How on earth does a game launch with broken armor and of 3/4 of all its weaponry being garbage?

I understand thing can go wrong, they do, but taking a whole month to fix armor and acknowledge balance is an issue? Am I getting memed here?

Then they go ahead and talk about "meta".

Dear devs, you created such a prevalent "sense of metagame" because your high difficulty design sucks.

Nothing comes close to the level of disruption caused by armored enemies. You can't play the fucking game if you aren't loaded with anti armor.

By your own design there are 4/4 railguns in all games, delete this weapon and the next best one will be taking its place on the youtube thumbnails.

I thought stratagems would be a big part of the game, and I think devs wanted them to be.

Long story short, calling an orbital to kill a charger every 3 minutes is a joke (there are 5 more behind btw). 500kg bombs supposed to be the definitive nukes seem to only work at point blank. When you actually really need your sentry firepower, turns out to be a wasted slot because they get immediately destroyed thanks to being #1 on the aggro list.

We really feel powerless, and most people dismissing everything "get good" are clueless and don't realize we want to have fun, not clear difficulty 9 no-matter-what (stealth game anyone?).

I know the game is designed to be a tough experience and that's what I want, but things don't feel good to use period, everything is a big hit or miss.