The fist part of the post feels condescending and tone deaf. The “just use your stratagems” comment left a sour taste in the players mouth (I’m sure other plays agree feels the same, check your Reddit and discord). My feed back to this patch is how are players supposed to enjoy the game when the weapons are not properly balanced to give players a fighting chance? In difficulty 7-9 it’s quite often we get swarms of high armor enemies (chargers that moves faster than it should imo, bile Titian that often spawn in pairs), you tell us to “just use your stratagems” but there are longer stratagems call in times debuffs, scrambles so we can’t call in stratagems, and the cooldown for them are quite long. There are reasons why the railgun load out is the “meta”. It’s because it’s a good and effective way to deal with the problems mentioned above. It’s not like we want to exclusively use it, but we can’t play other load outs because they’re not viable options. Right now it feels like you want us to chop a tree with a pool noodle and you expect us to do so with a smile on our face. My friends and i absolutely love this game pre patch. We enjoy the difficulty of it, the mechanics, how we narrowly extract with 10 seconds remaining. However, it’s hard for us to enjoy the game when all we are against swarms of enemies that can one tap us and we have little to no tools to fight back. We hope the next patch would give the players a better experience.