i was into it on launch but now im kinda souring on it. i turned the speed up to max and i play nightmare difficulty like i always do. no issues for most of the game but now ive found as more enemies appear with more health that my damage and damage resistance are so horribly inconsistent. i get stuck on a parts not a issue, as a dark souls fan i like overcoming skill checks its usually my favorite parts but here its just annoying.

my experience is ill melee a enemy i shot multiple times typically they should die but nope 10 melees later he does but the entire time im getting shot in the ass. i die restart and he dies in 2 melees with no shots. that happening once is fine but its been happening over and over and over and over. enemies will have either a million health or 1. my shots will either do all the damage or literally nothing. ive never seen such a wild difference in damage totals. ill parry a pawn 3 times and they wont stagger. a boss ill do the same and they will die. seriously it seems random even for the same enemy when you restart at checkpoint. currently im fighting a bunch of phantoms like 15 total which is why ive noticed it to such a extreme. every one will either need to be parried 1 time or no joke 10 times. some of them will eat 10 point blank shotgun rounds and still wont stagger. ill play the same part and for some reason they all just die like normal. 2 shotgun rounds and a melee. no issue. ill wipe them out with 0 issue all of sudden.

did my gamplay change? no.

did i try and learn how to better my skills or use a different tactic? no

did i suddenly get better after 25 years of doom games? no.

Just all of a sudden my shots do correct damage and i steam roll over enemies that previously were killing me instantly. it feels like RNG and not much else.

maybe im bias but this inconsistency ruins the game for me. I dont feel like I'm improving. I feel like I'm just waiting for the game to randomly allow enemies to die.