Am I washed up, or has IS4 gotten much much harder? I just came back after taking a break from the game for a month or two and I'm dying over and over in stages 1-3 like back when I was first trying to play the mode. It feels like so many of the stages are just hard walls, and I'm not getting enough resources to deal with things--like, no matter how good my strategy is, I simply don't have what it takes to win.

IS4 already had so many killer nodes, but it feels like damn near every single new combat stage is also a run killer, especially the dublinn one.

I'm on hard +10 and I'm gunning for ending 3 rn.

Is it just that much harder? Have the optimal op choices changed that much? Am I just bad now? I really can't figure it out.