New Buffs on Shooters is kinda annoying

[Nish]

@LukeGlitch

i agree, im sure there’s a better way to balance this that makes hard but not stupid.

I think this was the best way to introduce difficulty back into the game. Shooters were non-threats because of the combination of enemy nerfs and player survivability increase, and it kinda broke the game balance in the game.

I’ll copy part of my reply from another thread about the upsides this change has:

@Nish

Having more dangerous shooter have so many positives in the game that it’s even hard for me to list them, but I’ll try.

• Shooters being more dangerous makes on-edge, heavy engage melee gameplay a lot more fun.
• Having to pay more attention to your surrounding and positioning is a good thing, recently it wasn’t the case sadly.
• It incentives cleaning up instead of just rushing ahead mindlessly slowing down gameplay in a good way.
• Increases the value of anti-shooter measures including (but not limited to): Using blitz against them, Suppression, Smoke nades, Psyker shields, Anti-shooter specialized ranged weaponry etc.
• Makes trash and (melee) bruisers more dangerous in a way, which is welcome. They won’t be more dangerous by themselves, but bogging you down has a more powerful effect.

I hope with the next patch (when people had time to adjust to the changes) they will give the shooter/gunner type enemies another small buff.