I think what the devs WANTED to happen is that it would take a while to liberate the planet, and as it got close to ticking down, the Federation would started to give us new gear. The Warthog like jeep is starting to show up in more random matches now
You have to actually apply real tactics to bots. They are not in a mood to fuck around.
sure, but there nothing fun or tactical about in retrying stratagem code until it shows what you actually want to call
its a distraction, Turing lost 20% , all progress on Erata has paused, and the liberation of Hellmire has been stopped entirely. Estanu and Crimsica cant get above .05% most ive seen it get is .044, but no one gives a shit about those so it doesnt really matter.
its very fun to shoot things. The blowing up and burning is pretty satisfying. At higher difficulties the game is unforgiving, diifuclt, and imo very fun.
Yeah, they're probably trying to find a sweet spot between the absolute asspain of defend 8 planets, and single/double planet liberations going in under 5 hours. To be fair, Joel rigging shit for now is probably better so that more people can actually participate in the orders and get the rewards, rather than every order getting speedtrannied in two hours so most people who have jobs and lives can't even get rewards.
I'm not sure if that's any worse than a dozen puke bugs and 8 chargers chasing my ass across hell and half of Georgia for 2 to 3 stamina bars back-to-back.
This is the part I find most surprising about the game, difficulty does not equal more health/spongier enemies, a lot of them are up armored, but they still have their squishy bits that you can nearly one-shot. I played a Helldive mission and was surprised that I had a really good time even though I was way under leveled for it.
I was thinking that people were getting access to this shit because of exploiters or something, but if they're doing that then that's cool as fuck.
Couldn't they find a better way to make it plausible, like the bots and bugs do surprise attacks or have unexpected reserves? Could they make random incursion attacks deep into bot or bug territory that's only available on certain times or days? Maybe have the random attacks on planets so they're only available during peak hours.
Difficulty doesn't change any stats on any enemy besides what spawns in and in how many numbers. On Helldive you could face like, 3 or 4 bile titans but hard you'll only face 2 at once. It doesn't cut down on the amount of chaff, it just increases the amount of elite and boss enemies
