. They changed all the wrong stuff.

I would like to add to the fire here. Did you know that the AI can sometimes shoot THROUGH the ground, because I sure as hell didn't until I saw an energy shot from a Hulk shoot through the hill I was using as cover and kill me. (Literally the shot came out of the ground.)

I've been using the auto cannon a lot since the rail gun nerf and I can't say it's good for damage, it boggles my mind that an explosive projectile being shot out of a cannon at high velocity somehow bounces off organic armor, that just doesn't sit well with me. It comes off as "powerfully weak".

Another thing is they need to change it so you can select your respawn in solo runs the auto selectnis absolutely infuriating to respawn and sent straight into a robot base without the chance to chang your path enough to get put into a massive fight without any extra gear only to get surrounded by the fight you just died to just killing you again

I really haven't been playing since the patch dropped. Helldive was enjoyable, now helldive is like...a total waste of time. The game literally feels bad now in an unfair way.

I will actually try to solo stealth missions. Patrols will literally path to you. I sat still in a bush and time after time they just pathed into my exact location.

Anyone else notice that you get less than 5 stars now for missions that would’ve other wise should have been 5 star?

I also hate the artificial priority list expecially for Crushers. No matter how many players around, no matter if they shoot or not, if there is a turret somewhere around no matter wether it only started to deploy or shoots oposite side Crusher immediately runs to it. Realism it is when you see and understand the logic of enemies, not the logic of developers.

I think they must have been testing with the Mech and Railgun together and probably saw it as way too potent. I think nerfing the railgun was too hard, it needed a 10-20% dialback AND the other heavy weapons needed a 10-20% dial up in armour pen. The stupidest part was telling people just to use Strats when they have been nerfed as hard as anything else on harder difficulties.

Yeah not gonna lie I don’t get a lot of time to play the game. But when the game came out, it was intense and fun, now it feels more frustrating than anything

Was overwhelmingly fun prior to patch. Post patch, my group has completely abandoned bugs and we have pretty much stopped playing Difficulty 9 and 8. The overall vibe is not doing well and the consensus is that if something isn't fixed soon we will migrate to another game and put helldivers on ice. Not a great place for a brand new game.

they should allow helldivers to get rid of modifiers in the mission. Like longer cooldowns because of bad plotting? Secondary objective that puts a satellite tower that makes it recharge 25% faster once you fix it up in a match.

They still haven't fixed the Spear either. I can't even lock onto anything with it most of the time. Very frustrating. Also weird that a gun that does explosive damage, like the auto cannon, just straight up bounces off armored enemies. I get it, autocannon would be pretty op if it did do armor damage, but couldn't the devs have figured out how to balance around that?

after the patch i´m more afraid of a 8 hunters patrol than 4 chargers and 2 bile titans at the same time

Its crazy that the CEO says they want us to rely on our stratagems more and our guns less, then proceed to add modifiers that hurt our stratagem capabilities. Now my gun sucks, and I have to lead a charger 5 miles with a orbital because it takes 8 seconds to call in. Cool.

Ever since the new update my PC can't handle the game on the same exact settings I was using, it's even lagging with lower settings, has anyone else experianced something similar?

My main problem with chargers is just how much it take to take them down in comparison to a tank which is supposed to be on the same tier as a bile titan.

In the meanwhile, after all those patches, we still can't accept friends requests.

Most likely has nothing to do with any AI changes. It has everything to do with the fact that enemies do not respect line of sight anymore since the patch. They will not go to where they last saw you and patrol around and look for you again. Rather they will make a beeline towards you regardless of what is in between you and them.

Hopefully, Arrowhead Studios realizes what they’ve done and somewhat reverts back, in the coming patches/updates. Otherwise they’re gonna lose their huge player-base pretty quickly.

dont put that evil on me ricky bobbie!

The way I see it. This is a great learning experience if they respond accordingly. That is, listening to the community. What baffles me, is not reporting changes to the players. Leaving us to speculate why things feel more difficult now. How are we supposed to provide input if we don’t know what’s going on?

Difficulty and Fun and NOT mutually exclusive. You CAN attain them both. We had it, and now we dont.

I played on Suicide Mission difficulty pre and post patch. Post patch unless team rushes objectives we drown in infinite reinforcements with no means to kill 1 spawn before more show up. Efficient stratagem cds are too long and normal weapons are useless against the difficult enemies who spawn at rates of 6+ per dropship/hole. I successively been playing less and less and I don't feel like coming back at all anymore. Waiting for devs to come to their senses.

Exactly. I’ve played thousands of hours on many games and I knew as soon as I saw what they changed that it would be bad because they were caving to the loud few and ignoring the fact that they were at vertical success. You don’t change a good thing just for the sake of change. I had 8 titans and 12 chargers with a hundred buddies on my team in Helldive last night…they literally don’t give you the tools to deal with that. They definitely need to consider reverting a lot of the changes. The game will die FAST if they keep making changes like these.

You’re not wrong. This update just hits different, and not in a good way. Not as fun. I wish they’d add different color reticles for us color blind people who can’t see reds though 😭

It is really unfortunate that the devs like the idea of hiding this info on a patch. That means that every time any sort of patch comes out, you have to look at EVERYTHING because they can put their little fingers in anything for whatever reason they wish.

