For players who don’t want to bother with Havoc like me, Auric has been pretty boring most of the time after the departure of Brute Conscript. Normal Auric missions are too easy without interesting modifiers (which probably will be Havoc-exclusive), and some Maelstrom missions, depending on your build, are either not more difficult or even easier than normal Auric.
The best solution (imo) for this is to allow players the ability to choose which map and modifiers they want to play, and browse/join matches like in V2. However, knowing Fatshark, I doubt you guys will ever change the existing system, or this will be pretty low on your priority list. Therefore I suggest finding a middle ground, which is adding more Auric and Maelstrom missions, with all the interesting event modifiers and new combinations of them. There should always be at least 3 Maelstrom missions available at all time, and the hardest ones like Monstrosity+ should always be one of them. We also need more Maelstrom combinations (preferable harder), maybe something like Brute Conscript + Monstrosity. But please, no more Pox gas, Venti or Power Interruption (or even Emperor’s fading light if you ever have plans to add it to Auric), they are usually more annoying than fun to deal with (personal preference).
Fully agree, would be a pretty easy fix. Add a maelstrom quickplay too and it’s a good compromise between actual sensical design and whatever dumb trash the devs cooked and have refused to change for 2 years. They get to keep their share of feces in the system this way because they like it
I always thought the baseline for Maelstroms and Special Condition Aurics should be HiSTG, or at least allow private matches to mix’n’match their own mutators, including HiSTG baseline.
I don’t understand why they can’t leave in the rotation of auric board those events only modifiers ( corrupted morbian, brute cinscripts…) I would even like them to add the weakened monstrosities as extra modifier in the Auric board.