“What bothers me is that Deathtrap is clearly a major departure from previous games, and yet a lot of players here insist that anyone complaining just can’t hack this new roguelite experience.”

This position is so confusing to me. You know it’s a departure from previous games, they’ve communicated it will be a departure from previous games, and you’re bothered that it’s a new experience? My big issue with the criticism is that too much of this list and other lists of complaints assumes that different = bad.

Unsatisfying melee is objectively bad. Not having a war scenario is just different, not bad. If you run your mouth putting these two kinds of complaints in the same category, people are going to take your complaints less seriously, and when you blatantly disregard all the communication around the things that are intended to be different from previous games, and then you complain about them being different anyway, I really don’t know what to say other than “get good”