2:14 Now say "Cool hwhip"

Ngl so glad you broke down the hunter changes they were destroying my squad last night and we were legit thinking we were tripping

The devs saying get good and just use stratagems feels weird when if you run a support weapon and a backpack you then only have two slots to use for stratagems.

Arrowhead devs need to understand that they can make the game more challenging and still keep it fun by giving players more things to contend with, and that they reduce fun if they arbitrarily increase the difficulty by taking away the tools players have fun using.

I agree they only keep trying to stop the literal 0.1% of players from farming the top diff, the vast majority of the player base arent doing hell diver diff. Stop trying to make the game harder for those 0.1% to piss off everyone

Does anyone else get the bug where if you exit the game, kick you back to the boot camp?

My biggest gripe with the bugs are hunters and stalkers. You can't outrun their jump attacks, and they'll headshot you for half your health, slow you with every hit, and sometimes stun lock and insta kill you. It just feels unfair and poorly balanced to me.

Lack of counter play that is the issue. I play a lot of Darktide got around 1.5k hours and i spend my time on the Auric maelstorm missions which are the hardest. I can clear them easily but if i slip up i lose the mission. I am used to enemies so i know what to do when a certain enemy or scenario happens. After the update its just noting we can do but run away or get one shot from across the map. Your death doesnt teach you anything in this game. The reason why people like darksouls or other harder games its because when you die its your fault you learn from your mistakes improve and take the challange on. At the moment you just "Die" for no reason. And your death doesnt teach you anything.

Okay, so I'm not crazy! I remember comfortably soloing 4's and 2 manning 5-6's with a friend who wasn't too experienced, me myself only being sub-20 at the time. Now, 3-4 of the guys are fighting for our life in 5's when we see the 5th Hulk pop up after the 3rd tank...before getting blasted into Oblivion by one of 12 Rocket Devastators hiding in the fog.

Shouldn't they implement a system where every time we seal a hatch or enamy spawner less enamies spawn around?

The issue is they made these changes to make the game more challenging and deadly/less forgiving. But they also took away the answers to the already existing end game content. Thus, it was a double whammy. And double whammies are never good for any game because the second set of adjustments has a compounding effect on the first. They need to deepdive balance the primary weapons because shotguns are ruling the world and are better at long distance and damage than rifles etc. Because, whether they like it or not, we are pulling the trigger 300-500 times a game and is the primary source of my kills by far! Then follow up with a deepdive into making stratagems worth a dam because right now, there's like 6-8 you choose from in high difficulty.

My favourite thing about the autocannon is the community acting like its the peak of balance

Couldn't agree more. The recent patches have made the game borderline unplayable. My options are basically put it on stupid low difficulty and it's a cake walk, or go higher and get absolutely rolled by everything.

I only started playing after the patch, and on Impossible it's literally impossible to survive the swarms solo no matter how I evade or what turrets I use. I just burn through all my LMG and primary ammo before the resupply cooldown and I'm forced to run light armor and stamina booster to preserve my deployment counter, nevermind doing the objective. My main gripe is that the swarms just arbitrarily spawn non-stop. It feels very bad to not even be able to predict where they come from, they just appear because of some invisible timer.

Headshots completely invalidate heavy armor. It will never be good as long as headshots remain unchanged.

I had fun pre patch, now every engagement feels like such a slog

I find the Automatons are very bad now too. Having 2 or 3 Rocket Devesators in every single patrol is insane. Also, the mechs are absolutely useless against them because if you enter a mech you become targeted by literally every enemy on the map, no matter how far away they are. I would enter one and then see lasers and missiles comimg at from from the opposite side of the map, with pin point accuracy

No I do agree, when you increase the accuracy of the enemy, where they headshot you more, and headshots completely ignore armor, yet the helmet for heavy sets does not have extra armor? I understand the dilemma there because somebody could use a heavy armor helmet with light armor and kind of manipulate the mechanics. But they could also make it to where you have a buff for a certain armor set like the only way to get the armor bonus on your headgear is to where heavy armor body armor too and then your helmet has extra armor as long as it's a heavy armor helmet. But if you wear a heavy armor helmet with light gear you don't get the bonus it's just a regular helmet.

The "get gud" argument has probably destroyed so many useful conversations

"Primaries are just things you spawn with." -Devs "Just Rely on your strats."- Also Devs....... Effects: 100% Call in Time, 50% Cooldown time, Ion Storms, Strat Jammers, time limit that removes strats. Edit: also the AA one that just...takes a Strat spot away entirely for the entire mission and doesn't let you get it back even if you destroy the AA.

I feel like FUN difficulty means having more things to micro manage but being able to take care of them if you're good at the game. You should be able to play any loadout and win the same, without being unable to kill enemies and having to wait 3 minutes for a stratagem since the one you called in missed due to a random mission modifier.

“If your nothing without the railgun then you don’t deserve it” - Iron deficiency man

Have you seen the new Localization Confusion Booster for the upcoming warbond? It’s supposed to reduce enemy encounter frequency, which to me, feels like the solution to the problem from this new update. They’re literally going to sell us the solution to the problem they created. I know it’s a cynical way to look at it, especially since currency can be farmed to some extent, but it’s still the same thing other big games do when they want more cash from players. I hope this isn’t the case.