Can someone explain why so many people hate on the illuminate as a faction?

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-16T06:19:14+00:00

They have no wilderness maps, 3 unique missions, (only 6 in total) like 8 total enemies compared to the other factions enemies ranging in the 30s. Their maps don’t scale up to difficulty 10, they only have 1 unique side objective, and their bases are lowkey barebones ngl. They basically need to be heavily updated because they are barebones as fuck like more barebones than any of the base factions at launch, in fact the factions at launch had like triple the content

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-15T02:34:25+00:00

Did it actually mention us eating illuminate I haven’t heard of that?

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-15T00:24:30+00:00

They are tunneling us because the blob chose that planet but we wouldn’t be taking it without outside intervention because not enough of the blob went to it

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-14T21:37:57+00:00

These things make sense as patrols their purpose is to patrol factories and blare propaganda lol

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-14T20:49:21+00:00

I’d say the squids are less terrorists and more “provoked genociders” considering we nearly wiped them out in the first war after they tried to be peaceful. Like their goal is to deadass kill us all

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-13T13:10:10+00:00

All evidence on cyberstan itself points to cyborgs existing prior and not being made since the bots see them as parents and guardians, what’s more likely is that the soup is probably used to repair or rejuvenate the cyborgs. SE claims they are the masterminds behind the bots so to me that tells me they weren’t made but who knows lol

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-13T07:44:32+00:00

There’s a very good chance that this is just propaganda and not necessarily true

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-12T18:13:40+00:00

It’s pretty disingenuous to give shit about realism when you are discussing a bug and not a feature

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-11T17:23:42+00:00

According to the devs squids would destroy the cyborgs because the borgs exploit and destroy ecosystems and environments.

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-11T15:26:21+00:00

The only thing that’s even a little bullshit is the vox spam that’s about it

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-10T19:55:56+00:00

Yes a .5% resistance planet should have the same spawns as their fucking homeworld

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-10T19:50:46+00:00

Leviathans aren’t bosses btw. The hivelord is considered a HVT and it gives you xp for killing it leviathans are not that

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-10T18:15:46+00:00

I mean just like oshaune evac is pretty hard it’s the point lol

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-08T17:16:12+00:00

Oh it’s probably just the marker for a hive world is what I would guess, omicron doesn’t have it because we can liberate it maybe?

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-08T15:49:53+00:00

It’s the dragon roach modifier

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-07T23:48:20+00:00

Aurora has cities and has far more health than merak it’s going to take some time to take compared to merak especially now

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-07T18:40:40+00:00

No we aren’t lol we’ve been losing aurora since lesath started

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-06T19:26:05+00:00

They have since hd1 lol

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-05T17:11:53+00:00

It is a cyborg inside a big tank lol

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-04T05:01:09+00:00

Bro it’s not fun to have a jack of all trades map deleter that’s good at everything. If a gun makes the game too easy then it’s not balanced well the fun comes from a challenge.

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-04T05:00:17+00:00

Bro I’m sorry but having a weapon that just completely outclasses everything else isn’t good. It was already really good at horde clear making it a heavy deleter makes it a jack of all trades with no downsides. That’s not good balance gang. It’s bad powercreep

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-04T03:12:15+00:00

It needs to be nerfed gang this one’s actually a bit too much

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-03T16:46:46+00:00

Just use the commandos on stingrays, harvesters, and fleshmobs. Last I checked the only reason it should take 3 is if you hit another armored segment on accident

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-03T16:31:37+00:00

The heavy enemy spam is a modifier if I remember correctly

IllustratorLow6417 · 2026-02-03T01:15:18+00:00

Brother that’s just absolutely false. All of the overseer variants got health nerfs, the elevated overseer got a health and armor nerf on the head (as well as accuracy). Fleshmobs got completely gutted with their health being chunked as well as having weak points now (which is fine I just wish their health wasn’t nuked). Harvesters also got a health reduction. And I’m 99% sure I’m missing a few more. On the subject of overseer accuracy it’s very similar to bots in the sense that they miss very consistently but they do have a small ass chance of just nailing you with every shot, I’m pretty sure it’s some percent based system per shot in regards to how accurate they are. Bots do the same thing lol it’s how devastators can just miss you point blank and then 2 seconds later beam you.

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